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Wired Up: 50 Cent 
Published Thursday, November 29, 2007 9:00 AM
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By Dove ~Sheepish Lordess of Chaos~

For the kickoff of their new season of Cribs, MTV took a tour of 50 Cent’s home [airing Thursday 11/29, 10:30pm], and we’ll be catching a glimpse of his expansive estate – even that now-famous lake in the back yard. The former home of Mike Tyson, 50's domain is nothing short of an American palace. Add in some modernized interior design and state of the art gadgets, and you’ve got 50 Cent’s G-Unit kingdom.

 

Although Cribs is great at showcasing an entire house, we wanted to get more in depth about the technology in this party fortress. We linked up a pretty clear call with 50 while he was touring overseas - Slovakia to be exact – to discuss some of the finer points of his home and auto electronics.

 

AllHipHop.com: We hear you have a custom DJ booth, a lighted dance floor, an elevator, home theater and more. What are your favorite aspects of the electronics in your house?

 

50 Cent: A lot of the electronic system is Touchtron - you can control from the wall, bedside or throughout the actual house. I can turn televisions and stereos on all over my house from whichever end of my home I'm in. If I'm on the west side of my house, I can turn things on on the east side. I can set the music to what I want to be playing over there without actually going all the way over to the other side of the house. In the neighborhood I grew up in, the west side of my house to the east side of the house is like walking pretty much to the middle of the block that I was actually living on.

 

The cool part about having it set up like that is you can actually see what's actively being used in the house on the system. I can tell if someone is in one of the actual areas, because if somebody's moving within the house I can tell.

 

AllHipHop.com: We understand the home theater is crazy. What do you have in there?

 

50 Cent: Inside my actual home theater I got this thing called a Kaleidoscope - it's like a hard drive that has 3,000 movies on it. It doesn't actually come with those movies, you gotta load them in. My job is to upgrade it a few times. Instead of having a room full of CD cases that the DVDs are in because you never remember to put them back in the right cases, and you're looking around [for them] on the wall… they're actually loaded into the system.

 

So if I get a new DVD, I put it in and load it into the system, and scan the artwork. Say you picked one of the Rocky films - all five of them will come up around it, and other action films and Sylvester Stallone films like Rambo and all the other stuff will start coming up onto the screen. You can look at it as an option of something else that you might wanna look at.

 

AllHipHop.com: Does it kind of work like Tivo where you pull up a little menu on the screen?

 

50 Cent: Nah, it's like a little red box and you move it through the cover artwork, and when you pick that movie then it shuffles, and everything like that film will move. Then it will move again to show you everything with the star of the film that you're watching. Say you like Al Pacino or Robert Deniro, it will show you 20 or 30 films that they've worked on as an option for you to actually pick.

 

AllHipHop.com: Your DJ booth is custom? What is custom about it?

 

50 Cent: The whole system inside there is digital. The traditional DJ setup is when you have separate pieces of things like the 1200 turntables. I have the old turntables that you would actually rub, but then I got the CDJ turntables. They got those to add [equipment] up in there, but it's a whole wall of digital stuff like the effects and the lights, the projection screen [and] there's a TV wall in there with 20 TVs.

 

The actual system is kind of like controlling a light show at the same time. We had somebody who does the custom systems like that - it's something that would be in a nightclub, not in someone's house. You know how you're in a nightclub and they got the strobe lights going off and stuff like that? Aint no disco ball in there, but the electric and neon lights and stuff like that. It holds about 1500 people if I want to have a party.

 

AllHipHop.com: And you have a stripper area…

 

50 Cent: Yeah, the adult entertainment area. [laughs]

 

AllHipHop.com: Which could double as a runway if you wanted to have a fashion show or something.

 

50 Cent: [laughs] Yeah.

 

AllHipHop.com: You’ve said you keep your cars ‘stock’ because of the value system, and you only have a stereo in one of your cars. Have you applied any electronic gadgets to these collectible cars that you have, or do you just keep them exactly the way you bought them?

 

50 Cent: There's three of them on Cribs that don't have the actual systems in them. The Ferrari F50, the Ferrari F40 and the [Ferrari] Enzo. The Ferrari 599 is the only one that has music in it - these vehicles don't come with music systems. The Enzo wouldn't come from the dealership, you would actually be buying it from an owner because they only had 300 of them issued when they actually made them. I paid a million dollars for that car.

 

AllHipHop.com: You said the value will continue to go up as long as you keep it in mint condition, correct?

