50 Cent Hatin’ On The Jews
It’s always heartwarming when a member of one race makes obvious racial stereotypes about another.Â
In the words of the great Rodney King, “Can’t we all just get along?”
Page Six is reporting that rapper 50 Cent made some unsavory comments about Jews on a radio show, in what seems an apparent attempt to deflect from his own troubles. Last month, a member of “Fiddy’s” G-Unit crew, Yayo, allegedly assaulted a 14-year-old boy for wearing a t-shirt that offended him. That 14-year-old boy was the “son of music industry rival” Jimmy (Henchmen) Rosemond, who represents former G-Unit rapper, The Game. Page Six’s breakdown of the incident:
50 Cent called into “Miss Jones in the Morning” on Hot 97 yesterday and said the 29-year-old Yayo’s troubles won’t hurt his crew.
But then he added, “Worry about the Je-Je-Je-Jew unit. They’re the real goon squad. When the lawyers come out, you’ll see what it is. I don’t pay nobody. I only pay the lawyers.” Fitty said neither he nor Yayo had anything to do with the assault.
Do I need to point out the irony of 50 Cent’s assumption of all Jews being lawyers? That’s like me assuming that all black men who rap are gansters and suffer from a crippling insecurity in their own manhood that they need to beat down kids who wear a rival’s t-shirt. That would be a preposterous assumption. Because not all black rappers do that; some drink Cristal and get with hos, some ‘ride dirty’, some pimp their rides, and some just shoot each other for no apparent reason.Â
See, racial stereotyping is pointless and mean. And really, really stupid.
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Look, why are you going to a place were there isn’t nothing. I don’t care that much about 50 cent, only its encouraging to see a young man thinking up scheemes to make himself some money, which is what i expect so many young black people to see all those gimmicks and see that at the end of the day, this isn’t about Gangsta for him him but survival.
Would you honestly tell me that you are not also guilty of the generalisation of races that 50 is, because if you say you haven’t ever thought of basketballers, rappers and football players as being the milk and cookie of blacks then believe me you lie, because i as a black person at times i stop myself from thinking that way too.
Comment by tony — April 6, 2007 @ 9:38 am
I appreciate your point Tony. But it isn’t any more appropriate for a Black man to oppress a Jewish man, than for a Jewish man, or a white man or any man to oppress a Black man.
Peeps be peeps, that’s it.
Comment by Dawn — April 6, 2007 @ 10:15 am
Your powers of observation are as sharp as ever, once again seeing through the bullsh*t. Brilliant.
Comment by Josh — April 6, 2007 @ 10:44 am
Are you being sarcastic?
Comment by Dawn — April 6, 2007 @ 11:43 am
It seems that you have all twisted. You dont understand what 50 ment by this comment.
It s a je je je jew unit.
It will be up to the lawyer to decide on the table
and also under the table
You will see what it is when the lawyers come out
Comment by jimmy — April 6, 2007 @ 2:18 pm
I AGREE WITH YOU JIMMY. THEY HAVE IT ALL TWISTED. NO MATTER WHAT 50 SAYS SOME HATER HAS TO INTERPET IT THE WRONG WAY. THE WAY YOU EXPLAINED IT WAS CORRECT. THE MORE THAT 50 IS BEING PULLED DOWN THE HIGHER HE CLIMBS UP THE LADDER.
Comment by cocoa — April 6, 2007 @ 3:35 pm
You should know better than that. Of course I’m not. I think you satirized this brilliantly. I love it.
Comment by Josh — April 6, 2007 @ 6:23 pm
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Pingback by poponthepop.com — April 6, 2007 @ 8:09 pm
Dawn, I am so glad to you see you doing your thing. I missed Up Yours! when it was gone and this site has good posts and good threads in the comments, I am sure it will become a daily stop quickly!
As for these WWE style rappers what irks me the most about the whole urban hip hop “scene” is that from the perspective of “the masses” it seems that there is this huge dark cloud over the small fraction of hip hop artists like The Last Poets, The Roots and others..
I could name others as well but as time goes on they too tend to be bending towards what sells versus what true hip hop was all about.
The popular stuff that sells is about vilence and money, and that’s why I compared it to the WWE.
“Conscious hiphop” as it is sometimes called, can be a really beatuful thing. There’s a validity in it that is totally overshadowed by the negativity that is derived from the Hip Hop Machine
I’m sure namy would argue with me, but that is my two cents. It’s true for most pop music etc, once it’s marketed in a certain way it loses it’s underground validity…
Comment by Jason Meltzer Patterson — April 9, 2007 @ 5:44 pm