g-unit - beg for mercy

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february 14th. they've sold about the same, i think. one got 100000 posts about it because __ ____ __ ______ __ ___ ____ ______.

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in the last few months, i haven't listened to anything more.

i think it was the first cd i was ever really, really excited about the release date for. and it didn't leak a long time before and there was still excitement. i'd listened to get rich all winter, heard the singles all summer, every single person in the club singing along to p.i.m.p. and hearing heat and in da club coming from car windows and. it was just amazing to finally get it and want to hear it right away, unwrap it in the a&b sound parking lot, hearing the opening and the first opening introduction and the first g---g-g--g-unit (no one can do it just right except 50), driving around to hear the whole thing. and it was actually good.

not a single bad verse, some better than others but no terrible ones, i don't think. and so many that you can memorize right away and shout the end of the line (like the negro league, see no seeds, your favorite rapper does too). no songs on it that i don't ever suddenly get the urge to hear. no songs that don't make me smile. so perfect. all the beats like the one good beat on eighteen different late 90s nyc albums (do you understand what i mean? i mean that they're all kind of boring and not exploding neptunes things or timbaland or whatever and just amazing, conventional hip-hop beats but good examples of that style), all made by people i've never heard of (except dr. dre!).

as soon as you open it, 50 leaned toward you with the cuban and the sheaf of big faces and lloyd and buck backing him up. and flipped open to the main picture. 50 with bandana over his face and a mack 10 blurred by its firing vibration and shells flying out the top, buck standing in the center with the calico and the tilted fedora and cornrows and his eyebrow cocked up, lloyd over on the left. all of the booklet pictures are so beautiful and perfect.

the sound of it matched so well with what i was in love with when it came out. it's got the funny, quotable lines and the filthy southern thing and all the realness and songs about love ('just cause a nigga thuggin don't mean he don't want to see you smile, baby!') and-- whatever, lots of stuff, and fucking 50 cent.

― cloverlandthug, Sunday, 15 February 2004 07:45 (twenty-two years ago)

Erm, I haven't heard this but I heard there was a version of it by an American hip-hop DJ that matched the vocals with instrumentals from The Village Green Preservation Society. Anyone heard it? Is it any cop?

― WilliamWiggins, Sunday, 15 February 2004 07:48 (twenty-two years ago)

I keep meaning to pick this up. I love Get Rich.

― Josh Timmermann (Josh Timmermann), Sunday, 15 February 2004 09:45 (twenty-two years ago)

This is a good one. I think the first two songs are the best. Poppin Them Thangs is one of the best Dre beats I've heard. And the use of Hi-Tek is just brilliant cause I'd never have thought he'd be doing something with G-Unit.

― Johnny Badlees (crispssssss), Sunday, 15 February 2004 10:35 (twenty-two years ago)

I like it more than Get Rich, probably because it's way livelier. my fave is the one where 50 sez "I'll blow your brains out on the New York Times/Go home, open up the sports section, and read your mind."

― Matos W.K. (M Matos), Sunday, 15 February 2004 10:43 (twenty-two years ago)

since my bitch free weekly editor refused to print this (and then pretended he did, like a bitch) yall get an EXCLUSIVE!!!!!!

G UNIT - BEG FOR MERCY (G-UNIT/INTERSCOPE RECORDS)

