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Exclusive Young Buck & 50 Cent Interview

Dubcnn: Whats up bro, last time I spoke to you it was when you were in Sweden back in 2004; I got you that kush, we toar up the club. How you been?

Young Buck: Hell yeah, hell yeah Ive been good man holding it down out here bro. A lot of shit has been going since Sweden bro. Working on this new record “Buck The World”. Its about to get crazy out here you know what I mean.

Dubcnn: Exactly and everybody been showing you a lot of love for the love you showed Knocc Out because he just got out of jail after doing ten years and you blessed him with that tight hook and you put him on that track with Spider, that was tight.

Young Buck: Yeah yeah, BG is a motherfucking real nigga though. Like you said he been gone for 10 years, its a long time being behind the penitentiary walls. I felt like shit, let me give some to the homeboy who deserve it!

Dubcnn: Yeah man real talk. Lets go back in time now. How was it growing up in Tennessee?

Young Buck: Shit just every day street shit bro. Just basically when you come from any ghetto where the environment is robbery, and right here we got the gangbang. So gangbang, robbery, murders and shit like that you know you gone do whatever you got to do to survive if youre a motherfucker whos forced in this position. Thats pretty much my life bro.

Im the motherfucker who was brought up in the hood and come from the ghetto for real and always a motherfucker who had to put my hands on it and not be around a motherfucker who put his hands on it you know what I mean? I had to actually put my hands on that other shit to be able to survive. Im breaded from the game and breaded from the streets.

Dubcnn: You know its been a long time since you been broke and youre now even the head of G-Unit South. Whats it like being a CEO now?

Young Buck: Man it feels good. G-Unit South is a movement, Cashville Records is my label so G-Unit South is our movement and thats what youre always gone hear throughout everything. It feels good being a CEO though Cashville Records. Just to be able to put an artist in the game and with me focusing right now on my group 615; the artist names are Hi-C, D-Tay and Lil Murda.

Me being focused on them, they all come from my city so they all come from the same struggle Ive been through my whole life, so it feels good to give them opportunity and just outside of them just to be able to put other artists that got the talent and deserve at least a shot to let their talent be known. I feel good were playing a part in that. Thats what Im focusing on first. I focus on the quality of the music and then well get the money next, you know shit got to be right! I believe in checking niggas report cards, you know you got to have a report card fucking with Buck.

Dubcnn: Do you have any plans of signing any more artists in the near future?

Young Buck: Yeah, me and C-Bo; Im probably finna sign C-Bo thats for sure, from the West Coast!

Dubcnn: Damn, how did you squash the beef with him?

Young Buck: It never was a beef with C-Bo. It was like... I think at the end of the day it was C-Bo in a position where he was put in a position where he was like “yo let me speak on some shit”. Well really, just as an artist just trying to show his loyalty towards another situation. Then at the end of the day you know Im a West Side nigga too *laughs* You know what Im saying!

So Im out there and he was humble enough to come present himself and let me know the way he got down with his situation. I respected it. Shit, we ended up doing a little more business and shit started falling in the way of it looking like this is where homeboy want to be, so he came to me like "Young Buck, nigga lets go on and do the damn thang, Im ready to fuck with this Cashville Records, G Unit South shit”. So Im all for it!

I came into that motherfucker with my mindframe like Im finna check out some of these fine ass hoes running around here and get my award like any other real nigga, but shit dont be that way. Im the type of motherfucker where if Im in a position where I feel like my loved ones or anything around me is in danger, Im going to do whatever to protect my life and theirs so thats pretty much what went down with that whole shit. Good look though, that nigga live so its okay!

Dubcnn: Have you worked with Dre on anything this past year?

Young Buck: Dre produced like 3 records on my album “Buck The World”. Bro, my new albums crazy man.

Dubcnn: Tell them about the new album.

Young Buck: Yeah Dre produced 3 records on there, Eminem produced something and I worked with Hi-Tek, I worked with Timbaland, Justice Lee and Jazze Phae produced a lot of killa shit, Focus. Man I got a lot of hot name producers, big name producers. DJ Paul, Lil Jon produced something on there. Man I worked with everybody.

Dubcnn: Damn.

Young Buck: Yeah bro, with this records right here you will get the real fucking explosion of Young Buck! Feature wise youre going to get records like me, T.I., Young Jeezy and Pimp C together on something and I got a record with me Snoop Dogg, Trick Daddy and shit like that

Dubcnn: I heard the first single with Jazze Phae, its straight fire man.

Young Buck: Yeah yeah, I wanted to really take it to the club and get the ladies a little something they could feel and that the fellas could feel too. So its one of them records where you can just hear it in the club and do your thing, or you could jump in your car and roll yourself something up and enjoy that motherfucker too.

Dubcnn: Like you got something for everybody, right?

Young Buck: Yeah something for everybody, man Im not no one coast person. Im not just going to give you a totally Down South record or a totally East Coast or West Coast record because at the end of the day, Im a rolling stone man. My life is really set, Im born in the South, all my family is out West, all my homeboys is on the East and half of them are everywhere you know what Im saying. Im a rolling stone and my music is kind of like catered to that way.

