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50 Cent is getting real about his very public feud with Oprah Winfrey. In a Tuesday appearance on Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen, the rapper explained that he disagrees with Winfrey and Gayle King’s stance on the #MeToo movement, as well as their involvement in documentaries exploring allegations against prominent figures like Russell Simmons and R. Kelly. “They’re choosing specific people for the #MeToo movement stuff,” said 50 Cent. “Those other guys are just easy victims.”
Last night, 50 Cent appeared via satellite on Watch What Happens Live to promote his new book, Hustle Harder, Hustle Smarter. The book is meant to shine a light on the man behind the public persona, but in one particularly heated moment, the rapper details a confrontation he had with CBS’ Gayle King, who accused him of “talkin’ shit” about Winfrey.
“You wrote in your book about how Gayle [King] once confronted you about a feud with Oprah,” said host Andy Cohen, reading a viewer question. “Where do you currently stand with the two of them now?”
50 Cent played nice at first, noting that he “like[s] both of them,” before really getting into it. As he has in the past, the rapper suggested that Winfrey and King are specifically targeting black men with #MeToo allegations and exposé documentaries, like Winfrey’s Apple TV+ documentary about the allegations against Russell Simmons (Winfrey later pulled out of the doc, citing “creative differences”).
“The president has those accusations. And no one has a documentary on the president,” 50 Cent told Cohen. “And then, as far as entertainment is concerned, I thought Weinstein was bigger than the other guys in entertainment that we see.”
Cohen wasn’t quite sure how to respond, but he shouldn’t have been too surprised by the mogul’s controversial remarks. In December 2019, 50 Cent posted an Instagram slamming Winfrey and King for “going after black men” like Michael Jackson, profiled in HBO’s Surviving Neverland, and R. Kelly, who is currently awaiting trial on sex crimes charges that arose after the release of Surviving R. Kelly. “This shit is sad,” he wrote. “These documentaries are publicly convicting their targets, [and] it makes them guilty till proven innocent.”
Watch 50 Cent discuss his feud with Oprah Winfrey and Gayle King in the clip above.
