Queer people are literally dying on the streets, but 50 Cent still thinks it’s funny to make gay jokes for clout
Curtis Jackson, AKA 50 Cent, attends a ceremony honouring him with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on 30 January, 2020. (Getty/ Albert L Ortega)
50 Cent is spending the lockdown posting homophobic memes to Instagram.
The rapper, real name Curtis Jackson, revived some beef with fellow musician Young Buck – deciding that more gay jokes are what’s needed in the world right now.
Rapper thinks homophobic jokes are funny in 2020.
Sharing a photo of a Pride parade, he wrote: “?Hey is 2020 gay pride parade cancelled? ?asking for a friend, ?young Buck. LOL.”
50 Cent decided that more gay jokes are what’s needed in the world right now
It’s a long-running trend for the rapper to make posts insinuating that Young Buck is gay or dating a transgender person for laughs.
The relentless online trolling campaign kicked off last year, when he wrote: “Young Buck is almost ready to drop his album. He worked hard on this project, I told him his personal choice to date a tran sexual [sic] will confuse some of his core audience but with the support of the LGBT+ he should be fine.”
In another post, he wrote: “If your [sic] in a relationship with a tranny your [sic] gay. That’s a boy, boy!”
He has also stooped lower than simply slinging mud at another grown adult – also targeting the 12-year-old daughter of NBA player Dwyane Wade, who is transgender.
50 Cent dug up a picture of Dwyane Wade at a fashion show with since-convicted sex offender R Kelly, with a speech bubble from Kelly saying: “Heard you had a daughter now?”
He captioned the meme: “LOL, now some funny s**t.”
50 Cent has always been like this.
The rapper has long-standing form when it comes to what we will generously describe as extremely unsavoury jokes about gay people.
In a 2010 spat with gay celebrity blogger Perez Hilton, he tweeted: “Perez Hilton calld [sic] me douchebag so I had my homie shoot up a gay wedding. Wasn’t his but still made me feel better.”
The same year, 50 Cent suggested that men who do not sleep with women should “just kill” themselves.
He wrote: “If you are a man and your [sic] over 25 and you don’t eat p***y just kill yourself damn it. The world will be a better place.”
In 2015, he complained about “gay stuff” on the TV show Empire.
He wrote: “There are 3 million less viewers who tuned into last night’s Empire episode! Did you watch it? We could not take the extra gay stuff or celebrity stuff last night!”
