50 Cent Talks "Tycoon Houston Comedy Fest, YK Osiris, Love For Houston, Mending Relationships & More

in the gym heavy brom I back. You know, they say I was fat super Bowl. That shit bothers me, man, because I was like, what are you talking about? I'm not fat? Like I got I'm gonna sure you pitture I took with Jimmie Foxx. You know, I guess it's the angle because I was coming up, so you see like it looked a little wider and then they got they got that and they ran with it. But you know, like I'm I'm looking like now, I fluctuated a lot throughout mind my run, you know what I'm saying, And

it's just my body tie. I can be security, bro, I'm gonna be too big and it's sorry. You know, I started training and working out stuff but regular stuff, but I just made sure I did it every morning because they said that to me. How's it back on the road? You know, the last two three years you've been doing nothing but movies and shows, and now you're back on the road. How does that feel to be

out performed? Like? You know, look, hip hop is now old enough for them to start to treat us like we treated the real pop stars, you know, like we're

Princeton and Mike. And then when they was, they would just say I'm performing today and the show would go up and sell out that day, you know what I'm saying, Like, and then and the nationally, I'm getting an old response to the things, like everything sold out like when I went out there, and it's because I laid the groundwork, like during Get Richard Died Trying and the Massacre those projects.

Was taking two years for me to come with the next album because I spent the whole year after I released it touring, you know, so because I was going everywhere like Croatia, moved by India, like Coast of Old like I would everywhere, you know what I'm saying, Like everywhere that they would I wanted all of the flags that M had on that Marsha Matters album, Yeah, that plaque.

So I was like, I know I'm gonna have to go through the door to get it, but I'm gonna go in the association to M help, you know what I'm saying. So it's like I went out there and did all of that, but now now it feels good because I'm able to go out there and through those things and people really responding to it, and I'm so seasoned the performance now it's like it's easy, you know what I'm saying, Like I'm running out and it's like oh boom. I'm like, yeah, I'll get do it again

tonight because it makes you feel celebrated and appreciated. Because fifth you would you a different type of legend, like it levels the legends, you know, a different type of legends. You gotta change. You can't see the same way. You know what I'm saying, Like I'm looking going the things that I got off phone in the beginning, Charla, it changed dramatically, like now, look the simplicity and writing music is a key to it. So like go short, it's

your birthdays. What comes what I'm feeling when I'm hearing the rec and then the reason is where people have a specific reason they want to enjoy themselves. When it's your birthday and we're here, we want to have a good time. So I'll put that in it. But when you think about it and television is it's almost never right the first time, Like they write it and then they get the notes from the executives and it comes down with different so it kind of morphs into something different.

And it's choices. So if creatively, if you make if you go Okay, I'm going left here and they're gonna but you could have went right, and you see, I could have did that, but it was a creative choice. But that example, if they don't give you that example what you could have did. They don't know why they're receiving there by they're being paid, so they give you that example, and then the artists change it and it

just changes. So it makes me not creatively want to be a part of the writing process because it's a it's a very tedious process. You got to know so many details about the story before you get started that it's like I'd rather feed the writer information being part of the you know, the whole creative idea. But let them handle that part because there's so many changes and stuff until it works. Then you start to see less and less notes as the projects more and more successful.

But do you feel celebrated? Fifth don't like that's a skill. So you guys haven't for a long time. I answered how I want to answer, and I come back and I say what I want to say. So you look at you go Now I do feel teb even when you see the new versions, like when you see like Dirt and these these other artists that come out that have that um like the element that is coming straight out of the environment, you know what I'm saying. And then you look like and this pure Chicago would you

you get from them? You know what I'm saying. So I'm looking at him like and I was turned onto them so early because I remember I was crazy about Chief Keep. Ye Chief Keep first came. They thought Chief I just didn't know. You didn't know what I was talking about. He was like, yo, nah, like what they're talking about, you know, the environment, how to survive and function there. And it was in a whole new world

with this this actual business. You know what I'm saying, but once you get a chance to kind of know them, you you start to like them because they're not like the music. What the music is saying is not who they actually are. Like that's and it's the same thing with me too, or you wouldn't be able to grow past those points. He would just look the guy who does exactly what I'm saying and does is that it's not successful. Are you doing? Are you doing another album?

Hurt that you might be doing one last album? I heard you working on? Is there any true to that? Yeah? I started working on some things like the last one, though it may not be the last album and maybe broken up into something that goes out with one of

the television shows. You see what I'm saying. Like, but creatively, I just said, now I want to do something, and I got all the vehicles that I needed to do twenty five television shows, so I could just put here's the EP connected to this and that if without having the pressure of it being a full album and and all that, because like look, if you look when the last time you've seen the actual numbers on the sales of record, like you see, Kanye said, you put it

on something device so you can't see the actual number the numbers, right, and that that's because if you see the number, you go, oh wait, man, it's how did you used to be? Yeah, you know it's especially when you have a huge, successful sales record. So they're avoiding that number by putting it on a device or putting it through title or through somewhere else, so you can't

actually see what's happening with it. But the record, they're bigger stars within the culture because they've been here longer and developed their brands. I don't even think it mad at them more. Be honestly, they did what three hundred something, and people will be like, oh, it's her lower sales weekend.

