We Interviewed 50 Cent And DJ Drama Here are four things I am going to tell you before this interview with 50 Cent. One: Get Rich Or Die Trying is basically the closest our generation will ever get to our very own The Chronic, so regardless of whether or not he has not had a true “smash hit” in years, he will always be important. Two: 50 Cent is a human brand, one whose holdings extend into film, energy drinks, headphones, a record label, books and amusement parks (okay, not really), and if I bottled his breath I could sell it on ebay and pay my rent for a couple months. Three: 50 Cent is basically a weird dude at heart, and he does not look at things the way you or I look at them. This is okay. Four: 50 Cent will, at the end of this interview, start saying moderately misogynistic things. This is not okay, but this is also probably something that 50 Cent has done for a lot of his life. If I had called him on it, he just would have laughed at me, not cared or worse, hit me across the room because I have heard he does things like that. Anyways, we took some pictures of him, and then he and DJ Drama sat down with me for an interview. We were supposed to talk about The Lost Tape, their upcoming mixtape together, but we ended up talking about a bunch of other stuff, mainly because 50 Cent had to postpone this interview for two days because he got really bad food poisoning. Read the interview and hear the mixtape here.

We Interviewed 50 Cent And DJ Drama

Here are four things I am going to tell you before this interview with 50 Cent. One: Get Rich Or Die Trying is basically the closest our generation will ever get to our very own The Chronic, so regardless of whether or not he has not had a true “smash hit” in years, he will always be important. Two: 50 Cent is a human brand, one whose holdings extend into film, energy drinks, headphones, a record label, books and amusement parks (okay, not really), and if I bottled his breath I could sell it on ebay and pay my rent for a couple months. Three: 50 Cent is basically a weird dude at heart, and he does not look at things the way you or I look at them. This is okay. Four: 50 Cent will, at the end of this interview, start saying moderately misogynistic things. This is not okay, but this is also probably something that 50 Cent has done for a lot of his life. If I had called him on it, he just would have laughed at me, not cared or worse, hit me across the room because I have heard he does things like that. Anyways, we took some pictures of him, and then he and DJ Drama sat down with me for an interview. We were supposed to talk about The Lost Tape, their upcoming mixtape together, but we ended up talking about a bunch of other stuff, mainly because 50 Cent had to postpone this interview for two days because he got really bad food poisoning.

Read the interview and hear the mixtape here.

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SCANDALOUS, CHIC, AND RICH PIERRE CARDIN HAS MET EVERYONE AND DESIGNED EVERYTHING Pierre Cardin is one of those names everyone knows, even if you have no idea who he is or what he looks like. For the clueless, he is the man behind and the designer of one of the most famous logos in fashion – the entwined pc splashed across more than 800 products: neckties, collapsible bicycles, car upholstery, chocolate, cigarettes, ice buckets, frying pans… You get the idea. Read the full interview here

SCANDALOUS, CHIC, AND RICH

PIERRE CARDIN HAS MET EVERYONE AND DESIGNED EVERYTHING

Pierre Cardin is one of those names everyone knows, even if you have no idea who he is or what he looks like. For the clueless, he is the man behind and the designer of one of the most famous logos in fashion – the entwined pc splashed across more than 800 products: neckties, collapsible bicycles, car upholstery, chocolate, cigarettes, ice buckets, frying pans… You get the idea.

Read the full interview here

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YSL’S STEFANO PILATI EXPLAINS WHY FASHION MAY NEVER BE FASHIONABLE AGAIN It’s not hyperbole to say that Yves Saint Laurent is the greatest, most evocative name in the history of fashion. Stefano Pilati has been the company’s creative director for the past decade, defining yet another era with his analytic eye for design and plainspoken opinions about fashion’s place in modern culture. Before taking the helm at YSL, Stefano worked closely with Tom Ford and Miuccia Prada, perhaps the most innovative figures in Italian fashion of the past 20 years. I conducted the following interview with Stefano via Skype. He was sitting in his office in Paris, dressed to the nines, while I wasted away on my bed like a Nan Goldin photograph. Read the full interview here

YSL’S STEFANO PILATI EXPLAINS WHY FASHION MAY NEVER BE FASHIONABLE AGAIN

It’s not hyperbole to say that Yves Saint Laurent is the greatest, most evocative name in the history of fashion. Stefano Pilati has been the company’s creative director for the past decade, defining yet another era with his analytic eye for design and plainspoken opinions about fashion’s place in modern culture. Before taking the helm at YSL, Stefano worked closely with Tom Ford and Miuccia Prada, perhaps the most innovative figures in Italian fashion of the past 20 years.

I conducted the following interview with Stefano via Skype. He was sitting in his office in Paris, dressed to the nines, while I wasted away on my bed like a Nan Goldin photograph.

Read the full interview here

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IT’S THE 2012 FASHION ISSUE! Starting around now until whenever the asshole who keeps stealing all of our magazines and selling them on eBay saunters in, our 2012 Fashion Issue will be sitting pretty in bars, clothing, and music stores all around the United Kingdom. Time was, we would post the whole issue on this website at once so that you greedy bastards could read it all in one gluttonous sitting. But now, heeding the advice of our marketing gurus, we’re going to be putting the issue up article by article, feeding you one new piece per day like a mamma bird dropping a worm into her baby bird’s mouth. The reason we’re doing this, of course, is that we want you to come back to this site every day, boosting our traffic and making us look more popular to people who wear suits for a living. Anyway, this month’s cover was shot by Bryan Derballa, a bearded photo-taker who shoots a lot of our parties and also gigantic metal penises. I sat down with Bryan for a little chat about the pooch on the front of our new issue. Read the interview here

IT’S THE 2012 FASHION ISSUE!

