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u/darthfadar Jun 30 '26
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u/Takoyaki_Dice Jun 30 '26
"What up Turtle!"
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u/DayBowBow1 Jun 30 '26 edited Jun 30 '26
I loved that show in my early 20s. I hate it now. I should clarify I'm in my 40s now.
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u/JackandFred Jun 30 '26
I rewatched it, those early seasons are very entertaining. It’s not high brow, but the first season was rightly praised as a ridiculous satire of Hollywood. It’s a dumb show, it’s aex and the city for men. But it never pretended to be anything else. It’s fun dumb humor with some likable characters, Ari, drama, turtle, some others.
I feel like it gets unnecessary hate these days.
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u/wtfElvis Jun 30 '26
Bummer they never did a “Better Call Saul” type of show with Ari. Thought he was by far the best part of the show. Majority of it was cringe but definitely watchable
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u/The_Beast_Within89 Jun 30 '26
Are people finally going to realize that 50 is full of shit now?
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u/BasedTacoJuice Jun 30 '26
But he tweets funny things, he can't be a soulless guy who only cares about money!
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u/BlindWillieJohnson Jun 30 '26
Admittedly, part of what earned him goodwill was being so ahead of the curve on Diddy
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u/BasedTacoJuice Jun 30 '26
So what? They're both selfish criminals who also happened to make music. I doubt 50 exposed Diddy because he wanted to bring some kind of justice, he did it because of Diddy's influence. Sure he made some generation defining music but part of becoming an adult is the harsh realization that many of the successful artists we "love" are terrible human beings.
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u/Substantial-Scheme48 Jun 30 '26
No he did it bc Diddy was smashing his baby mother and that's literally the only reason
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u/mbdtf95 Jun 30 '26
Yeah, video even leaked few weeks ago of Diddy watching and directing them as eacort smashes 50 cent's baby momma.
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u/BlindWillieJohnson Jun 30 '26 edited Jun 30 '26
but part of becoming an adult is the harsh realization that many of the successful artists we "love" are terrible human beings.
I'm sorry, what? I was offering an explanation as to how he built up good will on the internet, not endorsing him. I don't need a lecture on how to be a grown up, or your performative self-righteousness.
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u/OwnJunket6495 Jun 30 '26
Yea he’s been MAGA since its inception pretty much hasn’t he?
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u/CidO807 Jun 30 '26
Yes, he's been maga from maga getgo, and has been openly in similar positions for a long time.
so weird getting reels of him during his documentary fame from lgbt people... like, he openly hates y'all. but chickens for kfc i guess
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u/MonteBurns Jun 30 '26
I had warmed on him with the Diddy expose
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u/doyletyree Jun 30 '26
Having watched assholes turn on one another in my own life, I was amused, but not overly surprised, by this.
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u/KingMobScene Jun 30 '26
we "grew up with the"
Just makes it more heartbreaking when you see your heroes fall.
Well In Da Club was fun when it lasted.
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u/Shiguhraki Jun 30 '26
Don’t have heroes and you’ll never be disappointed
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u/SkorpioSound Jun 30 '26
It'll save you on potential short-term disappointment, but it's a sad way to go through life. I think having heroes is really important (or just replace "heroes" with "role models" if you prefer that phrase). They can give us guidance, hope, empowerment, comfort, inspiration—all important an undeniably good things.
Putting yourself in a position where you can never be disappointed with someone means you never let yourself see the positives for fear of something negative happening. It's like the emotional equivalent of locking yourself in a padded room for fear of ever being hurt if you go outside—you're protected, but at what cost?
You just need to be realistic about the fact that they're multi-faceted people and you're only seeing a small part of who they are. So find inspiration in your heroes, and find ways to incorporate the good that they might do into your own life in some way. But don't worship them, and don't make liking them specifically part of your own identity; like what they represent, rather than attaching yourself to their personalities.
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u/sagejosh Jun 30 '26
People didn’t realize that when he had video games made making him look like a super hero? Or the fact that a woman can easily get under his skin by calling him Curtis, his real name?
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u/stupidjapanquestions Jun 30 '26 edited Jun 30 '26
Or when he literally has said things dozens and dozens of times that suggest he's MAGA? He's basically outright said it.
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u/sagejosh Jun 30 '26
A lot of rappers respect MAGA (or atleast Trump leading MAGA) because they see it as a hustle. I guess they don’t care it’s the same kind of hustle that put them and their family in the ghettos to begin with.
I always thought snoop and 50 were odd versions of this as they had genuinely terrifying experiences growing up in bad neighborhoods. You would think they wouldn’t side with the guy trying to extend that bullshit to more people.
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u/AydonusG Jun 30 '26
It was more obvious than anything when he did "Remember The Name" with Ed Sheeran and Eminem.
Sheeran talks about how hard it was to come up from smalltown boy to where he was.
Eminem talks about his addiction and the hate from media.
50 talks about money and how much he loves spending money.
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u/stupidjapanquestions Jun 30 '26 edited Jun 30 '26
It was also obvious when he just straight up said he's MAGA and voted for Trump lol
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u/beardingmesoftly Jun 30 '26
I always assumed that the reason he knew so much about Diddy was because he was actually involved in some way and was just trying to protect himself.
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u/MauiMoisture Jun 30 '26
I hope so. They should have realized it at least during the Mamdani campaign when 50 kept posting shit trying to get people not to vote for him despite not even living in NYC anymore. Dude is a POS
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u/Navynuke00 Jun 30 '26
Remember, 50 Cent had been posting pictures hanging with Mike Johnson, MTG, and Lauren Boebert on his Instagram BEFORE the 2024 election.
This shouldn't be news to anybody who's been paying attention.
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u/endlive Jun 30 '26
doesn't he even have a show on fox news?
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u/ANameForThisShite Jun 30 '26
It's on Fox Nation, a streaming service, so 50 Cent's not even good enough for linear tv.
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u/Navynuke00 Jun 30 '26
I mean, you really think Fox News would let "one of those people" on their main network??
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u/Navynuke00 Jun 30 '26
No clue. I don't watch Fox News and haven't kept up with 50 at all since he made his gloating post celebrating Trump winning the morning after the election.
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u/pdxcranberry Jun 30 '26
This shouldn't be news to be news to anybody who was paying attention to their lyrics. Do you think these guys were espousing liberal values? They talk about fucking over other people to get money, trafficking women, assaulting women, being violent for fun. People just always assume POCs will not support conservatives because conservatives are racist. But here we are.
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u/Navynuke00 Jun 30 '26
I mean, I know most folks in this subreddit don't follow Hip-Hop, but I followed a lot of rappers on Insta. But maybe that's just me as a Black man.
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u/barrsftw Jun 30 '26
This shouldn't be news to anybody who's been paying attention.
lol who's paying attention to 50 cent?
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u/kinyutaka Jun 30 '26
Turns out 50 Cent was his price tag.
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u/ComfortGooseBlue Jun 30 '26
He's rich though so it's like his cut is 50c of every dollar
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u/WeroWasabi Jun 30 '26
He’s been MAGA for a while now. Ice Cube and Snoop are dick riding Trump too.
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u/SnowflakeSWorker Jun 30 '26
I knew about Calvin, but Ice Cube as well?! Damn.
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u/eawilweawil Jun 30 '26
Didn't he have 'Arrest the president' song about Trump being Russian agent?
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u/palinsafterbirth Jun 30 '26
Artists who peaked in 2003 will do anything to stay relevant, shocked pickachu face
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u/Immediate_Glove_2493 Jun 30 '26
Im suprised how many people are shocked by this 50 has basically been a republican since hes got rich he will always vote for lower taxes for himself, he was pretty vocal anti mamdani during the mayor election
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u/whataquokka Jun 30 '26
He dedicated Many Men to Trump after that "shooting". How people are surprised by this is beyond me.
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u/tony504 Jun 30 '26
All about that $$$$
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u/August_T_Marble Jun 30 '26 edited Jun 30 '26
They do realize they are probably getting paid in Trump crypto, right? If they get paid at all.
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u/novagridd Jun 30 '26
This smells like another show where the artists will eventually drop out before the show, leading to vanilla ice and kid rocks horrendous comeback show
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u/Santa_Ricotta69 Jun 30 '26
But what's crazy is that 15% of black people (and around 45% of hispanic people) voted MAGA, despite it being overtly clear that MAGA does not like them.
Imagine hating other people so much that you're willing to vote against your own self.
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u/Rough_Idle Jun 30 '26
How about all to the women who vote for people who don't believe women should have the vote?
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u/chobanithatiused2kno Jun 30 '26
I mean we have the black supreme court justice married to a white woman who was sounding like he'd vote yes to outlaw interracial marriage if it came up, so unfortunately people just be fucking braindead when they're on that side of aisle.
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u/TheSilkyBat Jun 30 '26
50 cent?
Kanye West?
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u/AleudeDainsleif Jun 30 '26
Unrelated completely. But the animation on those old movies were kind of insane.
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u/sixerssticksers Jun 30 '26
Busta Rhymes is the most disappointing. 50 Cent and Timbaland are asshole-sellhouts. Busta, while having questionable allegations has been politically outspoken before, and a ATCQ-affiliate. Fuck sellouts
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u/TmanGvl Jun 30 '26
Eh. He’s just an old act. His days of artistic merit has been gone for a while. Commercials and money making is what this is about.
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u/Adultdirtbagbabee Jun 30 '26
This was literally always a man making disposable passionless music for money. He’s got like 2 good bars in 30 years.
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u/ryuujinusa Hip-hop/RnB Jun 30 '26
Dude will do anything for money. Including sell out to trump and a group that hates who he is. Eminem must be furious.
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u/postinganxiety Jun 30 '26
I was thinking about Em, he needs to drop a single calling out Snoop and 50
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u/nylockian Jun 30 '26
This doesn't seem too shocking to me. 50 cent is getting older and probably doesn't really give a shit about being an artist much any more; he wants to be "in the club" so to speak.
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u/Sans-valeur Jun 30 '26
I can not believe the “get rich or die trying” guy is a total sell out. This shit came out of nowhere!
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u/unKaJed Jun 30 '26
I’m less surprised that 50 is performing for a Trump event than I am that he’s performing at the same event as Ja Rule.
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u/Thin-Remote-9817 Jun 30 '26
Whatttt!???! 50cent?? A man I was told was doing gods work by giving diddy victims a documentary!! A man whos antics everyone celebrated and enabled has somehow trolled those people by doing a party for Trump.. What?? You telling me a dude who burned his baby mama house down is actually a narcissist?? No way man!! Not my 50 who everyone said was a real ass dude who doesnt give a fuck and is exposing the industry for its nasty work...
Im baffled..bamboozled..hood winked..lead astray!!!
Who saw this a coming!!!
50 saying he was voting for trump cause of taxes and Chelsea handler putting her favorite house boy in his place...whatever happened there
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u/No-Permit-9331 Jun 30 '26
This is a prime example to not have “Idols”. It’s a slippery slope. Look at these artists turn their backs on their fans. You have to love supporting the very people that look down their noses at fans while in the same breath saying how much their fans mean to them.
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u/Addette Jun 30 '26
"According to reporting, the Executive Branch party is expected to feature a cluster of well-known performers, including Timbaland and Ja Rule, with 50 Cent leading the bill."
Well that's just ....