Legendary rapper 50 Cent has explained why he declined a $3 million offer to perform at Donald Trump’s recent rally at Madison Square Garden.
Appearing on the Breakfast Club show on Tuesday, Oct. 29, the Candy Shop crooner confirmed that he was paid to endorse the Republican candidate but was not prepared to do anybody’s bidding.
He made the disclosure when the show host, DJ Envy, asked if it was true that the Donald Trump camp tried to get an endorsement for him. Though the cash was attractive, 50 Cent said he did not want to meddle in politics.
“Yeah, they offered me $3 million!…I didn’t even go far. I’m afraid of politics, you understand? I do not like it…It’s because when you do get involved in it, no matter how you feel, somebody passionately disagrees with you,” he told the host.
The G-Unit boss reportedly supported Donald Trump in the 2020 election but later retracted his endorsement.
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In September, he spoke about “a wild experience,” wearing a bulletproof vest while meeting Eminem for the first time in 2000.
He recalled being invited to Los Angeles, at the time, to speak with the Mockingbird hitmaker without “knowing what the purpose was.” For that reason, he felt he had to show up in a bulletproof vest for safety.
“It was wild…I was in California. He flew me to L.A. I came out, I was so bugged out from the experience that I came through the airport with the (bulletproof) vest shit on…I get there, he’s like, ‘Yo!’ Hugs me, feel the vest and was like (shocked),” he stated on the Million Dollaz Worth of Game podcast. “When I met him [Eminem] the first night I met him, he had an event. The Marshall Mathers LP just came out. The first week he sold 1.7 million records. And he was so excited about me that I’m looking like, ‘(Are) you serious?’” he added
