50 Cent Interview - Get Rich or Die Tryin’ 20th Anniversary, The Final Lap Tour, Eminem Friendship

[Music] what's good I'm Joey Edge you may know me from double XL mag and double xlmag.com double XL higher level Radio 2 with my guy DJ digital but you know today I got something special for you and I'm beyond Jazz for it cause just in time for the massive final lap tour that's gonna span 23 countries in celebration of the 20th anniversary of one of the most iconic albums of all time Get Rich or Die Tryin I am joined by none other than one of the best things to ever happen to hip-hop culture the legendary 50 Cent 50. welcome oh man thanks for having me man that intro was serious I'm good about it nice how you feeling man I'm feeling good man because first I'm assault like I'm a version for the front of laptop you're out there right now right on starts on July 21st happy belated birthday by the way yeah yeah I'm getting older man I could tell I go to the gym [ __ ] hurt we're gonna talk about all that but the final lap tour man that's an interesting name for sure what does that title mean to you it'll be one of the biggest hip-hop tours of the year because it won't it won't stop it'll just go through until like I'll probably by the time we've done because of the groundwork that I laid tauren see with the mm I literally can World talk like the other artists when they still going to work toward music going on the run right on the tour but not it's not a world tour like but my music is is you I think on the international territories a lot of a lot of these places English is their second language so if I was even bigger leap for them to appreciate the music and enjoy so it takes time for them to understand it what it is or whether they like it and um yeah the time that it's just coming full circle now because in so many days like one led up to the final lap was I did I was going to do four dates internationally and um Live Nation didn't want to do the four days because they were like uh it's gonna be covered like it's not you're not going to get through the dates or whatever and then I just I ended up financing the dates I I paid for the Arenas and [ __ ] and sold them out myself and then it was like they when they see me sell it out myself it changed their thought process a little bit because when I got back I decided to go out I did 16. shows we sold them out afterwards and then I did another run right after and I said then they were like can we talk to you uh uh about because they missed a lot of stuff like during the very beginning of my career what helped me not have a big head at any point was I had Eminem around so when I'm doing 13 million records on my first album I have The Marshall Mathers LP to look at just doing 23 million records you understand so like why everybody else was like you know going damn 13 million because like for African-American male solo artists most I've seen was or I was on me go Diamond being a double CD so it was five million copies but it meant it went diamond because it was a double CD and for Giver to die trying that was like one song short of a double album and I did 13 million records so it would be 26 million Americans they did charge 19.99. you know I mean they did charge a double CD cost but there's a it's an excitement to it that was like there was nothing that you could really compare to the experience on that record because like I had got bumped around long enough to have the best first album like I was seasoned enough it's really album was the album you could really call the album three because I made a record an album with Jam Master Jay James your records and and then from that experience I ended up not working over there and I ended up recording a whole another album word for material with track masters over Columbia and then that record didn't get out and it was not I wasn't changing I was evolving the concept instead of changing it so I was going from the power of a dollar to Get Rich or Die Tryin if if you experience life-threatening situations in between times it's the same concept it's the power of money to influence the money that that is the same thing that I use for this television shows power right so that was Universal it means the same thing everywhere there's the same uh in every language probably means the same thing in every country you go is the same symbol on your remote to start television so I I just stayed into that pocket that was the universal theme and concept for the record that's awesome man so now 20 years later you continue to make yourself undeniable by selling out these shows yourself right and like you said it's it's a it's an international universal symbol AS are you and with 93 shows in 23 countries what kind of message do you think that that sends being able to even go on such a large scale tour is that a testament to your Fame and success yeah and it it definitely is a testament to our culture and Hip-Hop is grown you know what I mean and and a lot of the talent they don't want to give them the credit for it but a lot of the consumer base opens up when they see themselves in it mm-hmm so it is Black Culture it's black music but when you see Multicultural people participating in it it becomes broad enough to be something that everybody appreciates and enjoys on the highest level and M is a big part of it's like you got guys that will impact impacted in different ways like even Vanilla Ice in fact right but it wasn't incredible sure that wasn't yeah it wasn't like homegrown incredible m is really from this like he really from Detroit and right had these hardships and experiences if you say ain't much difference from the trailer park and projects man no of course not and yeah let's speak on him for a minute right so he's been one of the most controversial rappers to your point ever and for all these years he's been your close friend and you depend you defend him all the time in those controversial moments What's your relationship