Canadian Minister Calls for 50 Cent Ban

50 Cent should be prevented from touring Canada next month because he promotes gun-related violence, according to a Canadian MP.

Hip-hop star 50 Cent could be banned from performing in Canada next month, if a crusading gun-crime politician has his way. The In Da Club hitmaker, real name Curtis Jackson, faces opposition for allegedly promoting gun violence, in his rap lyrics and with new film Get Rich Or Die Tryin’. MP Dan McTeague fears that his upcoming tour, which kicks off in Vancouver on December 3, will incite gangland brawls and potentially escalate the recent wave of fatal shootings in the country.

McTeague says: "This is not a question of censorship. This is a question of trying to protect impressionable young men in our communities who are being destroyed in the prime of their lives. "I don’t think the people of Toronto want to hear Mr Jackson’s harmful message right now." McTeague has written a letter to Immigration Minister Joe Volpe, who is understood to be considering the situation, reports Reuters.

50 Cent, who was shot nine times in a gang incident in 2000, recently released Get Rich or Die Tryin’, a fictionalised portrait of his career.

Posters for the film, which depicted its star holding a microphone in one hand and a pistol in the other, were removed in some areas of the US following complaints that they glorified gun crime.

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