Historically Hardcore: a series of promo posters designed by Jenny Burrows and Matt Kappler as part of a portfolio project. The Smithsonian was unaware of their creation until the clever ads went viral, at which point the Smithsonian asked Jenny to remove them from her portfolio or edit out any mention of the esteemed museum.
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50 Cent also got shot NINE TIMES. That’s sort of an important detail.
these are wicked..!
But did he continue to give a rousing speech to rally the country toward better things, Megatron? Or did he just make more asinine and ignorant rap music?
where can i find more of these
You’d think he’d learn after the first 3 times not to get shot. Jeez. It isn’t self sacrifice if you’re a dumbass.
@Megatron: Yeah, and Teddy got shot in the chest at fairly close range. The only thing that saved him was the massive speech that he then read before getting medical attention. Oh, yeah, and Teddy fought in the Spanish American war. Who wins this one? Not the whiny rapper.
Rap is crap. 50 cent is the crappiest rapper. But they’re all a bunch of no talent douche bags.
all of you wh osay rap is crap ur all just a bunch of idiots you dont listen to the lyrics you dotn know what they go through none of you would last a minute in there shoes
oooo… actually he was only shot 3 times. supposedly… thats what a police report says. and as far as videos and “proof” of him getting shot 9 times… well if i was as rich as him, i could easily pay a makeup artist to make me look like i had been shot 20 times… does it mean its real? no. 50 cent isnt a big thug like some believe… he is just like any gangster wanna be. talks real big when he is with friends, but will avoid a fight if he is alone.
Really, James? All they rap about is money, hoes, drugs, and booze. Really sounds like a HARD life to me.
WTF was 50 doing in order to get shot anyway? Must have been fucking around anyway
@James, actually rap is crap BECAUSE we listened to the lyrics, 99% of which can be summed up with “bitches, bling, drugs”
And Teddy is definitely the more badass as not only did he get shot at close range and then give an entire speech, when he got to the hospital he fought with the doctors forcing them to just sew him up rather than try to remove the bullet.
actually 50 got shot in the street nine times. then with his life at threat got on stage and still performed. and The bullet was slowed and deflected by a folded 50-page speech and a metal glasses case that were in Roosevelt’s coat pocket. He did not realize that he had been shot until he touched his chest and saw blood on his hand. his bullet never did any real damage as to 50
50 cent got shot before he was ever famous when he got shot “9″ times and he fought hard to survive afterwards dealing with for on getting shot in the face through his jaw and in the chest, arm, and legs he fought through it and eventually to prove to his wife that he wasnt milkin his injuries he stopped taking pain medication and fought through the rest with just himself. get some knowledge before you start bashing on something you have no idea what your talkin about. IGNORANT FUCKS
Maybe so, but never say that some rapper is better than Teddy Roosevelt. That man was a bawss.
I have no argument as to how many times 50 cent got shot, I just wish someone with a decent aim would finish the job already.
Haha,toattly love these ((:
Teddy out numbers 50 cent 100 to 1
Actually not all rappers are like that,
Atleast not all these mainstream ones who
rap about like you peeps said hoes,money,drugs etc..
even though im not to much into rap there are some pretty good rappers out there’
Like for example Eminem,Kid Cudi,Grieves
they all have good music that have an actual meaning to them.
~im done here :3
-peace-
Come on guyz rap is tha shiz man t-dog ain’t got nothin on that nigga. OH btw I bet yall just dissin him cause he black racist fucks.
The aforementioned text is my view on what the stereotypical rap fan would say. I can’t tell you how many times white people have been called racists just for dissing a rapper. Given, I agree there are some racist fucks out there but I can’t tell you how many times I’ve seen an almost identical comment as the one above when someone who may or may not have been white made a negative statement about any rapper.
i hate ignorant people… especially people who think all rap is crap because you listened to a lil wayne, drake, or wiz khalifa song. if u ever listen to KRS-One, Rakim, Eminem, The Game, Nas, Proof, Chuck D, Ice Cube, or Beanie Sigel u would know what real Hip-Hop is. yes that is the correct term for the genre of music. there is alot of passion, intelligence, and hard work put in to make those skillful rhymes flow while talking about important topics. some topics your ignorant mind would not be able to understand.
