Album Review: G-Unit- "Terminate On Sight"

Since the height of their popularity in 2003, G-Unit has gradually fallen off the radar. Surely some of this has to do with the public's preference for hip hop with no trace of musical value but 50 and the crew are also to blame as they have pretty much put out half-assed music since then, the singles from this album notwithstanding. This album isn't gonna do Weezy numbers, but will it at least deliver as an album?

1. Straight Outta Southside

Gully. A surprisingly tasteful remake of the original too. My bootleg replaces those horns in the beginning and on the "hook" with some synth but I heard the version with the horns on the radio saturday I wonder what the deal with that is.

2. Piano Man

Tony Yayo's verse which kicks this off is comically bad. This uses only a few notes of a piano sample and the rest is just a shitty synth beat which makes me believe that G-Unit made the song as an excuse to laugh at Tony Yayo later.

3. Close To Me

A track about the hoes not unlike the single except over a synth filled version of "Lollipop". Yikes.

4. Rider Pt. 2

50 Cent, whose most lasting quality was his ability to write memorable and catchy hooks, sings on the AutoTune about who knows what in what is the most irratating 35 seconds of rap I've listened to in a while. Fortunately (I guess) it's not exactly like it ruins a classic song, its pretty terrible.

5. Casualties Of War

Another annoying hook and synth beat though this one is more listenable than the rest. Lloyd Banks boasts that he "shits like a dinosaur". Tony Yayo of all people makes up for it with the powerful lyric "fist full of stones/fingers glowin like E.T.".

6. You So Tough

Calling out the fake gangstas I guess. 50 Cent goes after T.I. (kind of) at the end but save yourself the time its not very dramatic.

7. No Days Off

This is just aight which sounds great compared to the rest of this garbage. At least it has a guitar and not just noisy synths.

8. T.O.S.

Same deal with the last one in terms of song quality but this one sounds like a sped up sample of a busy signal.

9. I Like The Way She Do It

The synthy lead single about strippers or something.

10. Kitty Kat

What the fuck, is G-Unit even trying anymore? I swear to god they come up with these ridiculous songs just to make Tony Yayo sound stupid.

11. Party Ain't Over

This sounds like any one of those first couple tracks. In other words, this is awful.

12. Let It Go (Feat. Movado)

As if this album wasn't annoying enough this one's got some Raggae guy yelling about being "gahngsta".

13. Get Down

Swizz Beatz' career resurrection is all that's wrong with hip hop today.

14. I Don't Wanna Talk About It

The other day Tony Yayo was on Shade 45 with Whoo Kid talking about Young Buck and he was like "Game fucked up, he got a mohawk". I LOL'd.

15. Ready Or Not

This is the grimey sound that "Beg For Mercy" had and this album severely lacks. Maybe its the absence of Dr. Dre?

16. Money Make The World Go Round

This one's kind of grimey too but not as good as the last one.

Overall: Well that was awful. I can't say I didn't see it coming. As much as I liked "Beg For Mercy", the singles more or less indicated the direction this album would take which was a very bad thing. I mean as far as I know, the best producers on the last album (Dre, Hi-Tek, and Jake One) didn't contribute anything to this album.

Best Songs: "Straight Outta Southside"