Sixshot: What’s the meaning behind the album?
50: I titled the album St. Valentine’s Day Massacre originally.

I had attended on releasing it February 16 a day after Valentines Day. Initially my plans were to utilize everything that said Valentines Day from teddy bears, to flowers, to candy because everything changes in the supermarket; everything changes to cards all over the place. It’s also a holiday where everyone doesn’t stop working so everyone is physically available to go pick up the cd.  Then it didn’t hurt that I was addressing some of my issues in Al Capone in back in the day he addressed his issues at one time.  He kind of out witted the guys until they sent somebody in there dressed as police officers then he put them up against the wall and shot everybody.

Sixshot: Do have any collaboration on the album?
50: You know me and Em definitely we did a song called Gatman and Robin.  I did a joint called I build you up featuring Jamie Fox.

Sixshot:  Do have a favorite song on the album?
50:  One of my favorites is a Baltimore love thing.

Sixshot: What’s that about?
50: It’s about heroin addiction rate.  Well it’s actually about addiction.  What it is what I do in the song is I attempt to make heroin human with emotions and feelings and then I imagine what it would be like to be in a relationship with someone who is constantly trying to leave.

Sixshot: So that’s one of your favorite?
50: Yeah that’s one of my favorite it has a lot of detail to it.  I took my time writing it.

Sixshot: What do you think about Game’s album on how it is doing?
50: I think it is doing great.  I worked on that album you know.  He came out to my house in Farmington, Connecticut and we prepared about 11 records together.  There is 6 records that I’m on.  Dre basically worked on it for a long time so we worked hard on it.  Game has been on Aftermath probably 2 years.

Sixshot: Now he is official G unit?
50: Yeah you know what happened.  They got to a point with Game’s project, Dr. Dre and Game where you know the wheels kind of got stuck in the mud creatively.  They were having a hard time figuring direction for the rest of the album and it gave me the opportunity to come in and work with him.  I did and it turned out great you know his album debut number one.  He sold over 580 thousand copies his first week.

Sixshot: So Dre basically handed the project over to you?
50: Well he maintained creative control so at the end of the day everything that we created together me and Game he had to approve it.

Sixshot: What’s up with the rumor of Chingy becoming a G unit member?
50: Actually I sat with Chingy you know I had a meeting with him.  I also sat with Lil Scrappy.  I think they have  a different audience that their appealing too.  You know after having a conversation with them it was cool but that’s all it was a conversation.

Sixshot: Would you go as far as going on Oprah?
50: Going on Oprah.

Sixshot: Yeah
50: I don’t think Oprah has ever had a rapper on her show?

Sixshot: She had Will I think?
50: Will Smith is a movie star now. You know what I mean so it is not the point where you would go to a different genre.  You know you get involved in film or something else she feels her audience might be interested in seeing.  I don’t she has ever had a rapper like period.

Sixshot: Is the Ja Rule beef dead?
50: You know it’s funny that you ask that because I never really had beef with Ja himself.  You know I had beef with older heads from my neighborhood and they kept trying to put themselves in it.  You know what I mean they were trying to ride it and stand next to that Gangsta so they make that murder shit like it was real we the murderers Murder Inc. you know what I mean.  But they aint that you know what I mean.

Sixshot: Was that your main beef with Ja Rule.
50: Yeah was them trying to stand next to it.  They was trying to claim some shit they didn’t have nothing to do with you know what I mean.  Now they going through all kind of shit cause they stand next to the wrong people as far as Federal issues but that’s what happens when you turn your blessings into something negative.  They were blessed with the opportunity to try and make music and entertain for a living but then instead they want to try to become something they were afraid to be ahead of that.  Gotti came with music.  His name is Irving Lorenzo Dj Irv.

Sixshot: They from your neighborhood too?
50: They from Hollis only like 10 minutes where I from.

Sixshot: So there old friends?
50: Nah I aint never been friends with them but they know me cause originally that whole shit started over one of my little homies robbed him.

Sixshot: So that is the real story?
50: Yeah one of my homies robbed him.  This is the honest God truth right here.  One of my homies cornered him and robbed him his name is lil Troy from Daisy projects.  After he robbed him we were in the club.  He watched me say what’s up to him, I grew up with him and they viewed me as if I am exactly the same as them I just have the opportunity to rap because I can do it.  They never looked at Ja and them the same cause they were never in the hood, they never been in the street with it.  So he’s in there he is looking at them like look at these birds he aint really saying nothing to him

but he is like son come here cause he just seen me latching with them,  Then afterwards I seen Ja and I said what’s up to him I said what’s up and he acted funny cause he had just seen me talking to the guy who just robbed him.  To me I felt crazy I’m like oh so you can act funny to me but you aint going to say nothing to the nigga who robbed you he standing right there.  You see what I’m saying so that is really where the issues came from.  It is like rappers feel that you become a part of their peer. As you become respected as a rapper, like you in the music business and you a rapper, like you become their peer and they don’t feel like they should take any shorts to another rapper.  You see what I’m saying but if it’s a guy out the hood that’s still just in the hood he can come get upside your head right quick and you aint going to do nothing.  Like a rapper will get in your face and say his verse like he mean it even if his first says he will smack the shit out you. He will stand in your face and tell you he will smack the shit out you like he mean it knowing he aint going to do that.

