Maybe I’m just immature, but when I saw the news that Jayceon Terrell Taylor (AKA The Game) and 50 Cent had ended their notorious beef at a strip club, my mind went immediately to dick jokes. Freud, eat your heart out. But come on! The terms “beef” and “strip club” should be reserved for only the most euphemistic of writers. Headlines could only have been improved if they had resolved their differences at a vegetarian restaurant. But I digress.
Reports have emerged of The Game grabbing the microphone at the Ace Of Diamonds strip club in Los Angeles overnight, proclaiming that he “fucks with 50,” and that “what happened that shit was twelve years ago, n*ggas ain’t on that shit… Ain’t nobody on that old shit.” The two were then seen conversing in the club.
The news is incredibly surprising because Taylor and 50 Cent have been feuding for years. It kicked off way back in 2005, when 50’s second album The Massacre was pushed back to accommodate the release of The Game’s debut. Then, 50 dismissed Taylor from G Unit live on radio. This led to a cold war period between them, where Taylor formed G Unot, and the two traded diss track after diss track. The Game offered an olive branch in ’06, but G Unit made it clear that that wasn’t good enough. Another set of diss tracks were traded (fun fact, over 100 diss tracks have come out of this feud), and the beef continued. Game again extended his peaceful desires, calling for a G-Unit reunion… which did happen… minus The Game.
Rumours of a reunion between the pair and the rest of G-Unit had previously surfaced back in February of this but Game was quick to dismiss them, saying everybody was “on their own shit” at the time. Who knows whether this booty-based peace treaty will last, it might be telling that 50 didn’t make an announcement like Game did but hey, even if the feud reignites, at least we had this beautiful headline.
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So it turns out swearing is a big no-no on the Caribbean island of St. Kitts. Initially booked just to simply host the event, acclaimed New York City rapper 50 Cent got into a lot of strife after unexpectedly performing, dropping a sly “motherfuckin’” while playing his hit P.I.M.P. to over 40,000 festival-goers.
According to TMZ, the DJ that was provided didn’t play a censored version of the single at the music festival, but apparently it was 50’s fault for pronouncing the profanities instead of ignoring them. For this reason, authorities charged 50 Cent with the use of explicit language in public.
Speaking to Rolling Stone, 50’s representative stated,
“[Curtis “50 Cent”] Jackson was only booked to host the show, when he arrived at the festival organizers asked him to perform, he obliged and used the DJ they had there. Unfortunately, they didn’t have the clean version to his tracks, so there were profanities used during his performance. The show was a great success and he will make sure for future trips to St. Kitts that he leaves the ‘motherf*****s’ in the United States.”
Initially Jackson had to surrender his travel documents ahead of a court appearance set for Monday, but surprisingly this has since been resolved. Paying his fine (an undisclosed figure), he is already en route back to the USA. This isn’t even the first time this has happened, back in 2003 DMX got pulled up on the exact same thing, and was forced to pay a $357 bail before he could head back home. Check out 50’s performance in question below:
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Aesop Rock turns 40 years old today, and Kanye West turns 39 on Thursday. Pusha T turned 39 last month, too. They’ve all released music this year. All of it has been incredible; fresh, real, lauded by fans across the globe.
Rappers, much like pop and certainly electronic artists, are seemingly getting younger every day, with many emerging artists too young to legally drink in many countries. Vic Mensa has the year “1993” tattooed across his stomach, while many of his contemporaries like Vince Staples, Chance the Rapper, Earl Sweatshirt, Rae Sremmurd, Raury, Casey Veggies, Joey Badass, Little Simz, Bishop Nehru and plenty more are the same age or younger. Hip-hop has always been youth-focused, both from the artist and audience’s perspective – but nowadays that’s changing.
Vic Mensa, 22. Image: Clash
It’s interesting to see the direction hip-hop goes in when rappers age. Almost every rapper started out as young teens, and those emerging into mainstream fame are usually around 18-20. However, it’s the kind of music which typically has to change with age; people at 40 are different to who they are at 20. Like with anything else, if they acted or spoke in the same way, it would feel stale, desperate, and, well, old.
Today there are so many older rappers who are just as fiery, electrifying and relevant as ever. Although his latest album was admittedly sub par, at 46 years old, Jay Z‘s two very recent features on tracks from Pusha T (39) and Fat Joe (45) and Remy Ma (36) are his best in years. At 51, Dr Dre‘s Compton was a masterpiece, while Run The Jewels (both 40) have released two of the most important albums of the past decade – with a third undoubtedly on the way soon, to give a handful of examples.
