This is the fifth single from 50 Cent's fourth studio album, Before I Self Destruct. The rapper told MTV News it is favorite track on the album.
The song deals with breaking up and the ending of relationships. 50 Cent told MTV News about the track: "So many people are gonna I.D. with it. The 55 percent of people that have been married and divorced are gonna identify with it. I was writing about the difference of how it felt when it was only about money once it got down to me dealing with the child-support situation. The friendship we had was forgotten. I believe people invest in each other and it's never even when you're in a relationship - one person is loving harder than the other. When the expectations aren't being met, they kinda resent the other party. A lot of times they don't go from being boyfriend and girlfriend or to getting engaged or being married back to being friends. They kinda gotta part ways from each other because one still has feelings and one is ready to move on."
The artwork for Before I Self Destruct shows a close-up of 50 Cent with charred, burning flesh spreading across his scowling face and underneath, there's a fiery skull. "The album cover, I sat there and thought about it," 50 explained to MTV News: "I wanted to do something that was completely different than I've ever done. The Curtis album, I was pretty close in the camera when I done it. I felt it was intimate. This project is even more [intimate], but it's harder. I didn't sugarcoat things. My imperfections are visible on there. I'm in a secure enough space. It's a huge gape in hip-hop. There ain't no middle ground. You're either here or you're there. To create the middle ground, the guys that have been up here gotta come down and bring everybody to the forefront where they seen. That's what this is actually about."
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