Sean “Diddy” Combs and 50 Cent got here up within the rap business across the similar time — and have been feuding for nearly as lengthy.
Whereas Diddy and 50 Cent have been at odds for the reason that early 2000s, their feud made headlines once more almost 20 years later. In March 2024, Homeland Safety raided two of Diddy’s residences in Los Angeles and Miami in connection to a federal intercourse trafficking investigation. Diddy was convicted of two counts of transportation to have interaction in prostitution, however acquitted of the extra critical prices of racketeering and intercourse trafficking. (Diddy has vehemently denied any wrongdoing.)
Within the wake of Diddy’s 50-month jail sentence in October 2025, 50 Cent confirmed that he would launch a Netflix documentary concerning the scandal referred to as Sean Combs: The Reckoning.
“That is gonna break information when this drop. GLGGreenLightGang the vibes,” 50 Cent wrote through X when he initially introduced the documentary.
Preserve scrolling for an entire breakdown of Diddy and 50 Cent’s feud:
Could 2002
50 Cent (actual title Curtis James Jackson III) first referenced Diddy on the observe “U Not Like Me,” from his Grammy-nominated breakthrough album Get Wealthy or Die Tryin’.
On the observe, 50 Cent rapped: “Hoes be like ’50, you so witty’/ On the d*** like they heard I ghostwrite for P. Diddy.”
November 2002
The 2 straight collaborated on a remix of the late Infamous B.I.G. track “N*****,” which was initially launched on 1999’s posthumous album, Born Once more.
Diddy introduces the remix as “a Shadyville Leisure and Large Boy collaboration,” earlier than 50 Cent pokes enjoyable at him with some opening bars.
“I don’t dance round like Diddy,” 50 Cent teases.
August 2003
Diddy introduced 50 Cent with the Greatest Rap Video award for “In Da Membership” on the 2003 MTV Video Music Awards at New York Metropolis’s Radio Metropolis Music Corridor.
August 2005
Bother first arose when 50 Cent intervened in Diddy’s contractual dispute with Dangerous Boy Leisure artist Mase. Mase (actual title Mason Durell Betha) wished out of his Dangerous Boy deal — so 50 Cent provided to pay the stability of his contract after which signal him to his G-Unit label.
Negotiations finally fell by, with 50 Cent later telling The Howard Stern Present that Diddy himself was the primary roadblock.
“[Mase] created some materials that I used to be enthusiastic about, and after we got here again to attempt to make the deal, me and Puff … [Diddy] was being unreasonable,” 50 Cent alleged. “I believe he felt like Mase was the final piece to his legacy.”
Years later, 50 Cent accused Diddy of being “a sucker” for interfering in his try to assist Mase.
“He requested me for $2 million,” 50 Cent informed Funkmaster Flex. “[I was] like, ‘Mase ain’t value $2 million with $2 million in his pocket.’”
September 2006
Extra drama between the 2 rappers could be traced again to the discharge of fifty Cent’s “The Bomb,” which seemingly factors to Diddy having information concerning the 1997 homicide of The Infamous B.I.G.
“Who shot Biggie Smalls? We don’t get ‘em / They gonna kill us all,” 50 Cent rapped. “Man, Puffy know who hit that n****.”
50 Cent has by no means had proof of Diddy’s involvement within the homicide. Diddy, for his half, has continuously denied that he had any details about the killer.
September 2007
Regardless of 50 Cent’s diss observe a yr earlier, he as soon as once more collaborated with Diddy on a remix of his track “I Get Cash.” Throughout an October 2024 look on The Breakfast Membership, 50 Cent alleged that he and Jay-Z ghostwrote Diddy’s verse.
“There have been sure issues [Diddy] wished to say and Jay knew he wished to insert it into the report,” 50 defined. “[Diddy] would [be like], ‘Yo, put this in there.’ [Jay-Z’s] thoughts is formatted like that.”
He went, “Now, artists freestyle and freestyle and freestyle, however Jay remembers the thought in his head so he can simply say it with out writing it down. As a result of it got here out already prepared, I mentioned, ‘Put it in there!’”
