NEWSKULL

It’s taken the rapper and first-time memoirist four years to renovate the Connecticut house he bought from Mike Tyson. We asked him how he’d spend the cost all at once.
By Sarah Bernard

I don’t get back to my old neighborhood, Southside, Queens, as much as I’d like. So I’d go to Mama’s, the Jamaican restaurant on 134th Street and Guy R. Brewer that I used to hang out in front of. Sometimes I’ll want that same food—beef patties and cocoa bread ($3.50 for two). Then I’d buy a park house in Southside ($895,000) and start a boxing program. I’d get all the equipment—gloves, bags, lockers, the ring ($58,583 from Everlast). I used to box as a kid, and I still do. I have a whole chapter on it in my new book, From Pieces to Weight.

Right now I’m on the “Anger Management Tour” with Eminem and G-Unit, so I’d dress my tour bus up. I’ve seen Young Buck do it. He’ll put beads in the hallway door and hang Bob Marley posters up in the bed. I’d get those beads ($11 at Target) and some black-and-white photographs from that magazine where women go on the cover with their shirt off. Janet Jackson did it . . . Rolling Stone! I did one, too ($20 from barewalls.com). I’d get some music to listen to—“Curious,” Tony Yayo’s single featuring Joe, that’s my favorite song right now (free at musicremedy.com). And I’d buy Em a studio trailer ($247,000) to travel with. He loves to record so much, now he can just go do it when he wants to. I’ve got to get a suit for the MTV Video Music Awards in two weeks. I like Armani ($4,205 for suit, shirt, and tie). I’ve seen some nice shoes at Gucci ($370). I have enough jewelry already, but I’d buy Olivia—the G-Unit First Lady—a gold chain ($18,000 from Jacob & Co.).

When I was little, my aunts used to throw “dollar parties.” They’d charge their friends a dollar to come to their backyard. I’d be bombarded if I went to one now, so I’d have everyone over for a big BBQ at my house ($25,000 catering from Hot Tomato’s in Hartford). I’d get a slide for the pool ($800 from the Pool Factory), water wings for the kids ($59.50 for ten from Kmart), and a volleyball net ($199 at Home Depot).

The last thing I need for my house is some real art—modern paintings (Dollar Sign, by Andy Warhol, $2,250,000 at Van de Weghe gallery).

I don’t carry a BlackBerry. I don’t want to be that accessible. But my son, Marquise, has a T-Mobile. He’s 8 years old, and he’s e-mailing. I’d get him a Sony PlayStation Portable ($250 at Circuit City). Game Boy’s over. He’s musical, but I haven’t made him pick an instrument yet. So I’d get one of those piano keyboards ($499 at Sam Ash). I already bought my grandparents a new house and Mercedeses. I got them smaller ones, though—they don’t need no fast cars.


Reality Check

What I Really Spent Today
Egg and cheese on a roll with ketchup and orange juice . . . $3.85

Three bottles of grape-flavored Formula 50 VitaminWater . . . free

New G-Unit jeans, T-shirt, and hat . . . free

Total $3.85

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DAVID BROWN CLOTHING

HarlemzFynest

propzzzzzzz

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"ITS LIKE A GAME, RED LIGHT GREEN LIGHT,GOT MY GUCCI ON RED LIGHT GREEN LIGHT,NEW AIR FORCES RED WHITE GREEN NIKES,MEXICO FLAG RED WHITE GREEN STRIPE"-LOSO

*50*CENT*WIFE*

^^U ALWAYS SAY THAT LOL ;)
YEAH I READ THIS AWHILE AGO TOO ITS TOO CUTE ;)
AND HIM EATING A EGG N CHEESE ROLL WIT KETCHUP IS NASTY HIS GREEDY ASS GOTTA LOVE HIM ;)
I THOUGHT THE HOUSE WAS 4MIL? ANYWAY THANKS MAN.

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.....*M*K*J*.....B.I.S.D-NOV,16,09.....

MS DIOR

^lol That Is Nasty.i Read This Back In 2005,i Was Looking For This The Other Day,but No Luck.

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CHR!SSY:TH3 OR!G!N@L..HATING IS THE SINCEREST FORM OF FLATTERY....FUCK YOU! ;)

LostAngel

I remember reading it for the first time, somehow it made me smile. And then I cam across it again a couple of weeks ago. The reality check is funny.

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unitymama

So he like the magazines with the women on it with no shirts on huh..I would luv to see your strong chest......

unitymama

If I had that kind of money I would like to buy alot of vegetables and send them to the poorest country in africa and some real food so they can eat like we do over here,so thats what I would like to do if I had that kind of money...

MS DIOR

^ damn that really nice.

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CHR!SSY:TH3 OR!G!N@L..HATING IS THE SINCEREST FORM OF FLATTERY....FUCK YOU! ;)

*50*CENT*WIFE*

I WONDER WAS IT ON A KAISER ROLL OR BREAD BUN ANYWAY HES A BIG MAN AND BIG PEOPLE EAT ANYTHING LOL ;)

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.....*M*K*J*.....B.I.S.D-NOV,16,09.....

MS DIOR

^lol That What I Was Wondering When I Read That But That's Ughh Never Tried That.oh Well.

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CHR!SSY:TH3 OR!G!N@L..HATING IS THE SINCEREST FORM OF FLATTERY....FUCK YOU! ;)

*50*CENT*WIFE*

^girl People Eat That All The Time All He Missin Is The Sausages I Eat That Too But With No Ketchup But With Bacon,thats Why I Said It Was Nasty Cuz It Had Ketchup On It Ill Lol. :)

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.....*M*K*J*.....B.I.S.D-NOV,16,09.....

MS DIOR

^^^that's what im saying

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CHR!SSY:TH3 OR!G!N@L..HATING IS THE SINCEREST FORM OF FLATTERY....FUCK YOU! ;)

BucksWifey

ummm...wasn't funny to me

YoungRome

Lol Propsssssssss