G-Unit Records Budget Freeze

It's no secret that the last success of G-Unit Records (The label....and that does NOT include 50) was back in 2004 when the label released two platinum records from Lloyd Banks and Young Buck. Since then, the records that have been released or close to being released never materialized and/or did not live up to expectations. Below is a list:

- Tony Yayo - Thoughts of a Predicate Felon: The album was doomed from the first meeting when it was decided the album would come out the same week as Ye's Late Registration. The album debuted at number 2 but was crushed by Kanye by over 600,000 in sales. At that time, 50 was betting that Yayo would beat out Kanye in sales. Who would have thought that 2 years later, Kanyeezy would take down the G-Unit General as well.

- Lloyd Banks - Rotten Apple: The album did barely 350,000. With little to no buzz and to be honest, just not the material that was worth working, the album was given up on fairly early and no one gave it a second look.

- Young Buck - Buck the World: Again, the album barely broke 400K, only got one video and was not supported on radio, video or promotion wise.

- Freeway - Flop
- Lil Scrappy - Flop
-Mobb Deep - Flop. Need I say more?

- G-Unit - TOS: The album failed to connect because of the multiple "first single" tries in an attempt to find the right one. This resulted in the underwhelming "I like the way she do it" and the album sales proved the lack of push.

On top of that, G-Unit fell victim to signing way too many acts that the label could support.

- Olivia
- MOP
- Ma$e
- Spider Loc
- Hot Rod
- Gail Gotti

These artists were either dropped or have yet to release an album. So what does this mean for G-Unit? Word is coming from their offices that Interscope no longer trusts G-Unit records in its authority of spending and operating their own budgets. So they have FROZEN their budget and overhead spending. Currently, G-Unit is operating strictly out of 50's pocket. When you spend nearly $100,000 on a video for Hot Rod that features Mary J. Blige and the album never came out so it could recoup....you know you f***ed up.

The way that their deal works is that Interscope provides overhead and funding for the label while getting a back end percentage on each release but no more, now that G-Unit has been failing and not living up to the expectations that Interscope had planned for.

Another words these niggaz would be bankrupt if it wasnt for 50!

lol exactly.

they really fucked up when they dropped buck.
the streets feelin buck more than anybody in g-unit.
buck got an album dropping this year too. cant wait