What REALLY Happened to G-unit?

[BulletProof]

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.

I would say most of this but also he was feeling himself so much he attacked Jimmy Iovine.

Even Em wouldn't do that.

Also as far as the original group, he felt they had become too lazy. He said it was impossible to understand Banks needing to take a break to mourn his mother because 50's mother was dead before he even got to meet her so it was an alien concept to him. He also said that Buck was too blinded by blow to function. He also thought Yayo and the others lacked work ethic and needed to be independent. That's actually why after all the back and forth, 50 said he came to respect Game.

 

[Alvin]

Banks had his second window but eh.

by the way, its ten years since Banks put out Beemer Benz & Bentley.
a reminder how much Juelz floated on that. the last time he shown his star quality.

wonder what much of they tape they started they actually got done.

shame they fell out over Slow and the fact that Banks impregnated a woman that used to get smutted out at Juelz studio and boof work.
("allegedly" - Troy Ave voice)

when you think about it, Fab must laugh everyday that Banks and Juelz pretty much stepped back.
Fab followed to "90% of life is showing up" motto to a t. while the other two, ones a reclusive depressive and the other is in prison going cold turkey.

 

[Sinister]

what years were that bruh?
Was it when Ghost and Rae wanted to snuff BIG?
When Pun and Roca Fella was beefing?
Or when Cam and Jay was going at it

This is all before fif

Those weren't public.

Hip hop was better when issues were private

 

[Alvin]

#4 was the actual reason. Prior to this, G-Unit was dominating the radio waves with every release. With 50, Buck, Banks, Yayo being on each others records kept them in our faces seamlessly. When the Banks leak happened, the radio-play completely stopped for HELLA long. The perception was that G-Unit fell off since they weren't on the radio and Game was aggressively fukkin the brand up with his tirade.

If the Banks leak didn't happen, the run would've extended longer. That really fukked up the momentum

Damn, we then could've got a Ma$e, MOP and Hot Rod album release.

Banks why?!?

 

[Devil Plisken…CMS]

They became caricatures of themselves..
50 brought a lot of toxicity to NY rap, and destroyed the unity and camaraderie that had existed and NYC never recovered. G Unit killed NYC rap
For all their trying to hog the limelight, they were very average musically and thus not sustainable over time.

NYC Rap? Camaraderie?

You have no idea what you’re talking about

 

[Devil Plisken…CMS]

Nikka you had
JayZ Vs Nas
Rocafella vs Ruff Ryders
Wu Tang Vs Bad Boy
Boot Camp Vs Bad Boy
Nas vs Camron
DMX vs Ja Rule
Mobb Deep vs Rocafella
Nore vs Tragedy
Terror Squad vs Rocafella
Foxxy vs Kim


And all this was before 50 blew up. There was no damn ATL like unity in NY in the 90s early 2000s

To make matters worse you’re not even considering the isolation that always existed

 

[Sinister]

NYC Rap? Camaraderie?

You have no idea what you’re talking about

It was more united pre 50.

At least on the surface. You could never have a "self destruction" or hard knock life tour in a post 50 NY

 

[Devil Plisken…CMS]

It was more united pre 50.

At least on the surface. You could never have a "self destruction" or hard knock life tour in a post 50 NY

Kane & Rakim was icy
Nas & Jay were icy
Fox & Kim were Icy
Nas & Biggie were icy
Mase & Jigga were icy
Keith Murray/Redman & Mobb Deep had beef
Jeru hates Bad Boy
Wu Tang hated Bad Boy
Ghost & Rae hated Biggie
Nature & Cormega were icy
Kiss & Hov were icy

YOU HAVE NO CLUE WHAT YOURE SPEAKING ON

By that logic if G-Unit was the only standoffish ones what effect would that have on everyone else’s standing with each other?

 

[Sinister]

Kane & Rakim was icy
Nas & Jay were icy
Fox & Kim were Icy
Nas & Biggie were icy
Mase & Jigga were icy
Keith Murray/Redman & Mobb Deep had beef
Jeru hates Bad Boy
Wu Tang hated Bad Boy
Ghost & Rae hated Biggie
Nature & Cormega were icy
Kiss & Hov were icy

YOU HAVE NO CLUE WHAT YOURE SPEAKING ON

By that logic if G-Unit was the only standoffish ones what effect would that have on everyone else’s standing with each other?

Nas was supposed to be on RD
Jay approached Nas and spoke to him in person. It wasn't the same level. You had Beans and Nas on the same track with Puff before. Prodigy and E money Bags pushed Jay into a situation that brought it public when a simple conversation could have prevented it. Even Bleek said as such.


Jay also told Pun that Sauce wasn't dissing him.
Joe himself said to ME directly in 06 that when he sees Jay that it wasn't "blat blat duck" years before Jay and Joe spoke positively on each other.

Kiss and Jay didn't have a beef like that. Even Beans said he pretty much did that on his own and others were reluctant to even jump in on it.

