50 Cent Says Lil Wayne's "Lollipop" Is Just Like "Candy Shop"

50 Cent digs Lil Wayne, but he can't help but notice the similarities between Weezy's 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 'I'll take you to the Candy Shop/ I'll let you lick the lollipop.'"

Rip-off or not, 50 is no longer spinning Wayne's track — or any other rappers', for that matter. ""I'm not really listening to anyone else's records," he says, adding that his new album, Before I Self-Destruct, will drop by the end of the year. "Now I'm in another space where I gotta make what I'm 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 I've 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."

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“Smells Like Teen Spirit”

Nirvana | 1991

"Smells Like Teen Spirit," named after a brand of deodorant marketed to girls, was Kurt Cobain's attempt to "write the ultimate pop song," he said, using the soft-loud dynamic of his favorite band, the Pixies. Cobain "had that dichotomy of punk rage and alienation," the song’s producer, Butch Vig, told Rolling Stone, "but also this vulnerable pop sensibility. In 'Teen Spirit,' a lot of that vulnerability is in the tone of his voice." Sadly, by the time of Nirvana's last U.S. tour, in late '93, Cobain was tortured by the obligation to play "Teen Spirit" every night. "There are many other songs that I have written that are as good, if not better," he claimed.

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