Rap-Up.com || 50 Cent Tackles Bullying on ‘Today’ Show [Video]

50 Cent is expanding his empire with his latest book release. A dapper Curtis Jackson sat down with Hoda Kotb and Kathie Lee Gifford on the “Today” show to promote his first young adult novel Playground, inspired by his own adolescence as a teenage bully.

He thought of his son Marquis when writing the book, in stores November 1. “Because my son is 15 years old, [bullying is] a relevant issue for me,” he said. “I wrote it because I want to do something about it.”

50 admits to being a bully as a kid, but he has learned from his past. “I can look back on those actual situations and say that was completely wrong. But I know what was motivating it now.”

It was Marquis who turned the former drug dealer’s life around. “My son, he’s my motivation. When he was born, I had to change everything.”

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21 Comments

@Slyboi
October 25th, 2011 at 10:57 am
Hypocrite.

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AmbeRussell Reply:
October 25th, 2011 at 3:54 pm
@@Slyboi, yeah, dont he bully everyday on twitter n all them rappers from rick ross all the way to ja rule

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@Slyboi Reply:
October 25th, 2011 at 6:30 pm
@AmbeRussell, It’s a shame.

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Samir Reply:
October 25th, 2011 at 8:58 pm
@@Slyboi,

How is a hypocrite? He clearly says he wrote in the perspective of a bully. It’s not about a kid getting bullied, it’s about a bully.

Illiterates.

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ed
October 25th, 2011 at 11:29 am
THOSE CORN ROWS THOUGH… LMAOOOOOO!

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lapresha's mother
October 25th, 2011 at 11:32 am
OF ALL PEOPLE….50 Cent????!!!! He still a bully. By the by…..CORNROWS lost all approval in 2004, seriously.

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ncvfdju Reply:
October 25th, 2011 at 1:55 pm
@lapresha’s mother, thanks to kanye(who took part in changing baggy clothes into high end polos and somewhat tight jeans)

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ESCO Reply:
October 25th, 2011 at 9:00 pm
@ncvfdju, It’s for a movie role opposite Nic Cage.

And who else to write a book about a bully other than a self confessed bully. More credibility that way.

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Famlay
October 25th, 2011 at 11:43 am
50 is a fool and with them cornrows???

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kb
October 25th, 2011 at 11:45 am
50, take out the damn cornrolls.. this is not 2005

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Trey
October 25th, 2011 at 12:21 pm
:o them braids……..¬_¬ #clockout……..

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From Tokyo Reply:
October 25th, 2011 at 1:28 pm
@Trey, LOL @ “clockout”

My thought was “edges, edges, edges”. That’s what I’m looking at. LOL

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DRB
October 25th, 2011 at 12:27 pm
His hair….WTF *watches video*

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Joe
October 25th, 2011 at 12:33 pm
He looks like an ape.

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Nikki Reply:
October 25th, 2011 at 1:25 pm
@Joe, so do you…

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From Tokyo
October 25th, 2011 at 1:30 pm
These comments killed me so early in the morning. LMAO It takes a bully to talk about bullying, btw, 50.

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kiki
October 25th, 2011 at 2:40 pm
I dig his hair like this except that hairline needs sorting and it’s funny he talks about bullying with the way he is on twitter but I ain’t mad at him.

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Samir
October 25th, 2011 at 9:03 pm
All this time and people still don’t get why 50 has these weird hair cuts, Smh. He ain’t trying to make no fashion statement, if it was up to him he’d be on them shows wearing a du-rag and his bulletproof vest, South Jamaican Queens ’til the end.

His hair is because of a movie role he’s playing opposite Nicolas Cage. Just like his jerry curls haircut when he was filming a movie with De Niro. Shit, making money, movies and opposite Oscar winning legends like Cage and De Niro? I’d cut my hair anyway they ask me.

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lover
October 26th, 2011 at 5:16 am
50 is doing well with his project…sk is expanding his influence…he is meeting with top people in the world

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Hugh
October 26th, 2011 at 7:09 am
Must be doin the hair for a movie

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