50 Cent has been involved in multiple feuds with fellow rappers – notably Ja Rule – during his career. And though he is known for not backing down and rather going all out, 50 Cent recently admitted his highly-publicized beef with fellow rappers Fat Joe and Cam’ron dragged for too long.
The 49-year-old rapper cum television producer touched on the beef when he was asked if there was anything he regretted doing.
“Regretted? Look, I think we wasted too much time arguing, me and Fat Joe, me and Cam’ron,” the Many Men rapper said in an interview with The Hollywood Reporter. “There’s other guys like Jada[kiss], we cleared it up easier. But we wasted time because it was just the competitive nature. It wasn’t like we crossed paths and had real heat for each other.”
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50 Cent also said his beef with Fat Joe “went on more” because they share similar personalities. “When we’re at odds, we are at odds, and we did that for a long time. And because of his [Fat Joe’s] loyalty to Irv [Gotti] and Ja [Rule], because he worked with them, I was seeing him not be happy from the things that were making me happy,” he said.
“It’s easy for me to say, “F*ck you,” if what makes me happy makes you unhappy, then we’re not on the same page and it turns into some sh*t, and I couldn’t pinpoint what exactly happened,” he added.
The rapper, born Curtis Jackson, then admitted he couldn’t even pinpoint the genesis of the beef. “When you look back at it, you go, ‘Wait, what happened?’ Because we didn’t even have no altercation or no specific thing that created it,” he stated.
“Now he’s like my friend, and I don’t care that he has relationships with people that I don’t, because he’s always had those relationships.”
Elsewhere in the interview, 50 Cent also touched on the beef between Kendrick Lamar and Drake. “This is hip-hop. I think it’s competitive to a degree, obviously. Even Drake, his position and the attitude and his choices, those are 50 Cent choices. ‘F*ck it, everybody got to get it then.’ When it becomes Drake versus Kendrick, it’s because it’s the only thing you can put up against Drake’s success,” he told The Hollywood Reporter when he was asked if he ever sees the Canadian rapper and Kendrick rekindling their friendship.
He also likened Drake’s situation to someone suffering from success, though he said the Thank Me Later rapper’s influence won’t be negatively impacted.
“Look, our culture loves to see you go up because it’s confirmation that they can go up. But when you stay up — “I want this sh*t forever, man” — they go, ‘Well, goddamn. When you going to come down? If you don’t come down, I ain’t going to have my chance to go up.’ And then it’s these clouds that come over you, and that cloud is doubt, a shadow of doubt that doesn’t come from material or your work ethic. It’s doubt from the artist community, where they say, “I don’t know, his new sh*t is cool, but it’s not his first sh*t.”
He continued: “They do that to you and Drake’s just experiencing what you experience as a backlash from success, from the consistency he’s delivered over and over. I don’t see a loss for Drake. The people who bought Drake material are going to buy Drake material when his next song comes out. Now, the sh*t that I do, it ruins your whole f**k**g career.”
