G-Unit Records
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| Parent company | Capitol Music Group |
| Founded | 2003 |
| Founder | 50 Cent |
| Distributor(s) | Caroline Records |
| Genre | Hip hop |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Official website | www |
G-Unit Records is an American record label. The label was founded in 2003 by rapper 50 Cent. Upon its inception, the label operated as a subsidiary of, and was distributed through, Universal Music Group's Interscope Records. In August 2010, the label added another distribution with EMI. In February 2014, G-Unit Records severed its eleven-year relationship with Interscope Records, and the label now operates under the mantle of Capitol Music Group and Caroline Records. G-Unit Records has a subsidiary label, G-Note Records, that caters to other genres of music, including R&B and pop. The label's acts over the years have earned RIAA certifications of "Platinum" or higher on seven of its sixteen released albums.
Following the success of 50 Cent's debut album, Get Rich or Die Tryin', he was granted his own record label, G-Unit Records.G-Unit, then consisting of Lloyd Banks, Tony Yayo and Young Buck, was signed to the label as a group, each respective member also being signed as a solo artist. Before G-Unit's signing with Interscope Records, Bang Em Smurf was very closely affiliated with the group. He claimed that the two recorded a mixtape from which they would earn $5 each; they sold 400,000 copies and 50 Cent allegedly never gave Bang Em' Smurf his share. Bang 'Em Smurf was never actually signed to G-Unit as an artist, but rather as an executive, or "under-boss," as he put it.
G-Unit's commercial debut, Beg For Mercy, sold 377,000 copies in its first week of release in 2003. It has now sold over 2.7 million units in the U.S. and 6 million copies worldwide. It has been certified double platinum by the RIAA.
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