Craving for some juicy music industry drama? Strap in as we dissect the high-stakes beef between rap moguls 50 Cent and Ja Rule, a feud that has exploded back into the limelight courtesy of a flying microphone and a lawsuit. We unpack the evolution of rivalries in the rap game and how the dynamics have shifted to a more relaxed atmosphere, where conflicts are often navigated with a surprising level of calm.
We then shift our focus to another simmering conflict, this time involving DJ Envy and Gunplay, and how light skin discrimination plays a role. Gunplay's cocaine confessions, 50 Cent's relationship dynamics, and the tricky terrain of colorism in the music industry are all laid bare. Adding to the mix, we reveal how Tyrese played an unexpected role in DJ Envy's marriage. And finally, we touch on the most crucial career element in the music industry - exposure. Undeniably a jam-packed, insightful episode, get ready for an insider's view into the world of music and all its complexities.
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Craving for some juicy music industry drama? Strap in as we dissect the high-stakes beef between rap moguls 50 Cent and Ja Rule, a feud that has exploded back into the limelight courtesy of a flying microphone and a lawsuit. We unpack the evolution of rivalries in the rap game and how the dynamics have shifted to a more relaxed atmosphere, where conflicts are often navigated with a surprising level of calm.
We then shift our focus to another simmering conflict, this time involving DJ Envy and Gunplay, and how light skin discrimination plays a role. Gunplay's cocaine confessions, 50 Cent's relationship dynamics, and the tricky terrain of colorism in the music industry are all laid bare. Adding to the mix, we reveal how Tyrese played an unexpected role in DJ Envy's marriage. And finally, we touch on the most crucial career element in the music industry - exposure. Undeniably a jam-packed, insightful episode, get ready for an insider's view into the world of music and all its complexities.
⏰ Chapter Markers ⏰ 0:00 - Music Industry Feuds and Dynamics 11:10 - DJ Envy, Gunplay, and Light Skin Discrimination
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Yeah, 50 Cent was wildin' out too. Yeah, that's what she said. You didn't see 50 hit the lady with the mic man.
Speaker 1:
The sound wasn't good, he got upset, he fired a whole squad he messed around and threw the mic and it hit a young lady in the face of him, bust her head open, man, like to the white meat. It was really bad, like I think. She got a lawsuit going and everything, and then, you know, jauru had to step in. That's, 50 made a post about Jauru. So now Jauru went ahead and took the opportunity to be like you know what. He made a well, 50 made a post about Jauru. Of course, jauru had a performance recently where he came out like God tied to a pole, so now, of course, jauru clapped back with his post about 50 in the lawsuit. So you didn't hear about it yet, though.
Speaker 3:
No, I definitely didn't hear.
Speaker 1:
OK so, but apparently now 50 Cent has fired like well, whatever, whoever was in charge of sound, they probably ain't going to have a job for a very long time because they couldn't get his mics right. And I can understand the frustration when you have this many people looking at you to enjoy themselves and get that ultimate experience in the fall short. So, man, I saw his frustration. I don't know why he chose to throw the mic into the crowd out of all the places he could have let out his frustration. But hitting the young lady, that doesn't look good, of course, and Jauru definitely took advantage of trying to chime in. So what Jauru messed up to me is he posted 50 Cent at the Super Bowl upside down right, and if you go in the comments, you're going to see everyone saying well, jauru, he was at the Super Bowl, what were you? You know what I'm saying. So that in the comments yeah, the comments was lighting up I had more people praising 50 Cent for being at the Super Bowl and being more current.
Speaker 1:
But we can't take away Jauru's success. Now, jauru, we know, listen, when you had your run can't nobody top you like 106 in part. You was going to be number one, you was going to come up with a hit every three months. What out of doubt? But at the same time, I think if it were me, I'd just leave 50 Cent alone. Man, I think he live and breathe. Betty, he a cancer.
Speaker 2:
He did the wrong person. You want to troll?
Speaker 1:
He just different man.
Speaker 3:
I think we got a new 50 flourishing, a new 50 that ain't going to really want to get involved in all the smoke.
