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There was as soon as a time after we anticipated extra from rapper-turned-mogul Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson than listening to his insufferable two cents—however sadly that point has handed. Lengthy gone are the smash hits that made the as soon as beloved “In Da Membership” artist unstoppable; at present, he’s finest identified for selecting beef with susceptible girls than with the “Many Males” of hip-hop who made him well-known.
Even those that haven’t been following Jackson’s antics most likely felt his wrath when he lately taunted rap famous person Megan Thee Stallion on social media. In a tweet posted final week, 50 Cent shared a meme evaluating Meg to disgraced Empire actor Jussie Smollett, with the caption: “Rattling I’m confused all this shit going round. I don’t know what to suppose. LOL.”
Sure, Jackson was suggesting that Megan Thee Stallion was mendacity about being shot by rapper Tory Lanez, who's at the moment on trial going through prison costs linked to the incident. In doing so, Jackson selected to show her trauma into an insensitive joke. A number of on-line condemned his actions, however none of it appeared to cease a person who has garnered a fame for trolling girls obsessively.
For a number of years, 50 Cent has been obnoxiously insufferable on social media; a easy Google search of his antics present how he’s taunted varied girls on-line through low cost photographs and soiled insults. The misogyny has ranged from incessant slut-shaming to downright cyberbullying—issues that had gotten Jackson caught up in even additional authorized drama.
It’s laborious to pinpoint when issues went left in his choice to double down on insulting girls as a substitute of participating in beefs with the likes of Rick Ross and Ja Rule. However it’s most likely secure to say that issues have been by no means the identical after his infamous breakup with actress Vivica A. Fox that led to their bitter multi-year feud on social media. Throughout that breakup, Jackson morphed into an unbearable bully, as soon as describing himself as a “troll” that “acquired my asshole benefit badge on.”
When he wasn’t trolling Fox about having alleged botched surgical procedure, he was going after former Roc-A-Fella Information singer Teairra Mari by resharing uncompromised images of her on Instagram. In 2018, Mari claimed she was the sufferer of revenge porn after she alleged that her ex-boyfriend leaked express images and movies of them on her Instagram account. 50 Cent took a picture from the leak and shared it together with his greater than 20 million followers. The state of affairs acquired so heated that Instagram needed to intervene by taking the raunchy content material off his web page.
For anybody maintaining tally, it seems that Jackson has a selected penchant for coming after Black girls. In July 2020, the “P.I.M.P.” rapper appeared on Lil Wayne’s Younger Cash Radio, the place he infamously remarked that Black girls “get mad, they get offended” when Black males date girls of various ethnicities.
“You see plenty of sisters and so they be like, ‘Oh you fucking with this sort of woman?’” he stated. “That shit is unique! This shit look completely different from what you see within the hood on daily basis.”
Certain, 50. As a result of nothing could be extra insightful than remixing the offended Black girl trope with problematic stereotypes that invoke fetishism and colorism.
Fairly than rebuke his cringey remarks after the following backlash, Jackson doubled down. In a later interview with Haute Dwelling, he reiterated: “What I stated precisely was: When the particular person is from someplace apart from what you’ve skilled, the communication is slightly completely different as a result of they arrive from completely different walks of life.
“And once I stated that, [people said], ‘You don’t suppose black ladies are unique.’ And I stated, ‘They be offended once they see a Black man with another person apart from African American girls generally.”
Yeah, nonetheless no.
As Jackson has advanced in his skilled life—transitioning from Grammy-nominated recording artist to full-out Hollywood mogul—you'll suppose he would develop out of those antics. However at 47 years previous, 50 Cent has gotten remarkably worse than the as soon as petty rap beefs he grew to become identified for in his twenties. Fairly than drop a diss monitor about Ja Rule, he’s now making ageist and sexist jabs at Madonna on-line. It appears as if he’s diminished himself to a grumpy wealthy man who’s bored together with his excesses and has chosen to troll the world quite than chill out. That sounds very, very acquainted.
It will be one factor if it was simply him, however Jackson appears to be becoming a member of a protracted line of fading males in hip-hop who look like having a midlife disaster on social media (taking a look at you, Joe Budden, Talib Kweli, Kanye West, and Boosie). Whether or not it’s their uncanny incapacity to respect girls or mission homophobia, it’s turn into clear that elder statesmen rappers comparable to 50 Cent received’t let go of the previous because it continues to ravish what’s left of their reputations sooner or later. What a rattling disgrace.