Ridiculous 50 Cent Quotes

Although I think 50 cent makes really dope music and is on top of the game (no pun intended), outside the studio he says some really stupid stuff. I still bump G-Unit all the time, and I love the fact that he got a dope crew now with signing M.O.P., Mase, and Mobb Deep to his label. The other G-unit members Lloyd Banks and Tony Yayo (but not Young Buck) are probably doper than 50 lyrically, although 50 can come with hooks like no other.

But people take what he says like it's gospel. Nobody remembers when he dropped "How to Rob.....", because it came out before he was popular. He basically dissed everybody in the industry. His reasons for droppin' disses towards Jadakiss and Fat Joe are just helter skelter. Why? Cause they made a song with Ja Rule? They didn't even drop 50's name in the song. Ridiculous. The man used to be cool with Nas, and now he dissin' him too. Then he kicks Game out the G-Unit for being "disloyal," and sayin' "How We Do" is Game's tighest record since 50 was on the hook. That's gotta be the worst song on Game's album. Game is tighter lyrically than 50 will ever be.

To give credit where it is due, 50 makes hot music, period. But the fame is getting to his head, and if he keeps runnin' his mouth like he's been doin', he's gonna get shot (again) like 'Pac and Biggie. Nevertheless, here's some really stupid quotes by 50 cent, with a little commentary on why they're so stupid:

1. On His Diss Song "Piggy Bank":

I said, 'I'll do your little a-- like Jay-Z did Mobb Deep,' and that was put you on the Summer Jam screen. That wasn't a disrespectful-enough insult to stop Mobb Deep from doing business with me, and they made the best-performing record of their career with 'Outta Control.' It went to the top 10 in all formats."

For those who don't know the history, Jay-Z displayed a picture of a teenage Prodigy (of Mobb Deep) on the big screen at a Summer Jam concert a couple years ago. This was when Mobb Deep and Jay-Z had beef, and the picture was of Prodigy in this sequin outfit with tap shoes on. 50 Cent just referenced that particular diss on "Piggy Bank" to diss Jadakiss.

So 50 Cent's sayin' that his "Outta Control Remix" w/Mobb Deep was the "best-performing record of their career". Is he joking? While the song was dope, any song on The Infamous Mobb Deep's 2nd or 3rd album were way doper than "Outta Control." Is he forgetting about "Shook Ones Pt. II," which was a classic? That beat was so hot that Mariah Carey sampled it for "The Roof" off her album "Butterfly." The Mobb has had hit after hit off that album, then dropped the "Hell on Earth" album which continued those hits, especially with "G.O.D. Part III," with that Scarface sample. The next hottest hit came with "It's Mine" w/Nas which used that other Scarface sample. Their current hits include "Cobra", "When You Hear The....." and "Got It Twisted," all dope records. I don't care if "Outta Control" was their best selling hit, the only reason those types of records sell is because they're club hits (i.e. bought by 18-25 year-old white girls). All the aforementioned songs are hands-down better than "Outta Control."

2. On Pastor Mase's Transformation Back to "Murda Mase":

That's actually my idea," 50 said about Mase going back to "Murda." "I'm actually not supposed to say this, but I'mma say it anyway. Me and Mase sat down and had conversations. I told him, 'When you were writing Murda Mase material you sold 4 million records. If you can sacrifice for a moment ... having people being confused with what your intentions are and have them think that maybe 50 is so evil you went from God to the G-Unit, that he got you thinking like that, it'll all be for a greater win when you generate that interest of [millions] of people to deliver a record that has a positive message.'

It's such a dramatic change, like 'Wow, you got a minister talking aggressive.' If you can get the kid that's listening to that aggressive music to hear and understand your positive message, he actually did something."

Before Mase signed with Bad Boy and dropped all of those hits in the late 90's, he was Murda Mase and rolled with his Harlem crew (including Cam'ron, back then known as "Killa Cam"). So I'm not sure what 50 is sayin' when he says that Mase sold 4 million records when he was Murda Mase, cause nobody even knew who Mase was back then, before he signed with Bad Boy and hooked up with P. Diddy. With Bad Boy, he was anything but "Murda". Later on, Mase did a very admirable thing by leaving all the money and fame behind to follow God, and he became a pastor. He tried to come back to rap last year, but his album did poorly because his music was considered "soft" as a pastor.

