NEW YORK -The Rev. Al Sharpton is putting in his two cents about the latest drama involving 50 Cent.
The civil rights leader on Tuesday proposed a ban that would muzzle artists who are connected to any violent acts, denying them airplay on radio and television for 90 days. Though he did not single out 50 Cent by name, he said that a recent shooting linked to a feud involving 50 demonstrated the need for such a policy.
There's a difference in the having the right to express yourself and in engaging in violence and using the violence to hype record sales
and then polluting young Americans that this is the key to success by gunslinging and shooting he said.
Whether or not that's been the key to 50's success, he's certainly having a lot of it these days.
50 Cent is poised to debut at No. 1 on next week's album charts with his new album, The Massacre. The follow-up to his 2003 debut
Get Rich or Die Tryin' -which sold 8 million copies -The Massacre is on track to sell about 1 million copies in just four days. In addition
he's got the nation's No. 1 single with Candy Shop. It comes a week after a bitter feud broke out involving the rapper and his former protege
The Game. A member of The Game's crew was wounded during a shooting outside a New York hip-hop radio station
where 50 Cent -who produced part of The Game's platinum-selling debut album -was on the air
announcing that he was kicking him out of his G-Unit clique.
