The Breakfast Club - INTERVIEW: 50 Cent Talks Vegas Residency, Advice To Lil Durk, G-Unit, Big Meech's Next Move, Diddy + More

Episode Date: October 29, 2024

The Breakfast Club Sits Down With 50 Cent To Discuss Vegas Residency, Advice To Lil Durk, G-Unit, Big Meech's Next Move, And Diddy. Listen For More!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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filling in. And we got a special guest in the building. The legend. 50 Cent, ladies and gentlemen. I'm here, baby. I'm here bright and early. Well, first and foremost, Jess said she wants

that bottle signed. Yeah, I'll make sure I'm signing for her. First and foremost, she said make sure Fifth signs the bottle. I told Fifth, Jess want a roll or something.

She didn't want that too. She asked for that too. You know what? Slow her down this. She would have already been in power if she was, because I have been reached out to her. Why are you shooting in New York?

Don't tell her that. She won't come back. You're shooting in New York. Why she can't do both? No, just when, what happened was, like we had talked about doing something. There was a role, actually me and Mary had a project that was like the, it was like the Brady Bunch.

It's like a new urban version of it. And I watched Jess with her son. And I saw that, and I was like, yo, she should play that. We should put it in this thing. And then we had it. It was in development for a while. A lot of projects don't actually make it to television. That one specifically, it fell apart.

It had a husband and wife writer team that we just couldn't get it over the wall with the scripts. So that one, you know, we just went back to the drawing board. But I had some things that I was looking to adjust for already because I was like, I watch people online and I see like they're working and there's no real, they're receiving, like they're trying to monetize the material that they're putting out, but it's not a big payday, like as big as it could be when they're on, like they're trying to monetize the material that they're putting out, but it's not a big payday,

like as big as it could be when they're on the show. Like network TV or streaming platforms. So I look and see who's really working it. Because some of them stand out. It just works out the gate. She was one of them. Look at this, 949. I didn't even see this till just now.

Good morning. Tell 50 Cent I love him, and I'm still waiting for him to put me in some position. Nah, this is real. This is real. She's serious. Last night. Now, we got a lot of people coming this week, right?

One of them, Kamala Harris, is checking in. All these people on the list. The first thing she says, man, 50 gonna be there tomorrow? Yo, tell him I said what's up, and I wish I could have seen him. Have him record a video saying something to me or something. I don't give a fuck. Man, I'm mad as a bitch. I'm not gonna be there. So she need her job. She need her drop. She want this sign. You got some things to do.

I gotta do some stuff for her before I leave. I think you get a lot of that because you so accessible still. Yeah, I talk to her. I saw her working and I started DMing her and was talking to her about it already, like long before because I was like yo, nah, this is, it would fit perfect here. Just trying to place it in a big part

instead of a, like, a cameo or something was what held it up. Well, you still got time. You still got a lot of shows. One of the things I always wanted to ask you, man, why was Shreveport the destination spot for your studio? It was because they already had the infrastructure. Like, they had already had the tax incentive

and everything there to have a business be functional. Like, if you think about, like York, L.A., the studios out here, they're paying 58% of the taxes now. So if you was on the 39%, you're already going out of business. If you don't scale back, you're already going out of business. So a lot of them that didn't make adjustments in California, I'm buying equipment from their companies after they filed bankruptcy. For cheap prices.

Hey, pennies on the dollar. Now break down Shreveport because a lot of people have never been to Shreveport. But, you know, people say it's a very violent place. You know what? Look. But that weekend. That's a part of a reputation that we don't know because when we did, like the time that I did go, we had zero violence.

You know what I mean? For four days straight. And I don't know nobody that said that they didn't have a good time. And for me, when I get into these pockets, of course, I tap in. I'm going to get into the neighborhoods and make them understand what it means to the town, to the city itself, if it goes the right way. And then you don't have no violence.

Now, a lot of times, people go there and they don't know where you're from or what you're doing or how. And every neighborhood is a little bit of an element there. Something going on there. And then for it to be nothing, they almost looked at it like, I had to go to Louisiana to to meet with the governor jeff to talk about the taxes because it was talking about changing it and kind of carve out what i would need to be comfortable staying in that place because there's look at that point so i mean i didn't have time i i spent we had 90 days bro like even though look at the car show scenario like it was like let's do it we hit a roadblock

i go no let's just do it anyway like let's just do it you know i mean because i wanted to make sure we had something for everybody how much did you spend that that weekend about five million dollars out of your own money yeah because there was no you didn't have no no spot no huge sponsors and nothing like that all out your pocket you a club. People don't understand what you did, and it's hard to describe it. Like, you built your own club. You built your own car show, fit gym. You brought your own restaurants. Like, you built a city in Shreveport for that weekend.

