Young Buck

Young Buck seems totally down with the G-Unit reunion, but that hasn't stopped his solo grind. The Tennessee rapper has continued to push his individual works in conjunction with his movement with 50, Banks, Yayo and Kidd Kidd. Buck starts 2015 off right with a new track titled, "New Year's Cake...

Sparklers on deck. Young Buck buys out the bar and holds down the fort in the VIP with the rest of his G-Unit gang in the video for the November track "Bring My Bottles" featuring 50 Cent and Tony Yayo. The Unit has slowed down its production of loose tracks from earlier this year which might mean they are saving their muscle for The Beast Is G-Unit project which is on the horizon... Rea

Maybe the emptiness you're feeling inside is caused by your lack of codeine. It's not an issue for Z-Ro. On "Empty Cup," from his newest mixtape The Unmixed Mixtape, the Houston rapper makes it known that you'll never catch him with an empty cup. Joi...

Young Buck brings 50 Cent and Tony Yayo along in what's essentially a G-Unit track disguised as a solo effort. But "Young Buck Featuring 50 Cent and Tony Yayo" and "G-Unit" have been interchangeable this year. Young Buck has sounded hungry in a lot of 2014 releases, and "Bring My Bottles" is another example of that renewed appetite...

G-Unit's domination begins.

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XXL's October/November 2014 issue features a reunited G-Unit on the cover, as well as exclusive interviews with 50 Cent, Young Buck, Lloyd Banks, Tony Yayo and Kidd Kidd about the breakups and makeups of hip-hop's ultimate crew. We also released a two-part roundtable discussion with the crew, filmed after midnight at 50's massive, 50-plus room Connecticut mansion, as well as individual video inter

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Crew Love They made history selling millions of records as hip-hop’s most successful crew and then broke up. Now six years later, the G-Unit brothers are back together and ready to take over hip-hop again. Compiled by Vanessa Satten, Eric Diep and Miranda Johnson Editor’s Note: This story originally appeared in the October/November 2014 issue of XXL Magazine. The May...

Lloyd Banks The Quiet One Interview by Miranda Johnson He might be the quiet one but there’s a lot going on in Lloyd Banks’ head. That’s usually the case with the lyrically dexterous MC who stood out in G-Unit partly because of his aloofness. Soon after Buck ...

Young Buck The Wild Child Interview by Vanessa Satten If any of the G-Unit members had it rough over the last six years, it’s Young Buck. The first to fall out with 50, Buck had been the most vocal against 50 after the breakup. But his o...

Young Buck has always been G-Unit's wild card, the fiery Southern influence on the Queens-based hip-hop crew. But that fire and impulsive streak also led him towards a rift with 50 Cent and his Unit brothers and eventual tax issues and bankruptcy and an 18-month stint in federal prison...