50 Cent still gets the blame for G-Unit artists’ failures.
In the early 2000s, 50 Cent was killing it both as a solo artist and through his hip-hop group G-Unit, which he founded in 1999. The group features Tony Yayo, Lloyd Banks, Young Buck, The Game and Kidd Kidd. In a new interview with Houston’s 97.9 The Box, the POWER mogul revealed that he still gets the blame for the career failures of the disbanded group’s members.
The rapper was asked if anyone ever spoke wrong against him but later apologized. “Yeah, I get that all the time,” he responds. “What’s ill is, when you’re in the seat, the driver’s seat, a lot of times, no, every time something goes wrong it’s your fault. If you ask artists why their career didn’t go the way they want, it’s the [fault of the] record label. See what I’m saying?”
He continues, “I happened to become the record label; so all of those artists that were around and didn’t do exactly what they thought they were supposed to do, it’s my fault that it didn’t. They give it to me individually now, like it’s not the company, it’s him.”
O.T. Genasis is the sole special case. O.T. was affiliated to the Massacre rapper’s label in 2011, however, the relationship was short-lived. “I had him for a record,” said 50. “After that record didn’t work, he went and made a hit record,” he said.
Despite the fact that things did not pan out together with O.T. and G-Unit Records, 50 claimed that he and the rapper had a fantastic friendship. That he can’t say for a lot of label’s prior artists “He [O.T.] was let go to go do that. And he went and made that hit and he made his money. The other people are upset because they felt like they coulda did it. ‘If you had did it for me. So it’s your fault you didn’t do it for me.’ I can’t make people buy records,” said 50.
Check out the interview below.
