New year, same old 50 Cent.
On Wednesday, Jan. 1, the multi-hyphenate returned to Instagram with another dose of pop-culture commentary. This time, Fif turned his direction toward Kanye West’s newly resurfaced deposition video in which he dons a face mask and goes ballistic on an attorney. The footage began making the rounds in December when it appeared in a sneak peek for A&E’s new series Interrogation Raw: Celebrity Under Oath.
The video stemmed from a 2020 lawsuit filed by MyChannel Inc., an e-commerce/video company that accused Kanye and his Yeezy brand of stealing its technology. The deposition was conducted via Zoom and included some absurd and quite heated moments between Kanye and a lawyer.
Like countless others, 50 was amused by the footage and reshared a clip that showed Ye donning a face mask while screaming at attorney Michael Popok.
“I be liking some of the shit Yeezy be doing, but I’m not doing it,” 50 wrote in the caption. “I don’t understand why he do it. LOL.”
The clip began with Kanye asking his legal team if the complaint could result in any jail time, which prompted Popok to interject.
“Only answer my question,” the lawyer said.
“No I’m asking,” Ye immediately fired back. “Ekwan, can I go to jail off of anything related to this lawsuit?”
Popok reiterated that Kanye wasn’t “there to ask questions,” which caused the Donda artist to go off.
“What do you mean I can’t ask my lawyer a question?!? You crazy?” Kanye said. “You don’t know who you talking to. I’m not some slave of yours, boy. What do you mean I can’t ask my lawyer no question? That’s the dumbest sh*t.”
Elsewhere in the interview, Kanye pushed back on the lawyer’s request to get off his phone and took issue with certain questions. At one point during the sitdown, Kanye was asked to name all the items that were in his room.
“Are you stupid?” he said. “I don’t have time to be talking about, yeah, I got a chair in the room. You are talking to the richest Black person in the history of America.”
The $20 million legal battle concluded in 2021 after Kanye and MyChannel agreed to a dismissal.
