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50 Cent: Get It Open or Die Tryin'
Posted: December 5th, 2008, 8:50am CST by TMZ Staff
Tags: paparazziphoto music 50cent 50 Cent
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50 Cent is Just Not Enough
Posted: November 20th, 2008, 7:53am CST by thebrokenfarted
Tags: 50 Cent
While rappers like 50 Cent always talk about growing up not being easy in the projects, it doesn’t necessarily get easier when you become an icon. 50 is forced to hold his own ground against America’s favorite three in the morning Tex-Mex treat, Taco Bell.
Lawyers for the fast-food chain are calling his federal lawsuit, filed in Manhattan, another attempt to “burnish his gangsta rapper persona by distorting beyond all recognition a bona fide, good faith offer.”
The squabble is over a fake letter sent out by Taco Bell Corp. asking 50 Cent to change his name for one day to 79 Cent, 89 Cent or 99 Cent to help publicize its value menu.
I suppose the only way to get around that obstacle is to just set those prices at 50. Thanks to 50 Cent, you’ll have those munchie craving stoners lined up outside in hordes in no time.
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After His First Single Bombed…
Posted: November 15th, 2008, 12:15pm CST by Perez Hilton
Tags: 50 Cent
50 Cent's new album, Before I Self Destruct, has lived up to its title.
The record has gone and self destructed!!!!!!!
The CD is now being pushed back to 2009. Way 2009! There's not even a new release date set yet.
The record was originally supposed to come out in early December - to capitalize on holiday buying - but after the album's kickoff single tanked, the Self Destruct is now getting kicked to the curb.
Blame Scott Storch, who produced the shiteous first single, Get Up.
The official reason being given for the album's delay by his label, Interscope, is that Fiddy was "rushing" to meet the December date but "with the deadline to secure advertising and retail placement for the album imminent," the rapper opted to wait until next year.
Uh huh!
Sure!!!!!
[Image via WENN.]
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50 Cent Is Reading This [50 Cent]
Posted: November 10th, 2008, 2:20pm CST by Hamilton Nolan
Tags: 50 Cent
Choire Sicha learns 50 Cent's darkest secret: CS: "So wait, you get up in the morning and look at, like, Perez Hilton?" 50: "You better look at Perez Hilton, ThisisFifty.com, Concrete Loop, Gawker — you can skip Media Takeout." [LAT]
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Talking Shit About 50-Cent
Posted: November 7th, 2008, 9:13am CST by Celebrity Gossip Blog
Tags: 50 Cent
50 cent is a fucking sell-out.
Yeah! I said it. I can’t believe he went from benig awesome is 2002 to an MTV reality “star”. His new show, 50 Cent: The Money and the Power is debuted last night. And it was SHIT. He’s just trying to be like Donald Trump in the Apprentice!!! Nobody can pull that off!
Let me explain to you why I have an immense amount of dislike towards Curtis James Jackson. When Get Rich or Die Trying came out ( not the movie)- he was awesome. I was like holy shit- the concept of awesome rap has come back. Seriously, singing about bitches, hoes, ghats! Partying in the club! Wohoo LOVED IT! I was thinking- thanks Eminem for giving me 50-cent.
But that all changed when 50 did Candy Shop, Best Friend and a whole other bunch of shit which made women look like objects of lust. He brought rap back, then he killed it. Now he’s trying to look all big and bad with his show. He’s also constantly bragging about G-Unit. Man, everyone was part of G-Unit. I’m even a part of that shit and I don’t even own one item of clothing from that brand.
SELL-OUTS! Thank goodness for Kanye- but Lil Wayne just might be heading in the same direction as 50!
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Coming Soon: 50 Cent’s Version of ‘The Apprentice’
Posted: October 22nd, 2008, 2:04am CDT by Spicy Pants
Tags: 50 Cent
50 Cent is trying to be the next Donald Trump.
He’s landed his own reality show modeled after ‘The Apprentice’ called The Money & The Power.
Fiddy is looking to find “the next person who can change nothing into something and be the new game changer.”
And in keeping with the Don, Fiddy even has his own exit line for those who don’t make the cut.
“Get the f**k outta here.”
The show premieres on MTV on November 6th.
[WENN]
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50 Cent claims Jay Z wasn’t famous before he wed Beyonce
Posted: September 26th, 2008, 2:54pm CDT by JayBird
Tags: 50 Cent
50 Cent seems to need a primer in Famous Celebrities 101. Wouldn’t it be great if that were a real class? 50 and rapper Jay-Z have always had a bit of a rivalry going on. Enough that I’m pretty sure Fiddy knows Jay-Z’s basic history. But according to a recent interview he gave, Jay-Z wasn’t even famous (at least by 50’s standards) outside of the U.S. until after he married Beyonce Knowles.
If we didn’t know better, we would say 50 Cent must have been living under a rock for the last 10 years (well, either that or he’s letting his ego cloud his judgment just a little tiny bit). The Get Rich or Die Trying star has just made the outrageous claim that rap rival Jay Z wasn’t all that famous until he married Beyoncé Knowles!
