A significant portion of 50 Cent's success has been tied to his ability to engage his foes in and ultimately survive beef. After moderate exposure under the tutelage of the late Jam Primary Jay, 50 Cent flirted with fame. But his biggest look, prior to Go Rich Or Die Tryin', was the song "How To Rob," where he took subliminal and overt shots at dozens of pop rappers. The responses served equally free promotion, and 50 subsequently increased his buzz by releasing a flurry of what he would afterward refer to as "aggressive content" via the mixtape circuit.

Some 14 years afterwards, things are a scrap calmer. June 3, 2022 marks the release of l Cent's 5th official retail anthology Creature Ambition: An Untamed Desire To Win. Having instigated, survived and arguably thrived confronting diverse conflicts with young man emcees, record label executives and even convicted crime kingpins, it's a adept a fourth dimension as whatever to look dorsum on 50 Cent'southward track tape.

fifty Cent vs. Ja Dominion

It's most unfair for the beef betwixt Ja Dominion and l Cent to be classified along with other music manufacture conflicts. Past all accounts, this was a existent life feud between two camps that generally hated each other's guts. Prior to the diss records, fifty and Ja got concrete on multiple occasions. The back and along songs were merely the byproduct of disputes that had already taken place in the streets.

"A friend of mine robbed Ja Dominion," fifty recounted in his biography From Pieces To Weight. "That's how the beefiness originally started. My human robbed him for a concatenation, and then this guy named Brown came and got the concatenation back for Ja. After, Ja saw me in a guild with the kid who robbed him. I went over to say, 'What's up' to Ja, and he acted like he had a problem with me. But I'm not the i who robbed him."

Subsequently repeated run-ins with Ja, 50 recorded "Your Life's On The Line" around 2000. He and Ja ended up together on a bill during a show in Atlanta, and they somewhen fought in an adjacent hotel parking lot. Things after escalated back in NYC, when Ja Rule paid 50 a violent visit during l'due south recording session at the Striking Factory. Over the form of several years, the pair exchanged punches, knife pokes, yapped chains and several diss records including "Wanksta," "Handclapping Dorsum" and "Hail Mary." In 2011, prior to serving a ii-year prison judgement stemming from a previous weapon possession charge, Ja told MTV's Sway Calloway he was done beefing. 50 confirmed the truce, and Ja would later send out a tweet maxim the pair saturday well-nigh each other on a transcontinental flight with no issues. Simply equally so many rappers have proven in past years, all bets are off when information technology comes to the infamous Summer Jam screen.

l Cent vs. Jimmy Iovine

Past fifty Cent's ain admission, there was a point in time when he had a great relationship with former Interscope Records co-founder Jimmy Iovine. Just over the years, things rapidly turned sour, and it'southward difficult to imagine 50's 2011 threat to leak Dr. Dre's next single helped matters.

During his tenure on Interscope, fifty repeatedly lashed out at the label for what he felt were botched promotional opportunities related to his 5th Interscope album, Street King Immortal.

"Merely get me off the actual label before the shit goes bad, because I'1000 not getting the bodily response I want out of the material that I'g releasing with them, and it's to the point that I'grand non even trying to put the right thing out," 50 told Power 99's Cosmic Kev in April 2014.

Aside from an inability to go on making Top ten singles, fifty says Iovine viewed his partnership with SMS Sound as a major sticking point.

"We had communication with each other, and he expressed that he didn't like me," 50 explained to Hot 97's Funkmaster Flex. "It stems from his passion for Beats [Electronics]… Steve Berman—at points when we communicated with each other—he'd say, 'Youre competition.' He'd become excited and say, 'You created a competitive company; you're the competition.'"

Ultimately, l entered into a distribution pact with Capitol and Iovine left Interscope after Apple caused Beats Electronics for $3 billion in May.

50 Cent vs. Fat Joe

Given its seemingly unproblematic origins, the length of the conflict between Fif and "Don Cartagena" was rather surprising. While 50 was arguably at the height of his popularity in 2004, Fatty Joe joined Jadakiss on Ja Rule's single "New York." The unstated transitive property of Rap beefiness dictated l throw verbal shade at both Joe and Jada (more on that afterward), and Joe became a target on "Piggy Bank" and several of l's viral disses. In addition to calling Joe's striking unmarried "Lean Back" a dud, fifty repeatedly needled him about his sales and weight.

