50 Cent named songwriter of year

[I am Ginger]

50 Cent "songwriter of the year"? Christ! What next?

50 Cent named songwriter of year (Source: BBC News)

Rapper 50 Cent, singer Annie Lennox and rock band Green Day have won the major awards at a ceremony where US songwriters honour their peers.

The American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) voted 50 Cent songwriter of the year.

Lennox collected the Founders Award for her "inspirational" work as a solo artist and with The Eurythmics, one of the biggest groups of the 1980s.

Boulevard of Broken Dreams by Green Day was one of the songs of the year.

It shared the honour with Mariah Carey's We Belong Together, written by Johnta Austin, Jermaine Dupri and Manuel Seal.

Green Day also won another prize at the ceremony in Los Angeles - ASCAP's creative voice award.

Lennox joins Sir Paul McCartney, Neil Young and Tom Waits as a recipient of the Founders Award.

It is awarded to songwriters who have made exceptional contributions to music and who have influenced their peers.

"Annie Lennox is one of the finest musical voices of our time - unlike any other, uncompromising and unpredictable," ASCAP president Marilyn Bergman said.

EMI Music Publishing was named publisher of the year for the fourth year in a row.

[Butterfly]

^ He is good. Best performing artist so far for this year and last year.

[Bob]

His subtle rhytmic poetry is a delight for us all. Just take the multi layered lyrical delight like this as a tiny example of the writing this urban shakespeare is capable of:


I take you to the candy shop
I'll let you lick the lollypop
Go 'head girl, don't you stop
Keep goin 'til you hit the spot (whoa)
[Olivia]
I'll take you to the candy shop
Boy one taste the wad I got
I'll have you spending all you got
Keep going 'til you hit the spot (whoa)



Any one who says different is just a hater!

[davethailand]

The American Society of Composers

Does that twat really deserve to be part of this.

[I am Ginger]

From 50 Cent's In Da Club:

"My flow, my show brought me the doe
That bought me all my fancy things
My crib, my cars, my pools, my jewels
Look nigga I got K-Mart and I ain't change"

I guess most rappers talk a pile of shit anyway, it's how they carry the shit that counts. Songwriter of the year though? Hmm...

[I am Ginger]

The American Society of Composers

Does that twat really deserve to be part of this.

He's no Beethoven, I know that much.

(Sorry 50 fans.)

[Little Chuchok]

50 cent is just one big fucking joke.A bigger joke would be older European types buying/playing his music.What a fucking laugh.

[Butterfly]

^ not as bad as old fuck listening to the Stones

[Little Chuchok]

^ not as bad as old fuck listening to the Stones

Pretty fucking close IMO.At least the Stones are old.Nothing worse that a middle aged Pakeha listening to black rap crap.

[I am Ginger]

Again, it all depends on the individual. It's not fair to insult someone's tastes just 'cause you don't listen to the same music.

[Little Chuchok]

Again, it all depends on the individual. It's not fair to insult someone's tastes just 'cause you don't listen to the same music.

Never said I was fair. The concept of fair play to me is when you are 20 points or 3 goals ahead and there is 2 mins to play.

[Marmite the Dog]

Again, it all depends on the individual. It's not fair to insult someone's tastes just 'cause you don't listen to the same music.

Agreed!

(Unless it's rap)

[I am Ginger]

LOL.

[RDN]

You know when you've been in Thailand just long enough when you don't know who the f*** "50 cent" and "Green Day" are. And you don't give a damn, either.