March 10, 2005

Keepin' It Real?

The hip-hop community and New York papers have been abuzz all week about the feud between rappers 50 Cent and The Game, which ostensibily ended the other day when they declared a truce. But now Post music critic Dan Aquilante is alleging that the entire feud was staged, just to sell albums.

It's not completely out of the realm of possibility that Aquilante is right, since the total fabrication of such issues isn't unheard of (I maintain, to this day, that the Jay-Z/Nas thing was a scam from the start). But how does Aquilante explain the guy who got shot the other day? Was that just "part of the act" too?

UPDATE: Here's another rap battle, one in the Middle East between a right-wing Israeli and left-wing Palestinian. I say these guys are about 10 times more likely to kill each other than 50 and the Game are.

Posted by Stephen Silver at March 10, 2005 09:28 PM
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actually, to be accurate:
the pali rapper is like, 100 times more likely to kill the israeli rapper than Jay-Z, Nas, Game, 50, or any of those chumps are to kill anyone.
the israeli rapper, however, was a personal bodygaurd to the minister of defense, so i think he could probably kill the pali rapper 10 ways from tuesday.

Posted by: LilB at March 14, 2005 05:04 PM
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