G-Unit's Young Buck has said repeatedly this year that his sophomore album, Buck The World, was underrated and didn't sell like it should have, but he wasn't mad. He just felt as though he had to keep grinding it out.
Despite grinding it out since March, the album never took off the way he felt it should have. According to Buck, it's because his label, Interscope, was unable to market it correctly, but he says the album was better than Kanye West or 50 Cent's latest albums.
"I ain't get what I deserved at Interscope," Buck told MTV recently. "I feel my album [Buck the World] is better than Kanye's album and 50's album, but it's one of the most slept-on albums due to whatever reason. I'm still trying to get what I deserve off of Interscope, so it's still a hustle to me.
"As far as the marketing, I don't think they knew how to market a project such as mine. When you have a song like 'Get Buck' and 'You Ain't Going Nowhere,' there's no lane. You can't just market me to the South. I'm worldwide. I come with the Southern background but worldwide flow. They have to understand how big I aim outside of 50 Cent to get the push from them. I'm still in the shadow of 50 to them, but to the streets, I'm Young Buck. I'm my own person. I just gotta get my label to understand that part," he continued.
Just like he feels he hasn't gotten the attention he thinks he deserves within the music industry, there's some artists under him that he feels needs some shine as well -- C-Bo and The Outlawz.
West Coast rapper C-Bo and Tupac protégés, The Outlawz, have a long history in hip-hop, but to date, they never broken into the mainstream with their music. Now signed with Buck's Cashville Records, the G-Unit soldier feels he can help them get there.
"It's more me being quiet and learning off of them sometimes," Buck admits, speaking on The Outlawz. "It's things in the game they been through and I haven't learned yet. It's a learning process. They bring a lot to the table on their own. I'm just pretty much bringing their career more to the forefront. I feel that the Outlawz as well as C-Bo never got their just due."
To introduce those two acts, as well as his new group 615 -- with himself, Lil' Murder and High-C -- Buck is prepping a compilation called Young Buck Presents: Product of the South, he tells MTV, which will follow with a project from each artist on the roster.
"I said, 'I'll drop a [compilation] album.' ... That'll be the bridge to their project. Everybody is going to get a single and a video," he explained.
Buck is also hard at work on G-Unit's second album as a group, Shoot To Kill, which is slated for December.
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