50 Cent: Piracy Is A Part Of The Marketing
from the they-end-up-at-the-concert dept
Famed rapper 50 Cent (Curtis Jackson) was apparently on CNBC recently talking about his "business acumen." I have to admit that having three different people all trying to interview him at once is rather annoying -- as they almost never let him complete a thought. However, when they ask him about piracy, and whether or not it makes him angry (around 2 minutes), he responds that: he sees it as a part of the marketing of a musician, because "the people who didn't purchase the material, they end up at the concert." He says that people can fall in love with the music either way, and then they'll go to concerts. He notes that you can't stop piracy either way, so why try to fight it? He also talks about other business opportunities for musicians.Thank you for reading this Techdirt post. With so many things competing for everyone’s attention these days, we really appreciate you giving us your time. We work hard every day to put quality content out there for our community.
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First, I am assuming you were trying to say "when they look the way you want them to you listen to them." Second, there is now white America, or black President for that matter, there is only America and our President. Race doesn't need to be injected here. Third, everyone judges someone else by the way they are dressed and/or project themselves, whether it be conscious or subconscious. However, I would agree with you that there is a portion of America that is ignorant, but that reflects on the individuals not the race in general.
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Hmmm. Interesting Guy
Makes me want to check out the book.
I need to listen to his lyrics, though. Too many rappers that I've found to be very smart STILL fill their rap songs with low-life mantas, misogynist claptrap, braggadocio and vulgarity. When I see such a rapper in a good interview, I am saddened that they pander to the lowest-denominator in their music, even as they are clearly capable of higher discourse.
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Take two doses of Del The Funky Homosapien and Common and call me in the morning...
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Excellent rapper. What about the song Mastermind? Or Virus. Yeah, he makes good music all right.
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The few conscious rappers out there with some substance, well, they still drive and carry their own stuff, can't support a family of what they do, and are more in line with the starving artist.
Right or wrong, there it is.
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Like so many beer, car, clothing, vacation etc advertisements... Power and Sex sells... It was sold to them.. now they are selling it back... get off you high horse...
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Now that I'm off my high horse, I'll just go play some of that stuff for my daughters, because any misgivings I had about it were just my arrogance, right?
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Depends. How old are your daughters, do they have the ability to filter entertaining garbage from reality...and how hot are they?
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On the serious side: at what age do most kids get the ability to filter entertaining garbage from reality? I'd say it's way after they get exposed to the crap.
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"braggadocio"? have you ever slapped someone across the face with a leather glove by any chance?
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Most of that is due more to the fact he was shot 7 times and one of those bullets was lodged in his jaw.
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I hadn't given him serious thought previously---but maybe that's the point: perhaps more than we imagine are actually "worth the time", but are reflexively not assumed to be.
Much of entertainment is a ruse---and business too. I think we really pay entertainers to lie to us---maybe 50 Cent has done it so well we believed him.
As I've witnessed, there are public figures with impeccable public images and sanctioned professed values in media, but with surprising and disappointing personal deficits--sometimes exactly counter to their public brand---it can startle you. Here with 50 Cent, the opposite (in some real sense) seems true---he appears to harbor more sophistication, multidimensionality and complexity than we assumed. He's not the first in this industry or genre though---Master P clearly comes to mind (all nearly half billion of him---$361 million of which came by age 29).
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The music business hate me
Cause the industry ain't make me
Hustlers and boosters embrace me
And the music i be makin
I dumb down for my audience
And double my dollars
They criticize me for it
Yet they all yell "Holla"
If skills sold
Truth be told
I'd probably be
Lyricly
Talib Kweli
Truthfully
I wanna rhyme like Common Sense
(But i did five Mil)
I ain't been rhymin like Common Sense
When your sense got that much in common
And you been hustlin since
Your inception
Fuck perception
Go with what makes sense
Since
I know what i'm up against
We as rappers must decide what's most impor-tant
And i can't help the poor if i'm one of them
So i got rich and gave back
To me that's the win, win
The next time you see the homie and his rims spin
Just know my mind is workin just like them
(The rims that is)
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Whatta loser
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message to 50 cent
Hoghead, the deadliest food at the banquet.
All this rap crap that's trapped in your colon
Only means, get rid of the wack sh-- ya holdin'
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He's a businessman
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I tip my hat to the guy.
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Bravo
There are some, above, that clearly either didn't pay attention to the interview, or didn't even watch the video at all. Those people prove, by their comments, that ignorance is NOT bliss. If it were, they wouldn't be so negative all the time.
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what the hell..
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Leading question
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RT
www.web-privacy.de.tc
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http://concretelyambiguous.com/todays-truth/if-you-thought-you-were-mad-at-kanye/
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Fiddy
http://ctcmr.com
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half these comments translate to: "wow he speaks very well, i assumed he would be semi-retarded"
also i love how violence/sexuality/crime is fine in movies and tv, but when its in a song its completely different for some of you. If you watch movies with this type of content, but shit on 50 cents music for the same content, you are a hypocrite.
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Pop?Rap
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You can download the podcast from here:
http://www.stephenfry.com/2009/07/27/series-2-episode-4-itunes-live-festival/
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Wow.
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The Stones shunning business
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