50 Cent Hustling For Extra Cash, Shoveling Snow - Rapper 50 Cent was determined to get rich or die shoveling Monday after a gigantic year-end blizzard dumped heavy snow on the whole East Coast, and he enlisted a posse of neighborhood kids to help him with his latest business venture. “I’m going out to shovel snow and see if I can make me a few extra dollars today. I’m charging more if they want to take pictures,” the millionaire MC tweeted on the day of the blizzard. “I want a hundred dollars per house. I bet anybody ill make a grand moving snow today.” He found some young employees, whom he hired at a generous $30 an hour, and put his business savvy to work. “One is a cute kid he has on a snow suit. So I’m sending him to ring the door bell to ask if we can shovel there snow,” he wrote. “When you look at his eyes its hard to tell him no … then I come to tell them how much they have to payus.”
Does this mean I have to like 50 Cent now? For years the guy has been at the very top of my people I hate list. It was hate at first sight ever since Shawty It's Your Birthday (please note I honestly don't care if that isn't the "official" title) became a smash hit. I knew instantly as I walked into my friends dorm and saw the video, listened to its moronic lyrics, and heard the artists ridiculously dumb name, that I'd have a lifetime of hating pleasure to work with.
But now this? 50 teaching kids work ethic and entrepreneurship through hard labor? Shit. A part of me wants to bash him for using child labor, but that would be the obvious route to go, and honestly my heart wouldn't be in it. And at first I was appalled at the idea that this guy needed to go charge $100 a house to shovel, why not send over whatever plow service you use as a holiday gift? But then I read on and saw that he was paying the kids off at $30 an hour, so again, I can't fault him there. I guess 50 Cent is...gulp...a good guy?
I think I'm going to take it slow here. I can't rush my feelings, I've had such a strong hatred for him for so long, a change of opinion will take some time. I'm going to start by following him on Twitter (you can follow me @TheAltTab), and maybe try and not make a snarky comment every time I hear his name mentioned. We'll see how it goes. I can gaurantee you that I will not support his music career though.
One last dig for nostalgias sake:
I bet anybody ill make a grand moving snow today.I figured an experienced drug dealer with a past like his would make much more than a grand a day pushing coke, no?
