The one rapper 50 Cent brutally called a “whore”
Good morning, and welcome to today’s morning briefing of what mean thing one hip-hop artist has said about another hip-hop artist through the medium of interviews and rap verses. Today’s special guest is 50 Cent – a man who has never shied away from throwing verbal hands at both his opps and allies in any capacity available – and what rapper he reckons is a whore. His words, not ours.
During an interview with Funkmaster Flex all the way back in 2007, Cent was asked about Lil Wayne.
What was happening in 2007? A quick recap. 50 Cent had dropped Curtis, and unfortunately for him, Kanye West had released Graduation, which outsold Cent’s album at a time when Cent was ruling the charts. At the same time, Lil Wayne’s Da Drought 3 was being considered one of the greatest mixtapes ever. If you could manage to avoid that, you’d meet your Weezy maker inevitably: he was featuring on so many tracks it was like the charts was his living room and everyone was invited to hear him rap.
From a remix of DJ Khaled’s ‘I’m So Hood’ to ‘Barry Bonds’ with Kanye West, to ‘Hello Brooklyn 2.0’ with Jay-Z, and ‘Sweetest Girl (Dollar Bill)’ with Wyclef Jean and Akon, it begs the question: who wasn’t Lil Wayne performing with?
Well, nice for Lil Wayne fans. Of which there were – and still are – loads. Was it nice for Cent? Not quite.
Cent was asked in this interview what he made of all these Wayne appearances on their peers’ singles and remixes. “A whore sleeps with whoever will pay ’em,” Cent replied. “So we gotta call him a whore if he’ll just go with whoever pay him to be on their records. He makes those records good. It’s just that he works with anybody. You gotta kinda make it an event.”
Ouch. And he wasn’t done. In his 2007 track ‘Part Time Lover’, 50 Cent doubled down, taking Tune down with Weezy. “You make me wanna kiss you like Baby kiss Wayne; And make you call me daddy like Baby do Wayne; Damn that shit sounds gay, it’s insane; I guess that’s the price the lil’ n*gga pays for fame,” he rapped.
Cent was on something of a generational run in his indignation towards Lil Wayne. When MTV called Wayne the number one rapper in the world on their Hottest MCs In The Game list, Cent – naturally – had something to say on the matter.
“You got other artists that are there that haven’t even made their own records… the #1 artist, tell me his first single off of his last album? *Interviewer does not know* How you ‘#1’ and no one knows the record?” Cent said.
And perhaps even more embarrassingly for Cent, this up-and-comer he was beefing with so hard didn’t retaliate with further beef, as one would expect. Instead, Birdman took the opportunity to pay homage to a great of the genre.
“That shits crazy man,” Lil Wayne said. I ain’t fuckin’ with 50; he too high up there… I can’t even deal wit none of that. That’s my n*gga though. I respect that my name even came out the homie’s mouth. No homo. I respect him. I just took it as a compliment. I’d never go back at 50; that n”gga’s a trillionaire. I’m tryin to get there homie. I’m smart, I ain’t dumb.” Clearly!