50 Cent has obtained backlash over being photographed with Lauren Boebert. (Getty)
Rapper 50 Cent is going through a backlash after posing for a photograph with right-wing congresswoman Lauren Boebert.
The In Da Membership artist, whose actual identify is Curtis James Jackson III, was pictured alongside the Colorado consultant in a posts on Wednesday (5 June).
Boebert shared the photograph first, referring to the rapper’s his tune 21 Questions, writing: “I’d nonetheless love you in the event you flipped burgers at Burger King, 50 Cent. I used to try this myself.”
The backlash grew considerably after the rapper shared his personal submit, writing: “Lauren Boebert, Colorado Republican, making the White Home look good.”
The image seems to have been taken within the Capitol constructing, not the White Home.
Boebert has come beneath fireplace for her anti-LGBTQ+ rhetoric, and for turning into concerned in numerous controversies. Most infamous was her elimination from a musical adaptation of Beetlejuice the place she was caught vaping and fondling a date, who owns a drag bar.
She was requested to go away after theatre employees obtained a number of complaints about her behaviour. CCTV footage confirmed her giving employees the center finger and asking: “Have you learnt who I’m?”
She has apologised for the incident greater than as soon as, together with a remark in The Washington Put up through which she mentioned: “Nicely, they need to see me in church.”
Followers of fifty Cent criticised him for the photograph and for displaying help for the controversial Republican, with some calling it pathetic.
He responded in a submit claiming that it’s widespread for folks to fondle their dates in theatres, whereas additionally mentioning, considerably bizarrely, that he doesn’t have a sure sexually transmitted an infection.
“Wait, wait, guys, I took footage with everybody and all you appear to care about is Lauren,” he wrote. “What did she do in a darkish theatre that hasn’t been carried out?
“I don’t have chlamydia, by the way in which. LOL.”
Customers had been extra bewildered by the submit than the rest, with one writing: “By no means put your self in a scenario the place it’s important to put out a public assertion that Lauren Boebert didn’t offer you chlamydia.”
One other wrote: “Lmao, what an insane time to be alive.”
Elsewhere throughout a go to to Capitol Hill, the rapper mentioned he sees Black males “figuring out with Trump.”
When requested why, and apparently referring to the authorized issues former president Donald Trump faces in an upcoming Georgia election interference case, he mentioned: “As a result of they obtained RICO [Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organisations Act] costs.”