STRAIGHT TALK
EVERYONE, it seems, gets to beef with 50 CENT – even media mogul-OPRAH WINFREY.
In his new book, Hustle Harder, Hustle Smarter, 50 explains that when he was making a name for himself as a rapper, appearing on Oprah’s talk show would have solidified his success.
O, though, wasn’t having an ex-drug dealer, whose lyrics she deemed misogynistic, on her show. “She was completely against everything that was in my music,” 50 writes.
“So she ain’t never going to have me on that show. I’m never going to reach that platform, which is confirmation of you being a huge success. So I just said: ‘OK, if we can’t be friends, then at least let’s be enemies’.”
The rapper, real name Curtis Jackson, berated Oprah’s fanbase and even named…