Dubcnn: OK. Whats the difference between the new album and “Straight Outta Cashville”?

Young Buck: You know with my first record I felt like it was a good introduction album. It did exactly what I was looking for to do. I wanted the world to know who I am, where Im from and what Im about and shit. Thats exactly what I established with that record.

With this new record, I dug my music out of reality homeboy. Shit that a nigga going through on a day to day experience and I feel like thats the only way people gonna be a true fan of your music. Its if they can pull something through these verses we put out and say like “Yo Im going through that, I know someone going through that and I dont want to go through it.” So I base mine on real life man. Ive been going through a lot of shit that the world know about and a lot of shit the world dont know about. And I just chose to ball it all up and put it on this album. They wouldnt let me name the album “Fuck The World” because if I could I would. *laughs* The title speaks for the album itself!

Expect the unexpected but you wont hear no beef shit; no Game disses and all that extra shit, I aint with that shit. I feel like whatever whatever, and if its real like with this beef shit we gonna take it and put it in the streets. Im going to do my music, Im on a whole different vibe of that shit because Im a hands on nigga. Im a see what niggas gonna do with it if we hit face to face with it.

Put it this way, if were rappin about this shit on these tracks beefing with each other back and forth, if I know about it then the police know about it. If you know about it, the police know about it! So Ima keep it on the low and see what its about.

Dubcnn: So when is the official album release date?

Young Buck: November 28th. And yo put this in there: If you spray paint my November 28th on a project building then get at me, Im going to break you off.

Dubcnn: When are you coming back to Europe?

Young Buck: Ill be out there real soon bro. I mean I got to come out there because my promo tour is poppin. Europe for the Unit, thats like our second home in a sense. I think we moved around out there more than any fucking American artist period you know what Im saying? We'll be looking forward to getting over there for the weed, the bitches and the money straight up.

Dubcnn: As far as the South goes, it's really on top right now and has taken everybody else's spotlight including New York and Cali, but G-Unit is still holding it down on y'all own. How did you guys stay on top for so long?

Young Buck: Man pretty much being in the streets. Its like... The street foundation don't never leave. Meaning that if a motherfucker feel like that they're able to relate to you like you are still them even though you had the success that you have, then they continue to follow you I think. So thats pretty much what we do. You know we try to stay as hands on as possible with the fans of G-Unit and the motherfuckers who hate G-Unit we try to turn them into fans more or less then give them energy to their hate.

Dubcnn: Do you ever go as far as comparing the current situation in the South with the golden era of the West of 93, 94. Or is it even bigger than that?

Young Buck: Yeah yeah yeah... We aint as big as that era right there. See that era I think was the biggest era in Hip Hop in a sense. That era is too big in a sense for the West Coast you know what Im saying? That was like the world was bridged off of that era in a sense, the whole Pac, the whole movement out there back then. From the Snoop and Dre movement, the whole NWA. I think gangsta rap period is bridged from the West Coast honestly.

Im just blessed to be able to have an affiliation of a life set out there before rap. So my shit is being a South nigga born and raised, bread from this shit, but all my family and them have my shit turning out there on the Coast where you from, so you get half and half with me and then I'm surrounded by the East Coast so its like a nigga is a rolling stone. I cant even put no name on my style of music, its just that I do the damn thang.

Dubcnn: But its close to being from what the West was?

Young Buck: Yeah were close to being from what the West was, but I think we got to continue put in work. You know I think at the end of the day we represent right now the togetherness that how the West was. The West was together in a sense and right now you got motherfuckers like Snoop that I really really worship in a sense of putting it back together. Hes the reason of keeping a lot of shit and trying to put motherfuckers together in that whole West Coast movement that niggas is trying to pull together. Im a South nigga and I feel like being a part of that whole movement of coming together, cause like I said I got a life out there too. Its like with that shit bro, I feel like we representing the togetherness in the South.

You got artists like me and Jeezy and T.I., we run together and Ludacris and shit. We all moving in a sense of together you dont really hear too many Southern artists beefing with each other. And back then it was just like that with the West Coast. They may have beef with the East at the time but you really werent hearing West Coast artists beefing with each other. We representing that much you know what Im saying, and we representing the money part because were getting our bread out here for god damn sure!

Dubcnn: How big do you think the demand for your new album is gonnna be? A lot of times people anticipate a rapper's debut album, but after that it kinda dies down. How do you see that in your situation?

Young Buck: I think the anticipation comes within a person. For me you got real life issues that motherfuckers, as far as my first album, the niggas that had the chance to realize and see that make them grow a little focus, as far as the Vibe Awards incident, and just me being in the streets that shit get around you know. Motherfuckers start to know Buck is a street motherfucker for real or you know that nigga really down to earth. So that anticipation carries the same crowd that you had, your crowd that you had that went and bought your album, I think if you delivered a good album they gone stay there and you grow.

