Hurricane Chris has expanded on his criticism of fifty Cent‘s Humor & Concord pageant and prolonged an invite to bury the hatchet with the G-Unit boss.
The “A Bay Bay” rapper put 50 on blast final week over his inaugural music and comedy weekend in Shreveport, Louisiana — Chris’ hometown — accusing the mogul of failing to ebook any native artists to carry out.
50 hit again with a sequence of sneering social media posts mocking Chris’ rap profession.
In an interview with KSLA 12 following their spat, Hurricane Chris added extra context to his rant and defined that his points stem from 50 Cent saying that he needs to eradicate Shreveport’s “ratchet” fame.
“First off, let me begin by saying that it’s no hate for 50 Cent. The Humor & Concord pageant, I’m glad it occurred. I’m glad 50 Cent got here to Shreveport,” he started.
“However the place he went incorrect at first, when he initially got here to Shreveport, the very first thing he began to voice was, ‘No extra ratchet. This ain’t ratchet metropolis anymore.’ If you understand something concerning the Shreveport historical past, you understand we name ourselves the Ratchet Metropolis. And when an individual says that, they don’t imply that this can be a soiled, nasty place.”
“Now we have an artist, late and nice, that died by the title of Ratchet Life and he had the town in his palms. So it was an ideal disrespect so that you can come into this metropolis and say, ‘We’re getting the ratchet out of the town.’ Now we have folks beneath this floor buried which have that connected to their title and their legacy,” added Chris, who named his debut album 51/50 Ratchet.
“You couldn’t go to New York and say, ‘This ain’t the Huge Apple.’ You couldn’t go to New Orleans and say, ‘We’re not naming this the Huge Straightforward.’ You couldn’t go to Dallas and say, ‘We’re not calling this D-City anymore.’”
He then requested a gathering with 50 Cent to iron out what he calls a “misunderstanding”: “I simply need to sit down with 50 and hopefully have a dialog to let him know that the phrase that he was downplaying is greater than only a phrase. It’s really our tradition and one thing we have now grown to be happy with […] And I feel the folks that fifty is round will not be main him into the fitting route in understanding our tradition.”
Chris volunteered to do exactly that, saying: “I’m prepared to work with him. I feel it’s an enormous misunderstanding and we really want to sit down down […] I’m prepared to sit down down and we repair the whole lot […] Possibly I may take you to my grandma’s home and let her provide you with some actual soul meals.
“Although he made a bunch of humorous jokes on Instagram, I may arise beneath that strain. It’s all good.”
The 35-year-old rapper additionally clarified his criticism of the pageant’s lineup, saying he was referring to Shreveport artists, not these from your entire state of Louisiana. The native acts who did carry out, nonetheless, had been requested to take action without spending a dime, in line with Chris.
“Loads of artists carried out however they carried out without spending a dime. The Shreveport artists that carried out needed to carry out without spending a dime beneath a bridge — not even within the large stage enviornment,” he stated. “And what I want to present him is that we do have lots of artists that woul rock phases like that.
“It’s not about me. My son had a soccer sport that day so I couldn’t carry out. And it’s no malice, it’s no hate, it’s all love. However I need to voice my opinion as a result of I’ve been in Shreveport and I do know the historical past of my place, and I can’t permit the historical past to be erased.”
Hurricane Chris additional walked again his criticism of fifty Cent allegedly spending $500,000 to rent native police for the pageant.
“I used to be not upset in direction of that. We must be secure,” he added. “I hundred p.c agree with the spending the cash on security so the group might be secure. That’s cash properly spent.
“I feel I used to be simply pissed off with the truth that not one of the artists that I’ve seen put in lots of work on this metropolis bought paid to be on that stage.”
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