50 Cent may have become a household name thanks to the success of “Many Men” — but his fellow G-Unit compatriot, Tony Yayo, said that his longtime friend and boss wasn’t even a fan of the track when it first came out.
And, as the Talk of New York recently explained in an interview, the track would never have come to fruition were it not for his influence.
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“50 didn’t even like ‘Many Men,'” Yayo told Drink Champs on Saturday (July 8). “That’s my talent. Look. Sometimes, my talent is, I could be in the studio and I could pick the record for you. So, I’m like, ’50, you buggin’. ‘Many Men’ is the shit.'”
He continued: “You gotta remember, that n-gga got shot the fuck up. He got shot. He’s laid up. He don’t even want me to see him. He’s in Jamaica Hospital — I’m like, yo, 50’s fucked up. I pulled up to his grandmother’s block — there were shells everywhere, yellow tape. I’m like, yo, man, that n-gga’s dead, yo. […] That’s his mentality. And at the same time, he’s doin’ the music.”
Tony Yayo spoke with Drink Champs for well over five hours, where he covered a wide variety of topics.
The “Fake Love” rapper previously revealed that he doesn’t feel that New York, as a whole, has had a lot of luck with its Hip Hop stars as of late — and a lot of its bad luck has to do with the unfortunate murder of one of its hottest up-and-comers at the pinnacle of his career.
“Pop Smoke — like, I wish he would have stayed in the hotel over the AirBnB,” he began. “Rest in peace. But, that kinda fucked New York up. New York was coming back, bro. We had Pop Smoke, we had all these drill n-ggas startin’…A Boogie. But Pop was…you know…”
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Perhaps due to the aforementioned murder of Pop Smoke, too, the Talk of New York wasn’t much of a fan of the drill subgenre of rap music. “Now, New York is worse than Chicago,” he added. “And California, with the drill, because n-ggas is throwing like n-ggas dead friends in there. When we had battle raps with Ja Rule and them, n-ggas was still alive. […] But there’s no remorse with the drill music. N-ggas shooting little kids.”
