In a new interview with Datwon Thomas for VIBE Magazine, The Game reflected on his beef with 50 Cent and how he was sure it was going to end in violence at the peak of their animosity for one another.
At around the 30-minute point of the interview, which can be seen in full above, Thomas asked Game if he felt like the beef with 50 Cent in the mid-’00s could’ve gone left and turned violent. “I was prepared to die in that beef,” he replied. “I was almost 100 percent sure that me and 50 was going to die in that. I for sure thought it. I just knew it… We already seen it happen, and I was the biggest rapper on the West and he was the biggest rapper on the East at that point, and we were both young, in our 20s, and I just thought that we wouldn’t make it out of that.”
The Game feuded with G-Unit, and especially 50 Cent, in 2005 before the arrival of his major label debut, The Documentary. Fif apparently wasn’t happy that Game didn’t have his back in the feud with Fat Joe, Jadakiss and Ja Rule. He was kicked out of G-Unit in response, and there was an incident at the Hot 97 studio in NYC that resulted in someone from the Game’s crew getting shot. They later held a press conference to deescalate the situation, but they continued to feud up until 2016, when they finally put their issues to rest.
“The thing about it is, I didn’t give a fuck, because I hated that n***a so much for trying to play me,” Game continued. “And again, Biggie and Pac, this shit is real. It’s real. I know 50. He ain’t playing, he’s for real. SI was ready to literally go all the way out. But I went to this man’s house, ripped a basketball rim off, peed in his grass, went to Queens [and] put a G-Unot banner on the side of a project building… I was serious, man.”
He said that while the Hot 97 shootout made headlines, he said there were more incidents on both coasts. “It just so happened that we made it out of that, you know, without being hit,” he said. “But people got shot and people died in that beef. You know what I’m saying? And it’s like, we’re here now, and we can talk about it. Game and 50 made it out, but n***as died. Like, people died in that beef. It was that serious. And I thought it would be me and him. Me or him.”