14 DAY TRIAL // The latest issue of XXL Magazine features two of the hottest rappers striking a pose together and sharing what they have in common: 50 Cent, with his face covered, and Soulja Boy talk haters and love of music.
Inside the issue with the two on the cover is a three-part cover story, excerpts from which have already emerged online. As it turns out, the two actually have a lot in common.
While the fact that Fiddy chose to pose with his face entirely covered by what looks like a white tee is getting a lot of media attention, what he and Soulja Boy have to share is also extremely interesting.
As it turns out, the two relate to each other by knowing what it’s like to be surrounded by a lot of haters, which means they respect each other’s work all the more.
In fact, if it weren’t for 50 Cent, there would be no Soulja Boy, Soulja Boy himself says. Also, if Fiddy could switch places with anyone, it would be Soulja Boy he’d pick.
“Being black with money, from the ‘hood, struggles and coming from nothing to something, of course you’re going to share the common struggles,” the younger rapper shares with the magazine.
“You going to have people hate. You going to have people that change on you, and all that. So of course, watching 50, and him going through what he did – if there wasn’t no 50 Cent, there would be no Soulja Boy,” he adds.
Not that he pays that much attention to what haters have to say though – at least, not in the sense that their words are keeping him up at night. Quite on the contrary, actually.
“I’ve been through a lot this year, and it’s nothing I expected. I just wanna rap, and I wake up and have some [expletive] on me, out the blue, every single day. But, really, all it does is feed my ego,” he says.
If haters’ words feed his ego, 50’s statement must have surely made his day, since the rapper claims he has so much respect for Soulja he would actually trade places with him.
“If I had the wish to be another artist, just for right now, it would be Soulja Boy,” he says in his part of the interview.
As for being hated, the rapper turned actor is more confident when people doubt him than when he has everything going on smoothly for him.
“I’m more comfortable in a space where people are doubting me than when I’m the favorite. They doubted me before. Obviously, I was the only crazy person that believed in me at one point,” he says.