J. Cole has gone out of his strategy to credit score 50 Cent for having “the best album of all time” — forward of Michael Jackson.
50 carried out on the Barclays Center in Brooklyn on Thursday (August 9) for the primary of two reveals on the area on his Final Lap Tour.
During his set, the G-Unit rapper introduced out J. Cole to carry out “No Role Modelz.” Before exiting the stage, Cole took a second to crown Get Rich or Die Tryin’ the best album of all time, whereas placing Michael Jackson’s best-selling Thriller simply behind.
“Can I say this before I move off stage?” he started. “If y’all don’t make some noise for one of the greatest n-ggas to ever do this shit. 50 muthafuckin’ Cent, Curtis Jackson. Get Rich or Die Tryin’ the best album of all time. I don’t give a fuck what you talking about, n-gga!
“It’s Get Rich or Die Tryin’ at No. 1 and it’s Thriller at No. 2, and I love Michael Jackson. But I promise y’all that, Curtis Jackson, 50 Cent, we love you my n-gga, for real.”
In addition to J. Cole, 50 additionally introduced out Jadakiss, DaChild, Moneybagg Yo, A Boogie Wit Da Hoodie, Yung Bleu, Flo Rida, Tony Yayo and Uncle Murda through the present.
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50 Cent really had the prospect to signal J. Cole earlier than his huge breakthrough after the Dreamville rapper visited his home and performed him his music.
“That was so early, bro,” 50 mentioned on The Breakfast Club in August 2022. “To me, J. Cole, Kendrick Lamar… these artists existed early on when I fell in love with Hip Hop, but it was Talib Kweli, it was Mos Def, it was A Tribe Called Quest, it was Common Sense.
“As dope as they are, it’s smarter rap, smarter music. The logic is: ‘Sit down, be humble.’ We supposed to already know to sit down and be humble. But when they put that there, it’s almost the conscious side of it.”
He added: “I’m like, ‘Yo, it was cool.’ But I didn’t really know if everybody was ready for it because of how strong they were embracing what we were doing.”
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Despite being handed over for a file deal, J. Cole later collaborated with 50 Cent on “New York Times,” which appeared on his 2013 album Born Sinner.
“That was incredible. The features on this album… a lot of them I was blessed [with],” Cole informed MTV News on the time. “We’re in the day and age where you just send it away and it comes back but I actually recorded with TLC and [50 Cent].
“He just happened to be in L.A. and I had that song. I’d stolen 50 Cent melodies and was humming it on the hook like, ‘Man, if 50 do this hook, it’ll be so amazing.’ And he came through the studio in L.A., so it was crazy.”
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