50 Cent distances himself from attack on Melbourne artist Lushsux
Social media banter between Melbourne artist Lushsux and American rapper 50 Cent has seemingly turned ugly after thugs bashed the local graffiti artist, putting him in hospital.
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Rapper 50 Cent has distanced himself from an attack on a Melbourne street artist.
Melbourne artist Lushsux posted a graphic photo from a hospital bed, after his artwork mocking rapper 50 Cent saw the US music star issue threats over social media.
The rapper has been quick to use his social media account to say he had nothing to do with inciting the incident.
Lushsux, who has 877,000 Instagram followers, has created a series of parody artworks where 50 Cent has been morphed with everyone from Oprah Winfrey to Mike Tyson to Taylor Swift.
Yesterday the mysterious Lushsux posted a bloodied photo, taken this month, which he said was the result of being attacked by a gang while he was doing his street art.
“Unfortunately some 6 or 7 smoothebrains at one time on the street already put me in hospital already this month because of this sh--,” Lushsux posted.
“I don’t like to bring up all the bad stuff I have to deal with just to paint some ha ha funny you laugh now images on walls but I guess now is a chance.
“I constantly have to unwillingly fight people on the street who for whatever cooked reason seem to feel the need to come up to me at a wall and start trouble. It’s tiresome but it will not ever stop me doing what 99.8% of what everyone else seems to for the most part get a hearty chuckle out of, because they aren’t sociopathic pieces of sh--.”
The pair have bene engaged in a curious banter online for months, with the rapper regularly re-posting the Melbourne artist’s humorous work to his millions of social media followers.
Lushsux’s Instagram bio reads: “The No.1 50 Cent stan account on the internet”.
50 Cent’s comments on Lushsux’s work have included: “I’m sick of this sh--, he think I can’t find his ass in Australia, I’m a have a knot put right on his f-----g head” as well as “This guy need a ass whoopin bad, she still doin this sh--”.
The rapper also called him a “talented nut case”, however was quick to react to Lushsux’s hospital post.
Overnight 50 Cent posted: “The artist got (punched) in the (face) that wasn’t me, I didn’t do that.”
He added: “Get well soon” then “nah, f--- that, why you paint me as Oprah fool.”
Lushsux replied: “I don’t blame 50 for getting jumped, I blame violent video games, we gotta ban that sh-- already.”
Lushsux has been approached for comment.