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CBS Asks 50 Cent If His Music Will Change After His Trip To Africa, He Says No, But A Small Portion Of It Will Be Included In His Upcoming Music
"It enlightened me in different ways," 50 Cent said. "To actually see people under the circumstances that I saw was a totally different experience. I don't think you can prepare yourself for that, no matter how many times you've seen the images."
The rapper-turned-humanitarian flew to Kenya and Somalia with World Food Program earlier this month to witness the effects of hunger firsthand. He has a goal to provide one billion meals to hungry children over the next five years. Every purchase of Street King, an energy drink the rapper promotes and launched last fall, will provide a meal for a person in need through the United Nations' program. So far, the rapper says he's provided more than 3.5 million meals.
50 Cent said he was touched by the children he visited in Nairobi, the capitol of Kenya. He said the children were oblivious to their living situation, and showed the same optimistic energy you would see from American kids on the playground.
"They have one meal a day, the same meal every day," he said. "There's nothing there — within their eyes and the way that they interacted with each other — that would indicate that they feel deprived in any way. They are the exact kids that you would see here, and that was so confusing. It made you want to pick them up and take them home with you, but you can't. ... So you have to do something that makes a difference."
The rapper, whose real name is Curtis Jackson, hopes to influence his peers in the entertainment industry and other young entrepreneurs to create a similar business model that gives back a percentage to charities.
But while art often imitates life, don't look for a softer side to his rap, which has depicted gritty street life. 50 Cent said he will always follow his grandmother's advice: "Just don't forget why they liked you to begin with."
Still, the trip did inspire him to return to the studio to record new material.
"I've put portions of my experience there in the actual songs, but it's so small that they'll have to listen to get it," he said. "I wanted to keep the record, creatively, in a space where when people listen to it, they just enjoy it before they can really understand what it was I'm saying; there's things on it that have double meanings."
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Permalink Reply by ZV on -
His Grandma Is Smart, It Will Be A Good Idea To Include Some Of It In His Upcoming Music
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Permalink Reply by T.T.S. on -
I wonder how we'll he include that new experience. Separate song(s) maybe?
The more interesting question would be of course WHEN IS THE ALBUM COMING?
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Permalink Reply by ZV on
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If The Report On "I Just Wanna" Record Being Released On Rhythmic Radio On March 6th Is Correct, Then We Should Expect The First Single To Arrive Late April.
^^Hopefully It's True, So He Can Finally Get Into Album Mode.
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Permalink Reply by AJ(The One & Only) on -
Im still waiting on an album title
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Permalink Reply by Optimus Immortal #SK on -
He shouldn't give it a title till 3 weeks before its exact release, otherwise if its date get pushed again people will see it like they did with BISD and games red album, close to becoming a myth like detox! #SK
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Permalink Reply by A~R~D on -
I was disappointed in 50 when the kids asked him to sing just 1 song and he was scared that means hes embarrassed by his work
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Permalink Reply by A~R~D on
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Hes needs to follow his boss and best friends path eminem and make inspirational songs like Im not afraid and beautiful but still make songs that made him famous
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Permalink Reply by Edgar *F*** Flash* on -
Then that would make him a sellout
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