14 DAY TRIAL // The feud between rapper 50 Cent and boxer Floyd Mayweather Jr. just got real. Just hours after Fiddy posted a video on Instagram challenging him to read an entire page from any Harry Potter book of his choosing, the boxer upped the ante in a tweet.
He deleted it shortly afterwards, which probably means that he won’t follow up on his promise, but even so, it was the right amount of shade contained in 140 characters or less, absolute perfection.
It read: “@50Cent I see your $750K [€566,358] & raise you a mill [€755,144] if you can post a vid of ur son saying he loves you.”
The two have been feuding and dissing each other in public since 2012, when 50 Cent accused the boxer of stiffing him for $2 million (€1.51 million). With the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge making the rounds online right now and countless celebrities agreeing to douse each other in ice water to raise awareness and money for the ALS Association in the hope of finding a cure for the disease, 50 Cent thought he’d use it to have a go at his rival.
So, as you can see in the two Instagram videos below, he refused to get himself wet and said that, instead, he would donate $750,000 (€566,358) to a charity of Mayweather’s choice if he provided video of himself reading an entire page of any Harry Potter book.
Later, after some consideration, he posted another video saying that the offer still stood if Mayweather read only “Cat in the Hat,” as long as he did it on Jimmy Kimmel’s show.
From Mayweather’s tweet, he wasn’t going to read anything in public, but was willing to pay even more than 50 Cent to prove that not even his son had any love for him.
Considering that there’s actual evidence that shows that the boxer can’t read all that well, it makes sense for him to want to avoid such a public embarrassment. Shortly after word of this challenge got out in the press, Charlamagne Tha God played a recording on Power 105′s The Breakfast Club with Mayweather struggling with the words of a “drop” for Power 105.
Basically, it took him several minutes to get through a 10-second radio drop from beginning to end without stumbling so, when 50 Cent challenged him to read Harry Potter, he knew he was onto something big.
Embedded below is the audio that proves Floyd Mayweather and reading aren’t exactly on the best of terms.
As of now, neither the boxer nor the rapper has ponied up the money to charity. All this dissing would better serve a cause, otherwise it’s just two grown up men being mean to each other.