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Shortly after the observe’s launch, Diddy spoke to All Issues Hip Hop about the best way he and 50 had been capable of put their variations apart.
“The sweetness about it, on the finish of the day all of us like to make music,” Diddy recalled. “It wasn’t no actual egos concerned, all of us performed our positions.”
June 2010
50 Cent knocked Diddy’s musical accomplishments whereas chatting with Sizzling 93.7 FM. He particularly claimed that his rival would relatively “write checks” than create new music.
“He’s not an artist,” 50 Cent claimed. “An artist can be somebody who wrote truly one thing on a report.”
He went on, “What made hip-hop thrilling to me was every individual’s particular person expertise and the way you study to take pleasure in them as a person. When that’s not there as a result of they’re simply being an govt, like ‘I don’t write rhymes, I write checks’, that’s not hip-hop.”
July 2010
50 Cent accused Diddy of cheapening the legacy of The Infamous B.I.G. for monetary achieve throughout an look on Eminem’s Sirius XM Shade 45 channel.
“Biggie’s title ought to by no means have turn out to be Diddy’s Black Card … When was the final time Diddy actually was biggin up his brother, not biggin up his financial institution?” 50 Cent requested.
The “In Da Membership” rapper additionally accused Diddy of utilizing his profitable pals to spice up his public profile.
“Puffy is a bitch … You know the way an unsightly bitch surrounds herself with fairly ladies?” he mentioned. “Effectively, he’s the gorgeous bitch with the opposite ladies round him. He’ll suck the life out of everybody he’s round.”
January 2011
Diddy was requested straight about 50 Cent’s criticism that he wasn’t “an artist” throughout an interview with The Impartial. The mogul assured the publication that he didn’t take the insult personally.
“Look, I’m one of many biggest that ever did it. Know what I’m saying?” Diddy declared. “The historical past is correct there. You’ll be able to simply take a look at it and see who the chief is, by the best way individuals stroll, speak, act, costume. It’s clear: I’m chargeable for a complete technology of those who have empowered themselves, and turn out to be businessmen and girls and artists.”
August 2012
Each musicians paused their public mudslinging following the demise of music supervisor Chris Lighty, who died from a suspected suicide at age 44. (Some, together with 50 Cent, have questioned the official clarification of Lighty’s demise.)
Lighty managed each 50 Cent and Diddy at numerous factors of their careers.
“[He] an necessary a part of my enterprise and private development for a decade,” 50 Cent mentioned in a press release on the time. “ He was a great pal and advisor who helped me develop as an artist and businessman. My prayers are together with his household. He will probably be tremendously missed.”
Diddy tweeted: “R.I.P. Christ Lighty. He Was A Expensive Pal Of Mine And I Nonetheless Can’t Imagine It.”
April 2014
50 Cent resumed his feud with Diddy after a comparatively quiet few years by insulting the latter’s single “Large Homie.”
“Puff nonetheless on the market, he don’t even want a report, ’trigger he don’t acquired one,” 50 complained to 92Q Jams. “You realize Puff ain’t acquired no music that you simply need to hear. That ‘Large Homie’ s**t is rubbish.”
2014
After the duo traded barbs on social media and in songs for years, their feud escalated after they each had been tapped to rep competing vodka manufacturers. Diddy has co-owned Ciroc since 2007, eight years earlier than 50 Cent grew to become the spokesperson for Dutch model Effen Vodka.
“Puff’s shouldn’t be even vodka. It’s grapes [and] says ‘made with vodka,’ what I’m saying?” 50 Cent later claimed throughout a 2018 interview on the “Drink Champs” podcast. “[Effen] is created from wheat from Holland and distilled 5 occasions so it’s quite a bit much less sugar, it’s the correct method. After which later when you will have a headache since you completed your full bottle of Ciroc. … I informed you I used to be smarter.”
