NEWS: 50 Cent Ordered To Disarm, Lawyer Lies

Rapper 50 Cent has been told by a New York judge to surrender any guns he might have after an ex-girlfriend obtained a restraining order. [...] Mr Jackson's lawyer, Brett Kimmel, said he would contest the order. "To my knowledge, he has no guns," he said. Ms Tompkins has been involved legal row with Mr Jackson over money. She claims she is entitled to half of his estate, based on an oral agreement. (Source: BBC)

First of all, LOL @ the oral agreement claim. Good luck trying to make that one happen.
Second of all, LOL @ his lawyer's statement.

VIDEO: 50 Cent Gets His Chain Snatched

Angola is probably not the best place to wear blood diamonds around your neck. They'll take them back.

Via DS.

NEWS: 50 Cent Switches Vote From Hillary To Obama

Sure to influence those swing states.

VIDEO: 50 Cent Disses Fat Joe Pt. 27

I've been avoiding posting all this 50 Cent video stuff where he takes on 50 Cent, but I've got to give credit where credit is due and this is just so surgically precise and funny I have to post it.

VIDEO: Lil' Wayne - Lollipop

Lil' Wayne's new single 'Lollipop' is promoted with what may be one of the last big budget videos of the genre, which is fitting since the song itself is a somewhat dated yet fully obvious amalgamation of Mims's 'This Is Why I'm Hot', Ludacris's 'What's Your Fantasy', any first single off of a 50 Cent album, and the ever present vocoder.

LISTEN: Skillz - Get Off The Boo Boo ft. Pimp C

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Skillz and UGK's late, great Pimp C team up for 'Get Off The Boo Boo', which is not about 50 Cent.

NEWS: Prodigy's Farewell Concert

Somehow I knew something like this would go down at Prodidy's farewell party at BB Kings the other night. And ouch @ only 150 fans showing up. And 50 Cent doesn't even show up? No other G-Unit members aside from some cat I've never even heard of? What's up with that? From TSS's recap:

So, out comes G-Unit’s newest addition, Maserati Fox with his Dumb Out clique. Three atrocious songs (in which Maserati didn’t rap any full verses), 10,000 cries of “G-G-G-G-Unit!” and 234,000 calls of “Dumb Out” later, the most exciting thing to grace the stage up to that point makes its timely arrival… a plastic beer cup, which pelts Maserati square in the sternum. After a look too priceless for words, Maserati Ron Artests it into the crowd, his whole gang of Dumb Out goons right behind. As they search for the cup-thrower, the rest of the crowd is teetering over whether they want the night to become brawl at The Palace II and collectively stomp this G-Unit clown, or wait peacefully while Maserati gets brought back to the stage and the night goes forward as planned, a bit ahead of schedule. Read TSS's full recap of the night here.

More pics here.

NEWS: M.O.P. Leaves G-Unit, Finally

According to AHH hardcore geniuses M.O.P. have left G-Unit after three years of nothing. At least they got their debt wiped out.


Brooklyn rap group M.O.P. is searching for a new label home, as they prepare to leave 50 Cent's G-Unit imprint. "As soon as I lock down the new situation, it will be official," [according to the group's manager[ Laze, adding that the terms were definitely “amicable.” While M.O.P.'s three year stint on G-Unit did not yield an album, the group benefited greatly from the situation, according to their longtime manager. "The great thing about the G-Unit deal is that it cleared all the debts the group carried over the years," Laze explained. "So we are starting basically from scratch." More here.

NEWS: 50 Cent Thinks Obama Would Be Killed

In other Obama/Hip Hop news: According to a Dutch news website 50 Cent said the following: "I want Hillary Clinton to be our next President. Americans aren't ready yet for a black President. Obama would probably be killed if elected." (Translated from here)

UPDATE: Video footage of the comment:

LISTEN: G-Unit - Return of the Body Snatchers (Full Mixtape)

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50 Cent is back at his mixtape game with the latest in the long long list of G Unit mixtapes. I'm not in a rush yet to listen myself, because I'm still blasting that new Re-Up Gang/Clipse mixtape. (download/listen that one here).

VIDEO: 50 Cent - Paperchasers

Watched this at home over at Eskay's this morning, thought little of it, but then on my walk to the SDSU offices I started humming it, and it turns out it's damn catchy. Against my will.

LISTEN: G-Unit - Im Leaving (Dissing Fat Joe)

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50 Cent and crew talking sideways about Fat Joe while interpolating the very gangsta 'Leaving On A Jet Plane' made famous by such trill artists as John Denver and Peter, Paul & Mary.

