US rapper 50 Cent has insisted that he is still friends with former champion boxer Floyd Mayweather JR, despite their recent brawl.

The rapper's feud with Mayweather, Jr spiralled out of control after the fighter promised him payment to appear at his much-hyped Wrestlemania XXIV fight with WWE star the Big Show in April.

Mayweather Jr. adopted the hip-hop star's 'I Get Money' track as his official entrance song and offered 50 Cent cash to watch the fight from the ringside.

But the rapper admits things became heated between the pair when the boxer failed to hand over the money - despite having a million dollars in cash on his person.

50 Cent said: "He was going to do the match in WWE at Wrestlemania and he started telling everyone that I was going to be there. So everyone got all excited and started asking me if I was going to come, and I was like, 'If you're really getting $20 million for this, then give me some money'.

"He was sitting there with a million dollars cash in a bag, and he kept telling me he was going to get me money for appearing, but I was like 'No, give me some of that money right there'.

"He had one million dollars in the bag, it was physically right in front of me, so why should I have to wait to get paid? Just give me that money right there. He wasn't with it, and that's how it all started."

And despite punches flying between the pair, the star is adamant he is still friends with the boxer.

He added: "Yeah, we got into a little scrap, a little boxing match. Well, it wasn't really much of a boxing match because he hit me in the back of my ear. He's so fast, he's just so fast.

"We were mad for a second, but then everything went back to normal."

(by Daniel Melia)