50 Cent’s Martyr Complex Overshadows His Kinda-Valid Point
50 Cent is telling anyone who’ll listen that he’s pissed off at MTV and BET for forcing a name change on his new single, the Akon collaboration/best track on Curtis “I Still Kill,” in order for it to get airtime on the two stations’ video shows. In response to the song being rechristened “I Still Will” by the higher-ups at Viacom, 50 actually made kind of an astute point about the channels’ malleable standards regarding the English language, although he couched it in so much “look at me, ma, I’m dangerous! rhetoric that it’s impossible to not roll your eyes at the whole thing.
I don’t think they have a problem with the group the Killers being called the Killers … I don’t think anyone’s protesting that Guns N’ Roses is called Guns N’ Roses. I just think that their perception of me is dark, so they’re going to ask for those things to be changed, you know what I mean?
Well, the last time Guns N’ Roses put out an album, the standards and practices department at MTV was a lot more, uh, lenient, so their name is probably grandfathered in. But if I were him, I’d save my complaints for when MTV starts cutting arbitrary nouns from his songs, instead of words that they’re obviously running scared from. Or maybe he should just change all his references to “killing” to “being drunk,” since the higher-ups over there have no problem with that sort of thing.