like with them these days I love him to death that's my point I don't care what what happens you know like that in my experience like like M uh Dre Jimmy and Paul Rosenberg was able to come to uh to London I did Wireless Fest so I was out there so they came for my birthday to hang out and we got a chance to kick it but I um I talked to him you know I just call him randomly or I texted to see what's up just around and see but m is like a um I don't know I put him next to my grandmother wow let me tell you why because he he never it was never a point that I had confusion going on that and for artists the most vulnerable point for us is confusion right because it's not you have money you have things around to comfort you but when you're in a space where there's there's confusion like you can't even figure out what direction to write in you can't figure out what to do to and then you don't feel good at that point it's like it's just a low point it's for Creative people you know what I'm saying and that whenever that was going on he uh he wasn't participating ever like it was always a play a place where I could go and communicate or just talk to him and know that he has my best interests at heart like friends when we say yo nah it's my man cool I think we give the title friend away too easy like these people are Associates you know and y'all are good standings but it's that person your friend because if that person is your friend they'll truly have your best interests at heart they want to see you do well they want you want everything that you want for yourself if they want it because that's gonna make you you shot from yeah I mean from your core the things that you that you you yearning for like in your life the things that you want at your the base of who you are when someone's there to be supportive of you achieving that and everywhere they can help you they go what what you want to do when I do something like they couldn't get them in front of the camera after he did they mouth 20 years I'm telling me personally I was they would come to me to try and get them and go yo get uh we got eight million dollars for this oh he'll only have to work for three weeks and you can work in Detroit right and then I'm like anyway and then there's the the point where uh he knows that I if you say no I'm like you just said no but I have to say to you so you can say no to me because it's real money you know I mean and that the same concept with the the Super Bowl see they don't understand the relationship they was trying to get him to do the super bowl without me it wasn't happening it wouldn't happen no way because he would look and go it's okay for them the war shows not to give me the trophies if you look at the even Jay-Z's career you can look at that and say the association to Beyonce is when he started to receive the 16th but we got 16 17 Grammys since he's been with Beyonce right and you go prior to that one right you see what I'm saying so that came as an association like like you see the kids even have experiments like they don't they don't sing yet they don't sing right they don't rap yet and they already have Grammys and [ __ ] so it's like they give this business trophy so so we secured it they come in to the award show it meant that much to the culture that they just gave them the things that would later to me I didn't care about trophies I said I'll get the checks right right and because what I was saying the content was raw enough like and who I am sure just my experience is a little bit abrasive to uh conservatives sure you know the way they see it so they'll look at it and go oh okay like and I haven't experienced much that that Jay probably hasn't experienced to Marcy but what what I would say is um he has a it's internal like he's a quiet like a quiet person so you don't see that that you don't feel the energy that actually goes on in that environment sure I promise and then I really don't care about that like I looked at a lot of the later people look at it and they honor those things it didn't matter to me in the time period when we go [ __ ] don't give me the trophy you go the new things to come but I understand it because it didn't give me the best of artists because they were afraid the kids would want to be 50 Cent mm-hmm you know I mean and then if in that point well I was I was pretty rough around the edges you know like I've grown since then but if you look and you say no I I kind of understand why they would be afraid that their kids would want to be fit to that but uh if you look at things now and culture hip-hop we love things that are damaged right wow you pick up things that have been have been banked around like in the process like it's like even the uh most artists can make uh make magic I mean music same thing because when you when you do it the right way the music responds like magic you can rarely get people to agree on things right like they look how many people choose a different religion look how many people uh choose different political parties so Democrats Republicans things right so it's rare to get them to be on the same terms but when the right song comes on they'll agree to enjoy themselves you know I mean and that's the magic in it and that's around the world I don't care what the circumstances are it'll make you feel better about make you forget your circumstances momentarily sure and let you enjoy it you know sure and even like the connection the music culture has to professional sports because it's the biggest that is the biggest form of entertainment if you look at the NFL the NBA the baseball hockey all these how many people go out to see these things you know what I'm saying it's a big experience and then in order to have people perform on the highest level they need the music to take their mind off of how how long they have to do what they're doing to be that good at it and you would know better than anybody else for sure and in the 20 years since the album dropped right and the fact that we're celebrating 50 years of hip-hop this year how important is Get Rich or Die Tryin in your opinions impact on the culture how important is that impact like 20 years is is a hell of a milestone you look and go with that what was I doing because when you're in it you know you don't feel the days go by you know what I'm saying but when you really think about it I I look at look I'm flattered I get excited when I see the Young Artists do their version of it you know like some people don't like it like artists don't like when other artists do things with the with the music and stuff like that but I I actually can appreciate it I enjoy it because it's a different audience I know hip-hop cultures connected to youth culture you ain't supposed to have the best verse at 50. 