G-Unit - Tos - Terminate On Sight
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Album Details: Tos - Terminate On Sight
- Release Date:
- 07/01/2008
- Label:
- G-unit Records
- UPC:
- 602517693067
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The Demise of G-Unit
, June 29, 2008Reviewer: Gabriel S - See all Gabriel S's reviews
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| EXPERT RATING: From AMG Reviews There's a fiveyear gap between the unleashing of GUnit's debut album 2003's Beg For Mercy and the more casual dropping of the followup, T.O.S. as in Terminate on Sight. Even so, 50 Cent's crew remain the thing that anchors his hiphop career, connecting him to the streets through mixtapes, guest appearances, and venomous beefs with other rappers including two of their own. Their war with former member the Game is ongoing but what's new here is the dismissal of Young Buck, a complicated matter that had Buck playing the thoughtful thug in turmoil while 50 acted as the unforgiving hard boss, GUnit's supreme capo. As the album dropped, Buck was out and his five T.O.S. tracks are relics from the mixtape world, albeit worthy ones that deserve their above ground status. Throwing its guns in the air and making the club rumble, the addictive "Rider Pt. 2" is quintessential GUnit and when Buck declares "Even if 50 drop me/I still wouldn't sign" on the cut, it's a dramafilled bonus for fanboys. Buck also figures into "I Like the Way She Do It" a typical 50 club track in a "Candy Shop" style and the thug pledge of allegiance "No Days Off", a track where he feels the odd man out. Without him, the trio of 50, Lloyd Banks, and Tony Yayo are a lean and tight attack unit with Banks as cool and cold as ever while 50 and Yayo come off as newly inspired. 50's return to form finds him delivering sly lyrics like "I'm a workaholic/A ghetto version of Mozart/I move the keys/They call me the Piano Man" and making the hood rock like it's 2003 all over again. On the other hand, Yayo has never sounded so good, stepping his game up with a faster and more urgent style dropping wittier lines like the title track's "I kick Game like Pele and Beckham". The minimal, Dreinfluenced beats are back in abundance, most supplied by those promising unknowns 50 always seems to discover save superstar productions from Don Cannon for "Let It Go" with guntalking dancehall superstar Mavado as guest vocalist plus Swizz Beatz who brings the blitzkrieg to "Get Down". If there's a reason to be disappointed it's that the broken promises the announced Eminem, Dr. Dre, and Lil Kim tracks are missing and "Straight Outta Southsde" isn't really a commentary on the Sean Bell shooting after all could have made this a more wellrounded effort. T.O.S. isn't an around the world affair, and with the Buck tracks included as good as they are it isn't thematically sound either with 50, Banks, and Yayo relaunching GUnit one minute, then recreating Beg For Mercy the next. Even with its wobbly mix of yesterday, today, a better tomorrow, T.O.S. is much closer to classic than failure and should reassure fans this slowmoving tank is pointed in the exactly right direction. - David Jeffries, All Music Guide |
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Practically every East Coast hardcore rapper has a posse to back him, and 50 Cent is no different, with G-Unit as his particular crew. The Unit began as a trio comprised of 50, Lloyd Banks, and Tony Yayo (often with the accompaniment of either DJ Who...Full G-Unit Biography
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Pros: Solid musical production with some great instrumentals.
Cons: Lack of creativity and lyricism. No stand out tracks that you will want to play back.
Dull, blank, boring and repetitive. Terminate On Sight turns out to be as dense as the title itself, with little renovation and creativity. The only thing that was terminated was G-Unit itself.
What can we expect from a G-Unit album? Drugs, guns, sex, death threats, money, and flat punch lines.
That's about it.
There's only so much one can do with their topics of choice, and after five years of G-Unit rapping about the same thing we frankly become tired of it.
Positives are difficult to find in a garbage can full of trash. There is some solid production from Swizz Beats, Ron Browz, Polow Da Don, Jake One and several others who offer amazing instrumentals.
G-Unit does have some concepts up their sleeve with tracks like Straight Outta Southside, which captures elements and samples from N.W.A's classic Straight Outta Compton. 50 also comes out with his witty ideas in Piano Man, where he tells us "I move the keys. They call me the Piano Man, classically trained no one can do it better man", referencing his drug dealing days. Efforts like Ready or Not, Money Makes The World Go Round and Rider Pt. 2 can arguably be considered listenable by todays standards.
That's five tracks in an album that is 16 tracks long and probably goes over an hour in length. The album is filled with dull tracks like the annoying Kitty Kat, You So Tough, Get Down, T.O.S., I Like The Way She Do It, Casualties of War and the list goes on and on.
After listening to the album in its entirety it's difficult to remember which song was which. All you remember is one big blur of repetitive nonsense. Tony Yayo also proves once again that he doesn't belong in the rap game with his weak delivery and obnoxious voice. Even the General, Curtis Jackson, A.K.A. 50, appears to be losing steam, while Lloyd Banks stays on point but doesn't really grow as an artist either.
It's hard to believe 50 thinks this is quality music, and it's even more difficult to believe Eminem and Dr. Dre approve the album before its release (I highly doubt they even take a listen). Previous G-Unit releases like Rotten Apple and Buck the World were fine, but had something missing that you couldn't really point out. With Terminate on Sight you can instantly tell what is missing, and that is effort.
The glory days of G-Unit are over. There wont be another classic like Get Rich or Die Tryin'. There wont be another haunting and lyrical album like The Hunger For More. There wont be another dark and dirty album like Straight Outta Ca$hville. These artists feel as if people will buy their material because of the G-Unit stamp, but what the stamp now represents is trash. Perhaps Young Buck was smart leaving the G-Unit group after all, even though he is still part of the label.
Overall, Terminate on Sight is probably the worse release ever put out by G-Unit. It is as bad as Thoughts of a Predicate Felon, or maybe even worse.
I took my time, sat down and listened to the album as a whole. Hopefully you wont have to. It's not worth your money and it's not worth your time. It's not even worth the effort to try to download it for free. Why put effort to get this when no effort was put into the product itself?
Horrible album. Hopefully Dr. Dre can help us recover, and bless us with some Detox. ...