50 Cent Addresses Speculation People Are Being Paid $20 to Wear 'Free Diddy' Shirts Outside Court

50 Cent has been very acitve in his commentary about Diddy's trial.

May 19, 2025
Rapper 50 Cent performs on stage wearing a teal Hornets jersey and black cap, holding a microphone, smiling and gesturing.
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50 Cent has shared a video that claims to show a group of protestors who were paid to wear "Free Diddy" t-shirts outside of a courthouse in NYC amid his sex trafficking and racketeering trial.

"So, these are all paid protestors, you can get $20 an hour if you wear a t-shirt," a woman claimed in the clip, of which the authenticity is unclear. The woman asked someone standing by if she was "recruited," and she replied that she "refused" to participate. "He told me it's for a 'Diddy coin,' so I'm not really sure what that is. ... They just tried to pay me $20 to wear a 'Free Puffy' shirt. ... I said no." She added that a woman told her she got paid $60 for doing it on a different day.

While it's unclear if the video is staged or even connected to Diddy, 50 Cent found it hilarious. "Diddy paying people to wear 'Free Diddy' shirts is diabolical, but $20 a hour ain't bad," he wrote. "I might go throw that on for a hour tomorrow. LOL."

50 Cent has been posting about Diddy's ongoing trial a lot, frequently offering his thoughts on the proceedings and never missing an opportunity to clown the disgraced Bad Boy Records founder. In a recent post on Instagram, he shared an AI-generated video that showed Diddy holding another inmate's hand and drinking from a bottle of baby oil. He also trolled him over a recent lawsuit that compared his manhood to a Tootsie Roll.

In a less troll-like post, he reacted to Cassie's testimony in which she detailed years of abuse at the hands of Diddy and suggested that he should've taken a plea deal if what she says is true. "The shit they are saying is beyond me," he wrote.