50 Cent fires back at Joe Budden after podcaster threatens legal action
50 Cent is no stranger to online spats, and this time, he has decided to go at it with ‘Pump It Up’ emcee and podcaster Joe Budden. Budden recently threatened the Get Rich Or Die Tryin’ creator with legal action for trolling, but Fifty is having none of it.
After seeing Budden’s threats against him, Fifty took to Instagram to address what he perceived to be comical hollow threats from Budden, who is quite opinionated himself. Following a week-long trolling session, 50 Cent wrote, “So that’s the plan, you gonna sue me, Joe?”
The rapper then proceeded to laugh at the notion of Budden suing him over some online jokes, writing, “Hahaha, I think you are mistaking me for someone else. I’m a get face to face with you, so you can tell me about the therapy I need.”
50 Cent isn’t someone Joe Budden has arguments with on a regular basis, and, similarly, Joe Budden is rarely at the sharp end of Fifty’s online attacks and taunts. However, they do regularly debate pop culture topics online, especially concerning rap music.
That said, recently, things have taken a turn for the worse, and disputes have quickly escalated. Eventually, Fifty decided to laugh at a lewdness charge Budden received in January after allegedly standing completely naked in an apartment hallway. Still, Budden was ready for the ‘In Da Club’ rhymer and suggested he needed to seek a psychiatrist.
Unfortunately, after Fifty’s constant trolling, Budden decided to broadcast the beef on his podcast, the Joe Budden Show, and insisted that he had had enough of 50 Cent’s taunting, telling his co-hosts, “50 been posting me for seven days in a row.” He continued, “Anytime one of them n*ggas with f*cking 30 million, 50 million followers post me, good or bad, I get paid. If I have a problem with it, we getting lawyers involved.”
He continued by slamming the AI-generated images recently posted by Fifty, raging, “What you want me to do? Cuz that’s illegal. You can’t take all these AI pics …that’s what shorty going to court for. You can’t do that.”
The “shorty” Budden referred to is YouTuber Milagro Gramz, who Megan Thee Stallion is suing for promotion of AI-generated sexual depictions of the Houston rapper, cyberstalking, intentional infliction of emotional distress and invasion of privacy.
50 Cent appears to have removed all AI-generated images of Joe Budden from his Instagram page.