For hooky platinum this is greasy, primordial stuff, right down to the Old-Testament cadence of the title, and while I can't thank 50 enough for riding my much-beloved generic NYC thug rap back into the charts it seems he's gone oddly mono; intensity and one-liners outshone by junior rookie Lloyd Banks (20 years old?? I've wasted my life) and transplanted solja Young Buck (sadly Yayo's still on a) lockdown and b) only two joints; an unsettlingly great Ja Rule dis/sex jam portmanteau called "I Smell Pussy" and the backstage organ swell of "Groupie Love"). Game hype is Banks', with his shouldered punchlines and pre-show broadcasted props of "In Da Club" ("I'ma tell you what Banks told me, cuz..."), but I'm feeling southern boy Buck's stucky-grimey flow more, especially for slurring all over single "Stunt 101" ("come on now, we all know gold is getting old / the ice in my teeth keep the Cristal cold") and his entire verse on personal fav "Lay You Down". Beatwise this is all trilling strings and jaunty renaissance faire gangsta- I think if you took out the raps and drums most tracks would just be straight baroque classical shit, and where there's names (Dre, Nottz, Red Spyda, Megahertz) it weirdly seems most is produced by no-names or established non-gully underground cats like No I.D. and Hi-Tek (who laces each of his beats with those incredible "GEEEE-YOOOONIT!!" background harmonies). Quality is quality though-- after the harpsichord melted "Stunt 101" is still just about those hollow '80s synth-drums (Denaun already brought his best kit on "P.I.M.P"), and only "Still D.R.E." and "If I Can't" pack tighter Dre/Storch riffs than the unstoppable "Poppin' Them Thangs", where 50 runs to "preach a sermon 'bout the paper like I'm Creflo Dollar" slinkily punning into the Christina Milian ref in the next line. This is a great record, even the slow bits end up just sounding like "Get Rich..." in triplicate; perhaps lacking the steely monomania and conceptual arc of 50's album, but still with that almost life-affirming sense of firm, inarguable rightness that only generic NYC thug rap can provide. -- Ethan Padgett

― $$, Sunday, 15 February 2004 17:41 (twenty-two years ago)

Hi-Tek? Wow.

― Sym (shmuel), Sunday, 15 February 2004 19:45 (twenty-two years ago)

it's a good album. i can't decide who has better punch lines out of 50 cent and lloyd banks, i think 50 wins when he says summat like i shoot you on the train thru my new york times/go home turn to the sports page so i can read your mind. that line is amazing. young buck also says summat cool like 'ice in my mouth keeps the cristal cold. good stuff. i was initially quite dissapointed that there wasn't any eminem production on it, but most of the beats are so intricate and full of melodies that i don't mind too much. my favourite cut is called 'betta ask somebody'. isn't it funny how black people can't say ask? not really.

― pikey, Sunday, 15 February 2004 19:52 (twenty-two years ago)

Didn't Hi-Tek do a beat or two on the last Snoop Dogg??

― Johnny Badlees (crispssssss), Sunday, 15 February 2004 20:39 (twenty-two years ago)

This album is so mediocre beat-wise, so lyrically cold (and the punchlines never raise a smirk), and pretty much sums up everything that's wrong with New York hip hop circa 2001-2004.

― paulhw (paulhw), Sunday, 15 February 2004 22:25 (twenty-two years ago)

just dl'ed this: good.

― Sean M (Sean M), Monday, 16 February 2004 01:13 (twenty-two years ago)

one month passes...

All I have to contribute to this topic is
"COME ON NOW, WE ALL KNOW GOLD IS GETTIN' OLD. THA ICE IN MA TEETH KEEPS THA CRISTAL COLD, G-UNIT NIGGA, ACTIN LIKE Y'ALL DON'T KNOW, LOOK I CAN'T EVEN WALK THROUGH THA MALL NO MORE, I JUST PULL UP, GET OUT, AND GET ALL THA HOES, THEY NEVA SEEN DOORS FLIP UP ON A CAR BEFORE. DON'T GET MAD AT ME DAWG ITS ALL I KNOW, IS TO SHOW THESE FOUGAISIES HOW ITS 'POSED TA GO!"....DAMN, IF THAT ISNT A WICKED VERSE, THEN CALL ME TONE DEF!

― William Deker, Saturday, 27 March 2004 04:13 (twenty-two years ago)

was this thread the birth of william wiggins?

― jeremy jordan (cruisy), Saturday, 27 March 2004 04:21 (twenty-two years ago)

two months pass...

responding to cloverlandthug, no less

― Symplistic (shmuel), Saturday, 19 June 2004 22:12 (twenty-one years ago)

this album is great, has good songs all the way through. i actually like young buck far more than lloyd banks. his verse on betta ask somebody is classic.

