50 CENT STILL HOPING TO LAND FIRST LIL WAYNE COLLABORATION

50 Cent has revealed that Lil Wayne is at the top of his wish list of collaborators — when it comes to those he’s yet to work with, anyway.

In a recent interview with Capital XTRA, the G-Unit honcho delved into his hopes of working with Weezy after being asked about which Hip Hop artist he’d like to cut a record with that he hasn’t already.

“I didn’t do one with Wayne directly,” he told hosts Robert Bruce and Shayna Marie. “He’s one of the ones that like — Wayne been trained.”

Despite having never released music together, Fif noted that he actually hit the road with the New Orleans rap legend early in his career on the star-studded Cash Money and Ruff Ryders tour back in 2000.

The 40-city arena trek was headlined by DMX, Juvenile and Eve, and also featured Lil Wayne, Swizz Beatz, The LOX, Big Tymers, B.G., Drag-On and Turk. A young 50 Cent, however, was merely the opening act.

“People don’t know, I was on the Cash Money/Ruff Ryders tour — before they opened the curtain,” he said. “Before the show started, people was still walking in and shit and I was doing my shit. They thought I was lightweight, but then I came back around.”

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While 50 Cent is eager to hit the studio with Lil Wayne, various figures in the music industry have made it clear that they’d rather see the two Hip Hop titans do battle in the Verzuz ring.

In March, Hot 97 and Apple Music’s Ebro Darden sparked a heated debate after claiming that 50 would “wash” Wayne in a song-for-song contest.

“What Jadakiss did to Dipset…Is what 50 will do to Wayne… @yourboyeddie wasn’t outside in the mid-2000s,” he tweeted, referencing The LOX’s dominant victory over the Harlem crew in 2021.

Soon after, JAY-Z’s longtime engineer Young Guru weighed in and scoffed at Ebro’s comments.

“Y’all are crazy. Wayne would wash 50. Period,” he declared on his Instagram Stories.

Later that month, Verzuz co-creator Swizz Beatz dashed hopes of the hypothetical match-up by saying he wouldn’t entertain the idea of a 50 Cent vs. Lil Wayne battle due to them being “different” artists.

“Me personally, I wouldn’t even do 50 vs. Wayne — they two different dynamics and two different artists,” he told Baller Alert. “I would do a different Verzuz for both of them, but we’ll see as we have a lot of things lined up for and hopefully, they are involved.”

He added: “While I can’t give up who I would choose to go against them, just wait and see.”

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