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50 Cent took one other shot at his longtime enemy Ja Rule, this time over the latter’s efficiency on the BMI R&B/Hip-Hop Awards.
Ja, 47, seemingly referenced Jesus Christ’s crucifixion throughout his efficiency on the Wednesday, September 6, occasion in Miami Seaside. At one level, he was lashed to a wood column as backup vocalists — sporting white choir robes — surrounded him.
50 couldn’t resist mocking his fellow rapper’s show, sharing his scathing assessment of the efficiency through Instagram on Thursday, September 7. “Have a look at this s–thead,” wrote the 48-year-old alongside a video from the awards present. “Is he presupposed to be Jesus. 😆 WTF you possibly can’t make this s–t up. LOL so silly!”
50’s brutal tackle the present is simply the most recent skirmish in the pair’s long-running feud, which dates again to 1999 when Ja was allegedly robbed by considered one of 50’s associates. The duo have traded barbs of their lyrics through the years, however 50 — whose actual identify is Curtis Jackson — has extra lately made headlines for his elaborate strategies of pranking Ja.
In October 2018, for instance, 50 bought 200 tickets to considered one of Ja’s concert events, scoring the seats for $15 every in a Groupon deal. The seats had been then unused, leaving the primary 4 rows empty at Ja’s Arlington, Texas, efficiency.
Ja — whose actual identify is Jeffrey Atkins — publicly took the incident in stride, tweeting, “I get beneath @50cent pores and skin… 😜 I adore it!!!”
50 later stated the prank “wasn’t a giant deal” regardless of the headlines it made. “Now you gotta take a look at your showmanship, once you come and there ain’t no one within the entrance seats,” he defined throughout a January 2019 interview on The Late Present With Stephen Colbert. “You gotta nonetheless carry out like everyone’s right here.”
Host Stephen Colbert accurately summed up the state of affairs, joking, “You do not need to f–ok with you. That’s lovely.”
Two years earlier, 50 weighed in after Ja was concerned in the Fyre Pageant debacle, which led to cofounder Billy McFarland serving greater than three years in jail after he was convicted of wire fraud. “Can’t do nothing proper,” 50 wrote through Instagram in April 2017. “LOL.”
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The 2017 Fyre Pageant turned a punchline after defrauding its attendees and simply typically being a whole catastrophe. The concept for the music pageant within the Bahamas got here to entrepreneur Billy McFarland, who wished to advertise his Fyre app, which helped customers e book music expertise. McFarland partnered with Ja Rule to create the occasion. The […]
Ja, who co-organized the failed occasion, initially confronted greater than a dozen lawsuits over his involvement, however he was dismissed from a class-action lawsuit in opposition to the occasion’s organizers in 2019.
McFarland, 31, lately introduced plans for a second Fyre Pageant, which he claims will happen in 2024. Tickets started promoting final month, with costs starting from $499 to $7,999, although the occasion doesn’t but have a venue or date.
