Thread: 50 cent uses a straight razor :)

I don't think it is necessary to close this thread. It is a rather drastic step that we like to reserve for hopefully rather rare occasions when a bit of a time off is absolutely necessary. I trust that we all are mature enough to just leave a thread die of natural causes when there isn't anything constructive to add to it.

Originally Posted by Rajagra

From the wiki: So he has committed crimes, he glorifies crime (by adopting the nickname of a robber), and he is proud of the fact that he is willing to do anything for money. I think some negative comments are justified.

I'm talking about the "homy and hood sarcasnm lingo." I'm not refering to what he did or wrote about. I agree on your point.

MikeB

Originally Posted by Rajagra

From the wiki: So he has committed crimes, he glorifies crime (by adopting the nickname of a robber), and he is proud of the fact that he is willing to do anything for money. I think some negative comments are justified.

Maybe its just semantics but I read he adopted the name 50 Cent as a metaphor for 'change' not to glorify crime and that he would do anything to provide for himself.
I see a big difference in 'willing to do anything for money' but I guess we all interpret differently.

Just as a humorous aside he could have chosen a less intimidating name and succeeded.

Look at IceTea or Eminem . The glorification of cold beverages & candies.

he uses a straight to shape up his beard

Originally Posted by onimaru55

Most of us have skeletons in the closet. That he's left that behind is a credit to him.

Left it behind, eh?

Must be why all his songs glorify mindless violence, mysoginy (sp?) and systematic targeting of law enforcement officers?

read some: 50 CENT lyrics
Not sure he deserves so much credit as you think. Just because you are able to parlay something awful into a moneymaking career doesn't make you a good person.

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I agree with Gugi about letting this thread die of natural causes.

Originally Posted by onimaru55

Look at IceTea or Eminem . The glorification of cold beverages & candies.

If you play Eminem backwards he sounds like MiniMe!

How Evil is that?

I watched today the show Cribs on MTV and it was about a house that someone famous owns. The fellow who lived there is like 50 cent, also a rapper but I don't know his name because rap is not my strongest area.

Anyway, the fellow had a small division with a restored barber chair in the middle, some vintage barber price list (a shave cost 15 cents) and he had a counter in front of the chair and picked up and showed a straight razor, not a disposable one I'm sure, the real thing.

So, as I asked in other thread concerning straight razor shaving classes, are we on a trend?

Originally Posted by Leon

So, as I asked in other thread concerning straight razor shaving classes, are we on a trend?

You know, I think we are!

And anyone who goes the whole hog and gets a barber's chair can't be all bad.

I didn't mean for this thread to be a debate if the rapper known as 50 cent is a good person or to ask if rap was your type of music. Never did i say it was mine.

I was merely pointing out that a celebrity that i normally would not associate with straight razor shaving, indeed uses a straight razor.

EDIT:

And if you don't like his music, exercise your right as a human and do like i do, don't buy his album. But if i disliked him or what he does that much i would not give him my time posting negative things about him or his music. Bad press is good press.