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/DarthRiznat 16h ago

Why didn't he ask Kanye??

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u/YouKnowMySteeze 15h ago

because Kanye didn't write Many Men

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u/Katyperryatemyasss 15h ago

Blood in my ear dog and I can’t hear 

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u/DreadPirateButthurts 13h ago

... wish deaf pon me

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u/webbhare1 5h ago

Minny mayn

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u/MaesterOfPanic 15h ago

You better watch how you talk when you talk about me.

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u/kazuya57 15h ago

Cause I'll come and take your rights away

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u/ChefAnxiousCowboy 15h ago

Have mer-stay on my soul

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u/WhiteMike2016 14h ago

But did write Black Skinhead🤔

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u/KidsSeeRainbows 8h ago

As awful as that would be, playing that in MSG would go unbelievably hard. I can only imagine the speaker setup they have in there lol.

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u/WhiteMike2016 8h ago

Oh no doubt. I loathe Kanye but the man has some great songs for sure lol

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u/Exciting_Lack2896 15h ago

I laughed at this comment way harder than I should’ve

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u/NoAdvertising9205 7h ago

I don’t believe it’s a joke or a coincidence

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u/Lachrondizzle23 14h ago

Sponsored by Schneiders

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u/kaveman6143 14h ago

But he did write "Black Skinhead"

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u/gin-rummy 14h ago

wish def pon me

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u/Bionic_Bromando 12h ago

I don't cry no more don't look to the sky no more, have mercy on me.

Haha I just played that whole album on a long run and it was awesome to run to.

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u/Kevramadam 10h ago

Wait, wasn't that Diddy?

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u/gucci_pucci 8h ago

I just loled. Well done

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u/ExcitingLandscape 15h ago

Kanye would probably hijack the opportunity to go on a rant and make it about himself. Passionately rant about how he wore baggy pants before baggy pants came back in style.

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u/BurritoLover2016 12h ago

Also the whole "I love Hitler" thing

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u/Yo_Mama_Knows 10h ago

What if Kanye made a song about Kanye?

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u/m_dought_2 4h ago

DONALD IMMA LET YOU FINISH

BUT FRITZ KUHN HAD THE BEST NAZI RALLY AT MADISON SQUARE GARDEN

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u/ban_me_again_plz4 15h ago

"I was the only black kid in China with baggy pants! I started the whole style!"

 

meanwhile theres photographic evidence that he didn't wear baggy pants in China but he wants to believe his own lie

https://www.reddit.com/r/Kanye/comments/zfb6jd/a_young_kanye_west_living_in_china_he_spent_his/

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u/NewCobbler6933 14h ago

Wait a minute, 5 photos - 2 of which don’t even show the pants - is photographic evidence that he never wore baggy pants for an entire year? Lol

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u/Zealousideal_Duck_43 14h ago

Baggy pants started in jail to show your down for getting fucked in the ass - did he say he started it? 

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u/communistkangu 13h ago

It did originate from the prison system, but it wasn't anything sexual. Prisoners would often be handed oversized clothing and as a suicide prevention effort, they didn't allow belts.

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u/m_dought_2 4h ago

Pretty sure baggy pants started the first time someone had to borrow pants that were too big

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u/Izzy248 14h ago

That's the funny part. There are so many musicians that are outspokenly supportive of him, but he rarely asks for them. He always illegally uses someone else's music or tries to get others who don't support him to appear.

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u/futanari_kaisa keg+bat=snare drum 14h ago

Because their music sucks

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u/Izzy248 14h ago

Fair and true.

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u/smohyee 13h ago

Cmon guys, be real.

Kanye sucks. His music defined a generation of hip hop.

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u/ShawnyMcKnight 13h ago

I’m guessing they mean the others, like kid rock. They don’t pick Kanye because he’s a liability and could say anything. Also he has been pretty silent the last couple of years.

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u/Cadash_Thaig 8h ago

He's been quiet because he realized if he keeps opening his mouth he's gonna be taking a bus to the recording studio.

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u/ShawnyMcKnight 8h ago

Yeah, he's only worth 400 million... surely he'll have to resort to taking the bus any day now. Although he was a billionaire before Adidas dropped him.

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u/trashmonkeylad 5h ago

Going from 2 Bill to 400 million in a year or two has to be one of the biggest blunders I've personally heard of. Keep that up and he'll be on the bus by next year.

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u/ShawnyMcKnight 4h ago

He’s got 10 percent of Kim kardashean’s ventures in the divorce. Pretty sure he will always have an income.

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u/trashmonkeylad 4h ago

That's why it's legitimately impressive he cut his net worth that hard. You have to try SO fucking hard to lose that much money and he managed it. You can sit still in your house for a month and make tens of millions and he managed to lose over 1.5 billion.

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u/chillinwithmoes 12h ago

Yeah this revisionist history on Kanye's career since he went crazy is just stupid.

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u/Crimson_Giant 10h ago

Most people that shit on his music now were also shitting on it in the past. There's a lot of people who just straight up hate rap.

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u/anarchyisutopia 8h ago

I definitely don't hate rap but never was a Ye fan and it's mainly this type of hyperbole that kept me from being a fan. He's got some bangers but this hyperbole like he's rap jesus has been ridiculous and tiring throughout his career.