That right, he thinks that Jay ‘the most famous rapper in the world ever’ Z has only been a celebrity since April, despite the fact he had his first international hit in 1998.
“I’m a big fan of Jay-Z,” 50 told MTV.com, “but outside of the States and hip-hop circles, no one really knew who he was until he married.”
Come on Fiddy — surely some of the people who bought 50 million+ of Jay’s records outside of the US must know who he is.
[From OK!]
If that was meant to be a diss it failed miserably. 50 just came off as ignorant instead. Jay-Z isn’t just a famous rapper; he’s also an extraordinary businessman. He was the head of Def Jam records, made a $150 million concert deal with Live Nation, and co-founded RocaWear. Surely that ups his profile and sets him apart from other rappers a bit.
I doubt marrying Beyonce did a thing for his international fame, considering how tightly the two tried to control information about the event. I think 50’s just as good a rapper, but I can’t think of a reason in the world that he’s better known overseas than Jay-Z.
Here’s 50 Cent at the “Righteous Kill” premiere on Sept. 14th in London with Al Pacino and Robert De Niro. Images thanks to Fame.
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If You Are In New York City…
Posted: September 20th, 2008, 10:08am CDT by Perez Hilton
Tags: 50 Cent
You MUST see this show!
We caught Fuerza Bruta on Friday night and it is a-m-a-z-i-n-g.
It's like Cirque du Soleil meets a rave!
Fuerza Bruta is an exhilarating, engaging experience that can't be missed.
We can't recommend it enough!
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50 Cent Sues Taco Bell
Posted: July 24th, 2008, 12:42pm CDT by Spicy Pants
Tags: 50 Cent
50 Cent is suing Taco Bell after they used his name in a marketing ploy to advertise their prices.
Taco Bell President Greg Creed officially asked the rapper to change his name from 50 Cent to 79 Cent, 89 Cent or 99 Cent and promised $10K to his favorite charity if he agreed. He wrote,
“We know that you adopted the name 50 Cent years ago as a metaphor for change. We at Taco Bell are also huge advocates for change. We encourage you to ‘Think Outside the Bun’ and hope you accept our offer.”
You had to admit, it was funny, but you knew he would never do it.Well Fiddy isn’t laughing. He’s pissed that his fans are accusing him of being a sellout and he feels the company used his name to sell their products. He’s asking for $1 million.
Lawsuit documents read,
“Taco Bell traded on the name of the world’s biggest hip-hop star to draw attention to its new, hip-hop-based advertising campaign, and thereby generated massive publicity for its business.”
I’m sure Taco Bell is still loving all this attention. A piddly million was completely worth all the advertising they got from this - and then some.
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50 Cent suing Taco Bell for ridiculous marketing campaign
Posted: July 24th, 2008, 7:00am CDT by JayBird
Tags: 50 Cent
Never let it be said that 50 Cent is a man of idle threats. Though he’s got some major legal drama going on with the mother of his son (the traditional child support/housing/visitation/arson stuff), he’s still a good enough multi-tasker to be able to sue more than one person at a time.
Last month Taco Bell royally pissed off Fiddy after they used him for a stupid publicity stunt – offering to donate $10,000 to the charity of his choice if he’d legally change his name to 79 Cent, 89 Cent, or 99 Cent – to correspond with the prices on their value menu.
They didn’t make the offer privately to him as a business deal, but through a publicly disseminated press release. It was clear that Taco Bell was just doing it for free press and using 50 Cent in the process. He was pretty pissed and threatened legal action – but for some reason I didn’t think he’d actually do it. Maybe because the whole thing was so stupid, and suing Taco Bell would just get them more of what they wanted – press. Though if Fiddy wins, that press sure won’t be free for the fast food chain.
50 Cent, whose real name is Curtis Jackson, accuses the Mexican-style fast food chain of “diluting the value of his good name” and employing a guerrilla advertising campaign to fool consumers into thinking he had endorsed the chain, said the lawsuit, filed in Manhattan federal court.
“Without seeking or obtaining Jackson’s authorization, defendant Taco Bell made him the star and focus of its nation-wide advertising campaign by using his name, persona and trademark to promote Taco Bell’s business and products,” court papers said. The lawsuit accuses the chain of disseminating a letter, addressed to 50 Cent, that encourages the rapper to change his name to “79 Cent,” “89 Cent” or “99 Cent,” the lawsuit said.
The letter was designed to promote the company’s “79-89-99 Cent Why Pay More” campaign, while avoiding the multimillion dollar fee the rapper might have charged to use his name, the lawsuit said. The letter was eventually sent to the rapper, but only after it had been circulated to reporters, the lawsuit said.
[From Yahoo! News]
The lawsuit also notes that customers believed that 50 Cent was in a partnership with Taco Bell, and he got a good deal of bad press for it on the internet. He was accused of selling out to a tacky fast food chain, and he believes his reputation was damaged as a result.
