Last July, we told you about 50 Cent filing a lawsuit against Taco Bell for a silly publicity stunt: They offered to donate $10,000 to the charity of his choice if he changed his name to 79 Cent, 89 Cent, or 99 Cent for a day and visited one of their drivethroughs to rap his order. They probably didn’t think he’d go along with it, but they probably didn’t think he’d sue their burrito-boosting butts either.
The suit accuses Taco Bell of “diluting the value of his good name,” which is pretty funny because he’s 50 Cent.
Maybe Taco Bell expected him to take it like Johnny Cash did when they tried to ruin his rep:
Anyway, now Tizzle Bizzle is shooting back at Fiddy. According to TMZ:
In legal papers filed in Federal court, the Bell’s lawyers claim 50’s tough-talking $4 million trademark infringement lawsuit from this summer was just a publicity stunt — but it’s the personal shots they fire at Fiddy that really spice things up.
Bell’s peeps tried to attack 50’s credibility, saying his work “falls in the subgenre of hip hop music known as ‘gangsta rap,’ a style associated with urban street gangs and characterized by violent, tough-talking braggadocio.” They also claim that Fiddy only filed the lawsuit to “burnish his gangsta rapper persona” — ’cause nothing builds street cred like a lawsuit…
His lawyer tells us “Taco Bell needs to be stopped” and that “Mr. Cent intends to vigorously pursue this case.”
I just think it’s funny that his lawyer has to call him “Mr. Cent.” Hey, are you guys hungry? I could really go for a gordita. And it’s for a good cause.
P.S. In happier publicity-stunt news, Dr. Pepper is living up to its promise to give everybody in America a free soda now that the new Guns N’ Roses album is finally being released. I don’t really know what one has to do with the other, but hey, free Dr. Pepper.
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You think ‘Mr. Cent’ is funny? Just think about what some of the other rappers would be referred to as.
Mr. Dog
Mr. Cube
Mr. Diddy
and my personal favorite:
Mr. Unit
Yeah, but Dre’s still the only one with a doctorate. I wonder if he’s a medical doctor, doctor of philosophy, or of theology? Hmm . . .
Maybe Taco Bell would’ve had an easier time if they had altered the prices on one of their specials to fifty cents and asked him to do it then?
And does “Fiddy” really think he invented the phrase “50 Cent”? Am I looking at a lawsuit if I refer to the two quarters in my hand by using his holy name? Uh oh . . .
ok im sorry but that was a cool 90s taco bell commercial haha
What I find baffling is why Taco Bell would want to be associated with Fiddy in the first place, no matter how convenient his name.
What a punk assed little bastard.
Hes so macho taking on the man. I bet he can sit with his “homies” in the future and reminence about how he stuck it to the “Man” when he sued Dr. Pepper.
Corporate whore.
Agree with Chronic. Why would Taco Bell want to be associated with a scumbag? So Bill O’Reilly can unleash his roving team of producers on company executives?