50 Cent and Fats Joe’s feud within the mid 2000s spilled over into an NBA locker room, it has been revealed.
Stephon Marbury and Tim Thomas had been New York Knicks teammates for the 2004 and 2005 seasons. Though they had been pleasant rising up and coming into the league, Thomas siding with G-Unit and Starbury being cool with Joey Crack triggered a rift of their relationship.
Thomas mirrored on how 50 and Joe’s beef fractured his friendship with Marbury throughout a latest look on the WKND WRK podcast.
“Me and Steph grew up collectively, we went to 5 Star Basketball camp. I knew his brothers, his mother, his pops. We really performed for Fats Joe with Terror Squad on the Rucker,” the Villanova product defined. “It was actually no points between us in any respect till 50 and Fats Joe received into it.
“That’s when me and Steph kinda separated. We was really teammates at this explicit time. It was quite a lot of various things that transpired between these three years of them beefing. I bear in mind Fats Joe being courtside and Steph displaying him love. And I’m them like, ‘Rattling, I can’t go over there and say what’s as much as him?’”
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After showing in 95 video games for the Knicks, Thomas then moved to the Chicago Bulls in 2005 earlier than occurring to play for the Phoenix Suns, Los Angeles Clippers and Dallas Mavericks.
Nevertheless, he would return to the Knicks within the 2008-2009 season when the franchise’s relationship with Marbury soured, leading to him being shipped out to Boston.
Fats Joe and 50 Cent’s feud, in the meantime, reached a boiling level within the mid 2000s and their respective crews practically got here to blows backstage on the 2005 MTV Video Music Awards.
All is properly between the New York rap legends nowadays, with the meat being lengthy squashed. Joey Crack even made an look as a particular visitor on 50’s Last Lap Tour over the summer time.
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The G-Unit mogul mirrored on his feud with Joe in an interview with Rolling Stone earlier this yr, the place he expressed remorse for dragging the Terror Squad chief into his beef with Ja Rule.
“I used to be utilizing the identical pondering within the very starting of my profession as a result of it’s simply the pondering you’d use within the atmosphere. If anyone went subsequent to Ja Rule, I’d soar on the one who featured with them, anyone who was faintly close to them, ’trigger I put him on life help and also you wanna go resuscitate him … in order that vitality, later you take a look at it and also you go, ‘I used to be buggin,’” he mentioned.
“Fats Joe, his points, I might see him somewhat uncomfortable with the success I used to be having, and I interpreted as, ‘He doesn’t like me,’ when he’s actually the form of man you wish to be buddies with as a result of he’s loyal to a default,” he added. “He’s so loyal for one report that [Murder Inc.] did with him that we turned enemies.”
