50 Cent got a swift and playful response from Ebro Darden after taking to Instagram, his near-constantly updated platform of choice, to boast that he “put a word in to have your show taken off the air.”
Fif, presumably, was joking with his Wednesday (Dec. 17) IG remarks, though it’s difficult to tell anymore given the nature of literally everything happening in the world right now.
At any rate, a reminder for those not caught up: Ebro, alongside Peter Rosenberg and Laura Stylez, have indeed started a new show after the conclusion of their time together at Hot 97. Ebro, notably, has suggested that his admirably consistent practice of using his platform to present progressive arguments amid an increasingly MAGA-ified landscape was instrumental in the Powers That Be deciding to let him go.
In a clip from his new show with Stylez and Rosenberg, taken from an episode that debuted on Tuesday (Dec. 16) and later shared by 50 himself, Ebro spoke about the competing narratives arguing whether he or Fif “ruined” New York hip-hop.
“I told 50 he ruined New York hip-hop,” Ebro said in the clip. “He spun it back around on me talking about I ruined New York hip-hop and then all of his fans and fanatics ran with that. But first, it was 50 Cent who ruined New York hip-hop. Y’all know nobody wanted to work together. ... Everybody was hemming and hawing and soft-shoeing because nobody wanted to work together because 50 Cent was so popping. So that’s where that narrative comes from.”
When sharing the clip, 50 connected it to the Hot 97 exit, writing “That’s why I put a word in to have your show taken off the air, you can’t just go around saying nasty things about people.”
Ebro responded with a mention of “Ayo Technology,” a 2007 single from Fif’s Curtis album featuring Justin Timberlake and Timbaland.
“You wasn’t saying that when I supported ‘Ayo Technology,’” he wrote in a comment on the Sean Combs: The Reckoning executive producer’s post.
In the full episode from which the clip was taken, Ebro also brought Rosenberg into the discussion by asking for his assessment of “the documentation of the amount of opportunity given to New York rappers” during his time at Hot 97. Rosenberg responded by first pointing out that Ebro’s time at the station should actually be divided into “two different tenures” due to key differences between the roles of program director and on-air host. He then likened 50 to Trump, summarizing the larger discussion as “complete nonsense.”
As of this writing, The Ebro Laura Rosenberg Show, also known as simply ELR, has released two episodes to YouTube, with more on the way.