50 Cent ended his partnership with Effen in 2017.
February 2016
50 Cent doubled down on his earlier theories concerning the Nineties East Coast/West Coast rap wars following the discharge of the documentary Homicide Rap: Contained in the Biggie and Tupac Murders. Within the movie, former LAPD detective Greg Kading examines allegations that Diddy might have been concerned within the September 1996 homicide of Tupac Shakur.
Supporting Kading’s concept through Instagram, 50 Cent wrote: “LMAO SO PUFFY WIT THE S*** HUN?? SEE YOU GOTTA WATCH THESE PUNKS,? SCARY ASS N***** A TRY YOU. #nopuffyjuice he killed Tupac lol.”
Diddy has all the time denied having something to do with Shakur’s homicide, together with reaching out to Tupac’s brother Mopreme Shakur on to refute the rumors.
December 2017
Diddy provided no public response when 50 Cent shared a homophobic message, alongside a photograph of himself surrounded by stuffed animals.
“Recovering From Pettiness. Sorry I can now not assist you guys, quickly you’ll all be homosexual and joyful,” he wrote. “You’re all now left below management of PUFFY DADDY. Report back to the closest rainbow. #denofthieves jan19.”
January 2018
50 Cent has additionally repeatedly claimed that Diddy is “fruity” by the years.
“When he says issues, he doesn’t even know what he’s saying is, like, fruity. He says to Fabolous, ‘Me and also you, we have to celebration,’” 50 Cent recalled throughout the “Drink Champs” look. “What’s you speaking about? When individuals say that to me I get slightly uncomfortable.”
He continued, “He mentioned one thing to me a very long time in the past, at Chris Lighty’s marriage ceremony. He informed me he’d take me buying. I checked out him like, ‘What’d you simply say? Let me transfer, man, earlier than I do one thing. You gon’ make me mess up the marriage.’ No. That’s one thing a man says to a woman.”
Later that yr, Diddy denied the claims and the feud hypothesis.
“I don’t don’t have any beef with Fif. He loves me,” Diddy mentioned throughout an look on The Breakfast Membership. “Y’all can’t see that he loves me? You actually assume that’s hate? You realize he loves me.”
November 2018
Diddy’s former girlfriend Kim Porter — and mom to his son Christian and twin daughters Jessie and D’lila — died at age 47 because of problems from lobar pneumonia.
50 Cent was one in every of many within the hip-hop neighborhood to supply public help for Diddy within the wake of Porter’s demise.
“R.I.P to Kim Porter, I ship my condolences to her family and friends,” 50 wrote. “She was liked and will probably be missed dearly. I do know Puff is hit proper now, he liked her for actual, soul mate sort s***. Chin up puff, Constructive vibes solely.”
September 2022
Daphne Pleasure — who shares son Sire with 50 Cent — went to Diddy’s iHeartRadio Music Pageant efficiency and shared footage through social media. 50 Cent subsequently referred to as out her alleged allegiance to Diddy by going to the live performance.
Pleasure was sad with 50 Cent’s callout. “Please cease doing this to me,” she wrote in a since-deleted Instagram remark. “I by no means hassle you and I’m an impressive mom to our son. Can we please simply concentrate on that. Please.”
November 2023
Diddy’s ex-girlfriend Cassie filed a lawsuit towards him. She claimed that she had been sexually assaulted and suffered bodily abuse for a decade. Diddy denied the allegations earlier than they reached a settlement in the future after her submitting. Amid the scandal, a number of different people got here ahead with related allegations. Diddy vehemently denied every subsequent declare earlier than stepping down as chairman of his Revolt firm.
50 Cent, in the meantime, was occupied with taking on the media group.
“I’ll purchase that from you play boy, for the low as a result of Cadillac and AT&T gonna pull out,” 50 Cent wrote through X. “I’ll offer you a number of {dollars} for it now! Promote it to me, then we could be pals. I’m critical name my cellphone.”
December 2023
A number of girls got here ahead with accusations of sexual impropriety in the direction of Diddy within the wake of his settlement with Cassie. Diddy denied any wrongdoing in every case.
In response to the controversy, 50 Cent’s manufacturing firm confirmed to Us Weekly that he would produce a documentary concerning the accusations.
