50 Cent Responds After Vivica A. Fox Advises Younger Self Not to Date Rappers: ‘It’s Been 22 Years’

50 Cent can’t deny that he’s still into Vivica A. Fox — even if his former flame said she would advise her younger self not to date the Grammy-winning rapper.

Late Monday night (Nov. 10), the “Many Men” rapper took to Instagram to respond to Fox’s viral comments. “Either way I’m a have that ass in the matrix,” he wrote in the caption of what appeared to be an AI-generated image of himself as Morpheus from The Matrix. “You know I love me some you girl, but damn it’s been 22 years, Vivica.”

The rapper’s post arrived a few days after Fox made her remarks at the Chicago Ultimate Women’s Expo (Oct. 25). During a Q&A session, the Independence Day actress replied to a question about chasing one’s dreams by dishing out advice to her younger self. “Don’t date 50 Cent, don’t date no damn rappers,” she said flatly before a chuckle and a shrug. “Just so you know, it took me years to be able to laugh about it. I had to learn to laugh [and] not to cry no more, but I did it.”

Fif and Fox briefly dated in 2003, but have spent the past 20 years throwing jabs at one another. In 2015, Fox facetiously questioned the rapper’s sexuality during an episode of Watch What Happens Live, and three years later, she told Wendy Williams that she’d be open to dating him again.

That same year, Fox published her Every Day, I’m Hustling memoir, in which she wrote that her and 50’s sex was “PG-13.” “Most of the time, I would be the one initiating sex, because I really enjoyed making love to him,” she revealed. In 2021, 50 Cent said he’s “never bothered” when Fox calls him “the love of her life.”