Tony Yayo Speaks On T.O.S. Not Selling!!!!!!!

by **J The Kidd** Wed Oct 01, 2008 2:00 am

Tony Yayo recently talked about why he believe G-Unit’s joint CD T.O.S. didnt sell:

“Ain’t no love in the industry,” Yayo added, addressing the reception
to the G-Unit group effort T.O.S. “You just have to be
business-orientated. T.O.S. was a good album. The streets loved it. It
wasn’t commercial. And basically, it’s something on the catalog; we go
to the next project. I feel like a new artist right now. I feel like
we’re starting all over.” Yayo said that the low sales for Terminate on
Sight have only driven the Unit’s captain to make some of his best work
to date. Still, Yayo said the meager SoundScan showing last time around
had nothing to do with his camp’s musical quality. “T.O.S., I feel like
sometimes the things that 50 and Jimmy Iovine go through trickle down
on us,” Yayo said.

“50 is the kind of person, he has so much power and money, sometimes I
think the label gets intimidated by that. None of his artists have to
starve. Me and Banks and Buck, we all was good. If Interscope don’t
wanna throw me an advance, I can always get the quarter mil, half a mil
from Fif. I feel [T.O.S.] wasn’t marketed, period. Even with the
iTunes, people tried to order the album, they couldn’t order the album.
We had weak preorders. We didn’t go on a good promo run. … 50 has one
more album left [on his Interscope contract]. If you’re Jimmy Iovine or
somebody, when you know you have that leverage, why not let the G-Unit
album fail so we can give you less money if you come back to negotiate
with us? If the album does well, I have to give you more money.”

by **Chief Black** Wed Oct 01, 2008 4:29 pm

The Album Shouldn't Even Be Spoken About PERIOD................

by **Nygee** Wed Oct 01, 2008 5:37 pm

Look TOS Was Garbage.

I Bought It For They Punk Asses. Fat Joe Album Was Better.

and second of all what happened to the niggas on the grind. i mean me as an Independent Record Label/Artist i still sell records. i dont get advances but i still gets my money. last year my artist "bojo" sold 3000 copies of his album. i know those not big numbers but im still local and if i get $4/sell...do the math. i dont have a world wide marketing team [well at the time] and im not worth a half bil. i started with $1500 and im gettin $1000 a show

50 shouldnt have to depend on a label since they're "intimidated" by his money and power. he should be able to market himself.

maybe thats what he's waiting to do after his last album on interscope. G-Unit always have some kind of excuse on why they dont sell records and this and that... bottom line is, nobody is feelin you!

yayo garbage
banks fell off

by yaboyja23 Wed Oct 01, 2008 8:09 pm

he can market himself he doesnt need a label he should have done that when he realized that when he did the book, video game, etc..
he was doing well marketing himself with his content of music...
when he had that money after he did the massarce..
he should have took a route and went and did everything he could do by promotion himself not g-unit as members let the ppl want to know them..
make everybody want to get involved with g-unit.
but no he had to throw all of them out there and wat did they do...
FLOP.
i mean not all of them
Buck came out hard..
Banks did too
but when yayo came out
HE FLOPPED..
i think yayo shoulda just been a hype man personally...
he cant rap.

by **Johnnie Butters** Wed Oct 01, 2008 8:34 pm

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