Hey, Ryan Reynolds here from Mint Mobile.

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That means no small talk.

Crazy weather we're having.

Uh, what was it like to go back there with everything around you like that?

Man, it's exciting.

pretty

sure.

Yeah, he like...

Florida's good forever.

I got stuck in Miami, right? The hard rock.

I was doing some shit in Tampa.

And then I'm trying to take off.

so

Were you like, "I'm 50 Cent, like, it's gonna," or you didn't know at that time?

You know what happens? At, in that point, I'm in a, in, like, a musical, a zone.

Like, in a place where all my thoughts are working, because I was, I was not just selling lyrical ability.

Like, you got guys that can sit and this, are, this, they use these detailed punchlines and shit.

Like, and when you watch the, the, the, uh, battle rappers and shit like that.

Mm-hmm.

These guys are very talented.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

What are you looking for in a girlfriend right now?

And a girlfriend.

I mean, I just think friendship is the strongest form of a relationship.

Right.

So when you become friends with someone and then it becomes a necessity for you.

Yeah.

And I think we give away the title friend too easy.

It's true

... adopt a tree.

Oh, no, we w- yeah, she, she invited me to this, like, banquet.

It was like, it was super nice, bro.

I didn't know that it was even, that was going on in the city.

Like, the tables was, like, $25,000 for you to get there.

... definitely got that

... and when we got there, they, they had these paddles at the table, and then I had the paddle, and they, they came, make sure I had the paddle, right? So it was like, the ch- the cherry trees was, like, $2,500.

So she was like, "Now who's gonna get 10 cherry trees?"

Why was this story important for you to tell?

Well, it was perfect for me.

I'm the only producer that's connected to the culture.

You know, so a lot of people in different territories, they watch because it was 50 years.

They didn't know it would be close enough to the truth and that people would be more comfortable telling their story to me than telling it to a journalist that had no idea.

Yeah.

So because I win consistently, people look at points.

If I fall, they'll they'll have a ball.

[laughs]

Nah, it's a little different.

Like, you know, I, um, I watch the, uh...

Like, like having opportunities at different points because I start off, first it's the music, it connects, it works, and it allows me the popularity and the ability to financially invest in different things, right? And I'm gonna bet on the things that I know I can influence myself.

I kn- if I know the momentum in the music was there.

So I, I was betting on new artists and developing the, the artist's career, and then sometimes they couldn't come up with the right stuff, so I was writing it for them 'cause I, I, I could do it myself, like at that point.

But then I started wanting to do different things and I, I went with, to the film projects early.

[laughs]

Mm.

It has to be phenomenal.

It has to be great for it to stand out and be a big hit.

When you're aiming at diversity, if the quality's up to standard, 'cause there's a lotta stuff that were made bad.

All right? They made bad, bad movies, cheap movies, trying to make 'em without, uh, studios and, and full production companies and things behind them, 'cause they were trying to do it themselves in the early stages.

So when you see a bad, a bad film, it's usually shot bad from urban.

W- we've launched things that I knew weren't actually good that really did extremely well.Because it was shot well?

Yeah.

Yeah, I do, but

you know what? I write a music that's a reflection of the environment that I come from.

Our responsibility is to write the true perspective of what goes on there.

See, they pick a situation, probably a day, to put in a newspaper that goes on where I'm from.

When there's several situations that go on, like, When they speak about me being shot nine times, that has been beaten into the heads of the general public through different media outlets and other publications because the journalists are infatuated with it.

Trust me, I wouldn't ask to talk about that if they didn't ask me those questions.

You know, and...

Why is that?

And why do you think that is?

Because I did a good job.

I sat there.

I worked on my project.

I know better than to stop working now.

I just relaxed for a little bit while I was putting out Lloyd Banks' album and Young Bucks' record.

I just kind of sat back and Then I started creating again.

Is there anything that you wanted to put in this movie that the movie company said, oh, no, no, no, no, no, no, that's never going to fly?

Uh, the question for both of you, 50, first, why this project? Why now?

Well, we waited until after the results of the trial to release the project, but I started, like, almost f- five months before I was able to find Alex, and finding a Emmy Award-winning showrunner and director is, uh, detrimental to the project being really well put together.

So, you know, they should expect it to perform like Reggie Jackson's did.

And so as he's paper gangstering, he's also trying to street gangster.

Hm.

Yeah, Kirk Burrows has a- a lot of insight, and, you know, this documentary is about people being able to tell their truth or tell their version of the story and that.

The only thing I'm- you know, I wish we were able to have Diddy be in the doc.

(laughs)

Are you gonna recover? And you- you look and you go, "Well, what am I gonna do?" Like, the record company's not answering the phone anymore, everything's changing.

And then it- it's like, you gotta figure out how to do it on your own.

Thank you.

We're in a different climate, so I couldn't do the things that new artists could do.

I had to trick bootleggers into thinking that ...