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Pacquiao to enter ring with 50 Cent's rival and rock singer
Boxing - Manny Pacquiao (52-3-2) will enter the ring for his May 7 fight with Shane Mosley (46-6-1) with rapper Rick Ross, a former correctional officer and hated rival of rapper 50 Cent and boxer Floyd Mayweather Jr (41-0).
On Thursday, the 35-year-old rapper (born William Roberts) confirmed his ring walk with Pacquiao on Twitter: " . . I'm walking homie to the ring . . MAYBACH7TH!! PACQUIAO SELFMADE!!" Rick Ross also tweeted a link [ See video ] of the boxer's trainer Buboy Fernandez wearing a Maybach Music Group t-shirt (the rapper's recording company).
Survivor frontman Jimi Jamison will walk out with the Filipino congressman and sing Eye of the Tiger live in front of a capacity crowd at the MGM Grand Arena in Las Vegas. Charice, a singer and cast member of the television show Glee, will sing the Philippine national anthem. [ Photos: Pacquiao at LA's Niketown on Friday ]
Feud with 50 Cent and Mayweather >
In the early 1990's, Rick Ross worked as a correctional officer for eighteen months in a Florida prison. The rapper's previous occupation is ironic considering that Mayweather is facing multiple felony and misdemeanor charges that could land the former pound-for-pound king in jail. [ Source: Mayweather 'preparing' for Pacquiao super-fight ]
Additionally, the Florida-based rapper has had a long-standing feud with 50 Cent (born Curtis Jackson), who is a friend and business partner of Mayweather. An adversarial dynamic began in early 2009. Since then, 50 Cent has recorded multiple tracks attacking Rick Ross including a video entitled "Warning Shot," wherein he stated: "Rick Ross - I'mma f*** your life up for fun."
50 Cent similarly launched a verbal assault on Manny Pacquiao last month on Twitter, accusing the WBO welterweight champion of using steroids, and of sporting an inferior boxing record compared to "Money" Mayweather. [ Article: 50 Cent launches verbal assault on Manny Pacquiao ]
In 2009, both 50 Cent and Mayweather brought Rick Ross' son, as well as, the youngster's mother (Tia Kemp) to the boxer's mansion in Las Vegas as a means of insulting the Florida rapper. [ Video ]
In a radio interview last year, 50 Cent implied that he flew to Sin City in November 2009 to watch the Pacquiao-Miguel Cotto fight (with Mayweather) on pay-per-view. [ Article: Mayweather posts Pacquiao's losses on Facebook and Twitter ]
A couple of weeks after Kemp and Rick Ross' son hung out at the boxer's mansion, Rick Ross and his entourage confronted Mayweather and his seuciry personnel at Vanity nightclub inside the Hard Rock Hotel in Las Vegas.
Witnesses said that hip hop mogul Diddy (born Sean Combs) prevented the confrontation from becoming a violent altercation. Floyd Mayweather Sr., the boxer's father, would tell sohh.com that the beef began because Rick Ross was allegedly "talking s**t" about his son.
"Pacman"
The artist Pill released the track "Pacman", featuring Rick Ross, earlier this month:
There he go, that's John Doe
On my power pellets turnin' you ***** n****z to ghosts
Pacman: Over one hundred sold
Pacman: Just ordered one hundred more . . .
Pacquiao-Mosley takes place this Saturday at the MGM Grand Arena in Las Vegas.
Boxing - Manny Pacquiao (52-3-2) will enter the ring for his May 7 fight with Shane Mosley (46-6-1) with rapper Rick Ross, a former correctional officer and hated rival of rapper 50 Cent and boxer Floyd Mayweather Jr (41-0).
On Thursday, the 35-year-old rapper (born William Roberts) confirmed his ring walk with Pacquiao on Twitter: " . . I'm walking homie to the ring . . MAYBACH7TH!! PACQUIAO SELFMADE!!" Rick Ross also tweeted a link [ See video ] of the boxer's trainer Buboy Fernandez wearing a Maybach Music Group t-shirt (the rapper's recording company).
Survivor frontman Jimi Jamison will walk out with the Filipino congressman and sing Eye of the Tiger live in front of a capacity crowd at the MGM Grand Arena in Las Vegas. Charice, a singer and cast member of the television show Glee, will sing the Philippine national anthem. [ Photos: Pacquiao at LA's Niketown on Friday ]
Feud with 50 Cent and Mayweather >
In the early 1990's, Rick Ross worked as a correctional officer for eighteen months in a Florida prison. The rapper's previous occupation is ironic considering that Mayweather is facing multiple felony and misdemeanor charges that could land the former pound-for-pound king in jail. [ Source: Mayweather 'preparing' for Pacquiao super-fight ]
Additionally, the Florida-based rapper has had a long-standing feud with 50 Cent (born Curtis Jackson), who is a friend and business partner of Mayweather. An adversarial dynamic began in early 2009. Since then, 50 Cent has recorded multiple tracks attacking Rick Ross including a video entitled "Warning Shot," wherein he stated: "Rick Ross - I'mma f*** your life up for fun."
50 Cent similarly launched a verbal assault on Manny Pacquiao last month on Twitter, accusing the WBO welterweight champion of using steroids, and of sporting an inferior boxing record compared to "Money" Mayweather. [ Article: 50 Cent launches verbal assault on Manny Pacquiao ]
In 2009, both 50 Cent and Mayweather brought Rick Ross' son, as well as, the youngster's mother (Tia Kemp) to the boxer's mansion in Las Vegas as a means of insulting the Florida rapper. [ Video ]
In a radio interview last year, 50 Cent implied that he flew to Sin City in November 2009 to watch the Pacquiao-Miguel Cotto fight (with Mayweather) on pay-per-view. [ Article: Mayweather posts Pacquiao's losses on Facebook and Twitter ]
A couple of weeks after Kemp and Rick Ross' son hung out at the boxer's mansion, Rick Ross and his entourage confronted Mayweather and his seuciry personnel at Vanity nightclub inside the Hard Rock Hotel in Las Vegas.
Witnesses said that hip hop mogul Diddy (born Sean Combs) prevented the confrontation from becoming a violent altercation. Floyd Mayweather Sr., the boxer's father, would tell sohh.com that the beef began because Rick Ross was allegedly "talking s**t" about his son.
"Pacman"
The artist Pill released the track "Pacman", featuring Rick Ross, earlier this month:
There he go, that's John Doe
On my power pellets turnin' you ***** n****z to ghosts
Pacman: Over one hundred sold
Pacman: Just ordered one hundred more . . .
Pacquiao-Mosley takes place this Saturday at the MGM Grand Arena in Las Vegas.