The Breakfast Club - 50 Cent Talks "Tycoon Houston Comedy Fest, YK Osiris, Love For Houston, Mending Relationships & More

Episode Date: August 12, 2022

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Wake that ass up early in the morning. The Breakfast Club. Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy, Angela Yee, Charlamagne Tha God. We are The Breakfast Club. We got a special guest in the building. The GOAT, the legend. 50 Cent.

It got me up bright and early. Fifth, what up? What's going on? Oh, man, everything good, man. No complaints. How do you feel to be back in New York, man? Man, it feel good, man. The city's good as long as you ain't watching YouTube to see the news clips about everybody that's true things is going on out here you look like you

got back in the gym heavy but I'm back you know they say I was fat I'm gonna show you a picture I took with Jamie Foxx you know I guess it's the angle cuz I was coming up so you see like I took with Jamie Foxx. You know, I guess it's the angle because I was coming up. So you see, like, it looked a little wider. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And then they got that and they ran with it. But, you know, I'm looking like I fluctuated a lot throughout my run. You know what I'm saying?

And it's just my body type. I can be security, bro. Work. I'm going to be too big. And it's all right to, you know, start training and working out and stuff. It's regular stuff, but I just made sure I started training and working out and stuff. Regular stuff. But I just made sure I did it every morning because they said that to me. Now, how's it back on the road?

You know, the last two, three years, you've been doing nothing but movies and shows. And now you're back on the road. How does that feel to be out performing again? Like, you know, look, hip hop is now old enough for them to start to treat us like we treated the real pop stars. Right, right, right. You know, like with Prince and Mike and them, when they was, they would just say,

I'm performing today. And the show would go up and sell out that day. You know what I'm saying? Like, and then, internationally, I'm getting an ill response to the things, like, everything sold out. Like, when I went out there, like, and it's because I laid the groundwork.

Like, during Get Rich or Die Trying and The Massacre, those projects was taking two years for me to come with the next album because I spent the whole year after I released it touring. You know, so because I was going everywhere, like Croatia, Mumbai, India, like Kosovo, like I was everywhere. You know what I'm saying? Like everywhere that they would. I wanted all of the flags that Em had on that Marshall Mathers album. Yeah plaque so I was like I know I'm gonna have to go door to door to

get it but I'm gonna go and the association took M help you know I'm saying so it was like I went out there and did all of that but now now it feels good because I'm able to go out there and do those things and people really responded to it and And I'm so seasoned. The performance now, it's like it's easy. Right, right, right. You know what I'm saying? Like, I'm running out, and it's like, hold on, hold on. Boom, I'm like, yeah, I can do it again tonight. Does it make you feel celebrated and appreciated?

Because, Phil, you a different type of legend. Like, there's levels to legends. You a different type of legend. You got to change. You can't stay the same way. Right, right, right. You know what I'm saying? Like, I'm looking the things that i i i got off on in the beginning shall i mean it changed dramatically like now the look the simplicity in writing music is a key to

it so like go shorty it's your birthday is what comes what i'm feeling when i'm hearing the record and then the reasons where people have a specific reason to want to enjoy themselves when it's your birthday and we're here we want to have a good time. So I'll put that in it. But when you think about it, in television, it's almost never right the first time. Like they write it and then they get the notes from the executives and it comes down with different. So it kind of morphs into something different. And it's choices.

So creatively, if you go, okay, I'm going left here, and they go, man, but you could have went right. And you say, yeah, I could have did that, but it was a creative choice. But that example, if they don't give you that example of what you could have did, they don't know why they're receiving that, why they're being paid.

So they give you that example, and then the artists change it, and it just changes. So it makes me not creatively want to be a part being paid yeah so to give you that example and then the artists change it and it just changes so it makes me not creatively want to be a part of the writing process because it's a it's a very tedious process you got to know so many details about the story before you get started that it's like i'd rather feed the writer information and be a part of the you know the whole creative idea but let them handle that part because there's so many changes and stuff until it works.

Then you start to see less and less notes as the project gets more and more successful. But do you feel celebrated, Fifth? I ain't asking about TV. Fifth don't like love. Fifth don't like to get love. No, that's a skill. That's a skill, y'all.

See, you guys, I've been doing this for a long time. I answer how I want to answer, and I come long time. I answer how I want to answer. And I come back and I say what I want to say. So you look and you go, nah, I do feel celebrated. Even when you see the new versions, like when you see like Dirt and these other artists that come out that have that, like the element that is coming straight out of the environment. You know what I'm saying?

And then you look, and this is pure Chicago, which you get from them. You know what I'm saying? And then you look, like, and this is pure Chicago, which you get from them. You know what I'm saying? So I'm looking at it, I'm like, and I was turned on to them so early because I remember I was crazy about Chief Keef. Yeah, yeah, yeah. When Chief Keef first came, they thought Chief Keef was a piece of shit.

They just didn't know. They just didn't know what they was talking about. They was like, yo, nah, like, what they talking about? He know the environment, how to survive and function there. And it was in a whole new world with this actual business. You know what I'm saying? But once you get a chance to kind of know them, you start to like them. Because they're not, like, what the music is saying is not who they actually are.

And it's the same thing with me, too. Or you wouldn't be able to grow past those points you would just like the guy who does exactly what i'm saying and does is is that is not successful are you doing are you doing another album i heard that you might be doing one last album i heard you working on is there any true to that yeah i started working on some things like the last one though it may not be the last album it may be broken up into something that goes out with one of the television shows. You see what I'm saying? But creatively, I just said, nah, I want to do something.

