G-Unit

The last decade has been one of tumult for Young Buck. Ten years ago, the Nashville rapper seemed poised to ride the unstoppable hype train Interscope had built for G-Unit to a long, lucrative career. Instead, the period after his 2004 debut Straight Outta Ca$hville was marred by legal turmoil and unrest at his label and within the G-Unit ranks. Last nig...

Since G-Unit officially reunited last June at Summer Jam, Young Buck has been on top of his game. The Nashville MC has had the most arduous journey through the music industry of any of his crew brethren, so much so that his lowest moment is actually debatable...

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Last month, the newly-minuted Boosie Badazz capped off his first year free from prison with Every Ghetto, Every City, Vol. 1, a guest-laden mixtape that showed off not only his closest friends and collaborators but Boosie's own animal drive. Since be...

Young Buck has spent much of the last decade in a place unfamiliar to the one-time star: out of the spotlight. From his breakout success as part of G-Unit's initial commercial run (and on their debut album, Beg For Mercy) to his solo debut Straight Outta Ca$hville and its handful of hits, the Tennessee rapper enjoyed spoils most of his contemporaries could only dream of. His new mixta... Read Mor

One week after his fellow G-Unit soldier Tony Yayo dropped a freestyle over Black Moon's "Niguz Talk Shit," Lloyd Banks comes through with a freestyle of his own over the Brooklyn crew's classic "How Many MC's." Over the boom-bap beat The Punchline King is in true throwback form, bringing back memories of his Money In The Bank mixtape series that put him on the map as one of t

Tony Yayo has been spitting over other people's beats for years now and offers up his latest freestyle over Black Moon's "Niguz Talk Shit" instrumental. Ringing in his 37th birthday, Yayo sounds right at home over the classic boom-bap beat from 1993 ...

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G-Unit stopped by The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon last night (March 25). With the help of The Roots, the newly reunited rap group performed their new single, "I'm Grown." The track is featured on the Guerrilla Unit's The Beast Is G-Unit EP. Every MC in the...

Today, (March 25), marked the 18th anniversary of the release of the Notorious B.I.G.'s second studio album, Life After Death. To celebrate the milestone, everyone from Diddy to Faith Evans threw up the cover art on Instagram in his honor. With Biggie's death on March 9, 1997, a few weeks prior to the release, the album was heavily digested once available to the public...

Jimmy Henchman was handed a life sentence plus 20 years yesterday in Manhattan Federal Court for his involvement in the 2009 murder for hire plot that resulted in the death of G-Unit associate Lowell "Lodi Mack" Fletcher. The sentence was handed down by U.S. A...

Recently, Joe Budden took to Twitter to comment on the hit shows, Empire and Power. After Power's Twitter sent out a tweet that included their new slogan, "Empires are built on Power," the New Jersey rapper stated, "Empires are built on Power"….They p...