50 Cent reacts immediately to Diddy verdict after long-standing feud

After a long wait for a result in the Diddy trial, rap rival 50 Cent wasted no time jumping on social media to give his thoughts.

50 Cent was quick to react to the Sean “Diddy” Combs verdict Wednesday – seemingly hailing the disgraced rapper for beating the feds before quickly dubbing him “the Gay John Gotti.”

“Diddy beat the Feds that boy a bad man!” the rapper said in an Instagram post alongside a photo of himself grinning and applauding emojis.

50 Cent, who has a longstanding feud with the disgraced music mogul, then compared him to the infamous Mafia boss who was nicknamed “The Teflon Don” after prosecutors couldn’t get charges to stick, The NY Post reports.

“Beat the Rico, he the Gay John Gotti,” the rapper added.

US rapper Curtis James Jackson III aka “50 Cent”. Picture: AP.

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The “In Da Club” hip-hop artist was name-dropped during the trial back in May during shocking testimony that touched on the longstanding feud between the hip-hop legends.

Diddy’s ex-assistant, Capricorn Clark, had told jurors her boss once implied he might pull a gun on Fitty.

“I don’t like all the back and forth … I like guns,” Clark recalled Combs telling his manager after seeing 50 Cent at an MTV event.

50 Cent – who famously took nine bullets during a 2000 shooting in Queens – reacted to the name-drop with mocking faux fear.

“Wait a minute PUFFY’s got a gun, I can’t believe this I don’t feel safe,” the New York City native posted on Instagram after the testimony. “LOL.”

The beef between the pair began nearly 20 years ago after 50 Cent, whose real name Curtis James Jackson III, released a diss track — “The Bomb” — in 2006 that accused Combs of knowing who killed The Notorious B.I.G.

He spent much of the Combs’ sex-trafficking trial roasting him over the torrent of graphic evidence and accusations levelled against him.

The Bad Boy Records founder was ultimately found guilty of two counts of transportation to engage in prostitution. He was acquitted on two sex-trafficking charges and one racketeering charge.

The acquittals on the sex trafficking counts mean he will avoid a 15-year mandatory minimum sentence. He could have faced life in prison if he were convicted on sex trafficking or racketeering conspiracy. Combs now faces a maximum 10-year prison sentence on each of the two prostitution counts.

This article originally appeared in The NY Post and was reproduced with permission.

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