I'm like, give see twenty five years in and I mean it's just how many kids you got, three married, married, three married with three kids and it's supposed to be the same sex, right, I mean, it's a diff different energy there. And then our audience has grown the grown folks. You gotta look and say, I'd say between two thousand and three and two thousand and five viewers in college, you my core audience. You know what I'm saying, because

that's when you're having your adult experience. For the first time, when you party in every available moment possible. And those those people the material impacted the hardest because it's the theme music to their life at that point when it's smoking, hotest, brand new, it's just happening at that point. And then you look, love music don't get old. So Beyonce that she ain't going nowhere like Shell, there'll be a reason for you to want to listen to Beyonce. Like you

know what I'm saying. It's just when you look at R and B music and B music require buttons. At some point you had to be a gentleman. Now you look up, they got the same tattoos the hip hop artist. They're saying the same they're singing the lyrics the hip hop artists would say in the verse, And what about g Unit? I see Banks making his rounds. Yeah, when y'all do a project in a documentary, when is that happening? I probably won't do a project with them. I'm done

with with carrying them around my back hurt. Yeah, it's a different animal, like if it doesn't you know what he showed him. If he does something wrong, I don't care what what magnitude of it is. He'll look, he'll go my bad, and and you go all right, and we just keep going to the next time he does something wrong. That's the relationship. That is our relationship. Now when you look at the like Banks, all these other guys, they oh they came in by way of him, and

they have a different temperament. It's not like it's not the same relationship. So I don't necessarily go back to carrying them. You know. Yeah, he's it's different. Do you want do you watch hold On? Do you watch the unit in interviews? Do you watch like Banks interviews? I see some of the stuff to come through. I saw he did something with flex, I saw it yep um clips, Yeah, because that the whole interview. But I see pieces like I saw something that he did with your buddy. Yeah,

he gave you big problems on that. He said that you made him a better songwriter. You improved his craft at that point. I wasn't doing nothing but writing nothing the song, right, Like if you're saying, if you're going, I don't think you should be have the best verse at fifty years old. In hip hop culture, I think the hip part of hip hop this youth coaching and that and that like we we love things that are like the coach loves things that have been damaged by

the experience. And you can see, no matter how harsh the experience has been, how beautiful the art is in it, Like it sounds perfect when you hear Cardi be saying it, Oh, it sounds like something different, and you know what the experience has been like prior to that, it's been a rough road to get there, Like you're going if you don't think that I picked up specifically because of the strip club and that experience, the like every single one of those girls, like let's say about sixty or seventy

percent of them would like to trade places with Cardi right now. Right, So the dream happened and it's like a year the record work meant, that got married, Ye had the kids. The whole shit just came together like like in one year. So I was like, I'll point to that because it's the beauty of our cultures, Like we saved people. And what about the documentary because I think a lot of people would love to know how would happened, Like they see fifth they know what happened,

but they don't know how it happened. Yeah, I would do it. I would do a documentary on it, and I think the if there would be surprised from from my perspective what it is like because you look at it and you say, like we have communications. I come in and I told them all. I said, Yo, look under the table. They look under the table and they

got on ELVs and Chi. You know That's what I'm saying, do not expect your JUNA check to come at the time they were being paid to where JUnit Sniager is RBK, So don't expect that check to come in the mail again,

you know what I'm exactly. And it was like jay Z didn't give his shoe deal to He didn't give the the other guys that was on Rockefeller the shoe deal he was with Basketball Plue right, And I'm like, I could have just put the shoes on the court or because I took the Stan Smithadita to kind of create what the Juni shoe was, because it just went to tennis, you know what I'm saying, And it made that cool like while we was doing everything else, and instead I gave all of them to check that fund

that was their finance was coming from RBK to pay them to do it, and they was just on trim with what everybody else was doing style wise doing that. So I'm like, I don't expect that to come. But at that point I was telling them that they needed to focus on their branding, stitching and stuff and everything else because I'm not going to do it for you, like to just do it for you. And it's it's not. Look,

I'm not that much smarter than these guys. Man. I just the time period that I had between like five the massacre, because at that period three from three to five, I was on the whole experiment. Like the girls was excited about me. We was going who it was, I wouldn't even know. It's the fuzziest blurry to me who was there at that point right now? But oh five, I was locking in because I was trying to understand what was actually going on so to get rich to

gossel fans. Yeah, so I was in the in the in the hotels, I'm on the phone with the lawyer. U sense, so what does this mean? Because the terms in the actual contracts are written within legal terms that I don't understand everything that's dead and I went through everything into it. I can know enough to use my gut instincts on how I want to do the deal. Meanwhile, everybody else is at the party. This this NonStop party that's going on. That they missed all of the information

