Forget the East Coast-West Coast rap rivalries of the past. The latest celebrity feud has a former boybander and a top rap star ready to throw down.
Lance Bass and 50 Cent are releasing books at the same time, and even held their launch parties on the same night.
At 50’s party in New York’s Philippe on Tuesday, he told the New York Daily News that Bass had better watch his back. “He doesn’t stand a chance,” the rapper said as he promoted his coffee-table book, “50 x 50,” according to People.
Later that night, at Bass’ own NYC launch party at hot spot Azza for his new tell-all, “Out of Sync: A Memoir,” the former ‘N Sync member — who came out in 2006 — hit back at the rapper.
“50’s going down, that’s all I have to say,” he joked. “50, I don’t want to playa-hate, but there’s a lot that my book has [that yours doesn’t].”
Among those things, Bass says: “I’m pretty sure he doesn’t have any relationships with guys in that book. And I’m pretty sure he doesn’t have any space training either.”
50 has been in this situation before. “With me, everything’s a competition, so I bet you the end of next week, I’ll be moving more copies than him,” 50 said. “This is the same competition — this is Kanye West and 50 Cent all over again!”
Will he stop writing books if Bass outsells him? Stay tuned.
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Personals was compiled by Valentina Djeljosevic from Tribune news services and staff reports.
