Lern to Reed, Bitch!
November 15th, 2005 at 10:00 am by Preston Taylor Holmes
50 Cent, whose own nickname is a proud grammatical error, is launching a new line of hip-hop books. No, this is not an article from the Onion.
Pocket/MTV Books promised the venture would showcase “gritty” stories and cover much of the same terrain as 50 Cent’s raps.
“These tales will tell the truth about The Life; the sex, guns and cash; the brutal highs and short lives of the players on the streets,” the publisher said in a release over the weekend.
The G-Unit Books line of street fiction will feature G-Unit members Lloyd Banks, Tony Yayo, Young Buck and Olivia as characters, the release said.
MTV books. Remarkable.
For once, I’m stunned speechless by how far popular culture has sunk. If the collective cultural sewer has a bottom, we’ve just found a way to slither below it.
UPDATE:
Smantix has e-mailed me an excellent slogan for $0.50′s new buy-my-book-and-lern-to-reed campaign: REED OR BLEED!
This will be a nice companion to Puff Ditty’s “Vote or Die” campaign failure.
November 15th, 2005 at 11:06 am
Well, I’m sure the target audience wouldn’t otherwise be reading Shakespeare. Better to read something than, ya know, nothing.
November 15th, 2005 at 11:14 am
In all fairness, the dedication to the “book” would probably be longer than the story.
Peace and much love to my home skillet “The Game”. “On the forilla ma (radio edit)”
November 15th, 2005 at 11:40 am
I think I might be with Feisty on this one.
But will it be embraced by ‘progressive’ educationalists as a new standard text of sub-standard English? I certainly wouldn’t want American Psycho taught in schools and I don’t think I’d want this on the curriculum either.
November 15th, 2005 at 2:23 pm
[...] I saw this story earlier this morning and after a short chuckle I was just going to let it go. But then I went over to sixmeatbuffet and I couldn’t help myself. 50 Cent, for some unknown reason, is going to be writing a series of books in the gangster street style. If that is not funny enough for you, go take a look at what sixmeatbuffet had to write about it. [...]
November 15th, 2005 at 3:09 pm
So fiddy gonna write a diddy, bout crap life in da ciddy, what a pitty, know-wah-mm-sa-in?
November 15th, 2005 at 6:39 pm
These will read like some of the notes I confiscate in my classroom.
November 17th, 2005 at 3:12 pm
These 50 Cent books are to reading what Twinkies are to eating. They can be consumed, but are detrimental even in moderation.
November 20th, 2005 at 5:13 pm
The guy a’int ever a real “Gangsta”, i bet he’s never even fought a man, always hiding behind his punk ass brothers, bitch ass n*gga!, now tupac on the other hand, he was gangsta, he was a soldier and certainly died like one too, come on though, learn to reed, what freakin’ stories has he got to tell, when he got his mouldy ass teeth pulled out and replaced with some gold plated piano keys, toothless fag hole, fuckin’ turd burgular?