And I got all the vehicles that I need to do it. 25 television shows. So I could just put, here's the EP connected to this and let it rock without having the pressure of it being a full album and all that. Because, look, when's the last time you've seen the actual numbers on the sales of a record? Like, you see Kanye say, put it on something, device. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

So you can't see the actual number. You can't see the numbers, right. And that's because if you see the number, you go, oh, wait a minute. I mean, it's hot as you used to be. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You know what I'm saying? Especially when you have a huge successful sales record. So they're avoiding that number

by putting it on a device or putting it through Tidal or through somewhere else so you can't actually see what's happening with it. But the record, they're bigger stars within the culture

because they've been here longer. That's right. And developed their brand. I don't even think it matters no more. Beyonce did, what, 300-something? And people would be like, oh, this is her lowest sales week. I'm like, she's 25 years in.

I mean, how many kids she got? Four, three. Married with three kids, and it's supposed to be the same sexy? Right? I mean, it's a different energy there. And then our audience has grown. It's grown, folks. You got to look and say

i i'd say between 2003 and 2005 if you was in college you my core audience you know what i'm saying because that's when you're having your adult experience for the first time where you party in every available moment possible and those those people the material impacted the hardest because it's the theme music to their life at that point. When it's smoking hot, it's brand new. It's just happening at that point. Then you look, love music don't get old, so Beyonce, she ain't going nowhere. There'll be a reason for you to want to listen to Beyonce.

You know what I'm saying? When you look at R&B music, R&B music required buttons at some point. You had to be a gentleman. Now, you look up, they got the same tattoos the hip-hop artists got. They're singing the lyrics the hip-hop artists would say in the verse. And what about G-Unit? I see Banks making his rounds.

I see Yeo-Yo on tour with you. Yeah, yeah. Would y'all do a project and a documentary? When is that happening? I probably won't do a project with them. I'm done with carrying them around. My back hurts. I see Yale with you on tour. Yale is a different animal. Like if it doesn't, you know, Sean, if he does something wrong, I don't care what magnitude of it is, he'll look and he'll go, my bad. And you go, all right.

And we just keep going until the next time he does something wrong. That's the relationship. That is our relationship. Now, when you look at Banks and all these other guys, they came in by way of him, and they have a different temperament. It's not the same relationship. So I don't necessarily go back to carrying him. You know, yeah, he's different. Do you watch, hold on, do you watch G-Unit interviews?

Do you watch like Banks interviews? I see some of the stuff that come through. I saw he did something with Flex. I saw it. Yep. So you see the clips? Yeah. Not the whole interview, but I see pieces. Like I saw something he something he did with your butt yeah he gave you big props on that he said

that you made him a better songwriter you improved his craft at that point i wasn't doing nothing but writing nothing with songwriting like if you're saying if you're going i don't think you should be have the best verse at 50 years old in hip-hop culture i think the hip part of hip-hop is youth culture and that and that like we we love things that are like the culture loves things that are have been damaged by the experience and and you can see no matter how harsh the experience has been how beautiful the art is in it like it sounds perfect when you hear cardi b saying it or it sounds like something different and you know what the the experience has been like prior to that it's been a rough road to get there

like you're going if you don't think that i picked up specifically because of the the strip club and that experience they like every single one of those girls like let's say about 60 or 70% of them would like to trade places with Cardi right now. It's not 90%. Right? So the dream happened in like a year. The record worked, got married, had a kid. The whole shit just came together, like, in one year. So I was like, I'll point to that because it's the beauty of our culture.

Like, we save people. And what about the documentary? Because I think a lot of people would love to know how it happened. Like, they see Fifth, they know what happened, but they don't know how it happened. Yeah, I would do it. I would do a documentary on it. And I think they would be surprised from my perspective what it is.

Because you look at it and you say, like, we'd have communications. I'd come in and I'd tell them all. I'd say, yo, look under the table. They'd look under the table. And they got on LVs and Gucci and all this. You know what I'm saying? Do not expect your G-Unit check to come. At the time, they were being paid to wear G-Unit sneakers for RBK,

so don't expect that check to come in the mail again. You know what I'm saying? And it's like Jay-Z didn't give his shoe deal to, he didn't give the other guys that was on Rockefeller the shoe deal. He was with basketball players. And I'm like, I could have just put the shoes on the court. Or because I took the Stan Smith Adida to kind of create what the unit shoe was. I could have just went to tennis.

You know what I'm saying? And made that cool while we was doing everything else. And instead, I gave all of them the check, that fund that was there. Finance was coming from RBK to pay them to do it and they was just on trend with what everybody else was doing style wise doing that so i'm like i don't expect that to come but at that point i was telling them that they needed to focus on their brand extension and stuff and everything else because i'm not going to do it for you like to just do it for you and it's not look i'm not that much smarter than these guys you know what i mean

i just the time period that i had between like oh it was oh five the massacre because at that period look oh three from oh three to oh five i was on a whole experiment like if the girls was excited about me we was going i don't know who it is. I wouldn't even know. It's fuzzy. It's blurry to me who was there at that point right now. But 05, I was locking in because I was trying to understand what was actually going on. Because Get Rich Took Off's so fast. Yeah. So I was in the hotels. I'm on the phone with the lawyer.

