Rapper 50 Cent revealed Tuesday that he turned down an offer from former President Donald Trump’s campaign to perform at a Madison Square Garden rally, which would have earned the rapper $3 million.
50 Cent, whose name is Curtis James Jackson III, was discussing the 2024 presidential election when he confirmed he received “a call” inviting him to speak at the New York rally. The Trump campaign also offered him $3 million to perform at the 2024 Republican National Convention, though he chose not to “go for it.”
“I’m afraid of politics, so you understand?” 50 Cent said on The Breakfast Club radio show. “I do not like … no gang-bang, no politics, you know, it’s because when you do get involved in it, no matter how you feel, someone passionately disagrees with you.”
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50 Cent also revealed that he avoids debating religion, as both religion and politics are “the formula for the confusion that sent Kanye to Japan,” referring to rapper Kanye West’s myriad of antisemitic statements he made in 2022. West later issued an apology on social media for “any unintended outburst” he created, with his apology written in Hebrew.
50 Cent’s statement that he is “afraid of politics” comes after he criticized President Joe Biden on social media, posting a photo in October 2023 of Biden vacationing on the beach and writing, “Get the f*** up, we in trouble man!” Earlier this year, the rapper was asked about the impact black voters will have on the 2024 election, to which he suggested he sees this voting bloc “identifying with Trump.”
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Polling data from earlier this month show that black men are not rallying in support of Vice President Kamala Harris in the same way they did for Biden in 2020, as Harris’s support from black men is 16% behind what Biden won. Former President Barack Obama, who is campaigning for the vice president, has lamented the smaller support Harris has received from black male voters, deeming it “not acceptable.”
Harris appeared on The Breakfast Club a week before the presidential election, during which she considered it “disappointing” that outlets such as the Los Angeles Times, the Washington Post, and USA Today are not endorsing her.
