G-Unit Takeover

With a limited edition of G-Unit's recent EP, The Beauty of Independence now available in stores, boss 50 decides to unveil one of the two bonus tracks that appear on the physical copy. Just a little while ago Jackson free'd up a head-nodding new banger titled "Big Body Benz" which features himself Kidd Kidd and Lloyd Banks...

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

Ky Miller has been 50 Cent and G-Unit’s trusted guy behind the boards for nearly 10 years. During his time with the legendary crew, the 39-year-old producer/engineer has been a part of hip-hop history, fine-tuning platinum-selling albums like Get Rich Or Die Tryin’, The Massacre and Beg For Mercy...

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...

Kidd Kidd The New Member Interview by Eric Diep Most new rappers would probably look at New Orleans rhyme slinger Kidd Kidd as lucky. Sure he missed out on The Unit’s hey day and didn’t ink with G-Unit Records until the crew was already broken up, but still, the history and power of the brand will always be respected purely for what they accomplished...

The first wave of G-Unit that broke over the hip-hop landscape from 2002 until 2008 was one of the biggest movements in hip-hop history, as 50 Cent, Young Buck, Lloyd Banks and Tony Yayo led a charge to the top of the charts and sold millions of albums along the way...

Tony Yayo The Easy Going Guy Interview by Eric Diep The emotional side of Tony Yayo might’ve been the real catalyst for the G-Unit reunion. On Feb. 19, 2014, Yayo, the last to fall out with 50, made several comments to fans on Instagram about the state of G-Unit including: “to much stress I flew the world already dropped an album time to try new things and the unit not together fuck it... Read Mor

For Tony Yayo, loyalty is everything. The G-Unit soldier has been down with 50 Cent since 1997, and he held out the longest before falling out with the Big Homie in February of this year. But now that the Unit is back together, Yayo is in a reflective mood with his brothers by his side...

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...

Lloyd Banks was always the softer spoken member of G-Unit, but he was also the most quick-witted, earning the Punch Line King title early on in his career. But when G-Unit disbanded, he largely took a step back from the music scene, slowly trying to forge his own way without 50 Cent's guiding hand...

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 own unfortunate luck took precedence over beef with Fif...

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...