Queens, New York rapper Tony Yayo talked loyalty during an exclusive interview with XXL magazine as he spoke on the relationships he’ll never have because of his loyalty to 50 Cent, and the G-Unit rapper’s past feuds.
Yayo revealed that he’s a fan of artists like Jay Z, DJ Khaled, and Fat Joe, but will never get a meeting or a sit down with them because of “shit in the past.”
“I’m the biggest on loyalty with Fif,” Tony Yayo said. “You could have a bag full of money, your money is going to be there. You can have your girlfriend here. Your girlfriend is gonna be here. That’s what really had me more upset with Fif was my loyalty to G-Unit. I listened to Fat Joe back in the day. I listened to Jay Z. I listened to these dudes, but at the end of the day, I know I am not getting a business meeting with anybody. DJ Khaled. I’m not getting a meeting with Khaled. We are not gonna sit down and talk about records ’cause of shit in the past. It is what it is. You make the bed you lay in. Why? Ask me why I had all this beef. ’Cause of who? But am I loyal? You can’t take that from me.”
The G-Unit lyricist later spoke in-depth on his relationship with 50 Cent, an artist he says he met in 1997. Yayo addressed 50’s tough love approach with artists and says that at times it “can be too tough.”
The rapper also described 50 Cent as “militant” and says it’s easy for 50 to be cool one day and getting on his nerves the next.
“Fif is the type of dude… When he first got the money, yeah I could get $100,000 or something from him or whatever,” he said. “It’s nothing. But when a person has money, you have to come at them correct if you want anything from him. Like, a business plan. How you are gonna work your next album. Whatever you are gonna structure it. Sometimes, Fif showed tough love. Sometimes, his love can be too tough. I’m not like that. To me, it’s like night and day. Sometimes, he gets frustrated with things that he do and you learn how to love his frustrations for what they are. And that’s just what it is. Some days, he can be cool. Like I said, we was in the club with Chris Brown and Trey Songz. The next day, he be getting on my nerves. He’s back to business ’cause he takes stuff different. He don’t smoke. He don’t really drink. He’s a real kind of militant kind of guy. I’m not advocating drinking and smoking, but he just a different kind of guy. He’ll be in the club, he’s not drinking. He’s not smoking. There are really not too many people that are like that. It’s just different.”
Lastly, Yayo touched on having a boss who is also your friend and credited 50 Cent for being “a smart businessman.”
“It’s hard when your boss is your friend, meaning like I knew 50 when he didn’t have anything,” Yayo said. “I knew when this was all a dream to him like it was to me. Then he turned to a boss and you gotta make boss decisions. You know what I mean? It’s hard. He’s a smart dude. Give it up. He’s a smart businessman you need. He’s a smart dude but you know sometimes, your brother can get on your nerves. It’s just life. 50 is 50. Banks is Banks. Some days, I might not talk to Banks for two weeks, but I know that’s my brother. Just because I don’t talk to you for 30 days, we aren’t friends? Some people just get emotional sometimes and take shit the wrong way or whatever.”
Yayo shouldn’t be acting like 50 is blocking him. He should be grateful for what he has, out of all the G-Unit members he is definitely the worst rapper. I doubt people like Jay-Z would wanna make a track with him in 2015.
I wouldn’t say hes the worst. just everyone is nice. its like being int he nba. everyone int he nba is nice, but there are just some better than others.
Is Khaled even an artist…
He gets paid like one, 7 million last year for DJng and producing but it helps to be a CEO too.
I don’t get it. Banks has been working with all kinds of artists that 50 was never cool with over the past few years.
name them.
That song Banks has with French Montana is HOT, and all the work Banks did with SloBucks is cool too, Banks only came back to G Unit for the money.
