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At this point, its a well-known story. A Southside Jamaica, Queens, native, orphaned as a child, whod taken nine bullets and lived, 50 Cent exploded onto the scene in 2002 via a series of mixtapes and a public feud with rap star Ja Rule and his label, Murder Inc. 50 signed to a joint deal with Eminems Shady Records and Dr. Dres Aftermath Entertainment (both subsidiaries of Jimmy Iovines Interscope Records), launched his own company, G-Unit, and sold 7.5 million copies of his debut, Get Rich or Die Tryin—effectively ending Murder Inc.s viability along the way.

But theres backstory. Lots of backstory. Murder Inc. was tight with Kenneth “Supreme” McGriff, a legendary Queens gangster who ran the infamous 1980s crack cartel the Supreme Team. McGriff, whod been released from prison in 1995 after serving eight years on racketeering charges, had gone into business with Murder Inc. principals Irv and Chris Gotti and another partner, Chaz Williams, and his Black Hand Entertainment, in hopes of making a movie out of the Donald Goines novel Crime Partners.

In December 2002, though, McGriff was arrested on federal weapons charges. The next month, the Murder Inc. offices were raided on suspicion that the Gotti brothers were laundering McGriffs dirty money. (The Gottis would go on to beat a federal case in court.) Supreme started serving a 37-month sentence at Brooklyns Metropolitan Detention Center in mid-2003. But in the time since, Feds have accused him of ordering the famed May 2000 hit on 50, and officially charged him with a slew of crimes ranging from drug distribution to orchestrating murder. He now faces the death penalty.

Early in his career, 50 recorded “Ghetto Quran,” a song about Southside Queens notorious gangsters that mentioned McGriff in the first verse. While 50 says he intended it as a tribute, some cite the song as an example of snitching. (According to court documents entered in the Murder Inc. trial, when Federal investigators questioned 50 about McGriff, 50 told them to read his lyrics.) Last year, 50 played a character named Marcus in a movie, Get Rich or Die Tryin, inspired by his life story. Another character, a drug kingpin named Majestic, is loosely based on McGriff. The film suggests that Majestic killed Marcus mother, had something to do with Marcus being shot and may have actually been Marcus biological father.

Last fall, New York magazine writer Ethan Brown released Queens Reigns Supreme: Fat Cat, 50 Cent, and the Rise of the Hip-Hop Hustler (Anchor Books), a book detailing the Q-boroughs crime lords and their connection to hip-hop. (XXL featured an interview with Brown in our March 2006 issue.) More recently, Brown visited McGriff in prison to conduct an interview for Vibe magazine. In the article, McGriff disparaged 50—“Kid,” he said, “youve never been through nothing…”—insisted hed tried to squash beef, and again raised the matter of 50s alleged snitching.

50 now presides over an empire, having expanded into the worlds of fashion, film, video games and Vitamin Water—but this year has been a bumpy one for G-Unit. Tony Yayos name was repeatedly mentioned in reports surrounding the February shooting of Busta Rhymes bodyguard Israel Ramirez. On the business front, after six straight platinum releases, sales are slowing. Last years high-profile recruits (Ma$e, M.O.P., Mobb Deep) have thus far yielded more headaches than rewards, and dismissed California rep The Game—the crews only multiplatinum artist besides 50—will most definitely not be releasing his second album through G-Unit.

Still, financial independence allows certain luxuries. 50s going back to his roots this summer—the mixtape. With the help of his longtime DJ, Whoo Kid, hes dropping three full-length collections, dozens of new songs, just for the streets. He has high hopes for joint ventures hes entered with Jay-Z and Lil Jon, and for a new artist, Phoenix MC Hot Rod.

So 50 Cent has a sly smile on his face when we find him sitting in G-Units Manhattan offices. Clearly, hes got a lot on his mind.

XXL: Were you surprised by the article on Supreme in Vibe?
Thats something I think would be in F.E.D.S. or Don Diva. Hes fuckin on trial. He shouldnt be talking. He should be keeping his fuckin mouth shut. Im sure if he had a lawyer his lawyer would tell him not to have that fuckin article.

What did you think of the Queens Reigns Supreme book?
The reason why 50 Cent is in big bold letters on the cover of the book is for marketing purposes. Whoever this Ethan is, I never had a conversation with this guy . This guys assuming that he knows whats going on. He dont know nothing thats really fuckin going on outside of what these monkeys done went and told this *****. Individually, they sat down with this *****, cause according to this article and in the book…

A lot of things in the article were not said by Supreme directly, but were in the words of the writer based on his reporting.
Yeah, but it still was said to the writer by them. The writer aint in South Jamaica, Queens. Thats why he dont understand nothing he talking about. All he doing is saying back what *****s said to him… And hes putting himself in the middle of a world where everybody aint going to be happy about it.