I'm saying, so what does this mean? Because the terms in the actual contracts are written within legal terms that I don't understand everything that's there. And I went through everything until I could know enough to use my gut instincts on how I want to do the deal. Meanwhile, everybody else is at the party. There's a nonstop party that's going on that they missed all of the information and stuff like that. So when it came time for them to secure keeping things going,

they didn't do the same thing I did. Damn. You talk about writing. Did you only write for G-Unit artists? Because yesterday I saw a reference track for Haya leaked. Yeah. And is you doing Haya? I did What's Her Name.

Six songs on that album, right? Well, everybody knows that. I did on What's Her Name, I did Paradise for LL with Amory. Oh, wow. Okay. Amory, yeah. Yeah, I wrote that, and then Charmaine did the reference vocals and then from Tone and Poke.

Because it was a familiar loop, they needed to have the chorus on that. You know how track masters used to do all of the joints over? So to pitch that to ll you got to have a full picture for him to see it when he come in or he's not going to understand why he's doing that that loop again you know i'm saying and we did that and um a few other pieces i did uh for next oh for next i did&B group? Yeah. What song was that? I forgot which one of the joints, but I got a plaque for that.

Wow. For next, and I did, I wrote for Puff. What did you write for Puff? I wrote for Puff, huh? What song did you write for Puff? The Not Guilty and the Filthy, come on. Gotcha. Oh, Take This Money.

Take This Money. Oh, the G-Dep joint. Yeah. You wrote that? Yeah. You got a big plaque for that. Take this money. Oh, the G-Dap joint. You wrote that? You got a big plaque for that. Yeah. Yeah, I saw Yale said that you were supposed to sign the bad boy. Yeah, you know what? I was going back and forth, and he just hit.

Look, they knew I was talented. They just looked at it and was like, I don't want all of this stuff that comes with it. You know what I'm saying? And it took for me to go around until the M stumbled over it. But he didn't know the trouble that came with them. You know what I'm saying? And it took for me to go around until M stumbled over it. But he didn't know the trouble that came with it. You see what I'm saying? So I was like, yo, no, this is perfect. Like, I wasn't even going to say nothing.

To be honest with you, I didn't even address them directly until, like, Jai had said something about Haley. And they had a relationship because they had hung out together and got high together. Jai and said something about Haley and they had a relationship because they was getting they had hung out together and got high together. Jai and Em? Yeah. So from there

like because he felt like there was something that there was closer than there was based on that. This is Jai. So when he when they got into when we got to a point

he had fired off and he said some stuff about Haley and that was just it i seen them was upset i said all right i can do it now and i went in the next room i was in detroit and i recorded automatic gunfire that weekend wow because the first tape 50 cent was the future was the all of those tapes that was one photo shoot in this dude garage wow all with the white with the red white and blue and blue, the white shirt.

It was all three shirts we had. We had a green theme, the red, white, and blue theme, and white t-shirts. I want to go back. So you wrote Haya, the game Haya. Yeah. You wrote six songs off that album, Haya, This Is How We Do. I'm automatically thinking this is how we do,

but his verse was on that. So when you see the writing credits, you think it's his verse. Or Hated or Love It, you see the writing credits, you think it's his verse or hated to love it you see the right hand love it yeah what else what is it like they saw kind of stuff about like he said he wrote what up gangsta yeah i'm like come on bro he wasn't even around when we did that like that was before we even came into the picture like that's get rich die trying he he didn't even come into after that yeah we don't even know who he was after but there's a i know there's a point where

desperation will you say anything like this is how to rob me at how to rob yeah yeah columbia you know what i'm saying i'm like yo because after big and and the tupac name artist was kind of staying away from saying everybody's name this is when they're doing 23 bets on one of them. Threats of sending them. Lex three TV sets, the minimum. That's Nas about Jay-Z in my lifetime. You know what I'm saying? So it was all subliminal. Say everything I got to say about you without saying it's for you. And let the listener go, oh, he's saying this.

You know what I'm saying? So they were still doing that. And I was like, I can't say everybody's name because it looks like I'm going back to the neighborhood. I'm going to be subjected to what the hood got for you anyway. So it just didn't matter. It was like, whatever. I'm going back anyway. It looked like.

What caused more drama? How to Rob or Holy Quran? How to Rob, really. Okay. You know, it's the Quran. Look, and they just, the documentary thing came out. And I don't care nothing about that because I know Nas, his, the connection to that is there was God body.

You know what I'm saying? Like that is his thing. Other than that, there's nothing else there. You know what I mean? And you look and I go, well, what is the, when they put the Quran, they mentioned how many times that their name were in records in the documentary and it was cool every time that their name was in records but they was upset with the version that i did oh you thought it was the free team that yeah because it's

they would do 10 different now for people that don't know what the holy quran is is you talked about a lot of the the hustlers in queens yeah the neighborhood neighborhood. Yeah, and I don't know if you know, but you know DJs would get beat up for playing the record. Oh, I didn't know that. Yeah, though, all day. Like, if you played it, DJs would call you and be like, don't play that record. Yeah, that's how crazy it was back then.

And they wouldn't say nothing to me, though. They'd go, nah, nah. Like, when I seen him, he didn't say nothing. He didn't have a problem with the record. He had a problem later when law enforcement started to hold on to the record. And they're not holding the record because of what I said on it.

Because they already got a separate homicide that you're sitting in here on. They already got your tapes and the dope that you got caught with in Baltimore. So what they're really holding you to is the fact that I didn't say nothing when I got hit. So they're saying he's associated to this thing with this kid, and this is why they keep bringing that into this actual case.