and stuff like that. So when it came time for them to secure keeping things going, they didn't do the same thing I did. Damn you You you talk about writing, did you only write for gunit artists? Yesterday I saw a reference track for Higher Leaked, Yeah, and as you as you doing. I did what's your Name? Uhi songs on that album, Well everybody knows that, and I did on What's your Name? I did Paradise for LL with but Yeah. I wrote that and then Charmagne did the

reference vocals and then from Tony Pope. Because it was a familiar loop, it needed to have the chorus on that to sell, you know, I tracked Myssters used to do all of the joints over so to pitch that to LL, you got to have a full picture for him to see it when he come in, or he's not gonna understand why he's doing that that loop again, you know what I'm saying. And we did that. Then, um few other pieces I did, but next oh, for Next, I did the R and B group. Yeah, what song

was it? I forgot? Was Fun of the Joints. But I got a plaque for that for next and I did UM I wrote for Puff. But what did you write for buff the not Guilty and a filthy come on take this money, this money? Oh up? Joint? You wrote that? Yeah? I saw ye say that he was supposed to sign a bad boy. Yeah, you know what. I was going back and forth and he just he

just look. They knew I was talented. They just looked at it and was like, I don't want all of this stuff that comes with him, you know what I'm saying. And it took for me to go around until uh the m stumbled over it. But he didn't know the trouble that came with it what I'm saying. I was like, Yo, no,

this is perfect. Like I wasn't even gonna say nothing, to be honest with you, I didn't even address them direc erectly until uh, like John had said something about Hailey and they had a relationship because they was getting out. They had hung out together and got high together and them, yeah, go from there, like because he felt like there was something that there was closer than it was based on that.

This is joh So he when they got into we got to a point he had fired off and he said some stuff about Haley and that was just it. I seen him was upset. I said all right, I can't do it now and I went in the next room. I was in Detroit and I recorded Automatic Gunfight that weekend because the first tape was the Future was all of those tapes. That was one photo shoot in this dude garage. Wowow with the white with the red, white and blue and the white shirt. It was all three

shirts we had. We had a green theme, the red, white and blue thing and white t shirts. I want to go back. So you wrote Higher, Yeah, you wrote six songs off that album Higher. This is how we do. Were automatically thinking we do. But his verses on that. So when you see the writing credit, you think it's his verse. You see the writing. Look, they said kind of stuff about like he said he wrote what up Gangs? Yeah, I'm like, come on, bro, he wasn't even around when

we did that. Like that was before he even came into the picture. Like that's get rich to died trying. He didn't even come after that. Yeah, we don't even know who he was after. But there's a I know, there's a point where desperation when you say anything like this is how to rob? Me to ro Yeah, Columbia, you know what I'm saying. I'm like yo, because after bigg and the two part of the name artists was

kind of standing away from saying everybody's name. This is when they're doing twenty three bets on one in them threat some Syneymlex three TV sets the minimum that's naws about jay Z in my lifetime, you know what I'm saying. So that it was all subliminal, say everything I gotta say about you without saying it's for you, and let the you know listener go ah oh he's saying this.

You know what I'm saying. So they were still doing that, and I was like, uh, okay, I'm say everybody's name because it looks like I'm going back to the neighborhood. I'm gonna be subjective to what the guy. So it just didn't matter. It was like whatever, I'm going back anyway. It looked like we'll cause more drama. How to rob

a Holy Chrome? How to rob? Really? You know, it's ill the Karan look, and they just the documentary thing came out and I don't care nothing about that because I know nas his the connection to that as there was god body. You know what I'm saying, like that is this thing other than that? There's nothing else dead, you know what I mean? And you look and I go, well,

what is the when they put the Koran? And they they mentioned how many times did their name were in records in the documentary and it was cool every time that their name was in records, but they was upset with the version that I did. Team up. They went through ten different For people that don't know what the holy Qurana is is is you talked about a lot

of the hustlers and queens. Yeah, the neighborhood. Yeah. And I don't know if you know, but you know, DJs would get beat up for playing the record all day, like if you played it, like, don't play that record. Yeah, that's that's how crazy it was back there. And they wouldn't say nothing to me though they're going on, no, you know, like not seeing me, it's enough. And didn't

have problem with the record. Then he had a problem later when law enforcement start to hold on to the records and then not holding the record because of what I said on it, because they already got a separate homicide that you're sitting in here on. They already got your tapes in the dope that you got caught within bottom up. So what they're really holding you to is the fact that I didn't say nothing when I got hit.

