50 Cent may have pivoted away from music over the last decade, but his Final Lap Tour is proof he still has major pull as an artist.
On Thursday (March 28), it was reported by Touring Data that 50’s worldwide trek has pulled in just over $84 million — and that’s just based on figures from 71 of 103 shows.
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If the numbers for the remaining 32 shows also average out at just over 13,000 tickets per night — at an average of $90.27 per ticket — the tour would gross a total of $122.5 million.
That would put the Final Lap Tour in the upper echelon of rap tours, behind only JAY-Z and Beyoncé‘s On the Run II Tour ($253 million) and Drake‘s It’s All a Blur Tour, which has grossed over $189 million (and counting).
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50 Cent reacted to the news on Instagram, and took the opportunity to jab his ex-girlfriend and baby mother Daphne Joy over the allegations she was paid by Diddy as a sex worker.
“Whistle while you work guys, that’s my theme for today. I made all this money and I’m practicing abstinence, [shrug emoji] I don’t want a little sex worker,” he wrote.
Billed as 50 Cent’s farewell as a touring artist (as its name suggests), the Final Lap Tour began in North America last July and later invaded Europe, Australia and Saudi Arabia among other regions.
The 103-date excursion featured support from Busta Rhymes, Jeremih, Tony Yayo and Uncle Murda, as well as surprise one-off appearances from Eminem, J. Cole and even Ed Sheeran.
Busta credited the massive tour with helping him lose weight, joking: “I’m sexy. I lost 37 pounds on that fuckin’ tour. I wasn’t asking if y’all thought I was sexy or not, I just wanted you muthafuckas to understand I’m sexy, period.”
Meanwhile, Yayo revealed that 50 bankrolled the entire tour himself and carried himself with military-level discipline throughout.
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“He don’t smoke no weed, he really don’t drink like that,” the G-Unit soldier said in an interview with Vlad TV. “He’s reading scripts, he’s securing movie deals, he got the Louisiana Tyler Perry big-ass type of studios out there. So when you see somebody working like that, it motivates you.”
