50 Cent Used This Nelly Song To Craft A Hit For Lloyd Banks: “It’s The Same Record”
50 Cent reflected on borrowing elements from a specific Nelly song to help create a track for Lloyd Banks while speaking with Ebro, Peter Rosenberg, and Laura Stylez on Hot 97.
“I would be able to look at someone else’s record and be able to make my version of the record when the right production came around,” he explained during the Friday (Nov. 1) chat. “When Nelly was going ‘It’s getting hot in here so take off all your clothes’…That’s how Banks did ‘On Fire.’ I wrote the chorus for that.”
He continued to detail, “It’s the same record,” adding, “It’s just new melodies, new production and let Banks do it.”
In the same conversation, the “Many Men” rhymer also discussed the current state of Hip-Hop music, sharing his opinion on J. Cole’s minimal participation in the feud between Kendrick Lamar and Drake. In the lyrical spar, J. Cole offered a diss record against his Compton peer, but then retracted the song and issued an apology.
The beef-tested rhymer called the entire ordeal “good for the culture,” however he had more hope for J. Cole’s battle skills.
“You just said that ‘Feelings were valid,’ guys, you just said ‘Feelings were valid,’ that’s why when [Cole] stopped, he said ‘He could have lost a brother, but he would have lost the battle.’ Now, I was looking for J. Cole, like, I’m like, ‘Oh let me see what he gon’ do. And then when [he apologized] I was like, ‘Why did he do that?’ I wanted to call him and tell him, ‘Nooooooooo.’”
Watch the full interview above.
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