In today’s Daily Rap, 50 Cent casts aside our health fears, M.I.A get’s her own way with the New York Times and Chamillionaire explains his house foreclosure.
50 Cent Shows Off Weight Gain At Gig
50 Cent has allayed fears for his health by showing off a new fuller figure at a gig in Colorado on Wednesday night, just a week after he shocked fans with photos of his drastic weight loss.
The In Da Club hitmaker made headlines when he posted pictures on his online blog showing his skeletal frame while shooting new movie Things Fall Apart, in which he plays a footballer diagnosed with cancer.
The rapper lost 54 pounds (24 kilograms) by surviving on a liquid diet, but 50 Cent proved he's been busy piling the weight back on by showing off a healthier look at a show in Denver on Wednesday.
He told the crowd, "I've been eating, I'll be back in shape in no time."
Times Bosses Apologise To M.I.A
New York Times bosses have issued a correction to a critique by columnist Lynn Hirschberg in a bid to end a public feud between the writer and hip-hop star M.I.A.
The outspoken singer/songwriter blasted Hirschberg online, made her direct telephone line public and also took aim at the writer in a new song after taking offence to an unflattering profile the journalist had written about the Paper Planes hitmaker for the New York Times Magazine last month.
Hirschberg initially laughed off the singer's taunts, but now her editors have decided to step in, hoping to end the feud between the two women. In an Editor's Note contained in Thursday's newspaper, a statement makes it clear that quotes attributed to the singer/rapper by Hirschberg were out of context.
The statement reads, "The part that begins, 'The whole point of going to the Grammys,' up to the end of the quotation, actually came first. The part that begins, 'I wasn't trying to be like Bono,' and ends, 'Give war a chance,' came later in the same interview. The article should have made clear that the two quotations came from different parts of the interview."
Chamillionaire Explains House Foreclosure
Chamillionaire has cleared up reports he is in financial difficulty following the foreclosure of his Houston, Texas home, insisting it was his choice to have the property repossessed by bank bosses.
The Ridin' hitmaker, real name Hakeem Seriki, recently lost the $2 million (£1.3 million) mansion he purchased in 2006 after allegedly falling behind on his bank loan repayments.
But the hip-hop star claims he "decided to let that house go" because the downturn in the economy had turned the property into a bad real estate investment, reports TMZ.com.
Chamillionaire tells the website, "I was always on the road touring. I just didn't feel like it was a good business investment to pay that much mortgage for a house I was never at." And he's adamant he's still rich, adding, "I still got all the cars."
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