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50 Cent speaks to Vibe Magazine
Mar 24th
50 Cent, is on the cover of the latest issue of Vibe Magazine. Inside VIBE’s upcoming International issue, 50 shares his thoughts on rappers getting face tattoos,
his relationship with Chelsea Handler, his beef with Dr. Dre about his Sleek Headphones, and more.
Check it out :
ON DR. DRE’S REACTION TO HIS SLEEK HEADPHONES:
“I have a strong personality, a strong character. And I can be difficult to deal with at certain points because I’m vocal. If you upset Em, he’s just gonna not talk to you. You’re not going to get him in the next room you wanna get him in. With Dre, the same. He’s not comfortable with friction. That [tweet] is, “Hey look, I’m here. Is everybody still paying attention?” So they go, “Why he say that? Why he say we mad?” Then the meeting happens.”50 ON HIS RELATIONSHIP WITH CHELSEA HANDLER:
“Chelsea is confident. I think confidence is the sexiest thing about a person. She’s the kind of person that if you’re blessed with the opportunity to hang out with her, you’ll enjoy it. I’m not sure you’ll look at her and actually want to jump over the table and fuck her, but you might. You would leave after talking with her feeling that she is a cool person.”50 ON BEST NEW ARTIST GRAMMY RESULT:
“I think Drake got robbed. He should have got artist of the year last year [ laughs], to be real with you… He did a lot, man. I don’t believe that Drake would have been as successful or his project would have been as successful if Lil’ Wayne was home. That point where Wayne had to sit down provided a complete focus on Drake.”50 ON RAPPERS WITH FACE TATTOOS:
“That’s the craziest thing. Not necessarily Gucci, but to tattoo your face says that there’s not a possibility that you can actually walk into a legitimate establishment without makeup covering your face every day. That does not work. It creates a separation. It says, “I’m an artist.” That’s it. That’s the statement you make when you go and tattoo your face…But know that the public will not have interest in you as an artist for life. You have to be phenomenal. Talk to the best that do it and they will tell you that it will take more than you being an artist. It takes marketing, maneuvering to generate for that long. When you got 40-year-old rappers in thegame, those guys have maneuvered and survived.”50 ON HIS INTERNATIONAL APPEAL:
I did the groundwork. I traveled. To them I’m not a myth. I’m a real person. They’ve seen me live in performances in Croatia, Kosovo, India…The same way they feel about me in New York, they feel about me in Africa and they feel about me in India. You can spin the globe and stop it wherever you want and say 50 Cent, and they know exactly who you’re talking about and they know the material. It is what it is. I don’t have the trophy case to reflect that, but I can’t eat trophies.
Nicki Minaj in black and white face
Jan 13th
Nicki went from a Barbie Doll to a Voodoo Doll, in the latest Vibe magazine issues in stores now.
in the wake of her debut album, Nicki says she not taking it all too seriously.
“I’m an entertainer – I like to make people laugh,” she says. “Some will hate it and some will love it, but all will remember it. And that’s what I want: to be remembered. Even if I’m saying something hard-core or controversial, there’s always a touch of humor, and if you don’t like it, it means I’m stirring things up inside of you.”
At the same time, there’s a lot going on inside the artist’s own head. “I just always want to do ‘me,’ but ‘me’ changes every day. I would crumble up and die if I had to wake up and be the same person every day. I don’t silence those voices anymore. I just let them speak.”
Now I wonder if all the folks who were crying about Will.i.am being in “black face”, will be in an uproar about Nicki’s pictures?
now granted her face is not completely black, but she looks just as crazy as Will.i.am did.
what’s good for the goose is good for the gander right?
Anyways check out her pics, NO they don’t bother me,
I’m just making a point since people claimed, they were so “hurt” over Will.i.am’s VMA costume.
T.I. speaks to Vibe Magazine
Nov 22nd
Rapper T.I., currently serving an 11 month prison sentence in Arkansas for violating his probation.
Before he got thrown in the clink, he spoke to Vibe Magazine about his drug addiction.
It will hit news stands in a few days, and it will be for the December 2010/January 2011 cover story.
here goes the excepts from the interview:
I’ve heard you mention how the good that you’ve done is easily forgotten. Do you feel that you’ve been treated unfairly?
If I place my value in the way humans treat me, then maybe. But they’re human, man?they can’t help themselves. They do that to people they know personally. So how can I expect them to treat me, only knowing me through television? They did that to Jesus. They did that to Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, Muhammad Ali. They did it to every great person you could possibly think of. When it was all good, they was with them. When things got bad, then they was against them.
But in this case things didn’t “get bad.” It’s something you did.
Let me just say this: [he sits up on the couch] If you look at a guy who came up, no pops in the house, moms on welfare, food stamps; started selling dope when he was 12, 13 years old, came up handling guns, being in shoot-outs; started going to jail when he was 15. In all of this chaos and this mischief and lawlessness, the person who was just in jail for machine guns and silencers turns his life around. And now you want to crucify him ?for what? Three pills. I mean, of course it’s wrong and unacceptable and inexcusable. No problem. But in the grand scheme of things, it’s rather petty. It’s rather petty to hold someone’s feet to the fire for something so small when they have overcame things that were so big. All that could have been going wrong?if I was riding with more guns, or if I had gotten into a shoot-out and killed somebody, then I could see that. But just think about it. I’ve gotten it down to this much.
How did you get a drug habit?
