There's a bunch of 50 Cent news this week. Funny how this happened at the same time Massacre is dropping. Just a coincidence? Any way, onto the news:

Rumors have surfaced that former G-Unit soldier Game has teamed with Queensbridge kingpin Nas, and D-Block's Jadakiss for a diss track aimed at 50 Cent. The rumored collabo is supposed to take place today and be produced by Terror Squad production duo Cool & Dre. Word has it that Riker's Island inmate Shyne will do the intro to the track. However, none of the mentioned parties have confirmed that such a collaboration is indeed in progress.
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While Jada is gung-ho and ready to get it on, Joe seems like he resents having to get caught up in the craziness.

"He's not lyrical," Jadakiss said of 50 on Wednesday, sitting in the D-Block studio in Yonkers. "He makes good songs but he's not a better lyricist than me. Put all the money, the units, put everything behind us, plus the good old-fashioned lyrics and an instrumental, and I'll wear him out. You know that. The whole world knows that. I know and I'm humble."

Kiss said that deep down, even though 50 has sold way more records than him, he feels 50 is still jealous of what he has accomplished.

"I did songs with everybody — Hov, Nas, Big, Mariah — songs with people he wishes he could do songs with. He was very successful, he made a lot of money, but his success is inside of the box. He can't party with Usher, he can't drive around in a drop. It's cool to stay with your entourage and be tight with your people, but he don't got that much mingling in him and socializing. That's bringing out the anger in him. He can't call up any rapper. He's just with his crew. I know it's troubling to have everything but really have nothing."

Believe it or not, with the words that have been flying between 50 and Jada, Kiss said they've only met twice for a total of maybe three minutes. Asked what would happen if Jada ever met 50 out in the street again, Kiss said he doesn't think he'll ever run into 50.

"Where am I going to see him? On the Academy Awards red carpet?" Jada opined. He also divulged that he had talked to Game on Wednesday and that the tension between Game and 50 was bubbling over way before Game refused to get involved in 50's "Piggy Bank" beefs

For Kiss' part, he plans to capitalize on the notoriety of the beef while showing 50 who is lyrically superior. Fat Joe, meanwhile, is pumping his April 26 release, All or Nothing, and said he would rather be getting all eyes on him for his hit records rather than somebody calling him out

"My job is to make hot records so people can be entertained," Joe said Wednesday. "My job is not to be in the paper affiliated with all this ruckus. That's not what I'm with. I'm into giving the kids computers. I'm into running basketball programs in the summer so they can meet their favorite NBA players.

"Basically the 'Piggy Bank' is just to create hype, to create sales for [50's] career, and I'm not with that. Yeah, this is a stunt, man. This is a promotional stunt that I don't appreciate being a part of. Fat Joe's a gangster rapper, Fat Joe's from the streets, Fat Joe the gangster, but I make my music to take you to a different place to entertain you. I'm not in it to get into battle rap."

Jada is going to start putting out his "warning shots" to 50 via mixtape dis records, but said his main response will be a song called "Shots Fired" on Styles P's Time Is Money. Joe's reply to 50 will be on All or Nothing.

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In further demonstration of 50's ego getting the best of him, Heads are saying that Eminem and Dr. Dre are none too happy with all the beef 50 Cent has gotten into lately, in particular, the problems with fellow Aftermath/G-Unit artist Game. Likewise, it seems that 50 may be taking exception to Em's lack of support and a diss track towards Em and Dre may be on the way. 50 has recently complained that Interscope didn't pay enough attention to his project, and he had to put out "Disco Inferno" himself just to get the ball rolling. The rumor mill says the Queens rapper will possibly leave Shady/Aftermath and take his G-Unit clan with him.

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Recently, Fat Joe revealed that the track for 50's hit, "Candy Shop" was originally, meant for the Terror Squad leader. Crack says that the track was produced by him and Scott Storch. It looks like Joe wasn't feeling the original beat and asked Storch to tweak it a little. Around that time, 50 Cent heard the track and had to have it. Storch asked Joe and apparently Cooked Coke gave it the pass and let 50 have the beat. The track later became the single "Candy Shop" off 50's album, The Massacre -the same album that houses the infamous diss against Joe, "Piggy Bank."

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A member of 50 Cent's entourage was reportedly arrested yesterday (March 3) for possession of a knife, as 50 and his crew entered the BET building in New York City for an appearance.

Early reports suggested that the person arrested was affiliated with 50's street team and not his G-Unit crew.

According to sources, the man was related to 50's close friend and G Unit member, Tony Yayo.

As 50's album, The Massacre, also dropped Thursday in stores nationwide, some have been predicting that the rapper will break a million sales.

50's opponents have accused the rapper of devising his beefs with Jadakiss, Fat Joe and The Game as a publicity stunt just in time to promote his sophomore release.

