50 Cent admits to copying Nelly’s music for G-unit songs
During a recent appearance on Hot 97 with Ebro Darden, Laura Stylez and Peter Rosenberg, ‘In Da Club’ icon 50 Cent admitted that he borrowed a lot of things from Nelly’s music when he was writing Lloyd Bank’s record ‘On Fire’.
While discussing how he crafted hits for his fellow G-unit members, Fifty revealed that he was heavily influenced by Nelly’s 2002 smash anthem, ‘Hot In Herre.’ Furthermore, he even detailed how he broke down the song and revamped it in his own way with a New York twist.
Talking to the hosts about how he did it, the Queens legend recalled, “I would be able to look at someone else’s record and make my version of the record when the right production came around, and it would be a hit again.”
The rapper then performed ‘Hot In Herre’ and Lloy Banks’ ‘On Fire’ and showed the similarities, confessing, “It’s the same record. It’s just new melodies, new production, and let Banks do it.” However, this wasn’t the only song that 50 Cent had written in his career.
The Get Rich Or Die Tryin’ creator even asserted that he wrote Jay-Z and Diddy’s verses for the ‘I Get Money’ remix. Fifty looked back on the powerful 2007 collaboration during an appearance on The Breakfast Club last month, where he spoke about Diddy’s verse on the track, which, retrospectively, is dubious.
Quizzing the mogul about his writing, Charlamagne Tha God asked Fifty, “They said you wrote two verses for Diddy. One was [G. Dep’s] ‘Let’s Get It’ and the other one was on the ‘I Get Money’ remix. They said you wrote it and it’s him confessing to the crimes! Did you see the meme?”
The radio host then proceeded to play a segment of the track where the Bad Boy founder raps: “Bo knows, but Diddy did it / Cars, jewellery and big homes, yeah, Diddy did it / Shootouts, coastal beefs, yeah, Diddy did it / But my lawyer’s so good that Diddy got acquitted.”
However, 50 Cent jokingly stated, “Jay helped me with that,” adding, “Jay did that part right there where he said, ‘Shootouts, coastal beefs.’ I wasn’t around for that. That was like East Coast-West Coast [laughs].”
50 Cent has been trolling the Bad Boy mogul for years and continues to do so while he remains incarcerated. Still, it is interesting that the ‘Candy Shop’ rhymer actually admitted to rewriting a Nelly track for Lloyd Banks.