Evanescence's Amy Lee and 50 Cent Still Have Beef

These wounds won't seem to heal

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BY Sydney BrasilPublished Nov 27, 2023

There's just too much that time cannot erase between 50 Cent and Evanescence, as the former is apparently still salty he lost a Grammy to them two decades ago.

In what could be considered the older sister of the Taylor Swift/Kanye West 2009 VMAs moment, the rapper lost Best New Artist to the emo band at the 2004 Grammys. Not only did he react by marching on stage during their acceptance speech, but he's been talking about the snub to the press ever since.

"50 Cent hates my guts," bandleader Amy Lee told The Daily Beast in a recent interview. "It's just one of those things… I mean, truthfully, we thought he was going to win too. It was such a wild night. People are like, 'What was it like to win a Grammy?' and I'm like, 'Stressful!' I mean, it's wonderful now, to have them, but it was surreal… I just remember thinking, 'I don't even think anybody in this room knows who we are.'"

She continued to say 50's stage crash didn't cause much disruption: "You know when you're just in shock? He didn't do anything, he didn't grab the mic, it wasn't that bad. He just sort of like, made an appearance. It was like Zoolander when he thought he won."

Lee also added that the scrap is entirely one-sided, and that he's never brought it up to her face. "No, he never said anything to me, but he likes to talk about me and how he was robbed," she continued. "I don't want to start a beef with him. Thank you for saying I looked unfazed. I was so fazed. Everything around me was chaos, and I was like, I'm going to stand here and see if this is real later, if I wake up or not."

50 Cent may have some mismatched beefs, but he also has some surprising celebrity friends — Ed Sheeran joined him on stage last week to perform "Shape of You."

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