Young Buck....Literally

We gotcha phones tapped…
written by 4bars

I hope by now ya’ll have heard the tapes that 50 Cent released of a conversation he had with Young Buck where Buck is crying, confessing, and begging to be let back into the G-Unit fold. If you haven’t, please take a listen to it above, its funny, embarrassing, and sad all at the same time. Buck sounds like a lost child calling home after realizing that the streets just weren’t where it was at. Now while the sheer comedic value of this whole “beef” is present, after listening to the diss track that Young Buck made after these tapes were leaked, the claim that apparently it’s a ‘bitch move’ to tape conversations comes into question.

I recently watched a 14 minute “confessional” by 50 Cent (my brother suggested it) where he discussed his situation with his baby mama and Young Buck among other things. He also mentioned that Trina has taped conversations of her own between her and Buck that are contradicting to his public claims and show a track record of Buck saying one thing but doing another. Initially, I kind of agreed with Buck that it was a bitch move to tape a heartfelt conversation between two supposed friends but when 50 revealed his motivations for releasing the conversations in the first place I realized that he had a great point. The fact is, if Buck was truthful about his dealings with G-Unit, etc and wasn’t so caught up in trying to maintain a certain bravado/lifestyle his words would line up across the board. But as it stands, he’s on stage claiming 50 stole money from him and “F#@K G-Unit” etc, but he’s really callin, cryin, and sobbing because he’s admittedly “confused”. I’m torn, cause while I do feel like it was a liiiiitttle sneaky for Fif to tape a clearly emotional “friend” of his, at the same time, this “friend” was also playing both sides of the fence trying to save face and got his card pulled, so it’s hard for me to sympathize.

This is another reason why we gotta stop with all the frontin in hip hop. According to 50, Buck was so caught up in impressing and showing all his people in Tennessee that he was rich and famous and living an extravagant lifestyle that he was living WAAYYY beyond his means and was suffering from all areas of this. He allegedly had $22k in exotic rentals per month while owing taxes to not only the IRS but to 50 himself who had paid his taxes the previous year. The question is always asked about why black people “stunt” so hard and the line that always resounds is Juvenile’s “actin like a nigga that aint nevah haaaad shit…” But this cant always be an excuse, it can’t be, not when you owe the f’n government and a business associate/friend who helped you earn $8 million. Young Buck learned the hard way that one must (I never thought I’d use this phrase sincerely) “keep it real”. As for 50 he also learned a valuable lesson about his former associate: emotional thugs, they all need hugs, haha. Bars