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G-Unit is an American hip hop group originating from New York City formed by 50 Cent. The name of the group is short for Guerilla Unit. The group's... founding members, 50 Cent, Lloyd Banks and Tony Yayo all grew up on the same block rapping together. Rapper 50 Cent signed to Interscope Records. Due to the success of his commercial debut album, Get Rich or Die Tryin', he was granted his own record label. This was when G-Unit Records was created. The group continued to work hard and released several mixtape series which earned them a lot of attention in the rap industry. The most prominent of these being 50 Cent Is the Future, God's Plan, No Mercy, No Fear and Automatic Gunfire. G-Unit has also started a mixtape series with their DJ, DJ Whoo Kid, called G-Unit Radio. G-Unit gained more popularity when a remix to 50 Cent's "P.I.M.P." was released, featuring Snoop Dogg and G-Unit. But before the group had a chance to record its debut album, Tony Yayo was sentenced to prison for a gun-possession charge as well as bail-jumping. During Tony Yayo's prison sentence, the group signed Tennessee rapper, Young Buck. At Tony Yayo's prison sentence, G-Unit recorded their debut album, Beg for Mercy.
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G-Unit Records is an American record label, specializing in hip hop music, founded in 2003 by rapper 50 Cent. Upon its inception, it operated as a subsidiary of, and was distributed through, Universal Music Group's Interscope Records. In August 2010, the label added an additional distribution with... EMI, however, it still maintains a distribution with Interscope. G-Unit Records has a subsidiary label that caters to other genre's of music including along with R&B, Dance and Pop division of the label, G-Note Records. Following the success of 50 Cent's debut album, Get Rich or Die Tryin', he was granted his own record label. This was when G-Unit Records was created. G-Unit, then consisting of Lloyd Banks, Tony Yayo and Young Buck, was signed to the label as a group as well as solo artists. Bang Em Smurf was very closely affiliated with them before they signed to Interscope Records. He claimed that before 50 Cent saw mainstream success, the two recorded a mixtape from which they would earn $5 each, they sold 400,000 copies. 50 Cent allegedly never gave Bang Em' Smurf his share. In addition to this Bang Em' Smurf claimed that 50 Cent did not contact or bail him out while he was in jail.
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