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Comments

1. gatamala wrote:

   This coming from a guy who was created in a boardroom and exists solely to make money for middle-aged white men. I don’t know whether to loathe this coon or just pity him.

   The only problem w/ dignifying this silk handkerchief-head with a response is that he is a ho for ANY publicity. Since he wants the attention, perhaps she should give it to him. Oprah should invite him to the show, control the tone and direction of the hour, and scathingly, yet cordially deconstruct his pathetic existence. She has the means, now she only needs the motivation.

   Posted 06 Oct 2006 at 11:09 am ¶

2. jeff wrote:

   I’m not the biggest Oprah fan, actually, but I wonder how many hip-hop artists who are female have a problem with Oprah.

   Posted 06 Oct 2006 at 11:37 am ¶

3. S wrote:

   She hasn’t had many female Hip Hop artist either-at least not of 50 Cent’s caliber. Don’t think she’s done Lil Nasty Kim or Foxy Brown, Trina, etc. Mostly “innocent” female artists like Alicia Keys, who doesn’t sing abou hoes and rims and diamonds and liquor and shootin’ folks (at least not yet).

   50 is nasty looking. I would not want him on my couch, even after Tommy Cruise jumped on it with his shoes on!

   Yeah, I admit, I am prejudice against most rappers.

   Posted 06 Oct 2006 at 1:19 pm ¶

4. brad wrote:

   50 Cent is just a jerk; why should Oprah have someone who makes his money through misogyny on her show? Oprah has done more for humanity than 50 Cent could hope to do.

   I’m sure Oprah felt like a middle-aged white woman when she opened her school for girls in South Africa. I’ve yet to hear of 50 Cent sponsoring major charities like Oprah has through her Angel Network.

   Posted 06 Oct 2006 at 2:57 pm ¶

5. bertie wrote:

   Whining because Oprah will not let you on her show is not gangster. Man up and start your own talk show that supports hip-hop artist. You don’t see Oprah crying because she’s not a guest artist on the latest lil’john record. Not to mention, much of 50’s sales go to white folks too–so is he no longer black either?

   Posted 06 Oct 2006 at 3:21 pm ¶

6. Adrianna wrote:

   he’s a jealous jerk with no talent, no wonder he hates Oprah and Kanye!

   Posted 06 Oct 2006 at 4:38 pm ¶

7. The Joy Princess wrote:

   50 must REALLLLLLY want to be on Oprah’s show, LOL

   Posted 06 Oct 2006 at 5:27 pm ¶

8. dcase wrote:

   It is clearly publicity that 50 seeks. The intersection of his fan base and the demographic that watches Oprah’s show regularly may be nonempty but it is definitely not substantial. Entertainers and the like on Oprah are provided an endorsement from her that has empirically shown to be money in the bank. Oprah understands this and thus is judicious in awarding it i.e, no rappers period. 50’s tired example of a rapist versus him( an ex-convict preaching violence and misogyny) is comparing apples to oranges because the rapist is not selling anything.

   Through insulting Oprah and Kanye, advocating for George Bush and Republicans, endless beef with other artists, and the other stuff that comes out of his mouth, he manages to make sure he is still talked about even when he doesn’t have an album out.

   Posted 06 Oct 2006 at 6:37 pm ¶

9. Y. Carrington wrote:

   What’s wrong with Fiddy? Dude, neither Oprah nor you will EVER be white. I don’t care how many white soccer moms she sucks up to. Know that, bruh!

   And contrasting “gay” from “aggressive?” Rich.

   Posted 06 Oct 2006 at 7:59 pm ¶

10. Meg wrote:

    50 has s**t for brains. So if Oprah donned some hot pants and started shaking her thing (yeah thank me for that image……) in one of 50’s videos she’d turn black again? I’m not in the Oprah demographic but get the impression she likes representations (in between celebrity swooning) of strong women. For money or cos she believes i don’t know, but why would she talk to a group of “men” (i use this term VERY loosely) who make money from telling a generation of young girls (black girls mostly i assume) that they have to be sexualised to get attention when her audience is overwhelmingly female? I’m pretty sure it was Oprah (?) where there was an african american family where both parents were professionals of some sort and they were concerned that representations of black men were hypermasculine/criminals/
    athletes rather than a diverse range. There was concern thattheir son didn’t see
    professionals in the media who looked like him to the point where he felt pressured to like hip hop to speak in that way, etc to “be black”.

    So this issue shows why there needs to be more diversity on TV – even though it may not be perfect Grey’s Anatomy is at least bringing different representations into ppl’s homes so that they don’t feel you have to get shot and be a drug dealer to be black (and masculine)

    Not knowing a lot (or anything really) about hip hop culture i would be interested in a genuine conversation about why they address the topics they do and whether they have any women in their lives that they respect, etc. I’d like to see Oprah make 50 cry or jump on her couch. I know he’s dead but Tupac was someone who fascinated me cos he’d have moments/song/interviews where he advocated strongly for respect of women but then a lot of other stuff was violence, and the gangster lifestyle – i find that contradiction interesting and maybe something worthwhile discussing but i don’t know that it could come from someone like 50.

