50 Cent has claimed that his second album The Massacre was originally intended to be very different to the version ultimately released.
Speaking on stage at UnitedMasters SelectCon, Fif revealed that The Massacre underwent a significant change after songs intended for the album were given to The Game.
After “Hate It Or Love It” was played, he said: “That was material I prepared for my second album. My second album didn’t have anything sexual on it. The plan was for it to be balanced correctly. It didn’t have anything that was ‘soft’. It was more about imperfections.”
50 then rapped the iconic opening bars from the track about his mother being a lesbian and continued: “It’s not the coolest thing to write about, it’s not the coolest thing to say from an artist’s perspective but I was trying to make that cool.”
50 Cent says ‘The Massacre’ was meant to be an album about “Imperfections” instead it lead to being a more sexual album because he gave the original singles “Hate It Or Love It” and “How We Do” to The Game.
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He added: “I ended up giving those things to Game to launch Game’s album. I gave him that, ‘How We Do’ – that record, I recorded it in California and the only reason why Game’s album came out is because I wouldn’t give them the song unless that was a single that they launched him with because Dre’s such a perfectionist that he would have sat there longer. He’d already spent a year in the studio with him.
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“I spent four days recording with him cause all I did was mute the things I had for the new record and I let him do ‘Special’ and ‘Church For Thugs’ and ‘Westside Story’. I already got Snoop to write his verse on the record before I gave those records to Game. Then shit went left, man.”
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The Game has previously minimized 50 Cent’s contributions to his debut album.
He detailed his version of how ‘How We Do’ came together to The Debut Live: “Two weeks later, I came back to the studio and 50 was on this muthafucka’… At this time, 50 was big as a muthafucka, so I was happy about that because he was in G-Unit, but Dre had let 50 on it and 50 knew what the fuck it was when he heard it so he got on it with me. We wasn’t even in the studio when we laid that one.”
