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50 Cent filming new movie in Michigan Right Now

Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson is doing it big in the movie business. Right now he is filming a new Movie titled ‘Love Me, Love Me Not.’ in Michigan.

Film crews arrived on the campus of Grand Valley State University to shoot scenes for a Trailer yesterday. Filming will continue today.

According to school officials the Movie is about a football player who is diagnosed with cancer. No word on whether 50 Cent will play the leading role or not.

The filming locations so far included the Laker Turf building, recreation center, weight room and football locker room.

For football actions scenes said to be shot today, snow had to get removed from half of the field at Lubbers Stadium.

The first phase of the film is set to wrap up on Wednesday. Filming will continue in West Michigan in May for 3 more weeks.

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Grammy Rap Awards The winners and Nominee’s

Best Rap Album
Common – Universal Mind Control
Eminem – Relapse
Flo Rida – R.O.O.T.S.
Mos Def – The Ecstatic
Q-Tip – The Renaissance

Best Rap Solo Performance
Drake – “Best I Ever Had”
Eminem – “Beautiful”
Jay-Z – “D.O.A. (Death of Auto-Tune)”
Kid Cudi – “Day ‘N’ Nite”
Mos Def – “Casa Bey”

Best Rap Song
Drake – “Best I Ever Had”
Kid Cudi – “Day ‘N’ Nite”
T.I. & Justin Timberlake – “Dead And Gone”
Jay-Z – “D.O.A. (Death Of Auto-Tune)”
Jay-Z, Rihanna & Kanye West – “Run This Town”

Best Rap Performance By a Duo or Group
Beastie Boys & Nas – “Too Many Rappers”
Eminem, Dr. Dre & 50 Cent – “Crack A Bottle”
Fabolous & Jay-Z – “Money Goes, Honey Stay”
Kid Cudi, Kanye West & Common – “Make Her Say”
Kanye West & Young Jeezy – “Amazing”

Best Rap/Sung Collaboration

Beyoncé & Kanye West – “Ego”
Keri Hilson, Kanye West & Ne-Yo – “Knock You Down”
Jay-Z, Rihanna & Kanye West – “Run This Town”
The Lonely Island & T-Pain – “I’m On A Boat”
T.I. & Justin Timberlake – “Dead And Gone”

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50 Cent Looking for New G Unit Member

Word on the inside is 50 Cent is looking for new Member for the Once strong G Unit. 50 said he realizes that G Unit is still one of the greatest rap lineups ever assembled and it needs some new blood to bring that energy back to the unit.

With the departure of the West Coast leader The Game and The Souths Leader Young Buck , 50 is ready to make it all East Coast G Unit with the New Member. 50 is looking hard at the the mixtape world to see who has the biggest buzz on the East Coast and to offer them the starting lineup spot.

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50 Cent said he lost 2 Million on Olivia

“Yeah, that was a loss,” Fif said about investing in Olivia’s G-Unit run. “The problem you get with female solo artists is they look, their game is really small. So they look at it and say, it’s Beyonce, Rihanna, Keyshia Cole but when you have an African American female solo artist, she sees where she fits immediately.

Problem is, they spend financing like those artists at that point, having the set-up, the make-up artist, the stylist, those different things but when you don’t have a record that connects fast enough, you’ll accumulate a tab like a motherf*cker. And you look around like ‘You spent $2 million on this sh*t and have me compromising myself at certain times.

‘ See, I made sacrifices for other artists that I don’t think people acknowledge them. Don’t get f*cked up, when I’m doing the Get Rich Or Die Tryin’ soundtrack, I know I’m supposed to be doing ‘I’ll Whip Your Head Boy,’ and I’m doing ‘If I Was Your Best Friend,’ because I’m already two million in the hole on the actual project. I already spent all this paper moving around doing all this other sh*t that I gotta keep that in a position where I can potentially sell it.”

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How will artists survive in Hip Hop these days

The music industry is just about dead, and the how come doesn’t really matter, its done and over. The real question now is what next? How does an artist eat in an environment like this where CD sales have dropped 30% since last year and continue to freefall drop ?

For rock&roll bands, touring and merchandising will become more important than ever. In the very near future I predict all labels will be begging you to download their music for free as long as you promise to buy a T-shirt on your way out the concert. Rap acts though don’t tour very much. There are more rappers than there are fans these days. And that makes it even harder to establish a real fan base and keep them. Getting them to buy your music is a joke. Only rich kids in the suburbs buy cds these days and not many of them do that anymore either. Hip Hop is in turmoil these days and will only get worse. Im from the old school and I miss the days when only one new album would come out a month. Now that there is home recording on every block in every hood, tracks are recorded at a vicious pace. Every artist has the dream of being the next rap superstar. Im not a dreamer or a dream crusher but it will be hard. Most indie artists try like hell for a couple years then you never hear from them again after they fail. To survive in this industry you need a niche or a gimmick or some major money behind you talent and good tracks will not do it. The 1 hit wonders are here and gone in the blink of a eye in hip hop. The Labels are so out of touch with reality they saw this all coming but did nothing about it. 99% Of all songs and CDs on Itunes have not sold one single copy. If you think you have made it because you have your music on itunes you will be very dissapointed. You can promote until your fingers bleed and nothing will happen and nothing will sell. Its done and over checkmate.

As 50 himself admitted in a Vibe Magazine interview, when asked about declining music sales industry wide, he said he doesn’t care if less people buy the record, as long as they buy his clothing, vitamin water, videos games, and movies. 50 is in the business of selling a lifestlye, with music as the bait, a trick that P Diddy and Jay-Z  learned long ago. In order to survive in Hip Hop and eat off the music you need sponsors.

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