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• G-Unit is an American hip-hop band, whose name comes from Guerilla Unit. Its members, 50 Cent, Lloyd Banks and Tony Yaio knew each other from the time they were kids. They started as a group in 2002. Soon they developed their own record label (with the help of 50 Cent successes as a solo singer), called G-Unit Record and later on they had their own radio, called of course G-Unit Radio.
One of the members, Tony Yaio was send to jail, so their first album was recorded without him, but with Young Buck (another artist called by 50 Cent to replace Tony). The Game used to be too a member of G-Unit but they had an argument regarding money. Young Buck was a member of the band only until 2008. Their second album was finished in 2008 and it contains a lot of good songs, like “Close to Me” or “I like the way she do it”.
• Beastie Boys is an older hip hop group that started to play in 1981, formed by Mike D, MCA, Ad-Rock, Mix Master Mike. “Beastie” came from “Boys Entering Anarchistic States Towards Internal Excellence”. But in 1986 they released the first album, called “Licensed to III”, who has a real success among other albums in the 80’.Since then they released other 7 albums, including “Paul's Boutique” in 1988, “Check Your Head” in 1992, “To the 5 Boroughs” in 2004. Their latest album is called “Hot Sauce Committee”.
• D12 (or Dirty Dozen) started to play as a group in 1996. The famous Eminem is one of it’s members, and in the present with him are singing Bizarre, Denaun Porter, Kuniva and Swifty. The idea of the group and the group’s name started in Detroit, where they wanted to bring together 12 best hip hop singers. But they managed to find only six talented singers. So they had an idea: each one of the members to have an alter-ego, and that’s how the dozen was formed and Dirty Harry, Peter S. Bizarre, Hannz G. (or Rondell Beene), Kon Artis, Robert Beck and the famous Slim Shady. After a while Dr Dre helped Eminem to gain success and fans all around the world. But Eminem decided to re-enter the group.D12 has 3 albums, “The Underground EP”, “Devil's Night” and the latest one” D12 World” was released in 2004. This album reached the number one position on Billboard 200.