We never know when 50 Cent and Ja Rule will reignite their longstanding tension. Often, the two New York rappers will throw verbal jabs on social media, and it's a beef that goes all the way back to 1999. It was then that Ja was robbed at gunpoint, purportedly by one of Fif's associates. Later, the rappers had a confrontation at a nightclub, and since then, they've been at each other's throats.
However, it isn't just Ja who was a target in this tension; 50 Cent would also go after anyone affiliated with the Murder Inc. icon. Fat Joe was connected to Ja Rule and even collaborated with him, so he found himself in Fif's crosshairs. It's a decision that 50 Cent now seems to regret, and explained to Rolling Stone why he wouldn't have involved Joey Crack.
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"There’s an element, a part of our culture that I’m aware of it because I am it," said Fif. "Your Lil Durks, your NBA Youngboys, the whole surrounding cast of that … it almost splits our culture in half because when you cool with one, you can’t work with the other. There’s an energy that runs through it that if you cool with people I got a problem with, then you with them."
50 Cent used himself as an example as he brought up Ja and Joe. "It was like my issues, I was using the same thinking in the very beginning of my career because it’s just the thinking you would use in the environment,” he said. “If anybody went next to Ja Rule, I’d jump on the person who featured with them, anybody who was faintly near them, ’cause I put him on life support and you wanna go resuscitate him. So that energy, later you look at it and you go, ‘I was buggin’.'"
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"‘Cause I’ll say that. Fat Joe, his issues, I would see him a little uncomfortable with the success I was having," 50 continued. "And I interpreted as, ‘He doesn’t like me,’ when he’s really the kind of guy you want to be friends with because he’s loyal to a default. He’s so loyal for one record that [Murder Inc] did with him ['What’s Luv’] that we became enemies.”
Despite Fif once involving Fat Joe in his shenanigans, the two are now good friends who respect one another. Meanwhile, the beef with Ja Rule is alive and well.
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