“The untitled Diddy documentary is in improvement by G-Unit Movie and Tv with Curtis ’50 Cent’ Jackson serving as govt producer,” his rep informed Us. “Proceeds from this documentary that G-Unit Movie and Tv receives will go to victims of sexual assault and rape.”
50 Cent promised through X in March 2024 that the documentary would “break information when this drop[s].”
Netflix acquired the rights to the documentary — titled Sean Combs: The Reckoning — in September 2024. How Music Obtained Free’s Alex Stapleton was employed as director.
March 2024
Us confirmed in March that Homeland Safety raided two of Diddy’s properties amid a federal intercourse trafficking investigation. (Diddy was not residence on the time of the raids.)
“Yesterday, there was a gross overuse of military-level power as search warrants had been executed at Mr. Combs’ residences,” Diddy’s legal professional Aaron Dyer informed Us in a press release, denouncing the raids. “There isn’t a excuse for the extreme present of power and hostility exhibited by authorities or the best way his youngsters and workers had been handled.”
The investigation got here weeks after Jones accused Diddy of intercourse trafficking in his misconduct lawsuit. The rapper denied the allegations.
50 Cent then revealed his plans to provide a documentary about Diddy and the encircling allegations. In September, it was revealed that this forthcoming documentary will observe “a posh narrative spanning a long time,” sequence director Alex Stapleton informed Selection.
Her assertion got here days after Diddy was arrested in New York Metropolis on September 16 and charged with racketeering conspiracy, intercourse trafficking and transportation to have interaction in prostitution. He pleaded not responsible and denied all prices.
50 Cent subtly addressed Diddy’s arrest in September with an Instagram caption that learn, “Right here I’m maintaining good firm with @thedrewbarrymoreshow and I don’t have 1,000 bottles of lube on the home.” His caption was in reference to the “greater than 1,000 bottles of child oil and lubricant” seized by Homeland Safety of their March raids.
Since then, 50 Cent has defended calling out Diddy over time.
“Look, it looks like I’m performing some extraordinarily outrageous issues, however I haven’t,” he informed Folks in October. “It’s actually me simply saying what I’ve been saying for 10 years.”
He added, “Now it’s changing into extra full-facing within the information with the Puffy stuff. However away from that, I’m like, ‘Yo, it’s simply my perspective as a result of I stayed away from that stuff the complete time, as a result of this isn’t my model.’”
Could 2024
Diddy’s son Christian “King” Combs attacked his father’s detractors in a observe performed by DJ Akademiks.
“I dare one in every of you n***** scream out ‘no Diddy,’” King rapped. “All that gossip s*** is wack / When all they’d was 50 Cent who put the town on the map?/ Cease mendacity, pops been hated on by many males and n****, that’s effective/ They gon’ attempt to cease these Eminems and so they gon’ die tryin.”
50 Cent laughed off the diss observe by writing through Instagram: “I really feel so threatened by the issues Christian is saying on his report … I’m afraid for my life, please don’t damage me guys.”
Could 2024
CNN printed a resort surveillance video footage of Diddy kicking and grabbing Cassie at a Los Angeles resort in 2016. Diddy apologized for his actions in a video shared through Instagram.
Within the apology message, Diddy mentioned his actions had been “inexcusable” and he took “full accountability” for them, earlier than asking for forgiveness as a result of he was “actually sorry.”
“Now I’m certain puffy didn’t do it, ‘he’s harmless this proves nothing.’ That is what his attorneys are gonna say,” 50 Cent sarcastically wrote through X. “God assist us all.”
September 2024
Diddy was arrested by federal brokers at a New York Metropolis resort and subsequently charged with intercourse trafficking, racketeering, and transportation to have interaction in prostitution as a part of an alleged long-running felony enterprise. Diddy denied all accusations.
50 Cent reacted by sharing a photograph of himself on The Drew Barrymore Present. He mocked the indictment’s reference to “greater than 1,000 bottles of child oil and lubricant” being seized by Homeland Safety brokers throughout raids at Diddy’s properties.
