If trolling your enemies on Instagram were an Olympic sport, 50 Cent would have a chestful of gold medals. The G-Unit boss and hater par excellence has made it his business to take down his enemies in the spiciest fashion over the years, preying on their weaknesses, insecurities, fears and public vulnerabilities. And then, often just as swiftly, deleting the evidence of his torrid takedowns.
But why is he so quick to erase his disses?
On Thursday (March 12) 50 (born Curtis Jackson III) finally gave us the answer, and, once again, he did it with an extra side of in-your-face. “If I put up a post and take it down is because I don’t want your ugly ass face on my page,” he explained in an Instagram post featuring a snippet of his recent team-up with Leon Thomas on the song “No One Told Us” from the upcoming Power: Origins STARZ series.
“I’m the algorithm PUNK!” 50 added. He was on a posting tear over the past 24 hours, warning that “The ALGORITHM” is gonna get ‘ya several times. After debuting an AI mashup video for his Max B collab “No More Tricks, No More Tries” earlier this week — which takes shots at recent troll targets Jim Jones, Maino, Fabolous and Dave East — 50 definitely seems to be swerving hard into the artificial intelligence lane to make his point.
In an AI video posted on Friday morning (March 13) in which he is Thanos taking on enemies including Iron Man (in the guise of his favorite recent target, T.I.) in an Avengers:Endgame spoof, he wrote, “Everybody dies one day, THE ALGORITHM coming soon!” The post drew praise from fans who love 50’s troll game, with one writing “Beefing with 50 is good business. They are all turning each other up for real,” and another hoping that the “ALGORITHM” he keeps referring to is a new album.
In another post from Thursday, he wrote “I am the algorithm anyone who chooses to go against the grain will suffer.”
From his fiery 1999 takedown “How to Rob” in which he took shots at everyone from Bobby Brown to Master P and Will Smith, to his recent string of trolling posts aimed at disgraced Bad Boy Records boss Sean “Diddy” Combs and T.I., 50 has made dissing his rivals, and then often disappearing the evidence, his business. And to hear 50 tell it, business is good.
