50 Cent has been behind some of the biggest careers in Hip Hop, but not all of his artists have been successful which he’s revealed often leads to him getting the blame.
Speaking to Houston’s 97.9 The Box, the Hip Hop mogul was asked whether there’s ever been anyone who spoke out against him but later did a u-turn and apologized for their actions.
“Yeah, I get that all the time,” 50 answered. “What’s ill is, when you’re in the seat, the driver’s seat, a lot of times, no, every time something goes wrong it’s your fault. If you ask artists why their career didn’t go the way they want, it’s the [fault of the] record label. See what I’m saying?
“I happened to become the record label; so all of those artists that were around and didn’t do exactly what they thought they were supposed to do, it’s my fault that it didn’t. They give it to me individually now, like it’s not the company, it’s him.”
Throughout a 20-plus year career, 50 Cent has steered the careers of several artists via his G-Unit Records imprint, most notably Lloyd Banks, Young Buck, Tony Yayo, The Game and DJ Whoo Kid. He’s also signed several veteran acts including M.O.P., Mobb Deep and Ma$e.
Pointing to one artist in particular who didn’t flourish under the G-Unit umbrella, 50 revealed that West Coast artist Spider Loc was “angry” with him. “If he’d had a hit it would have worked,” he said. “That just didn’t work.”
(L-R) Spider Loc, Olivia, 50 Cent, Young Buck, Tony Yayo & Lloyd Banks. CREDIT: Kevin Winter/Getty ImagesThe G-Unit head honcho then brought up O.T. Genasis, who struggled to make a hit while under 50’s wing but succeeded after he left the label, creating the mega smash “CoCo.”
“I had him for a record,” 50 explained. “After that record didn’t work he went and made a hit record … That’s why me and him have the best relationship ever. Because he was let go to go do that. And he went and made that hit and he made his money.”
50 concluded: “The other people are upset because they felt like they coulda did it, ‘if you had did it for me. So it’s your fault you didn’t do it for me.’ I can’t make people buy records.”
Watch the interview below, with 50 touching on the failed careers subject around the 19:40 mark.
50 Cent has been busy lately. Aside from the launch of the second season of Power Book III: Raising Kanan and a celebrity basketball game with Fat Joe, the “In Da Club” hitmaker has inked a multi-year partnership deal with the Sacramento Kings.
The rapper’s Sire Spirits LLC and his G-Unity Foundation charity are the driving forces of the deal, with the former now serving as the exclusive champagne partner of the NBA team.
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It’s also been revealed that a previously unreleased 2009 collaboration between 50 and Eminem called “Is This Love” will appear on the latter’s upcoming greatest hits album, Curtain Call 2.
He definitely didn’t say that smh
Spider Loc has the worst Madden track of all time…
Spider Loc just wasn’t good. That and Game destroyed his career.
lol dude only got famous because Em saw a way to make money off of him. Dude has very little skilled and has like one good album. He only has a career because Em “did it for him” so funny he is criticizing others for that.
Lol ok bro, that’s like saying Em is only famous because Dre saw a way to make money of him.
Thats the game
Difference is Em has raw talent and would have made it regardless.
Is em responsible for vitamin water deal, starz partnership, reebok, list goes on and on?
Yes, he is. Power Of The Dollar never officially released.
50 might be an ok businessman but we were talking about him as a rapper.
What your saying makes zero sense, that’s literally what every record company does and 50 had a deal but once he got shot the record company (Columbia records) at that time didn’t want to be connected to that as oppose to labels now and what you don’t know is that 50 had rebuilt himself back up and was on fire and EM wasn’t the only 1 trying to sign him but he gave him creative freedom and the final say on his projects.
50’s beef with The Game is largely at fault. The Game single handedly destroyed G-Unot. 300 Bars and Running is still one of the best diss songs of time.
Enough of the rap game for you Mr. Jackson after this finished album comes out with my brother Eminem on there whom by the way is a living goat… Try sticking to movie productions and other meaningful projects uh boxing maybe?… I’ll still go ahead and rate you as king 50 tho, bless up.
You guys posting positively about the game were posting about him negatively before he had ONE single song with Kanye and suddenly the people who post here talk like he is relevant again.
This whole article is bait off of a radio clip that isn’t even news.
Lazy bums acting like h0es
I don’t know why 50 even addressed Spider Loc! Spider is gonna do 100 Instagram Lives about this now!
50 never signed Mase. They did a few records but Diddy still had him under contract and wanted too much money to buy him out.
“Even if 50 doped me i stil wouldnt sogn” [“Riders”))
People can crack all the jokes they want about Spider but he dropped “Blutiful World” on his own. 50 Cent (the label) never serviced it to radio or the video to BET. That shit was WAY better than Lloyd Banks and Tony Yayo’s first singles. It’s still one of the domestic, most creative songs ever. To be able to use the word blue that many times and make it fly and make sense is dope as hell. But like I said 50 never officially releases the single so most of y’all never heard it. If he would have it would definitely have been a hit. Pull it up on YouTube and say I’m wrong.
*dopest
Thing is, it could’ve gotten all the publicity in the world, and it wouldn’t make it that big. Released when… like 2009? That style of music was dead by then. Gangster rap is essentially a dead art form, though it exists today in drill rap.