50 Cent Explains Why He Turned Down $3M To Perform At Trump’s MSG Rally - Page 2

50 Cent is never one to keep his comments to himself about his many rap beefs or his ongoing feud with Sean “Diddy” Combs. But one new topic the Queens rapper refuses to touch? Politics. He recently stopped by The Breakfast Club when DJ Envy and Charlamagne Tha God asked him if he was invited to perform at Donald Trump’s recent rally at Madison Square Garden. 50 admits that Trump’s campaign offered him $3 million to share the stage with him and for him to appear at the Republican National Convention, but that conversation never even reached a detailed amount.

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But 50 has a fear of politics, and it seems like he won’t endorse either candidate in what’s become one of the most consequential elections of our lifetime.

“I’m afraid of politics. Do you understand? I do not like no part about it. When you do get involved in it, no matter how you feel, someone passionately disagrees with you,” 50 Cent told the radio hosts. “Look, if you say ‘I stay away from religion,’ I stay away from politics. Religion, that’s the formula for the confusion that it sent Kanye to Japan. He said something about both of those things and now he can only go to Japan. So you know I’m like, ‘I don’t want to get in that, man.’”

50 is changing his tune because he initially supported Trump in the 2020 election because he feared paying more taxes. He later recanted that endorsement after his ex-girlfriend Chelsea Handler –said on The Tonight Show– educated him on focusing on Trump’s other policies. He’d retweet the video of the interview with a caption that read, “F-ck Donald Trump, I never liked him.” It’s a good thing 50 didn’t attend the MSG rally, as the meeting has been marred in controversy thanks to Tucker Carlson calling Kamala Harris “Samoan-Malaysian” and comedian Tony Hinchcliffe referring to Puerto Rico as a “floating island of garbage.”

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