50 Cent is not letting up on Sean “Diddy” Combs.
The rapper/actor/producer, who has long trolled Combs on social media, has not lowered the temperature of his words in the wake of Combs’ federal racketeering and sex trafficking trial.
On Tuesday, the hip-hop moguls’ names were once again intertwined when Capricorn Clark, a former assistant to Combs, reportedly testified that he had confronted 50 Cent’s then-manager Chris Lighty about their feud in an elevator after a press event.
“I don’t like all the back and forth,” Combs told Lighty, according to Clark’s testimony. “I like guns.”
Later on Tuesday, 50 Cent took to social media to mock Combs’ alleged statement.
“Cut, CUT 🎬Wait a minute PUFFY’s got a gun, I can’t believe this I don’t feel safe 😔LOL,” 50 Cent wrote in the caption on photos he posted which included tweets that outlined Clark’s testimony.
Later, he posted another photo with the caption, “Oh my goodness itty bitty Diddy wants me Dead, I have to lay low, ☹️I think I’m gonna hide out at the playoff game tonight. LOL.”
Combs has pleaded not guilty to charges of racketeering conspiracy, sex trafficking and transportation to engage in prostitution.
50 Cent has long been a vocal critic of Combs, including after CNN’s publication of surveillance video that showed Combs physically assaulting his then-girlfriend, Cassie Ventura, in 2016.
In September 2024, 50 Cent announced he was working on a docuseries for Netflix about Combs that would include “disturbing” allegations. CNN reached out to representatives for 50 Cent and Netflix for comment at the time.
Here’s a look back at how there came to be animosity between the two men:
A diss track
In 2006, 50 Cent released a diss track titled “The Bomb,” which featured sounds of gunfire and his allegation that Combs knew the identity of the killer of Christopher Wallace, the rapper known as The Notorious B.I.G.
Wallace, who was both a protégée of and best friend to Combs, was gunned down in Los Angeles in March 1997 as he and his crew, which included Combs, were traveling in a caravan. Combs was in a different vehicle from the one Wallace was in at the time Wallace was shot.
No one has ever been charged with the murder.
In his diss track, 50 Cent raps, “I guess this means I won’t be invited to the white parties in the Hamptons,” referencing Combs’ famous soirées held in the upscale New York community.
50 Cent has also said he believes Combs is connected to the 1996 murder of rapper Tupac Shakur.
Combs called such allegations “nonsense” in a 2016 interview with the syndicated radio show “The Breakfast Club.” He has never been charged in connection to either case.
Consistent trolling
Followers of 50 Cent are familiar with his reputation for sharp comments and social media trolling.
The rapper-turned-television-producer has made Combs a frequent target, attacking everything from his music to his age.
Some believed it was mostly marketing, especially given the men’s parallel career tracks and even competing vodkas at one point.
But 50 upped his comments after Combs was sued in November 2023 by Cassie Ventura, who in a now-settled civil complaint alleged that Combs raped her in 2018 and abused her over the more than decade they were in an off-and-on relationship (Combs denied the allegations).
After federal investigators searched Combs’ homes in Miami and Los Angeles in March 2024, 50 Cent posted on X, “Now it’s not Diddy do it, it’s Diddy done. They don’t come like that unless they got a case.”
Diddy denies there’s beef
Combs was asked about the tension between him and 50 Cent during an appearance on “The Breakfast Club” in 2018.
“I don’t have no beef with Fif. He loves me,” Combs said. “Y’all can’t see that he loves me? You really think that’s hate? … You know he loves me.”
He added that he didn’t take the things 50 Cent says about him seriously.
“When he does that it’s like funny to me,” Combs said at the time. “I don’t really take it personal. I know he has a different sense of humor, and he’s just not in my life. We don’t have to never cross paths, and I will never say nothing negative about him, you know, because that’s just not me.”
