50 Cent Says Lil Waynes Lollipop Is Just Like Candy Shop

9/5/08, 11:39 am EST

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50 Cent digs Lil Wayne, but he cant help but notice the similarities between Weezys summer smash Lollipop and his own 2005 hit Candy Shop. Lollipop is lick lick lick lick it like a lollipop, 50 told Rolling Stone, singing the verse to prove his point. And Candy Shop is Ill take you to the Candy Shop/ Ill let you lick the lollipop.

Rip-off or not, 50 is no longer spinning Waynes track or any other rappers, for that matter. Im not really listening to anyone elses records, he says, adding that his new album, Before I Self-Destruct, will drop by the end of the year. Now Im in another space where I gotta make what Im excited about.

50 is mum on the details of his new disc the last on his contract with Interscope Records but he promises to shake things up. [Other rappers] can take what Ive done for the last five years and do their version of it and be successful with momentum, he says. Meanwhile, I have to reinvent the wheel.