[Video/News] 50 cent booed off stage in a rain of plastic bottles

[Squeeky]

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.

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

Green Day will close this weekend�s Carling Weekend: Reading festival (August 27-29) when they take to the Main Stage later tonight for their headlining set. Here is the video: http://www.jonsmith.plus.com/fifty_cent_bottled_reading04.mpeg
Here is the article (quoted above): http://www.nme.co.uk/news/109703.htm

Holy shit man, it's about time. What was his Tour Manager thinking? Let's take 50 cent, one of the shittiest rappers to ever walk the earth, and book him for a fucking rock concert with names like Dropkick MUrphy's and Green Day. What kind of crowd did he expect? A bunch of gangsters to show up a rock festival? It was an accident waiting to happen. Watching that video is so satisfying :cool:

[QuakCow]

rofl

[Hydralisk]

Rofflepops!

[Mag]

This rivals in moral importance, the destruction of the Berlin Wall.

[Kaltagesta]

Reading and Leeds festival rules, seriously. Last years had the best bands ever. Oh, and it's pronounced 'Redding' for those Yanky's, it's not a book festival.

[Indecisive]

Like a few months ago, I saw an advertisment for some "reading" festival, on psu, that had 50 cent on it. Pretty sure we were discussing our hope for him getting hit by bottles then.

[Derfud]

Hahaha, oh jeeze, stupid rappers.

[Kaltagesta]

I actually feel kinda sorry for them. If they are like most artists, they just blindly go to every show/venue they are signed up. They are big gangstas from the US, they arent gonna know what the Reading Festival is. It's their tour manager who is the dumbass, they just show up and do their job.

[ViperGTS]

Ahahahahahahaha....

[OfaLoaf]

I actually feel kinda sorry for them. If they are like most artists, they just blindly go to every show/venue they are signed up. They are big gangstas from the US, they arent gonna know what the Reading Festival is. It's their tour manager who is the dumbass, they just show up and do their job.
.

[JetRaiden]

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[AztecWarrior]

This rivals in moral importance, the destruction of the Berlin Wall.
Agreed.

[Hamma]

Classic :lol:

[I Hate Pants]

WTF was 50 cent and G-unit doing at reading festival!?

[SkunkPunk]

i will beat the shit out of fifty cent and his gay homie cew or caggides

[ZionsFire]

A celebration I say!

[Rbstr]

This rivals in moral importance, the destruction of the Berlin Wall.
QFT

[Squeeky]

:rofl: :rofl:

When marrtyr, Triggar, and I were in line for Jaws at Universal, there was this kid with a fro and a G-Unit shirt. martyr points to him, the kid walks over like ":huh:" and martyr's all "Dude, cool shirt". I start cracking up and i'm like "Hell ya man, G-G-G-G-Unit!"

IUt was classic

[Angel_of_Death]

Uh, a lot of people including me like 50. I haven't even heard most of his songs but I like many of them. But the tour manager should be shot for putting him in a lineup made of all rock bands.

[Squeeky]

Uh, a lot of people including me like 50.
Get off PSU now. :mad:

[Mag]

You lose. Gangsta rap is the worst plight to befall mankind since the onset of nuclear weaponry.

[Squeeky]

Gangsta rap is the worst plight to befall mankind since the onset of nuclear weaponry.
A bit of an understatement, but agreed nonetheless.

[Angel_of_Death]

You lose. Gangsta rap is the worst plight to befall mankind since the onset of nuclear weaponry.
It's hip hop, by the way.

[Mag]

Fo' shizzle, my bad dawg.

[Squeeky]

It's a bunch of uneducated black guys wearing a ridiculous amount of jewlery running around on stage screaming "uh uh ya throw ya handz up" and screaming lyrics about raping woman into a microphone, by the way.
Fixed for accuracy.

