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New 106 & Park host and Cash Money rapper Bow Wow recently visited Sway In the Morning to promote his new movie "Allegiance."
While there Bow talked about how big of an accomplishment it is for 50 Cent to have gotten his boxing promotions license in Nevada, picks the winner of a potential Yuri Gamboa Vs. Adrien Broner fight, his baby mama dating Hit-Boy, losing his virginity to Esther Baxter, answers questions from the Mystery Sack and more.
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50 Cent has shown over the years that he has a strong business acumen. His latest venture is into the world of boxing with his newly formed SMS Promotions company.
The initial idea behind forming a boxing promotions company came when 50 tried to help Floyd Mayweather Jr. with Mayweather Promotions. As the business mogul looked into Floyd's company he quickly realized it didn't exist.
“It doesn’t exist. He’s a Golden Boy [Promotions] fighter,” 50 told the New York Daily News. “It would irritate him if you said it, but in reality he’s a Golden Boy fighter. He’ll sit there and say for Mayweather Promotions, ‘Here’s what we have going, but there are no fighters signed to the promotional company.’ When he said that, I said let me build it for him while he’s gone (to jail). Floyd is my brother, and I even excused him saying there’s a company when there’s not.”
The G-Unit mogul formed TMT Promotions, which was intended to be a joint venture with Mayweather. 50 invested $2 million signing fighters like Billy Dib, Yuriorkis Gamboa and Andre Dirrell. When it came time for Mayweather to reimburse 50 for half of the money spent he balked.
Yuri Gamboa and 50 Cent
50 adjusted by shutting down TMT Promotions and moving all of the fighter he had signed over to SMS Promotions. 50 believes that Floyd's advisers were the ones who ultimately persuaded him not to invest.
“His decision to not participate by not financially offering his half of the finances came by way of his advisers that are afraid (of me),” Jackson said. “If you start burying bodies, you start to learn your way around the cemetery. They don’t want him to be informed. They don’t want him to have information. They make me a complete enemy on what’s going on there.’’
Bob Arum of Top Rank sees a bright future for 50 in boxing.
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“He is the one person that has the ability to reach out and attract the urban audience that we’re lacking from our fan base,” Arum said. “If he can energize the urban market where only Mayweather has been able to do that he could add hundreds of thousands of customers to the fights.”
Tune in tomorrow night (December 8th) on HBO PPV to watch Gamboa fight Michael Farenas for the interim WBA super featherweight title on the undercard of the Manny Pacquiao/Juan Manuel Marquez bout.
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As 50 Cent gears up for the February 26 release of Street King Immortal, he's been making the rounds giving some very interesting interviews about the project, fans expectations of him and his new single "My Life."
He recently chopped it up with Ryan Lyons of Respect Magazine about those topics and more, including Kidd Kidd, Precious Paris, SKI being his last album obligation to Interscope, the current climate for record sales, fans doubting him and more.
Check out that interview below
First, congrats on having the #1 single on Itunes right now, “My Life,”a collaboration with Eminem and Adam Levine. This single feels like a resurgence of the 50 we all know and love.
Thanks for saying that. I just launched the first joint. Well, the second joint but it was intended to be the first. It felt good. It felt like I’m back in pocket. I been writing since ‘97. It wasn’t a long process writing it. What I did was I just wrote what I felt . There was only one other time in my music career when I was vulnerable like that and that was on “Hate It Or Love It” because I didn’t know whether or not people wanted that from me, so I put it on Game’s album.
We seem to love records that make you look vulnerable because as the listener, we can relate.
It kind of makes you human. On this project I dealt with the pressure of people thinking I couldn’t actually write a hit song after I sold 40 million records.
What do you feel about the template of hip-hop success stories right now? You’ve already had major hit records, but do you need to change your process?
Hip-hop music particularly is about out with the old and in with the new. It’s not about what have you done. It’s about what have you done lately. This album took three years for me to actually release and this caution hasn’t been taken on my last few albums. My last album was actually on the street four weeks prior to my release. I lost records on both and it still sold 160,000 records [in the first week.] So when people look at the sales they say ‘Oh, he fell off,’ but it was all because it was out for four weeks.
Well, this record “My Life” definitely hit the nail in the coffin.
This is what I’m saying to you. It happens when you put out music in the right time period. Like, right now “My Life” is the perfect song.
How do you guys go about choosing a single?
They don’t tell me what to release. I put out that “Amusement Record,” they actually asked me for that record because it reminded them of the metaphor I used when I released “Candy Shop.” The audience resisted it because it was like no, it reminds me of “Candy Shop.” So, I took it as ‘It’s not a hit, because it reminds you of a hit.’
That just proves that you should be making your own decisions.
I remember I had went to this award show and they had me coming out of the sky and I almost fell off like 30 feet up in the air. So when I got down I was like f*ck that, I snapped out of it. I’m in 50 cent mode now. I know if I fall off I’m on my own. We here together on this actual platform, but as soon as I fall off I’m on my own, ain’t I? I thought man, if I f*ck up I’m on my own.
True.
