50 Cent to play extra concert following Eminem cancellation

Controversial rapper 50 Cent is to play an extra concert in Dublin following the dramatic cancellation of Eminem’s sell-out Slane gig, it has been announced.

50 Cent, who hit the charts with his song In Da Club, will play a show on September 17 in Dublin’s Point Theatre, in addition to the concert organised at the venue for September 18 next.

Tickets for the concert, priced €60 and €54.50, will go on sale on Thursday August 25 at 9am.

50 Cent was due to play a host of venues alongside Eminem across the UK and Ireland, including Slane Castle in Co Meath, before Eminem’s Anger Management Tour was cancelled at short notice.

The superstar rapper has been working with Irish director Jim Sheridan in New York City’s Bronx area filming ‘Get Rich or Die Tryin’ – a movie named after his famed album of the same name.

Sheridan’s film stars 50 Cent – whose real name is Curtis Jackson – as a drug dealer who tries to turn his back on crime to pursue his passion in rap music.

The rapper proved a lure for the filmmaker with his controversial past including imprisonment, several brushes with death, crime and drugs.

50 Cent, who comes from Southside Jamaica, Queens in New York, had several run-ins with the law before he turned toward rap in the mid-’90s.

He survived a stabbing at a Manhattan studio before being shot nine times in front of his grandmother’s house in Queens in 2000.

The rapper, who recently celebrated his 30th birthday on the set of the movie, hit the big time after Eminem signed him in a major contract deal and the release of In Da Club from the Get Rich or Die Tryin’ album followed.

His big screen debut is due out in the US in November.