Alongside 50 are Lloyd Banks and Young Buck; there’s a fourth member also - Tony Yayo but he’s in gaol at present, for parole violation after his recent release in Jan 04. The Lench Mob lost founder member J-Dee after an attempted murder conviction so I guess the G Unit are just following the same game plan.  Any way Tony does still feature on their album, but I guess he won’t be touring anytime soon.

Prison and nepotism aside the single is a party tune, a ‘fuck’ anthem basically, like LL Cool J’s ‘I Need Love’ for the new century replacing love for sex. They throw in the obligatory label references – Gucci, Mercedes et al and the chorus is all R&B vocals.  Their rapping is what you’d expect from mainstream hip-hop these days – uninspired and unoriginal but fortunately this being a group effort, means 50 Cent’s lisp heavily delivery is only present a third of the time (a bonus); and I cannot fault their choice of samples to base this on – Marvin Gaye’s lesser known track ‘Come Live With Me Angel’ is a laid back piece of classic funky soul.  In fact the instrumental track on the single is the best thing here.

They never said what the 'G' stands for, I guess it’s probably something original like 'gangster', should be 'garbage' though.
(2/5)

Release Date: 05 April 2004