I have no idea why this relatively trivial thing bugged me so much, but it did. I really want 50 to sue the crap out of Taco Bell. Come to think of it, it bothers me because Taco Bell was just being cheap, and they were doing it under the guise of a good cause. They knew a famous rapper wouldn’t agree to change his name. It’s his brand – and no one knows more about branding than a fast food restaurant. They were trying to promote their own brand.
Instead of making Fiddy a legitimate offer (which would have been millions), they pretended they were good enough to donate a piddly $10,000 to charity. Ten grand is nothing to Taco Bell – their parent company owns KFC, Pepsi, etc. What they did was cheap and tacky, and I hope they lose a hell of a lot of money on it.
Here’s 50 Cent at the Vitamin Water ‘Celebrates in Style’ with The Best of Baseball and Music in New York on July 14th. Images thanks to WENN.
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Judge Gives 50 Cent 14,400 Mins With Lil' Cent
Posted: July 17th, 2008, 1:12pm CDT by TMZ Staff
Tags: celebrityjustice 50cent 50 Cent
Filed under: Celebrity Justice, 50 Cent
50 Cent got what he wanted in the latest chapter of his baby mama drama -- kind of. A Long Island judge granted him an unrestricted visit from August 3-12 with Marquise, his son with Shaniqua Tompkins. We're told that both parties had to submit to...
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Baby Mama to 50 Lawyer: You're All Conflicted
Posted: July 15th, 2008, 9:02am CDT by TMZ Staff
Tags: celebrityjustice 50 Cent
Filed under: Celebrity Justice
50 Cent's baby mama wants Fiddy's lawyer t-t-t-tossed off their case -- because, according to her, that guy knows a little something about her legal strategy.We're told that Shaniqua Tompkins has huddled with Fiddy's lawyer, Brett Kimmel, in the past...
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Tubbs, Is That You???
Posted: June 27th, 2008, 3:30pm CDT by Perez Hilton
Tags: 50 Cent
50 Cent is acting, y'all.
Here he is - in "character" - on the set of Streets of Blood with Val Kilmer.
No, it's not a remake of Miami Vice!
A police officer's partner has died during Hurricane Katrina, but he later discovers that his partner may have been murdered. An investigation follows, taking the officer and his new partner into the depths of the criminal underworld.
You know, we actually like Fiddy's look in the film.
He looks….hot!
It's a good thing that he covered up all his bulging muscles. We don't like 'em big and bulky. We prefer lean and sexy!
Cele|bitchy
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50 Cent rebuffs Taco Bell’s asinine offer to change his name
Posted: June 21st, 2008, 2:37am CDT by JayBird
Tags: 50 Cent
Taco Bell has really pissed off 50 Cent. And insulted him. All due to their dumbass publicity stunt. Taco Bell offered to donate $10,000 to the charity of Fiddy’s choice if he’d change his name to 79 Cent, 89 Cent, or 99 Cent – to correspond with the prices on their value menu. Fiddy – being the shrewd dude that he is – instantly called Taco Bell out for being insincere and trying to use his celebrity for free publicity. And the dude is pissed.
Apparently, that was a little too much thinking outside the bun for the lawyered-up rapper, who not only took issue with the promo stunt, but threatened to sic his legal team on the chain. “When my legal team is finished with them, Taco Bell is going to have a new corporate slogan: ‘We messed with the bull and got the horns!’ ” Fiddy said.
The rapper’s rep went one further, calling out the company’s big cheese on his cheekiness. “This is a sleazy and ill-conceived publicity stunt by Taco Bell’s president, Greg Creed, whose disingenuous offer was leaked to the press before it was even presented to 50 Cent’s agent yesterday,” the rapper’s rep said.
As it is, the taco giant’s offer was sent to Fiddy—and, of course, the media—promising to donate $10,000 to a charity of the rapper’s choice if he agreed to the name change. Also requested from the franchise chief was for the newly monikered rapper to pay a visit to one of Taco Bell’s locations and rap his order at the drive-thru.
“We know that you adopted the name 50 Cent years ago as a metaphor for change,” the letter read. “We at Taco Bell are also huge advocates for change. We encourage you to ‘Think Outside the Bun’ and hope you accept our offer.”
[From E! News]
Companies do occasionally do this, but most celebs politely decline. 50 is the first I can think of to call them out. At first I kinda thought Fiddy was being a jerk for not just saying thanks but no thanks, but once I thought about it a little more, I realized it really is aggravating.
Taco Bell isn’t being generous – they know the famous rapper isn’t going to change his name – so they never intended to part with their $10,000. Instead, they’re being cheap, by trying to associate 50 Cent with their corporation to get free publicity. Which I guess I’ve just given them a little more of. Except that the Taco Bell near me is always getting closed down by the New York City Department of Health for a shockingly long list of health code violations. Like rodents and roaches. Which I’m pretty sure end up in the food. There, that should do it. I think I just negated any free publicity. Thanks, Taco Bell.
Header of 50 Cent at the Video Music Awards in Las Vegas on September 8th. Images thanks to WENN.