So 50 tries to bring him back by signing him to G-Unit, and he's sayin' that by rappin' as Murda Mase, more people are gonna listen to him. Then 50 sayin' that by getting people to listen to "a minister talking aggressive," Mase can later on drop a "positive message." Does this even make any sense? The pastor goes back to gangsta, gets people to listen to him, and then after that he can start talking about God? While now more people are listening to Murda Mase, it doesn't make any sense for a minister to get a positive message out by shockin' people with gangsta lyrics initially. This plan by 50 is just beyond messed up (although it is cool to have Murda Mase back).

3. On Kanye West:

"He puts together witty phrases and he's a great talent as a producer, but I still don't know who Kanye West is when I listen to him," 50 said recently in Miami. "By listening to the record, I don't know who he is — I know he's been in a car accident, that's what I know."
"I feel like Kanye West is successful because of me," he said. "After 50 Cent, [hip-hop fans] was looking for something non-confrontational, and they went after first thing that came along. That was Kanye West, and his record took off."

This is just plain stupid. This guy thinks the whole world of hip-hop revolves around him or something. If I was Kanye West, I'd definitely consider this a diss. Kanye drops his own hits, he never even did a song with 50. And he was a dope producer before he even grabbed the mic, and before 50 even dropped "In Da Club." Almost every other dope hit of the early 00's was produced by Roc-A-Fella's two in-house producers, Just Blaze and Kanye West, including a lot of Jay-Z's hits. As well, Kanye's music is different than 50's, although a majority of both their hits are club bangers. But 50 Cent is dead wrong on this one, Kanye woulda broke through the mainstream regardless of whether 50 came before him or not.

4. On Being A Role Model:

"I see myself as a role model because I've been taking advantage of all the options and opportunities that have been created for me," the rapper said last week in London. "They may not consider me as a role model because I write about harsh realities — the things that actually go on in the environment that I came up in — and I ain't going to change that. But what I say to the kids is, 'Watch what I do, not what I say.' "

Again, does this even make sense at all? "Watch what I do, not what I say." 50's a rapper. All he does is say things. I guess we should all stop "watching" what he says and stop listening to his records. And he definitely ain't a role model.

5. On Dr. Dre Producing The Game's New Album:

"If I'm not messing with him [The Game], how is Dre going to mess with him?"......"Then that means me and Dre got beef. I think everybody sees my pattern."

This is absolutely the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard. The Game is Dre's protege. Before Game came 50, Eminem, and Snoop. The underlying factor? Dre's tutelage, vision, and production. Dre's beats + Game's lyricz = straight fire. The Game dropped the album of the year with "The Documentary," with Dre supplying a lot of the beats and was executive producer of the album.
The 50 Cent-Game beef is one of the oddest beefs I've ever seen, since both are protege's of Dre and are signed to the same label, Aftermath. It was Eminem who brought 50 Cent to Aftermath, and Dr. Dre basically made 50 cent when he produced the hottest beat of the year of 2003 with "In Da Club." But now 50 even runnin' his mouth about his boss, sayin' if he produces Game's new album, then he'll have problems with that. That's ridiculous. This dude operates as guilty by association. You work with his enemies, he disses you too. Don't bite the hand that feeds. One day you might just be cut off. While 50 has proven he can make hit records without Dre, he's definitely better off being cool with him. Just ask Snoop. Although Snoop never had beef with Dre, when Dre left Death Row Records to found Aftermath, Snoop faltered a bit. Anything Dre touches turns gold (better yet platinum). 50 Cent should be grateful that Dre reached out to touch him in the first place. Dre can produce whomever he wants to produce, and 50 ain't got a say in any of it.

