50 Cent quickly drew a tongue-in-cheek response from Ebro Darden after hopping on Instagram—his go-to platform—to claim he “put a word in to have your show taken off the air.”
Fif was likely joking with the Wednesday (Dec. 17) IG post, though with how unpredictable everything feels these days, it’s hard to say for sure.
For anyone out of the loop, Ebro, along with Peter Rosenberg and Laura Stylez, have launched a new show following the end of their run at Hot 97. Ebro has previously hinted that his steady use of his platform to push progressive viewpoints in an increasingly MAGA-leaning media climate played a role in the decision to part ways with him.
In a clip from his new show with Laura Stylez and Peter Rosenberg—pulled from an episode that premiered Tuesday (Dec. 16) and later reposted by 50 himself—Ebro weighed in on the long-running debate over whether he or Fif “ruined” New York hip-hop.
“I told 50 he ruined New York hip-hop,” Ebro said in the clip. “He spun it back around on me talking about I ruined New York hip-hop and then all of his fans and fanatics ran with that. But first, it was 50 Cent who ruined New York hip-hop. Y’all know nobody wanted to work together. … Everybody was hemming and hawing and soft-shoeing because nobody wanted to work together because 50 Cent was so popping. So that’s where that narrative comes from.”
When posting the clip, 50 tied it back to Ebro’s departure from Hot 97, writing, “That’s why I put a word in to have your show taken off the air, you can’t just go around saying nasty things about people.”
Ebro fired back by referencing “Ayo Technology,” the 2007 track from Fif’s Curtis album featuring Justin Timberlake and Timbaland.
“You wasn’t saying that when I supported ‘Ayo Technology,’” he commented under the Sean Combs: The Reckoning executive producer’s post.
In the full episode the clip came from, Ebro also pulled Rosenberg into the conversation, asking him to weigh in on “the documentation of the amount of opportunity given to New York rappers” during Ebro’s years at Hot 97. Rosenberg replied by first noting that Ebro’s run at the station should really be split into “two different tenures,” pointing out the major differences between his time as program director and as an on-air personality. He then compared 50 to Trump, brushing off the broader debate as “complete nonsense.”
As of this writing, The Ebro Laura Rosenberg Show—also known as ELR—has dropped two episodes on YouTube, with more episodes coming soon.