    Posted 06 Oct 2006 at 9:20 pm ¶

11. Kaonashi wrote:

    Somehow, I think that Oprah would have Tupac on her show before that damn 4 dime 10 penny creature. And him talking about ANYONE being gay is pretty rich, especially since I think the Gangstalicious character on the Boondocks was based on him!

    Posted 08 Oct 2006 at 4:27 am ¶

12. eric daniels wrote:

    I say let Luda, Cube and Dre on the show with a room full of Black Women of various classes she could include questions like…

    1. Ludacris Why do you disprect your mother, aunt,daughter by calling them hoes because you are talking about all black women ?

    2. Why is it Dre and Cube you condone genocide of Afro- Americans by justifying in your musics that it’s ok to smoke a “Nigga”?

    3. 50 cent why do you think you are a rags to richies story when you are nothing but a stephin Fetchit of the Modern era?

    4. Why do you idiots protray yourselves as ‘gangstas’ when none of you had criminal records before you got famous?

    5. 50 cent were you ever shot nine times ?

    6. Why do you hate Black Females so much?

    7. Do you realize the great damage rappers like you are causing to the black community?

    and the final question

    Why do you guys have so much racial self- hate that you have to promote poor Black Ghetto Pathology (none of which any of you came from) to make money?

    Posted 10 Oct 2006 at 1:19 pm ¶

13. J wrote:

    I do see what Fi’ty is saying, though. Oprah’s show and empire has taken a trajectory that even she could not control, and the majority of her constituents (viewers) are white women. I can see the rationale behind his thinking.

    But that dig against Kanye was a bit uncalled for. It’s probably because Kanye has a ’softer’ (may more ‘white’ in the eyes of 50?) image – something that is more palatable with the middle or uppermiddle class which is mostly white.

    Btw – I loathe Oprah because she makes NO REAL EFFORT to cover any of the issues concerning non-whites and non-blacks – like Asians, Latinos, Middle Easterners, etc. She is arguably the most widely watched and influential day time show host, and I feel ignored by her. So I’ve decided to ignore her too – she’s an older woman now, and from a generation that can ONLY see things in “Black vs. White”. She just doesn’t seem to know or understand any better. Shame.

    Posted 15 Nov 2006 at 10:28 pm ¶

14. Rudy wrote:

    Isn’t 50 cent the same character who basically curtsied before a President who stayed on vacation for three days while black bodies floated down the New Orleans streets. The same 50 cent who openly expressed his love for GW Bush as a fellow “gangsta” and demanded that the black community stop criticizing how he handled Hurricane Katrina? The same 50 cent who did everything but tap dance when white owned Reebok told him to get rid of his porn production company or lose his lucrative sneaker endorsement deal? It just smacks of hypocrisy.

    Now compare that to multiple millions that Oprah has disseminated to our communities (including building homes and schools for the Katrina families, financing HIV prevention in South Africa, oh and that $5 million she dropped on Morehouse College alone) and the list goes on and on… Since Katrina, people have been calling her racist because she demanded that the government apoligise to the victims for taking their time sending help.

    The idea of an ex-crack dealer challenging her commitment to black folk…in particular, black women is ridiculous. The charge that Oprah sold out to win points with her white audience is even more ridiculous.

    He’s just fuming over the fact that Oprah hasn’t invited him or any of his hip-hop peers to her show. I guess since she isn’t showing all out loyalty to rappers who degrade women, especially black women, they need to tear her down.

    Posted 06 Dec 2006 at 4:38 am ¶

15. Joseph wrote:

    So because Oprah does not speak like an ignorant person, act like an ignorant person or dress like an igornant person, that makes her white? Because Oprah is generous, intelligent, caring, sensitive, well mannered, etc. that means she only caters to white middle america? Way to put your people down! So if Oprah was a “thug” and treated people like crap, she’d have more black fans… Nice… real nice.

    Posted 06 Dec 2006 at 10:20 am ¶

16. Carmen Van Kerckhove wrote:

    How does one “dress like an ignorant person?” I’m just curious…

    Posted 06 Dec 2006 at 10:33 am ¶

17. Rob wrote:

    Though I don’t think Oprah is guiltfree. I thought there was discussion about sexual relations and she pretty much reinforced sexual stereotypes to certain races.

    I’d have to do more research into what she said exactly.

    Posted 06 Dec 2006 at 3:14 pm ¶

18. Stephen wrote:

    first off 50 cent is real as they come i know i grew up around where he is grew up and its scary and what he talks about happens. second people say 50 is iggnorant but he is so smart he know how to make money that is why is going at oprah for some money more publicity. its making you people here talk about it so its working !!!!!!!!!!

