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50 Cent to Mayweather: Read ‘Cat in the Hat’ instead of Potter

50 Cent isn’t going to stop until Floyd Mayweather Jr. answers his challenge.

The 39-year-old rapper, whose real name is Curtis Jackson, posted another video to Instagram urging the boxer, 37, to prove he can read on Thursday.

After saying that Jimmy Kimmel had agreed to air Mayweather’s attempt at the challenge on “Jimmy Kimmel Live,” 50 Cent tweaked his initial dare in hopes of making it more amenable to the boxer.

“We know you can’t pronounce those words in that Harry Potter book, so we’re going to let you read ‘The Cat in the Hat,'” he taunts in the latest clip.

Earlier Thursday, 50 Cent laid down his stipulations while doing the popular ALS Ice Bucket Challenge.

“This is a special [ALS/ESL] challenge for you, Floyd,” he said in the first video. “If you can read one full page of a Harry Potter book … I’ll give $750,000 to whatever charitable organization you want to.”

The rapper has spent his summer poking fun at his former friend’s recent romantic troubles, taking every opportunity to remind the undefeated fighter that his ex-fiancée, Shantel Jackson, left him for the rapper Nelly.

Mayweather has yet to accept or decline 50 Cent’s challenge.

On Friday, Power 105’s “The Breakfast Club” aired a clip of Mayweather struggling to read a voiceover for the show.