Tia Kemp sat down with Cam Newton on Funky Friday and said 50 Cent has made a habit of going after Black women, and she is just the latest. “He thought he was coming at Mr. Big Boss, and he must forgot this one ain’t scared of nobody,” she said, before naming Tiny, Lil Kim, Teairra Mari, Vivica Fox and Claressa Shields. “That’s eight Black women right there and me. So who’s next?”
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The interview comes while the two are tied up in court. On October 26, 50 filed a federal lawsuit on behalf of his 14 year old son, Sire, seeking at least $6 million and accusing Tia Kemp of defamation, invasion of privacy and intentional infliction of emotional distress over posts in which she allegedly called the teen “slow” and claimed he was on the autism spectrum. A Miami-Dade judge also ordered her to stay 500 feet away from Sire and to have no contact with him, social media included.
When Cam brought up December 7, she played it cool. “What court date?” she asked. “I ain’t never got served.” She said the clip of 50 talking to a judge looked like AI to her, so she had been trolling him right back.
At the November 3 hearing, 50 appeared by Zoom, Tia Kemp was a no show, and the judge could not move on a permanent injunction because she still had not been served. His lawyers say she is ducking it. The next hearing is December 7.
Tia also turned the question back on him. “Why he ain’t taking Papoose to court? Why he ain’t taking Ross to court? Why is always a Black woman?” As far as she is concerned, “I’m a law abiding citizen. I pay my taxes and I’m just trying to make a dollar out of 15 cents.”
This round of the feud started with her son with Rick Ross, 21 year old William Roberts III, who was attacked at gunpoint at Bethune-Cookman, something 50 mocked online. Tia said a man pulled up while her son was standing with a young woman he had been seeing, pointed a gun at her, then told her son he did not care who his daddy was, threatened to kill him and hit him across the head with the gun. Her son backed away, drove hours home and told her what happened. “I could have been a grieving parent and not even in your chair right now, Cam,” she said.
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What set her off was 50 posting the man charged, offering to bail him out and get him a lawyer, and calling it a street fight while promoting his Street Fighter movie. She says she feels about her son exactly how 50 feels about Sire, and believes the whole thing comes down to jealousy. “He’s so jealous that he couldn’t bring Ross down. Ross really prevailed.” Then she went in on his “tight suit,” his “big shoes” and his “big swole water sodium face.”
Things with Ross, meanwhile, are good. “We were best friends before we dated,” she said. “Right now we’re cordial, you know, we’re good.” She said Ross checked on her the morning of the taping and bought their son a truck for his birthday. “We don’t care about what happened 18 years ago with 15 cents. We have a child.”
Then came the flirting. Tia asked Cam if he was married and warned that if she caught him at a cigar bar, she might snatch him up for a couple days, cook him spaghetti and fried fish, and send him back home. Cam told her he is vegetarian. Her fix: tomato pesto pasta, “heavy marinara.”
And no, the mouth is not going anywhere. “I could become the preacher’s wife, the first lady, all that. My mouth is going to be that,” she said. When Cam asked her to invite 50 onto the show, she refused to use his stage name, called him Curtis and asked, “What you scared of, bro?”
Her only concession: “I may have could have said these things differently.” If 50 apologizes, she says she will give hers too.