So they're saying, he's associated to this thing with this kid, and and this is the this is why they keep bringing that into this actual case. Butmber, all of the snitch you snitch this is now that's the worst thing you can be in the environment that I come up in, Right, what a snitch at And the documentary I'm not in that case. So there's no snitch there, right, there's nothing about nothing. All he says is he knew me. He

knew what what that was about. And what it is what that was about was he got an idea and they eat the same idea. I got minds work. Obviously, do you understand what I'm saying. He like his idea is YO, lead them alone, they our food because he eating off him, like when the when the fish is saying yo, while he's saying yo, we beat the feeder, never beat nothing, and he wasn't involved in nothing. They really washed you up to make sure that they got

him so you couldn't help him financially. Yeah, they only put you in the case to eat it. He'll tell you he was two million in the hole. And the thing I think I think I heard that he said, they don't drink cha, So why are you two million in the hole? Is to make sure you can't help him. He went to trial with a legal eighty. They never had a home jury, know nothing. These words out of his mouth. You see what I'm saying. But I go see bids, I go see kat In Clinton. Cat go,

Yeah he fucked that up, he go. I don't understand he was supposed to have both. Why he choose You see what I'm saying, Like he's going, y'all from you from It's like you're from this that's automatic, and you're going, I understand that these kids are trying to make death row. This is Cat saying, they're trying to make death row. That's what they're trying to do with this, with that, But why would you go against that? To do that when you know I had to residence to go against

anybody like there's nobody this too, it else. Those are the guys that you would choose not to go against at that point. It's in the environment. They got it, and it's not him individually, because everybody's greater than their absence than they are in the presence. His or is stronger than he is. He asked him about that. When he go get his arm broke and they joint them, they missed that part. He's gonna say he slipped fell on mind. Yeah, is there anybody fifty cent fears? Ever?

Historically in life all of the situations. If you don't have fear, then you're not Then you're just not acknowledging danger point. Yeah, but you just you're just not stupid, Then you're not scared enohing. You watch that guy that just has a zero fear and say, yeah, we can get him. He's tough. We're gonna have a hard time chewing on him, but we're gonna get him. We get him. Like other than that, you just gotta pay attention to it.

It's surrounded as things is going on, like and you say never never saying the toughest guy, I just I'm gonna do what I want to do. And then if I die in the process. I was doing what I wanted to do. Even the themes. Look, it's power the dollar, Yeah, I get here, I come back, get rich or die trying. Yeah, right, and the prices because that's already what I'm feeling, like,

I'm gonna do it. I'm in the process. It's the greatest thing is to watch me because either I'm going to get rich or I'm gonna die in the process. And this is what I'm gonna call the record. So it was the massacre you projecting all the pain you

felt on everybody else. I was supposed to go, but that album was supposed to come out February Age supposed to be the same Valentine's Day Master they pushed it back because we was doing too good with games record, and I'm like, yo, Like you got to think in the scope was when East Coast West Coast was going on. In the scope was the West coast, So it's some

uncomfortability with me being from the East coast. Yeah, then I'm not even conscious of Initially I'm going like yo, They're like yo, they love that, they're doing extremely well like that, but they're going to damn why we can't have one like from here, you see what I'm saying, Like from Drake's perspective, it's why why we can't have one from the West coast like that? And it's that's the assignment to a game started moving. It was like wait, wait,

wait to build that, Like what's that? That record is out in the selling They're going to wait, we don't want to cut the legs off of this, And you're going, but that's rearranging my presentation what I'm doing. So now I wouldn't. I wouldn't have given him things it was so good if I felt like it was going all to what I'm doing, you know what I'm saying, Like I did my first record so fast like the second record. My attempt that the first record went was done in

the weekend, so did get rich? No, the second the massacre and that the attempt that was done in the weekend turns into games out. You regret giving game, you regret, hated to love it. This is how we do. Look,

it's just the way things are. When I look, I don't I don't see anyone who's who hasn't um, who hasn't helped other artists and haven't had it reciprocated probably like that's what every everybody, you know what I'm saying, even with Koda, you see him with jack Boy, the things that these guys come together because I'm told Code that he oh yo, but I didn't know we was gonna go through that. It's too hard, Like it's too hard to get it for us to go through that.

So but now that's the same thing as what we experienced we looked down for like when they're not right under you, because they're in a different area, it's easy to persuade them. Like. This is also how Jimmy Henchman felt. This is what drive what how game was behaving because he also had his whole management team is going, yo, you don't need them from you got a whole coast, you got the whole West coast, Like you don't gotta

be down with them. When he's I just gave him the record, you know what I'm saying, and then they go oh he flips out. I'm like, oh okay, but it is a reflection of you see how the Jimmy Henchman thing turned out, like the eight tons into real street stuff, you know what I'm saying. So you're going he was feeling that way along before, Yeah, I mean, and then then it just was like, yeah, full on,

we could do everything we want to do. Vice first because Chris really his issues was with Chris, with Chris Lydy. That's why I don't like James Cruise, why I saw, Yeah, I don't like I don't like him at all, Like because he's a sucker. Like the whole time he was like he was still going to go see Jimmy hanging out. Meanwhile, Jimmy's getting Mike Lighty cut in the back of the head and everything else and the shooting and everything else

is going. He's a punk. Like when you see people that like they're just feel full of We said respect come from admiration of fear one of the others, right, His respect for Jimmy comes from fear. So he's a sucker in my eyes, you know what I'm saying. And then he does all of this talk about things that went on with Chris Lydy. Then I'm like, yo, why are you even talking about what I'm doing? Come from me? You You was like you were in the meeting. You

