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Rap Sheet: Embrace the New

50 Cent / Photo: Matjazrust

• Painless: After denying he did coke in Zagreb, 50 Cent addresses much more important issues in Oslo, mainly, file sharing, “What is important for the music industry to understand is that this really doesn’t hurt the artists.” He explains further, “The main problem is that the artists are not getting as much help developing as before file-sharing. They are now learning to peddle ringtones, not records.”

• Coppin’ out: The first “Hip Hop cop” was not former NYPD detective Derek Parker, but a fellow from Utah by the name of Ron Stallworth who wrote books about Gangster Rap in the early 90’s and as a light skinned black man, even infiltrated the KKK.

• Make it drought?: Word on the gossip street is that music producer Scott Storch might be blowing too much money on his ladies friends. His credit cards were allegedly declined at a Miami club and even thought Rolling Stone put his worth at $70 million in 2006, Forbes knocked that down to $17 million in 2007.

• PR ploy: We too received an email about Bow Wow being hospitalized for appendicitis and thought nothing of it. But on the same day the rapper performed with Omarion on BET’s 106 & Park. Sandra Rose also debunks that so called picture of Beyonce’s “magic box” that 50 sneered about.