03/30/07 - Young Buck:Look At Me

|6|1|5| . · 03-30-2007, 01:19 PM

It’s a cold, rainy February night in New York, and David “Young Buck” Brown is seeking attention. Outside the NYC hotspot Club Stereo, leaving a listening session that was more like a party, Buck leans his entire torso out the window of a jet-black Suburban as it skates off on the slick concrete. Apparently, he has something important to get off his chest.

“Buy my album! March 27!” He shouts. “And always remember: Fuck the police!”

Buck’s in a good mood. Boasting bombastic tracks like “Say It to My Face” and “Buss Yo’ Head” and the tuba-driven thwomp of first single “Get Buck,” his sophomore G-Unit album, Buck the World, just had a club full of industry heads, DJs, bloggers and leggy models roaring approval. A common response to Buck these days—and one that has the 26-year-old Nashville, Tenn., native amped about his chances selling records.

There’s a lot riding on it. Buck’s known as the “Clean-Up Man” around the G-Unit camp, and there’s something of a mess for him at the moment. The once mighty crew hasn’t cracked the platinum plateau since 2005. Last year’s releases from Mobb Deep and Lloyd Banks caught bricks (267,000 and 322,000 units sold, respectively), and even the 512,000 Tony Yayo sold two years ago was seen as a stumble. Following up on the cool million Buck’s debut, 2004’s Straight Outta Cashville, sold, this album looks like a test: Does anyone at the label, other than founder 50 Cent himself, have legitimate commercial staying power?

You know there are many men hoping not. The exiled G-Unit soldier The Game, with whom Buck shared a tense, chaotic encounter in Las Vegas amid the NBA All-Star Game festivities. Dipset chief Cam’ron, whose beef with 50 recently spilled into a video for Buck’s song “Hold On.” Jimmy James Johnson, who Buck famously stabbed with a dinner knife during a fracas at the 2004 Vibe Awards in Los Angeles. (James had punched Dr. Dre, who was instrumental in bringing G-Unit into the Interscope Records family. Buck pleaded guilty to assault and was sentenced to three years’ probation in December ’05.)

But Buck’s trying to get past all the “bullshit,” as he calls it, and concern himself solely with “real life.” This summer, actually, you’ll be able to watch that life on MTV2, as he’s slated to do a reality show called, like his album, Buck the World. He’s expanding into the business world, too, having started a label, Cashville Records, and signed his Tennessee homies the rap trio 615 and West Coast vet C-BO to recording contracts.

An hour after the listening party, the man who’s calling himself the “CEO of G-Unit right now” settles into his chair in a room at the Dream Hotel in Midtown Manhattan and tells us what’s on his mind. Watch him do his thing.

Can you speak on what happened at All-star Weekend when you ran into The Game?
Any day, bruh. You know, if any real nigga—any individual, period—has a problem with anybody and they have a chance to see that individual they have a problem with, instead of leaving that place without any kind of moment of, you know, words or any kind of confrontation or anything, then I think you’re not really representing yourself, or not representing your situation. So for me, that was the first time me and Game had ever been in the same domain, in the same building, in the same eyesight of each other, since all of this bullshit that you getting from G-Unit and from them with the bullshit beef. So for me, it was pretty much like, we doing all this eye-contact shit across the club, let me go ’head and see if it’s a problem. And what I did was, I went to the stage, and I told the DJ to play one of Game’s records. And what I did, I didn’t diss Game or jump on the mic and start rappin’ and sayin’, “Fuck you, Game,” or disrespect Game in no kind of way.

I just pretty much told Game and everybody in the building, “Look, if there’s a problem for anybody with me or my crew, then right now is the time to handle that. You know, straight up. If not, let’s get to the money. But if it’s a problem, let’s get it on…” After two, three minutes, Game started making his way down the stairs with his entourage, and the security at the club interfered and kinda like pushed him out the club and shit. So I don’t know if he was coming to get it on or give love. All I’m saying is I made room for whatever it was going to be. Being the fact that we in the same building and it’s been a lot of tension with this bullshit. So you know, if there ain’t a problem, we gon’ show it ain’t a problem in front of these people. If it is a problem, we gon’ show it’s a problem in front of these people, too…

I just want the fans to understand what’s real and what’s not… And you know, I can’t act like I’ve always been in the mode that I’m in. In the beginning of this shit, you know, you get your diss records. You done got some of your strongest diss records that I done said about some of these niggas, you know. I played the game with that, but I played the game with me not knowing the situations, if they real or not. So I’ve been able to get hands-on with these niggas, being the street nigga that I am, to see if it’s real or not. And when, if I see it ain’t real, I’m not fuckin’ wit’ it. Jadakiss, we just smoked a blunt together, bruh, and did it big at the All-Star Game in Vegas together.

