I bodied Nas, bodied Jay, bodied Ma$e…My resume speaks for itself. My resume is crazy though. Like if you really think about who I bodied. My resume is crazy! You should look at that” –Cam’Ron on DJ Kay Slay’s The Drama Hour
When Cam said I started thinking “If someone broke down 50’s resume, what would it look like?”. So I decided to take on this gargantuan task of compiling all of 50’s beefs through his career. The list got so long that I had to split it up into 2 days. Feel free to add on through the comment section until we have the definitive 50 Cent beef list. I’ll make sure to frequently update until the list is perfect.
Ghostface
Who Started It: On the now infamous “How To Rob”, 50 threatened he’d “Stick Rae, Ghost & RZA for those funny a** rings”
Disses: 50 “How To Rob”, Ghost “Clyde Smith”, Masta Killa “One Blood Under W, 50 “Ghostface Freestyle”
Winner: 50. Ghost and Rae never officially replied in song. Though Masta Killa snuck in a subliminal.
Hardest Blow: “Niggas is making skits changing your voice right? Stinking a** Staten Island niggas. Bunch of f***in drity niggas making songs about picking roaches out of they cereal. Ayo them niggas promote me more than my label. You see ‘em they be like ‘Peace God’. What happened to all that gangsta shit. ‘Peace God’?”
Where Are They Now: Wu-Tang is making a new album set to release on SRC/Universal later this year without Ghostface. Ghostface and RZA are rumored to be beefing over past monies owed.
Jay-Z
Who Started It: “What Jigga just sold like 4 mil? He got somethin to live for/ Don’t want no nigga puttin four thru that Bentley Coupe door”
Disses: “How To Rob”, Jay “It’s Hot”, Jay “Hova Song Intro”, 50 “Be A Gentleman”
Winner: Draw
Hardest Blow: “I’m about the dollar what the f*** is 50 Cent?!”
Where Are They Now: Running Def Jam, worth $350 Million and dates Beyonce. Jay & 50 also collaborated for a Reebok commercial, the Roc The Mic Tour and Freeway’s new album. But a rumored cold war still continues to brew between them. Jay threw a jab at 50 on his new single “30 Something”.
Big Pun
Who Started It: “I’ll rob Pun without a gun snatch his piece then run/This nigga weigh 400 pounds, how he gon catch me son?”
Disses: “How To Rob”, Big Pun “My Turn”Winner: Draw. Pun pa**ed before it got real good.Hardest Blow: “Told you before I ain’t no motherf***in rapper understand?
Shit, I don’t make no songs about rappers I don’t like
If I’ma make a song,
it’s gon’ be how I beat yo’ motherf***in a** understand?
That’ll be the name of the motherf***er
“That’s Why I Had to Beat Your Motherf***in a**”
featuring Tony Sunshine”
Where Are They Now: See Winner
Sticky Fingaz & Fredro Starr
Who Started It: 50. “Tell Sticky “Gimmie the cash before I empty 3/I beat your a** like that whiteboy on MTV”. Onxy and 50 were cool beofre that. They even put Fif in his first video “React”.
Disses: “How To Rob”, “I’m Sorry Curtis Jackson”, “Jackin’ For Beats”
Winner: 50 by a landslide.
Hardest Blow: 50 smacking Fredro at the Vibe Awards
Where Are They Now: Sticky was in House Of The Dead 2. Fredro signed…
Bang Em Smurf & Domination
Who Started It: 50. They were all friends and Smurf was titled 50’s “street general”. Bang Em is even in the “In Da Club” video and reference in many of 50’s mixtape songs. But things went sour after Smurf was arrested and Curtisssss didn’t bail him out. Then 50 made it public on a Whoo Kid tape. Domination ended up shooting a fair one with The Game, who later beefed with 50 as well.
Disses: Bunch Of Mixtape Freestyles
Winner: 50. Smurf went to jail.
Hardest Blow: “You smell like Queensbridge” -50
Where Are They Now: Smurf’s still in jail. Domo has a solo deal on Koch.
Part 2: Fat Joe, Mobb Deep, Shyne, Ca**idy, The Lox, AZ, Nas, Game, Diddy, Cam’Ron
Lil’ Kim
Who Started It: 50. He dissed her on the 8 Mile Soundtrack (“I’m convinced, man, something really wrong with these ho’s/I thought Lil’ Kim was hot, ’til she start f***ing with her nose”). They made up and made “Magic Stick” into a #1 hit. But after refusing to do the video and falling with her then boyfriend ‘World’, 50 dissed her again in “Piggy Bank”
Disses: 50 “Love Me”, 50 “Piggybank”, Kim “Spellcheck”
Winner: 50 easily
Hardest Blow: “Its an emergency/when Micheal Jackson see/her picture and say “she looks like me”
Where Are They Now: Kim going to jail slowed the whole beef now. There are rumors of her signing to G-Unit.
Fat Joe
Who Started It: 50. Angry that Joe and Jadakiss jumped on Ja Rule’s “New York” record, Curtissssss’ vowed to end the Terror Squardian career and put him on KOCH Records.
Disses: “Piggy Bank”, “My Fo Fo”, “I Run NY”, “Window Shopper”, “Go Freestyle”
Winner: 50. “My Fo Fo” bit the Flintstones
Hardest Blow: Yayo “Fat Joe aint a gangsta/he scared to fly!”
