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Ranking G-Unit’s Albums From Worst To Best: ‘Buck The World’ Edition
Even before the infamous taped conversation, Young Buck developed a reputation as the most emotional member of G-Unit. But emotion isn’t a bad thing for an artist—just ask Drake. On his sophomore album, Buck The World, the Nashville native tapped into the full spectrum of feelings without ever once wavering from the G-Unit model of gangsta rap. This was the case with
Ranking G-Unit’s Albums From Worst To Best: The Hunger For More Edition
7.Lloyd Banks-The Hunger The More
Those of us who were recruited to G-Unit's fanbase via their earliest mixtape grind had to have been wondering what would come of Banks and Yayo. With the eventual recruitment of UTP's Young Buck and Dr. Dre's protege Game,
G-Unit was suddenly a crowded roster. Banks got the first solo release date following 50 Cent's debut.
Ranking G-Unit’s Albums From Worst To Best: Before I Self-Destruct Edition
8.50 Cent-Before I Self Destruct
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By 2009, 50 Cent's moment had passed. He had already suffered an embarrassing loss in 2007 to Kanye West when Graduation handily outsold 50's Curtis. But that only told half the story. Kanye didn't just make a better album (50 admitted as much in a recent GQ profile) but made 50's sound feel old and outdated—like a superstar athlete who ruined his knees and just didn't have the same lift anymore. By '09, all the seeds of Kanye's influence began to blossom as rappers like J. Cole and Drake began their ascent, creating a new paradigm in rap that left gangsta rap in the dust. Yet, even hobbled, 50 was still kicking that "aggressive content" as a reminder that street rap would always have a place in hip-hop.
Ranking G-Unit’s Albums From Worst To Best: Get Rich Or Die Tryin’ Soundtracks Edition
9. G-Unit Nation-Get Rich, Or Die Tryin'
- "At the Ent Of The Day, What will you hang on to?"
G-Unit Nation {G-Unit(50 Cent, Lloyd Banks, Young Buck, Tony Yayo), Mobb Deep (Prodigy, Havoc), M.O.P (Billy Danze, Lil Fame), G-Unit Crips/G-Unit West (Spider Loc), Harlem World (Murda Ma$e), Olivia }
Guest: Nate Dogg
A G-Unit album as film soundtrack—alright, I'll take it. Luckily, this wasn't just a compilation project, but a legit new release with a few legit hits. If it took a $40 million vanity blockbuster to give us "Window Shopper," so be it. This here's a bona fide G-Unit album, and so, of course, it's more gangsta than playboy, more slick than seductive, so much so that
Ranking G-Unit’s Albums From Worst To Best: Thoughts of a Predicate Felon Edition
13 Tony Yayo-Thoughts of a Predicate Felon
Given his famous incarceration, the expectations of Tony Yayo's debut were relatively slim. Not that we weren't checking for Yayo, but we weren't quite pulling for him, "Free Yayo" proto-hashtags aside. So you can't say Predicate Felon flopped, really. It's just that the slick/shit balance that blessed 50 never quite leveled with Yayo's persona—"So Seductive" (a certified banger, to be sure) and "Curious" drove
Ranking G-Unit’s Albums From Worst To Best: Animal Ambition Edition
G-Unit was a hell of a movement—really, an inferno insomuch as 50 Cent was fiery and devilish, with incendiary, all-consuming hype. Confronted with 50's debut singles "In Da Club" and "Wanksta" in 2003, Jay Z threw up his hands, as Roc-A-Fella took a backseat to the year. Ja Rule and Irv Gotti's Murda Inc. fumbled, stumbled, crashed. The Ruff Ryders disintegrated. Violator floundered.
For a few tumultuous, glorious years, 50 Cent, Lloyd Banks, Tony Yayo, Young Buck, and Game were the tallest men standing. (Not that we loved Dipset any less.)
50 Cent:’Empire Stands On Power!’ #Be A General
General 50 Cent marches back into mixtape territory with The Kanan Tape. Kanan is a serial Power’s brutal and calculated drug pusher villain Kanan, portrayed by 50 himself. 50 Cent also has teamed with director Eif Rivera to shoot a short film titled "Kanan"!
New Mixtape features Post Malone, Boosie Badazz, Young Buck and Sonny Digital. Production comes from Colt 45, Illmind, Sonny Digital, Scoop Deville, Alchemist, London On Da Track and Bandplay.