The first time 50 Cent met Dr Dre

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In the event you have been a fan of music there was no escaping Dr Dre within the Nineteen Nineties. Scratch that, even for those who weren’t a fan of music, you’ll have been arduous pressed to have been spared from the symphonic sounds of ‘What’s the distinction?’ or ‘The Next Episode’. The latter of which has an attention-grabbing backstory in its methodology of conception. It was a time when apple consumption was in decline as we needed to maintain the physician as shut as potential.

Equally within the 2000s, it was not possible to be unaware of fifty Cent. The G-unit rapper rose to fame following the discharge of his 2003 file Get Wealthy or Die Tryin’. The success of which earned the Queens born rapper his appearing debut with the movie of the identical identify. Whether or not on the radio or on the large display, 50 was anyplace and in all places.

The success of the previous enabled the rise to prominence of the latter. Because it occurs, their assembly wouldn’t occur organically. It will take a third legend, in Eminem, to introduce the 2.

Whereas that includes on the Jimmy Kimmel Present, the pair, alongside hip hop Icon Snoop Dogg, have been requested how they got here to satisfy. “I needed Em to get to him”, the ‘P.I.M.P’ rapper mentioned. With the insider scoop, Kimmel probed slightly additional by stating that fifty “Took less money to work with Dr Dre than he could have received from others.” 

While Dre denied the declare with a smirk on his face, 50, in a way which has turn into recurring for him in recent times, spoke with humility and mentioned, “I got a lot of money though. He gave me a lot. He gave me a lot of money… I had a million dollars. Out of the neighbourhood, that’s a lot of f**cking money!… The first thing I did was I got my grandmother a car. Because I had an opportunity where I had a smaller amounts of money before, and when I got it, it burnt a hole in me, and it never got the chance to do nothing that really affected anything.”

Wrapping up the phase, Kimmel posed a closing query to 50, asking whether or not Dre gave him any recommendation now that he had a bigger sum of money that would burn greater than only a gap. 50’s response, with excellent comedic timing and cadence, was, “He didn’t. He didn’t tell me that. He was like, ‘You’ll be alright.’”

That assembly was in 2002 when Dre signed 50 to Shady data, a subsidiary of his bigger Aftermath Leisure, following the discharge of the mixtape Guess Who’s Again?. A line it’s possible you’ll be conversant in for those who’ve heard a little-known tune known as ‘Without Me’, which was launched in the identical yr.

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