Where Are They Now: Joe left Atlantic Records and ended up on the Virgin equivalent to Koch, Imperial.
Mobb Deep
Who Started It:50. He went from spitting on Havoc’s “Bump Dat Remix” in ’02 to using them as the butt of his jokes on “Piggybank”
Disses: “Piggybank”
Winner: 50. He signed them right after he dissed em. Gangsta
Hardest Blow: “I do your little a** like Jay did Mobb Deep” & “I let Prodigy do that deal at Koch!”
Where Are They Now: On G-Unit. Prodigy just did his solo LP on Koch though. Go figure
Shyne
Who Started It: 50. Mad that Shyne didn’t sign to G-Unit and was rumored to be signing to Murder Inc, 50 dissed the incarcerated scarface on Hot 97. “I heard Irv trying to sign Shyne but I don’t got no love for him/tell him 50 said he’s soft and wont shoot up the club again”
Disses: “Piggybank”, Shyne “For The Record”
Winner: 50. I believe Shyne had the better song, but he’s still in jail.
Hardest Blow: See Picture
Where Are They Now: Still in jail
Ca**idy
Who Started It: 50. He started instigating a beef between Ca**idy and Lloyd Banks on Hot 97. Ca**idy took it personally.
Disses: “B-Boy Stance” Video, “Piggybank” Video
Winner: 50. Ca**idy went to jail before this get big.
Hardest Blow: The fake 50 Cent in the “B-Boy Stance”
Where Are They Now: Ca**idy’s been lying low since his release. We’ll see.
The Lox
Who Started It: 50. See Fat Joe
Disses: “Piggybank”, “I’m A Animal”, “I Run NY”, “Sorry Ms. Jackson”, “Maybe If I Sing”, “50 Shot Ya”
Winner: 50. Styles even admitted it on Hot 97
Hardest Blow: “One more word out his mouth I’ll push Styles shit back!”
Where Are They Now: Styles P is off Interscope. 50 Claims while he pushed his album back, he never wanted him to get dropped. Sheek is on Koch. Jada’s still rocking with Jimmy I. No word on The Lox album.
Nas
Who Started It: 50. He was mad that Nas didn’t call when he replaced 50 on the “I’m Gonna Be Alright Remix”
Disses: “Piggybank”, Original “Window Shopper”, Nas “Don’t Body Yourself”
Winner: 50 so far. But it’s still ongoing. Nas still might have another Ether in him
Hardest Blow: “Kelis said her “Milkshake” bring all the boys to the yard/Then Nas went, and tattooed the bitch on his arm”
Where Are They Now: Tension is still there. 50 has also been “mentoring” Nas’ baby’s mother Carmen on business deals.
The Game
Who Started It: 50. He kicked Game out the group for doing songs with Nas, Fat Joe and Jadakiss.
Disses: Game “100 Bars” “200 Bars” “240 Bars” “300 Bars & Running” “Soundscan”, 50 “Not Rich Still Lying”
Winner: 50. But Game took out the rest of G-Unit single-handedly. Banks caught the brunt of the blows. The G-Unot campaign was genius. But Game isn’t gone all the way like others on this list. He fought back like Tina in the back of that car, hence why he still has a career.
Hardest Blow: Dre not producing anything on Doctor’s Advocate
Where Are They Now: Game is cruising to platinum status with his new single featuring Kanye. But a far cry from his “Sell another 5 million albums? Yes I Am!” claim.
Diddy
Who Started It: 50. Mad over Ma$e negotiations
Disses: Diddy “I’m Richer Bitch”, 50 “The Bomb”
Winner: 50. Diddy didn’t want any problems.
Hardest Blow: “I guess this means I won’t be invited to the white parties in the Hamtpons…I don’t give a f***! I don’t wanna hang out with your punk a** no way! Got me muthaf***in’ running around with this nigga Ma$e…and he wanna play games you don’t wanna make the deal nigga?! Man I’ll f*** your shit up nigga!!! IS YOU CRAZY NIGGA?!?! Matter of fact, you know what? I don’t wanna do the deal no more…f*** THE DEAL nigga! You wanna play game you wanna waste my muthaf***in time nigga?! Time is money nigga you wasting the muthaf***in money nigga!!! Aiight…I see what you’re trying to do. But I don’t know why you doing what you trying to do. Why you wanna make me tell everybody what Misa told me? HUH?!?! Now you go on and send me $50,000 for this nigga travel fees…you know airfare…hotel space for that last tour nigga. Or I’ll really service your a** nigga!!! Hahahahaha….”
Where Are They Now: Rumor is the Ma$e deal went through after “The Bomb”.
Cam’Ron
Who Started It: Cam. While 50 did say he “could shut down any Koch release” first, Cam definitely took it to another level.
Disses: “The Funeral”, “Curtisss!”
Winner: Still Undecided. Check the play by play on cuurtis.com
Hardest Blow: “Curtissssssssss!!! How much did the Mobb sell Curtisssss?”
Where Are They Now: Cam just dropped a video response. Expect 50’s next response in the up coming weeks.
Also: Mr. Cheeks, Oprah, Kenneth “Supreme” Griffith, R. Kelly, AZ, Z-Ro
Win-Loss-Draw Record: 20-0-2
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