Yea, so right after that. Jimmy [Iovine] came to the hotel and I played him the record, “I Get Money” and he says to me, “Are you sure this is what you want to say right now?” And I looked at him and I was like what the f*ck is he. I didn’t know what to say except for just let me think. Let me try and get it together and get it out and as soon as I left, I shot the video for “I Get Money” and put it out. Interscope reimbursed me for that. They never wrote the budget or agreed to the actual treatment. If you look at “I Get Money” it’s directed by me and J Jiffy.
That’s something that you decided on your own.
I did it myself. The song is a 50 cent record. A lot of times, they need to understand why or when that record needs to be put out. I’m talking to my core. I had just finished my deal with Vitamin Water and I’ll tell you how to get money and it feels good.
I feel like people want that confident record from you, similar to a lot of records on Get Rich Or Die Tryin’.
Rich people don’t really want to have a conversation about money. They got it, it’s boring. So, thats why [Jimmy Iovine] said, “ Is this really what you wanna say right now.” And I’m like yea this is what I want to say.
You speak about Game and Young Buck on “My Life.” Do you feel like you’re done nurturing new talent? Do you feel let down as a listener?
Nah, I’ll get back into that at the top of this year, but I won’t bring them as close to me as before. You’ve seen me with Kidd Kidd and Precious Paris. In the past, I’ll take a new guy and put him on the stage in front of 30,000 people and 60,000 people in different countries and they want that right away. And I can’t actually give it to them. What I can do, is give them the opportunity to impress those fans and you can get back around and make some of those people fans themselves, but I can’t give that to them.
Beef is something that’s always fueled your music career in addition to the music. Do you feel like it does the same thing in 2012?
It creates the excitement but the hit is what matters. You’ll have guys consistently saying things about a high profile rapper just to get their name out there. To establish themselves
What is it about rappers that push your buttons? I see you and French Montana are feuding now.
Well, French Montana doesn’t push my buttons. Creatively he’s not somebody we can even have a conversation about. He doesn’t yet have one hot record by himself. It’s interesting because he’s a snake. He was a camera guy at first. He ran around and shot DVD footage.
Yeah, I heard he gave you the Khaled footage for your beef with them? What do you think that statement will do for him?
Yeah, he gave me the footage of DJ Khaled’s mother and her house and he went and got the footage for me and I put it out. It doesn’t matter what it does, but it explains why I look at him like he’s a clown. He’s saying that he can hurt my career. He doesn’t even have a song. You know how many people have had one hit wonders? The boy ain’t talented enough. He reminds me of a Rich Boy or a Young Joc or all these people that are apart of the culture that had big records, and are talented people. If you haven’t paid attention, I’m on the Forbes list every year regardless if the record goes out or not. That should tell you that I’m not sleepwalking.
What do you think about diminishing album sales? Do you think It will ever get back to emcees selling like your first record did?
Well, it will be different. We’ll have it to where it will feel like it’s selling 13 million records, like when a song goes number one in 12 hours. Let me ask you this: does the iTunes chart feel like it’s the number one song on the radio? It being number one on the radio could be because they’re paying a lot of money to get the spins up. You got a lot of records becoming number one because they’re paying.
You have more than a decade now of recording under your belt. Does it affect the music, and why are you so keen on getting money outside of the music industry?
Okay, the actual market has shifted. If you noticed, CD’s going on sale now for $7.99 and the single that used to be $5.99 is now being sold for .99 cents. So they can’t allocate the same expenses in marketing as they did before. If you have the opportunity to be you have the ability to be cross-promoted with other major corporations. If you look in the “My Life” video there’s a Chrysler in the video that isn’t actually out on the street yet. They actually paid a quarter of a million dollars to put that in the video.
Damn.
Hello.
50, This is your last album requirement with Interscope. Is this the last album we’ll see from 50 Cent or does it mean a new contract?
Yea, I’ll probably go back in with business. It depends. While I’ve been away for the last three years preparing this actual record, there’s been a lot of changes with staff there. If I get in touch with the staff and we have a successful launch of Street King Immortal we’ll continue or explore another option.
So this isn’t the last time we’ll get a 50 Cent record?
Right!
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It was a star-studded night at New York's Ziegfield Theater Tuesday December 11, for the premiere of director Quentin Tarantino's new film Django Unchained.
Tarantino, who was there with Uma Thurman talked about how movie came about.
"I had an idea for a long time of a slave who becomes a bounty hunter and goes out looking for white guys that used to be [plantation] overseers. But that wasn't a story, that was just an idea," Tarantino said while on the red carpet. "So for eight years or so that idea just fermented. And then about a year and a half ago the story came to me."
The film's stars Leonardo Dicaprio, Samuel L. Jackson and Jamie Foxx, who plays Django, were also in attendance. For Foxx, accepting the lead role was an easy decision.
"First before I read the script it was Quentin Tarantino," Foxx said. "Being able to work with someone like that you're all in."
Others stars who attended the premiere included 50 Cent, Olivia Wilde, Christoph Waltz, Don Johnson, Zoe Kravitz, Zach Braff, Sharon Osbourne, Liv Tyler, Q-Tip and John Legend.
Django Unchained opens nationwide on December 25.
Check out the red carpet interviews, photos and the movie's trailer below.
Django Unchained NYC premiere. Interviews with Quentin Tarantino, Jamie Foxx and Samuel L. Jackson.