Do you think this is stuff that shouldnt even be talked about?
None of it should be out there. Its all illegal activity. Everything that you mention when you talk to these *****s, they cant make reference to nothing but breaking the fuckin law. Thats it. We talking about career criminals.

So you make a movie loosely based on your life story, and theres a character named Majestic that resembles Supreme. The movie made it look like Majestic killed your mother and that he could have been your father…Hes not my father. I cant stand that *****. There are other things there, but he know that I didnt think… I wasnt accusing him of fuckin killing my mother. Thats the way they make the character darker… In the article, he said he has relationships with people that I used to be cool with. Lil Troy, the ***** that robbed Ja, is in my era. We did shit in the street together. While Premes always talking about the ***** that took the jewelry from Ja was raised under the Supreme Team, under him, thats true. I was raised under the Supreme Team.

What does it mean to be raised under the Supreme Team?
They came at a time—early 80 into the 90s. Everybody that was from that area fall under that umbrella at some point. If it wasnt under Preme, it was under Cat and Corley or somebody down there. You looked up to all of them *****s that ring them kind of bells, cause they doing what you doing and they count so much more to the streets at the time based on their reputation, what they accomplished. I came up under all these *****s. Not necessarily the Supreme Team in Baisley, but everything that was going on in that era. Those *****s are the *****s that actually got the money when it was there to get. Initially, I didnt know Preme like that. I knew Preme through Black Just. Blackie was cool with me. He was calling me Curt when everybody was calling me Boo Boo or 50. He financed the boxing program. Blackie, he was that ***** to me. He paid for it, but… He was under this ***** and this ***** was in jail at the time…

Seems like Supreme bothers you more than anybody.
Yeah. I like him. Were married. Til death do us part.

What does that mean?
I love him more than anybody alive on this planet. We have a special bond. He cannot go to sleep without me on his mind.

But married? That sounds deeper than…
Listen. They was supposed to fuck with me. The old heads in my hood… Why? Because they know Im authentic.

They were supposed to get behind you as a rapper?
Period. Any move I decided to make, they were supposed to roll with me because Im actually from the same fuckin cloth. Im an offspring of them. Im not a relative. Im not a brother or sister to these *****s. Im a distant cousin. Im from down the road. Everything thats fucked up about me comes from these muthafuckas. The behavior…

Premes telling me, “Chill.” And then the ***** goes and says something new. He came down there to me several times and said, “Yo, leave these *****s alone. These *****s is my food.” To tell me to leave Irv and Ja and them *****s alone.
I went to see this ***** on the Coliseum block. They was shooting a video back there. ***** called me from the barbershop, told me them *****s was up there shooting the shit. I walked up to see what was up with the *****, and the ***** acted real funny the time that I did see him.

Who? Ja?
Ja. So I went got the pistol. I went there on the motorcycle cause I wanted to see what its about. The ***** see me. They had the mailbox joint right across the street, the post office box. see me from across the street, walking down there toward the shoot, and says, “Ehhhh, hey. Come here, dont even do it. I see you.” Pulls me to the side, and Im like, “Yo, whats up with this *****?” And hes like, “Nah, nah. I told you, leave them alone, man. You know they aint gonna do nothing.”

He made it the way it is right now. If I said he had something to do with me getting shot, it means nothing, cause everybody in my hood knows thats what time it is. But thats not the problem. Its cause he didnt see that I dont just listen. ***** just dont tell me what to do, and its okay.

Whatever same type of shit he has running through him, is running through me. And he cant see it enough to give me room to coexist with him. He wanted me to submit, and thats just not in me. A ***** would have to kill me to stop me from doing what I want to do. Thats what they tried. Its not gonna happen with a halfway mark. You really have to kill me to stop me from doing what I want to do. Cause all I believe is what I think. All I believe in is me. My thoughts and the way I see things are my truths. It has to make sense to me. And then Im with you.

So you wanted to decide for yourself…
I took a meeting with DJ Clue and Skane , respectfully, to do a deal. You know the first thing he said to me when we got in there? Skane, he said, “Yo, I spoke to the wolves. *****s told me its all right to sit with you, do business.” Cause Preme thought I tried to kill him at the gas station. Somebody shot at him and tried to kill him at the gas station. So Skanes saying, “I spoke to Preme, and he was like, Yo, its okay to fuck with you. He thought you tried to kill him, but he found out it was something else…”

Either way, hes a wrap now, because the changes they dont see is the financial transition. Same way the ***** that shot me wasnt an in-house for them—he was just a shooter. I have access to that now. I have the finances. The shooters shoot as soon as the bag is dropped. So now, either they give him life, or they let him go and I give him life. They dont understand the difference. The first album I was trying to explain it, Power of the Dollar. They had money when I didnt have money, so I had to take bullets.
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