[Kam]

I hate rap, it's just going on and on about killing people, cussing every other word and f*cking women in the ass. "Yo man, I'm from the street! I can afford 600 "kicks," but I can't get my kid a good education." Shut the fuck up and get a job you loser. Rap is like a cancer, it's infected thousands of people and inspired an entire generation to waste their money on bling, cars, and hoes. Stupid people breed to fast damnit, so I developed a theory of what we can do with them. Instead of sending strait A students, productive people and loved family members off to die in wars, why not send the convicts, low life�s racists and such to do our fighting. They all know how to use guns anyway and the ones in prison are physically fit, so why not? I for one am tired of hearing of young adult�s right out of college getting killed.

/rant

[Ivan]

Yeah that's a really old idea. They did that since before the civil war. Doesn't work cause Ex-Cons won't listen to their commanders. Or they Defect and go AWOL.

[Angel_of_Death]

I hate rap, it's just going on and on about killing people, cussing every other word and f*cking women in the ass. "Yo man, I'm from the street! I can afford 600 "kicks," but I can't get my kid a good education." Shut the fuck up and get a job you loser. Rap is like a cancer, it's infected thousands of people and inspired an entire generation to waste their money on bling, cars, and hoes. Stupid people breed to fast damnit, so I developed a theory of what we can do with them. Instead of sending strait A students, productive people and loved family members off to die in wars, why not send the convicts, low life�s racists and such to do our fighting. They all know how to use guns anyway and the ones in prison are physically fit, so why not? I for one am tired of hearing of young adult�s right out of college getting killed.

/rant
That is the dumbest fuckin paragraph I've ever fuckin heard. You're a fuckin idiot.

[SDM]

That is the dumbest fuckin paragraph I've ever fuckin heard. You're a fuckin idiot.
I've heard WAAAAY dumber ones than that. pfft. Here, [search] Ait'al.

Careful who you call a fuckin idiot too, you might get stabbed in the neck with a pencil. lollerz.

[Derfud]

Dat shit is wack, who you think yo be messin' wit'? Shit Cracka, I bust a cap in yo ass.

Fixed it for you.

[I Hate Pants]

LOL! I dunno why, but I get a kick outta listening to that guy yell "FUCK YOU" near the end of the video.

[Hezzy]

:rofl:

He got served

[Lonehunter]

That's what they get for playing crap

edit: I meant rap but what the hell they're the same.

Edit: and stuff like that is why they don't sell glass bear bottles at football games anymore.

[Sputty]

This rivals in moral importance, the destruction of the Berlin Wall.
I concur

[I Hate Pants]

I think Fragmatic should have something to say about this. Reading Fest is a big rock festival in Britain.

[Fragmatic]

I think Fragmatic should have something to say about this. Reading Fest is a big rock festival in Britain.

I was at a 3 day 1000 person LAN party instead. :( Was near Reading though.

[Heavygain]

ROFL, this thread wins.

[Triggar]

That video is 404'd.... I neeeed to seeee ittttt

The only "G-Unit" I have any respect for are the one's I pull when doing a steep turn. I hate how people run around, "g-g-g-g-UNIT!" - I want to be like, "nilla please, Bernoulli would roll in his grave".

[Dharkbayne]

Someone send it to me and I'll rehost it (Provided it isn't fucking huge)

[I Hate Pants]

new working link

http://www.thebig5.co.uk/fifty_cent_bottled_reading04.mpeg

[Mr1337Duck]

I had this image of 50 cent and his G-Unit guys dressed up in their usual clothes reading to a bunch of little kids. That seemed like it wouldn't be his kind of place.

[Ivan]

I've been to Reading, PA (USA). Does that make me cool?

[I Hate Pants]

I've been to Reading, PA (USA). Does that make me cool?
pfffffffffffft, hardly! :rolleyes:

[Ivan]

pfffffffffffft, hardly! :rolleyes:
:tear:

[Infernus]

I've been to Reading, PA (USA). Does that make me cool?

So have I... theres nothing cool about that place...

[ZAYZAY]

I personally dont like 50 cent but DAMN[U]

[HunterKiller]

:rofl:

[Phaden]

I live near reading PA, and they would have enjoyed this concert immensly.

[firecrackerNC]

I like how 50 Cent made a song about him being a PIMP. Sorry but you CANNOT make a song calling yourself a Pimp cause chances are your not.

[MrPaul]

I was this close *does the "this close" finger animation* to going as well. :( Next year I will.