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50 Cent + Bette Midler?

Lately, 50 Cent has been diversifying his personal portfolio. He’s got a highly anticipated reality television program on MTV titled The Power and The Money. He’s working with his G-Unity Foundation giving grants to deserving organizations across New York City. And he’s hanging out with Bette Midler. He and Bette teamed up to create “The Curtis '50 Cent' Jackson Community Garden” in Queens. Their community garden opened on Monday.

First of all, envision 50 Cent gardening. Mmm-hmm, close your eyes and picture it: 50 Cent using an actual hoe, instead of rapping about ho’s.

Now read Bette and 50’s hilarious commentary on their collabo after the jump.

50 Cent Says “You’ve Got One More Chance . . . In Hell”

Somebody at MTV gave 50 Cent his own show. We were super skeptical at first (as skepticism is our default stance), but we just might be on board.

The Power and the Money is all about 50 Cent schooling bitches on the ways of business and the ways of the world. The fourteen contestants battle for 100,000 dollars of Fifty’s money, facing challenges, Fifty’s wrath, and the requisite dose of humiliation along the way. You’d think we’d have had our fill of hip-hop mogul meets reality TV kingpin with Diddy’s MTV reign (read: Work for Diddy and Making the Band seasons 1 through 92), but gotta be honest, we kind of want more.

Do you? We’ve got the video trailer after the jump.

FYI, the video starts off a little like a Men’s Warehouse commercial, but then, then, you get to experience the sheer horror of being called “a poor man’s Little Kim.”

Can you imagine? Well, you don’t have to . . .

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Lindy Parker has worked as a ghostwriter, editor, dance instructor and a purveyor of dreams, one beer at a time. She loves Charles Dickens and Gabriel Garcia Marquez and also, straight-to-video releases with Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen. It's possible she reads more teen fiction than she should. She hails from Los Angeles, her hometown and soul mate, but she lives in Brooklyn, the fling she'll never forget.

Olivia Purnell left Ohio for sunny Los Angeles; then found that she couldn’t ignore New York City’s call, and brought herself to Brooklyn where she has worked with GenArt, BlackBook, the School of American Ballet, and finished an M.A. in Creative Writing from N.Y.U. She loves one-liners with sting and hates the stench of the subway in the summer. That said, she can’t get enough of either.

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