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Judge Kicks Fiddy to the Curb
Posted: June 20th, 2008, 7:03am CDT by TMZ Staff
Tags: celebrityjustice music 50 Cent
Filed under: Celebrity Justice, Music
TMZ.com: 50 Cent will have to stay well away from baby mama Shaniqua Tompkins -- and if he wants to see his son Marquise, the pickup's going to be curbside. Tompkins got a temporary restraining order against Fiddy, which, we're told, will require him to... Read more
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50 Cent’s wife won’t let him see their son
Posted: June 19th, 2008, 2:04pm CDT by JayBird
Tags: 50 Cent
50 Cent (or Fiddy, as I’ve been instructed to call him) is having some major legal problems lately. He’d been battling his ex-girlfriend Shaniqua Tompkins, the mother of his son Marquise, 11, over a $2.4 million Long Island home for the better part of a year. Then the home suspiciously burned to the ground on May 30th – with both Marquise and Shaniqua asleep inside. Shaniqua immediately started publicly blaming Fiddy for the fire – and now she won’t let the rapper visit his child, talk to him, or even know where Marquise is living.
“He tried to kill me and his own child,” Tompkins has declared. “I know this came from 50 Cent.” While arson investigators probe the Dix Hills fire, Fitty’s legal team is drafting a defamation complaint against Tompkins.
“There comes a point where you can no longer sit on your hands and listen to her spread these falsehoods,” 50’s lawyer, Brett Kimmel, tells us. “Besides hurting his reputation, they have a damaging impact on their son.” The hip-hop king (real name, Curtis Jackson) charges that since the fire, Tompkins has refused to let him see Marquise or tell him where he’s living. Tompkins has “made it practically impossible” for 50 to speak to or see his son, according to a petition filed this week in Suffolk County Family Court.
50 says that when he learned Marquise’s cell phone was destroyed in the fire, he sent him a new one, along with a duffle bag of new clothes. Tompkins has “failed and refused to give the cell phone to Marquise,” 50 alleges. “The only way [50] can communicate with his son is to call [Tompkins’] cell phone. On June 11 … [she] did permit [50] to speak with his son. However … she was hovering over Marquise, monitoring the conversation and, after a short while, she interrupted the conversation by taking the phone from Marquise and began yelling at [50],” who eventually hung up on her.
[From the Daily News]
Fiddy says Shaniqua is breaking their custody agreement, and is asking a judge to let him see his son. So far the courts seem to be siding with 50 in nearly everything: ten days after the fire, Shaniqua was ordered to pay him $4,500 in back rent in addition to the $9,000 she had already been ordered to pay. Fiddy has been paying $6,700 a month in support - $4,500 is a housing allowance. Shaniqua had maintained that she is still owed 50 Cent’s (formerly) $2.4 million house because she needs a place to raise their son. In addition to the housing allowance.
Considering how crazy her logic has been, I’d say Shaniqua’s as legitimate a suspect as Fiddy.
Here’s 50 Cent and The Game sharing the stage during a news conference at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in Harlem on June 9th. Images thanks to WENN.
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50 Cent Shows Young Buck Who's Boss
Posted: June 18th, 2008, 7:30am CDT by TMZ Staff
Tags: music celebrityfeuds 50 Cent
Filed under: Music, Celebrity Feuds
TMZ.com: It's on like popcorn now! Former G-Unit member Young Buck not only blasted 50 Cent and G-Unit at a concert in Tampa earlier this week, he used the crowd as his own personal therapist to vent his frustration.Now audio tapes, mysteriously released to... Read more
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Judge rules: Don’t sell da crib 50
Posted: June 11th, 2008, 10:11am CDT by Celebrity Gossip Blog
Tags: 50 Cent
50 Cent has got to resolve his fight with his baby mama Shaniqua Tompkins before he sells his burnt down $2 million crib in Long Island.The Long Island house was burnt down by an unknown cause about a month ago. The judge ordered the rusty rapper to put any insurance money he gets from his house in a trust account. We all know he will probably use this money to buy some whips and ghats. Shaniqua played it safe by only accusing 50 of “breaking a promise”. The promise was that 50 would give her and his son Marquise a house. 50 tried to evict them but she didn’t leave. You would think she would jump to the conclusion that the house was torched because she didn’t leave. But she never went that far.
My money’s on G-Unit for torching the house. I guess we will have to wait to see how this unrolls.
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50 Cent gave Val Kilmer a $100,000 car
Posted: June 6th, 2008, 12:54pm CDT by JayBird
Tags: 50 Cent
50 Cent and I clearly have a different definition of friendship. And I think I like his a hell of a lot more than mine. While I always thought it meant being there for the other person in good times and bad, occasionally drinking too much with them, complaining about men together, and having the occasional naked pillow fight, 50’s idea of friendship involves lavish vintage gifts. And I think that makes a hell of a lot more sense.
50 Cent knows how to treat his costars. Not content to drop off a basket of sugar-free muffins with a note saying “You were totally in the moment,” the rapper-thespian gave his Streets of Fire costar Val Kilmer a car, according to In Touch Weekly.
