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"

PropsOverHere Presents: Classic Rock

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From the god who brought you "T.R.O.Y." and "The World Is Yours", a collection of unheralded, Pete Rock produced joints.

Tracklisting:

1. Give It To Y'all- The U.N.
2. Nothin Lesser- The U.N.
3. Boston To Bucktown- Special Teamz w/ Buckshot & Sean Price
4. The Rap Game- Pete Rock w/ The Large Professor
5. Death Becomes You- Pete Rock & CL Smooth w/ The YG'z
6. Shout (Remix)- Onyx
7. Long Time Coming- The U.N.
8. Specialize- Pete Rock & CL Smooth
9. Greenbacks- Pete Rock
10. To My Advantage- Pete Rock w/ Nature
11. Beats & Rhymes- Grap Luva
12. Chunky- Ghostface Killah

Verse Of The Year?

Having been listening to Nas and DJ Green Lantern's "N- Tape" mixtape on repeat for about a week now, I have concluded that, the best verse on the mixtape, and thus of the year so far goes to Joell Ortiz. This is not to say that Nas is whack or anything he drops gems all over the album, but Joell, an Aftermath outcast and Brooklyn native just went in on the "Ghetto Remix" which is just a gutta song all around. Here is a link to the track and the lyrics to Joell's verse.

Ghetto (Remix)

Planet earth

The land of the worst

Handle your turf

Canons'll burst and break the wrist of ameteur jerks

Damn it'll hurt to know your man in that hurst

I seen it ten times

They get a small article never the headline

Candles in the lobby next to empty gnac bottles

N*ggas talkin shit like when they see this mack nozzle but

Nothin ever happens

Even if it do, nothin ever happens

We don't talk cuz that ain't gutta if you yappin' in the ghetto

You can ask a n*gga mother what happened and get an echo

Where I'm from, it's so bad

Bunch of ignorant mahfuckas with no dads

Or he did but he didn't care cuz he nursin his dope hab

And when him and they moms argue we always throw jabs

So they grip a chrome mag and walk around like 'who want a toe tag?'

Fiendin' to leave a head see-through like a coat bag

If your life's slightly somethin like the one that Joell had then you (ghetto)

Group of p's (?)

Scoop G's

Duck D's and squeeze

Breeze in old hoopties

Bumpin new Ortiz

And the hoochies please G's by gettin on they knees and givin the part the scarecrow needs

I'm livin that life

The shit that I write is from my heart, my word

Open your pocket grab a sharpie homie, mark my words

If, anybody in the field with me and these bucks

I ain't only endin careers dog

I'm beatin' you up

I'm still ghetto

It's That Time Again: PropsOverHere's 5 Most Anticipated For '08

Last year I actually had to do this twice because only the #5 album on my list actually dropped, but I have been building up my false hope since then in order to bring to you the albums I'm looking foward to this year.

5. DJ Revolution- King Of The Decks

DJ Revolution is a world renown DJ with a fairly unimpressive track record as a producer, given Ed O.G's "Revolution" (which is a nice track) is his finest work as far as I can tell. He is set to showcase his production skills with this producer album on Duck Down which is rumored to include Sean P, Crooked I, Bishop Lamont, Royce 5'9", and Planet Asia amongst a long list of nice MCs.

4. The Game- L.A.X.

Not only is The Game one of the most skilled mainstream rappers (if not the most), he has consistently gets some of the best production. I expect nothing else from this album after the Cool & Dre banger "Big Dreams" and probably one of the more meaningful and creative hip hop tribute songs "Game's Pain". Set for a July release date, this should be the shit for the summer.

3. Raekwon- Only Built 4 Cuban Linx 2

Here is where I start to set myself up for a letdown. That grimey "Jihad" track with Ghost has me hoping that the album is on its way but I probably thought the same thing when "State of Grace" leaked like three years ago.

2. Nas- [Untitled]

Who knows what this album will end up being called, but I have a good feeling that it's gonna be serious. Nas has gone over my head with this N word message but the tracks I've heard thus far are all quality especially the epic "Hero". Plus, the new mixtape lives up to all the hype. All the signs point toward the next great Nas album.

1. Saigon- The Greatest Story Never Told

This album will be my most anticipated until evey copy of the master is gone from the face of the earth. Most recently, Sai and Just left Atlantic and have full control over the destiny of the album and there are rumors circulating that he'll end up with Jay-Z at Live Nation. Whatever the case, I think (in the right hands) his new track "Better Belive It" with Justin on the AutoTune could blow and that the album may see the light of day in 2008.

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