Party Ain't Over: The Top 15 G-Unit Moments Of All Time

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Since their reunion at this year’s Summer Jam, 50 Cent and the boys have been in the news almost every day…and rightly so. Aside from being one of the last great Hip-Hop crews of the modern era, G-Unit has created some of the most memorable moments in the wake of their seemingly-unstoppable wave.

Whether they’re collaborating with Eminem, taking their rivals’ baby mama on a shopping spree, or beefing on Twitter, Young Buck, The Game, Lloyd Banks, Tony Yayo, and of course 50 Cent are keeping us all — bloggers, fans, and photographers alike — entertained with their complete lack of chill.

We’ve scoured the ‘Net for some of the best G-Unit moments of all time, and while it was difficult to parse the list down, it was easy to see which moment should be number one.

Here, then, is our list of the Top 15 G-Unit Moments of All Time.

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15. Carmelo Anthony Shouts Out The NY Knicks’ Biggest Fan

If the Knicks are playing ball, you can set your watch to one thing: Lloyd Banks is going to Tweet “NYK!” upon their win (which didn’t happen very much this season…sorry, but facts are facts). It’s rather endearing to see a rapper so enamored with a team in such a genuine way…and this didn’t go unnoticed by Knicks superstar Carmelo Anthony, who took some time away from his Honey Nut Cheerios-flavored wife to acknowledge the G-Unit dark horse’s mixtape success.

14. Where I’m At

One of The Punchline King’s standout songs is his duet with Eminem called “Where I’m At,” which is available as a bonus track off of his woefully-overlooked third album, The Hunger For More 2. On the song, Banks trades growling verbal barbs with Marshall Mathers while bemoaning the latest video vixen who did him dirty. Bonus moment: the song generated a superb fan-made video featuring Banks and Em in A Scanner Darkly-type drawings and film noir hat-tips…it was so well done, in fact, that Banks acknowledged the fan’s efforts on his social media outlets by saying it was “so hot.”

13. Kidd Kidd Drops Obvious Hints

Kidd Kidd is a lovely person & a fine-enough rapper, but he’s about as subtle as a horse-kick to the groin. When he first got signed to G-Unit, he gave an interview to Stardom101 Magazine (in the interest of full disclosure, Your Humble Reporter conducted the interview), where he went off the reservation by suggesting that the “rift” between 50 Cent & Lloyd Banks — a rift that, at the time, was obvious even to Ray Charles, who is both blind and dead — might be ever-so-slightly manufactured.

12. Officer Down

One thing about G-Unit — if you go for the neck of one, expect to catch Hell from the rest of them. When Officer William Roberts — known & revered as “Rick Ross” — first came for 50 Cent’s head, BooBoo sicced Lloyd Banks on Ross’ hefty jowls. Good choice.

11. 50 Cent & Lloyd Banks “Beef” On Twitter

Having been friends for so long, it’s to be expected that 50, Banks, and Yayo will trade jokes with one another from time to time. Back in 2010, 50 and Banks took to Twitter to “beef” — all leading up to the release of Banks’ HFM2 — and, in the process, all sorts of blackmail-worthy material came out. Amongst the confessions: Banks’ grandmother likes 50 better, Banks made 50 fix his teeth, Yayo flips it up on everyone, and Banks’ first girlfriend was a fat hoodrat named “Jabba.”

10. Tony Yayo’s Never-Ending Twitter War With The Game

Of course, sometimes, the beef is real. Since Los Angeles-based rapper The Game left/got fired from G-Unit (it really depends on who you ask), the tensions between him and the rest of the members has remained ripe. Tony Yayo — who has the least amount of damns to give — has consistently gone for The Game’s head on Twitter, mostly in response to Tweets like the one above. But whereas The Game likes to throw punches and hide his hands, Tony Yayo keeps it gangsta…especially when, in 2010, The Game attempted to “reach out” to 50 Cent via Twitter, only to find Yayo in his mentions calling him a “stripper h*e” and suggesting that, now he isn’t a puppet of James “Jimmy Henchman” Rosemond anymore, he has no way of “feeding these Blood n***as.” Ouch.