    Posted 23 Jan 2007 at 3:39 am ¶

19. Marc wrote:

    it’s refreshing to know that a race is so diverse and creative allowing them to discuss such topics to the degree that they are stimulated, innovative, and educated socially and mentally.

    oprah winfrey is a unique and outstanding person. constantly capturing the causes and events of todays globe representing women, women of color, charities, men of color via the media and the arts.

    50 cents ( and he’s worth more) is just a few years younger, yet, articulate in the music industry and has been able to attract consumers in a unique and soaring way.

    views and topics will always bring together the masses of people who care about change and evolvment. a pure disagreement should not create hate, animosity, apathy and krass behavior.

    reading some of the threads has been enlightening. reading others could be thrown in the unfair category.

    let us as human beings with diverse opinions begin to realize that we all bleed red and earn green consistently. let us continue to agree to disagree, respectfully.

    Posted 28 Jan 2007 at 12:19 pm ¶

20. Colin wrote:

    Oi Marc, one question — ba-huh?! I don’t get what you’re trying to say.

    Oprah’s no saint, though…she has done plenty more good than 50 has for the black community and American life, as a whole, and while I don’t get how she’s white all of a sudden, she has, IMO, thrown inner city kids under the proverbial bus recently, if you don’t remember, saying that inner city kids would rather want an iPod or sneakers over a textbook in a most dismissive fashion as she decided to aid South African children in need and give up on American children in need.

    Though this subject is on 50’s words about Oprah and his little snippet on Kanye being gay, (and that was, to be gentle, “special”) I personally don’t take any offense to his words on Oprah, but Oprah’s words about inner city youths do sting a bit.

    I half-expect Mr. Cent to call some other rap artist gay; it’s a pathetic appeal to black male stereotypes. (from what I can tell, this stereotype means that being gay, is more offensive and “sick” and “unnatural” than with any other group)

    It’s not a stretch for him to try to push buttons and criticize prominent upper-class blacks, maybe for profit (tough, insensitive, cool, makes for a good thug personality) or maybe because he really feels he needs to get Oprah’s attention to get her to allow him on her show, or maybe because he honestly believes what he says, like when Kanye said George Bush doesn’t like black people.

    Unlike 50, though, I just was taken aback by Oprah, much like I was by Bill Cosby (Dr. Huxtable, why?) and in part, Barack Obama in his 04 Dem. convention speech. (”Acting white”? Talk about stereotypes)

    It just seems like black leaders, or “leading blacks” as I heard during the State of Black America convention, don’t have anything better to do than regurgitate exaggerations abound. Let me try to explain how I feel about the two I see in her comments.

    1. Anti-intellectualism, which is common not ONLY in poor America, but throughout our entire country. I mean, who’s the President? He went to Yale and Harvard, yes, but come on…”new-clear”?

    2. Excessive materialism. The hypocrisy of this part has been throughly dissected, so no need for me to go over that, but this portion seems a bit cruel to me, that the poor and working-class, who have to by default limit their finances much more than people in the middle and higher tax brackets must.

    And in this economic context, we have rapid advertization (a word I made up to mean the putting of ads on some sort of medium) of every part of life and the poor are expected to hold to a rigid set of economically conservative values the rest of America does not, never to indulge or reward themselves nor their family lest they somehow lead to their kids becoming too materialist and anti-intellectual.

    It just seems like so much pressure and consequent blame to put on a mother and/or father and it’s not all fair.

    Posted 11 Feb 2007 at 8:04 am ¶

21. Matt wrote:

    First, Oprah is all about money. Oprah caters to emotionalism and sensationalism, and she puts anything on her show that gets people feeling warm and fuzzy or get thems shocked. Oprah pimps out every kind of new age sensation that comes out.

    And her stance on rappers is hypocritical. She brought Kanye West on her show to talk about HIS rags to riches story, when he raps about “hoes” and sex just as much as anyone else, and supports Ludacris and the rest by providing beat production for their singles.

    Posted 08 Mar 2007 at 11:31 am ¶

22. Jay J wrote:

    well i think 50’s right, take a trip down memory lane and see for your self rappers never really get promoted by oprah and Kanye did say some stupid shit.LOL

    Posted 06 May 2007 at 5:25 pm ¶

23. Jay J wrote:

    Oprah’s a is a fucking up town black woman who forgets she’s BLACK.
    eg. How many Black people are on her show per year? I bet you cant get a 100!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    Posted 06 May 2007 at 5:28 pm ¶

24. SeaNymphette wrote:

    Well, I don’t pass 50 Cent’s “Black Test” either. I’m college educated, speak and dress properly and acceptably, obey the law, go to a real job, and live in a good crime-free neighborhood. Because I strive to live like a human being rather than an animal, I guess I’ve forgotten where I came from. Although my ancestors died in slavery, my parents marched with Martin Luther King, Jr., and were spit on at lunch counters, fighting for the Civil Rights that now allow 50 Cents to run his big mouth, I guess we are “White” now that we finally fit into the mainstream. I hate to say this because it is such a cliche statement, but 50 Cents and the rest of those criminal monkeys need to go back to the jungle and live among the animals, because the rest of us Blacks want to live like “People” and celebrate the advances and achievements we have made in American society.