Never i to dorsum down, Joe retaliated with the rails "Fuck 50" (afterward retitled as "My Fo-fo") and an undeniable verbal shot onstage at the 2005 MTV Video Music Awards, maxim, "I feel safe with all the police protection, courtesy of Yard-Unit."

The end of the l Cent/Fat Joe feud was arguably the only silver lining associated with the 2012 expiry of Chris Lighty—who managed both 50 and Joe. During the 2012 BET Awards, 50 and Fat Joe performed together alongside boyfriend Lighty clients A Tribe Called Quest, Missy Elliott and Busta Rhymes.

"The aforementioned guy who discovered him, discovered me—Chris Lighty ," Fat Joe told Hot 107.nine's DJ Q Deezy during an interview October 2012 interview. "He always wanted me and 50 Cent to make peace forever, but we were just being stubborn and ignoring him."

l Cent vs. Cam'ron

The minor tift between Cam and Fif pretty much includes all the necessary ingredients for a 50 Cent beef. Things began with l's usual "no fucks given" attitude, as he brazenly called Koch Entertainment (now E-One Entertainment) a graveyard and said he had the power to shut down any Koch projection. As i would imagine, Koch's then full general manager, Alan Grunblatt, took umbrage at the claims and decided to phone call Hot 97 on February 1, 2007 while Angie Martinez was interviewing 50. Fif quickly barked on Grunblatt and asked to speak to Cam, and that's when all hell bankrupt loose. A cordial commutation rapidly went sour, as Cam and Fif argued back and forth over the recent sales of Thousand-Unit artists forth with Koch'southward value and reputation. An audibly angry Cam'ron peppered fifty with questions punctuated with an exaggerated telephone call of his government proper noun, "Curtis."

No less than a week later, fifty released the Cam'ron diss rail "Funeral Music," and Cam fired back with "Curtis." Correct when the beefiness transitioned from mildly interesting to a viral hot mess, Cam seemingly disappeared. He resurfaced in November, exclusively telling Miss Info he temporarily relocated to Florida to care for his mother subsequently she suffered iii strokes. In the meantime, 50 brought Juelz Santana and Jim Jones onstage with him to perform "Nosotros Fly High," and Fif mockingly named his next album Curtis.

Chalk this ane up to another beef that ended upwards getting squashed on peaceful terms.

"We had our little hip-hop beef or any yous wanna call it, but ain't no problem," Cam'ron recalled during a 2011 appearance on MTV'south RapFix Live. "Jim and Juelz exercise stuff with 50 and they camp all the fourth dimension. I don't have a trouble with 50 at all. Information technology is what information technology is. We had our little discrepancy, and we moved on from it."

50 Cent vs. Nas

These two Queens emcees (50 reps Jamainca, while Nas is a production of Queensbridge) have gone at each other on record before. On "Piggy Bank," Fif infamously mocked Nas' tattoo of Kelis and called him a "sucker for beloved." In return, Nas struck back on "Queens Get The Money," saying 50 was a porch monkey hiding behind viii Mile and The Chronic. Ouch. Simply the best barbs betwixt "God'due south Son" and "Ferrari F-50" might be the ones that never became accessible to the viewing public.

Allegedly this all spawned from 50's conventionalities that Nas had him booted off a remix to the Jennifer Lopez 2001 single "I'one thousand Gonna Be Alright," when both Nas and l were still on Colombia. Songs like Nas' unreleased "Don't Body Yourself" hint at the friction ("Yeah we from the same hood but nigga what?"), but the existent drama of songs like "Spastic" has since been lost in the pre-Cyberspace ether (no pun intended). Summertime Jam giveth, and Summer Jam taketh away. fifty hinted at something involving Nas in the weeks leading up to Hot 97's infamous annual festival. And, in a evidence of Queens solidarity, Nas provided an intro of sorts for fifty's performance.

l Cent vs. Rick Ross

Much like any war, the inclusion of spouses, children and innocent bystanders is usually an indication things have reached a new low. After the female parent of l Cent's child, Shaniqua Tompkins was forced to evacuate a Long Island habitation 50 Cent owned, the property was destroyed in a May 2008 fire. Rick Ross poked fun at the state of affairs with the following bars from the song "Mafia Music":

