Fif’ explains that some songs from the original version were given to The Game
50 Cent reveals that his second studio album, The Massacre, was originally supposed to be atypically distinct from its final form.
Speaking at UnitedMasters SelectCon stage, Fif’ clarified that there was a change in the trajectory of the album after certain songs from the original version were handed over to The Game.
“That was material I prepared for my second album,” 50 said after performing “Hate It Or Love It.” “My second album didn’t have anything sexual on it. The plan was for it to be balanced correctly. It didn’t have anything that was ‘soft’. It was more about imperfections.”
50 proceeded to rap the well-known first lines of the song, which was about his mother being a lesbian, before adding: “It’s not the coolest thing to write about, it’s not the coolest thing to say from an artist’s perspective but I was trying to make that cool.
“I ended up giving those things to Game to launch Game’s album. I gave him that, ‘How We Do’ – that record, I recorded it in California and the only reason why Game’s album came out is because I wouldn’t give them the song unless that was a single that they launched him with because Dre’s such a perfectionist that he would have sat there longer. He’d already spent a year in the studio with him.
“I spent four days recording with him cause all I did was mute the things I had for the new record and I let him do ‘Special’ and ‘Church For Thugs’ and ‘Westside Story’. I already got Snoop to write his verse on the record before I gave those records to Game. Then shit went left, man.”