Talk:G-Unit/Archive 1

message: There appears to be two paragraphs on the same point. Two paragraphs after this one here, is the basically the same one, so could someone correct this?
"It has also been reported that Busta Rhymes wants to get 50 Cent and The Game together on the same track on his new album, Before Hell Freezes Over. Busta Rhymes wants to do this because he wants to end the feud." 203.23.153.249 11:09, 20 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Repeated paragraph

message: Someone had removed everything in the article, up to "Recent aquisitions", and replaced it with "SPENCAAA". I'm assuming it was the same person who wrote "JUH-JUH-JUH G-UNIT!!!" in the discussion page. I've just restored the page to its previous state.
JUH-JUH-JUH G-UNIT!!!
68.162.132.194 added the following to the end of the article:
:It is actually spelled gorilla as in the animal. I think it is pretty degrading, but look at their clothing line, you can see how its spelled.
Tim Ivorson 11:43, 16 Dec 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: I wrote JUH-JUH-JUH G-UNIT!!! on the discussion page, but I did not write "SPENCAAA". In an alternate universe, I'm a legitimate contributor to Wikipedia.--69.234.14.168 06:20, 8 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Vandalism removed

message: Well, Guerilla does seem to make more sense. The only true way of finding out is asking the group themselves. MessedRocker 22:46, Mar 22, 2005 (UTC)
*Officially, the title of the clothing line is "Gorilla Unit".  jglc |t |c 21:14, 14 Jun 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: The G in G-Unit

message: I'm a bit of an outsider on G-Unit, but made several changes (as you can see). I took out a lot of stuff that either didn't make any sense to me, or was too badly or incompletely written for me to fix. I removed all the member bios, since they've all got their own pages, although I think a brief description about their "ranks" should be included (obviously 50 should be identified as the leader, etc).
Edit by JC, 10/5/06 === Apart from 50 Cent being leader, there's no other ranks within the group, so that would be pointless.
A question: For the sake of being informative for people who aren't in the know, can we clarify just exactly what G-Unit is? There seems to be some confusion throughout the article between G-Unit the group and G-Unit the record label. Perhaps there should be two different pages? The description of the "members" seemed unclear on whether they were all together members of a cohesive group (like a band), or if they're just all friends who sometimes record together and have a some sort of formal business relationship. Staecker 02:41, 11 November 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: some big edits

message: what does "refuse to beef" mean?
:It means to refuse to have a feud or dispute with. This is obvious slang though, and shouldn't be in an encyclopedia entry. Barring objections, I'll try to substitute more formal language tomorrow. -- Hinotori(talk)|(ctrb) 10:10, 1 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Done. 207.104.180.98 is me (forgot to log in). -- Hinotori(talk)|(ctrb) 23:24, 2 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: He refused to beef?

message: I feel that we should remove this section, as that pertains to the record label and not the rap group. WeedBoy5708 17:54, 21 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Recent acquisitions

message: Includes:
*50 Cent
*Lloyd Banks
*Mobb Deep
*Tony Yayo
*Olivia 
*Young Buck
*Spider Loc
*M.O.P.
Note: The Game for the time being until Interscope releases a press statement is still on G-Unit. This is a fact. Mase is still signed to Bad Boy, it's still in talks to release him from the label. M.O.P. and Spider Loc are not officially signed to Interscope, yet! Lil' Scrappy is working with G-Unit but it's not clear on where it stands. Kool G Rap, Lil' Jon, DMX, Beanie Sigel, Paul Wall and Jayo Felony are not on G-Unit. B.G. is currently in talks with G-Unit, but as of today not a member. So therefore, in two weeks this article will be improved to a standard. If there are any questions with this article, please talk to me! LILVOKA.And 50 Cent has said and I quot " Olivia is a member of G-Unit
*B.G. signed to Buck's independant label along w/ Scrappy in-case sum of yall aint know. He aint a part of G-Unit.
*The Game left G-Unit on his own you idiot.
:This isn't for G-Unit Records ... we are talking about G-Unit the group where Mase and Lil Scrappy are members, while Game is obviously not. RealFerrari 22:48, 24 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: The G-Unit

