HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Bernard Smalls / @PhotosByBeanz Just when you think 50 Cent is solely focused on television, he jumps back in his petty bag. Daphne Joy, his child’s mother, has responded to a wisecrack he made speculating she is Diddy’s new flame. As spotted on Complex the G-Unit Records founder is back to doing the most on social media. On Tuesday, Sept. 28 he posted a photo of him and his son Sire, wearing matching yellow sunglasses looking askew. “oh sh*t, that’s your mommy over there with Puffy. LOL😆😆😆 Remember what i told you the other day, these b!tche’s be crazy. SMH” his caption read. Related Stories Naturally the post quickly went viral and landed on Daphne Joy’s radar and it seemed like she didn’t take kindly to the joke. “Please st...
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Bernard Smalls / @PhotosByBeanz A new series that will explore the epidemic of violence that has attached itself to Hip-Hop is set to hit the airwaves in November, with 50 Cent and Mona Scott-Young as executive producers. The new series, Hip-Hop Homicides, announced its premiere date on Wednesday (Sept. 28), in a press release. The series will air on WeTV, with Van Lathan as the host. 50 Cent will be an executive producer through his G-Unit Film and Television company, and Scott-Young will do the same through her Monami Productions along with Stephanie R. Gayle and Michael Lang. Both companies will be working in tandem with Lionsgate Television, who will physically distribute the series. The first episode will focus on the life and tragic death of Pop Smo...
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Starz / Starz 50 Cent is taking his production talents elsewhere. He announced his deal with Starz is officially done. As per Deadline, 50 Cent is no longer in business with the network that brought us Power. Last week, the Queens native took to social media to confirm the speculation that he has chosen not to renew his contractual option with the Santa Monica, California based company. On Saturday, Sept. 17 he posted on Instagram that the deal has expired and he is no longer legally obligated to give the network first right of refusal on any of his television production concepts. “09-17-22 official day of really owning my content & deciding where and how i do it moving forward!!! GLG🚦GreenLightGang 🎯bulls eye we don’t miss &...
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Bernard Smalls / @PhotosByBeanz A plastic surgeon is about to learn that when you try to make a buck off of 50 Cent without his consent, he’s not taking it to the streets but rather to the court room. According to TMZ, 50 Cent is suing plastic surgeon, Angela Kogan and her businesses, Perfection Plastic Surgery and MedSpa for using a photo he took with her to promote her business and imply that Fiddy had some work done on his magic stick (LOL). Posing for a photo with Kogan, 50 learned that the innocent pic was used to make it seem like the Get Rich or Die Tryin’ rapper had some penis enhancement work done and is now taking Kogan to court for the shameless promo. Related Stories According to the lawsuit, obtained by TMZ, 50 Cent says he took a pic with Dr...
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Erika Goldring / Getty Looks like 50 Cent might’ve bitten off a little more than he can chew with his trolling ways as social media is calling him out for talking sideways about Lil Kim’s baby daughter. It started when 50 Cent tried to goat Nicki Minaj into engaging in another fight with Lil Kim when he accused Kim of talking about her on Kim’s verse to Megan Thee Stallion’s “Plan B” by writing “@nickiminaj you better light her up I’m watching. she said something about the baby.” But 50 being 50, he took things way too far when he commented on Kim’s own baby by adding “her baby eye f*cked up.” Related Stories Unnecessary and uncalled for, social media users immediately came for Diddy and after catching much backlash online, Lil Kim decided to address the ...
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Bernard Smalls / @PhotosByBeanz It seems one of Hip-Hop’s most infamous beefs is back on. 50 Cent and The Game recently traded shots over the Super Bowl Halftime Show winning an Emmy Award. As per Complex the former G-Unit soldiers are once again on opposite sides. Last week the memorable performance, which featured Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg, Mary J. Blige, Kendrick Lamar, and Eminem, won three awards at the 2022 Creative Arts Emmys. The wins included Outstanding Variety Special (Live), Outstanding Music Direction, and Outstanding Production Design For A Variety. After it was announced 50 took to social media to humbly brag. “I just won my Emmy award [clapping emojis] for the super bowl half time show. LOL,” he wrote. From there, 50 sent stray shots at the...
