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UPDATED: 50 Cent is likely to be in severe authorized hassle after angrily hanging a concertgoer within the head with a microphone throughout his “Remaining Lap” tour cease at Cryto.com Enviornment in Los Angeles on Aug. 30.
Movies of the altercation began surfacing quickly after the live performance wrapped and depicted a pissed off 50 Cent hurling his microphone into the group not as soon as however twice. The rapper was reportedly upset as a result of the microphones weren’t working and threw the primary one with little drive however as soon as the second microphone failed, he launched it into the viewers with amplified power.
The “Remaining Lap” tour incorporates particular company together with YG, who was acting on stage on the time that fifty Cent hit the viewers member. Photos of the alleged injured social gathering have began circulating on-line claiming the sufferer is Energy 106 host Bryhana Monegain. These photographs present a bloody Monegain with an open wound on her brow.
Monegain didn’t instantly reply to Selection‘s request for remark, however Scott Leemon, an lawyer for 50 Cent, mentioned in an announcement: “Let’s be very clear, as I instructed LAPD this afternoon, my shopper Curtis would by no means deliberately strike anybody with a microphone. Anybody saying one thing completely different doesn’t have all of the details and is misinformed.”
Regardless of Leemon’s remark, the Los Angeles Police Division was not capable of affirm to Selection {that a} police report had been filed, though a consultant did affirm that one had not been filed at Crypto.com Enviornment in reference to the incident.
50 follows within the footsteps of Cardi B, who additionally pelted a microphone into the group, beginning a short-lived authorized battle between her and the sufferer. In that occasion, nonetheless, she was retaliating towards a fan who threw a drink at her on stage, however the rapper ended up hitting one other individual close by. That individual filed a police report the subsequent day and Cardi was cleared of a potential battery cost within the days that adopted.
Previous to the mic-throwing, the roles had been reversed with concert-goers purposely concentrating on artists on stage. Beginning earlier this summer time, Bebe Rexha was virtually knocked out chilly by a fan throwing a mobile phone at her head in New York, Harry Types was hit with an unidentified object in Vienna, and Latto responded to an identical projectile in Germany by saying “Need your ass beat?