didn't actually make no deals. I thought he said he managed you. At one point he was working for Chris Lydy. So you in there as Chris Lady's assistant while you're doing what you're doing in the deal, and when did you He never had no agreement with me to manage me in anyway or any capacity. So when you say that, it irritates me, you know what I'm saying that Then

like later he's just he's a sucker. I didn't understand why Chris wanted him around, you know what I'm saying, Like when the shooting happened with little kim O d Rod hating him, Yo, come out from behind the red car. They got us. That's what he was doing, you know what I'm like. And the Chris was like like dealing with him because he had, you know, like a background. He was because he had a radio background. He always

looked like he should get a piece. But if you're getting the best deal for me, why do you feel like somebody should get your piece. That's the way I look at it. I look like if you go to somebody else to say, yo, you should get me a watch, or you should get me this, That's that was his thing. You know what I'm saying that, I'm like, but if you're asking them for a watch. Then you felt like you gave him a deal to then you didn't get me the best deal if you if he owes your

watch for the deal. You see what I'm saying. And then it's like they act like they don't understand why I don't like him. Between you, Diddi and Crews, I don't think you'd have worked on bad Boy. I don't think terrible, but you know, I look at that point, I would have probably did the deal. There was no other like at that point. But when I was, when I was Jennifer who told Puff to work with me okay because she her first album want to Say Boy.

Rooney was the executive producer. Borey Rooney was my executive producer for Power of the Doubt. So we had the relationship from Queens and everything coming out that they put us in the same circles. And then Jennifer was telling Yo, he is dope. You work with him like he's gonna it's gonna eventually it's gonna happen, you know. And then Puff, that's what Puff is calling me down to do it. But Puff can't even hear hit. See I know he can't. He couldn't Puff can't hear a hit. That's kind of crazy.

He still hear things from back then that time, Oh got you? Now I can't buy the right. He can't. You play for him right now and it's hot, he can't buy it. This is why he's fighting Drake when you hit Drake because he used the beat that he didn't actually you know what I'm saying. So if you like, he heard it and then he heard Drake's used it, but it wasn't a hit yet until Drake put the thing the lines are and he's upset about that because

he can't hear it. But he felt like he took something from and you know there's something to him for that. But did terr Marie ever pay you all your money yet? She's still how much? Just love that old I think it's like fifty something thousand now, I thought it was twenty five thousand. Yeah, and it keeps going up because she keeps delaying and moving around like the she gonna feel like she went to college. Man, it's clearly the

principle with you because it's not the money. Why though, because I have to set examples so people don't keep coming to play with me. See, look, this is Lisa Bloom. I don't think nobody played, but I don't think nobody plays with the said me too. I say not me. I tell people all the time, you know what I'm saying When they say me too, I said, na me,

I'm not involved with that. So when she comes, she was upset because I said something about Trey Trey Songs had a situation that was going on one of the girls that was around in the actual house set. Nah, he didn't hit her that particular situation. He didn't hit it. He put out out the house, but the way he said it and he did it made her feel like she felt like he slapped her right, and that's why later she said that he hit her. And I'm like, because the other female that I knew it was there

said that to me. I was like, nah, I don't believe he did that. And then she was like, don't be uh, but she's shaming the girl that um one of her clients, Victim Shaman one of her clients. And I'm like, no, no, like, I'm not Victim Shaman. I'm just saying I don't believe her. And then the next available thing that she could come with, she was, oh, yes, yes, jumped on Tara Marie think because she's gonna come, she gonna service me, right, she gonna because the climate is

all me too. That when you bring a female and you said you've done something. You see what I'm saying, they felt like, oh yeah, yeah, you're finished, buddy. And then when it don't work out, they think it just goes away. You can't say that you see what they came. But that was a great I understand. I understand exactly

why he's doing ten times. I get it because they would hold it to you, yes, yes, and then you know what they would do to you, like just based on those circumstances, like you go in in the entire career and you go so that's what you was attempting to do at that point or you wanted She's said to a friend, now I'm trying to get the bag. You know what I'm saying that. I'm like, okay, so now I'm gonna make you feel like you went to college. Ko Cyrus, are you gonna help me get into acting?

You want to do some acting? Anyone? He was up there. He said that you were supposed to sign put him in power, to put him in power. Good guy, it's a personality. I think it's bigger personality than than artist, like as a songwriter and stuff like that, because when you watch him, like when I see him on the clips and stuff like that, now he like that in person. It's a ton of personality there. So you know, will we find the right thing and get him in there?

He um and tell him the story, Tell him the story. So we're talking about rumors, and you know when you google his name, there's a rumor that pops up that he was did He's boy toy? Oh shit? Right wait, so this is so Charlomagne say it's not true. But I told after he brought up the stuff with you, I said, you know what Fifthy is gonna say when he meet you? Oh no, I don't know that that was going on. You know, I can't wait to running him what you're gonna say to him? He was playing

with your booty in Miami. You know it was in Miami. Yo. Look that's for James Cruisers all the time. Miami, Miami. He's like, Miami. I'm look what you're talking happened in Miami. We play the audio. He gonna get universe when it's good. Yeah, you gonna you know, we just yeah, but come here, you know, if he's gonna say to you when he see he did he touch your button? Yeah? Waituntil I see him what I see. I'm like, yo, yeah, that's you.

