The rapper recently spoke on beef with southern hip-hop artist Rick Ross, saying that he never called him up and called it truce, giving more speculation that bad blood is still there.

He goes to say: “I never had a conversation with him [Rick Ross]. My focus shifted during that record. A lot of times, earlier in my career, I was competing with artists because that was what I loved about hip-hop: The idea that battling someone was necessary to defend your spot and you had to take on all challengers, so I did that constantly. No one thinks that way now and everyone looks at me like I’m the Broad Street Bully. The younger kids coming up missed that time frame, and even the conscious rap is gone too.”

Touching on another subject, Fiddy talks on the changes of hip-hop, how things have shifted seeing trendy rappers nowadays: “The stuff that Common Sense and Talib Kweli and Mos Def were rhyming about. What was socially conscious and responsible about the music has been replaced by hipster kids in skinny jeans and mohawks. Of course, that’s always been around, but it was usually confined to the Village.

“Artists have always had the opportunity to influence the culture, but now it’s the other way around: They’re trying to look like their audience to attract their audience. Now you can’t tell the difference between a Led Zeppelin fan and a hip-hop fan.”

Awesome to see he mentions three exact legends I got into hip-hop from, though I can only partly agree with that comment. Fiddy was apart of the ‘gangster’ hip-hop trend, where all of a sudden you’d literally see so many people wearing baggy sweats and massive (possibly) fake chains and talking same subjects. Talib Kweli was not that movement, neither Mos Def or Common I don’t think, I’ve always seen them as legendary storytellers, they make rhymes which involves the typical subjects, but they were raw and true to the words they wanted to send out. So really, hip-hop shifts in all kind of places, its just another trend that 50 Cent goes on about (but I feel maybe coyly avoiding what he became apart of). I myself am not really into the skinny jeans look, I would personally wear what I wear, keep myself original, that’s how we all should role…

Anyways, leave us your thoughts, wise words?