Rapper 50 Cent shares why people 'identify' with Trump after assassination attempt

Rapper 50 Cent said helium would enactment retired of the election, but that didn't halt him from admitting radical similar him identify with erstwhile President Trump with his absorption aft his archetypal assassination attempt.

The rapper, whose existent sanction is Curtis James Jackson III, sat down for an interrogation Saturday greeting to sermon his caller publication "The Accomplice" wherever helium was asked astir his stance connected the statesmanlike election.

"I’d similar to enactment retired of it. You know, well, look, things hap similar Trump gets changeable and they commencement playing ‘Many Men’ and it jumps 250% successful streaming," Jackson said.

Rapper 50 Cent appeared connected CBS News Saturday greeting and commented connected the statesmanlike election. (CBS News screenshot)

This referenced his 2003 deed "Many Men," a opus that Trump aboriginal walked retired to during a livestream a fewer days aft the first assassination attempt against him. The opus included lyrics specified arsenic "Many men privation decease upon me. Blood successful my eye, dawg, and I can’t see, I’m tryin’ to beryllium what I’m destined to be."

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Jackson aboriginal remarked connected relating to Trump aft that moment, peculiarly aft Trump raised his fist successful the present iconic image.

"He says fight. All right. And that’s precisely what I did aft I got shot. I conscionable went into combat mode," helium said. "People place with it that way."

50 Cent has occasionally flirted with the thought of supporting Trump successful the past. In June, helium told CBS News legislature analogous Nikole Killion that helium believed Black men were "identifying with Trump" due to the fact that "they've got RICO charges [too]."

Earlier this year, helium added, "I deliberation Trump's gonna beryllium president again, but I’m not gonna accidental that."

The rapper related the archetypal assassination effort against Trump to his ain experiences being shot. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Most notably, successful October 2020, Jackson told his Instagram followers to vote for Trump aft seeing a study suggesting New York City residents could beryllium taxed astatine a complaint of 62% nether President Biden.

"WHAT THE F--K! (VOTE ForTRUMP) IM OUT," Jackson wrote. "F--K NEW YORK The KNICKS ne'er triumph anyway. I don’t attraction Trump doesn’t similar achromatic radical 62% are you retired of ya f--king mind."

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He aboriginal recanted his support successful a Twitter station 1 week later.

50 Cent antecedently suggested radical should ballot for Trump during the 2020 election. (Shareif Ziyadat)

"Another rotation F--k Donald Trump, I ne'er liked him," the rapper wrote. "For each I cognize helium had maine acceptable up and had my person Angel Fernandez killed but that’s history. LOL."

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Fox News' Kristine Parks contributed to this report.