Ok, so a few months previous to this album being released, the beauty of independence wowed fans and shook real hip hop fans up pretty well, the hype was real surrounding g-unit, then bam, they followed up with this 2nd EP.
The beast offered a little less polished feel than the beauty offered, but it's more gritty, it's harder with a darker feel, much more where g-unit feel at home.
The atmosphere is set with a piano riff played with the whole crew delivering a solid first track "balling" I'm usually well against autotune, but here 50 makes it work.
Young buck rapping in his angry style about prison and yayo building the tension makes a perfect opener, And just when you thought banks was absent, he drops his verse at the end.
Out of all the songs on this album the whole 5 piece only appear together once on the track just mentioned, however this a gift because each track gives banks, buck and yayo a chance to carry their own tracks, so yes! The 50 cent syndrome most g unit releases have suffered over the years where he hogs the majority of the track time is evened out on this CD, banks' solo effort on "doper than my last one", yayo takes the lead on "boy boy" which is a solid classic g-unit joint. And buck takes the front on "bring my bottles" a club joint which was released as a single . finishing the album off as a 4 peice without 50 on the violent "choose one" as mentioned there are zero weaknesses this album, in production, lyrics and overall sound.
If g-unit ever had a fighting chance to revive their presence from the early 2000's. This was it, this built on the momentum TBOI independence laid down, they promised a full album and tour soon after this was made. This EP pound for pound tops TOS, And even holds a candle to their beg for mercy debut.
It's now 2018 and the iron has gone cold. They had their god given chance and they missed it.
What a shame.
