--- title: 50 Cent Bad Pitch Excessive Masturbation Joke on Reddit description: P.I.M.P. is right canonical: https://time.com/2822458/50-cent-claims-his-bad-pitch-was-due-to-an-injury-from-excessive-masturbation/ author: Melissa Locker article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-06-04T19:30:35.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T04:48:37.893Z og:title: 50 Cent Claims His Bad Pitch Was Due to an Injury From “Excessive Masturbation” og:description: P.I.M.P. is right og:url: https://time.com/2822458/50-cent-claims-his-bad-pitch-was-due-to-an-injury-from-excessive-masturbation/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt4fc7639b65b3ddbe/69868877f983e74af004d14f/480808651.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 2481 og:image:height: 1396 og:image:alt: "Noah" New York Premiere - Outside Arrivals og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: 50 Cent Claims His Bad Pitch Was Due to an Injury From “Excessive Masturbation” twitter:description: P.I.M.P. is right twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt4fc7639b65b3ddbe/69868877f983e74af004d14f/480808651.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # 50 Cent Claims His Bad Pitch Was Due to an Injury From “Excessive Masturbation” > Sponsored content. 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Rapper/actor 50 Cent attends the "Noah" New York Premiere at Ziegfeld Theatre on March 26, 2014 in New York City. Jim Spellman -- WireImage / Getty Images by [Melissa Locker](https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/) ## Melissa Locker Jun 4, 2014 7:30 PM UTC Last week, rapper Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson embarrassed himself by throwing an[ outrageously awful opening pitch](http://time.com/121324/watch-50-cents-epic-fail-of-a-first-pitch/) during a game between the New York Mets and the Pittsburgh Pirates. While he initially laughed it off with the reasonable point that he’s a rapper, not a baller, apparently the bad pitch was still irking him and he wanted to give his public a more satisfying reason for his lackluster baseball skills. Now, Jackson has come forward with another viable excuse for his poor performance: He has a “skeletal-muscle injury” on his left shoulder. The cause for that injury, though, is potentially more embarrassing than his pitch. In a Reddit [AMA](http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/277lmj/its%5F50%5Fcent%5Fask%5Fme%5Fanything/chy4igw), to promote his new album _Animal Ambition,_ 50 Cent claimed that the bad pitch was due to ‘excessive masturbation.’  Screenshot From Reddit There’s nothing more American than baseball, rap and “excessive masturbation” apparently. But with all that “excessive masturbation” when does he have time to hang out with his[ new friend Guy Fieri](http://time.com/2814296/the-seeds-of-a-best-friendship-between-guy-fieri-and-50-cent-have-been-planted/)? **MORE**: [Watch 50 Cent Explain Exactly What Solange Was Yelling at Jay Z About in That Elevator](http://time.com/97588/50-cent-narrates-solange-jayz-fight-video/) **MORE**: [The Seeds Of a Best Friendship Between Guy Fieri and 50 Cent Have Been Planted](http://time.com/2814296/the-seeds-of-a-best-friendship-between-guy-fieri-and-50-cent-have-been-planted/) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/2822458/50-cent-claims-his-bad-pitch-was-due-to-an-injury-from-excessive-masturbation/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/2822458/50-cent-claims-his-bad-pitch-was-due-to-an-injury-from-excessive-masturbation/"},"headline":"50 Cent Claims His Bad Pitch Was Due to an Injury From “Excessive Masturbation”","datePublished":"2014-06-04T19:30:35.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T04:48:37.893Z","description":"P.I.M.P. is right","url":"https://time.com/2822458/50-cent-claims-his-bad-pitch-was-due-to-an-injury-from-excessive-masturbation/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Sports topic","celebrities","Music","Baseball","50 Cent"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt4fc7639b65b3ddbe/69868877f983e74af004d14f/480808651.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Melissa Locker","jobTitle":"","url":"https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt4fc7639b65b3ddbe/69868877f983e74af004d14f/480808651.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"\"Noah\" New York Premiere - Outside Arrivals","caption":"\"Noah\" New York Premiere - Outside Arrivals","creditText":"Jim Spellman -- WireImage / Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/2822458/50-cent-claims-his-bad-pitch-was-due-to-an-injury-from-excessive-masturbation/","name":"50 Cent Claims His Bad Pitch Was Due to an Injury From “Excessive Masturbation”"}}]}] ```