GQ 50 cent Is My Life Coach Article

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This is surprisingly good. Some Choice Quotes.

50 Cent Is My Life Coach

50 Cent says: Make a vision board. Do it tonight, when you get home. Open your laptop. Create a new folder. Think about the things you want for your future. "I want you to Google pictures and put everything you want in this folder," 50 Cent says. "Everything. All right?"

50 Cent thinks for a minute. Actually, he says, my girlfriend—the one I just mentioned, the one I'd just moved in with? 50 Cent would like her to make a vision board, too. Then we're going to compare. "Take things out of your folder and things out of her folder to create a folder that has everything," he says. "Now the vision board is no longer your personal vision board for yourself: It's a joint board." That joint board will represent what we have in common. It will be a monument to our love.

But there will be some leftover unmatched photos, too, in each of our folders. And that's what the joint board is really for—what it's designed to reveal. "The things that end up on your vision board that aren't in hers are the things that she has to accept," 50 Cent says. "And the things that she has that you don't are the things that you have to make a compromise with." In a healthy relationship, he explains, your differences are really what need talking about. This is how you go about making that conversation happen.

That first time we met, we talked about marriage and fatherhood. It was heartbreaking, some of the things he said. He'd had his first son, Marquise, when he was 21. It's what made him start rapping in the first place—a way to live to see his son live. Now his son is 17 and they don't speak, because 50 and his son's mother don't speak. They fell out over money. They were together before he was 50 Cent, and, he says, she feels she's owed something for that.

"Me and my son, we don't have a relationship anymore," 50 said, squeezing the squash ball. "It's based on his mom. He's adopted her way of thinking." He's trying to do it over now, he said, with his second son, whom he had by a different woman in 2012—to do it right this time, even though he's already split with that boy's mother, too. "I don't have anything negative around the concept of kids," he said.
 

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This is surprisingly good. Some Choice Quotes.

50 Cent Is My Life Coach

50 Cent says: Make a vision board. Do it tonight, when you get home. Open your laptop. Create a new folder. Think about the things you want for your future. "I want you to Google pictures and put everything you want in this folder," 50 Cent says. "Everything. All right?"

50 Cent thinks for a minute. Actually, he says, my girlfriend—the one I just mentioned, the one I'd just moved in with? 50 Cent would like her to make a vision board, too. Then we're going to compare. "Take things out of your folder and things out of her folder to create a folder that has everything," he says. "Now the vision board is no longer your personal vision board for yourself: It's a joint board." That joint board will represent what we have in common. It will be a monument to our love.

But there will be some leftover unmatched photos, too, in each of our folders. And that's what the joint board is really for—what it's designed to reveal. "The things that end up on your vision board that aren't in hers are the things that she has to accept," 50 Cent says. "And the things that she has that you don't are the things that you have to make a compromise with." In a healthy relationship, he explains, your differences are really what need talking about. This is how you go about making that conversation happen.

That first time we met, we talked about marriage and fatherhood. It was heartbreaking, some of the things he said. He'd had his first son, Marquise, when he was 21. It's what made him start rapping in the first place—a way to live to see his son live. Now his son is 17 and they don't speak, because 50 and his son's mother don't speak. They fell out over money. They were together before he was 50 Cent, and, he says, she feels she's owed something for that.

"Me and my son, we don't have a relationship anymore," 50 said, squeezing the squash ball. "It's based on his mom. He's adopted her way of thinking." He's trying to do it over now, he said, with his second son, whom he had by a different woman in 2012—to do it right this time, even though he's already split with that boy's mother, too. "I don't have anything negative around the concept of kids," he said.

Read the article yesterday, wish the blog article writer would've gone a little deeper instead of being afraid of him. Real journalist would have had that shyt handled
 

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dude is a legit genius and might be one of the smartest in hip-hop

why he can't make albums like he does interviews, i'll never know.. yea you thuggin nikka.. but obviously there's a lot more to you than that, but we never hear it
cause he views the music industry as a hustle, not a means of creativity.
 

