50 Cent Reacts to the Death of Longtime Rival Irv Gotti: See His Post

Mar. 15, 2025

50 Cent (left); Irv Gotti.Photo:Arturo Holmes/ABC via Getty; Prince Williams/ Getty

Arturo Holmes/ABC via Getty; Prince Williams/ Getty

50 Centwasted no time speaking his mind in the wake of record producerIrv Gotti’s death.

The rapper, 49, took toInstagramon the evening of Wednesday, Feb. 5, to share an image of himself in a grey G-Unit sweatsuit smoking what appears to be a hookah while posed next to a mock headstone that reads “RIP.”

In the same post, 50 Cent shared an image of Gotti smiling while attending an event. To caption the post, 50 Cent wrote, “I’m smoking on dat Gotti pack, nah God bless him 🕊️ LOL.”

50 Cent in August 2023.Jamie McCarthy/Getty Images

Jamie McCarthy/Getty Images

News of Gotti’s death was revealed on Feb. 5. The producer, who was 54 at the time of his passing, had a series of strokes in recent years and was a diabetic, a source told PEOPLE.

In August,TMZreported Gotti had a stroke, citing hip-hop record executive and manager Wack 100, who noted that he had spoken with someone at a stroke recovery facility about the incident. “Irv has been struggling with diabetes for years, which caused him to have a minor stroke over six months ago,” he told the publication at the time.

Throughout his career, Gotti worked with artists such asDMX,Jay-Z,Ja Rule,Mariah Carey,Mary J. Blige,Toni BraxtonandJennifer Lopez, among others.

Irv Gotti on June 26, 2022 in Los Angeles.Prince Williams/ Getty

Prince Williams/ Getty

Just one year later, 50 Cent and Ja Rule got into an altercation at the Hit Factory Studio in New York, which resulted in Murder Inc. rapper Black Child stabbing 50 Cent, per the outlet. Black Child claimed he did so in self-defense.

Irv Gotti in June 2022.Leon Bennett/Getty

Leon Bennett/Getty

PerCBS, a 2005 federal investigation suspected that the instance of 50 Cent being shot nine times in Queens came as a result of Kenneth “Supreme” McGriff and members of Murder Inc. conspiring to kill thePowerproducer in retaliation to the diss music he made about them. They did not face charges in connection with the shooting.

Hostility remained between the pair in the years that followed, bubbling up on instances such as in 2017, when 50 Cent threatened to slap Gotti in response to the latter’s interview onThe Breakfast Club.

PerHipHopDX, the two butted heads again in 2021 when Gotti claimed to Chicago radio station 107.5 WGCI that DMX died of a fentanyl overdose, which led 50 Cent to say in a subsequent, since-deleted post, “This guy is a idiot,” adding, “Did he just say DMX died from smoking crack and fentanyl! why would he say that?”

source: people.com