It’s interesting and kind of weird that forty seems to be such a big deal for many rappers, although I suppose the same can be said for anyone, and that it’s just more noticeable in hip-hop, where your musical output is often very specifically grounded in who you are at that time in your life. Like I said, rappers can’t spend twenty or thirty years rapping about the same shit. Not only is this boring on a musical level, but it becomes disingenuous and false.
In an interview on his 40th birthday, Nas described it as “incredible.” “I was always this dude,” he responded to a question about what’s changed. “When you’re young and you on fire, there’s nothing like that feeling. Where I’m at now is a more relaxed place, but I think it’s still in me when I need to get crazy.” He went on to say that it wasn’t so much that his music is more cautious or reserved, but that, “The speed changes. You have to adjust your life, you got new things in your life, you become more of a businessman, you become a father, that matters, that weighs in.”
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Similarly, 50 Cent addressed the big day last year in an interview with Jimmy Kimmel. Kimmel noted that his music had changed, to which 50 replied, “I gotta work on it. Sometimes when I write things, it’s where I’m at right now. And it’s like, ‘no, that makes sense, take that out.’ You can’t have maturity in your music.” This is an incredibly interesting, and rather wise comment coming from someone like 50 and the type of rap he’s put out.
Rappers often use age as a way to reflect, a la Jay and Push on the fantastic new single Drug Dealers Anonymous. Many others shift their focus to other areas, like film, the recording industry, labels and more, like Jay Z, Ice Cube, Puffy, Eminem and Dr Dre. Others collaborate with younger artists, not necessarily within hip-hop, in a way that keeps their output new and exciting – MF DOOM‘s 45 and he just dropped one of the coolest verses this year on the new Avalanches track, while Raekwon (46) fits perfectly on Flume‘s new album, more than twice the age of the other two rappers featured, Mensa and Staples, both 22.
But what about the rappers who have found themselves in a renaissance at that age? How do you explain it in a world where the young are the most powerful? Or, more importantly, why does it need to be explained?
It’s remarkable that in a world so heavily populated by teenagers, older rappers can come out and not only produce phenomenal new, incensed, powerful music, but receive the praise and attention they deserve.
Pitchfork set the scene well in a 2014 feature on Run The Jewels: “It’s October 2014 and, in the upside-down free-for-all that is modern popular music, one of the hottest hip-hop duos in the United States is made up of a pair of 39-year-olds who’ve banked off interstitial cartoon music for a rare late-period career renaissance.” Around the same time, El told Rolling Stone that “There’s really no fucking way that you’d ever think, ‘I’m gonna make my best friend at 35,” a statement which could no doubt be repeated for music.
When Aesop Rock rock was asked to describe his new album to The Source, he had this to say: “The Impossible Kid is me closing in on 40 and just going over it all. It feels sorta reflective in the sense of going through some childhood memories, some family stuff, some friend stuff, some music stuff, some moments of being baffled by the youth of today, and just coping with getting older.
“I kinda feel like turning 40 is a very specific thing in our society. It somehow holds more weight than any other age, even though in some ways it’s pretty arbitrary. For whatever reason, it’s the age that we are officially old. Maybe because if we’re lucky, it’s the halfway point. In your 30s, you can kinda still pretend to be young, but there’s not much pretending at 40. It’s the age that looms more than any other. So yeah, this is the sound of me sliding into 40.”
The point of this is just to note that the ‘ageing rapper’ is no longer considered a death sentence. Hip-hop has traditionally focused heavily on youth, in terms of artists, subject matter and intended audience – but none of this is necessarily true today.
50 Cent said there cannot be maturity in music, and while this makes sense for him and his music personally, as a whole I disagree; it just depends on context. Growing up doesn’t necessarily make them softer or more boring or anything like that – you can hardly say Pusha T or Dr Dre are making the hip-hop equivalent of dad rock – it’s just that the game changes, as Nas said. You grow, you have a family, a business, different ambitions and priorities. Your life changes, so your music changes. Not for better or worse; it just grows, like you.
