Shaquille O’Neal has gotten into the studio to record a diss track against Shannon Sharpe, after the pair started beefing over an interview that the basketball great did with Denver Nuggets star Nikola Jokic.
According to The New York Post, Sharpe started feeling a type of way when Shaq told Jokic that the MVP award should have gone to Shai Gilgeous-Alexander instead of him. That prompted Sharpe to take aim at Shaq on his own podcast.
“Shaq is never brought up in [GOAT conversations],” Sharpe said on the Nightcap show. “And I think a part of him is envious of that.”
That prompted Shaq to take to X, formerly known as Twitter, on Friday (May 10) to compare himself to G-Unit head honcho 50 Cent while promising a diss track.
“the @50cent of the nba will make his last response when he wakes up from his nap. then i’m done with it. it is was it is ,ain’t no fun when the rabbit got the gun. #mixtapecomingsoon,” he wrote in the post.
Shortly thereafter, he dropped a diss track wherein he declares he is “the best in the world.”
The untitled track, which O’Neal shared via Instagram Friday, finds the NBA great and sometime rapper spitting over the beat to Ryan Garcia’s victory single “Haney Pack,” which he released following his matchup against Devin Haney for the WBC super-lightweight title.
In his caption, Shaq assured fans that this would be the last thing he has to say about his spat with Sharpe after tagging fellow sports bloggers and commentators including Chad Ochocinco, Stephen Jackson and Stephen A. Smith; as well as rappers Rick Ross, 50 Cent and Ghostface Killah.
“love yall , now i’m done with this,” the former Lakers star wrote. “i’ll b at the bahamas crib if anyone needs me. wooooo what a week, first i found out they ain’t love me and now this. but remember #noweqponformedagainstmeshallprosper #buffalosoldier #omegapsiphi . you can never break the UNBreakable. and to all the people that kno both of us don’t call me, it will never me a sit down.”
Check out Shaq’s diss track, which starts about one minute into the post below.
the @50cent of the nba will make his last response when he wakes up from his nap. then i’m done with it. it is was it is ,ain’t no fun when the rabbit got the gun. #mixtapecomingsoon
— SHAQ (@SHAQ) May 10, 2024
As for Fif himself, he recently made headlines when he filed a defamation suit against his son’s mother, Daphne Joy, for her recent allegations of rape and abuse.
The G-Unit head honcho filed the suit on Monday (May 6).
Documents show the G-Unit rapper blasting his ex for an Instagram post she made on March 28, suing her for defamation and a court order to take down the post and refrain from other defamatory comments.
The suit centers around an Instagram post the model uploaded in March where she accused 50 (real name Curtis Jackson) of sexually and physically assaulting her.
In his complaint, 50 claims Joy’s post was made in retaliation to her finding out that he was seeking sole custody of their son after she was accused of being one of Diddy’s “sex workers” in producer Lil Rod’s sexual assault lawsuit against the Bad By mogul.
50 says the allegations have severely damaged his business reputation and child custody case, while opening him up to negative comments online.
The rapper’s lawyers reportedly sent a letter to Daphne Joy in early April demanding the removal of the post, but she refused. The request was apparently met with lawyers telling 50 to pay Joy millions of dollars and drop his custody suit, which he called “clearly extortive.”
50’s legal team also released a statement dismissing allegations as “false” and “malicious” while claiming Joy has “misguided loyalty” to Diddy.
“Despite being given ample opportunity to retract a false and malicious retaliatory accusation, Ms. Narvaez has shamefully chosen to interfere with her 11-year-old son’s relationship with his loving father by falsely calling him a ‘rapist,’” the statement read.
“The motivation behind this appears to be Ms. Narvaez’s unfortunate entanglement and misguided loyalty to Mr. Combs, who we believe to be underwriting this attack and whom Mr. Jackson has been warning Ms. Narvaez and others about for many years.”
