50 Cent has said that he’s technically been a billionaire since 2007, but that “public perception” made it so he hasn’t been deemed a billionaire.
The G-Unit mogul spoke about public perceptions in an interview with The Enthusiast Podcast, and said he’s been a billionaire for years, but that he’s constantly employing people and shelling out full-blown salaries. He also noted there are very few things he can’t have if he wants them.
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“So when they financially say, ‘Oh you’re a billionaire, this person is a billionaire’, it’s like, ‘I’ve been a billionaire since 2007. I’m that far from where I came from that I’ve been a billionaire financially because everybody around me is being paid,” 50 Cent said. “Resources that I compensate for people to be there and I really don’t see things that I want that I can’t go get it.”
He continued: “You got givers and takers, right? People they’ll come and you’ll feel them looking at you like, ‘I’m excited because he’s such and such…,’ or, ‘I wanna meet him because I wanna talk to him and maybe this will happen for me,’ or, ‘Maybe he’ll finance my idea’, right? Those people are takers ’cause you see them once. Then you have the guy that hears you talking about an idea and says, ‘Yeah that’s a good idea, let’s do it man.’ That’s a giver because finance means nothing to ’em.”
50 Cent has financially rebounded in a massive way since declaring bankruptcy back in 2015, mostly thanks to his ongoing TV empire and Sire Spirits collection, which in the past year struck massive deals with NBA teams including the Minnesota Timberwolves,Houston Rockets, Sacramento Kings and Indiana Pacers. The deals will all see Sire Spirits become the team’s official spirit partner moving forward.
As 50 Cent’s business ventures continue to take off, whether it be in sports, TV or even film, the Queens legend admitted on Ebro In The Morning last October that music hasn’t been as high on his to-do list recently. His last full-length project was 2014’s Animal Ambition: An Untamed Desire To Win.
“If I give [my fans] an EP and they feel is a monster;” Fif said, “if I call it a soundtrack and I put five or six songs of my material inside it and they love it, I’ll still have the same gratification. I’m on tour right now, I just did Prague last night, the O2 [Arena] sold out; I do it again tonight. You see what I’m saying?”
He continued: “I’m on a world tour right now. What I need, a new CD to do it? We’re starting to enter that stage where Prince was at, where he could say, ‘Yo, I’ma do a show tonight,’ and it sells out.”
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Meanwhile, in other 50 Cent news, Nicki Minaj is set to star in a new animated comic book series called Lady Dangerous, which is being executive produced by the G-Unit mogul.
Based on the Dark Horse comic book series of the same name, the Amazon Freevee show is set in 2075 and follows a government field agent who’s left for dead by her team after discovering a dangerous secret, before being resurrected as Lady Danger.
