50 Cent is back on the media circuit. The rapper isn't just throwing out first pitches at baseball games and rapping on Good Morning America to promote his new album Animal Ambition, he's also going online. Yesterday (June 3), on the release date of his first studio album in five years, the "Don't Worry About It" rapper logged onto Reddit to answer fan questions in an AMA, and he did not disappoint, blending together solid advice with hilarious answers.
So here are six things we here at Music Times learned from 50's Reddit AMA:
1. He knows how to keep with the times.
50 Cent may be over a decade into his rapping career, but he's aware of the changing times and how technology has changed the game. First of all, he's accepting bitcoins for his new album Animal Ambition and embraced the crytpocurrency to "stay with [the] times." "technology is what's changing the business gotta get with it. I take money no matter if its coins or dollars," he wrote.
2. He also understands that the way to break into the rap game now is through independent development.
Name checking a popular Chief Keef video of the rapper doing his thing in his grandma's living room, 50 noted that it's best to create your brand on your own in 2014. "because of the internet do it independently," he offered as career advice. "you have access to things we didnt. i had to hustle bootlegers. chief keef is in his grandma living room doing it."
3. He's got a good sense of humor about that awful first pitch.
...Even if he offered a little too much information about it. "I have a skeletal muscle injury on my left shoulder from excessive masturbation so take it easy lol," he said about the newly infamous gaffe.
4. He also has a good sense of humor about Aziz Ansari... and he knows what a grapefruit is.
The Parks and Recreation star/comedian has a popular bit about 50 Cent at a restaurant, where the rapper is seemingly unfamiliar with what a grapefruit is. But, 50 insists he's very familiar with the citrus. "my grandma used to get me grapefruit juice as a kid. he's a comedian. Ima have his ass whoop if he keeps saying that lol," he said.
5. Yes, people do sing him "In Da Club" on his birthday.
"every day is someone's birthday that song wont go away," he said. Truth.
6. His new album Animal Ambition is about what happens after you get rich, don't die trying.
"lets live good. thats what Animal ambition is about, prosperity," he wrote in response to a question about whether or not someone should attempt to get rich.
