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50 Cent and G Unit Release 'T.O.S.: Terminate on Sight' |
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By Industryfinest
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01/23/09 |
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50 Cent rejoins G-Unit and produces 'T.O.S.: Terminate on Sight'"T.O.S.: Terminate On Sight"G-Unit (G-Unit/Interscope)50 Cent's ruthless streak has been well documented. He's had several very public spats with rappers (Ja Rule, Fat Joe, The Game) and actresses (Vivica Fox). And he's even booted former protege Young Buck from the actual G-Unit group - now officially just 50, Lloyd Banks and Tony Yayo. (Recently, 50 circulated a taped conversation of Buck crying and begging him for money. Buck has retaliated with a diss track called "Taped Conversation.")That backstory gives much needed context to the hardcore, synth-heavy beats of "T.O.S.: Terminate on Sight," G-Unit's second group album. The disc is just as angry and aggressive as 50 seems these days. Over the muddy bass line of disc opener, "Straight Outta Southside," 50 barks his guntalk: "I'm Charles Bronson, Dirty Harry with the cannon/ you shooting blanks, you ain't hit/ . . . I'm still standing." Meanwhile, throughout the disc, Banks and Yayo contribute equally cocky boasts. "Cartier glasses, Cartier belt/ Cartier watch tell me time somewhere else/ like Germany, Sweden or Serbia" brags Yayo over the keyboard stabs of "Piano Man."At 18 tracks of similar testosterone-charged bombast, the disc gets tiresome for all but the G-Unit loyalist. Yet 50 is savvy. He adds slight variety to the mix - dancehall star Mavado on the reggae-tinged "Let It Go" and requisite thug love jams ("I Like The Way She Do It," "Close To Me," "Kitty Kat"). And even Young Buck (who's still signed to G-Unit Records) is featured on a few mediocre cameos despite the beef. 50's merely covering his bases by placing business before personal concerns, as the closing song title states: "Money Make the World Go Round."Check out this track: Over the deceptively bouncy drum kicks of "You So Tough," 50's chilling hook mocks an unnamed block bully: "You so tough/ tough until your heartbeat stop/ the tray-pound pop/ your arteries shot/ you bleeding in shock/ get in the pine box." G Unit - T.O.S (Terminate On Sight) [TERMINATE ON SIGHT]
50 Cent and G unit on interview (New)(2008) billboard
Readers have left 2 comments.
Ne-Yo better fall back . .
Patricia Hardy on May 07, 2008 - 08:43 am
1. . . he's no match for Kells!
Mr tony
Gaopalelwe Arnold on June 12, 2008 - 05:21 am
2. R Kelly is the main man in this issue, neyo is still learning.
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