Is this true?

[technicolor]

50 Cent Negotiating With Apple For Branded Line Of Home Computers




Rap star 50 Cent is entering the world of technology and is currently in negotiations with Apple's CEO Steve Jobs to produce a line of affordable home computers to inner-city residents. According to a recent article in Forbes, 50 Cent, born Curtis Jackson and his high powered manager Chris Lighty, of Violator management are negotiating the branding deal with the computer /software giant. "I'm creating a foundation that will be around for a long time, because fame can come and go or get lost in the lifestyle and the splurging," Fifty Cent explained to Forbes. "I never got into it for the music. I got into it for the business." The company hopes to close the gap between sales in iPods, which have earned over $3 billion verse $2 billion from software and personal home computer sales. Behind Jobs' leadership and the runaway success of the iPod and iTunes, Apple controls over 80% of the digital music market.

 

[Abstract]

Affordable computers? I hope he doesn't hope to sell them for "fiddy cent" in order to be funny or something.

And I really hope he doesn't get his way. I don't wanna see 50 Cent have his name or logo of any sort on Apple computers. Not at all. I also wouldn't want 50 Cent to be associated with Apple, because what he says in his music isn't exactly "clean." His music sucks too.

(I know there's gonna be some 17 year old who's gonna tell me his music is good, and that I just haven't heard real rap before, but that's not true. I know more about rap than you'd think, and have been listening to rap since the 80s (yep, "gansta rap" since I was 8-9 years old. My father wasn't the best parent )).

 

[technicolor]

Yeah I hope to God this isnt true...

someone just sent me this, I asked them for a reputable link..

 

[technicolor]

http://www.allhiphop.com/hiphopnews/?ID=5798

 

[Thanatoast]

Let me preface: I know nothing about 50 Cent. But how would getting cheap, reliable computers to inner-city kids be a bad thing? I don't know anything about 50 Cent's music, but his cause seems just.

 

[technicolor]

The idea is great

but you s hould know something about 50 cent before you go whole hog for this idea. Sorry but cheap computers already exist, he can pass out emachines if he wants to get computers to inner city kids.

These rappers put out harmful lyrics that have severe effects on the mind of youth, degrade women, promote murder, drug dealing, and other crimes..then want to play captian-sav-a-community at their whim.

The fact that Apple would team up with a person of his ilk is gross.

eta:some 50 cent lyrics, and watch the forum filter go crazy

Artist: 50 Cent
Album: 50 Cent is the Future
Song: Surrounded By Hoes
Typed by: g_unit187@yahoo.com

[Chorus: repeat 2X]
Everywhere I'm at everywhere I go, I stay surrounded by hoes
Even when I'm tryin to be on the low, I'm recognized by hoes
Man, its gotta be cause of the dough, its got to be cause of the dough
Cause the game sure wasn't like this before, it wasn't like this before

[Verse One]
50 Cent I'm makin hits now
Don't try an act like you ain't heard I'm the **** now
Some bitches changed, cause they know I'm fittin to blow
You should see how they react when I come through the door
In the club my niggaz, we fittin to ball out
Drink till we fall out
Some **** jump off, ***** we goin all out
Shots big enough to tear the ****in wall out
I'll have your punk ass on the dance floor tryin to crawl out
I had bad luck, then my luck changed up
You see the Range, you see the rims all blinged up
You ain't hear what I charge for 16, I'm makin a killin
These other rap niggaz just catching feelings

(Chorus)

Haha, yeah
Yeah that's it *****, what the **** you thought
I ain't giving niggaz more than 16 for a mother****in freestyle
The **** you want for free man
Ya'll niggaz be wanting a lot for free man
**** them other niggaz, other niggaz can't rap
That's why they give you 100 mother****in bars for nothing man
You know what I mean
**** that **** man, I ain't gonna sit there rappin to you all night
Haha, the **** man
Hey yo, Sha Money XL, ***** teamwork
We work hard *****
50 Cent

 

[haiggy]

Coming from a 17 year old, thats just plain wrong. Why get involved with 50 Cent? WTF? I believe 100% he's in it for the money, not to get inner-city kids computers. If he wants to do that, then like somebody has already said -- send them emachines.

 

[elfin buddy]

I would say that his cause is noble enough (I can't imagine him trying to make a buck off of this), but I don't get why he's insisting on Macs instead of PCs. They're better, but will likely always cost at least a tad more than a bare-bones PC.

BTW, just what exactly is an "inner-city resident"? Is this some new politically correct way of referring to someone who lives in an urban slum?

 

[celebrian23]

I hate his music-- but that's not the issue. If someone wants to help the community- I'm certainly not going to stop them.

 

[technicolor]

I would say that his cause is noble enough (I can't imagine him trying to make a buck off of this), but I don't get why he's insisting on Macs instead of PCs. They're better, but will likely always cost at least a tad more than a bare-bones PC.

BTW, just what exactly is an "inner-city resident"? Is this some new politically correct way of referring to someone who lives in an urban slum?

inner city is media speak for poor blacks and hispanics

 

[technicolor]

I hate his music-- but that's not the issue. If someone wants to help the community- I'm certainly not going to stop them.

Thats not the issue either...

50 cent could go to best buy and buy up a pallet of pcs and pass them out in the "inner city".. he doesnt need Apple to do this. Nor does Apple need a pairing with him and someone with his image.