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SMS Audio is, as Dr. Dre has “Beats by Dre”, the 50 Cent’s headphones brand.

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Artists are used to scream the name of artists that are signed in the same label as them. They do this mainly in featuring when the other artist is performing, they name drop or just mention them in the intro or outro. An example

Einstein is saying that women shout his name not because they are signed to a label along with him but because they like him.

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Tupac won the 1996 Soul Train Award for Best Rap Album but could not receive it as the police blocked Deathrow from entering the arena in fear of an altercation with Badboy.

After the Awards, the two entourages crossed paths and the results were almost fatal.

While all other accounts report:
-Suge notices Biggie and Puffy, then drives his hummer THROUGH the police gates and pulled up on the Badboy crew.

Tupac jumps out the passenger window yells at Biggie and a massive brawl ensues.

The Notorious Movie provides a rather inaccurate depiction

While other accounts claim Puffy ran off in Parkour fashion

Meanwhile, Biggie didn’t say a word back and just stood in shock.

Maybe he was taken back that his old friend has now turned into his sworn enemy.

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This is a response to Mobb Deep’s line on ”Shook One’s Part II”.

I got you stuck off the realness, we be the infamous
You heard of us, official Queensbridge murderers

He says that Mobb Deep is not famous at all, so he has never heard about them.

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Lloyd Banks' verse is recycled his BET freestyle verse, which was spit alongside 50 Cent and Young Buck. The title of the song, “We All Die One Day” also comes from his verse on the freestyle.

http://youtu.be/z1oN21JNwsk?t=16m4s

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Nas is a Braveheart, a Queensbridge group that’s well known to consist of his little brother Jungle. 50 Cent has recorded with the Bravehearts on “Who U Rep Wit”.

At that time, 50 Cent, Nature and Nas, along with Bravehearts, were all affiliated with Trackmasters and Columbia Records.

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A reference to Biggie’s song “Dreams” in which he fantasizes about sleeping with various R&B singers. The hook of the song is:

Dreams of fucking an R&B bitch

The object of Game’s desires is singer Mýa Marie Harrison, who graced a popular cover of King magazine, in which she talked about liking “street smart” men.

Game has in fact lived out many of his dreams. From working with his favorite artists, to sleeping with the women he desires. He and Mya had a short relationship shortly after this album was released, and in a meta twist, she even starred in the music video for this song.

50 Cent, Bizarre, and, most recently, Nicki Minaj have also made this famous B.I.G. quote their own.

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A song that only appeared in “Get Rich Or Die Tryin'” film, it didn’t appear in the soundtrack despite the fact that a lot of fans love how this song sounds. Maybe in the future 50 will release this track.

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Almost all countries follow variations of the RIAA certification categories, which are named after precious materials such as gold, platinum, and diamond. A common way to signify that an album didn’t sell many copies is to say that it went “wood” or “plastic” as those are commonly cheap materials.

None of the solo projects from Styles P or Sheek Louch sold many copies while Tony Yayo, Young Buck, and Lloyd Banks benefited from the popularity of 50 Cent and the G-Unit movement as all three of their debut solo albums reached platinum status.

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Jadakiss is known as a “punchline rapper” that isn’t known for making party tracks or the type of songs that would make people want to buy his albums, according to Tony Yayo. Yayo even thinks the “Free Yayo” shirts being sold before his release from prison outsold Jada’s albums when both items were probably around the same price.

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