50 Cent is larger than life these days. But the rapper still has relationships with a lot of fellow artists, entrepreneurs, and athletes. 50 Cent says he’s still really tight with Eminem and that he doesn’t have any problems with Floyd Mayweather. We’re not sure how sincere 50 is being about the Mayweather tip, but here’s what he had to say about his relationships with the two fellow superstars:
“Eminem gave me the shot that I needed at a point where he was so influential that there was nobody more influential than him,” 50 Cent said during an interview with XXL magazine. “I don’t have value for a lot of the relationships that I developed coming up on this journey, but Eminem is the guy. He’s the one. He’s been consistent with me the entire time and I love him to death. I’d fuck all the way up for him. I’d do some shit that just wouldn’t allow me to come back into a comfortable space because somebody was doing something to [Eminem] that was inappropriate, to this day…The only thing strong enough to make an Eminem record not work is the possibility of it hurting Beats [By Dre] and helping SMS Audio. It’s the record with me, Eminem and Adam Levine. That one is the only one that Eminem has that you could technically look at and say it didn’t work, because it was confusion for the Beats brand. It makes sense now that it’s a billion-dollar move and it was important to the point that it couldn’t work.”
“I don’t have bad intentions for Floyd,” he said. “I don’t want to see him lose. I don’t go to sleep and wake up like, ‘I hope you fucking lose, stupid.’ No, I already got past that when I said what I said. I’m already done dealing with that right there. I want him to win as much as he can in his life and also change the shit that he got going on. So he can continue to be productive. But what I’m saying to him is right and he’s going to figure that out over time. The lifestyle that is going on at the present moment is just not sustainable…He didn’t do the right things to present him to the public properly, so there’s a limit as to what he can do for promotional purposes. They keep it in that little pocket of things that they would do for traditional boxing stuff. Because where he’s at right now in boxing, there should be no one that you can look at that should be comparable to him.