A significant portion of 50 Cent's success has been tied to his ability to engage his foes in and ultimately survive beef. After moderate exposure under the tutelage of the late Jam Master Jay, 50 Cent flirted with fame. Merely his biggest look, prior to Get Rich Or Die Tryin', was the vocal "How To Rob," where he took subliminal and overt shots at dozens of popular rappers. The responses served every bit free promotion, and fifty subsequently increased his buzz by releasing a flurry of what he would later refer to every bit "aggressive content" via the mixtape circuit.

Some 14 years later, things are a bit calmer. June 3, 2014 marks the release of 50 Cent's fifth official retail album Animal Appetite: An Untamed Want To Win. Having instigated, survived and arguably thrived against various conflicts with boyfriend emcees, record characterization executives and even convicted crime kingpins, it'south a good a fourth dimension every bit any to look back on fifty Cent's runway record.

fifty Cent vs. Ja Dominion

It'southward nigh unfair for the beefiness betwixt Ja Dominion and fifty Cent to be classified along with other music industry conflicts. Past all accounts, this was a existent life feud betwixt 2 camps that generally hated each other's guts. Prior to the diss records, 50 and Ja got physical on multiple occasions. The dorsum and forth songs were only the byproduct of disputes that had already taken place in the streets.

"A friend of mine robbed Ja Rule," 50 recounted in his biography From Pieces To Weight. "That's how the beef originally started. My man robbed him for a chain, and then this guy named Brown came and got the concatenation dorsum for Ja. Later, Ja saw me in a gild with the kid who robbed him. I went over to say, 'What's up' to Ja, and he acted like he had a problem with me. Simply I'yard not the one who robbed him."

After repeated run-ins with Ja, 50 recorded "Your Life'due south On The Line" effectually 2000. He and Ja concluded up together on a bill during a show in Atlanta, and they somewhen fought in an side by side hotel parking lot. Things later escalated back in NYC, when Ja Rule paid l a violent visit during 50'southward recording session at the Hitting Factory. Over the course of several years, the pair exchanged punches, knife pokes, yapped bondage and several diss records including "Wanksta," "Clap Back" and "Hail Mary." In 2011, prior to serving a 2-year prison judgement stemming from a previous weapon possession charge, Ja told MTV's Sway Calloway he was done beefing. 50 confirmed the truce, and Ja would afterward send out a tweet saying the pair sat nearly each other on a transcontinental flying with no issues. Merely every bit and then many rappers have proven in past years, all bets are off when it comes to the infamous Summer Jam screen.

l Cent vs. Jimmy Iovine

By l Cent'due south own admission, there was a bespeak in fourth dimension when he had a bang-up relationship with former Interscope Records co-founder Jimmy Iovine. But over the years, things apace turned sour, and it'due south hard to imagine fifty's 2011 threat to leak Dr. Dre's next single helped matters.

During his tenure on Interscope, 50 repeatedly lashed out at the characterization for what he felt were botched promotional opportunities related to his fifth Interscope album, Street King Immortal.

"But get me off the actual label earlier the shit goes bad, because I'm not getting the actual response I desire out of the material that I'm releasing with them, and it's to the point that I'm non even trying to put the right thing out," 50 told Power 99'due south Cosmic Kev in April 2014.

Aside from an inability to continue making Top 10 singles, 50 says Iovine viewed his partnership with SMS Audio every bit a major sticking signal.

"We had communication with each other, and he expressed that he didn't like me," 50 explained to Hot 97's Funkmaster Flex. "It stems from his passion for Beats [Electronics]… Steve Berman—at points when we communicated with each other—he'd say, 'Youre competition.' He'd get excited and say, 'You created a competitive company; yous're the competition.'"

Ultimately, 50 entered into a distribution pact with Capitol and Iovine left Interscope later on Apple caused Beats Electronics for $iii billion in May.

50 Cent vs. Fat Joe

Given its seemingly simple origins, the length of the conflict between Fif and "Don Cartagena" was rather surprising. While l was arguably at the height of his popularity in 2004, Fat Joe joined Jadakiss on Ja Dominion's single "New York." The unstated transitive property of Rap beef dictated 50 throw verbal shade at both Joe and Jada (more on that later), and Joe became a target on "Piggy Bank" and several of 50'due south viral disses. In improver to calling Joe's hit unmarried "Lean Back" a dud, 50 repeatedly needled him about his sales and weight.