But just to show them what would happen. Because then you get 35,000 people to come to the town. The tax, the hotel taxes for people staying in, not only on the Shreveport side, but the Bossier side, they raised the hotel prices when they see so many, the demand for it. The flights went from $239 to $1,200. Coach.

Yes. You know what I mean? And you're going, man, why y'all just can't leave it $200? Leave it there because we need everybody to come. You know, but it almost was, it builds excitement when you do it the first time and it's successful like that. They showed out like the people should report not having any altercations or not doing anything.

I think it also attributes to the morale of law enforcement because when they're being paid, I was paying them damn near $65 an hour. So I had to spend an additional $600,000, but they were in a good space. So they're not looking to arrest you. They're looking to keep everything cool. And I think that temper,

when law enforcement, when they, when you, law enforcement, when they come out there like that, everybody chills out because it's like, they're not even tripping while we tripping or, or I don't,

you don't want to prove nothing when everything's going smooth. So everybody got taken care of except for Hurricane Chris. I was literally about to say, all of that and Hurricane Chris still has something to say.

I know you posted a clip of him like. They need to try and sell a record. That's a part of our culture also. Right? And that publicity tried to build

some sort of noise to drop a record and it didn't work because it's just like when the whole event and everything is positive and you come with I'm going to kill somebody energy

and they go for what exactly? For building the economy in a city that needs it? When you got that many people there that understand it, the smarter people that's there look and go, this fool just clicks on the thing, like on the machine. Because you can't, there's nothing negative about it. You can't find a negative point in that specifically. I took it away from hip hop and made it human harmony. the negative about it because you can't find a negative point in that specifically. Even,

I took it away from hip hop and made it human harmony. Made it the comedians, the comedic side of things. Let's laugh. Let's love music, bro. You know what I'm saying? Instead of it being, because that energy,

if we bring that and then something happens, they go, oh, it was this that did it. You know, and people assumed that we couldn't have

a good time there, but we, you know, obviously we did. And you had Louisiana artists there. Yeah, yeah. And people assumed that we couldn't have a good time there, but obviously we did. And you had Louisiana artists there. Yeah, yeah. And P was there. P. Fredo Bang. Look, Fredo gets played in my rock.

That kid, I don't play it. Hey, baby, that was 1,000 years ago. That's not in my playlist. These kids, Fredo, look, he was like, yo, I don't even know he, I know the word for word the songs because I'm listening

to the music. You know what I'm saying? And it's, I had a good time. Even some of the other artists, real local artists, they got a chance to rock. You know what I mean?

He just was upset because he wasn't a part of that, I guess. Now when you look at some of these younger artists and you see how they idolize you and idolize your music and then you see them get caught up.

Yeah. Do you have conversations with them? Like, I remember Casanova and you was trying to talk to Casanova, Troy Ave and now Lil Durk. Do you have conversations with them and be like, I've seen this play before? Yeah. And even with Durk, I was telling him, like, when I had him, he was in New York. We did the Power thing that's first

and last acting role at this point right now but we did the the not that the acting role when we

was doing the theme song for Force got you for the Chicago version then like I was like yo this is

this is them it's the real shit right he was like yeah and I said yo just watch him his crew cause he said that you know what I'm saying this is them. It's the real shit, right? He's like, yeah, yeah. And I said, yo, just watch him.

His crew. Because he said that. You know what I'm saying? And it's like, I've always had that energy myself in the middle of everything that was going on. I'm not just watching. We know, Fifth. The other side.

I'm always watching. I'm like, wait a minute. Where was you at Thursday at 3? If you got pulled over and you're not in jail, why are you not in jail? Dan, did you ever have that, though? I'm sure you did. Hell yeah. I've had guys.

I had a driver. He was supposed to go from Vegas to meet me in Miami. And he went in the airport with a hammer on him. So I'm like, the lawyer called me like 2 o'clock in the morning, said he got arrested. And I go, oh. He says, all right, this is the lawyer for him. I said, you ain't going to need a lawyer.

You're going to need a bond. The lawyer after that when you got priors. And then he called back and he says no no he said this is how he made the flight with a gun in the airport

he made the flight wait a minute wow shit already got prior felonies he made the flight by the time he get there in the car I sat in the car man

I'm like this I ain't see a motherfucking thing all the way to the hotel that would get there waiting on his niggas to tell me how the fuck you got on that plane. Then he go, yo,

this, this, this, this, this. But he's so weirded out. Like, it's so,

his energy, he didn't even know how to, hey, like, what's up? Like, as soon as he get, get into the car,

he didn't know how to do it. And don't let him drive you, man. You know, you got some funny business going on. You know what I'm saying? You can't get picked up after you have Friars, and then they just let you go, even with permits. You would not make the flight. There's no way he got to end up on a flight. I mean, he already got a handler.

