One of rapper 50 Cent’s team G-Unit is an asylum seeker residing in a UK resort on the taxpayers’ expense.
Bang Em Smurf, whose actual identify is Daniel Calliste, used to be a short-lived member of the hip hop posse – even showing within the video for the long-lasting 2003 chart topper In Da Club.
Calliste is now residing within the Novotel resort close to Stevenage in Hertfordshire, which is getting used to accommodate asylum seekers, The Sun reported.
The 102-room, four-star assets is these days closed to the general public.
Calliste is thought to have fled to the United Kingdom on the finish of 2024 after claiming he used to be below risk from gang participants in his hometown of Trinidad.
He used to be born there however emigrated to America and began rapping age 15, finishing up as a part of the unique G-Unit line-up and unofficially 50 Cent’s head of safety.
‘You couldn’t breathe the similar air as 50 with out going via Smurf. That used to be his shooter, his gunner,’ fellow Queens Domination informed Vice in 2005.
However the pair later fell out when Calliste were given arrested after a New York shoot out in 2004, and 50 Cent – actual identify Curtis Jackson – refused to pay Smurf’s $75,000 bail.
Bang Em Smurf, actual identify Daniel Calliste, used to be a short-lived member of the hip hop posse – even showing within the video for the long-lasting 2003 chart topper In Da Club

However, he’s these days residing an asylum seeker in a UK resort on the taxpayers’ expense after claiming he’s at risk from gangs in his local Trinidad

Rap celebrity 50 Cent together with his fellow G-Unit participants Lloyd Banks (left) and Young Buck (proper)
‘That’s after I first set to work with Domination. I had a mixtape with Domination, and I’m at the block and my homie were given a state of affairs, and this dude he had an issue with knocked him out,’ Calliste informed AllHipHop.com.
‘Laid him flat out in entrance of me, and that’s my dude. So we did what we did. Dudes we were given within the battle with saved it gutter.
‘They were given hit up, they didn’t say not anything – they didn’t pass to no sanatorium in Queens. I admire their gangsta.’
Smurf ended up serving three-and-a-half years for gun ownership after the incident and used to be deported again to Trinidad upon his unencumber.
A supply stated: ‘It’s loopy he used to be let in after being deported from america with a prison file for violent offences.
‘His historical past is widely recognized. He is being supported via the taxpayer.’
Calliste claims he got here to the United Kingdom as Universal used to be making plans to evolve his 2018 memoir Wisdom of a Wolf: The G Behind the Unit into a movie.
He used to be additionally noticed playing his 44th birthday in Battersea in South London previous this yr.

The Novotel is these days closed to the general public as it’s solely housing asylum seekers

Members of the crowd “G-Unit,” Young Buck, left, 50 Cent, heart, and Lloyd Banks carry out on the MTV studios in New York’s Times Square as a part of MTV’s ‘Spankin’ New Music Week,’ Thursday, Nov. 13, 2003
It is thought that Calliste’s utility for asylum has been rejected and he’s going to be deported again to his local Trinidad.
He informed The Sun: ‘There ain’t no tale. You’re speaking to the pony’s mouth. I’m telling you, that is faux information.’