Remember all of the snitch you, snitch you. That's the worst thing you can be in the environment that I come up in, right? Where the snitch at in the documentary? I'm not in that case. So there's no snitch there, right? There's nothing about nothing. all he says is he know me he know what that was about and what that was about was he got

an idea and it ain't the same idea I got mine's work obviously you understand what I'm saying his idea is yo leave them alone they are food cause he eating off them when the feds are saying His idea is, yo, leave them alone. They are food. Because he's eating off them.

Like when the feds are saying, yo, he's saying, yo, we beat the feds. You never beat nothing. You wasn't involved in nothing. They really washed you up to make sure that they got him so you couldn't help him. Financially. Yeah, they only put you in a case to eat you. He'll tell you he was two million in the hole in the thing. I think I heard that.

He said that on Drink Champ. Why you two million in the hole is to make sure you can't help him. He went to trial with a legal aid. They never had a hung jury, no nothing. These words out of his mouth. You see what I'm saying? I go see Biz, I go see Cat and Clinton. Cat go, yeah, he fucked that up. He go he go i don't understand he was supposed to have both why he choose you see what i'm saying like he's digging on you y'all from you from it

like you from there that that's automatic and you're going i understand that these kids are trying to make death row this is cats and they're trying to make death row. This is cats, and they're trying to make death row. That's what they're trying to do with this, with that. But why would you go against that to do that? You know I have the resilience to go against anybody. There's nobody that's too ill. Those are the guys that you would choose not to go against at that point. It's in the environment.

And it's not him individually. Because everybody's greater in their absence than they are in their presence. His aura is stronger than his. You ask him about that when he go get his arm broke in the joint. They missed that part. He's going to say he slipped, fell on the mop. Yeah. Is there anybody 50 Cent fears?

Ever? Historically in life? All of the situations, if you don't have fear, then you're just not acknowledging danger. All right. At that point. I learned that in the 50th law. No, yeah, but you're just not. You're stupid.

You're not scared of nothing. You watch that guy that just has zero fear and say, yeah, we can get him. He's tough. We're going to have a hard time chewing on him, but we're going to get him. We get him. Other than that, you just got can get him. He tough. We're going to have a hard time chewing on him, but we're going to get him. We get him. Other than that, you just got to pay attention to your surroundings and things that's going on. And you say, never saying the toughest guy.

I'm going to do what I want to do. And then if I die in the process, I was doing what I wanted to do. Even the themes. Look, it's power of the dollar. I get hit, I come back. Get rich or die trying. And the process, because that's already what I'm feeling like I'm going to do. I'm in the process.

It's the greatest thing is to watch me because either I'm going to get rich or I'm going to die in the process. And this is what I'm going to call a record. So was the massacre you projecting all the pain you felt on everybody else? I was supposed to go, that album was supposed to come out February 8th. Supposed to be the St. Valentine's Day Massacre. They pushed it back because we was

doing too good with Games record. And I'm like, yo, you gotta think Interscope was, when East Coast, West Coast was going on, Interscope was the West Coast. So there is some uncomfortability with me being from the East Coast, West Coast was going on, Interscope was the West Coast. So there is some uncomfortability with me being from the East Coast that I'm not even conscious of initially.

I'm going like, yo, they're like, yo, they love that they're doing extremely well like that, but they're going, damn, why we can't have one like from here? You see what I'm saying? From Dre's perspective, it's why we can't have one from the West Coast.

That's the assignment. So when games started moving, they was like, wait, wait, wait. To build that. Once that record is out and it's selling, they're going, wait, wait, we don't want to cut the legs off of this. And you're going, but that's rearranging my presentation what i'm doing so now i wouldn't uh i wouldn't have um given him things that were so good if i felt like it was going all to what i'm doing you see what i'm saying like i did my first record so fast like the second record

my attempt at the first record went was done in a weekend so this is rich no the the second massacre the massacre and that the attempt that was done in a weekend turns in the weekend. Get rich? No, the second. Massacre. The Massacre. And that attempt that was done in the weekend turns the games out. You regret giving Game Hall those records? I'm going to say,

do you regret, hate it or love it, this is how we do? Look, it's just the way things are. When I look, I don't see anyone who hasn't,

who hasn't helped other artists and haven't had it reciprocated properly like that's what every everybody like you know i'm saying even with kodak you see him with jack boy the things that these guys come together they go like i'm talking to kodak he go yo but i didn't know we was gonna go through that it's too hard like it's too hard to get here for us to go through that. I said, but nah, that's the same thing as what we experienced. We looked out for, like, when they're not right under you

because they're in a different area, it's easy to persuade them. Like, this is also how Jimmy Hinchman felt. This is what drive how Gang was behaving because he also had his whole management team is going yo you don't need them you from you got a whole coast you got the whole west coast like you don't got to be down with them when he's i just gave him the record yeah you know i'm saying and then they go he flips out i'm like oh okay but it is a reflection of you see how the jimmy henchman thing turned out like it turns into

real street stuff you know what I'm saying so you're going he was feeling that way long before Game said anything you know what I mean and then it just

was like yeah full on we can do everything we want to do vice versa because Chris really his issues was with Chris

with Chris Lighty that's why I don't like James Cruz wow I saw his review too yeah I don's why I don't like James Cruz. Why? I saw his review too. Yeah, I don't like him at all. Because he's a sucker.

The whole time he was still going to go see Jimmy, hanging out. Meanwhile, Jimmy is getting Mike Lighty cut in the back of the head and everything else and the shooting and everything else is going on. He's a punk. When you see people that just feel, they're just fearful of, we say respect comes from admiration of fear. One or the other, right? His respect for Jimmy comes from fear. So he's a sucker in my eyes.

