50 Cent Takes A Victory Lap at Toronto's Cabana Pool Bar: Canadian Concerts of the Week
Also this week: it's festival season, with Hillside, Le Festif! and the Vancouver Folk Music Festival all happening on the same weekend.
50 Cent
Summer is in swing, and that means festival season. While many of the biggest ones take place in August, this weekend sees a handful of folk or adjacent events with the perfect summer vibes. Find those below, after our concert of the week featuring one of the biggest rap success stories of the last two decades.
Concert of the Week
50 Cent at Cabana Pool Bar, Toronto — Saturday, July 20
More than 20 years after his blockbuster debut album, 50 Cent is still getting rich. The "In Da Club" rapper recently embarked on his Final Lap Tour, celebrating the 20th anniversary of Get Rich or Die Tryin''. According to Billboard's Boxscore ranking, it made him only the second rapper to ever surpass $100 million in earnings for a tour.
Now, after a well-received recent legacy-cementing performance at FEQ in Quebec City, he's taking another lap with a daytime show at Toronto's Cabana Pool Bar, the luxury daytime outdoor venue run by INK Entertainment near Rebel nightclub. Surrounded by pools and Toronto skyline vistas, he's sure to light up the crowd with his many hits. He's got a connection to the city, too, with Toronto rapper Pressa opening some of 50 Cent's earlier tour dates.
He's shown his music still permeates pop culture, if for unusual reasons. Following the assassination attempt on former U.S. President Donald Trump, 50 Cent's "Many Men" blew up in streams as a defiant anthem and meme. Cabana, too, has been an ideal backdrop for big music moments, with clips of Tinashe performing her viral hit "Nasty" filling TikTok after her performance there last week.
It's all a good recipe for a memorable summer show.
11 Polson Street, Toronto. Tickets available here.
More Canadian Concerts of the Week
Vancouver Folk Music Festival, Vancouver — July 18-20
Featuring Jeremy Dutcher, James Vincent McMorrow, Leif Vollebekk and more. Tickets here.
Le Festif! in Baie-Saint-Paul, Quebec — July 18-20
Featuring Half Moon Run, Karkwa, Salebarbes and more. Tickets here.
Hillside Festival in Guelph, Ontario — July 19-20
Featuring Patrick Watson, NOBRO, Terra Lightfoot and more. Tickets here.
Metric at The KEE to Bala, Muskoka, Ontario — July 19 & 20
Canadian indie veterans at a historic venue recently bought by Live Nation. Tickets here.