“Right here I’m maintaining good firm with @thedrewbarrymoreshow and I don’t have 1,000 bottles of lube on the home,” 50 Cent wrote.
Could 2025
Diddy’s federal intercourse trafficking trial acquired underway on the Daniel Patrick Moynihan United States Courthouse in Decrease Manhattan. 50 Cent trolled Diddy all through the primary week of the trial with numerous social media posts.
“After listening to at present’s testimony. I believe the diddler ought to have took the plea provide,” he wrote. “The s*** they’re saying is past me, so what do ya assume?”
In one other publish, 50 Cent wrote: “This s*** crazier then common loopy.”
Because the trial progressed, 50 Cent advised that pro-Diddy protestors had been paid $20 every to rally exterior the courthouse in “Free Diddy” T-shirts.
“I would go throw that on for an hour tomorrow. LOL,” 50 added.
Could 2025
50 Cent waded into the controversy over whether or not President Donald Trump ought to pardon Diddy, after the politician informed reporters he would check out the case.
“[Diddy] mentioned some actually dangerous issues about Trump, it’s not OK,” 50 Cent wrote through Instagram. “I’m gonna attain out so he is aware of how I really feel about this man.”
July 2025
Diddy was discovered responsible of two counts of transportation to have interaction in prostitution however acquitted on racketeering and intercourse trafficking prices. In October 2025, Diddy was sentenced to 50 months in jail.
50 Cent used a homophobic insult to taunt Diddy after the decision. He wrote through Instagram: “Diddy beat the [RICO], that boy a foul man. He just like the Homosexual John Gotti.”
John Gotti was a mobster referred to as the “Teflon Don” due to his capacity to dodge authorized prices. (Gotti died in jail at age 61 in June 2002 after lastly being convicted of homicide and racketeering in April 1992.)
October 2025
President Trump confirmed that Diddy’s attorneys had approached his administration a couple of pardon. Trump reiterated that he would check out the case and insisted that Diddy’s earlier criticism of his administration wouldn’t affect his determination.
50 Cent as soon as once more publicly fumed about the potential of Diddy receiving a presidential pardon. (Diddy is serving his 50-month jail sentence at Fort Dix in Burlington County, New Jersey.)
“Man you possibly can’t get No pardon operating ya mouth like that! LOL Get Out of right here,” 50 Cent wrote through Instagram.
November 2025
50 Cent introduced that his Netflix documentary Sean Combs: The Reckoning would launch on December 2, 2025. The 50 Cent-produced undertaking will characteristic 4, hour-long episodes analyzing numerous controversies all through Diddy’s profession.
“I’ve been dedicated to actual storytelling for years by G-Unit Movie and Tv,” 50 Cent, who govt produced the sequence, mentioned in a press release. “I’m grateful to everybody who got here ahead and trusted us with their tales and proud to have Alexandria Stapleton because the director on the undertaking to convey this necessary story to the display.”
Stapleton shared in her personal assertion that Sean Combs: The Reckoning was partially impressed by her experiences as “a lady within the business” following the #MeToo motion.
“When Cassie dropped her lawsuit, I simply thought this might go one million completely different instructions,” she mentioned. “I questioned how she had the arrogance to go on the market towards a mogul like Sean Combs. As a filmmaker, I immediately knew it was a stress take a look at of whether or not we’ve modified as a tradition, so far as having the ability to course of allegations like this in a good method.”
The filmmaker went on, “This isn’t simply concerning the story of Sean Combs or the story of Cassie, or the story of any of the victims, or the allegations towards him, or the trial. In the end, this story is a mirror [reflecting us] as the general public, and what we’re saying after we put our celebrities on such a excessive pedestal. I hope [this documentary] is a wake-up name for a way we idolize individuals and to grasp that everyone is a human being.”
A teaser for the documentary featured a voiceover from former Dangerous Boy artist Mark Curry issuing a warning over Diddy’s alleged dangerous conduct.
“You’ll be able to’t proceed to maintain hurting individuals and nothing ever occurs. It’s only a matter of time,” Curry mentioned.
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