Never one to back down, Joe retaliated with the track "Fuck fifty" (later retitled as "My Fo-fo") and an undeniable exact shot onstage at the 2005 MTV Video Music Awards, proverb, "I feel safety with all the police protection, courtesy of Grand-Unit."

The end of the 50 Cent/Fat Joe feud was arguably the only silverish lining associated with the 2012 decease of Chris Lighty—who managed both l and Joe. During the 2012 BET Awards, 50 and Fatty Joe performed together alongside swain Lighty clients A Tribe Called Quest, Missy Elliott and Busta Rhymes.

"The same guy who discovered him, discovered me—Chris Lighty ," Fat Joe told Hot 107.9'south DJ Q Deezy during an interview October 2012 interview. "He always wanted me and fifty Cent to make peace forever, but nosotros were just existence stubborn and ignoring him."

50 Cent vs. Cam'ron

The minor tift between Cam and Fif pretty much includes all the necessary ingredients for a 50 Cent beef. Things began with 50'due south usual "no fucks given" mental attitude, as he brazenly called Koch Entertainment (now Eastward-Ane Entertainment) a graveyard and said he had the ability to shut downwardly any Koch project. As one would imagine, Koch's then general managing director, Alan Grunblatt, took umbrage at the claims and decided to call Hot 97 on February 1, 2007 while Angie Martinez was interviewing 50. Fif rapidly barked on Grunblatt and asked to speak to Cam, and that's when all hell broke loose. A cordial exchange chop-chop went sour, equally Cam and Fif argued dorsum and forth over the contempo sales of G-Unit artists forth with Koch's value and reputation. An audibly angry Cam'ron peppered fifty with questions punctuated with an exaggerated telephone call of his government name, "Curtis."

No less than a week later, 50 released the Cam'ron diss track "Funeral Music," and Cam fired back with "Curtis." Correct when the beef transitioned from mildly interesting to a viral hot mess, Cam seemingly disappeared. He resurfaced in November, exclusively telling Miss Info he temporarily relocated to Florida to intendance for his mother afterwards she suffered 3 strokes. In the meantime, l brought Juelz Santana and Jim Jones onstage with him to perform "We Fly High," and Fif mockingly named his next anthology Curtis.

Chalk this 1 up to another beef that ended up getting squashed on peaceful terms.

"We had our little hip-hop beef or any y'all wanna call it, but ain't no problem," Cam'ron recalled during a 2011 advent on MTV's RapFix Live. "Jim and Juelz do stuff with fifty and they military camp all the time. I don't have a problem with 50 at all. Information technology is what it is. We had our little discrepancy, and we moved on from it."

50 Cent vs. Nas

These two Queens emcees (50 reps Jamainca, while Nas is a product of Queensbridge) have gone at each other on tape before. On "Piggy Banking concern," Fif infamously mocked Nas' tattoo of Kelis and called him a "sucker for love." In return, Nas struck dorsum on "Queens Become The Money," saying fifty was a porch monkey hiding backside 8 Mile and The Chronic. Ouch. Merely the best barbs betwixt "God's Son" and "Ferrari F-50" might exist the ones that never became accessible to the viewing public.

Allegedly this all spawned from fifty'due south conventionalities that Nas had him booted off a remix to the Jennifer Lopez 2001 single "I'm Gonna Be Alright," when both Nas and 50 were still on Colombia. Songs like Nas' unreleased "Don't Body Yourself" hint at the friction ("Yeah nosotros from the same hood just nigga what?"), only the existent drama of songs similar "Spastic" has since been lost in the pre-Internet ether (no pun intended). Summer Jam giveth, and Summertime Jam taketh away. 50 hinted at something involving Nas in the weeks leading up to Hot 97's infamous annual festival. And, in a testify of Queens solidarity, Nas provided an intro of sorts for fifty's performance.

