50 Cent: Get Rich, Fear Nothing, Overcome Anything
[Music] 50. such a pleasure to sit with you it's a pleasure so i want to start with also harder also smarter and there you said there is two traits that define you best you got the heart of a hustler and you're fearless right so i want to talk about fearlessness because i don't think there's anybody in pop culture who exemplifies that as much as you do so where does that come from and how has it been an advantage for you over the years throughout the different stages just my experience like i've um i've somehow ended up in the circumstances where i've been up against the toughest things in the environment that i come out of before any success takes place then the uh i always say if there was someone someone to run and go get i would have ran and got them but i have to run get me so i had to come back myself every time so that it just makes me not look at what would be the great the bigger situations in front of me that are harder circumstances don't seem so rough to me no more you know because i've already been up against the toughest things the biggest obstacles like if you if you i think uh take this for granted right if for example if you almost 90 of the time i'm communicating with people who've achieved a higher level of education to me right the college graduates things like that and um what i hold on to is they wouldn't imagine the circumstances that i came up on and you know if the information that you needed and the business classes were in the book if everything you needed was in the book then the teacher would be too successful to teach the class the students don't usually go off to be the head of the field that they're studying it like if you look at it you know a lot of the uh c students and people that can not just return the information long enough to pass midterms but internalize some of the information and behaviors that they turn out to be more successful than those people who easily pass the class some people get in regimen they get trained they get comfortable with school and they can just do school work you know i mean and when you put them in the real world that's not school so you'd say that you graduated from the real world yeah that that for that so what you know what what are some is is there any specific examples that that come to mind where you've realized that's really been an advantage or is it just applied to everything you know it is an advantage and i i go straight to the sauce i'm talking to who i need to speak to nobody in between or in front of him like if you're trying to i don't follow the train of command i go straight to the source of what i'd like to happen you know i mean because people in between would like to get you to take less to do it to impress the people at the top so you know if you got past him to talk to the actual first i had a surrender in the sport of boxing uh with bob aaron like todd talking to todd before you get the ball no i only communicate with bob you know to make the deal and his points to he'll look at it and go well you know nah just get just give him make the deal you know when todd would want to impress him and get you to take less you know try to squeeze things at points like they say oh no the deal was 20 tickets we gave you 20 tickets that's it i said okay well you didn't pay me the 250 000 to perform tonight so go get my money and then the show will start and then it changes everything because you're saying at that point i was supposed to perform as an opening piece but i'm not being compensated for that you're telling me there's a problem with 20 tickets like you know just trying to play hardball right at points and there's different circumstances in business that i've been under that i've seen things and people's temperaments different things and it's not something that barbara would say but it's something that's tall would yeah so speaking of boxing and i started boxing recently definitely not as long as you it's good for you yeah that's exactly what i was going to say it's it's been totally life-changing you know the trainer that i have um billy markle is his name he's been a a tremendous positive influence for me and i want to hear more about how a law understanding helped to shape you age 12 i think it was police athletic league gym what because i imagine that was a really vulnerable time in your life i guess where you could have been molded you know for worse or for better had someone like him not come along and we had the tougher the environment was tougher so it was like there's really no excuses like if you did what he told you to do you would have good performance if not then you go home a little punch wrong and they didn't have weight classes like we didn't have people that came in like that that were consistent so it was like i would be fighting a lot of kids that felt like they should beat me because they were older and it was like yo you know like that that is the mental advantage on that level but that kind of faded after a while once i got into the groove of doing things and i'm just fighting and just changed my attitude anyway because it it made me not really not care about fighting every time i sparred i felt like i was in an actual fight you know so it would because i was doing it every day it i didn't mind being in a fight you know and then that i didn't adjust well because i took that right across the street with me like it's like right off into the neighborhood with the same stuff that i had from the gym and it was like i just didn't mind the altercation so if someone said something and i was like oh like you want to fight then they immediately go to let's do that i didn't mind if i had a black eye or if if i had if it didn't actually go right wasn't the part of it it was just more the fight it adjusted me to fight you know and and when you when you have someone's training you that really don't um i think the neighborhood had them it was it was really it was rough you know i mean so they kind of taught us to not be affected by things like to be harder than harder than the actual neighborhood that we in you know that's what made the element feel like that like because the people were like all the stuff is that i experienced for things that they would