Tony Yayo has revealed 50 Cent didn’t want him to come to the hospital after he was shot 9 times in May 2000.
During his conversation with retired boxer Mike Tyson on his Hotboxin’ with Mike Tyson podcast, the former G-Unit soldier reflected on 50’s ability to look after his people even when he was in a harrowing position. According to Yayo, 50 didn’t want him to come to the hospital because the scene would’ve done a number on him.
“They was like, ‘You next, Yayo, they gon’ kill you!'” he recalled. “And 50’s still shot up. I’m like, ‘Damn, I’mma die? N****s gonna kill me out here!’ I gotta move safe, right?”
He continued: “But 50 was always a thinker, right? Because when he was in the hospital, he didn’t want me to see him shot the fuck up, all banged up, you know? But I’m like, ‘Yo, why you didn’t want me to see you?’ And the n***a was like, ‘Because it will fuck with your mental. It would have made you scared seeing me fucked up like that.'”
50 Cent was shot 9 times in front of his grandmother’s house in South Jamaica, Queens, on May 24, 2000. He recovered after 5 months of rehabilitation and decided to leave the street life behind to focus on the rap career that would make him one of the biggest stars to hit the music industry.
50 actually revealed he wished Tony Yayo’s career blew up instead of his during an interview with Big Boy earlier this year. According to 50, he wanted Yayo to have the spotlight so that he could fully run the show behind the scenes as opposed to being the star.
“The beauty of how G-Unit worked is, my solo album took off so big that I just brought them with me,” 50 said at the time. “So it was clear that it was me creating the opportunity for everybody else in the crew, but we was all together. I wish it would have been Yayo. Because then I could’ve did all of the business. … If he would’ve been ‘50 Cent’-big, then I would have been running the whole thing.”
He continued: “Then it would still be two of us. He’d still be ‘50 Cent’ as the artist and out there, and I’d be probably the largest asset to us.”
