50 Cent has come under fire after posting a truly bizarre tribute to The Wire star Michael K. Williams, who was found dead in his Brooklyn apartment.
Rapper 50 Cent is being ripped for using the death of The Wire actor Michael K. Williams to promote his liquor and TV show.
The 46-year-old rapper, real name Curtis Jackson, on Monday posted some emojis of wide-open eyes alongside a screenshot of The NY Post’s report breaking the news of The Wire star’s death in Brooklyn.
“Damn if you didn’t see Raising Kanan check it out that fentanyl is no joke, killing the clientele,” Jackson wrote, plugging the Starz show, Power Book III: Raising Kanan, based on his childhood in Queens.
“R. I. P micheal k williams,” he wrote, misspelling the actor’s name — and following it with hashtags promoting his line of wine and cognac.
50 Cent soon deleted the post after getting a torrent of abuse for it — but then also posted a throwback to his beef with Williams that started over a separate, fatal feud between mutual friends of theirs, using a screenshot from Page Six.
“Don’t ever try to understand me. I’m different. I don’t do all the fake love s**t,” Jackson wrote.
He has since deleted that post, too — but not before both were widely shared and eviscerated online.
“50 Cent is my favourite rapper ever, but this is disrespectful as hell and corny,” one fan wrote. “He is a bi*** for that, can’t defend the n***a no mo,” the fan insisted, adding, “RIP Michael Williams.”
“Idc what anyone says, using someone’s tragic & untimely death to promote your own show with an insensitive arse caption is VILE,” someone named Dedee wrote.
“50 Cent has always been ignorant, but this is crossing the line.”
Another one-time fan called the rapper “honestly disgusting and disrespectful as hell for this post.”
“So lame for this…..Sending my condolences to the family of Michael K. Williams,” she wrote.
“50 cent a h** for this,” another person wrote — with a follower even reckoning that “@50 cent should go to jail for that post.”
“Dude real live used a tragedy to promote his s**t,” another disgruntled fan added.
Jackson has not addressed the backlash since deleting the posts.
Williams was reportedly found dead in the living room of his luxury Kent Ave Williamsburg penthouse by his nephew.
“No foul play indicated,” a police source said. “No forced entry, the apartment was in order.”
The Brooklyn native was famous for his role as Omar Little in the gritty TV series The Wire and as Chalky White in Boardwalk Empire.
Williams’ family confirmed the tragic news via his publicist with a statement to The Hollywood Reporter.
“It is with deep sorrow that the family announces the passing of Emmy nominated actor Michael Kenneth Williams. They ask for your privacy while grieving this unsurmountable loss,” his long-time rep Marianna Shafran told the publication.
Williams had been open about his personal struggles with drugs through the years, including during the filming of The Wire, saying that getting so into the role of Little, who robs drug dealers, affected him in real life.
The acclaimed actor told NPR in 2016 that he once stumbled into a church in New Jersey desperately seeking help for his addiction.
“When I came through those doors, I was broken. … This was, I would say, around the … third season of ‘The Wire,’” Williams said.
“I was on drugs. I was in jeopardy of destroying everything I had worked so hard for, and I came in those doors, and I met a man who had never even heard of The Wire, much less watched it,” he said, referring to the pastor.
“I wrote my full name down — Michael Kenneth Williams — and in the office, [the pastor] turns around, and he says, ‘So what do you want to be called, man?’ I said, ‘Well, you know, my name is Michael, but I could do Mike.’ He says, ‘Why does everybody say, ‘Omar, Omar’s in trouble?’
“And I was like, ‘Oh, this dude is clueless [about the show],’” Williams said.
This article originally appeared in the NY Post and was reproduced with permission.
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