Posted on 03/02/2005 9:41:25 AM PST by Drew68
US rap star 50 Cent has said he has thrown protege The Game out of his G-Unit gang in a feud that has apparently involved two shootings. In a radio interview on Monday, 50 Cent said the newcomer was disloyal in conflicts with other rappers.
A man was shot in the thigh outside New York's Hot 97 studios while 50 Cent was on air. More shots were fired outside his management offices two hours later.
50 Cent appeared on The Game's debut album, which was number one in the US.
50 Cent, whose second album is about to be released after his debut made him one of hip-hop's biggest stars, has been involved in recent rivalries with fellow artists including Fat Joe, Nas and Jadakiss.
He has claimed credit for the success of The Game, who has become the hottest new star on the rap scene. Both were drug dealers and were shot before turning to music.
Friends
In an interview with Hot 97 on Saturday, The Game described some of 50 Cent's rivals as "my friends" and said he would not turn on them.
"Nas is one of my friends, and Jada's really a homie," he said. "50's beef is 50's beef and I really don't know where all this stems from."
When 50 Cent appeared on the same station two days later, he said The Game was no longer a member of G-Unit. "Every record he's selling is based on me being on his record with him," he said.
When the shooting took place outside the studio, the interview was ended and the rapper was escorted out of the building by security personnel.
An unidentified 24-year-old Los Angeles man is stable with a gunshot wound to the upper thigh. Police say The Game's associates may have heard the interview and gone to the studio, where they confronted 50 Cent's entourage.
Officers are also investigating a later shooting in which eight bullets were fired into the door of 50 Cent's management company, Violator. No arrests have been made in relation to either incident.
50 Cent's second album, The Massacre, is released on Thursday, five weeks after The Game's debut, Documentary, went to number one.
Making enemies
Elliott Wilson, editor-in-chief of hip-hop magazine XXL, said the feud would boost publicity for 50 Cent's release.
"It helps him obviously in terms of exposure. You can't ask for better promotion," he said.
But he added: "I think he's making more and more enemies.
"You definitely feel like is he doing too much of a Tupac spiral, like me against the world. You bring more people wanting to see you fail."
Tupac Shakur was shot dead in 1996.
Highly entertaining. We need more rappers like the Game.
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I wouldn't give 2 bits for 50 cents or 2 pack shaker.
"Both were drug dealers and were shot before turning to music."
:sigh:
Upper thigh? Who taught him how to shoot?
People who listen to this trash should be relegated to back alleys, and dimly-lit buildings and be ostracized from the community.
And yet Rolling Stone magazine which has consistently supported gun control for years shows a photo of "The Game" in a recent issue brandishing what appears to be a very real handgun. This wasn't a candid photo either, it was obviously posed for the magazine article.
I hope The Game's parole officer (and I'm sure he has one) doesn't read RS.
At least RS published letters to the editor from people a little miffed about the apparent inconsistency of their magazine.
It's all just hype for the album release.
However, if 50 Cents allows himself to get punked by a bunch of LA pansies, no matter how much good PR he gets, he's a wuss. Sure, he may have set it up himself because he is too chicken to tangle with real rappers. We'll only know that if some of these LA fruitcakes get indigestion.
Until 50 Cents proves he isn't a nancy tinkerbell, I'm not going to spend a dime on him or his music!
I'm keeping my fingers crossed!
Sorry, but I don't like these people. They are lowlife street thugs and admitted criminals who belong in prison. Instead, society has turned them into multi-millionaires and rewarded them with fame. And yet, despite everything they have been given (I hesitate to use the term "earned"), they still engage in rampant, violent criminal behavior.
What the market will bear, my man, what the market will bear.
Didn't these idiots learn anything from the East Coast v. West Coast feud in the nineties? Or do they want to be gunned down and 'live forever' as martyrs like Tupac and Biggie?
The posing, the "crews," the fake names...it kinda reminds me of professional wrestling. With real bullets.
}:-)4
Ever notice that Tupac seems to release a new album every year?
....and hope that this trash self destructs...
No apparently not and contrary to the industry propaganda, they do know the people who shot Tupac and Biggie. It's part of publicity, and that's why gangsta rap is crap. They never recovered from the introduction of crack lifestyle that began to dominate rap music in the late eighties.
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