…so next time you go and diss something. do your research
I don’t really care how good or how bad 50 Cent is as a rapper or the details of which injury was worse. Teddy Roosevelt ran a country and practically everyone loved him. You don’t see much of that these days. He wins over a lot of people.
@Johnny Appleseed ooooohh BURN, good one man.
@Wisdom You just took everything you said from A MOVIE. Just because get rich or die tryin was about 50 cents life does not mean it was all real. So calling others Ignorant Fucks because they have never seen a movie well that is a pretty ignorant thing to do.
I love the fact that all of the pro-rap comments are in broken, barely comprehensible English.
Because all rock, country and pop artists nowadays talk about changing the world and NOT about all the drugs they do and all the women they seduce. Right. Keep living in that imaginary world where all rappers are black, wear heavy jewelry, and rap about redundant topic. I’m going to keep thinking rock artists are a bunch of meat heads that wear mascara and trash hotel rooms.
This is a ridiculously simplified version of every persons life. I am not impressed nor unimpressed with any of these people based on these one sentence anecdotes of everyone’s life. You all shouldn’t either.
Has no one else picked up on the fact that these ads are essentially calling rape a hardcore act? Genghis Khan may as well have slept with more women than the guy from Poison, but not if we’re talking consensual sex.
50 Cent sucks but rap doesn’t. Take a look at De La Soul; their down-to-earth and legitimately introspective 3 Feet and Rising actually got inducted into the Library of Congress quite recently.
Lol Johnny Appleseed, lol.
Funny how you douches got off topic. The pictures rock. That’s talent. Who got shot more? Who cares? The picture is funny…not as funny as your worthless comments.
Oh and just for the record, my 45 doesn’t miss when fired. Shoot to kill not to wound.
@HipHopKid I agree man there are some talented rappers out there. But 50 cent is shit and there is reason to believe he had a direct hand in the killing of Jam Master Jay from Run DMC, which is one of the most revolutionary rap groups of all time. Another reason among many I too wish whoever shot him didn’t miss.
I said i was going to get rich or die trying, not change the world. I got rich by rapping about getting shot, like I said i would. I can’t change a world that is manipulated and corrupt because of rich, powerful white men.
@50 cent… Wow, you are the epitome of the rap fan that all intelligent rap fans everywhere hate. You play the race card. In all honesty China’s population makes up for 1 billion of the world’s roughly 6 billion people, so if anything it’s rich Chinese men. Given there are a lot of white men in America who are corrupt and in power, but the whole world? Oh and just in case you forgot Barack Obama is the devil who is in power in America and he has done nothing but fuck us in the ass for the past four years. The campaign he ran on was racism, yeah that’s right voting for a person just because he/she is black is actually racist. Wow went on a rant there sorry I just can’t stand “ignorant fucks” who think just because some white men said some things on the the tv that they are entitled to bitch and moan their whole life. I was born poor but we got out of it because my hard working “white” dad sucked it the fuck up and worked his ass of to save money and provide for seven kids. And just so you know the majority of my close friends over the years have been black, this isn’t racist it’s just a white guy seeing a black guy say some dumb shit and correcting him. Oh and by the way 50 cent may be rich and a lot of people like him but so is Jersey Shore and there’s no doubt they fucking suck, he will die just like Jam Master Jay except with less sympathy because he deserves it.
@hypocrites
And what is wrong with trashing hotel rooms, I guess it must be worse than I thought if it out does cappin some persons ass, or beating women. Metal music is actually the closest music out there to the classics like bach and them. Anyone who actually looks at music theory can hear it plain as day. Metal heads hate MOST rap artists because they are fake, they get the job because they look good. Their voices are almost always auto tuned, and computer enhanced. Even I, as a metal head can respect Eminem, but 50 cent is just shitty.
