I saw in yesterday's PW Daily that 50 Cent will be working with MTV Books to create his own imprint, G-Unit Books. While looking for more articles about this I stumbled across articles from Crain's New York Business (50 Cent and MTV Create Book Imprint) and The Book Standard (Rapper 50 Cent Set to Take on the Book Industry With a Digital Flava) that went into better detail. What interested me most is that both articles mentioned the growing popularity of street fiction (read this Salon article for more about the genre).

FYI - I'm calling dibs right now on referring to these books as Fiddy Lit. Everyone else can continue calling the genre street fiction, but Fiddy Lit is all mine.

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