#4: 50 Cent
Curtis Jackson is the perfect example of how messed up our society is in the way it deals with Hip-Hop culture. As a young rapper whose career was going nowhere, Jackson wrote a song in early 2000 that detailed the lives of real life drug dealer in Queens, NY during the 1980’s. Real gangsters got angry and he wound up shot 9 times but would survive. Cops call it “perp luck”, and 50 Cent was born.
In the rap game, you can go from obscurity to mega-fame overnight. Despite having a movie and video game based on his being the wrong end of the gun of a thug, and relying on police protection everywhere he goes, 50 likes to talk about police brutality from the perch he sits. In one Instagram post, Jackson went on to say that his first reaction to seeing a police officer was shot on CNN was, “Good.” We’re talking about a guy who, rather than wish his son a happy birthday on Twitter, publicly counts down the days to when he will no longer have to pay child support. Not only has Jackson made some of that child support money playing a cop who kills other cops in the 2012 film Freelancers, he is the Executive Producer of the upcoming drama The Oath, that will be all about “police gangs” as if that’s a real thing.
