got damn forgot about this...this and rider pt 2 were fuggin basura
What REALLY Happened to G-unit?
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got damn forgot about this...this and rider pt 2 were fuggin basura
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the music was just bad. i wouldnt credit ross or game b/c they did it to themselves. its almost like someone cast a spell where 50 seemed to lose nearly all musical talent and become swaggerless. when he brought hot rod wackass out on 106 u knew it was almost over. banks and buck however are still dope to this day. they shouldve been pushed to the forefront while curtis played a wsg - like figure.
Playaz Eyez
Veteran
- Yayo’s debut was dope, he just had the stigma of being Yayo
- Hot Rod’s video was green screen
- Havoc produced half of Blood Money
banks lazy, buck a idiot. But other than that I agree.
@TAYLONDO SAMSWORTHY since you were signed during the downturn, did you notice anything when the unit stopped being a force? Did 50 really give people 250,000 cash free of charge like Spider Loc?
“1) Game and 50 falling out. Before this, G-Unit seemed unstoppable. They had a successful group album. Banks and Buck had successful solos.
2) Tony Tayo's debut. Highly anticipated, but met with lukewarm reception in comparison to the other G-Unit releases.
3) 50 signing Mase, M.O.P. and Spider Loc and never releasing the albums.
4) 2006 was a disaster. Mobb Deep dropped and it ends up being their worst (it had some heat though). Banks' Big Withdrawal leaked and had major buzz, but he scrapped it and dropped Rotten Apple, which did poorly.
5) 50 lost the sales battle with Kanye and delivered his weakest effort at that point
6) Buck's second solo wasn't as good as the first
7) Terminate On Sight. The last straw. Internal conflict was made public specifically Buck. “
The post above is spot on with huge focus on #4.. This is when banks left a copy of the album at a bytch’s crib and she allegedly sold it to DJ Big Mike and it leaked out. Before this, G-Unit had seamless radioplay between multiple projects. As long as you were on the radio you were considered hot but when this album leaked, Banks had to go back in and re-record the whole shyt and there was a HUGE dropoff for months where there was no G-Unit music on the radio. This gave the perception the Unit fell off and killed the momentum.
This was also during the transition into the streaming, youtube era that we’re currently knee deep in now. Record labels didnt know how to handle music during this transition.
That was the major part of it mixed with the new generation and the south stompin in heavy and nikkas never recovered. 50 was still super focused on big first week sells so it make him gun shy about releasing any projects if he felt they werent gonna sell 400-500k the first week because he knew that would be another strike on him. The G-unit island thing was good for the short term success but bad for long term since there were so many haters ready to pounce at any moment and there was a limited pool of artists to network and collab with.
Thats pretty much the meat and potatoes of the situation as I seen it.
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GPBear
The Tape Crusader
G-G-G-G-G-G-UNIT
Buck's second album was heat, sounded like a buck album instead of a southern 50 album made for buck.
Yeah I fukked wit that 2nd buck album heavy. I copy and pasted that post from the first page btw. But yeah I agree, bucks 2nd album slappped
did you get a large sum of cash just to be shelved essentially? that you didn't have to payback?
G unit isolating themselves only hurt when the music started to suck...
The isolation actually made them more "authentic"
The isolation actually made them more "authentic"
Yeah I got a big advance between Recording and publishing. Since I asked to be released, I was free from my contract obligations therefore I didn’t need to pay it back