So the anticipation for me, I think its just on the strength of me being involved in other artists projects and having hot fucking features on other peoples albums, such as T.I., the 3-6 record “Stay Fly”, “Money in the Bank”. And I can go on with other records that Ive been featured on doing my weight. So I never went nowhere to the streets and to the natural eye and that just keeps them hungry. And just the fact that knowing he come again November 28th, “Buck The World” its like 'OK, now we got a date on this nigga!'

So the anticipation is there and if you can feed them a good album like me I can tell you straight up my shit is on some “Chronic” shit. And this aint even a good album, its a classic album! And I can promise you that. I know its hard to do, but I can back it up by saying I worked with Dr. Dre; he produced 3 of them. Eminem produced on my album, Hi-Tek produced on my album, Jazze Phae produced 2 on there, Lil Jon produced one, DJ Paul produced one, you know what Im saying? Focus produced some, Needlz produced some. So I can give you all these major names to give you the insight that this shit finna be crazy.

Then Im a come back and tell you nigga get ready for hearing me, Snoop and Trick Daddy together on songs. Then tell you like you finna hear me T.I., Young Jeezy, Pimp C all together on one song. You finna hear me MJG & 8Ball and Bun B all together on one song. You finna hear me and Life, you finna hear me and the whole Unit together on one song. Shit like that gone build the whole anticipation and when I give it to you nigga Im finna buck the fucking world. They wouldnt let me name my shit “Fuck The World”. So its like Im calm, cool, Im going to give them this shit “Buck The World”, and we gone get to the money. It aint on no old shit where Im finna pay attention to that beef shit, that Game shit, that old Fat Joe, and all that old so called beef shit. I feel like its been enough put out there as far as from our end and from everybody else who got beef with the Unit. And the people can do they own judgement on who real and who fake, whats real and whats fake.

For me to continue on speaking on any of that shit, Im devoting energy to something dead. So no nigga, youre not going to get none of that from this album. You just gone get some real good hood gangsta shit. And then I gave the ladies a little bit more that they can fuck with Buck on. With my first record I only catered to the ladies with one record; “Shorty Wanna Ride With Me”. That was the biggest fucking record on my album, so yeah man I had to make sure I keep them wet a little bit longer than what I did. So I catered to them with at least 2-3 records but its still on some gangsta shit so niggas gonna fuck with it bro. You just got to let them know to fuck with me! Cause Im not playing, its dead fucking serious!

Dubcnn: All the way. You mentioned beefs earlier. What do you think about a fans involvement in a rapper's beef? Like when they analyze everything around it and try to get involved with it and make up opinions and shit, whether they going to like the artist in the future or not.

Young Buck: I think its cool bro, opinions is like assholes everybody got one!

Dubcnn: But do you think fans have the right to do that or should they just care about the music?

Young Buck: Yeah yeah, they got the right to do that bro, because at the end of the day they have the choice of spending their money on a record so I think they have the right to judge an artist on the sense of what they like or not. And thats a good judgement because thats what falls to the bootlegging, because its so much bullshit that gets thrown out that the fans run to the bootlegging shit and see if this shit worth buying. And I support that there because my first album was bootlegged 30 days before it actually dropped. And I still came out maintained the number 3 rap album in the country and had the number 3 album in the country. I would have had the number 1 album in the country if it werent for country ass Tim McGraw and R. Kelly. So they had both beat me, but they wasnt rappers, so I had the number 1 rap album but not the number 1 album in the country. And like I said I was bootlegged 30 days before that, so all I can tell you is when a motherfucker got a good album, a motherfucker dont even care about the bootleg. The bootleg then is used for the anticipation of the hunger and waiting to get it before the album actually come out. You see what Im saying?

And thats what you get when you're fucking with Young Buck. Im an artist that dont worry about the bootleg system because my shit is so saturated in the fans heart and Im so much in the streets that I know if a motherfucker wanted to grab mine on bootleg, its because they cant wait. But when that motherfucker get to the stores, theyre going to get it because you dont know when ever its gone. I learned that through Tupac. So Im one of them motherfuckers you got to have because you dont know when he gonna be gone. Hell yeah!

Dubcnn: Yeah.

Young Buck: Most rap fans are not loyal but I dont blame them for not being loyal, because I even been loyal to a few artists and then I go buy their shit and I be disappointed like a motherfucker, like Damn! So then that starts the bring down the loyalty to an artist. So being consistent with good material is the key to keeping your fans cuz and being real bro. Keeping ten toes down in the environment that you come from, but being able to take one foot and step out of that and deal with this shit like what Im doing now with you. Remain in the same as a person but changing with the music and reinventing yourself with the music. And then bottom line bro, you cant just be laid back with this shit. People dont understand that you can be the coldest nigga in the world and if you cant relay your message to a motherfucka and make them understand that you the coldest motherfucker in the world, then you just another cold motherfucker who dont know how to talk. Straight up!

So you get the real from Buck, you get it all the way from everything that come with a nigga is here. And then everything that come with the other side, I can get to that too. So thats how Im able to be a CEO of my company Cashville Records, G-Unit South, and move a whole line. You know Im in the making of signing C-Bo, thats how Im able to move and push a line of business in and keep myself steady with the streets and grow my same fan base of the people who are not coming from that environment that I come from. Its just because the nigga is a real nigga, bro.

