50 Cent has claimed that his second album The Massacre was originally intended to be very different to the version ultimately released.
Speaking on stage at UnitedMasters SelectCon, Fif revealed that The Massacre underwent a significant change after songs intended for the album were given to The Game.
After “Hate It Or Love It” was played, he said: “That was material I prepared for my second album. My second album didn’t have anything sexual on it. The plan was for it to be balanced correctly. It didn’t have anything that was ‘soft’. It was more about imperfections.”
50 then rapped the iconic opening bars from the track about his mother being a lesbian and continued: “It’s not the coolest thing to write about, it’s not the coolest thing to say from an artist’s perspective but I was trying to make that cool.”
50 Cent says ‘The Massacre’ was meant to be an album about “Imperfections” instead it lead to being a more sexual album because he gave the original singles “Hate It Or Love It” and “How We Do” to The Game.
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He added: “I ended up giving those things to Game to launch Game’s album. I gave him that, ‘How We Do’ – that record, I recorded it in California and the only reason why Game’s album came out is because I wouldn’t give them the song unless that was a single that they launched him with because Dre’s such a perfectionist that he would have sat there longer. He’d already spent a year in the studio with him.
“I spent four days recording with him cause all I did was mute the things I had for the new record and I let him do ‘Special’ and ‘Church For Thugs’ and ‘Westside Story’. I already got Snoop to write his verse on the record before I gave those records to Game. Then shit went left, man.”
The Game has previously minimized 50 Cent’s contributions to his debut album.
He detailed his version of how ‘How We Do’ came together to The Debut Live: “Two weeks later, I came back to the studio and 50 was on this muthafucka’… At this time, 50 was big as a muthafucka, so I was happy about that because he was in G-Unit, but Dre had let 50 on it and 50 knew what the fuck it was when he heard it so he got on it with me. We wasn’t even in the studio when we laid that one.”
He gave alot of songs from there to wack ass Game.
Mr Potato Head aka Put Together Gangsta
Maybe he should have held on to them because what we got was such a weak follow up. So disappointing after GRoDT. For all the shit people talk about Game, at least he has 2 classics to his name in Documentary and Doctor’s Advocate, while 50 only has the one and then one of the biggest fall offs quality wise any rapper has ever experienced.
Noooo,Massacre was class,just a diffrent type but I admit people don’t see it as a classic but people have loved it over time,50s fall off was in between Curtis album which he still took a W doin the vs with kanye thing,it definitely weren’t the massacre
@G wait a sec, Power Of The Dollar is 100% a classic too! And many of the mistakes, such as 50 cent is the future. Then, albums like Beg For Mercy from G Unit. So I wouldn’t say 50 only has one class body of music. He has multiple.
Classic being thrown around too much. Get Rich or Die Tryin is the only classic ALBUM named. I’ll give Hate It or Love It and How We Do classic status. LMAO @ Doctor’s Advocate.
If it is a different LP, drop it! Let’s hear if the OG version is better than the released one.
Which liar is lying tho? I remember the White chick on VH1’s “The White Rapper Show” (Mtv racism at its zenith), Zha Zha, I believe her name was, said she wrote Candy Shop after which, 50 heard it, then stole it… She had the same whack a$$ flow 50 used in that POS song and everything… Dude went corny for years! The Magic Stick w/ Lil Kim?! So basically, 50 is saying if he would’ve included those 2 songs on The Massacre, the album would’ve had 2 classic records on it… Total.
Don’t front, 50 almost went the way of a Drake or MJ with his extravagance and decadence. The Vitamin Water fairy tales, the Steroids and lypo-rumors, that ridiculous bore-fest of a movie, freezing out his own son, Mike Tyson’s house that he got taken advantage of on… Dck riding Rat-kashi 69… Dude is a Hollywood Weirdo too.