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50 Cent Has A Love/Hate Relationship With Self-Love

You could almost say he was a flip-flopper. You probably shouldn't, though.

by Edward Sharp-Paul  5 June 2014

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Yep, we’re gonna be talking about 50 Cent’s self-pleasure regimen. I honestly didn’t see my life turning out this way, but since we’re all here, let’s get on with it. It all started last week, when Fiddy, a New York Mets fan, threw one of the worst opening pitches ever seen at a Major League game.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_iH9Xak-EUg&feature=youtu.be

We all had a good laugh, the puns basically wrote themselves, and then we got on with our lives. Yesterday though, 50 Cent participated in a Reddit AMA , to promote his new album Animal Ambition. As Rolling Stone reported, the subject of that pitch inevitably came up, and this was Fiddy’s rather inventive explanation:

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And fair enough, too — a perfectly plausible explanation. Dig a little deeper, though, and you realise that Fiddy wasn’t always such a wanksta. Back in 2012, Gawker reported on a series of tweets, in which the ever-helpful Fiddy shares his secrets to a happy, masturbation-free life:

So what went wrong, Fiddy? Why did you ignore your own advice and succumb to debilitating, onanistic pleasure? Did you turn your head as someone walked by?

Rookie move…

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