Despite the support of a spontaneously materializing fan-horde, rapper 50 Cent was arrested for minor traffic offenses in Midtown Manhattan this afternoon, Gawker reports. Reuters says that a crowd gathered 'round his silver Lamborghini and "cheered the recording artist and jeered police as they handcuffed him." ("Free 50!" one commenter on Gawker proclaims.)
The crowd was breaking a cardinal rule, at least according to Marcus, 50 Cent's character in Get Rich Or Die Tryin':
Marcus: Rule number five… Show no love. Love will get you killed.
The custom license plate on Fiddy's hot-shitmobile (visible in pictures sent to Gawker), which reads "UNIQUE," suggests he might also be having some kind of vocabulary crisis. Besides, with that gleaming brushed-steel finish, you could hide it in the cutlery aisle of a Williams-Sonoma and no one would notice it for days. He's survived nine gunshot wounds, but judging by the offenses, as reported by Reuters, he could really use some thugspiration at this point in life:
The rapper, whose given name is Curtis Jackson, was cited for making an unsafe lane change, driving with an expired permit, driving without insurance and driving without a vehicle registration, a police spokesman said.
Anyone who's ever turned on a police scanner might ask: Shouldn't this kind of thing happen in the as-yet-imaginary prequel to Get Rich Or Die Tryin'?