Aug 30 2009 6:11 PM EDT JACKSON, New Jersey — in his old Queens neighborhood on Sunday (August 30), but the G-Unit rapper got
plenty of hometown love during an hour-plus set he put on Saturday evening at Six Flags Great Adventure amusement park in New Jersey. Fif organized a “Family Day” weekend, with events taking place both in New Jersey and in his old Jamaica stomping grounds in New York. But on Friday, his charity, the G-Unity Foundation, announced Sunday’s festivities — also called “40 Day” in honor of housing projects adjacent to PS 40 school in Queens where the picnic was scheduled to occur — would no longer be taking place because they were unable to obtain a permit. The rapper, as previously planned, was still able to bus a number of families from Queens down to New Jersey to enjoy a day at the park on Saturday capped off by a G-Unit performance. “This show isn’t my regular show,” 50 told the cheering crowd of Southside Jamaica residents. “I’m doing something different tonight. I’m doing music that this crowd can relate to.” Flanked by Tony Yayo and Lloyd Banks, 50 ripped through a number of early album cuts and G-Unit favorites, including “Poor Lil Rich” and “Straight Outta Southside.” “I wanna thank y’all for getting on the bus,” 50 said between songs. “When I tried to do it in the ‘hood … they tell me I don’t come through the ‘hood. I come through. But you don’t see me ’cause I’m usually in something where I can’t be seen. You see them over there, though, that’s the motherf—ing police. They the ones that say I can’t do it. I’m from the Southside!” Photo: Jamie McCarthy/ Getty Images