50 Cent is seemingly on board with the idea of making a joint album with Eminem.
The Detroit rap legend addressed the prospect in an interview with DJ Whoo Kid earlier this week, saying that the dream project is “possible” and that him and 50 “gotta stop bullshittin’ and just do it.”
The G-Unit boss responded to Em’s comments late Thursday (December 26) and indicated that he’s ready to come out of rap retirement to make it happen.
“Looks like I’ll be back in the booth [eyes emoji] [applause emojis] after all! Just gotta do this residency in Vegas first,” he wrote on Instagram.
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50 Cent’s inaugural Sin City residency will see him play six shows at PH Live at Planet Hollywood between December 27 and January 4.
A potential full-length collaboration between 50 and Eminem was first floated by the latter at the beginning of this year.
In a separate interview with Whoo Kid, Em was asked about the idea and replied: “I don’t know where that’s come from but it’s crazy.”
He added: “I’m trying to get him to make a new album so bad. We need another 50 album like really bad. 50’s on a roll right now. He’s been on a roll since the [Final Lap] tour.
“I told him whatever the fuck he needs from me, I’m here. That shit’d be crazy, though — an album with me and him.”
The longtime collaborators recently reunited on wax on “Gunz N Smoke,” from Snoop Dogg and Dr. Dre‘s latest album Missionary.
The first-ever collaboration between all four men, the track contains several nods to the late, great Notorious B.I.G., whose posthumous song “Dead Wrong” (which also features Eminem) is sampled throughout.
50 namedrops and adopts the former Bad Boy rapper’s cadence in his verse, while Snoop borrows his “you should too, if you knew” lyric from “Notorious Thugs.”
The Power mogul also recently reflected on his decades-long relationship with Eminem, admitting that he thought he was being pranked when they first met.
“It was wild. Remember that show they had, Punk’d, on MTV? I thought they had cameras and they was gonna come out and say, ‘You’ve been Punk’d,’” he said on Million Dollaz Worth of Game.
“[Em] flew me to L.A. I was so bugged out from the experience that I came through the airport with the [bulletproof] vest and shit on.
“I get there and he hugs me [and says], ‘Yo, this is gonna be the biggest shit.’ He was so excited that it made me question whether what was happening was happening. It felt so good that it couldn’t be right.”
