According to Snoop Dogg, he and 50 Cent have occasionally provided financial support to needy Hip Hop pioneers.
The renowned West Coast rapper recently shared his opinions regarding Rakim and Scarface receiving grant money during Hip Hop 50 celebrations last year during an appearance on the All the Smoke podcast.
Around 7:20 in the show, he added, “You have to take care of your own, you have to set an example.” “We carry it out in privacy. I’ve done it for a number of years with artists who have required both material and financial assistance.
“For me, it’s not a public matter. I won’t claim to have assisted him. However, it is what was intended to happen when they did that in public.
“Respect your elders because you making all this money — not that you have to — but if you love this rapper and respect this rapper, you see he’s down on his luck, he may need some money but he has pride,” he continued, addressing the “young generation.” He used to be you, therefore he can’t even ask you.
However, you possess enough manhood to declare, “Unc, I’m going to throw you something.” Together, 50 Cent and I have called a number of our old friends and put bags on them. And O.G. was like, “Oh no, dude.” We’re not here to listen to that garbage. We are aware that you require it. Here we go, n-gga.
“That’s what it gotta be!” he said. However, that’s who 50 and I are as a couple. While I can’t speak for everyone, I can mention an O.G. who both he and I appreciate because we’ve had a few encounters with each other. I don’t have to name the individual or individuals.
However, [50] feel as I do. I put it in if it’s an O.G. who needs it, is down, and doesn’t know how to ask for it. Occasionally, they say, “Oh, fifty just.” And I think, “Damn, he got there before me.”
Scarface and Rakim were the first to receive a $500,000 grant from the Paid In Full Foundation in October. At the Hip Hop Grandmaster Awards presented by the foundation in November in Las Vegas, the two MCs received honors.
Ben Horowitz, co-founder of the venture capital firm Andreesen Horowitz, and his wife Felicia organized the event alongside Nas.
Horowitz has long been acquainted with Nas, having invested early in the lyric annotation website Genius (formerly known as Rap Genius).
Music executive Steve Stoute first made the Paid In Full Foundation and Grandmaster Awards announcements on a Rap Radar podcast episode.
“My wife Felicia Horowitz and I, Ben Horowitz, Fab 5 Freddy, QD3, and myself, we have a fund, a charity called Paid In Full,” he stated. “And on November 17, we are paying tribute to individuals who have shaped culture but have not been compensated financially for their contributions.
“And we’re providing these folks who we think were contributors but didn’t get what they deserved with significant financial support—half a million dollars—as well as health care.”
In addition to not disclosing information about the health care provided, Stoute did not clarify in the interview whether Scarface and Rakim would receive $500,000 apiece, if that amount would be divided equally between them, or if it was the total amount of the grant that would be distributed to several recipients over a period of years.