50 Cent’s performance at the BET Awards was met with much speculation as to what went wrong. After botching up the intro to “Amusement Park” and leaving the first verse out, 50 went into the crowd to show love and try to disguise the mishap. Rumors mounted from lip syncing to just messing up but 50 showed up on BET’s 106 & Park to explain exactly what happened…
“When I prepared the performance, we went through the run-through and it just went totally different from what I actually got the chance to do,” he said. “It’s a disappointment, but I’ll get a chance to do it again, so I’ll feel good about it. But when I went through the run-through — we got some footage that we can show you — you see me come out from under there with no problem, without actually being hit by the aerialist. I’m like 25 feet in the air at that point. And later on when you see the actual show, it wasn’t planned for me to take my hat off or take my jacket off.”
He went on to mention that he was almost knocked off the 25ft high platform as he descended to the stage and thus completely lost his focus.
So how did he make it up to his fans? He performed “Amusement Park” again for the 106 & Park crowd. And this time there were no mishaps.
