G-Unit: The Fall of A Rap Empire
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- čas přidán 14. 06. 2024
- G-Unit is undeniably one of the biggest groups of all time. It's no secret that 50 Cent didn't get along with many members of G-Unit due to laziness and other contributing factors. Today we look into what exactly led to the tragic downfall of G-Unit.
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0:00 Intro
0:46 The Formation of G-Unit
2:39 The 2002 Mixtape Run
5:59 G-Unit's Blow Up
7:04 Bang Em Smurf Beef
17:31 The Game Beef
27:33 G-Unit's Solo Artists
38:49 T.O.S.
40:09 G-Unit Splits Up
43:25 G-Unit's Reunion
45:55 Outro
i think when 50 sold vitaminwater for 100m, he realized he can do this shit by himself without the drama.
True. He saw the potential of branding himself
yea for sure like he told jada or styles p in an iterview people want to leave the hood, nobody wants that shit
He never thought he couldn't do it by himself. This is more of the case of someone bringing their friends with them for the ride.
Yo they didn't even miss a lyric during that whole thing, live rap shows have def changed
That's Cap 50 was a bully and wanted soldiers, not a group of bosses . That's exactly why him and Game got into it, and Young Buck was way better
50 was smart to cut ties with Smurf. Smurf was causing trouble so much he could have caused problems in the future.
I see ur point but I see why smurf felt the clay he did he was the 1 50 called 2 do the stuff he only rapped about he was actually a thug and he was original member I know 50 is v v v petty at the best if times n not bailing him out was wrong imho the sending him home thing was a power trip thing but it allso made sense look how 50 leaked bucks emo jail call he's not a good dude not even 2 his people
@@tonythetiger1600 Back then when 50 had had his deal with with Em and Interscope he was on tour. He brought his squad with him and he had rules on tour and warned them there will be no fighting on tour or you will be sent home. Smurf got into a fight with the road manager and got sent home to get his mid right. Then Smurf got locked up at home for the for the gun charge possession, that was the final straw for 50. Smurf refused to leave that street life mentality/ego instead of looking at the big picture like 50.
@@silence6813 yh I get it but he treats his day1 friend a man that would actually kill 4 him n treats him like that sez it all 4 me
@@tonythetiger1600a day1 friend sounds fishy
@@chaosmage4834 wot u mean
50 catching that chair is a classic hip-hop moment.
4sure !!!!
Dope for hip hop!!!
Haha😂
Time stamp please 🙏🙏
We all need a friend like Marvin. Loyalty hard to come by.
Facts
Could’ve been ambitious and still loyal
A glorified yes man
@@GodmadeTrends That's EXACTLY what he is.
@@GodmadeTrends I agree with you. You never want to be in a friendship or relationship with someone who never challenges your thoughts and ideas so you can grow.
regarding Lloyd Banks in '05 - he recorded "The Big Withdraw" album at the time but messed up and lost the CD with tracks, hence it got scrapped and "Rotten Apple" came out instead
It got robbed in a threesome and the bitches leaked it.50 made Banks do his sophomore album over.
Lol he didn't lose it it was stolen by either both or one of the girls that he had a menage a twois with one night whilst in Paris I think? Maybe not Paris but the threesome thing is what happened
That’s the album he say he lost in ya threesome at a hotel 😂
27:57 Tony Yayo definitely had more buzz when he was in jail then when he got out but he was never the most popular out of the group. When the whole 'Free Yayo' thing was going on, Lloyd Banks & Young Buck were buzzing, had hit singles being played and their debut albums went platinum. Tony Yayo had buzz but he wasn't bigger than Lloyd Banks or Young Buck
Exactly
Tony Yayo its more loyal then other
@@underground2646 We're talking about who was the most popular not who was more loyal and Tony Yayo was never the most popular member at anytime
Dude yayo had a couple of hits and had ppl doing that dance
@@theblackbolt5514 He had one hit with So Seductive and it must've been where you were where people did his dance because wasn't no one else doing it and he still was never the most popular one out of the group so your tryna argue about nothing
As a female fan of 50 and G-Unit you couldn’t tell me $hit about them back then. I got to augments with he guys I worked with over 50 because they were talking junk lol Ever since I heard How to Rob I was hooked and waiting for him to blow up as he did. I got all the albums, each member’s debut album, I had the gear, BullentProof the Game and I went to the shows. Love 50 and still do with his petty self.