@Pope
Name them? Styles P(before 50 squashed the beef with Dblock), Kanye West, Lloyd(signed by Irv Gotti, Murder Inc affiliated), Raekwon, Juelz Santana, Joe Budden and I’m sure there’s more. I didn’t say he was working with people 50 had major beef with, I said people he wasn’t cool with. That pretty much applies to everybody in the industry except for Dre and Em. Banks wasn’t sitting on 50’s lap the way Yayo did. He was out there doing his thing. Have a nice day 🙂
Also Fif at a point wasnt cool with Fab too but Banks was working with him. The whole point is Yayo wanted it easy since Fif was at the top. They dont realise its a business. Yayo expects fif to give him money and not ask about how hes going to use it. Crazy
Yayo would be nothing without 50..
no one would even know his name, yet alone be blessed to hear his chart topping lyrical content
yeah fucking Yayo could have been the next Memphis Bleek!!!
note to Yayo….Shut up!!
Pretty sad shit, even as a horrible rapper Yayo should have been able to have a normal career, I feel the worst for Banks because he had actual skills and could have made some classic NY collabs but the beef gimmicks made it impossible.
STFU!!
I love how they refer to him as “the g unit lyricist”. lmao
This was cute…
So last night the GAME again diss G Unit at his concert…
AND people still wonder why he will never be apart of G Unit
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_q_PzTPcJbQ
JAY Z does not even have an relationship with his past or current artist WTF makes Tony Yayo believe he would have one with Jay
Hes talking about collaborations with the music when G Unit was relevant you dumbfuck.
Jay-Z has a relationship with Memphis Bleek and Kanye
Pretty sexual too. Kayne and Jay Z seems all cuddly next to eachother. They even brainwash other niggas on far better labels like tyga.
Lying faggot.
Yeah but his ass was not saying this shit when he was buying cars million dollar homes and touring across the world on Gunit…
Man I see why Jay Z don’t have relationships with artist now…Nigga is complainnig to a man who made you a Millionaire
I thought nobody wants anything to do with his ass, is because he is horribly wack.
This remind me of what Chris Tucker said…. When I got rich ever one around me quit they job and ask me for money
NOW those same people wouldnt even return a phone call….
SO 50 is just supposed to pay for your lifestyle for rest of your life….
yayo lolll… its like he is trying to get the fuk outta gunit
Sound like he care more about the money and party then actually working for it…..
Yayo is the epitome of a cat who doesn’t deserved anything that he ever got in life..this talentless hood booger would be dead or in jail without 50’s coattail. To consider him a rapper is blasphemous, he achieved millionaire staus while doing absolutely nothing of value. He rode a buzz that his boy created, and when he couldn’t even capitalize on that he blames 50. His alligiance to 50 is the only reason he could mistakenly think Jay would want a relationship with his wack ass
It’s funny how 50 Cent fans turn on everyone who says something real about 50. lol A few weeks ago you all were saying Tony Yayo killed that Funk Flex freestyle and sucking him off. Now he’s saying something about your lover you don’t like so he’s suddenly money hungry and wack. You internet 50 Cent groupies are a bunch of fucking faggots. None of you actually care about this G-Unit shit, you only care about 50 Cent. I’m noticing a pattern of you kissing all his friends asses then turning on them when he turns on them. That’s some weird fucking fruity behavior.
Worst fanbase in all of Rap music but I blame 50cent, 50 intentionally sought out Keenan Cahill and Pruane2Forever because he needed new fans to replace the ones he lost in the streets, they even dedicated a video (Pass the Patron) to entice a new demographic of fans.
Now look at them and who supports them, the new fans ran the old fans away because the new fans make the whole movement look lame.
^^^^^^^^^^^^ obsessed stalker female shit LOLOLOL
bruthadee is a broken record
THE FOOL IS STOPPING YOUR PROGRESS AND THIS IDIOT IS TALKING ABOUT LOYALTY. THATS WHY RETARD TONY YAYO HAD TO GO BACK TO CURTIS.BECOS YOU HAVE ALIENATED YOURSELF FROM OTHERS SO WHEN YOU HAD PROBLEMS WITH CURTIS,YOU COULDN’T MAKE GOOD MUSIC…NOT WITH PRODUCERS,OTHER RAPPERS ETC.
