# I have reached "50 Cent" overload. **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [April 6, 2003, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-reached-50-cent-overload/166927 "2003-04-06T21:55:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Super\_Gnat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e274bd/32.png) [@Super\_Gnat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Super_Gnat)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2003, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-reached-50-cent-overload/166927/21 "2003-04-07T03:38:27Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Payton’s Servant \* > \*\*I found it hilarious that someone “_music journalist_” used the phrase "\*indy \*(as in independent) _rap scene"_ and they were seemingly utterly serious. \*\* Why is that so hilarious? Is there some reason why rap can’t have indie labels? ---
**Author:** ![Already\_in\_Use](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a9adbd/32.png) [@Already\_in\_Use](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Already_in_Use)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2003, 3:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-reached-50-cent-overload/166927/22 "2003-04-07T03:55:28Z")
**Jayrot** , I do like a lot of poetry, and even some rap. It’s mostly the repetitive beats that get to me, and the lack of lyrical merit in most of the rap that I hear. But when rap has interesting instrumental work and interesting lyrics, I’m up for it. (Anyone heard Herbie Hancock’s “The Melody”? Sure, he’s a jazz guy, but it’s a sort of rap-jazz song, and it RULES.) I just can’t get into mainstream rap, seeing as how it has inane lyrics, just like mainstream modern rock and pop, and music that’s at best boring. But I’m always up for hearing about rap music that lacks those qualities. ---
**Author:** ![RexDart](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b77776/32.png) [@RexDart](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RexDart)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2003, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-reached-50-cent-overload/166927/23 "2003-04-07T03:57:28Z")
This would be why I _never_ listen to popular music radio. If my tuner ever strays from ESPN radio, it goes right to newstalk for a Cardinals game, and occasionally to a local music station whose program manager is a girl I know who pledged never to play Creed songs on the station. Of course, when I was down in Houston visiting my friend over spring break, he _does_ listen to pop radio and I heard that stupid song constantly. He somehow managed to be the only human on the planet who didn’t know 50 Cent was the artist of the song, and after finding out the name of the artist he \ and then I had to hear it over and over again when he played the disc in the car, and whenever he loaded up Winamp. So needless to say, one week of “In da Club” was more than enough for me. I share your revulsion of it, thoroughly. ---
**Author:** ![Jayrot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Jayrot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jayrot)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2003, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-reached-50-cent-overload/166927/24 "2003-04-07T04:14:50Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Already in Use \* > \*\ ***Jayrot** , I do like a lot of poetry, and even some rap. It’s mostly the repetitive beats that get to me, and the lack of lyrical merit in most of the rap that I hear. But when rap has interesting instrumental work and interesting lyrics, I’m up for it. (Anyone heard Herbie Hancock’s “The Melody”? Sure, he’s a jazz guy, but it’s a sort of rap-jazz song, and it RULES.) I just can’t get into mainstream rap, seeing as how it has inane lyrics, just like mainstream modern rock and pop, and music that’s at best boring. But I’m always up for hearing about rap music that lacks those qualities. \*\* I totally agree with what you are saying. Its just too bad that a whole genre gets a bad name just because of a couple bad eggs (albeit popular bad eggs). This is the same affliction facing Electronica these days. You gotta get through the bullshit. ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2003, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-reached-50-cent-overload/166927/25 "2003-04-07T04:15:41Z")
[Here](http://beatdiggaz.8m.com/) [are](http://sandbox.pair.com/fondle/) [just a](http://www.uurecords.com/homepage.htm) [few sites](http://www.neckexersize.com/) [and indy](http://www.2bold.com/) [labels.](http://www.ninjatune.net/bigdada/) Rap and hip-hop underground is large. What would give anyone the idea rap has no independent labels? The streets really is where this music comes from. ---
**Author:** ![Payton\_s\_Servant](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3da27b/32.png) [@Payton\_s\_Servant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Payton_s_Servant)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2003, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-reached-50-cent-overload/166927/26 "2003-04-07T04:20:51Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Magickly Delicious \* > \*\*The other day, the DJ on the radio introduced him as “Fity Cent”! _Please_ tell me it was just that DJ, and he isn’t really pronouncing his name that way? \*\* That is how you pronounce it if you are from the ghetto and are “jus keepin it real, knowhutImsayin.” No, I’m not being racist or bigoted, simply speaking from firsthand knowledge and experience. ---
**Author:** ![Shaolinrabbit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Shaolinrabbit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shaolinrabbit)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2003, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-reached-50-cent-overload/166927/27 "2003-04-07T04:26:36Z")
For the record, I have burned all the good music(Read: stuff I like) that has ever been produced in my lifetime to CDs which I listen to exclusively. I know that this officially makes me old. I didn’t even know they were playing music at Walmart. In a humorous sidenote, in a conversation about why Britney Spears was on my CDs, someone said “It’s not like you can _hear_ her breasts.” Yes, I can. 'Nuff said. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Ace\_of\_Swords](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e495f1/32.png) [@The\_Ace\_of\_Swords](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Ace_of_Swords)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2003, 6:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-reached-50-cent-overload/166927/28 "2003-04-07T06:16:54Z")
What, you think that’s annoying? You must not have heard the remix – “you cute little thug, come ‘n’ give me a hug, cuz I ain’t into havin’ sex I’m into makin’ love.” ---
