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50 Cent chilled with DJ Skitz over a £28 cup of tea.
The 'P.I.M.P' hitmaker hung out with the 'Where My Mind Is At' producer, who also claimed the rapper's entire hotel floor "stunk of weed" when he visited the UK.
Speaking exclusively to BANG Showbiz, Skitz said: "I've got to say, when we were in the hotel room waiting for 50 Cent to come and do the interview, we were looking at the breakfast menu and it was £28 for a cup of tea. We interviewed a lot of Roc-A-Fella artists ... that was really amusing. Because we went to the top, he hired out the whole of the floor.
"Literally you got to his floor, the lift opened and there was people smoking weed, there was a butler there giving everyone champagne, the whole hotel stunk of weed but just on that one floor. It was a family vibe, and there was extended family just running around in the corridor."
Meanwhile, Skitz thinks American rappers have been heavily influenced by the UK hip hop scene.
He added: "I've shared a lot of stages, I've supported Jay Z, and I've supported Kanye West. But hanging out with The Roots, when The Roots came and lived in London for a bit - and they had a house in London - I used to take them their weed. Seeing them soak up the English scene and embrace the culture and really get totally inspired - and then go back to America and completely blow up - that is interesting for me and inspiring. It kind of makes me feel that the English scene is amazing."
DJ Skitz is set to perform with his long-term collaborator Rodney P at the Beat Box Championships supported by Relentless Energy Drink on November 7 - in London's iconic Clapham Grand.

Les McKeown thinks people in bands need "counselling".
The Bay City Rollers crooner - who's admitted to taking class A drugs and viagra, which resulted in a stint in rehab in 2008 - revealed life on the road can take its toll on musicians and end in "destructive" behaviour.
Les shared: "All joking aside, I think when you are in a band it is sensible to have counselling. When you're in a band, little things niggle you, you don't like the way that guy snores, it builds up and you think, 'I want to kill him'. It could blow up into a destructive thing."
Despite insisting musicians need help, the 'Bye Bye Baby' singer - who's set to release track 'Boomerang' at Christmas with the band, now comprised of Stuart 'Woody' Wood and bassist Alan Longmuir - admits his band mates "suffered in silence".
He told the Daily Mirror newspaper: "For six years from 2002 I was falling down a couple of bottles of whisky a day. I was cajoled into rehab, I went to satisfy them (his family). When I arrived I thought, 'What the f**k do these hippies know?' ... Woody and Alan have sometimes suffered in silence. They have been through as much and more than I've been through, but they didn't need counselling."

Pixie Lott says lying about her age to become a singer was a "good" move.
The 'Turn It Up' hitmaker was 14 when she deliberately told music bosses she was two-years-older so she could audition to be the next "pop diva" - but she's glad she did, because it was the first stepping stone to her success.
The blonde beauty confessed: "They said they were looking for the next pop diva, but you had to be 16 and I wasn't 16 at the time, so when I went for the audition I pretended I was 16 so that I could audition.
"When they said they wanted to work with me I had to spill the beans but they weren't too angry; they were actually happy, because I guess it gave them more time. That was the first step to meeting the right people, so it was a good milestone."
And the stunner - who's promoting her first podcast series 'Small Moments' - revealed she's had the "performing" bug ever since.
Pixie, 24, added: "Still to this day my favourite thing is performing. I remember the first proper gig I did was Radio 2 Introducing, at Maida Vale with Dermot O'Leary.
"I sort of felt like I'd been thrown in at the deep end. But I just thrived on it, absolutely loved it, and I just thought that if it's going to be like this I can't wait to do more."
Pixie Lott's podcast series, Small Moments, is available to download now from audioBoom: www.audioboom.com/channel/smallmoments

Take That "miss" Jason Orange.
Mark Owen has admitted that whilst the three-piece group - which now features him and his pals Gary Barlow and Howard Donald - feel "normal" now, they still think of their old band-mate from time to time and are missing having him around.
Mark, 43, revealed: "It feels normal now but we still miss Jason. But we know he's happy and he sent us an email the other week wishing us luck."
Jason announced he was leaving Take That in September last year after he realised he had no "wish" to continue with the music.
Speaking in a statement at the time, they said: "Jason's energy and belief in what this band could achieve has made it what it is today, and we'll forever be grateful for his enthusiasm, dedication and inspiration over the years."
But Mark insisted they've "settled" into their new format and are excited for their brand new single 'Hey Boy', which is the first new track to be taken from the 2015 edition of their hit album 'III', out on November 20.
He told The Sun newspaper: "We've settled into it now. We feel very ambitious as a band, the most we have in years."

Naughty Boy has Beyoncé's number saved under an alias in his phone - incase he loses it.
The producer worked with the pop queen on new track 'Running' and revealed they've "been texting" back and forth ever since, but he's terrified her digits will fall into the wrong hands.
He told The Sun newspaper: "We've been texting. I've been texting her as well. She's so lovely. I've got her as an alias in my mobile in case I lose my phone."
And the 30-year-old songwriter - real name Shahid Khan - admitted he was flattered that the beauty agreed to work with him because she didn't "need" to.
He said previously: "Working with Beyoncé is amazing. She's very spiritual. She doesn't need to feature on a Naughty Boy song, but the fact she has is just testament to her."
Meanwhile, Beyoncé isn't the only singer he's been collaborating with.
He added: "I've done a song with Natasha Bedingfield from my new album. And I'm really excited about that.
I love the fact that people remember her. I'm working with Keiza too for my pop album."

