Well-known Diddy critic 50 Cent — whose upcoming docuseries about the embattled mogul was purchased by Netflix in May — is now weighing in with his thoughts on the lawsuit accusing Jay-Z of raping a child alongside Diddy in 2000.
A lawsuit initially brought against Sean “Diddy” Combs in October accused the imprisoned rapper and another high-profile person of raping a 13-year-old girl at an MTV VMAs after-party in September 2000. The suit was refiled on Sunday to identify Jay-Z as that previously unnamed celebrity.
In the wake of the refiling, the “Empire State of Mind” rapper issued a statement denying the “heinous” allegations, calling them a “blackmail attempt.”
But despite the denial — and whether or not the accusations are true — 50 Cent says “the damage is already done.”
“We live in a climate that it’s not even what you did. It’s what they say you did,” he told radio host Big Boy on Monday. “The damage is already done by the allegation itself.”
50 added that he hopes “things are alright for him … at the crib,” as Jay-Z expressed concern for his family, particularly daughter Blue Ivy, who’s “at the age where her friends will surely see the press and ask questions about the nature of these claims.”
50 also questioned the lawsuit’s potential impact on February’s Super Bowl Halftime Show, which is co-produced by Jay-Z’s entertainment company Roc Nation.
“OK I don’t know what’s going on, but are we gonna still have the Super Bowl? I’m just asking for a friend,” the rapper tweeted earlier on Monday.
He later told Big Boy he’d been “asking for Kendrick [Lamar],” who was announced in September as the headliner of the halftime time.