You know what I'm saying? And then he does all of this talk about things that went on with Chris Lighty that I'm like, yo, why are you even talking about what I'm doing or what came from me? You was like, you were in the meeting. You didn't actually make no deals. I thought he said he managed you at one point. He was working for Chris Lighty.

So you in there as Chris Lighty's assistant, why y'all doing what you're doing in the deal? And when did you, he never had no agreement with me to manage me in any way or any capacity.

So when he say that, it irritates me. You know what I'm saying? And then, like, later, he's a sucker. I didn't understand why Chris wanted him around. You know what I'm saying? Like, when the shooting happened with Lil' Kim, our front D-Rock, him, yo, come out from behind the red car.

They got us. That's what he was doing. You know what I'm saying? I'm like, why is this shit around us? Give him a break. And then Chris was, like, dealing what I'm saying? I'm like, why is this shit around us? Give him a break. And the Christmas was like, like dealing with him because he had,

you know, like a background. Because he had a radio background, he always looked like he should get a piece. But if you getting the best deal for me, why you feel like

somebody should get your piece? That's the way I look at it. I look like, if you go to somebody else and say, yo, you should get me a watch or you should get me this. That was his thing. You know what I'm saying? And I look like if you go to somebody else and say, yo, you should get me a watch or you should get me this,

that was his thing. You know what I'm saying? And I'm like, but if you're asking him for a watch, then you feel like you gave him a deal that, then you didn't get me the best deal if he owes you a watch for the deal. You see what I'm saying? And then it's like, they act like they don't understand why I don't like him. Between Diddy and Cruz, I don't think you'd have worked on Bad Boy, Fiff. No, I don't think I'd have workeddy and Cruz. I don't think you'd worked on bad boy

That point but when I was when I was Jennifer is who told puff to work with me Okay, cuz she her first album on the city was 6th, Roy Rooney was the executive producer. Roy Rooney was my executive producer for Power of the Doubt. So we had the relationship from Queens and everything coming out that put us in the same circles. And then Jennifer was telling me, yo, he is dope. Work with him.

He's going to, eventually it's going to happen. And then Puff, that's what Puff was calling me to do. But Puff can't even hear a hit. See, I know he couldn't. Puff can't hear a hit? That's kind of crazy. He still hear things from back then, that time period. Oh, got you, got you.

Now, okay, okay, okay. He can't buy it. You play it for him right now and it's hot. He can't buy it. This is why he's fighting Drake. When you hit Drake, because he used the beat that he didn't actually use 100 right you see what i'm saying so if you like he heard it and he hear drake's use it but it wasn't a hit yet until drake put the thing the the lines on and he's upset about that because he can't hear

it but he felt like he took something from and he you know did something for that because that's just did tiara marie ever pay you all your money yet she's still only my money how much is left that she owes i think it's like 50 something thousand now i thought it was 25 000. yeah and it keep going up because she keep delaying and moving around like the she don't feel like she went to college, man. It's clearly the principle with you because it's not the money. No, it's not. But why, though? Because I have to set examples so people don't keep coming to play with me.

See, look, this is Lisa Bloom. I don't think nobody played with you, Phil. But I don't think nobody plays with you. Listen, they say me too. I say not me. I tell people all the time. You see what I'm saying, Charmaine? When they say me too, I say not me. I tell people all the time. You see what I'm saying, Charmaine? When they say me too, I say not me.

I'm not involved with that. So when she comes, she was upset because I said something about Trey. Trey Songz had a situation that was going on. One of the girls that was around in the actual house said, nah, he didn't hit her. That particular situation, he didn't hit her. He put her out the house. But the way he said it and he did it made her feel like she, she felt like he slapped her.

Right. And that's why later she, she said that he hit her. And I'm like, because the other female that I knew there was there said that to me, I was like, nah, I don't believe he did that.

And then she was like, don't be, uh, but she's, uh, shaming the girl that, nah, I don't believe he did that. And then she was like, don't be shaming the girl that one of her clients victim shaming one of her clients. And I'm like, no, no. I'm not victim shaming. I'm just saying I don't believe her. And then the

next available thing that she could come with she was, oh, yes. Jumped on the Tierra Marie thing because she's going to come, she's going to service me, right? Because the climate is all me too. When you bring a female and you said you've done something, you see what I'm saying? They feel like, oh, yeah, you're finished, buddy.

And then when it don't work out, they think it just goes away. See, you can't say I'm paying. No, it does not. You see what they say? But that was a great, I understand exactly why he's doing that. Ten times worse. I get it. Ten times worse.

Because they would hold it to you. Yes. And then you know what they would do to you. Just based on those circumstances, you go, it'll end your entire career. And you go, so that's what you was attempting to do at that point, or you wanted, she said to her friend, I'm trying to get the bag. You know what I'm saying? And I'm like, oh, okay oh okay so now i'm gonna make you feel like you went to college why k osiris are you gonna help me get into acting he wanted to do some acting he wasn't

he said he was up here he said that you were supposed to put him in power or something asking you to put him in power or something he's a personality i think a bigger personality than than artists like as far as a songwriter and stuff like that. Because when you watch him, like, when I see him on the clips and stuff like that.

Nah, he like that in person too. It's a ton of personality there. So, you know, when we find the right thing, we can get him in there. He,

tell him the story. Tell him the story. So, we talk about rumors, right? Yeah. And we, you know,

when you Google his name, there's a rumor that pops up. That he was Diddy's boy toy. Oh shit. Right? Wait, so this is... So Charlamagne said... It's not true, but I told him, after he brought up this stuff with you, I said, you know what 50 gonna say when he meet you? Oh, no, I don't know that that was going on.

