Rapper 50 Cent stated he would keep out of the election, however that did not cease him from admitting folks like him establish with former President Trump along with his response after his first assassination try.
The rapper, whose actual title is Curtis James Jackson III, sat down for an interview Saturday morning to debate his new e book “The Accomplice” the place he was requested about his stance on the presidential election.
“I’d like to stay out of it. You know, well, look, things happen like Trump gets shot and they start playing ‘Many Men’ and it jumps 250% in streaming,” Jackson stated.
Rapper 50 Cent appeared on CBS Information Saturday morning and commented on the presidential election. (CBS Information screenshot)
This referenced his 2003 hit “Many Men,” a tune that Trump later walked out to throughout a livestream a couple of days after the first assassination try in opposition to him. The tune included lyrics resembling “Many men wish death upon me. Blood in my eye, dawg, and I can’t see, I’m tryin’ to be what I’m destined to be.”
Jackson later remarked on regarding Trump after that second, notably after Trump raised his fist within the now iconic picture.
“He says fight. All right. And that’s exactly what I did after I got shot. I just went into fight mode,” he stated. “People identify with it that way.”
50 Cent has sometimes flirted with the concept of supporting Trump previously. In June, he instructed CBS Information congressional correspondent Nikole Killion that he believed Black males have been “identifying with Trump” as a result of “they’ve got RICO charges [too].”
Earlier this yr, he added, “I think Trump’s gonna be president again, but I’m not gonna say that.”
The rapper associated the primary assassination try in opposition to Trump to his personal experiences being shot. (AP Picture/Evan Vucci)
Most notably, in October 2020, Jackson instructed his Instagram followers to vote for Trump after seeing a report suggesting New York Metropolis residents might be taxed at a price of 62% underneath President Biden.
“WHAT THE F–K! (VOTE ForTRUMP) IM OUT,” Jackson wrote. “F–K NEW YORK The KNICKS never win anyway. I don’t care Trump doesn’t like black people 62% are you out of ya f–king mind.”
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He later recanted his assist in a Twitter submit one week later.
50 Cent beforehand recommended folks ought to vote for Trump throughout the 2020 election. (Shareif Ziyadat)
“Another spin F–k Donald Trump, I never liked him,” the rapper wrote. “For all I know he had me set up and had my friend Angel Fernandez killed but that’s history. LOL.”
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Fox Information’ Kristine Parks contributed to this report.
