50 Cent once helped Maino secure an Atlantic Records deal after Universal dropped him, but their ongoing feud makes this history hard to remember. In the latest instance of their conflict, Maino dropped a hot take about Fif on the Let's Rap About It podcast with Jim Jones, Fabolous, and Dave East (who wasn't there this episode).
The podcast hosted Joe Budden as a special guest, who claimed he would be near his prime rapping level if he picked up a pen again. This led Fab and Maino to say many rappers "went bad" and didn't return to their lyrical standard over the years. When Budden asked who was nice that went bad, Maino said 50 was an example. "Let me shut the f**k up," he said later on. This led to silence and some laughs from the team, and Joe disagreed.
He also said he knows Let's Rap About It has beef with 50 Cent, but Maino said that isn't a factor in his assessment. "I love 50 Cent," he remarked, later joking about cutting Budden's mic off when he started to talk about Fif doing theme songs for his TV shows.
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50 Cent & Maino Beef
For those unaware, the beef between 50 Cent and Maino is part of a wider battle between the G-Unit mogul and Let's Rap About It. The podcasters criticized 50's role in executive producing the Diddy docuseries Sean Combs: The Reckoning on Netflix, which later led to excessive trolling and a whole lot of jabs from Fif.
Beyond that beef, though, conversations about the Queens star's musical prowess have always been a thing. After all, he's one of the biggest rappers to ever do it, so of course the criticism will be loud. But with very little new music in sight from 50 beyond the occasional Power theme or guest feature, maybe there isn't even enough material to make an assessment like this.
If Curtis Jackson responds, it will most likely be by trolling the Let's Rap About It crew over something unrelated to his lyrical ability. We'll see if these folks actually decide to get in the booth.