Sixshot: What’s the beef with you and Nas
50: you know what me and Nas we was cool we used to be good.  I didn’t understand his actions.  The first thing that started feeling a little off with him was the Jennifer Lopez shit.  I had done a record on the Jennifer Lopez album right and this after I got shot this is the first thing I’m doing trying to come back out.  Irv was running around calling everybody and saying don’t do business with these guys you do business with him we are not fucking with you.  At the time they were selling records so people weigh there value by what you can do for them and they were leaning towards Irv and them and they actually took me off the record and put Nas on the record cause she was on Columbia and Nas is on Columbia.  Irv even suggested it at the time because he was like take him off why don’t you put Nas on the record he just won a battle with Jay.

Sixshot: Right
50:  Took me off the record but I never got a phone call from Nas like I didn’t want a phone call from him to tell me like Yo, can I do this, not can but I wanted a phone call just to be aware of it happening.

Sixshot: Just to let you know
50: Yeah like yo son I’m a let you know I just did this record I don’t know what is going on or if you know what is going on but they called me to do the record and I did it. Just to make me aware of it and I never got the phone call.  But prior to that I got the phone call when he had beef with Cormega or other niggas he had problems with he would call and ask me to do him favors. Ask me yo look out for me do this for me you understand what I am saying.

Sixshot: What did you take that as?
50: Well I don’t really know what was going on in his head you know what I mean, but all I know is that his actions made me like damn you know from there we really aint had too much communications.  Recently he went on stage in Central Park and it was like a free concert and it turned into a Fuck 50 cent fuck G unit concert you know what I mean.

Sixshot: So he initiated it.
50: Yeah he said that shit in the park. I aint never.  Look.  People think because I don’t have a problem with beef I’ll accept it.  See where I come from it has always been around like I have always experienced it and if it wasn’t mine it was somebody else’s beef but it was right there.  You know because I accept it usually they think I like it.  I’m just responding to other people’s action.  So I wrote that portion based on that but he did go in the park and said what he said about me.

Sixshot: Is this the same issue you have with Fat Joe and Jadakiss
50:Yeah they set it off first.  I’m not running around looking for trouble and shit like that. Shyne.  This nigga shyne went off his mouth crazy.  They gave him a record deal and all he did is make a record about 50.  That entire last record that Godfather buried alive bullshit he put out.  He did not put out anything new.  He recorded one new track on it and it was talking about me on it.

Sixshot: In the movie Beef you said when Ja rule was pumping his album you called it a publicity stunt.
50: No you know what it was I said when it came to the Hit Factory that the incident was a publicity stunt like when we got the fighting in the hit factory because they had said I got stabbed.  See now when you say somebody got stabbed you envision someone humped over.  But I received three stitches.  I wasn’t sure if it was a stab wound or if it was from us running into something while we were fighting in the room.  The cut is like on my back.  My upper back.

Sixshot: Right
50: So it’s like a scratch B.  So I ‘m looking at it like there is no telling if I ran into something or what it is.  But they called it a stab wound the following day, and they were saying I got stabbed before I had actually made it anywhere to get stitches.  You see what I’m saying.  I didn’t go to the hospital in Manhattan.  I went all the way home it wasn’t a big deal do you understand what I’m saying.

Sixshot: I got you
50: I went all the way home then after I get home my Grandmother was like we just go get it cleaned and I went they said you should stitch it.  You know how big a scar that requires three stitches is.  Shit in your hand could have three stitches

Sixshot: What I was trying to say was do you think the beef with Fat Joe and Jada or even Ja Rule is a publicity stunt to sell albums or do you feel it is personal?
50: You know I think they are better.  You know to be honest with you it’s New York City and everybody I have an issue with is New York City based.  Did you realize that?  See in New York City they don’t really like to see you do good.  That’s the truth.  They don’t work together.  You know like in Atlanta you’ll see Lil John doing good you see Ludacris doing good.  Then you see Lil John and Ludacris to set off Usher doing good,  Then there are other artist there but they all work together.  So it feels like Atlanta is on fire.  It feels like that because they are working together.  Meanwhile New York City you don’t feel no New York City cause New York City don’t work with each other.  You got Terror Squad on one end you Got Ruff Riders on the other end.  You got G unit over here you got Dip set over here you got Bravehearts over here.  Everybody is separate individual crews and if they got a hit they got a hit they are not going to work with each other.

Sixshot:  Do you think that will ever change?
50: I don’t think so because now it has been to the point I have been branching off to create my own community of artist to work with.  Because now I have the opportunity of having G unit records I can go get Young Buck from Nashville.  I can sign Game from the West Coast and continually find different talent from different areas so they can speak from different perspectives.

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