The “weird shit” that made 50 Cent uncomfortable around Diddy
50 Cent has always had an issue with Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs, and he has his reasons. Although they’ve collaborated in the past, the G-Unit mogul has long avoided being affiliated with him on a friendship level.
During an interview this year, 50 explained how he avoided Diddy’s infamous parties, with some of them becoming an important part of the sexual assault cases against him, known as “freak-offs.” According to 50, there was a strange energy around them. “I’ve been very vocal about not going to Puffy parties and doing shit like that,” he told The Hollywood Reporter. “I’ve been staying out of that shit for years. It’s just an uncomfortable energy connected to it.”
One of the main reasons why 50 distanced himself from Diddy traces back to the time when he asked him to go on a shopping trip. Immediately, he was confused about the request because he believed that it was something a man usually says to a woman.
“He asked to take me shopping,” he said. “I thought that was the weirdest shit in the world because that might be something that a man says to a woman. And I’m just like, ‘Naw, I’m not fucking with this weird energy or weird shit,’ coming off the way he was just moving. From that, I wasn’t comfortable around him.”
While 50 has crossed paths with Diddy over the years, he simply categorised their relationship as business only. The pair met through Jennifer Lopez recommending him as a writer during the early stages of his career.
“It was mostly work,” he said. “I wouldn’t call it a friendship because there wouldn’t be disappointment between us if we didn’t speak to each other. There’s points that we worked together. Jennifer Lopez actually told him he should work with me as songwriter in the beginning. And I was around at the early stages, and he could have done my record deal at that point.”
Diddy allegedly used to call his house phone but refused to pick up, to the confusion of his partner at the time. “I remember Diddy would call, and my son’s mum would answer, and I didn’t want to get on the phone like, ‘No, no, no,'” he recalled. “And she was like, ‘What the fuck? We need money.’ She’s looking at me, like, ‘What? Why don’t you want to talk to him?'”
50 claimed they never hung out together and weren’t at the same parties, going on to accuse Diddy of taking credit for music he shouldn’t have. “I didn’t ever party or hang out with him,” he said. “Puff is a businessperson; when [people call him] a producer, I see people that were taken advantage of, who produced things that he took from them. He got the credit.”
He added, “He’s not a producer. He’s been able to take advantage of the business and the creatives in it. I don’t have any interest in doing that. I actually fall under the creative. So I just didn’t take to hanging out with that.”