And not some tax-write-off clunker, either.
Fiddy bestowed on Kilmer a 1965 Chevy Impala said to be worth $100,000. The two, who play police officers dealing with the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, bonded over their appreciation of classic vehicles, which led the rapper to give one of his very own autos to Kilmer.
Really? “Yes he did,” Fiddy’s rep told us. No word on Kilmer’s thank-you plans, but you can be sure of this: Muffins just ain’t gonna cut it.
[From E! News]
Sounds like the start of a bromance to me. And what a way to kick it off. At first I thought 50 might have some kind of non-sexual crush on Val Kilmer, a la that famous Seinfeld episode. But then I saw a picture of Val Kilmer, and… I have a policy of never making fun of someone’s weight. But let’s just say that if there were ever a time I would consider breaking that rule, it’d be right now. So I’m pretty sure there’s no crush going on here. But I think that explains E!’s joke about the sugar free muffins.
Either way, I think it’s very important that I star in a film with 50 Cent. I’d just like a Honda, thanks.
Header of 50 Cent performing live in Sydney on April 23rd and Val Kilmer leaving Sushiya restaurant in L.A. on March 5th. Images thanks to WENN.
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Fiddy's Urination Sensation
Posted: June 6th, 2008, 7:49am CDT by TMZ Staff
Tags: music wackyandweird 50cent 50 Cent
Filed under: Music, Wacky and Weird, 50 Cent
TMZ.com: So you're at a gas station and you gotta GO -- but unlike Britney Spears, you ain't going near the grody bathrooms. What do you do? If you're 50 Cent, you piss all over the sidewalk.50 and his boys were cruising in his sick Lambo in Queens the other... Read more
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50 Cent's Life Going Up In Flames
Posted: May 30th, 2008, 4:29pm CDT
Tags: 50 Cent
Holy crap is the drama getting good around 50 Cent! The Long Island home from which he has been trying to evict his ex Shaniqua (people are actually named that?) Tompkins from mysteriously burned down this morning. Holy shite. The fire, which authorities have reportedly said was no accident, comes on the heels of a very public dust-up in an attorney's office that then spilled out into the street between 50, his entourage, Shaniqua and lawyers on Monday afternoon.
Six people were taken from the home and treated for smoke inhalation, including Tompkins, and their 10-year-old son Marquise. All have reportedly been released. A source says that 50 isn't a suspect in the fire at this time. But has released a statement via his rep.
"Informed this morning while filming a new motion picture on location in Louisiana, Curtis Jackson expressed deep concern over this fire at his property. He is extremely thankful that everyone including his son, Marquise, escaped the burning house safely. He is confident that authorities will be conducting a thorough investigation of the incident and is eager to review their findings."
Okey dokey, Smokey. Shaniqua Tompkins was already ordered by the courts to vacate the house by the end of the school year. 50 Cent had ordered her to begin paying $4,500 in monthly rent. A deposition on Monday afternoon turned ugly when a member of 50's entourage reportedly "trashed" Tompkins' lawyer's office. The crazies involved too it to the street, and 50 allegedly had to be held back from attacking Shaniqua. TMZ has footage of the incident.
Fitty bought the house for 4.2 million in January of 2007. And that's all I'm gonna say because the story kinda speaks for itself. Some shady shit is going down.
Photos: Getty Images
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50 Cent maybe tried to kill his crazy ex-girlfriend
Posted: May 30th, 2008, 3:00pm CDT by Nick
Tags: 50 Cent
50 Cent’s house burns downA fire broke out at 50 Cent’s Long Island home this morning, a blaze the local fire department deemed “highly suspicious.” Though six people were in the house — including 50’s 10-year-old son Marquis and ex-girlfriend Shaniqua Tompkins — all escaped without injury. 50 has been involved in a bitter fight with his ex because she simply refuses to move out of the $2.4 million house. The couple was seen yelling at each other on the streets of Manhattan earlier this week, just after a member of 50’s entourage “trashed” the office of Shaniqua’s lawyer:
Regarding the fire, 50’s rep issued the following statement earlier today:
“Informed this morning while filming a new motion picture on location in Louisiana, Curtis Jackson expressed deep concern over this fire at his property. He is extremely thankful that everyone including his son, Marquise, escaped the burning house safely. He is confident that authorities will be conducting a thorough investigation of the incident and is eager to review their findings.”
A teary-eyed Tompkins told reporters outside the charred home today:
“Someone threw something in the window and set the house on fire. He’s trying to kill me and his own child. I know without a doubt in my heart it was him.” (Source)
I think it goes without saying that if these kids wanna work out the kinks in their relationship, they may need a little counseling.
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50 Cent’s Long Island home burns down in suspicious fire
Posted: May 30th, 2008, 12:10pm CDT by JayBird
Tags: 50 Cent
Rapper 50 Cent has been in a heated legal battle with his ex-girlfriend Shaniqua Tompkins for the better part of a year over a $2.4 million Long Island home. 50 Cent owns the home, but Tomkins and their son live there rent-free. 50 has been trying to evict them or make Tomkins pay market rent for the place, about $5,400 a month.
