50 used Lil Wayne's Young Money and Wiz Khalifa's Taylor Gang as prime examples of current rap crews with strong frontmen.
"I think it's good, I think we're in a good state now," Fif said when asked for his take on the current status of New York hip-hop. "I just think a lot of the artists are hovering under the older crews that worked already when they should be creating their new crew. ... Of course you need one person that's really a spearhead, when one break, the rest of them get a shot. Without [Lil] Wayne, there's no Young Money. Once one artist gets over the wall, that brand is cool. Wiz [Khalifa,] you see he's got a group of artists around him now. It really takes one artist to come in and have that song take off and then have that ability to continue to create that material." (V.I.P. Saturdays)
He also dished out the advantages and disadvantages to having a rap crew.
"There's positives and negatives to keeping artists real close to you," Fif added. "You got artists that become complacent because they're on the stage in front of 60,000 people, they ain't writing like they need to get out of the hood. They writing like, 'Okay, tomorrow I'm going to do something. I got four bars, that might even work.' [laughs] You gotta write like you really want it. ... The positive parts is when they're hungry or competing, trying to get to that point, they're striving." (V.I.P. Saturdays)
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