go yeah that that [ __ ] happens like it's not like it's not new it's not you know it's not odd i feel like the best thing that good training does is actually over prepare you so that when you're in the environment where you need to carry it out you're ready for it you're not overwhelmed you're not taken by surprise it does if you make it hurt in the gym then it won't hurt on the night up yeah you know what i mean like you see how i just did the trilla thing yes i got a chance to speak at that and that was a uh it was a fun experience and then i also was identified with where evander was at after the fight that's why i mentioned him possibly fighting mike tyson because you know his heart is still a champion his body's just not doing what it would actually do back then you know i mean so i saw him disappointed at the outcome of the fight and just wanted to talk about possibilities of other fights instead of talking about that fight because that didn't right you know i i never understood the bullying label that was always attached to you because like even in that moment with holyfield you were really empathetic you know you were you were putting yourself in his shoes and seeing where he was at and i i'd love to hear your thoughts on that you know why do you think people give you that no when i get focused right and then anyone who's extremely focused is is considered could be considered ruthless at points because if they get in the way while i'm trying to do what i'm doing i just knock them out the way so they feel like this you're a bully but it's really me channeling on what i'm trying to do at the time like a lot of even useful jada kissing them just when the versus thing but we we didn't actually have issues they got they were collateral damage at that point we're joining them because having doing a 100 guns 100 clips off of new york it was in a time period where they were giving him resuscitating him yeah you know both jadakiss and fat joy at that time period and then when that happens i just went off and got them too you know what i'm saying and then it's just in the with the momentum and that time period see the reason why that's the stuff is not really exciting to me is because they're trying to rewrite the history right the records are already they're already charted on billboard you already made the money from it you already done that i don't need to relive that part of it i experienced i i appreciated it while i was doing it right you know but i i watch well the most ruthless people or did you run into are going to be people that are just focused and not necessarily taking your life into consideration while they're taking theirs it's like the district attorney's office that she wants the convictions so she can move up her career can be good she'll get a hundred years and you look you go why why so much like why you had to do that and it was like what you did it and her mind is it's her doing her job and her moving up to the next level and she'll just knock you over you just become collateral damage you know and the people that uh i know look there's more ruthless people in the business world than in the street you know like they just have subtleties to their tactics how they do things is it's more you know shooting ties it's not confrontational it's just you know but they're doing it right in front of you you know how they're structuring the actual deal and things that they're doing it's like taking just taking the money for you look robbery at least it will give give you the courtesy of showing you to god so you can have those anxieties and feel those feelings that you would feel when you're being robbed they'll do it on a piece of paper where you feel nothing and just rob you right there you see what i'm saying so it's the same tactics with a different approach and a lot of them the the people that do this comfortably like painting the contract the the thing that they're not conditioned for is direct conflict and that the circumstances i grew under absolutely have to be prepared for it like the fighters they they look good after they have eight weeks of training and they focus their mind for eight weeks straight you got eight seconds in the street you got eight seconds to adjust and do what you got to do you know i mean it's not like it's going to be we can go home and think about the fight before you you run into the person i don't know like a lot of it each thing that you put up against right is how you adjust to things too i think when because you're going to have peaks and valleys so i have things change in your career at the point and you feel like it's at a high or say yeah low you don't can't even because money is still coming in you don't feel like there's a change in and finances stuff like but you'll see things that you go wait i don't understand why they're doing this even now in film and television i'll look around and go wait what is this like i don't know what they're doing like why'd they pick this up if if i don't understand what's going on and i'm not sure i'm as good as i think i am right if you if you're confused at how the operation is is working then you don't know if everything i picked is working i feel great about that but you go what what is all the other stuff that they're picking right what is that like how much did that equate to as far as the audience that they have at the network or why why they're doing it you know and just trying to understand that because i guess eventually i'll be the network [Music] you know i think you i know you've heard the saying once you're once you're lucky twice you're good right but like in your case i think it's 16 shows in development right now or something like that 2021. 