Tompkins claims 50 promised her she and their 10-year-old son Marquise could live in it. In the past she’s also claimed that as the mother of his child, she’s owed the expensive home. The pair have been battling it out in court, and it’s gotten so heated that there have been multiple confrontations, including an “extremely dangerous incident” on Monday at the office of Tomkins’ lawyer.
Last night, a “suspicious” fire broke out in the home around 5 a.m. while Tomkins, her two children (include the son with 50 Cent), and three other adults were sleeping.
A multimillion-dollar Long Island home at the center of a dispute between Grammy-nominated rapper 50 Cent and his former girlfriend was destroyed by a suspicious fire early Friday. The blaze occurred just days after a heated confrontation inside the woman’s attorney’s office over the home. 50 Cent does not live in the home and apparently wasn’t there at the time.
Six people inside the Dix Hills home were taken to a hospital suffering smoke inhalation, including the former girlfriend and a boy fathered by the rapper. All six were treated and released. A firefighter also suffered a minor eye injury, officials said.
Investigators from the Suffolk County arson squad were called to the scene after Dix Hills Fire Chief Larry Feld deemed the blaze suspicious. The fire was reported about 5 a.m. and extinguished about 45 minutes later, Feld said.
A passing off-duty police officer helped rescue the six people off an elevated deck in the home’s backyard, Feld said. He referred the case to the arson squad “because of the intensity of the fire.” The rapper’s ex-girlfriend, Shaniqua Tompkins, and two of her children, including 50 Cent’s son, were among the injured. The other three adults in the home were not immediately identified.
[From the Huffington Post]
Several of Shaniqua Tompkins’ requests sound outright ridiculous, especially the reasoning behind it. If you have a kid with someone, they obviously owe you child support. But they don’t inherently owe you a $2.4 million home, which is the argument she’s made on several occasions. She also claims that 50 Cent promised her half of all of his earnings. Forever. Via email. And she expects that’ll stand up in court. Her lawsuit is on the docket for June 10th in New York State Supreme Court.
50 Cent’s rep just released the following statement:
“Informed this morning while filming a new motion picture on location in Louisiana, Curtis Jackson expressed deep concern over this fire at his property. He is extremely thankful that everyone including his son, Marquise, escaped the burning house safely. He is confident that authorities will be conducting a thorough investigation of the incident and is eager to review their findings.”
[From TMZ]
Obviously the fire seems pretty suspicious. But given the heated nature of what’s gone on between 50 Cent and Shaniqua Tomkins, it’s hard to guess who’s responsible for what.
Header of 50 Cent and G Unit performing live in concert at Sydney Entertainment Centre in Australia on April 23rd. Image thanks to WENN. Here are pictures of 50 Cent’s house in Dix Hills, from when it was on the market last year. According to Newsday, the house, built in 2002, has 6 bedrooms, 5 bathrooms, a 3-car heated garage with a dumbwaiter to the kitchen. It’s located on an acre and also has a pool.
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50 Cent: I Burn Money -- Not Mansions!
Posted: May 30th, 2008, 11:10am CDT by TMZ Staff
Tags: celebrityjustice 50cent Fights 50 Cent
Filed under: Celebrity Justice, 50 Cent, Fights
TMZ.com: 50 Cent's lawyer Brett Kimmel released the following statement to TMZ: "Any suggestion that Mr. Jackson had anything whatsoever to do with the fire at his home is outrageous and offensive."Shaniqua Tompkins, Fiddy's baby mama, went NUTS this morning,... Read more
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50 Cent Fires Back
Posted: May 30th, 2008, 7:30am CDT by TMZ Staff
Tags: celebrityjustice 50cent 50 Cent
Filed under: Celebrity Justice, 50 Cent
TMZ.com: 50 Cent is fired up! His rep issued the following statement to us about the fire at his Long Island home earlier this morning:"Informed this morning while filming a new motion picture on location in Louisiana, Curtis Jackson expressed deep concern... Read more
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50 Cent -- Alicia, You Ignorant Slut!
Posted: April 19th, 2008, 8:17am CDT by TMZ Staff
Tags: celebrityfeuds 50cent 50 Cent
Filed under: Celebrity Feuds, 50 Cent
TMZ.com: 50's on the warpath again -- where's Ja Rule when you need him?! Fiddy is blasting Alicia Keys for sayin', "Gangsta rap was a ploy to convince black people to kill each other." 50 Cent now responds, "I don't like people who don't like me ... that... Read more
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Carrie Underwood Teams Up with 50 Cent
Posted: April 16th, 2008, 9:50pm CDT
Tags: carrie Underwood 50 Cent vitaminwater
A little over a week ago, the people over at VitaminWater merged country with hip-hop - teaming former American Idol winner Carrie Underwood with rap superstar 50 Cent for a brand new ad campaign.
