50 Cent’s past beefs with Jadakiss, Fat Joe, and Cam’ron are several of the biggest moments in New York Hip-Hop history.
In a new interview with The Hollywood Reporter, the entertainment mogul reflects on his rivalries and reveals that they were a waste of time. “We wasted too much time arguing,” 50 Cent admitted to journalist Mesfin Fekadu. “There’s other guys like Jadakiss—we cleared it up easier. But with Joe and Cam, it was just competitive nature. We didn’t have real heat for each other.”
50 Cent, now 49, explained that his feud with Fat Joe, 53, persisted because they were so alike. “When we’re at odds, we are at odds, and we did that for a long time,” he said. “Because of his loyalty to Irv Gotti and Ja Rule, Joe wasn’t happy with things that were making me happy. It was easy for me to say, ‘F— you,’ because we weren’t on the same page.”
While their beef originated over Fat Joe making music with 50’s nemesis Ja Rule, 50 emphasized that a specific incident didn’t spark their discord. “Now he’s like my friend, and I don’t care that he has relationships with people I don’t,” said 50. “He’s always had those relationships.”
Fat Joe addressed his previous issues with 50 Cent in a recent interview with Jay Shetty. Comparing his beef to the recent J. Cole/Kendrick Lamar/Drake rap battle, he revealed how deep his beef with 50 Cent went.
“I had one of the biggest, most dangerous beefs with 50 Cent, and I was sitting next to him at the game yesterday, having the best time in the world,” said Joe at 1:11:03 on the Jay Shetty Podcast. “We’re brothers. When you’re called out in Hip Hop, you gotta respond. I’m a big fan of J. Cole, but it started from that.”
He continued: “He probably saw that it could get real messy and real ugly and so he said, ‘Yo, you know this ain’t me I don’t want no parts of it. But he definitely got a stripe off … They took a stripe off that because in Hip Hop, when they call you out, you come out.”
Fat Joe is currently part of a Las Vegas residency with Ja Rule and DJ Cassidy, known as the Pass The Mic Live!