You were on the radio, on Ed Lover’s morning show, a few weeks later saying that you were willing to squash the beef with The Game.
Yeah, I’m willing to. If it ain’t a problem, we don’t have to act like it’s a problem, period. So if you gon’ call that squashing the beef or whatever, I’m with whatever way you put it. We don’t have to shake hands or none of that. If you want to shake hands, let’s do it. All I’m saying is, there’s room for whatever… Whatever it is, let’s just do it and get to it and get it over with, ’cause I ain’t with the bullshit.

Personally, do you wish that the situation between The Game and 50 did not happen?
Yeah, I honestly wish it didn’t happen, because what that did was make Dr. Dre and Eminem, muthafuckas I look up to, have to analyze a situation and choose sides… That’s bullshit. You know, niggas have differences. But if you ain’t no bitch nigga, then you shouldn’t feel lesser than a man for stretching out about your problems you had with somebody else and trying to get to them. That’s only a manly thing. You not less a man for trying to handle your business in a way to get to the end of a problem. You more of a man, in my eyes, straight up and down. I think you less of a man by carrying out shit that you know ain’t real. Then, you know that you’re fighting and doing something you know in your heart ain’t right. So you’re not being yourself, man.

Read the rest of our Young Buck feature in XXL’s May 2007 issue (#91)

martijnlinde · 03-30-2007, 01:24 PM

big propzzz i hope he get platinum first week
Get Em Buck

Antar · 03-30-2007, 01:30 PM

^^^^And I hope stupid fucks like you stop posting ridiculous little comments and believe me I think the albums is straight FIYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA but it ain't happenin he too HOOD for America right now.

CHOSEN ONE · 03-30-2007, 01:44 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by martijnlinde

big propzzz i hope he get platinum first week
Get Em Buck

WTF R U SERIOUS

robby84 · 03-30-2007, 01:45 PM

props my nig..i gotta cop that new mag...

Jewelz510 · 03-30-2007, 02:05 PM

I swear in every interview you will hear the words " LETS GET TO THE MONEY "

ns_diplomat · 03-30-2007, 02:17 PM

propzzzzzzzzzz

Don Dedi · 03-30-2007, 02:26 PM

GGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG G UNIT

Buck The World !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

Speak · 03-30-2007, 03:17 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Jewelz510

I swear in every interview you will hear the words " LETS GET TO THE MONEY "

OR @ THE END OF THE DAY

NEWSKULL · 03-30-2007, 03:34 PM

Quote:

Personally, do you wish that the situation between The Game and 50 did not happen?
Yeah, I honestly wish it didn’t happen, because what that did was make Dr. Dre and Eminem, muthafuckas I look up to, have to analyze a situation and choose sides…

HMMM... Choose sides?... So that's why Dre ghost produced Game album, why Busta was on Game album And why Dre didn't allow "Nightmare" to be on Mobb Deep "Blood Money"...

THA WEATHA MAN · 03-30-2007, 03:46 PM

ok I dont think he'll sell like a mill 1st week but he will sell alot though. Buck is 2 sick 2 flop...hopefully. Props on the news.

Renegade25 · 03-30-2007, 06:50 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by martijnlinde

big propzzz i hope he get platinum first week
Get Em Buck

U have Slim Thug in ur avatar, what else do i gotta say?

Braza · 03-30-2007, 07:13 PM

propzzzz...............

ChUcK C · 03-30-2007, 07:25 PM

propz imma get a copy from walmart real quck rite now cuz i wanna c wot i=dis nigga gotta say

THREATS · 03-30-2007, 11:36 PM

jus copped his shit ya heard. lloyds too.

Compton\Queens OG · 03-31-2007, 01:35 AM

fuck mayne!!! i can't find dis fukin issue anywhere, everywhere i go dey either dont have xxl or just got last months lil wayne issue still

Compton\Queens OG · 03-31-2007, 01:37 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by NEWSKULL

HMMM... Choose sides?... So that's why Dre ghost produced Game album, why Busta was on Game album And why Dre didn't allow "Nightmare" to be on Mobb Deep "Blood Money"...

haha dre didnt come near games album wherer da fuck did dis rumor come from his name ant anywhere on da credits and it would be even if it was ghost produced. hmm i dunno y dre didnt want nightmares on da mobb album.