Now in response to weather he is “more hardcore” than Teddy Roosevelt. He is not. Teddy fought in a fucking war, He killed to survive, he had to see his comrades die, he has spent years being constantly under fire from enemies, He got shot and still finished his speech. Teddy is more hardcore than any shit rapper in existence.
Next time you want to Dis Metal Heads, Just remember this, They are smarter than you, and they are among the most elite of musicians alive (some exceptions apply).
When military people complained about having to ride horses 25 miles every day, Teddy rode 100 miles in one day to shut them up. Even though he was 51 years old. He also had a pet bear and lion, just for shits and giggles.
Andrew Jackson was almost assassinated by a gunman that fired TWICE at him close range and missed-probably because the bullets were scared. The would-be assassin had to be rescued from Jackson because the president then tried to beat the gun-man to death WITH HIS CANE.
Genghis Khan needs no argument purely because he is the major reason the Black Plague spread to Europe.
50 cent got shot THREE times. none in fatal areas
my nigga andreww
50 cent got shot 9 times with an airsoft gun.
I love how this turned into an argument about 50 cent vs. teddy roosevelt. guys. this is all irrelevant. we just need to find out if either one’s related to ghengis khan. whoever is wins.
Not to mention that Teddy Roosevelt had sight issues AND asthma as a child, and yet he still led the Rough Riders in the Spanish-American War. From the front, I might add. Not to mention he had a gym installed in the White House so he could work out. Face it, pro-50 cent people. He can’t shape up to Teddy Roosevelt. Then again, very few people can.
I also like how no one’s defending Ozzy or Brett Michaels here. Just 50 cent.
Either way you flip it, they are both people that have gone through the “same” experience of getting shot. Not all rappers are bad people. Some have great things to say, they just do it differently than others. Even if you don’t like how they do it, they do. For the people that are giving 50 Cent crap, his mother sold drugs and was killed when he was young. He went through selling drugs and being in jail but out of that he became something better. He’s doing something big with his life. I commend him for that. Not everyone can see the positive out of the negative. Just my personal opinion and I’m not asking that you agree with it.
@james
“all of you wh osay rap is crap ur all just a bunch of idiots you dont listen to the lyrics you dotn know what they go through none of you would last a minute in there shoes”
Your comment is priceless. You call us idiots when your “sentence” not only has 2 typos, but you used “ur” instead of “you are”, or “you’re”. You used the the wrong “there”, saying “there” instead of “their”. You also did not use any punctuation.
It is obvious you listen to rap.
@James
all of you wh osay rap is crap ur all just a bunch of idiots you dont listen to the lyrics you dotn know what they go through none of you would last a minute in there shoes
really man? REALLY?
you call these people idiots? REALLY?
let me point some things out to you, because you missed it..
who*
say*
you’re*
don’t*
their*
my point is just this. don’t call these people stupid. nearly 1/5th of everything you typed was just plain WRONG.
I just got a great idea. I’m gonna go do some very shady activity in a very shady area and get myself shot (don’t worry, 911′s on speed dial). Then, my gangster hip hop career will shoot through the roof, cuz everyone will know how hard I am.
All these people who have never been shot that attempt to deflate the experience of either 50 Cent or Roosevelt need to relax
@Metal Head. You are dumb. The closest thing to “the classics like bach and them” are the people who still write in the classic style. I also like how Bach is the only one you named. And I’m curious how much theory you have studied. I am actually a music major, and I totally disagree with your claim that they are the closest to the “classic” style. Especially since most of what they do is scream. Bach would shoot himself if his choir did that. Granted, a lot of metal musicians are skilled in their instrument, so are people who play in other genres, they just don’t play to excess like metal players. It doesn’t mean they can’t. Please, don’t say metal players are close to the classic style. Just…. don’t. It’s funny, but insulting.
I just want that parrot.
it’s kind of weak to attack a man for being shot, did you ever take a bullet bro? didn’t think so.
All of you are lame as fuckkkk! 50 has more money than Teddy ever thought about having. “whining” got him a whole lotta fuckin cash. I dont even like him though. The fact that im even typing this right now is because im higgggggggggh as hell.