50 Cent believes New York hip-hop artists are spending a little too much time behind microphones instead of in the booth.
The rapper and entertainment mogul—who appears in a new DoorDash commercial connected to Super Bowl LX—shared his thoughts on the podcast wave during a recent interview with Rolling Stone.
While pointing out subtle digs aimed at Sean “Diddy” Combs in the ad, Fifty also weighed in on the explosion of podcasts hosted by rappers like Fat Joe, Jadakiss, and Jim Jones.
“New York City is turning into a podcast. The whole fucking New York hip-hop is turning into a podcast. So there ain’t going to be nobody for them to interview because they’re all podcasters,” Fif told Rolling Stone.
“They’ve got to go to everyone else’s podcast to interview each other because that much of it is turning into that. So now, do I respect them as journalists or do I respect them as artists? When they’re speaking, they’re offering an opinion that you wouldn’t hear.”
Jones, a member of The Diplomats, pushed back on those comments during a December episode of his podcast Let’s Rap About It, calling it “petty” that the G-Unit boss served as an executive producer on the Diddy-focused docuseries Sean Combs: The Reckoning.
The Get Rich or Die Tryin’ rapper has continued to clown Jones on Instagram following his comments on Let’s Rap About It, and he also told Rolling Stone that he nearly released a diss tape.
Back in December, Jones—alongside fellow podcast co-hosts Fabolous, Dave East, and Maino—fired back with the diss track “Squatters,” aimed at Fifty. The song came after 50 Cent shared audio from a landlord claiming the group hadn’t paid rent for their podcast studio.
“I never said anything about anyone if they didn’t do something or we didn’t have an actual issue,” Fifty explained. “They responded to something that I said about them not paying their bills, which was true. They responded to that by rapping.”
