Recalling What Happened Between Destiny’s Child, 50 Cent, & Tony Yayo
During a recent interview with VladTV, Tony Yayo revealed that he along with 50 pulled up to a studio session with some friends from Brooklyn. However, it wasn’t long until their thugged-out crew became a bit too much for Bey and co.
Yayo didn’t say when the studio session took place but that it was around the time that 50 worked with Destiny’s Child on his Power of the Dollar track “Thug Love” in 1999. Their was a music video planned to be shot for the single, however things would change after 50 was shot nine times just three days before filming started.
“It was a whole bunch of Brooklyn n-ggas, us in there and the Trackmasters, one of them n-ggas came in there and was like, ‘Yo, we thugging them out,’” Yayo recalled. “This was when they was Destiny’s Child, the first time. They had that song, ‘A thug’s what I want,’ that’s 50 and Beyoncé.
“50 always liked the Brooklyn n-ggas ’cause back then, the Brooklyn n-ggas wouldn’t care … Them n-ggas would get on a train with the hammers. Brooklyn n-ggas, they fresh and fly like a muthafucka, but back then it was the grimy Brooklyn in the ’90s, like scars on their face, big ass .357. ‘Yeah, I need to rob a n-gga.’”
This wasn’t 50’s first incident involving a member of Destiny’s Child. Earlier this month during an interview with The Breakfast Club, 50 recalled the time that the Queen Bey herself pressed him in Las Vegas while he was greeting JAY-Z. Bey was under the impression that 50 was trying to intimidate her then-boyfriend.
Yayo went on to claim that Bey jumped down from a window ledge and was “ready” to throw hands with the “Many Men” rapper. Yayo also admitted that the whole issue caught him completely off-guard.
“She was on, like, a window sill. We was in Vegas,” he recalled. “She jumped out, she was like [pulls confrontational face]. And I’m like, ‘Wait, what is you doing? That’s me and JAY-Z’s stuff, this ain’t got nothing to do with you, girl.’
“She jumped off the ledge. I was like, ‘Oh, shit!’ I didn’t really know what to do. It was one of those situations where you were like, ‘Woah!’ If you say this to Jay, he’ll look at you and go, ‘Nah, that happened.’”
Yayo continued: “She came like she was ready! Like something was gonna happen! And I’m like, ‘Woah, woah, woah.’ She throwing me off now ’cause I don’t know exactly how to respond to this. You are still Beyoncé. She brought all of the sexy over with that energy jumping off.
“I look at Jay and he go [laughs]. Nah, he’ll tell you … I said, ‘Yo, alright. Whatever.’ ‘Cause really I’m just saying what’s up. But she’s feeling my energy come over because we do say things about each other — it’s a competitive nature, that’s it!”
