50 Cent Speaks On His Conversation With Steve Stoute At MSG & The Record Exec Trying To Talk Him Out Of Signing With Eminem

VIA: MTV's Rob Markman caught up with 50 Cent at SiriusXM's "Town Hall" on Monday (March 17) to ask him the question everyone has been dying to know the answer to. What did 50 say to Steve Stoute when they came face to face and Madison Square Garden in February.

"I said, 'That wasn't very nice of you, Steve. To say what you said wasn't really nice, and I think you should apologize,'" 50 said with a smile, before admitting there was more to the conversation. "Nah, I said it a little different."

The "I Get Money" hit maker's relationship with Stoute dates back to the late 90's. The record executive signed him to Columbia Records. The label was set to release the album, The Power of a Dollar, but backed away after learning that 50 had been shot in 2000.

Stoute came back into the picture 2 years later when he moved to Interscope Records.

"Me and Steve had the opportunity to meet with each other; he was running Interscope at the time," 50 told MTV. "When I tried to play him the music, he was like, 'Oh no, I already know what you can do, I already know what you can do. Remember, I signed you the first time?' And he wasn't lying, he gave me the deal the first time. I never got the chance to play the music. The whole meeting was to talk about what he thought transpired. It was confirmation of what he had heard [about the shooting]. I was never able to get him on the phone after that."

Stoute resurfaced again right before 50 inked his deal with Eminem.

"The next time I saw him was actually when Em flew me to Los Angeles to come to the deal," the G-Unit Records CEO explained. "Mysteriously, he just showed up in the lobby. I was like 'How the fuck you even know I'm here?' He was like, 'Don't do the deal with the white boy, your sh*t is serious.' At the time, Em was doing ['Purple Pills' with D12], so he's thinking [Eminem's] a joke. 'Do it with Dre, don't do it with the white boy.' That's what he's constantly saying. Of course, I did the deal with the white boy because Em is the only one that showed interest in me. He's my favorite white boy."

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