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cause he views the music industry as a hustle, not a means of creativity.
but he admits in his own article that his last record flop... so even as a hustler.. that failed.. throw in that last g-unit album too.. and his singles charting... and his hustling of the rap game is a disaster at this point

but look at those who stay in the game, and sell the most... they always put out "feeling" type of music.. they give you their real life.. and relate it to the masses. jay, kanye, wayne, em, drake, kendrick, ti... those are the top sellers today.. nobody trying to hear 50 goon it up, 11 years after he sold 11 million records.. nikka you rich... i get money was some real life shyt.. highest selling/charted song in ages.. you could even say the same was on GRODT.. he was grimey at the time, and it came off more heartfelt and realistic
 

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Once again 50 shuts down those who hope a Gunit Reunion is happening at Summerjam.

Finally, Fif touches on another topic that's been circulating lately: his former G-Unit pals Tony Yayo, Lloyd Banks and Young Buck. He compares their situation to that of a plant: "If you spent ten years watering it, it'd fu*king grow." And if it didn't? "Doesn't that tell you you need to get new seeds? fu*k this. New seeds—let's do something different now." He added, "I enabled these guys."

Animal Ambition is about what 50 calls "the different effects" of prosperity, by which he basically means the end of his professional and personal relationships with the two artists most closely associated with him, Lloyd Banks and Tony Yayo, fellow members of 50's G-Unit, guys who have been onstage and on records with him since the beginning, who have lately turned to jealousy, envy, greed, or sloth, depending on which version of the story he's telling at any given moment.

Do you miss those people in your life?

"Not really. Not now. I make adjustments."
 

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Im not reading the full article man:heh: 50 cent of all people giving advice on relationships? the only relationships he's in is with industry whores, man doesn't even have a relationship with his own son :scusthov:
 

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but he admits in his own article that his last record flop... so even as a hustler.. that failed.. throw in that last g-unit album too.. and his singles charting... and his hustling of the rap game is a disaster at this point

but look at those who stay in the game, and sell the most... they always put out "feeling" type of music.. they give you their real life.. and relate it to the masses. jay, kanye, wayne, em, drake, kendrick, ti... those are the top sellers today.. nobody trying to hear 50 goon it up, 11 years after he sold 11 million records.. nikka you rich... i get money was some real life shyt.. highest selling/charted song in ages.. you could even say the same was on GRODT.. he was grimey at the time, and it came off more heartfelt and realistic
You are semi-right. Drake and Jay are hot because they basically jump on all the 'hot at the moment' rappers songs. And he been piggy back riding on Kanye for a decade.

The game and the fans wanted 50 to fail so much that it became the impossible for him to navigate. He needs to find reinvent himself or find the next hot thing
 

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Im not reading the full article man:heh: 50 cent of all people giving advice on relationships? the only relationships he's in is with industry whores, man doesn't even have a relationship with his own son :scusthov:

If you would have read it, the writer says he must be crazy taking advice from 50, but fif told him all his flaws and told him not to make him out to be an expert. But fif drop so many jewels on him that he was surprised that he and his girlfriend were able to talk about things they have never delved into based on 50's advice. It is a damn good article and it is not cliche'.
 

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Finally got a chance to read it.. this interview is dope! Very insightful and motivational

What he said about Banks and Yayo is real deep

"I enabled these guys," he says. Now they felt entitled to success they didn't earn.

But they're your friends.

"Right. I wouldn't have been a friend if I didn't help them. But helping them hurt them. Can you see that concept?"

Do you miss those people in your life?

"Not really. Not now. I make adjustments."

So you did initially?

"Yeah," he says. But… "Maybe I was paying them to be friends. You understand what I'm saying?"
50 isn't seeing the favour returned from helping Banks...

Two completely different characters. Banks seems to have 0 ambition whatsoever
 

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Get that hate out your blood and read the article. He's very intelligent. Yall just let the hate blind yall:mindblown::camby::umad:.
 
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