I’m always sad to hear about the cracks in G-Unit and how things fell apart but in some ways I get it. He wanted them to stand on their own, or some got too gassed and he had to cut them off. As for the street stuff..I get that too..he’s trying to build an empire for himself and possibly help those who wants the same..but you can’t be still wanting to do street $hit then hang around him…he’s not trying to lose what he’s building…Some of these rappers should wake up and do the same or anyone for that matter… times you got to cut off people who doesn’t fit for you anymore and more forward. keep them around and they will hold you back and bring trouble you don’t want.
The Game messed up and I LOVE his debut album…All Game had to do was chill, build then go off on his own but ego got in the way…and it’s a shame.
Fast forward to the Super Bowl half time show…a part of me was hoping Game would join them for Hate it or Love it…that would have made my night.
Yayo’s album I didn’t like out of all of them..Just the one main track but definitely his debut album was not good. Still have in my collection but I won’t go back to it.
Love Banks…I really enjoyed his debut album.
Buck’s debut album was good too…no bad…I enjoyed it.
Game debut..FIRE! I couldn’t stop listening to the album. Still one of my favorite albums to listen to.
💯💯 G-Unit 4Life
Sleepin’ on Yayo. Yayo was even colder in ‘02. He was a lil’ different after prison, though. Maybe because they were rich by then and he lost a bit of hunger. 🤷🏽♂️
Well said. The Game came from that gang life and was the most disloyal dude out of the rap game. He killed his career. He dedicated so much time trying to tear down 50 and G-Unit, the same people who helped launch his career. The Games music was never the same for me.
Marry me...
Holy shit how to rob was how I first heard 50 in 2002
The Young Buck taped conversation was done in 2007; a year before Buck was kicked out of G-Unit. 50 released it in the summer of 2008 because of the ongoing beef between him and Buck.
30:51 The reason why Tony Yayo's album is considered a flop is because it only went gold in 2005 when every other member of G-Unit at the time had went platinum with their albums. Tony Yayo's album took years to reach platinum
It was a good album though
@@nalydamuttah1 A lot of people disagree that it was good but if y'all think that then that's y'all
There's an old clip from Vlad in 2006, where he's mocking the sales for Game's 2nd album. Yayo couldn't even remember that his own album did worse. 😂
@@j04370859he debut at number 2 behind Kanye
@@nalydamuttah1Yayo is trash
This was a amazing doc. I clicked cause i wanted to see how in depth because i know the story.
listen. that “taped conversations” and the other diss buck did “terminate on sight” were fire af lol. i’m a huge 50 fan but i still go back and spin those sometimes in 2023. them shits were heat.
I would love to see a vid on when 50 Cent signed Mase, Mobb Deep, MOP, Spider Loc, Lil Scrappy and almost LL Cool J. That's always been pretty interesting to me
Underrated G-Unit era. Spider Loc was dope on Death Row too.
Gunit was finished by then
Also Olivia and Hot Rod. Lil avrappy
32:00 Young Buck stabbed the guy who punched Dr. Dre at the Vibe Awards and Fat Joe said they two-pieced Young Buck in Chicago so Young Buck was with it too and we already when Bang Em Smurf was with G-Unit, he was handling beef for 50 Cent on the streets
Could you do same video but with D12
G-unit is legendary 🔥 Bank$ aka the Plk was the nicest lyrically, Buck was a beast & Yayo aka the talk of new york was the best hype man period and his adlibs was remarkable and he could spit thanks 50 💯💪
To say Game spit in his face for not wanting to inherit beef with two guys that he respected is wild!...
Game took out Gunit destroyed the brand that why its hard for 50 to be cool with game
good video my guy
T.O.S. Is an amazing and slept on album. 💿
Man you're doing it with these videos
Lloyd Banks is the only one who became a Veteran and is still making incredible tracks.
Game still making good music bro
@@hkhan6956Game claims he was never officially a member
So no one is gonna point out that buddy is biting Diverse Mentality ??
Lol the similarities
Great content ❤
50 caught a chair and STILL FINISHED THE GODDAMN SHOW what a gangster
Buck didn't even miss a word the whole song 😂
Yeah no lie fifty wuz that ninja in tha 2000's and he still got some shizz
the due diligence here can’t go unnoticed. keep doing ya thing bro 🫂
When they had that 2014 reunion and i got introduced to how fire kidd kidd was, I was like THE UNIT IS BACK!! Then they had another falling out and I was like damn smh
Top causes of their decline are:
-50 dissing half of NY on “Piggy Bank.”
-Game being disloyal.
-50 publicly kicking Game out of G-Unit.
-50 watering down the brand by signing Mobb Deep, M.O.P., Spider Loc, etc.
-Banks leaving his “Big Withdraw” album at a hoe’s house.
-Banks not stepping up to be the flagship artist on the label.
-Buck being disloyal & doing drugs.
