50 Pence

This article is about the rapper. There is also an article about the British 50p coin.

50 Pence is the nom de plume of Liam Don (born January 14, 1986 in Germany) is an artist spoofing Queens New York's hip hop star 50 Cent, based in Watford, England. He is known for parodying 50 Cent's singles by replacing the songs' various subjects with his rhymes about British pub culture, such as "P.I.N.T." (off 50 Cent's P.I.M.P.), and "In Da Pub" (a riff on "In Da Club"). His album title also spoofs 50's, with Get Rich or Claim Benefit as his categorization of English "ghetto" life. Mimicking 50 Cent being shot nine times, 50 Pence claims to limp from an accident on the stairs. He drives a Vauxhall Nova rather than a Benz, and his "girlfriend's mum" gave him the cash to buy all his "fancy stuff".

Another 50 Pence release is "I See Biddies", which is a spoof of Studio B's "I See Girls".

The man behind 50 Pence, Liam Don, is a UK hip hop producer. The 50 Pence songs were at one time available for download on Don's own site, but, as of 2004, are no longer available.

He is known to sound incredibly similar to Mike Skinner of The Streets.

Don is currently a member of the Durham based two-piece The Infamous Room 45 alongside former room mate and guitarist Mike Coxon.

External links

[50 Pence at Geofftech] - Scroll down for 50 Pence MP3s.
[Myspace for Liam's new band]

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