Weekend in Rap Beef – "Ye This Ya Manz, If I Catch Him I'm Pushing Down The Stairs", 50 Cent Threatens to Push Kanye's Friend/Artist Dave Blunts Down a Flight of Stairs

I'm a sucker for 50 Cent rap beef. No matter how stupid and petty and low-level it may be. He just seems to have so much fun doing it. Yesterday, 50 Cent set his sights on a man named Dave Blunts. A man who has a lovely voice. But you may primarily know him from being a man of incredible size. One of the biggest men you'll see in your life. 

Dave Blunts is also a noted Kanye West (the Nazi version) defender. He allegedly wrote every song on Kanye West's recent Nazi album. A sentence that's one word away from being a really awesome thing. I wonder how that all came about? I have to imagine Kanye is running low on music friends. There can't be too many renowned artists who were champing at the bit the get a verse on "Heil Hitler". So Kanye dipped his toes in the world of young, up and coming, viral creators with impossibly big followings. People who will apparently do anything for money & attention. Like write and take credit for songs such as , "Cosby", "Diddy Free", "Gas Chambers", "Hitler, Ye, and Jesus", things of that nature. You get the picture. 

Dave Blunts is a friend of Kanye (as of very recently). 50 Cent is a an enemy of Kanye (as of a very long time ago). 50 Cent and Kanye's beef goes back forever. All the way back to when Kanye was merely "storming the stage at the VMA's" and "George Bush doesn't care about black people" levels of crazy. The fun type of crazy. 

Before Kanye even dropped his third album in 2007, 50 Cent was talking shit about him to the media. He once said he would stop writing music forever if Kanye's upcoming album outsold his. That album was 'Graduation'. 50 Cent's album was 'Curtis' (see video below, timestamp 2:57)

HNHH – Once the dust settled, the final first-week tally was amassed. Kanye West’s Graduation proved the decisive victor with 957,000 units, while 50 turned in a respectable 691,000. According to Uproxx, it was the first time two artists pushed over 600,000 units in the same week since 1991.

For Fifty, the fallout proved bittersweet. As his lowest selling album thus far, Curtis seemed to represent a shifting of the old guard, the death knell of mainstream gangsta rap.

Tough beat for Curtis. As far as album sales go, and overall influence on the world of music, Kanye's career went on to dwarf 50 Cent's. It was a bloodbath. But over time, by doing basically nothing at all (aside from taking the occasional pot shot at whatever celebrity he's beefing with at the time)…

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…50 Cent has managed to even the score a bit. Say what you want about his career as a rapper, but the guy knows how to talk shit. He's a funny dude. And you know he must have been relishing in the fact that all these artists who's careers took off over him… who achieved a level of success he never quite got too… who always caught an invitation to Diddy's freak-offs… were finally seeing the other shoe drop.

Although in the end, Diddy is getting off nearly scot-free. Jay-Z's accuser dropped the charges she filed against him. Kanye is still facing some wild accusations, but if you think that's going to end up in anything more than Kanye cutting a check, I've got a bridge to sell you. Still… by doing nothing, and remaining steadfast in his "Hitler is bad" position, 50 Cent seems to have won out in the court of public opinion. At least over Kanye.

But thank god Kanye still has the great Dave Blunts in his corner. When 50 Cent bravely chastised Kanye for showing up in support of Diddy at his sex-trafficking-baby-oil-rape trial, Dave Blunts quickly promptly came to his defense with a 50 Cent diss track. 

Which brings us to yesterday. 

Not sure why it took 50 a whole month to come up with that one. Maybe he wanted to give Dave Blunts ample time to make it back from the studio so he'd be comfortable at home when he saw his response. But that's a pretty good one, 50 Cent. It made me internally chuckle to myself. But I really shouldn't laugh. Considering Dave Blunts current condition, I'm afraid 50 Cent pushing him down the stairs would technically be attempted murder. Maybe that's why he ended up deleting the post. But the idea of a Dave Blunts' sized individual rolling down the stairs plays in the sense that it would make for great Family Guy cutaway bit. And it's exactly the type of response we've come to respect from this modern day keyboard warrior version of 50 Cent. 

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Dave Blunts reply however… it wasn't bad…

It's a solid effort. He used the tools at his disposal to come up with a fairly creative response. He didn't just phone it in and go with a zero effort "You haven't been relevant since 2005", type of insult. But for Dave Blunts, it's always going to be tough to use "being so out of shape that your fans are afraid you're going to die" to your advantage. Dave Blunts is right. 50 Cent put his body through hell for a movie that nobody watched. But you could argue that's admirable. Yes it was dumb, unhealthy, and not at all worth it. But you can't say 50 Cent wasn't a consummate professional when it came to the making of 2011 sports drama, All Things Fall Apart. 

Even if it's a pointless, "Who gives a shit?" type of rap beef, 50 Cent talking shit on social media always gets a laugh out of me. He always seems to be having such a great time. He lives for this shit. At this point in his life, he just sits back and preys on downfalls. I like to imagine him settling in on his couch at night with an expensive scotch and a nice cigar. Then he scrolls through photos of his most current enemy and says to himself, "I'm going to call his wife a prostitute tonight." 

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You got their asses good, 50 Cent. Keep up the petty work. I'm always here for it.