50 Cent says Drake and his team are trying to stop Kendrick Lamar from performing at the Super Bowl because it will do more damage to Drake.
Drake and Kendrick Lamar have been making headlines since their beef escalated in March 2024 when Kendrick Lamar dissed Drake on “Like That” by Lamar, Future, and Metro Boomin. The two have been beefing since 2013, sneak dissing each other on songs, but it was not until 2024 before they went direct.
Despite the two having already stopped dropping diss tracks toward each other, the two are still making headlines in the hip-hop scene, especially with Drake’s recent lawsuit against UMG, which is both his and Kendrick’s label. In the lawsuit, Drake claimed UMG used illegal tactics to artificially inflate the popularity of “Not Like Us” and failed to halt the release of the song, which he alleges is defamatory.
50 Cent, who has always been voicing his opinion since the beef started, has once again weighed in on the conflict. The Queens rapper made an appearance on the Talk with Flee podcast, where he was asked by Cam’ron Giles what he thought of Drake suing his label because of the beef.
“I’ve never seen that before. I’ve never seen somebody sue because of what you said[in a beef],”
replied 50 Cent,
“But I thought that was Drake’s team trying to prevent the Super Bowl from doing more damage,”
He continued.
50 Cent continued to explain how he thinks Drake and his team are trying to stop the song from being performed at the Super Bowl.
“If you sue Apple and then you sue UMG, at a period where Apple was over the music at Super Bowl Halftime. If they’re already in a lawsuit so they are already financially having a course to defend themselves, and they know what that is regardless,”
Said the Queens rapper.
“We know how many frivolous lawsuits come through, but it costs you a minimum of the money to handle it. So when they see that if you didn’t reach out if it’s attorneys reach out to corporate at the NFL and said ‘Uh we’ve this issue over this song, it’s already a pending case and we don’t want you guys to allow that to air and then you be a part of the damages,’ because it is the largest sport event possible. So I was thinking that was the angle to stop that record specifically from being played during the Super Bowl,”
Continued 50 Cent.
50 Cent continued to reiterate the fact that he had never seen a rap battle end up in a lawsuit before.
“I’ve never seen a rap battle end up in a lawsuit.”