50 Cent vs. Rick Ross

Much like any war, the inclusion of spouses, children and innocent bystanders is usually an indication things have reached a new low. After the mother of 50 Cent'southward kid, Shaniqua Tompkins was forced to evacuate a Long Island home 50 Cent owned, the property was destroyed in a May 2008 fire. Rick Ross poked fun at the situation with the post-obit confined from the song "Mafia Music":

"I love to pay ya bills, can't wait to pay your rent / Curtis Jackson infant mama, I own't askin' for a cent / Burn down the house down nigga, you gotta buy another / Don't forget the gas can, jealous stupid motherfucker…"

And like that, it was on. On February. 2, 2009, l Cent posted an interview with Tiallondra "Tia" Kemp, Rick Ross' baby's mother, on his website Thisis50.com. In the interview, Kemp, who was engaging in a child support case with Ross at the fourth dimension, confirmed Ross worked as a correctional officeholder. After the interview, 50 took Kemp on a shopping spree on 5th Avenue. The beef went viral, as fifty Cent introduced the "Officer Ricky" character to poke fun at Ross' correctional officeholder past, and Ross took to calling fifty "Curly."

Despite the usual threats to cease each other's respective careers, this beef didn't so much get squashed every bit it died from a lack of fan interest. Aside from 2009, which saw Before I Self Destruct and Deeper Than Rap hit shelves in the same calendar yr, 2014 marks the 2d time both rappers have released retail offerings within months of ane another.

50 Cent vs. Jadakiss

Much like Fatty Joe, Jadakiss was one of the many Empire State emcees 50 targeted for appearing on Ja Rule's "New York." But in terms of retaliation, 'Buss arguably flipped the script on 50 ameliorate than Ja or Joe, equally he implored 50 and the listening Rap public to shift the focus away from sales and chart positions.

"I might never sell that much / But you can bet your last two quarters, I'll never tell that much / Picture 'Buss not come out swinging' / That's like going to see 50 at a show, and he don't come up out singin' / Yeah y'all got a felony, but you ain't a predicate / Never the king of New York, you live in Connecticut," Jada spit on 2005's "Checkmate." The rails was complete with the standard issue 50 barbs nearly glamorizing being shot and allegations of snitching. But Jadakiss focused on skills, telling 50 his raps were preschool.

The Jadakiss and fifty Cent beefiness was easily squashed because it never truly got personal. In a March interview with Complex, l Cent revealed he planned on including Jadakiss on i of Animal Appetite's collaborations. Fif even ventured to Yonkers, where boyfriend LOX fellow member Styles P had also joined Jadakiss in the studio. The result was "Irregular Heartbeat," which features Jadakiss and "Chase The Paper," which features Styles P. Ultimately, good music (and what we can assume was some modicum of common respect) won out.

50 Cent vs. Kenneth "Supreme" McGriff

Some beefs reach levels of intensity that would make any quarrel betwixt rappers seem every bit insignificant as 2 toddlers fighting over a toy. Consider the dynamic between 50 Cent and Kenneth "Supreme" McGriff one such beef. McGriff and the Supreme Team take been named dropped in Hip Hop at least as far as Nas' 1994 album, Illmatic. 5 years after, 50 mentioned both McGriff and Gerald "Prince" Miller on the song "Ghetto Qu'ran."

"Yo when you lot hear talk of the Southside, you hear talk of the Team / Come across niggas feared Prince and respected 'Preme / For all you slow motherfuckers, I'ma break it downward iller / See 'Preme was the businessman, and Prince was the killer," 50 rapped. In a July 2006 VIBE mag interview with Ethan Brown, McGriff confirmed he was less than pleased with the song.

"Yes, it was factual," McGriff said. "He said in the song, 'Preme was the businessman, and Prince was the killer'… When nosotros was coming upwards there was a code on the streets, a code of conduct, which was you lot never speak of dudes whom may still be in the streets."

After serving nearly 15 years in federal prison, McGriff connected with Murder Inc. founder Irv Gotti to license the rights to a Donald Goines novel. Things seemingly reached a caput when 50 and Ja continuously clashed and Fif implied McGriff was responsible for the 2000 attempt on his life. By 2003 Gotti was hurt by a three-year federal investigation on charges of laundering money for McGriff. While Gotti was eventually plant innocent, McGriff was convicted of drug trafficking, racketeering and murder charges. In that location was no beloved lost between 50 and McGriff.