The Irrelevance of Time

The title of this article quotes the ponderings of Peter Lynds shortly before he had his "eureka" moment in the development of his unique theory of time and its ability to be continuous (and I will eventually get to his theories on this blog one day). I have been thinking about the irrelevance of what we call "time" for quite a while now. The more I ponder this, the more I believe that Time, at least as a fundamental physical property which underlies the universal structure of reality, doesn't exist at all. It is an illusion produced by our own consciousness. This is different than in consideration of whether everything which we perceive is "real" or not, since our reality as humans is entirely dependent upon our senses and our brains' subsequent interpretation of what we sense.
Our consciousness can be "warped" or "bent" in its perception of time, as it must always interpret the continuity of time based upon events it receives and interprets through our senses. Alter our senses, and so does our perception of time become altered, as evidenced by the effects of delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) and other time-warping substances upon the brain.
Peter Lynds also discussed these notions in his paper, "Subjective Perception of Time and a Progressive Present Moment: The Neurobiological Key to Unlocking Consciousness". The mind must interpret the "flow" of time in discrete parcels, however small, to relay the notion of the "here and now," the present. Thus it may be postulated that our conscious realization of how fast "time" flows is dependent upon how the "present" is interpreted by our brains. In other words, although we think of the present as being "now," one point in time, it must actually be interpreted over a particular period of time, however small that period may be. This period may occur over milliseconds, yet we interpret this period as being an instantaneous point in time, representing "now," the "present".
For example, if I were able to draw the "quickness" of this process of interpretation of the "here and now," and drag it out over a longer "period," it would be as follows. Imagine what we "feel" (how our brain interprets) an hour to be actually "feels" like a millennium (but is still simply an hour as measured by earthly clocks). If our brain worked like this, than the "here and now," what we "feel" to be an instant point in time known as the "present", would actually "feel" as if it occurred over a period of time, say a minute. Of course this model is not to scale, but it illustrates how our consciousness interprets the notion of the "present." The interpretation is not instantaneous, but must occur over time (as well, this interpretation is also limited in time by neurotransmission, which in itself is not instantaneous but also takes time).
From this, our perception of the relative flow of time seems to change as we age. When we are children, time moves soooooo slowly. Think about how "long" it seemed to take from the age of 5 until you were 15, then think about how time flew from the age of 15 until you were 25 (this is almost universal for everybody). Time seems to "accelerate" as we get older. The key to this phenomenon can only be found within the intricacies of our minds' interpretation of this illusion of time.
As well, I believe that the total duration of time which we have "experienced" previously in our entire lives may also play a role in this. For example, at age 5, our brains have only experienced 5 years of actual time-interpretation. Thus, to go from age 5 to 10, we must in fact "repeat" another 5 years of time-interpretation, which is thus equal to that amount of time which we had ever experienced in our entire life (in other words, to "advance" 5 years into the future from age 5, it is as if we must repeat our entire lives over again). Then, as we get older, the process continues. Our brains must repeat an entire "lifetime" of previous time-experience to go from age 10 to 20, from age 20 to 40, and so on. Thus, going from age 20 to 25 seems "easier" than going from age 5 to 10, since "advancing" 5 years at the age of 20 is only as if "repeating" 25% of our entire life time-experience, rather than 100% as in the case of advancing 5 years from age 5 to 10. Thus our lives seem to accelerate the more older we get, based upon previous time-experience.
The division of time into discrete units, such as years, months, and seconds is a man-made phenomenon. Yet it completely dictates our individual lives and the way the world runs. Time seems to be eternal, yet limited. Lengths of time can seem to take forever to pass, yet upon remembering the events, they seemed to occur in the blink of an eye. Depending on which activities we are doing, an hour can seem to fly, or if we are bored, an hour of time can seem to take a lifetime. Such is the unusual manner in which our brain interprets the passing of it. But does this thing called "time" actually underlie the very structure of reality?
Events only occur relative to other events, and thus the order in which the events occurred create an illusion of time. It is the order in which they occur which is important. This concept is valid in physical reality, but it is also important to consider how our brain interprets the order of events. It is almost impossible to imagine a universe in which events do not occur relative to one another (do not try to wrack your brain in doing this).
Since all of the information (and subsequent interpretation of "reality" by our brains) in the entire universe is relayed by light, the relative order in reception of that light by an observer (or other measurement device) "creates" time. This concept holds true for our consciousness as an observer, as our eyes relay physical light information which is received in a specific order, and subsequently sent to our brains for interpretation. Thus, the relative order of perception of this light information dictates to our consciousness the creation of the illusion of time. As this perception is curtailed such as in the examples of sleep or unconsciousness, so is our notion of the passage of time.
These concepts illustrate the point that light as a vector of information underlies time itself. Einstein realized that the light relayed by moving objects vs. objects at rests can thus alter time itself. This abolished the concept of absolute time via interpretation of light from a universal observer (a universal frame of reference). Thus, every infinite point in space can be it's own frame of reference in interpretation of light. Now you can see how time can differ if either the observer or light source is moving as opposed to when they are at rest, of course given the fact that light travels at a constant speed in a vacuum. It is the interpretation of light received in a specific order which creates this illusion of time. The question remains, since our entire reality is based upon our senses and perception, whether time is real or not.

