Maino discusses his controversial past and feelings towards 50 Cent (Part 2)
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Transcript
Right. Mayno is definitely considered. Mayno made a name for himself very early on in his career by having problems and controversy with people in the music industry. And I think that in one, one light, like I look at it as this, he took a page out of 50 book for sure. When Mano came home, it was right around the time when 50 had just sold 10 million or 20 million records in two years. It was right around the time when G Unit was popping crazy. And Mayno is moving through the streets of New York like a rebel. Now, talking to Maino, now the man he is today, not saying that he necessarily regrets that, but he knows that he was wilding the out. You know what I'm saying? He know that he had a lot of fear instilled in the streets, in the music industry, and probably stopped a lot of bags for him. But I feel like on that podcast, Maino is possibly the most outgoing person. He the one that's going to laugh and joke and make fun or light of a lot of things that the other, you know, co host won't do. And I don't take nothing away from none of them. But that's just Mano's personality. The nigga likes to have fun and he don't take things too serious because he'd been through some serious situations. The did 10 years in prison and got cut twice while he was in there. So he been through it all. Lost a lot of niggas to the streets and all of that. But Mano, I always felt like his problem with 50 Cent stemmed from how people look at him versus his own personal profile when it comes to the streets. This is Maino talking about that. I think that he's a nice guy, and I think that somewhere along the line, like this character that he didn't build up for himself, that made me. I'm not sure if he started to believe it himself or people just allowed it to go so long that he is now becoming to believe that. You can't believe nothing on this side 100%, right? I respect you as a, A businessman. I respect you as a man, and I respect you for what you done done. Right? And what you done for the culture. But I don't know nothing about no gangster, bro. I don't know nothing about that. I don't, I don't. I'm a. You gotta, you gotta, you gotta show me that. So I don't. I don't know what this, this mystique and this, this, this, this, this, this information that, that I, I don't I don't know. So I just wanted to get that. All because we here now. I think he still wants to be your friend. I don't mind because I don't think that none of this is personal. But when people have this thing about. Oh, man, 50, he don't play. What do you mean? I know.