Growing up in Queens grants many the privilege of seeing a rapper grow from local unsigned artist to the top of the rap game. Case and point: 50 Cent. As the first signed to J. Cole’s Dreamville records, Bas talks about heading up to 164th Flavor in Queens for G-Unit and 50 Cent exclusives that dropped before “Get Rich or Die Trying.” Check it out after the jump.
In the interview with Vlad TV, Bas went on to say:
“The 50 wave hit when I was like a freshman in high school. At least the big wave. We were all familiar with 50 from like before he got shot. You know, Power Of The Dollar. All of those records, but he didn’t like blow up til Get Rich really. That wave just swept—It swept the boroughs so hard. It was just nonstop. We used to go to 164th Street and the Coliseum block on Jamaica Avenue. And we would just go down there. There was this spot 164th Flavor that would have all the G-Unit mixtapes. This was before like everything was on the internet really. So, you could actually go to the mixtape spot and really catch some exclusives. So, we used to go out there like every day after school religiously. Just trying to see what 50 was dropping or whatever was coming out of G-Unit.”
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