November 29, 2007
50 Cent's Connecticut Crib is Crazy
Our love-hate relationship with MTV Cribs has reached its climax: Tonight, 50 Cent will be giving a tour of his 48,000 square foot Farmington, Connecticut mansion. The home had a Miami Vice-vibe when the Queens native bought it for $4.1 million from Mike Tyson, but 50 quickly put his mark on it. He told the AP, "I like the look of an Architectural Digest [style]...There's a lot of good living going on, and it ain't based (on) the actual money that's being spent, it's the choices that people make. You don't have to buy a $50 million home to build a lifestyle that's equivalent."
That's probably why he has a game room decked out in Gucci leather - with the monogram (it's called the Gucci Room, natch). During a clip we watched, we learned that 50 is a bit bitter over the $80,000 dining room chandelier (the dining room has never been used - and that $80K could have been used to buy a Mercedes!), he's not sure when he'll ever wear yellow sneakers but he has them (most of his sneakers are G-Unit brand), and there's a strip club room, complete with poles and an acrylic swing.
You can watch the clip here, and the part where 50 is showing the "adult entertainment" room all by himself is cut with clips of adult entertainers performing in the room - and, yes, one lady is swinging. And this whole show might be a way to avoid the pesky, potentially dangerous open house, as he's selling the joint for $18.5 million (50 is tired of the long commute to NYC!).
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All that money but won't fix his overbite. Incredible.
but he has an adult entertainment room. who needs to fix their overbite when they have one of those!
If it wasn't for his command of the English language he wouldn't be where he is today. I like the way he describes his collection of Ferrari's. Old Enzo must be rolling over in his grave knowing who'd driving his babies.
Take this as a lesson all you young children. Stay in school, even if it's reform school, and study hard and when you get out on parole you too can move to Connecticut. Only to cry about how far it is from your homies.
Who is this guy, Mr. 50 Cents? Is he a wall street type investment banking dude. I can see it is a long commute, but aren't the schools better up there for his kids?
EEWW: It just goes to show that having money does not give you taste. What was the quip from the 80s? "I pray that the people who have taste, get money and the people who have money get taste." I think that's a chiasmus.
http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Terms/chiasmus.html
Who be talking taste here? Dem dining room chairs came from the Mike Tyson estate. Now how dat be for good taste acceptance and shit?
Oops shit. My bad. He didn't want no body fucking with his idols chairs in the dining room dat why he never did uses it. Can you imagine getting that MacDonald's special sauce or a greasy finger print from a bucket of KFC putting a hurting on dem chairs? Dem prints belong in the sex room or all over those suede walls in the pool room. It would have been a billiards room except it has a pool table instead.
Why won't someone just shoot him already and make it stick?
it's funny how new yorkers pretend to be so progressive when it comes to race. then gothamist does a profile on one of the most successful black musicians of the last several years and out come the white robes. you can all say what you want about hip hop, and his music being trash, but the fact of the matter is that all of you just can't stand seeing a black guy from the poor side of town get farther than you all did. now he's buying ferarris and you're all still trying to pay back your student loans. sucks to be you. go fiddy, it's ya birthday!
"all of you just can't stand seeing a black guy from the poor side of town get farther than you all did"
it's true. we should all hustle drugs to people in our own community to keep our community in the gutter, then get shot at, then go to jail, then write asinine lyrics about the whole ordeal to a catchy beat and promote it to teenagers and people from the inner-city who think that by engaging in illegal activities and dropping their education they'll have a shot, no pun intended, at success.
to put a man like this on a pedestal is sad. I don't think this is what Martin Luther King meant when he said "I have a dream". It's what the executives at the record companies dreamt of when they said, "let's use this guy as a case of affirmative action to show that if minorities are given the opportunity they won't improve their speech, clothing, or intellect". 50 cent will pay 80,000 for a chandelier he doesn't care about while white missionaries are volunteering at refugee camps in Africa.
I forgot to give credit where it's due: Kanye West and Jay-Z collaborated on that Diamonds song, made millions from album sales, and then celebrated over a bottle of Dom while a few hundred Southern African children died of AIDS and/or starvation.
yes, we're all quite jealous.
...while a few hundred Southern African children died of AIDS and/or starvation
I'd like to see the Charities and Donations line item on your tax return. I'm sure you contribute a hefty percentage of your income to South Africa.
When people spew on about how the rich should contribute to charity, you can almost see the envy stink lines emanating from their scalp.
He actually said he could have bought a BMW with the $80,000, not a Mercedes. I caught the first half of that last night and I must say that 50 came off as a rather nice guy. I don't condone the thug-rap bullshit, but remember he also pocketed something like $200 million off that stupid Vitamin Water stuff (which, BTW, he had an entire refrigerator full of for the MTV cameras). Ever try that stuff? It tastes like bug juice.
Jink -
Hi! Had to jump in here. If you think that 50 Cent is a positive role model for black youth, then you are an idiot. If you think he has good taste, then you have very, very bad taste.
And if you insist that this is a racial matter, then you are seeing race come into play in all kinds of places where it does not, which probably just makes you a racist.
Now if this was a quido showing off his goods, everyone would jump on him saying how mobsters aren't good examples of what kids today should be looking up to. Asshole dumb kids have looked up to thugs and their ilk since the first hardworking caveman was scammed out of his bear skin coat by some low life ancestor of these jerks.
for the record, nowhere in my post did i say 50 cent was a positive role model. i don't believe that's part of his job requirement. i also didn't say anything about his taste. 50 doesn't need your approval regarding his taste. but yes, it does end up being a race issue. if you read the comments following this post, that should be very clear.
actually I don't donate to the south African children. i donate to the shelter 3 blocks from my house because since i moved here i've seen the same people without homes, opportunity, or friends and that really sends pangs to the soul. why are you assuming that i wasn't a charitable or socially conscious person to begin with?
and sorry, you won't find my contributions on my taxes. I give because it comes from the heart and not from an interest of getting tax deductions to appear like a good Samaritan.
"When people spew on about how the rich should contribute to charity, you can almost see the envy stink lines emanating from their scalp."
right, it's all envy. it has nothing to do with the disparity of the situation or how a lack of humility makes one look ridiculous.
i don't know why i bothered writing this retort. you're probably too busy apply white makeup to your bald head and looking for a pair of your mother's pantyhose to match your clown capris.
Shows how much you know, I buy my own pantyhose now.
Donate to the shelter three blocks away... suuuuuure.
Dear Jink, I am still right on all accounts. Cheers!
oh, i'm sorry Rog, aka rocknrope, my words were not convincing enough. i guess in addition to fine cuisine and zombie movies you also like to play detective. let me not interrupt your day since you're too busy telling homeless people to get a job on your way to Bar 4.