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Ross debuts another video online, but source says it’s not about G-Unit’s general.
The 50 Cent/ Rick Ross beef took another turn on Thursday (February 5), with 50 commenting on the situation and Ross apparently not.
To recap, Ross released a video on Wednesday, apparently aimed at 50 Cent, just one day after premiering the clip to [...]

Taco Bell is using fightin’ words in its latest beef with 50 Cent, calling him out as “a self-described former drug dealer and hustler” and otherwise faux gangsta.
In July the rapper, otherwise known as Curtis Jackson, sued the fast food chain for $4 million for trademark infringement after the company wrote an open letter asking [...]

Rapper 50 Cent has reached a settlement with his ex-girlfriend over visitation of their 11-year-old son.
The rapper, whose real name is Curtis Jackson, will get one weekend per month with his son Marquise, as well as one month in the summer and half of each his winter and spring breaks.
Both sides say they are satisfied [...]

 
NEW YORK - 50 Cent has sued Taco Bell, claiming the fast-food restaurant chain is using his name without permission in advertising that asks him to call himself 99 Cent.
The rapper says in a federal lawsuit filed Wednesday that the Mexican-themed chain features him in a print ad asking him to change his name to [...]

A judge Tuesday ordered 50 Cent to hold on to the property where a $2.4 million house at the center of a bitter dispute with his ex-girlfriend burned to the ground last month.
State Supreme Court Justice Carol Edmead also ordered the rapper (real name: Curtis Jackson) to put any insurance proceeds he might receive [...]

50 Cent, who is in a much-hyped battle of album sales with Kanye West, has canceled several performances in Europe.

MTV News said the 31-year-old rapper canceled performances at the MOBO Awards and the Vodafone Live Music Awards, both in London on Wednesday, and a performance for MTV in Germany on Friday.
No details were posted on [...]

50 Cent–real name Curtis Jackson–has today (September 17) blamed Kanye West’s record label Def Jam for yesterday’s chart defeat, saying Def Jam had been “rigging” sales.

The two rivals were battling it out for number one in the charts–with West’s Graduation beating 50 Cent’s Curtis.
West’s single “Stronger” has also beaten 50 Cent’s “Ayo Technology” in the [...]

Hip-hop star Jay-Z’s talent for extending beyond rap to the executive worlds of music, fashion and other businesses has earned him the top spot on Forbes magazine’s “Hip-Hop Cash Kings” list.

Forbes on Thursday said Jay-Z, whose real name is Shawn Carter, raked in $34 million in 2006, the year he released a comeback album “Kingdom [...]

Rapper 50 CENT is going straight to the bank - he’s reportedly received a massive $400 million paycheque after The Coca-Cola Company bought the firm behind his energy drink Formula 50 last week.
Drinks makers Glaceau, which produces the Vitamin Water range inspired by the Candy Shop star, was acquired by The Coca-Cola Company for $4.1 [...]