Bang ‘Em Smurf defends King Harris dissing 50 Cent’s dead mom: “He got to take what come with it” [VIDEO]

The former G-Unit associate says 50 Cent’s mockery of Irv Gotti’s death set the rules for how his own family could be targeted.

Bang Em Smurf, an early associate of 50 Cent and former G-Unit member, has weighed in on the feud between 50 Cent and T.I.’s family. In a March 31, 2026, interview with Cam Capone News, Smurf defended King Harris’s decision to reference 50 Cent’s deceased mother in diss recordings, arguing that 50 Cent invited the retaliation when he mocked the death of Irv Gotti.

“He was smoking on the Irv Gotti pack,” Smurf said, referencing 50 Cent’s February 2025 Instagram post celebrating Gotti’s death with a mock tombstone and the caption “I’m smoking on dat Gotti pack.” Smurf framed the response from T.I.’s son as simple cause and effect: “This how the universe work. You can’t be mocking people death. Now you got to take that.”

Smurf, whose real name is Daniel Calliste, was once close enough to 50 Cent to serve as his “head of security” during the early G-Unit years. His interview, released in two parts, offers a street-level perspective on a feud that has moved from social media posts to diss tracks targeting dead relatives.

The Irv Gotti Joke That Came Back Around

The conflict between 50 Cent and T.I.’s family began when 50 posted unflattering photos of Tameka “Tiny” Cottle, T.I.’s wife. King Harris, T.I.’s son, responded with diss tracks that included the line “smoking on a Sabrina pack”—a direct reference to 50 Cent’s mother, Sabrina Jackson, who died in 2012.

Smurf did not condemn King’s response. Instead, he pointed to 50 Cent’s own history. After Irv Gotti died of a stroke on February 5, 2025, 50 Cent posted a photo of himself smoking a hookah next to a mock tombstone. The caption read: “I’m smoking on dat Gotti pack, nah God bless him 🕊️ LOL.”

“When Gotti died, that’s what he did,” Smurf said. “He was mocking his death. Now smoking on your mama. That’s how the universe work.”

Smurf’s argument is straightforward: if a man mocks another man’s death, he cannot claim foul when his own family becomes a target. “You can’t be playing with other people moms,” he said. “So you got to take what come with it.”

Why Smurf Says King Harris Was Right to Respond

Bang ‘Em Smurf framed King’s response not as an escalation but as a son doing what a son should do. “They defending their mother. So ain’t no one can tell them how to take that disrespect. That’s their moms.”

He noted that 50 Cent’s own mother is deceased, which made the choice to provoke T.I.’s family particularly reckless. “If your mother dead, how you going to disrespect somebody else mother and your mom’s is dead? So you got to take what come with it.”

Smurf said he would have done the same for his own mother or sister. “I like what King did,” he said. “I would have did the same thing for my mom’s, my sister, any woman in my family. You ain’t playing with nothing with mine. Especially you a male at the end of the day, and you dissing a female. They did what they were supposed to do.”

Algorithmic Bullying and the Death of Self-Respect

Smurf expanded his criticism beyond the specific incident, arguing that 50 Cent’s entire public persona is now driven by algorithm-chasing rather than genuine conflict. “He just bothering and bullying everybody because of the algorithm,” Smurf said. “He want his name to stay in the algorithm. That’s how these dudes get money. They get money by disrespecting they own kind.”

He lamented what he sees as a broader cultural decay. “I can’t respect this generation of hip hop or this culture no more. We coming up, we had self-respect for ourself. Ain’t no self-respect no more. Self-respect is a weapon of mass destruction, and we lost that.”

Without self-respect, Smurf argued, Black artists are reduced to caricatures that benefit external forces. “That’s why these oppressors is winning. They want us to think we animals, we goons, we gangsters. They feed off of the low frequency.”

Jay-Z’s Battle Rap Critique Gets Pushback

The interview turned to Jay-Z’s recent GQ interview, in which the rapper questioned whether battle rap still has a constructive place in hip-hop. Jay-Z pointed to the way modern feuds drag in families and children, calling it destructive.

Smurf agreed that tactics have changed—he noted that 50 Cent “instead of writing bars, he just going to drop memes”—but he rejected the idea that battle rap itself should be retired. “Battle rap is the foundation of hip-hop. It started off with everybody battling, going face to face, promoting their talent. Who got the best bars? I’m better than you. Let’s go face to face.”

He called out what he saw as hypocrisy in Jay-Z’s stance. “Jay-Z did that years ago when he was talking about Nas. He disrespected Nas’s baby mother and his child. He said woman and children not involved, but that was his main target coming at Nas was his baby mother and his child.”

The Queens Battle Rap Legacy

Smurf contrasted 50 Cent’s career path with that of his former G-Unit peers. “50 wasn’t a battle rapper. 50 was a hustler and turned that into his hustle. He never had a love for hip-hop or rap. He turned that into his passion in his career cuz he’s a hustler.”

Lloyd Banks, Tony Yayo, and a Queens rapper named Domination, Smurf said, were the true battle artists. “I used to put up $1,000 to watch Banks and Domination battle rapping in the hood.” He credited Smack White and the Ultimate Rap League for keeping the tradition alive, noting that battle rap now tours globally.

The exchange was a reminder that for all the social media theatrics, the core of hip-hop competition—bars, delivery, face-to-face confrontation—still has defenders who see it as essential, not obsolete.

Conclusion: “You Reap What You Sow”

Bang Em Smurf’s interview on Cam Capone News adds a former insider’s voice to a feud that has moved from Instagram to diss tracks to dead relatives. His position is not neutral: he sides with King Harris, defends the decision to mention 50 Cent’s mother, and argues that 50 Cent’s own mockery of Irv Gotti’s death set the rules of engagement.

“You got to take what come with it,” Smurf said. It is a line that could serve as the thesis for the entire conflict. In Smurf’s telling, 50 Cent is not a victim of escalation but the author of a playbook that finally got used against him.

Whether Smurf’s defense of King Harris holds up in the broader culture depends on where one draws the line between retaliation and escalation. But for Smurf, the line was crossed not by T.I.’s son, but by 50 Cent himself—when he smirked at a grave and lit a cigar. The universe, he says, simply corrected itself.

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