50 Cent Says He Almost Responded To Jim Jones, Fabolous & More On Mixtape

BY Gabriel Bras Nevares
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Jan 18, 2024; Sacramento, California, USA; Rapper and actor 50 Cent smiles for a photo before the game between the Sacramento Kings and Indiana Pacers at Golden 1 Center. Mandatory Credit: Ed Szczepanski-USA TODAY Sports via Imagn Images
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50 Cent barely drops music anymore, so having him return to the booth to diss Jim Jones and Fabolous could've been either cringe or amazing.

50 Cent goes harder than most when it comes to feuding with fellow celebrities, as few other folks can turn their beef into a Super Bowl ad. However, over the years, he also learned exactly when and how to strike, and when to take a back seat and let the hate roll off his shoulders. When it comes to Jim Jones and Fabolous, the two main characters in 50's Let's Rap About It podcast beef, he almost forgot about his timing.

During a recent interview with Rolling Stone, he reflected on how Capo and Fab (along with podcast cohosts Maino and Dave East) dropped a freestyle against him amid their beef. The Queens icon revealed that he almost returned to rapping and put out a mixtape in the winter that would've responded to this tension.

"I almost put a whole tape out because of the rap podcast thing," he revealed. "I never said anything about anyone if they didn't do something or we didn't have an actual issue. They responded to something that I said about them not paying their bills, which was true. They responded to that by rapping. And I’m like, ‘Okay, just because they’re rappers.’"

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From there, 50 Cent dissed Jim Jones and Fabolous' approach, complaining about New York rap turning into podcasts and explaining why their shared status as artists and podcasters makes a response less pressing. "Even if I responded to those records, I think it would only be to their benefit because the artists, if you look at what they’ve done in their career and if you look at 50 Cent’s stats, there’s no way we’re supposed to be competing with each other," he shared. "For anything."

"If you’re in the business of selling music because you call yourself [being] in the music business, then the idea is to create things that sell," Fif concluded. "Make music that sells, right? If that’s not the idea, I don’t know. You can be better than me at every other idea. Because that was my only interest, making the right music and having it embraced and sold."

Elsewhere, 50 Cent's also beefing with T.I., reviving snitching allegations his way after Tip once again challenged him to a Verzuz. We will see if they duck each other once again or if they actually link up to go head to head.

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Gabriel Bras Nevares is a staff writer for HotNewHipHop. He joined HNHH while completing his B.A. in Journalism & Mass Communication at The George Washington University in the summer of 2022. Born and raised in San Juan, Puerto Rico, Gabriel treasures the crossover between his native reggaetón and hip-hop news coverage, such as his review for Bad Bunny’s hometown concert in 2024. But more specifically, he digs for the deeper side of hip-hop conversations, whether that’s the “death” of the genre in 2023, the lyrical and parasocial intricacies of the Kendrick Lamar and Drake battle, or the many moving parts of the Young Thug and YSL RICO case. Beyond engaging and breaking news coverage, Gabriel makes the most out of his concert obsessions, reviewing and recapping festivals like Rolling Loud Miami and Camp Flog Gnaw. He’s also developed a strong editorial voice through album reviews, think-pieces, and interviews with some of the genre’s brightest upstarts and most enduring obscured gems like Homeboy Sandman, Bktherula, Bas, and Devin Malik.

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