WHAT IS YOUNG BUCK'S FATE WITH G-UNIT?

YOUNG BUCK, former G-UNIT member, is asking for a "one on one' with 50 CENT. I remember when buck was kicked out of the unit sometime in 2008, and he started making a lot of noise about how he would make it on his own, how g-unit was all "show money". He even made a couple of diss records, and was always dissing the unit at his concerts/shows. He was quick to appear in THE GAME'S video, MY LIFE. It is just funny that he now wants to have a one on one with 50 to iron out his matter.

I think buck wasn't thinking well when he made his decision, cos he would have thought of the fact that 50 has his contract, and as long as 50 does not let him go, he would just be a frustrated artist. And knowing 50 for the kind of cruel person he can be at times, buck would probably be hanging for a long time to come. I don't think there is anything more frustrating than that.

Buck must have thought he could go the "game" route, but he should have realized that they were not in the same situation. Compton rapper, GAME, was signed directly to DR DRE, and just got linked with g-unit to get some buzz for his upcoming debut album(the documentary), back then in 2005; That is why game could get off that easy and still make music. Looking back, i think game did a pretty unbelievable thing going against 50, and not even having any of his label's backing.

As for buck, i feel the dude, and i like him, and i think he made the decision based on how frustrated an artist he was at the time. Think about it, how can you be a well known international rap artist, and yet you live on show money, and do not have much to call your own. The must of the cars you drive, and the chains you wear belong to the boss, 50. How can you be living to make someone Else's life better; that person being 50. I can remember buck saying he never got any check while he was at the unit, and the management at g-unit made some claims that he had made in excess of 10 million while with them.

I just feel for buck right now, because time is ticking, and the longer 50 holds him down, and stops him from putting out anything new, the more forgotten he would be. Hell, 50 himself doesn't even have the kind of clout he had from about 4 years ago.

But i have to say buck has to keep a low profile and think of the best actions to take before making a move. I remember seeing a movie where this girl wanted to run away from her mom cos the mom was always giving her a tough time, and this cop caught her and brought her back, and on the way to meet the mom, the cop told her this "you will live her, but make your move at the right time; not now, not like this". What that means is that buck would have thought of a better way to leave the u-nit and not by the outburst that got him to be stranded till date.

A couple of weeks ago, he dropped another diss attacking 50, LLOYD BANKS and TONY YAYO; and then a couple of days later, he is begging for a one on one with 50. He is hot and cold, he needs to sit down and plan how he can come out of his contract, whether he would have to drop the stipulated number of albums that are on the contract or find someone to buy him off, that is if 50 allows that.

I just wish him luck, cos after game left, he became my favorite on the unit.

WHAT' UP WITH MASE (PART 2).

Mase never seems to amaze me and i kind of wonder if he has a plan or he just does not know what he is doing.
A couple of weeks ago, i read an interview of TONY YAYO where he talked about the incidence that took place at a certain award show in 2005, where FAT JOE got on stage and made the comment; 'i'm feeling extra safe tonìght. Thanks to the G-UNIT crew and all the security they've provided'.
Affected by the mockery, mase was quoted by yayo saying; 'i wish i had my knife with me, i would've stabbed fat joe'.
When i heard that, i wondered what an ambassador for GOD would be doing walking around with a knife on him.
I think mase is really confused.
He is now in talks with former boss, p.diddy, to get back on the bad boy roaster and drop another album. He never did complete his contractual agreement with puffy, and that was what 50cent was trying to do. Trying to buy mase out of the contract, and when he and diddy could not reach an agreement, mase was left hanging.
I hope mase get's his focus back soon.

WHAT DIRECTION IS HIPHOP GOING.

I am heart-broken when i read hiphop sites, watch hiphop videos, and see where hiphop is gravitating to. Everybody is just trying out the next man's formular to success. It's a crazy band wagon effect thing going on in hiphop right now. And the legends are not being left out.
Now a days, rappers talk more on interviews and on the internet than they make music. They get into fueds just to be relevant. They talk about other rappers just so they could be heard. Where is this genre that i love so much heading to?

When you see 40 year old rappers talking about beating each other up in the streets becasue they believe that is what would give them recognition, you start to think if they are still in hiphop to make music or just to cause chaos.
When a veteran like raekwon would stoop so low as to get into an alctercation with a rapper from another generation, joe budden, weeks before his album is about to drop, just to get him some buzz, then you know hiphop as nas said, is really dead.
Now it's so pathetic that everybody is now using the beef formular. You could imagine, mc shan, a rapper from the 80's, probably in his fourties, talking about slapping joe budden if he see's him in the streets. Benzino running his mouth about slaughter house(rap group consisting joe budden, joel ortizt, crooked 1, and royce da 5'9), saying they are over-rated. Those guys are probably the only ones trying to save hiphop right now(buddens bullshit aside).
Nas has always been ahead of his time. When he said hiphop was dead, a lot of people dissagreed with him and started beefs with him. But look at the state it is in right now. It is worse than dead.
Now you have rappers like drake being celebrated before he earned the title, just because a couple of top-short label heads, and certified rappers co-signed him. The kid does not even have an album out. No doubt, he is good, but not increadible. But with all the media hype and propaganda, and visual cancer, he has become a house-hold name. And even if a royce, or a cassidy, or a jadakiss puts out a dope album, it would never be as good as the album drake would drop because it is already planted in the minds of people that he is the best.
It's just a handful of rappers that can still do what they do, the way they want to do it, without minding to add all the gimicks and wack formulars for selling album; you can say t.i, young jeezy, jay-z, jadakiss, rick ross, the game and nas.
50 cent has been pushing his album back for months now, because he knows he is not going to do the type of numbers he is known to do. If you make good rap music, then you should not bother about what you are going to sell in your first week. But if you are only making music just for the money, and you just want to give the public what they want, regardless of whether or not it would be compromising your standards, then your case is a sorry one.
You have a rapper like tony yayo, who's career is done, and now he has nothing else to do but go on interviews and constantly make bad comments about other rappers. Is that still a rapper or a commentator?

I pray that real hiphop comes back to stay