50 Cent’s Targets Of The Week: The Gucci Boycott Turns “Super Ugly”
50 Cent stammers out of bounds in the beginning stages of the “Gucci Wars.”
MONEY MAYWEATHER DOESN’T WANT TO DEAD “NO BEEF.”
Having a bonafide rival to fall back on is good business. The latest round in 50’s ongoing beef with Floyd Mayweather began with the latter party voicing his unpopular yet incisive opinion regarding the “Gucci boycott,” undertaken by certain members of the Black community. Floyd’s belief is that a temporary ban of Gucci would only suffice in handing the company a non-effectual bruise because as you might already know: the fashion brand is part of a larger consortium falling under the Kering conglomerate, holding the same position of power as sister brands such as Alexander McQueen, Saint Laurent, and Balenciaga.
Floyd reckons that a Gucci boycott, under the current stipulations, amounts to a whole lot of automatic thinking or “fake advocacy,” as he puts it. It just so happens that his rival 50 Cent was sitting cross-legged on the other side of the debate.
So without much trepidation, 50 Cent made his retort for Mayweather a highly-publicized affair, even though in retrospect, the “retired” boxer never once disparaged him by name over anything Gucc-related. But with 50 Cent’s ego in a fragile state, things got petty, just as Floyd’s opinion started gaining a following all its own across the Net. “Champ you need a publicist,” 50 Cent wrote in his subsequent attack of Mayweather. “Man you saying all the wrong shit fool.”
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In a prior Instagram post relating his stance on the boycott, 50 Cent pledged his entire Gucci wardrobe to goodwill. While the opinion polls regarding a “Gucci boycott” suggest a multitude of valid “social actions” remain in play, neither 50 Cent or Floyd Mayweather appears to be righter than wrong, and in truth, to reach a consensus based on the convictions of those affected by “blackface” would entail a whole lot of compression.
And yet, something tells me T.I. would have won the debate had the outspoken vet registered himself as a viable 3rd party in the debate. His release of “F*ck N***a” gives him the auspices of a clear winner, not because his opinion is better researched, but because he had the audacity to turn a talking point into a Godforsaken musical number.