Speaker 3:
To be putting people to be 50. No, he crippled people's career and he possibly ruined some things for them that could have took them to the next level, taking care of their families and things like that. I think where he at now because I've seen some of his conversations and how he kind of withdrew a little bit because you know his power could, you know, cripple a lot of situations. So I feel like the new 50 is like you know what? I ain't going to stop no-one money.
Speaker 2:
My opinion is he got his hand in too much pots to be open in his mouth now. He got too many business and too many shows. He's all over the place for him to say anything, so I think it's still there, he's still talking.
Speaker 3:
Yeah, he's still there, but he like he, 50, was disrespectful at one point, like bringing up your family, your mamas, like they was on murder, talking everything Like 50. Definitely ain't he? He not like that? No more, he'll play with you. And you know, it's not even the people who, in conversations with him, like Jarl Rule today it's not the same beef that they had back then. So Jarl Rule engaged because he also evolved like, oh, this is how we play and this ain't.
Speaker 3:
A lot of people who was in the streets from transition to be like, oh, this is a different game, all right, this ain't the streets.
Speaker 3:
Like, look at the plies, look at the I don't even want to say so many names but people who you felt like had to be so hard and tough. They kind of got a little bit more more relaxed about situations, like people ain't trying to go out there and really ruin other people's lives and their situations and what they can actually pass down to their families, because they they see some of the, some of the games within the industry that can kind of hinder people from progressing to next levels. So they're like all right, we gon, we gon play, we gon allow to disrespect, but we not gon let those behind us who don't want to see some of us win like, crash us down to the point where we can't even thrive as a people. So I definitely I've noticed the change in the sensitivities to where people that get involved in beef it's not. It's not eliminating, eliminating them or canceling them the way it did like even five, six years ago.
Speaker 1:
Do you think that just comes with being older? Though, like these guys that were in a prime beef, they got older. We've seen 50, 50 Centifat Joe, I think that and we've seen GZ and Gucci I don't know if there's anybody else out there, tia, I love flip Tia, I love flip, but did they, did they mince that? Did they squash?
Speaker 3:
that I think they did. But a lot of those, a lot of those situations was like trickling into the streets where people, real homeboys and stuff was getting involved in it. It was getting dangerous for some of them. A lot of them was really riding around with armored vehicles and vests on and things like that. Like today, I don't feel like. I don't feel like it's. It's to that point it won't even make too much sense because everybody own they own social media with it.
Speaker 1:
So y'all remember when versus was going on and Gucci and GZ did their versus right, yeah, and Gucci, okay, let's say maybe got a little bit like I guess they was in agreement to not do the diss. I forgot the guy's name, lukey, something, pull Lukey. Whatever the guy's name is, gz homeboy, who died right, gz still did the, I mean Gucci still being Gucci. He did the diss record right At the versus, which I guess there was a clause where he wasn't supposed to. You can feel the tension in the room, right, because Gucci still had his people off camera, gz had a crew off camera and in the comments everyone made it made it look like GZ was a sucker for kind of allowing it Like they they were looking for for, for for shit to go left. Long story short, and it didn't. And then you know, after the, the, the, the, the, versus, you know GZ pretty much said I came to do what I came to do Like I came to do it for the culture, like this was bigger than me, so we did something for the culture. But I also saw how the internet went on, gz and kind of saying he saw and all I saw was a somebody like growing and the evolution that we see today. I think that was starting around then. Gz is kinda, you know, he's maturing. He's doing books, he's given more knowledge, he's you know, his son going to college. He's promoting a whole different adversity for sale. The book is out right now. So I just see a lot of growth in GZ and I just think sometimes our culture, we will shame you for doing the right thing.
Speaker 1:
You know what I'm saying, and I think that could have easily went left. But if there were to, let's say if they were to fart, let's say if shots were fired, we would have been saying black people can't do nothing, we can't get together at the same time. And that's what kinda upset me doing that verses, because I was just there to see it go down for the culture, and I was happy there was a. They were able to be within 10 feet and nothing went wrong. Considering what their history, that was scary as hell to put that on camera.
Speaker 1:
That was gonna play out on live TV. You know what I'm saying. So I think we gotta be careful with that, though, man, but I'd be happy to see people getting along. I mean, you saw Tyrese and DJ Envy. I didn't even know they had a problem with, I guess, tyrese when he was out of his mind on those drugs he was on at that time. He must have called some people and said some foul shit and y'all know he helped Envy with his relationship once upon a time when it wasn't steady right.