The two joked around while filming athletic sequences including a boxing routine at the Ironbound Recreation Center in Newark, New Jersey.
Gawker
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50 Cent Says Obama May Die If You Don't Vote Hillary [Election]
Posted: February 5th, 2008, 5:31am CST by Ryan Tate
Tags: 50 Cent
Hopefully you haven't voted yet, because Hillary Clinton just picked up a key endorsement from rapper 50 Cent, who notes that not only does he think "she could do a good job" but also that she won't go down in a hail of gunfire, killed by some redneck with an assault weapon. Bill O'Reilly sagely notes how far fetched this scenario is.
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Paris Hilton Darkens Up For Sundance Interview
Posted: January 19th, 2008, 1:59pm CST
Tags: Paris Hilton 50 Cent
With their whirlwind schedules and constant travel, it’s hard for celebrities to spend any time on the beach. So stars like Paris Hilton rely on the tanning bed to make their skin glow.
The “Stars are Blind” singer was spotted leaving the Portofino Sun Center & Spa in Beverly Hills, California yesterday. She sported a black hoodie, baseball cap, and yellow shades, and appeared to have spent a little too much time under the bulbs.
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50 Cent, Timbaland and Mary J. Blige in Steroid Scandal!
Posted: January 13th, 2008, 1:18pm CST by Perez Hilton
Tags: 50 Cent
Stereoid abuse isn't limited to just sports stars!
The Times Union of Albany is reporting:
The names of R&B music star Mary J. Blige, along with rap artists 50 Cent, Timbaland and Wyclef Jean, and award-winning author and producer Tyler Perry, have emerged in an Albany-based investigation of steroids trafficking that has already rocked the professional sports world, according to confidential sources.
What does Mary J. need with steroids????
[Photo via Getty Images.]
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50 Cent Caught on Video With Cocaine?
Posted: December 5th, 2007, 12:18pm CST by Spicy Pants
Tags: 50 Cent
A new video has surfaced on YouTube which may have caught a glimpse of 50 Cent and a couple friends doing blow backstage while in Europe.
A news crew walked into his dressing room area without announcing it or knocking, and you see Fiddy and pals hovering over a coffee table as though they are divvying up the goods. As the camera approached, one of the guys puts his hand out and tells the crew to back out of the room, which they do. A moment later Fiddy appears for the interview.
It’s a little hard to say what’s going on in the video for sure, but I think they were definitely indulging a little. I mean, check them out over that table. That little table - with them all leaning in towards it. Yeah, they’re snorting the shit.
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Did 50 Cent snort coke backstage?
Posted: December 5th, 2007, 3:51am CST by JayBird
Tags: 50 Cent
A Croatian video has just hit the internet which appears to show rapper 50 Cent snorting cocaine. In the video, a Croatian reporter is ushered into 50’s dressing room by what appears to be some of the rapper’s entourage. As soon as he steps foot into the room and says “Good evening,” we see a group of men sitting around a table bending their heads forward. One man is standing over them, and he turns and uses his hand to indicate that the reporter should leave the room. The reporter quickly turns around and exits, though the camera aims into the room for a few seconds longer. The man who told the reporter to leave returns to the table and crouches down. Within about ten seconds, 50 Cent comes to the door and greets the reporter. Here’s the video – the pivotal moment is about 1:30 into it.
I will be the first to admit that I don’t know the difference between what you snort, smoke, inject, or insert into your ear. I have no idea what a person who’s just snorted cocaine should sound, look, or act like. But other people seem to think something fishy was afoot. Central Station noted:
Speculation is rife that rapper 50 Cent is on the chizarles after a European video surfaces on YouTube. While the video doesn’t clearly identify 50 Cent hitting the stuff on the table, the entourage quickly ushered the TV crew out of the green room before any incriminating evidence could be filmed. The video shows, however, someone bending over a table and doing something with something. That’s the best we can allege right now.
[From Central Station]
Prayer circle? I’m going with a prayer circle. You know how performers are always thanking God and/or Jesus whenever they win an award? Don’t tell me they do that only when they win a Grammy. I’m sure they’re meditating on Leviticus as we speak. Though I just want to point out – 50, if you’re reading this - you’re a spokesman for Vitamin Water. You have your own drink with them - Formula 50. You even went on “The View” promoting its health benefits. And you’re making $100 million for the endorsement. I know Coca-Cola supposedly originally had cocaine in it. And they do own Vitamin Water. But I think it’s a stretch to assume that they’re going to want you promoting their drinks if people are afraid that you’re possibly putting something illicit into that oddly-yellow Energy Water. No one’s going to believe you got all that energy just from the b vitamins and guarana. Just a thought.
Celebrity-Gossip.net
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Lindsay Lohan Prepares to Rock Out
Posted: December 1st, 2007, 8:54pm CST
Tags: Lindsay Lohan 50 Cent
She’s been on idle for awhile now, but Lindsay Lohan looks like she’s fixing to take over the pop music world. And despite the rumors that she’s just fulfilling a contractual obligation to her record label, LiLo says she’s excited to sing again.
