More of Rapper’s Movie Billboards Get Yanked
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Twenty-one billboards plugging rapper 50 Cent’s movie “Get Rich or Die Tryin’ ” are coming down in Philadelphia amid opposition from community groups. The billboards show the rapper, whose real name is Curtis Jackson, holding a gun in one hand and a microphone in the other.
“It’s a very offensive message that is part of a mind-set that says you can solve problems with violence,” said Bilal Qayyum, a leader of the group Men United for a Better Philadelphia.
In Los Angeles, Paramount Pictures earlier agreed to remove some billboards for the movie after activists in a South L.A. neighborhood protested.
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