message: I have added semi-protection to the page.  Constant reverts and edits that are not sourced is time consuming and annoying to Wikipedians.  Changes should be discussed on the talk page for un-protection or to the article.
I know that I have edited this article and cleaned it up numerous times, only to be fouled by fanfare and weasle words.  Hopefully this will be curbed soon.
:Please protect this page. It is constantly being vandalized RealFerrari 22:14, 24 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Protection

message: Please don't edit war.  Please discuss as civilized people.  --Nlu (talk) 17:07, 2 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Edit war over redirecting to [[G-Unit Records]]

message: Banks and buck are the only half decent rappers, G-unit is far from a supergroup. Pssht at u kids.
Agreed - a supergroup can only be so when the individual members achieved their own success prior to the formation of the group or at least prior to the release of the first album. Just as D12 cannot be a supergroup as only 1 of their members (arguably 2 perhaps) had achieved any success in the rap game before the release of Devil's Night, G-Unit cannot be a supergroup as only 50 Cent (and perhaps Young Buck to an extent with UTP) had achieved any success. An example of a supergroup would be the Firm, where all the members were already known rappers before the group's formation. Supergroups are rare, G-Unit is just a rap group.
I just realised that the wikipedia entry of supergroup explains all that I've just said. Just read that, it'll clarify things.
So wouldnt that make NWA a supergroup of it's time?DogPHman 17:58, 17 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: "Rap supergroup"?

message: This page has been protected for the past two weeks. No discussion has occurred on the issue in the past week talk page. Are the issues being resolved and the disputed parties moving towards consensus? If there are no objections, I will request unprotection. Calwatch 00:16, 19 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Request unprotection?

message: Sometime soon could we add a comprehensive list of the Artists in G-Unit, theres no info in the article right now. Cheers, Dubbya9 04:13, 28 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Members?

message: There is a misplaced modifier in this sentence: "After the rapper's debut release, The Documentary, 50 Cent formally dismissed him from his G-Unit crew for alleged claims of 'disloyalty.'"  This grammatically incorrect because it seems that the rapper's debut release The Documentary was 50 Cent's when it actually was the The Game's.  This can easily be fixed by just using this sentence (even though it uses the passive): "After the rapper's debut release, The Documentary, The Game was formally dismissed by 50 Cent from his G-Unit crew for alleged claims of 'disloyalty.'"
*But it's still incorrect. You're presenting 2 rappers but still using 'the rapper's debut'. Here try this. "After The Game's debut release, The Documentary, he was formally dismissed by 50 Cent from 50 Cent's G-Unit crew for alleged claims of 'disloyalty.'"--Lil' Infamous (talk) 1:20, 8 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Grammar problem

message: I dont know anything about G Unit, but I came here to learn something new. Unfortunatly this article is written terribly. Can someone who isnt a complete ****** and has some knowledge about G Unit rewrite some of that Feud stuff. It doesnt make any sense. Avenged Evanfold 20:30, 29 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: The Article on G-unit is worse then my user page (if you dont belive me read it). I would like to help but im to cool. VitamEn-J 08:17, 21 October 2006 (UTC)

text: Everytime it is written half-way decent, someone vandalizes it. There needs to be protection on this page RealFerrari 22:24, 24 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Stop sucking

message: who took off the myspace links i put up? They should be included in the external links if somebody wants to know more about them.Marcus 20:39, 26 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Myspace?

message: G-Unit is a gangsta rap group founded by 50 Cent. The group first garnered a following in the underground New York City scene by independently releasing several mixtapes. The group's founder, Queens-based rapper 50 Cent, officially brought the group mainstream success by establishing it as a division at Interscope Records. Since signing to the label, almost all of G-Unit's members have released solo albums. They are the most famous and by far the most impressive and best rap group around.
Isn't that too subjective to be put in the article?
:Yes, it is, that is why it was removed. --- Efil4tselaer 16:00, 17 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: subjective

message: Can whoever is changing the name of G-Units new Album (Shoot to Kill) to Time as Many stop it because that not the real name. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Peterm1991 (talk • contribs) 18:44, 12 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: confusion of name of g-units new albums

message: cute. This article sure gets vandalized a lot —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 24.75.180.31 (talk) 18:51, 19 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Gerbil Unit?