You know... I can't wait to run into him again. What you gonna say to him, Phil? I thought he was playing with your booty in Miami. You know it was in Miami. yo look that's what james cruz used to say all the time miami miami he's like miami i'm like what's the matter what you're talking about what happened in miami man i'm missing 50 you get you man yeah he gonna get really worse with his fear yeah yeah he gonna you know he's been, but just come here.

You know what Fiddy going to say to you when he sees you? What? I heard Diddy touched your butt. I already know it. Yeah. Wait till I see him. Wait till I see him. I'll be like, yo.

Yeah. You and Diddy got a good relationship, though, right? Yeah, I'm going to. Yeah. You see, I got Quincy's and Raising Canaan. Oh, that's true. Oh, yeah and and I want to get Justin this song how did that go to do you have talked about that he stay out of the stage that's about his talent that's not about like he read he read for that he killed it you know I'm saying

I think like and I called him to tell him that. Like, this ain't got nothing to do with your daddy. It's really about the work you put in. You know what I'm saying? That's right. Now, why did you pass on J. Cole? Before we get to the new stuff, why did you pass on J. Cole? That was so early, bro. Like, this is before.

Like, I think, look, there's a difference. You know, I think when, at that point, we didn't have a lot of representation on the street end. Like, we were the when at that point we didn't have a lot of representation on the street in like we were the representation at that point and you know they're cringing for something else this whatever it is that is represented but to me jay cole um kendrick lamar um these artists existed early on when I fell in love with hip hop but it was Taleb Kweli yeah

it was Most Def Tribe Called Quest yeah Tribe Called Quest it was like it was Taleb Most Def

Common Sense you know what I'm saying and they really as dope as they are like they are it's like it's smarter rap, smarter music. The Logic can sit down and be humble.

We're supposed to already know to sit down and be humble. But when they put that there, it's almost the conscious side of it. And I'm like, yo, no, I was cool, but I didn't really know if everybody was ready for it because of how strong it was embracing what we was doing. The street stuff. That's all it was. A lot of people say that when you and Kanye went head up. That's what that was.

That shifted. When you sold more, it shifted from the streets to what they were doing. When you do, look, they just wanted that anyway. Look at the best new artists. 13 million records on the first album. You got to have a double CD and die to go diamond. Tupac, All Eyes On Me. Prior to my album coming, Give It To Die Trying,

you had to have a double CD and die. Yeah, because Big 2, I think Life After Death. Those are the only two albums that sold that many copies. So when you come and you're having that much success, you will see... Diana Ross was on the award panel saying, you don't have to be like this. You don't have to be like...

They're afraid their kids are going to want to be 50 Cent if they acknowledge the material. So they don't give you the trophies. I got the checks. I didn't get the trophies. Jay got all the motherfucking trophies, man. That's because he signed that contract. What contract?

The one with Beyonce. Yo, shut up, man. No, if you don't sign, you don't give him a trophy, she ain't coming. They need them in the seats. Now, come on. Beyonce done ran down on you once, Fifth.

Come on. She did. She did. Word. She jumped off a thing off the ledge. I was like, oh, shit. I didn't really know what to do. It was one of those situations where you was like, whoa.

Now, look. If you said it's the J, if you said it's the J, he'll look at you and go, nah, that happened. So Beyonce jumped down on you. She jumped down. She was like on a windowsill. Right. We was in Vegas. She said, come on, I'm talking to her.

She jumped down. She was like, go to the door. And I'm like, wait, what is she doing? That's me and Jay-Z's stuff. This ain't got nothing to do with you, girl. So who wasn't there? I'm talking to Jay. You're talking to Jay.

She was going to talk to Jay. She jumped down, came over. I said, oh, shit, look at this. They about to jump you. You're lucky Solange wasn't there. Yeah, you're lucky Solange wasn't there. If Solange was there, I would have had to reboot. Solange was like, she popped in that elevator like it was nothing.

There was some gangster shit going on there. Jay couldn't do nothing, huh? So what did B say when she was just staring at you? Nah, she came like she was ready. Like she thought something was going to happen. And I'm like, yo, whoa, whoa, whoa. She's throwing me off now. Because I don't know exactly how to respond to this.

You're still Beyonce. You know, she brought all of the sexy over. With that energy jumping off. And I'm like, what the fuck is going on? Uh-oh, uh the what's going on i thought oh oh oh oh i'm seeing all this stuff going she's going what's this case i'm like wait what happened i look at jay he go nah you tell me but y'all knew each other for years you had you had the uh the thugs what i want yeah yeah the thugs early on yeah that's the caption you know that beyon Beyonce back 50 down. You know that. I thought people knew that story.

She did. She did. She did. She did. She did. She did. She did. She did. Oh.

She did jump down. I didn't even know how to respond to that. I just looked at Jay. He was looking. He was like. I said, yo, all right. Whatever. I don't know what the fuck.

Because we really. I'm just saying what's up. But she feeling my energy come over. Because we do say things about each other. It's competitive nature. That's it. Yeah. It's hip hop. All each other. It's competitive nature. That's it. It's hip-hop. All you battle is not like, you think I want to do something to her?

We don't want to do nothing to each other. Y'all got a good relationship, right? You and Ho? Yeah. If you look, I think if you don't have people that you're competing with, I don't know where you get your additional energy. All right. All right.

