50 Cent is holding court about his beef with Irv Gotti, Jadakiss, Fat Joe and Ja-Rule as well as giving his insights on the Miss Jones Controversy with the Tsunami song. He spoke candidly with Pam Smith of SOHH.
TOPIC #1 IRV GOTTI'S Arrest on January 26, 2005 on Money Laundering, Racketeering, Conspiracy, and Drug Trafficking
50 CENT'S COMMENTS: "What we have here is a bunch of idiots. Irv Gotti, Ja's manager, and Kenneth "Supreme" McGriff -notorious crack dealer from Queens all in jail," he says at first mockingly. "It's a sad story actually. It's a story about a guy that was blessed with the opportunity to make music and used music to make him appear to be the gangster he's not. [He was] associating himself with gangsters, got too involved with it. I guess he's a gangster now."
TOPIC #2: JA-RULE'S NY, NY COLLABORATION WITH JADAKISS & FAT JOE
50 CENT'S COMMENTS: "I think they [FAT JOE & JADAKISS] should have known better," 50 says of Fat Joe and Jadakiss. " I think they should know the difference between rap beef and real beef. They from the same environment. They should know" he shared."
TOPIC #3 FAT JOE'S RECENT COMMENTS ABOUT 50 CENT
Here is an excerpt of Fat Joe's interview with andPOP.com "Although I'm Ja Rule's friend, Ja Rule has never told me, 'Yo, let's get 'em together.' I've never been involved with that so it's really weird that [50] would be coming at me, but I guess the guy feels he needs this type of hype whenever he comes out with his album or whatever and how more credible could you be then disrespecting Fat Joe?"
50 CENT'S COMMENTS: In his [FAT JOE] head he's something special. What makes him count? Can we look at the Soundscan, please? I don't even think they're [Terror Squad] in the Top 20," 50 says as he grabs the report off the table. Then he points to where he put a mark next to Ja's album R.U.L.E. on the charts. "Look at this, Ja Rule's album did 538,355 in 10 weeks. Game's album [The Documentary] did 586,933 in 1 week!
TOPIC #4: JADAKISS & STYLES P RESPONSE TO WHY JADAKISS WAS ON A SONG WITH JA-RULE AND COMMENTS ABOUT 50 CENT'S DISS LYRICS ON THE PIGGYBACK SONG DURING THEIR HOT 97FM INTERVIEW WITH FLEX (Excerpt of that Jadakiss & Styles P. interview: "We over here struggling, striving and happy to go one mil and get a mil in 'cause that's deep for us...He's selling 10 million records. If we in the same house with [him], who you think at the end of the day, if it gets out of control, they gonna lean toward? We ain't stupid. Automatically, he wins," STYLES P said.)
50 CENT'S COMMENTS: "What he's saying is true. In business, who would you go with? The artist that sells 11 million or the artist that does 1 [million]? But I wouldn't even use that leverage, they can't even compete musically. I think it's an excuse not to compete."
TOPIC #5 WHEN WILL 50 CENT RELEASE THE PIGGYBACK SONG?
50 CENT'S COMMENTS: "I'm gonna released 'Piggy Bank' a week before my album. I'm not sure if its going to go on my album. It might just be something I leak to the streets cause I don't want anything considered 'beef' to overshadow what I did for this album."
TOPIC #6 HOT 97FM'S MISS JONES AND THE TSUNAMI SONG CONTROVERSY
50 CENT'S COMMENTS: "If Star and Buc Wild would have did that, it would have been okay, that's 'cause we listen to Star and Buc for that. I listen to them every morning. Miss Jones and them don't have the same energy. Some days they want to talk about something serious and then the next day you do something like this; people don't understand you. They think you're serious 'cause they don't know you to be like that."
TOPIC #7 NEW YORK FANS And HOT 97FM SUMMER JAM & WHETHER OR NOT HE HAS BECOME AN EGO-MANIAC (At SummerJam 2004 50 Cent said to the crowd, ""Oh ya'll not feeling me? I know ya'll feeling 50 Cent!" And then began taunting R. Kelly who was on the same bill.
50 CENT COMMENTS: "You know what? At Summer Jam, I had just came back from touring overseas so I came from a place where the crowd really shows you when they're feeling you to New York. New York don't love their own people as much. They feel like when they see you that they're hot or their man is just as hot and they suppose to be doing what you're doing. They look at you from a critic's standpoint, not as a fan. And in a way, New York's love is not visible like in the South. In the South, you come on stage and ni99as started jumping around , acting wild and sh!t, taking off their shirts. In New York, a motherf#@$er will just look at you all day and nod and be like, 'Yeah, I'm feeling this cat,' and that's it."