Hate It or Love It: The History of 50 Cent and Game

Breakups to (maybe) make-ups?

50 CENT and The Game make up and play nice NYC

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11 Years in the Making - It’s hard to believe it. This whole 50 Cent vs. the Game battle has been going on for a good 11 years, which means that this rap beef will be entering junior high school next year. Thanks to the beef, the two rappers have amassed an insane amount of catalog that’s filled with just diss tracks to one another – but in all fairness, the Game has released more than 50 Cent. It seems this beef has come to an end – and you wouldn’t guess where it all happened. But before we get to that, let’s go way back into this tumultuous yet hilarious rap beef between the Game and 50 Cent. – Jon Reyes(Photo: Brian Prahl)

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2003 - The Game is signed to Dr. Dre’s Aftermath label. After some time of working on the Game’s Aftermath project, which would eventually be The Documentary, Dr. Dre links 50 Cent and the Game in the studio.(Photo: Jemal Countess/Getty Images) 

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Spring 2004 - At the request and suggestion of Jimmy Iovine, the Game is inducted into G-Unit. The Game said, “They came up with the idea that I should roll with G-Unit because they already have a crazy buzz and they selling albums. They got the East and they got the South; I'm from the West, obviously. I'm young and I'm hungry just like them. 50 is still in the streets, he's still hungry, still blowing up…”(Photo: Peter Kramer/Getty Images)

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January 2005 - 50 Cent goes on the record to express that he felt neglected because of the Game’s album, The Documentary: "There was points that I felt like the tail was wagging the dog, 'cause I was supposed to come out February 15 and Game was slated for January 18. The energy at Interscope Records feels crazy when you got artists based in the West Coast and they haven't had much come out of the West for a long time. When they start rallying around it, you could feel the energy... So I'm sitting there waiting for that train to roll past me so I can get myself situated."(Photo: Scott Gries/Getty Images) 

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February 26, 2005 - The Game goes on Hot 97 and talks about collaborating with Nas and not having any issues with Fat Joe and Jadakiss – at the time, all were foes of 50 Cent.(Photo: Peter Kramer/Getty Images) 

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February 28, 2005 - 50 Cent goes to Hot 97 on Funkmaster Flex’s show and announces they’re officially kicking the Game out of G-Unit. Turns out that while this is going on in the studio, the Game and his entourage are outside of Hot 97 attempting to get in the building, but are not allowed in. One man, Kevin Reed, ends up being shot in the leg.(Photo: Noam Galai/Getty Images)

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March 2005 - Both rappers make a public appearance to claim that they will be putting their beef aside. The "cease fire" didn't really last for long.(Photo: Peter Kramer/Getty Images)

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2005 - 50 Cent’s “Piggy Bank” music video is released and features a computer-animated version of the Game as Mr. Potato Head.(Photo: Bryan Bedder/Getty Images) 

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2006 - The Game releases “300 Bars and Runnin’,” which is basically a marathon of the Game freestyling sprinkled with 50 Cent disses.(Photo: Lefty Shivambu/Gallo Images/Getty Images) 

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May 2008 - While talking about the release of his 2008 album, L.A.X., the Game muses about 50 Cent’s absence on the project – which at that point he had already released four without the Queens rapper: "If there is a message, that message will be that for the first time in my career, I was able to record a studio album in peace — without drama, without anything rendering me helpless, without having to fight with my label or 50. Or without worrying about if Dre would be producing on the album. I can do it on my own. I proved that with my last album."(Photo: Michael Zito/WireImage) 

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July 2009 - The Game seems intent on burying the hatchet with 50 Cent, hoping to “apologize to 50 as a man.” At one point he also compares his relationship to 50 Cent like that of the Beatles. As in, John Lennon and Paul McCartney. Weird.(Photo: Jemal Countess/Getty Images) 

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November 2009 - Seems that fell on deaf ears because 50 Cent releases his album, Before I Self Destruct, and on it is a track called “So Disrespectful,” which mentions the Game twice by name: “Come on, Game, you will never be my equal / Your homies shoot doors, my n***as shoot people...”(Photo: Kevin Winter/Getty Images) 

November 2010 - The Game uses Twitter to extend an olive branch to 50 Cent in what also seems as an attempt to reunite G-Unit. 50’s response was basically like, “New phone, who dis?”(Photos from left: Stephen Shugerman/Getty Images, Scott Gries/Getty Images) 

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November 2010 - The Game uses Twitter to extend an olive branch to 50 Cent in what also seems as an attempt to reunite G-Unit. 50’s response was basically like, “New phone, who dis?”(Photos from left: Stephen Shugerman/Getty Images, Scott Gries/Getty Images) 

September 2011 - 50 Cent calls the Game’s latest Twitter diss “desperate.”(Photos from left: Scott Gries/Getty Images, Peter Kramer/Getty Images) 

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September 2011 - 50 Cent calls the Game’s latest Twitter diss “desperate.”(Photos from left: Scott Gries/Getty Images, Peter Kramer/Getty Images) 

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November 2012 - 50 Cent releases song “My Life” from an album that still hasn’t been released in which he calls out the Game. The Game responds in a radio interview claiming that 50 Cent may be trying to “tell us something about his secret life.”(Photo: Frederick M. Brown/Getty Images) 

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January 2013 - The Game starts an online petition for a G-Unit reunion. Yes, this really happened. 50 Cent responds to that online petition by saying: “You're not gonna get nothing back together. I decide that. I do what I want to do. I don't give a f**k what they talking about on a blog post.”(Photo: Scott Gries/Getty Images) 

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April 2014 and March 2015 - 50 Cent sheds more light on what actually happened nine years ago and also calls the Game bi-polar. Then almost a year later, the master of shade and internet trolling reveals that the Game’s album The Documentary was actually an early version of 50 Cent’s The Massacre. Oh, and he also manages to insult the Game’s songwriting skills in the process.(Photo: Kevin Winter/Getty Images for iHeartMedia) 

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January 2016 - The Game and Lloyd Banks take a photo together and 50 Cent takes to his Instagram to make fun of it.(Photo: Kevin Winter/Getty Images for Coachella) 

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August 2016 - 50 Cent and the Game are seen hugging it out at a Los Angeles strip club. Eleven years into this we can confidently say that “this story is still developing.”(Photos from left: Alberto E. Rodriguez/Getty Images for BET, Bryan Bedder/Getty Images for JCPenney) 

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August 2016 - 50 Cent and the Game are seen hugging it out at a Los Angeles strip club. Eleven years into this we can confidently say that “this story is still developing.”(Photos from left: Alberto E. Rodriguez/Getty Images for BET, Bryan Bedder/Getty Images for JCPenney) 

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