And did he got a good relationship though? Right? Yeah? Yeah, Like do you see I got quin season raising canan? Oh that's true? Oh yeah yeah YEAHO talented and and I want to get Justin and something. How did that go to? Do you? Do? You have talked about that he stay out, stays out of that, you know what we're talking about that it was more, it's more that's about his talent though, that's not about like he read he read for that, he killed it, you know what

I'm saying. I think, like and I called him to tell him that, like you ain't got to do with you that, it's really about the work you put in Right now, now, why did you pass on Jay Coole before? That's before we get to the new stuff. Why did

you pass on Jay Coole? That was so early? Bro, Like like this is before Like I think, look, there's a difference, you know, I think when at that point we didn't have a lot of representation on the street, and like we were the representation at that point, and you know they're they're cringing for something else that whatever it is, that it's to me. J cole Um, Kendrick lamar Um. These artists existed early on when I fell

in love with hip hop. But it was Tyler qual Yeah, it was most deaf, tropical questions, It's trip coal quest It was like, it was Tyler most common sense, you know what I'm saying. And they really as dope as they are, like that they are that it's like, it's smarter rap, smarter music. The logic can sit down, be humble. We're supposed to already know to sit down and be humble. They put that there. It's it's it's almost the conscious

side of of it. And I looked and I'm like, oh no, I was cool, but I didn't really know if everybody was ready for it because of how strong it was embracing what were doing street stuff that I got a lot of people say that when you and Kanye went head up, and that's what that was when you sold them, when you sold more, it shifted from the streets streets to know when you do Look, they just wanted that anyway, Look, look at the best New

Artists a thirteen million records. On the first album, you got to have a double CD and Die to Go Diamond Tupac or Eyes on Me. Yeah. Prior to my album Come and Give It to Die Try, you had to have a double CD and Die a big two. I think likely those are the only two albums that they sold that many copies. So when you come and and you're having that much success, you would see uh.

Dianel Ross was on on the award panels saying, you don't have to be like this, like you don't have to be like like they're afraid their kids going want to be fifty if they acknowledge the material, so they don't give you the trophies. I got the checks. I didn't get Jake got all of my fucking trophies. Man, that's because he signed that contract. Who contract. No, if you don't sign, you don't give him a trophy. She

ain't coming. They don't need him in the seats. Now, come on, you know Beyonce and I ran down on you once fifth come on. She did she did work. She jumped up in the thing off collect I was like, oh shit, I didn't really know what to do and be looking. It was worse situations where he was like, whoa, he says to Jay. He says, Ja, he'll look at you a goal. No, that happened. Beyonce jumped down on you. She jumped out. She was like on a window sill right who was in Vegas? She said, I come on talking.

She jumped out. She was like, and I'm like, wait, what did you doing that? Stuff? And stuff? This ain't got nothing to do with you girl? Come so hod wasn't there me. I'm talking to Jail and I talked to Jay. She jumped out and come over, said, old ship, look at this about to jump you Lucky so luge wasn't I would have had a reboot like that elevator like it was nothing some gastes shit going on? Nothing?

What the bay? She was just staring at you now, she can't like she was ready, like something was gonna happen. And I'm like, yo, whoaa, she's throwing me off now because I don't know what exactly how to respond it. You are still beyond sane, you know. She brought all of the sexy over that jumping off and I'm like, what the fuck I'm seeing all this I'm like, wait, what happened? I look at Jail. He goes Now, but y'all knew each other. For you though you had you

had the thugs. What I want? Yeah? Yeah, that's the cap. You know that Beyonce back fifty down? You know that. I thought people do that people. Oh she did jump down. I didn't even know how to respond to that. I just looked at Jay. He was looking at He was like, I said, all right, whatever, I don't know what because we really I'm just saying, what's up? But she feeling my energy come over? Because we do say things about

each other. It's competitive nature. That's it hip hop at It's not like I didn't want to do something more. We don't want to do something not to each other. Y'all gotta go. Y'all still got y'all got a good relationship, right, Yeah? If you look, I think if you don't have, if you don't have people that you're competing with, I don't know where you get your additional energy. Right. That's speaking speaking of Houston's Renee. Renee's like cut my Tycoo weekend.

