Furor over the ad campaign for 50 Cent's movie "Get Rich or Die Tryin'" has spread from the West Coast to East Coast.

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Paramount Pictures removed several of the billboards with the rapper holding a gun in one hand and a microphone in the other after Los Angeles city and community leaders criticized them as glorifying gang violence.

Now the New York borough of Brooklyn is echoing the cry, the New York Daily News reported Saturday.

"He's basically telling our kids, 'Do whatever you can to get ahead and advance yourself -- even if it includes violence,'" said City Councilwoman Letitia James.

James has called for boycott of "Get Rich or Die Tryin'," which comes out Nov. 7.

The Rev. Mark Taylor of the Church of the Open Door in downtown Brooklyn, told the Daily News: "I don't want it in my neighborhood."