50 Cent has replaced Chris Brown as the co-headlining act for day one of J Cole’s Dreamville Music Festival in North Carolina; pictured last month at Madison Square Garden Brown, pictured last May in Las Vegas, was originally scheduled to headline Saturday with SZA, but pulled out of the festival for reasons he has not disclosed 50 Cent’s performance comes after his ex Daphne Joy accused him of rape, physical abuse, and of being an absent father to their 11-year-old son Sire.

Joy made the allegations in a statement she posted to Instagram on March 28 – but the rapper has denied her accusations in a statement obtained by DailyMail.com. The serious claim was dropped mere days after 50 Cent publicly mocked rival Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs following the double raid on his estates, which occurred in the context of a sex trafficking investigation into the mogul.

Fueling 50 Cent’s anger was likely the revelation that Joy was identified as the ‘sex worker’ mentioned in the bombshell lawsuit filed against Diddy by an ex-employee – Joy has adamantly denied the accusation, calling it ‘character assassination.’ Joy dropped the rape claim amid news that 50 Cent is seeking sole custody of their pre-teen son.

In text written over a black background on Instagram, Joy slammed her ex: ‘Let’s put the real focus on your true evil actions of raping me and physically abusing me. You are no longer my oppressor and my God will handle you from this point on. You have permanently damaged the last hope I had for you as a father.’

‘Curtis James Jackson,’ she began, addressing him by his full name. ‘Everything is a joke to you until our safety is compromised, which is happening now. You are wreaking real havoc, frenzy, and chaos onto people’s lives. How would u feel if Sire was the one in handcuffs? For nothing,’ she wrote.

‘We moved to New York to give you the opportunity to be a father to your son and you saw him 10 times out of the 2 years that we lived 1 mile away from you. I am tired of upholding and protecting an image to our son that you have never even earned, wrote scorned mother of his child.

Daphne Joy has accused her ex-boyfriend 50 Cent of rape, physical abuse, and of being an absent father to their 11-year-old son Sire (pictured with son Sire) Joy made shock claims about 50 Cent – which he denied Joy and Diddy in Miami Beach. 50 Cent is going after the mother of his child who was identified as the ‘sex worker’ in the bombshell lawsuit dropped against Diddy

abusing me. You are no longer my oppressor and my God will handle you from this point on. You have permanently damaged the last hope I had for you as a father to preserve our family with these last and final false claims made against me. You have broken our hearts for the last and final time.’

Sire is 11 years old, not 12, as his father labels him in a statement. ‘The most recent false and baseless accusations by Daphne Joy are clearly in response to my decision to seek sole custody of my son. My son Sire is my main priority and keeping him in a safe environment is my only focus at this time,’ he said. In an Instagram post he put up Thursday evening, 50 Cent wrote to his ex, seemingly as a response to her words: ‘You moved a mile away in hopes of having another baby with me but I was busy. So you moved back and then you started receiving money from Brother Love. Now here we are, little sex worker.’