50 Cent Shocks Indian Web Viewers By Unzipping

11/19/07 7:30pm

Richard Gere caused an international incident in sexually conservative India when he kissed Bollywood actress Shilpa Shetty on stage during an AIDS awareness press conference in Delhi earlier this year, and 50 Cent seems set to follow in his footsteps of flaming South Asian furor after a recent online interview.

The American hip-hop star was instructed how to say "beautiful girl" in Hindi while being interviewed for the desihits.com website in advance of his first concert in India when he stood up from his chair, unzipped his fly and said: "Everyone around the world knows sign language. I am looking forward to coming to India. Every country I have been to, even if I don't speak the language, people know what I mean when I do this."

The interviewer covered his face with a shirt he was about to give the artist and seemed exasperated by his playful threat to "show us his wicket."

Fiddy also used the interview to rate the looks of Bollywood actresses and taste of Indian desserts, and the entrepreneurial rapper seemed interested when the host proposed that he could appeal to Indian fans by launching an incense line called 50 Scent. To avoid offending more Hindus, he probably should avoid packaging the aromatic sticks with a vibrating stick of a more personal nature that he's discussed marketing in the past.