21 shows in development one of the biggest debut albums hip-hop history you know your your peaks and valleys are not like an ordinary person's peaks and valleys my second album sold to 10 million records too i got two albums in one diamond and then over 35 million records right so i still have passion for music i still all the theme songs will be dead right and then other stuff that i do in between time like i got a whole soundtrack for the new bmf project and i get a chance to tap into it there and then be within the artist community doing things and trading ideas with some of the guys that i respect you know and i'm just having fun with it like if you look i think when you someone you lose some of the fun the competitive nature the competitive part of hip-hop can allow you to not enjoy the moment at points you know because you because you get emotionally connected to the things that are happening and and you're really angry or you start to find different energy connected to how you're creating things and um missed some of it you know so i missed some of my run based on with that energy just putting that out because i could just be appreciating i'm on the chart number one every all that time i mean i got like 13 years of getting the the biggest artist in hip-hop particularly in the area and style of music that i've created you know and m's been a number one artist period they don't never want to remember they don't want to remember that you know certain things that they look at and they don't want to you don't want to really remember people seem to have a short memory about just how disruptive and how he's still selling more records than them yeah now right now easy so it's like you know like they don't want to focus on that they want to look at everything else like you know if i just want to do other things away from trying to compete for for something that um i don't think you can have it from from the perspective that i came in well you can't have that forever because i just look in general i think the i brought an element to it that was this representation of the dangerous element and in the cities the environment and things that go on and it's because i was subjected to those things i wrote music that mirrored that and when you financially are in a great space and you move into a different stage in your actual life it's hard for you to continue to convey that you know i don't know if they know this but like i'm i'm like rich as a [ __ ] but like you know it's a lot different for writing that from writing what i was at that time you know and that that momentum was at the peak of everything that's going on i wasn't even feeling the adjustment because i already had more than i needed like i left but i left for the first tour i did uh my first run the rock the mic tour everything we did i came back i had 38 million dollars in my account and all i had was a one a two bedroom apartment that was 800 a month so if you don't spend it you know the irs is going to take it so i needed the expenses you know so i ended up buying mike tyson's farmington and stuff like that different things like i was adjusting to it like you know even at that point you want everybody to be with you right because you're enjoying everything you kind of you don't want to be i don't want i never wanted to be someone different i wanted to be a better version of me like to have not have the restraints that i had you know and when you come up with our finances it seems like the biggest restraint and uh it makes you make that financial or money focused and i feel like that's the answer but there'll always be new confusion or new situations that show up so coming coming where you came from and then getting to where you were like you talk about this in the book too sometimes the hardest part about success is actually sustaining it so how in the world did you manage to parlay all of that success given where you came from given the temptations of the lifestyle most of which you don't participate in how how did you come to develop this understanding of all these different components that are necessary for one to not just succeed but then sustain and grow that success and i imagine they weren't teaching accounting and all these other things uh and i lost money i lost money i just you don't see my losses like it happens you know periodically go because look i don't usually see people excited leaving the tables in vegas if they didn't put chips on the table you know you make investments in different things sometimes they win sometimes they don't more losses than wins but when you do win you win so big it makes up for everything you know and that that's been the journey the experience and then when i i shift to do things in a different way like people look now and say in case i'm they're feeling momentum of thing of me and television now right but this i started this 10 years ago i did i raised 200 million dollars we broke it into 10 pictures we sold domestic rights to lionsgate and went out and saw the international territories as we could with those films i did it twice then the relationship with barry and stan at lionsgate and grindstone is where the rights from bmf came from you see what i'm saying like these things are happening so far back that i damn to try and catch up now you planted the seed for this six years ago six well the rice was about six years ago the four and a half years for uh us to get to this point i sold this to stars four and a half years ago this is why it feels the way it feels coming out because i've been promoting it for four and a half years you know like if you've been the audience already knows what bmf is but they they know for them bmf is blowing money fast because they know that the heyday of them financially meech and turin and being in that position and what they could do financially at that point but um when you look at the the origin story and you go back to detroit and their family like how the decisions were made to do things that it changes it becomes a family drama with complex issues that move forward because of the choices they made with their life now when you get into street life or into that fast lifestyle they'll tell you that the outcome is going to be you dead or in jail that was that was actually absolutely true for them in this case now i've had people in interviews ask me uh does it feel like you're glorifying drug dealers and i'm just i'm like did they say that when they made godfather right did they say that wouldn't they make scarface because those feature films were those films were made in the time period that this [ __ ] happened that the drugs was coming and they were actually doing it so if you say music is influential how influential is it audio and visual how much damage you think that done to the inner cities when