50 Cent Speaks on Rappers Being Exposed
XXL reports:
The lack of hardcore hip-hop has seemingly coincided with rappers being exposed in the last two years.
Though not a rapper per se, Akon’s street credibility took a hit when thesmokinggun.com reported that the hookman’s rap sheet was fabricated back in April 2008. Kon had reportedly only spent a few months in prison for stealing one BMW rather than serve a 4 1/2 years term for being the ring leader of a car theft ring. Meanwhile, three months later, Plies, hip-hop’s self-proclaimed “goon” came under fire for allegedly being a college kid who lied about his criminal past. Last but not least, Rick Ross was outted for being a correctional officer the same month. Presently on a campaign to bring hardcore hip-hop back, 50 Cent weigh in on the correlation between rappers’s questionable street creds and the lack of interest in gangsta rap.
“With Plies, if you say he’s a college kid, so what?” the Queens rapper told XXLMag.com. “I wish I was a college kid. I wish I didn’t grow up under the circumstances I had to grow up under. I would have liked to just go to college and study business.”
“I see him rap about the girls a lot, so that’s true,” he continued. “From my perspective, Plies, his strong hit records are about females…and ‘Bust It Baby’ and that type of material. To me that’s authentic. He gon get the girls. You see him, decked out, he’s right, girls like him. That’s official.”
As expected, Fif had a different take on the Rick Ross controversy. “What was awkward was being part of law enforcement and completely writing drug dealer material and the biggest drug dealer in the world material,” Fif explained. “That was a little bit fictional. I mean hip-hop in general…I don’t think anybody is actively out, anybody with good sense ain’t actively out doing exactly what they said on the record or they won’t actually last cause you’ll get attention from law enforcement based on what you saying.”
“Can you imagine what it’s like…when you convince the general public that you’re that person, you’re also convincing law enforcement,” Fif added. “This is why you don’t see me out and about as often as you see these other guys at frivolous events, just wherever. I’m not with it.”
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Comment by Bo$$ Black on July 8, 2009 at 10:05am - I went to college and Graduated with a a BA in Communications with a minor in Interdisciplinary, but I also did my dirt like a dumb ass while I was in school. If I rapped, I would talk about the college shit, I would never condone the street life, cuz these yungstaz are exposed to street niggaz everyday, it's time for them to come in contact with someone other than the typical D-boy that's been on that same corner selling nicks and dimes for the past 3 years
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Comment by Bo$$ Black on July 8, 2009 at 10:02am
- No Plies went to college, graduated with a BA and MA in Psychology! That nigga doing a thesis on street niggaz! LOL..My problem with him is he talking crazy bout being a Goon when he never was, and is telling people he dropped out and fuck college when he didn't! Plies is a fraud ass regional artist that wears fake ass sterling silver, that need to get the fuck outta my city(TampA) cuz he's from Ft.Myer's! He need to take his ass to Naples or somewhere
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Comment by BK on July 8, 2009 at 8:48am - College is a priveledge and an option. I feel people should be authentic with their material and not lie if they're image is to be percieved as real. I mean look @ rick james for example, his music was about loving women and pleasing them yet he was doing the exact opposite: beating them, employing them, getting them drugged up, being a nyphomaniac but nobody calls him a fake: why b/c he's a legend in the 80s when nobody cared about this stuff and also his music was great and people listened to music not get in their artists personal business. Just let them make music and do their job like you do your job then go home and live your life.
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Comment by mlyons on July 8, 2009 at 8:46am - Maybe Sylvia should go to college, it's himself, HISSELF isn't a word, dumbass!
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Comment by Cliff on July 8, 2009 at 8:39am - When will it end? No wonder record sales are in the gutter...
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Comment by myhay on July 8, 2009 at 7:39am - sal pt toty repary
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Comment by MR.FLRESH on July 8, 2009 at 3:12am - SHIT I'M STILL IN FILM SCHOOL WHEN YOU STOP TAKING CARE YOUR MIND AND BODY YOU AINT SHIT!!!
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Comment by Olokodana on July 8, 2009 at 2:22am - Real street niggaz shouldn't go to college, black men should.
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Comment by J-ROC on July 8, 2009 at 1:40am
- ain't nothing wrong with going to college, but it is something wrong with lying about yourself being a gangster, ain't nothing wrong with being educated
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Comment by Sylvia on July 8, 2009 at 12:22am - fuc if he real or fake he gettin his paper and doin well 4 hisself.
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