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

Squeeky · 2004-09-01, 07:08 PM

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_c...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

QuakCow · 2004-09-01, 07:12 PM

rofl

Hydralisk · 2004-09-01, 07:13 PM

Rofflepops!

Mag · 2004-09-01, 07:16 PM

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

Kaltagesta · 2004-09-01, 07:42 PM

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 · 2004-09-01, 07:49 PM

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 · 2004-09-01, 08:00 PM

Hahaha, oh jeeze, stupid rappers.

Kaltagesta · 2004-09-01, 08:03 PM

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 · 2004-09-01, 08:08 PM

Ahahahahahahaha....

OfaLoaf · 2004-09-01, 08:10 PM

Originally Posted by 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.

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