50 Cent is currently on his massive “The Final Lap” tour which features dozens of stops and an impressive array of guests. He’s also been sharing plenty of updates with fans via his Instagram. One particular piece of behind-the-scenes video he shared earlier this month went viral after he asked why he doesn’t get bras thrown on stage at him like Drake. Eventually, someone came through for him and he seemed thrilled to find a bra thrown at him during a recent show.
In a new video, he shared to Instagram, he’s once again evoking other rappers’ names. This time it’s Lloyd Banks and Young Buck, former G-Unit signees. The video is basically a highlight reel of 50’s recent show in New Jersey. While it looks like a great time, much of the focus was on what he said behind the scenes. “They think this is something? Wait ‘til they see Lloyd Banks’ tour,” he joked sarcastically in one clip. He followed it up by saying “Wait ‘til they see Straight Outta Cashville,” in reference to Young Buck’s debut album. This isn’t the first time 50 has taken aim at former G-Unit members. He shut down the entire prospect of a reunion last year claiming that he was tired of carrying them all. Check out the tour clip below.
50 Cent has been embroiled in quite a few beefs recently. Last month, the rapper found himself in very hot water after throwing a microphone into the crowd at one of his shows to express his frustration at technical difficulties. A female radio host was hit by the mic, which caused some old foes to reemerge and take shots at 50.
Both The Game and Ja Rule used the mic throwing incident as gasoline for reigniting their beefs with 50. What do you think of 50 Cent taking shots at hit former collaborators in G-Unit? Let us know in the comment section below.
Afroman’s entire career is centered around his laid-back personality. However, he isn’t always afraid to get rowdy when the right occasion arises. Neither is his team. In video footage obtained by TMZ, members of Afroman’s team were involved in a huge fight with rapper Young Buck’s entourage. Just as with any other scenario surrounding Afroman’s life (police raid included), he took to social media to address the matter.
In a video posted on his personal page, Afroman implied that the altercation went down all because someone got high. The clip of Young Buck was overlayed with text that read, “Coke cane (cocaine) is a hellava (hell of a) drug.”
Afroman detailed what took place saying, “Went to do a show, the venue told me to be there at 9:20 pm when I got there, I had to wait because somebody was still on the stage. The venue had to close at 11 pm I was waiting with my social media photographer, my bodyguard, and my artist Lil Sodi when Young Bucc entered the room. I am anti-N-Word Young Bucc yells out f*cc all n-words who don’t do drugs. He was behaving hostile and aggressive.”
He went on to describe the incident, writing, “We were on the right side of the VIP section. He entered the room, going to the left side of the VIP section yelling all kind of insults. He changed his direction and walked bacc over 70 feet. He walked over to my social media photographer and, with a bacc hand struck him in the side of his stomach. Then he moved on over to Lil Sodi, calling him n words and telling him to do drugs as he was calling him the N-word. Young Bucc bacc handed Lil Sodi in the stomach. Lil Sodi thought he was really drunk, and he tried to checc him verbally with a shove. Young Bucc would not go away, and he kept advancing. So the altercation occurred.”
50 Cent may no longer be hip-hop’s go-to supervillain, but he certainly was throughout the ’00s. Through a slew of gritty diss tracks, he amassed a portfolio of enemies in his home territory of New York. Nas, Kanye West, Diddy, and even Oprah were speaking out against his antics. In fact, that polarizing personality would go as far as beefing with former crew members of G-Unit. With 50 Cent being G-Unit’s general, The Game, Lloyd Banks, Tony Yayo, and Young Buck have all made statements against him at one point or another over the past few decades.
While fans have been hoping for a reconciliation and a newfound project, 50 Cent has consistently squashed these rumors. While speaking to The Breakfast Club in August 2022, he stated, “I probably won’t do a project with them. I’m done with carrying them around. My back hurt.” The relationship between G-Unit’s members has deteriorated since the ’00s between many of its respective members. However, 50 remains close with Yayo, who he cites as the more mature member of the quintet.
50 Cent & The Game’s Beef Turned Violent
G-Unit’s downfall began all the way back in 2004. 50 Cent and The Game had each reached stardom as solo acts, morphing their young personalities into ones that were ego-driven. The Game signed to Dr. Dre’s Aftermath Records in 2003, where 50 Cent was the label’s biggest star. Later that year, G-Unit was working on the eventual multi-Platinum album Beg For Mercy. At the time, The Game wasn’t a part of G-Unit. However, Dr. Dre decided that having him join the chart-topping hip-hop act would be a genius marketing move. In addition, 50 Cent began working with The Game on his debut album, The Documentary.
While Dr. Dre’s business moves looked good from a marketing perspective, 50 Cent and The Game had friction that would eventually scale into a full-fledged beef. The Game’s The Documentary was reaching a significant level of hype behind lead singles “Westside Story,” “Hate It or Love It,” and “How We Do.” Aftermath Records was certainly happy, but 50 Cent wasn’t. Having played a significant role in the success of the songs, he began to feel as if he was being controlled. Having to scrap and claw his way from the streets of Harlem to stardom, 50 Cent was overworking for others’ profits. 50 Cent’s album The Massacre was pushed back a month to accommodate for The Game.
