50 Cent has lashed out at Jay-Z’s comments insisting the In Da Club hit-maker is not a person to be scared of.

The 99 Problems superstar was quizzed over his thoughts on Kanye West’s notorious stage storming at the MTV Video Music Awards in September, when he interrupted Taylor Swift’s Best Female Video acceptance speech to make it clear he believed Beyonce was the real winner of the prize.

In the interview with BBC DJ Trevor Nelson, he was asked whether he thought West would have acted the same way if the award’s recipient was tough-guy rapper 50 Cent. Jay-Z angrily answered: "I think he (West) would have done that if that was 50 Cent. No one is scared of 50 Cent. I want everyone to be clear. No one is scared of 50 Cent."

And 50 Cent is fuming Jay-Z seemingly thinks so little of him - insisting none of his contemporaries would have dared poke fun at him when he was accepting an award.

He explains, "When he (Jay-Z) has to say no one is scared of 50 Cent, it’s because the public is responding to his punk presentation. Kanye wouldn’t take the trophy from me and neither would Jay-Z."