Meanwhile, 50 has made history on the Billboard charts, holding three of the top five positions on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart, including "Candy Shop," at No. 1, "How We Do" with The Game at No. 4, and "Disco Inferno" at No. 5.

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While their boy Jadakiss has been swept up in the drama surrounding beef-laden 50 Ccent, his D-Block fam have remained quiet...until now. D Block Records' CEO Supa Mario talks to SOHH.com about the ongoing beef, D-Block's Interscope relationship, and the so-called rap war.

With a recent shooting and current beef with his own artist, 50 Cent has engulfed himself in a storm of drama. "He's at the top of his game right now; he don't have to go at it like that. I guess he needs all the drama to start sh!t up," Supa Mario tells SOHH.com. I think it's kinda stupid. I think [50] went too far."


Before the debut of Get Rich Or Die Tryin', the Queens emcee had already began his legacy of beef. However at one time, he actually praised his fellow emcees from Yonkers. "We get along with a lot of people. It's funny cause people always wanted to see [a beef between us]; but we was always cool like, 'Nah, we ain't got no problems with them.' So for him to say we be taking subliminal shots at him -its just crazy," says Mario. "What do you mean we got to ask you to do a song with [Ja]? Who the f#@$ are you? You a brand new ni99a; we ain't got to ask you for sh!t."

"He can't even rap that well. He ain't even the best in his crew," says Mario; who believes 50 has ulterior motives for ousting newcomer Game from the G-Unit crew/label. "Game makes him nervous cause he came out the gate with over 400,000. Game is a threat to him cause Game's his own man. 50 is the head of G-Unit -he wants you to do well, but not that well. Game's on pace to do better than him; so he has to stop that right now."

Super Mario tells SOHH.com that the recent Hot 97 shooting was a reality check. "They start popping at Hot 97 and this ni99a leave out the back -and you up there talking about popping off! They don't even go out the front to see what's up with their ni99as. You can't even take a ni99a like that seriously."

Supa Mario says the trash-talking about his crew's lyrical talent was over the top. "As far as music; he can say whatever he wants about money or whatever; but nobody over there is better than us musically."

"We don't know why he f#@$ing with us with all that singing sh!t. We understand he tried to take Ja out, so he can be the only one singing. But he's gonna have to come over here and rap with us," Mario tells SOHH.com. "I don't know how many rounds he's gonna last when all he talks about is how much money he makes."

While both Kiss and Styles P both share a label with 50, they know they're Interscope's top priority. You gotta understand that 50 and Em -their whole camp is making Interscope a lot of money right now. Its nothing new to us; we've been getting the run-around forever. So we don't know what's going to happen with that right now," he explains.

As for reports of police gearing up for a so-called "new rap war," Mario tells SOHH.com, "Its not no rap war, no East/West thing. Its just one jerk whose money has gone to his head. Every coast and every side can see that."

Mario says he wants the people to wake up, "[50] success has nothing to do with his skills. Its has to do with his story and he sells it well."

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In his first public comments since the shooting at Hot 97 on Monday, 50 Cent claimed that the inflammatory comments he makes in his dis record "Piggy Bank" are nothing out of the ordinary, and denied the incident had anything to do with rap
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50 appeared with G-Unit member Olivia on BET's "106 & Park" Thursday, the same day his LP The Massacre hit stores. But his new album has been bringing him fewer headlines lately than his dis record "Piggy Bank" and his decision to kick the Game out of the G-Unit

On the show, he once again compared himself to a boxing champ whose title everybody wants. "Where I'm from is aggressive," 50 told the show's hosts. "I was taught to be aggressive, so I say these things."

Later he downplayed the threat of possible violent retaliation resulting from "Piggy Bank"

"A lot of things you hear out there is being said for shock value and not really as serious as people make it out to be," said 50, who claimed he was unimpressed with the responses of the MCs he targeted. "The media gets it and they try to do what they can do with it to make money off of it and make it look as bad as possible. But hip-hop has always been competitive, and they should always look forward to us getting back and forth with words."

The "back and forth" that started with "Piggy Bank" includes calling Fat Joe "That fat n---a," telling Jadakis that "I'll do your little ass like Jay did Mobb Deep," and mocking Nas' marriage to singer Kelis: "Kelis says her milkshake bring all the boys to the yard/ Then Nas went and tattooed the bitch on his arm." As the song closes, 50 — who is pictured on the album's cover artwork surrounded by 23 guns — dares his verbal targets to "do something now": "You gotta so do something/ C'mon, man, everybody's listening."

50 added that now that he's addressed all his issues on "Piggy Bank," he's ready to move on. Plus, he pointed out, "beef records don't really sell records. 'In Da Club's sell records."