-50 over-saturating the market with his sound by writing for LL, Freeway & Scrappy.
-The label not updating their sound or beat selection.
-50 participating in a sales battle with Kanye.
-50 not moving the label to Def Jam when Sha Money was there in 2009.
-50 not embracing Kanye, Wayne & others from that era.
50cent never wrote for LL
And 50 trying to go at Jadakiss, Kayne and Game. And losing.
@@theblackbolt5514 yes he did. He wrote his song “Paradise” with Amerie & he co-wrote the original version of the Todd Smith album.
@@christiancharles2866 you obviously didn’t read my post.
@@jihadx5307 he wrote amerie part and the hook not LL verse
They were so big at one point the potential wasn't quite achieved after an amazing first few years group album n solo projects then the game situation n things changed
Loads of good music to look back on still
Nice listen for work tomorrow
Putting the Bang Em stuff before the Game's really put something into perspective. 50 used the same principle to kick them both out
I just wanna point out a lil thing when John says “it only made sense that G-Unit dropped their first studio album” it honestly DIDNT make sense, the label wanted Fif to drop another solo album first but Fif went against that and did the G-Unit album, he made sure to bring his people up with him, mad respect
The song was Heaven's EP by Cole. Verse was definitely true from Cole but I love that Cole is the underdog because he continues to keep dominating on every feature and putting out classics.
Make a video how 50 got his movie deal for Get Rich or Die Tryin
19:45 50 Cent said the song Westside Story is also one of the songs he gave to The Game
Nah Fif gave Higher, Hate It Or Love It & Special to Game. Church For Thugs & Westside Story were already songs that Game recorded. 50 got on it cause they didn't have hooks. As for How We Do, I don't know for sure
@@doublementertainment5462 50 Cent said he gave all 6 songs to The Game and muted his vocals that were originally on them. 50 Cent wrote the chorus for Church For Thugs and did a demo version for The Game to redo. The Game even said when he got the song Special it was originally 50 Cent on the hook but he took him off and put Nate Dogg on it. The Game said Dr. Dre made the beat for How We Do for 50 Cent but he didn't want it so The Game took it and 50 Cent ended up getting on the song anyways
Fantastic doc. I lived through that era in the Bronx, found out so much brody.
Nice vid but yayo didn’t start the jimmy henchmen beef smacking his son
They had been beefing for years before that and 50 even theorizes that game starting dissing g unit because jimmy got in his ear (he was games manager at the time)
Great info bring g unit bacc
Great Doc and I can see how you've gotten your conclusions from... But let's be real
Lloyd Banks had a successful solo career 3 mainstream albums, 1 platinum, 1 gold... Still killing the underground scene...
This is SO AMAZING 🤍❤️📈📈📈👍🏻👍🏻🏆👑💥👏
Lmao kat said Tony yayo “so seductive “ had people wondering what he was doing in that cell 😂😂😂😂
Banks had success with all of his mixtapes PLK, Halloween Havoc, cold corner etc
G Unit along with Shady/Aftermath is the greatest rap empire ever.
That Domination diss track was the shT!
Did you check for Banks lately? Dude is dropping fire
That guard whipped the chair back at dudes
I WOULDNT SAY FALL THEY GOT OLD NOBODY STAYS ON TOP FOREVER OUT WITH THE OLD IN WITH THE NEW JUST HOW THE WORLD WORK BUT 50 STILL AT THE TOP OF HIS GAME EASY 💯
I agree
Already uninterested in the video by the thumbnail and intro to the video not including or showing The Game as apart of G-Unit. Anybody who dismisses the fact he was a member doubt lived through the era. I remember when he was in the group I remember anticipating and waiting for his album especially after being on Banks album released at the start of summer 2004. He had joined in Fall 2003 around the time Beg For Mercy released. He had already done songs with them before as 50 and Game were both Aftermath for almost a year before Game joined G-Unit . During Games time in G-Unit he dissed Ja Rule, Irv Gotti, Benzino, The Source, Murder Inc, Bang Em Smurf, Yukmouth, Joe Buddens, Domination all in G-Units defense. When it came time for the beefs with Fat Joe, Jadakiss, and Nas, Game made the mistake saying that he would stay out if the beef publicly.. That's Games mistake.
When it comes to the falling out between 50 and Game, I'm tired of people biasly blaming Game like 50 doesn't have a massive ego. I think they were both in the wrong. 💯
They were a good team. When Game was in the group that was the peak of the label. Good times.
I agree 100%
It’s crazy how these album sales were considered flops back then.. pure sales that’s amazing.. your fave artist wishes they could sale this much first week in pure sales no streaming in 2023
Not really flops, just underperformance, compared to the predecessors.
