50 Cent doesn’t like feeling “discomfort” as a boss and a friend.
The rapper has reunited with his G-Unit crew following their hiatus. He was one of the founding members of the group and finds the responsibility of being in charge tough, especially when it involves making hard decisions.
“I have a lot of people that I’ve worked with on things that even if I was their employer at that point, I was personally brought to the point where I started to feel like there was a friendship in connection to the work taking place. That’ll make a person feel like the moment that you have to make business decisions or you have to make cuts, that’s the wrong discomfort for you to feel after with the person, because you have to fire them, there’s zero communication,” he explained to XXL magazine. “That means you was paying that person and they developed a presentation for you as if you were friends. But in all actuality, they were just doing their job and they felt like they had to do that to keep themselves employed at that period.”
50 insisted he sometimes puts his authority to the side and that it’s his “crew’s responsibility to hold themselves in place”.
The musician also spoke about his relationship with Eminem. It was the Slim Shady rapper who helped 50 cent find fame, listening to his rough music and inviting him out to Los Angeles where he was signed by Dr. Dre.
“Eminem gave me the shot that I needed at a point where he was so influential that there was nobody more influential than him. I don’t have value for a lot of the relationships that I developed coming up on this journey, but Eminem is the guy,” 50 added. “He’s the one. He’s been consistent with me the entire time and I love him to death. I’d f**k all the way up for him. I’d do some sh*t 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.”
