Authorities and 50 believe that McGriff planned the 2000 shooting, in which
the Queens rapper was hit nine times. A 2003 search warrant affidavit for Murder
Inc.’s Manhattan offices claimed that McGriff was plotting to kill 50 and that
he “communicates with Murder, Inc. employees concerning the target.” In a document,
IRS agent Francis Mace wrote, “McGriff is tracking 50 Cent’s whereabouts through
his network of associates.”

Apparently McGriff’s associates sent him surveillance reports to pager provided
to him by Murder Inc. the label later changed its name to The Inc. One report
sent by Chris Lorenzo, said that 50 was in his old Queens neighborhood. “50
is in the hood Guy R. Brewer!” Reports say McGriff based his criminal operations
near Guy R. Brewer Boulevard. The affidavit written by agent Mace also cites
50 as refusing to discuss his own shooting, but agreeing to be questioned about
the October 2002 murder of Jason “Jam Master Jay” Mizell of Run-D.M.C. Investigators
were probing whether the legendary DJ was murdered for opposing the “blacklist”
of his former prot