Rick Ross issues 50 Cent “once-in-a-lifetime” business opportunity
Rap is no stranger to feuds; in fact, they’re part and parcel of what makes the genre tick. While the most prominent at the moment is that between Kendrick Lamar and Drake, there are plenty of other high-profile ones, including the longstanding beef between Rick Ross and 50 Cent.
It all started in 2009 when Ross initiated the feud, claiming Fiddy had looked at him wrongly at the BET Hip Hop Awards the previous year. However, 50 Cent maintained he didn’t remember seeing Ross there. Regardless, the Ross track ‘Mafia Music’ leaked and contained several lines dissing the ‘Candy Shop’ rapper. Reacting only days later, the New Yorker released ‘Officer Ricky (Go Head, Try Me)’.
Later, 50 Cent said in a video: “Rick Ross, I’mma fuck your life up for fun” and released a series of ‘Officer Ricky’ cartoons. He also interviewed ‘Tia’, the mother of one of Ross’s children, who claimed he was once a correctional officer and claimed his street life persona is fraudulent. This even led to The Game, who 50 Cent has a long beef with, to comment publicly that Ross was being destroyed by his old nemesis.
The Ross and Fiddy feud rumbled on with a series of diss tracks. 50 Cent also claimed that Ross is Albert from the 1993 mockumentary CB4. He said in an interview: “It never gets worse than this. You get a guy that was a correctional officer come out and base his entire career on writing material from a drug dealer’s perspective.”
Things then died down for a time but would eventually reheat. In January 2013, 50 Cent claimed on Twitter that the drive-by shooting Ross suffered that month was “staged”. Just over a year later, in March 2014, Ross asserted that we was done with the feud, and wanted to discuss 50 Cent no more.
In more recent times, though, things have been resurfacing again because Meek Mill, a signee on Ross’s MMG label, appeared to defend his mentor and criticise 50 Cent on 2016’s 4/4 EP. Fiddy has also recently trolled Ross.
Now, though, it seems that Ross wants to bury the hatchet for good. When responding to a fan on his Instagram Story who asked him if he’d ever consider a truce with 50 Cent, he said he would, and has even offered his rival a “once-in-a-lifetime” business opportunity.
“I would, 50 Cent I see you raising money for your film ideas,” he said. “You asked a close friend of mine, I saw the renderings, the drawings of what you believe what your studio could be like in Shreveport. I’m gonna give you a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to come sit down at the table and present your ideas.”
“I won’t make you any promises,” Ross continued. “Men of business don’t discuss the past. It’s new money, I’ll consider it. You know where I’m at financially. I could change your life.”