"I beloved to pay ya bills, can't expect to pay your rent / Curtis Jackson baby mama, I own't askin' for a cent / Burn the house down nigga, yous gotta buy some other / Don't forget the gas tin, jealous stupid motherfucker…"

And similar that, information technology was on. On February. 2, 2009, 50 Cent posted an interview with Tiallondra "Tia" Kemp, Rick Ross' baby'south mother, on his website Thisis50.com. In the interview, Kemp, who was engaging in a child support case with Ross at the time, confirmed Ross worked equally a correctional officer. After the interview, 50 took Kemp on a shopping spree on 5th Artery. The beef went viral, as 50 Cent introduced the "Officer Ricky" character to poke fun at Ross' correctional officeholder past, and Ross took to calling 50 "Curly."

Despite the usual threats to end each other's corresponding careers, this beef didn't so much go squashed equally it died from a lack of fan interest. Aside from 2009, which saw Earlier I Self Destruct and Deeper Than Rap hit shelves in the same calendar year, 2022 marks the second time both rappers have released retail offerings within months of 1 another.

fifty Cent vs. Jadakiss

Much like Fat Joe, Jadakiss was one of the many Empire State emcees fifty targeted for appearing on Ja Rule's "New York." But in terms of retaliation, 'Kiss arguably flipped the script on 50 meliorate than Ja or Joe, as he implored l and the listening Rap public to shift the focus away from sales and chart positions.

"I might never sell that much / But y'all tin bet your terminal 2 quarters, I'll never tell that much / Picture show 'Kiss not come out swinging' / That'south like going to see 50 at a show, and he don't come out singin' / Yeah y'all got a felony, but you ain't a predicate / Never the king of New York, you lot live in Connecticut," Jada spit on 2005'south "Checkmate." The runway was complete with the standard issue 50 barbs about glamorizing being shot and allegations of snitching. But Jadakiss focused on skills, telling 50 his raps were preschool.

The Jadakiss and fifty Cent beef was easily squashed considering it never truly got personal. In a March interview with Complex, fifty Cent revealed he planned on including Jadakiss on ane of Animal Ambition's collaborations. Fif even ventured to Yonkers, where beau LOX fellow member Styles P had besides joined Jadakiss in the studio. The result was "Irregular Heartbeat," which features Jadakiss and "Chase The Newspaper," which features Styles P. Ultimately, good music (and what we can assume was some modicum of mutual respect) won out.

50 Cent vs. Kenneth "Supreme" McGriff

Some beefs reach levels of intensity that would make any quarrel between rappers seem every bit insignificant every bit 2 toddlers fighting over a toy. Consider the dynamic between 50 Cent and Kenneth "Supreme" McGriff one such beef. McGriff and the Supreme Team accept been named dropped in Hip Hop at least every bit far every bit Nas' 1994 anthology, Illmatic. V years later, 50 mentioned both McGriff and Gerald "Prince" Miller on the song "Ghetto Qu'ran."

"Yo when you hear talk of the Southside, you lot hear talk of the Squad / Run into niggas feared Prince and respected 'Preme / For all y'all slow motherfuckers, I'ma break it downwardly iller / Encounter 'Preme was the man of affairs, and Prince was the killer," l rapped. In a July 2006 VIBE magazine interview with Ethan Brown, McGriff confirmed he was less than pleased with the song.

"Yes, information technology was factual," McGriff said. "He said in the song, 'Preme was the businessman, and Prince was the killer'… When we was coming upwardly there was a code on the streets, a code of conduct, which was y'all never speak of dudes whom may still be in the streets."

After serving nearly fifteen years in federal prison, McGriff connected with Murder Inc. founder Irv Gotti to license the rights to a Donald Goines novel. Things seemingly reached a head when fifty and Ja continuously clashed and Fif implied McGriff was responsible for the 2000 attempt on his life. By 2003 Gotti was hurt by a iii-year federal investigation on charges of laundering money for McGriff. While Gotti was eventually found innocent, McGriff was convicted of drug trafficking, racketeering and murder charges. There was no love lost between 50 and McGriff.

