Beef between celebrities is pretty common. There have been many instances when celebrities, especially rappers, have gotten back at each other on social media. This time it is rappers 50 Cent and Rick Ross who have engaged in a social media clash. Before going into details here is some information on the rappers.
50 Cent is an American rapper, actor, television producer, and businessman. He was signed by Eminem to his record label. Rick Ross is a well known American rapper and record executive. He is mainly known for his “booming” vocal performance. Both have multiple records and awards under their belt.
What Is The Controversy Around Rick Ross’ Song ‘U.O.E.N.O’?
The beef between the rappers started with one of Rick Ross’ songs ‘U.O.E.N.O’. This song already received a lot of backlash because of a particular lyrics in it. In the song, Ross said, “Put Molly all in her champagne, she ain’t even know it/I took her home and I enjoyed that, she ain’t even know it.”
Fans had protested against this unanimously and Rick Ross faced a lot of backlash. “I dont condone rape. Apologies for the #lyric interpreted as rape,” Ross wrote on Twitter in 2013 following the backlash. “I would never use the term r*pe, you know, in my lyrics. And as far as my camp, hip hop don’t condone that, the streets don’t condone that, nobody condones that,” Ross also said in an interview later.
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50 Cent’s Views On The Matter
Even after the apology, it seemed that 50 Cent was not satisfied. So he posted a photo on his Instagram that is a caricature of R. Kelly, with faded images of Diddy and Jeffrey Epstein in the background. 50 Cent wrote in the caption, “You know some times I think people are just stupid, why would you say this in song? I DRUGGED HER A*S, AND I RAP*D HER ASS, AND SHE AINT EVEN KNOW IT!”
However, Rick Ross did not sit silently. He clapped back at 50 Cent through the comment section on The Neighborhood Talk’s blog post about 50’s post. “This was a Lyric, Daphne joy accused/says you sodomized and raped her as you held her down in front of your son [palm on face emoji] Curtis [spooked face emoji] @50cent,” Ross typed.
Rick Ross referred to the scandalous accusation made by 50 Cent’s partner Daphne Joy. She claimed that the rapper had allegedly r*ped and sexually abused her in their past relationship. Cent had filed a defamation lawsuit against her and also claimed $1 million for the damages.
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