message: Who here keeps adding Ma$e? Say here, or I'll just crash the page. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Dlae (talk • contribs) 11:04, 27 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Members

message: Recently i added that bang em' up smuff and domination needed to be added so then someone said that they were in a earlier version of G-Unit before the group. Also Shouldn't Mase be a former member because he got the boot after diddy and 50 dissed each other. Also to the person above album sales dodnt make carrers they just bring in quick cash if you sell enough CD'd
Bang 'em and Domination qualify to be listed in the list of FORMER members. Ma$e, however, was never inked to G-Unit, just showed up on some songs, probably for promotional uses. Or maybe something was in the works but not anymore. And what do you mean Mase "got the boot when 50 and Diddy dissed each other"? Fifty has been dissing him since back on - or even before - Get Rich Or Die Tryin' (Life's On The Line). Although it's said they have squashed beef now...or just agreed not to diss anymore.--Dlae 14:14, 1 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: question

message: IM PUTTIN up this pic:
check it out:
—Preceding unsigned comment added by Bigslimshady (talk • contribs) 09:44, March 5, 2007
u do that
*ThaIceman73 Talk |Contribs 21:31, 19 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: PICTURE

message: Okay let's clear something. G-Unit is a rap quartet group. They consist of:
*50 Cent
*Young Buck
*Lloyd Banks
*Tony Yayo
Stop putting Mobb Deep, M.O.P. Olivia, Mase Young Hot Rod, and Spider Loc. They are not part of G-Unit. G-Unit is only the original quartet. These guys are part of G-Unit Records, there is a difference. That's why these guys go under the G-Unit Records roster, not the G-Unit roster. Also, I propose that we protect this page because this page gets vandalized by a lot of G-Unot fans, so to prevent the guests from vandalizing the page, we should protect the page.
*ThaIceman73 Talk |Contribs 21:32, 19 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree. --- Efil4tselaer 19:29, 1 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: G-Unit members

message: OK people, Olivia is NOT a member of G-Unit. She was only signed to G-Unit RECORDS, but she was never in the GROUP G-Unit. She has now left G-Unit RECORDS, so do NOT add her name to the former members section in the article. As far as I know, the only former members are Bang Em Smurf, Domination, and The Game. So please STOP adding her name to the former members section. Thank you. --- Efil4tselaer 16:42, 8 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Former members

message: It wasn't aimed at Young Buck, it's the opposite, so please remove that.
Game: "Me and Buck are still good. A lot of people thought in the "Body Bags" song, when I say that line, "F--- the whole G-Unit, who lied to Buck?" that I'm dissing him. I'm not dissin' Buck."
Source: Interview with MTV.com
:Done.  18:25, 15 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Body bags diss

message: I don't see why this line should be included as 50 Cent himself has said that most of G Unit "Tony Yayo, Olivia and Lloyd Banks" have had disappointing sales. (confirmed in an interview with Hot 97)
I prefer the line be changed to "50 Cent and Young Buck have released successful and popular albums" or to have the line omitted completely. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 220.244.209.188 (talk) 08:17, 7 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  All Of the Group Members have since released very successful and popular albums. 

message: I did a lot of copyediting and tagged the article for cleanup. There are a lot of unsourced quotes and assertions here, and the language is not encyclopedic. Phrases such as "had a beef with" and "got locked up" are not appropriate for an encyclopedia.  Also, names such as "50 Cent" should not be abbreviated to "50".  Curtis Jackson already has a nickname.  And there is no need to wikify every instance where someone's name pops up.  Once at the beginning of the article is enough.  Thanks! --Dchall1 23:44, 8 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Cleanup

message: This article needs some serious fact checks. This article is completely bias. This also has too much reference to name say: 50, Banks, Buck, and Yayo. Please use the common sense stance when writing this article. This feud section also states bias. Please clean this up. LILVOKA 09:50, 24 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Seriously

message: This article is a bit informal and needs to be wikified a bit. Styrofoam1994 22:07, 30 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Informalness 

message: Hi, can somebody please find a good picture of the group. It would make the article look a lot better. cheese willy
Thanks
The-G-Unit-Boss 11:28, 1 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Pictures