"Either style, he's a wrap at present, because the changes they don't see is the financial transition," 50 told XXL in a 2011 interview. "Same way the nigga that shot me wasn't an in-house for them—he was only a shooter. I have access to that at present. I have the finances. The shooters shoot every bit soon as the bag is dropped. So now, either they give him life, or they let him go and I give him life. They don't sympathise the divergence. The first album I was trying to explicate it, Power of the Dollar. They had money when I didn't have coin, and so I had to have bullets."

fifty Cent vs. Game

An infamous quote reads, "Poor is the pupil who does not surpass his master." In the example of former Game, he may accept been the ultimate pupil when it came to running an all out smear campaign confronting his former G-Unit general 50 Cent. Weeks of rumored fiction between Game and 50 were confirmed in February of 2005 when l told Hot 97's Funkmaster Flex Game was being booted from G-Unit due to disloyalty. Game'due south desire to distance himself from several of fifty Cent's multiple beefs didn't sit and then well, and the Compton, California native chop-chop found himself on the outs.

This quarrel and so spilled over from the airwaves to the streets when Game and an entourage returned to Hot 97 subsequently hearing 50's remarks. Young man Compton native Kevin Reed sustained a wound to the leg later a shooting exterior the radio station'southward offices. Shots were also fired outside of Violator Management offices.

Despite attempts by Dr. Dre, Jimmy Iovine and others, there was only a brusque-lived truce betwixt Game and 50. Both artists appeared at a March ix press conference in Harlem, New York.

"We're here today to show that people can rise above the nigh difficult circumstances and together we can put negativity backside u.s.," 50 Cent offered. "A lot of people don't desire to see it happen, simply we're responding to the ii about important groups, our family unit and our fans."

By the time summer rolled around, the truce was over again. Game appeared to thrive off the beef via fan responses to his Thou-Unot campaign, the song "300 Confined" and an nigh face at Hot 97's almanac Summertime Jam. In July of 2009, Game publicly apologized for his role in the beef, telling MTV's Shaheem Reid, "If we never [broke] up, I recollect Detox would have been out and nosotros all would take been selling millions from Banks to Cadet, Tony Yayo. I'm gonna apologize for my role."

With Game likely headed to Cash Money and 50 going the independent road, the chances of hearing the original four-man M-Unit lineup together are about as likely every bit a Detox release. As 50 reunited with Lloyd Banks, Tony Yayo and Immature Cadet at the 2014 Summer Jam, Game was conspicuously absent.

50 Cent vs. Jimmy "Henchman" Rosemond

This one got very real equally both of these men have legitimate ties to a street life that nigh Hip Hop artists simply emulate. Jimmy "Henchman" Rosemond was up for a murder-for-hire trial when 50 Cent took the opportunity to throw his customary jabs on Instagram: "LMAO THIS Boy SOLVED EVERY Crime IN NEW YORK. Quondam gangsta jimmy,become a head tell some more due south–t killer. Lol."

The thing is, though, that 50 was speaking well-nigh a man who, as it came out during trial, was stalking and reportedly paying for acts of violence to exist done to 50 Cent and Thou-Unit's crew. On June 5, 2012, a jury in Federal District Courtroom in Brooklyn found Rosemond guilty of running a drug trafficking operation responsible for $2.8 million with ties to 19 other people. Some 17 days later, the New York Times reported Rosemond was involved in hiring a hit on 1000-Unit associate Lowell "Lodi Mack" Fletcher. The assassination was supposed retaliation for an altercation Jimmy had with Tony Yayo before an awards anniversary at the Apollo in 2007.

Let's think near but how completely nuts all of that is. Openly mocking a human being that's on trial for the murder of an associate of yours? Not to mention that the same man reportedly shot upwards Tony Yayo'south Bentley for the Grand-Unit of measurement rapper reportedly putting hands on Rosemond's son, and plotted on your demise consistently over the course of a number of years? I that is now in federal prison for life for running an enormous drug-trafficking business organisation through the shuffling around of music equipment. With all that said, l'southward gangster should never, always exist questioned… ever. This was a beefiness that happened almost exclusively off wax, and with dire consequences waiting in the wings at every turn.

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