50 Cent Fires Back At Joe Budden Over ‘Therapy’ Jab: ‘Stop Walking Around Naked’

50 Cent is clapping back at Joe Budden over comments Budden made about him on his podcast.

Earlier this week, Budden mentioned 50 on his eponymous show as he noted that both the G-Unit mogul and Kanye West “need therapy.”

“Hip Hop is the new meaning for ‘I need therapy,’” he said. “Kanye West needs therapy. 50 Cent needs therapy. I don’t care if you agree with the rationale. And 50 is 50. He gon’ stand in it. He gon’ stand strong in it.”

50’s reaction to Irv Gotti’s passing was what really jumped out at Joe, as he had uploaded a picture of himself smoking a hookah pipe while next to a mock gravestone.

“If 50 feels like that, then go smoke a cigar in the cigar room,” Budden added. “I’m not telling him how to feel. Yeah, feel like that! [But how he went about it] is wrong.”

Taking a screenshot of the podcast’s YouTube video, 50 then reacted with a post to Instagram and mocked Budden’s recently-dropped stalking and lewdness case.

“Stay out my mix Joe talking about I need therapy. B_itch you need to stop walking around naked. The fvck is you doing in the hallway with ya balls out PUNK!” 50 wrote.

Joe Budden and 50 Cent have had dialogue in the media throughout the years, and in 2023, 50 saluted Joe for noting that he had an unprecedented ability to beat the odds.

Fif reshared an old clip from Complex‘s Everyday Struggle to his Instagram at the time, which found Budden analyzing how the Queens, New York rapper has continually overcome obstacles throughout his career — including surviving dangerous street beefs.

“50 Cent had the greatest run I’ve ever seen in my entire life — and that will probably remain the same, that answer will never change,” Budden said in the video. “I’m very aware of all the people that 50 Cent had beef with. He shouldn’t have beat any of it. They tried to kill 50 Cent for years. He should have died. He did not.”

He continued: “He then had to deal with real-life street beef with being blackballed. He shouldn’t have beat that. He shouldn’t have beat both of those things. He was on the greatest mixtape run that I had ever witnessed, then he signs with Em, Dre.

“He put out ‘In Da Club.’ It never went off. Never saw nothing like that. He delivered, album, classic, a million [sales]. I have never seen a n-gga do what 50 was able to do and accomplish and what he had to endure on his way. You’re not gonna beat it.”

In his Instagram post, 50 Cent replied: “I just saw this @joebudden. The [ill] shit is it’s true. I had beef with 3 different guys that had influence, real gangstas they all had crews that caught body’s running around putting in pain. I don’t know, I would just get mad, then say fvck them. LOL we all gonna die one day!”