50 Cent has admitted that he regrets beefing with fellow New York rap titans Cam’ron, Fat Joe and Jadakiss in the 2000s.
Speaking to The Hollywood Reporter in a wide-ranging interview, 50 discussed his many feuds from throughout his career.
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Asked if he regrets anything over the course of his lengthy and controversial career, the “In Da Club” legend replied: “Look, I think we wasted too much time arguing, me and Fat Joe, me and Cam’ron. There’s other guys like Jada[kiss], we cleared it up easier.
“But we wasted time because it was just the competitive nature. It wasn’t like we crossed paths and had real heat for each other.”
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50 then discussed his past issues with Fat Joe in more detail, given the two are now friends: “It went on more with Joe because he’s more like me, he’s closer in character to me. When we’re at odds, we are at odds, and we did that for a long time.
“And because of his loyalty to Irv [Gotti] and Ja [Rule], because he worked with them, I was seeing him not be happy from the things that were making me happy. It’s easy for me to say, ‘Fuck you’ if what makes me happy makes you unhappy, then we’re not on the same page and it turns into some shit, and I couldn’t pinpoint what exactly happened.”
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He continued: “When you look back at it, you go, ‘Wait, what happened?’ Because we didn’t even have no altercation or no specific thing that created it. Now he’s like my friend, and I don’t care that he has relationships with people that I don’t, because he’s always had those relationships.”
50 Cent has previously reflected on his bitter rivarly with Fat Joe, which saw them trade shots on songs such as “Piggy Bank” and “My FoFo” and almost come to blows at the 2005 MTV Video Music Awards.
In an interview with Rolling Stone last year, 50 admitted: “If anybody went next to Ja Rule, I’d jump on the person who featured with them, anybody who was faintly near them, ’cause I put him on life support and you wanna go resuscitate him.
“So that energy, later you look at it and you go, ‘I was buggin.’”
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“Fat Joe, his issues, I would see him a little uncomfortable with the success I was having, and I interpreted as, ‘He doesn’t like me,’ when he’s really the kind of guy you want to be friends with because he’s loyal to a default,” he added. “He’s so loyal for one record that [Murder Inc.] did with him that we became enemies.”
