50 Cent Gets Soft
Memoir refuses to name names.
The literary 50 Cent seems to have more restraint than the one who stoked hip-hop rivalries by making fun of his enemies by name in his songs (e.g., calling The Inc.’s Irv Gotti a “fat cupcake eatin’ mothafucka” on “Order of Protection”). But fans expecting more of the same WWF-style taunts in 50’s memoir, From Pieces to WeightK, out this week, will be disappointed. He actually doles out pseudonyms to most of the key players in his life, leaving readers to speculate about their identities. Is “Tricia” actually Taiesha Douse, a Queens woman who was busted with 50 in 1994 on charges of criminal sale of a controlled substance in the third degree? Is “Brown,” described in From Pieces as a local bully who warned 50 not to mess with Ja Rule, in fact 50’s nemesis Kenneth “Supreme” McGriff, who this year was indicted by the Feds for laundering drug money through Ja Rule’s record label? And who is “Godfather”?
—Ethan Brown