52 years old trying to kick the first get the [ __ ] out of here you're supposed to have the best book not initially the young you got the Young Artists the guy who who is you when you started sure trying to get trying to have a moment and you still want to have the moment get the [ __ ] out of here man yeah it's not supposed to go like that and then and there's a you got guys that are completely committed to the crime and writing and like that there's nothing else the M doesn't want to do anything else the only time I they was able to get him back in front of the camera was because I was directing are going to come out and play White Boy Rick for me well I was indeed shooting in Detroit and that was because he watched power and he was like yo when you he go yo how you know how to do that [ __ ] like yeah because we spent so much time on the music and in the studios and [ __ ] like that that I would uh Gathering whatever I felt like was dope like good material and [ __ ] like that and then I come and I like I just press play and I watch him and see if I don't get no response out of it I would really scrap the record I wouldn't do it like I wouldn't use it if you didn't he didn't respond to it like that and hear the record like it meant something then like no I'm not using that [ __ ] that shouldn't yeah let me see yeah like that that's just my silent test oh it's this [ __ ] good you know what I'm saying like and yeah that's amazing because it's like obviously you know someone like that has a has a deep personal impact on you right but to everyone else he is just uh Beyond superstardom right and when you see stuff like that in your opinion personal stuff aside like what kind of impact do you think Eminem has had on hip-hop culture in its 50 years yeah I think look it's unmeasurable man I think until you can look at it and say like you got artists that uh that within the culture that are uh they'll look at it and say well well here's his records in the nightclub well this is different like different things different energy but when he didn't make those records with intentions for you to listen to it that um and if if we was if that was the goal we'd make one right now that would [ __ ] up your life because it would be in it so hard you understand like who played the course top 40 of course over radio until it's a different energy you gotta look at it like he don't know what the inside of Summer Jam looks like the inside of hot 97. he's the one when he did do something like that it was Jingle Bell it was Z100 it's a broader audience what I'm saying to you is when when that audience captures the art form and becomes attracted to it they buy other people's art from the art form that's where the sales is coming from no Eminem No Bentley no Ferrari no Lamborghinis you'll see how rich the artist look Now versus the way they did 50 years ago and culture and Hip-Hop like did you look at the beginning of it they they're the foundation of it so you always showing respect God we wouldn't even have the ideas we had to be a part of it right and but they didn't make the money it wasn't that you know they put forth the same effort and creatively put the energy into it to make exciting moments and then we're competitive so they battled they made each other made it each other better you know what I mean and and within today's climate we can act like we not acknowledging who's delivering and who's not but common sense says you're in the music business right I'm in the business music sometimes I mean I'm paying attention to the business part of it a little more than the the foreign music because I'm earning off of it from different perspective like it's not a same the same uh we don't have the same goals or the same things this is why I don't even engage in the same Communications I had in the past like I would argue with other artists [ __ ] like that now you know no not you know that was just being competitive now you you ask me something and I'll go I guess that's how he feels hmm wow this doesn't matter they don't matter like we're not even after the same thing sure at this point you know like and there's a there's so many look I can I see and hear things as they are so I hear the new guy that is better than these guys right now he hasn't connected yet so they don't know he's better than them but I can hear um you know because I I only respond to things I don't have favorite artists I have favorite moments from those artists so there's there's points this video come out like Nas got a CD coming out magic too that's a featured on him I got a junk what I'm called uh office hours we did together right and it's just and ever since like power to Dollar time like we worked together since Powers also it's cool to get in with them and do something like that what was the process of the song like because that drops Friday right you just announced that right that's the same day as the tour starts so that's pretty dope yeah what was it like chopping it up with nas this time around it's good like you know it's interesting the the relationship is different right because we're in two different places now like that it was like no I was like when I