50 Cent's Curse Jar

Let me preface this by saying, my wife is sick. Not one of those, “Go out if you feel like it, I just don’t want to” kinds of sick; more like the bed couch-ridden state of constant cough and groan, bring her refills on water and small, bland foods type sick. So here I am, Friday night, in the office listening to 50 Cent’s Get Rich or Die Tryin’ album, when a clever project idea hits me. Here’s my initial flow of thought:

“50 Cent cusses a lot”
“I wonder if Katie and I will have a cuss jar when/if we have kids and I cuss in front of them?”
“50 could save himself a lot of money with his own cuss jar”
“I wonder how much that would be exactly just from this album”

And there it is. The Friday night project. How much would 50 Cent make, if he were to pay, let’s say for kicks…50 cents per cuss word into a jar, solely based off of Get Rich Or Die Tryin’? I made a few simple rules. First, 50 has to pay for all included artists language use too. Second, all the variations of words/phrases will count towards the base word. The words that officially count (and will be abbreviated) will be:

The F word (abbreviated “F”)
The N word (abbreviated “N”)
Shit (“S”)
Ass (“A”)
Damn (I will just use Damn)
The B word (“B”)
Any word for a man’s genitalia (including the other parts too) (“D”)
Any word for a woman’s genitalia (“P”)
And any variation of “Ho” (“H”)
Bastard (Used once)
*Hell will not be counted (It fetched 15)

So I listened, with pen and paper, and recorded each of his non-lovelies. And this is how it breaks down…

Intro
None. Good start.

What Up Gangsta?
A – 2
Bastard – 1
F – 3
H - 1
N – 2
S – 2
Total: 11

Patiently Waiting
A – 7
B - 2
F – 14
H - 1
N – 4
S – 6
Total: 34

Many Men
A – 2
B - 1
Damn - 1
F - 6
N – 9
P – 2
Total: 21

In Da Club
A – 1 (attached to a derogatory term for homosexuals; we won’t count that part)
B - 1
F – 4
N – 10
Total: 16

High All the Time
B – 1
F – 3
H - 1
N – 15
S - 26
Total: 46

Heat
A – 2
B – 2
F – 15
N – 12
S - 5
Total: 36

If I Can’t
A – 2
B – 1
D – 1
F – 2
N - 12
P – 1
Total: 19

Blood Hound
A - 1
F – 5
N – 5
S – 1
Total: 12

Back Down
A – 4
B – 2
F – 8
H - 1
N – 12
P – 2
Total: 29

P.I.M.P.
A - 2
B – 19
D - 1
F – 11
H – 7 (incl: “Trick”)
N – 6
S – 2
Total: 48

Like My Style
A – 2
F - 1
H – 2
N – 3
Total: 7

Poor Lil Rich
B – 7
Damn – 1
D – 2
F – 3
H - 1
N – 35
S – 9
Total: 58

21 Questions
N – 1
Total: 1

Don’t Push Me
A – 13
Damn – 1
D - 2
F – 5
N – 6
P – 6
S – 2
Total: 35

Gotta Make It To Heaven
A – 2
B - 3
Damn – 1
F – 2
H - 1
N – 9
P - 2
S – 3
Total: 23

Wanksta
A – 1
Damn - 2
F – 2
N – 2
S – 2
Total: 9

U Not Like Me
B – 1
D - 1
F – 3
H - 4
N – 8
S – 3
Total: 20

Life’s On the Line
A – 1
B – 2
Damn – 1
D - 1
F – 7
N - 12
S – 6
Total: 30


Broken down by his favoritism toward word selections, it looks like this:

The “N” word = 163 times
The “F” word = 94 times
Shit = 67 times
Ass = 42 times
The “B” word = 42 times
Ho or any variation = 26 times
Female genitalia (The “P” word) = 12 times
Male genitalia (The “D” word) = 8
Bastard = 1

And that’s a grand total of: 455
Multiplied by 50 cents per word is: $227.50

What We’ve Learned:
50 likes the N-word, a lot. He does not like the word Bastard. In 21 Questions, he only cusses once. Coincidentally, this is the only song he “sings” (ya know, as opposed to rapping). Poor Lil Rich has the most cuss words, with 58. 15 of 19, or approximately 80%, of the songs have double digits worth of cuss words; approximately 58% with more than 20; 37% with more than 30 cuss words. His overall average is approximately 24 cuss words per song. Gotta Make It To Heaven wins the award for Most Variety, covering 8 different cuss words.

And there you have it, my Friday night in a nutshell.