Juvenile Claims He Helped 50 Cent Land His Life-Changing Eminem Deal
50 Cent and Eminem 
Juvenile revealed he helped connect 50 Cent with Eminem, claiming he played a key role in securing his life-changing Shady Records deal.

Juvenile claimed credit for a pivotal Hip-Hop career move, saying he played a key role in connecting 50 Cent with Eminem after the Queens rapper was nearly killed in a shooting.

During a conversation with Nyla Symone, Juvenile revealed he helped 50 Cent land his now-iconic Shady Records deal at a time when the industry had turned its back on him.

“I got 50 Cent his record deal with Eminem,” Juvenile said. “Ask 50, he’ll tell you, yeah, Juve was the one. 50 couldn’t really go to the studios at the time, and I was one of the first cats with a studio bus, so I let him record on my bus, him, [Tony] Yayo, and [Lloyd] Banks.”

The New Orleans rapper said he brought former G-Unit president Sha Money XL to a D12 video shoot in New York, where Eminem had invited him. At the time, 50 Cent was still recovering from being shot nine times and had trouble finding collaborators in the city.

“When I went over there with Sha Money, my first thing was telling him the type of music Em doing and the type of music 50 doing with the diss thing, it’s going to work if he go with him. And it worked,” Juvenile explained.

He also said 50 Cent acknowledged the assist in one of his books, though he didn’t mention which title.

50 Cent signed with Eminem’s Shady Records in 2002, a move that helped launch his debut album Get Rich or Die Tryin‘, which sold over 12 million copies worldwide and reshaped the Hip-Hop landscape.