Menace II Society star Tyrin Turner has denied ever being in a gay relationship with Jamie Foxx.
The accusation first came through Suge Knight‘s X (formerly Twitter) account in a post referring to Turner as Foxx’s “ex.”
Sitting down with The Art of Dialogue, Turner addressed the rumors and said they had no substance.
“I heard earlier that his Twitter was hacked. If Suge wanted to talk to me, he know how to contact me,” he said. “Me and Jamie have been like brothers, best friends for years.
“Most people don’t understand we do a lot of business together so you might seen us a lot around, probably at the house coming up with ideas and stuff like that. When people wanna throw the little gay rumor, somebody always gotta be gay in the world but hey, I know what I like.”
The actor also called Knight “corny” over the social media post.
However, the Death Row Records co-founder recently claimed that his social media accounts had been hacked.
The currently incarcerated rap mogul told TMZ in December that he believes somebody “is out to destroy his reputation by hacking into his Twitter and FB accounts.”
Knight’s X account is currently littered with memes and posts about various former peers and rivals such as Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg and Diddy, most of them disparaging.
It is not known whether Knight is currently in charge of his social media given his imprisonment and previous hacking claims, but the account does pay for X Premium.
Tyrin Turner and Suge Knight have had previous issues. The actor once said that Rap-A-Lot Records boss J. Prince stopped the two from going toe-to-toe as Knight proved he was one to hold a grudge.
“This was right after 2Pac had passed away and he called Dalvin from Jodeci phone and said, ‘I wanna talk to Tyrin,’” he recalled in a separate interview with The Art of Dialogue.
“I’m at Dalvin house and Dalvin like, ‘It’s Suge!’ I get the phone and Suge was talking his Suge stuff or whatever. I think it was over a female or something. I said on the phone, ‘I thought this was money over bitches? Doesn’t M.O.B. stand for money over bitches?’ That’s what I thought. I didn’t know.
“And Suge said, ‘Oh you a comedian? You think shit funny.’ And then I hung up the phone, he went to jail. He never forgot that conversation.”
He continued: “Nine years later he came back. We at the club. I’m in the club, he sees me, we catch eyes. He pushes Busta Rhymes out the way to get to me.
“It’s like he’s just in slow motion: cigar, shoulder moving like that. He said, ‘Why you looking hostile?’ And I’m just looking at him. He got like a gang of bloods around him. We just looking each other. He’s like, ‘If I wanted to, I could have something done to you.’
“Dalvin over there looking like, ‘Tyrin, please don’t do this shit that you usually would do.’ But I’m not dumb. You got to know your surroundings, know the energy and know the world. I look at the situation and energy and I’m like, ‘Nah, this ain’t the right time to do nothing weird.’ But I just didn’t feel right after he left.
“[We got to Suge’s compound] and I was like, ‘Suge, let me talk to you.’ So we went to the side and I was like, ‘I don’t understand why we had that issue. I’ve always liked Death Row. I thought we was always cool or whatever, but I like to fight. I give n-ggas real life fades.’ And he said, ‘We can do that.’”
He went on: “I said, ‘That can happen, but that’s not what I’m here for. Why are we even in that situation? Why are you mad?’ And come to find out it was some girl was saying something that I was saying.
“And I’m like, ‘But Suge, the whole world talking. 2Pac dead, the whole world’s talking, everybody has an opinion about what’s going on. You can’t just single me out like that.’
“And so we ended up squashing it. And I remember after we left, me and J. [Prince] jumped in the car and J was like, ‘That’s how you talk. If you have a problem, that’s how you do it, man. A man is gonna talk and handle business. That’s how we do it. That’s real talk.”
