50 Cent settles Taco Bell lawsuit... whew!

Taco Bell employees can all sleep easier now, knowing that rapper 50 Cent has settled a lawsuit with their employer. Mr. Cent, or "Fiddy" as he likes to call himself, launched the lawsuit in June last year after Taco Bell used his likeness without his permission.

The problem was that Taco Bell, the purveyors of fine Mexican food, ran an ad campaign that offered Fiddy $10,000 if he would change his name to 79 Cent, 89 Cent or 99 Cent for just one day to promote its value menu. (In Canada, after factoring in exchange, he would have had to have gone by 83 Cent, 93 Cent or the awkward 104 Cent.)

I suspect the 10 big ones is chump change to Fiddy, who probably has his own boat, and he obviously didn't go for it. He sued for $4 million and settled for an undisclosed sum last year. When the lawsuit first started, he told a rap magazine that "When my legal team is finished with them, Taco Bell is going to have a new corporate slogan: 'We messed with the bull and got the horns.'"

Well, losing the money is better than the alternative, which was 50 Cent blowing all those b$#^#@%s away, motherf#%@%$^#! Ironically, this hilarious video was circulating among my colleagues this week: