U Not Like Me (50 Cent) The Play It Loud Podcast S3E8 | Now Ya Talking Network

 In this episode, host J.Solo dives deep into the iconic 2002 anthem "You're Not Like Me" by 50 Cent. This song is more than just a hip-hop classic - it's a declaration of independence, a celebration of individuality, and a testament to the power of staying true to oneself. J.Solo breaks down the lyrics, explores the themes of self-empowerment and uncomfortability, and examines how the song's message still resonates with listeners today. He shares his personal connection to the track, recounting how it became an anthem for his high school experience and beyond. Through insightful questions and personal anecdotes, the episode encourages listeners to reflect on their own experiences with overcoming physical and emotional pain, dealing with dark thoughts, and pursuing their passions authentically. The discussion touches on the complex notion of everything happening for a reason, and how to reconcile with difficult life experiences. Whether you're a longtime fan of 50 Cent or new to his music, this episode of the Play It Loud podcast offers a deep dive into the cultural significance and enduring impact of "You're Not Like Me." Join J.Solo as he celebrates this iconic hip-hop track and the power of individuality.

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You got shot and run to the cops. You're not like me. You ain't got no work on the block. You're not like me. It's hot and you ain't got no drop. You're not like me. Like me. Duke. You're not like me. What up, y'all? It's your boy jsolo. And welcome back to another episode of the Play IT Loud podcast, where lyrics meet life. Today, we diving into the $0.50 iconic anthem, you not like me. Released in 2002, this song is more than just a hip hop classic. It's a declaration of independence, a celebration of individuality, and a testament to the power of staying true to oneself. Join me as I break down the lyrics, explore the themes of self empowerment and uncomfortability, and examine how this song message still resonates with us today. Let's go. Before we get into the lyrics and the questions for the episode, I just want to talk a little bit about this song and this album, man. It's definitely one of my favorites. 50, uh, cent is my guy. If you've been tuned in, you know, I quote him and mention him a lot through the podcast. That is my guy, man. 50 cent is my guy. Got him back here on the back. Drop. Get rich or die trying. When this came out, man, I was in high school. This song had a hold on me and a lot of people from my generation, man, like, I ain't even live a life of crime or nowhere experience any of this stuff that he been through in his life, through his journey. But it just resonated with me so much, man. Like, this song, this is like an anthem to my whole high school experience in my life from 2003 all the way up to my current life now, man. So shout out to get rich or die trying. Definitely one of my personal favorite albums, man. And this song specifically is one of my personal favorites off the album. You're not like me. What up, y'all? It's your boy jsollo here. Just want to let y'all know we're on the naya talking network, on Facebook, Instagram, and now on TikTok. Make sure y'all, like, share, subscribe, comment, have engagement so we can continue these conversations. Again. It's your boy Jsolo. It's the play it loud podcast out. The first line that stand out to me was opens up the song. NYPD, LAPD, NYPD. When it's song, that's who you get. Huh? Um. Uh, 50 is definitely always known for the catchy hooks and the choruses. Man, that's what made them stand out with the gritty lyrics. That's one of the opening lines that carry the song all the way through. NYPD, LAPD, NYPD. Let's get into the next line. Hey, yo, you think about 50? Save it. My songs belong in the Bible with King David's, man. Y'all used to be talking about 50 had no balls. Y'all still say 50 ain't had no balls? Boy, he used to be quoting that Bible. He had some tough lines back in this era, dog. Give my boys credit. What's something you proud of accomplishing that you feel deserves recognition? I think anything that I do that's outside of the normal that everybody else does, I feel like I should get some kind of recognition for it. Not saying that I need it, but I appreciate some recognition, man. Cause I do a lot, man, from my barbecue business that I started to my carrier business that I operate, to this podcast shoot, man, even co creating my kids, I feel like I need recognition on how they getting raised and brung up. I don't need it, but I appreciate some of that recognition. Give me some recognition, man. You know what I'm saying? Even though we don't ask for it all the time, a pat on the back for somebody, that won't hurt, you know what I'm saying? I packed my damn self. But I think anything that's outside the norm, that people take a chance and risk, give them some recognition. Say, I see what you're doing. I like what you're doing. I teach niggas sign language that ain't deaf, son. You heard that? That mean run. Man, I remember quoting this line up and down the hallways of plant high school. Mandy, this all had us in the chokehold. I ain't even. I've never lived a life of crime like this. It just had us in the chokehold. Shout out to 50. Have you ever had to teach someone a lesson or show them a different perspective? How did you approach it? So I definitely had to teach somebody in a similar fashion to how 50 said in the line. Definitely had to go get the, uh, the kick clack and put it on somebody, man, and not glorifying it. But I say this about it don't always be the hero or first to rescue for somebody going off. He say, she say and words. And people with attitudes and heated situations don't always be the