"Either mode, he's a wrap now, because the changes they don't meet is the fiscal transition," l told XXL in a 2011 interview. "Same style the nigga that shot me wasn't an in-house for them—he was just a shooter. I have admission to that at present. I have the finances. The shooters shoot as soon equally the purse is dropped. And so now, either they give him life, or they let him go and I give him life. They don't empathise the deviation. The commencement album I was trying to explain it, Ability of the Dollar. They had coin when I didn't have money, so I had to take bullets."

50 Cent vs. Game

An infamous quote reads, "Poor is the pupil who does not surpass his master." In the case of former Game, he may have been the ultimate pupil when it came to running an all out smear campaign against his former Thou-Unit of measurement general 50 Cent. Weeks of rumored fiction between Game and 50 were confirmed in February of 2005 when fifty told Hot 97'due south Funkmaster Flex Game was being booted from K-Unit of measurement due to disloyalty. Game's want to distance himself from several of 50 Cent's multiple beefs didn't sit so well, and the Compton, California native quickly found himself on the outs.

This quarrel and so spilled over from the airwaves to the streets when Game and an entourage returned to Hot 97 later hearing fifty'south remarks. Fellow Compton native Kevin Reed sustained a wound to the leg after a shooting outside the radio station'south offices. Shots were besides fired exterior of Violator Management offices.

Despite attempts past Dr. Dre, Jimmy Iovine and others, there was merely a short-lived truce between Game and 50. Both artists appeared at a March 9 press conference in Harlem, New York.

"We're here today to show that people tin rise to a higher place the most difficult circumstances and together we tin can put negativity behind us," fifty Cent offered. "A lot of people don't want to encounter it happen, but we're responding to the ii virtually important groups, our family unit and our fans."

By the time summertime rolled around, the truce was again. Game appeared to thrive off the beef via fan responses to his Chiliad-Unot campaign, the song "300 Bars" and an about confront at Hot 97'south annual Summer Jam. In July of 2009, Game publicly apologized for his role in the beef, telling MTV's Shaheem Reid, "If we never [broke] up, I retrieve Detox would have been out and we all would have been selling millions from Banks to Buck, Tony Yayo. I'm gonna repent for my part."

With Game probable headed to Cash Money and 50 going the independent route, the chances of hearing the original four-man G-Unit lineup together are virtually as likely as a Detox release. As 50 reunited with Lloyd Banks, Tony Yayo and Young Buck at the 2022 Summer Jam, Game was conspicuously absent.

l Cent vs. Jimmy "Henchman" Rosemond

This one got very real as both of these men have legitimate ties to a street life that nigh Hip Hop artists simply emulate. Jimmy "Henchman" Rosemond was up for a murder-for-hire trial when 50 Cent took the opportunity to throw his customary jabs on Instagram: "LMAO THIS Boy SOLVED EVERY CRIME IN NEW YORK. Sometime gangsta jimmy,become a head tell some more s–t killer. Lol."

The thing is, though, that 50 was speaking about a man who, as it came out during trial, was stalking and reportedly paying for acts of violence to be done to l Cent and Thousand-Unit of measurement'due south coiffure. On June 5, 2012, a jury in Federal District Court in Brooklyn constitute Rosemond guilty of running a drug trafficking operation responsible for $2.eight one thousand thousand with ties to 19 other people. Some 17 days after, the New York Times reported Rosemond was involved in hiring a hit on G-Unit associate Lowell "Lodi Mack" Fletcher. The bump-off was supposed retaliation for an atmospherics Jimmy had with Tony Yayo before an awards ceremony at the Apollo in 2007.

Permit's think about just how completely nuts all of that is. Openly mocking a man that'due south on trial for the murder of an associate of yours? Not to mention that the aforementioned man reportedly shot upward Tony Yayo's Bentley for the M-Unit rapper reportedly putting hands on Rosemond's son, and plotted on your demise consistently over the course of a number of years? One that is now in federal prison for life for running an enormous drug-trafficking business through the shuffling around of music equipment. With all that said, 50'southward gangster should never, always exist questioned… ever. This was a beefiness that happened almost exclusively off wax, and with dire consequences waiting in the wings at every turn.

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