Tony Yayo & DJ Whoo Kid Talk RIAA Stoping G-Unit Mixtapes, Interscope Suing Landspeed Records Over 50 Cent's 500k Selling "Guess Who's Back" Album

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Speaking exclusively to Gigwise on the way in which 50 Cent and G-Unit changed the mixtape game forever, DJ Whoo Kid and Tony Yayo shine some light on a topic that has long been talked about within the hip-hop community but there's never really been any clarification. Right before 50 blew up with his major label debut album Get Rich or Die Tryin', he put out a project called Guess Who's Back on the label Landspeed Records. With the demand for 50's music growing by the second at this point, back when the internet wasn't the all seeing all hearing all downloadable force it is today, Guess Who's Back was zipping out of record stores at an alarming rate.


50 later sued Landspeed Records but the reasoning was never really publicized as such, and then Whoo Kid's Hood Radio compilation that was released on the same label was pulled from sale. Why? Whoo Kid clears this up explaining the label were only supposed to sell a certain amount of Guess Who's Back before pulling them from sale but they didn't. As for his G-Unit Radio project, it all came down to him being new to the mixtape game and not realizing you couldn't use someone else's instrumental on a retail album without getting it cleared. DJ's have been arrested for that since, so it's probably a good idea he didn't pursue it, although he wants the $60,000 he's owed!
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