message: I changed website address from www.g-unit.com to www.g-unitsoldier.com because www.g-unit.com led to G-Unit Records website (oddly, www.g-unit.com and www.g-unitrecords.com are the same website but with different addresses) and www.g-unitsoldier.com leads to G-Unit website. A special note for The-G-Unit-Boss: I will be reverting every your edit that violates Wikipedia:Manual of Style, especially such thing as wrong capitalization. You better stop "making article look better" that way. Thanks and peace! Daniil Maslyuk 06:22, 16 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Hi, I dont mean to get on your nerves, but where in the Wikipedia:Manual of Style does it say about not capitalizing website addresses? If you tell me I would be delighted to stop capitalizing them. --The-G-Unit-Boss 11:02, 16 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: First of all, Wikipedia:Manual of Style does not mention anything about capitalizing website addresses (therefore it means website address should be treated like regular words), secondly, note that Musical artist infobox sample template does not capitalize website address, and so do not featured articles (examples include Sly & the Family Stone, AC/DC and Pink Floyd among others). Ya got any objections? Thanks! Daniil Maslyuk 12:40, 16 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Hi, Yeh I see what you mean, ok ill stop changing them to capitalized as I see that you were only doing what you thought was right. At first it seemed that you was just intent upon reverting all of my edits. Thanks --The-G-Unit-Boss 13:24, 16 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Website

message: Hi, There is a proposed WikiProject for G-Unit.
Please add your name to the list if you are interested.
See--WikiProject:G-Unit
Thanks --The-G-Unit-Boss 20:15, 23 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: WikiProject:G-Unit

message: Article needs more citations. I went through the biography section just now and discovered a fair amount of POV and unsourced statements. I have thus added tags to these so someone more aquainted with the... 'group'... can deal with them. I will go through the remaining sections and hopefully remove any gangster slang and unsourced POV material I find. ScarianTalk 23:28, 15 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Citations

message: Right now, as of July 2007, this article needs a lot of cleanup. Most of this page is about their feuds but there's virtually nothing about their music. A lot of the controversy feuds can definitely be reduced. Spellcast 03:52, 23 July 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I have reduced the "Controversy" section quite a lot see here. We just need to add some information about their actual music and expand their biography section. --The-G-Unit-Boss 19:56, 14 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Cleanup

message: How G Unit's fueds count as being contreversial? But for rappers like Lil Wayne, it's only fueds?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.138.137.247 (talk) 05:27, 3 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: it just depends how you rename a section header. If its named "Controversy" then it can contain fueds as well as other controversies however if it is named "Feuds" you would need another section if you wanted to add other controversies. --¤ The-G-Unit-฿oss ¤ 09:07, 3 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Contreversy or Fueds

message: "Disses" and "Beefs" are colloquial slang. They are NOT mainstream words of the English language. Wikipedia is aimed at everyone, but not everyone will know what "Disses" and "Beefs" are. Please, do not continue to use them in wikipedia. In my previous edit, I removed one of each example and replaced it with "Diatribes" and "Altercation's" respectively. Those are real standard grammar words. ScarianTalk 23:39, 15 July 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: That's really funny. That's exactly the type of words I would expect some editors to use on an article like this. - Throw 20:10, 11 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Colloquial Slang

message: I put in a cleanup-section tag in this area. It was heavily vandalized and contained questionable edits by users such as Rkorn542. Hopefully some more knowledgeable editors can tackle this daunting task. If it can't be sorted out soon I'll take a stab at it, but that would take the form of some massive revert, and I'm sure someone here can do better.WDavis1911 08:41, 20 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Former Members

message: I have added the mixtape section to the page, if that is alright. I thought it would be appropriate to include G-Unit's mixtape work also.
:Thank you, but they're not notable enough to be here, their page at the discography is fine.  --JpGrB 23:15, 22 March 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Yep, No Problem !  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.0.71.114 (talk) 12:23, 23 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Mixtape Section

message: Tony Yayo is the only member of G-Unit (past and present) to not have been shot before? I just thought it up just now.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.24.92.67 (talk) 02:06, 20 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Trivia sections are discourages. See WP:TRIVIA. --¤ The-G-Unit-฿oss ¤ 18:00, 23 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Trivia?

