Fabolous On Nearly Teaming W/ 50 Cent: “I Could’ve Signed To G-Unit”

Written By Cyrus Langhorne

Brooklyn rap veteran Fabolous recently talked about having an opportunity to join forces with music mogul 50 Cent in the mid-2000's.

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According to Loso, he had an offer to sign on the dotted line nearly a decade ago.

“Not really. I think everything that’s happened to this point has happened for a reason. I could’ve signed to G-Unit in ’05 or ’06 and I may be in a different place than I am today, or I could’ve stayed at Interscope when they fired [DJ] Clue. So the things I’ve done in my career have led me to the place that I am now.” (Hot 97)

Check out Fabolous’ interview right here…

Last year, Fab said he did not want to put his career in anyone else’s hands when the Unit opportunity arose.

“People always asked me why I didn’t join a crew or stuff like that, I don’t know if that would have changed my legacy or if I would even still be here today,” Fab said when asked if there is anything he would have done differently with his rap career. “I remember at one time 50 was offering me different things to come and be a part of G-Unit and I didn’t really do it because I didn’t want to kind of, it was at the time where they were signing Mobb Deep, Ma$e and all of those kind of guys and I just didn’t know if I wanted to be under something. I’ve always kind of had my own lane and everybody just respected me for what I do so that would have been a different turn and probably could have been successful, but successful for how long, you always got to think about it too.” (“The Breakfast Club”)

A few years ago, fellow Brooklyn rapper Saigon admitted he missed out on an opportunity to join Fif’s Unit.

Saigon’s long slog in the industry, from the mixtape circuit, to Atlantic, to Suburban Noize, began in 2002, soon after 50 Cent signed to Interscope/Aftermath/Shady. Major labels immediately sniffed around for rappers with street credibility and mixtape chops to match. Saigon fit the bill, and even nearly signed with G-Unit. “I wanted to be the conscious arm of G-Unit,” Sai says. A snide text message, however, ruined the relationship with 50 Cent. “It was kind of my fault. I hit [50] four times, and he ain’t text me. I then said something about him feeling himself. He was like, ‘Who the f*ck you think you is, n*gga?’ But it was all in fun to me. I was trying to see if he was ignoring me.” (XXL Mag)

In 2009, Sai hinted at an internal conflict possibly hurting a Unit deal.

“Sha Money XL introduced me to 50 early in his career,” Saigon revealed in an interview. “We sat down and chopped it up. I was actually G-Unit’ed out at one point. I was running around screaming that sh*t and all that. Like ‘G-Unit n*gga!’ ’cause me and Fif chopped it up…But we had a falling out, we both Cancers — so as far as us being alpha-males, it’s hard to co-exist around that n*gga. A lot of times it’s his way or the highway. We kinda bumped heads, early…He never attempted, I never attempted to fix it. But to see him succeed, I kinda felt like I was succeeding…That n*gga Fif was like us, he’s a goon, he’s in the street, he wasn’t no studio gangsta n*gga. He was a real n*gga, so for him to make it outta that — seeing him make it out of that was kinda like gratification for me in a weird way…Sha Money is my manager now and Sha Money still works with Fif and if Fif ain’t want that to go down, it wouldn’t happened.” (Rap Radar)

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Written by Cyrus Langhorne

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  1. Thx God he didn’t sign…The last thing we needed was fab saying gggggunit. His career was nicccce without them

    • Yeah the G-Unit camp was getting too crowded around that time. 50 was signing a lot of dudes from 05-07, M.O.P, Mobb Deep, Scrappy, Hot Rod, Spider Loc, Fox, the attempted Mase and Freeway stuff. Fab was cool jus being Desert Storm n Street Fam

  2. I think by the mid 2000’s, the G-Unit brand was hot but definitely not at its peak. A good artist definitely could have used the buzz associated with being in G-Unit but in the same token, it was not like when the Unit first came out. Right after 50 released GRODT, anyone associated with G-Unit could have released an album and it would have gone multi-platinum even if the album wasn’t any good. Noting embodied that fact than Tony Yayo. He still had a buzz but he needed more than that when he released his first album. As we can see with Game, he used the buzz and put out a great album which is why he sold so many units.

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