Starting around now until whenever the asshole who keeps stealing all of our magazines and selling them on eBay saunters in, our 2012 Fashion Issue will be sitting pretty in bars, clothing, and music stores all around the United Kingdom. Time was, we would post the whole issue on this website at once so that you greedy bastards could read it all in one gluttonous sitting. But now, heeding the advice of our marketing gurus, we’re going to be putting the issue up article by article, feeding you one new piece per day like a mamma bird dropping a worm into her baby bird’s mouth. The reason we’re doing this, of course, is that we want you to come back to this site every day, boosting our traffic and making us look more popular to people who wear suits for a living.

Anyway, this month’s cover was shot by Bryan Derballa, a bearded photo-taker who shoots a lot of our parties and also gigantic metal penises. I sat down with Bryan for a little chat about the pooch on the front of our new issue.

Read the interview here

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ASSPLASTY: DR. MENDIETA’S PERFECT BOOTIES When the news came out late last year that some retardedly desperate girls in Miami allowed a transsexual Frankenstein man with grotesquely gargantuan ass and titties to inject their butts with cement and Fix-A-Flat tire sealant in hopes of ballooning their asses to J. Lo proportions, we knew this whole bootylicious thing was starting to get out of control. Surprisingly, that case is just one of many instances last year where people hired quacks to augment their asses – a 20-year-old student in Philly even died from underground silicone butt injections last February. Dr. Constantino Mendieta is the biggest advocate for butt augmentation in the world. Unsurprisingly, his practice is in Miami and overrun with sexy nurses with surgically sculpted asses. Butt-hungry patients fly in from all over the globe to have his steady hand in their behind, and with good reason – he literally wrote the book on butts. It’s called The Art of Gluteal Sculpting. The original idea was to interview another talented surgeon, but when Constantino heard through the grapevine that VICE was writing about butt augmentation he called us up to set the record straight. Read the full interview here

ASSPLASTY: DR. MENDIETA’S PERFECT BOOTIES

When the news came out late last year that some retardedly desperate girls in Miami allowed a transsexual Frankenstein man with grotesquely gargantuan ass and titties to inject their butts with cement and Fix-A-Flat tire sealant in hopes of ballooning their asses to J. Lo proportions, we knew this whole bootylicious thing was starting to get out of control. Surprisingly, that case is just one of many instances last year where people hired quacks to augment their asses – a 20-year-old student in Philly even died from underground silicone butt injections last February.

Dr. Constantino Mendieta is the biggest advocate for butt augmentation in the world. Unsurprisingly, his practice is in Miami and overrun with sexy nurses with surgically sculpted asses. Butt-hungry patients fly in from all over the globe to have his steady hand in their behind, and with good reason – he literally wrote the book on butts. It’s called The Art of Gluteal Sculpting. The original idea was to interview another talented surgeon, but when Constantino heard through the grapevine that VICE was writing about butt augmentation he called us up to set the record straight.

Read the full interview here

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AN INTERVIEW WITH IAN HISLOP For those of you without taste or eyes, Private Eye is a fortnightly satirical newsprint magazine that contains more actual news than all the other newspapers made in Britain during the two weeks it takes to put an issue of Private Eye together. In fact, it is one of a very small number of news publications that remains worth a shit. Not only is it consistently hilarious, informative and subversive, it wields a mighty punch. Private Eye has acted like a sharpened pin to the whoopee cushion of incessant lies and deceit that has become the common currency of modern British politics. Its relentless and savage satire remains perhaps one of the truest checks on UK executive power. As if to prove that, today its editor Ian Hislop will give evidence at the Leveson inquiry, as the British press tries to figure out how best to regulate itself in the wake of the phone hacking scandal. It is no coincidence that, as the longest-serving editor of the magazine, Hislop is the most sued man in Britain and that the magazine keeps a “fighting fund” on hand to payroll the endless litigation they face. Back in October 2008, we met him in his offices in Soho and drank tea with him while staring at all the amazing stuff on the walls and trying to concentrate on asking the questions. (He has a piano in there on which they play Mozart while they’re coming up with jokes.) He is my hero. Read the full interview here

AN INTERVIEW WITH IAN HISLOP

For those of you without taste or eyes, Private Eye is a fortnightly satirical newsprint magazine that contains more actual news than all the other newspapers made in Britain during the two weeks it takes to put an issue of Private Eye together. In fact, it is one of a very small number of news publications that remains worth a shit.

Not only is it consistently hilarious, informative and subversive, it wields a mighty punch. Private Eye has acted like a sharpened pin to the whoopee cushion of incessant lies and deceit that has become the common currency of modern British politics. Its relentless and savage satire remains perhaps one of the truest checks on UK executive power. As if to prove that, today its editor Ian Hislop will give evidence at the Leveson inquiry, as the British press tries to figure out how best to regulate itself in the wake of the phone hacking scandal.

It is no coincidence that, as the longest-serving editor of the magazine, Hislop is the most sued man in Britain and that the magazine keeps a “fighting fund” on hand to payroll the endless litigation they face.

Back in October 2008, we met him in his offices in Soho and drank tea with him while staring at all the amazing stuff on the walls and trying to concentrate on asking the questions. (He has a piano in there on which they play Mozart while they’re coming up with jokes.) He is my hero.

Read the full interview here

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