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Rapped Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson was widely criticised earlier this week for publicly mocking an autistic boy on social media. In a smart and gracious damage control move, he has now donated US$100,000 to autism awareness and advocacy organisation Autism Speaks.
ICYMI, 50 Cent posted a video to Instagram of the 19-year-old airport employee, making a joke about him being high, obviously not realising of his disability. While the initial video was obviously deleted, the boy, Andrew Farrell, and his family spoke to publications in their home town of Cincinnati, asking for an apology, which Jackson obliged via PageSix.
“While the incident at the airport resulted from an unfortunate misunderstanding, I am truly sorry for offending the young man,” 50 Cent says via statement. “It was certainly not my intent to insult him or the disability community, which is a source of great strength in America. I have apologized personally to him and his family.”
The BBC report that 50 then offered to donate to Autism Speaks, and he has now stayed true to this, donating $100,000 to the organisation. According to his own blog This is 50, the Farrell family had initially asked for a $10,000 donation. In addition, he went on to say, “I am calling on my fellow musicians, actors, entertainers and all others who may not have fully considered this cause to join together to help in any way they can.”
"I want to turn this misunderstanding into an understanding …"
Read more: https://t.co/j58QlVydxO @autismspeaks pic.twitter.com/X96PetezaX— 50cent (@50cent) May 5, 2016
I’ll be honest, this is not only a smart move, but it actually feels kinda genuine (whether it is or not remains to be seen, I suppose, but 50, or at least his publicist, have done a damn good job today.) 50 Cent fucked up majorly, and he’s not only apologised for his mistake, but instead of sweeping it under the rug he’s made a major donation to an important cause. Maybe we’ll see him talk more about it in coming months – he has a huge platform and can make a real difference if he puts his mind to it.
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Millionaire mayor Salim Mehajer caused a stir this week as he apparently paid $50,000 for rapper Tyga to come and perform at his wife’s 30th birthday party in Auburn, western Sydney.
The scene was set with the rapper turning up in a rented Rolls Royce and a security team by his side as he entered into the Auburn council deputy mayor’s mansion. The bizarre appearance, complete with pictures and videos of the two together, got us thinking about some of the other times people have chucked obscene amounts of money at rappers to come and perform at their private parties.
Kanye West and Jay-Z
Perhaps the greatest show of wealth ever, when it comes to private parties, was when heavyweight rappers Kanye West and Jay Z were paid US$3m each to perform at an Arab billionaire’s daughter’s party. The sweet 16 party saw the two rappers flown out just before Christmas five years ago to perform some exclusive sets. The rappers apparently did a number of shows for the packed party and even threw in some rare content to keep the crowds happy. What the girl, who is a member of the wealthy family that rules the United Arab Emirates, was given for her 21st Birthday party is anyone’s guess.
Drake
Just last month, Drake appeared at the famous Rainbow Room in New York. Only he wasn’t performing in front of an adoring crowd of fans: instead, he was there for an intimate Bat Mitzvah performance. The Canadian rapper ripped through a number of his hits including Hotline Bling at the restaurant, which had been privately booked for Gigi Ashkenazy. Drake’s going rate for private shows is around a staggering $500,000 but you can be sure that Gigi’s father, a commercial real estate developer worth $7 billion, was good for it. It’s not the first time the rapper has been spotted at a Bat Mitzvah, by the way: he was also on hand in 2011 at the Four Seasons to undercut Kanye West.
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Pitbull
US rapper Pitbull earned over $1 million when he appeared at a 15-year old girl’s private party in Texas recently. The singer, who was the headline act after Nick Jonas also stopped by, raked in the obscene amount for an hour long set. The birthday girl, Maya Henry, was clearly thrilled at his appearance as she posted numerous pictures of the two of them on her social media accounts. While her family also stated that she wore two $20,000 dresses during the special night for reasons that haven’t really been explained.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-7F8CO-hfs
Snoop Dogg
Everybody’s favourite stoner rapper, Snoop Dogg also cashed in on a lucrative gig when he appeared at a Bat Mitzvah. It’s actually just better leaving what happened at said event down to the man himself though. “I performed at a bat mitzvah. And I’m telling you, man, these little motherfuckers, they were singing my shit, they was cussin’, they were singing the dirty version. I’m talking about 12 and 13-year old little white kids singing this real gangsta shit. Man, I was shocked. para kazanma siteleri. I just gave them the mic and let them motherfuckers go.”
