50/Game dispute = publicity stunt

**SplinterCell** · 03-09-2005, 01:44 PM

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmp...u/rapper_truce

50 Cent, the Game Call a Truce

Wed Mar 9,11:32 AM ET

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NEW YORK - Rappers 50 Cent and former protege The Game are calling a truce.

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The Game has a foundation, Black Wall Street, which empowers the community through business development. 50 Cent said he's launching a new foundation, G-Unity, to help people overcome obstacles. The two will donate to the Harlem Boys Choir and Compton Unified School District Music Program.

"I realized that if I'm going to be effective at that, I have to overcome some of my own. Game and I need to set an example in the community," 50 Cent said in a statement.

It comes a week after a bitter feud broke out between the two rappers. A member of The Game's crew was wounded during a shooting outside a New York hip-hop radio station, where 50 Cent — who produced part of The Game's platinum-selling debut album — was on the air, announcing that he was kicking him out of his G-Unit clique.

No one has been arrested for the shooting, and police are still investigating the incident, but some in the media have suggested it may have been the beginning of violent dispute between the two rappers, who flaunt a gangsta image: Both are former drug dealers and both have been shot multiple times.

There have been comparisons to the feud between Tupac Shakur and the Notorious B.I.G. nearly a decade ago. Both rappers were shot to death in separate slayings that have not been solved.

The Rev. Al Sharpton (news - web sites) on Tuesday proposed a ban that would muzzle artists who are connected to any violent acts, denying them airplay on radio and television for 90 days. Though he did not single out 50 Cent by name, he told The Associated Press that a recent shooting linked to a feud involving 50 demonstrated the need for such a policy.

**SwoleCat** · 03-09-2005, 01:45 PM

GOOD SH*T!!!!

Now, will be again be part of G-Unit? That's the question!

~SC~

**SplinterCell** · 03-09-2005, 01:49 PM

Im gonna have to say positive on that one

**Rob** · 03-09-2005, 01:57 PM

what a surprise

**Rob** · 03-09-2005, 01:58 PM

Originally Posted by SwoleCat

GOOD SH*T!!!!

Now, will be again be part of G-Unit? That's the question!

~SC~

most likely

**IronAdam** · 03-09-2005, 02:29 PM

"I realized that if I'm going to be effective at that, I have to overcome some of my own. Game and I need to set an example in the community," 50 Cent said in a statement.

LoL, every other song he writes is about killing someone and he wants to set an example in the community. Where did the gangsta bad @SS go? I used to love 50 but I've seen too much of his @ss lately. He's getting soft but talking more **** than ever...just to hypocritical.

**maxmuscle187** · 03-09-2005, 02:33 PM

Originally Posted by IronAdam

"I realized that if I'm going to be effective at that, I have to overcome some of my own. Game and I need to set an example in the community," 50 Cent said in a statement.

LoL, every other song he writes is about killing someone and he wants to set an example in the community. Where did the gangsta bad @SS go? I used to love 50 but I've seen too much of his @ss lately. He's getting soft but talking more **** than ever...just to hypocritical.

I agree with that observation

**needmorestrength** · 03-09-2005, 02:50 PM

U know what I was thinking this going to sleep the other night, just because of all the threads, and I thought to myself "wonder if its a publicity stunt"... im a genious lol

**RockSolid** · 03-09-2005, 03:47 PM

they look like they are a little too close.

**GetPumped** · 03-09-2005, 04:00 PM

It may have been a good marketing strategy for 50 because it would increase sales with all the beef by kicking game out of g-unit, but personally I think Game was the best out of g-unit and that it was unwise kicking him out because they could have used his talent.

**mushroomstampr** · 03-09-2005, 04:26 PM

i hope 50 puts out an al sharpton diss next

***BajanBastard*** · 03-09-2005, 04:30 PM

Ha! Ha!

**solid-d** · 03-09-2005, 05:47 PM

BTW- just listened to 50s new CD today and was very pleased...

**sp9** · 03-09-2005, 06:13 PM

Just ordered it off amazon. I counted 12 tracks on his last that I liked. I am sure I will like a few more than get airplay on the radio. I d/l his first album, "Power of the Dollar" that was only out for a couple of months in 2000 because columbia pulled it from the shelves due to pressure from other artists that he pissed off. A few good tracks on there as well.