Shyne-–-“Messiah”

New Music: Shyne “Unthinkable Freestyle” (download link)

Alicia Keys Ft Shyne-Unthinkable (Remix).mp3

**There are some warning shots in Shyne’s verse: “I need a couple million, f–k 50 Cents”**

Mikey: The best Shyne verses I’ve heard since his release… (props Mr X)

MissInfo: I’m sure 50 just popped a bottle somewhere in Lithuania.

For a refresher course on why Shyne is dissing 50 cent, let’s look back to around 2004,
details after the jump…

Here’s an excerpt from Shaheem Reid and John Norris’ MTVNews story:

“You hear me, he’s a kid to me,” Shyne said of 50. “He’s like a little dude. In here we call them ‘my little homies.’ “

“For the Record” is retaliation for a freestyle 50 did last year on Funkmaster Flex’s Hot 97 New York radio show. In a lyrical tirade, 50 went off on Shyne and Lil’ Kim, among others, rapping, “I heard Irv trying to sign Shyne, so I don’t got no love for him/ Tell him 50 said he’s soft, he won’t shoot up the club again.”

“I was just falling back, then I got word he said something he wasn’t supposed to say,” Shyne explained. “It’s one thing if he would have said it and stood by it; ‘That’s what I said, you have a problem, whatever!’ But he said it and at the same time he was trying to sign me to G-Unit Records. There’s an interlude where Sha Money is calling me, ‘Yo, 50 wants you to sign to G-unit.’ He’s reaching out to all my sets [in the street] trying to sign me to G-Unit. [50] used to rap about me before he got big. He tried to do a song with me, so he knows who I be.”

Shyne went on to say there could not be real beef between him and 50 because he thought 50 was “a joke” and he did not take him seriously. According to the Brooklyn, New York, rhyme slinger, even if 50 responds, “For the Record” is the last he’ll speak on him. A spokesperson for 50 had no comment.