They take to me thirty six thousands Tycoon Weekend break Down. What is tip a weekend for people that don't know Tycoon for it's really it started in Atlanta and and did it the first time. We did it in Atlanta. Then we moved it to let we break it down. So in Atlanta they rented a mansion in a residential area and had about five thousand people coming that residential area, white people walking their dogs, and we just brought the hood to I mean, I don't even know how you

did that. Yeah, it was like a real show that we did, like a show. Everybody Christmas there, everybody came. We did that. Then the next day it was the pool party thing and it went over. We got away with that because there's nothing really, nothing bad happened, resulted in just a great time. Then in New York we did it again, but we did it attached to the

premiere the Power of Man. So we sold the gardeners sold out and we did the because I had all of everybody coming out to do some performances stuff at the same time. So we did talk on around it and that was a uma in Jersey and then um we surrounded a bunt, tried to surround more events with it, like Pier one fifteen and a bunch of other stuff. And then the next time, like this time in Houston, there's so many locations that it makes it made better sense to build out a whole weekend, and so I

took the Toyota Center and the Comedy Music Festival. I added the comedy show to it, and then I put um like musical acts in between each comedian and keep the room the abians going, and then the same way the DJ would play music in between. Instead of that, we're getting the five artists and then when the proceeds to that will go to the Unity and enter HID. So you don't even make no money over it. That's

not charity. That's the entrepreneurship program. In Houston, I did three schools versus with Lee Worthing and cash Man, and I'm spending it to six schools, and then the proceeds from the show, we're probably fund being able to do even more so probably probably nine schools. But though that by at that point we out of the hood, because we don't gonna run out of the hood spots, and then we and everybody else's neighborhood with adopter school program.

But entrepreneurship program is doing extremely well. It's when you put when you bring the kids together and you tell them you got to come up with your idea to be successful because it's their idea. You see how much more passionate there about it. And then when it gets to the point that they sort out that because they're providing the information for them how to develop it, and then they're gonna see what you need now, and they said, well we need money and then go well, okay, well

here's how we fell out your job application. When you do that, seventy five sixty nine of the seventy five kids were employed because it's not even your idea, it's my idea. I need the money so I can pay for my idea. Wow, Versus you're saying, yo, go get a job. They're like, nah, I don't know if if I want a job because it's too much, you know

what I'm saying. Until once they put their thought into what they actually want to do and they become passionate about it, they get into it, they actually want to make it happen. So it was able to get more of a motivated to do some different stuffs. So much you know what, my experience in Houston, it's just been kind acts. Some people from Houston, like I've had a good time several times that I went out there and made me like it. And then the taxes, ye say taxes, Yeah,

because I'm looking at all. I guess the Yankee hat, bro, So they gave me was a Yankee hat, and they want now you go so more than your partner. I'm like, wait a minute, I could have the wonder Puffy's touching that button Miami. He has more money because this Miami. That's what happens, bro. Now you do think about you like when you know much money we could be making if we was in not New York. It's a different thing. Like it's just look and y'all syndicated so many places

that YA can just move the shoulder. Let's take the show to Houston. Don't give us no idea. I'll be in South Carolina. No, I mean Florida. That's straight like that. I go to Houston in a minute for that. So when's the weekend? With that weekend? It's August twenty fifth through to twenty eight. Okay, a couple more questions you, um, how have you even been able to maintain relationships with

people even though you have said things about them? Like the Doctor Dre's the Jimmy Ivens, like like Drey had you at the super Bowl. I don't think you know, Jimmy Ivien will walk by you at the game like you know what I mean? Like you know? Still look when you say when I say things like I'm really talking about the true experience, I'm not saying anything about them. That's a lot like you know what I'm saying. I didn't be upset, did you? You know what I mean?

And maybe this person can't speak to you when they see you because you said something and you'd like lied on them. But if you you said f Jimmy V on the record on a mixtape, because he gave examples. It gave examples that it's okay as long as it makes money. Oh god, okay to disrespect you. So it's okay for a game to say everything that he said because he was still an earner. He's still bringing the money.

And this is the example that you gave me because he brought me that and said, if you can you fix this, if you fix it out, I'll give you, like break the deal up and give you the half of the money. And then when when the disrespect comes in, there, and it's like it's almost a fear factor because of the association of the Jimmy Hensiman thing. Add that to it because that kept them from not not doing the project. You know what I'm saying, And then there's a whole different,

different thing. But in that example of you saying, you can say all that and look, if you signed the unit direct like the other or with that kind of disrespect, you don't have a record deal, you don't have music coming out. Instead, because it was a joint venture, there was still no control factor and they continue to put

the music out. So it was like, you're letting me compete with me so you can make money, right the artist that comes from the material that I just created, that that made it sell five million pieces, It is now a legit competitor for me. When how about the label when you're delivering something that's pro fitty saying you're delivering something that's anti fifty said, aren't you telling the