first interacted with him it was like yo who's that like because the heart of Rob record got his attention and he's like that's like when I first came out like that energy is like oh and then and you just wanted like to see who I was like for me to be around and [ __ ] like that and then he let me come on tour with him he didn't have to do that because you know there's other artists did it like nature was their names other people there that could have been on that bus like in that slide and he let me come he let me call because he's funny you know hang out yeah he was there too early on we went on the tour they didn't understand it because he's like look he was ahead of us and I was look he had what he had and I was looking at going you gotta be careful it's because he was smarter than the music he was releasing hmm when when that happens you can look you can Teeter into with KRS is that okay if I started being the teacher not criminal minded because criminal minded there's nothing better than that to me that period is is different that energy was nuts you know what I'm saying and then there's a but yeah you're smarter than the things that he was saying on the records because he was around look what he said on the records matched how things felt in the environment not who he was actually hit sure so we've been on the tour bus and he like and he's reading books and stuff like yeah he's going what the [ __ ] is he doing I thought he went to jail for for uh Jeff is nothing Jesus and the [ __ ] with [ __ ] and beepers and all of this trip from his first album and yeah he didn't understand it like you know there's different [ __ ] that goes on with us like the yeah at that point he Associated suit for the funeral court date because the only time there was a suit around us was random was we had to go to court or it was a funeral so like there was no business no not a street like it's just the street so when you Rough Around the Edges like that you look he would say uh yo what the [ __ ] is he doing he said that reading bunch of [ __ ] hey yeah and he already was at the top the top of the game at that point and they can versus like versus that type of [ __ ] that's when you get an opportunity it's trying to rewrite history see we know what the records did we know how everyone's stats United remember when I said uh what they say uh men live women line numbers don't right but when we look at the numbers they're still not [ __ ] with them no they're not in fact in fact no rapper you mentioned not a lot of rap tours are doing it this year but no rapper is out here doing back to back to back to back shows 93 dates all kinds of countries and things like that like how do you even pull that off how do you prepare for it yeah I learned I learned the groundwork first like the I've traveled I've been no like like I just posted by India I've been to India I've been to coaster ball Croatia I've been to Boston Africa that they they haven't even seen because the dates can't be done on this toy yet with 93 days because we didn't we don't hit Africa and then there's no Thailand Taiwan Taipei Bangkok Japan China like these joints you got to hit these spots like I want to Japan on the anger management tour whatever see they haven't seen me since so when this is the final lap I'll tap in to see him before I stopped the tour so after that then I'll be if they ever see me doing anything it'll be smaller and it won't I won't go that far with you know how it shows and obviously you can do things that you couldn't can't do on a uh a shorter leg because of the proceeds connected to the tour production wise if you can do [ __ ] that you couldn't do because it doesn't even matter like you crossing the you're going to cross the ear everything yeah so you know uh the IRS is going to be there looking for that money oh okay all right so now I heard you mention a couple times uh the production value of this tour is like epic what are some of the things that fans can expect well I I just didn't want to do the same show that I've done every time that I went out like the way I was doing it and a lot of times in the early stages of your career you kind of you're doing the muscle show especially when you got a hit hit album then you could kind of run through the songs and the excitement of it at that point because it's the theme music to the people's lives at this point look at it like the number the hot record right now right let's let's take the baby shakes out right when that record comes on think of the kids in college right now this party every available moment that he he has right so he get free come on let's go let's go party have a good time when that particular record comes on everybody is in agreeance to enjoy themselves right so at this point his core the audience is out and socializing right at that point becomes this core audience at this point because they'll understand and appreciate them differently because because his art created that was a part of their experience in their Journey they'll know the words to the song without sitting there trying to to learn that they're not watching the YouTube word video enjoying themselves and remembering some of the lines as it goes until you know the whole song so those people later the people who who were that in my experience are already successful in their field that they were studying to be in in college at that point they they have to drink that they would have at the nightclub and their Wine Cellar their Wine Cellar their bar at the house they're doing it in the privacies of their home because their kids are out at the party so now is the opportunity to perform the kind of they go now I'll take you to that concert because they know the music and what that their connection to it I take the kids to the concert to see that because that's going to be different and they know that you know what it is or so they can understand why why we why we connected at that point go ahead it's cool but but