No, you're right. Speaking of Houston, Tycoon Weekend. It's Rene. Rene's like, come on, Tycoon Weekend. Tycoon Weekend. Rene texted me 36,000 times. Tycoon Weekend. Now, break down. What is Tycoon Weekend for people

that don't know? Tycoon, it started in Atlanta. Ant did it the first time we did it in atlanta then we moved it let me break it down so in atlanta they rented a mansion in a residential area and had about 5 000 people come in that residential area white people walking their dogs and we just brought the hood to i mean i don't even know how you did that yeah it was like was like a real, a real show that we did, like a show,

everybody, Chris was there, everybody came. We did that. Then the next day was the pool party thing and it went over. We got away with that

because then nothing really, nothing bad happened. It resulted in just a great time. Then in New York, we did it again, but we did it attached to the premiere the power

premiere so we we saw the garden was sold out and we did the because i had all of everybody coming out to to do some performances stuff at the same time so we did tycoon around it and that was at um barcode barcode in jersey and then um we surrounded a bunch so I tried to surround more events with it like pier 115 and and a bunch of other stuff and then the next time like this time in Houston there's so many locations that it makes it made better sense to build out a whole weekend and so I took the Toyota Center and the Comedy Music Festival I added the comedy show to it. And then I put musical acts in between each committee

to keep the room, the ambiance going. And then the same way the DJ would play music in between. Instead of that, we're getting the actual live artists. And then the proceeds to that will go to G Unity and to HISD. Oh, so you don't even make no money off it. That's charity. That's from the entrepreneurship program in Houston. I did three schools.

First is Whitley, Worthing, and Cashmere. And I'm spending it to six schools. And then the proceeds from the show will probably fund me being able to do even more. So probably nine schools. But at that point, we're out of the hood because we don't want to run out of the hood spots and then we're in everybody else's neighborhood with the after-school program.

The entrepreneurship program is doing extremely well. It's when you bring the kids together and you tell them, you've got to come up with your idea to be successful because it's their idea. You see how much more passionate they're about it. And then when they get to the point that they sort out, because they're providing information for them how to develop it, and then they go, so what do you need now? And they say, well, we need money.

And they go, well, okay, well, here's how we fill out your job application when you do that 75 kids 69 of the 75 kids were employed because it's not even your idea it's my idea i need the money so i can pay for my idea wow versus you saying yo go get a job they're like no i don't know if I want a job because it's too much. You know what I'm saying? Once they put their thought into what they actually want to do and they become passionate about it, they get into it, they actually want to make it happen. So it was able to get more of them motivated

to do some different stuff. Why do you like Houston so much? You know what? My experience in Houston, it's just been kind acts of people from Houston. I've had a good time several times that I went out there and made me like it. And then the taxes. Yeah, no state taxes.

Because I'm looking in New York and all I get is a Yankee hat, bro. That's all they gave me was a Yankee hat. And they want 58% now? You go, so a little more than your partner. I'm like, wait a minute. I could have. No wonder Puffy's touching that butt in Miami. He's still getting it.

See, he's paying those taxes. He has more money because it's Miami. That's what happens. That's what happens, bro. Now, you do think about it. You're like, man, you know how much money we could be making if we was in, not in New York? Yeah.

It's a different thing. Like, it's just, look, and y'all syndicated so many places that y'all could just move the show to. Let's take the show to Houston. Don't give us no idea. Show to Miami. I'll be in South Carolina. You know what I mean?

Throw it out. He said that straight like that. I'll go to Houston in a minute for that. So when's the weekend? When's that weekend? It's August 25th through the 28th. Okay. I got a couple more questions.

How have you been able to maintain relationships with people even though you have said things about them? Like the Dr. Dre's, the Jimmy Iovine's, like Dre had you at the Super Bowl. I don't think, you know, Jimmy Iovine will walk by you at a game. You know what I mean? Like, you know, look, when you say, by you at a game. You know what I mean? You know, look, when you say,

when I say things, like, I'm really talking about the true experience. I'm not saying anything about them that's a lie. You know what I'm saying? Then I'd be upset. You know what I mean? And maybe this person

can't speak to you when they see you because you said something and you lied on them. But if you... You said F. Jimmy Iovine on a record, on a mixtape. Yeah, because he gave examples. He gave examples that it's okay as long as it makes money.

Oh, gotcha. Okay to disrespect you. Right, so it's okay for Gain to say everything that he said because he was still an earner. He's still bringing in money. And this is the example that you gave me because he brought me that and said, can you fix this? If you it i'll give you like break the deal up and give you the half of the money

and then when when the disrespect comes in there and it's like it's almost a fear factor because of the association of the jimmy henchman thing add that to it because that kept them from not not doing the project you know i'm saying and then there's a it's a whole different different thing but in that example of you saying he can say all that and look if he signed the g unit direct like the other artists with that kind of disrespect you don't have a record deal. You don't have music coming out. Instead, because it was a joint venture, there was still no control factor, and they continued to put the music out.

So it was like, you're letting me compete with me so you can make money. The artist that comes from the material that I just created that made itself five million pieces is now a legit competitor for me when how about the label when you're delivering something that's pro 50 cent you're delivering something that's anti-50 cent aren't you telling the DJ it's okay to say whatever you feel about it but bro I heard you shit on tv networks and then get a deal from the same tv network because they

don't care about they're not one person The network is a conglomerate. There's multiple people there. When you say this person is an idiot, it's an idiot. But you said that before. Yeah, like this person, you're talking about this person, not the entire organization.

