Shreveport Mayor Responds to Cryptic Message from Rapper & Businessman 50-Cent

Speculation continues to build after a recent social media post by rapper Curtis “50-Cent” Jackson that hints he may “pull back” from his deals in Shreveport. The message on his Instagram account stated:
“There are people in Shreveport that just don’t want things to get better. I only make deals that make sense. I’m gonna have to pull back on the Red River! Peace.”
Mayor Tom Arceneaux says he has not spoken to 50-Cent yet and does not know what this is all about. “I think this is something that requires some direct communications, if not between Mr. Jackson and myself, then between senior members of each team. And we’ll figure out where we need to go and what the issue is. And how to resolve it.”
Mayor Arceneaux says it’s no secret that 50-Cent had been in discussions about leasing spaces in the Red River Entertainment District in downtown Shreveport.
But the mayor added that 50-Cent has already committed to an investment plan backed up by millions of dollars in state reimbursements. The project includes renovating the former Stageworks facility, upgradingMillennium Studios and building an immersive venue known as the G-Dome.
Arceneaux continued, “I have no information whatsoever that Mr. Jackson, who I assume and have experience with him as a man of goodfaith that he is going to continue with the commitments that he has already made.”
But the mayor also added that he is not “in any way, shape, or form, in a panic about anything.”