A word to the wise.
50 Cent shared the advice he gave Drake during his infamous rap battle with Kendrick Lamar.
During an interview with Billboard, 50 says “I was telling him, it’s not him. I’m listening on the outskirts, it’s not you. Don’t let yourself think that for a second,” he said. “On some real shit, I said, ‘They said you lost, okay. Well what did you lose?’ What exactly did he lose if he got $300 something million on his last tour? You didn’t lose a motherfucking thing, man.”
“If that’s the moment, you keep your creative energy in the right place, and keep creating,” he recalled telling Drake. “If you slow down because you feel, ‘What the fuck?’ The resistance will make you feel like your material isn’t good.
“Then you gotta figure out how to keep pushing, how to keep creating — because that’s what it feels like to you at the moment. That shit was good for Hip Hop. It made both of them create quality material faster.”
50 also responded to the critics who thought he’d automatically side with Lamar due to his relationship with Dr. Dre.
“Drake is in that position right now,” he added. “They trying to resist the music, because he put out some things that are dope. I say a lot of things on social and they get upset because they look and go, ‘Ahh, I’m automatically supposed to be on Kendrick’s side because of my association with Dre.’
“And I love Kendrick, but I’ll say it to you: I didn’t see where what [Drake] did was wack at any point. They giving [Drake] the, ‘Oh you wack, you finished.’ I’m like, ‘Nah, come on.’ That’s the system trying to make some sort of resistance and it’s from the consistency.”
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