The Recreation Says 50 Cent Paid Him $1 Million to Cease Saying ‘G-Unot’

The Recreation just lately claimed that fifty Cent and Jimmy Iovine paid him $1 Million to cease saying ‘G-Unot’ throughout his feud with the hip-hop mogul.

The Recreation just lately appeared on Matt Barnes and Stephen Jackson’s All of the Smoke podcast, which premiered final Friday (Might 27) on YouTube, and briefly reminisced about his previous feud with 50 Cent and G-Unit. The Compton, Calif. rhymer revealed that he was paid $1 million to cease saying “G-Unot” as a result of it was diminishing gross sales of Fif’s attire line G-Unit clothes.

“Lotta folks don’t know this, [but] 50 and Jimmy Iovine gave me $1 million to cease saying G-Unot,” he recalled throughout the interview. “They wrote me a verify, they purchased it. I needed to trademark the G-Unot. And also you bear in mind once I was going round with the rat and doing all that shit, that shit harm–killed G-Unit.”

“You stopped seeing the candy- tank tops and all that shit. All that, the entire G-Unit/Mark Ecko, the sneakers, that shit died,” he continued. “That shit was a sizzling commodity directly, G-Unit clothes. Niggas was sporting the sweats, headbands, the masks, the whole lot. That shit died, bro. So that they needed to pay me. I ought to have requested for extra however them niggas gave me 1,000,000. However I’m a hood nigga, 1,000,000 {dollars} to cease saying this phrase? The place’s the verify? They wrote the verify and I ended saying it.”

For many who are unfamiliar, The Recreation’s feud with 50 Cent began after he was kicked out of the group in March of 2005. Angered by the disloyalty from G-Unit, Recreation launched a boycott marketing campaign referred to as “G-Unot.” From there, The Documentary rhymer and 50 would commerce over a dozen diss tracks at one another and challenge a slew of on-line threats. There have been some moments the place it appeared The Recreation and Fif have squashed their beef, however no official truce has been introduced of their long-simmering feud that has lasted almost 20 years.

Elsewhere within the interview, The Recreation proclaimed that he’s a greater rapper than Eminem and that the one purpose why the Detroit rhymer has been exalted to “best MC” standing is due to the advertising “machine” from Interscope Data.

Watch The Recreation’s full interview with All of the Smoke podcast beneath. Quick-forward to the one-hour mark to listen to The Recreation discuss getting paid to cease saying “G-Unot.”