I think that's why this is why my interest in television showed up is to reach my coordinates like I know where they're at sure so so that's sort of the way that you've seen your core audience evolve over the past 20 25 years and I can testify to everything you just said too because I'll put patiently waiting on with a glass of wine right now yeah remember this like and then you are it's just music music marks time so that there's even when you think in in storytelling process if we go into the 1990s your music supervisor is going to find music that was a hit or something that reminds you of the night as soon as it plays it takes your head back to that that era like raising raising Canaan for foreign if they didn't know I understood the significance of the time period that's when you start making viral moments based on songs all like that even in BMF when they're going um the the uh what was the song in BMF it was um the the one everybody started to uh can't you can't stop the rain you know I mean and sometimes you could actually like and I told this music supervisor because I love listening to the older music and stuff like that like records they weren't properly positioned and didn't go in with good timing they made it to number 20 but the record is super hot mm-hmm it didn't make it to the top ten top five records so you can't really always just use the chocolate sure you got to know what was was hot at the time at the same time and then go through those musics because they are look at this for right now to create an explanation or to uh create a metaphor for what I'm saying future hit records They didn't charge you see what I'm saying like if you looked at this it's his career on being technical you'd say the biggest records that he made were with Drake because Drake is that big you know what I'm saying and connected those are the records to charted so the the hits that he he made that didn't chart would be there if he was trying to match this time period at now sure the the but this is why this is why you would have to understand the music and be in the coaches understand to capture that right that time and to really portray what was going on specifically in this case like future you would look at the records that were really connecting with people as opposed to yeah what's the name I asked DJs because that was the kid the kid out of Brooklyn um they sounded like future no the um designer design designer when he came he had a regular I got broads in Atlanta oh [ __ ] it sounds like the future [ __ ] and it hit it was number one record and I would ask the DJs so who bigger designer or the future [ __ ] and at this time he had a whole tape with it the whole [ __ ] tape was hot you know what I'm saying I was like yo and it was like designer I'm like oh [ __ ] yeah all right yeah but you know I'm like no artists at different points like I I designed I brought a movie when when the record first was connected like I was going uh entertain ideas signing them but then I know who I was when I had one song and I wasn't ready I thought I was what was the moment that you knew you were ready no no you you think you're ready long before you are like you you may make a record you're okay this is hot you feel like that and that [ __ ] ain't going on and then this is why you even if you like the record like I used to play regular over and over and make something I like in the studio because Jay be like yo Mr J and he'd be like yo if that [ __ ] is what we like if that's just what we need we need another one stop playing that [ __ ] you gotta move to the next one sure you know I'm still created me I literally he literally said that to me like it's funny I like that [ __ ] for the early stages of my career I never forget but like you know and it was it was crazy because I would look at it and I I thought that record was a hit it wasn't but we was listening to it and listening to it unless until he's like yo now this [ __ ] is good but if this is what we think it is you're gonna need another one so get off of that we got to go to the next one and then it it made me not fall in love with my ideas to the point that I wasn't making another idea I'll come up with something else and look if you you have a hit too fast it'll hurt you more than it helps you know the artist hasn't been the artist hasn't developed look at what happens when you get a record like say like a new the new business God went it got to beat up for the page for the beat for the guy through YouTube sat down he worked on it in front of the computer got a microphone did his thing did it boom after he got it he went and took it to the studio and they went and makes it and made it sound good put it up and it popped [ __ ] or the [ __ ] hit it take you out of everything really yeah he when he got two and let's go he said who is it 50 Cent Eminem yeah I'm gonna be over here ever simple that that much because he's saying if I can have the kind of success they had yeah these people can help me sure and you know the Chicago energy like to me all the Roblox that's all black to me like the beginning of it and I'm like I had connected with him so early like like when I do last night we was just going through songs and [ __ ] while I was at doing rehearsals and [ __ ] like that and we went across the KP and silver record that they were him uh meet him and Wiz on the chart and it was just ill because he was so rough like he was so Chicago dude he didn't understand what was happening I'm telling you that like and I I [ __ ] with him like I like when I see but when I see it coming out and I know it's not like it's Hood like the hood I kind of like it like I like the artist more because it's what I was before I started to figure out sure what's going on and so in that moment did you offer up Keith any any advice when you got on that record yeah I only would have got in L.A I got him out there they couldn't get him to go Larry Jackson these other guys I believe guys