I pull up in traffic, you might pull up beside me and I roll that window down and say 'Whats up?', Im still that type of nigga. Im not hidden behind no shield where you cant see me nigga! Im here and people love that!

Dubcnn: How do you feel about G-Units progress in the last couple of years with all the new additions from every side of the country?

Young Buck: Well I take my hat off to Fifty because me just being a CEO myself I understand how hard it is to put out other projects and then to maintain the whole company structure. So I really take my hat off to Fifty. But as far as the artists, I give them the thumbs up and tell them “lets keep going, let's keep at it”. Because you know, the last projects that we put out they werent successful as the recent ones. Me and Banks were blessed to have platinum records. And then Yayo came and he did gold, which I feel like the reason for them not selling is not all the way their faults. You got situations such as Yayos when he dropped, and then 2 weeks later 50 Cent's album come out.

Mobb Deep I cant really just say, because I dont understand. That was one of the best Mobb Deep albums Ive heard put together. And you know, God has his own way in pushing the projects and making whatever success happen for whoever that person may be. So establish yourself right with the maker and then youll be able to get you some paper! Niggaaa! *laughs*

Dubcnn: *Laughs* Yeah you mentioned 50 Cent and your new label Cashville Records. How much did you learn from 50 about being a CEO and having your own label?

Young Buck: I learned a lot from Fifty bro and Im still learning. Im so hands on with Fifty, hes like my big brother. Hes like a nigga mentor and at the end of the day he like a nigga guidance as far as business wise. I pay him a lot of attention, as far as his business moves is one of the most powerful moves and not only Fifty, but in a black human being period!

His success represents a lot just from his short time being in the game and then just having success that hes having to be able to you know put his motherfucking artists out such as myself. So for me honestly bro, I learned so much but the most thing I learned from Fifty is to kind of do business from the heart not a hand perspective. What Im saying is I fuck with people from the heart, thats what Fifty do. All of us, he deal with us from the heart and not from a hands on, its not a business perception, its not just the money or a deal where you go do yours and turn your album in. You know everybodys hands on. A half of Mobb Deep and fucking M.O.P. probably in the car, they probably riding around together now.

So I learned from Fifty that in order to make the best of your business, you really got to get hands on with everything. From the artists all the way to the god damn T-Shirts thats getting printed up *laughs*. You have to always have total control of everything and keep your eyes open and then trust nobody. Fiftys trust factor is the shit! He dont trust nobody in a sense of what he went through being shot and just on the fact of what hes learned from the industry on the fact of motherfuckers that say they will do this and just dont do it, and other different issues.

Dubcnn: But you know whats dope to me is that even though theres many more cats on the roster now, people still call you best of the whole crew.

Young Buck: Its crazy right?

Dubcnn: What do you think makes the difference, say to a Fifty or Banks. I mean not to speak bad about them, but more like speaking good about you.

Young Buck: Well I think people get a chance to see me a little more and I get a chance to be involved with a little more outside fans than Fifty. Fifty is in a position where hes almost forced to be gone all the time and behind a desk where he have to control so much and things of that nature where its sometimes kind of hard for him to get to the ghetto. And then Im so hands on and then like I said Ive touched bases in all these different states and shit before I got the success that Im getting right now, as far as touching bases in a state and being involved in the other environment and that shit really sticking.

Having that motherfucking report card in these other cities is more stronger and people feel like they hands on. A motherfucker can tell you “Hell yeah I done seen Buck on the streets of L.A. running around”, or a nigga will tell you “yeah that nigga used to live in the magnolia with Juvenile” or they could tell you “Hell yeah I was in Death Row studios and seen that nigga over there with Suge” and shit like that.

Niggas can tell you shit like that, and then you got to go from Fifty and he give you what he got and you got to feel his life story. So my lifes been spread around all these different states before I got to where Im at now. And niggas always known me for real life shit and it carries over to this here. But Fifty and Banks is the same type of motherfuckers that I am, theyre just more set in their environment with they gangsta throughout New York. See I come from Cashville so I had to take my gangsta around the world. My section was built on country music and its a little small city in a sense, but we do the damn thang nigga! *laughs*

Dubcnn: Right. Does beef keep G-Unit in shape? Cause sometimes it seems that some of the beefs could have been avoided.

Young Buck: Naw, because I think at the beginning the only beef that we had was the Ja Rule situation, and everything that you already got from outside of that was just good music. It was just so many other different situations coming about that the beefs started to overshadow the good music part. So that is another reason why I chosed to move on with that because let's get to the good music and see who can make good music without that shit.

Dubcnn: But on the other side, sometimes beef brings the best ouf of an artist!

