50 Cent arrested for onstage profanity during concert in Caribbean

50 Cent was reportedly arrested during his Saturday night (June 25) concert on the Caribbean island of St. Kitts for using profanity on stage, a violation of the nation's law.

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The rapper was booked for saying the word "motherf---er" in front of 40,000 people during his hit song "P.I.M.P.," TMZreports. 50 Cent's DJ reportedly didn't have a clean version of the 2003 single and the rapper refrained from pulling away the microphone when using the curse word.

After the performance, officials took the rapper to the police station and booked him for using profanity in public, TMZ says. He will have to appear in court and pay a fine on Monday.

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Billboard has reached out to 50 Cent's representatives for comment.

In 2003, authorities also arrestedDMX for using profanity during a concert on St. Kitts. The rapper performed before a crowd of about 3,000 at St. Kitts' annual music festival. Organizers said they warned DMX he would not be allowed to use obscenities on stage, which is a misdemeanor in this former British colony.

"There was a contract signed in which it was made very clear long before the arrival of the artists that there are laws in St. Kitts that do not take kindly to the use of indecent language on stage," information minister Jacinth Henry Martin said at the time.

DMX, however, said he signed no such contract, and he would not have performed if he had been forced to censor his language.

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