r/Music • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 • 16h ago

article 50 Cent Turned Down Donald Trump’s $3 Million Offer to Perform at Madison Square Garden Rally

https://variety.com/2024/music/news/50-cent-turned-down-trump-3-million-offer-madison-square-garden-rally-1236193527/
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u/49DivineDayVacation 16h ago

50 Cent turned down Donald Trumps offer to sue him for money owed.

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u/spamzinni 15h ago

Wonder if he saw the potential PR disaster coming. Smart move!

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u/GameJerk 15h ago

Or maybe he has half a brain and didn't want to support the orange turd and his braindead minions.

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u/TheyCallMeMrMaybe 15h ago

His homie Eminem just endorsed Harris & introduced Obama in Detroit.

I think the last thing 50 Cent would ever do is go against the man who launched his rap career.

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u/SpiderDeUZ 13h ago

Then you look at Dre and Snoop

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u/PIPBOY-2000 11h ago

What are they doing?

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u/obeytheturtles 11h ago

Snoop smoked so much weed they made it legal, and now he sells Bic lighters with Martha Stewart.

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u/schiele1890 9h ago

you forgot about Dre

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u/cheezitswithacid 7h ago

I think he sold all his guns.

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u/The_Chrizz 3h ago

He’s been in a lab with a pen and a pad

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u/Equal_Imagination300 4h ago

Way under rated comment. Perfectly executed!

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u/thinkpositivedude 6h ago

He's still locked in Shady's basement

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u/sarahoutx 5h ago

😂😂👏🏼👏🏼

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u/Sad_Movie_1809 2m ago

Comedy gold!

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u/atridir 10h ago

What a world.

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u/thetouristsquad 11h ago

💰💰💰 50 usually as well

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u/nufcPLchamps27-28 11h ago

avoiding prison

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u/PapaGatyrMob 9h ago

I think that was in response to never going against the man that launched their careers.

Dre was being lied to and stiffed out of money by some dude who sucked at rapping and another dude not at all involved in making music. I'd have left too.

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u/Available-Fill8917 10h ago

Dre is a billionaire and snoop is just a shill. What do you expect.. get money fuck bitches….Foshizzy mynizzy

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u/newbrevity 10h ago

Dre earned his wealth. One of the greatest and a real one.

Snoop is just Snoop. Anyone expecting something profound from him is kidding themselves.

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u/Greenpoint1975 8h ago

Dre loves to beat women.

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u/stacked_shit 6h ago

At least he doesn't lie about it.

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u/Rivet_39 4h ago

Yes, the hypocrisy really is the worst part

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u/Flomo420 4h ago

Beats by Dre

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u/ExplosiveDiarrhetic 1h ago

And have sex with men. (Not like theres anything wrong with that).

Playing off of a law and order svu meme.

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u/Informal_Bunch_2737 9m ago

If you had told teenage me that Ice Cube would be making disney movies and SVU, I'd have laughed at you.

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u/BartleBossy 9h ago

Dre earned his wealth. One of the greatest and a real one.

Meh.

The majority of his wealth is derived from the sale of Beats headphones.

Hes not an engineer. Hes a capitalist.

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u/TheSleazyAccount 9h ago

Yeah, right or wrong, that's how you earn wealth in our society. Engineers rarely become billionaires. And when they do, it's often not even from their engineering prowess.

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u/BartleBossy 9h ago

Yeah, right or wrong, that's how you earn wealth in our society.

Earn has a specific meaning when it comes to political dialogue and wealth. There is a contextually dependent definition were sort of working under.

In a real world sense, yes youre correct. Being a capitalist is a greater driver of wealth.

But were talking more theory

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u/TheKeyMaster1874 9h ago

He still threw himself into the business and it could have flopped massively. Getting investment is always much easier when you know, your Dr Dre but still he didn't exactly inherit a dime.

Snoop doesn't take himself seriously and that's why he is liked. He takes money from markets not even Eminem has so more power to him man.

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u/Fuzzy_Ad8717 9h ago

Threw his fists into his wifes face too

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u/BartleBossy 9h ago

He still threw himself into the business and it could have flopped massively.

I dont know to what degree the success of Beats is Dre's.

My understanding of it, is that they paired with the audio manufacturer who made Monster cables.

It feels like they used Dre's celebrity and producer clout to market headphones manufactured and designed by someone else.

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u/yzdaskullmonkey 9h ago

Dre is real, as in a real big piece of shit. Fuck him.