Django Unchained (International trailer)
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50 Cent added even more excitement to a thrilling night of boxing at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas yesterday when he descended from the ceiling while performing his new single "My Life."
The G-Unit boss' performance came during the entrance to the ring for SMS Promotions fighter Yuri Gamboa, who defeated Michael Farenas via 12 round unanimous decision.
Gamboa picked up the WBA interim-super featherweight title with the victory.
Be on the lookout for a behind the scenes look at 50's performance coming soon exclusively on Thisis50.
Pick up "My Life" now on iTunes.
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50 Cent's Street King Immortal album will arrive in stores on February 26 via Shady/Aftermath/Interscope.
The disc is 50's final album obligation under his current contract with Interscope. In a new interview with Billboard, he explains the album's delay and why he wouldn't mind remaining at the company after it's released.
"All the success I've had has been with Interscope, so of course I'd stay where I'm comfortable," he says. "It took a little longer than we needed with business affairs at Interscope to get everything done. [The offices now have] new people I have to get acquainted with," 50 added, referring to John Janick being named president/COO of Interscope Geffen in October.
The business mogul also talks about how Occupy Wall Street influenced him while establishing Street King energy shots and SMS Audio. Every energy shot sold provides a meal for a hungry child abroad through the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP). For each domestic purchase of a headphone at smsaudio.com, SMS donates 250 meals to those in need here in America through a partnership with Feeding America.
"[When] I was developing the market for [Street King], [there] was a lot of protesting going on -- Occupy Wall Street, L.A. and Chicago, all those different places -- so it was really visible how people felt major corporations didn't actually care about them," he says. "It felt like the right thing to do."
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Last month's shooting death of unarmed Florida teen Jordan Davishas reignited the push to repeal Florida's "Stand Your Ground" law.
As we previously reported, Davis was killed on November 23, after he and several friends got into and argument at a Jacksonville, Florida gas station with 45-year old Michael Dunn.
Dunn had pulled into the gas station with his girlfriend. While she was in the store he asked four black males to turn down the music in their SUV. An argument ensued and Dunn claimed he saw a shotgun before firing eight times into the SUV. Three of those bullets struck and killed Davis.
"It was loud," Jacksonville homicide Lt. Rob Schoonover said of the teens' music. "They admitted that. That's not a reason for someone to open fire."
Police say no gun was found in the SUV Davis was riding in.
Dunn and his girlfriend fled the scene. As they left someone jotted down their license plate number. Dunn and his girlfriend spent the night in a Jacksonville hotel. The next morning, they heard someone had died in the shooting and drove back to Dunn's home in Satellite Beach.
Dunn, who is vice president of Dunn & Dunn Data Systems in Vero Beach, was arrested at home Saturday November 24, and charged with murder and attempted murder. He is being held without bond
Michael Dunn
Dunn's family is supporting him.
"He got threatened and had to do what he had to do, and it's sad, so sad," his daughter Rebecca Dunn told FirstcoastNews. "A terrible tragedy on both sides. It really is. I don't know. What are you going to do in that situation? You don't know what you are going to do. He just reacted."
Dunn's lawyers has indicated he would use the "Stand Your Ground" law as a defense.
Florida’s Stand Your Ground law gives shooters the right to use deadly force when they feel threatened and does not require them to retreat.
According to the Huffington Post, civil rights groups, including Color of Change, the NAACP and the Urban League, as well gun control groups such as the Second Chance on Shoot First campaign, have joined forces to gather online signatures for a repeal of Stand Your Ground laws in 26 states. The groups also plan to restart a campaign to lobby state legislatures in January, said Ginny Simmons, director of Second Chance.
Ron Davis, the father of Jordan Davis is embraced as he arrives at the funeral home for the visitation for his son Jordan, last month in Jacksonville, Fla.
“What we are doing with these laws is allowing our country to become more dangerous than a war zone,” Simmons said.
"Unfortunately, we have had another one of these tragic incidents that highlights how horrible these laws are and how dangerous they can be in that they empower vigilantes and provide them cover," said Rashad Robinson, the executive director of Color of Change. "We also live in a cultural environment in which young black men are feared and seen as a sort of universal threat. Their mere existence, is for some people a problem. That’s the cultural climate in which these laws have been implemented.”
Rap stars 50 Cent and Talib Kweli have been helping to raise public awareness about the case by sending messages to their Twitter Followers.
Davis was buried in Powder Springs, Georgia on Saturday afternoon.
Davis' mother, Lucia McBath, who lives outside of Atlanta, asked that her son's death not be thought of as a hate crime.
"We don't know where he was or what kind of dark place he was in at that moment, but something snapped in that man. Something snapped in him, so we are not looking at it as the hate crime because that's not going to honor Jordan," McBath told FirstCoastNews.com.
News coverage of Jordan Davis' funeral
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The sky is the limit for Yuri Gamboa (22-0, 16 KOs) after winning his Manny Pacquaio vs. Juan Manuel Marquez undercard fight at the MGM Grandin Las Vegas on Dec. 8.
Gamboa, a former Cuban Olympic boxing Gold medalist and 50 Cent’s first promoted fighter, knocked off Filipino fighter Michael Farenas (34-4-4) by a convincing 117-109, 118-108 and 117-108 advantage. He obtained the WBA interim-super featherweight title with the victory.
