{"id":932186,"date":"2026-10-14T02:24:12","date_gmt":"2026-10-14T02:24:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/932186\/"},"modified":"2026-10-14T02:24:12","modified_gmt":"2026-10-14T02:24:12","slug":"50-cent-says-j-cole-paid-the-most-by-dodging-kendrick-drake-battle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/932186\/","title":{"rendered":"50 Cent Says J. Cole ‘Paid the Most’ By Dodging Kendrick-Drake Battle"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tWith well over two decades of experience, 50 Cent<\/a> is well-versed in all things beef. Appearing on The Crew Has It podcast on Tuesday (Oct. 13), 50 explained his belief that J. Cole <\/a>lost the most by dodging the Kendrick Lamar<\/a> and Drake <\/a>battle in 2024. <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI think it\u2019s a part of hip-hop culture to compete,\u201d 50 told host Andrew Schulz. \u201cThe mistake is when you opt out of the competition. I think J. Cole paid the most.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tHowever, the G-Unit mogul did give Cole his flowers for moving as an artist in a way that\u2019s non-traditional to hip-hop, but authentic to his brand. \u201cHe\u2019s one of the coolest people to grace hip-hop culture, and he\u2019s been able to do things to show that his confidence isn\u2019t connected to the little things,\u201d 50 added. \u201cThere\u2019s no jewelry. J. Cole would ride a bike to the studio. So there\u2019s nothing to rob from him.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tJ. Cole fired away at Kendrick on Might Delete Later\u2018s top 10 Billboard Hot 100<\/a> entry \u201c7 Minute Drill\u201d in April 2024, but ended up apologizing to K. Dot onstage at his Dreamville Fest weeks later after scrubbing \u201c7 Minute Drill\u201d from streaming services, which effectively cleared the way for Drizzy and the Compton rapper to clash with Cole bowing out.<\/p>\n

\n\tWhile 50 agreed that Drake lost the battle to Kendrick<\/a> in terms of the feud, he\u2019s continued to question what Drizzy actually lost in life and has shown support for the OVO boss in the years since the dust settled on the battlefield. <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI don\u2019t think it was bad for hip-hop,\u201d 50 added of the 2024 beef. \u201cYou know how bad people wanted Drake to lose? Even if the record is a loss in context as far as the battle is concerned. I was in Canada and we was talking, I said, \u2018Let me ask you a question, what did you lose? I want you to think about it and tell me: What did you lose?\u2019 And he said, \u2018Nothing.\u2019 I said, \u2018OK, don\u2019t get emotional about the state of what people are saying. That is gonna pass, bro.’\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe G-Unit mogul continued: \u201cYou see what happened? He put three albums out at once. Them sh\u2013\u2018s performing because you can\u2019t just replace him at the present moment. He\u2019s a hybrid. He\u2019s gonna give you good R&B music and some sh\u2013 that we actually like on some rap sh\u2013.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tDrake returned with his May trifecta of albums (ICEMAN, HABIBTI and MAID OF HONOUR), which made Drizzy the first artist to ever hold the top three slots of the Billboard 200<\/a> simultaneously. He also added four new tracks to HABIBTI this month and brought the project back to No. 2 on the albums chart.<\/p>\n

\n\tWatch the full interview below. 50 Cent talking about J. Cole\u2019s role in the Drake and Kendrick Lamar battle begins around the 1:15 mark.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With well over two decades of experience, 50 Cent is well-versed in all things beef. Appearing on The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":932187,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[49,48,75,48453,341,15111],"class_list":["post-932186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-genre-hiphop","tag-music","tag-music-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/932186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=932186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/932186\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/932187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=932186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=932186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=932186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}