Saigon recently spoke on his relationship with 50 Cent despite past comments by Jay-Z questioning the rapper’s bad guy image, the Saigon said Fif has maintained his street credibility.

According to Saigon, he had a close relationship with 50 prior to the rap star’s $100 million VitaminWater deal in 2007.

“Sha Money XL introduced me to 50 early in his career,” Saigon revealed in an interview. “We sat down and chopped it up. I was actually G-Unit‘ed out at one point. I was running around screaming that sh*t and all that. Like ‘G-unit n*gga!’ ’cause me and Fif chopped it up…But we had a falling out, we both Cancers — so as far as us being alpha-males, it’s hard to co-exist around that n*gga. A lot of times it’s his way or the highway. We kinda bumped heads, early…He never attempted, I never attempted to fix it. But to see him succeed, I kinda felt like I was succeeding…That n*gga Fif was like us, he’s a goon, he’s in the street, he wasn’t no studio gangsta n*gga. He was a real n*gga, so for him to make it outta that — seeing him make it out of that was kinda like gratification for me in a weird way…Sha Money is my manager now and Sha Money still works with Fif and if Fif ain’t want that to go down, it wouldn’t happened.” (Rap Radar)