The Group’s Members Lost Motivation
LAS VEGAS, NV – SEPTEMBER 20: (L-R) Rappers Tony Yayo, 50 Cent, Young Buck, Kidd Kidd and Lloyd Banks of G Unit attend the 2014 iHeartRadio Music Festival at the MGM Grand Garden Arena on September 20, 2014 in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Photo by Bryan Steffy/Getty Images for iHeartMedia)
The burgeoning tension rose to the surface on February 28, 2005. While 50 Cent was on Hot 97 with the G-Unit crew, he venomously claimed that The Game hadn’t been loyal to the group. Recently, The Game had expressed a desire to work with the likes of Nas, Jadakiss, and Fat Joe, who were all well-known rivals of G-Unit. Considering this a direct betrayal, 50 kicked him out of the group live on air. While still on the air, The Game showed up with his crew to confront the G-Unit’s leader. After the squad wasn’t let in, The Game’s associates got into a shootout outside Funkmaster Flex’s building. The situation catapulted a slew of disses from The Game, including mixtapes Ghost Unit and Stop Snitchin, Stop Lyin.
However, The Game was only the first member to be dropped from G-Unit live on air. In 2008, 50 Cent would also drop Young Buck on Hot 97 after Buck exposed the group’s inner workings. In addition, Young Buck’s role had been diminishing over the past few projects. Moving into the 2010s, 50 Cent would begin beefing with remaining members Lloyd Banks and Tony Yayo. By this point, 50’s career had vastly taken off beyond the constructs of hip-hop. He was acting in blockbuster films and creating a variety of businesses. In an interview with XXL, he stated, “They [Banks and Yayo] just sit there and wait. When someone works for you, you have the habit of dealing with things by not dealing with them. You may get in the regimen of coming over and doing it for them.”
50 Cent’s Solo Career Was Popping Off
NEW YORK – NOVEMBER 13: (U.S. TABS OUT) 50 Cent and G-Unit appear onstage during “Spankin’ New Music Week” on MTV’s Total Request Live at the MTV Times Square Studios November 13, 2003 in New York City. (Photo by Scott Gries/Getty Images)
Of course, another primary reason for G-Unit’s demise was the iconic success of 50 Cent’s solo career. His studio album, Get Rich or Die Tryin’, was far more successful than any of the G-Unit projects. In fact, 50 Cent was leaving money on the table by working with the group for as long as he did. G-Unit’s slow-burning fallout occurred for a wide variety of reasons. 50 Cent felt as if he was carrying the quartet on his shoulders. With his solo career growing daily, working with G-Unit made less and less sense. In addition, Yayo and Banks struggled to reinvigorate their notoriety as MCs over time. While the fallout wasn’t pretty, G-Unit introduced an iconic bling era of hip-hop.
Nashville rapper Young Buck finds himself entangled in a financial feud with fellow rapper 50 Cent as he seeks to settle a significant debt by selling his music catalog. Reports indicate that Young Buck’s catalog is being offered to repay debts owed to 50 Cent. This latest development adds to the legal history between the […]
Young Buck‘s catalog will be heading to an auction block. His catalog will be sold to settle debts with creditors and 50 Cent.
According to AllHipHop, the sale resulted from financial difficulties leading to a 2020 bankruptcy.
Songvest, a music royalties brokerage firm, states the catalog’s value is $700,000. The sum is the total of performance royalties, mechanical royalties, publishing royalties, and song copyrights. Buck owes 50 Cent alone $250,000, which was given as a loan.
In 2001, Buck didn’t provide royalty statements to ASCAP and also hid $35,000 from his publishing company, Mouth Full of Ice. He also failed to report income after post-bankruptcy, which included $108,000 from Sound Exchange, $32,000 from Select-O-Hits, and $47,000 in Universal Music Publishing royalties.
In February, Young Buck was arrested in Nashville on vandalism charges for kicking the door at his ex-girlfriend’s residence and damaging the seats in her car, which was all caught on home surveillance video.
Brown’s ex-girlfriend told officers that she had cameras around her home. When she noticed that Buck was gone, she went outside and saw that he had kicked and damaged the passenger and driver’s side of her car in the driveway.
Young Buck fled the scene after the incident but was later detained during a traffic stop. He has since been released on $1,000 bail.
Young Buck has reacted to being called the G.O.A.T of Nashville rap. The 42-year-old has certainly enjoyed an incredible career. Indeed, he is the man who first put his city on the hip-hop map during his run with G-Unit. One of hip-hop’s biggest stars being from Nashville was a big deal at the time. Typically, the city is more associated with country music than as a hotbed of hip-hop. However, Buck has competition for the crown of Nashville’s greatest ever rapper. Jelly Roll has also staked his claim as the best rapper to come out the Tennessee capital.
Subsequently, a clip was recently shared by Ricky Robinson’s If You Alive Subscribe Show. In the clip, Robinson says that he respects Jelly Roll. However, he didn’t mince words in saying he believes Buck is the better rapper. “I know you think Jelly Roll can rap better than Buck, but he can’t,” Robinson flatly stated. “I love you, Jelly Roll, I respect you,” Robinson continued. “But Buck is the G.O.A.T. in Nashville! And I’ma stand on that. Tag Jelly Roll and tell him I said that.” Robinson would further elaborate on his position in the video’s caption. “I said what I said post no disrespect towards @jellyroll615 but it’s a no for me,” he said.
Additionally, Robinson argues that Buck is also better than fellow Nashville standout Starlito. “And by the way to my grind hard homies @starlitogrindhard can’t f**k with a picture of @buckshotz on No versus. let’s clear that up now,” he said. For his part, Buck took to the comments to seemingly agree with Robinson’s passionate assessment. Buck simply posted “#TalkYoTalk” Buck first achieved mainstream fame when he joined G-Unit in 2004.
Originally, the group had been founded by high school friends 50 Cent, Lloyd Banks, and Tony Yayo. Unfortunately, Yayo was incarcerated around the time the group began working on their second album. Subsequently, Buck was hand selected by 50 Cent to join the group after Yayo’s imprisonment. Buck would go on to achieve superstardom with the group. Additionally, it’s obvious that Buck’s city still loves him for the contributions he’s made.
