Marlon Wayans says he’s open to working with 50 Cent despite their recent feud.
On Sunday’s episode of the We in Miami Podcast, Wayans, 53, described himself as a “workaholic,” saying that work allows him to avoid “doing stupid stuff.”
“You ain't never gonna read, ‘Marlon did dumb shit,’ aside beefing with 50 Cent,” the Scary Movie filmmaker and actor quipped near the 28-minute, 57-second mark in the video linked above.
“It was very quick for me,” Wayans said of the short-lived spat with the rapper, which boiled over after he made comments about “karma” last month in response to Fifty’s involvement in the Netflix docuseries Sean Combs: The Reckoning.
Wayans continued, “I was having a cigar and I was thinking about it. I was just like, ‘What example do I want? Is this an example of two black men with two businesses, fighting in public?’ It's not good for my culture. That's not the culture I wanna be an example of. I wanna build businesses. I [don’t] wanna burn them down.”
Wayans also said that he would “gratefully [and] gracefully lose a battle in order to win the overall world,” saying that Black people and other minorities already deal with enough.
At the same time, he also said there was “never beef like that,” and characterized their spat as “just two n****s on the block.”
“The bigger picture is, we're two successful businessmen,” he said. “Bro, why are we beefing? ... The whole way I got into it was because I was trying to stop two black men from going at it, right? You get caught up in the fight."
Wayans was then asked if he would be open to collaborating with Fifty if the "P.I.M.P." artist reached out.
“I’m already thinking about putting him in my next movie,” Wayans said. “I got some action stuff I'm doing. I think he could be an incredible star. It'd be a great combination. I think it'd be fun to see us together.
“A buddy action comedy with me and this n***a,” he continued. “That's how you tee it up, use it as a springboard to capitalize on something, man, and that's what people wanna see.”
Wayans and Fifty’s feud involved AI-generated images and petty back-and-forth insults. In a separate interview with KTLA, Wayans said he was inspired to squash the beef after getting some advice from his family group chat.