Newark88's breakdown of 50's mixtape run up until GRODT Thread

[razassin]

I remember back then I was like in 8th grade... Everybody was screamin ggggg unit lmao....

50 cent had his fans n nikkaz who was hatin on him callin him a snitch n shyt... It wasn't till 03 that everybody was on his shyt... Turnin from lost boyz to g_unit bloods or crips out here...

 

[Newark88]

GRODT and the G-Unit era also symbolized the last time NY Hip Hop was on top as a whole.

 

[re'up]

I was preaching about 50 for a minute before he got on, like 2000/2001 I was playing 'How to Rob' and 'Rowdy Rowdy' for people on my itunes playlist, swearing he was the realest rapper, and he had been shot, and was into the streets like that....I actually bought 'Power of the Dollar' the ep when it dropped, must have been summer 2000, a few weeks after he got hit.

 

[Dead End]

I was in Job Corps when GRODT dropped. There was no access to downloading from the internet, and very little access to any sorts of music stores. Someone from KC came in with burned copies and made a tidy lil sum off that. My main memory to this day of that album is waking through the dorms in Job Corps and that sh*t blasting through everyone's door. Black, white, Latino, didn't matter.


As a sidenote, Freeway, Tech N9ne got a lot of play around that time too

 

[the cac mamba]

The changing of the guards moment was that late September when 50, Yayo, and Banks went on Funk Flex show for their now classic freestyle session. )

link anyone?

this is prolly my favorite song from that era

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UNmyB2y7zhA"]G-Unit Soldiers - G-Unit - YouTube[/ame]

 

[Hawaiian Punch]

Yo when 50 cent is the future hit the hood?

That shyt was like a plague man. Everybody was bumping his mixtapes heavy. All day it would just be cars driving by bumping random gunit shyt. God man that was an incredible time for 50 musically. Gunit was in such a zone. Really was an incredible movement for any tri state nikka

 

[Shadow King]

This shyt so inspiring

 

[Newark88]

link anyone?

this is prolly my favorite song from that era

G-Unit Soldiers - G-Unit - YouTube

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[Newark88]

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[Mac Casper]

I remember back then I was like in 8th grade... Everybody was screamin ggggg unit lmao....

50 cent had his fans n nikkaz who was hatin on him callin him a snitch n shyt... It wasn't till 03 that everybody was on his shyt... Turnin from lost boyz to g_unit bloods or crips out here...

What are you talking about? This reminds me of searching an album on my iTunes and realizing the track list is all messed up only to find I had it organized by song title rather than track number . . .

 

[tru_m.a.c]

100% co-sign on everything OP said all facts

The DVD that came with it was crazy too. I never knew what 50 looked like till GRODT came out and I use to bump POD heavy after he got shot but the cover was just black with a quarter on it. Even the gunit tapes had all 3 of them so you didn't know who was who. He was like this faceless enigma talking mad shyt on clue and Kay slay tapes. I remember copping a clue tape with the yellow cover and "round here" came on "Latin kings don't like me I don't care we don't play that Mira Mira bullshyt round here" like he had no fukks to give

And "problem child" gotta be one of the hardest songs of all time especially if you we're in NYC area and knew what was goin on. "I'm in debt with Christ I done did that twice"

His legend grew by word of mouth too. Like you had a friend who had a friend who dated a girl from queens that knew about 50 history

I swear I had no idea what this guy looked like till I saw that DVD I really thought he was dead... Watching him on that stoop was like

nikka problem child and good die young held a nikka down for real

[ame="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_dZeFG3TvI"]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_dZeFG3TvI[/ame]

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPSyVs5LxFA"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPSyVs5LxFA[/ame]

 

[Newark88]

I'm almost forgot about this song This track was HARD out here in the streets too

 

[razassin]

What are you talking about? This reminds me of searching an album on my iTunes and realizing the track list is all messed up only to find I had it organized by song title rather than track number . . .

Lmao... What didn't u understand son?

 

[mortuus est]

I'm almost forgot about this song 50 Cent Follow Me (Thicker Than Water) Original Freestyle DJ Whoo Kid - YouTube This track was HARD out here in the streets too

Good thread, I enjoyed the read.

Back in the day my African science teacher copped the white g unit sneakers and brang them in one day and me this guy had the face cause we were listening to the unit a lot back than

 

[Newark88]

Good thread, I enjoyed the read.

Back in the day my African science teacher copped the white g unit sneakers and brang them in one day and me this guy had the face cause we were listening to the unit a lot back than

Yea I never fukked with the G-unit wardrobe, let alone the sneakers. The G-Unit sneakers were a knock off of the Adidas and Hov's kicks "S. Carters" were a knock off of the original Gucci sneakers in the 80's.