Tony Yayo has a laundry list of rappers he feels are "phony."
And unlike his G-Unit partner Young Buck, Yayo says he’s jumping
headfirst into the 50 Cent/ Cam’ron beef.
"I don’t believe Cam’ron, I don’t believe Jim Jones,
I don’t believe Lil Wayne, I don’t believe Baby,
I don’t believe Game and I don’t believe Fat Joe,"
he said via phone on Friday while shopping with 50 Cent’s son, Marquis, in Bel
Air, California. "I feel like Cam’ron is a peon," he continued. "Let’s
ask the general public: When is the last time Cam’ron made a f—ing hit? It’s
time for these n—as to pay the piper."
Expect Yayo to give his take on the Diplomats in song on his new mixtape Finally
Off Paper, the title to which is an homage to his probation being over. He calls
the mixtape a "F-you to all my parole officers who got on my nerves."
As it so happens, G-Unit and the Diplomats performed at the same concert late
last year in Long Island, New York. Yayo confirms that he did mock Jones when
they passed each other in the hallway. He yelled "borrrin’," making
fun of Jones’ now-patented "balllin’ " ad lib. "I mean, I wouldn’t
say it started," he said, describing the animosity between the two camps.
"I did say ‘borrrin’,’ I’m not gonna lie. Rap is a competitive sport and
I play around with it. Sometimes dudes catch feelings, sometimes they don’t.
Me, I don’t understand these dudes. These dudes reach out on the phone and try
to call people. After that incident, Jim, he reached out to Buck. This is what
Buck tells me: Jim Jones reaches out to Buck and was trying to tell Buck to
get me on the phone. I don’t do the phone thing. I don’t need none of these
rap n—as to be my friends. My best friend sells the most records and makes
the most money … I’ve seen checks for $5.5 million that 50 is generating monthly
just from [his partnership with] Vitamin Water.
"250,000," he continued, referring to the number of copies Jones’
Hustler’s P.O.M.E. (Product of My Environment) has sold so far. "That is
not a successful album under our roster. Jim was trying to reach out to me,
reach out through other people from the street, but I never accepted his call.
He gets on radio and says, ‘Yayo, you’s a immigrant. So you disrespecting every
Haitian on the planet.’ [Note: Jones’ quote is from a Web site, not a radio
station]. So he played himself like that. I’m like, ‘These dudes is fools.’
Jim Jones cannot f— with me creatively. You can’t be serious. Cam’ron, none
of them can f— with me creatively, and I got more money than them. I can call
50 right now and borrow $5 million dollars. It’s not a problem."
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