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50 Cent's Taco Turmoil

50 Cent has lashed out at Taco Bell for asking him to change his name to 79, 89 or 99 Cent (his choice of course) to aide in promoting the fast food chain's value menu ...

50 Cent: "When my legal team is finished with them, Taco Bell is going to have a new corporate slogan: 'We messed with the bull and got the horns!'"

50 Cent's representative had this to say ...

"This is a sleazy and ill-conceived publicity stunt by Taco Bell's president, Greg Creed, whose disingenuous offer was leaked to the press before it was even presented to 50 Cent's agent yesterday."

Taco Bell promised to donate $10,000 to a charity of the rapper's choice if he agreed to the name change ... Also 50 was to visit a Taco Bell and rap his order at the drive-thru ...

As Taco Bell put it ...

"We know that you adopted the name 50 Cent years ago as a metaphor for change. We at Taco Bell are also huge advocates for change. We encourage you to 'Think Outside the Bun' and hope you accept our offer."

~Papi Chulo~

The Game Gets Delayed

The Game has pushed back the release of his third album ... LAX ... from July 8 to July 22 ...

The date switch is to avoid an album showdown with his rivals ... 50 Cent's G-Unit ... whose T.O.S. (Terminal On Sight) is released on July 1 ...

LAX features a plethora of guests ... including Lil' Wayne, Common, Ludacris, Ice Cube, Busta Rhymes, Ne-Yo and Kanye West ...

The first single off the album ... "Game's Pain" featuring Keyshia Cole is rising up the charts ...

~Papi Chulo~

50 Cent's Reality Competition Series

50 Cent is headlining a new MTV reality series aimed at discovering the next street-smart entrepreneur ...

The untitled project is described as a hip-hop version of The Apprentice ... It will follow 16 contestants who live together and compete against each other in weekly challenges ...

MTV has ordered eight episodes ...

~Papi Chulo~

50 Cent vs. Alicia Keys :: "Gangsta Rap Brings Black People Down"

R&B songstress recently made some comments regarding rap music ... Keys told Blender magazine that gangsta rap was created to divide, conquer and hurt the Black community ...

Alicia Keys: "'Gangsta rap' was a ploy to convince Black people to kill each other. 'Gangsta rap' didn't exist."

Keys then went on to say that the notorious Biggie/2Pac feud was fueled "by the government and the media, to stop another great Black leader from existing" ...

Keys recently clarified her statements ... saying that her comments "have been misrepresented" ... Blender released a statement saying they stand by their story ...

50 Cent apparently didn't approve of Alicia's explanation ...

50 Cent: "I don't like Alicia Keys no more ... If she thinks what they consider [to be] gangsta music is [made] to bring black people down, then I think my shit falls into that category. I don't like people who don't like me. I don't think that [her] classical shit is cool. I don't give a fuck if you can classically play the piano. I haven't been classically trained, because my upbringing, nobody put me in front of a piano at that time ... I could fucking care less about the shit. So she don't like the music that embodies the harsh realities because they're not her realities. She hasn't been subjected to the same things."

~Papi Chulo~

50 Cent Loses the Weight

Just a few months ago 50 Cent was in the headlines for alleged ties to a steroid scandal ... now he's making the headlines because he's lost a bit of weight ...

The musclebound rapper weight 200+ pounds ... now 50 is weighing around 185 pounds ...

50 shed the bulk to a "more regular physique" for a new movie called Microwave Park in New Orleans ... He's even growing out an afro ...

50 Cent: "It stops growing at a certain point. I leave on May 8. I play a police officer right after Hurricane Katrina. It's me, Val Kilmer and Sharon Stone."

~Papi Chulo~

50 Cent's Ex Sues

50 Cent's ex-girlfriend Shaniqua Tompkins is suing him for breach of contract and unjust enrichment ... The woman is the mother of his 10-year-old son ... She is claiming that he is trying to evict them from their Long Island home ...

Tompkins is asking a judge to rule that she has the right to live in the $2.4 million residence 50 bought ... She claims that he promised them a safe place to live and that 50 is paying monthly child support ...

Paul Catsandonis (Shaniqua Tompkins' Attorney): "This is somebody who was with him when he was shot and who nursed him back to health. I think what he's doing is horrible."

~Papi Chulo~

Fat Joe to 50 :: "Suck My Dick!"

Fat Joe has let 50 Cent know that 50 can orally pleasure him anytime ... Fat Joe also labeled 50 a "coward" to Complex ...

In an exclusive web interview for the magazine ... Fat Joe called 50 a "punk ass motherfucker" who is too frightened to leave his home ...

Fat Joe spoke to Complex magazine's website: "He got shot by people who he knows and he doesn't do nothing about it. He gets criticized by people like Ja Rule, little Ja Rule, and he never even fought him one on one. He's going to come fuck with Fat Joe? Are you serious? He still don't leave his house. He's looking for attention, I'm gonna diss him. I'm gonna tell him to suck my dick, everything you can think. I'm gonna tell him that. What does he want out of me? He's gonna tell me, 'Oh, Fat Joe, you're a sucka', and I'm gonna be like, 'Suck my dick you punk ass motherfucker."

Both rappers have been in a heated exchange of words since the video for 50 Cent's "Piggy Bank" featured an animated boxing match between the two ... which ended with the animated Fat Joe being badly beaten ...

Fat Joe responded with the song "Fuck 50" in which he called the rapper "the fakest gangster around" ...

Their feud calmed down ... only to be spark up again when 50 said he would like to "eliminate" Fat Joe from the "rap game" on BET's Rap City ... The following week when Fat Joe was a guest he called 50 a "clown" ...

