No (lyrical) shots fired. Everyone wanted to know if 50 Cent was
trying todis Jay-Z on
his new mixtape track"Flight
187."The
G-Unit mastermind spoke to MTV exclusively and said there's no beef, just
observation.



"It was the glasses," 50
explained about why he compared Hov to sitcom character Steve Urkel. "They
saw the glasses. I didn't Photoshop glasses on him. I think Jay is really
conscious of his actual moves. He does those things to make a statement in
different ways to create clarity that he doesn't have to be the way people want
him to be. He can do what he wants. But [I wrote the song] out of the
perspec

Fif also noted that he mentioned Britney Spears and even
members of his own musical family on the song, but everyone gravitated toward
the Hov line because Blueprint 3 has a
huge buzz.



"I even wrote, 'Em made me a star and Dre
is taking a long time to mix my records. I gotta talk to Jimmy [Iovine] about
it.' I wrote about Britney Spears. I said a lot of interesting things on the
record, but they focus on Jay because his album is releasing. Of course, with
those marketing dollars being spent, he's the focus. The new XXL, there's about
40 pages of Jay-Z on there. That boy is serious when it comes to his [album]
layout. ... When it comes time for him to have companies market and promote him
as a brand, he does a great job.