run, the one to put the fire out and be the one to help somebody save the day, because I did that. And the situation wasn't even true. It was a lie. They were saying to cover they self on something they did they ain't had no business doing. Get the facts, find out what happened. Because that situation could have totally been different, and I wouldn't be here in front of this camera on this microphone telling you my story and experiences. Cause, boy, that dude was shook. And I seen it in his face and his eyes that he was telling the truth. And then we all came out. It was a lie. Somebody trying to cover their lies in situation, man. So don't always be the first one with the click clack. That means run from the last shootout. I got a dimple on my face is nothing. I can go at the Mace fan base. Y'all don't understand, man. You had to be there. I'm sitting up here with a bulletproof vest, do rag with the fitted hat. You just had to be there, man. This line was so tough. I've never been shot in the face. Hopefully. I've never experienced getting shot in the face. That's just a hard line. For my last shootout. I got a dimple on my face is nothing. I can still go at the Mace fan base. Boy, that's confidence right there. Uh, man, holding on to past conflicts or injuries can shape our perspectives and actions. What's something that's left a lasting impact on you? And how has it influenced your approach to relationships or challenges? So, as a kid, I remember a lot of people used to bother me. Cause I didn't say a lot. I used to just chill and observe what was going on. And I remember a lot of things from back in the day. A lot of sucker activity they used to go on from a lot of adult people and people that was older than me. And I think I inherited a lot of hate and jealousy from my parents. To this day, I think I still hold a lot of that trauma, uh. Cause I think that's what made me a, uh, people watcher. I do not accept any and everybody as friends. Don't just bring random people around me or people that I care about. Don't just bring nobody random. Like, introduce me to these people before I meet the people. I'm that type of guy. Like, if I'm having a party or I'm going somewhere and there's gonna be somebody there that's not part of the regular circle or regular gatherings, please give me the heads up. I don't want you to feel obligated to go out of your way to let me know about these people. But, like, I would appreciate that if you did. Cause I ain't trying to be around no sucker activity, nobody. That's, you know what I'm saying, going left and with all the slick jokes and talking and all that. Cause I really ain't. I ain't got the tolerance for it. Cause I already know these people. I recognize the foolishness and the hate that's disguised as a joke. Please don't bring these people around me. I think I've been scarred. Let's get it to the next line. Definitely the most standout line on this song. Shell hit my jaw, I ain't wait for doc to get it out. Hit my wisdom tooth, I spit it out. Fifth is the originator of the hutu. It's not the little country, little white girl that's going around making all this money on stage and podcasts and interviews. Man, 50 is the originator of the hot tub, and he ain't gotta put no pause on it. Can you recall a time when you overcome physical or emotional pain? This question is similar to the one before, but I share my physical pain. Um, I remember I broke my nose in high school basketball. Somebody came down, elbow broke me right on my nose. Ever since then, I don't like people close to my face. Like, please don't come all up in my face, dog. Like, I physically start clenching up, balling up my fists when people start getting close to my nose, because that is still sensitive to this day. Please don't come up on me like that, man. The most traumatic one recently, when I had cancer in my left leg. Sarcoma. Cancer. Shout out to all the survivors out there, man. Any form of cancer. Shout out to all the survivors. It is some of the worst pain and experiences you ever witness in your life. Fortunately, I didn't have to have chemo or nothing like that. They was able to just cut it out and clean the bone tissue and sew everything back up. But I still received nerve damage from that, uh, surgery. The emotional pain that I got from it, though. I didn't receive any jokes about my leg and cancer. Well, I didn't receive any of those jokes. Well. Shout out to my boy Shan. He was, like, only the one few that landed well. He said, uh, the song never gonna dance again, that was pretty funny. But far as the other jokes that I heard and people trying to be funny about it, nah uh, I didn't take it too well, man. I don't smile a lot. Cause ain't nothing pretty. Got a purple heart for war, and I ain't never left the city. That line was so tough. Dawg you had to be there. You had to be there. Forget Richard trying. What's something that makes you feel self conscious or insecure? And how did you work to overcome it? So I shout out my dad on this one. Uh, shout out to all the dads out there, man. Shout out to both of my parents, really. We don't really. All the self conscious insecurities and all that. We didn't really grow up with all that. It was kind of my mom hate when I said it was kind of tough love. Nobody really got time for the pity party, man. You better get over that. Get back on your feet and make it happen. We ain't got time for all this. Sitting here with the self pity and all that. You got 24 hours. Lick your wounds. Process it as you moving forward. You got fat. While we starve. It's my turn. I, uh, done felt how them shells burn. I still won't learn. Uh, I hate the term hard headed, because I think that's just a misuse of. I'm just finna do it my way. I don't think that's hard headed. I just got to see it