Before the match, 50 Cent made his mark by lowering himself down to the ring from the rafters while rapping his new single "My Life."
In the ring, things started out slow but quickly turned around for 50 Cent’s heavily favored client. Gamboa brought the fight to Farenas throughout the bout in order to score his convincing win.
He dropped Farenas to the mat in the second round, cut him open in the third and then dropped him again with a vicious combination in the seventh.
Farenas didn’t give up, though, and tagged the favorite with a big left hook in the ninth round, sending him hurt to the mat.
It was a good but expected performance from the former Olympian. The fact that it came on as big of a stage as it did makes the win one of the biggest of his career.
The undefeated Gamboa is likely to find himself in the ring with super lightweight Adrien Broner as a result of pulling off this win.
Promoter 50 Cent said he was going to do whatever it takes to make it happen.
“I would [put Gamboa against Broner]. Gamboa’s next fight, he’ll probably move up to 135. That’s exciting, right? That what people want to see, right?,” 50 Cent said, according to Chuck Creekmur of AllHipHop.com.
The fight, if it does goes down, would be the biggest of Gamboa’s career.
If he can pull a win off at a greater weight and against a fighter of Broner’s caliber, there would be nothing stopping him from stardom.
50 Cent/Yuri Gamboa post fight press conference
50 Cent's debut a success
Pic Source: L.A. Times
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"Now, my question is who they gonna blame when I'm back number one on the Billboard again" 50 Cent - "Get Up"
The Billboard charts have confirmed what most of us already knew, 50 Cent has a hit record on his hands with "My Life."
The Eminem and Adam Levine assisted banger makes its debut this week at No. 27 on the Billboard Hot 100. The song charted at No. 6 on the top R&B/Hip Hop Songs and No. 2 on the R&B/Hip Hop Digital Songs.
"My Life" is also the No. 5 Rap Song and No. 14 on the Canadian Hot 100.
The stats are very impressive for a song that was just released last week. You can pick up the song today on iTunes.
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WGCI's UB Rodriguez interviewed 50 Cent yesterday. Topics included 50's new fitness book Formula 50, SMS Promotions, Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Chief Keef.
UB Rodriguez: Let's talk about you and Floyd Mayweather. I know that's your boy. Now you have this boxing promoting company. Was he the influence behind this?
50 Cent: Yeah, initially it was a venture we were going to do together. Floyd changed his mind and wanted to do some different things. Before he decided that he wanted to do things differently I had already obtained my promotions license in New York, Connecticut, Miami, Atlantic City and now Nevada. So I had went pretty far into the actual category before he decided he wanted to do something different.
UB: Hey Fifty what about the rumors of this promoter trying to pay you and Mayweather to get in the ring?
50: I heard about that too. I'll take it in a heartbeat. I'll make the weight. For $5 million dollars I will impress you. He'd be like 'hold up I didn't even know you had that in you Fif.'
UB: I don't see it happening 50.
50: You know Floyd ain't gonna do that. He won't even fight Manny [Pacquiao].
UB: So we've seen you go back and forth with Chief Keef on Twitter. I want to ask you personally. How do you feel about him?
50: In the beginning I took a huge liking to Chief Keef. I think he's a representation of what hip hop was when I fell in love with it. Someone out of the environment just offering what means something to him. Like when he's saying things he don't like. Everybody in Chicago in that neighborhood or those different areas would agree with those thing he said he don't like because they don't like them either. That's why the song connected. I started to talk to him because I wanted to help him because I saw things starting to spiral out of control and he could lose an opportunity that's priceless.
UB: Like what did you see and what do you think about his future?
50: I don't think he'll have the same success in sales, but it will be something that develops a cult like following. Because he decided to not show up to his actual video. And when he does that in the stages where you haven't sold any records yet. It's bad influences. It's people around him that aren't influencing him to do the right thing. It's really not him.
UB: So what exactly do you tell Chief Keef when you call him or sit down and talk to him 50?
50: I just tell him to make the adjustments. I tried to reach out to him. He's a little upset because I said something on Twitter. I said he didn't show up to his video, he don't know these people will pull the plug on him and they will. I don't want to make him upset or nothing because he's a baby. My son does the same thing to me.
Check out the full interview up top and pre-order Formula 50 now from Amazon.
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50 Cent has found a new vehicle to attach his name to. The business mogul will serve as one of the executive producers of a new hour long drama on the Starz Network titled "Power."
Fif revealed information about the show last night via Twitter.
According to Variety, the project centers on a Gotham nightclub owner who skirts the line between legitimacy and criminality.
50 will be reuniting with Randall Emmett and Mark Canton. Both will serve as executive producers alongside 50. The trio have worked together in the past on the movies "Freelancers" and next year's "The Tomb."
Writer and producer Courtney Kemp-Agboh, who has previously worked on shows such as "The Good Wife," "The Bernie Mac Show" and "Eli Stone" will pen the script and also serve as executive producer.
Now word yet on when the show will air. We will keep you updated.
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50 Cent's interview with Big Boy's Neighborhood continues to uncover things that have until now been hidden from the public.