 

50 Cent: Yeah, you keep them in mint condition and the value goes up. A lot of times if they're looking at the mileage on the actual vehicle, [value is assessed] by how many years went by since they came out and how low the mileage is on them. It's a collector thing, where at a different point you can go out get them off and get something new if you want or whatever. Away from that, I got other things that they haven't even seen in the Cribs episode. I got the 100 EX convertible Phantom, my Pontiac G8 the one that's in the actual car show. That car is super fast, it's a 550 Trans Am.

 

AllHipHop.com: What's your favorite car to drive day to day?

 

50 Cent: That's my favorite one right now, the G8. It's because it's low and there ain’t that much attention to it, so I could get next to somebody on the highway and eat 'em up if I wanted to, because they don’t know that that car has that much power in it. The 550 [horsepower on the G8] is actually more than the Gallardo. The Lamborghini Gallardo is only 500. I play with the cars on the parkway, and [other drivers] be thinking they can just leave me. [laughs]

 

It's been so crazy because I could spin out in that car and it doesn’t have gears, it's an automatic. That's a lot of power. You got a five-seat vehicle and you can just shift gears and spin out wherever you're at if you know how to drive. On automatic you have to be feeling like you got something.

 

AllHipHop.com: Are you a very big gamer?

 

50 Cent: Occasionally I'll play video games, I try to keep up with them because my son is crazy about video games. 

 

AllHipHop.com: What's his favorite platform?

 

50 Cent: Play Station 3 and the Nintendo Wii, he likes that.

 

AllHipHop.com: What games have you played with him?

 

50 Cent: All the sports games, even golf is fun on [the Wii].

 

AllHipHop.com: We heard that you have a pretty basic cell phone and you don’t rock the handheld computers and things like that. Do you have a particular preference on handheld technology?

 

50 Cent: I like my regular cell phone… don't have no camera in it, no email or none of that. I be trying to keep people away from me, it's too much access at some point. Of course I have a Blackberry for when it's necessary, but away from that, if you're at leisure… if I was considering myself [to be] on vacation or I'm chilling out somewhere, I'm using a regular cell phone. It's impossible for you to have a moment to yourself without somebody calling to check with you for the next thing.


 


Comments

 

Trife Life said:

50 doesn't own a 360. MICROSOFT = OWNED
November 29, 2007 9:07 AM
 

Mizzle Da Master said:

First!!  50 living large for real!  Smart dude on the whips...buy shit that's gonna appreciate in value not depreciate!!  Good stuff.  Oh yea...fuk G-Unit!! lol
November 29, 2007 9:25 AM
 

charliestons said:

ballin... Jim Jones be talkin shit about $320,000 porsche...haha..
its whateva though....I thot he would neva put his crib up for mtv cameras..they must hav offered him some guap
November 29, 2007 9:27 AM
 

LightSknStallion said:

how man times did this nigga say actually in this interview alone...
November 29, 2007 9:37 AM
 

v4vendetta said:

Ferarri f50 is livin!! So can you. Remember kids, Scarface was a movie..

50cent is real! And he's legal and alive!!

Celebrate or accelerate!!
November 29, 2007 9:40 AM
 

Cabana da Don said:

It's a hood thing to say "actually" or "actuall" don't ask me why it's as common as "youknowwhatImsaying".50 ACTUALLY speaks very well for a dude that didn't finish high school.hahahaha.
November 29, 2007 9:55 AM
 

SUPERFLY SHO said:

Fif is sucha clever dude....hes tryin to sell his house so what better way to market it than put a 1/2 hour special on MTV showcasing what it has to offer...he definitely knows what hes doin
November 29, 2007 9:55 AM
 

Okoron said:

Wow..

thats really huge. i just saw on yahoo.com how they went through his dining room and stuff.. he has chandaliers that cost like 80.000 $ damn! he said he could have bought a BMW with that haha lol..

this dude is super funny & cool..

G-unit all day, he's balling..  oh and on the cell phone stuff that part got me weaping lol.. nigga's be calling and shit haha..


Ve Italy..  am out..
November 29, 2007 10:03 AM
 

EST said:

Never heard of him
November 29, 2007 10:16 AM
 

LEXXBROWN(BAHAMAS) said:

SHOUTS TO 50. HE DID HIS THING AND CAME UP AS A YOUNG BLACK MAN. AM HAPPY FOR HIM IN THAT WAY. I WOULD LIKE TO SEE HIM AND OTHER RICH BLACKS KEEP THERE MONEY AND NEVER GO BROKE.

