Outgoing editor Tyler Gray at RADAR gives a nice mention to Rod 2.0 while dishing 50 Cent's campy new music video. Thank gawd we all know that Fiddy is very! straight! because in addition the arson fire and baby mama drama making headlines today, "it's just silly to speculate that über hetero 50 Cent could be gay. Not that at least one nagging blogger hasn't tried repeatedly and hilariously to cull together evidence from his movie and book."
In the new music video for "Rider Part 2", the buffed and costumed Fiddy channels his inner Village People to strut his stuff in a Marine dress uniform in a barracks of camouflage-wearing soldiers. Sounds kinda like a plot for a gay porn flick, no? "Check out that ... um, tilted Captain and Tennille-style sailor's cap he's wearing while inspecting some prime soldier specimens, and, so, yeah, he's all tenderoni now, too, apparently, using a vocoder in a chorus that repeats the word "boy" five times. Did he just growl? ..." Yes indeed, 50 Cent growls twice while inspecting the "boys". What does it mean? Don't ask, don't tell. Watch the video here.
In December, RADAR named Rod 2.0 to its year-in-review issue along with Concrete Loop, Nah Right and Hot Ghetto Mess as part of its "Bloggeratti." Actress/comedian Kathy Griffin, gender bender Candis Cayne and director Craig Brewer were among the other honorees.
UPDATE: Rod 2.0 reader Seahwak on the obvious connection to gay icons. "Rather than Village People, my first impression was that he was channeling Marlene Dietrich, strutting around a bunch of soldiers who desire him."
Thanks BRIAN, TYLER, BERNIE and TAYLOR
50 Cent's Homage to Heterosexuality [Radar]
Home at center of 50 Cent lawsuit destroyed by fire [AP]
Some Background ....
Rapper Fat Joe Mocks 50 Cent and G Unit with "Gay Unit" Mixtape [R20]
50 Gave Good Face [R20]
No Homo [R20]
Get (Homo) or Die Tryin' [R20]
What Up S.L.U.T. [R20]
Bitch Better Have My Money And Some Prada [R20]
Gay or Rapper? [R20]
Umm, Marcos, I think Rod's ongoing "50 Cent is gay" meme is just snark. But bless your heart for believing any man who impregnates a woman cannot be gay.
Posted by: Todd R | 30 May 2008 at 13:25
Marcos, lol, I always love it how you try to fact check this blog. This was sarcasm, sweetie, but do you have proof 50 Cent "has had numerous sexual encounters with women"? Please provide a link. Thanks in advance!
Posted by: ATL Kid | 30 May 2008 at 13:29
My impression was that 50 Cent has NOT been linked to many women. Until very recently. Didn't he say that he didn't have a girlfriend because most women just wanted his money? Yes, very straight indeed!
Posted by: Rob A | 30 May 2008 at 13:32
50 Cent is actually very gay friendly. The details will soon be "coming out."
Posted by: Trey C | 30 May 2008 at 13:35
"It would be a stretch to assert Curtis Jackson is gay...""
You're right. On "the down low" would have been more appropriate. Oh, and I'm in the music industry (MTV) and have never anything about 50 Cent and "numerous sexual encounters with women." That sounds like spin from a record industry publicist. Or one of 50 Cent's all-male entourage.
Posted by: Franklyn Smith | 30 May 2008 at 13:40
OOH HOW YOU DOIN, 50??? AWWWW!!! LOLOL!
Oh my...50 is tres' ghey in that video..really, he is...
and he has his best "bottom heavy" girl, Lloyd Banks with him too...
LOVE IT!
Posted by: Ryan | 30 May 2008 at 13:43
50 Cent is quite dashing in his Marine dress blues and Cap'n and Tenille hat. He is very fashionable.
Posted by: AB | 30 May 2008 at 13:48
Ryan, you know this is true. 50 Cent and Lloyd Banks are lovers. Everyone knows this and even Mya said this in Vibe.
Posted by: TGH | 30 May 2008 at 14:06
The "down low" guys have ruin't the TRADE. Now everybody wants to "bottom"! Dammit! To hell with .50 Worth of Sense...his booty probably has been more active than mine...the last 3 years, anyway.
Got the money, though...he can have all the TRADE he wants...damn "dl" nigg...mens.
Posted by: Derrick from Philly | 30 May 2008 at 14:13
50 Cent is very gayish acting and manifests all the indicators of latent homosexuality. He is hyper masculine, misogynistic, obsessively homophobic, narcissistic, muscle obsessed, abandons his childre, and, is rarely seen in the company of women. Oh, and his nickname in prison was "the slut." This does not sound like a heterosexual man.
50 Cent is probably a butch bottom who prefers "trade" and "thugs." There is no "credible" evidence he has "apparently has had numerous sexual encounters with women." Who has said this and how can it be proven? I have never heard of 50 linked with women, besides professional studio beards such as Ciara and Vivica Fox. The former was also "dating" Bow Wow and Omarion and the latter was "dating" Henry Simmons. 'Nuff said.
Posted by: Xavier | 30 May 2008 at 14:20
LOL @ Derrick. You know Fiddy is having all the trade he wants. I'm jealous!
Posted by: Chuck | 30 May 2008 at 14:26
Hey Rod, I discovered your blog through Radar magazine and LOGO. I'm glad I did and was happy to see the mainstream media recognizing black bloggers and giving you some shine. Keep up the great work, papi!
Posted by: A. Ronald | 30 May 2008 at 14:41
(1) Rather than Village People, my first impression was that he was channeling Marlene Dietrich, strutting around a bunch of soldiers who desire him.
(2) The song & video was only @ 3 minutes long, but it seemed like 10 minutes - I thought it would never end.
Posted by: Seahawk | 30 May 2008 at 14:48
I didn't want to, but I actually like the song. The video itself is pretty wack though.
I try my best not to give 50 a thought. Oh, his house burned down today. Disgruntled lover? Hmmm....
Posted by: Taylor Siluwe | 30 May 2008 at 15:28
tee hee at the toni tennille reference
Posted by: DFS | 30 May 2008 at 15:39
SEAHAWK: You're absolutely right. How could any self-respecting gay man miss the Dietrich connection? I moved your comment up to the post, thanks!
DERRICK: You're such a bad boy, lol.
XAVIER: Very good pop psychoanalysis.
TAYLOR: Thanks for the update, I added you to hat-tip line.
MARCOS: Sigh. No one "asserted" 50 Cent was gay. This isn't a news or political post, just simple gay blog snark, but, bless your heart.
I've never heard about 50 Cent's "numerous sexual encounters with women." Fiddy doesn't seem to have much luck with the few he has been publicly linked to.
Posted by: Rod Mc | 30 May 2008 at 15:51
That was a waste of 3 minutes. I agree with Seahawk. There was absolutely nothing appealing about that video or song.
Hip Hop videos are laborious to watch. I bet 50 styled and dressed all the guys in that video personally- 50 Gents is probobly the number of dudes his laid with. I also think that fair skinned lady dancer in the video is Lloyd Banks in drag- we never get to really see the dancer up close. ;)
50 Yawns- zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz!
Posted by: Lang B. | 30 May 2008 at 21:09
The music is pumping on that video. The bass line works!
Now, 50 cent is just exploring his options. Gay, straight, baptist, martian, green, purple. Who cares?
Posted by: Honut Sinti | 04 June 2008 at 19:06
50
get at me
Posted by: def2hot | 17 June 2008 at 09:34
50
get at me
Posted by: def2hot | 17 June 2008 at 09:34