50 Cent Says Lloyd Banks & Tony Yayo are too Dependent

Now that G-Unit is history, the once biggest stars in the hip hop scene have become more or or less irrelevant. 50 Cent came said, in a recent interview that Lloyd Banks and Tony Yayo were too dependent on him throughout their careers, and he felt they need to stand on their own.







50 Cent still has plenty of love for his G-Unit brothers, Lloyd Banks and Tony Yayo. He just thinks that "they need to get themselves together." And he's partially blaming himself for it. The G-Unit general made that point clear on a recent appearance on Big Boy's Neighborhood. "I've enabled them to a point where they feel like they don't have to do anything," 50 began explaining about Banks and Yayo. "I end up doing their job, too." "They haven't had a manager," he added. "I've been managing them for their entire careers. That $8.7, $9 million a piece. I did that for them. I'm telling them since the top of last year, 'Yo you got to find managers.'" And on Yayo: "Yayo has to do a lot more. He just doesn't do what he's supposed to do." (XXL Mag)








I think this is coming really late, but what can i say? Better late than never. I remember hearing "Salute U" off the Beg For Mercy (2003) album and hearing Yayo, Buck and Banks saluting 50 cent and giving him praises and all that like he was their god, and wondering- "are they not meant to be a team?" And the fact that Tony Yayo is 6 years older than 50 cent, and being more of a slave to him just got me bugging. It is obvious that 50 feeds off praise, attention and being the boss, that's why he kicked Game out of the Unit.






And ignorant people back then were making noise about how Game wasn't loyal... loyalty is different from being a slave to someone because he got money. I believe if someone wants to help you, he should not make the mistake of doing for you what you can do for yourself and make you dependent on him. That's what 50 did to Lloyd Banks and Tony Yayo. 


And he is right about Yayo needing to do more...that is one lazy dependent man. I remember an interview from back in 2005/2006 where Yayo was talking about how rich 50 was, and how he could call up 50 right now and borrow $5 million from him, and i'm thinking- "what happened to your own money, or your ability as an artist to grind for your money?"