16 People 50 Cent Dissed On The Massacre [Photos] - Page 16

On March 3, 2005, 50 Cent released The Massacre. As always, how the album has held up is open to critical interpretation. In terms of the all-important SoundScan number 50 helped popularize, the album went platinum in four days.

That means over a million people got to hear the beef cook when 50 manufactured a little conflict to keep his sales bubbling. In honor of the album’s 10-year anniversary, here’s a list of 16 people dissed on 50 Cent’s The Massacre.

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Nas

Perhaps this was retaliation for Esco allegedly getting Fif booted off the remix of “I’m Gonna Be Alright.” Whatever the motive, 50 threw shade at Nas on “Piggy Bank” by clowning the Kelis tattoo on his arm. Blame Epic Records.

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Ja Rule

Of course Ja got dissed. By the time The Massacre dropped, 50 had already used most of his good material, so he was just kicking the corpse. Lloyd Banks referred to Ja on the “Hate It Or Love It” remix by saying, “And it seems your lil’ rat turned out to be a mouse.” Light work.

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Fat Joe

Don Cartagena was one of many to get dissed on “Piggy Bank.” Fif accused Fat Joe of biting “In Da Club” with “Lean Back,” and added insult to injury by calling Joe’s project a dud. Suffice it to say the beef was on.

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The LOX

“Piggy Bank” started off with 50 disrespecting DMX and Sheek’s “Get At Me Dog.” Things got a bit more direct at the end of verse one, with 50 Cent telling Jadakiss to sit down if he wanted to eat. He threw some additional shade by calling ‘Kiss “local.”

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Mobb Deep

Intertwined in the Jadakiss diss was a subtle jab at Mobb Deep. 50 clearly didn’t care about Queens or Violator unity since he referenced Jay Z’s Summer Jam demolishing of Prodigy with half a bar. “I’ll do your little a** like Jay did Mobb Deep.” For what it’s worth, Mobb Deep would release an album on G-Unit three years later.

Shyne

This allegedly goes back to 50 Cent attempting to ghostwrite for Diddy, or a failed attempt to sign Shyne. Whatever the case, 50 threatened to have a fellow inmate run up on Po and introduce the former Bad Boy rapper to the business end of a shiv.

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Lil Kim

The parade of disses aimed at Bad Boy affiliated artists continued on “Piggy Bank” when 50 Cent referenced Lil Kim’s altered appearance. Nothing says beef like comparing the Queen Bee’s (alleged) plastic surgery to Michael Jackson’s.

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Dave Mays And Benzino

The disses weren’t only coming from 50 Cent on The Massacre. The Eminem collaboration “Gatman And Robbin” featured Em warning that the beef with the former Source magazine co-owners Dave Mays and Benzino was “unsquashable” and “will just simmer at best if left alone.” It wasn’t so much a diss as a warning.

Vivica Fox

Even Fif’s former flames didn’t get a pass on The Massacre. After going public with Vivica Fox at the 2003 MTV Video Music Awards, 50 fired shots at her on “Get In My Car” when he rhymed, “Went out Vivica, I thought I was onto somethin’ / But then the next week, nah, man it was nothin’.”

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Darryl “Hommo” Baum

Just because it’s true doesn’t mean it’s not a diss. Darryl “Hommo” Baum was allegedly the hit man that clipped 50 Cent nine times. Baum was killed in what authorities believe was retaliation for shooting 50 Cent in 2000. So on “Ski Mask Way,” when Fif refers to how the last person who attempted to kill him keeled over and died, it doesn’t take a forensic degree to connect the dots.

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Marvin Gaye

While spitting a first-person narrative where he attempted to take on the persona of what we’ll refer to as Boy-Boy, Black Tar, or Smack, 50 slandered at least four musicians including Marvin Gaye. Toxicology reports don’t lie.

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Kurt Cobain

The legendary Nirvana rocker also caught some shade on “A Baltimore Love Thing.” Again, just because its true doesn’t mean it’s not a diss.

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Ozzy Ozbourne

Yeah, Ozzy had a bar or two directed at him on “A Baltimore Love Thing” too. Who knew 50 Cent was such a music aficionado?

Frankie Lymon

And now for one of the final iconic musicians bashed on “A Baltimore Love Thing.” You have to wonder if watching Vivica in Why Do Fools Fall In Love inspired 50 to say, “I chilled with Frankie Lymon and Jimi Hendrix crew / See this is new to you, but to me this ain’t new.”