Lloyd Banks and 50 Pretending They Was Going To the Club to have fun on “Hands Up”

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You know I worked for 50 and G Unit right? There was absolutely pressure from Iovine and them. 50 went and found the I get money beat himself from apex and it blew so they had to cave. They also hated the mixtapes as they got no money from them

50 dropped I Get Money cos he had flop after flop
If the other singles worked, he would not have needed I Get Money

Of course labels don't want mixtapes they're not earning from. Of course labels want commercial singles

50 always been about that bread. If he thinks bubblegum Candy Shop music is selling, he finna drop bubble gum candy shop music
He only pivoted when none of his other singles on Curtis gained any traction
It's disingenuous to pretend he was fighting against it

He was even doing sing song joints on the mixtapes, so you can't front that this was a label invention
 

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50 dropped I Get Money cos he had flop after flop
If the other singles worked, he would not have needed I Get Money

Of course labels don't want mixtapes they're not earning from. Of course labels want commercial singles

50 always been about that bread. If he thinks bubblegum Candy Shop music is selling, he finna drop bubble gum candy shop music
He only pivoted when none of his other singles on Curtis gained any traction
It's disingenuous to pretend he was fighting against it

He was even doing sing song joints on the mixtapes, so you can't front that this was a label invention
I was there. Where were you?
 

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“Don’t try to act like you don’t know where we be neither nikka. We in the club all the time, if it’s a problem pop off nikka. G-Unit. 🍾🎉🕺🏾💃😊🥳🪩”

This nig 50 weird as shhit lowkey, disrupt celebratory and joyous times with senseless violence brehs
 

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50 was cold on Curtis but he got his swag bag in 2010-2014 he dropped a lot of bangers that got little promo after his sleek headphones stunt.
 
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I was there. Where were you?

G Unit fell off because they isolated themselves from the nikkax who had the sound at the time. They ran that Dre shyt into the ground and it got stale after 06. Truth be told the last gasp was “Out Of Control Remix” before 50 fumbled about and got to “I Get Money” after 8 tries the following year

His collaborators at the time should’ve been Toomp, Runners, Ye, Drumma Boy, Khaled, Wayne etc..but he approached shyt like Rza was during peak years…solo? Do what you want but as a team we eat alone

That shyt has an expiration date considering no one’s gravity is enough to sustain a career on its own
 

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50 and G-Unit were crazy but now we can see him on TV making shows in that element…


At the end of the day, G-Unit didn’t get robbed nor violated on them Hip Hop DVDs like them Diplomat boys


When i heard 50 rap as a kid, I believed him.

When Cam rapped, I believed him
 

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you can't say it was label pressure cos he took pride in doing the highest numbers and being the biggest in the game

no one had to twist his arm to get candy shop and amusement park and all that garbage music

yeah it popped numbers in the short term, but the fans realised it was bullshyt music and he never regained them

remember Dre didn't want 21 Questions - he thought that was the wrong image. 50 made the final decision to include it and put it out as a single. that was the right call
but he took it too far with all that other bubble gum shyt. he became ja rule

its too charitable to blame the labels for that
Dre wanted 21 questions on there. 50 didn’t want that track on there but Dre convinced him
 

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Dre wanted 21 questions on there. 50 didn’t want that track on there but Dre convinced him

That's not true. He told Big Boy the opposite.

News is still rolling out from 50 Cent’s latest radio interview on “Big Boy’s Neighborhood.” Yesterday (Jan. 16), a clip went viral of the “In Da Club” rapper admitting that Dr. Dre didn’t want him to include the song “21 Questions” on his debut album, Get Rich or Die Tryin’.

“He said, ‘I don’t know why you want it’ …Why I wanted the record,” 50 confirmed. “Dre would say, ‘This is N.W.A. just with one member. We didn’t do that.’ Like they didn’t have to reach to make a commercial record or anything that sounded like a commercial record. And that’s just in his DNA. Like on his path, he’s like, ‘We don’t need that.’”


 

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G Unit fell off because they isolated themselves from the nikkax who had the sound at the time. They ran that Dre shyt into the ground and it got stale after 06. Truth be told the last gasp was “Out Of Control Remix” before 50 fumbled about and got to “I Get Money” after 8 tries the following year

His collaborators at the time should’ve been Toomp, Runners, Ye, Drumma Boy, Khaled, Wayne etc..but he approached shyt like Rza was during peak years…solo? Do what you want but as a team we eat alone

That shyt has an expiration date considering no one’s gravity is enough to sustain a career on its own
Exactly. Why i said he should have pivoted to hate it or love it and hustlers ambition style ish but he wasnt allowed to. So he went behind his labels back and was dropping ish like war angel lp, sabrina's baby boy after they put an end to the g unit radio series.
 
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