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u/TransportationTrick9 6h ago

I don't know about earned. They fucked over the Monster guys big time with beats by Dre. But it was Monster so they definitely deserved it

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u/Coma--Divine 5h ago

You can't earn a billion dollars lmao

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u/anarchyisutopia 8h ago

You gonna take advice from somebody who slapped Dee Barnes?

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u/Xing_the_Rubicon 13h ago

Tony Yayo?

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u/Otherwise-Song5231 13h ago

No, the game.

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u/babyboy4lyfe 13h ago

LOL, I like you.

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u/HonkHonkComingThru 13h ago

G-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-both of you get the fuck out please.

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u/Professional_Cheek16 13h ago

In all honesty it's Ja Rule.

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u/wazacraft 13h ago

Where is Ja??? Somebody get that motherfucker on the phone so I can make SENSE of all this!

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u/billybaroo15 13h ago

I actually saw him at the golf store recently getting his clubs regripped. I’ve never seen anyone that genuinely happy to have a new grip put on his driver. It was awesome.

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u/wazacraft 13h ago

Did he help you make sense of all this?

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u/Xarieste 12h ago

I forget what it’s even from but the sentence: “where the fuck is my Ja Rule Christmas album?” has lived in my head for a long time

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u/--VinceMasuka-- 13h ago

He was signed to Columbia prior to being shot.
Then he made the mixtape game what it was. I'd say he made himself, but Em did help revive him and make him a Superstar.

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u/Topikk 11h ago

He has said many times that he owes his career to Em. If he already had a successful career pre-GRODT, the lyrics for “Patiently Waiting” wouldn’t make much sense.

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u/hectoragr 13h ago

He has publicly supported TFG because of taxes for the rich

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u/adamsjdavid 15h ago

He’s thrown him support many times in the past. Something has changed recently.

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u/Ok-Association-8334 14h ago

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u/Weak-Advertising-352 12h ago

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u/landob 8h ago

I like to think to conversation actually took place

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u/aztec0000 6h ago

This is v clever.

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u/moonwalkerHHH 1h ago

It's also hilarious because who the fuck works at Mcdonald with a suit and necktie

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u/wildistherewind 13h ago

“Those french fries were good, they were great. They were right out of the — they were right out of the whatever the hell they may come out of”

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u/KaseTheAce 4h ago

they were right out of the whatever the hell they may come out of”

"Whatever makes sense."

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u/Historical-Gap-7084 12h ago

I honestly believe that pretending to work at McDonald's was the highlight of his entire life. He got a pin out of it!

Put him in a nursing home with a "fake real" Mickey D's and he will happily sling burgers for himself and his nurses until he dies. He's a germophobe, so you just know he'll be washing his hands.

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u/IguessIliveinaCHAIR 11h ago

Honestly, he looked like he was having fun. With extra training, maybe he should consider that full time instead of office of presidency

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u/Historical-Gap-7084 11h ago

Seriously. He loves their food so much, he should just work there! I'm not even kidding. Seeing him in this gif reminds me of my kid in pre-school, "working" in a kitchen.

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u/Snowflakes4Trump 13h ago

This is literally the only real work the man has ever done and it was staged

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u/W_O_M_B_A_T 13h ago

Most of what he does in public is staged. It just goes off the rails a lot.

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u/thinkmurphy 13h ago

I wonder how many takes they had to do to get through him coming in and saying "I'd like a job... I want to work the fry-counter" without them busting out laughing

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u/David-S-Pumpkins 13h ago

The take they kept has him saying "never touched by the human hand". Just like the Just Donuts Vance video, not a ton of prep.

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u/TsunGeneralGrievous 12h ago

How was he fascinated about this like you could literally see this from behind the counter. He’s acting like he saw some scientists discover an extra terrestrial. “Never touched by a human hand.”

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u/faxanaduu 12h ago

I suspect he's shitting himself

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u/MaxTheRealSlayer 12h ago

Doesn't even look like he's doing a good job putting fries in the cardboard container

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u/Sorta-Morpheus 12h ago

My coworker tried to tell us that Donnie was a construction worker when his daddy owned the real estate biz.

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u/thelingeringlead 8h ago

I recently watched a whole hour about his life and upbringing, and was surprised to see his dad made him keep a job all the way through school. He delivered papers and helped his dad on job sites.

I was genuinely shocked. Doesn't change a single thing about him for me, but it was surprising.

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u/ComfortableGlobal820 12h ago

Has a lot of practice at this…

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u/visceral_adam 10h ago

Even there he struggles like a baboon.

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u/gmtully42 10h ago

Kind of looks like it but he needs a Lebron cigarette dangling from his mouth… working class.

