see, as a yungwun I still think big. over a year ago, when Fiddy was blowuptuating I remember discussing his style with my friend, Hua. I expressed concern when putting his picture next to Pac and BIG's because usually one of something is enough. but, Hua pointed out that it was 50's lack of pathos--something that 'Pac and BIG were on top of like Biz Markie in a french bakery--that differentiated him and made his stuff less notable. something else that shocked the synapses tonight as a I sat in my Shakespeare class and thought over Macbeth: these two characters are similar. dig: McBeth's (word to globalization) tragedy is that he couldn't balance his swollen ambitions and malignant thoughts of wanting to be king with what was really real. like MC Ren real. Macbeth, through trying to affirm his manliness (as it was defined by the small-minded folk in 17th Century England) lost his humanness: he became devoid of feeling. violence--something Macbeth was glorified for as a soldier for Scotland--expressed through the killing of the present king (Duncan), the wife and kid of some other dude who was all up in his grill (Macduffe) is the central point where 50 Cent comes in like Michael Jackson on roller skates. needless to say, 50 Cent earned his change through the roughlife in Queens and those nine bullets that tickled his chin. and he makes up for it on his old-ish debut record and subsequent cuts he's been on since. like Kool G Rap, NWA, Schooly D, Macbeth and this--Fiddy kills at will and shows little remorse. yet, unlike Pac and BIG you rarely understand why he feels or thinks the way he does. you don't even get a song about Moms or the intimacy of Biggie's childish humor. both Macbeth and 50 want to be Kings: one of Scotland and the other of New York City. I just think they both do gully things to get there--and the lesson is that Macbeth is only on top until folks have had enough. not that 50 Cent or his G-G-G-brethren are bound to fall, but without pathos it seems like 'ardcore rap and renaissance British drama grows thin. moreover, the idea of masculinity, both in Macbeth and Fiddy contains these elements: courage, persistence, dying for something and gold chains: and thats ch-ch-changed little since Shakespeare's day. I find that strange and somewhat interesting. *


someone open a window, please. the turntables are on fire.


*this conjecture also applies to Young Buck and 92% of Southern rappers