Gunit - Beg for Mercy appreciation thread

[The Frozen One]

Album brought more heat than a furnace















That's my classic gunit

Terminate on Sight though

 

[re'up]

Yeah, gotta love 'Beg For Mercy', if you in that 25-30 age group, I was senior in high school when this dropped....and now, I see it as the paper thin, gangster cliched, formulaic Interscope album it was, saved only by some inspired Young Buck verses, and nostalgia for winter 2003, and some solid to great production...theres a few classic G-Unit tracks on there though...

Have to give it to ol' Curtis and Interscope, for the 'softer' tracks, which the women would always skip to, or demand to be played, 'Wanna Get To Know You' was my favorite, 'Smile' was less tolerable, this girl I knew ran that one into the ground...we'd all be smoking, high and analytical, thinking 'I know this bytch doesn't think this is me', as Banks droned on about loving his girl, and 50 sung the hook..'I Smell p*ssy' was another one, women for some reason loved..'G'd Up' was the defining track for me, actual dope beat and all three killed it, some of the other tracks Banks has some throwaway bars and 50 is just 50....it's an era defining album, but musically it hardly holds up at all...

 

[SpacelySprockets]

Yeah, gotta love 'Beg For Mercy', if you in that 25-30 age group, I was senior in high school when this dropped....and now, I see it as the paper thin, gangster cliched, formulaic Interscope album it was, saved only by some inspired Young Buck verses, and nostalgia for winter 2003, and some solid to great production...theres a few classic G-Unit tracks on there though...

Have to give it to ol' Curtis and Interscope, for the 'softer' tracks, which the women would always skip to, or demand to be played, 'Wanna Get To Know You' was my favorite, 'Smile' was less tolerable, this girl I knew ran that one into the ground...we'd all be smoking, high and analytical, thinking 'I know this bytch doesn't think this is me', as Banks droned on about loving his girl, and 50 sung the hook..'I Smell p*ssy' was another one, women for some reason loved..'G'd Up' was the defining track for me, actual dope beat and all three killed it, some of the other tracks Banks has some throwaway bars and 50 is just 50....it's an era defining album, but musically it hardly holds up at all...

 

[re'up]

To this day, 'G'd Up', 'Wanna Get To Know You', and 'Gangsta shyt' are on rotation on my phone/ipod whatever, if I'm feeling extra nostalgic, I'll thow on 'Smile' or one of the other tracks, but a lot it....just isn't good. It's forced and uninspired music, with bland production and unremarkable lyrics....I mean, besides a Buck verse, or a 50 line 'Baby U Got', 'I'm So Hood', Lay You Down', 'Groupie Love', 'Salute You', are throwaway mixtape tracks, like the end of a lengthy Kay Slay tape...Based only on the music, and not memories, it's a C+ album....

 

[A.V.]

Wallllllk wit meeeeeeeeee

 

[AkaDemiK]

my buddy



whenever that beat drop and the scarface sample comes in...good lawd man...

He ain't never been broke, he glitch-less
so reliable i bought him a rubber coat for christmas
infrared beam and a scope for distance
the best company when approaching business

 

[re'up]

As I remember, there was backlash towards this album, as well as Banks, as enjoyable as they were for their time, Banks didn't really deliver verses on the level of his mix tape on either outing, I always thought that, esp. on 'Hunger For More', theres some good songs and verses, it's a solid album, but the lines and bars weren't at 'Victory' or 'shyts Real' level, they were below par, still good enough, but a slight simplification of the style likely intentional...

 

[TheDarceKnight]

Yeah, gotta love 'Beg For Mercy', if you in that 25-30 age group, I was senior in high school when this dropped....and now, I see it as the paper thin, gangster cliched, formulaic Interscope album it was, saved only by some inspired Young Buck verses, and nostalgia for winter 2003, and some solid to great production...theres a few classic G-Unit tracks on there though...

Have to give it to ol' Curtis and Interscope, for the 'softer' tracks, which the women would always skip to, or demand to be played, 'Wanna Get To Know You' was my favorite, 'Smile' was less tolerable, this girl I knew ran that one into the ground...we'd all be smoking, high and analytical, thinking 'I know this bytch doesn't think this is me', as Banks droned on about loving his girl, and 50 sung the hook..'I Smell p*ssy' was another one, women for some reason loved..'G'd Up' was the defining track for me, actual dope beat and all three killed it, some of the other tracks Banks has some throwaway bars and 50 is just 50....it's an era defining album, but musically it hardly holds up at all...

This is kinda how I feel about it. I still enjoy it for nostalgia reasons. I remember skipping class that day because this and the Black Album both leaked on the same day back on the old site. He got blazed and played through both albums back to back.

Album definitely sounds dated minus a couple of songs, but it was a cool album for the time. Jake One, Hi Tek, and Dr Dre all had bangers on there that hold up. We probably won't ever see another "gangster rap" album in this day and age that is that mainstream.

 

[Big Mel]

I gotta say, the Stunt 101 beat was dope. Sounds like gnomes made it.

 

[DonRed]

Lloyd Banks had the best verse on every song.

"The 16 top shot loader will bend yo ass up like yoga"

 

[Wild self]

Yeah, gotta love 'Beg For Mercy', if you in that 25-30 age group, I was senior in high school when this dropped....and now, I see it as the paper thin, gangster cliched, formulaic Interscope album it was, saved only by some inspired Young Buck verses, and nostalgia for winter 2003, and some solid to great production...theres a few classic G-Unit tracks on there though...

Have to give it to ol' Curtis and Interscope, for the 'softer' tracks, which the women would always skip to, or demand to be played, 'Wanna Get To Know You' was my favorite, 'Smile' was less tolerable, this girl I knew ran that one into the ground...we'd all be smoking, high and analytical, thinking 'I know this bytch doesn't think this is me', as Banks droned on about loving his girl, and 50 sung the hook..'I Smell p*ssy' was another one, women for some reason loved..'G'd Up' was the defining track for me, actual dope beat and all three killed it, some of the other tracks Banks has some throwaway bars and 50 is just 50....it's an era defining album, but musically it hardly holds up at all...

Pretty much the production is weak and aged like shyt. Black Album has 1000x more replayability

 

[Gh0st]

Beg 4 Mercy was a good album. Those G-Unit days seem so long gone.

 

[Kingshango]

 

[patscorpio]

all i know is i used to cruise to i wanna get to know you..esp when i was doing my parking lot pimpin rounds..that shyt was too gotdamn smooth man ...shyt was unexpected to me..i didnt think 50 had that type of song in him

 

[Champion]