50 Cent called out Hot 97’s Ebro Darden today (February 26) on Instagram. The G-Unit rapper said that the radio personality wrongfully blames him for the demise of New York rap.
“This Guy said I destroyed New York HipHop because I didn’t work with New York artist,” 50 Cent writes for the caption of a picture of Ebro, “to cover up he was the program director that wouldn’t play there records. sMH #EFFENVODKA.”
Ebro responded on his morning show for the New York station and cited 50 Cent’s feud with Ja Rule as reason the diminishing of the New York rap scene.
“When 50 and Ja didn’t want to work together and people was affiliated on this side and people was on that side, it made other people from other places not also want to do music with those artists,” Ebro said, according to Hip Hollywood, “because they didn’t want no problems.”
The Shade Room also caught clips of Ebro’s response.
“He wanted to throw up a conversation on his Instagram about how I said his beef with Ja and that whole thing divided New York in a way that crippled New York forever,” he says. “50 and I have had this discussion face-to-face. He don’t like it, but then he wants to say I’m covering for the fact that I don’t support New York artists. Well, I’m here for the flames.”
50 Cent made another post after the show and reiterates that the blame should be on Ebro and those in control of radio. He then questions the importance and relevance of radio in the music industry.
“I saw your response,” 50 Cent writes, “truth is you wouldn’t know a hit,if it hit your ass in the head. Radio is all messed up, New artist have to break on line. I know you can’t see it but you don’t mean shit anymore. Buy the time you support records there already working fool. Name one new Artist or song out of New York you broke. Lol you should be ashamed of your self. #EFFENVODKA”
New York radio stations have been questioned from artists such as Papoose for why they don’t support local artists.
Funkmaster Flex, who also works at Hot97, was called out by Future after he suggested that those working in radio should support local artists before playing outside talent.
View 50 Cent’s Instagram posts blasting Ebro and Ebro’s responses below:
For additional 50 Cent coverage, watch the following DX Daily:
50 cent is the best rapper ever!!
Be sure to swallow when he cum in your mouth
NY rappers are the worst the westcost has the best rappers we have Kendrick Lamar school boy Q jay rock the Game snoop dogg ice cube nipsey hussle YG E-40 Too Short the south also sucks & the mid west sucks too all hail the westcost we do Gangsta shit nigga!!!
50 cent made the Game. lmao and snoop dogg? whens the last time snoop dogg put out a decent record. And E-40 is a goddamn clown. stop it
oh yeah all those are better than Grap, DMX,slick rick, nas, jayz, Lloyd banks, fab, TUPAC, all of wutang including ghost, methodman, rza, Big L, big pun, rakim, biggy, pulla, Jada, Styles, Sheek.
E-40, a clown??? I ain’t even looking to argue with the troll, like you did, but E-40 is noooo clown….
NY niggas need to stop claiming Tupac. He would’ve a weird Fredro Starr ass nigga if he never left and got that WC swag.
instead of beefing with legends he should of just stood out there way. while everybody was uniting he was tearing apart the east coast. that’s that crab in a bucket mentality. plus he never evolved, he still making the same music like he was making 16 years ago.
Is it me? Or is Ebro envolved in way too much music beef lately?? You’re a morning radio host man, act like it. But then 50 is petty Murphy so whatever.
why are they both trading shots when they BOTH are the demise of hiphop.. 50 refused to work with an dbeefed with every NY artist during his reign and ebro is a known trend dickrider only playing what he thin ppl want on the radio..they both need to look at eachother
NEW YORK BEEN SOFT SINCE SNOOP CRUSHED DA BUILDINGS!!!!
Fuck NY hiphop the south run hiphop we are the best we have the migoes future rich home Quan rick Ross big k.r.I.t out kast UGK scar face young the juicy j yo gotti
You need to leave that meth alone if you believe that bullshit you just said.
Migos, future, quan…really man? I’m all for southern stuff but that lot are straight garbage.
