The 20th anniversary of the World Trade Center attacks fell on Saturday (September 11). The harrowing event was the deadliest terrorist attack in human history, with 2,977 fatalities, over 25,000 injuries and significant long-term health consequences for many of the first responders. It also caused over $10 billion in infrastructure and property damage in the New York City area and beyond.
As people commemorated the horrific day on social media, 50 Cent found himself in hot water once again for choosing to promote his various brands alongside a photo of the twin towers.
On Saturday afternoon, the television executive posted a black-and-white photo of one of the hijacked planes heading for the South Tower as smoke billows from the North Tower on both Twitter and Instagram. He wrote, “This day will forever be remembered, to those who lost loved ones my condolences.”
While it was seemingly a heartfelt sentiment, it was the hashtags at the end — #bransoncognac and #lecheminduroi — that got under people’s skin.
“Did you seriously fucking hashtag your liquor on a 9/11 post?!?!” one person tweeted, while another said with a healthy dose of sarcasm, “My thoughts and prayers are with the little bottles of cognac and champagne that were aboard #AA11 and #AA77 and #UA175 and #UA93 today… #BransonCognac.”
Others accused 50 Cent of having “zero class” and being “tacky.”
50 Cent Slammed For Distasteful Instagram Post Following 'The Wire' Actor Michael K. Williams' Death
50 Cent also riled up social media following the overdose death of The Wire actor Michael K. Williams last week. Shortly after the news broke, Fiddy chose to use the New York Post‘s article about Williams’ death to promote his popular television show Raising Kanan.
“Damn if you didn’t see Raising Kanan check it out,” he captioned the post. “that fentanyl is no joke, killing the clientele. RIP michael k. williams.”
Williams called out 50 Cent for allegedly spreading a false rumor about James “Jimmy Henchman” Rosemond getting jumped behind bars in 2018, which led to a brief social media spat between the two. Their sordid history made the post even more questionable to Williams’ fans.
Check out some of the reactions to 50 Cent’s September 11 post below.
Eventually dude is going to get himself canceled
If it hasn’t happened yet it probably never will.
Can’t cancel what you don’t subscribe too
He will never be cancelled. That’s new little kid shit. People that fuck w 50 love the controversy. Good or bad it’s entertaining
That hat fire
It’s sad that all these people OD’d, but they made that choice. Being a celebrity, he knew what he was risking if he died and/or got caught…. And he did… Rip to the man, but 50 ain’t wrong for that joke. And Michael K Williams is far more of a legend than Mac Miller’s wack ass (rip) just because you die doesn’t make you good after the fact. His music was ass. He sounded like a cheap rip off of wiz khalifa, who also sucks.
White people act like 9/11 was the greatest attack on American soil…when in fact the bloodiest attacks on American soil were led by Americans.
Black people act like they were the only one’s held in bandage and slavery. Too many are willfully ignorant, choosing racism over freedom. As far as they’re concerned, Larry Elder is a white supremacist simply for being a successful black man. Too funny.
Weak troll attempt.
It’s the tag on all of his posts. Ppl love to find something to be offended by.
50 just trying to help – you feeling sad, maybe you lost someone in 9/11, then drink some Branson Cognac
Wypipo are pathetic.?
He puts that exact tag on every single post. It prob auto does it at this point
Put it like this, wrappers don’t care about anything other than money, not the culture and definitely not the fans. They want money and pussy THE END. Funny thing is a wrapper pretending to care, that’s hilarious. If 50 was white he’d fit right in there with the yahoodis and narcissistic elite.
Bro what u mean thats all they care for. They literally tell you that on their songs. Rappers are not like other musicians, that might care for their fans. They literally tell you they in it for the money and women, the message is I win You loose. Its like yall aint even be listenning to the lyrics or what.
50 is crazy, bad PR like that can lose you business. i thought he was a smarter businessman. smh