True. At a point, selling less than 200,000+ within a week would be looked at as a flop and could’ve gotten you dropped from your label
#TogetherEvery1AchievesMore TEAM‼️
29:52 i remember being into So Seductive when it came out. i was probably 13. Curious tho, is a song I forgot about. so I went to listen to it rq.
its wild Tony started singing on it 😂
I liked it joe, as usual, doesn't disappoint.
It’s crazy he said game would only sell 500 thousand if a rapper sold that these days that’s a accomplishment 🤦🏿♂️
The Game was a fool, I'm sure he regrets it now that he's older
He still is a fool.
That´s only one side of a coin ... Game said that 50 was beffeing alot of people, that Game had no problem with especially Nas, wich Game was always a fan of. Game said 50 wanted him to be a "soldier" and that is when the fall off started. Not saying that Game is 100% right or 50 is 100% wrong ... but let´s face it 50 sign Spider loc just to lyric battle other rapper´s especially Game.
13:34 "Ya un san I'm sayin" back when 50 Cent talked with a loose jaw from when he got shot in his mouth
Lol
The reason why they failed was Jimmy Henchmen getting in Game's ear and causing drama
50 Cent is the future mixtape!! Straight Classic 🔥🔥
is that a pic of irv and 50 cent 1:19 ?
Game and Banks the best rappers
DRE I SEE DEAD PEOPLE 😂😂😂 now the whole world know why I took the I out of G-Unit and replaced it with a mothafuckin' O The Game 🔥
Lloyd Banks did not have a failed career, what are you talking about? He is still respected, and back to dropping music via his own label “Money by any means/Empire”. He also lost his father, and his mother was sick at one point. Give him a break. Mase was never signed to G-Unit btw, Diddy blocked that deal.
YOU'RE CLEARLY A FAN 😂
When did G Init clothing take over? That shit was in and out of the hood fast. I'm guessing it was popular in other communities.
What 50 should of done is have himself Banks, Yayo, And Whoo Kid as the official regulars of The Unit with Buck And Game being signed to G Unit Records but not the front people of the group yeah.
Transitioned from music to TV/Film with incredible success so more appropriately..
G-Unit: The evolution of a media empire
🔥 🔥
2:00 how does someone survive a deadly shooting?
5:05 1 million $. Remember people were offering him $1.7m but he took the lower offer from shady and dre because hes smart af. Tony Yayo was like "You turned down $1.7m? come on 50 like wtf?!" 50 playing Chess not Checkers. He a genuinely good businessman some rappers go broke lol from spending their money like idiots. Respect to 50 his first album sold MILLIONS record labels like telling him to drop his second album but hes like nah let me put my dudes on first before i release my second album. Thats some loyal shit that goes a long way in a lot of peoples eyes. Like he couldda dropped his second album at his HOTTEST when he was on TOP and it would have sold like wildfire after his first album which sold a LOT like over 10 million album sales. So to do that? Mad respect. He looked after his peoples got them on made sure they was good first. THEN he drops his second album in like 05 that also sells over ten million records but it would have sold more in 03/04 IMO.
Banks is putting out his best stuff now
A willingness to work HARD,harder then the next man,can sometimes propel u to greatness!!!
I absolutely was a G Unit head as a teenager. Had the music clothes movies & video games. But all the damn beefs drama & BS was too much for me over time smh. But Fif & G Unit still get play over here.
Yayo was actually on one song on Beg for mercy, Groupie Luv 😊
Damn, no mention of Banks dropping an album every year for three years now?
What 50 contributed to the Game career is quite evident and transparent considering he never created another hit or anything of any significance shortly after. Very likely, even lacking the the skill set to create huge songs he's also being blackballed by the powerfully rich fifty cent whose powerful friends possess the keys to all doors.
You imagine, you doing your own sht and before you know it the biggest rapper in music at the time gives you a call and sign you to shady records.
A black man gave him the opportunity and he turns around and returns the favor by doing the same with 50.
Thats why 50 would go at anyone who talks shit about Eminem.
I been watching these all day smh 😂
Can we get that part two with current members Yayo, & Uncle Murda? Not much to be said in terms of sales but the group albeit not the original, is still active. Gotta be worth a 10min vid 😂
All the rap empires fall lol ... Wu-Tang Wu-Tang Wu-Tang Wu-Tang Wu-Tang Wu-Tang still here 🐐🐐🐐🐐🐐
All of your documentaries are on point but I'm disappointed by the complete omission of Jimmy Henchman for the Game segment (unless you talk about that in the Game vs. 50 documentary).