For him to make the flight he already have somebody he can call yeah yeah yeah been able to get him out yeah when you said that to Dirk

what was his response to you he said you know what he said somebody just came in my house how do you know exactly what the address is I don't know my address

nobody like this it's not cause something happened the robbery in Georgia yeah when his when India had to shoot. He went straight to talking about that.

Damn. Damn. What do you think it is about many men that resonates so much with this generation? I think that they know their opposition. They know who the other side is. So they know. And on this cruise, there's a bunch of them over there. They all rock with each other. So if you a recognizable person on the other side,

then they already, that top-up vibe starts feeling like they all want me. Or they know that I'm a valuable piece over here. So if they hit me, then it'll create confusion over here. So it resonates even in the drill culture but you was able to see it early right because you've always made early residents I am not gang gang I am not gang bang

I do not like I do not like conspiracy keep both of those brothers away from me I don't like neither one of those these laws were designed to bring down the mafia, bro. Italian mafia. Look, when they say they reserve the ability to offer, like, when you think crime in general, right, when I say the word organized, it means intelligence.

That's why when I say organized crime, you only think of white Italian Americans. You don't think of triads. You don't think of Russiansads you don't think of Russians you don't think of any other ethnicity right Serbians none of that and we put all of that in power because there's different versions of it of it it's there and we wanted to have it feel like the city feels like it's 13 million people it's a mountain pot of people here culturally you want it to be

as diverse as possible so but when you do think about it, when they do say organize, they're saying smart criminal. If they have to point to a criminal and say smart, it's going to be a white Italian American. We are still in America. You see what I'm saying? They're not going to call anybody else smart. They'll call you kingpin.

They'll call you a gang leader. And they'll say massive amounts of money or massive. They were brought in at this point. But're not gonna call you smart mm-hmm but did you say that we did that with me when you think about it it was King King yeah yeah yeah organized crime what did you see early enough that was like nah this I just never seen anyone successful in a game ever in the history of gangs I haven't seen success. So join a sorority. That's the gang that's like the fucking people who actually make it.

You know what I mean? Join those kind of gangs. Alpha, do some shit like this. That kind of gang, I'm with it. I'd join if they'd let me. Those gangs because they go into success and they stay connected to each other and they feel that brotherly energy where they will do whatever for you because that's my brother already.

You know what I mean? But I've never seen anyone have success in games. I look and I go, it's so easy. You don't even have to be involved. All you got to do is be aware. But you did say G-Unit. I started my own gang back in the day. Yeah, yeah, yeah, because that energy was there. I had to look, the youth,

the younger, the younger dudes do not want to follow the older guys' path. They don't. You recognize what you did then? Yeah, but every money in Black History Month, that's February, my brother. You know, you did that, that was a long time ago. And they

out active now, so they don't want to follow that step. And when I started doing that, it brought a long time ago. And they're out active now. So they don't want to follow in that step. And when I started doing that, it brought the ability to do different things. The older dudes already had that where they could send a hit or do different things. And that brought that to me. Now you mentioned Meech.

Have you spoke to Meech at all? I had a text message conversation back and forth because he's in the halfway house. Who do you to Meech at all? I had a text message conversation back and forth because he's in the halfway house. What do you think his next move should be? A lot of things he can do. He might want to make a movie. He might want to do some different things where, you know, because a lot of

I understand how important real is to our culture, right? But when you develop in television it's to find the best possible story you can find and then make up something. You got to make up things because your life would intersect with Charlemagne's life, so I immediately get a lawsuit

when we get over there. You understand what I'm saying? So I got to change things around a little bit. And then that's the series. When we see high notes, we see low notes, and at points it's when they do something that's like when we have a TV moment. When it feels like completely real. And this is why it was important for me to get Lil' Meech ready

so he could go there because when you watch it and it's good and then you go, you know that's his son, right? And as a fun fact to the person that's watching with you, you feel like it's got to be true because the sun is there and this is, and that's a rarity. You probably won't ever see that again. You seem like the type of person, too, that don't like to stay in one place too long.

So that's why I was shocked when I saw the residency announcement. Because I feel like you don't, you're a hustler. Like, you like to be moving around. You don't like to be stationed there. Well, congratulations. You only did a week for the 27th, December 27th, the be stationed there. Well, congratulations. You're only there a week. The 27th, December 27th, the 28th, the 30th, the 31st, January 3rd, and January 4th at Planet Hollywood Resort and Casino.

