In the pinnacle of his beef with Fifty, Fat Joe was offered money to step in the ring with his nemesis. And decided against it.
Fat Joe recalled this story while discussing the recent fight between Nate Robinson and Jake Paul, the one before the Tyson fight. Joe feels that even if Robinson was knocked out, it does warrant people to be disrespectful to him. It’s entertainment, he says, you should take whatever it throws at you, and you cannot win every fight. But it takes the heart of a lion to know that and still get into the ring and fight. Joe thinks that a lot of the internet audience is critical with no real courage and expertise behind it; they would not do anything like that. Joe knows that because back in the day, he did not feel the courage to risk his reputation publicly:
When I had beef with 50 Cent, people were, like, fake offering me 10 million dollars, 5 million, “Go fight Fifty one-on-one!”. I’m not scared of Fifty. I’d fight him for free at that time! But get knocked out, maybe, on TV… It is tough.
Fat Joe and Fifty squashed that beef a long time ago, but the echo of it still resonates through the culture. Just the other day Ice-T recalled how aggressive and disparaging Fifty was in the heat of it:
I heard 50 Cent when he was beefing with Fat Joe, and he was like, “I am right down the street. It is really hard to find a nigga when you know he got a gun, ain’t it?” I was like, “Okay!”.
Watch Fat Joe talking about the fight with Fifty that has never happened:
