It’s the Unit, the mighty Unit. This week’s throwback comes from the guys that killed the mixtape circuit for a few years in the early 2000’s. In the last few days 50 Cent’s unruly gang has made a serious resurgence. They (50, Banks, Yayo and Buck) appeared on Hot 97’s Summer Jam stage in complete reunion form, performed a few tracks and showed the world that they were back together and stronger than ever. Since then they dropped two tracks, including a remix of Drake’s summer smash, ‘0 to 100’. You can peep that here.
The track we picked for this week’s Tracks You May Have Missed series comes from the Unit’s debut album. After garnering insane popularity and media attention, Fif decided to put out an album with the guys he came into the game with. Beg For Mercy was a pretty tight album. The production, handled by Dre, Em and others was on point. To this day, I listen to this album and it still knocks. One of the dopest tracks off of the album is ‘G’d Up’. Crafted by Dr. Dre and Scott Storch, this beat is simple (or it may seem that way) but bangs. The track features 50, Banks and Young Buck. Most of the tracks only featured these three because of the fact that Yayo was locked up. Nonetheless, this dark beat becomes the perfect canvas for the G-Unit to drop bars about life and all its very real downs (guns and all, all of these cats were either shot at or shot at one point in their lives). The bars are dope. Some might say, “thats crazy, these guys are mediocre rappers at best”. Fair. They might not be of Lamar or Cole lyrical prowess, but they really do deliver. But Banks? – that dude is a beast lyrically (see: any mixtape).
Check out G’d Up below. It still is easily one of the best tracks from G-Unit to date.
