This week, Queens rapper 50 Cent received an interesting statement from the lawyers of fast food chain Taco Bell.
After 50 Cent filed a $4 million lawsuit against Taco Bell [click to read], the fast food chain’s lawyers have responded by filing a countersuit claiming 50‘s suit was an attempt to “…burnish his gangsta rapper persona by distorting beyond all recognition a bona fide, good faith offer.”
The lawsuit filed by 50 Cent stems from a Taco Bell advertisement in which they offered the rapper a $10,000 donation to the charity of his choice in exchange for changing his name to 79 cent, 89 cent, etc. for promotional purposes.
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Documents filed in a Manhattan court in July, show 50‘s original lawsuit was over copyright infringement.
In lighter news, 50 Cent has signed on to join the cast of Alex de Rakoff‘s Dead Man Running; 50 Cent will play the role of a cold-blooded loanshark.
Described as a London gangland film, Dead Man Running revolves around an ex-con who is trying to get his life back on track, but must first come up with $150,000 in a span of only 24 hours for the loan shark played by 50 Cent.
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All this comes on the heels of 50 Cent‘s announcement to release his upcoming album, Before I Self Destruct, in February of 2009 [click to read] instead of this December.
