Desiigner has fired back at 50 Cent in a new freestyle after the G-Unit general revealed he once passed on signing the “Panda” hitmaker.
In a video shared on Instagram on Tuesday (September 3), the Brooklyn rapper filmed himself spitting a few bars over a hard-hitting beat, aiming some choice words at 50 Cent in the process.
“N-ggas talkin’ that 50 Cent, I be talking 50 mill / N-ggas talkin’ that Timmy Turner, glad the n-gga got killed / I got signed to Kanye, lil n-gga, you was never worth a deal,” he raps.
Desiigner also tagged 50 in his caption, along with media personality Akademiks, referring to them as “trolls.”
The Power mogul, who is active on social media and rarely lets a jab go unanswered, has yet to respond.
During his appearance on Gillie Da Kid and Wallo‘s Million Dollaz Worth of Game podcast late last week, 50 Cent revealed that he was interested in signing Desiigner to G-Unit Records before he joined Def Jam and Kanye West‘s G.O.O.D. Music.
“The n-gga came to me, what’s the n-gga’s name? He sounded like Future. Panda, panda, panda,” he said, struggling to remember Desiigner by his name. “I met with him before he did the deal with Kanye and them.”
However, 50’s enthusiasm quickly waned when he asked the rap rookie to play him what other music he had in the stash.
“I had him at the office. I was like, ‘Yo, let me hear the other records you got.’ And he’s like… ‘That’s it,’” he continued. “And the shit was so hot that he had, I was struggling. But I was like, ‘Nah, I can’t give that n-gga that money. Let them give him whatever the fuck they gonna give him.’”
50 Cent’s reservations were vindicated as Desiigner struggled to replicate the success of “Panda,” which reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100 in 2016 and has been certified five-times platinum.
After a string of follow-up singles and projects, the now-27-year-old rapper departed G.O.O.D. Music and Def Jam in 2019, although he recently reunited with Kanye West by appearing on his Vultures 2 track “Sky City.”