THUGBABYDOLL · 03-31-2007, 02:58 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Compton\Queens OG

fuck mayne!!! i can't find dis fukin issue anywhere, everywhere i go dey either dont have xxl or just got last months lil wayne issue still

IT'S THE MAY ISSUE. GIVE IT ANOTHER WEEK OR SO.

buck-sup · 03-31-2007, 01:25 PM

man his album is fire.

Lil TraVieSo · 03-31-2007, 03:22 PM

good read, 'm gon cop that XXl to read the rest

d_lit_e · 04-01-2007, 10:03 PM

props Young Buck, buck the world!

Jewelz510 · 04-04-2007, 02:34 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Frank_Nasty

OR @ THE END OF THE DAY

lol hell yeah

gemma · 04-08-2007, 03:36 PM

i like that person

03-30-2007, 01:19 PM	#1
\|6\|1\|5\| . . Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: . Posts: 2,268 Repped: 690 Repped 332 Times in 107 Posts Neg Reps: 0 Neg Repped at 0 Times in 0 Posts	03/30/07 - Young Buck:Look At Me 03/30/07 - Young Buck:Look At Me It’s a cold, rainy February night in New York, and David “Young Buck” Brown is seeking attention. Outside the NYC hotspot Club Stereo, leaving a listening session that was more like a party, Buck leans his entire torso out the window of a jet-black Suburban as it skates off on the slick concrete. Apparently, he has something important to get off his chest. “Buy my album! March 27!” He shouts. “And always remember: Fuck the police!” Buck’s in a good mood. Boasting bombastic tracks like “Say It to My Face” and “Buss Yo’ Head” and the tuba-driven thwomp of first single “Get Buck,” his sophomore G-Unit album, Buck the World, just had a club full of industry heads, DJs, bloggers and leggy models roaring approval. A common response to Buck these days—and one that has the 26-year-old Nashville, Tenn., native amped about his chances selling records. There’s a lot riding on it. Buck’s known as the “Clean-Up Man” around the G-Unit camp, and there’s something of a mess for him at the moment. The once mighty crew hasn’t cracked the platinum plateau since 2005. Last year’s releases from Mobb Deep and Lloyd Banks caught bricks (267,000 and 322,000 units sold, respectively), and even the 512,000 Tony Yayo sold two years ago was seen as a stumble. Following up on the cool million Buck’s debut, 2004’s Straight Outta Cashville, sold, this album looks like a test: Does anyone at the label, other than founder 50 Cent himself, have legitimate commercial staying power? You know there are many men hoping not. The exiled G-Unit soldier The Game, with whom Buck shared a tense, chaotic encounter in Las Vegas amid the NBA All-Star Game festivities. Dipset chief Cam’ron, whose beef with 50 recently spilled into a video for Buck’s song “Hold On.” Jimmy James Johnson, who Buck famously stabbed with a dinner knife during a fracas at the 2004 Vibe Awards in Los Angeles. (James had punched Dr. Dre, who was instrumental in bringing G-Unit into the Interscope Records family. Buck pleaded guilty to assault and was sentenced to three years’ probation in December ’05.) But Buck’s trying to get past all the “bullshit,” as he calls it, and concern himself solely with “real life.” This summer, actually, you’ll be able to watch that life on MTV2, as he’s slated to do a reality show called, like his album, Buck the World. He’s expanding into the business world, too, having started a label, Cashville Records, and signed his Tennessee homies the rap trio 615 and West Coast vet C-BO to recording contracts. An hour after the listening party, the man who’s calling himself the “CEO of G-Unit right now” settles into his chair in a room at the Dream Hotel in Midtown Manhattan and tells us what’s on his mind. Watch him do his thing. Can you speak on what happened at All-star Weekend when you ran into The Game? Any day, bruh. You know, if any real nigga—any individual, period—has a problem with anybody and they have a chance to see that individual they have a problem with, instead of leaving that place without any kind of moment of, you know, words or any kind of confrontation or anything, then I think you’re not really representing yourself, or not representing your situation. So for me, that was the first time me and Game had ever been in the same domain, in the same building, in the same eyesight of each other, since all of this bullshit that you getting from G-Unit and from them with the bullshit beef. So for me, it was pretty much like, we doing all this eye-contact shit across the club, let me go ’head and see if it’s a problem. And what I did was, I went to the stage, and I told the DJ to play one of Game’s records. And what I did, I didn’t diss Game or jump on the mic and start rappin’ and sayin’, “Fuck you, Game,” or disrespect Game in no kind of way. I just pretty much told Game and everybody in the building, “Look, if there’s a problem for anybody with me or my crew, then right now is the time to handle that. You know, straight up. If not, let’s get to the money. But if it’s a problem, let’s get it on…” After two, three minutes, Game started making his way down the stairs with his entourage, and the security at the club interfered and kinda like pushed him out the club and shit. So I don’t know if he was coming to get it on or give love. All I’m saying is I made room for whatever it was going to be. Being the fact that we in the same building and it’s been a lot of tension with this bullshit. So you know, if there ain’t a problem, we gon’ show it ain’t a problem in front of these people. If it is a problem, we gon’ show it’s a problem in front of these people, too… I just want the fans to understand what’s real and what’s not… And you know, I can’t act like I’ve always been in the mode that I’m in. In the beginning of this shit, you know, you get your diss records. You done got some of your strongest diss records that I done said about some of these niggas, you know. I played the game with that, but I played the game with me not knowing the situations, if they real or not. So I’ve been able to get hands-on with these niggas, being the street nigga that I am, to see if it’s real or not. And when, if I see it ain’t real, I’m not fuckin’ wit’ it. Jadakiss, we just smoked a blunt together, bruh, and did it big at the All-Star Game in Vegas together. You were on the radio, on Ed Lover’s morning show, a few weeks later saying that you were willing to squash the beef with The Game. Yeah, I’m willing to. If it ain’t a problem, we don’t have to act like it’s a problem, period. So if you gon’ call that squashing the beef or whatever, I’m with whatever way you put it. We don’t have to shake hands or none of that. If you want to shake hands, let’s do it. All I’m saying is, there’s room for whatever… Whatever it is, let’s just do it and get to it and get it over with, ’cause I ain’t with the bullshit. Personally, do you wish that the situation between The Game and 50 did not happen? Yeah, I honestly wish it didn’t happen, because what that did was make Dr. Dre and Eminem, muthafuckas I look up to, have to analyze a situation and choose sides… That’s bullshit. You know, niggas have differences. But if you ain’t no bitch nigga, then you shouldn’t feel lesser than a man for stretching out about your problems you had with somebody else and trying to get to them. That’s only a manly thing. You not less a man for trying to handle your business in a way to get to the end of a problem. You more of a man, in my eyes, straight up and down. I think you less of a man by carrying out shit that you know ain’t real. Then, you know that you’re fighting and doing something you know in your heart ain’t right. So you’re not being yourself, man. Read the rest of our Young Buck feature in XXL’s May 2007 issue (#91) __________________