DJ's okay to say whatever you feel about it? But bro, I heard you ship on TV networks and then get a deal from the same TV network because they don't care about They're not one person. The network is a conglomerate. There's multiple people there. Like when you say this person, isn't it but you said that before? Yeah, like this person. You're talking about this person, not the entire organization. And

you're gonna if when the projects working on projects. No, it's just true, like these people have issues, Like you got people that have cool jobs that weren't necessarily cool people on the way there and they get there and they're dealing with their own issues, their own energy. They're like looking for they want to be seen as the CEO, the guy who actually made it happen. And I get in away with that because people look and say, fifty mate, that's fifty show. You see what I'm saying. So you

get that energy only it's there. If that's a conflict. Anybody that doesn't doesn't care about that. It's gonna be like so we watching stars or not anymore? Because you say I thought it was no subscription. Yeah, programmers for six months. That's what I thought. It's gonna come back, So I give my subscription back. I want to make

sure it was all stars. You say all stars. I don't think it's gonna be where it was what it was, where it was headed because I won't be loading everything else going to it, but they have this would be there and then the new stuff that I have, like I took the massacre, the snoops. It was the case different things off of the platform because it's like, nah, I'm doing too much for the platform if you go look when I didn't received the accolades connected to the

success that I was having. In music, I focused on the actual sound scan. This is when the artists started talking about sound scale correct and everything else, because I was like, yo, now look because this is the actual stats, the actual this is what shows you the general public actual response to the material when I'm not receiving the

accolades connected to it. In television, I started marketing more over marketing, like I became the Stars Network, so it was more visibility and make I said, I'm outperforming the shows that they are given the nod too, so they

see we're doing bigger numbers than those shows. Right, and then eventually they have to look at the issue is a tougher issue to work through because what we're working through is diversity and be like they looking and the system does have this cookie cutter mentality that feels like that this is the way you make a hit and you can put people with different ethnic backgrounds and lead roles into big numbers. You can tell those stories and

this is what power proves and these other projects. When you see Empire at Fox and then Snowfall and stuff like that, whenever you just see people that look like you and leave Rose, it's showing you that that's there. They're saying that Fox was saying this is our power in part the same the other network is saying this is our and and it's only one at the time

for them. You know what I'm saying. You look look at how when you see the young talent like little meach or Michael Rainey or McCoy Curtis for Regent Cannan, when you see them out in the in the club run like in the nightclub, you never see actors on that circuit. You know what I'm saying, Like that was this is really the first time they're making a connection, and it's because they're connected not only to having a hit show, but they're connected to music culture. Yeah, I

don't think. I don't think people will realize what you're doing at Stars Like I don't think people I don't pine Pople realize how unprecedented that is, Like how much programming are you responsible for over there? Like fifty Well yeah, they would say fifty percent of it, and it's like probably eighty percent of what the viewership is into. Wow. At that point, you pull they put supposed to be

an executive up there something. Then they're going if you're going with the confusion everything that you see me talk about being upset about, I think you don't see anywhere else, Like you don't see other networks having the television show leak. Yeah, you don't see you know what I'm saying, Like when they talk about a programming for specific demographic, then you go, uh like there was go a premium woman is the man?

They when you do that, you go, okay, well, I mean but that ain't what your hits are because Power wasn't Premium Woman, and all four the spinoffs are not Premium Woman. So now you're saying you can't have the hit that you had to beget this drawing people here because you just created a new man date away from the success you have, right, and I'm going away, So it's this, Can you explain that to me a little further so I understand exactly what it is, because I

could produce what you need. I just got to understand exactly what it is. Because what does when you see me in Variety or the Rap or Hollywood Reporter and stuff like that, that does nothing from my phone goes further than the Hollywood Reporter and Variety I could just right. So when when you think about what those things do, those things speak directly the business inside. It says, if you have this project and you want to sell it, you should come to fifties so we can sell it

and I get additional things. But but I can look at these things if they work for the network. When you understand the mandate, you know what I'm saying. So I'm going I can find what you need, if what you want, and bring it in and produce it for you. If you don't. If there's a once this clarity, it's clear. But they're looking and using it for their own identity. I don't. I hate mandates, especially when you've given a network four or five shows that work. Create more of

those type of shows. But they take common sense. It doesn't take it. It doesn't take anybody to come up with some like Einstein to be involved. It's say, it's got to go to by the way. Oh yeah, but if you make a hit, you want more of a hit, more of that energy, more that that with service, that base that would keep them coming. And you see the networkers continues to growing. But in in exchange, I've seen them do things for vanity, like they'll pay more for

first of all, their premium woman. Man did this premium white woman because since then, the only thing that they've created was the uh Julia Roberts gas lit and h Courtney Cox. I don't even know the name of that watching pink people worship because it's like it's almost like a horror comedy. Hard to make me laugh when I'm scared, you know what I'm saying, Like, it's hard to do both at the same time. So I didn't know what

really was trying to do with that one. But you know, you better do the right thing, because you know, I there's no reason to watch stars if program about it's just a fact. We appreciate you for joining us August twenty fifth out in Houston. I'll be out there and host to others. Make sure you get your tickets. There's so many things from pool parties, clubs to charity events to comedy shows, performances. Make sure you're part of it.

And we see raising cannon coming soon. That's right. And one is it true they ask you to be on the Murdering Doc? No, they wanted, wasn't it to try and clear I get money for the Supreme thing? Oh? Okay, okay, they asked you to be on the Doctor? Did you clear it? It's the Breakfast Cloud. Good morning,