50 Cent will perform in several locations in Finland this month.
50 Cent enjoys Finland. PDO
A rap legend 50 Cent performs in November in several locations in Finland. The tour started from Seinäjoki this week, today Thursday it’s Oulu’s turn, Friday it’s Turku’s Logomo and Saturday Kuopio-halli.
Iltalehti reached 50 Cent via e-mail, who told why he has so many gigs in Finland.
– I had a great time at Blockfests and in Helsinki, and I didn’t want it to end. I’ve had so much fun here, 50 Cent said.
50 Cent performed at Blockfests in Tampere last summer, he performed in Helsinki at the beginning of October. The October gig was part of the rapper’s European tour. After the gig, the artist continued his journey towards Norway and Sweden and Central Europe. Shortly after the end of the European tour, the artist returned to Finland.
The peak years of 50 Cent’s popularity date back twenty years, when he released mega hits In Da Club, and Candy Shop.
Popularity in Finland has remained stable, not 50 Cent, his real name Curtis James Jackson IIIotherwise it would appear here so often.
– Finns know what good music is like, 50 Cent answers the question about the secret of his popularity in Finland.
50 Cent has also performed in the 2000s. Perhaps the most special gig was seen and heard in August 2004, when 50 Cent, then one of the most popular artists in the world, performed at Koff’s gig at Helsinki’s Tavastia. You couldn’t buy tickets to the gig, but to get inside you had to participate in a competition and hope for a lucky draw.
50 Cent’s gig fee was thought to have been gigantic.
The warm-up guy for the Tavastian gig was Paleface.
– It was difficult from the beginning. The security arrangements were unbelievably tight. There were even rumors that bomb dogs sniffed Tavastia in the morning before the sound checks, Paleface said in 2019 for Klangi magazine.
50 Cent performed last February at the Super Bowl in Los Angeles. PDO
Born in New York, 50 Cent, 47, has sold more than 30 million albums in his career and performed around the world.
50 Cent tells Iltalehte that he did the most memorable gig last February.
– Super Bowl, 50 Cent says to himself.
50 Cent performed at the Super Bowl last year together Dr Dre, Snoop Dogg’s, Eminem’s, Mary J. Blige and by Kendrick Lamar with.
50 Cent has also worked as an actor and producer.
In January 2020, Jackson received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and the NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People) Award for Best Directing in a Drama Series.