50 Cent is explaining simply how shut he got here to lacking out on the 2022 Tremendous Bowl halftime present, saying his shock efficiency won’t have occurred if it weren’t for fellow rapper Eminem.
“They wanted to leave me out of it. They didn’t want me there,” he stated in a Hollywood Reporter interview printed on-line Wednesday, referring to leisure firm Roc Nation. “Eminem wouldn’t do it without me. That’s how I ended up on the show because he was not coming if I didn’t do it.
“When that happens, you go, ‘Damn, so you just lost Eminem because you didn’t bring 50? Damn. All right. Bring 50 then.’ But if it was up to them, they would not have me there.”
Individuals on the SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, California, have been shocked when 50 Cent, whose actual title is Curtis Jackson, appeared upside-down to carry out “In da Club,” simply as he did in a 2003 music video. Along with Eminem, hip-hip stars Dr. Dre, Mary J. Blige, Snoop Dogg and Kendrick Lamar additionally carried out.
The halftime present was produced by Jay-Z’s Roc Nation. 50 Cent has had a long-running feud with the “99 Problems” rapper, beforehand saying on social media that he resembles a “gay painter” and sharing a photograph of Jay-Z alongside a picture of late neo-Expressionist Jean-Michel Basquiat.
50 Cent has downplayed their rivalry prior to now, saying in 2011 that “It’s not like we have something against each other to make us enemies.” However he stated final yr that Jay-Z and his crew “still harbor some energy towards me.”
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The 2022 halftime present got here after Roc Nation entered right into a “long-term partnership” with the NFL in 2019, a transfer that confronted criticism because of the league’s remedy of Colin Kaepernick.
Kaepernick, who performed for the San Francisco 49ers, had famously protested towards racial injustice and police brutality in 2016 by refusing to face for the nationwide anthem earlier than video games. He finally opted out of his 49ers contract and settled a authorized case towards the NFL in 2017.
Eminem equally took a knee throughout his Tremendous Bowl efficiency, shortly after 50 Cent’s look. The Detroit icon, whose actual title is Marshall Mathers, first signed 50 Cent to his file label within the early 2000s.
“50 is like a brother to me,” Eminem instructed The Hollywood Reporter. “50 has proven again and again that there’s really nothing he can’t do, and nobody gets in the way of him getting it done.”
Learn extra at The Hollywood Reporter.