times for those around their wasted [ __ ] they couldn't get [ __ ] too good to listen to nothing he's like yo what I said yeah he he was asking him for specifically what was going on right he had a walk through they wanted to give him seven thousand dollars this is what chopping them the [ __ ] I don't like record is really starting to connect in Chicago right and I go it was like yo leave the little money leave the little money come out here so you could get the album right and just snap right and I've seen I'm just listening to him tell them where and I'm like nah I definitely wouldn't listen to this [ __ ] if you was telling me that at this point so I go yo hold on hold on he go right into the living room so he could all of them is dead like that the young boy all of his crew at the time so he like yeah yeah so what's up Fifth start the conversation over right and I was like yo I'm in L.A man come out here I said um seven thousand I said oh don't leave the money [ __ ] what the [ __ ] you you gonna leave the money he said that's what I was thinking that's what I was thinking I'm like nah look go to the go to the party I'll go do your thing there all right I'll be done like 3 30 4 o'clock right y'all go straight from there to the airport your five o'clock flight with me early in the morning y'all come be here overnight early in the morning so it go back I just got to L.A or they would have never got to him he didn't really understand what was going on they looking at him to Chicago it's the hottest thing in the world so they telling him you hot fool 50 calling you because you hot not because you need to listen to those big bro he he made his Wanksta and didn't show up to us in the club video you know what I'm saying connected him and started starting to take off and then the next record was taking a snowball with me and wizard would have put him in a and it's still delivered at radio right but it didn't have the visual connected I had the music video the whole time really I mean everybody's been rolling around in the desert on buggies and all those other [ __ ] Being Sober we shot the whole video and it just it just never came to fruition because Keith was was out doing this thing he never got on the plane he never got on the plane and then he called back I was like yo yo um yeah we're gonna come like yo could they uh send us a jet oh you really don't understand what's going on right now see there was no jet money at that point and they were not gonna reshoot the music video because they what they spent on the production was actually happening right then so when he decided not to come he decided not to that still was he still recouped that the money that was spent right there wow but there was no no new money in the budget for him to do redo the music video so we never shot that it's just it just sat there the whole time but I that he knows specifically that I I took a liking to him and always [ __ ] with him because of that like he just he's that one right there is a real deal like he got bumped around too you seen it after mm-hmm you know I mean a lot of a lot of [ __ ] happened and uh hey he kind of distanced himself a little bit you don't see him right in the middle of [ __ ] like that so he did well as you're out on this tour 50. and uh you know Get Rich or Die try and you said it yourself was created at a very different time in your life right and now that you're mixing it up with old money winning champagne championships in Houston and all that is there a certain state of mind that you need to put yourself into to perform these songs you know the music does that to me anyway it takes me like if I'm performing a song that that has uh uh a different energy to it like a small aggressive I perform it more aggressive like it's not like a idea I don't know what it what it got like the energy that surrounds the creative part of the record yeah it's there like and that's what the with the planning for the tourists like you got to do that and then also and between time like because it's important that I like to engage with people who came to the show like so if I make eye contact with people when I the performance a lot of that [ __ ] is it becomes personal at that point when that that moment he's looking right at me like I'm talking like I feel like I'm connected with him or he's saying he's thinking that saying that to me like you know what I'm saying like that part of the record and to stay on the plan while being able to do that is uh yeah it's a part of the the biggest performance man like if you're watching Taylor Swift and then Beyonce I don't do anything those shows are exciting shows man and they stop and they engage with the fans and people and they get them they personalize it to them like and everybody everybody is there may not like you as much did someone who likes you a lot more than the rest like they may like you but don't like you like that boy so you so so you know then those people when you make that that type of energy in the performance like when they feel that I think that they leave the experience with something that they personally feel sure that's your main goal do you try and pick out that person in the crowd it happens anyway to me it naturally happens like the the because I make contact and I do perform to people like I'm not using them for energy because I um I've been doing it long enough to sustain the energy for the record but you know you would look and say I always say to myself to a good performers provoking more energy than the music is you know what I mean and Buster's one of those guys who just oh now I gotta ask you about Buster man all right so he's going out to her on a tour with you right and it's a full circle moment it seems like because I saw you on the Rock the mic tour when the album dropped and he was there and he he was on right before you now how do you go and match an energy like what you just saw Busta Rhymes Put on yeah buses like you know what happened