50 Cent is trolling Christian “King” Combs, the son of embattled business mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs, and repeating a series of accusations against him and his father. The impetus for Fitty's latest speech on social media? King released a diss track trashing him amid the three rappers' legal troubles.
King, one of Combs' sons with his late girlfriend Kim Porter, released “Pick a Side” on Sunday to apparently defend his father and speak ill of his critics, taking aim at those who “disdain the family name” or distance themselves from the influential Bad Boy Entertainment. co-founder by using the viral insult “No Diddy.” He took aim at 50 Cent, who through infamous trolling of him also became embroiled in the fallout from the explosive lawsuits against Combs in recent months.
The explicit song produced by DJ Akademiks appears to deny the sex trafficking allegations swirling around King's family and also refers to the raids of Diddy's homes in the Holmby Hills neighborhood of Los Angeles and Miami in March, when the Homeland Security Investigations officials executed search warrants at the residences. stemming from an ongoing sex trafficking investigation by the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York. (King and his half-brother Justin Dior Combs were briefly detained at the Holmby Hills residence, but were not arrested. Combs and his children have denied any wrongdoing.)
“The police raid the crib like they think we sell crack but we sell leads here / Multi-million dollar license plates / I'd rather put this shit on wax / All that gossip is bullshit when all they had was 50 Cent / Who put this town on? in the map? / Stop lying,” King raps on the track. He later adds: “Must think we fuck this bitch up / We break down the walls like when those feeding boys raided our cribs / Too bad they don't know we bought the one next door / 'Cause that's the one they left out.”
The 26-year-old opens the topic by referring to this period as “wartime.” Coincidentally, diss themes are rampant in the hip-hop community lately, particularly among rappers Drake and Kendrick Lamar and Shaquille O'Neal's recent criticism of her former athlete and host Shannon Sharpe. But King focused on his issues with fair-weather fans and the conversations spreading online, denouncing those who “hate because we're rich” and briefly rapping about 50 Cent, who jumped on the “No Diddy” bandwagon. .
Representatives for the Combs did not immediately respond Monday to The Times' requests for comment.
Although he didn't respond with a song of his own, at least not yet, 50 Cent responded with a series of posts on Instagram and highlighted an explicit lyric from “Pick a Side” (in reference to fellatio) that has gone viral.
“I feel very threatened by the things Christian says on his album. I fear for my life, please don't hurt me guys. I never mentioned or posted anything about Puffy's kids 😳 because KEEFE D said he killed 2Pac 🤷🏽♂️ LOL,” he wrote Sunday night on Instagram, sharing a photo of the Combs performing together and also referring to the murder suspect Duane “Keefe D.” Davis' allegation that Diddy was involved in the 1996 murder of Tupac Shakur, he followed that post with a clip from the slain rapper's 1992 crime drama, “Juice.”
The G-Unit emcee, whose real name is Curtis Jackson, also addressed a sexual assault allegation made against King stemming from a lawsuit filed by a former superyacht steward, who claims the young rapper drugged her. and sexually assaulted aboard a boat his father rented later this year. December 2022.
“Damn @kingcombs, what you said to Grace O'Marcaigh on that boat, huh, gave her the fluffy juice with that special sauce. LOL BOY OH BOY! BAD BOY FOR LIFE! he wrote.
Continuing with his roast, Fitty Cent published the audio clip of the song alluding to the raids.
“Now, why would you say something like that when you know the FEDS is investigating? IS HE STUPID OR IS HE DUMB? LOL,” the “In da Club” and “PIMP” rapper wrote early Monday morning. Despite precedent for potentially incriminating song lyrics being protected as free speech and artistic expression under the First Amendment, lyrics can be introduced as evidence during a criminal trial, as seen in the Georgia case against the YSL rapper Young Thug. Hip-hop lyrics in particular have been highlighted in several cases, posing a potential problem for the Combs family if what King raps about the raids is true.
Meanwhile, 50 Cent continued his trolling on Monday in a fifth Instagram post that included several news images about the diss track, and made more salacious accusations about the family.
A representative for 50 Cent did not immediately respond Monday to The Times' request for comment.
The discord between the rappers arose just days after Diddy's legal team filed a motion Friday to dismiss a lawsuit against him, former Bad Boy executive Harve Pierre and an unnamed third person alleging the men raped a 17-year-old in a New York music studio in 2003.
Combs' attorney, Jonathan Davis, called the lawsuit a “stunt” that was “intended to prominently display a baseless and time-barred claim” and said it “does not present any viable claim,” noting that the plaintiff, identified only like Jane Doe in the filing, “cannot allege what day or time of year the alleged incident occurred, but purports to miraculously recall the most salacious details with specificity,” according to the motion, which was filed Friday in federal court in New York and reviewed on Monday by The Times.
The woman's lawsuit was initially filed in December 2023 and was amended in March. Diddy and his companies “categorically deny” the woman's accusations against them and claim that they “have already caused incalculable damage to the reputation and business prestige” of the businessman and his co-defendants.