9. Tony Yayo Stomps Out Gunplay at The BET Awards

We already know that Yayo is one of the few rappers that’s about the life he raps about…but he was unintentionally hilarious as he ad-libbed while he and other members and affiliates of G-Unit stomped out Gunplay and yanked his MMG chain at the 2012 BET Awards. Later, 50 Cent was seeing wearing the pilfered jewelry…while bowling. So disrespectful…

8. The Game Throws His G-Unit Chain Into the Crowd During Summer Jam

50 Cent’s 2004 Summer Jam performance wasn’t well received — to say the least — and the Game poured gasoline onto the fire when, in 2005, he tossed his G-Unit chain into the crowd. And he still wonders why he wasn’t invited to the reunion. Le sigh…

7. Groupie Love

The Groupie Love DVD is a lot like Studio 54: if you can remember it, you probably weren’t there. Nevertheless, with a bit of digging, snippets of the very-NSFW DVD can be found, and a snippet is below and can be found here, as well. It’s everything you’ve come to expect of a G-Unit video, but at the time, it was jaw-dropping…even though you can’t help but wonder if 50’s Connecticut mansion smelled like a sorority house panty hamper for weeks thereafter.

6. The Free Yayo Movement

By the time G-Unit first broke into the mainstream, Tony Yayo was in prison on a parole violation stemming from a gun charge. It didn’t matter, though: thanks to the Free Yayo Movement, more people knew — and anticipated — Yayo’s release than anything else…a testament, then, to both the underlying loyalty of, and the obvious friendship between, the various members of G-Unit.

5. Banks’ “Victory” Freestyle

Let’s face it: freestyling over a Notorious B.I.G. beat is quasi-sacrilegious. Freestyling over Biggie’s “Victory” beat is career suicide (just ask Papoose, whose “Victory” freestyle was and remains universally excoriated). Lloyd Banks — barely into his 20’s at the time — was taking a huge gamble by dropping this freestyle…but he not only pulled it off with remarkable aplomb, he established himself once and for all as “The Punchline King.” To this day, this freestyle is cited as not only one of the best Lloyd Banks freestyles of all time, it’s cited as one of the best freestyles of all time period.

4. The 50 Cent/Trav Beef Comes To A Head

A man can only take another man being a groupie but for so long…eventually, he’s going to snap. Such was the case with 50 Cent and former “affiliate” Trav. While Trav had no problem hugging 50’s nuts when it benefitted his “career,” he acted snake-style and turned on 50 when it no longer served his purposes. And, like a typical bitch-made male, he took his issues to Twitter and gossiped about 50’s woman, Tatted Up Holly, rather than confront 50 with his issues directly (that would be what a real man does, and we don’t do “real man” ish around here). Needless to say, Trav’s subsequent presence at a 50 Cent show went over about as well as a fart in church.

3. Pimpin’ Curly

You have to hand it to 50 Cent — whatever his faults may be (and he certainly has them), he has quite the clever sense of humor. And he demonstrated that sense of humor with his “Pimpin’ Curly” skits, where he donned a ridiculous blonde curly wig & a blue velour bathrobe while serving as a hood Mother Goose to various tales…including, in one case, a home-made porn tape between Rick Ross’ baby mama and a safely-anonymous “G-Unit Affiliate.”

2. 50 Cent Takes Rick Ross’ Baby Mama Shopping

At the height of the G-Unit/MMG beef, 50 Cent deliberately broke the “chill” button (as if he ever had one in the first place) and used Rick Ross’ baby mama, Tia Kemp, as a means to do him in. After interviewing her for about five minutes — where she made clear that Officer Ricky was nothing but a deadbeat father (some “bawse”…) — he took her on a shopping spree in NYC, with Stevie Wonder’s “Isn’t She Lovely” as the soundtrack to their day on the town. Hilarious ownage.

1. The Reunion

Hell froze over. Pigs flew. The Devil had a snowball fight. The moon is made of green cheese. Monkeys have flown out of our butts. Yes, at this year’s Summer Jam in NYC, the seemingly-impossible happened: G-Unit — minus The Game, but plus Kidd Kidd — reunited…and nothing was ever the same again. All of the previous trash-talk — 50 Cent is old, irrelevant, played out, and so forth — was rendered null and void the second Lloyd Banks, Tony Yayo, Young Buck, Kidd Kidd, and of course 50 Cent took the stage. If that isn’t a testament to G-Unit’s greatness, nothing, indeed, is.