Hurricane Chris sparks feud by calling out 50 Cent
Rap legend 50 Cent is no stranger to a feud, and he’s recently got himself embroiled in a surprising beef with Hurricane Chris. While it is also a fairly lighthearted spat, the coming together of the ’21 Questions’ rapper and the crunk star known for 2007’s ‘A Bay Bay’, isn’t one anybody had together on their list of things to happen in 2024.
While 50 Cent has had legendary feuds with other pioneering hip-hop stars such as Fat Joe – one of the genre’s most notable dramas – as well as his recent wind-ups on Rick Ross and Diddy, the influential rapper and media mogul has now been taken on by an artist out of his orbit, in a kind of David and Goliath situation.
On August 18th, Fiddy took to X to debunk claims Hurricane Chris had made in an Instagram video that no New Orleans artists performed at his annual Humor and Harmony Festival in Shreveport, Louisiana, Hurricane’s hometown. Chris was also aggrieved that 50 Cent allegedly paid $500,000 to the Shreveport police for security when he felt it should been spent on booking local acts to perform. Alongside the video, Chris wrote a long message criticising 50 being in his hometown.
He said: “I challenge yu to let me show u our community and the things that the rotten people around yu have hidden weare the fourth worst educated state in America murder happens daily and our youth is lost none of the people around yu know what the city needs not even the fake non profits but thats another story.”
Regarding the local acts, Chris was wrong. New Orleans icon Master P, as well as newer artists Big Fella Zil and Flamefari, played. Even Baton Rouge’s Fredo Bang appeared.
“Hurricane Flex [smiley face open mouth emoji] boy ya s**t is wack, the f**k you think you @FredoBang [face with raised eye emoji] ya s**t gets no play in my ride. LOL,” 50 Cent said in an X post responding to Chris.
In another post on X, Fiddy continued to poke fun at Chris and captioned a clip from Menace II Society with: “Oh no you not gonna play that 1 song you got, Bay Bay just went on stage wit Master P. LOL”.
Chris was primed for another round, and in a now-deleted video on Instagram, he went for the Queens legend again, calling him a “big dummy”.
He said: “You don’t know sh*t about the city. Shreveport, the ni**a just said I got one song. Ni**a, I go all the way back to 5 Entertainment. That’s how I know you don’t know sh*t about the city, homie. You just a culture vulture-a*s ni**a that seen some sh*t for sale and you wanted to come profit.”
Getting real, Chris stated that 50 Cent’s lack of knowledge is what qualified him as an opportunist staging his festival in his local area, calling his friends rats, and backing his heavy catalogue. He seemed to be particularly irked by the New Yorker’s lack of research into Shreveport and his cynical sensing of an open commercial goal, with no real care for the reality of those from the city in which he held his festival.