50 Cent will reportedly appear at Donald Trump Jr.’s members-only club Executive Branch on the eve of America’s 250th anniversary celebrations.
The “In Da Club” rapper, 50, is set to perform on July 3 at the exclusive Washington, D.C. club, which charges an annual membership fee of half a million dollars.
The Daily Beast reports that 50 Cent’s booking comes after similar headline sets by Busta Rhymes, Ja Rule and Timbaland.
50 Cent, whose real name is Curtis Jackson, claimed in 2024 that he turned down millions of dollars to appear at Donald Trump’s controversial rally at New York’s Madison Square Garden because he’s “afraid of politics.”
During an appearance on an episode of The Breakfast Club podcast, the rapper claimed that the Trump campaign “offered $3m to do it,” and that he had also been offered a similar amount to perform his 2003 hit “Many Men (Wish Death)” at the Republican National Convention.
He said he turned down both offers, adding: “I’m afraid about politics.” The rapper previously backed Trump in 2020, but later walked back his endorsement.
This latest booking comes after President Trump’s planned Freedom 250 concert series fell into disarray.
On Friday, a performance by “Ice Ice Baby” rapper Vanilla Ice was canceled two hours before he was set to take the stage.
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Freedom 250, the president’s public-private organization tasked with throwing celebrations for the 250th anniversary of American independence, announced after 5 p.m. ET Friday that “due to inclement weather” the “Great American State Fair,” where Vanilla Ice was set to perform, would be closed for the rest of the day.
“The safety of our guests, staff, and partners remains our top priority. We are actively monitoring conditions and will provide updates as they become available,” Freedom 250 wrote on X. The organization added that the fair would reopen the following day.
Virtually every artist who was scheduled to perform at the concert series — including Martini McBride, The Commodores and Bret Michaels — dropped out of Freedom 250’s lineup shortly after it was announced.
Vanilla Ice had been the last artist standing for Friday’s still-scheduled “I Love the ‘90s” concert, which originally featured Milli Vanilli, Young MC and C+C Music Factory.
Once performers started pulling out, Trump stepped in, calling himself the “Number One Attraction anywhere in the World.”
“I am thinking about bringing the Number One Attraction anywhere in the World, the man who gets much larger audiences than Elvis in his prime, and he does so without a guitar, the man who loves our Country more than anyone else, and the man who some say is the Greatest President in History,” Trump said about himself in a Truth Social post last month.
Trump gave a political, rally-style speech to kick off the “Great American State Fair” last Wednesday.
