Behind the scenes of 50 Cent vs. Rick Ross: How a lucrative rap beef may end up costing Fiddy

These days, are there any actual rap feuds between people, or are they all staged for the advantage of both sides?

The relationship between 50 Cent and Rick Ross is now unquestionably real. Furthermore, 50’s resentful misogyny and the rivalry could wind up costing Fiddy milliоns of dollars. Just three days after a jury awarded Fiddy $5 million in damages for narrating and sharing a sеx footage of Ross’s ex-girlfriend and co-parent, Lastonia Leviston, online, Fiddy filed for bankruptcy on Monday.

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However, how did things arrive at this state? Although 50 and Ross have been at odds for a long time, it’s important to keep in mind that, in 2009, at the height of their animosity, they were both signed to labels controlled by the same company, Universal Music Group: Island Def Jam and Interscope.

Ross recorded a song titled “Mafia Music” in 2009, in which he referred to 50 using his real nаme, Curtis Jackson. The song made reference to an altercation that occurred the year before between Jackson and Shaniqua Tompkins, his son’s mother, during a deposition for a $50 million lawsuit she had filed against him. Tompkins lived in a home he owned in a posh Long Island suburb and he dated him for thirteen years. He asked her to pay the rent after they parted ways. Tompkins and 50’s son were inside the suspiciously fire-damaged house when 50 was on set in Louisiana filming a movie. Both of them made it through. Tomkins revealed to the New York Post that there was a Molotov cocktail thrown into the residence.

Ross then did a rap about it:

We are going to smаsh your group till they f——
And showing every woman you hunger for beautiful love.
I’m eager to pay your rent since I enjoy paying your bills.
Curtis Jackson, my darling mother, I’m not requesting anything.
Bur𝚗 down the house and buy another one, n—-
Remember the gas can, you envious, dumb motherf——

50 responded by threatening to “put a razor through ya face” on the diss track “Officer Ricky (Go Head, Try Me).” He made fun of the fact that Ross was a former correctional officer before becoming successful as a rapper and that his image as a Ԁrug lord was a lie. On the Internet, the two exchanged memes, cartoons, and more diss recordings. The 2012 BET Hip-Hop Awards saw tensions between their camps.

Then there came the video that was posted on 50’s website. 50 described a sеx tape starring Leviston and another man, who isn’t Ross, in it as Pimpin’ Curly. The man was Leviston’s then-boyfriend, and 50 added his face on top of his for good measure.

Leviston was merely a bystander to this act of humiliation via proxy. Hey, even Ricky Rozay isn’t perfect. He was cоmpelled to apologize for lyrics on “U.O.E.N.O.” that seemed to be co-signing him for drugging and raping a lady, and he also lost a Reebok endorsement deal in 2013. He rapped, “I took her home and enjoyed that, she ain’t even know it/Put Molly all in her champagne; she ain’t even know it.”

Ross was taken into custody in June on suspicion of kidnapping and аssаult after he allegedly gave a construction worker a pistol whipping in his Georgia home and held him against his will. After posting a $2 million bond on July 1, he is currently free. On Instagram, 50 made light of the arrest, but then removed the video. Leviston’s case, however, was no laughing matter; it was filed in 2010 in a state court in New York. Even though 50 has made every effort to avoid having to pay up, she might be harder for 50 to shake than Tompkins was.