Rapper 50 Cent opens up about why he is evicting ex-girlfriend Shaniqua Tompkins from a New York home that he owns.

Tompkins and 10-year-old Marquise, the 'Candy Shop' rapper's son, have been told that they must leave the Long Island mansion by the end of the 2008 school year.

"I tried to paint a more positive outlook on her. She's not my shorty on the side. I haven't dealt with her since 2003.

"She worked for three months in 2001. She ain't had a job, she ain't done nothing. I was giving her $500,000 a year. She thinks she's entitled to 17 per cent, because these chicks she be having around her telling [her all this]. I was giving her $25,000 a month, now she wants $50,000."