MP Wants Rapper '50 Cent' Banned From Canada

[KingFlorez]

Thursday, 24 November 2005

Controversial US rapper 50 Cent should be prevented from touring Canada next month because he promotes gun-related violence, according to a Canadian MP.

Junior foreign minister Dan McTeague has called on officials to stop the performer from entering the country.

"This is not a question of censorship," he said. "This is a question of trying to protect impressionable young men."

50 Cent - real name Curtis Jackson - is due to launch a tour of seven Canadian cities on 3 December in Vancouver.

Canadian law decrees that anyone with a criminal record needs a special permit to enter the country.

"Under our laws he would be deemed criminally admissible," Mr McTeague told the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC).

50 Cent in Get Rich or Die Tryin'
Get Rich or Die Tryin' is released in the UK on 20 January
50 Cent, who was shot nine times in a gang incident in 2000, recently released Get Rich or Die Tryin', a fictionalised portrait of his career.

Posters for the film, which depicted its star holding a microphone in one hand and a pistol in the other, were removed in some areas of the US following complaints that they glorified gun crime.

A fatal shooting at a Pennsylvania cinema where his film was screening was subsequently attributed to an old prison argument.

50 Cent's last concert in Toronto in 2003 was marked by a gun-related fatality outside the theatre. More violence occurred after a concert in Montreal.

SOURCE: BBC News

[Neocondriac]

1. They also.....

mentioned , he was a poor tipper!

[xultar]

2. Poor tipping is a Black thing...unfortunately. But since 50 didn't back

Kanye I don't give a rats ass if they don't let his fakeity fuck ass in.

[noiretextatique]

8. a black thing?

really?

[xultar]

11. It is a stereotype. That is what people say about us. Sadly though I

see it. Black folk do sux @ tipping.

I'm a good tipper though trying to let folks know that bruvas and sistahs aren't all bad in the tipping department.

[noiretextatique]

12. then it's not a black thing

if you tip and you are black. i make it a point to tip as well, and i am also black :shrug: stereotypes do suck.

[frazzledmom]

13. Poor tipping isn't a racial thing it's an

asshole thing. Did you guys see the thread about bitterwaitress.com? It's a site where waitresses go to post about poor tippers. Bush, Rove, Kerry, all really bad tippers. The people who tip the best are usually the ones who can't afford it.

Here's a link to the thread, try the site it's hilarious
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=5450767

[tularetom]

3. This'll make O'Reilly's head spin clean off

He hates Canada and he hates rappers. WTF is he gonna do now? On second thought he'll probably try to take credit for it saying he influenced the Canadian government to ban 50 cent.

[Solo_in_MD]

4. Saw a t-shirt in the airport last week

"You can't have Crap without Rap". Clearly an intent to provoke people, but it struck me as pretty damn funny at the time. Have to wonder if he would be allowed to wear in on Southwest Airlines...

[Angry Girl]

5. 50 Cent is a DUMBASS bought by the Bush administration

He's a hypocrite of the worst kind.

50 CENT PRAISES 'GANGSTA' BUSH
He says, "(The president) is incredible... A gangsta. I wanna meet George Bush, just shake his hand and tell him how much of me I see in him."
http://www.contactmusic.com/new/xmlfeed.nsf/mndwebpages/50%20cent%20praises%20gangsta%20bush

50 Cent Disagrees With Kanye West on President Bush and Katrina
"What Kanye West was saying, I don't know where that came from." Instead, 50 said, "The New Orleans disaster was meant to happen. It was an act of God."
http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory?id=1274052

[JVS]

6. It's like a backwards version of the South Park Movie!

[madrchsod]

7. they wouldn`t let martha in...i guess she`s a "gangster"

since she`s done time in the big house..

[CatBoreal]

10. She was initially banned...

...but the government decided to let her in.

Unfortunately her plane was grounded the day she was supposed to race a giant pumpkin across Lake Pemaquid in Nova Scotia. She says she's planning on racing next year.

[CatBoreal]

9. This happens every few years...

Last time it was Eminem because he promotes hatred against blacks and women (critics were using our Hate Crimes bill). He got in.

I have no doubt that 50 Cent will get in. All this hullabaloo will amount to nothing.