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50 Cent to Launch Hip-Hop Book


NEW YORK - 50 Cent will again turn his reality into fiction with a new line of hip-hop novellas and graphic novels featuring his former G-Unit rap crew buddies, a publisher announced.



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.

Nikki Turner, author of "The Glamorous Life" and "A Hustler's Wife," will pen the line's first novella. It is set to be published in 2007.

50 Cent, whose real name is Curtis Jackson, was recently criticized by community groups in Philadelphia and Los Angeles for billboards promoting his semi-autobiographical movie, "Get Rich or Die Tryin'." The ads featured an image of him holding a gun in one hand and a microphone in the other.




I'd anticipate a style reminiscent of a young Faulkner, or perhaps the social awareness of Dickens. Maybe a delicate reworking of the classics. Prizzde an' Predudice or Senze an' Senzabilteh. An updating of the classic Emma to Bitch!.


Of course Mr Cent will not be writing the works himself. Dear me no. He'll be making the money, appearing at the launches and his symbols will be on the cover.

If it gets people reading, then good. If it gets people reading books written by other authors, good. But my first reaction was still:

Dear God. Noooooooooooooooooooooo!






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i can't believe they are going to kill trees for this *facepalm*

but you all can get me them for christmas, i need good firestarters for the fireplace...


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That is never enough - There is never enough..


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That's whack, yo.


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[murmers]...but at least he's getting his fans to read...[/murmer]




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all i'll say is this: at least now people are gonna realize just how much fiction is in 50's life... he's a bitch. end of story.


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Too bad rock 'n roll isn't the dominant musical form anymore, 'cause i've written musican fanfiction before. It'd rock... Iggy Pop and Henry Rollins, hard-bitten detectives. Sci-fi superheroes The White Stripes. A teen garage band that solves mysteries...

There is a series about a mystery-solving Elvis Presely. Its pretty good


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Just because it is print, doesn't make it useful for anything more than T.P.
I'm amused that they aren't even bothering to claim that the books aren't ghost writen.


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i read something about a guy named Iceberg Slim... he served jail time and wrote stories about the ghetto that may have inspired gangster rap

i dunno... we can't assume that just 'cause they're written about rappers they'll be horrible. i'm very not a fan of the subculture, but i feel vaguly icky when i judge/dismiss it, since i've never come close to living that life


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Hopefully it'll be better than his movie: "Get rich or die trying"
Very apt title b.t.w.


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mangled with terms like facilitator and networking and interpersonal communication,
you've overseen it all, and broken up a few bar fights, to boot.~
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