A guy just trying to tell his story...

This is a poster for 50 Cent's new movie, Get rich or die tryin'. It has a gun in his left hand, and a microphone in his right. Nothing particularly wrong with that, just an artistic statement, a good one at that,until I read that posters in LA and Philadelphia were actually taken down.

The protestors against the poster say 'the message could be rob to get rich', hmm... remind me again what the message of movies like The Italian Job, Oceans Eleven, Oceans Twelve, and The usual suspects is? I swear utopia itself would be protested in this country if it didn't have laws. Protesting just seems like too much fun...

The poster says "Get rich or die tryin'" which implies (besides the goal, which is to get rich) there is a trade-off between the left side (gun) and the right side (microphone), what's on the left side is easier to do, but you might die while trying to get rich, and what's on the right side is much harder to do, but your chances of dying are greatly reduced. Obvious, no? Not obvious enough for some people.

The poster is only trying to reflect on the real trade-offs in real life, let the guy advertise his movie.

There are literally only a couple of modern day rap songs I like, 50 cent's songs aren't among them, and offcourse the 'classic' rap like outkast sounds ok. Apart from that, most rap is crap, along with hiphop. Hiphop is a fad, that will die it's rightful death very soon, as soon as people realize, 'what exactly have we built up here?' I respect what Diddy does for comedy def jam and the like, but what he's singing, can't be music.