Speaking about the latest phase of his career in a conversation with HipHopDX, Young Buck addressed his return to G-Unit after serving time in prison and hinted at the group’s next moves.
“This is like the reinvention of Buck,” he says in a clip that debuted as a part of today’s DX Daily. “I’ve been away from the game for a minute. I been to prison and back, the whole nine. It’s almost like an untold story of where things was at with me and G-Unit and then to see us come back together and be stronger than ever and not miss a beat, that means a lot. Not just to us, but to the people, the fans. This is really just the beginning. This is just the kickoff. You’ve got to really focus on G-Unit. We in a situation where you dealing with a guy like 50 Cent that will move at any moment, at any second. He does whatever the fuck he wanna do.”
Earlier this month, Buck spoke with HipHopDX about the G-Unit reunion and his own time away from the music industry.
“I was real open about letting it be known that if it was ever a possibility of it happening, I was open to it,” he said. “I never got a direct answer from 50 to say yes or no, but that wasn’t my answer, only because I know 50 that when he didn’t give me that direct yes or no, or, ‘I’m onto it,’ or, ‘Yeah, I’m with it,’ when he wasn’t giving that I thought, “Okay, maybe it’s a possibility,” because 50 is a real straightforward dude, he gonna let you know like, ‘yeah,’ or, ‘no.’ He didn’t really give it to that situation. So I knew that maybe he just didn’t want to answer the question at the time, or maybe he felt like, ‘Maybe it’s wrong for it to happen.’
“So after awhile, time had went by, I’d been to prison and come home. I’d just really got out here with the whole mindframe of, ‘Regardless, let me push my line, and whatever happens out of my career, my focus is to get Buck back to where Buck needs to be.’ I started putting out a few records, letting the people know that I was home. I didn’t have that big ‘Welcome Home’ presence that you get from a lot of artists. It is what it is. I never really got that whole ‘Free Buck’ campaign. Of course I had my people there, and the people that was there for me, but you never really got that full campaign. So I’ve spoken on my incarceration and people been like, ‘Oh damn, you went to prison!’ So you know, that let’s me know that I was all the way off the radar, homey.”
G-Unit is about to take over again
do you mean brooklyn by bk?
shouldve stayed solo.
yeah cause those years without G-Unit worked so GREAT for Buck
LOOOOOL exactly
He was making better music though you stupid clowns. Live Loyal Die Rich is better than any piece of shit gunit has dropped so far.
Erm you do know Buck being with G-Unit doesn’t stop him from dropping solo stuff right, that’s why 50 was mad in the first place they wasn’t working enough. Ok we’ll get a few G-Unit EP’s and concerts but he can still put out a lot of solo work if he wanted to you stupid clown
Erm you do know Buck being with G-Unit does reduce the amount of solo material he puts out though, right? that is evident stupid.
GGGG-UNIT!
Buck, been one of my favs man!!!! Get em Buck!!!!!!
I want them to come back but will the industry allow them to come back?? I love it as far as underground but the content is no longer relevant in the industry, I think Buck had the opportunity to be a great independent artist and he should’ve signed to someone like Strange Music and he could of sold 100,000 units every time he released, I just think 50 hurts rather than help.. js
strange music? 100000? lol. you’re stupid af.
Lets be real Banks is the only artist who could survive on their own for the rest I think the G-Unit reunion really benefits
Yep
banks lazy af no new tracks sense that gunit ep came and bucks always got somethin new with or without gunit.. plus its not like hfm2 sold well banks gunna benefit too
Banks will obviously benefit but if it wasn’t to happen he’s got the core fanbase and ability to do well even if he is lazy. HFM2 done 46k first week which is ok considering it came out the same day as Kanye & Nicki and was undershipped
the only points i was trying to make is that buck survived on his own and there all going to benefit because there all getting more attention
i dont actually care what hfm2 sold i just remembered it didnt do as well as it should have but ur making excuses lol the people waiting on banks album arnt going to value it over a kanye or nikkis
@jazz. What are you talking about? All artists are created, they are marketed by multi-million dollar companies and then pushed onto the public. They are not famous or having radio spins by their talent. That is early 2000’s and 90’s and beyond.
Look at the artists who are “famous” or on the radio, these guys have skills to “survive” on their own?? LOL. yeah right. they are garbage, with no skills. Its just record labels paying for their spins and pushing their records and images.
hiphop is diluted with money now and has been since 2008. (at the time where minaj started, it all went down hill, she was airbrushed physically, and promoted with wigs., that paved the way for the likes of 2chainz, iggy, future, young whatever the fuck, etc.)
music is controlled now, whatever is on the radio is because they want it on the radio.
thats why you don’t hear gunit, dipset, fab, nas, jada, old school stuff, even good carib stuff, mos def, talib, etc.
basically hiphop sucks now. and has for awhile
@jazz. What are you talking about? All artists are created, they are marketed by multi-million dollar companies and then pushed onto the public. They are not famous or having radio spins by their talent. That is early 2000’s and 90’s and beyond. Look at the artists who are “famous” or on the radio, these guys have skills to “survive” on their own?? LOL. yeah right. they are garbage, with no skills. Its just record labels paying for their spins and pushing their records and images. hiphop is diluted with money now and has been since 2008. (at the time where minaj started, it all went down hill, she was airbrushed physically, and promoted with wigs., that paved the way for the likes of 2chainz, iggy, future, young whatever the fuck, etc.) music is controlled now, whatever is on the radio is because they want it on the radio. thats why you don’t hear gunit, dipset, fab, nas, jada, old school stuff, even good carib stuff, mos def, talib, etc. basically hiphop sucks now. and has for awhile