$15 million? Yeah, but just look at this. I'm able to do things production-wise because we don't got to take it apart and put it back together, take it apart and put it back together. So I can build a set where I can do some tricks and different things that I can make the show more entertaining and I want to do that and then change the set around because I kept, it's easy

stuff that I can play so I'm just going to get a response immediately. And then there's things that are hits or records that I could have played in place of those songs that are equally as good. I just think that they, because I made a choice.

I played the other ones more often than others. What made you want to do the residency in Vegas? Because, I mean, you just left the Final Lap tour. And before you tell me that, were you surprised at the success of the Final Lap tour? Because you haven't done a tour in a long time, and every city sold out, country sold out. Were you surprised about that?

Yeah, it was unique because that tour, I didn't release an album before. And every other tour I went on, I put out a new record and it changed the show because I had to play some of those songs from the new record and then get to the hits that I already had going. So this time it was like they said,

we on strike as far as television is concerned. So I said, okay, I'm on tour. It's having the ability to do things that the other guys that are producing stuff don't have. You know what I mean? And when I communicate with Tyler, I tell him it's the FUBU format. It's for us, by us. And I'm able to create things without necessarily trying to service the Bible Belt at the same time. Tyler's original audience is that.

So he keeps consistent themes going through his projects. And if you had as much success as he's had, why would you adjust it? You know, like mine's, I use family drama in format. So if it's two brothers, like Meech and Terry, their experience is one way. I'll give you another example. The Flores twins, complete different.

But the Mexican-American version of Narcos, the English-speaking version of Narcos, they get a chance to offer them that. You feel like in Vegas, it's certain songs you can't do

that you would do anywhere else because like the Vegas crowd is so like mainstream and people just coming through and all these different people, like you got to reserve a certain list. Cause you, you got some stuff for the streets too that everybody loves, but Vegas is Vegas. Yeah.

I think there's some stuff that I can, I can do anything I want because of the Western name. Look, I use, I give myself an overall format for a show. And the theme name. Look, I use, I give myself an overall format for a show and the theme is the dream. A dream. So the sequences

don't necessarily have to all make sense but they have to tie together to make an experience. You know, and that's the way I kind of built the show out before I got everybody else involved.

My creative around it. You know, but I want to take it up a notch. You'll see the set, everything is kind of built the show out before I got everybody else involved. My creative around it. I want to take it up a notch. You'll see the set, everything is going to be crazy. You coming back down upside down again or are you done with that? Upside down shit is over. I don't even know why I did that the first time. I didn't

realize we were going to have to rehearse for seven days. Because I'm like, dude, listen, look. Seven days, I'm like, what the? Wait i'm like what the wait i know the words yes okay i know the words it's it's not a new song why am i rehearsing why are we rehearsing seven days straight and it's really about getting everything onto the field and everything off the field fast enough and have everybody prepared to oh let's go let go, and then getting them into that, but there's, it's an experience, man. I think when he was talking about whether Kendrick

should be, he's the guy right now. He should be doing it. But the, I don't know if they know, Drake turned it down a bunch of times. Did he really, though? How many times? Like, three times, right? You gotta pay for the Super Bowl. You got to pay for the production.

Yeah. When was the last time he turned it down? Why would he need it in the position he's in? I saw Steve Stout say that. But then that defeats the whole Jay-Z's a hater narrative. Yeah, yeah. Well, you got to get that. Give him that because that's his.

When you're in that position, you're going to have to feel that hate. You want to be that guy? You want to be the director of Who Picks Who? You get that hate. Okay? This is something they do not do. They said, because Yale said that 50, I mean, Jay hated on you, too. Like, he didn't want you to be a part of it.

Is that true, though? Yeah. But it's not a big deal. You know what it is? What was the reasoning, though? Like, what would he tell Dran? I think us competing, though, being competitive, and the music is getting past music itself with that.

Because I'm like, what is he trying to do? You know, like when you're not frequently making the music as frequently, when's the last Jay-Z album? Full, full, full. Right. And when I'm not putting out music as often, but the business parts haven't changed. Our positions haven't changed in culture.

So now saying, yo, nah, I don't want to give him this because what you mean? If you look at the order, the person that you would say didn't belong there, you would probably, like when Game was upset, right? He was upset because he was supposed to be there in his head, right? But who would you be upset is there in place of you who came after you that was there? He never mentioned that he had an issue with Kendrick. Kendrick, yeah.

Right? And then later you see him in support of the Drake stuff. But why would you and Jake still have issues after all these years? I don't have issues. You know, my thing is, look, I think in that point, yeah, he was hating because he was saying the NFL had an issue with me when I got 11 professional sports teams now that I'm the official champagne and cognac-er, and where's the hate there?

