Is Fifty keeping it real or just running Game?

by Anthony Robinson

03/11/05

Many in the hip hop world thought they were witnessing a replay when two rising hip hop stars recently engaged in verbal warfare that spilled into the streets. The dispute stems from the Game’s departure from Fifty’s G-Unit family though both remain with the Interscope label. Fifty and Game disagreed on how it went down but what both seemed to agree on was that the Game was no longer part of Fifty’s G-Unit clique.

A member of the Game’s Black Wall Street crew was wounded after shots were fired between the two factions in front of New York City’s Hot97 radio station early last week. While I am encouraged by Fifty Cent and Game’s mutually agreed truce, I am aware of the criticism both will face in the days and weeks ahead from the many individuals who embrace and even romanticize the “thug life”.

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From Living Color to Living with Oscar

by Anthony Robinson


Jamie Foxx’s ascension to the Academy Award for Best Actor seemingly came out of nowhere. Remember, Foxx first caught our attention on Keenan Ivory Wayan’s “In Living Color” in the early 1990’s. Who knew watching Foxx dress in “drag” to play “Wanda” would lead to an Oscar a little over a decade later? It is still praiseworthy but a little less unique when I remembered Tom Hanks started his career in similar fashion. What Generation X person could forget Hanks in the sitcom “Bosom Buddies?”

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