people in the communities would see a cuban they said no just insert me here in the scarface movie they're going to do their version of scarface right and make that lifestyle choice when you see it happening in the innocence of a 15 year old child making the decision when they're not necessarily responsible for the actions because they're a minor at that point and simplifying things saying how what's the issue we don't have the money for the rent or for mortgage and your dad is simplifying things so he's going to work he's coming home he's just giving your mom a self-check and telling her to handle everything and because the car broke down and got enough money for the mortgage so you go in the naval you do you can do in the street you come back and give your parents the money but that doesn't work because they're christians good christian people so this conflict that is universal conflict i think that uh it's relatable across all different cultures if they just believe in god and christianity it's a struggle there that's happening early on in this story that is really interesting it makes uh meets the outcasts and tea somebody that they think that they could possibly save and it's just not identifying with how far gone he is in those points but those circumstances immediately stand out you know and i think it's one of the bigger differences in uh in the family drama that you see in raising canon or the family drama and ghosts you know so you know later i mean there's so much to talk about so much to tell did they experience on this journey like yeah we could we didn't get to atlanta yet you know this is we're in detroit right now we still got to get to st louis still got to get to l.a still got to make it to mexico right you got to meet the plug had a lot of stuff to do yeah it's a it's a long wild story that they had and to your point i think i think i think the glorification questions that's it's it's focusing on the wrong thing it's missing the bigger picture entirely because like you said it's universal as long as a struggle a human struggle exists a story like this is going to be relatable and it's going to impact people regardless it's i look at when they say that it's because they're looking at me you see what i'm saying and i know what it is so i look at it and i go okay i got that but there's this look there's going to be people unhappy with the success that you have regardless you know you got they'll without knowing who you are individual could look and just judge you and say i don't like that he had that diamond goat on his neck why did he put that dead you got to be a certain kind of person because he like diamonds all right and then they could just assume that you anything they would like to register negative they can just register it negative some people they have the uh the traitor like let's say the person's across the street they look at you they don't like you across the street some people feel the need to go across the street to say why i'm a good person i don't give a [ __ ] yeah i genuinely don't give a [ __ ] about how those people forget about me across the street because they don't care about me is it okay for me not to care about people not that don't care about me i mean like the simple things like if you look and you go if it would be entertaining for them to see me in crisis right so if you saw that and you go why would you care about a person who would like you to see you under the worst circumstances you could be on them and enjoy it look look at britney spears oops i did it again pigtails do the school girl dress right hottest thing that she's done in music the image of her at that point then when you see her with her head shaved off and she's swinging the umbrella at paparazzi that pitch is as famous as those other and they paid for one to be marketed and promoted to the general public big money to make a career the other one was free to see the confusion in her personal life going on that was free they promoted that for free because it was exciting to see it go down then when you see you go up they'd like to see you come down it's the artist community that does this [Music] it's the new your fellow artist that does this to you because they look and they go if you go up and you stay up then how am i have my shot this is why they go oh no that first time oh first i was fired you don't notice everybody's first album is fine why they say that they said each it's every artist they'll go illmatic they'll go reasonable doubt they'll go get rich or die trying they'll go every big ready to die all these albums the first hour pick that one and say that one was a classic no matter what they do afterwards they won't compare that material to that album right and i don't know man i think um for me i it's not like i'm enjoying it because like i try not to let things that affect me that i can't change right you know you can't change publicly how people perceive you at points you see the harshest things ever you think the timing will just be you're just being an emotional state where you can't really or not you're not tough at the moment sensitive because you're not paying attention and you see some [ __ ] publicly the person said about you did you go whoa and it really bothered you that the person just said that no matter who you are you know and i just don't allow that to to create a i didn't allow it to create a new vulnerability for me i allowed it to not matter social media seems to be just like a hive for this kind of behavior too and i'm sure you see it on your instagram all the time they say these are people that wouldn't say to them in person never right but they'll say the harshest things they can come up with to that person that no matter how like just for recreational purposes you know and the person does see it at points you know i'm saying says how do you respond to it you notice somebody out there that feels that way about you right you know and i don't know like i don't think this is possible for them to people don't this is why music is magic because people don't agree on much you know everybody has different views about different things that are going on but when the song is the right song everyone agrees to enjoy themselves to the material right that's the