Like, I don't understand it. You know what I'm saying? Like, so he said there was an issue. It was an issue because he was doing the program. He didn't want me to be in the show. And wouldn't do it without me in the show. And then he made the adjustments. When's the last time y'all spoke, if y'all have spoke?

Jay? Yeah, you and Jay. Oh, it's been a while. Because our business is really, they don't cross paths. We're not after the same thing. Like, they're doing something else with, you know, Roc Nation and stuff like that. We pick different things, right? Prison reform and stuff like that and um we pick different things right

prison reform and stuff like that it's the death state thing you know i mean i looked at the professional sports thing when i go and say it would give me the organization instead of the most influential organizations their charitable organization so i can tap into that without having to work to create those organizations like i've always donated to other existing organizations other non-for-profits and stuff like that throughout the year but people think that I'll have to work to create those organizations. Like I've always donated to other existing organizations, other non-for-profits and stuff like that throughout the years. People think that it's about taxes, but it goes past the tax point. You know what I mean?

Like for youth programs and entrepreneurship stuff that I did in Houston, it made it a little more clearer when I got there. They weren't registering me here because I'm already here, and they got me as the first version of 50 Cent, and it was not adjusted. So they'll look at it that way, and then when they get to Houston, they're going to wait. He's actively doing more than the people from Houston.

And then it kind of motivates them to do more, and then you start to see new things. I just raised a half million dollars for, uh, the children of, of Houston and, uh, Tillman.

They're this, uh, organization out there. They said you were mad that you didn't get invited to the white party. Mike Rube was white party. That's why that you and him was beefing. No. I'm just fucking with Tim.

I'm just fucking with Tim. I'm just fucking with Tim. In the back of his voice. White parties are puffy originals. Those are puffy originals. Those are puffy originals. Why is only white people, why is only white good? Why is black bad?

Like, I want a black party. That's right. Can I have a black party or all black party? I think you can do it. Let's dress in all black, guys. And not touch each other's butt. And your party,

where the hugs come from? The side, not the front, not the back? No, just hug me regular from the front so I can know where you're at. Okay, got you. All this stuff has me unsure of what's going on. You know, speaking of that, they said you wrote two verses for Diddy.

One was the Let's Get It, and the other one was on the I Get Money remix. Yeah, the remix. But they said you wrote it and it's him confessing the crime. Did you see the meme? Look at the meme. Let's wrote it and it's him confessing the crime. Did you see this? Did you see the meme? Look at the meme. I ain't telling him to say that. And then this one. Jay, help me with that.

Jay, help me with that. Jay, help me with that. Jay, help me with that. Jay did that part right there. Shoot out. Coast to beat. I wasn't around for that. I was like East Coast, West Coast. Then Keefie D comes out and says, you know, I'm not involved in this.

You rolled those verses for Roto? Yeah, we wrote, we collaborated, me and Jay on the album. We collaborated. Because there was a name, that part, there's certain things that he wanted to say, and Jay knew he wanted to insert it into the record. Yeah. And then he would, like, yo, put this in it. And he just, because his mind is formatted like that.

Like, what I mean is he can, now I like artists fre mean is he can now like artists freestyling, freestyling, freestyling. And Jamie remembers the idea in his head so he can just say it without writing it down. And then he's like, yo, he wanted to do it like this. And because it come out already ready, I'm like, put it in there.

That's what he said. Put that on there. And then go ahead and say it. And then got it in front of him and he just went in and did his part. I feel like you being who you are kept you away from all of that type of stuff. I really don't trust a lot of these people. You know what I mean?

And then I was so hot. Like, it was clear I was under investigation. From the beginning? Early. Damn. Because I came in with other people's jacket. The jacket came with the Supreme Team's jacket, and then it turned into Jimmy Hinchman's jacket,

and then it was World's jacket. So I'm getting law enforcement attention that they would be getting. And then if you don't feel that, you're just retarded. You're something wrong. You're just not computing what's going on. At that point, I was telling them, turn the music up. Now, what did you say? Yeah, yeah, yeah.

I'm reading your lips down there. Okay, I understand what happened. Did you really offer Tony Yale millions of dollars to not do live TV interviews? I didn't want him to do it. He always says some stuff I wouldn't say. Like, I don't know why he's doing it. There's not enough involved in it for him to have to say that.

You know? You'd be calling him after, like, yo, why did you? I don't know why you talking about this. Like, what is wrong with you? But anyway, you know, when you're not sexually assaulting nobody, there's a statue of limitations around you. Protect me, Charlamagne. At all costs, protect me.

When you heard, I don't know if you heard, when you heard Fat Joe do an interview the other day, and he said that, you know, Yayo is so loyal when y'all were beefing. He was trying to take Yeo out. Did y'all laugh about that later on? No, yeah, yeah.

