# 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:** 10\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Magickly\_Delicious](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4491bb/32.png) [@Magickly\_Delicious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Magickly_Delicious)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2003, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-reached-50-cent-overload/166927/41 "2003-04-07T20:00:40Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by JuanitaTech \* > \*\*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? \*\* Sorry for the confusion–I wasn’t referring to whether or not ‘cent’ was plural or singular. I was referring to the pronunciation of the word “fifty” as **Fi-ty** , skipping over the middle ‘f’. ---
**Author:** ![kung\_fu\_lola](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f4b2a3/32.png) [@kung\_fu\_lola](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kung_fu_lola)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2003, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-reached-50-cent-overload/166927/42 "2003-04-07T20:36:26Z")
**Magickaly Delicious** , according to my brother, who knows these things (his credentials include having smoked up with Rascalz after a show, if anyone cares), “fiddy” can mean “fifty”, or it can mean “a lot”. For example: “I hustled that sucka for fiddy g’s” ---
**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, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-reached-50-cent-overload/166927/43 "2003-04-07T20:37:14Z")
In that case, come to Baltimore. Plenty of white folks saying ‘fitty’. Incidently, I say ‘sammich’ and ‘fitty’ when talking to my hubby because it sounds funny. 🙂 ---
**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, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-reached-50-cent-overload/166927/44 "2003-04-07T20:46:15Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by JuanitaTech \* > \*\*Incidently, I say ‘sammich’ and ‘fitty’ when talking to my hubby because it sounds funny. 🙂 \*\* And that’s why you’ll have mad cred on the street. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Daoloth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/82dd89/32.png) [@Daoloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Daoloth)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2003, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-reached-50-cent-overload/166927/45 "2003-04-07T20:48:31Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Stinkpalm \* > \*\* > (BTW, WTF does 50 CENT mean anyway? Is it another weed reference?) \*\* From what I read, Jam Master Jay from Run DMC gave him that name. I’m unsure of any of the details, though. Slightly off topic, did anyone catch Dave Chappelle’s parody of the current underground rap scene? Heh, it was great stuff. ---
**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, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-reached-50-cent-overload/166927/46 "2003-04-07T20:55:16Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Daoloth \* > \*\*From what I read, Jam Master Jay from Run DMC gave him that name. I’m unsure of any of the details, though. > > Slightly off topic, did anyone catch Dave Chappelle’s parody of the current underground rap scene? Heh, it was great stuff. \*\* Yep, that was hysterical. ---
**Author:** ![NameAlreadyTaken](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/97f17d/32.png) [@NameAlreadyTaken](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NameAlreadyTaken)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2003, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-reached-50-cent-overload/166927/47 "2003-04-07T20:55:51Z")
[QUOTE] _Originally posted by Snooooopy_ **Indy rap scene? Is he down with Jeff Gordon and the homies in the pit crew, yo?** > [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by asterion \* > \*\*What about the Brickyard 400? \*\* Maybe he only hangs with Jeff Gordon when he’s doing the Indy 500/CocaCola600 double along with Tony Stewart and Robby Gordon? _Oh, I was big on the Indy circuit, but I really wanted to make it big in closed-wheel rap…_ Just a thought. ---
**Author:** ![Mojo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/85f322/32.png) [@Mojo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mojo)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2003, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-reached-50-cent-overload/166927/48 "2003-04-07T21:21:56Z")
For you brits out there, there’s now 50 Pence’s [_In Da Pub_](http://www.liamdon.co.uk/). ---
**Author:** ![VunderBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/839c29/32.png) [@VunderBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VunderBob)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2003, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-reached-50-cent-overload/166927/49 "2003-04-08T01:38:58Z")
I haven’t heard of 50 Cent until this thread started, but I’ll be damned if he ain’t doing a show here in Indy tonight… ---
**Author:** ![Cubsfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Cubsfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cubsfan)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2003, 11:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-reached-50-cent-overload/166927/50 "2003-04-08T11:46:55Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Daoloth \* > \*\*Slightly off topic, did anyone catch Dave Chappelle’s parody of the current underground rap scene? Heh, it was great stuff. \*\* Fistacuffs. Shot in his left ear 9 times. Its gonna go double uranium. lol. That show is so much better than I ever expected it to be. I really hope CC will keep it around. You hear his RKelly spoof “Pee on you”. Thats a good one too. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-reached-50-cent-overload/166927.md?page=2)