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: @50Cent / Instagram For years now 50 Cent has established himself as a respectable TV producer/actor with hits like Power and well, the Power spinoffs, but now the G-Unit general is ready to tackle the horror genre and show the world how scary he can get with it. Recently we got our first teaser trailer to Skill House which centers around a group of social media influencers who find themselves trapped in a house where getting “Likes” on social media is the only thing that can keep them alive. Anyone who doesn’t keep their followers satisfied with their posts or isn’t on or near their phone at all times will ultimately find themselves getting hacked to death one way or another. Related Stories Directed by Josh Stolberg (Jigsaw) and produced by 50 Cent, Ski...
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Bernard Smalls / @PhotosByBeanz 50 Cent is taking his talents to the podcast game. Lionsgate Entertainment is launching a new division and have signed him up to be one of the their celebrity talents. As per Deadline the Southside, Queens rapper will be hosting his own audio show as the newest face of Lionsgate entry to the surging category. Curtis will curate the Cuate/twin/: the downfall of El Chapo (working title) which will detail how Joaquín Archivaldo Guzmán Loera AKA El Chapo was finally taken down. “Speaking publicly for the first time ever, Chicago-born identical twins Peter and Jay Flores will take listeners on a journey through their meteoric rise to becoming two of the biggest drug traffickers in America,” the overview reads. Rel...
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Bernard Smalls / @PhotosByBeanz It seems 50 Cent’s plant based beef with Lala Kent is a thing of the past. The reality television star and the rapper have been spotted being super friendly this week. As per TMZ the Vanderpump Rules star has no issues with the “I Get Money” rapper. Fif is currently shooting his horror film in Los Angeles and Kent has pulled up on him several times to show some love. On Monday, August 1 they posed for photographs and made it clear they are very chummy with Curtis planting a kiss on her cheek while hugging her. For those unaware the two celebrities had a very high profile spat online when she was still dating her ex-fiancé Randall Emmett back in 2019. 50 claimed he owed him $1 million dollars and used a clip of her from the ...
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Thaddaeus McAdams / Getty The legal and financial dispute between 50 Cent and former G-Unit rapper Young Buck is still going on. If you’re unfamiliar with the dispute, Buck has claimed that he had to file bankruptcy multiple times due to Fif’s business practices and, for the most part, 50 has responded by being petty and ridiculing Buck and implying that he’s homosexual. “Once he stopped me from being able to make money, I filed another bankruptcy,” Buck said of 50, as we previously reported. “They stopped him from being able to cease-and-desist in regards to me being able to, you know… I included what he claimed that I owed him in the bankruptcy to be able to say, ‘Well hey, if you’re owed this and present whatever receipts or whatever… You will be paid ...
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Bernard Smalls / @PhotosByBeanz Looks like 50 Cent’s Snoop Dogg series, A Moment In Time: Murder Was The Case is no longer going to be going into production and Curtis isn’t too happy about STARZ pulling the plug on his idea. Taking to social media to break the news and vent his frustration, 50 wrote “Murder was the case is no longer in production at STARZ. I give them the alley-top, they drop the damn ball.” As successful as 50’s been over at STARZ, he’s never been shy about calling them out whenever they do something he doesn’t agree with. Can’t be mad at that at all. Related Stories A few months ago 50 announced that he and STARZ would be producing a mini-series around Snoop Dogg’s famous 1993 murder trial in which Snoop Dogg found himself fighting for...
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Paras Griffin / Getty The struggle continues for Benzino with no foreseeable end in sight. He has responded to 50 Cent after the king of petty put his alleged romantic dealings with a transgender individual. As per Complex the Boston, Massachusetts native had a lot to say when he spoke on his latest snafu. Last week footage of Shauna Brooks talking to The Almighty RSO member about their supposed romantic dealings leaked online. The actress and model is an admitted transgender woman so naturally the clip quickly went viral online. This landed on 50 Cent’s petty radar and he posted it on his Instagram account. “LOL OH MY GOD , THIS IS GUY IS CRAZY. @iambenzino” he wrote. Related Stories Benzino joined QueenzFlip on The QuietRoom to discuss this inciden...