Black People sold out Hip Hop long time ago. You can blame whitey all you want but when you black imbeciles go out here and support people like Yung Thug, Future and Chief Keef of course you are going to lose. Go ahead and buy Silento’s new cd, you are only supporting the destruction of Hip Hop and the Conscious.
Word!!
Nobody would work with 50 til Em&Dre did so I understand his perspective,but NY radio should be breaking new artist and new songs to say the least…it’s the Mecca of Hip Hop right?? NY radio used to be different from other “hip hop and r&b” radio stations(more hip hop edge/pride)now it’s the same as many around the nation
50 cent hasn’t released anything good in years…career is over
Guy’s always been a fuckin loser
niggas act like jay-z wasnt beefing with cam’ron, nas and prodigy.
jay z went at nas but cam, prodigy and basically half of new york was goin’ at jay because he was on top, so he had to defend himself. and jay’s battles didn’t split the city in half and force the industry to chose sides
radio has more power than any artist. so radio or the personnel that have the power to debut artists or up and coming artists are reliant on the radio medium for exposure. especially if the songs gets played six times a day. it is always been like that for the music pop culture. the radio stations have become what is known to be trashy music put other there, because they would never want to play underground music which is the real backbone to hip hop music. thats the blame. to blame it on the 50 and ja rule beef is a weak cop out. new york radio stations used to be so live until these clowns got in control. sorry ebro…you’re wrong.
radio is not as powerful as it used to be, that’s why these clowns gotta do blogs, podcasts and whatever else just to stay working. artists use the internet to get hot. it ain’t no hip-hop no more. it’s just dick ride whatever’s hot
sad thing is, they’re both right
ebro likes to get on his high horse and talk like he’s on of the gatekeepers of the culture but he’s not. he’s not sway, he’s not kay slay or any of them. he got but one job: play the fucking music!
50 Cent needs to be deported
Ebro shouldn’t even be mentioned in NYC hip hop he prolly the worst radio ‘personality’ I ever heard nothing likeable bout him not funny not very smart has no witty comebacks or interesting questions and can tell he trying too hard to act like he is actually ‘hard’. Him flex and cee made that station the worst they need a real overhaul of hosts somone funny would be a start that nigga Taxstone would be dope i don’t mind Rosenberg he good at the interviews
Not a big 50 fan but he’s right honestly
Let’s keep it real. If 50’s music was still rockin’ on NY radio, he wouldn’t given a crap about the rest of NY either.
This is the same dude who made it a point to stand out from the other NY artists who were at the forefront of NY at the time and tried to make music aiming outside of NY because he knew being a strictly NY rapper wasn’t enough to get where he wanted to be. He also threw shots at every NY rapper who was relevant and clowned them because of their sales figures. Now, all of a sudden he cares about the state of NY hip hop?
I’m not buying it and neither should anyone else.
Ebro mentioned 50 first, 50 just spoke the truth. He never said he cared.
I don’t know why they think radio matters when the internet exists. 50 Cent acting like a Ebro’s holding back his horse and carriage to let the car through.
We all know radio just plays whats popular
ed boro really trying to sound like a thug
Ebro is a typical old man playin in the young man’s game.. if he’s not feelin a song he wont play it.. but what if other people are feeling the song? it’s his job to present music to the masses.. all music.. not just the few songs he personally likes..
50 cent looks like a fuckin gorilla. And Ebro is always wearing a hat, i bet he is rockin that dr.Phil hairline.
Ebro is a joke…last time I heard Hot97 they played 7 down south songs in a row..all those rappers in new York and hot97 doesn’t play any of them, if it wasn’t for Rosenberg joey badass and troy ave probably wouldn’t have gotten any shine..i agree with 50 but krs one been saying this for over 13 years..
Ebro is a cornball and his word shouldn’t mean anything to anybody.
I was abandoned in a garbage truck as a baby . But look at me now i’m a success . If I can do it anyone can
reminds me of the garbage pail kids
Haha you can blame 50 for failure of new york hiphop. New York didnt innovate their sound n the south took over now were stuck with that wack trap sound
*you cant blame 50