50 Cent

how does everyone feel about 50 cents  video game glamorizing the hood?

keep in mind that he has a very stong social imapct!!

P Street wrote: so none of you aren't thinking of the negativity the game is portraying to the youth? 50 got a lot of influence right now. the difference with us and other ethnic groups is rebellion is a stage for them. for most of us, we can't get out of that life.

From what I read? No I don't think they are even in the same ball park. We are over here and they are over there. They on some young world jigger big figger, and we on some get money take care of family, buy homes, own land, ride clean, keep your mind and body clean, know where you are from so you can know where you are going. But I know there are some smart young men out there to. They are the ones who lay back reading topics but never posting a reply. It would be nice to hear from them, but now they can hear from me....................

Think about it? Who do you think they are targeting? Young men, teens, people of color, African American Males.

Is 50 cent your father? Some young men don't have a positive role model so they make rappers and gangstas their father figure and don't even know it. Others can see it but for some reason the young ones can't. This has to stop. Our mothers can't do it all alone, they need a husband that is not fooled by gangsta images.

Do you know the difference between the Generation X (born in 1960's and 70's) and Generation Y (born 1980's and 90's)? Generation X grew up before crack hit. Generation Y has about 80% fatherlessness because of drugs, prison, and oh yea, gay females who are not telling their sons the truth. The young girls think it's cool to act like a male and the young boys are being over mothered and under fathered.  I grew up in a time when females wore dresses and skirts. Pants wear for the men and boys. Crack came in the mid 80's and people lost their minds. Parents started raising their children to think it's all good. They forgot about the Civil Rights Struggle and all the Black Men getting lynched in the South. Young people are throwed off by all this sex and violence. Young men wake up and see your own destruction if you are following this foolishness.

What does this have to do with WAVES? Who has waves in their hair naturally? Black Males!  So we want to keep Black Males alive and free since no one else cares including our own women.  You dig!

I hear you. I did like one of his songs but now, I see the rode he's going down.  He's kinda geting tired with the whole gangsta thug thing. Why don't he make a video game about being a CEO of your own company or going to college and graduating. That would be positive.

I respect him as a Man trying to feed his kids, but our kids need to have a fair chance at life too. They don't need all that gangsta stuff cuase in the real world you get shot 9 times and don't come back. You sleep six feet deep. 

They need to understand that violence and guns is not the way to go or a way to entertain yourself. You want entertainment, go look at what happens to young boys who think they are tough in the prison. They end up being somebodies girlfriend trying to be hard. It's some real killers out there that aint trying to be your big brother, they'll just get rid of you or use them up. 

 I grew up in the projects in Dallas at a time when the police didn't even come around at all. The area was considered black peoples area and they didn't care if the monkeys killed each other as long as they did not kill any white people. It's changed now but the crack is still there, and I'm not. I've changed too.

Well...I'm actually tired of  50 cent.  He is overrated because he has been shot 9 times and survived. That doesn't make you tough and if I had been shot at least once I would have tried to change my life or something. Yet, he goes around the industry loosing connections with his attitude and behavior and starting arguments just for the sake of it and to gain attention, for example the Kanye West argument he has. Radio stations don't even want to interview him because of fear of bullets and people don't want to rap with him because of his kindergarten demeanor.

I think 50 really needs to grow up and get his mind out of the streets. he has money now to make a change for those who are trying to get out of the streets. He could make  a difference but his mind is so behind that he won't realize it until late in life. Hopefully, there are individuals that will realize that the lifestyle that he is glorifying thru song and video games is not the life you want to be in.

True, if you rap about life from a grown mans point of view, little kids will not buy it, and they can't have that. They want little boys to spend money on it so they can grow up thinking it's cool, but it's now. It's not. You can't live your life with this tough guy act, an old lady twist you cap back.  

But you know, I wish these 20 - 35 year old rappers would grow up and rap about what is really going on in the country like Public Enimy, and Tribe Call Quest did. Run DMC grew up why can't they. Rappers now days on some bull man. They rap about cars and money while their own race is self destructing. It's sad man.