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Can It Be That It Was All So Simple Then… All good things come to an end. G-Unit’s run of being rap’s most influential crew is over. Let’s make it clear though. This NOT about 50 Cent’s personal career. This is about G-Unit the rap group; G-Unit the brand name. But before they fell off, hate it or love it, G-Unit revolutionized the game. “G-Unit nigga/that’s what’s up.” That was our first introduction to Lloyd Banks, Tony Yayo, and 50 Cent as “G-Unit” on 50’s mixtape “Guess Who’s Back.” The key: it came on a mixtape, not hosted by a DJ. 50 Cent and his G-Unit crew were the first to successfully pull off their own mixtapes as a way of providing new music & generating new fans. They took the idea to another level by introducing the idea of recreating popular songs: keep the beat, change the words, create a melody. Artist had been freestyling over hot beats forever; but they weren’t remaking the songs. When 50 & his crew began to do this on their mixtapes they provided themselves with a crucial advantage: they made radio-friendly music, but maintained a street presence. That is the combination every A&R, music executive, manager, or artist in the business craves for. G-Unit mastered this. In fact they had all the componant’s needed to be a dominant rap crew. The slick rhyming MC with crazy punchlines (Banks). The goon who provided “street cred” (Yayo was in jail when “Beg For Mercy” dropped). And the leader who had a superior business IQ, knew how to make records, and straight-up personified the “Hustler’s Ambition.” They had their catch phase that everybody knew (G-G-G-G-G-G-G-Unit). And best of all, they were from New York. We all know how much the industry loves to promote New York cats, and we know how much New York loves to hype New York cats. With this foundation, G-Unit attempted to create an empire that would run the rap world & stand out in the hip-hop scene. This required regional expansion, and cross-over appeal. Thus 50 scooped up a former Cash Money soldier in Young Buck to cover the South; he added Game, a Dre-protege straight from Compton. They brought on Oliva, the team’s R&B and female presence. They teamed with Marc Ecko for a G-Unit clothing line. They did collabos with R&B acts like Mary J. Blige & Avent, and Pop superstars like Justin Timberlake for commercial appeal. Then in 2006 came the real power moves. Remember this cover: It felt like the day G-Unit took over the world. It was a major movw. Not because the signings were Hip-Hop superstars, but it was like the top team in the league signing the best free agents in the game. They signed a legendary duo (Mobb Deep), one of NY’s most underrated groups (M.O.P.), brought Harlem back from church (Mase), and even got another West Coast cat (Spider Loc). It was G-Unit’s exercise in “strength in numbers.” These were the soldiers to aid the G-Unit takeover. But it never happened. In fact, it failed miserably. Even before this move, there was the Game/50 beef and fallout. And over time, most of these acts disappeared one by one (with the exception of Mobb Deep). Without making an impact once so ever. No albums, no singles, no nothing. The team’s mainstays even felt the pressure. Banks dropped a brick with his sophomore album; Yayo hasn’t put out any albums since his first, but has got the group plenty of bad press with “alleged” incident with a 14 year old. The ugly situation with Young Buck put more of the group’s business out in the street and ended with Buck exiting the group. And then, there was three. And they could only push 102, 000 in their 1st week. They couldn’t sell more in their 1st week then Weezy sold in his 4th week. The irony is that 50 built the G-Unit brand based on his idea that they produced numbers. He pointed to hit singles, radio spins, albums sold, anything that could be counted. Men lie, women lie, numbers don’t. The lack of a hit single, the poor album sales, and the overall lack of buzz about the album all point to common theme with G-Unit over the last year: people don’t really care. At least, they don’t care about G-Unit the brand, G-Unit the Hip-Hop crew. Michael Partis RTNY
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Thas aight. banks can get his shine now
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Man You act Like this is First Group In Hip Hop To Flopppp You Niggas are Stupid You Guysz Should Looking at Dipset They Flopped Hard 17k In there first week They had a Hit On 106 N Park "Splash" G-Unit Had No Hits N Styll Did 102k First Week N G-Unit Is One Of The Best In Hip Hop They Dont Care Bout Record Sales Anymore & I see them Having Fun & Rocking Crowds In Stadiums They Already Hit Plat So Many Tymes so wat they need to Prove If They Wanted To Hit Plat On T.O.S Interscope Would Told Them to Do Pop Songs But They Wanted to Hit The Str8's Cause That what there good at .......... I No Niggas dont like That ICE CREAM TRUCK MUSIC......for a Str8 Album to sell that much is Good when the last all str8 Group album to hit 100k Other Then B4M
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as a dominate figure in hi hop they done but they still the biggest group out. music wise they far from done Banks crused TOS and this year and got 5 tapes comin. Yayo idk about him but 50 workin hard on alot of shit especially BISD.
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word, R.I.P G-Unit....2003-2008
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This is a personal opinoin from a blogger so i dont really take it that serious, and some stuff in there just aren't facts...
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agree with Jrampage....g-unit aint done at all...just dumb niggaz hatin....yall know it aint like that....its funny that g-unit is done based on sales...smh.....then all other groups in hiphop would be dead...
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they workin on 10 fuckin projects they can definitely come back i kinda think g-unit should do 1 more album and split. then have banks start a group cause he young and they need a fresh group to come up aswell.
and if g-unit is done they finished on a good foot wit TOS
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What happened to Hot Rod where is that nigga in all of this?
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soooooo he said sales going down ....He mostly Bragged About Fat Joe Sales There weren't attackin Sales If They Wanted to They Would Make T.O.S LIke Curtis
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M.O.P & Hot Rod & Spider Loc & Mobb Deep & Fox Styll In G-Unit
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watch a new smash come out.....50 is back, banks is hot, yayo is nice...
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LMAOO!! oh man u guys be killin me. they come in at 2nd on the billboard chart and the g-unit empire has fallen? lolll fuck me. g-unit is hip-hop.
and its funny how every person that agrees with that story has a fuckin game sig or BWS shit or sumthin lmao fuckin clowns.
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what? i realy aint understand what u said..but all im sayin is that 50 has attacked and made fun of other rappers because of there low sales...and has used that time and time again...in fact thats the only thing he rides on. but anyways hes just gettin a taste of his own medicine...
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I am a huge Game fan and I bought TOS and they still flopped but you niggaz shouldn't give a fuck about numbers they aint cutting you checks Game or 50. TOS and LAX will still sound the same coming through your speakers whether they go platinum or plastic. Stans on here just bring up sales when convenient to their argument.
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Nigga it doesnt mean G-Unit Dead Cuz They Ain'T Wen 50 Said G-Unit is Finish Thats when it There dead Cuz You acting like haterz like u nver seen some1 flopped in ur life Dipset Did worse then these niggas Dipset Had A Movement Just Like G-Unit Did
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