Because look, you know, that wouldn't have been a bad move. It would have confused me. It would have confused me. I would have shown. He said, that wouldn't have been a bad move.

They got Yeo. They got Yeo. They got Yeo. Let's figure out what I'm going to do now. I was a bit confused for a second. I was a bit confused. Nah, because he's been around forever.

Even when he make a mistake, he'll do it. And I know his apology means he'll go, yo, my bad. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. He knows how to apologize. But really what he means is, yo, chill out. Let me do that again. His apology means, chill out. Let me do that again. His apology means, chill out.

Let me do that again. More, you know how. He's been doing that forever. Is he the one friend that is like, I wish he wasn't my friend, but he's my best friend type of person? Yes. Because he does that all the time. No, I always wish he wasn't my friend.

Like, it was a lot easier. I wouldn't even have to go through my Jimmy Hinchman period. That really was... His feelings is in the right place and what he caused things. He escalated it. He does cause things.

And then it's like, I'm not going to let you do something to him. Forget about it. If you think you're just going to do that, I'm not going to respond to it. Very Ghost and Tommy. I said very Ghost and Tommy-ish. Because Ghost ain't going to let you do nothing to Tommy,

but Tommy be causing things. And vice versa. Yeah, but we're not even doing that. There's no cocaine. There's no drugs. It's nothing. You have to stop it, bro. You have to find other things to do.

And he's getting older. You see the things that he's saying is sometimes he's saying good stuff. And then he goes back to that zone. I don't know why. But for me, there's so much other stuff to think, to focus on. I got a lot of positive things going

on. And I'm like, yo, man, why you keep talking about that stuff? But he's a great storyteller, though. Yeah, he does it his way. And you can't help but laugh at it when he's saying it. But I'm like, damn, maybe I should upload him some new information. Say these things, bro. What are you saying? Now, back to the reunion.

Well, we get a reunion reunion back to the residency in Vegas will we a G-unit reunion will that happen with Banks no I just look I think I've exhausted myself with working for people you can't see that I

do better when I just focus on me and just work harder I spent in that period look an environment You can't see that I do better when I just focus on me and just work harder. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Like when I spent in that period, look, an environment, it would come out and it tells you you're as strong as the crew that you are. So I spent a lot of time building them up, like pieces I sacrificed, even for game, to make G-Unit what it is and feel like something that's stronger than one person or one artist. And then when you do that, you look back and you go,

wait, when they don't reciprocate the energy, you go, oh, man. You got to figure out how to do it on your own now. Like, Jay was forcing Rockefeller to do that from the beginning. You know, like, Big, his issues, you see, he was writing for Junior Mafia, for these other people, but he would leave it and not say anything because Puff already had the publishing. So just leave that over there.

So it's, you know, like, go ahead. You leave it there, and then I'll own your publishing. You wrote it. Puff had Junior Mafia publishing too? No. Oh. But that's why Junior Mafia publishing was away from it. See, if he could write it and let it be under Junior Mafia Publishing was away from it. See, but he could write it and let it be

under Junior Mafia and then it'd be another asset of his versus it being something that's in the contract. Damn. You think there'll ever be

another 50 Cent G-Unit like run out of New York City? Or anywhere for that matter? I hope. I hope so. Like, I think it's Nicki

right now. That's why I support Nicki. But you had a whole crew, though. That's what made it so different. I mean, first of all, nobody had success like you had. But then having a whole crew that was successful as well. You think she could assemble a crew? She can build it.

Yeah. She can definitely do it. And they'll listen to her. She's definitely her character. She's not faking. That shit is really there. She's definitely her character. She's not faking. That shit is really there. She's stronger than a lot of dudes. She's been bumped around.

So when you get agitated, she's going to think you're trying to play her, and she'll go off on you. You was with the designer at one time. Yeah, I would have got it if Fendi wasn't around. I'm like that grimy got it if Fendi wasn't around. I'm like that grimy ass. What Fendi do? Yo, I just,

he's a character in our culture. Yeah, yeah, yeah. He's always been around and in it since he was there with Big. Yeah, yeah. I remember that video with Roland Dice. Before, like in the beginning.

So when I sent that, I was like, ah, I'm going to have to deal with this. And I didn't go after it the right way. Because of Fendi. Yeah. Damn, Fendi. But it still went the way it was supposed to go.

Because when she got, look, in the beginning, they was comparing her to Kim because of the picture, the Minaj picture. But I think it was more like Foxy because she was in between two crews. She was with Gucci and them and then signed the Young Money. Like the firm and Foxy's relationship with Jay. Is there any other? Hold on, everything happened the way it's supposed to happen, but that would have been ill.