It's no secret that 50 and French Montana are in the middle of a conflict. French now has a close affiliation with Rick Ross' camp. 50 reveals that during his beef with Ross, it was French Montana who provided him with the footage of DJ Khaled's mother's house and where she worked.
50 Cent "A Psychic Told Me" [Footage of DJ Khaled's moms house and workplace shot by French Montana]
"I don't even know if you can call [French Montana] a new artist because you haven't heard a song with him by himself. He's a guy that they put on a record with two or three other guys that already established themselves to sell you something," 50 said. "You only gotta get away with listening to him for a whole 30 seconds, 40 seconds then his verse is off. Then it goes to somebody that has really worked to get there. What is the state of Interscope if he's the biggest artist there? You got an artist that doesn't even have an established sales history. You can't fake the general public pretend or fake them into liking him. They haven't decided they like him yet."
50 then talks about French providing him with film footage during the Ross beef.
"When I got into it with Rick Ross and Khaled. When that happened I didn't know who Rick Ross was so I had to take a look. So I usually do my homework. I'll find somebody who knows somebody that can give me some information. And Frenchie they got me the tape. They got me the tape of [Khaled's[ mother house, where his mom work at. The other cribs, studios. I have all of it. Where they were staying in Atlanta. All of them locations because I ain't taking no L's you can trust me. If you do something we gonna do it live. I'm not even gonna hide it," explained Fif.
The G-Unit mogul talks about why he dissed The Game and Young Buck on "My Life." 50 says he has no malice towards Game and he thinks Buck's career is over. He also talks about why "New Day" ended up being both his song and Alicia Keys.
50 Cent explains how French Montana sold DJ Khaled out
50 Cent tells Big Boy why he dissed Game on "My Life"
50 Cent tells Big Boy why Alicia Keys forced him to push out "New Day"
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Million of people have been wondering what exactly happened that caused the rift between 50 Cent and Floyd Mayweather Jr. Everyone saw the Twitter war of words between the two and 50's announcement that there was no longer a Money Team or TMT Promotions, which was supposed to be a joint venture between Floyd and 50.
50 instead has moved on to form the boxing promotion company SMS Promotions that has its own stable of fighters.
50 sat down with Big Boy's Neighborhood recently and doesn't pull any punches while breaking down the source of the problems between him and Floyd.
"As he was actually going in to jail he asked me to help him with Mayweather Promotions," 50 said. "As I took a look I realized there is no Mayweather Promotions. There's no LLC, no [Corporate] seal, it's not incorporated. It's just a name. You see technically Floyd is a Golden Boy [Promotions] fighter. He fights on every Golden Boy card. They do all the footwork. So, when he says help him with Mayweather Promotions and it's not there I go 'OK I know what he means.' He wants me to put it together for him. I do TMT Promotions, I get it all the way together. Sign the actual fighters. We had acquisitions of [Yuriorkis] Gamboa, I had to negotiate a release, it was $1.2 million. Andre Dirrell, IBF Champion Billy Dib and WBA Champion Celestino Caballero."
50 goes on to explain that after he signed the fighters trouble soon started.
"I brought [the fighters] over while Floyd was incarcerated. When he comes home there's the 'let's get Floyd back in pocket campaign' that goes on on where it's $300,000 chains being bought, buying him a new Lamborghini, all these new things. And I'm sitting there going 'yo, when you gonna give me the money?' It ain't no pressure there but when is he gonna say I'm gonna give you the other half. Why I gotta ask you for it? When he finally does bring up the actual situation he acted like he didn't know anything, like "Ahh I didn't tell y'all to do that. I didn't tell you to do that.' And I'm looking at him him and he looked me in my face saying he didn't tell me to do that."
50 says the war of words on Twitter was real, but he decided to put a stop to it.
"That's not Floyd. Floyd don't Tweet. That's not him on instagram. He's got somebody next to him," 50 explained. "You see everyone around him is co-dependent. So they're gonna roll with whatever he says regardless. They tell him what to say. As soon as he gets confused he says, 'OK Five, call Al [Haymon]. Let's say this, if you have a person that's advising you that's a Harvard graduate. They would advise you to have an accountant, with the kind of money that Floyd actually has. That's not in place. If you had a person that's a Harvard graduate you would have maybe business managers at Merrill Lynch or Goldman Sachs. That's not in place. I don't mind telling the truth in situations like this. He's my brother, I love him. My big beef with him right now is [his son] broke his arm and he ain't call me. This will pass. I didn't come to you saying I'm going to be a boxing promoter. I'm around it and I do enjoy it before I even met Floyd. It's entertaining and exciting for me and I know I can do things that's innovative with the actual sport."
50 clarified that there is no real beef with Floyd, but he doesn't want to be backed into a corner.
"It's not beef...Floyd, he ain't that man. I'm telling you man if they push me I'll mess up in front of everybody," 50 said. "I have that capability to just go there because it's just the way I'm brought up. I never ran from anything because I didn't have anybody to go to. Where I'm going? Home to get me? Ain't nobody there."
The G-Unit boss admitted that he and Floyd have had physical altercations before.
"I won every time," he said jokingly, before turning serious. "Twice we got into it. It was more like out of reflex though. He punched me."