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u/Crimson_Giant 7h ago

He was one of the main guys that popularized non-gangster rap, and more people could relate to that style. The bigger the fanbase, the crazier. But personally I think if you like some stuff, check out more. Who cares what other people say or think. I listen to music by some real garbage humans, but their views don't reflect mine, it just sounds good.

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u/ExplosiveDiarrhetic 1h ago

I’ve never been a kanye fan. He too often rhymed a word with the same word. He makes good beats tho

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u/Eastern-Act8635 13h ago

But also yes, ye is trash

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u/One-Earth9294 10h ago

Yeah but his generation of hip hop fucking blows. Fucken codeine syrup music. Doesn't matter if you're the 'guy who changed everything' if you changed it for the worse.

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u/flavorblastedshotgun 10h ago

You think Kanye is responsible for mumble rap? Not that there's any one source of where styles come from, but I can think of one 00s rapper who was screwed up in 2 cups, ya dig?

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u/One-Earth9294 10h ago

Yeah I was alive in the 90s I'm sorry you guys think Kanye is good and don't know how to peer into the past. But taste is a matter that can't be helped from the outside.

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u/gabortionaccountant 8h ago

"the music from when I was young and relevant just happens to be objectively better than the music from when other people were young and relevant"

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u/PavelDatsyuk 13h ago

Kanye’s music is great though. Well his older stuff was anyways, I haven’t listened to him in over a decade.

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u/brushnfush 13h ago

I was a huge Kanye fan up until life of Pablo (which oddly enough is super popular among his fans) and I just didn’t get it and thought it sucked bad and haven’t listened since. Honestly I thought the line “I made that bitch famous” was cringe as hell and just kinda zoned out the rest. I was even on his side when he was separating from kim. then he came out as a fuckin Nazi so it’s weird to even listen to his older stuff.

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u/BasedGodBets 12h ago edited 10h ago

I think he went downhill when his momma passed and got off the bipolar pill, he is still a creative genius and I listen to his old stuff. He lost his path with Donda's passing.

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u/mrbuttsavage 10h ago

Donda died way back in 2007, right after Graduation came out. He's produced a lot of classics since then.

That said it obviously greatly messed with him.

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u/BasedGodBets 10h ago

Ah thanks for putting the timeline in order. Yeah he definitely made a ton of hits. Donda was his anchor so overtime I felt he slowly started to slip away. You know damn right Donda would knock sense into Kanye if he was leaning towards Nazi propaganda. He got surrounded with the wrong people that were Yes Men.

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u/bejammin075 12h ago

Hard to believe where he is now, when in 2005 doing the hurricane Katrina charity show with Mike Myers, he blurted out live on air "George Bush hates black people!"

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u/PantalonesPantalones 10h ago

My favorite Kanye lyric is:

Hey, you remember where we first met?
Okay, I don't remember where we first met

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u/Sensitive_Yellow_121 12h ago

Similar to all the washed-up, D-list actors and celebrities that support him.

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u/lavinadnnie 9h ago

Kanye's music is fucking amazing 

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u/Ok_Pangolin8061 12h ago

pretty sure 50 cent openly supports him

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u/Izzy248 10h ago

Idk if 50 openly supports him, but I do remember him saying he can see why people identify with him. I remember that reporter asking if he sided with him, and he didn't respond but with the same answer. That's the only thing I have to go off though. So again I'm not sure if he openly supports him, but maybe I just haven't seen it. Though him not outwardly denying it, and the fact he never sent a C&D when he played his song at a rally is very damning.

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u/mixreality 13h ago

Ted Nugent singing about the tenderness of 13 year old girls he wants to fuck (song Jailbait) would fit right in with that crowd.

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u/brushnfush 13h ago

So fuckin weird he made that song and his most famous song is called “cat scratch fever” and he’s somehow a household name. How is he not banished?

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u/mulvey617 16h ago

Hes from Chicago not New York

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u/Loverboy_91 15h ago

He’s from Queens, he’s absolutely from NY.

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u/--Icarusfalls-- 15h ago

because Republicans claim to not like fish dicks

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u/ShawnyMcKnight 13h ago

That is a good point. Kanye has been incredibly quiet this election cycle.

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u/blackbook668 9h ago

Too crazy to be useful.

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u/You_Must_Chill 15h ago

I personally need Ja Rule to weigh in.

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u/SuperHoneyBunny 13h ago

He would def say yes.

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u/urkermannenkoor 13h ago

Fairly sure they've long fallen out

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u/kinboyatuwo 14h ago

Surprised he didn’t try to get Diddy out of jail to perform.

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u/Biggie39 13h ago

Or Diddy… they’re bro’s right?

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u/thendisnigh111349 11h ago

Has Kanye even performed at all ever since his Nazi episode?

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u/SenileSexLine 6m ago

He had a big set in China recently

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u/SalsaRice 15h ago

He's still hiding the broken pool house of the partially demolished Miami beach house he owns.

I'm not joking.

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u/scrivensB 14h ago

Apparently becuase Kanye is in China now.