Shawty Lo Signs With G-Unit Records

Shawty Lo just confirmed signing with 50 cent's G-Unit Record label. A lot of people are wondering what kind of move that is, considering the fact that g-unit is no longer as strong as it used to be. Even the heavy seller, 50 cent could not sell platinum with his last album (before i self destruct), so what will someone like shawty lo who has fewer followers be able to bring to the table? Well, lo said they had a long meeting, and i know 50 is a savvy business man, and doesn't go into anything that would not be of benefit to him, so there must be a good reason behind the signing.

Read what shawty lo had to say about the signing below-

"This is like something before the album, my new situation with G-Unit was just solidified and I got off the phone with 50 yesterday, I just signed a really large deal," Shawty Lo said revealing plans to drop a new mixtape called B.H.F. "It's like a new beginning and all I needed was someone behind me. 50 [Cent] is a marketing genius and I got my new thing D4L and G-Unit and we going to be working the South and the rest of the world if need be." (All Hip Hop)

I know shawty lo has his movement in the south, and the south can be very supportive of their people, so i guess they can still make some good money from there. But i doubt the possibility of shawty lo selling huge- maybe he would sell a lot of ring-tones, i think that would be another avenue for money, but definitely not on the album side. By the way, G-Unit is no longer under Jimmy Iovine's Interscope Records, but are now under E.M.I Records.


I think the problem 50 cent had, and why he fell so low is that he made a lot of enemies on his way up. He was feeding off that negative energy and it made him a lot of money initially, but when it all came back on him, it was with a big bang. Where you go from selling 7 million on one album, and just selling 1 million on the next. And then, he diversified too much. There is power in focus, that is why you never see Jay-Z or Nas going to deep into anything else, except rapping. That is why they are still as ill as they are. Of cos they have businesses on the side, but they never changed their art. 50 went all hollywood, and forgot his real passion. Maybe that wasn't his real passion in the first place. Maybe he was just doing the rapping thing for the money.  Maybe.