50 Cent's grandmother Beulah Jackson passed away last week, and the G-Unit rapper decided to pay tribute to her in an interview with Revolt.
"She's bought every record that I've ever had sell commercially," 50 said while trying to fight back tears. "And it's still got the plastic on it. She don't listen to 50 Cent. That ain't really her vibe. She'd buy it to support me on the week of the actual release. She'd go to the store and buy the actual... it was an event for her."
50 also posted an Instagram memorial on Tuesday with the following message:
My angel (Beulah Jackson) God has blessed me with letter her see me win. She was proud of me, now how i see my self is all that matters.
He and the rest of the G-Unit crew were in Vegas last weekend to play at the iHeartRadio festival.
The gang is releasing its second EP in two months this October (The Beast Is G-Unit will follow August's The Beauty of Independence) after reuniting at Summer Jam in May.
"The music has changed. The production has changed," 50 told Billboard. "We're going to start using some of the usual suspects for hits, at the present moment. [Fans] are going to feel the new energy connected to it."
But don't think 50 has high expectations for album sales.
"You know what you have to do to sell a million records now?" he asked. "My first album sold 13 million records...If the chart mattered now, I'd quit. Compared to that period, you can forget about it. The album [of mine] to sell the worst was the Curtis record, and Em just sold [for 2013's The Marshall Mathers LP 2, currently No. 30 on the chart] what I sold the first week on that album."
