Posted on 05/04/2016 2:41:16 PM PDT by tuffydoodle
Rapper 50 Cent has issued an apology after he shared a video that depicted him mocking an autistic airport employee.
In the video, the rapper is seen mocking Andrew Farrell and saying the 19-year-old is “high as a motherf—-r.”
“What kind of s--t you think he took before he got to work today?” 50 Cent says and he focuses the camera on Farrell.
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In before the claims that it’s okay because $.50 is a great artist.
My seven year old is on the high functioning end of the spectrum. His IQ is more than double 50 Cent’s name. I bet 50 Cent’s IQ is closer to room temp.
Meh. I have a few of his songs on one of my workout mixes, but if they were gone I wouldn’t miss them.
Four bits.
Not even people who are into hip hop claim 50 cent is a good artist. His sound is terrible, his lyrics are from another era that no one listens to anymore, and he can’t do anything without better talent behind him.
I wouldn’t recognize a $.50 song if I heard it, but his behavior would be creepy even if he were Mozart.
50 cents is worth nothing.
is this a name? Better had his mother named him Trayvon.
I never heard his music, but I suspects its as degenerate and classless as he is.
uh-oh - sounds like slander & defamation.
Time to get an attorney and sue.
oh wait ! half a buck is broke.
nevermind !
Andrew Farrell probably has a greater net worth than this POS. He should remind him of that fact. Justice served.
He caters to an era of excessive violence in hip hop. Braggadocio that would be a modern example of something prohibition-era gangsters would have related to.
Hip hop in the current era is now represented by shifting beats that keep the listener attentive, and lyrics that focus on the effects of depression and fame on the mind, relationship issues, and artificial controversy that feeds the “blogosphere” for likes.
Take, example, Childish Gambino (who is Donald Glover’s persona). His albums are an exploration of what fame can do the the psyche, and how suicide can be so desirable (and eventually how to conquer those demons).
Then, look at Kendrick Lamar (one of the finest lyricists of the day); his lyrics focus on how fame changes a person, and the resultant suffering caused by forgetting where you come from and finding “authenticity” in life.
50 cent sucks.
... his lyrics focus on how fame changes a person ...
Just the average issues of ordinary people ...
Well, Kendrick also is well-regarded for speaking and providing a voice for the poor of Compton, where he came from, who lacked a voice in media; he earned his career by providing a medium to express their problems.
His latest album was an exploration of issues associated with authenticity and his own personal failings, and how confidence is not enough to change reality — work is required, but the end material rewards are not in themselves rewarding, but merely a means to self-actualization.
I don’t know. I personally enjoy hip hop, and I don’t consider myself a “degenerate.” When I was young, it was an outlet for my own anger and frustration from growing up in a inner city where my older brother was murdered, an absent father, la la sob story. Now as I’m an adult, I see hip hop for its unique creativity, but then again I appreciate a lot of genres.
People like a lot of different kinds of music. If a performer is successful, then he or she is reaching someone, even if it’s not me.
My point above was that the “miseries of fame” theme is a cliché.
True, true.
I had Kendrick Lamar mixed up with one of those Kardashian-associated persons, but his Wikipedia bio says that’s incorrect. I wish him the best of luck in avoiding Kardashians!
dont like rap but he was a republican supporter in the past. this is a shame.
and how many people did you have to “get in before” they would say he was a great artist on FR.
that makes no sense
It’s a figure of speech.
If it was Guns N Roses or Led Zep THEN there’s be plenty. :)
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