From MTV News:

One overzealous fan doesn’t stop a show, Tony Yayo says. Earlier this week, footage of 50 Cent and G-Unit performing in Salvador, Brazil, hit the Internet. In the middle of “Ayo Technology,” a fan jumps onstage and tries to grab the G-Unit general. 50’s security and Lloyd Banks promptly subdue the fan – and the song never stops. On Tuesday (July 13), Yayo gave his take on the situation.

“The show got crazy, man,” Yayo, who is still in Brazil with his crew, told MTV News via phone. “For security reasons, when somebody jumps onstage … when [performers] got on chains for $20,000, $30,000, $40,000, that’s a security risk right here. Nobody should be onstage except me, Banks and 50. It was just a fan — he got a little carried away, a little happy. People make it seem like he got beat down real, real bad. He didn’t get beat down bad — he just got tackled, taken off the stage and the show [went] on.”

Yayo said that whenever the Unit go to foreign territories, fandemonium ensues.

“We been getting crazy love,” Tony added about the group’s time in Brazil. “That’s why I don’t want people in Brazil to think we out here beating down our fans. When somebody is on the stage, you want to keep the show going. We never stop the show. When you onstage and you got a crowd of 10,000 Brazilian people, you don’t want to stop it because a guy is jumping onstage. Just like Africa or other places you go, people get excited — we’re like UFOs to the people. They don’t see rappers come to Brazil and come to these other places. Sometimes fans get a little excited — that’s what that was about. The guy wasn’t beat up bad or nothing.”

The incident was hardly the first time a fan has crashed a G-Unit performance. Back in 2008, a fan in Angola jumped onstage and endeavored to make off with 50’s Cent chain. Fif and company promptly jumped in the audience and recovered the merchandise. The man was later arrested after being turned in to police by his own parents.

From Ozone Magazine:

Ozone reached out to Bay Area rappers E-40 and Universal Republic recording artist Bobby Brackins to allow members of the Hip Hop community, both seasoned and new, to offer their views on what many are calling an injustice.

E-40: It was clear to see that Oscar was on his stomach and they had him contained. It wasn’t like he was fighting the police. They was on his back. First of all, a taser is much lighter than a gun. So I don’t see how that was a mistake. Another thing is that after he shot him, he acting like it was nothing. He didn’t trip at all, it was like he did it before. I feel like it should’ve been a harsher sentence and he should have been fully convicted. I feel like the jury was unfair. There were no African Americans on the jury. I think it was wrong. I know the police are supposed to do their job, but that was wrong. He knows what he was doing when he killed him. Oscar didn’t think he was going to die that day. He was in the most harmless position possible.

Bobby Brackins: I feel like it’s crazy. It’s a real injustice. I don’t understand how you can be on video camera with your back to somebody in handcuffs and get killed and [the killer] gets away with involuntary manslaughter. It makes no sense to me and it just shows how corrupt the justice system can be. Oakland has been through a lot of hardships. I’m only 21 years old and a lot of my friends out there have [been killed]. You know the system is corrupt but you’ve just gotta try to be as positive and hopeful as possible. Hopefully, if more people around the world hear about the situation, the government and police officers will open their eyes and realize that they can’t get away with doing crimes like that.

If you’re not familar with the Oscar Grant situation and it’s aftermath, click here.