Friday, August 06, 2004

Is Fifty A Hood Michael Jackson?

I just saw the commercial for G Unit shoes. If you haven't seen it three little boys are peeking through a hole in a wharehouse window. They aren't watching the usual image of Fifty with the Bling chain throwin money around. They're watchin a shirtless, sweaty Fifty Cent work out. The shots feature his back and chest. The kind of shots that would make sense if teenage girls were peering through the window, but no it's three little boys. Then he takes a drink of water and flashes the camera a come hither glance, and the three little boys run from the window. Homo eroticism has never really been a hood thing, certainly not pedophilia. G-G-G-G- Gay Unit?