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50 Cent Laughs at Tyrese Who Apparently Didn’t Get Money From Will and Jada

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50 Cent’s feud with Tyrese isn’t cooling down. When the rapper heard that the singer didn’t actually get a loan from Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith, 50 gave his two cents.

“I’m waiting on my Will Smith wire, it ain’t came in yet,” Tyrese admitted on Instagram, Tuesday, Nov. 7.

While the singer indicated the funds were on the way, sources told TMZ the Smiths never gave Tyrese money to begin with. The singer announced on Instagram Sunday that the power couple gave him $5 million to pay the legal fees in his custody battle.

https://www.instagram.com/p/BbM21cjn6a_/

Instantly, the update went viral and 50 Cent eagerly engaged in schadenfreude.

“Wait so 😆this fool just made some s— up. LOL Will like, ‘I ain’t give him that,’ 50 wrote Wednesday, Nov. 8 before plugging his BET show.

https://www.instagram.com/p/BbPbo0tFMWl/?taken-by=50cent

50’s issues with Tyrese at least goes back to when Taraji P. Henson made fun of the promotional efforts for the rapper’s show, “Power.” Tyrese stepped up in defense of Henson, with whom he starred in 2001’s “Baby Boy.” Then, 50 said the “Fast 9” star should have minded his business and called Tyrese a “punk ass Coca-Cola kid.”

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50 isn’t the only one who had chided Tyrese, either. Comedian Michael Blackson extended an olive branch for mocking Tyrese’s tearful Instagram video. But Blackson took back his vote to welcome the actor back into the “dark skin committee” when he found out about the supposed $5 million lie.

“If the money’s there, we need 25 percent, you have to pay for your darkness,” he said in a Wednesday Instagram video. “If the money’s not there, why are you making s— up? You have set us back 300 years, Tyrese. I am a slave all over again because of you! Why are you broke, Tyrese? … Call me right now and let’s talk about this.”

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Tyrese hasn’t responded to either criticism and announced he was taking a family vacation to Abu Dhabi to “take a much-needed break from America and the blogs.”

https://www.instagram.com/p/BbPDxF_niZr/?taken-by=tyrese

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