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At the beginning of 50 Cent's new single "My Life" he sends a couple of jabs at The Game and Young Buck.
"I tried to help niggas get on, they turned around and spit/Right in my face, so Game and Buck, both can suck a d*ck. Now when you hear 'em it may sound like it's some other sh*t/Cause I'm not writing anymore, they not making hits," 50 raps.
In a recent sit down with Big Boy's Neighborhood, the G-Unit mogul explains why he threw shots in their direction.
"Things that are notable they begin that record that was recorded two years ago," 50 said. "These things are monumental moments within the culture. Of course it was Game first that decided to go left. He had help. You know me and Jimmy Henchman never got along. He was managing him at the time so it helped him go left. In Game's case there's absolutely no malice on my heart towards him. I'd like to see him do whatever he can do. And Buck, I think that's over. His career is finished. It's because [of] his temperament. Right now he's in jail, but knowing who he is from the entire time that he's been around I don't think he has what it takes to recover."
Although he wishes The Game no ill will, 50 doubts they could ever work together again.
As with most of his guests Big Boy got Fif to play "The Raft" game. He was asked who he would save if he were in a raft and could only pick one person, The Game or Floyd Mayweather Jr.
"I'd pull Floyd up still," 50 said without hesitation. "Big he's still my brother, he just went crazy. I don't even know how to explain it sometimes. He does things [and] for me he wouldn't get away with it if the relationship wasn't the way it was. He flip flops and you don't see it until it's your turn. And you're like 'What? Boy you must be a punch away from retarded.' It's one of those things where you get in a place like 'nah is you serious b?'"
Floyd may anger 50 sometimes, but he says if anyone tried to harm him he would have his back.
The "I Get Money" rapper also speaks on how he picks his singles and explains how he and Alicia Keys both ended up with the song "New Day."
50 Cent speaks on The Game and Young Buck
50 Cent plays "The Raft" game.
50 Cent talks about picking his singles and Alicia Keys having her own version of "New Day"
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Here's 50 Cent's new single "My Life" featuring Eminem and Adam Levine of Maroon 5. The song is off of 50's upcoming album, Street King Immortal.
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50 Cent is a boss. The G-Unit mogul has demonstrated that many times through his various business ventures over the years which include his SMS Audio headphone line, Cheetah Vision Films, Street King energy shot, G-Unit and G-Note record labels, G-Unit Publishing and much more.
When it's time to take control of a situation 50 is always in boss mode except when he's working with Eminem. During a recent conversation with MTV News, the "My Life" rapper admits he's comfortable sitting back and letting Slim Shady take control.
Because Eminem took a chance when he signed the Southside Jamaica Queens emcee and has been supportive throughout his entire career, 50 knows he has his best interests at heart and trusts Em's judgement.
"I get real comfortable when I got Em around." 50 said. "Because the pressure is off of me. Now I get a chance to be the understudy and let him be the boss of the actual situation and run the show. You gotta follow the chain of command and play your position at different points. In all those other spaces and times you run into me I'm the boss and everybody around me in under me. It's comfortable not to be in those situations and let it be him. Whenever he's around he's running the show."
"I'm not even sure what he's talking about. I just came here to hang out," Eminem joked. "I always wanna be there to kind of executive produce or oversee things. Fif knows what he's doing so I don't really gotta tell him much. At this point in his career he's done enough where he just brings me the records and I always wanna just give my opinions."
50 added that Em has helped him out a lot on his upcoming Street King Immortal album, which will be released on February 26, 2013.
"He's been a big help on this album. I can't accept constructive criticism from someone if I'm not sure what their intentions are," Fif explained. "But when someone's been in my corner my entire musical career — I'll say this, Dre's done wonderful things for me in my career, but the idea of working with 50 Cent came from Eminem."
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DJ Whoo Kid is starting to get a lot of well deserved recognition. He gave maybe the most hilarious interview of the year when he sat down recently with Howard Stern. If you missed it click HERE.
He won the "Club Tour DJ of the Year" Award at the 2012 Global Spin Awards earlier this month and continues to bring us hilarious interviews and entertainment on his website RadioPlanet.TV.
HipHop-N-More recently caught up with Whoo Kid for another great interview. Check out an excerpt of what he and @RealJoeMoney chopped it up about.
First off, congrats on appearance on The Voice the other night with 50 and Adam Levine. That was a dope performance.
DJ Whoo Kid: Yeah that is a big record man. That was a big moment right there man. We are back.
Definitely. Also want to congratulate you on winning the “Tour DJ of The Year” award at the Global Spin Awards last week. How does it feel?
DJ Whoo Kid: Thanks man. Yeah, I guess because I tour a lot. Every week I’m in a different country so I get all the visuals. A lot of people just respect that fact, like last week I was in Canada somewhere on the west coast side, Regina, what they call it v*gina (laughs). I was in Regina, this week I’m in Lisbon, Portugal. Next week I’m in Brazil. So, I got the visuals, it’s not like I’m talking, I come back with the proof (laughs).
How important do you consider touring for a DJ like yourself?