50 Cent
The year was 2005 and 50 Cent was in his heyday and absolutely rolling in it. He had a mega-hit on his hands in In Da Club and he was just about to make some more serious money thanks to his investments in vitamin water. But that wasn’t enough, as he also netted himself a cool half a million when he performed a five song set at Elizabeth Brooks’ party. The highlight of the night? 50 actually changing the lyrics of his hit to, “Go shorty, it’s your bat mitzvah, we gonna party like it’s your bat mitzvah.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5qm8PH4xAss
Nicki Minaj
It doesn’t all go quite so smoothly when it comes to making lucrative appearances at private events. Rapper Nicki Minaj found this out the hard way when she was sued by a Las Vegas club for not fulfilling her contract. Chateau, a nightclub in Vegas, alleges she only performed for 34 minutes of what was supposed to be a full hour, and to make matters worse, she arrived late to the show and cost the club excessive revenue for VIP tables that it was counting on her providing. The club filed a lawsuit and claimed it wanted its cool quarter of a million back off the Pink Friday hit maker.
T.I
What do you do when you are about to be sentenced for illegal gun possession? Well, if you are rapper and actor T.I. you drop by the Townsend Hotel for an Adam Katzman party. The Atlanta native performed a 45 minute set, which was apparently raved over in the local high school newspaper. He then promptly left the party to go to jail for a year. What a guy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NPTL_plHSGQ
Notable mention: Lil Jon who stills somehow gets paid handsomely for shouting “shots” over and over again on stage in Las Vegas.
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Puff Daddy who some (50 Cent) might say has coasted on the coattails of greatness for most of his career, has been uncharacteristically prominent in the news recently. We thought we would take the time to reflect on the mundane exploits of the once great and controversial figure.
Diddy, P Diddy, Puff Daddy, and anything else he calls himself, typically conjure an image of the Bad Boy Records founder as the same sunglass-wearing, cropped hair-adorning, kind of looking down but up at the camera at the same time, figure of money, glamour and perhaps a little danger. Since founding his label in 1993, which has gone on to sign more than 45 artists, it’s difficult to suggest that Puff Daddy is a mere shadow of what he once was. The decline of Puffy and his label can mostly be attributed to the loss of a hip-hop legend, The Notorious B.I.G, who was not only Puffy’s greatest asset at Bad Boy Records, but also a close friend. Since Biggie’s tragic shooting, Puffy has had difficulty in managing to keep his empire relevant, which by no means suggests that it hasn’t been profitable.
Rick Ross, Mase, French Montana, Lil Kim and Faith Evans, among others have all been attached to the label and their varying degrees of success have all insured that Puffy and his family will not be going hungry. It’s more so that the infamous beefs of East Coast versus West Coast of the nineties, which pitted the two juggernauts of Death Row Records and Bad Boy Records against each other, were pretty much the pinnacle of Puffy’s relevance. Sadly, it’s become apparent that regardless of how many times he changes his name or which vodka label entrusts him with their success, he will likely be unable to attain the sort of revered attention which he and his record label managed to garner almost 20 years ago.
Although Puff Daddy no longer commands the same level of street credibility which once made him a (gasp!) feared figure, he is still entirely capable of putting asses in seats for shows.
The Bad Boy reunion show is set to feature artists such as Faith Evans, Mase, The L.O.X, Lil Kim, Total, 112, Mario Winans, and French Montana, dubbed as a “one night only” show, managed to completely sell out within seven minutes. The show will be held at Brooklyn’s Jay-Z owned Barclays Centre on May 20, also the 44th birthday of The Notorious B.I.G..
In a press release regarding the reunion concert Puffy stated, “this isn’t just another concert – this is hip-hop history,” elaborating, “The Bad Boy Family includes some of the biggest names in music and songs that helped define a whole generation of music. Also, we are celebrating one of the greatest of all time – Notorious B.I.G. This will be a night to remember. I can’t wait to see you all there.”
Straight off the bat, I’m calling the Biggie hologram appearing at this concert. Faith Evans has already thrown a few comments out into the mediasphere about a Biggie hologram potentially in the works, and frankly a never-before-seen reunion tour from the label which he helped catapult to success, while also coinciding with his birthday, is the perfect time for Biggie’s hologram to lay down something Juicy.
