10/23/07 - 50 Cent: South Side until I die

robby84 · 10-23-2007, 09:59 AM

Tuesday, October 23rd 2007

By 50 CENT

If you want to understand me, you've got to understand Queens. Visually, it's the most suburban part of New York City. It's got long, quiet streets with freestanding houses placed between modest front and backyards. I've read magazine interviews where rappers say their 'hood is like every other 'hood. That might be true for some of them, but if they're from New York City, they're probably lying. Anyone who's ever been there will tell you, New York is totally different from the rest of the country. The buildings, the streets - just the number of m-s packed together - there's nothing like it. There's no part of Compton that looks like Harlem. There's no zone in Atlanta that could get mistaken for Bed-Stuy. It's just not gonna happen. In the rest of America they build out. In New York, they build up.

There's only one part of New York that you could say looks and feels like nearly every other 'hood in America, and that's the south side of Queens. Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying Queens is generic or that it doesn't have its own flavor. I'm just saying that if you look at Queens the way n-s look at things - is there dope dealing? Do people drive cars? Do people live in little one-story houses like me? The answer is yes, if you're talking about Queens and just about any other ghetto in America. I've always thought that was part of the reason I can write music that appeals to people outside the five boroughs better than any other New York rapper. How you live influences your mind state, and people are able to empathize with my mind state because even though it's different than theirs, they get where it came from.

So I guess I should thank my grandparents, Curtis and Beulah Jackson. They're the ones that moved my family to Queens in the '50s from Ackerson, S.C.

When they bought their house in 161st St. in Jamaica, the same house I got shot in front of 40 years later, the streets weren't even paved. Dirt roads in New York City. I think they built the roads when my mom was a child, in the '60s, because by the time I was born in 1975 our street looked pretty much how it does today.

Until I got my first check from "Get Rich or Die Tryin,'" that house was the biggest asset that anyone in my family ever had. To my grandparents, that house meant the world.

source-

NEWSKULL · 10-23-2007, 10:26 AM

Buck The World ....

And Propz...

Gayme is a Queer · 10-23-2007, 10:30 AM

I Gotta Cop That Book, Sounds Very Interesting.

Murda Game · 10-23-2007, 10:34 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by NEWSKULL

Buck The World ....

And Propz...

Buck the world has been out for a while now why are u still mentioning it, if people havent bought it by now there not gonna

ns_diplomat · 10-23-2007, 11:18 AM

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*50*CENT*WIFE* · 10-23-2007, 11:44 AM

Thats Wonderful ;)

Phantom_rydaz · 10-23-2007, 11:57 AM

k propz for this

Low-Rider · 10-23-2007, 01:01 PM

All Eyes On Me, in stores now...

KRYSIECENT · 10-23-2007, 01:13 PM

I Gotta Order This Shit Today. Hes Something Else I Tell Ya

Bkjj11 · 10-23-2007, 01:14 PM

I guess 50 tryna make Queens its n city, make it like atlanta n shit lol. Nah gd read boy

NycEThATG00NiE · 10-23-2007, 01:14 PM

Garbage. . .

MC B STREETZ · 10-23-2007, 01:56 PM

propz.....

Hakaroodi · 10-23-2007, 03:21 PM

ight propz...

fromLAtoNY · 10-23-2007, 03:38 PM

ima get this book, i already read pieces to weight

keece · 10-23-2007, 04:03 PM

real talk 4rm a real niggah Props im buying it when it drops

PowerFromDownUnda · 10-24-2007, 06:07 AM

is kanye going to drop a book too?

10-23-2007, 09:59 AM	#1
robby84 Super Moderator Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Queenz Bred, livin life in Y.O. Posts: 8,581 Repped: 3,246 Repped 13,909 Times in 1,126 Posts Neg Reps: 12 Neg Repped at 8 Times in 8 Posts	10/23/07 - 50 Cent: South Side until I die 10/23/07 - 50 Cent: South Side until I die Tuesday, October 23rd 2007 By 50 CENT If you want to understand me, you've got to understand Queens. Visually, it's the most suburban part of New York City. It's got long, quiet streets with freestanding houses placed between modest front and backyards. I've read magazine interviews where rappers say their 'hood is like every other 'hood. That might be true for some of them, but if they're from New York City, they're probably lying. Anyone who's ever been there will tell you, New York is totally different from the rest of the country. The buildings, the streets - just the number of m-s packed together - there's nothing like it. There's no part of Compton that looks like Harlem. There's no zone in Atlanta that could get mistaken for Bed-Stuy. It's just not gonna happen. In the rest of America they build out. In New York, they build up. There's only one part of New York that you could say looks and feels like nearly every other 'hood in America, and that's the south side of Queens. Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying Queens is generic or that it doesn't have its own flavor. I'm just saying that if you look at Queens the way n-s look at things - is there dope dealing? Do people drive cars? Do people live in little one-story houses like me? The answer is yes, if you're talking about Queens and just about any other ghetto in America. I've always thought that was part of the reason I can write music that appeals to people outside the five boroughs better than any other New York rapper. How you live influences your mind state, and people are able to empathize with my mind state because even though it's different than theirs, they get where it came from. So I guess I should thank my grandparents, Curtis and Beulah Jackson. They're the ones that moved my family to Queens in the '50s from Ackerson, S.C. When they bought their house in 161st St. in Jamaica, the same house I got shot in front of 40 years later, the streets weren't even paved. Dirt roads in New York City. I think they built the roads when my mom was a child, in the '60s, because by the time I was born in 1975 our street looked pretty much how it does today. Until I got my first check from "Get Rich or Die Tryin,'" that house was the biggest asset that anyone in my family ever had. To my grandparents, that house meant the world. source- __________________ Most loved/Hated Moderator "Stop Bitchin" - Robby

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10-23-2007, 11:18 AM	#5
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