{"id":787,"date":"2007-08-10T09:13:45","date_gmt":"2007-08-10T13:13:45","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2007-11-05T09:37:50","modified_gmt":"2007-11-05T09:37:50","slug":"50-cent-shifts-nation-s-focus-on-9-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/50-cent-shifts-nation-s-focus-on-9-11\/","title":{"rendered":"50 Cent Shifts Nation&#8217;s Focus on 9\/11"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In an effort to shift the nation&#8217;s focus from memorial-related grief over the 9\/11 Twin Towers attack, <strong>50 Cent<\/strong> has thrown down the gauntlet on that other tower of rap music, <strong>Kanye West<\/strong>. Both artists have new releases planned for 9\/11\/07, and Cent has said that he will retire from solo performances and recordings should his album not sell as many copies as West&#8217;s. A spokesperson for Cent, who&#8217;s real name is Curtis something, confirmed the artist&#8217;s true intent of this throwdown, &#8220;It&#8217;s about helping the nation move on.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In other news you&#8217;ve already heard, Factory Records and Hacienda founder <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/england\/manchester\/6941105.stm\" title=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/england\/manchester\/6941105.stm\"><strong>Tony Wilson died<\/strong><\/a>. The Manchester scenemaker was 57. He was a <em>great<\/em> man.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/index.php?cat=16\" title=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/index.php?cat=16\"><small><em>Previously in the News!<\/em><\/small><\/a><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an effort to shift the nation&#8217;s focus from memorial-related grief over the 9\/11 Twin Towers attack, 50 Cent has thrown down the gauntlet on that other tower of rap music, Kanye West. Both artists have new releases planned for 9\/11\/07, and Cent has said that he will retire from solo performances and recordings should <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/50-cent-shifts-nation-s-focus-on-9-11\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/787"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=787"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/787\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}