Mega was essentially an industry outsider if not a damn near street goon attacking his replacement out of bitter jealousy

None of that Nas/jeru/wu shyt with Big was anywhere near as serious as Pac and Big.

Prodigy was a known hater and punching bag...but it wasn't to the level of shootings and stabbings

50 and the way he beefs were on a completely different level than what any of the shyt you're talking about. You didn't see EPMD airing out one another the way 50 did Buck with the phone calls. You never heard LL threaten to push an album back the way 50 did to Styles. You wouldn't see someone like Shan slap Scott La Rock's kid.

You don't know shyt. Eat a dikk and shut the fukk up bytch.

 

[Devil Plisken…CMS]

Nas was supposed to be on RD
Jay approached Nas and spoke to him in person. It wasn't the same level. You had Beans and Nas on the same track with Puff before. Prodigy and E money Bags pushed Jay into a situation that brought it public when a simple conversation could have prevented it. Even Bleek said as such.


Jay also told Pun that Sauce wasn't dissing him.
Joe himself said to ME directly in 06 that when he sees Jay that it wasn't "blat blat duck" years before Jay and Joe spoke positively on each other.

Kiss and Jay didn't have a beef like that. Even Beans said he pretty much did that on his own and others were reluctant to even jump in on it.

Mega was essentially an industry outsider if not a damn near street goon attacking his replacement out of bitter jealousy

None of that Nas/jeru/wu shyt with Big was anywhere near as serious as Pac and Big.

Prodigy was a known hater and punching bag...but it wasn't to the level of shootings and stabbings

50 and the way he beefs were on a completely different level than what any of the shyt you're talking about. You didn't see EPMD airing out one another the way 50 did Buck with the phone calls. You never heard LL threaten to push an album back the way 50 did to Styles. You wouldn't see someone like Shan slap Scott La Rock's kid.

You don't know shyt. Eat a dikk and shut the fukk up bytch.

What a weird disjointed nonsensical super long post from a Sissy Mary. Nothing you said takes away from what I said. NYC has always been King of static.

“Puffy told me what he got for Revolt”
“Jay told me what he got for Bey for Valentine’s Day”
“Keith Murray has anger issues”


You supposed to be somebody? I don’t care if you Sucked Bambattas dikk to be in Planet Rock what you said doesn’t hold up kiddo

If nikkax had problems or they weren’t on the best terms that’s what it is. Whether or not they wanted to kill each other is an entirely different subject. The point is nikkax in New York are known for not getting along.

Hahahahahahaha you thought you had something

 

[Sinister]

What a weird disjointed nonsensical super long post from a Sissy Mary. Nothing you said takes away from what I said. NYC has always been King of static.

“Puffy told me what he got for Revolt”
“Jay told me what he got for Bey for Valentine’s Day”
“Keith Murray has anger issues”


You supposed to be somebody? I don’t care if you Sucked Bambattas dikk to be in Planet Rock what you said doesn’t hold up kiddo

If nikkax had problems or they weren’t on the best terms that’s what it is. Whether or not they wanted to kill each other is an entirely different subject. The point is nikkax in New York are known for not getting along.

Hahahahahahaha you thought you had something

You are trying to deflect from how different the energy is since 50 came along.

All of that chairs being thrown on stages...wasn't happening...not even with Quik performing Dollaz and sense in front of eiht...not even the source awards. The whole Mike Knox beating up Gunplay and it being caught on tape...it never got that real. Proof getting jumped by Murder Inc and scaring Em to the point of having to wear a bullet proof vest. Puff firing 50 for having a gun on him.

Not just NYC but 50 made hip hpp more dangerous, violent and hostile. You didn't have all that gun flashing nonsense like that before him.

No wonder his own boss said that beef went way beyond some Jay-z and Nas shyt.

Old NYC hip hop tension was just aggresive competition...not real beef.

 

[Playaz Eyez]

A lot of good posts in here. In real time, it was crazy how they just fell off. They seemed indestructible, then in an instant, they became vulnerable as hell and used as punchlines. The apex was 2005 during the GRODT Soundtrack. Come mid 2006, everything changed, for reasons a lot of y’all described already. I’ll never forget their peak though. That was incredible as a fan of theirs.

 

[staticshock]

This is completely understated. G Units run being over coincided with the South taking over, and hip hop changing. Cole, Drake, Cudi, Sean, Kendrick etc all came through at this time.

What other gangster rappers, let alone gangster rappers from New York retained relevance? The whole Shady/Aftermath run ended at the same time. Hip hop moved on.

G Unit outperformed everyone else around them from their time period. Dipset, Ruff Ryders, D Block, State Prop all made music in a similar vane, and all fell off commercially at the same time.

G-Unit was done with for a decade before all of those folks became hot

 

[SpacelySprockets]

G-Unit was done with for a decade before all of those folks became hot

they were done with for a decade by 2009?

 

[Bondye Vodou]

this happened


tha rest history