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 Shady/ Aftermath/ G-Unit: The Family Stand
50 Cent & G-Unit: Expect The Unexpected
Eminem: Embattled But Not Embittered
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50 talks with stern soberness when questioned about whether his long-running beef will ever die. "I ain't gonna let up off of them until their homes are in foreclosure ... Till it's really that bad," he says. "For me, if you begin to destroy, you should destroy completely. They already went too far. Like right now at this particular point, if I let off of Murder Inc., they'll linger for a little bit and people will start to feel like it's OK to start to like them. They get back in position, then guess what? They want to fight again. Now, they're like, 'Oh, peace treaty, wave a white flag, everybody please get up off us. This kid is killing us.' Now that makes sense for them to do it at this point. But you let them get back on their feet and they gonna wanna fight again."
As if 50 doesn't have enough enemies from outside factions to tangle with, there have been rumors of late that there may even be some infighting within the ranks of the G-Unit, namely between 50 and the Game. Although the MCs have two heavily rotated duets together — "Hate It or Love It" and "How We Do" — we haven't exactly seen Game gel as tightly with 50 as Lloyd Banks, Tony Yayo or even Young Buck have. You rarely see the two of them together, there have been rumors of a shoving match, and 50 labeling Game an "outsider" in his interview with XXL magazine hasn't helped to change public perception that they are not a cohesive unit.
"Because it's a joint situation — G-Unit/Aftermath — he has two bases," 50 explains. "So he'll communicate with the people that are closest to him. They're on the West Coast so it would be Aftermath staff and Dre if he can get in contact with him. So while he's doing that, he's not right there around me. Now Buck is in Nashville, but Buck's deal is with me so his communication is with me. People feel I dislike Game 'cause I get frustrated when I'm not knowing exactly what's going on."
It's also noteworthy that the deal to make Game a part of the G-Unit was not a brainchild of Dr. Dre, 50 Cent or the Game, either — it was Interscope CEO Jimmy Iovine's idea. Game had been sitting on Dre's bench for two years with a litany of songs already recorded. 50 was asked to be part of the project to give it new life; Game subsequently recorded nine tracks at 50's home recording studio in Long Island, New York, and The Documentary was given the momentum it needed to get off the ground. 50 isn't shy about telling you what he brought to the table.
"The two records I rapped on are getting the most airplay, though it's obvious since I'm 50 Cent [radio] is gonna lean toward those particular songs," the G-Unit captain said. "Actually, every song he's had to date, I been on it. From 'Westside Story' to 'How We Do' to ['Hate It or Love It']. When he goes out on his own and does records on his own, then it'll really be impressive to me. Right now, it's not as exciting for me as when I seen Lloyd Banks do 'On Fire' and Young Buck do 'Shorty Wanna Ride,' because I'm actually on these records with Game."
Professional differences aside, 50 reiterates that he does like Game as a person and dismisses any talk of beef between them.
"Nah, I'm cool with him," 50 says. "We cool, we work, we made the records that they hear in my house. If I didn't like him, they would know. Ultimately, the papers is signed, so whether I liked him or not I would still be paid."
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Photo: Interscope/MTV News
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