50 Cent explains his reaction to longtime manager and friend Chris Lighty's death.
As much as Chris Lighty's suicide has shocked the Hip Hop community as a whole, perhaps no one was more stunned that 50 Cent.
"I've worked with Chris the entire time," said 50 in an interview with Hot 97's Angie Martinez and DJ Enuff. "Since the actual mixtape run. Everything," added Fif, referring to his now-legendary takeover of Hip Hop in the early 2000s aided greatly by a slew of memorable mixtapes.
50 elaborated, explaining how Lighty's death made no sense to him. "I actually can't wrap the idea around my head of him shooting himself," said 50. "I don't have all of the information, so I don't want to point or say anything other than what's being said publicly but I don't believe that. Just 'cause of my personal interactions with him, he never gave any indication that was even possible."
50 also debunked reports that Lighty had a $5 million debt.
"The first thing I see is he owes $5 million. And he doesn't owe $5 million," explained 50. "I'm sure he doesn't actually owe $300,000, and he wasn't in a hurry to pay. It's not like vacation, and that there was a point vacation was being missed. That lifestyle is like 'Oh, I'll get to that when I get to that.' And away from that, when the $5 million bill was there, I gave him a million dollars. I loaned him a million dollars, and he paid me back, and the interest on that was another $200,000. So take that five, turn that into 6.2 and then it's down to 300,000 and there's no reason to do that over money. At that point you done took care of all of your bills. So none of it made any sense to me."