Speaker 1:
He said God kind of guided him to go and reach out to Envy, cause there wasn't even that tight. He just heard about what happened. It was like, hey, let me help, right. So I guess when Tyrese went through his thing he kinda said man, you know, my divorce was public, it happened, but he kinda was looking for that same love or reach and not instead of you know, charlemagne and Envy got a job to do there on radio Correct, right, so you can report what you're hearing. But at the same time nobody reached out behind the scene to be like yo, you straight, you know what I'm saying. I heard you going through a divorce and you know we reported. But are you good, you need anything?
Speaker 1:
And Tyrese was pretty much saying he said a lot of shit to Will Smith, to Jada and Tyrese. He can't even remember what he said to Envy and his wife. But he said at the same time, where's my Grace, though? Like yo, my bad. He apologized for it. But Envy kind of got gangster on the set. Like you said some stuff I would have boxed you in your mouth and I'm over here looking like Envy. And if you watch Tyrese on, if you watch the YouTube, tyrese is a kind of giant and I ain't. You don't judge a book by its cover, but Tyrese don't look like no sucker, neither to me. Like he don't look like a. You know what I'm saying. He look like he came from that. You know what I mean. He just do R&B.
Speaker 1:
But, if I had to choose between Envy and Tyrese?
Speaker 1:
I'm betting on Tyrese, but it was the fact that he almost like, got gangster on the mic at that time. I'm like, nah, it was his energy which came off, like you were disrespectful and I didn't even consider you a brother, no more. And I'm like that's definitely a conversation you should have had if you felt that way, not waiting to that moment where Tyrese was like damn, you know, y'all know y'all got a job to do, but y'all kind of just you know y'all ride at me, though like at the same time, but if y'all was going through something I would check on y'all and I'm like, damn Envy. That did kind of look a little green, though, bro.
Speaker 3:
Envy. Envy is participating in the wrath of the light skin Like we're in the cycle post, calling light skin people soft. So now light skin? Light skin dudes had to endure so much pain, so now we in the back end of the cycle, wait now, no matter what, go on. You know they got to bite their bottom lip, they got to let you know for their selves. This is a collective consciousness embedded within every light skin dude. So you can't be mad at Envy for showing out on behalf of them. Shout out to TI. Ti was he ushered in that wave of light skin dudes? It's some other people out there, but TI Definitely one of the first ones. But Envy also is participating in that and because he on the platform, he on he kind of have to let you know on behalf, not even him personally.
Speaker 3:
they probably hit each other on the side, like you know, but on camera you know that wrath, this is a, this is a legit mental tsunami that's just flowing through the ether spaces of internet and time in our hearts. So the light skin dudes have to be a little bit more aggressive and sensitive, and they got to. They got to have some steam coming from the nostril.
Speaker 2:
Wait, wait, you don't take it personally. Wait wait, eric. Eric, OK, explain this. I don't know if you heard or you saw he had a situation with gunplay. None of that, not that talk was not going like that the way it happened just recently with him and on Tyrese. Did he say anything crazy to Gunplay?
Speaker 3:
Gunplay. Let us know he do coke. What? What I mean? Once you, once you admit once you a coke user user and you admit that you do coke automatically if your gender don't exist, your race, how tall you are, the complexion nothing. Once a person admit that they are coke user, they in a different category. You just know not to, you know not to come at them. Yeah.
Speaker 1:
But I just felt like the time and you know I just felt like something like that For me. If it was that significant to you, you know I blocked it, I blocked you, I had you blocked. So that's why when I'm in Atlanta you would hit me up. I didn't come like bro, come on man, come on bro. Like I just saying, if somebody, really your dog and they really helped you with some stuff, like once again, you still probably got your marriage because of that. You know what I mean. Ty was with them four months talking on the phone. You know what I mean. A plan, this, do this, do this, pick this restaurant.
Speaker 3:
I'm a come, I'm from the coming saying, like for the light skin, it's not personal, we can't.
Speaker 1:
We can't blame, we can't blame these and oh man, I'm glad none of your brothers like skinning yeah yeah, yeah, we're going to be all right, like if I was like skinned, I definitely think so.
