Fuck Fiddy Pee!


From NME.com:


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.

The Rasmus also suffered a similar fate when they walked offstage today after being pelted by plastic bottles.

Good, I can't stand that mumbling fool.

I don't know WHY he would even bother considering the names on the roster. If it's predominantly a hard rock show, obviously gangsta rap was NOT gonna go over well.

CalhounSq said:

The Reading/Leeds festivals aren't "predominantly hard rock" at all. Morrissey's hardly Motorhead.

The crowd got it right: 50 Cent is a wanker, plain and simple - and G Unit are crap.

Shapeshifter said:

Ha ha. This makes me more than proud to be Finnish myself. The Rasmus is fuckin' shite.

Shapeshifter said:

While I don't disagree w/ you about him & G-Unit being crap wankers I do think it's silly to be one of 2 rap acts "on a day dominated by hard rock bands" as the article said. I could give a shit about the festival or Morrissey, I'm just going by the article as I don't know anything about this festival other than he shouldn't have performed on that bill.

CalhounSq said:

Aw c'mon Calhoun - this is Fiddy Pence we're talkin' about here - he's been SHOT Fiddy times, ain't a bad time been invented he can't handle.

Sticks? No problem! Stones? No problem! Bullets? Who YOU kiddin'?!!? Boos ... ur .... plastic bottles - man, I'm outta here!!! What a pussy.
[Edited 8/30/04 3:02am]

well to be fair...Prince was booed off the stage too. I'm betting if one of these other acts on the bill showed up at a hip hop festival, they'd be booed too..or worse. props to Fiddy for even laying the gig, and i don't even like him. nuthin wrong with trying to expand your base.

CalhounSq said:

I hate that term gangsta rap. Its so stereotypical and outdated, no offense to you Calhoun Sq

CherrieMoonKisses said:

WELL FIFTY DO RAP ABOUT BEING GANGSTA

WHAT YOU SUGGESTION FOR NEW TERM?

POOK said:

POSER rap.

does anyone else find this as amusing as i do? a cat who calls himself 50 cent...gettin plastic bottles thrown at 'im?

Handclapsfingasnapz said:

He earned his moniker in recyclables that night.

VoicesCarry said:

f'real.

it only costs fiddy cent for me to get bottled water at my job. when i go to replenish my fluids tonight, i'll think of him.

Anxiety said:

pour out a lil' water for 'im, too.

Too bad they don't serve beverages in glass bottles anymore.

sinisterpentatonic said:

oh man, that woulda been nuts...

Handclapsfingasnapz said:

I think these guys where responsible for the change in concert policies.

sinisterpentatonic said:

Shapeshifter said:

Yhid is the best news that I haeard so far. What makes this asswipe think that everybody is going to be tolerating his mumbling ass.

Handclapsfingasnapz said:

Shapeshifter said:

meltwithu said:

Not with the type of commercial success that 50 pesos has had. This was either '80 or '81 - Prince was still only what critics commonly called a cult artist.

Supernova said:

Hope 50 Yen was wearing a bottle-proof vest.

Supernova said:

Then I was a cult-follower at the time cause I was there.

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UptownDeb said:

theAudience said:

I was part of the cult following, but only as far as listening to his music. I wasn't there.

Good!



They should have followed his orders and directed their middle fingers to him.



I wish he had been opening for some major R&B acts and gotten booed off the stage. I would have REALLY enjoyed that.

Poor 50. He's so Hot.... They have no Taste...