50 Cent will be busy in Prague. He sold out the O2 arena in a week, adds a second concert
In just one week, American rapper 50 Cent announced a sold-out concert in Prague’s O2 arena. On the original date of October 18, the organizing agency Bestsport announced a second performance. It will take place a day earlier, on October 17, at the same location.
Tickets priced from 1,990 to 2,390 crowns are available in the Ticketmaster and Ticketportal networks. Prague’s O2 arena is the largest covered hall in the country. It has a capacity of up to 20,000 spectators and welcomes over 600,000 people annually.
The 47-year-old representative of the gangsta rap genre and businessman Curtis James Jackson III, who has sold over 30 million records worldwide and won a Grammy Award, started selling drugs at the age of 12. He was arrested several times and spent half a year in an educational institution.
In 196 he started his musical career under the pseudonym 50 Cent. His biggest success came in 2003 with his debut album Get Rich or Die Tryin’, on which he worked with rapper Dr. Drem and the Shady Records label founded by Eminem. A recording containing tracks In the Da club or 21 Questions became the best-selling album of the year in the US.
With former colleagues Dr. Dr. 50 Cent reunited with Drem and Eminem this February during the halftime performance of the Super Bowl, i.e. the finals of the American Football League. The trio was joined by rappers Snoop Dogg and Kendrick Lamar with soul singer Mary J. Blige.
So far, 50 Cent has only performed in the Czech Republic, in 2010 at Tesla Arena in Prague. The concert was followed by an afterparty in a club in Štvanice. “50 Cent embarked on a spectacular concert series that does not skimp on pyro effects or projections, imitation dollar bills rain down on the visitors and beautiful virgins are offered to them from the screen,” Aktuálně.cz wrote at the time.
50 Cent’s track In Da Club has over 1.5 billion views on YouTube. | Video: Shady Records