Nicki Minaj with the original G unit? Yep. She would have gobbled the rest of them up. There would have been no room for them. For real? I would have been like this. Nah, Nikki's too big. You got to go.

I have no time for you. Look, we don't need anyone from the South. Why? Why would we do that? Right. You know, it would have changed the whole thing. Is she from Southside? Is she from there?

She's a monster. That would have been too much to... I would have been trying to facilitate things around her more than anything else at that point

everybody else would have been Nicki's girl an afterthought but it seemed like when she tries to put especially the young female artists

under her arm it always goes bad like her and Lotto her and Ice Space like you be talking to her about that cause that's my only thing about her

assembling the crew I think she has the know-how, but it just go bad for some reason all the time. It might not have to be girls. The girls, you know, women, it's different. I wouldn't even get in that. I like Ice Spice and them too. I like the girls, the other girls that rap. Don't think because I love

Nicki, I don't like your music. I don't like your stuff. But what it is, is they go... Look, she's got a really strong personality. If you're hanging around or associating with people that she don't kind of rock with, then she don't rock with you. It kind of get weird. It get like that. And if they socializing and just doing, they'll be doing too much for her to feel like comfortable with.

So I'm talking to you. Am I talking to this person? Because you be talking to this person. Whenever a person's on the fence, we put them on the other side. Like if they're on the gate and they're uncertain with whose side they'll put them over there. Why? Because it's dangerous. It's like you could go, you could say, oh, your girlfriend is here.

I'm going to go holler at her. And you go there and you're all out of pocket now because she's hanging around people that you don't hang out with and they got you off balance you know so that that would be why you just assume to put them on the side of it like i don't know other than that they are women too so it's girl shit going on it's caddy shit you think she she could have made Safari pop under the unit? Safari? You think she could have made Safari pop under the unit? Pop at what? Some of them failed. Some of the artists

failed. That would have been one of the ones that didn't work. Was he going to pop at the idiot man? Pop at the idiot man. Why you set that man up like that? Why you set that man up? He acting serious too. I was so confused what he was asking. She was asking a serious question.

Is there any other artist that you had a chance to sign or you wish you could have signed and you didn't and you've seen huge success besides Nick? Nick was the biggest one that got by us. The other artists. I've seen a lot of artists knew that they was going to go before. Even what's his name like with with Top

Top I tell you on TDE I was telling him the the Kendrick record the water record that's it that's the one right there

just go with it he'll send me his new artist say yo listen just tell me what you think about the guy and then I'll listen to the records and give my feedback

with it. I told him, dad and sister, I rapped on that first record. Because I felt like that was going to go. She didn't pay me to do that. I'm just like, nah, she's going to go. I go, and then later it went, this is why

Topple sent me the record. Let me see if he's going to jump on it, bro. Let me see what you think. Because, nah, because I'll listen to the record like yo let me see let me see if he gonna jump on it let me see what you think because nah cause I'll listen to the record and I'll go yo this is it right now

like what they would want to happen next you said you haven't created music in a while because you said you gotta tap into being stupid well look at what's going on

yeah it's easy to follow the trend of what works like right now what's happening but they're saying shit that's like on it's easy to follow the trend of what works like right now what's happening but they're saying shit that's like what are you supposed to do as far as sexuality in music is turned into a whole nother

you gotta just say it just gotta say what you're thinking it's almost porn rap yeah but I think you see what I'm saying people wouldn't expect you to do that though like you could still do you gotta yeah but it's still Yeah, but I think... You see what I'm saying? But people wouldn't expect you to do that, though. Like, you could still do... Well, you wrote Magic Stick. Yeah, but it's still...

Yeah, but this is what I'm saying. You see... Hold on, Star from Banks was hard. But look, Magic Stick, Candy Shop, all these things you can say in front of kids and have a different meaning. Oh, got you, got you, got you. I get what you're saying.

It's the approach. You see what I'm saying? How you approach it. And when you're saying this... Wop. What the hell was it? This is the new themes are right in your face. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

I got you. I got you. When you hear Omari doing interviews, Omari Hardwick, do you feel like he's ungrateful for some of the moves and things that you did for him?

I think he leaves people feeling like he said it to me. You know what I'm saying? Like, what the fuck? Also point out the fact that when you don't have money that i'll give you the money like give them 50 60 000 and say yo nah just get back to me when you're ready like until you're comfortable and settled in i don't believe in what we can't keep and win consecutive

championships if the players are hungry the team is hurting like that that's the case and then you go into we don't they don't change financial thresholds of how people are being paid on these projects until you get to season three. We get to season three, it changed so he can handle it after that. Then he didn't need the loans anymore at that point. But I did

get... Remember I was talking about somebody else owed me money and he just jumped out there and said he... Yeah, but you said that was strategic because it kept his music going, and he was able to pay you back. But the Omari Hardrick said, this is not. No, but Omari said, yeah, Fifth gave me money. I didn't even say Omari's name. I was talking about Rotemi.

