{"id":276787,"date":"2025-10-04T09:24:15","date_gmt":"2025-10-04T09:24:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/276787\/"},"modified":"2025-10-04T09:24:15","modified_gmt":"2025-10-04T09:24:15","slug":"50-cent-celebrates-taylor-swift-shoutout-on-life-of-a-showgirl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/276787\/","title":{"rendered":"50 Cent Celebrates Taylor Swift Shoutout on &#8216;Life of a Showgirl&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;This is for big timers only!&#8221; the rapper wrote about the Swift name-drop<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/50-cent\/\" id=\"auto-tag_50-cent\" data-tag=\"50-cent\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">50 Cent<\/a> is happy to get a little shout-out from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/taylor-swift\/\" id=\"auto-tag_taylor-swift\" data-tag=\"taylor-swift\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Taylor Swift<\/a>. On Friday, hours after Swift released <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-album-reviews\/taylor-swift-the-life-of-a-showgirl-album-review-1235439733\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Life of a Showgirl<\/a>, the rapper shared his excitement over the pop queen mentioning his name on \u201cRuin the Friendship,\u201d Track Six on her new album.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\t\u201c@taylorswift shit is popping right now, she shout me out, she don\u2019t shout you out,\u201d 50 Cent wrote on Instagram alongside the LP\u2019s cover. \u201cLOL THIS IS FOR BIG TIMERS ONLY!\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tHe added: \u201cWait I\u2019m the only shout out on the whole album.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tOn the song, Swift looks back on a teenage romance and the regret of not kissing someone despite knowing it would\u2019ve been worth the risk. \u201cAnd it was not an invitation\/But as the 50 C\u0435nt song played\/Should\u2019ve kissed you anyway,\u201d she sings on the track looking back at prom night. \u201cAnd it was not convenient, no\/Would\u2019ve been the best mistake\/Should\u2019ve kissed you anyway, hey.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tWhile Swift has not explained the meaning or inspiration behind the song \u201cRuin the Friendship,\u201d fans have speculated that the track is about Jeffrey Lang, whom Swift has spoken about being close to while they went to Hendersonville High School. Lang died at age 21 in November 2010.<\/p>\n<p>\t\tTrending Stories<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\t\u201cYesterday, I sang at the funeral of one of my best friends,\u201d she<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=zp1peBYUT00\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\"> said at the 2010 BMI Country Music Awards<\/a> shortly after his death. \u201cAnd he was 21, and I used to play my songs for him first. So I would like to thank Jeff Lang.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\t50 Cent isn\u2019t actually the only shout-out on the album, however. Elsewhere on the record, \u201cElizabeth Taylor\u201d is titled after the glamorous Hollywood icon of the 1950s, Swift mentions Spanish soccer team Real Madrid on \u201cWi$h Li$t,\u201d and the star seemingly dedicated an entire song to Charli XCX, titled \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-features\/charli-xcx-taylor-swift-feud-explained-1235440158\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Actually Romantic<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8220;This is for big timers only!&#8221; the rapper wrote about the Swift name-drop 50 Cent is happy to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":276788,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[4089,171,3571,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-276787","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-50-cent","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-taylor-swift","11":"tag-united-states","12":"tag-unitedstates","13":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115315177253212974","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=276787"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276787\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/276788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}