When it comes to "Gangsta rap" 50 Cent doesn't play around.

He's not happy about comments Alicia Keys was quoted as making in a recent interview with Blender, even though the R&B songstress later said the quotes were "misrepresented" by the magazine.

"'Gangsta rap' was a ploy to convince black people to kill each other," Keys was quoted as saying. "'Gangsta rap' didn't exist."

According to the Associated Press, Keys issued a statement later saying that her comments were "misrepresented" and that she isn't a "conspiracy theorist" or "a racist."

"We stand by our story," Blender spokeswoman Kate Cafaro told The Associated Press on Tuesday.

Regardless of Keys' explanation, 50 Cent wasn't too thrilled with the comment.

"I don't like Alicia Keys no more though … the same reason why I said that I don't like Oprah Winfrey," 50 Cent toldThe Showbuzz. "I'm prejudice(d). I don't like people who don't like me. If you don't like the content that I write because of my experiences; I am being who I am when I am writing it. I fall into that 'label' as far as you considering artists creating 'Gangsta music,' we fall into that.

"If she don't like that, (then) I don't like that classical music s--- she be doing. At some point she's playing some s--- that don't relate to me. … We listen to it and try to figure out why people actually enjoy it. I am trying to enjoy it. That statement changes my perception of Alicia Keys totally. But the magazine is standing behind it, which means they probably have a tape of her in conversation saying it. It's just not really a bright comment anyway."

A multiplatinum artist ("Get Rich or Die Tryin" and "The Massacre") and business mogul, 50 Cent made a fortune from using rap to share his story of growing up hustling in the streets since the age of twelve.

He believes that hip-hop as an art form is often misjudged.

"I think hip-hop is so competitive, that the competitive nature, the art form makes it a competition," 50 Cent said. "I don't think that a lot of people who judge hip-hop actually enjoy it as an art form. They aren't into it enough to understand what they are listening to and they just hear disrespectful lyrics going back and forth and just say 'oh they're fighting' … so it's got to be negative if it's fighting. To just make reference to what hip-hop was from the very beginning was just two artists battling. Battling turned into beefing after Biggie and Tupac passed because unfortunately that turned into real incidents in the street."

50 Cent, who knows this way of life firsthand, said his mother (who was a cocaine dealer) was killed when he was 8 years old.

"Those things happen in that kind of lifestyle," he said.

50 Cent said that his "reference of nice things died with her." His grandparents, who took him in, had nine children, which meant finances were strained and times were tough.

Although 50 Cent was successful, Columbia Records let him go after he was shot 9 times on May 24, 2000. The rapper was in his car outside of his grandmother's house in South Jamaica, Queens when a gunman pulled up and shot him at close range while he was sitting in the car. He was shot in the hands, legs, chest, hip and left cheek.

He managed to redeem himself in the music biz once he healed and stopped hustling. He may be scarred, but he seems unscathed by the incident today.

"When you get shot, you just get up and go back to doing what you were doing and music was what I was doing," 50 Cent said.

http://news.aol.com/enter...1809990001

That's good.

Curtis needs 2 sit down and shut up.

Alicia was actually defending his ignant ass

Gangstas don't sell vitamin water, and ringtones...

He must be getting ready to release a new album because he can't put out new material without being in some retarded conflict with someone.

I think it's obvious that Mr. Jackson's time in the limelight is waining. He should just shut up & count his dough!!!

Duggs said:

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Well I never liked 50 Cent

Fiddy can suck my left toe. Least I have several Alicia Keys joints I like/love. Can't say the same for Fiddy's ignant ass.

Duggs said:

Duggs said:

They don't wear blouses and pancake makeup either.

Can someone get this illiterate, incoherent ass off our screens? Seriously.

How you grow up is one thing, but I'm sorry, once you get some money there is no excuse to speak like a retarded 10 year old. Having grown adults running around that sound that damn dumb is just embarassing.

Paris9748430 said:

I'm glad someone else sees this but me, he always starts somekind of fight with someone just to generate a buzz and sell his weak, watered down wack @$$ hip-hop. I never liked 50, at first I was luke-warm to him, now everything he says and does is annoying. I can respect him as a businessman I guess (the dollars speak for themselves) but he has no endearing qualities IMO.

It sounds like it's time for the NWO to put donkey kong
to sleep.

More gangsterism from our favorite blouse and Mac wearing thug

phunkdaddy said:

Into a LONG sleep:

It really makes no sense that he doesn't like her when they're so much alike.

They're fake.
Their music sucks.
They both have weight issues and they're in the life.

Who gives a fuck really

Dance said:

I was waiting for Dance the Dunce to show up!!!

gansta rap is idiots singing for idiots

first of all, i didnt knew 50 could write i thought he skipped school secondly , if she doenst like my music then i dont like her music. what a grown up mature statement ... 50 i thought you said you would retire if kanye outsold you, well its about time

Timmy84 said:

Ultimo Dragon!

Dance said:

Fiddy has weight issues ? I thought he´s pretty muscular and a fitness freak ?
Did he really use Mac make up and wear a blouse ?

y do people even listen 2 him or innerview him he is the definition of igorant he should just retire and leave

Here is a article of him being REALLY stupid:

http://rapdirt.com/module...e&sid=7419 (same as below)
Amy Lee: 50 Cent Was 'Kind Of Immature' At Grammys


The New York Daily News spoke with Evanescence singer Amy Lee about the Grammy Awards incident when 50 Cent stormed the stage to protest when the group was named Best New Artist over him. "He was just kind of putting his face on stage then and there at that moment to make a point that he should have won best new artist," Lee said. "It had nothing to do with me personally, I guess. I just thought it was kind of immature." Lee also spoke about the sudden departure of guitarist Ben Moody.

Its even on youtube if you look it up( I have seen it)under Amy Lee and 50 cent Watch his face he looks like he about ready to cry his eyes out ROFL!. It is also rumoured that when 50 walked off stage he was reported saying" She(Lee) dont deserve that award".

The famous picture of him pouting hehe!

[Edited 4/19/08 5:51am]

50Cent is a fake made up gangsta anyway. He has no right to even talk, since he now lives in his GATED community far away from "the hood", so the shit he talks or writes about is a world he knows nothing about. Like Chris Rock said, no one even knew who this dude was all they knew was "he got shot 9 times" and they didnt give a fuck about his words, it was all HYPE much like the rest of genre at this point.

Im not a fan of either..but you are Correct !

Duggs said:

heybaby said:

AM I THE ONLY ONE...

Who noticed he's smiling and holding a dick in that photo?

Dance said:

As if someone really gives a damn who that trash likes or not. I mean, it ain't like he's somebody that's even worth a damn.