50 Cent's "Wanksta" -- C or D?

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The ice cream-jingle hook, 50C's lazy-ass drawl, that the insult is the quaint "wanksta" (sounds like a children's toy, and at the end of the video 50C provides the punchline: a wanksta's actually a thug doll in this alternate universe): all classic. The only dud: The bassline, which sounds like Dre's running a Casio keyboard through a blown woofer. All in all, a fucking great single, though.

― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Tuesday, 17 December 2002 18:01 (twenty-three years ago)

The song itself is a huge dud, but BIG PROPS to 50 Cent for appropriating filthy UK slang.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 17 December 2002 18:15 (twenty-three years ago)

he sounds like he doesn't care about what he's saying or the meaning thereof, which I hated when I first heard it, but I rather like now

― robin carmody (robin carmody), Tuesday, 17 December 2002 18:18 (twenty-three years ago)

Ehh.

― David R. (popshots75`), Tuesday, 17 December 2002 18:24 (twenty-three years ago)

(it is in my character to use words like "thereof", DavidR)

― robin carmody (robin carmody), Tuesday, 17 December 2002 18:26 (twenty-three years ago)

dear god this is awful. i mean, really. shit beat, shit voice.

― Al (sitcom), Tuesday, 17 December 2002 19:49 (twenty-three years ago)

I like it (of course).

― Aaron W, Tuesday, 17 December 2002 19:54 (twenty-three years ago)

I really like it. His voice especially.

― Colin Beckett (Colin Beckett), Tuesday, 17 December 2002 19:55 (twenty-three years ago)

My vote for boo, but not emphatically so.

― Matt C., Tuesday, 17 December 2002 19:58 (twenty-three years ago)

are tinny, do-nothing beats in vogue now?

― Al (sitcom), Tuesday, 17 December 2002 19:59 (twenty-three years ago)

totally dud; worst, most irritating keyboard hook EVER. plus i don't think i've heard a less articulate MC this side of ma$e.

― your null fame (yournullfame), Wednesday, 18 December 2002 07:07 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm not sure if you were aware that my "ehh", Robin, was directed towards the song, not your word choice (which is A-OK in my book), but, just to be safe, there it is.

― David R. (popshots75`), Wednesday, 18 December 2002 08:42 (twenty-three years ago)

God it's bad. 50 cent's entire career appears to be based on the fact that he got shot about 20 times in Jamaica. Anyone who gets dissed on record by Sticky Fingaz has to be pretty dreadful, really...

― Jacob (Jacob), Wednesday, 18 December 2002 10:50 (twenty-three years ago)

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