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Sun setting on the g-unit guys

Rap on Hip Hop

ELI JABBE and DANTE EGLIN

Eli Jabbe: The G-Unit regime has fallen on hard times recently, given the commercial flops in Mobb Deep's Blood Money, Lloyd Banks' Rotten Apple and surprisingly, Tony Yayo's Thoughts of a Predicate Felon. With Buck the World, the anticipated sophomore release from Cashville's finest, Young Buck, can the Gorilla Unit bounce back off the ropes once again?

Dante Eglin: For all the twisting of the G-Unit chain, Buck has never really seemed to be an authentic fit for the stable. His debut was arguably the most solid of the core G-Unit group, but many fans feel he's only a G-Unit soldier by paper affiliation. 

Jabbe: I really don't look at him as a token G-Unit artist and it's interesting with the whole "coast rivalries" that have been rising in hip-hop lately that he's a Southern artist aligned with a New York based clique. 50's the headliner, but Buck is definitely the capo. 

Eglin: Realistically, G-Unit, as a whole, has never been a dominating force on the music scene. Murder, Inc., despite the blizzard of haymakers that forced them to throw in the towel in their beef with G-Unit, is slowly on the rise again, with Ashanti and Lloyd returning to the charts and Irv Gotti resuming his work behind the scenes. 

Jabbe: The success of Buck the World, or lack thereof, will be the indicator for G-Unit's survival. As long as The Inc. still has Gotti in their corner, they'll still be successful. Or at least still have a pulse, since he's worked with several major artists in their prime and he knows how to utilize talent.

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