― Symplistic (shmuel), Saturday, 19 June 2004 22:14 (twenty-one years ago)

Wait aren't cloverlandthug and WW the same person ie. DK?

I keep meaning to pick up this album!

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Sunday, 20 June 2004 06:47 (twenty-one years ago)

yes, and he was making fun of the grey album. i miss dk.

― Symplistic (shmuel), Sunday, 20 June 2004 08:39 (twenty-one years ago)

Want To Get to Know You is the best thing on it.
(I have a very vague memory of reading this thread, lying in bed shortly after I work up this morning, laptop on the floor, and posting an approximation of the above but....apparently not!)

― OCP (OCP), Sunday, 20 June 2004 12:53 (twenty-one years ago)

one month passes...

I just burned this off a friend and think it's kinda crap.
I'm slowly becoming fed up with the entire Aftermath roster.

― AaronHz (AaronHz), Monday, 26 July 2004 21:01 (twenty-one years ago)

three years pass...

good thread

― and what, Saturday, 22 September 2007 21:37 (eighteen years ago)

two years pass...

"I Wanna Be Your Lover" is such a jam

― i don't care if big daddy kane signed your mommas tits (The Reverend), Friday, 28 May 2010 04:26 (fifteen years ago)

four months pass...

three classic singles off this

banks kinda killed all three

reminds me why i used to actually be a fan of him

― waka flocka flame judi dench (J0rdan S.), Friday, 1 October 2010 08:50 (fifteen years ago)

need to make a general g-unit 'greatest hits' for the weekend

― waka flocka flame judi dench (J0rdan S.), Friday, 1 October 2010 08:52 (fifteen years ago)

― WilliamWiggins, Sunday, 15 February 2004 07:48 (6 years ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

lol @ this

― just sayin, Friday, 1 October 2010 09:05 (fifteen years ago)

"Still D.R.E." and "If I Can't" pack tighter Dre/Storch riffs than the unstoppable "Poppin' Them Thangs"

on the money

ethan really should've gotten paid to write rap & should still be doing so

oh well

― waka flocka flame judi dench (J0rdan S.), Friday, 1 October 2010 09:10 (fifteen years ago)

ABOUT rap obv

― waka flocka flame judi dench (J0rdan S.), Friday, 1 October 2010 09:11 (fifteen years ago)

otm. same w/ cloverlandthug/dylannn

― just sayin, Friday, 1 October 2010 09:12 (fifteen years ago)

i just got this album and their second one T.O.S. for pretty cheap (5 bucks for both combined). second one's pretty bleak but sonically it's impressive.

― officer i didn't know it was a penguin (San Te), Friday, 1 October 2010 12:22 (fifteen years ago)

lol at G-Unit interpolating the song from the My Buddy commercial in the 90s as the chorus for the song of the same name.

― officer i didn't know it was a penguin (San Te), Friday, 1 October 2010 17:26 (fifteen years ago)

yeah dylan did some great writing and obv miss ethan always

― who's got the (platform) 9 3/4ths? (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 1 October 2010 17:41 (fifteen years ago)

one year passes...

"I Wanna Be Your Lover" is such a jam
― i don't care if big daddy kane signed your mommas tits (The Reverend), Friday, May 28, 2010 12:26 AM (2 years ago) Bookmark

co-sign

― billstevejim, Tuesday, 12 June 2012 00:36 (thirteen years ago)

lol I saw a guy wearing a G-Unot shirt today

― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 12 June 2012 02:11 (thirteen years ago)

loool

~~~2003wave~~~

― they loooovin the crut (The Reverend), Tuesday, 12 June 2012 08:10 (thirteen years ago)

one year passes...

Man...you just took me way back with that A&B Sound reference. I think I applied there once.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJMjvz3UroU

― c21m50nh3x460n, Tuesday, 22 October 2013 02:17 (twelve years ago)

i had this thread bookmarked for some reason

― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 22 October 2013 02:41 (twelve years ago)

cuz u a PIMP!

― c21m50nh3x460n, Tuesday, 22 October 2013 02:42 (twelve years ago)

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