The troubled singer/actress is preparing to release her third album, tentatively titled “Nobody’s Angel,” and according to insiders, it’s going to be chock full of collaborations.
A Socialite's Life
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Lance Bass Squares Off With 50 Cent
Posted: October 25th, 2007, 12:29pm CDT
Tags: 50 Cent
Not to betray my queer brethren, but my money's on Fitty. In fact, I fear for Lance's bone structure. Ok, they're not really going to fight. They just had books come out at the same time on Tuesday night and did some play-trash talking. Seriously, I'd like to see them fight, though. Again, not to turn my back on my people, but all I can imagine is 50 coming after Lance while he screams and runs for the knife drawer in the kitchen. Lance Bass' book "Out of Sync" and 50 Cent's coffe-table book "50x50" are stepping in the ring.
"He doesn't stand a chance," Senor Cent told me at the launch of his coffee-table tome, "50 x 50."
"With me, everything's a competition, so I bet you the end of next week, I'll be moving more copies than him," Fitty said over dinner at Philippe. "This is the same competition - this is Kanye West and 50 Cent all over again!"
Twenty minutes later, at Azza, Bass was happy to hit back.
"50's going down, that's all I have to say," he said while promoting his memoir, "Out of Sync."
"50, I don't want to playa-hate, but there's a lot that my book has" that his doesn't.
Lance met his "space training" (remember that attempt to draw attention away from the gay?) and his "relationships with the guys". Which I think he means the guys in N*Sync. I think. Does he mean guys in general? True. 50 Cent's been to prison but he's made it pretty clear in the past he doesn't swing that way and doesn't feel like anybody else should. So Lance has that on him. Seriously, though, if Lance EVEN has a Joey Fatone "bro-job" story - he'd goddamn better tell it or I'm citing the Freedom of Information act. I want size, width, girth, circumference, audio and video. In a report. In a binder. With a multimedia laser show accompanying it.
Photos: Getty Images/Bauer-Griffin Online
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Celebrity Quote of the Day
Posted: October 25th, 2007, 5:09am CDT by Spicy Pants
Tags: 50 Cent
“Nas sucks. It’s nonsense, man. That’s a stupid name. It doesn’t make sense. Why would you title it that?”
-50 Cent slams rap peer Nas over his plans to title his next album ‘Nigga’
A Socialite's Life
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50 Cent Disappoints The Rest Of The World
Posted: September 18th, 2007, 9:09am CDT
Tags: 50 Cent
50 Cent has cancelled several appearances in Europe that he had planned. I do like that he showed up in Springfield, MA which is like the boondocks but is flipping the bird to the continent. But could this mean since Kanye beat him that he's actually going to retire? No, he probably had a SmartWater Glaceau meeting with Jennifer Aniston or something.
MTV News said the 31-year-old rapper canceled performances at the MOBO Awards and the Vodafone Live Music Awards, both in London on Wednesday, and a performance for MTV in Germany on Friday.No details were posted on the rapper's Web site, and Polydor Records, 50 Cent's record label in Britain, wasn't immediately available for comment Monday.
MTV said the rapper canceled the appearances due to changes in his schedule.
Kanye West took the no. 1 spot in the UK with his "Graduation" album, and Fitty took second place. So Kanye and his cranky diaper self beat "Curtis" there, too! This has to be humiliating to be a homophobe and be getting your ass kicked by a kinda gayish guy in white plastic Venetian blind sunglasses. Don't act like you don't know what I'm talking about. You know Kanye has passed out a bro job or two in his lifetime. And yes, I meant to write "bro job". It's the latest thing.
(WENN)
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Kanye West Beating 50 Cent In Record Sales
Posted: September 14th, 2007, 2:47pm CDT
Tags: Kanye West 50 Cent music
With all the hissy fits being thrown by Kanye West as of late, at least he won’t be freaking out about losing his little competition with 50 Cent. Preliminary reports have the “Jesus Walks” rapper leading the race of CD sales.
According to Billboard magazine, West’s “Graduation” is looking to be moving between 575,000-700,000 units in its first week, while Fiddy’s “Curtis” is behind with a projected 550,000 copies sold. On their first day of sales, Soundscan numbers for Kanye were 437,000 vs Fiddy’s 310,000.
Glitterati
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It's All Getting Way Too High School: 50 Likes Britney To Irk Kanye
Posted: September 13th, 2007, 3:46pm CDT by Aaron
Tags: 50 Cent
Oh, My, God, you guys. So, first GaySocialites tells me that Kanye told the AP that Britney totally doesn't deserve to sing at the VMAs, and then after the show he's all telling everybody that she totally sucked and it's...
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50 vs. Kanye: Reviews And Sales So Far
Posted: September 12th, 2007, 12:26pm CDT by Aaron
Tags: 50 Cent
Disclaimers: I know that 50 Cent and Kanye probably started the whole competition thing deliberately, but it's still fun to watch. Also, I personally think that Kanye is the better artist, although I wish he didn't take himself so seriously....
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