Bang ‘Em Smurf recalls when Tony Yayo begged him to protect 50 Cent after he was shot up by the “old heads,” in an interview with Report Card Radio.
In 2000, 50 Cent was hospitalized for 13 days after being shot nine times outside his grandmother’s home in South Jamaica, Queens, New York.
Tony Yayo asked Bang ‘Em Smurf to ride for 50 after the incident and he agreed.
“I felt sorry for the nigga,” Smurf says in the Report Card Radio interview. “Nigga had no money. He was broke. He had nothing. All he had was his two chains he had from his other deal because Columbia dropped him and just left him with the jewelry. ‘Don’t worry about nothing else,’ they said. ‘You a tax write-off.’ [I] felt bad for the nigga. He had nothin’. He was on his last leg. You know me, me being a good nigga, I am always going to stand up for a nigga who I think is a real nigga in a bad position at the time. I should’ve let the nigga suffer. I should’ve let them old heads kill him.”
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According to Bang ‘Em Smurf, he and the Animal Ambition rapper have a long history that extends to when Smurf was a 13 years old.
Bang ‘Em Smurf also details the origins of G-Unit, recalling when the Power producer pitched the idea to him after the G-Unit boss suggested that they take a ride together.
Smurf was a known drug dealer at the time and 50 Cent assured him that he wouldn’t have to do that anymore if he joined the G-Unit movement.
“I was like, ‘No doubt my nigga. Let’s make it happen,'” the former G-Unit member says. “‘I’m out here busting my gun and you need protection or whatever, let’s do it. I was busting my gun for free anyway, so if I could guap out of it now, let’s go, nigga.’ So we just bonded from there.”
The full Bang ‘Em Smurf interview with Report Card Radio is as follows:
