There isn’t any love misplaced between hip-hop moguls 50 Cent and Sean “Diddy” Combs.
50 Cent has lengthy trolled Diddy on social media, particularly after NCS’s publication of surveillance video exhibiting Combs assaulting his then-girlfriend, Cassie Ventura, in 2016.
Now the rapper turned actor and producer has taken it up a notch together with his newest challenge, a Netflix docuseries about Combs.
50 Cent, born Curtis Jackson, is a producer on the four-part collection “Sean Combs: The Reckoning” which drops Tuesday.
According to the director, Alexandria Stapleton, the challenge was impressed partly by Ventura. She testified in opposition to Combs in a federal intercourse trafficking trial this 12 months, through which Combs was convicted on charges of transportation to engage in prostitution.
“Being a woman in the industry, and going through the #MeToo movement — watching giants in music and film go on trial, and to know what their outcomes were … When Cassie dropped her lawsuit, I just thought this could go a million different directions,” Stapleton said. “I wondered how she had the confidence to go out there against a mogul like Sean Combs. As a filmmaker, I instantly knew it was a stress test of whether we’ve changed as a culture, as far as being able to process allegations like this in a fair way.”
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Combs has beforehand denied all allegations of wrongdoing. That hasn’t stopped 50 Cent from trolling him on social media because the allegations went public.
But why the dangerous blood? Here’s a glance again at how there got here to be animosity between the 2 males.
In 2006, 50 Cent launched a diss observe “The Bomb,” which featured sounds of gunfire and his allegation that Combs knew the identification of the killer of Christopher Wallace, a rapper generally known as The Notorious B.I.G., who was each a protégée and greatest good friend to Combs.
Wallace was gunned down in Los Angeles in March 1997 as he and his crew, which included Combs, have been touring in a caravan. Combs was in a special car from the one Wallace was in on the time Wallace was shot.
No one has ever been charged with the homicide.
In his diss observe, 50 raps, “I guess this means I won’t be invited to the white parties in the Hamptons,” referencing Combs’ well-known soirees held within the upscale New York group.
50 Cent has also said he believes Combs is linked to the 1996 homicide of rapper Tupac Shakur.
Combs referred to as such allegations “nonsense” in a 2016 interview with the syndicated radio show “The Breakfast Club.” He has by no means been charged in connection to both case.
Followers of 50 are aware of his status for sharp feedback and social media trolling.
The rapper-turned-television-producer has made Combs a frequent goal, attacking all the things from his music to his age.
Some believed it was principally advertising and marketing, particularly given the lads’s parallel profession tracks and even competing vodkas at one level, Effen Vodka from 50 Cent and Ciroc, which formally partnered with Combs.
But 50 upped his feedback after Combs was sued in November 2023 by Ventura, who in a now-settled civil grievance alleged that Combs raped her in 2018 and abused her over the greater than decade they have been in an off-and-on relationship.
Combs has denied the allegations, however apologized on Sunday for the incident depicted within the surveillance video.
After federal investigators searched Combs’ houses in Miami and Los Angeles in March, 50 Cent posted on X, “Now it’s not Diddy do it, it’s Diddy done. They don’t come like that unless they got a case.”
Combs was requested in regards to the rigidity between him and 50 Cent during an appearance on “The Breakfast Club” in 2018.
“I don’t have no beef with Fif. He loves me,” Combs mentioned. “Y’all can’t see that he loves me? You really think that’s hate? … You know he loves me.”
He added that he didn’t take the issues 50 Cent says about him severely.
“When he does that it’s like funny to me,” Combs mentioned. “I don’t really take it personal. I know he has a different sense of humor, and he’s just not in my life. We don’t have to never cross paths, and I will never say nothing negative about him, you know, because that’s just not me.”
Christian Combs, who goes by King Combs, is the 27-year-old son of Diddy. In May 2024 he launched a music titled “Pick a Side” in assist of his father and taking intention at critics like 50 Cent.
The youthful Combs and his brother, Justin, have been quickly handcuffed and detained by authorities throughout the March 2024 search of their father’s residence. Neither was arrested or charged.
Aaron Dyer, Diddy’s lawyer, mentioned in an announcement to NCS on the time that “there was a gross overuse of military-level force as search warrants were executed at Mr. Combs’ residences. There is no excuse for the excessive show of force and hostility exhibited by authorities or the way his children and employees were treated.”
King Combs appeared to profess his father’s innocence in his observe and took a swipe at 50 Cent.
“All that gossip sh*t is whack when all they had was 50 Cent / Who put this city on the map? / Stop lying,” the youthful Combs raps.
50 Cent responded with a tongue-in-cheek publish on social media.
“I feel so threatened by the things Christian is saying on his record,” he wrote in a since-delated post on Instagram, based on Billboard. “I’m afraid for my life, please don’t hurt me guys.”