that's the magic and the beauty of music that is there because everything else you look and go god damn can we just figure out how to just be on the same page it's difficult it seems impossible like and and like you were saying before not only will they come at you a certain way online but then other people in the online community will actually support it like upvoted whatever and there's just this this trend of negativity misery putting people down that always just spreads faster than the positive the things that are ideally attractive are just that right so if the person is taking care of themselves physically because when we say social media we talk about communicating through photographs now so they take care of themselves they're gonna have pretty decent feedback if there's nothing else going on but they're a good-looking picture you know i'm saying you see those people social media grow and they're not quite as affected by the negative things that you get from people especially if they're not being recognized you know what i'm saying they're just an attractive person on it they're fine they don't even know what we're talking about but when once you get look to entertain this to provoke emotions right so if the person doesn't love me i'd like for them to hate me so i could mean enough to them right that would just mean that i meant enough for them to have feelings towards me because if they don't uh you don't like me then uh then i don't matter i don't even i wouldn't even exist to you if you don't hate me at least let me get that energy out of you mm-hmm right either is that something you've you've planned for is that like a strategic choice where if you like are you thinking these things through before you you know roll out all these projects like is is the goal to be you know polarizing like pick a side hate me love me it's okay as long as you care enough about it to have feelings because that's what it is to entertain so if you think like i said on oprah winfrey i said uh if we can't be friends at least let's be enemies so at least we coexist so my audience understands that i'm not on your couch because now that my audience feels like i'm not in college because i don't want to be on your couch not because it's a place that i haven't achieved or reached but when i identified that she thought her views on the way my music was written wouldn't allow me to come i said i didn't care for i didn't have an issue with her my grandmother was watching her show he said what i'm saying but if once i look and i go i can't go there this is where a-lister will go so i don't go there because how you feel about my you know the way my music is which is the number one and highest selling hip-hop album in that time period like it's the highest debut on record and you don't want to you know it's just having a different her having a different choice from all of hip-hop right and the general public because that's what brought it you know her views of what was right and wrong was was different from that and that would allow me not to be received as a listener right it doesn't make sense to me because it's like a you were kind of like an anti-hero role you know like a you know tv like a tony soprano kind of thing right he's a bad guy but everyone's rooting for the bad guy like that's kind of the box you say anti-hero but things that are hip-hop and youth culture love things that are damaged by the experience and then listen to it listen to how beautiful it sounds when they say it you know but they pick things that are damaged like you know if you say uh i said i'll take you to the candy shop she says [ __ ] what ass [ __ ] is the song that's that's what the song is called right now what am i supposed to say for shockbite that's why it's taking a little longer for me to come up with new music hmm it doesn't seem like you're lost for ideas with tv though no no no fine if i'm having a good time like well what's the name just to match everything else that i'm doing right and filming television and everything else the music that i would say [ __ ] that i would say shock value would scare you from doing business with me [Music] and i'm building this right now yeah because the bar keeps rising because the the tolerance level is going up more and more for what's perceived as shocking or not and then if you were to come out now and raise it no look it just depends on things are definitely getting more intense if you look at what's just the newspaper the type of acts that are happening every day you know so when this is why power beats out empire easy being on premium is allowing you to make r-rated films each episode versus pg-13 version so you know because it was similar in concept it just was a better version a more graphic version of you know what they were more real more heightened yeah and they came behind it so they said empires are built on power and that was a great excuse for me to attach myself to fox's marketing campaign because i knew they would spend money their stars didn't have to spend on the promotions at that point so i made the empire power beef the shows wasn't even on at the same time right he wasn't fighting for rage and just i just needed to to know that there's i have a problem with that right with that so they would talk to roger you know talk to terence howard and say well 50 said he had a problem with this because how much can you talk about the show right i tell you too much to say spoils you [ __ ] up the whole show but did you you said too much in the interview you told everything you know these interviews are as entertaining as the person you're talking to not the show right it shows a different thing like right and what would you say what you did with empire was similar to what you did with kanye when you had that that was different see the kind of thing was we had both done to cover rolling stone both had albums coming out and um there was no possibility of getting back on the cover of stone unless we were doing that competition thing and that was a part of the let's make it as big as possible like the the biggest leverage possible going into the record was that collaborative like did you guys say like okay they had to collaborate on it to do it there was no people like that people