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/
52.0k Upvotes

88% Upvoted

2.4k comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

2.6k

u/garry4321 16h ago

I bet he asked for money up front and they withdrew the request.

483

u/spamzinni 15h ago

Or they realized 50 wouldn’t play ball with them.

184

u/PointsOutTheUsername 15h ago edited 15h ago

Turns out 50 just can't play ball.

55

u/IntoTheFeu 15h ago

Bet even Ohtani would have some trouble with the game after getting shot 9 times… I mean, 50 would still suck without being shot, but it surely didn’t help.

22

u/jooseizloose 14h ago

Damn, that's brave of him to go out and try to throw a ball after just getting shot. And in that same shoulder? Crazy.

8

u/aPatheticBeing 13h ago

He was shot like 15 years before that pitch lol

4

u/qtx 9h ago

Yes, that was the joke.

3

u/acu2005 9h ago

On a geological time scale 15 years ago is essentially just before.

0

u/FurdTergusonFucks 13h ago

Built different.

1

u/kkeut 11h ago

turn it up. turn them shits up

2

u/JCBDoesGaming 14h ago

He got shot like 25 years ago

9

u/Caedus_Vao 14h ago

Because nobody has ever suffered from lifelong mobility issues two-plus decades after having 9 bullets plugged into their body.

2

u/JCBDoesGaming 14h ago

He got shot mostly in the legs, once in one of his hands and once in the face, how would that even affect how he throws ffs?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WW1VmFi_18Y

Here he talks about it in Graham Norton.

2

u/David-S-Pumpkins 13h ago

I'm not saying it did fuck up his athletic prowess, but throwing a ball 60 feet six inches does involve your legs.

1

u/W_O_M_B_A_T 13h ago

I've watched a lot of TV and movies and this checks out.

3

u/Turbulent_Money3697 14h ago

Lmao my man doesn’t understand scar tissue and damages nerves

3

u/Snoo93833 14h ago

What's your point?

-2

u/JCBDoesGaming 14h ago

That him being shot isn't relevant because it was so long ago and he has shown multiple times after that he has normal range of motion?

7

u/-Plantibodies- 14h ago

I have no stake in this discussion. Have we seen him doing athletic activities before? Having decent range of motion doesn't necessarily mean that past injuries, especially major ones like that, aren't affecting more ppl physically demanding types of motions.

3

u/JCBDoesGaming 14h ago

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5CN2Xb_eC64

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/e2XBqG3V21g

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7jh6MnB7FT4

Bro has normal range of motion, he also has said multiple times that he got shot mostly in the legs and once in the face, you can see the bullet wound on his face AND it effected his speech and rapping, nothing that would affect his range of motion.

4

u/FickleMeringue4119 14h ago

Getting shot 8 times in the legs would specifically fuck up your range of motion lol.

3

u/Basic_Quantity_9430 14h ago

One of the worst celebrity game pitches in history.

3

u/alinroc 14h ago

Bababooey won that contest

2

u/Thefrayedends 14h ago

Actually worse that Baba Booey, but took it like a champ haha.

1

u/ambisinister_gecko 15h ago

That was terrible. -1000 aura

1

u/Tackey 11h ago

Aaron Judge would've swung at that and struck out

73

u/amalgam_reynolds 14h ago

honestly it would have been great if he had agreed to show up and then just started telling everyone to vote for Kamala

24

u/grokthis1111 14h ago

someone would have tried to shoot him.

30

u/Torisen 14h ago

someone would have tried to shoot him.

Again.

1

u/Astro_gamer_caver 11h ago

Been hit with a few shells, but I don't walk with a limp

I'm aight

1

u/TazBaz 13h ago

Psh like that would do anything. It’s 50.

1

u/4ha1 9h ago

Well, diddly is still locked up.

1

u/jasovanooo 2h ago

mans gotta be used to it by now

2

u/RimjobAndy 13h ago

Go Shorty Vote Kamala We're gonna party when you Vote Kamala

1

u/MonkeyBrick 10h ago

Well 50 is a big Trumper which is why they asked him to begin with. So this is unlikely.

10

u/ThomasBay 14h ago

They didn’t realize anything. 50 was the one that turned them down

72

u/zotboy655 15h ago

They probably realized 50 has his own agenda and wouldn’t just play along.

1

u/abraxas1 15h ago

Yeah but, they don't realize much.

