Straight from the Source by Kim Osorio

Author:Kim Osorio
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published: 2008-07-15T00:00:00+00:00

The next morning it was hard to believe that I had gone home the night before because I swear I was sitting in the same exact spot looking at the same exact story. My two-way started ringing with the latest Just Blaze–produced alert when I noticed a message from a not-so-common messenger: “50 is saying he slept with you. Handle that.”

It was from Tracii McGregor, and I didn’t know whether it was an accusation, a friendly warning, or an order.

I didn’t know where, when, or to whom he had said it, but I knew if I sweat trying to get the information, I would look guilty. I thought about what I would say for about five minutes before I typed out my response. “He would say something like that.” It was ambiguous enough not to be an admission and honest enough not to be a lie. First, Eminem name-drops me in a record, with some not so flattering comments, I might add. And now 50 was kiss-and-telling, probably to an audience.

A few weeks later, I was at Lil’ Kim’s video shoot for “Jumpoff,” the first single from her album La Bella Mafia. Her team was pushing for a 5 Mic rating. It was a solid album, but most of the staff felt it fell short of a classic. The album also, ironically, featured a cameo from 50 Cent on a song called “Magic Stick,” which I knew was originally written for Trina. 50 had called me a few weeks after we left Puerto Rico and asked me to listen to a song he’d written.

“Listen to this duet I just wrote. It’s real explicit, but I want to put it on my album.” I was at a dinner with friends when 50 called, so I could barely hear him singing. “I got the magic stick…I know if I could hit once, I could hit twice… Then the chorus is gonna be me and Trina going back and forth… I am the baddest bitch… You like it? I just wrote it.”

“Uh. Yeah, it sounds dope,” I said, though I hated hearing anyone rap a cappella. Truth be told, if you wanted my opinion, then it would have been wiser to play the beat, but 50 constantly ran his songs by me right after he wrote them. I was starting to feel like a focus group. Knowing that “baddest bitch” was a moniker for Miami-based rapper Trina, I thought it was odd when I heard Lil’ Kim on it a few months later. It was actually a peace offering made by 50 after he dissed Lil’ Kim in a verse while performing in Puerto Rico, I read somewhere. But I was starting to understand 50 better. He dissed Kim, but turned right around and did business with her when he needed to. It was business, not personal, and that’s when I realized that everything that had happened between us was all business to him too.

At the video shoot, DJ Clue caught me off

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