Taraji P. Henson Shows Why She Get's The Dumb bitch Award

Empire” star, Taraji P. Henson and rapper and music mogul 50 Cent have beenexchanging messages back and forth on social media. And although some humor can be sensed in the shared posts and tweets, the serious underlying messages are unavoidably obvious.

It all started when 50 Cent insinuated that the marketing scheme for the new FOX series was copied from his Starz drama, “Power“.

He took to Instagram and posted a video clip of an ad for his series and wrote, “POWER Season 2 is unbelievably good trust me. I have the best writers and show runner. I like Terrence Howard and Taraji Henson. I don’t like that they would copy the marketing.”

A Henson fan picked up on the post and asked Henson for her comment on it. It was barbed when it came:

“I pay attention to $’s NOT cents.”

Another follower (after reading her reply) asked:

“Ouch! No time for small change?”

This time she was more amicable as she tweeted back:

“IJS (I’m just saying) I couldn’t even find the ‘cent’ sign!! #ByeBi**h #Empire”

“Empire” is a musical drama that premiered on Wednesday. It tells the story of an ex-drug dealer couple – the wife who goes to jail while the husband becomes a successful record producer – as they struggle for control of the recording company.

The wife is played by Henson, while Terrence Howard plays the husband.

In an interview with The Wrap, Henson said, “50 Cent is a comedian. He loves to push buttons. He’s a funny guy. I never took offense to it.”

She herself then went ahead and joked, “If anything, I thought he was trying to get a jab at [Howard]. You know, he’s jealous of Terrence, his looks. Terrence is light-skinned, he’s dark-skinned, you know, come on people.”

Meanwhile, Howard seemed to have taken no offense as he said, “Fifty is my monster man. We served jail time together in his film, you know, we’ve been naked together,” referring to a scene in “Get Rich or Die Tryin’.” “I love the fact that we’re both pushing the envelope with our shows and what it says about cinema and television, how the change has occurred to where black men can be on opposing levels, because we’re both telling a similar story. So it’s kinda great. I’m proud of him—very proud of him.”

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