Young Buck: Yeah, yeah. I think where it goes to see who it can bring the best out of... cause either you can make it through the beef or you get killed through the beef. In a sense like.... I don't know Canibus but at the end of the day you don't see Canibus like you see LL. You can do the math of who took the down end of the beef, Hip Hop beef wise when it's just lyrical battle more or less. Whether it's a financial hit or just destruction from the god damn music itself! So you can see who can stand through it and who can't! *laughs*

Dubcnn: You talked about the different producers on your album, and from what I heard you started producing too, is that right?

Young Buck: Yeah I've been doing the damn thang!

Dubcnn: How's that coming along? How far are you from being the next Dr. Dre?

Young Buck: Oh you know what, he know I can get down! He been giving me little tips like "Yo, just stick with it bro!" or "Maybe you should try this right here". Little does he know, but when I be in that motherfucka, I have a little more knowledge than Dre even know! So I'd be looking at all the equipment and everything, see what is running and everything. But I'm trying to get on Dr. Dre's level with this shit! But it's just something that I've been doing, I just been feeling that I ain't good enough to present yet them to the world. I got a million beats but I wanna make sure that I'm good enough and be ready to give it to the world where it's response coming back like "Yo, let me come work with you!". So I'm still growing, I'm in a development process, but I'm coming with that god damn heat though!

Dubcnn: Where do you see the main differences between Young Buck the rapper on G-Unit, to Young Buck on Cash Money, as far as MC skills?

Young Buck: As far as MC skills, it's a big difference. Voice tone very much changed, I was younger around them so I had more of a high pitchered tone. My voice got a little bit stronger, and at the end of the day my whole lyrical pattern changed because of being in a competition from my surroundance. It's so much competition and success that comes along with 50, Eminem, and Dr. Dre, then you got Banks and shit like that, that I'm almost forced to stay on top of my game. So just that right there, I was put in a position where I was given an opportunity. So that's all I ever wanted when I was with Cash Money, a chance.

50 Cent: My prediction is... this year I predict that 615 Cashville Records will be the biggest new rap label to emerge this year. I don't think everybody sees how much talent... like when you look at an artist like T.I. and you see his space that has grown around him, like you see Young Dro coming out and other artists in Atlanta with his position through Grand Hustle, then you understand the capabilities and the interest generated through Young Bucks project in the Southern based market.

And when they say that New York's coming back, I don't see them coming back. I see a lot of really strong efforts from South artists coming out. Music is changing, you see a lot of new artists out there, like they're dancing. For me, a lot of projects that we've been a part of, it's not really a part of our basic Hip Hop artists from New York City. That's old school Hip Hop the fact they're out dancing. If we look back to any artist in Hip Hop, the older the music video gets, the more you start seeing the actual artists dance. So the fact is that in Hip Hop where it becomes more entertainment and more fun period. I believe you can grant that to the South that they brought that back.

Dubcnn: What's funny is that I told Buck earlier that the South has taken the spotlight from New York and Cali, but G-Unit is still holding it down on y'all own!

50 Cent: Yeah I mean when you know what it is, is being able to have good creative energy around you. Buck is definitely, by far, one of the strongest artists, not just G-Unit, but out there period. Personality wise, his charisma when you meet him... some people are born stars, others are manufactured. They get around people and they clone them to the point that they become a certain way, but just being in the right environment and having good creative energy around at the same time. Buck is a monster. He's venturing off in producing records, and when I hear the music some of these people producing I say "God damn, don't be surprised when you hear music that was produced by Young Buck on 50 Cent's next album!".

It's serious and it gets scary when it's that much positive energy coming from a place. And when they look what G-Unit was, G-Unit was Tony Yayo, Lloyd Banks, and 50 Cent. It was 50 Cent and his homeboys. Until I ran into somebody who had so much talent that it didn't make sense for me to just stay in that pocket. I had to venture out. Buck gave me interest in working with artists who wasn't from where I'm from and who have a whole other perspective on things. It was still interesting, it was still compatible to what we was doing at the same time. But he never left his roots. If you look at the boy back, his back says "Dirty South" across it!

Dubcnn: When you look at Buck, are you hoping you'll see the same in newer artists like Hod Rod or 40 Glocc?

50 Cent: I look at Buck and I see 50 Cent. I think Buck could potentially be the face of G-Unit. What 50 Cent is to Shady/Aftermath, now there's other artists that are signed to Shady and artists signed to Aftermath, but they're not of the same caliber of 50 Cent. And I think Buck could potentially be the artist at this point. So I'm kinda just anticipating to see how the general public embraces his performance on this new record. When his mixtape comes out and it's better than people's serious efforts because his creative level is that high, then you can just sit back and just wait for it all to unfold.

Young Buck: Daaamn that was real 50, that's how I get down! That's some real shit my nigg! *laughs*

50 Cent: That's it! I mean if you look at the other artists that you got out there right now from the South, they're releasing material in that time span and it isn't as strong as that. I'm sitting here and I see it flat out and I haven't actually even said anything. Cause the way you gotta sit and watch it unfold, I gotta sit and watch it too. But I'm saying it ahead of time, so everybody knows, I fucking knew!

