50 Cent Admits He ‘Studied’ Snoop Dogg’s Doggystyle — And Says It Changed Everything
50 Cent just revealed he didn’t just listen to Doggystyle — he studied it.
Every flow. Every bounce. Every move.
He says Snoop’s debut was so flawless, it became a blueprint — not just for sound, but for how to dominate a rap era.
One album. One influence. One lesson most fans never noticed.
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50 Cent Says He ‘Studied’ Snoop Dogg’s Debut LP ‘Doggystyle’: ‘Sh*t Was So Good’
The rapper confirmed that Snoop Dogg’s first album was a major influence. 
50 Cent confirmed Snoop Dogg’s story that the Get Rich Or Die Tryin’ artist called him an influence.
On Tuesday (Nov. 18), Fif reposted a video that showed Snoop visiting Sirius XM in 2018. During the interview with DJ Suss One, Snoop recalled Fifty calling his debut 1993 LP Doggystyle an inspiration.
“50 Cent told me out of his mouth he studied Doggystyle thoroughly before he did Get Rich or Die Tryin’,” Snoop said around the 11-minute mark of the video below. “So that says it all right there, that me putting the foundation just like Dr. Dre and DOC, seeing them put the foundation down for me, there’s gotta always be somebody to show you how to do it and then you do it your own special way.
“The way I was doing it was influential to 50 to where he was seeing some shit that was like, ‘Oh, this is how I will do my shit but from a New York point of view,'” Snoop continued.
In an Instagram post, the G-Unit founder agreed with Snoop, who was also discovered and signed by Dr. Dre.
“He ain’t lying I studied that Doggy Style album,” Fif captioned the post. “The shit was so good if you didn’t listen to it you couldn’t make the right creative choices [shrugging emoji].”
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The rappers would go on to collaborate on multiple songs, including Fifty’s 2003 single “P.I.M.P.,” and more recently, the Dr. Dre-produced “Gunz n Smoke,” which also features Eminem.
In an interview with Complex published last December, Snoop shared that his intention while recording his landmark 1993 album was to be “free” despite “going through some legal things at the time.”
“So my focus was just trying to be the dopest rapper that I can be,” he explained at the time. “Me and Dr. Dre was having so much fun drinking gin in the studio, mixing and mingling. I was in the moment. It wasn’t about importance, none of that shit. I was just a young rapper following his direction, just like I’m an old rapper following his direction.”
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