Depending on whose lawyers you ask, Young Buck may or may not still (begrudgingly) be a member of G-Unit Records, but despite his ongoing drama with 50 Cent, he delivers “Live Loyal Die Rich” after a somewhat lengthy absence. For his return, Buck’s hunger to move on with his life and career comes through loud and clear, but 50’s talent for picking hits is notably absent.
While “Live Loyal Die Rich” has some issues as a whole, Young Buck still seems to be in fighting shape and anxious to make a comeback in earnest. It’s not easy to suspend disbelief for “Money in the Walls” so soon after Buck talks most honestly about his career troubles on opener “2nd Chance,” but the song still works well enough from a technical standpoint. He works in a few different flows (“Go Loco”) and shows energy through the whole affair. So while you wouldn’t quite mistake this for an official album, the better songs feel like more than just leftovers.
Buck’s excitement is better than the alternative, but he ultimately goes overboard with 20 tracks. The production is decent despite the lack of many obvious big names, but mixtape or not, a lot of “Live Loyal Die Rich” is just filler. “Death of Me” and “Get it All” are fairly by-the-numbers, and “21 & Up” is only amusing once (if that). As mentioned, there’s also the problem of Buck’s selective acknowledgement of his real-life issues. One minute he’s blowing his advance, the next he’s rich forever; and while Buck seems ready to embrace the age of Emo Rap at moments, he can’t shake his baller habits.
Young Buck doesn’t need the cover of a group to make a good album, but that’s not to say he couldn’t use a guiding hand when it comes to maximizing his talents and assembling a tracklist. Assuming he is in fact a free man and can find a good home, his next full album could be something worth looking for. If he’ll be stuck making low-budget mixtapes, however, it’ll be hard to keep everyone’s interest either way.
DX Consensus: “EP-Worthy”
live not loyal and die broke!!!
Fuck the name, buck went in you idiot.. this is about the music not a stupid name. grow up.
Young Buck’s music died for me in 2006. It was great then… and it’ll always be great, but these penny-cent mixtapes and street albums ain’t shit.
Great Mixtape!!
KEEP YOUR HEAD UP BUCK!!
hard
i bang this shit 2 death
i bang this shit every day, good stuff
True that.
This mixtape is ill, Young Buck go hard on this, cashville strong.. Fuck G-Unit
hot tape
Track #3 is very dope!
Very nice mixtape, better than most albums.
Ill mixtape, so true Buck makes better music on his mixtapes then nigga do their whole rap careers
GET EM BUCK!!
hot shit!
Buck these haters!!!! Buck is Back with thi one.
As a girl i really don’t like rap but Buck has been one of my favorite rappers over the years. He never disappoints, always delivers music to my ears.
Get Buck!
realest rapper out here
This mixtape is too sick, ive been banging it everyday since it dropped.
This mixtape is 5 star material, Buck went in, Drumma Boy couldve produced a few more track but none the less this mixtape came out fire. 2012 is Buck’s year.
Bond Money & Back On My Buck Shit Vol. 3 on the way.
Please stop. “2012 is Buck’s year”. We’re gonna look back at that post a year from now and laugh. Buck’s hey-day is in the past. Get over it.
G-G-G-G-Unot! Buck goes in without them fucked niggas.
Car Clowdy… had this song on replay all day.
dope mixtape. 4/5
lacks a good producer besides Drumma Boy
#CashvilleStrong
Love
Love this mixtape*
Keep ya head up Buck.
Come down to Edmonton
G-Unot
Ya fuck 50 and the rest of them fake niggas.
Not feeling the tape. Got some okay content, but overall it was boring.
Dj Crisis presents Young Buck: Live loyal Die Rich. lol the irony of the title
Loyalty is true wealth not 10 piece of silver.
This is my shit, Buck went it.
5/5 for sure
Canada needs Buck, we got mad love for you down here. Keep ya head up
cant wait for Bond Money & B.O.M.B.S vol. 3
Buck went in “Live Loyal Die Rich” 5/5
buck and outlawz killed it and buck is back and more hard on his lyrics killin em
Damn, Buck has like 20 accounts to big up his own mixtape smh @ dat clown
im still banging this every day.
At this rate…. He’ll never work himself out of the hole. Not to long ago, he was sitting on 10 million. Now he’s worth .10 cents.
who cares, Buck is the Shit.
I’ll save yall the trouble of listening to this shit and give you a quick synopsis: Buck fucked up his money, snaked his friends, and is crying like a bitch about his self inflicted career suicide. This nigga is subliminally apologizing on every track to 50. WACK!
wtf you talking about apologizing!?! he takes shot at 50 on shit head and a couple other tracks, get your facts straight
this dude is fineshed and fuckin broke
learn to spell cockhead, hes still rich compared to u
Hes not completely broke. He still has money. Just not as much before. He has alot of assets that aren’t in his name and I’m sure untaxed earnings along with a fan-base. He still gets thousands doing shows jus not as much anymore. I like the mixtape. Alot of tracks. Could have been a EP.
Ya true that, good song, couldve been an EP
good mixtape
Buck’s BACK !!!
He never left.
i love that song car crowdy!!
Same, got that shit on repeat everyday
yo young buck safe put my remix tunes on justin bieber mistole he said bibele its amercian bible its not all oh he was a fool when he played with the masion fulls i curlls hulls lulls pulls i see his fanstiy but migth be a mistory hes so history its sencoerys hes christan beadles its all feadles they get me che me see me for free yhee lee in the lessions call pee in theny calls of hes neenes ! yap tap lap on my rap for a nother rap my name is james mcdonald ita old donalnd welcome to my farm im carm yam pam clam
i yo when you say ep its mean vip its tencilne its epsictuly i got diss for yall uhser its oscer i wanna know her i wanna turn her around sant her grouand rock and powand its crownd king its thing its my won thing its so sing this is six pac its fac its lac keep ya remix heads up top up new up conavtions up
lol this nigga poor and unloyal
What do you know about being loyal and rich.. Buck way richer and loyal than you so you should sit down and shut the fuck up.. punk.
Still the hottest mixtape out there.
BUCK is a good guy ……….an this mix tape is very very good keep it up young buck
I love when niggas bring up this dude’s bank account like its relevant to the music at all
“Damn son, MArvi Gaye has a new record out, but that nigga a junkie, fuck him his music is trash because he shoots up!!!” – Niggas in the 60’s wasnt sayin that, ya’ll need to get off this mans dick, less you his lawyer I dont know why you give a fuck bout what he does on his own time, record knocks, all I care about, 50 could unleash 100 tapes of Buck crying and this tape would still be better then anything G Unit dropped since 06
didnt like it, but probably because i dont smoke lol
It was aight. I though B.O.M.B.S was his best post G Unit work so far…
I dont wanna see this trend of buck making music for free while we read worse and worse articles about him. Guess I’m saying let the man get some shine again, he deserves it more than Gucci, Waka, Diggy,French Montana, Tyga, Yelawolf, and even Wayne/Drake (same guy right? like Slim Shady, Em)