Young Buck: Yeah you damn right nigga. And that's what I've been explaining mothafuckas. Me and 50, I'm so hands-on with him, my direction is from 50. In a sense of everyday that I'm learning in the business world, I do see myself in a sense as a real true protégé of 50, because I walk in 50's footsteps fully. Not outside of them motherfuckas, I fully walk behind these motherfuckas to the fullest. So whatever energy that you get from 50, you gon' honestly get that shit. For me, natural character wise, it matches! He really don't give a fuck!

50 Cent: And this is the thing they don't actually get though: Everybody around, you see they all watch the energy. It's a blessing when you have a project that sells 11 million records, and then your follow-up album is at 9.8 million records. And we're going to the third album now. And that happens, but you can't find a lot of artists out there that can honestly say "My next album, I'ma do 10 million records!". And I can say that to you, and you can't say I'm a lier. Like "Oh shit, that nigga did do 11 and then 9.8 on the next one!". You say he gonna do 10, we gotta wait and see what happens.

But in Bucks case particularly, and I speak about him like he's not even on the phone when he's right there, but he has everything! He has the full package. It's nothing for me to tell this nigga, it's nothing for me.... The only thing I can show him is the things that I require in the meetings, as far as hands-on learning, being in circles that he wasn't physically in the room to understand that portion of it, because he was busy doing everything else. So there's points when you look at an artist and you say "Damn, I wish I said that!"

Dubcnn: So you're not just speaking MC skills, but business, and everything else?

50 Cent: Naw, the whole shit man! If you have him around you and you can look at him and say "Damn, I wish I did that! I wish I said that!", and you're fucking 50 Cent! At that point, that's when you recognize he got something that these other niggas don't got. And listen, I love my camp, I take care of everybody. But he specifically, he's seperate. I'm telling you, it's a different situation. And it's gonna grow, it's definitely gonna grow. My whole shit, when you got them there... you don't... personally them niggas is dead talented.

I think Lil' Wayne is talented! I think his relationship with Baby makes him look a certain way that wont a lot of people to look at him like a grown ass man. And I don't think that they intentionally did something to destroy him, and I'm not making a reference to Buck having a affiliation with Cash Money prior to that. But I watch him, and when Wayne comes out on a record I go "Oh shit! They go Wayne!". Look at him, I see what he's doing. He's got some shit to him too, but it's not quite what I see from Buck, I'm telling you. And they gonna see that he's gonna be able to lead his own path the way I lead G-Unit. And he has what he sees from me to use as his protocol for how he should develop his G-Unit. While G-Unit South is 615 Cashville Records, you gonna see it turn into its own G-Unit in its own respect. You gonna see credible artists come out that you can't look at like it's just a offspin of 50 Cent or Young Buck.

Dubcnn: Do you think some rappers gonna be jealous when they hear "Buck The World"?

50 Cent: I don't think they gonna be jealous. I just think they gonna hear it and say "God Damn!".

Young Buck: Yeah honestly, I feel that way too. I've been working for a long time with a lot of different shit, and then just being with 50 bro, even when we put out albums, it's still so much different material that's left over from working so much, that I can honestly see and tell you that it's not a piece of blood in my body that don't feel like I know I'll shock the world this time in a sense of what I've done with this album. I honestly know that I got it. It's just following up and making them understand the business aspects of Young Buck and everything else that comes along with Young Buck and what I'm trying to do as far as the company goes, Cashville Records, and maintaining and pushing my whole label.

So as far as the music, I got it. I feel like I'll be here a long time fucking with that shit. Now growing the business and catching that end, like 50 told you, the only thing that I did miss from that end was not being in the room cause I was handling something that I was supposed to handle on the other side. But I was there on top of whatever the business was going on in that room, 50 always kept me a part of that business. Not just me but everybody in the circle! I'm not just excluded from Banks and Yayo, cause this nigga is hands-on with every fucking body! That's what I was just telling you. You asked me what I learned from 50, I learned how to be hands-on with everything that comes around me, you remember I told you that? Cause that nigga fucks with everybody from the heart and not from the hands.

And then you would believe in checking report cards! Man you gotta have all A's and B's, cause at the end of the day you find yourself with a lot of mothafuckas in the middle that don't have a report card. Finding out, sometimes a mothafucka can be around you so much that it could never hurt you, but it can become a problem. At the end of the day I'm blessed to have a motherfucka like 50 around me, that's why I'm telling them this shit. Every fuckin' day I'm seeing it in his face he'll tell you "Man, thank you!". Like I said I been in a situation where I was always ordered to have a chief mind which I'm carrying out now. At the end of the day with me playing my ideal role, the chiefs that I was always placed in front of, they always had good leaderships but they never had knowledge about what they had around them.

50 Cent: Yeah! If you listen.... this is real shit right here: Ain't no such thing as generals that haven't ever had to be soldiers. You gonna move up in ranks. So it's like, what Buck does in this particular situation, I pay. Everything that niggas fight to get, like.... if I had to go against you. This is the problem, I mean how much do you help a person?

