G-Unit

G-Unit
Tony Yayo , 50 Cent and Lloyd Banks (left to right)
General information
Genre (s)	Hip-hop , rap
founding	1998
Founding members
rap	50 cents
rap	Tony Yayo
rap	Sha Money XL
rap	Domination
rap	Bang 'Em Smurf
Current occupation
rap	50 cents
rap	Uncle Murda
rap	Tony Yayo
former members
rap	The Game
rap	Lloyd Banks
rap	Kidd kidd
singing	Olivia
rap	Bang 'Em Smurf
rap	Domination
rap	Young Buck

G-Unit (abbreviation for Gorilla Unit ) is an American hip-hop group from New York City , consisting of rappers 50 Cent , Lloyd Banks , Tony Yayo , Young Buck and Kidd Kidd. The crew's DJ is DJ Whoo Kid .

Foundation and advancement

50 Cent , Tony Yayo , Sha Money XL , Domination and Bang 'Em Smurf founded the group in the New York neighborhood of Jamaica in the borough of Queens in 1998. They were later joined by Baltimore- born Lloyd Banks , who was considered too young when the group was founded had been. He didn't get the shot until 50 Cent was shot and Banks turned out to be a good friend in this situation. Olivia joined in 2005 . In addition, the migrated The Game was replaced by Spider Loc. In the following years, Hot Rod , 40 Glocc , Willy Northpole and Carnegie joined. Through an agreement between the BME Clique and G-Unit, both labels are entitled to release albums with the same artists. The first to benefit is the already famous Lil Scrappy . Willy Northpole left G-Unit in early March 2008 and signed a record deal with DTP, the Ludacris label . The singer Olivia also left the G-Unit in spring 2007.

Eminem contributed significantly to the success of the group . He heard the mixtape God's Plan , offered himself as a producer for the group and was involved in 50 Cents hit album Get Rich Or Die Tryin ' .

When the group had their first successes with mixtapes , Young Buck (born in Tennessee ) joined the group. The first big success came after 50 Cent had hits as solo rappers with Wanksta and In Da Club , which also increased the interest in the group. Tony Yayo experienced this time in prison, as he was serving a prison sentence for illegal possession of weapons and forgery of documents and was only released after the release of the first G-Unit album Beg for Mercy .

From left to right: Olivia, Lloyd Banks, Young Buck, 50 Cent (2006)

In the meantime The Game (from Compton ) belonged to the G-Unit and released his album The Documentary in January 2005 . The album was produced by u. a. Dr. Dre , Eminem and Just Blaze . But after he separated from the group, it looked like this would be his only one from Dr. Dre produced album. An interim reconciliation from him with 50 cents did not last long and in June 2005 the dispute flared up again. However, this was settled in July 2016.

Sha Money XL is now the group's manager and producer. G-Unit has its own sub-label G-Unit Records at Interscope , which works closely with Aftermath Entertainment (Dr. Dre. Label) and Shady Records (Eminem's label). The G-Unit label has two sub-labels: The Infamous Records by Mobb Deep and Cashville Records by Young Buck.

The founding members Bang 'Em Smurf and Domination are now the Silverback Gorillaz .

In April 2008, 50 Cent announced that Young Buck was no longer part of the G-Unit, but was still under contract with G-Unit Records.

50 Cent announced a new G-Unit album in June 2014, which will be released in autumn of the same year.

"Beef" with competitors

The G-Unit is known for often producing beef (in German: dispute), i.e. usually verbal disputes that involve e.g. B. by insults (" disses ") on records to have with other rappers.

So it came to conflicts and the like. a. with Nas , Ja Rule , Joe Budden , Fat Joe , Jadakiss , P. Diddy and The Game , who later launched a regular campaign against his former employer G-Unit called G-Unot . He signs The Game autograph cards with Fuck 50 Cent followed by his name. The Game released the mix-tape Ghost-Unit at the end of 2005, which contains many disstracks regarding 50 Cent and the G-Unit, as well as a 15-minute freestyle track called 300 Bars & Runnin ' . 50 Cent went on the offensive in the summer of 2006 and said that he would "bury" his enemies . He made this announcement earlier to Ja Rule. Thereupon Snoop Dogg interfered and defended The Game, because this, like himself, comes from the West Coast . The last thing that came about during the 56th NBA All-Star Weekend in Las Vegas was an altercation between Young Buck and The Game, which was stopped by the security guards present.

Dispute in the crew

In April 2007 there were disputes within their own ranks. Olivia had to leave the G-Unit crew because, according to 50 Cent, her “creative potential […] was simply not enough”. There was also the dispute between 50 Cent and Young Buck. Young Buck told a radio station that he wanted to make up with The Game, which was 50 Cent wrong. Then 50 Cent said in an interview with the radio station Hot97 that he no longer wanted to work for his crew members.

However, the entire conflict was denied a short time later by Young Buck, but also by 50 Cent. 50 Cent did this on the US TV show Sucker Free , in which Tony Yayo and Young Buck also appeared. In September 2010, during an interview with the US radio station Shade 45 about the dispute with Young Buck, 50 Cent said that he would start working with him again.

