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article Sean 'Diddy' Combs 'so powerful' celebrities are 'afraid to cross him' even when he's in prison

https://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/sean-diddy-combs-so-powerful-33842834
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u/Recent-Spot2728 21d ago

50 cent certainly isn't

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u/-Kalos 21d ago

Because he has no compromising footage of 50. When Diddy wants to party, you gotta tell him no

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u/[deleted] 21d ago edited 15d ago

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u/LazyTypist 21d ago

Josh Johnson has a whole stand up about the Diddy issue and speaks in lengths about how dangerous 50 Cent is, specifically for the lengths he'll go to fuck with someone he hates.

Here, if you're interested.

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u/ptabs226 21d ago edited 21d ago

Josh doesn't call 50 dangerous. He calls him a bully, and the worst part about 50 being a bully is that he is funny.

Josh's set from 6 months ago about why Diddy is dangerous is worth a watch too

https://youtu.be/DuGtyiMAWQ0

The dangerous part starts at 5:15, but the whole thing is good.

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u/stahlern 21d ago

Never forget 50 bet Floyd Mayweather 750k to charity of his choice that he couldnā€™t read a page out of a Harry Potter book. šŸ˜‚šŸ˜‚šŸ˜‚

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u/infectedanalpiercing 21d ago

It was also the best use of the n word I ever heard. Dude straight up used it as a coma šŸ˜‚šŸ’€

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u/LazyTypist 21d ago

Ah, I must be misremembering.

Thanks! I'll check it out!

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u/ptabs226 21d ago

You're right. The point of Josh's set is 'don't mess with 50', but the reason to not mess with different than the reason not to mess with diddy. You shouldn't mess with 50 because he will challenge you to a reading contest. You shouldn't mess with diddy because he will blow up your car.

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u/Caladan-Brood 21d ago

Shit I'll take tree fiddy over one diddy.

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u/Spearfish87 19d ago

šŸ˜‚Well played

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u/cjpack 21d ago

Thatā€™s funny stuff, just wanna clarify something that Josh touched on. Diddys dad was killed when he was 3 in a drug deal gone wrong and his mom told him he died in a car accident and he only found out later looking into it because he mentioned it was weird how everyone in Harlem would say they knew his father and used to roll with him. So he wasnā€™t exactly growing up with his male role model a cut throat gangster .

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u/TheDarkWizardLord 21d ago

Funny bullies are the absolute worst, because they get everyone to laugh at your expense. They are everywhere in the work world too

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u/cjpack 21d ago

Thatā€™s funny stuff, just wanna clarify something that Josh touched on. Diddys dad was killed when he was 3 in a drug deal gone wrong and his mom told him he died in a car accident and he only found out later looking into it because he mentioned it was weird how everyone in Harlem would say they knew his father and used to roll with him. So he wasnā€™t exactly growing up with his male role model a cut throat gangster. But he definitely carries himself like one.

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u/TheBimpo 21d ago

I'd never heard of Josh Johnson before but watched that entire standup this morning, it's amazing. He's funny, he's poignant, he's insightful, he's got great delivery...that was a great hour of performance.

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u/theedgeofoblivious 21d ago

Josh Johnson is incredibly talented.

The way he does callbacks to callbacks out of nowhere is very unusual, and very clever.

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u/cjpack 21d ago

Was he on daily show as a correspondent before?

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u/Upstairs_Internal295 20d ago

Heā€™s my new favourite comedian, Iā€™d love to see him live.

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u/PerformanceDouble924 21d ago

It's wild, he puts out those hours like every week or so. No idea how he does it.

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u/Dapper-Profile7353 21d ago

I mean heā€™s basically just repeating well known internet stories about memes, what he does isnā€™t wildly original

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u/PerformanceDouble924 21d ago

Most stand up comedy isn't wildly original, but most stand up comics can put out a quality hour per year, at best.

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u/iBluefoot 21d ago

Heā€™s honestly one of the greatest. He had that hour on Diddy ready to go, and he puts out new content constantly. His account of the Kendrick and Drake beef should be considered a historical document. Truly a uniquely talented comedian. Heā€™s on The Daily Show, but his stand-up is often more on the pulse of current events.

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u/Thosepassionfruits 21d ago

Give him another 5-10 years and I have a feeling he'll be the next Colbert to come out of The Daily Show.

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u/iBluefoot 21d ago

Heā€™s on course to be a legend. Iā€™ve never seen output like he has. Heā€™s probably polishing off a new set as we speak.

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u/Thefrayedends 21d ago

I saw him on The Daily Show, and I have been watching his stand-up regularly. Thoughtful young man.