through. My boy. Have you ever felt like you were struggling while others around you were thriving? How did you handle it? So, I used to take this situation personal, not far as the struggling part, but just, like, if somebody I knew personally that was in my circle, if they came up on something and they didn't tell me about it, matter of fact, I still take this personal. I scratched that. I still take this personal. If you in my close circle and you done came up on something and you ain't told me nothing, I'm taking that personal, man, because I'm open with the information. If I come across something and I feel like somebody in my immediate circle can come up or benefit off of it just as much as me, I'm passing the information now, stipulations, I got to see it through first. That way, I know it works, because I definitely don't want to be on the other end of putting you on the information too early. Come to find out it ain't even what it was, because, uh, I done been on that before, too. But, like, to answer the question, though, if I feel like you, for me, you and my squad, you don't tell me about to come up, dog. I'm taking that personal, dog. I'm, um, taking it personal. Well, you tell me, man. I ain't got to tell you everything. You got your own family. You tell me that we might still be cool, but it ain't gonna never be the same no more. I'm gonna be like your guy that was in godfather. I got my own family. Senator. You ain't gotta worry about me giving you no more information about nothing. They got fat. While we starve, it's my turn. Mama said everything that happened to us was part of God's plan. So at night when I talked to him, I got my gun in my hand. And this word is being overused. Everybody just slang. I love slang. I use slang. Slang is a part of hip hop culture and all that. But, like, sometimes words that got some real strong, definite meaning are, uh, getting turned into slang words. This right here to me, is a diabolical line. Everybody is overusing diabolical. Some people don't even have the wherewithal or the insight to be diabolical. Hitler was diabolical. You telling me somebody on Instagram posted a funny, uh, meme about something that was dark? It's diabolical. It's not. It's not the same thing. It's not the same thing, dog. Do you believe that everything happens for a reason? And how do you reconcile with that difficult experience? I go back and forth with this a lot. I believe some things happen for a reason, but I also feel like some people go out they way looking for things that happen to them. I don't know, man. It's definitely, uh, something difficult to come to terms with that everything happens for a reason. That means death. That means the good, the bad, the ugly. It all happens for a reason. I don't know, man. Let me know what y'all think. Does everything happen for a reason? Comment. If you listen to the audio version, there's a link where you can send us a text directly. We'll get back to you. If you listening on YouTube or any social media platform, comment below. Do you believe things happen for a reason? If so, put why. If not, put why? I just like to know. Cause I go back and forth with this a lot. Me personally don't think I'm crazy. Cause I don't fear a man. Cause I feel when I kill a man, God won't understand. I keep saying it. You had to be there for get rich or die trying, man. 50 at its peak. What's something that you're not afraid to stand up for or fight for? And why is it important to you? I have to ask God the same question. If I kill somebody for protecting my family and my kids, will you understand God? Would you understand? I don't know. If God is looking at this camera or this camera? God, would you understand? If I kill somebody for protecting my family and my kids, am I in the right? Will my sins be washed away? I got a head full of evil thoughts in my satan. I could have been killed. These niggas. I'm still waiting. That's tough, boy. That is tough. Have you ever struggled with dark thoughts or feelings, and how do you manage them? Whew. Uh. This is definitely not one of those questions where I can say, I think everybody deal with dark thoughts. If y'all been tuned in, man, y'all know I go dark sometimes, man. My thoughts just go left, and I think about the dark stuff. So I've definitely had dark thoughts and feelings where I just want to handle stuff in the most. I think this is the way to say diabolical. I just want to handle stuff in the most diabolical form, in the most diabolical way that I can. But I'm at a point now in life to where I think about the outcome, I think about the good, the bad. Will I be here for the people who need me? I just had a personal situation that I had to sweep up under the rug and cancel because I realized how it affect other people's feelings. So I was like, hmm, maybe I can't just handle this situation how I want to because it's causing harm and bad feelings to people that I care about. I just have to sweep that under the rug. And I can't go to the dark thoughts and handle it in the diabolical form. My forms are dealing with them. I go to the gun range, I shoot, and I put the face on the paper. I put my aggressive playlist on, and I listen to 50 cent guns come out. You're not like me. I put the grime and the gritty on so I can mentally get myself out of that head space, deal with it in my head, go to the gun range and deal with it in that matter. You see me in the hood, I got at least two guns. I carried a Glock Tony, carry my end won. So in my mind, I'm thinking, he's talking about the Tony that I know personally. So that's why this bar connects with it, man. Shout out to Willie Black. Shout out to you, my guy. We got our own podcast coming soon. It's going to be black and solo. We're going to be talking about current events, sports, alternate