I had a lot of work done to my teeth. Oral surgery, extractions, six, seven, eight root canals. Between January to February. As soon as I got out, I had a lot of stuff done. In the joint, you eat shit that is unhealthy for you. I had fillings that fell out and stuff that had to get dealt with. Of course for the pain they gave me oxycontin and hydrocodone. And, mind you, on October 13, 2007, I had cut off everything?weed, alcohol. Then I get these pills and I start taking them for the pain at first. And then I’m like, Wait?this shit makes me feel good. And it’s legal. After the pain went away, I kept taking it. I had like five, six prescriptions. So I had, like 80 pills. Everybody else might have a drink or smoke a blunt, I took a pain pill. Times when I had 18-, 20-hour days, I’d take a pain pill. And eventually I developed?I guess?the beginning stages of dependence.
Have you talked to Eminem about addiction?
Sure. We got a record together, and we talked a lot. I asked him how he knew he was an addict. Basically if you put yourself in harm’s way… if you risk that, you’ve got to assume that there is something fundamentally wrong with your thought process.
T.I.’s forthcoming album No Mercy, drops December 7th 2010.
Nick minaj behind the scene of her vibe photo shoot
Jun 10th
Nicki Minaj was featured on the cover of Vibe magazine recently,
Vibe.com put out a video of her at the photo shoot…
in my opinion this is the best worse cover I’ve ever seen LOL.
her shoes are the business
Check it out….
Erykah Badu on the cover of “jet”
May 29th
Erykah Badu is on the cover of the latest issue of JET magazine. Erykah talks about
having no regrets about her decision to do window seat, she also talks about being a mother.
she also did a photoshoot for vibe magazine as well, check her out.
Nas speaks…
May 11th
Last month, Nas was ordered to pay more than $87,000 up front in back spousal and child support. In addition to that, the judge ordered him to pay his soon-to-be ex wife Kelis $10,000 a month in child support and an undisclosed amount for child support until he makes up the nearly $300,000 that he owes. Well recently Nasir Jones petitioned the court, he says there’s no way he can afford to pay all of that right now!
The judge presiding over Nas and Kelis’ divorce case, based the amount off of an estimated $152,031 per month income,
in new legal documents obtained by TMZ, shows that he makes “substantially less than that amount.”
Nas and his lawyer Marc Vincent Kaplan want the judge to take another look at his finances, and adjust the payments accordingly….I sure hope her milk shake was worth all this trouble!!
Nas recently sat down with Vibe magazine, he talked about his new project with Damien Marley and
he also talked about not being able to see his son when he wants… Kelis is getting paid and still making
Nas jump through a bunch of hoops… smh #wheretheydothatat?
VIBE: Some might consider Distant Relatives a preachy record. Were you conscious of that while recording, or do you even care?
Nas: That’s never a thought, you don’t want nobody thinking that you’re being preachy—I don’t like people being that way to me. I cant explain what it is, something else takes over when we in the studio. When I hear [Damian Marley] mention Shaka Zulu, Inca warriors, I can see them rising up from the dead. I feel like we’re speaking to our ancestors with our music. I don’t have time to know what somebody [else] is getting out of the song.
You’ve had a longstanding relationship with Africa, as many chuckled at your afrocentric role in Belly, and you’ve even made light of your “Back-to-Africa” praise on “Black Girl Lost” from It Was Written. Do you feel like your audience rejects Africa?
Yeah, it’s multiple reasons for it. We’re in the greatest country ever, in America, so any country that’s foreign to us is gonna not seem homely, especially a place that’s been so fucked over by other governments. Especially a place that seems so poor. The family tree root has been cut here in America. So when you’re talking about going back, you’re talking about a place that people don’t know as their home, and Africans who don’t see us as their people. But we’re their long lost brothers and sisters. There could be so much truth told about that continent that would encourage young people.
Did you learn anything new through the recording of the album?
Yeah, but I don’t wanna say, because if I start telling you what I learned, I might become a bigger target. It’s heavy, bro. I feel great about what we’ve done on the album. But if we were ever to do it again, I think [Damian and I would] both marked for death. We’re just making music for everyone to enjoy. There’s a side we didn’t talk about in Africa where things are really wrong. Preaching? That’s a joke. This is almost baby language.
Speaking of babies, this was the first time since making Illmatic that you became a dad again. How’d it feel to be awaiting you first son while recording Distant Relatives?
It’s amazing. It just made everything feel like it was right on time, you know? To have a daughter is amazing too, but when you’re a man, to have a son is different. My daughter is my princess and now I have a prince, so it’s a beautiful thing to have a son and a daughter. Now I have a little man. It’s the coolest shit ever.
How old is Knight? Is he walking yet?
He’s like nine months. He’s crawling, pulling himself to stand up. He said the word ‘stick’ about a month ago. He’s been talking for about two months, saying little words here and there.
Any of them rhyme?
Nah. [Laughs]
What was his first word?
I don’t know, it sounded like he was trying to say ‘hello.’ He was picking up on things very young, like two to three months if not sooner. It just throws you that we’re born knowing what’s up.
How often are you able to see him?
My son was born with ice grills, so when his mom feels in the mood she sends pictures. If not, its hell. It’s hell trying to figure that out, trying to get him—I’ll just leave it at that. It’s hell. A man shouldn’t go through that shit, but it’s another story I’ma tell at a different time.
I hear you.
Overall he’s super good, and when I do get him there’s nothing better in the whole world. When I get both my kids together its beautiful.
How does Destiny like being a big sister?
She’s going on 16 and she’s been waiting for it for years. She’s been great by herself, but she’s been ready for years. She’s good.
That’s what’s up. So I remember seeing a rumor online that said you were getting your Kelis tattoo removed from of your forearm. Any truth to that?
No words about any tattoos came from me this year or last year. So I don’t know what that is.
Do you feel a certain way about having the tattoo now after everything that’s been going on?
[Laughs] I don’t really think about tattoos, I just think about adding more, you know what I’m saying?
Do you think you’d ever get another tattoo like that?
No comment.
OK.
[Laughs]
full interview: http://www.vibe.com/content/long-convo-nas-pg-3
