Rapper 50 Cent and his former protégé The Game appeared at a charity event in Harlem on Wednesday to signify the end of their feud, which resulted in a shooting outside Hot 97 radio station on February 28. The two hip-hop performers shook hands and shared a strained hug on the stage of a small theater at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.

“We're here today to show that people can rise above the most difficult circumstances and together we can put negativity behind us," said 50, reading from a prepared statement. "A lot of people don't want to see it happen, but we're responding to the two most important groups, our family and our fans."

"I just want to apologize on behalf of myself and 50," said The Game, as reports AP. "I'm almost ashamed to have participated in the things that happened in the last couple of weeks."

Announcing the truce in a statement before a press conference, 50 Cent said: “I’m launching a new foundation, the G-Unit Foundation Inc, to help people overcome obstacles and make a change for the better in their lives… to help them overcome their situations. I realised that if I’m going to be effective at that, I have to overcome some of my own. Game and I need to set an example to the community.”

Game added, according to NME.com: “I see this is a real opportunity to show the power of our community. 50 and I are proving that real situations and real problems can be solved with real talk. This can also be seen as a big step for my organization, Black Wall Street, in terms of making a difference. Maybe we can help save some lives… the way rap music saved mine.”

Through their own charities, the rappers donated a total of $253,000 to the Boys Choir of Harlem and an unspecified amount to a foundation in Compton, the rundown Los Angeles neighborhood where The Game grew up.

The Rev. Al Sharpton, who recently called for a 90-day television and radio ban for performers who resort to violence to settle scores or promote albums, told The New York Times the event was a "positive thing," but added, "You can't forget that somebody was shot. You can't pull that bullet back. Somebody could have been killed. This is beyond, 'I'm sorry.' "

Meanwhile, the owners of the 10-storey building that houses radio station Hot 97 are asking that rap stars be allowed to take only one person with them to the radio station and that the city carpenters’ union that owns the building be notified a week before a scheduled performance to increase security.

"We have a problem with the number of people who come with them - their posses," the union's lawyer Brian O'Dwyer said.

"Sometimes there are 20 or 30 people coming in and obviously some of them are armed coming through the door."

The incident that occurred last month while 50 Cent was on air is not the first in the history of WQHT-FM. In 2001 a man was hurt in the shooting between associates of sultry rapper Lil’ Kim and rap duo Capone-N-Noreaga outside the same radio station. Kim is currently being tried in Manhattan, accused of lying to a grand jury investigating the gun battle.

As reports BBC News, the lawyer for the building's owners said other tenants were "in fear of their lives to come to work".