universes, a lot of different things. Make sure y'all tune in, man. Shout out to my boy, Willie Black. Question that go with this. What's something that makes you feel safe or protected. And why is it important to you? I am definitely a gun person. Get as much guns as you possibly can afford. Get the ammunition, learn. Get knowledge about the weapons, man. Learn how to handle the weapons. Learn how to shoot the weapons, learn how to aim, protect yourself. I am a gun guy to the core. Fell in love with the guns. About the age of eight, I found my parents gun under the bed. I thought it was my fake plastic revolver. It was the real deal. For some reason, I knew how to open it. I spent the thing, closed it back up, put it back under the bed, wiped my fingerprints off like I was a criminal and all that. Mandev, this is my hustle, nigga. Don't knock me. You need some sh. With a banana clip to try and stop me. I'm, um, the one you gonna need everything you got to try to stop me from pursuing my goals and what I'm trying to do. What's your passion? Or, uh, hustle? What drives you to pursue it? I think it's just embedded in me. Shout out to my parents again, man. They both hustlers. I witnessed them get up every day, go to work, get off work flipping something. They cutting grass. They selling this, they selling that. They appraising jury. They doing everything. I think it's just embedded. It took me to be a pure hustler, man. And you can't let nobody stop you from pursuing your dreams and goals of what you got planned, man. It's gonna take some shit with a banana club to try and stop me. See, I done been to the Pearly gates. They sent me back. They say the good die young. I ain't eligible for that, but that's tough, boy. 50 had some bars, man. 50 had some bars. Have you ever had a near death experience or wake up call? And how did you change your perspective? So let me address the bar first, because that good died young. I don't know about that. Cause, boy, I done seen some suckers dead early. I done seen some suckers dead early. And I done heard people say, man, you know, the good die young. I'm like, you talking about this guy? This is the guy y'all saying, dying young. Or, uh, did he go look for the trouble and he got what was coming to him? Did he get the things happen for a reason happened to him. Cause I done seen some suckers die young. Maybe it was just a sucker to me and good to somebody else. I don't really know about that good die young quote. No, more like that. Man. Uh, uh. Just me. But to answer the question, I think the closest to my near death experience, a, uh, wake up call, was again, my surgery that I had on my leg to get the cancer taken out, because that changed me totally. How I look at things, how I receive information, how I give information. It made me realize people don't even accept information. They just saying, yes, just because you're done talking. I take more priority over my time, how my time is spent. My new saying that I done came up with, if I say something and I'm, um, off a little bit, don't nickel and dime me, man. Don't nickel it. If I'm off a year or two or a couple minutes or something after I done said something, please don't nickel and dime me. Cause now you're wasting time that's not even worth spending correcting it. Don't nickel and dime me, man. See, the floor is like a 38 is special. Y'all a country boy tell you I'm finna blow. I think that's what made everybody think 50 was from the south. Tell my country boy, tell ya I'm fitting the blow, boy. That's something to south boy. We'll put Fenner on everything. Niggas broke in the hood worrying about mine. Grown ass man wearing startup kit shines. You know, them little pieces with the little stones. I got to say it again. You should have been there. You had to be there. If, uh, you can't go get the album, get the final, go back and try to put yourself in this world. I remember the starter kit shines. I remember going to the jewelry store, and that's literally what it say, starter kit pieces. I remember that dog. That was so funny back in the day, dog, uh, starter kit shines. Have you ever felt like you were pretending to be something you were not or trying to keep up with an appearance, and how did you handle it? Not really. This is really not me. With the starter kit shine. Uh, I don't think I really pretended to be something I'm not or try to keep up with the appearance to please somebody or, uh, just to show that I'm trying to keep up with the Joneses. I always try to do my own thing. That's just me. I go left when everybody going right. I really don't care. Keeping up with trends or trying to start a kid shines. I'm gonna go get the chain that I want if it just so happened to be the start of kids shine. That's what I'm rocking. I ain't trying to keep up with no appearances. None of that, man. I mean, to wrap this up, man. Hey, be yourself. Be authentic to you. Do what you like to do. Don't do what everybody else doing. Go left when people going right, people, uh, going right. Stay in the middle. Take some of that. Do your own version of it. Be yourself authentically, man, because that's what counts. People gonna remember you for being you. If you, not you, they gonna remember you for all. That's the dude that copied everybody. That's the girl that did this. That's the girl that copied that. Be you authentically you. It's gonna come with his ups and downs. People gonna judge you for being you. It is what it is, man. This is the end of the episode. I appreciate y'all for tuning in. It's your boy jsollo. It's the play aloud podcast. Make sure you follow us on. Now you're talking network, Facebook, Instagram, we're now on TikTok. Then now you're talking network. You'll see the play Aloud podcast. 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