Rapper 50 Cent reveals why he 'turned down $3 million' to perform at Donald Trump rally in New York City

Rapper 50 Cent claims Donald Trump's campaign offered him $3 million to perform at his Madison Square Garden rally - but he turned it down.

The musician, who has not formally endorsed the former president but is known to be supportive of him, said he tried to avoid politics. 

Trump held a massive and controversial rally in New York City on Sunday as a closing act to his presidential campaign.

'I got a call on Sunday... they offered me $3 million,' 50 Cent, real name Curtis Jackson, told the The Breakfast Club on 105.1 FM in New York on Tuesday.

Whether he literally meant the campaign called him at the 11th hour on Sunday, or just contact him about it earlier, was unclear.

The hosts asked if they also offered him money to perform at the Republican National Convention in July and he nodded his head and said 'mmhmm'.

Jackson said neither conversation got very far, as he was uninterested in performing or appearing at either political event.

'I'm afraid of politics... because when you do get involved in it, no matter how you feel, someone passionately disagrees with you,' he said.

'I stay away from religion, I stay away from politics.'

Jackson then dragged Kanye West into the conversation by reducing the fellow rapper's hundreds of vile anti-Semitic rants to merely 'religion' and 'politics'.

'That's the formula for the confusion that sent Kanye to Japan,' he said.

'He said something about both of those things (religion and politics), and now he can only go to Japan. So I don't want to get into that.'

The radio hosts then pranked him by saying they had to let him go because Vice President Kamala Harris was on the line.

'You wanna say hi?' they said.

'Why you guys trying to put me into this stuff? I thought we was cool,' Jackson replied.

He got up to walk away but sat back down when the hosts all laughed and he realized it was a joke.

Jackson spoke positively of Trump in the past, once saying 'maybe Trump is the answer' in response to a news article about the migrant crisis.

'I think Trump's gonna be president again, but I'm not gonna say that,' he wrote on Twitter in March.

Then in June he said many black men were 'identifying with Trump' because 'they've got RICO charges [too]'.

Jackson's 2003 track Many Men became something of an anthem among MAGA faithful after Trump walked on stage to it at his first rally after the July 13 assassination attempt.

'Many men wish death upon me. Blood in my eye, dawg, and I can't see, I'm tryin' to be what I'm destined to be,' is one of the song's lines.

The rapper later explained how streaming for Many Men jumped dramatically after the rally.

'He says fight. All right. And that's exactly what I did after I got shot. I just went into fight mode. People identify with it that way,' he said.

The closest Jackson came to endorsing Trump was in 2020 when he jumped the gun on an incorrect report that NYC residents could be taxed at 62 per cent under Joe Biden.

'WHAT THE F**K! (VOTE ForTRUMP) IM OUT. F**K NEW YORK The KNICKS never win anyway. I don't care Trump doesn't like black people 62% are you out of ya f**king mind,' he wrote at the time.

'I don't wanna be 20cent.'

Jackson realized his error with the help of his ex-girlfriend Chelsea Handler, and recanted his support a couple of weeks later.

F**k Donald Trump, I never liked him. For all I know he had me set up and had my friend Angel Fernandez killed but that’s history. LOL,' he wrote.