Unveiling the Reality Over The 50 Cent & Rotimi Shakedown

Rotimi has revealed that he and 50 Cent have been in cahoots collectively relating to the general public shakedown the G-Unit mogul subjected him to on social media.

Throughout a current interview, the “Energy” collection star defined that the 2019 incident during which 50 Cent threatened to punch him within the face over the success of his Stroll With Me EP in a collection of Instagram posts was truly a calculated marketing campaign to recoup on his funding.

“Stroll with you, yeah I’m a stroll with you to the financial institution. This s### is #1 I must see that bag,” Fofty mocked the R&B singer in a collection of Instagram posts in Might 2019. “I wish to punch this n###a nostril Rotimi received the #1 RNB album time to pay me on gang.”

Rotimi set the file straight about what actually went down behind the scenes, admitting that the whole drama was a staged publicity stunt coined by 50 Cent with the intent to spice up the success of his EP after it reached No. 1 on the R&B Album Apple Music Chart.

“There may be reality to the $300,000 that I did owe him,” Rotimi started, explaining that the debt stemmed from his music cope with 50 Cent.

“Anybody who has a deal is aware of that the label places up cash—it’s principally a mortgage.”

Rotimi continued, laying out the state of affairs he was in after 50 Cent let him out of his contract, explaining that whereas he nonetheless owed him the sum, Fifty had agreed to be paid again by “mechanical” royalties from his music. However simply as Rotimi was beginning to settle into his newfound independence, 50 Cent had one other plan in thoughts.

“He calls me sooner or later, and he’s like, ‘Yo, I received an thought,’” Rotimi revealed. “‘I’m going to say you owe me $300,000. I’m going to say I wish to punch your face in. I’m going to say I don’t f**ok with you’,” he recalled Fifty telling him.

At first, Rotimi was shocked.

“I’m listening to this, and I’m like, wait, wait, wait,” he recalled.

However 50 assured him it was all a part of a much bigger technique to preserve his EP at primary.

“’TMZ goes to name you tomorrow. That is going to name you tomorrow, and we’re going to maintain this primary,’” he recalled 50 Cent predicting earlier than the psuedo occasion even performed out.

And for probably the most half, the rapper-turned-TV-mastermind was proper! The drama performed out completely, as 50 Cent took to social media repeatedly, blasting Rotimi and making it appear to be their friendship {and professional} relationship had soured, regardless of the actual fact that they had simply spoke about their plan over the cellphone.

“Three minutes later, ‘yeah, this muthafucka, I can’t stand this muthafucka,” Rotimi laughed, recalling how convincing 50 was in his posts.

“I’m like, ‘Oh, he’s loopy,’” he mentioned. “So now all people’s calling me, blowing my cellphone up like, ‘Oh s##t, what did RO do? He’s going to get kicked off the present. 50 doesn’t f##ok with him.’ So I’m like, ‘Oh, please, I hope this works. Making me sound loopy proper now.’”

Rotimi admitted that fifty’s plan labored like a allure. His file, “Love Riddim,” started to explode with the drama solely amplifying its reputation.

“Hastily, we begin seeing that the file goes loopy,” he mentioned mentioned. “I’m driving round New York, and all I’m listening to is ‘I don’t say an excessive amount of.’” Because the track stayed at primary for 2 weeks, Rotimi acknowledged the genius behind 50’s unconventional strategy.

“That was the brilliance of fifty Cent,” he admitted.

Although, trying again on the incident now, it’s actually all enjoyable and video games. Nonetheless, on the time all of it occurred, 50 Cent appeared to develop into a one-man wrecking crew on social media as he relentlessly wanted quite a few people who allegedly owed him cash. Along with Rotimi, Fifty known as out Bow Wow for allegedly stealing cash from him meant for strippers, along with different artists he was at odds with who had actual money owed for him.

Take a look at the clip from the interview above.