You named the on paper reasons that led to their beef, but both 50 and Yayo know that it started with Henchman getting in Game's ear. Henchman and Chris Lighty had a very serious beef, and even though G-Unit didn't like Henchman, they had to give him the benefit of the doubt as it wasn't proven Henchman was involved in shady business.
Yayo said 50 regrets not making Game leave Henchman before accepting him into G-Unit.
I mentioned it at the end of the video
@@JohnAnthonyHD oh my fault
Man fif caught alot of chairs in that 03 year its another video of him catching a chair with one hand while performing
That boy said it had people questioning what yayo was doing in that cell 😂😂
Yayo did not start the henchman beef the beef was because henchman was jealous of 50 Manger
Yea😊
Yea Tony Yayo is definitely the most loyal friend
To me, the best rapper in the group (besides 50) was Lloyd Banks. The problem was Banks has no work ethic. The artist with the best work ethic (besides 50) was the Game. The problem with Game is he has that Joe Budden problem as Game usually self sabotages with everyone he works with.
Nobody was checking for Tony
Still performing 😂after da chair shit crazy😊
🎉🎉🎉
I won’t argue with you that the members of G-Unit may have some of their self to blame for not being associated with 50 but I don’t think it’s fair to say that banks and Buck were lazy. Buck, especially had a reputation for being a great songwriter, and someone that constantly hustles From dozens of people in hip-hop. Even 50 Cent had to admit that Banks and Buck were very good when it came to the studio like I said I’m not saying they don’t have their faults but I don’t think it’s fair to say that they were lazy. I think with Buck it’s a bunch of things that happened outside the studio in offstage and mistakes. He’s made in his personal life as far as partying and not being mindful of how much money he’s spending but let’s keep it a buck. The game had backing from the West Coast, even though Dr. Dre quit messing with him. There were other members of that NWA family tree on the west coast that still we’re messing with game and had his back. Even though Dr. Dre didn’t do anything with game, he was still working with artist like Snoop Dogg, Warren G, tha Dogg pound, ice cube, Mack 10, etc. so even though he technically wasn’t on aftermath anymore, he still had 80% of that family tree helping him out.
Where other members of unit really only had unit and when there’s no G unit they’re kind of out there by themselves so I don’t think it’s fair to say that this proves was a hard worker and he just worked harder than those other guys. He had a whole region behind him, backing him up. go listen to the first three solo Young Buck albums. You can’t be lazy and come out with music that good
G-Unit
Still enjoy a lot of the albums so i really dont care what all argue about to day i just enjoy the album s of the last Era of great gangster rap Rip 1992-2007✌🏻just my opinion ✌🏻
50 cent and G-Unit was the most number 1 rap group
What about young buck
You have to learn from your mistakes because if you don’t from your mistakes you will not grow and become better version of yourself,if 50 would of paid the bail all he would of done is put a 🩹 on it, and a price one at that so remember that this dude could of been making legal money and learning and meeting people but instead a Jersey that wasn’t even his was his down fall and is sad because I seen people burn good bridges over few dollars when if they would of just been real about the situation
Why you didnt mention Olivia???
Back in the day, I used to think 50 was the villain in the Game beef, and I thought he was the reason for the fall of G-Unit. After kicking Buck out, right after Game. My opinion definitely changed in later years. Game was an unloyal bipolar mess, and you can see how much more of a phoney he has been in recent years. 50 wanted Banks, Yayo, and Buck to branch out and make it on their own. But they were being either reckless or lazy, so they all still live off him to this day, and he's tired of it.
I believe Lloyd Banks could've been a big rapper, but he just sucked at promoting himself. It's a shame how much low attention he gets, but he's to blame. What 50 said about him in his audiobook really highlights his failure.
Because they didn't want to be their puppet and you know it.
Game was smart and got out. He had a great career. Yayo sucks and is trash. Banks still makes good music.
26:19 game said he was never there
41:34 lmfaoooo
Banks didn't fail due to being lazy. Banks failed because his voice changed. Banks voice sounds amazing in the song 'On Fire' and in 2004. But his voice went from amazing to Game comparing it to Oscar the Grouch. Em said it took like 200 takes for him to get his voice sounding right for 8 bars on the song 'You Don't Know'. Banks has punches but his voice after 2005 became much worse.
idk what your point is with the Mobb Deep comment and not bothering to want to mention it. It was a great resurgence for the Mobb and ill go on to say that it brought me to becoming a Mobb head more than even G-Unit and Mobb Deep will forever be better exponentially then gunit for the culture. Prodigy was more of a genius than 50 and earned every stripe in life. lose my respect for that comment.
Nothing about Olivia, mob deep, mase
I forgot mase joined them