{"id":650310,"date":"2026-08-22T06:49:14","date_gmt":"2026-08-22T06:49:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/650310\/"},"modified":"2026-08-22T06:49:14","modified_gmt":"2026-08-22T06:49:14","slug":"50-cent-g-unit-join-joe-for-verzuz-battle-performance-of-wanna-get-to-know-you-big-rich-town","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/650310\/","title":{"rendered":"50 Cent & G-Unit Join Joe for Verzuz Battle Performance of \u2018Wanna Get to Know You\u2019 & \u2018Big Rich Town\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

Joe<\/a> and Donell Jones faced off in a Verzuz battle of ’90s R&B royalty on Thursday (Aug. 20). Joe raised the stakes when responding to Jones reuniting 702 for “Get It Together” earlier in the night by having 50 Cent<\/a> and G-Unit’s <\/a>Tony Yayo and Uncle Murda join him on stage for round 14.<\/p>\n

With the R&B-favoring crowd in a frenzy, 50 took it back to the G-Unit days with a performance of the group’s Marvin Gaye-sampling Joe collaboration “Wanna Get to Know You,” which landed on the Unit’s 2003 Beg for Mercy debut and peaked at No. 15 on the Billboard Hot 100.<\/a><\/p>\n

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50 stuck around to perform the Power theme song “Big Rich Town” to ensure another round victory for Joe against the “Where I Wanna Be” singer.<\/p>\n

Fans seemed to appreciate 50 popping out, while others on social media called him out for dodging a Verzuz battle with T.I. <\/a>earlier this year.<\/p>\n

Joe’s preparation paid off, as he was a technician on the Verzuz stage, from his performance to song selection, which kept him steps ahead of Donell Jones. Fans agreed and he dominated the Verzuz scorecard<\/a> with an 18-2 victory.<\/p>\n

Joe leaned on high-profile collaborations such as his Mariah Carey team-up “Thank God I Found You” \u2014 but pulled out the Nas remix \u2014 as well as the Mystikal-assisted “Stutter,” both of which topped the Hot 100.<\/p>\n

“For me, it’s not really a Verzuz \u2014 it’s a celebration,” Donell Jones told Complex<\/a> <\/a>before the battle. “We’re not going to do what the other guys did where it’s beefing back and forth. We’re grown-ass men. We both have two great catalogs. We’re going to treat it as such.”<\/p>\n

Watch G-Unit’s performance with Joe below.<\/p>\n

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