50 Cent mocks Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs asking Trump for pardon

Sean “Diddy” Combs may soon be heading to prison, but 50 Cent still isn’t ready to quash their beef.

The rapper and businessman has been taking jabs at Combs — whom he’s been feuding with since the mid-2000s — since Combs was convicted on two counts of transportation to engage in prostitution in July. Now that the “I’ll Be Missing You” rapper been sentenced to four years in prison, 50 is showing nothing but contempt for Combs’ calls for mercy.

Reacting to President Donald Trump himself confirming that Combs has submitted a plea for a pardonthe “In da Club” rapper snarked in a Monday Instagram post“Man you can’t get No pardon running ya mouth like that! LOL Get Out of here 😆.”

During a Monday press briefing, Trump was asked whether he’d consider a pardon to Ghislaine Maxwell, the close associate of deceased sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, when instead he brought Combs up himself.

“I have a lot of people asking for pardons,” he began. “I call him Puff Daddy, he’s asked me for a pardon.”

Though the president withheld from further comment on Combs’ particular case, he did address a potential pardon for the man he admitted “used to really like me a lot” back in May. “Well, nobody’s asked, but I know people are thinking about,” he told reporters. “I know some people are close to asking. First of all, I’d look at what’s happening. And I haven’t been watching it too closely, although it’s certainly getting a lot of coverage.”

After noting Combs’ apparent fondness for him, Trump added, “I think when I ran for politics, that relationship busted up, from what I read. I don’t know. He didn’t tell me that (personally), but…” The president then clarified that he “would certainly look at the facts if I think somebody was mistreated, whether they like me or don’t like me, it wouldn’t have any impact on me.”

Combs’ legal trouble kicked off in 2023, when his former partner, the musician Cassie Ventura, accused him of rape and physical abuse in a damning lawsuit. Though Combs and Ventura settled the suit later that year, further allegations from new accusers began to pour in, leading to Combs’ arrest after a grand jury indictment in 2024.

Combs was ultimately convicted on the prostitution-related offenses, but acquitted of the more serious charges of racketeering and sex trafficking.

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50 Cent’s issue with Combs extends much further back than the disgraced mogul’s recent legal troubles. Though the two appeared friendly in public throughout 50’s rise to fame in the early 2000s, he soured the waters at least as early as 2006, when in the diss track “Hip Hop” he implicated Combs in the cover up of the 1997 murder of Biggie Smalls.

The pair have traded barbs ever since, with 50 as recently as July describing Combs as “the Gay John Gotti.”