In Game's situation, I couldn't help Game more than that. I just came out selling 11 million records, and I did all 3 of his first singles. I can't help more than that. And even after that much help, it wasn't enough, because I couldnt actually help him be me. He was physically being me. To this day. So the only way to be me is to go against me and win. So he actually has to do what you see. So, that right there, everything that he's trying to establish, I would have been physically available! I'm not trying to be 2Pac and have my niggas be The Outlawz. If something happened to me tomorrow, these niggas would be able to function in business, they would still be able to feed the rest of their families, period.

Dubcnn: Do you think Game would still be where he is today and signed to a major label if it wasn't for you?

50 Cent: Listen, Game's project was being dropped when I decided to be a part of it. I told you, when I got on I created the 3 records that was his 3 first singles. So no, it wouldn't even exist. But that's the thing, you gotta watch people and their character. And that's even for Buck, because when he starts picking new people to deal with. We've had an experience with an artist that came around, and I seen it in his character. I said "You know what Buck, this guy can't be around here unless he goes directly under you".

Young Buck: Yep, you god damn right!

50 Cent: Yeah, because the guy felt he was as good as Buck, when he wasn't! He was nowhere near as good as Buck! But in his heart he really felt he was as good as Buck. He wanted to be under 50 Cent and not under Young Buck, while 50 was co-signing and developing.

Young Buck: Yo, just off the record yo, that same nigga you're talking to cuzz, that nigga was in the club one last night begging a nigga to get that nigga a shot at this shit.

50 Cent: I'm sure he is!

Young Buck: That's real talk, on my momma. That nigga was running up to me. You know how that goes on that level bro. And despite what I had to even do to the boy, it was funny to me to see the approach was still there with the nigga still trying to do that, and me even having to put hands on the boy.

50 Cent: But look, Buck, that's the inspiration. That's like once someone shows you something like... I don't accept history, I don't start a war. This is a quote from Makaveli: 'War starts when it , not when you please'. So when you decide you don't want anymore, its not just "No it's OK, its over". Who said it's over then? So in every case, anybody who has any intelligence avoids those altercations and situations. When you destroy, you have to destroy completely. I know a guy who destroyed, but not destroyed completely. That doesnt exist. That was a guy who was responsible for me being shot.

See what happens when you let a nigga get up? You turn them into 50 Cent! You give them all the passion and all the drive till you say you know what, it doesn't matter anymore. If I gotta kill, I kill. I do whatever I gotta do, but I'ma end up on top to the point that he starts saying things like "Ima get rich or die trying". And as the mentality goes during the record, it's irrestible to have a positive outlook at the understanding and passion and where it's coming from.

Dubcnn: Did you hear Game earlier this month say that he's trying to get it together with G-Unit and keep it peaceful now?
50 Cent: Well you know...

Young Buck: Yeah I've been hearing about homeboy pushing the line and trying to do that. But you know what, at the end of the day, we not devoted no energy towards homeboy. 50 always directed, not just me but the whole camp, like "That shit there is done, let it go, let it do whatever they need to do." If Game did come back after a while where he'd be like "Yo, man I'm through with this shit. I don't want no beef", and then after a while, 2 or 3 weeks later, you would hear another fuckin mixtape record coming out with some bullshit. And it got to the point where it was so consistent like that, I was the one that came to 50 and be like "Yo 50, my nigga chill, let's just chill with this shit! The boy acts like he don't want no problems".

And you know what 50 would tell me? He would say "You know what Buck, watch this, I guarantee you, I give the boy a week and he gonna be on some other shit, like right back on some Fuck G-Unit shit!". Well, nigga wouldn't even make it to a week, it would be more or less one or two days, and the nigga would be right back at it! So for me that was like "Ugghhhh!". And that's just more and more to see how a nigga is trying to contradict himself to the fans, and is still pushing line on a underground sense of trying to get his beef across.

50 Cent: If you know a person's character is unstable, they're not valued. No matter what information he delivers to you, tomorrow you don't know if he can stand by his word. And a man that has no word is not even a man!

Young Buck: Yeah fa sho, so like I've been telling you, for me it ain't no sense of devoting no energy to this shit. It ain't no energy to it. At the end of the day it's enough push from the nigga end and from my end, you can do the math who's real and who's fake. So for a nigga to push that out, man it's nothing. I'm on some straight get money shit, but if a motherfucka continue to push the line and do what he do, shit gonna get handled in a sense. We gonna pull the shit away, and we'll do it all the way in the streets, cause a nigga is so close enough to them sections where niggas call home, that if it's about that, the nigga can make it happen and go and see if it's about that. But if a motherfucka knows what's going on and I tell you "Yeah I'ma do this and shit..", if you know about it, the police knows about it. Straight up.

