50 Cent: The Game will flop

50 Cent is convinced The Game's second album will be a major flop because the superstar's former protégé won't have his award winning rhymes to work with.

50 and The Game famously fell out last year after the apprentice spoke out in favour of his boss' rap rivals, and the pair have been publicly feuding ever since.

However The Game insisted he'd finished fighting with 50 in a recent magazine article, meanwhile 50 Cent has continued to poke fun at his former pal's songwriting skills.

50 tells rap magazine XXL: "I don't think it's (Game's new album) going to be interesting. I think it's going to be what it was before I wrote his hits.

"I wrote six records for his album, three of them were his first three singles. Can he rap? Yeah. Is he a good songwriter? No."

50 Cent is also convinced he can't lose - if The Game's new album, tentatively titled The Doctor's Advocate, is a flop the G-Unit kingpin proves he's the man behind his protégé's success while, thanks to a clever deal, he'll reap the financial benefits if The Game scores another hit.

50 explains: "I'll make more money off a Game record every time it comes out than he will. It doesn't bother me if he sells records. I don't believe he will."