What REALLY Happened to G-unit?

[Canada Goose]

I remember a poster on here said a while back that G Unit was like a "gangsta boy band" makes me laugh every time I think about that

 

[vdfebduderocks]

oh, one more thing.... 50 spread that Interscope budget WAY too thin amongst the multitude of people he brought into G-Unit from 2005-2007. Whether it was Yayo (yea that debut was bleh), Young Hot Rod (hell he got a big budget music video lol), Mobb Deep (how 50 didn't fully utilize Havoc as a producer is laughable), MOP, Olivia, Spider Loc, and the rest.

 

[L $ C]

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.

Truthfully if you were around for the era this is very accurate. Hate the game or not..he changed perception of g unit even though honestly he was in the wrong .

ONE other thing which I don't think has been mentioned ....... AMUSEMENT PARK....terrible single 50s worst and unlike its better counterparts before it it didn't hit....became cookie cutter trash


I'm a unit Stan but musically 06-07 album wise was tough for them still had heat on mixtapes

 

[L $ C]

The first real chunk I ever saw in 50s armour was checkmate by Jadakiss tbh

 

[CrimsonTider]

There are more reasons but the main one I see is that they came in the game when all the labels started pushing the gay-gangsta skinny jeans agenda and there was no room for any more Gangsters doing music.

well this definitely ain’t it

 

[Playaz Eyez]

There are more reasons but the main one I see is that they came in the game when all the labels started pushing the gay-gangsta skinny jeans agenda and there was no room for any more Gangsters doing music.

So they started pushing the gay agenda in 2003, the year 50 released his most successful album???

“Buck The World” was great to me, it had the whole machine behind it as well. Remember they were calling Buck “The Clean Up Man” because he was gonna be the one to put G Unit back on top.

For whatever reason that album didn’t resonate and that was the last non 50 G Unit album that got pushed by Interscope.

Buck always felt capable of so much more, it was disappointing how everything turned out with him.



Had T.I., Pimp C and Jeezy on the same track.

Did that album REALLY get the Interscope push though? G-Unit was very in flux by this time and Young Buck’s days were numbered.

 

[kwazzy100]

They couldn’t work with the artists they liked because of 50. There should of been a bunch of Banks & Juelz, G- Unit & LOX, 50 & Jimmy songs, but 50 wanted to beef with everyone.

He alienated his team from growing.

Damn, I'm just packing it all in, bruh

 

[Cynic]

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 film, sneakers, vitamin water , constant beef "formula"

 

[newworldafro]

When Game said Olivia was a dude...

Follow up albums were lukewarm.

 

[Playaz Eyez]

Terminate On Site What a garbage album. Perpetrating with all those “featuring Young Buck” tracks cause 50 was booting him out the group. The only thing good about that album was the album artwork.

 

[re'up]

Pushing this in 2008, is pure arrogance, and irrationality, when you had Tha Carter III, "Lollipop", "Mr. Carter", "A Millie", Drake's mixtape debut, "Put On", T.I with "No Matter What", and "Whatever You Like" Kanye doing 808's and Heartbreak, Nas "Hero", even The Game's "Pain", an inspired and dope record, and then, this just unmitigated shameless attempt at a hit single, circa 2001. 50 was creatively dead in water by 2008.

 

[dubsmith_nz]

Pushing this in 2008, is pure arrogance, and irrationality, when you had Tha Carter III, "Lollipop", "Mr. Carter", "A Millie", Drake's mixtape debut, "Put On", T.I with "No Matter What", and "Whatever You Like" Kanye doing 808's and Heartbreak, Nas "Hero", even The Game's "Pain", an inspired and dope record, and then, this just unmitigated shameless attempt at a hit single, circa 2001. 50 was creatively dead in water by 2008.

This and that god awful “Kitty Kat” song were terrible attempts at singles.

That album actually had some heat too, but the mixtapes were better.









A Yayo and Banks album would have actually been a good look at that time.

 

[Playaz Eyez]

This and that god awful “Kitty Kat” song were terrible attempts at singles.

That album actually had some heat too, but the mixtapes were better.









A Yayo and Banks album would have actually been a good look at that time.

With the producers Banks has used on his last few mixtapes, I’d take a Banks/Yayo album right now

 

[DarkmanX]

I dunno what sort of calendar you're using breh but that was 2008/2009, right when they declined.

I disagree.

G-unit as a group/whole lost their buzz by late 2006/07.

50 was & still is somewhat of a bankable star but G-Unit especially were not hot up until 08/09. Neither was 50 (musically).

By 06 the sound had changed & the ringtone rappers came about. Cheaper & profitable to the industry so the switch happened.

 

[thaKEAF]

Honestly the best answer is they fell off musically. If they were still dropping hits none of that other shyt would matter.

The singles off of Curtis, The Rotten Apple and Terminate On Sight were laughable. Especially TOS..by that point 50s same old formula was corny and showed how out of touch he was with what was going on. By the time BISD dropped he had already self destructed.