NOW  BACK TO HATING. I DONT LIKE G-UNIT!

HIT ME UP @ http://www.myspace.com/lexxbrown
November 29, 2007 10:17 AM
 

SagNasty989 said:

Fifty doin it big yall...dont care fa g-unit at all,  but rap cats that spend all they damn money on fuckin bling and don't know what investing is need to learn from 50...
November 29, 2007 10:33 AM
 

Lamborghini Gallardos and how it relates to me » Blog Archive » Wired Up: 50 Cent said:

November 29, 2007 10:33 AM
 

jaeda said:

Master P had the hottest crib i seen so far on cribs. I wonder if 50 crib can top that. I guess well see tonight.
November 29, 2007 10:36 AM
 

double jay said:

Superfly, I can tell you see the BIG picture here.
November 29, 2007 11:35 AM
 

Nola boy said:

Wolly u can put P. crib inside 50 kingdom u got to be kidding
November 29, 2007 11:36 AM
 

MattLee said:

Nothin will ever beat Redman's house on cribs
November 29, 2007 11:56 AM
 

slimturk said:

i cant wait until i get to watch his house on my tv screen..This is going to be interesting....Id like to see the technology used in his house...i have plans of doing techy stuff to my house in the next few years...after the technology matures more...
November 29, 2007 12:54 PM
 

CLASSYBITCH said:

Hate him or Love him his business savvy is off the chains. He'll be guest teaching a course at some college soon.
I'm not mad at him either about just having a regular cell phone. No pics or text to get caught up on, lmao.

SMOOCHES!

Simply CLASSY
BITCHES II ENVY (BIIE HUSTLE!)
November 29, 2007 1:10 PM
 

Dove said:

lol @ Redman's crib

I don't even think he had a single picture on the wall in there... and his room was a not much more than bed, a tv and video games... I loved that episode
November 29, 2007 2:00 PM
 

Hustle Hard said:

ayoOoO im tired of usin technologyyy
November 29, 2007 4:07 PM
 

ersrose3 said:

50 doing his thing major time
and 50's house is actually slightly bigger than 50's by about 10,000 sq ft
heres master p(his cribs was crazy)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b7ZeluvRj6I

im sure 50's cribs gonna be crazy too both them doin it big
November 29, 2007 4:19 PM
 

ersrose3 said:

November 29, 2007 4:22 PM
 

MACCAPONE said:

NOW WE KNOW 50 CENT HOUSE IS ONE OF THE BEST NOE CAN'T WAIT UNTIL TODAY TO SEE IT....
November 29, 2007 4:46 PM
 

tupacfan35 said:

Too Bad, this rapper still sucks, just like much of the trash out there, I Only listen to rap for music, not money and images.

Nas is the truth here.
November 29, 2007 4:59 PM
 

Cashville615 said:

Should I watch this in between the Cowboys-Packers game? Tough decision.
November 29, 2007 5:23 PM
 

crooked wild said:

lol this i have got to see looks sick... other then that redman has the best house ive seen soo far hes sick hes living how he wants to live thats whats soo good bout it
November 29, 2007 5:32 PM
 

mellimell3 said:

@ Cashville615

Hell No you should not watch this in between the game. If you want to see his crib you can catch one of the 50 re-runs of the show.
November 29, 2007 6:46 PM
 

Smashit said:

Master P's crib was BIG in his time with a lot of real Gold in the faucet, tub, walls & all that - but Fif's crib is CRAZY - hate on him if you want but the dude went from getting shot 9 times to living-good - don't knock the hustle!
November 29, 2007 6:58 PM
 

ersrose3 said:

exscuse me i meant to say  "50's house is actually slightly bigger than master p's by about 10,000 sq ft" in my 1st comment, lol
November 29, 2007 7:05 PM
 

infamous118 said:

lol even 50 got a wii
November 29, 2007 7:33 PM
 

slimturk said:

Yo people....Here in Canada we had a F'in excercise or some bullshit on TV....if anyone recorded the video please post it online as i would like to see 50 Cents house...
November 29, 2007 11:21 PM
 

mixonc said:

That was P's old house from the 90's in New Orleans. He got a new joint in Beverly Hills. You can see a little of it at the 4:23 mark:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELxUX-4pJxQ
December 2, 2007 3:50 PM
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