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Knowledge Drop: Scott Storch Said Fat Joe Passed On The Beat For 50 Cent’s “Candy Shop”

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50 Cent’s sophomore album, The Massacre, celebrates its 15th anniversary on March 3. But according to producer Scott Storch, the instrumental for the album’s biggest single almost went to one of 50’s biggest rivals.

In a 2010 interview with SKEE TV, Storch explained that he initially made the beat for “Candy Shop” in the studio with Fat Joe, and offered him the track first. “There was a beat that I did with Fat Joe,” said Storch. “I made [it] in front of him and I was telling him, ‘This is a hit record.’ Even his wife, Lorena, she was there in the studio saying, ‘Joey, this is kind of a hot record.’ But he said, ‘No, this doesn’t sound like a hit.’ Maybe eight months later, I remember him and his wife again sitting in my studio and she was

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