Ex-Korn guitarist Brian “Head” Welch wants to save souls, and he’s starting with 50 Cent.
Welch, who quit the band last month for religion, told MTV News in an e-mail that he has written a song that is “a personal letter to 50 from God.”
“The Big Guy speaks through me a lot when I write, and I have a song for 50 Cent I wrote in the Holy Land. … I’m going to give it to him personally and see what his reaction is,” Welch wrote. “If it’s a positive reaction and he’s willing to talk to me, then I’m not gonna release it, but if the reaction is not positive, I’m going to share it with the world.”
50 Cent’s spokesman at Interscope Records had no comment on the song, MTV said.
Welch said he isn’t afraid of Fitty’s reaction and he feels protected because he’s simply an emissary between God and the rapper.
“It’s not a mean song … ,” he wrote. “There is really no way for him to come back at me through music because it’s not from me … it’s from the Big Guy. Even 50 respects the Big Guy.”
BATTLE ROYALE?: 50 Cent may not want to musically spar with God, but he could with some fellow rappers. All he has to do is say yes to Monday Night Fight Klub, the New York-based group that sponsors lyrical battles.
Fitty, who recently squashed his beef with The Game, has been invited to the Battle of Four, according to a news release from the Klub. The group is trying to get Fitty, The Game, Fat Joe and Jadakiss to have a lyrical battle to “end the apparent feud and provide listeners with a hair-raising experience of unedited, live and pulsating performance,” the release said.
The winner’s take will be $1 million, according to the release.
OFF THE HOOK: “Alexander” actress Rosario Dawson won’t be spending any more time in court for charges brought against her at last year’s Republican National Convention.
A New York judge on Tuesday dismissed charges of disorderly conduct against Dawson, director Stephen Marshall and Viaja Grosgalves after their arrest at Madison Square Garden.
The trio had been filming “This Revolution” when they were arrested Aug. 29 because they allegedly refused to move when police asked them.
“I’m happy how all this went down,” Dawson said as she left court Tuesday.
Electric charge: Maybe ex-“Baywatch” star Alexandra Paul will be as lucky as Dawson. Paul and Colette Divine were arrested Monday in California and booked on suspicion of failing to obey an officer when they blocked the path of trucks hauling electric cars to Arizona to be destroyed.
The pair were with dozens of other supporters of electric cars holding an around-the-clock vigil outside a General Motors training center in Burbank, where more than 70 electric cars had been stored before being shipped off to be recycled.
GM, which said the EV1 cars were not popular enough to turn a profit, has declined the group’s offer to pay $1.9 million for the vehicles.
Rockin’ good time
When VH1 broadcasts Monday night’s Rock and Roll Hall of Fame ceremonies Saturday, the network will have to do some careful editing.
Ice-T, who used a long string of expletives to introduce inductee and Sire Records founder Seymore Stein, probably won’t make the cut.
Neither will Chrissie Hynde, lead singer of The Pretenders, who also were inducted into the hall. While Pretenders’ drummer Martin Chambers was setting up onstage, she told a dirty joke about a guy, his wife and a duck, mtv.com reports.
Bono, who with his band U2 was inducted into the hall, got it right: “This is a bit of an Irish wedding–beautiful girls and beautiful frocks and fights in the bathroom,” Reuters reported.
Bets are off
For those online bettors who were the last to arrive at sportsbook.com to bet on “The Amazing Race” outcome, you know the drill: Last one there gets kicked off.
The offshore bookie suspended betting on the CBS reality show, citing unusual betting patterns on one team over a 12-hour period.
(Spoiler alert: Don’t read on if you don’t want to know the possible winners.)
Sportsbook.com stopped wagering when “thousands and thousands and thousands of dollars” were bet from new accounts on Uchenna and Joyce Agu, the married couple from Houston who want to win the $1 million prize so they can get in-vitro fertilization, the site’s marketing director Alex Czajkowski said. He said the average bet is $60.
Debbie and Bianca were kicked off Tuesday after coming in last.
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Compiled from news services and edited by Curt Wagner (cwwagner@tribune.com) and Michael Morgan (mnmorgan@tribune.com)
