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Tiny Harris has finally broken her silence on the explosive beef between 50 Cent and her husband, rapper T.I.
“I really didn’t give a damn. I already told my assistant, ‘He’s gonna bring me into this.’ I already knew it was coming. I was expecting it, but nobody else, I don’t think, was expecting it,” she reflected on the Thursday episode of The Breakfast Club (March 26).
“He should have kept the beef with the man he was dealing with,” she continued. “You’re a man dealing with a man, you ain’t got nothing to do with me. I don’t got nothing to do with this. Who goes after the woman? That’s crazy. You should be dealing with the man. That’s y’all beef, right?”
Fiddy and Tip have had static since the late 2000s, and their discord was reignited after the Queens rapper posted a picture of Tiny to his social media pages and mocked the appearance of the couple’s eldest son, King Harris. Both King and his older brother Domani — a rising rap star and T.I.’s son from a relationship with LaShon Thompson — responded with incendiary diss tracks and social media takedowns, while their father stepped into the ring with the scathing “The Right One.”
“It was a proud moment that they wanted to speak up for their mom, and I feel like the songs were really good, especially Domani [with] ‘Ms. Jackson,’” Tiny said, later explaining that King “took it very personal” and ignored her requests to delete some of his responses from social media. For his part, earlier this month (March 3), T.I. told The Ebro Laura Rosenberg Show that he didn’t “enjoy” his sons hopping into the battle. “I raise my children to be men of respect,” he said. “Logical, reasonable and not to be emotional.”
Two weeks ago (March 10), Fiddy tapped Grammy-winning R&B star Leon Thomas for “No One Told Us,” the theme song for his upcoming Power: Origins series that also doubles as his response to T.I. and his sons. “I’m back on my dope boy grammar/ Your daddy made your mama eat every box in Atlanta,” he rapped.
The Fiddy-Tip beef has subsided for the time being, with the Atlanta MC turning his attention to his forthcoming Kill the King album, which has already launched a Billboard Hot 100 top 40 hit with the Pharrell Williams-produced “Let ‘Em Know” (No. 36).
Listen to Tiny address T.I. and 50 Cent’s beef below.