Our Civil Rights Are Dying

Never until 2001 have I seen such blatant disrespect for Americans' civil rights. The Bush administration is at the forefront of destroying our beloved democracy. They are constantly chipping away at our rights day after day.

I am radically opposed to The Patriot Act. I don't care that it allows our intelligence agencies to better obtain information on those who would attack us. Because it is doing so at the cost of our freedoms. Many of you who know my beliefs know that I believe the U.S. is far far from a free country (although I still believe it is the most free of all countries on earth). The Patriot Act makes this much much worse, giving the government radical power to invade our privacy.

Peep this article: FBI Patriot Act Plan Concerns Lawmakers. Look what this government can do, accessing everything which we hold private, including which books we take out of the library!

"Under the Patriot Act, the FBI issues more than 30,000 national security letters allowing the investigations each year, a hundred-fold increase over historic norms, The Washington Post reported Sunday (Nov 6th, 2005), quoting unnamed government sources.
The security letters, which were first used in the 1970s, allow access to people's phone and e-mail records, as well as financial data and the Internet sites they surf. The 2001 Patriot Act removed the requirement that the records sought be those of someone under suspicion."

This is on the level with communist states. Is terrorism such a threat that we are sacrificing what makes America free in the first place? I'm much more concerned about poverty, the economy, and my local communities than ever being even close to a place where a terrorist attacks. It is sad that the privacy of our citizens is constantly being destroyed.

The irony of all this is that this oppressive document is called The Patriot Act. It is just plain unconstitutional. Whereas I don't agree with everything the ACLU is for, they are right on the money with their constant opposition of the power that this document gives the government.

Yet Bush and his cronies used 9/11 to pass this document through congress, just as he is still using 9/11 to terrorize and scare the nation.

The FBI and CIA can monitor this webpage all they want. I'll speak out against these atrocities till they jail me or until I die. They can question my patriotism all they want. The fact remains that America is dying because of this administration. The sad part is that it took a natural disaster for people to realize that this administration is absolute garbage, when every decision they've made since 2000 has been utter crap.

Their policies on leading America into a war on false pretense (which we knew there were no WMD's before the war started), policies on the environment (i.e. global warming doesn't exist, and cutting EPA standards so Bush's friends get more scrilla), economic policies (tax cuts for the rich, tax cuts when the economy is failing, taking a budget surplus to record deficits, and creating the worst national debt in America's history), archaic illicit drug policies, and unrealistic Medicare and social security plans are all bigger blunders than his reponse to Hurricane Katrina, yet it took that particular disaster to turn America's minds against him. The list of failures just goes on and on and on. How ridiculous are the people who voted for him?

And oh yeah, shame on the conservative Christians who voted for this man (twice) just because he claims to be a Christian. The man was running for president, not to be a pastor at your local parish. And that's my rant for the day.

The World Wide Web of Information

This is one of my favorite sites on the internet: Wikipedia. It is an online encyclopedia with over 800,000 articles. The genius of the site is that it is written by those who use it. Anybody who looks up an article may simply click on an "edit" link at the top of the page and edit the article. The constant refining of the information makes the encyclopedia up-to-date and accurate. If somebody reads something that doesn't quite sound right, he simply changes it.
I like things that give the power to the people. The power of information is thus user-driven in this case. The site has an article on just about any topic you can think of. The extensive linking of the site makes it possible to read for hours on end, gaining increasing knowledge about a particular topic, and subsequently branching out to related topics. Soon, I may start writing or editing articles for the site if possible, although most topics I would be interested in are already spoken for. Nevertheless, this site is one of the most extensive conglomeration of information on the internet to date. Next time you need to know something, direct your browser to www.wikipedia.org.