50 threatens to put Fat Joe's "brains on the floor" in his new single "Southside Nigga (I'm Leavin')" ...

Can't we all just get along ???

~Papi Chulo~

50 Cent To Paris :: "Get the F*ck Off the Stage!"

50 Cent kicked Paris Hilton offstage during a pre-Super Bowl concert last week ...

The incident made Paris break into tears ...

Last Thursday ... Paris hosted a party for 944 magazine in Scottsdale, AZ ... 50 Cent was performing on stage ... When Paris climbed on the stage to dance ... 50 told her to "Get the fuck off the stage" ...

Here is a clip of the purported "incident" ...

As per eyewitnesses ... A shocked and visibly upset Paris started to weep and begged the production staff to let her dance on the stage ... I guess it was a shock for her since in the past they have been captured canoodling together ...

But according to Whoo Kid ... 50's show DJ ... It appears as if the actions were misinterpreted by those at the festivities ...

Whoo Kid: "We ain't that heartless. I know 50 hates Ja Rule and Fat Joe, but he ain't that heartless to throw Paris Hilton ... off the stage."

Whoo Kid also says that the footage being circulated online was actually not from the Super Bowl party ... but from the Sundance Film Festival ... and that 50 booted a security guard off the stage ... not Paris ...

Whoo Kid: "We kicked a security nigga off. That's some security guy that kept jumping on the stage, picking shit up off the stage, pushing people back while we're performing. This dickhead, we didn't even know him. Either he's security or works for the club, he keeps getting on the stage. ... But the video looks so generic, you can't tell. He got on the stage three, four times while we were performing. 50 got so pissed off, he said, 'Get the fuck off my stage.' Then I played 'Wanksta.' The guys was acting like a dickhead."

Whoo Kid appears to be telling the truth ... Here is an actual photo from the Super Bowl party performance ...

And 50 didn't tell Paris to "get the fuck off the stage" ... as it was reported in the blogosphere ...

When Paris climbed on the stage ... drawing the attentions of professional camera's lenses and audience member's cellphones ... 50 playfully told her ... "Get off my cameras" ...

Aww what a kidder! Or ... What a media whore! I guess that's why they are friends ...

~Papi Chulo~

In the News :: Hollywood Attached to Steroid Probe

Sports stars are getting ready to scoot on down ... because some big named stars are being added to the long list of individuals involved in the steroid probe currently under way in New York ...

Mary J. Blige, 50 Cent, Timbaland, Wyclef Jean and Tyler Perry are among the thousands of individuals in the entertainment industry whose names have surfaced in New York's steroid probe ...

It appears that a number of entertainers may have received performance-enhancing drugs from doctors, pharmacists, and clinics currently under investigation by Albany County District Attorney P. David Soares ...

[Albany's Times Union] cited medical records and testimony from several unidentified witnesses stating that Blige, Fiddy and others, in a bid to appear young and fit, received shipments of prescribed human growth hormone at hotels, production studios, health clubs and private residences, even sometimes using fictitious names.

Michael Diamond ... a Long Island chiropractor ... has been under investigation for purported meetings with officials at Signature Compounding Pharmacy ... an Orlando-based company facing trial in Albany for illegally selling millions of dollars worth of prescription medications ... most of that steroids ...

50 Cent Will Not Retire After All

Was it all just talk? Male bravado?

Well ... the infamous 50 Cent/Kanye West feud yielded a win for Kanye West on Billboard's Top 100 ... So as per 50 Cent's wager ... 50 was going to retire from the music industry ...

Not so fast ... 50 has now stated that he won't retire because he was #1 internationally ... the day his album Curtis was released ... and Curtis was also the #1 European album ...

Clearly this isn't a surprise to anyone ... as we all sorta knew that it was all just talk ...

~Papi Chulo~

In the News :: 50 Cent says "Risqué Photos Are Not of Me and Ciara"

50 Cent has been calming down reports that the woman featured in his album jacket art is R&B singer Ciara ...

The photographs features 50 Cent and a woman (with a striking resemblance to Ciara) embracing in a variety of sexualized positions ... Such as reaching into 50's boxers to grab his dick ... and two shots of them in a "standing missionary" position (one from the side ... and one from the back with 50's hands on her ass) ...

And did I forget to mention that the woman is bra-less and in a lacy thong?

In the News :: Kanye/50 Sales Update

Kanye West continued to defeat 50 Cent for the second sales week in a row ... But ... Reba McEntire kicked Kanye out of the top spot ...

Kanye bested 50 once more ... even as both rappers' sales took a dip ... Graduation experienced a 76% drop, selling 226,000 copies ... while Curtis slipped nearly 80%, selling 143,000 copies ...

~Papi Chulo~

In the News :: Kanye West Bests 50 Cent

Back in early August ... 50 Cent made a statement that had everyone listening ...

"Put it like this ... If Kanye West sells more records than 50 Cent on Sept. 11, I'll no longer write music. I'll write music and work with my other artists, but I won't put out any more solo albums. And I bet this—when Kanye West's sales come in, he's gonna have a 70% decrease [the second week], 'cause Def Jam is gonna buy records to keep him closer to 50 Cent. So, watch the first week, and then watch the second week. Watch his shit drop off the planet. We keep our angles covered before we make a decent bet."

... well ... Should 50 be getting ready to eat a little crow?

Or should we be welcoming 50 Cent to early retirement?

Because ...

Kanye West's Graduation grabbed the #1 spot ... with 957,000 copies sold ... 50 Cent's Curtis trailed Kanye by 265,000 copies ... landing in the #2 spot selling 691,000 copies ...