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After being the punching sack for weeks now, Kanye West decides to address what's going on between him and 50 Cent. The former has been dissing Kanye's choice of music in "808's & Heartbreak" and even publicly mocked his single "Love Lockdown" in a concert. Kanye tells his side of story.

"Just as a real human being, I can't say that it doesn't affect me," Kanye said in an interview with Bossip. "I was such a fan of 50. As much as people think that I look at myself, I think that me and Lil Wayne are very similar: Even though we believe in ourselves, we're very much fans of other rappers, too. Like how Game is, we really like other rappers. 50 is one of those rappers that I said was the end-all-be-all of what rap what supposed to be. Like, a true iconic rapper. "

50 said in radio interviews that "Heartbreak" is somehow an R&B album. He said, "I'm surprised he got away with it. That album is supposed to be a brick." He also impersonated Kanye's style of rapping at an Albany concert by singing to the beat of "Love Lockdown" before stopping and said "You see that. That's what you're stuck with. I'm willing to accept your apologies for that last one."

This has been speculated as 50's way of promoting his own album "Before I Self Destruct" which will be in stores within a couple of months. However, Kanye said that the feud stemming from their 2007 showdown when their albums were released on the same day and huge stakes were thrown, brought rather good results for them. "Graduation" and "Curtis" raised above 500,000 copies mark.

Kanye continued on his response towards 50's diss, "He was my favorite rapper since Mase when he dropped, and when I used to be around him, he was one of the few people that I was, like, really a fan of. I was nervous in the studio working on beats and hoping that I could do a good beat for him. This is even when I had College Dropout and 'Jesus Walks.' Jay-Z and 50 are two types of guys you really want to make some good music for."

"So, for me as a fan of him, I felt like if he said something negative and tried to make it like I'm negative, it's almost like if a little kid walks up to you at the airport and is like, 'Man, I love you so much,' and then you spit on him, it's like, [jokingly] 'I don't know if I love you as much as I used you,' as you wipe the spit off your face. But you still play their music."