Oh, he thought you was talking about him. And he said that I gave him the money. See, Rotemi, I did a deal with him, and I spent money on his project. Then he wanted to do something that was independent. Afro Beats wasn't as popular as it is now, and he was going in a different tone of the music. And I'm like, I don't know about that right now. And I'm like, you know what?

You could do what you want to do. Just have the, you could pay me back in the royalties or for the mechanicals or for the music that you release moving forward, and you won't even feel it because it doesn't cost your marketing moving forward. Everything that you do moving forward is not going to be a part of that.

It's just later I'll get the money back. And he recouped it. He did it. He took care of it. But at that point he i said yo yo you gotta give me my money back boy and the people go oh he'll fit money you know what i mean and it stopped immediately and it drew so much attention to it that the record stayed number one more more days than it would have been number one on the chart right

and he knows that so he'll go yo he's a marketer genius bro because i didn't know he said i he was calling me like yo what's up with you and phil and i'm just going you need to make some noise around the record to have people feel like there's something about who you are that is interesting about it and then when he had more when he heard my side of it they wanted to hear what he had to say

and then when he said things back they was like oh okay now I understand what was happening now he finally is talking about it

to make them understand why it stayed but it carried over it was something that was happening under it that was making them interested

away from the song playing and it's a good position but when when he says this stuff on, I think he overvalues himself, to be honest with you. Because since then, it's been a long time since he hasn't been in power.

Why are we not excited about the new projects? What new projects? It's new projects. You got new projects? See, that's what I'm talking about. That is exactly what I'm talking about. If there was noise going on, if it was that big of a draw, then we would see noise and we see new things happening.

We see you out where you actively in a place where people are looking for you. So y'all not cool. No, because you leave it like it's me not giving you the money. If he's saying it and he's going, you can Google Kourtney in the 50, no. You're saying that, they don't know who the fuck Courtney is. I introduced people to her. They don't know who she is.

So you're leaving it for, if 50 didn't make sure I got paid. When Mary, I tell you, she got paid a lot of money on the show while she was there the whole time. I made sure that she was right. And then now you see my new book, The Accomplice? I got Taraji. So Taraji would be the lead in that one.

Okay, that's already sold. Yeah. You know, I'm not wasting time. At all. I was going to ask you, you know, politics is coming up,

election. Is it true Donald Trump tried to give you money to endorse him one time? I got a call that wanted me to, it was Sunday.

Oh, they wanted you to come yesterday? Oh, last year's Square Garden? This week. Oh yeah, but they wanted me to, it was Sunday. Oh, they wanted you to come yesterday. Oh, last year's Square Garden? This week. Oh yeah, because they wanted you

to perform many men. They wanted you to perform many men at the RNC too, right? Yeah, and they still offered me $3 million.

To perform? At the RNC or this past Sunday? Huh? No, this past Sunday. At $3 million. And then they offered you

money for the Republican National Convention too, right? How much is that? Yeah, I didn't even go far back. I wasn't talking to them about that kind of stuff. I'm afraid of politics, bro. You understand that?

I do not like no gangbang with politics. No gangbang, no politics. You know, it's because when you do get involved in it, no matter how you feel, someone passionately disagrees with you. That's everything, though. I mean, politics is worse, but that's everything. It's worse now.

Look, if you say, I stay away from religion, I stay away from politics. Religion, that's the formula for the confusion that sent Kanye to Japan. He said something about both of those things, and now he can only go to Japan.

Yeah. So, you know, I'm like, I don't want to get in that, man. I'm like, uh... Well, we got to let you go there, Fifth, because... Yeah, Rene wrapping up. Well, not only that,

we got the vice president on the line. She's on now? Yeah, Vice President Kamala Harris. Answer the phone. Let Fifth say hi. You want to say hello? Why you got to put me into this stuff? No.

I told you we was cool. What did you do man? Nah we cool You want to speak or no? No no I'm cool He said no no I'm cool But ladies and gentlemen It's 50 Cent

Wait I have another question Wait you really about to leave? Wait wait wait No I have another question Before you leave them Oh you got a break Okay go ahead I wanted to get in your business

I wanted to know What happened with you You on the line? Oh man I'm glad Listen I'm glad Ladies and gentlemen It's 50, it's The Breakfast Club. Good morning. Wake that ass up.

In the morning. The Breakfast Club.