    Posted 29 May 2007 at 9:15 pm ¶

25. SeaNymphette wrote:

    Jay J, why is Oprah obligated to promote Rap? Rap is hardly the only form of Black American music. Lots of people her age and mine hate Rap, thinks it propogates misogyny and self-genocide (in the gansta form), and is generally detrimental to the Black community. Why should she promote a music form that shows the worst of us? Get a clue!

    Posted 29 May 2007 at 9:20 pm ¶

26. merq wrote:

    Criminal Monkeys, SeaNymphette?

    While I despise 50 and his ilk, I hope your racism isn’t lost on you. Melanin doesn’t guarantee a pass to cross-burn, my friend.

    Posted 30 May 2007 at 6:39 am ¶

27. Mike B wrote:

    50-cent has no talent! He is pathetic, stupid, and very lucky to have success! He shouldn’t be biatchin and crying just because he can’t get on a talk show! This fool just needs to count his blessings because 1.) He is alive, and 2.) his crappy music is listened to.

    This no-talent fool is worthless! His stagename should be peso!!!

    Posted 02 Jan 2008 at 1:33 am ¶

28. Annette wrote:

    Everyone is entitled to their own opinion!!! 50’s probably at one point, wanted to be a guest of oprah’s show. Oprah is a nice person but maybe her goal is portray and attract a certain image.
    50 seems to have anger issues, we know he done came up, proud of him
    Oprah has come up also and she does not want to portray an image that she does not have room in her life.
    bertie from up above commented on a hip hop talk show, maybe 50 can sponsor one and hire his staff just like oprah did, uhm that’s a thought.

    Posted 01 Sep 2008 at 7:17 pm ¶

29. Anisha wrote:

    hahahaha

    what is 50 talking about? his music caters to the sons of those middle aged white women, he should be grateful someone is keeping them distracted while their kids are listening to his shit music

    Posted 11 Oct 2008 at 11:28 pm ¶

30. jeanette wrote:

    HEY stephan up there, yea maybe this is his plan to make people talk about him, but it’s all negative publicity.

    Posted 03 Dec 2008 at 11:25 pm ¶

31. Nia wrote:

    Ok, so to be fair i only read the first 7 comments, but found it interesting that in them 50 is accused of misogyny (i’m not arguing) and promoting genocide (oh wait no, I skipped to comment 12,) but none of the ones I read remark on him calling Kanye gay. Why? Because being gay is not an insult? Because nobody cares? Because misogyny and advocating murder are more offensive than homophobia? I just want to throw out here that one can love hip-hop, even Fiddy, and STILL be critical of it, and him. These comments went remarkably fast, almost instantly, from criticism of what he DID to personal attacks about what kind of person he IS (”shit-for-brains,” etc.)
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0Ti-gkJiXc

    Posted 13 Feb 2009 at 6:01 am ¶

32. kimbo wrote:

    just so ya know, there’s nothing wrong with being white!

    i thinks someones a bit jealous, maybe got some chips on their shoulder!!? hmmm?

    Posted 17 Mar 2009 at 2:29 pm ¶

33. jenny wrote:

    I only made it down to the 19th comment made by Mark I believe.
    This was a while ago, clearly, but someone will come across it eventually.
    Alright Mark, its like this, yeah? I’m all for agreeing to disagree, but 50 Cent is not. He lacks sophistication. What the hell is “black”? What the hell is “white”? What the hell makes Oprah one, and he the other? I think we’ve come too far in humanity to make these incredibly unnecessary racial boundaries. Come on now, grow up. I’m african american (and actually refer to myself as such whenever asked) and apparently I’m a white person. That just drives me insane. Why can’t I just be a human?

    And now he’s bashing on gays too? Really man? It’s funny, because I am also gay. i don’t consider myself weak, or aggressive. People will be people, they will be weak and aggressive in certain situations. I really don’t think sexual orientation makes a person one or the other.

    It just goes to show that people in the public eye get away with saying such indecent, and unintelligent things. In my opinion, if the right people had public voices we wouldn’t have all of these social issues. I don’t know. It was fucked up what he said.

    Don’t even get me started on his “buddy-ness” with W. I’m cringing inside.

    Posted 09 Apr 2009 at 9:58 pm ¶