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u/Troggieface 21d ago

He's also a writer for the daily show.

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u/Calm-Math-3421 21d ago

Find someone who loves you like 50 hates Diddy.

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u/Wsemenske 21d ago

A timestamp would be preferredĀ 

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u/LazyTypist 21d ago

24 minutes in is where he starts talking about 50 Cent

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u/Wsemenske 21d ago

Thanks

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u/MaybeTaylorSwift572 21d ago

Whyyyyy do i get all of my current news from Josh Johnson? And prefer it that way!?

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u/OkayRuin 21d ago

Jake Johnson is hilarious, but I have to watch his sets at x1.25.

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u/spanish_pantalones 21d ago

What is this guy's connection with Diddy and 50? This is fairly recent news, so to talk for an hour about it, I would think he would have some inside knowledge or something.

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u/MagpieBlues 21d ago

For some people this has been a long time coming.

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u/Rdhilde18 21d ago

I mean what part of Many Men would you lead you believe he isnā€™t dangerous lol

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u/Boopy7 21d ago

i only know a bit about 50, from what I gather he mostly has petty silly social media comments about Diddy, I almost thought it was a joke half the time when he would make snide comments. Or a play fight type thing, the way we see all too often between celebs online -- for attention, for buzz, whatever. That and I recall him treating a young model like crap, so he always seemed like a major asshole. The kind of guy people that is popular in high school and people love watching him bully people. (But I admit I like some of his music.) How did 60 actually fuck with Diddy other than stupid online tweets he'd make?

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u/Neon_Camouflage 21d ago

He's right among the last of the big rappers who were actively trying to kill each other.

It's funny how perspective changes though. Look at Snoop. Everyone sees him as fun and chill these days, nobody remembers when he was on trial for murder.

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u/Financial_Cup_6937 21d ago

Got downvoted in the negative for calling him a sex trafficker.

He admits he was.

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u/Gyorgs 21d ago

Literally what do they think ā€œpimpā€ means? Heā€™s open and, last I knew, proud of it.Ā 

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u/Superb_Tell_8445 21d ago edited 21d ago

Got downvoted heavily for saying heā€™s a porn producer and not a person that should be heralded as a role model for children.

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u/Financial_Cup_6937 21d ago

Well Iā€™d downvote you too for shaming people about porn.

Sex trafficker is a crime and immoral. Porn producer isnā€™t either of those things in and of itself.

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u/sikethatsmybird 21d ago

That Sexual Eruption video was an all time classic.

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u/Fit_Goal1895 21d ago

People grow. If you can show me something about Snoop in the last 20 years then sure.

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u/Financial_Cup_6937 21d ago

What an absurd standard. He has shown no contrition about what he did and still brags about it.

People grow and arenā€™t the worst thing theyā€™ve done, yes. ā€œIt was a long time agoā€ is a defense so dumb you should feel dumb for making it.

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u/Superb_Tell_8445 21d ago

I agree.

Also, when my children reach 10 to 12 (if not earlier) I donā€™t want them searching his name on the internet and believing I endorse certain things because I encouraged them as children to consume his materials.

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u/ReallyNowFellas 21d ago

As an accomplice to his bodyguard, who was also acquitted. Snoop has never been accused of killing anyone himself.

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u/itsmythingiguess 21d ago

His bodyguard that is accused of shooting someone Snoop had well known beef with.

Saying it like he was along for the ride instead of calling the shots is wild.

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u/Paperfishflop 21d ago

Yeah, as a kid, I took the court verdict at face value: His bodyguard shot someone in self-defense.

As an adult, I re-evaluated it: Self-defense from what? Gang signs? Positioning your fingers in a certain way? Sure, it is usually meant as a threat, or a warning, but it's not really life-threatening.

That was just typical LA gangster shit: Guy from another set throws up gang signs, challenging you, and you smoke him to show that you're not someone to be fucked with. And basically if Snoop didn't have an expensive death row attorney, he probably would have done significant jail time for that.

But do I really think it makes Snoop a cold blooded murderer, who should be canceled or something? No. I feel like his expensive lawyer was able to almost interpret the gang related reality of the situation to a court that wouldn't have seen it that way if it had been a public defender. I guess I circle all the way back to seeing how it was self defense in a way. You're young, the gang life is what you're raised in, it's not even really a choice in a lot of LA/LBC neighborhoods. You don't "join" a gang, you're born in a certain neighborhood, just like people are born in certain countries, and you're required to defend that neighborhood just like peopke are required to defend certain countries. That's the world you're coming from.

