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Gizmodo’s Afternoon With Rapper 50 Cent

Dr Dre decided to endorse expensive headphones. Despite not being that great, they’re becoming sidewalk ubiquitous. Ergo, 50 Cent (aka Curtis Jackson, aka known purveyor of rap and B-movies and Vitamin Water), isn’t going to be left out. We chatted with Curtis about his new cans, Twitter and women.


October 19, 2011
Entertainment

50 Cent Now The Latest Rapper With Rapper Headphones

If you won’t listen to headphones unblessed by a rapper’s licensing deal — and neither Dre nor Ludacris are good enough for you — look to 50 Cent. The former rapper turned Vitamin Water kingpin’s newest headphone is here.


October 2, 2011
Gadgets

50 Cent Will Make Dr Dre Proud With These Headphones

It’s been ages since I’ve mentioned Dre and 50 Cent in the same breath, but 50′s new SYNC headphones remind me that he was once one of his proteges. These cans are pretty much his answer to the Beats by Dre headphones.


June 15, 2011
Online

Lady Gaga And 50 Cent’s URL Shortening Service Sounds Dumb

Does the world really need another URL shortener? One backed by Lady Gaga, 50 Cent and Pepsi, at that? One that’s run by a CEO described almost entirely by the fact that he lives on New York’s hipster-laden LES (Lower-East Side)?