Adele broke Taylor Swift's VEVO record with her new music video 'Hello'.
The 27-year-old singer achieved 27.7 million streams in the first 24 hours after the video was released, breaking the record of 20.1 million views which Taylor, 25, held for 'Bad Blood'.
Asked about the meaning of the new song's lyrics, the British star said: "It's not about anything specific. I have a little curiosity about my past now that I'm a grown up. We're not kids anymore and stuff like that. It's kind of a hello to all my old friends, all the relationships I've had, all my old teachers, my little me when I was seven or eight, and also a bit of a hello to all my fans because I've been gone for so long."
Adele's return to music comes after a four-year hiatus and she admitted she still hates performing live.
She explained: "I do really love performing but I can't get over my nerves, I don't really enjoy it until I'm off stage."
The crippling anxiety she experiences on stage sometimes means she forgets the words to her songs.
Asked if she ever makes up the lyrics she said: "Yeah or I just pass the microphone to the audience and say, 'Oh you sing it.' Or I'll stop and ask if I can start again. And I have to ask my guitarist what's my lyric."

Charli XCX doesn't feel in "competition" with her fellow female artists.
The 'Boom Clap' hitmaker insists she feels very "supported" by herself and the "amazing females in the music industry".
She said: "I don't think it's competitive. I think that's what the media makes it out to be. I think it's harder for women in the sense that there's always the question of 'How does it feel to be a woman in music?' I think that adds an unnecessary pressure.
"And also I feel like there's always more questions asked if you're a female like 'Did you write your own song, really?' 'Did you produce your own song, really?' Whereas sometimes with men it's just taken as a given that they did."
And the 23-year-old is looking forward to Adele's new release.
She told Billboard magazine: "Dude. Ahhhh. She's just going to like kill us all and make us all worthless. It's just going to be amazing.
"There are so many amazing females in the music industry right now. The topic of feminism is continuously being discussed and that's really incredible.
"I feel very supportive of the females around me and I think that's really integral to what I do."

Justin Bieber wants to make music with Adele.
The 21-year-old heartthrob - who took home five gongs at the MTV Europe Music Awards on Sunday (25.10.15) - confessed he has a deep admiration for the 'Hello' crooner and says she's the "one person" he could see himself collaborating with in the future.
Talking to Will Manning on KISS FM, Justin confessed: "If I could duet with one person it would probably be... I would say Adele. She's talented. Everything she does is awesome."
Meanwhile, the 'What Do You Mean' hitmaker shed light on his creative differences with another recent collaborator Kanye West, who worked on a track for his latest album 'Purpose' but it didn't make the cut.
And despite getting Kanye's "opinion" on his new music, the singer didn't admitted it didn't "match up" with his own.
He shared: "Kanye and Ruben were a part of the process, but they don't have any records on the album. The Kanye song I did, we never finished it. It just was kind of in a different direction, but they definitely gave it two cents of the album.
"I mean opinions of creativity are just opinions. At the end of the day, sometimes their opinion's not going to match up with my opinion. I get their opinion just to see, but sometimes it doesn't."

Radiohead's album 'OK Computer' is the Greatest Album of the '90s according to Q Magazine readers.
The band's seminal 1997 chart-topping LP has been voted the most "culturally, historically or aesthetically significant" LP of the 20th century, beating Oasis 'Definitely Maybe' and Nirvana's 'In Utero' to the title.
The third studio album from the British rockers - fronted by 'Fake Plastic Trees' crooner Thom Yorke - laid the groundwork for the experimental sound they later followed, which spouted hits 'Paranoid Android', 'Karma Police' and 'Lucky' and is credited for signalling the end of the Britpop era.
It narrowly beat solo artist Tricky's 'Maxinquaye' to first place.
Commenting on the results, Q's Senior Editor Matt Mason said: "The 90s was such an inventive time for music and it's only now with a decade-and-a-half's distance that we can really appreciate how some of the bands and records of the decade shaped - and continue to shape - the musical and cultural landscape of today."
He added: "We're still learning about a lot of these albums: with the passage of time, bands have opened up more about the secrets and stories behind them and there are plenty of new insights and tales to be uncovered."
The full list of the 100 Greatest Albums of the '90s appears in this month's Q Magazine on sale from tomorrow (27.10.15).

The Top Ten '90s Albums:
1. Radiohead - 'OK Computer'
2. Tricky - 'Maxinquaye'
3. Nirvana - 'In Utero'
4. Jeff Buckley - 'Grace'
5. Beastie Boys - 'Ill Communication'
6. Björk - 'Debut'
7. DJ Shadow - 'Endtroducing'
8. Oasis - 'Definitely Maybe'
9. Pulp - 'Different Class'
10. The Chemical Brothers - 'Dig Your Own Hole'