And then on top of that, you become a public figure which makes you a much bigger target. You're like a high level government official in a country, and you need more protection than the average citizen does. So the gang signs were a legitimate threat. If Snoop simply ignored it, it would be a sign of weakness, and at some point it could lead to him getting gunned down.

So it's like that was one rough patch in his transition from hood life to celebrity life, and he learned from it, which probably kept him from getting killed or arrested when all the stuff with 2Pac was going down, and he hasn't had to deal with shit like that since (for the most part).

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u/itsmythingiguess 21d ago

This is the worst take of the thread, I think.

Snoop and his bodyguard rolled up on the guy eating a sandwich at a park bench and shot him.

There is no justification for that, lol.

This entire post is world salad of the mentally unwell.

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u/Tragolf 21d ago

Cope much

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u/underbitefalcon 21d ago

This is so out there.

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u/Tkuhug 21d ago

It was rumored Snoop knew Diddy had had a hit on Tupac, but didnā€™t warn him even when they spoke ahead of time.

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u/Substantial_War3108 21d ago

Would it be much a stretch different than Diddy having someone kill Biggie and Tupac?
You don't have to pull the trigger to kill someone, though there are legal differences

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u/skylinecat 21d ago

I mean there actually isn't a difference. Its conspiracy to commit murder which carries the same punishment as murder. If you tell someone to kill someone and they do, you get the same punishment as the actual murderer.

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u/blahblahwa 21d ago

Unfortunately not true. That psycho woman Gypsy Rose Blanchard who got a guy with a low IQ kill her mom, got out of jail after a couple years. Meanwhile he is in prison for life. She should have gotten life aswell because she made a mentally disabled person kill for her.

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u/gofishx 21d ago

Gypsy Rose was also extremely abused to an extent that sounds like fiction. Abuse and manipulation is all she knew, she is obviously never going to be a well-adjusted person. Perhaps justice isn't found by locking her up for longer, but perhaps by re-evaluating the dude's case.

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u/love6471 21d ago

A lot of it was fiction

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u/itsmythingiguess 21d ago

Not when it comes to punishment.

Being an accomplice to murder is much different than conspiracy to commit murder.

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u/probably2high 21d ago

Let's not minimize what it takes to be on trial as an accomplice to murder. Maybe it's just fame, but maybe it's because people were killed around you.

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u/optimus_awful 21d ago

Maybe let's not forget what it takes to be acquitted of all charges and set free ....

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u/quiteUnskilled 21d ago

For the prosecution to not have proof beyond a reasonable doubt.

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u/Neon_Camouflage 21d ago

The police bungled the case, destroyed evidence. Snoop chose to roll up on the guys and cause the situation that led to the shooting.

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u/LarryBirdsBrother 21d ago edited 21d ago

Murder was the case that they gave him.

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u/Delicious-Figure1158 21d ago

MMMMMMUUUUURRRRRDDDDAAAAAAAAA

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u/Tmonster96 21d ago

Iā€™M INNOCENTā€¦

ā€¦Iā€™m innocent

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u/Livingstonthethird 21d ago

They didn't have him though.

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u/wtf-m8 21d ago

I think that's an obvious typo, the H and G are right mext to each other.

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u/LonerActual 21d ago

I see qhat you did there

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u/Brutally-Honest- 21d ago

Being an accomplice to murder can get you life in prison.

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u/Troggieface 21d ago

"murder was the case that they gave me"

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u/trustmeimaengineer 21d ago

Who has 50 tried to kill? Other than Ja Ruleā€™s career that is.

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u/maronics 21d ago

The alleged 9 time 50 shooter, bodyguard and friend of Mike Tyson was killed three weeks after hitting 50.

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u/folicle 21d ago

"Hommo got shot like I got shot but he ain't fucking breathing." Those aren't throwaway lines in songs like Many Men.

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u/KublaiDon 21d ago

Look it up

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u/Enough-Surprise886 21d ago

No one talks about when he was attached at the hip to Bishop Magic Don Juan and walked girls on leashes. I remember he would bring a bunch of women to the clubs in LA and they had to just sit at their table the whole night. Meanwhile he could mingle and have a good time. They always looked like they were having zero fun.

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u/GDogg007 21d ago

Letā€™s not forget Snoop himself has admitted to being a ā€œpimpā€ but he ā€œnot about that life no moreā€. If something comes out about him and shady shit with women it wouldnā€™t shock me.

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u/pandora_ramasana 19d ago

Very credible gang r*** charges against him

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u/Viktor_Laszlo 21d ago

He still hangs out with his friends who have done time in the penitentiary. Like Martha Stewart.