**Author:** ![widdershins](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f0a364/32.png) [@widdershins](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/widdershins)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2003, 12:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-reached-50-cent-overload/166927/29 "2003-04-07T12:54:19Z")
Truely, a poet for the ages, based upon what few lines of the song I can make out. Apparently street cred counts for more than talent in rap these days. I’ll admit I’ve never been much of a rap fan (I own only about five rap CDs), most of it leaves me cold. But when I first heard this guy I found myself saying, “You’ve got to be kidding? This is who the big fuss is about?” A woman at work, who knows all the words, has rapped most of it for me a time or two. I have to say I prefer her energized impromptu performances of it to hearing him mumble his way through it. The beats Dr. Dre provides make the song, not him. Although he has a strong presence in the video. Can’t wait to see what kind of movies he’ll make once the inevitable movie career follows. So there’s my ill-informed, halfassed opinion. ---
**Author:** ![UrbanChic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/9dc877/32.png) [@UrbanChic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UrbanChic)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2003, 1:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-reached-50-cent-overload/166927/30 "2003-04-07T13:32:08Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Payton’s Servant \* > \*\*That is how you pronounce it if you are from the ghetto and are “jus keepin it real, knowhutImsayin.” > > No, I’m not being racist or bigoted, simply speaking from firsthand knowledge and experience. \*\* Sure you’re not. When I went to Georgia, I heard plenty of white people neglecting to pluralize the word cents when followed by a number greater than one. I guess they were just keepin’ it real, too, huh? ---
**Author:** ![Cubsfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Cubsfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cubsfan)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2003, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-reached-50-cent-overload/166927/31 "2003-04-07T13:35:42Z")
Anyone else notice that he does not move his mouth when he raps or talks? He kinda holds his teeth together like a ventriloquist with no dummy to hold. Gotta admit, the guy is pretty fucking ripped though. ---
**Author:** ![widdershins](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f0a364/32.png) [@widdershins](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/widdershins)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2003, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-reached-50-cent-overload/166927/32 "2003-04-07T13:56:54Z")
I’m from Alabama and I hear many people (white and black) who leave the “s” off the end of some plural words like “years”, “dollars”, and even “cents”, but most of them are over the age of 50. I think in their case it’s more of a rural thing. I’m not defending what **Payton’s Servant** said, just pointing out that there are people who speak that way totally unrelated to rap or hiphop culture. ---
**Author:** ![severin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/eb8c5e/32.png) [@severin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/severin)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2003, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-reached-50-cent-overload/166927/33 "2003-04-07T14:26:53Z")
Hey Stinkpalm, try “In da Club Cocoa Channel Remix” for a change 😉 > [@](#): > > **Payton’s Servant** > That is how you pronounce it if you are from the ghetto and are “jus keepin it real, knowhutImsayin.” and > [@](#): > > **Stinkpalm** > Anyone else notice that he does not move his mouth when he raps or talks? He kinda holds his teeth together like a ventriloquist with no dummy to hold. In 2001 he got shot several times. One bullet hit his jaw, that’s why he keeps his mouth shut while rapping ---
**Author:** ![Homebrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c89c15/32.png) [@Homebrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Homebrew)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2003, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-reached-50-cent-overload/166927/34 "2003-04-07T16:49:12Z")
_Two bits, four bits, six bits, a dollar!_ ---
**Author:** ![Banger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/8491ac/32.png) [@Banger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Banger)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2003, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-reached-50-cent-overload/166927/35 "2003-04-07T17:11:37Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by severin \* > \*\*In 2001 he got shot several times. One bullet hit his jaw, that’s why he keeps his mouth shut while rapping \*\* He still has a piece of bullet in his tongue. ---
**Author:** ![World\_Eater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f04885/32.png) [@World\_Eater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/World_Eater)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2003, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-reached-50-cent-overload/166927/36 "2003-04-07T17:19:11Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by peepthis \* > \*\*As for 50 Cent’s name, the story is that it’s taken from a guy who was a gangsta in the Fort Green Projects in Brooklyn. No weed reference as far as I can tell. \*\* I live down the street from there. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Indygrrl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/58f4c7/32.png) [@Indygrrl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Indygrrl)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2003, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-reached-50-cent-overload/166927/37 "2003-04-07T17:26:38Z")
Lucky him, what a fucking publicity machine he’s got. Like someone else said, a month ago I had never heard of him, now it seems like he’s everywhere. I can do without him. ---
**Author:** ![UrbanChic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/9dc877/32.png) [@UrbanChic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UrbanChic)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2003, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-reached-50-cent-overload/166927/38 "2003-04-07T18:47:49Z")
The funny thing is, I can _never_ catch the song in its entirety! I keep hearing adverts for it or I come in on the last 30 seconds of it. From what I can tell, I like the beat…a lot. I guess I’d be peeved if I heard it every five minute(s), though. ---
**Author:** ![KidCharlemagne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ed8c4c/32.png) [@KidCharlemagne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KidCharlemagne)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2003, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-reached-50-cent-overload/166927/39 "2003-04-07T19:08:06Z")
Doesn’t 50 cent sing that song “It’s your birthday…” He was on Howard Stern and was almost as eloquent as Mike Tyson. ---
**Author:** ![monstro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba9def/32.png) [@monstro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/monstro)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2003, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-reached-50-cent-overload/166927/40 "2003-04-07T19:32:16Z")
**KidCharlemagne** , if I’m not mistaken, “it’s your birthday” is a lyric in “In Da Club”. I feel so…cool now. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-reached-50-cent-overload/166927.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-reached-50-cent-overload/166927.md?page=3)