message: Young Hot Rod Is now a member of g-unit he is the newest member.
:Hot Rod is actually an artists on G-Unit Records, hes not a member of G-Unit. --¤ The-G-Unit-฿oss ¤ 18:00, 23 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Hot Rod member of G-Unit

message: It may be because the album is still charting and was recently released and such, but I am not sure why the Beg For Mercy album seems to have a small paragraph, with regards to Yayo not being able to record most of the album; while T.O.S. only had it's release date, while possibly the Young Buck situation may be mentioned, albeit a short summary.  I'm not sure, and it may be the same reason as the main Young Buck page (the recentism), but I'm not sure.  Just my thoughts and wonderings.  --JpGrB 09:32, 12 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Albums section. 

message: The ref that's provided for 50 "kicking" Young buck out of the group doesn't appear to be working anymore.  If someone can fix this?  --JpGrB 09:39, 12 July 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Done! --¤ The-G-Unit-฿oss ¤ 13:10, 12 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Former Members/Young Buck.

message: I believe that it would do well for the accurateness of your page to include that Olivia was a former member of G-Unit and, likewise, that Spider Loc, Young Hot Rod, Mobb Deep, and M.O.P. are the current artists signed to the G-Unit roster. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.184.132.171 (talk • contribs) 
:They aren't signed to the G-Unit group, they're signed to the record label.  There is a difference.  JpGrB 05:30, 16 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Lets not forget that Young Buck is no longer a member of G-Unit but he still is currently signed to the G-Unit Records roster.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Antbanks1989 (talk • contribs) 20:05, 10 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: On Current and Former Members of G-Unit

message: On the lloyd banks article which can be accessed from here it has:
 "Christopher Charles Lloyd (born April 30, 1982), better known by his stage name, Lloyd Banks, is an American rapper and member of the rap group G-Unit along with Sambav Sharma."
Just wondering if Sambav Sharma is actually a member or if it should read "50 Cent and Tony Yayo" Lochie mac4 (talk) 06:00, 16 June 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sambav Sharma member on Lloyd banks page. 

message: Someone's changed the picture but I can't revert as I'm new. --Scythre (talk) 11:04, 11 August 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Done.  --HELLØ    ŦHERE 11:06, 11 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Picture 

message: * 17:40, 2 March 2008 Spellcast protected G-Unit ‎ (Perpetual vandalism [edit=autoconfirmed:move=sysop])
It's been just over 18 months.  I'm reviewing this to see whether semiprotection is still necessary.  As well as welcoming the opinions of regular editors, I've contacted Spellcast, the protecting admin. --TS 16:34, 14 September 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Some BLPs naturally get bombarded with a constant flow of drive-by vandalism and this was one of them. I suspect this is still the case, but it's been over a year, so let's see what happens when the padlock is removed. Spellcast (talk) 16:57, 15 September 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Semiprotection review 

message: The article says that Smurf made a mixtape with 50 cent, what was the mixtape called. I cannot find it anywhere. I am also looking for the mixtape 50 cent did with Jam Master Jay. Thanks. Sp0 (talk) 02:55, 29 March 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bang Em' Smurf's mixtape 

message: fat joe in the controversy has been changed to fat slag  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 59.177.77.66 (talk) 15:30, 15 November 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  vandalism? 

message: You can think they are a great group of musicians all you want. Perhaps they are, perhaps they are not. Remember beauty is in the eye of the beholder. But there have been allegations surrounding the group regarding possible gang affiliations. That's why I put "ALLEGED". The sources suggest (yes, SUGGEST) that they are involved in various criminal activities. The three sources I put involve former members, the record label, etc. I realize G-Unit records is not the group "G-Unit", but the article can further support the claim that they are involved in criminal activity.
I have 2 albums from the group on my media server at home. Some of their rap is good, but as it stands, it seems that many reputable sources believe they could be involved in criminal activity. Until someone completely proves or disproves the claim, it should stay as alleged.
If anyone feels it is too much to put it in the first paragraph, at least put it in a second or third paragraph/sentence, something along the lines of "There have been numerous allegations regarding criminal activity..." blah blah blah. And if not, then at least have a small paragraph on it in the contents.
If someone still feels that I am wrong, please discuss this before simply taking everything I did down.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.79.149.45 (talk) 12:54, 3 December 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Gang affiliation