50 Cent has said he wishes his G-Unit signee Tony Yayo would’ve blown up instead of him.
The comments were made in an interview with Big Boy’s Neighborhood, where 50 Cent said he and his G-Unit entourage simply decided to stick together after the success of his 2003 seminal album Get Rich or Die Tryin’.
“My solo album took off so big that I just brought them with me,” 50 said. “So it was clear that it was me creating opportunity for everybody else in the crew, but we was all together. I wish it would have been Yayo, because then I coulda did all of the business. If he woulda did what 50 Cent did, then I would have been running the whole thing.”
He continued, “It would still be two of us. He’d still be 50 cent as the artist and I’d be the largest asset to us.”
The bond between Yayo and 50 Cent has always run deep, and the G-Unit member most recently showered Fiddy with praise last August, saying he helped him “survive a lot of shit.”
The comments were made in an interview with the Only Way Out Podcast, Yayo reflected back on Pop Smoke’s death and 6ix9ine’s RICO case, adding that the only reason he was able to avoid similarly dangerous situations was because of key tips 50 threw his way when he was a young rapper.
“There used to be 14 guns on the bus like Bobby Shmurda and them n-ggas, we used to be running around like that,” Yayo said around the 28-minute mark. “You gotta kinda be smart, you have a n-gga like Fif around that help us survive a lot of shit. ‘Cause he’ll be like, ‘Yo, if you gotta bring a gun, why the fuck you going? Just go party in my mansion I’m not even there. Just take over my mansion.”
He continued: “He’ll tell you: ‘You know you got a girl in your room that’s a stranger. Don’t get these girls pregnant on the road, ’cause I done seen n-ggas do it.’”
Elsewhere in his interview with Big Boy’s Neighborhood, 50 Cent also announced that he’s started working on an 8 Mile TV series to help further Eminem‘s already bulletproof “legacy,” though details at the moment remain scarce.
“I wanna bring — I’m gonna bring, 8 Mile to television,” 50 Cent said, confirming that Em is aware of his plans.
“We in motion,” 50 said after being asked what stage of production the show is in. “It’s gonna be big. I’m working. I ain’t got no duds. I’m batting 100 … I think it should be there for [Eminem’s] legacy because it’s important to me that they understand it.”
“If he woulda did what 50 Cent did” theres a chance he woulda left 50 in the dust. it worked out the way it did cause 50 is good at song structure and lyrics. why it didnt last longer is because they beefed with everyone and made almost 0 collabs in NY. pretty much sealing the fate of NY as king
Ye but you gotta admit, the rap game was exciting as fuck when fif was going at everyone in NY. The good ol days!
Just listened to Piggy Bank. In wrestling, that would be burying and he did that to most of the prominent NY artists at the time. SMH
Actually I beg to differ, in pro wrestling that would be called “shooting” and not literally “shooting a wrestling take down” but “shooting insults”
Burying is when you purposely hold down your opponent or your peer simply because you have the boss’ ear
I’d love to see 50 give Yayo an acting job on one of his shows. Yayo has that vibe very hard to find in todays crop of young actors
How many articles about these gay lovebirds must we endure?
There’s just one problem: Yayo isn’t marketable. At all.
That’s 100% the truth. Also, he got a out of jail a bit too late. Can’t forget that beef with Game put a dent in the G-Unit machinery that it was hard to recover from. 50 should have betted it all on Lloyd Banks instead.
All that talent he had, he shoulda bet on buck
Buck was the street nigga from G-unit
Banks voice couldn’t carry the brand, but his lyrics can
Yayo was too old to begin with to carry anything
always though Yayo should of been boss/CEO of G-unit or G-unit records rather and carried that keeep that going with signing, spotting talent etc
always though Yayo should of been boss/CEO of G-unit or G-unit records rather and carried that keeep that going with signing, spotting talent etc