Rapper 50 Cent has blasted Lloyd Banks and Young Buck - insisting they have taken advantage of his generosity.

The hip-hop mogul's music label G-Unit Records also boasts rap duo Mobb Deep and M.o.p. - but he believes they have become spoilt by his laid back approach to money.

And it took a meeting with his artists to make him realise things had to change.

He tells New York Daily News, "Whether I got to give them $500,000 or $300,000... Just 'cause they want $300,000 more to make what they (are) doing at the time comfortable. Like, 'Yo, I want to get this new place over here.' "

"I told them I wouldn't be assisting them financially anymore. Pretty much I was telling them I wouldn't be there. (In the past) they'd make a lot of money and spend a lot of money and have me there to fix it."

"I looked around the room, and I was the only person with G-Unit sneakers on. But they were being paid. It had become the norm for the check to come, but they were no longer wearing the clothes."