No Laughing Matter: 50 Cent’s Distasteful Tweets On The Disaster in Japan
It seems every time we want to give 50 Cent a chance, the rapper reminds us why that would be a bad idea.
On Friday, 50 took to Twitter to speak about the 8.9 magnitude earthquake and ensuing tsunami that had hit Japan just hours before. The rapper started out with a seemingly empathetic approach asking his 4 million followers to “Look at Japan tell the people you value you love them.”
But 50’s humanitarian side was quickly forgotten when he started tweeting some less than savory comments on the tragedy:
When some of his followers expressed their outrage about his tweets, 50 retorted with this:
“Some of my tweets are ignorant I do it for shock value. Hate it or love it. I’m cool either way 50cent.”
We can’t say what’s in 50’s heart, but that response didn’t exactly convey remorse.
While the rapper may think that events in Japan are valid material for his insensitive jokes, the situation in the country has continued to deteriorate as the weekend has gone on.
Latest estimates put the death toll over 10,000 and engineers are still racing to combat the threat of multiple nuclear reactor meltdowns. Across the country, millions remain without access to shelter, food and water. In an address to his nation, Japan’s Prime Minister Naoto Kan said the country was facing its worst crisis since World War II.
Tell us what you think about 50 Cent’s tweets on the tragedy in Japan? Will the backlash force the rapper to make a real apology?
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He is ANNOYING! He is not shocking at all. Urrgh. If any of his family was in Japan right now, he would not be running his mouth like an Olympic race! If you have nothing to say shut the fuck up.
It’s not like he wished death on anyone. His tweets were hardly enough to ruffle feathers or cause a stir. You kind of expect foolishness from 50.
Question: If you were Japanese or happened to live there and were affected by the disaster, would you have responded in the same manner you did?! Stop trying to justify his foolishness, it doesn’t make sense to! There is a time and place for everything, and this was not the time for him to spew foolishness!
I wholly agree. I am sure the Japanese have more to think about now than the ignorant tweets of an irrelevant rapper.
Typical! you can always expect some pathetic person to show up and make excuses for the ignorance and downright evil of black men.
It’s funny how they always make sure they are thee FIRST to comment too.
It never fails
“The evil of black men”? That most definitely rubs me the wrong way. Demonizing an entire race and sex based on one idiotic comment from someone who is coincidentally both is equal parts insane and lazy. As a black woman, I see in black men what I see in black women and if all of them are evil, so are all of us. See how crazy that sounds? Person to person basis, please and thank you.
What the hell this one idiot got to do with “Black men”, I’m sorry your daddy abandoned you , get over it. Some of y’all are real crazy.
Insensitive, yes, but when has anyone ever looked to 50 Cent during a crisis to know what to think or to feel? He’s right; it was ignorant, and it is who he is regardless of how people feel about it. Do I think it was in bad taste? Definitely. Do I care enough to be outraged? Not at all.
i think these comments are rude and insensitive. if he were white and making comments like these when the earthquake in Haiti struck, would his actions be excusable to people then as well? i think not.
in either situation, it’s just as bad.
Many white people DID make jokes about Haiti and Katirna but you all were probably too busy whining about rappers to notice! And Gilbert Got fired made a stupid joke too but I don’t see ANY outrage at him how typical just like there wasn’t any for that asshole in Phoenix who made the joke about James Byrd. Black women only get mad at black men not FOR them.
His comments are insensitive, misogynistic, and just plain stupid, but I am more concerned with the comments from dumb and ignorant black, white, brown men and women linking this tragedy in Japan to pearl harbor.
All these comments -50cents included – just go to remind us all ignorance knows no bounds.
I agree with you wholeheartedly.
50 Cent is a moron, here is your late pass.
Chill out. He was making jokes. The Japanese makes crude jokes about us.
At times I feel that once people attain a certain level of celebrity they forget what it means to be human. This is, as the Prime Minister stated, the worst crisis Japan has faced since WWII. I mean, really 50? If you were actually in the crisis, not only would you not care about your hoes and their Louboutins, but you wouldn’t have the time to tweet anything ignorant.
All celebrities, every single one of them, need to remember how human they still are. And we all need to have a little more respect for a situation we have yet to experience and may never really understand.
Hm, I really don’t think you can call yourself an adult if you think its ok to joke about a big tragedy because Japanese people have made fun of black people before. Its quit disgusting to really think its ok. I’ve been watching to coverage all weekend long and can’t imagine what many of them are going through. In times of tragedy, people should at least become empathetic. Mr. Curtis really needs to just sit down and focus on his crappy acting.
And another thing I’m sick to death of this black people should know ‘better’ attitude. Please people of other races like Carlos Mencia say hateful crap about us ALL the time yet I never hear any complaining about THAT! Any excuse to attack a rapper I guess.
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