The point is that Puffy, although not a powerhouse in terms of musical relevancy, has absolutely no problem with using fan nostalgia to generate this much hype for what he claims will be “a night to remember.” Puffy also seems to have no issues with nurturing the talents within his own family, signing his son, Christian Combs, into the Bad Boy family. In an Instagram post, Puffy revealed that for his son’s birthday he had gifted him a record deal with the label, and urged fans to congratulate Christian Combs on becoming an official member of the labels talented roster of artists.
NEW DEAL ALERT!!! Everyone wish my son @KingCombs a happy birthday & CONGRATS on signing that record deal!! #BADBOY #EPIC @la_reid SNAPCHAT: PUFFDADDY A video posted by Puff Daddy (@iamdiddy) on Apr 1, 2016 at 3:16pm PDT
If Puffy’s son is indeed a talented artist, it would be silly for his father, the founder of a major record label, to sign with someone else. Again, while Puffy himself is no longer the illustrious hip-hop figure he once was, he doesn’t seem to be having any problems insuring that his business remains fully functional and profitable.
Of course, none of this can be achieved without spawning critics. Suge Knight, who has clearly lost his once epic bout with Puffy by becoming embroiled in something akin to a noir detective story, has waged a war of words and alleged violence against his East Coast counterpart since the 1990s, and arguably leading to the death of both Tupac and Biggie. Now the criticism and subsequent fallout he receives from his rivals is laughable by comparison, but they still gotta hurt. Most recently, 50 Cent has fired shots in a Sirius XM radio interview.
50 Cent was asked about his sponsor, Effen Vodka, which prompted the slowly declining rapper to once again hang shit on Puffy’s Ciroc Vodka and question the Bad Boy founder’s artistic credibility.
“[Diddy] is a guy who stands next to the guy. I am the guy. He’s next to Biggie, he’s next to Ma$e, he’s next to Craig Mack, he’s next to The Lox, Lil’ Kim. When have you ever seen him by himself and it’s exciting? Even when it’s tribute music, there’s three or four other people because he’s not an artist. He’s a party promoter, a businessperson, a producer. A lot of different things but not an artist.”
Although that may well be true, Puffy has never had to file for bankruptcy and get called out for flashing around fake cash. No doubt, this latest insult will be like water off a ducks back, with Puffy continuing to conduct business as usual, and maintaining the carefully crafted music empire which he has managed to notch out for himself, one, which although not the brightly burning torch it once was, is most definitely still shining through.
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50 Cent has once again found himself under scrutiny, this time for comments made by his lawyer, which suggest that hip-hop fans are predominantly poor and look up to rich people.
With a verdict which will decided whether the Queens rapper will have to pay upwards of $28 million he owes creditors looming closer, presiding judge Ann Nevins, has demanded an explanation for the rapper flaunting bundles of money on Instagram, seemingly mocking the very idea that he could possibly be really filing for bankruptcy.
50 Cents lawyers had previously stated the money he has been posing with is fake. Now, TMZ has managed to dig up some audio from the courthouse, in which 50’s lawyers lay down some awkward “truths” about hip-hop fans.
“I’m not going to ask you whether you listen to his music or have seen his videos or anything like that, but if you look at Mr. Jackson or other Hip Hop artists, they’re aspirational, they come from poverty. Many of their fans are poor. They want their favorite rapper to be rich. Money is important to them. You look at his pre-bankruptcy persona, look at some of the videos, money is important. Filing the bankruptcy by definition presented a real challenge as to how it’s going to be handled.”
Though it’s a bit of a stretch to say that the lawyer is suggesting that hip-hop fans are all poor. It does seem disappointing that something like this can be brought up in the courtroom and listened to when trying to save the reputation of 50 Cent, but not when discussing the realities of hunger and poverty in America.
When pressed on the issue of whether or not 50 understood that flashing around bundles of cash and seemingly mocking the court proceedings could be seen as inflammatory to the creditors who he owes money to and just generally contemptuous towards the court, one of 50 Cent’s representatives explained that it’s all about the brand. “If Mr. Jackson conducted himself say with more discretion, more tact, he wouldn’t be getting people endorsing him for high-premium items.” Explained the minion. “He wouldn’t be getting movie parts. He wouldn’t be having great roles on TV.”