CURTIS GOT A BAD VIBE.REMEMBER HOW HE DISSED OBAMA JUST TO BE KOOL WITH BILL O’REILLY? OR HOW HE DISSED KANYE AND DEFENDED GEORGE BUSH JUST TO SCORE COOL POINTS WITH OLD REPUBLICANS?THE DUDE IS JUST TOXIC.FUCK CURTIS…STUPID HOUSE NEGRO.
Yes he man who made is guy famous even when he was in jail, and has been nothing but loyal and got this guy rich and allowed to travel the world is such a prick, how dare 50 “hold” Yayo back from his dreams of being a real life tony Montana .
loyalty can be fucked up sometimes it’s a part of being real to yourself and your very few you choose to keep around you but for people that don’t know Yayo had gunit on fire when the mixtape days was hott then he got knocked off and of course 50 blessed him because yayo was part of the come up from the bottom to the top real niggas do real things
YAYO KNOWN 50 SINCE THEY WERE YOUNG ITS ONLY RIGHT THEY STILL COOL
house negro mentality. nigga just break down them mental shackles
and just because he said that 50 will beef with him again.
Wale has released 3 albums and will release another this year. When’s yayo the pop artist gonna release another?
tony yayo as a hypeman for 50 makes more than wale does at a show
Yayo pop? LOL that’s funny.
How is he going to talk about loyalty when all 50 cent did while yayo was in jail was support him and put his name out there with free yayo shirts, etc. what a joke. Go get a job man, stop looking for handouts. You burned your own damn bridges.
This is why Game turned his back on 50 in the beginning. Remember that? Now all the sudden it makes sense doesn’t it “Tony Yayo” what a douchebag
Meek Miller definitely earned his free miller slogans. Yayo didn’t.
Na Ya’ll buggin out man Yayo that dude and he is right 50 started beef with a lot of Legendary ppl who wouldn’t want to work with Nas,FatJoe and so on… Yayo stayed loyal and went at all of them. I love tony yayo shit I I think he been keepin G unit street, kidd kidd just showed up and when Buck left Yayo was the only reason the streets kept in touch .Yayo Gets nuff respect from me GUN POWDER GURU allday
Memphis Bleek smells like wet dog
nah son u are confused. only crackkas smell like wet dog
I GO AROUND SNIFFING DOGS AT THE BEACH SOMETIMES JUST SO I CAN REMEMBER WHAT YOU WHITE SUBURBAN FREAKS SMELL LIKE
Ross keeps on winning
for the last 2 years ross earned the same amount of money as mac miller
crazy how we dont see mac miller with crazy chains or cars, he must be saving and investing his earnings unlike rick ross who has to keep it trill like a ni99er and spend it like he never had it
Mac Millionaire invests his money which is why FiF only makes one more million than Mac two years in a row but Mac sells more records as an indie rapper than FIF so he laughs and does songs with Meek.
LOL MEEK LOST OF HE MAKING SONGS WITH THAT DOWN SYNDROME KID
Stop. Just stop. I read the XXL article and that headline is a falsification and twists Yayo’s words. This site grows more and more pathetic with its shock value b.s.
i bet you dickriding fags would be on yayos nuts if he supported 50. Bunch of 50 cent groupies who were originally fans of feminem the popstar.
ay yo Drake sucks dick homie
you wouldn’t know any one of them if it wasn’t for 50 doe…
This title is misleading like a motherf*cker… Nice try DX. LoL
Tony Yayo has no choice but to keep it loyal. This brotha came out of prison to a penthouse condo, a bentley and a million bucks all for doin nothing.
White kids was lookin around everywhere for the free drugs when 50 and the unit was screaming FREE YAYO
You started off on point. But your white kids joke fell flat as fuck. Should’ve ended it on a high note.
Back then did they even know our slang?
one album in 10yrs. thats what loyalty to a bitchass nicca like curtis gets you. stupid *muthefucker*
Gunplay is 35 years old and been carrying Rick Ross weed for 15 years LOL. He finally got a lil fame then he got beat down and robbed by G-Unit for talking tough and not being able to back it up. Now he’s Rozay’s most loyal soldier who still has no release date.
