50 Cent Booed Off Stage

[Guest BacknBlackHoez]

50 CENT BOOED OFFSTAGE IN A RAIN OF PLASTIC BOTTLES

50 CENT was dramatically booed off stage tonight at the CARLING WEEKEND: READING festival (August 29).

The rapper was pelted with a shower of plastic bottles from the angry crowd, and even had a camping chair thrown at him, forcing the star to walk off after just twenty five minutes of his Main Stage set.

50 and his G-Unit crew were hit by a rain of bottles as they came onstage, and they even started to pick up the missiles and hurl them back towards the front rows.

Chants of ?50 Cent is a wanker? were heard and the group were jeered and heckled throughout the short appearance.

Attempting to placate the thousands of people, the rapper said: ?We?re just all here to have fun?, and even taunted them by challenging them to all put their middle fingers in the air.

One festival goer told NME.COM: ?What was he even doing up there? It was the worst thing I?ve ever seen.?

After playing hits including ?In Da Club?, ?21 Questions? and ?P.I.M.P?, 50 thanked the crowd and promptly walked off.

The star started his set at 8.10pm, twenty minutes earlier than scheduled, and left at 8.35pm. According to the stage times, he was due to play between 8.30pm and 9.30pm.

Apart from The Streets, 50 was the only rap act on today?s Main Stage bill on a day dominated by hard rock bands, including Placebo, Lostprophets and Dropkick Murphys.

[tristy]

oh boy, do we have another Makalveli on our hands?

Whatever. That article is a piece of shit. Calling Lostprophets hard rock? The hell?

[Kaney]

Was I the only one who head a neddy vioce near the start shouting "Get it up ye!"

I may be imagining it from lack of sleep, but it sounds exactly the kinda thing you'd hear up the high street at my area.

[paidelr]

I actually PRAISE 50 Cent for this. He started the show early, lasted for 25 minutes, did his job, THANKED the crowd for coming. What more can you ask?

I respect him and GUnit a little more.

[Hellfire]

I respect 50 for not just walking off when the assholes started throwing bottles. I have one question though, and that is why would they have 50 there, he's the only rapper on the bill, couldnt they have some other rocker and leave him off? That makes no sense, its kinda obvious that they are going to boo him.

[Guest BacknBlackHoez]

it was funny to see other members of the G-Unit throwing bottles back, but at the same time, i hate most mainstream rap, so id be happy to see this happy to most.

[Gabriel]

I respect the fact that he didn't freak out like a lot of other people would have.

With that said...Lostprophets > Fitty.

[THIR13EN²]

your surprised he didn't freak out...50 Cent...this is a guy who has been shot, what, like 15 times? why would he freak out over a few bottles getting thrown on stage...+ a lawn chair.

[Guest BacknBlackHoez]

story has it, he only got shot 2 times. but take it for what its worth, his "gangster" image has worn off.

[Jook]

I so missed it

Damn Auf Der Maur playing a good set and keeping me away from the main stage

[Herr Matzat]

Showing Hip Hop Guys they are not cool/the gratest = so cool :thumbsup:

[FunkAsPuck]

Oh im fairly glad that people booed both him and the Rasmus off stage at Reading. Fortunatly, my respect for 50 Cent hasn't increased, mainly because my respect for him is non-existent.

Brings back good memories of the Lostprophets being booed off at Deconstruction 2002.

[apsham]

TERMINATED.

Edited July 6, 2015 by Apsham

[lafunky xxvii]

The guy with the camera sounds like a tosser.

[Herr Matzat]

it´s not that WWE issent bringing that stuff up over and over again . . .

[Cactus Drags]

He shouldn't ahve been on the bill. Leeds/Reading ahve always been advertised as rock shows, just look at who headlines.

The organsiers need sorting out though, they had fucking Daphne and celeste up there a few years ago, tehy got soaked in bottles of piss.

[YI]

It would have been better if nobody turned up for his set at all I missed him at Leeds, had better shit to listen too, so I don't know what kind of reaction he got there.

[Lowerdeck]

I at least give some props to these guys for staying up there against all of this.

However, I tend not to like 50 or G-Unit much lately because they've indeed pretty much gone mainstream pop and fluff.

EDIT: for some reason I can't see the video.

Edited September 4, 2004 by Lowerdeck

[fineintent]

Yeah, I was there. Wasn't funny. Bunch of fuckers being racist, shouting really fucked up shit and chucking camping chairs, piss and shit. I don't like 50 Cent, but Jesus Christ have some respect. It would have made more of an impact if no one turned up to the main stage instead.

Way to go Reading.

[apsham]

He shouldn't ahve been on the bill. Leeds/Reading ahve always been advertised as rock shows, just look at who headlines.

The organsiers need sorting out though, they had fucking Daphne and celeste up there a few years ago, tehy got soaked in bottles of piss.

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So they can't at least TRY to let other music play there, without throwing lawnchairs and spewing racial shit as fineintent pointed out? Having pride in your own music is one thing, but not being open, or at LEAST patient of other music is another.