The rapper 50 Cent “fell in love” with

These days, if he’s not producing award-winning tv exhibits, rapper and media mogul 50 Cent is on-line speaking and trolling. Though 50 Cent, akin to Kanye West, can typically be controversial when he takes to platforms resembling Twitter, throughout one Instagram stay, the emcee (actual identify Curtis Jackson) started professing his affinity for a specific artist and even admitted that he “fell in love” with this particular person’s music.

Taking to the web in 2020, whereas underneath quarantine, Jackson started exhibiting his softer aspect as he spoke to followers concerning the late Brooklyn rapper Pop Smoke. 50 Cent was honoured to fulfill Pop Smoke throughout his prime and admitted he noticed a variety of himself within the younger man.

The late Brooklyn rapper (actual identify Bashar Jackson) was one of many first US artists to undertake the UK’s spin on Drill. Nevertheless, the style, which originated in Chicago, has a wierd timeline and story. Drill surfaced as a subgenre in rap music shortly after entice exploded within the US. Initially cultivated in Chicago, it was a gritty twist of entice music that (at first) was hyper-localised.

Taking the 808s of the Atlanta sound, Chicago’s reply was extra discordant, extremely ominous and, having emerged out of Chicago’s Southside was a style that got here hand-in-hand with unnerving gang tradition. Though in 2012, artists resembling Chief Keef achieved a good quantity of success with the sound within the US, it by no means managed to grip the American listeners en masse. Nevertheless, within the UK, it did. As evidenced by grime, Black British youth have all the time taken to uncooked, discordant and abrasive music.

Taking components from the Chicago style, such because the nasty bass, however including signatures from grime, resembling legato slides distorted samples, the sonic, which quickly gained traction, came to be known as UK drill. Nevertheless, as New York artists resembling A$AP Rocky started to grasp the UK was beginning to favour its personal rap music extra over the US, earlier than lengthy, artists resembling Drake and Pop Smoke started to catch on to what was being consumed and who was producing it.

In 2020 Drake launched ‘War’ produced by AXL Beats a famend London-based UK drill producer. Nevertheless, lengthy earlier than the Toronto singer did, Pop Smoke had labored with AXL in addition to different UK producers like 808Melo. When the Brooklyn rapper introduced the British sonic again to the US he exploded and commenced receiving an unfathomable quantity of consideration. Singles such as ‘Dior’ and ‘Welcome To The Party’ have been getting licensed platinum, and earlier than lengthy, Jackson was liaising with 50 Cent. Talking on his encounter with Smoke, 50 Cent informed his followers, “See, Pop Smoke, that was one of my favourites. I liked that n*gga, man. I swear to God. I like that n*gga man!”

He continued, “I met him. We was talking, and I was like, ‘yo’. I’m watching him, right. He keep playing with his phone! These little n*ggas play with they phone all the time. I’m like ‘yo, what the f*ck is wrong with this n*gga?” Nevertheless, shortly 50 realised that Pop was writing notes and taking his recommendation. “I said, ‘Oh sh*t!’ See it’s a difference between a n*gga copying you. That’s not copying. He never copied one f*cking thing from me. He just looked at it, he saw what was good in it. It influenced him, and he was doing his own thing with it. I fell in love with the n*gga at that point.”

50 Cent went on to executively produce Pop Smoke’s posthumous album. You’ll be able to hear the ‘Many Men’ emcee talking concerning the late drill rapper within the video under.