At least Banks and Buck went plat on G-Unit and Yayo went gold plus the whole group went plat!!!
^Damn, I don’t really like G Unit, but this nigga has a point.
It’s one thing to be loyal, and another to be blind. 1 gold album while your boss was blowing the fuck up seems like a raw deal.
tell that to gunplay, wale, meek, juelz, etc
LOL
its well known that 50 put out the multi platinum g-unit album and banks first record that went multi plat before his second album against interscopes wishes…. he put his niggas on
Those MMG rappers are a good example because as soon as Rozay put them on they went and put their niggas on, like Wale got Trel signed, Gunplay got Breed signed and Meek got Lee Mazin signed.
It says a lot when you so called Platinum ten years ago and still don’t have your own shit, you are suppose to learn the game and boss up and put ya niggas on but some niggas move like crabs instead of like kings.
Who the hell are Lee Mazin and Breed.
LOL @ GUNPLAY GETTING ANYONE SIGNED WHEN HE CANT EVEN GET A RELEASE DATE AFTER CARRYING ROSS WEED FOR 10 YEARS
HOW MANY ALBUMS DID JUELZ PUT OUT UNDER CAM?
“Who the hell are Lee Mazin and Breed.”
they were signed by an artist with one flop album and another artist who cant even get a release date so they are and will always be nobody
“put them on they went and put their niggas on”
Fuck type of scheme is that, a pyramid? Lets sign the whole hood, look they did the same.
“Coz they rhyme too, so yall each other fanbase”
Give it up.
You don’t sign the whole hood you just put your team in position and give them some game and some spotlight, its a Black thing you wouldnt understand.
ALL THAT GAME GOT MEEK LOCKED UP AND GUNPLAY OUT HERE ROBBING NIGGAS WITH NO MASK ON ON CAMERA, WHAT A GREAT BOSS
Yes 50 shows “tough love” to other artists, but only the ones who black balled him before he made it an those who at one point went at him (big mistake) I respect the shit out of 50, one of the few artists including shady that has integrity and when I say that I mean they stick to their guns and beliefs. They stay loyal to those who don’t cross them until the end, but are also committed enough to seek out and finish beefs, unlike game and t.i who just tweet and say one thing in an interview then change their mind the next day, or jump blindly into beefs and hop out when confronted, just such a fucking joke these days. We need PAC back but in the meantime 50 is one of the last Mohicans
You wrote all that to voice your worthless opinion? You’re too funny, lil man lol.
@yawn,
i agree with it, if you;re gonna comment with a come back at least put some thought into it
1 ALBUM IN 10YRS.SOME ARTIST CAME OUT IN 2009 AND THEY HAVE MORE ALBUMS THAN YAYO. LOYALTY TO A MITCH IS STUPIDITY.
some artists been sitting on the shelf for over a decade without their first album ever getting a release date like Gunplay LMAO
Tony Yayo don’t talk shit unless 50 is there to shield him from the dangers of real life
“Sometimes, he gets frustrated with things that he do and you learn how to love his frustrations for what they are”
ROFL Yayo sound like the wifey who gets beat at home but decides to stay with that nigga cus of his submissive nature lol
Lol yeah that sentance sounded real effeminate
“When Mac Millers project actually out sold my project I decided the general public was not ready for aggressive content and harsh realtoes within the actual demographic of fans who support the music. I actually was in a good space with Eminem who never gets enough credit for his actual value as the greatest rapper alive.”
I actually spoiled Yayo and Banks I fed them actual morsels of food off of my table, Buck was on drugs actually at the time but that’s my fault because I actually enabled him with success.
French was the one that videoed Khaleds mother, Banks was depressed when his father died and refused to leave the house, Buck was on cocaine and broke, Murda Inc was funded with drug money, Diddy knows who killed Biggie, I have Ross tax records from a child support hearing, I ghostwrote Games entire first album, I blackballed Styles off of Interscope, LiL Wayne buys his own records, Floyd cant read, Olivia had sex with Missy…..I’m going to leak a track from Detox.
damn you really follow his every move
You actually read that shir?
remember that pass da patron video lol…nigga 50 had cornrows lls…gunit is so corny…
tony yayo best song is pimpin( i dont love hoes)
its ova 4 these washed up rappers from ny…its all bout mmg, ymcmb, hg, wtb, tde,
bout mmg, ymcmb, hg, wtb, tde
Straight up trash each and everyone of them, you could have at least named some decent crews.