is a visual artist it's always been that it's always been more animated More he's possessed more than the rest of the culture like we got you know a lot of guys was like right not moving around not doing look look around him look at you know like a lot of artists didn't have you didn't have to do that to connect and be a successor it was like who you are allowing that to connect the bus that I always had that energy but I um when buses don't look like buses because Boston net getting big and bought the belly sticking up Buster can't match up with 50 is you crazy put that [ __ ] in front of me you put that [ __ ] on the side put that [ __ ] behind me man you can't [ __ ] with me man I love it I love them though his career you know he's at a point where um he just had a moment and everybody showing their appreciation for his run you know what I'm saying yeah and that did you catch that Lifetime Achievement speech yeah no definitely definitely it was about a minute too long what did you think about it well and look I never say something to buy a person's back I always say they face all right it was about a minute too long now I mean when you talk to Buster item he'll tell you yeah that [ __ ] told me my speech was a minute too long right and I'm like yo because it was powerful and I I felt it I felt the mind was what he was doing it but I was like yo it was something like they went to break like like you had to use the minute too long bro you're supposed to [ __ ] get off of that and you could have did a version of that that was a minute long and it would have made us really feel good about it you know but when people start leaving like the back the cameraman is like moving to another to the other side of the show because we're over here now and you're still having your you know I mean that moment means so much that you have to say it you have to get that out right then and I I mean I understand it like I just I would just say less and uh have it go by and and like I said afterwards I said on my phone I reached 100 million people on social media I thought you sure do and man on that note 50 sir thank you for taking the time as you prep for your crazy tour many congrats on anything go check for 50 cents buying a lap tour literally all over the globe and definitely celebrate 50's Monumental anniversary of get rich or die trying everything you need is right there at Double xlmag.com 50. thank you again best of luck man I I'll be seeing I'll be seeing you from the crowd on this tour yeah you know what if Buster ever tried to phone me that you would know the answer what you're saying yo so that would that not really what the dealio yeah I I picked better than half man you better not play with me I will [ __ ] around and perform Busta Rhymes yo look man if they try to say that if they ever thought that the bust of Rhymes was was better than me you crazy you crazy man you just looking at this [ __ ] the wrong way man what was it for Janet Jackson that's when we spent like a million eight like two million dollars on music yeah you know what I love I love when you flipped uh his joint with Mariah yes I know yeah I would do that to him because he he like he was doing this thing he'd be showing out so I was like okay this new song in myself well when I would do yesterday tomorrow now since you did that that's hilarious yeah well I would love to see if I could offer up a request I gotta see you guys do Hail Mary on stage but that's beside them you know I'm gonna make sure blocked time I got so much that I would form so I still have too many choices of what took place and what not to use his different points so I um I think because people are filming everything mm-hmm that the best show will evolve and it won't be the same now are you performing the entire album or just select songs and and sort of just I get to a lot of I could do a lot of the records like an um and then but there's points where I like you know I have to make decisions whether uh I I do two verses because I was writing three verses on those records like so do do I do two verses I'll do it I do uh uh course first chorus and and get out of that and do stuff to Nelson but have the momentum it's important that the momentum of the room is right got it so just want to do that at the same time and it's cool this is the fun part because the when you're not occupied with figuring out the uh but a new artist when it's new material you you still conscious of the words everything else like when when I've lived with the records and I know energy to expect from the from the movies like that I know what to expect from American based audience and the differences in the international territories because I've done it long enough and then what what I can get away with and what I can't get away with production-wise doing things at different points like I would try certain slow songs or do different things to to make it go up and down when when I'm in uh overseas and stuff like that and in America you look a lot of the new Talent is dead they uh I really got like two songs so that whole show is they got to go up and stay up as long as they can and then get off the stage and go home because if you don't have like like most like a catalog of material just gonna read ignite or excite the audience then you can't afford to let them come down but yeah but you want to take them on a journey right so I mean and I have records and different temporal records that are all number one records like try to yeah yeah like really like the whole half the [ __ ] shows like the number one record so you can uh choose to enjoy yourself or not but if it's number one baby yeah it for sure is man and I don't know how you could not enjoy something like that again 50. the final lab tour 20th anniversary of get rich or die trying thank you again for spending the time with me um I appreciate you best of luck [Music]

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Published: Wed Jul 19 2023