In a new interview with Daily Beast, EVANESCENCE singer Amy Lee reflected on the band’s “Best New Artist” win at the 2004 Grammy Awards, where they beat out hot favorite 50 Cent. The rapper, who had released his multi-platinum debut album “Get Rich Or Die Tryin'” the previous year, was widely favored to get the award. 50 Cent responded to the loss by walking onstage during EVANESCENCE‘s acceptance speech at the Staples Center in Los Angeles.

“50 Cent hates my guts,” Lee told the Daily Beast. “It’s just one of those things… I mean, truthfully, we thought he was going to win too. It was such a wild night. People are like, ‘What was it like to win a Grammy?’ and I’m like, ‘Stressful!’ I mean, it’s wonderful now, to have them, but it was surreal… I just remember thinking, ‘I don’t even think anybody in this room knows who we are.'”`

50 Cent‘s walk to the stage at the ceremony, which was broadcast on a five-minute delay, still made the Grammy Awards broadcast. Lee watched, baffled, saying, “Oh what did I do? Thanks, 50,” but 50 didn’t grab the mic or say anything, instead choosing to just smiling and make his presence felt.

“You know when you’re just in shock? He didn’t do anything. He didn’t grab the mic. It wasn’t that bad,” Amy recalled to the Daily Beast. “He just sort of, like, made an appearance. It was like Zoolander when he thought he won.”

Asked if the rapper ever personally said anything to her after the fact, Amy responded: “No, he never said anything to me, but he likes to talk about me and how he was robbed. I don’t want to start a beef with him. Thank you for saying I looked unfazed, I was so fazed. Everything around me was chaos and I was, like, ‘I’m gonna stand here and see if this is real later, if I wake up or not.'”