According to recent news reports, Vivica A. Fox took a jab at her ex-boyfriend, 50 Cent, advising women not to date him or any other rapper.While speaking at the Ultimate Women's Expo in Edison, New Jersey, someone from the audience started talking about chasing their dreams. To this, Fox gave her advice to women on not dating rappers.Vivica A. Fox dated 50 Cent briefly for around three months. The two started dating after the BET Awards in 2003 and attended the MTV Music Video Awards in the same year.“Don't date 50 Cent, don’t date no damn rappers. Facts! … Just so you know, it took me years to be able to laugh about it. I had to learn to laugh not to cry no more, but I did it.” Fox advised the audienceReportedly, 50 Cent gave a befitting reply to his ex-girlfriend not long after the controversy took place."Either way I’m a have that *ss in the matrix, you know I love me some you girl, but Damn it’s been 22 years Vivica @50centaction", 50 Cent wrote on his Instagram View this post on Instagram Instagram PostWhile Fox appeared in 50 Cent's music video in 2009 titled Do You Think About Me, the two have often passed comments on each other in public.During an interview with Billboard in the year 2021, the rapper addressed Vivica's comment on calling him 'the love of his life'. Fox called 50 Cent 'the love of her life' during an interview with VladTV.“I’m never bothered by when she says that. At the time that we actually connected with each other, we were unconscious of everything else.” The rapper told Billboard in the interviewIn the same interview, the actress admitted that one of the reasons why their relationship fell apart was due to too much attention on them.About 50 Cent and Vivica Fox's relationship50 Cent and Vivica started dating in 2003, but separated in 2004. At the 2003 BET Awards, Cent also gave a shout-out to Fox. Later, the two were spotted holding hands on the red carpet of the MTV Video Music Awards in 2003.On Howard Stern's radio show in 2004, Cent spoke about his relationship with Fox. The rapper said that Fox wanted to date him only for publicity and attention. Vivica defended herself and claimed that Cent's comments were false.Vivica also defended herself during an episode of Cocktails With Queens. In September 2005, Vivica opened up on the Tyra Banks Show about being painted as the bad person in the relationship post-breakup.She told Banks, "No, it wasn't the press...it was him!" He had been accusing her of using their relationship as a PR ploy. "I just considered that ghetto love," she stated in response to his charges. "It was his coping mechanism for the breakup." Nevertheless, she acknowledged to Banks that the rapper was "the love of my life."In December 2009, Cent also went to the Tyra Banks Show to reveal that the two had settled everything and were in a good place.When Fox publicly questioned 50 Cent's s*xual orientation on national television in 2015, their animosity was reignited.Fox appeared on Watch What Happens Live in October 2015 and was questioned by host Andy Cohen over 50 Cent's since-deleted Instagram post that attributed Empire's decline in viewership to plot lines that included an excessive amount of "gay stuff."The two made peace in January 2017, and Fox mentioned on a show that it was she to went to Cent to wish him a Happy New Year.