DJ Whoo Kid: It’s important because not only does it keep me relevant overseas, because it feels like dead when you just hang in America, it also refreshes the foreign fans I have when I keep going back there. I bring back new music, it’s not like I go overseas and play the same sh*t, it’s new music, a new form of swag as they would say. It’s like a new feeling every time I come back, and then I learn more about them, what they listen to, how they upgraded and then I bring that back to New York, or Miami or LA. There’s different people in every different clubs and once I’ve mastered every club, it’s like second nature to me. Because I know if you go to Italy, they like the south. If you go to France, they respect they own music but will hear a little bit of East Coast. Or, if you go to China, it’s just pop music, Top 40. You gotta learn by traveling, you gotta learn by interacting with their culture. Even doing mixtapes with their top artists. I did all the mixtapes in the UK with the big artists from Tinie Tempah to Giggs, and I did mixtapes with Booba in France. It’s not about just going there and DJin, you gotta f**kin find a way to get respect from their culture too. You don’t want to just go there and they be like ‘that’s 50 Cent’s DJ’. Nah, you wanna go there like, ‘oh that’s the guy who did the record with Tinie Tempah’ or ‘oh that’s the guy who the remix with Booba’,’oh that’s the guy who did the mixtape with DJ Cut Killer. You know I was on the radio with Tim Westwood. You gotta give ‘em reasons why they should respect you. I’m not getting the easy ticket out here, like ‘oh I’m 50 Cent’s DJ’. What is the easiest ticket? I could go over there and say I’m Eminem’s DJ, I’m 50 Cent’s DJ, and I could get all the props ever, but do you give something back to their community & culture and do you bring their culture to America?
I connected Tinie Tempah to Chris Brown and Wiz Khalifa and they did hits. It’s like a cool way of bridging the gap. You know I became like a liaison, like a UN to Hip-Hop linking all these cultures. Other DJs ain’t thinking like that and I’ve always thought ahead, even when I was young, same sh*t. Touring & going overseas keeps you aware and also you’re like a better man. Better than DJing in Brooklyn all your life, DJing in Miami all your life, like you DJ in one club. Who gives a f**k? You know if you haven’t been around the world and you don’t understand the world, you’ll never be that exclusive guy, you’ll never be the one guy with the crazy stories. Like I’ve DJd for Princes. I know the prince of Bahrain, the prince of France, Nelson Mandela, Gaddafi. I would’ve never did that if I didn’t tour overseas. Every footballer overseas, I know all the top dudes. DJing in Ibiza, doing Techno, doing House, I mean you gotta be open format now if you wanna survive. I’m not trying be the DJ that just DJs in New York, gets that little 800 bucks, 500 bucks and goes home. I never wanted to be that guy.
Your ‘Whoolywood Shuffle’ show is really funny and entertaining. Which artist did you have the maximum fun with on the show?
DJ Whoo Kid: I think one of my favorite artists is T.I. because Tip is the type of guy that’s really tough. He don’t play no games and then I guess like over the years of me f**kin’ with him, it kinda like cooled him down, where he became the cool guy. He jokes now. Before that, he used to be so serious, but now he’s like the jokester. He don’t mind me f**kin with people, I can make fun of people with him, he’ll jump in. Now he makes it a point to come on my show every time he is in New York. I kinda like enjoy. You know, like everyone else I’ve known him from even before he blew up, so it’s kinda cool. But he’s always been a serious guy because of the beef, and all the negativity, and all the haters he had. He was never the kinda guy who didn’t mind joking. And you know I’m an idiot on the radio (laughs). I can make everyone laugh and go crazy and I thought it was very difficult to make him laugh, but the fact that I can make him keel over, I could make anyone just cry. I use him as my medium or I test my skills. If I can make T.I. keel over and pee on himself, then I’m the man, I can anybody laugh, you know what I’m saying.
One of my favorite all time guests is Willie Nelson. It’s kinda cool like to interview a guy like that because it’s hard to integrate a legend with the ignorance of my Hip-Hop show. if I can make him comfortable, and he can give me his stories and we come to an agreement, it kinda like proves my skills is up to par. Because I had him up there wildin’ out, so that was one of my legendary situations.
The third one would be taking over the Howard Stern show (laughs). I was supposed to just do a f**kin’ rap battle, and I wind up taking over the whole show and it looked like he was interviewing me for an hour. So, I became like a mentalist when it comes to interviews. Like I know how to manipulate anything and make everything comfortable. I can make any artist say whatever just by keywords and I learned this from being on radio for almost 20 years.
Tell us exactly what your relationship with 50 is like. Haven’t you been fired like a number of times now? (laughs)
DJ Whoo Kid: Man it’s been the same ever since we started. We can be cool every day, but if I get him mad, he gets mad. He’s a normal human being. If I f**k up, he’s a perfectionist, you what I’m saying. Like on stage, sometimes I tell him ‘yo I’m not a robot’ and sometimes humans f**k up, but he don’t wanna hear that shit. Thats like the only time we have any kind of friction, is on stage. Besides that, it’s like brothers man. I’ve been with him for almost 12 years. Get Rich Or Die Tryin album is going 10 year anniversary in February. The fact that you can prove it’s brotherly love, is like you can fire somebody 100 times, but where am I gonna go. He can find another DJ all he wants, but it’s kinda hard to find a DJ that he could know from a 10 year experience. You gotta know the person, you gotta know when they f**ks up, you gotta know the music, not even the music alone. It’s not just press and play. A lot of people think it’s just pressing buttons and then 50 cent is on stage. There’s a lot of technical shit, even watching him and bringing the volumes up and down. It takes years to even know someone to understand them.
