No. 1 with $150 million

You’d be smiling like 50 Cent if you topped Forbes.com’s Hip-Hop Cash Kings list of the top-earning people in the business last year. Who followed him?

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Don’t mess with 50 Cent. The rapper made good on his threat and filed a lawsuit against Taco Bell for messing with his name.
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First the suspicious fire at 50 Cent’s mansion in May and yesterday he had to take a drug test so he can take his son Marquise, 11, on vacation next month.

Just when it didn’t seem like Fiddy’s battle with baby mama Shaniqua Tompkins over his fortune could get any crazier after someone set fire to the Long Island home where Shaniqua and Marquise live, it did. The rapper was ordered to take a drug test, at the request of the legal guardian, before a Long Island judge would give him permission to take his son on vacation.

He passed the quickie drug test and father and son can enjoy some quality time from Aug. 3-12. This after not seeing each other in three months or even speaking since July 6, Daddy’s birthday, according to the New York Daily News.

“I haven’t seen my son in a while. That’s why I came here today,” the paper quoted 50 Cent as saying after he passed the test.

But somebody else didn’t pass theirs. Shaniqua tested positive for opiates, which she blamed on codeine-laced cough syrup she has been taking, the paper reported. She didn’t want her son going on vacation because it interfered with his basketball camp. It had nothing to do with trying to keep Fiddy away from his son.

“Never, never, never,” she said.

Of course not. She requested a restraining order of protection against 50 Cent after accusing her ex of ordering the fire, which gutted the $2.5 million house she was asking for and forced her to escape through a second-floor window with the child. Fiddy came back and slapped her with a $20 million defamation suit.

I guess she isn’t wishing him bon voyage.

Taco Bell has reportedly pissed off 50 Cent for offering him a $10,000 donation to a charity if, for a day, he changed his name as part of an ad campaign.

From Star Pulse: They stipulated he must stop by one of the chain’s restaurants and rap his order at the drive-thru window - using a new moniker: 79 Cent, 89 Cent or 99 Cent.

That’s just ig-nant and funny at the same time. OK, well Fiddy ain’t laughing. He’s threatening legal action against the food chain and reportedly made the statement: “When my legal team is finished with them, Taco Bell is going to have a new corporate slogan: ‘We messed with the bull and got the horns’”

I’m saying, at least the value of his name went UP.

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So Fiddy reportedly  handed the keys to his 1965 Chevy Impala (valued at $100,000) over to “Streets of Blood” co-star Val Kilmer as a gift.  His producing partner Randall Emmett confirmed it to In Touch Weekly, adding: “Val was shocked. 50 is an amazing guy and incredibly generous.”

We’re sure, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that his baby’s mama would not agree. Evicting her, burning down mansions….well, so she says.