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martijnlinde G-g-g-g-g Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: The Netherlands Posts: 6,669 Repped: 4,608 Repped 5,503 Times in 773 Posts Neg Reps: 355 Neg Repped at 291 Times in 182 Posts	big propzzz i hope he get platinum first week Get Em Buck

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THA WEATHA MAN Cud Make It Rain Or Snow Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Away From Home Posts: 7,504 Repped: 2,409 Repped 9,896 Times in 685 Posts Neg Reps: 1 Neg Repped at 14 Times in 13 Posts	ok I dont think he'll sell like a mill 1st week but he will sell alot though. Buck is 2 sick 2 flop...hopefully. Props on the news. __________________ "I was taught wise, Im known to extort guys, this aint Cali, its Harlem nigga we do walkbys" -Big L

03-30-2007, 07:13 PM	#13
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ChUcK C Banned Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Southside Jamaica Queens,New York Posts: 7,072 Repped: 2,941 Repped 27 Times in 13 Posts Neg Reps: 0 Neg Repped at 0 Times in 0 Posts	propz imma get a copy from walmart real quck rite now cuz i wanna c wot i=dis nigga gotta say

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THREATS Veteran Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Texas Posts: 9,681 Repped: 525 Repped 263 Times in 138 Posts Neg Reps: 25 Neg Repped at 16 Times in 14 Posts	jus copped his shit ya heard. lloyds too.

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$Compton\Queens OG is offline$

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buck-sup buck-sup Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: P G Posts: 201 Repped: 7 Repped 0 Times in 0 Posts Neg Reps: 0 Neg Repped at 0 Times in 0 Posts	man his album is fire.

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d_lit_e Member Join Date: Dec 2006 Posts: 69 Repped: 11 Repped 0 Times in 0 Posts Neg Reps: 0 Neg Repped at 0 Times in 0 Posts	props Young Buck, buck the world! __________________ Buck The World! Get 'em Buck!

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