The Game recently appeared on Matt Barnes and Stephen Jackson’s All the Smoke podcast, which premiered last Friday (May 27) on YouTube, and briefly reminisced about his past feud with 50 Cent and G-Unit. The Compton, Calif. rhymer revealed that he was paid $1 million to stop saying “G-Unot” because it was diminishing sales of Fif’s apparel line G-Unit clothing.
“Lotta people don’t know this, [but] 50 and Jimmy Iovine gave me $1 million to stop saying G-Unot,” he recalled during the interview. “They wrote me a check, they bought it. I had to trademark the G-Unot. And you remember when I was going around with the rat and doing all that shit, that shit hurt–killed G-Unit.”
“You stopped seeing the candy- tank tops and all that shit. All that, the whole G-Unit/Mark Ecko, the shoes, that shit died,” he continued. “That shit was a hot commodity at once, G-Unit clothing. Niggas was wearing the sweats, headbands, the masks, everything. That shit died, bro. So they had to pay me. I should have asked for more but them niggas gave me a million. But I’m a hood nigga, a million dollars to stop saying this word? Where’s the check? They wrote the check and I stopped saying it.”
Watch The Game’s full interview with All the Smoke podcast below. Fast-forward to the one-hour mark to hear The Game talk about getting paid to stop saying “G-Unot.”