couldn't stand we stood close enough to each other to take that picture right that wouldn't happen if there was real i think history has shown that wouldn't that's not how you how you handle things do you think um do you think that's kind of like what do you remember the uh conor mcgregor and mayweather fight yeah you know apparently that was also like a collaborative thing do you imagine that's how a lot of these things pan out you know a lot of not all of them but a lot of a lot of it's like that like they're aware they at that point they're trying to make excitement for a fight you know what i'm saying and build up as much because then people gonna hit the pay-per-view button it directly translates into dollars for them and then like what we did when i ran around like when me and floyd we were never visibly able to see our relationship because floyd we've been friends since 2002. traveled to puerto rico make sure power summit to be out there while i was doing my thing was already a big fan of my eyes and support me you know i'm saying so it just was so much success that in both two different directions that they didn't see it until later when things slowed down a little bit and they got a chance to hang out with each other but there was a point where i'm looking at things and i'm going yo we kind of got the wrong messaging point because we're saying we got all the money in the world we're going to burn it we're going to get it again so what and they're repeatedly watching us do this and we're in the middle of a recession at the time but his numbers were going up at that point you know i mean so when you say changing he goes nah you do that father because it's going up like he says something to me one time very simple he said what a prize fight to fight for and i'm like and he said the prize so it's okay for you to watch the fight don't nobody watch floyd fight to see how amazing he is they watch it for the opportunity to see him lose right because they don't like him they don't like him because everything that he says is about money there's nothing else there's no values there's no the people's champ like ali was standing for the same things right the audience was standing for you know he doesn't have any of that it's just money you know what i'm saying and that he knows you don't like him is that the point you think well it didn't matter because the numbers was going up right when i was saying we should change it i went and partnered with the united nations world food program provided a meal through the united nations with for every energy drink that was sold and some different things to kind of shake that off of me after i got away from is that when you went to was that after their trip to kenya yeah i think it was i took the trip to kenya for that and um we were talking about fear and fearlessness earlier no fear riding around kenya handing out fifteen thousand dollars and uh no i just look these people my interactions out there is open it's been love yeah you know what i'm saying it's a different way to express it because it's like rough like it's this third world [ __ ] bro they just want to touch you like right you know what i'm saying like that and you go oh [ __ ] like the the energy you'll feel like you did something wrong when there's so much energy at points and it's cool though like i've had a good experience i've been i've opened markets out there like i've been the uh leeds of buja um uh warri africa shell just pulled out now they had big holes in the street because they had bombs going off in the street stuff like that so it's a different type of energy there what is the what what's been the most impactful experience that you've had up until this point you know just in your career maybe that's even like moved you personally you know like was it seeing how they were living out there and the contrast was it you know maybe even like the relationship with you and sire right i remember in the book you said that you know family was always the one thing that was difficult for you yeah you know happy belated birthday to him too um you know what what's been the most transformative thing for you well you know what's crazy is it i know like i've experienced a lot saw a lot of different things traveling but um probably the biggest thing is still my relationship with him [Music] you know because he's he's been like the opportunity to get to those places came by way that like i don't believe i would have toured and done the same had the same experience if i hadn't had the support of him in that time period and it was not like i wasn't 100 prepared for it because he looks at it it's the most comfortable relationship because you didn't have to over help me into the position it's like yo not this is going to be next and and i did everything i was supposed to do for it to go so it was like it just went and he would he'd always ask for uh he would ask like yo can you do this for me and i'm like bro i'm on your label yeah like i got it like you're the boss right now this is how we do this and but he would ask me to do it instead of you know like i mean like it's an interesting relationship because he just he just has a different way of this is why like even you haven't seen him perform performing the film since 8 mile right and then he shows up when i'm directing the film and it does something to catapult even this success to a new position because it that it's a basic gesture a basic thing that he's doing for me but it's still to move you up however i can in his from his ability if he can use himself to help me he'll do it and i mean it's tested and proven because i didn't even it wasn't like a thing from me randall the randy randy hudgins is the writer showrunner for uh for bmf okay and when i was directing episode seven he came and said uh oh we just need to do something we need something like something big like and i'm like what he was like if we could just get like if we could like get eminem to play white boy rick and i'm like let me let me just call him and see what he said you know and then he did it you know i mean you know i had to do that like i've been i've traveled to detroit they've offered me films that they want to pay him eight million dollars to be in the mood and i'll come to