A former rapper from 50 Cent’s group G-Unit is now an asylum seeker living in a UK hotel.
Bang Em Smurf, whose real name is Daniel Calliste, was a former member of G-Unit
Calliste is now living in the Novotel hotel in Hertfordshire, which is being used to house asylum seekers, The Sun & Daily Mail reported.
The 102-room, four-star property is currently closed to the public.
Calliste fled to the UK at the end of 2024 after claiming he was under threat from gang members in his home nation of Trinidad.
He was born in Trinidad but emigrated to America and started rapping age 15, ending up as part of the original G-Unit line-up and allegedly was an unofficial 50 Cent’s head of security.
‘You couldn’t breathe the same air as 50 without going through Smurf. That was his shooter, his gunner,’ fellow Queens Domination told Vice in 2005.
However the pair later fell out when Calliste got arrested after a New York shoot out in 2004, and 50 Cent – real name Curtis Jackson – refused to pay Smurf’s $75,000 bail.
Calliste told AllHipHop.com: “That’s when I first started working with Domination. I had a mixtape with Domination, and I’m on the block and my homie got a situation, and this dude he had a problem with knocked him out”
“Laid him flat out in front of me, and that’s my dude. So we did what we did. Dudes we got in the conflict with kept it gutter. “
“They got hit up, they didn’t say nothing – they didn’t go to no hospital in Queens. I respect their gangsta.”
Smurf would end up serving a three-and-a-half years for gun possession after the incident and was then deported back to Trinidad upon release.
A source said: “It’s crazy he was let in after being deported from the US with a criminal record for violent offences”
“His history is well known. He is being supported by the taxpayer.”
Calliste claims he came to the UK as Universal was planning to adapt his 2018 memoir Wisdom of a Wolf: The G Behind the Unit into a film.
He was seen enjoying his 44th birthday in Battersea in South London earlier this year.
It is speculated that Calliste’s application for asylum has been rejected and he will be deported back to his native Trinidad.
He told The Sun: “There ain’t no story. You’re talking to the horse’s mouth. I’m telling you, that’s fake news.”
