"Where was Jay Z from 2003 to 2006? I sold 23 million records from 2003 to 2006," 50 Cent said in a recent interview. "He stopped making music. He said, ‘I quit. We’ll get back to what we got later. I quit. Timeout. I’ll come back to play later.’ When he signed that Beyonce contract he was like ‘men lie, women lie, numbers don’t.'"
50 Cent, who worked with UGK in 1998 on "As The World Turns," also addressed Jay Z's UGK collaboration "Big Pimpin'."
“After I had got shot, Jay did ‘Big Pimpin” with UGK. I don’t know where he got the idea from,” 50 Cent said.
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