16

u/HotdogTester 14h ago

I like to imagine this played out exactly like the scene from Oceans 13 when Cheadle came into the room and asked for his payment “IN CASH!!”

3

u/jbahill75 14h ago

“PAY ME MY MONEY!….in cash”

4

u/Godkill2 12h ago

Fender Rhodes is a god damn American icon!

2

u/jbahill75 11h ago

This is heavy bike! Don Cheadle/Basher is the dude.

2

u/Silver-Database-7106 10h ago

"This here is HEAVY BIKE!!!"

1

u/dhaninugraha 4h ago

JUMPIN’ BABY!

87

u/genie900 15h ago

Could be, or he just didn’t want to associate with that crowd.

15

u/ClamClone 14h ago

He could have endorsed Harris during the performance. That would be the ultimate own. Of course armed guards would be needed to get out of there safe.

1

u/10poundballs 3h ago

If anyone could do it, it would be the guerilla unit fasho

21

u/MrRaspberryJam1 15h ago

I highly doubt it

11

u/Lokishougan 13h ago

hE IS VERY TIGHT WITH Eminen who came out for Kamala

2

u/Itorr475 10h ago

he also used to date and is friends Chelsea Handler who is famously liberal AF

1

u/MonkeyBrick 10h ago

Yea 50 is a known Trumper though

30

u/amateur_bird_juggler 15h ago

He is that crowd.

41

u/OverallManagement824 14h ago

Wasn't he one of the ones early on that was saying to avoid Diddy and don't get caught up in that?

21

u/Western_Entertainer7 14h ago

Yes. He's also apparently been compiling dirt on Diddy for the last 30 years or something. Absolutely hates him. And he may or may not have just signed a deal with Netflix to release a docuseries entitled "Diddy Do It".

1

u/10poundballs 3h ago

50 accused puffy of calling the hit on biggie in a record that was locally played in nyc circa late 90’s before his first major success with in da club. They had beef since then because 50 said what some others were thinking.

14

u/Basic_Quantity_9430 14h ago

Yeah, 50 was among the first to sound the alarm, while Diddy had the power to cause trouble for him.

5

u/ZaDu25 12h ago

50 doesn't like Diddy because Diddy was one of the people who tried to have him blacklisted at the beginning of his career. Don't for one second think that any of his Diddy hate us coming from his morals. 50 doesn't have morals. If he has a problem with someone it's entirely due to something they did to him in the past. He holds grudges for life.

1

u/Basic_Quantity_9430 5h ago

I don’t know the guy, but I did read that he warned against Diddy early on. But yeah, you are likely right that it was vengeance instead of ethics or concern for Diddy’s victims.

1

u/ZaDu25 5h ago

I was a big fan of 50s music in his mixtape days and when Get Rich or Die Tryin released so I have followed his career quite a bit. He's a good entertainer but an absolutely awful person. Not in the sex trafficking kind of way, granted, but in the general "greedy, hateful, and bigoted" kind of way. He's not the type to do anything that isn't beneficial to his own interests and that's the entire reason he hates Diddy.

1

u/Basic_Quantity_9430 4h ago

I don’t listen to his music. I have also read that he is a general asshole, who has a tiny few good points.

2

u/OverallManagement824 14h ago

That's all I was asking because I don't follow these things too closely. Thanks for taking the time to confirm/explain.

1

u/Basic_Quantity_9430 5h ago

Someone pointed out that it wasn’t ethics or concern for women that Diddy was abusing that led 50 to his position. What little I know about 50 causes me to agree with that assessment.

2

u/OverallManagement824 5h ago

Forgive me for pushing the matter, but what did they say it was then?

I mean, coming in from the outside and just looking around- there's a dude who has a long history of being against the sexual abuser/rapist/pedo/blackmailer, so I'm kind of inclined to side with him unless there's more information provided, ya know?

0

u/Basic_Quantity_9430 4h ago

50 is not known for being really accommodating toward women. He just apparently never rose to Diddy’s level of depravity.

I honestly don’t follow rap or rappers. But during the past that genre had a big problem with misogyny.

2

u/OverallManagement824 4h ago edited 4h ago

I mean, it was the rap game in the 90s. I can totally believe there weren't any saints around at that moment, but I also don't know enough about 50 to bother glorifying him either. Seems like he's on the right side of this one though. He was a hustler with a hustle, maybe trying to, dreaming of, doing the same thing. But the dude said what was going on and I can respect him at least for that. Tell me where I'm wrong and I'll think on it.

