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How many ways can you make a profit off of nine bullet wounds? 50 Cent, who has built an industry letting the public know about his ghetto cred, will call attention to the launch of his own publishing company?G-Unit Books?by signing copies of various hip-hop novellas in his stable. The books, which have titles like Death Before Dishonor and The Ski Mask Way, “dare to tell the truth about The Life (on the street).”
Fiddy offered thiz pithy tutorial to the street-lit concept: “The stories in the G-Unit are about our life on the streets and no one knows it better than us. Not to mention, when it comes to delivering authentic, gritty urban stories of the high and low life, our audience expects the best.” Precisely!
We’re all about street-life-inspired writing, (Langston Hughes rocks) but isn’t Fiddy?s own street cred getting a few pot holes? He was once a drug-dealing thug (on the real, yo!), but now he gets busted while touring in unregistered Lamborghinis around Manhattan and his crib is actually a Connecticut compound. That seems more Park Avenue than street to us.
We actually dig Snopp Dogg’s dog wear because it’s witty, but Fiddy is treading on Diddy-style selling out with thiz latest marketing of his ghetto past. What do you think? Does it make you think less of a rapper when he displays his past as a marketing technique? Or is thiz just part of the game?
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