This one here iz 4 all muhfuckin’ punkass g unit haters. i know you’re fucking trembling since when ‘nah i’m talkin’ bout’ arrived. go fuck yourself.
all the fuckas yo say are liers. g unit is real real real shit. that muhfuckin “Dick Loss” talks money, while he’s got less than 1/3 what 50 has. dat young money talks drugs, g unit guys are dealers.
i remember back in 2003 fuckin niggaz like ya talked wu tang. now where da fuck is wu tang? just wait till ‘The Beast’ EP… g’s gonna let ya motherfucker breathe for a minute
fukking world is having serious problems. environment, disease, society
and all your punk ass is concerned with is some gUnit
L O S E R
says the guy who clicked on a g-unit article just to leave a comment LOL
now thats sad!
and that’s why you responded you knew I was talking to YOU
hahaha he even came back to comment again on a saturday night LMAO and this clown is calling someone else a loser for liking g-unit
“tell that to gunplay, wale, meek, juelz, etc”
Wale has been banking money. Gunplay has jumped on some songs, and Meek is close to releasing album #2, as well as steady collabo work with people like Yo Gotti and T.I. Who is G Unit working with? Styles P and Prodigy lol
Mac Miller banking more money than Wale and Meek put together
Styles P and Prodigy shit all over Yo Gotti and T.I. (Yo Gotti was on 50’s album btw and T.I. is rumored to be on SKI.
Why would anybody want to drop a single with a G Unit rapper on it? that’s carrer suicide.
“tony yayo as a hypeman for 50 makes more than wale does at a show”
Wale makes more per show than 50 does now.
LMFAO funny
50 and G-Unit been at Summer Jam, OVO Fest and the iHeartRadio music festival this summer while Wale was playing some college parties full of fat women
If Tony Yayo’s only source of income is a 50 show then I can see why he was crying on Instagram, Tony Yayo is so irrelevant that his Stans brag about him doing group festivals and Jams instead of headlining his own shit.
waleyyy doughhhh???
It’s Brutha Dee once again. smh
At this stage of your career the only thing you can say is that you and Master P went platinum 10 years ago when du rags and Phat Farm was the shit, share that with your fans so they have something to feel good about.
beats not being able to go plat when skirts nail polish and kissing men was in style
*Shrugs* somebody gotta make money for white kids who are fascinated with Black niggas.
Think u mean *from*
Nobody is going platinum and nobody talks about platinum except you people, as far as I know the only person kissing men is faggot Wayne and his last album IANAHB only went Gold.
2003-2006 was when rappers could wear makeup and dress up like women in their videos and get a pass so now the gay shit is the norm.
soooooooooo friggin lonely
Everybody aint built to make a mark on the game as a Boss, some guys are content just being associated with their meal ticket. You fuck around and your fans be talking about what you did in another decade instead of talking about who you gave the torch to.
Each One Teach One is how we move and your mentality is all about making sure your brother can take your knowledge and use it to school the next man so we can be self sufficient and feeding as many mouths as possible.
looks like it was another lonely saturday night thinking about g-unit for bruthadee
bruthadee gets lonely and come here because he knows you are pathetic enough to give him the attention he desires.
bruthadee spent his saturday night typing paragraphs about fiddy and some geek unit groupie called him out on sunday mornin whats worse
“50 and G-Unit been at Summer Jam, OVO Fest and the iHeartRadio music festival”
3 randoms shows while Wale has been performing 7 days a week for the past several years. Plus people clap at his shows. G Unit was booed, and cups filled with piss were tossed at Banks.
Even you know none of that shit is true.
Wale dont have enough fans to play 7 shows a week for sever years