This whole 50 Cent/Instagram saga has really gone a touch far, with the rapper previously stating thatthe Secret Service approached him to talk about counterfeit money after he revealed the cash used in his Instagram snaps was fake. Hate him or love him, it would be best for 50 if the judge ruled one way or the other, hopefully without dismantling his carefully crafted persona any further.
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The word “bankruptcy” is getting thrown around a lot these days but no one actually seems to be going broke. You might remember in July of last year 50 Cent filed for bankruptcy – a move that he said was for “protection, so I’m not taken advantage of.” In the now seven months since then, we’ve seen the same 50 posting photos of himself with piles of cash, making us all question, “Is he really broke?”
Well, apparently the U.S Bankruptcy Court was curious to ask 50 the same thing, and they did. He’s due to answer questions this week about all the cash he’s been posing with on Instagram, but in court papers 50 has already admitted to something pretty interesting, and sad. Apparently, all that money was fake.
Yikes – it’s understandable that 50 wants to keep up appearances and not let his bankruptcy (if it exists) get in the way of how people see him, but this is taking it to the next level. Also, how much thought went into setting up each of these fake photographs that could’ve been better spent – I don’t know – organising your money better or trying to make some of it back? These are funny photos, but surely his time could have been used way more productively.
This all follows on from news last week that 50’s 50,000 square foot mansion had been sold for USD$8 million, and is set to become an assisted living facility. All hope and wishes to Mr. Cent, but if anything this is a very embarrassing lesson learnt.
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In the wake of bankruptcy claims, and then pretty clear proof that he’s not actually bankrupt, rapper 50 Cent has sold his Connecticut mansion for a reported USD$8 million.
The 50,000 square foot mansion includes 21 bedrooms, 25 bathrooms, an infinity pool basketball courts, a gym, a helipad, casino and even a nightclub with stripper poles.
Yet the buyer has revealed plans to renovate the property into an assisted living community for the elderly.
The rapper had first put the house on the market way back in 2007, with a hefty asking price of USD$18.5 million. In 2011, it was lowered to, uh, $9,999,999, before lowering it once more to $8.5 million late last year.
50 Cent had first purchased the property from controversial boxer Mike Tyson’s ex-wife for $4.1 million in 2003, during the peak of his career, having enjoyed massive success with his classic tracks like P.I.M.P and In Da Club. According to HipHopDX, spent between $6-10 million on renovations.
After the rapper, aka Curtis Jackson III filed for bankruptcy last year, some of his incredulous expenses included a whopping $72,000 spent each month on maintaining the property – including $5000 on gardening alone.
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Curtis James Jackson III, aka 50 Cent, made headlines when he laid claim to his own name, filing for bankruptcy in what appeared to be a smart -if very sneaky – move to combat the multi-million dollar suit filed against him by ex girlfriend Lastonia Leviston.
Leviston successfully collected damages from Jackson, who was sued over the alleged leaking of a 2008 sex tape featuring the pair. In court, she likened the impact of the leak to “being stabbed in the heart.”
Now, Leviston has showed the court a trio of his recent Instagram posts, featuring mounds of cold, hard cash. Lots of it. Everywhere – including his fridge. One photo goes so far as to show Fiddy spelling out the word “BROKE” in cash, as though directly mocking the situation.
Gotta keep a cool little $tash and some Effen Vodka Happy Holidays. #EFFENVODKA #FRIGO #SMSAUDIO
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Presiding over the case is Judge Ann Nevins, who has now called the rapper back into court, as the images throw serious doubt onto his whole bankruptcy claim. “I’m concerned about allegations of nondisclosure and a lack of transparency in the case,” Judge Nevins told a hearing last Thursday in Connecticut. “There’s a purpose of having a bankruptcy process be transparent, and part of that purpose is to inspire confidence in the process.”
After being ordered to pay Leviston $7 million last year, Fiddy filed for bankruptcy and listed his assets as worth $16 million, a considerable markdown from the some $155 million he had previously reported.
Now, his lawyers have responded to the posts, claiming that they had been filed in court as a way to “disingenuously smear” the rapper.
“By including pictures from [Mr. Jackson’s] social media accounts and implying that [he] is hiding assets…the [three creditors] intentionally ignore that [Mr. Jackson] is in the entertainment and promotion business and must maintain his brand and image (or those of the products he is promoting),” they said.
The video was reportedly bought and leaked as part of 50 Cent’s longstanding beef with Rick Ross, with whom Leviston has a child.
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