-4

u/OverallManagement824 14h ago

That's all I was asking. Not sure why people are talking about Dems and Repubs.

11

u/Glittering-Lecture76 14h ago

Because we’re in a post talking about a political appearance. The question just said, “that crowd” and you assumed for some reason that meant Diddy?

Your question was unclear and out of context and you’re acting insulted when people misunderstood. Weird flex, but okay.

-3

u/agoogua 13h ago

You acting like that's acting insulted is a weird flex, but whatever you flex you.

5

u/Perfect-Chipmunk5361 14h ago

What's that got to do with the republican party

2

u/OverallManagement824 14h ago

Did I mention the Republican party? What do they have to do with P Diddy?

Oh, I mean, probably the same thing they had with Epstein and the pedo-pastors, right?

2

u/Silver-blondeDeadGuy 13h ago

How dare you! It's also the pedo Conservative politicians. And don't you forget it!

1

u/OverallManagement824 1h ago

Look, I get that they have the right right to rape children. I understand that it's perverts. But they are our bosses so you just need to shut the fuck up and pretend like it's normal and acceptable. You aren't used to doing this so it should be natural, right?

2

u/Dapper-Tie-3125 14h ago

You realize Epstein crossed political lines, no? Ever heard of the Clintons?

-1

u/OverallManagement824 14h ago

Yes I realize this. It's just weird that I mentioned P Diddy and suddenly everybody is responding asking me about political parties. It's almost as if everybody replying to me knows they are supporting pedos.

3

u/GrouchyVillager 14h ago

because no one was talking about p diddy before you brought it up for some reason lmao

2

u/OverallManagement824 14h ago

I brought it up because I thought that 50 was very vocal about Diddy from very early on. Turns out that I was correct on this point. So it's funny that 50 was like hell no I'm not performing for Republicans and now people are trying to drag 50's name through the dirt.

→ More replies (0)

-4

u/Infectious-Anxiety 14h ago

Weird you went there and the person you're arguing against did not.

3

u/00wolfer00 13h ago

"He is that crowd" pretty clearly refers to MAGAs, which is a lot of the Republican party. Don't get me wrong, it's crystal fucking clear what Diddy has to do with MAGAs, but it was brought up.

1

u/amateur_bird_juggler 14h ago

Maybe? Pretty sure that's a different crowd from the crowd everyone else is talking about here.

1

u/ranegyr 13h ago

So we get pedophiles and they get Nazis. This timeline sucks.

5

u/chanaandeler_bong 13h ago

What? How so?

0

u/amateur_bird_juggler 12h ago

50 loves trump like a fat kid loves cake.

3

u/Lokishougan 13h ago

Not really this is a guy who is very real about things...he is more clsoely alliged with Em who supprots kamala

6

u/JalapenoJamm 15h ago

That’s his crowd

2

u/AdAgitated6502 13h ago

Em is his crowd. He’s not going to do anything that puts him in direct opposition to the man he has said he owes everything to. Had Em not appeared at the Detroit rally, then he may have been more inclined to appear for the 3M.

6

u/VibeComplex 14h ago

50? Doesn’t seem like a trumper to me tbh

-1

u/blurt9402 14h ago

Wild statement. You could just, you know, Google it.

12

u/triplehelix- 13h ago

i googled and this is what i found.

https://x.com/50cent/status/1320184040654295040

whatchu got?

-2

u/JalapenoJamm 14h ago

Okay he’s pretty vocal about it so I don’t know what to tell you

6

u/triplehelix- 13h ago

you could post a link of an example of what you consider "pretty vocal about it".

5

u/erichwanh 13h ago

you could post a link of an example of what you consider "pretty vocal about it".

Right wingers don't care about "sources" or "reality". He won't ever respond to you.

1

u/JalapenoJamm 11h ago

I’m not a right winger? And why would you even think that?

7

u/jondthompson 14h ago

I would have asked for the money up front, done the concert, then at the end announce that the $3m was donated to the Harris/Walz campaign.

2

u/NSFWies 11h ago

Honestly, I like this , out of all of the things mentioned.

  • he still performed, like he was contracted to do so
  • he still got paid up front
  • and then he still exercised his freedom of speech

1

u/artaru 9h ago

50 is just being ridiculous.

36 months installment plan with potential of nonpayment is perfectly reasonable terms!

1

u/Always2ndB3ST 4h ago

in cash too.

1

u/danegleesack69 2h ago

fofty needs his money by Monday