him and they give me the script because they feel like he'll do it his agents felt like that's a good idea now give it to 50 and then let 50 take it to them and it'll work because he'll look at it like it would be us doing it instead of it him going to do a movie like me and 50 will be on the movie so this would give us a reason to be in the same place together for some time you know and the the lucky he would look at it and go now i think we should do something like the warriors like huh you know like like we should just bring that back the energy in it what's crazy is it's turning more into the warriors out here culturally what's happening in cycle like you see all of this new gang culture all over the place tribalism yes it's starting to turn so it may be a time to do that at some point all right well uh 50 i think it's uh i think time's up but i just want to ask you one more thing you know if if you could go back in time and give young curtis one piece of advice what would it be i would have started writing music way earlier i wouldn't even i'd have skipped all of the stuff that i could have possibly because all of this could have changed you could have got killed long before the music started i didn't like during the situations a lot i think that adjusts your character though so it did turn into my behaviors and the music the things you go through make you who you are right so but i would probably skip that like i look at michael rainey like little meech in them like they come in these guys are over michael rainey was on the show he was 12 bro on power he's gonna be for you gotta you've been on forever like if you've been at 12 you've got the gig and you're already working getting money when did you not get money or did you not have he's been successful he can be able to one of those guys to say i've been successful my whole life my whole life since 12 on the show now he's the lead actor on ghost yeah like when you see that it's incredible man because it's the youngest character and one of the uh the guys that you see but you don't see him and now he's the actual at the forefront of the show and and one of the driving forces of why is being successful now you know and i look at that and go damn like if you was put channeling your energy earlier could you have been successful in a different way and skipped all of the harder parts of the actual life experience that you had and been able to do it i think i could have entertained a little i could have i would have been able to rap right i just would have been saying something a little different right it just would have been different in the experience so i wouldn't have wrote the same things true you know and if i could skip the hard parts then when do i skip it you know this is the things that your parents or the people around you would try to help you to avoid you know telling you early now you don't want to do that you know caught up in that [ __ ] and then it's a lot of stuff just there like i would avoid them now look they didn't even they're not a part of it may be a product of the success because a part of my temperament comes from it and experiencing how i view things but it's not a part of the actual success i'm being successful doing things that are a lot different from what i was doing at that point and it's crazy like i had a kid that i was mentoring for a little while that hey the kid was a bad kid bro like he was just a bad kid right but he was in love with everything about to all the wrong things about me you know i was saying and in the very beginning i'm like yo why does he keep doing this like he would just do little things and you see it come out not trying to to to be bad but he just couldn't help it and then i'm like yo what you could constantly talk back and go back to the things that he knew about me from prior to the success you know and i look and i go yo no but you know that's not what worked and he was super smart like that's not what worked that's that [ __ ] didn't work you go to the jail and all of this other stuff but that yeah i did that i'm happy that i got past that to do other things but he just saw it one way and you know it went off a while but that was one experience that i had that was interesting that because i really liked the kid you know i'm saying that he wanted to be bad he just wanted to do that like if he was if i was in the street he would be perfect to run under me you know what i'm saying but i'm not doing that you know what do you uh so what do you what do you do in a situation like that like to salvage you know can you salvage the the bad seed you know well you can be positive influences for him but there's look in the city it's a million influences this is why middle america follows the the youth culture in in these environments they look to see what they're doing they're making adult decisions early you know i'm saying they're key their kids are key oh yeah you know so they already made that adjustment they already know within that culturally what they're doing that this is their lifestyle and what they're doing i'm like and in the court system or senses them as adults they're still babies they haven't developed but they already made the choice there's positive influences there's negative influences there's a lot of things around that you can actually do like you look at youtube right it's pretty much every skill set you're looking for you can find on youtube you'll find some information about what you're trying to do on that joint and and not even have it be something for you to sit and read you just watching them explain it [Music] you know so i don't i don't know why you're not it's not clear that this less limitations like they're not limited the same way you were in the past you know what i mean yeah you didn't you didn't have youtube in queens [Laughter] none of that yeah where you was going to get the information from to think outside of that environment and see that the possibilities of different things that you might want to do and actually be able to find information occupy yourself with with learning you yeah all right good 50. yeah i hope i ain't talking to death
no i'll go they're gonna have me doing all this [ __ ] all day
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