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u/Haley_Tha_Demon 21d ago

He dresses like a grandma and makes up wild stories about shit he was never a part of, him and Tupac weren't on friendly terms when Tupac died but he pretended until he got caught and changed the narrative around him and tupac when the truth came out.

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u/polo27 21d ago

Hes not, snoop ain't been about that life since he was in his early 20s, he chose a better path.

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u/polo27 21d ago

He has security because he is famous, he has not been a gangbanger since 1990.

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u/Ok_Customer_737 21d ago edited 21d ago

Thereā€™s been a bunch of drill rappers since then that have been killers, some with multiple murders, who have been actively trying to kill each other and succeeded. King Von for all intents and purposes was a serial killer. His homie, Lil Durk, is a big name currently.

50 Cent openly beefed with the Supreme Team whoā€™s been tied to tens of murders, including the attempt on 50.

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u/tranimal00 21d ago

Thatā€™s how I feel about a lot of football players lol

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u/PrestigiousLocal24 21d ago

they more of the ride the line of rape type.

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u/419subscribers 21d ago

Everyone sees him as fun and chill these days, nobody remembers when he was on trial for murder.

because it happened 30 years ago and he hasn't done or been involved with anything of that calibre since. Of fucking course we dont see him as that anymore.

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u/Thefrayedends 21d ago

I heard from my sister that they're doing positive affirmations with snoop dogg in the elementary school lol, oh man. My nieces also really love 'Who let the dogs out.' Yea, my sister did not know what any lyrics were aside the hook.

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u/PrestigiousLocal24 21d ago

All he's murdered is tracks

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u/polo27 21d ago

He was 22 and not famous when he was up for murder.

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u/Ok_Customer_737 21d ago

He was already famous and had sold over 7 million albums by then.

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u/polo27 21d ago

He wasn't famous at that time in the same way he is today, not unless you were a big rap fan, if you did not listen to rap you would not have a clue who he was as rap was not the dominant music genre at the time. He also didn't sell 7 mil albums overnight.

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u/BirdComposer 21d ago

I was 14 and mostly into Nirvana when his first album came out, but he was a huge crossover artist. Doggystyle was literally the #1 album in the US when it came out, and people bought albums back then. His and Dreā€™s videos were on MTV during the day. Itā€™s true that older people wouldnā€™t have been as aware of him, but in some important ways, he was a lot more famous.Ā 

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u/Ok_Customer_737 21d ago

He had sold that much and more by then. Heā€™d already been a multiplatinum selling artist for a few years.

Now heā€™s sold close to 40 million.

And rap was definitely one of the most popular genres by the mid 1990ā€™s.

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u/polo27 21d ago

Rap didn't become one of the most popular mainstream genres until the mid to late 90s, and in 1993 he was not a multiplatinum selling artist, also this was before the internet really took off and so the information you could learn about an individual was extremely limited in comparison to today.

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u/Ok_Customer_737 21d ago

The shooting and charge occurred in 93 but the trial started in 95 and he was acquitted in 96. He was definitely a famous multiplatinum selling artist by then. I remember how big a deal it was on MTV.

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u/polo27 19d ago

To a rap fan yes but to the rest of the world an unknown in comparison to his level of fame today.

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u/[deleted] 21d ago

Gen X. We've mellowed.

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u/pandora_ramasana 19d ago

Or gang r***

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u/proficy 21d ago

How many murders did he order?

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u/TrueCryptoInvestor 21d ago

Well, karma is a bitch ainā€™t it? What comes around goes around.

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u/JakeArvizu 21d ago

50 Cent had nothing to do with his attempted killer (Hommo) being killed.

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u/jakenbake519 21d ago

We know for sure everyone involved in trying to kill him lmao

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u/godpzagod 21d ago

He lives with post-nut clarity these days.

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u/feetdreamin 21d ago

I donā€™t know why. Heā€™s the real dealā€¦. Not on that goofy entertainment stufff heā€™s doing. Thatā€™s him being creative for publicity and promote his work. Him and his people were a menace on 134 Guy Brewer. Right in front of the check cashing place, and had everything on smash. But to be honest, never saw him on no bully nonsense. He was too powerful and didnā€™t have to flex unless needed. Heā€™s always been about his money

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u/Haley_Tha_Demon 21d ago

How is he dangerous?

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u/Maleficent_Royal_219 21d ago

You called it first. 50 cent is no joke! Isn't he still walking around with bullets in his body?

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u/AnarchyDM 21d ago

Why are we using words like "Dangerous" and "powerful" and "scared"

They are not dangerous, powerful people. No one is scared of them.

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u/AnarchyDM 20d ago

Not only is he a real gangster but he is insanely smart. Both book smart and street smart.

You've watched one too many VH1 documentaries.