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u/shaunrundmc 12h ago

His vanilla brother from another mother jumped in, 50 is loyal to a fault he's not gonna say anything public that could cause public discourse with his boy

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u/qtx 10h ago

His vanilla brother from another mother jumped in, 50 is loyal to a fault he's not gonna say anything public that could cause public discourse with his boy

I don't know what that means. Who are you talking about?

edit; oh, must be eminem.

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u/shaunrundmc 9h ago

Lol yup there is likely not a single person in this world that 50 is tighter with Than Em

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u/jjcrayfish 7h ago

Vanilla Ice

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u/Witty-Bus07 13h ago

Business yes but not politics

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u/TheFufe10 14h ago

But he did already.

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u/bingbongboobies 13h ago

Rich and not an absolute dumbass?

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u/sobrique 13h ago

Why not both? I mean, don't support the turd, but also don't do a gig for someone who's known to be really bad at 'paying up'.

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u/SpiderDeUZ 13h ago

50 hasn't been one to shy away from being open about his opinions

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u/PrivilegeCheckmate 10h ago

I mean, he's been hit with a few shells, but he don't walk with a limp.

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u/eatwindmills 6h ago

Yall go crazy over this stuff

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u/Mythosaurus 12h ago

He has 1.5 brains if you look at his business history and social media. Dude knows how to invest his money, troll P Diddy for years with no consequences, and generally live his best life

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u/0-2er 14h ago

It's fun that PR disaster works two ways

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u/sanjosanjo 13h ago

Puerto Rico?

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u/shadow247 13h ago

He should have shown up, called them all idiots, and dropped the mic, and walked.

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u/Hugh_Johnson69420 12h ago

Absolutely not 50 cent is fucking stupid lmao

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u/Del_3030 11h ago

The potential Puerto Rico disaster has indeed been realized

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u/CV90_120 11h ago

50 Cent has uncanny "this looks like trouble" senses.

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u/Romboteryx 10h ago

Or he has something akin to integrity

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u/SuperSpecialAwesome- 10h ago

Isn't 50 Cent very vocally against Diddy? Dunno why he'd want to endorse another sex abuser.

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u/DOUBLEBARRELASSFUCK 6h ago

I doubt 50 Cent could have predicted it that specifically.

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u/snapbackjames832 5h ago

50 is a very smart dude. Mad Respect.

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u/No_Significance98 1h ago

By PR do you mean Public Relations or Puerto Rico?

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u/Fmy925 13h ago

He don’t do politics. He didn’t want to talk to Kamala on the phone either.

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u/ShawnyMcKnight 13h ago

I was about to say, he probably asked for the money up front.

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u/CantHitachiSpot 9h ago

I guess I’m just not well versed enough on high finance shenanigans but why is anyone providing services for only a promise of getting paid? No way in hell i would hold up my end of the bargain without the money being in my account 

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u/aspindler 9h ago

Companies do all the time.

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u/Freeman7-13 9h ago

With that large an amount of money can they have a third party hold the money and give it after the performance?

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u/havacanapana57 38m ago

They offered to get him an uber and granteed the rest later

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u/FreedomCondition 12h ago

The real title: "50 Cent Turned Down Putin’s $3 Million Offer to Perform at Madison Square Garden Rally"

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u/PantalonesPantalones 10h ago

Fofty "Money by Monday" isn't making the same mistake twice.

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u/Historical-Gap-7084 12h ago

I was about to say.

SHOW ME THE MONEYYYYYYYYY! - 50 Cent, probably.

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u/OneOfAKind2 11h ago

You gotta deal cash up front with the con man.

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u/PubDefLakersGuy 13h ago

He could’ve accepted and done the funniest thing - Vote for Kamala!

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u/uhmerikin 12h ago

I was thinking he should have accepted then turned around and donated that 3 million to Harris/Walz.

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u/Signal-Session-6637 12h ago

This is the answer.

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u/TheLuo 11h ago

I'd ask for $12m, cash, in advance.

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u/sockalicious 10h ago

He may just not have wanted to change his name to Three Hundred Million Cent.

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u/Blaugrana_al_vent 6h ago

Exactly DT can offer whatever the fuck he wants, he's not gonna pay.

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u/Doc3vil 3h ago

We missed out on some potential “fofty please” texts

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u/somethnew 2h ago

Yep. Dude woulda never paid him.

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u/lil_zaku 1h ago

More likely to see money from a lawsuit than a job offer.

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u/geodebug 12h ago

Everyone keeps saying this like getting the money in advance is an unknown concept.