LISTEN: Nino Bless - Urban Legends

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Nino Bless brings us some excellent and engaging storytelling over a great piano banger, produced by Veterano, where he lays out some stories about some of your favorite and least favorite rappers out there including Jam Master Jay, 50 Cent, Prodigy, Saigon, Cuban Link, Maino, Lil' Cease and many more. 'How To Rob' style, but better. You may know Nino from 'Times Are Hard' with Joe Budden.

NEWS: The Game Set To Release New Album In June

The Game livened up Nas's New Years Eve party by announcing he will be releasing his final album in June. It will be called LAX and this time Dr. Dre is supposed to contribute a few tracks. Maybe 50 Cent's grip on the good Doctor loosened a bit after losing the soundscan battle against Kanye West.

VIDEO: 50 Cent Is Serenaded By African Rapper

Nigerian rap star Eedris performs 'Welcome To Africa' in a damn near serenade to 50 Cent who's on stage and shows off his dance moves. He is off the Fat Joe school of dancing and leans back. This video was clearly directed and shot by the same person who produced the new Papoose video I posted earlier today. Eedris makes everything extra uncomfortable by publicly apologizing to 50 for an altercation they had on an airplane earlier this year.

LISTEN: Fabolous - Roc Boys Freestyle

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Fab @ Radio City Music Hall. More photos here.
Fabolous raps over Jay-Z's 'Roc Boys' instrumental. Say what you want about Jigga, but look at the impact the man has with all the mash ups of American Gangster and people dropping lines over his instrumentals. 'Roc Boys' is the new 'I Got Money'. Not quite yet, but close.

Related: Angie Martinez interviews Fab.

NEWS: Suge Knight Tops List Of Most Hated Hip Hop Figures

According to the Broward Palmbeach this is the top 10 most hated figures in Hip Hop. I'd say having Suge Knight on top is pretty dated, but there's definitely some of these that make sense. Who's missing?

1.Suge Knight
2. Karrine "Superhead" Steffans
3. Diddy
4. 50 Cent:
5. DJ Khaled:
6. Fergie:
7. Nelly:
8. Cam'ron:
9. Paul Wall:
10. Soulja Boy Tell 'Em:

NEWS: Pitchfork Include 4 Hip Hop/Rap Songs In Year's Top 10

After giving T.I. and Clipse some nods, and Justin Timberlake getting song of the year last year for 'My Love', indie-rock media power house continues it's fascination with random Hip Hop songs. Props for picking superior deep cut 'Ignorant Shit' over Rolling Stones's song of the year 'Roc Boys' (which has grown on me, but is still not as good as the former). This year's top 10 features 4 Hip Hop/Rap Songs. Ok, so I'm kind of including M.I.A.'s song 'Paper Planes' in the Hip Hop/Rap category just for having Bun B and Rich Boy on it, and Rihanna's 'Umbrella' for Jay-Z's half-assed intro verse. Check out all Hip Hop/Rap tracks that appear in the top 100 below, and the full list can be read here.

Pitchforks Top 100 Tracks Of 2007
4: M.I.A. - 'Paper Planes (Remix)' ft. Bun B and Rich Boy
5: Rihanna - 'Umbrella' ft. Jay-Z
6: UGK - 'Int'l Players Anthem (I Choose You)' ft. Outkast
10: Jay-Z - 'Ignorant Shit' ft. Beanie Sigel
21: M.I.A. - Boyz
25: Kanye West - Can't Tell Me Nothing
26: Jay-Z - Roc Boys (And the Winner Is...)
27: Lil Mama - Lip Gloss
28: Dizzee Rascal - Pussy'ole (Old Skool)
32: R. Kelly - "I'm a Flirt (remix) ft. T.I. and T-Pain
50: Dude 'N Nem - Watch My Feet
51: Kanye West - Good Life ft T-Pain
56: Aesop Rock - None Shall Pass
59: Lil Wayne - Upgrade U
65: DJ Khaled - We Takin' Over ft. T.I., Akon, Rick Ross, Fat Joe, Birdman & Lil' Wayne
67: Devin the Dude - 'What a Job' ft. Andre 3000 and Snoop Dogg
70: Cassie - Is It You?
78: Amy Winehouse - Tears Dry on Their Own
84: 50 Cent - I Get Money

VIDEO: Trick Daddy Signing To G-Unit?

Trick Daddy performs at some party and announces he is signing to G-Unit soon.

VIDEO: GZA Has Words For 50 Cent And Soulja Boy

The Wu-Tang Clan's GZA Has Words For 50 Cent and Soulja Boy in this video.