50 Cent says the Trump campaign offered him $500,000 to reach out to black voters

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published 29 September 2017

You can find Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson in da club, but not onstage at a rally alongside Donald Trump.

When President Trump was still a candidate, his campaign reached out to the rapper when "they were having issues with the African-American vote," Jackson told Hot 97. "They wanted to pay me $500,000 as part of the campaign just to make an appearance. I was like, 'Nah, that's not good money.'" Too bad — that's the equivalent of three overseas jaunts on a military aircraft.

Jackson is hosting a new variety show called 50 Central, and thinks they'll definitely spoof Trump. "His presidency is an accident," he said. "If you were a president by accident, you might do some of the things Donald Trump is doing."

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Catherine Garcia has worked as a senior writer at The Week since 2014. Her writing and reporting have appeared in Entertainment Weekly, The New York Times, Wirecutter, NBC News and "The Book of Jezebel," among others. She's a graduate of the University of Redlands and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.