And when you're working on a project, no, this is true. These people have issues. Like, you got people that have cool jobs that weren't necessarily cool people on the way there. And they get there and they're dealing with their own issues, their own energy there. Like, ah, looking for, they want to be seen as the CEO, the guy who actually made it happen. And I get in the way with that because people look and say 50 make that's 50 show. Mm-hmm Mm-hmm, you see I'm saying so you get that energy only is there if that's a conflict

Anybody doesn't doesn't care about that So are we watching stars or not anymore? You said I thought it was no subscription. Yeah, no 50 cent program for six months. That's what I thought It's gonna come back So I get my subscription back i want to make sure we was all stars you say all stars yeah i don't think it's going to be what it was where it was headed because i won't be loading everything else onto it what they have there is what will be there and then the new stuff that i have like i took the the uh the massacre

the snoops it was the case are different things off of the platform because it's like, nah, I'm doing too much for the platform. If you go, look, when I didn't receive the accolades connected to the success that I was having in music, I focused on the actual sound scan. This is when artists started talking about sound scan.

Correct. And everything else, because I was like, yo, now look, because this is the actual stats. This is what shows you the general public actual response to the material. When I'm not receiving the accolades connected to it in television, I started marketing more.

Over marketing, I became the Starz network. So there was more visibility. I say I'm outperforming the shows that they are giving the nod to so they see we're doing bigger numbers than those shows all right and then eventually they have to look the issue is a tougher issue to work through because what we're working through is diversity and be like they're looking and the system does have this cookie cutter mentality it feels like that this is the way you make a hit. And you can put people with different ethnic backgrounds

and lead roles into big numbers. You can tell those stories, and this is what power proves in these other projects. When you see Empire at Fox and then Snowfall and stuff like that, whenever you just see people that look like you and lead roles, it's showing you that that's their – Fox was saying this is our power. The same.

The other network is saying this is ours. And it's only one at a time for them. You know what I'm saying? Look at how when you see the young talent like Lil' Meech orael rainey or mckay curtis for raising canon when you see them out and they're on the in the club run like in the nightclub you never seen actors on that circuit that's right right you know what i'm saying like that was this is really the first time that they're making a connection and it's because they're connected not only to to having a hit show,

but they're connected to music culture by way of coming to us. I don't think people realize what you're doing at Starz. I don't think people realize how unprecedented that is. How much programming are you responsible for over there? Like 50%? Well, yeah, they would say 50% of it, and it's like probably 80% of what the viewership is into. Wow.

At that point, you're supposed to be an executive up there. They're looking at it like there's two tracks. Percentage. If you go in with the confusion, everything that you see me talk about being upset about are things you don't see anywhere else. You don't see other networks having the television show leak. Yeah.

You don't see, you having the television show leak yeah you don't see you know I'm saying like when they talk about a program and for specific demographic then you go like those go premium woman is their mandate when you do that you go okay well anyone but I think what your hits are because power wasn't premium and all for the because Paolo wasn't premium woman. And all four of the spinoffs are not premium woman. So now you're saying you can't have the hit that you had to begin. It's drawing people in because you just created a new mandate that's away from the success you have. Right.

And I'm going, wait, so is this, can you explain that to me a little further so I understand exactly what it is? Because I can produce what you need. I further so i understand exactly what it is because i can produce what you need i just got to understand exactly what it is because what does when you see me in variety or the rap or hollywood reporter and stuff like that that does nothing from my phone goes further than the hollywood reporter and variety i could just post on instagram absolutely right so when when you think about what those things do those things speak directly to business insiders it says if you have this project and you want to sell it you should come to 50 so we can sell it and i get additional things but but i can look at these

things and see if they work for the network when you understand the mandate you know what i'm saying so i'm going i could find what you need, what you want, and bring it in and produce it for you. If you don't, if there's a, once there's clarity, it's clear, but they looking and using it for their own identity. I hate mandates, especially when you've given a network four or five shows that work. Create more of those

type of shows but they take common sense it doesn't take it doesn't take anybody to come up with some like einstein yeah to be involved they're saying you've got to go to oh my bad yeah but if you make a hit you want more of a hit you want more of that energy more that that would service that base that would keep them going and you see the network is continuously growing but in in in exchange i've seen them do things for vanity like they'll pay more for like first of all their premium woman mandate is premium white woman because since then the only thing that they've created was uh the julia roberts gas lit and and uh courtney cox was it uh i don't even know the name of that joint. That shit's like watching Pink Peele. The worst shit ever, bro. Because it's like Oxymoron. It's almost

like a horror comedy. Hard to make me laugh when I'm scared. You know what I'm saying? It's hard to do both at the same time, so I didn't know really what they was trying to do with that one, but, you know. Well, you better do the right thing, because, you know, there's no reason

to watch stars if 50 Cent programming isn't on there. Absolutely. That's just a fact. Well, we appreciate you for joining us, Tom Cooley.

Always, man. You can talk to Fifth Forever. August 25th, out in Houston. I'll be out there hosting others. Make sure you get

your tickets. There's so many things from pool parties, clubs, to charity events, to comedy shows, performances. Make sure you're part of it.

And we'll see you out there soon. And Raising Cane ain't coming soon. That's right. August 14th. August 14th, right? August 14th. Is it true they asked you

to be on the Murder, Inc. doc? No. They wanted, what's her name? Who? To try and clear I get money for the Supreme thing.

Oh, okay, okay. Somebody told me they asked you to be on the dock, the Reading dock. Did you clear it? No, I haven't. Oh, I didn't. I don't need that money. Fuck out of here. It's 56.

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