Discography

Albums

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)					Remarks
		DE	AT	CH	UK	US
2003	Beg for Mercy	DE57 (14 weeks) DE	-	CH28 (13 weeks) CH	UK13 platinum (22 weeks)UK	US2 × 2 Double platinum (41 weeks)US	First published: November 14, 2003 Sales worldwide: + 6,000,000
2008	T * O * S (Terminate on Sight)	DE54 (1 week) DE	AT44 (2 weeks) AT	CH25 (6 weeks) CH	UK39 (3 weeks) UK	US4 (11 weeks) US	First published: July 1, 2008

EPs

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)					Remarks
		DE	AT	CH	UK	US
2014	The Beauty of Independence	-	-	-	-	US17 (3 weeks) US	First published: August 25, 2014
2015	The Beast Is G-Unit	-	-	-	-	US27 (4 weeks) US	First published: March 3, 2015

Mix tapes

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)					Remarks
		DE	AT	CH	UK	US
2002	50 cents is the future	-	-	CH59 (2 weeks) CH	UK65 (1 week) UK	-	First release: June 1, 2002 only entered the charts in 2004

More mix tapes

• 2002: God's Plan
• 2002: No Mercy No Fear
• 2005: Tha Realest Killaz
• G-Unit Radio 01 - Smoking Day 2
• G-Unit Radio 02 - International Ballers
• G-Unit Radio 03 - Talkin It To The Streets
• G-Unit Radio 04 - No Peace Talks
• G-Unit Radio 05 - All Eyez On Us
• G-Unit Radio 06 - Motion Picture Shit
• G-Unit Radio 07 - King Of New York
• G-Unit Radio 08 - The Fifth Element
• G-Unit Radio 09 - G-Unit City
• G-Unit Radio 10-2050 - Before The Massacre
• G-Unit Radio 11 - Raw & Uncut
• G-Unit Radio 12 - So Seductive
• G-Unit Radio 13 - The Return Of The Mixtape Millionaire
• G-Unit Radio 14 - Back To Business
• G-Unit Radio 15 - Are You A Window Shopper?
• G-Unit Radio 16 - Mase 10 Years of Hate
• G-Unit Radio 17 - The Best In The Bizness
• G-Unit Radio 18 - Rags To Riches
• G-Unit Radio 19 - Freeway
• G-Unit Radio 20 - The Best In The Bizness Part 2
• G-Unit Radio 21 - Hate It Or Love It
• G-Unit Radio 22 - Hip Hop Is Dead
• G-Unit Radio 23 - Finally Off Papers
• G-Unit Radio 24 - The Clean Up Man
• G-Unit Radio 25 - Sabrina's Baby Boy
• Best of G-Unit Radio - 50 cents
• Best of G-Unit Radio - Lloyd Banks
• Best of G-Unit Radio - Young Buck
• G-Unit West 01 - LA American Wasteland
• This Is 50 Vol. 1 - Return of the Body Snatchers
• This Is 50 Vol. 2 - Elephant in the Sand

Singles

year	Title album	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes)					Remarks
		DE	AT	CH	UK	US
2003	Stunt 101 Beg for Mercy	DE39 (9 weeks) DE	AT72 (2 weeks) AT	CH19 (14 weeks) CH	UK25 (9 weeks) UK	US13 (18 weeks) US	First published: September 23, 2003
	Poppin 'Them Thangs Beg for Mercy	-	-	-	UK10 (8 weeks) UK	-	First published: November 4, 2003
2004	Wanna Get to Know You Beg for Mercy	-	-	CH20 (10 weeks) CH	UK27 (5 weeks) UK	US15 (18 weeks) US	First release: January 13th, 2004 feat. Joe
	Ride wit U And Then ...	DE62 (4 weeks) DE	-	-	UK12 (8 weeks) UK	US56 (14 weeks) US	First published: February 24, 2004 feat. Joe
2008	I Like the Way She Do It T * O * S (Terminate on Sight)	-	-	-	-	US95 (1 week) US	First published: April 22, 2008

More singles

• 2003: My Buddy
• 2004: Smile
• 2008: Rider Pt. 2
• 2008: Close to Me

statistics

Chart evaluation

DE  AT  CH  UK  US Number one albums DE-DE AT-AT CH-CH UK-UK US-US Top 10 albums DE-DE AT-AT CH-CH UK-UK US2US Albums in the charts DE2DE AT1AT CH3CH UK3UK US4thUS

DE  AT  CH  UK  US Number one singles DE-DE AT-AT CH-CH UK-UK US-US Top 10 singles DE-DE AT-AT CH-CH UK1UK US-US Singles in the charts DE2DE AT1AT CH2CH UK4thUK US4thUS

Awards for music sales

2 × platinum record

•  Canada
  • 2004: for the album Beg for Mercy

Note: Awards in countries from the chart tables or chart boxes can be found in these.

Country / Region	gold	platinum	Sales	swell
Awards for music sales (country / region, awards, sales, sources)
Canada (MC)	-	2 × platinum2	200,000	musiccanada.com
United States (RIAA)	-	2 × platinum2	2,000,000	riaa.com
United Kingdom (BPI)	-	platinum1	300,000	bpi.co.uk
All in all	-	5 × platinum5

swell

1. ↑ 50 Cent provides various explanations for the term G-Unit
2. ↑ 50 Cent Announces New G Unit Album , accessed July 21, 2014.
3. ↑ ^{a b} yam.de: 50 Cent heralds the end of the G-Unit ( Memento from June 5, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
4. ↑ uni-rap.de: G-Unit - Over and Out !?
5. ↑ hiphop.de: Young Buck ends beef with game
6. ↑ 50 cents via the G-Unit ( Memento of the original from September 30, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
7. ↑ http://www.hiphop.de/magazin/news/detail/2010/09/15/50-cent-aussprache-mit-young-buck/
8. ↑ ^{a b c d} Chart sources: DE AT CH UK US

Web links

Commons : G-Unit  - album with pictures, videos and audio files

• Website at urban.de (German)
• G-Unit at Allmusic (English)