Trending on Billboard
T.I. still wants all the smoke with 50 Cent in the Verzuz ring, but it doesn’t appear that the G-Unit mogul has any interest in battling the King of the South.
On Feb. 10, hip-hop historian Nuface posted on Instagram a resurfaced 2020 video of Tip on the phone with Kevin Hart, pleading with him to tell 50 to step into the ring, as T.I. was confident in his abilities to take down the Queens legend in a Verzuz.
“I’m the king below the Mason-Dixon line,” he declared in the clip. “King of the South. I speak for all of the Southern people. New York been saying s–t under they breath bout us and having little bulls–t, slick a— comments bout us, thinking it’s all slow down here. But they wanna come down here and go to our malls and go to our clubs, but then they wanna kick it like we substandard … Well, that s–t stops right now.”
50 hopped into the comments the day NuFace shared the video and slammed T.I., calling him “King Rat.” Tip didn’t waste any time firing back, claiming that 50 was actually “a rat in real life,” and that 50’s “lost my respect.”
“You playing on MY NAME when only one of us a rat in real life…you know I got your paperwork right? And my transcript is available online,” T.I. wrote. “Your excuses is useless. Get yo h— a— in the box or STFU and live in fear. You soft son. You’ve lost my respect. Fckn [duck emoji].”
T.I. had previously revived Verzuz chatter nearly six years later during his appearance on Nightcap with Shannon Sharpe and Chad Ochocinco earlier in February, where he accused 50 of ducking him. “He don’t want no smoke, though. I called my man out, he don’t want no smoke,” Tip said in a clip posted Feb. 8.
As a trolling savant, 50 also clowned T.I. by posting a clip of him in a 2010 Crime Stoppers ad on Instagram Feb. 5, while telling him to not mention him. “I know Atlanta pick and choose who they support, but yall gotta do better,” 50 wrote. “LOL keep my name out ya mouth !”
The “Many Men” rapper didn’t stop there, as he posted another clip FEb. 7 of T.I. allegedly testifying in a case surrounding the 2006 murder of his assistant Philant Johnson in Cincinnati. “No, no , i don’t like it,” 50 continued. “No verses let’s do (The stay away challenge ) and stay away from me. LOL.”
