Considering 50 Cent's a dude who's shot to fame on the shaking booties of uncountable greased up video vixens and invitations to "lick his lollipop," if Fiddy calls you sleazy, you sleazy.
Today, it's Taco Bell who's getting the "shame-shame, double-shame" from 50 Cent and his team of legal experts.
Yesterday -- taking a page from Dr. Pepper's this-stunt-is-so-lame-we're-all-going-to-blog-about-it school of marketing -- Taco Bell invited 50 Cent to upgrade his nom de rap to 79 Cent, 89 Cent of 99 Cent in homage to their value menu of chalupas, gorditas or whatever other gooey C-grade beef treats they're hocking these days.
"This is a sleazy and ill-conceived publicity stunt by Taco Bell's president, Greg Creed, whose disingenuous offer was leaked to the press before it was even presented to 50 Cent's agent yesterday," said 50 Cent's rep to OK! Magazine.
Added the rapper himself, "When my legal team is finished with them, Taco Bell is going to have a new corporate slogan: 'We messed with the bull and got the horns!'"
We wonder how things would have differed if those taco tycoons had offered to sign the cheque to Fiddy; the rapper could probably use it to comp his other legal expenses these days. His multi-million dollar mansion was recently torched, and he is now reportedly planning to file a defamation suit against the mother of his 11-year-old son for alleging he was responsible for burning the place down.
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