Even when he f**ks up, I can fix the shit. So you can hire a new DJ, I don’t mind getting fired, because I know I always return (laughs). I got fired damn near 20 times in my career but yeah we’re like the coolest. I talk to him about my family, he talks to me about his, everything is cool, we’re brothers. I ain’t going nowhere, I don’t care who the f**k it is. I’m always gonna be his DJ, even if he fires me. I don’t give a f**k. I told him — if he fires me, I’m not gonna be a DJ for anyone else. Like I’m not DJing for an artist ever again. Anybody can hire me, I don’t give a f**k, I’m just gonna be like a tour DJ. I tour every weekend, you know, the promoter can abuse the situation like ‘oh 50 Cent’s DJ’ but then in some countries ‘oh DJ Whoo Kid coming to town’. Well, that it depends on who the d**khead promoter is. But I told him (50) I’m never ever gonna DJ for any other artist for the rest of my life. I ain’t wanna deal with this shit. I’m not gonna be the 45 year old f**kin DJ on a wheelchair in the back (laughs). That’s why I’m still there, because there’s no one that can take over that spot. Even that show The Voice, you said that shit was incredible. It may look simple but it’s really knowing him, understanding he’s on stage, watching him, it’s not that simple. If you don’t have the relationship with the artist, you’re not gonna be the DJ that he needs.
Like Whoo Kid is always gonna be there. I’m always gonna be there for him and I’m not gonna DJ for nobody else. Simple as that!
Wow. Have you heard 50’s ‘Street King Immortal’ album? How does it sound like?
DJ Whoo Kid: Yo man, incredible man! He played it for us the other day when we were rehearsing for The Voice. Unbelievable. We had to rehearse the ‘My Life’ record and I was like ‘yo, I haven’t heard the whole version with Em (Eminem), can you play the whole version.’ He played that and I was going crazy, I’m like we gonna perform this? Get the f**k outta here! Then he’s like ‘yo , lemme play some other joints for you and I was just bugging out on them. He’s got some other artists on the album and he has them out of their element too. So every artist you see out there doing the norm like they usually do? He made all of them come into the zone 50’s in. Something like ‘this is the beat, this is what you gotta do, and you can’t be like the same 101 of what you do every day because I want this to be different.’ And then they all adjusted and it sounds incredible. It’s definitely gonna be like greedy, grimey like Get Rich Or Die Tryin’ but on the next level. Yo, I was so amped son. I’m about to be gone again. I told my wife “f*ck you”, I’m not coming back home again. When I told my baby moms back in the day when we first toured for Get Rich Or Die Tryin’, I told her to go f*ck herself, I ain’t seen her for like 6 years. I ain’t even know where my kid was. I came back and my kid was like another human yo (laughs). And now I’m about to go tell her to f*ck herself again. We’re about to be outta here, that’s if I don’t get fired again! And then the reaction from The Voice? Damn! And we got more shows coming up, it’s already a good look man.
To read the full interview head over to HHNM.
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50 Cent released his new single "My Life" from his upcoming Street King Immortal album on Monday November 26th, and already the positive feedback is overwhelming. The song features frequent collaborator Eminem and Adam Levine of Maroon 5.
50 and Adam gave a standout performance of the S1-produced song on NBC's The Voice last night. The music video for it premiered today on MTV.
Fif and Slim sat down with MTV to break down the meaning of the video and song.
"The [Street King Immortal} album is more personal than albums in the past," 50 said. "When I wrote Hate It Or Love It, I was talking about when I was growing up {I saw] my mom kissing a woman. So I put it on Game's record because I wasn't sure the public was ready to hear that from me. Because we only offered a certain style of content to them. That was me putting my toes in the tub to comfortably make that transition. This record is allowing us to do different things creatively. I've been able to come out a few times, more than usual to come to Detroit and work with Em for this record"
Eminem goes on to explain that "My Life" represents the feeling he and 50 get by being in the sometimes overwhelming media spotlight.
"[The video] is kind of like a glimpse into the way we were feeling when we made the record," Em said. "The video is kind of abstract. It's kind of metaphoric in a sense of like the paranoia of feeling like we're being chased. The helicopter in the video kind of represents the spotlight. Whether it's true or not, it's kind of how we feel. It's kind of a metaphor of us running from our lives. Personal lives and from fame and everything that goes with the game."
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50 Cent had the honor of presenting the award for Favorite Rap/Hip-Hop Artist at the AMA's last night. Tyga, Drake and Nicki Minaj were the nominees in the category.
Tristan Wilds and Shay Carl caught up with the G-Unit boss on the Coca-Cola red carpet to get his opinion on who he thought should win the award,
"If we're looking at new efforts then we will have to go towards Tyga, he's the newest one. It would mean the most to him if he won. But Drake... it's pretty tough. It's cool, they've been working," 50 said.
(Nicki Minaj won)
50 also talked about his impression of paparazzi and if he ever gets tired of them.
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