Price check on 50 Cent

The AP reports that rapper 50 Cent has sued Taco Bell over an unlicensed price change on his name. A federal lawsuit filed Wednesday claimed the fast-food restaurant chain is using the rapper's image and name without permission in advertising that asks him to call himself 99 Cent. Then there were the print ads, again without is permisstion, asking him to change his name to 79 Cent, 89 Cent or 99 Cent. His real name is Curtis Jackson.

Taco Bell Corp. spokesman Rob Poetsch issued a statement saying (without cracking a smile, we swear), “We made a good faith, charitable offer to 50 Cent to change his name to either 79, 89 or 99 Cent for one day by rapping his order at a Taco Bell, and we would have been very pleased to make the $10,000 donation to the charity of his choice.” If this is true, we're with Fitty on this one. A mega corporation throws chump change at a Grammy nominee while using his fame to hawk burritos? We don't think so.

Sharon Kennedy Wynne

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Comments

[Spell Girl]

Okay, I know he's a gazillionaire but he looks so thick.