Troy Ave was on the receiving end of a lot of 50 Cent comparisons during his time on the come-up, and now he’s paying homage to the G-Unit boss for being an inspiration to his career.
The Brooklyn rapper sat down with Gully TV earlier this week where he reflected on how the G-Unit mogul’s independent mixtape run changed his mentality when it came to the industry.
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“50 one of my favorite rappers,” he began. “Probably the independent mixtape shit and the melodic flows. Talking shit came up independent came out the streets.
“Nobody did it independent before 50. I see the comparisons in my melodic hooks, remixes and shit. 50 was a big influence anyway. I wear the comparisons with pride. I don’t give a fuck. Always did.”
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Troy Ave then spoke on how his relationship with 50 Cent is distant these days in the wake of the fallout from the 2016 Irving Plaza shooting.
“When I first came home he was supportive about it. We spoke. As time goes by, not so much or whatever.
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“I can’t even jack with him it’s with everybody. Then you see him do things like the Mysonne ‘Taxi Robber’ he repost the shit or whatever he did. N-ggas do shit in their own way. I don’t ever look for or hope for whatever a n-gga do. I’m just doing me.”
Watch the clip below starting at the 1:15 mark:
The track Troy is referencing is the “Taxi Driver” diss against Mysonne from April 2023. Mysonne (real name Mysonne E. Linen) was sentenced to seven years in prison in 1999 after allegedly robbing two taxi drivers in New York City.
Mysonne responded to the track — which samples 50’s “Window Shopper” — by bringing up clips of 50 Cent interviews where he called out Troy Ave for allegedly biting his style in rap.
“I wasn’t sure if I liked him,” Fif said in the interview. “I heard too much of me in the material.”
Mysonne then cut to another 50 interview — presumably with The Breakfast Club, given the choice of the photo he used in the video — where he, once again, echoed the accusations of Troy Ave biting.
“That’s after you see consistent respect,” he said in response to the suggestion that he should be flattered by the imitation. “Like, if you see it, and the guy gets on the air because he made something that sounds like you, then eventually he could turn around and put his middle finger up to you, and do something different.”
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That wasn’t all as Mysonne cut to an interview with Troy Ave on The Breakfast Club, where he accused 50 Cent of doing a “Pimpin’ Curly” skit — in reference to the popular character originated by Fif during the height of the Thisis50 days — in every song he recorded.