So we're fighting that end too when it comes to 50. 50 is a gangsta for real! And we deal with the fact that we have to deal with these niggas that get out of line, and then at the end of the day keep yourself grounded where he ain't gotta see that penitentiary yard too. Cause a nigga real life a nigga hands-on with it. And niggas not gonna let nothing get too close where he gonna either hurt a motherfucka, or even feel like it's close enough where he can hurt a motherfucka. So you know, shit gonna always be in a protective mode. And 50 is his own god damn gorilla. He do what he do, he gonna get it done. I'm another gorilla and I mean that, so everything that 50 does I feel like, OK, I'm a part of it. I don't give a fuck whether it's right or wrong. But everything is right, so I totally feel good about all these situations when they pop off whether it's The Game or Fat Joe. Cause I been around my nigga to watch this shit, and watch it have bubbles and be like "Damn, this is some crazy ass shit!"

50 Cent: You know what it is? Nobody is paying attention to these people enough to see what they're doing behind the scenes, even if I'm in the scene. But because they don't generate as much interest as me, it seems like I'm damn near the brawl street bullet. Because they only see me responding to their behaviour. They don't see them doing what they do to upset me. They miss the part when a nigga doing what he doing, they're like "Why is 50 talking about Puffy?". Like you don't see that we done took Mase on a world tour!

Young Buck: Yo, I just seen Puffy in L.A., I had to roll the window down, I think I spooked him a little bit bro! *laughs*

50 Cent: *laughs*

Young Buck: Yeah bro, he wouldn't even come up the window bro! I was just like "Hey nigga, wassup?" I caught him in Beverly Hills running up the street the other day. Yeah, I pulled up on him bro. He had 5 or 6 security guards with him, they stopped and paused though. Cause if I wanted him I had him, but it wasn't on some love. I'm like "Hey man!", and he saluted me, but it was from the sidewalk! I wish I could have–

50 Cent: *laughs*

Young Buck: He saluted me from the sidewalk. But it is what it is from that end. I just caught up to him in L.A. But you know how it goes!

Dubcnn: But 50, do you think that some of these beefs are really on some personal shit, or are they just trying to get your attention?

50 Cent: I think to be honest, the music business, not just them, the music business in general is so close knit that Buck is a part of their lives. The conversation they listening and they go "Yo, that new Buck record is getting ready to come out". They're already anticipating what it could do, cause they feel the enegery around him right now. It's crazy out here right now! Instead of them being "Hey 50, 50!", screaming cause it's 50 right there, they're screaming at me like "Where is Young Buck?" right now. That's how the energy feels right now because the record has that type of energy around it.

Right now a Southern based artist is growing faster than a New York City based artist. That's the bottom line. And it doesn't mean that there's a great debate, they have shown that they have a lot of good artists coming out the South. And the South is fucking huge! How many places are you talking about? When you say New York we're talking about the city, 5 boroughs. But we're talking about 8 cities. So there is a lot more talent that is gonna be showcased.

This is what they don't see, a lot of the music has to be co-signed by somebody. So when you say West Coast right now, that was co-signed by 50 Cent that got that going. Game knows ain't anything been out there in the last 10 years!

Dubcnn: So did 50 Cent bring the West Coast back?

50 Cent: If anybody brought it back, it was 50 Cent and Dr. Dre, because we collectively created the Game project. And it ain't been nothing out there for 10 years.

Dubcnn: So do you think Game is taking the credit by saying that he brought the Coast back by himself?

50 Cent: Can you blame someone who regardlessly to where the credit goes? Everybody knows man, and if you check the money thrill it shows. The money goes back to the people who actually encounted and created it. So you can say what you wanna say. He says he sold 5 million records. He ain't sold 5 million records!

Dubcnn: How many–

50 Cent: Almost 4! Almost 4!

Dubcnn: So why he keeps saying 5 then?

50 Cent: Because it makes him look better! And I ain't had to answer that question for you to know!

Dubcnn: So he was lying about the record sales?

50 Cent: Yeah. He ain't sold no 5 million records. Come on man. But you'll see it, it's all visible.

Dubcnn: Yeah, so what do you expect from his next record? I mean he did it by himself without your or Dre's help.

50 Cent: I'm already seeing what I expect. I see Game writing a song without a hook for "One Blood". I said he's a good rapper, he's not a good songwriter. I see Game making a record where he's totally mimicking 50 Cent and Dr. Dre for the follow-up single . He mimicks Dr. Dre vocally on each verse on his new single, and he's copying my style on the chorus. If you can't hear that when you listen to that record, I don't even wanna talk to you cause you don't even know Hip Hop. When you hear "One Blood", what you'll hear is rap verses. It's like, this kid's M.O. is to make 300 bars. He can rap! Can he write a song? No! And when it comes the time to write a song for his single, he does what he thinks 50 Cent would do.

Dubcnn: You think he didn't make the transition from being a mixtape rapper to a real artist and songwriter?

50 Cent: That's a hard transition to make, my man. Cause he didn't make the first record, that first record was built. He been in the studio over a year and a half. Prior to that, creating material that they felt like they was still gonna drop him. You know what I'm saying? This ain't The Game show, this is about Young Buck, actually. And Buck's project, "Buck The World", is definitely gonna shock a lot of people if they sleep because everybody is paying attention and it's really well anticipated and everybody is looking forward.

Young Buck: I'ma give them exactly what the fuck they been looking for. And a little bit more too, partner!

50 Cent: Word!

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