The wild feminine rapper who as soon as recorded a 50 Cent diss album

When 50 Cent first arose on the scene in New York, he brought on a substantial disturbance. From Roc-A-Fella to Ruff Ryders, the Queens emcee and his crew, G-Unit, started overshadowing particular people. Moreover, the lyricist (actual title Curtis Jackson) started antagonising his friends and used his energy to speak about them.

One in every of Jackson’s most well-known feuds when he first broke into the mainstream was with Ja Rule. The ‘Always On Time’ rhymer and co-founder of Homicide Inc. started as a misunderstanding between two dominant rappers bubbled over and have become a conflict of crews.

Led by 50 Cent and Ja Rule, respectively, G-Unit and Murder Inc. have been two collectives gunning for a similar crown and noticed lots of completely different members roped into the conflict, and considered one of Ja Rule’s feminine artists’ was considered one of them.

Within the early 2000s, Homicide Inc. had some feminine artists. Apart from the famend vocalist Ashanti, the label additionally boasted Charli Baltimore, an emcee. Nevertheless, throughout the label’s battle with G-Unit, Baltimore took it upon herself to report a complete album geared toward 50 Cent.

Throughout the BET docu-series The Homicide Inc. Story, Baltimore detailed the story behind the album, explaining, “Irv [Gotti] wanted us to just ignore the situation ’cause he felt like we were untouchable. I recorded a whole mixtape going at 50 that Irv kinda shut down.”

Charli, the emcee behind tracks akin to ‘Money’ and ‘Stand Up’ within the late Nineteen Nineties, signed with Irv Gotti’s Murder Inc. label in 2002. She unveiled that on the time, she disagreed with Irv’s reasoning of not eager to feed into “new artists shitting on us to give [50 Cent] more energy.”

Baltimore concluded, “I didn’t feel like that’s how we should handle it because, at that point, 50 was blowing up in the street. That was our social media back then.” Nevertheless, Irv Gotti prevented the discharge of the diss undertaking.