50 CENT: “I OWE MY CAREER TO JAM MASTER JAY…”

“Jay was a mentor. He’s the first person I went into the studio with (having) the intention of producing a song for an album, which was never released because Jay’s touring schedule was so hectic he wasn’t able to focus on it. After Jay, I went to Columbia Records, but that didn’t work… Columbia Records was too scared to even talk to me. So I learned to market myself, like Jay had done. A lot of the major labels and companies were ignoring me because they were only looking at my street life. It makes me rub it in now. Right in their faces. I want to go into their offices and say, ‘I remember you. Didn’t they fire you yet?”