50 Cent and DJ Khaled Hug It Out at Florida Golf Event Following Decades-Long Feud: 'Nothing but Love and Respect'

Mar. 15, 2025

Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson in February 2020; DJ Khaled in May 2024.Photo:Manny Carabel/WireImage; Rodrigo Varela/Getty

Manny Carabel/WireImage; Rodrigo Varela/Getty

After feuding for decades, are Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson andDJ Khalednow friends?The two hip-hop icons, both 49, attended Reggie Jackson’s Mr. October Foundation Celebrity Golf Classic in Port St. Lucie, Florida this week and embraced one another in a videoshared to Instagram, signaling the end of their long-held beef.The “In da Club” rapper’s Sire Spirits brand was a sponsor for the event, and he shared a video montage to social media on Jan. 15, which featured him meeting various attendees — including Khaled.Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson in December 2024.Ethan Miller/GettyIn the clip, they grabbed each other’s hands before hugging it out with smiles on their faces. “Nothing but love and respect,” said Khaled during the sweet moment.Fans took notice, with one writing in a comment, “Wow 50 x DJ Khaled never thought I’d see the day.““A psychic could’ve never predicted this,” wrote another one of 50 Cent’s followers.Their beef was seemingly sparked around 2005, when the rap group G-Unit (featuring 50 Cent, Tony Yayo and Lloyd Banks) was on bad terms withFat Joe.Fat Joe in November 2024.Johnny Nunez/WireImageIn a 2023 appearance on theDrink Champspodcast, 46-year-old Yayo recalled Khaled — a longtime Miami DJ — ordering him to “get the f— outta here” during a promotional trip to South Florida in support of his “So Seductive” single.“I didn’t know nothing about the music business,” he said at the time. “We beefing with [Fat Joe]. You f— with Fat Joe, Khaled ain’t f—ing with you. I got my record I’m trying to promote, so they like, ‘Yo, you gotta got to Miami … You gotta go to DJ Khaled.'”Yayo explained he initially asked his crew to keep him away from Khaled but later ended up meeting the “All I Do Is Win” musician, who pretended to shake his hand."[I] go to Khaled to shake his hand — ‘DJ Khaled, get the f— outta here! I respect Khaled for that ’cause [Fat Joe] is his man … But I did go ’cause this is radio. I don’t understand this s—, I’m getting out of jail … So I’m like, ‘Yo, f— you Khaled!’ I swear to God. You can ask him,” he detailed.DJ Khaled in December 2024.Alekandra London/GettyKhaled then appeared onClub Shay Shaylater in 2023 and confirmed details of the story: “I’ve always been somebody that showed love, but when they told me [Yayo] was coming up I was like, ‘Wow.'”He recalled, “You know, him and my man don’t get along. [Fat Joe] is my brother, for real. I was just saying to myself, ‘This is gonna be hard for me’ because if I would have completely embraced him, I probably wouldn’t have been able to sleep at night. And if I did, I would have called [Fat Joe] immediately like, ‘This is what happened.’ That’s how much I care.“At the time, however, Khaled said his relationship with 50 Cent was “all love now.”

After feuding for decades, are Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson andDJ Khalednow friends?

The two hip-hop icons, both 49, attended Reggie Jackson’s Mr. October Foundation Celebrity Golf Classic in Port St. Lucie, Florida this week and embraced one another in a videoshared to Instagram, signaling the end of their long-held beef.

The “In da Club” rapper’s Sire Spirits brand was a sponsor for the event, and he shared a video montage to social media on Jan. 15, which featured him meeting various attendees — including Khaled.

Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson in December 2024.Ethan Miller/Getty

Ethan Miller/Getty

In the clip, they grabbed each other’s hands before hugging it out with smiles on their faces. “Nothing but love and respect,” said Khaled during the sweet moment.

Fans took notice, with one writing in a comment, “Wow 50 x DJ Khaled never thought I’d see the day.”

“A psychic could’ve never predicted this,” wrote another one of 50 Cent’s followers.

Their beef was seemingly sparked around 2005, when the rap group G-Unit (featuring 50 Cent, Tony Yayo and Lloyd Banks) was on bad terms withFat Joe.

Fat Joe in November 2024.Johnny Nunez/WireImage

Johnny Nunez/WireImage

In a 2023 appearance on theDrink Champspodcast, 46-year-old Yayo recalled Khaled — a longtime Miami DJ — ordering him to “get the f— outta here” during a promotional trip to South Florida in support of his “So Seductive” single.

“I didn’t know nothing about the music business,” he said at the time. “We beefing with [Fat Joe]. You f— with Fat Joe, Khaled ain’t f—ing with you. I got my record I’m trying to promote, so they like, ‘Yo, you gotta got to Miami … You gotta go to DJ Khaled.'”

Yayo explained he initially asked his crew to keep him away from Khaled but later ended up meeting the “All I Do Is Win” musician, who pretended to shake his hand.

“[I] go to Khaled to shake his hand — ‘DJ Khaled, get the f— outta here! I respect Khaled for that ’cause [Fat Joe] is his man … But I did go ’cause this is radio. I don’t understand this s—, I’m getting out of jail … So I’m like, ‘Yo, f— you Khaled!’ I swear to God. You can ask him,” he detailed.

DJ Khaled in December 2024.Alekandra London/Getty

Alekandra London/Getty

Khaled then appeared onClub Shay Shaylater in 2023 and confirmed details of the story: “I’ve always been somebody that showed love, but when they told me [Yayo] was coming up I was like, ‘Wow.'”

He recalled, “You know, him and my man don’t get along. [Fat Joe] is my brother, for real. I was just saying to myself, ‘This is gonna be hard for me’ because if I would have completely embraced him, I probably wouldn’t have been able to sleep at night. And if I did, I would have called [Fat Joe] immediately like, ‘This is what happened.’ That’s how much I care.”

At the time, however, Khaled said his relationship with 50 Cent was “all love now.”

source: people.com