Young Buck filed for bankruptcy this year another time and new court documents show exactly how dire his situation is. The G-Unit rapper reportedly has no money to his name.

We’ve known for a while that Young Buck was struggling to make ends meet, fighting with 50 Cent to get out of his record deal. He wished to get away from G-Unit Records after his former friend blocked his releases, forcing him to take alternative means to make money. Recently, the rapper was on the No Jumper podcast, where he explained more of his situation with Fiddy, claiming that he would not allow G-Unit to become more popular than him as a solo entity. While that worked out for Fif, it definitely hindered Buck’s success.

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Bankruptcy papers obtained by Bossip reportedly show that Young Buck has nothing in his bank account. He also reportedly does not own any property and only has $100 in clothes and $100 in jewelry to his name. He is said to be living off his girlfriend.

According to the paperwork, Buck’s only source of income are from copyrighted mixtapes this year, including 10 Bricks, 10 Bodies, and 10 Bullets. He says that he made a total of $35,000 from music, which is not enough to pay his $50,000+ tax lien and his $106,000 in child support.

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Young Buck claims that he is eligible to receive royalties but he does not know where that money is headed.

Hopefully, he’s able to get his feet back on the ground.

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They were once good friends and G-Unit family, but the relationship between 50 Cent and Young Buck has taken a nasty turn. The two men have been at each other’s throats for who knows how long, and their feud doesn’t seem to have an end in sight. There have been vicious memes and scathing accusations tossed around by both sides, and now Young Buck is back with a few more words about Fif and how he treated the G-Unit rappers he was supposed to be helping make famous.

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Buck was a guest on No Jumper and spoke on a myriad of topics, including 50 Cent, who he accused of using all of the opportunities that would come through for himself. “Name one episode you seen me come out on Power, but I was there in the making of the sh*t in every kind of way… Out of all these films, I was the one, ‘Yo 50, why don’t you go make a movie?'” Young Buck said, adding that Fif would tell him he had plans to help him out. 

“But then, at the same time, you’d get on the radio station and talk about how motherf*ckers is not doin’ what they need to be doin’ to get they own selves together, but you’re the boss,” Buck added. “What I’m saying is that, you know, 50, I think, Imma just be honest, it seems like, wouldn’t allow nobody to become just as big as him or bigger than him. Honestly.”

Recently, 50 Cent penned in his book Hustle Harder, Hustle Smarter that he was disappointed in how Lloyd Banks and Tony Yayo‘s careers turned out, faulting the rappers for not adjusting to the culture. Check out Young Buck on No Jumper below.

Legal trouble has riddled Young Buck‘s career over the years. Most recently, the rapper was arrested ahead of Christmas and was held without bond up until very recently. The former G-Unit rapper was released from prison last week and chopped it up with DJ Paul on Instagram Live. He addressed 50 Cent after filing for bankruptcy but another thing he mentioned that went under the radar was who he was locked up with.

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Apparently, Young Buck shared a cell with Future‘s son who is currently behind bars on charges of criminal gang activity, criminal trespass, and altered ID of a firearm. Buck was being held in a Georgia prison where Future’s son is apparently also locked up. “Yeah, lil n***a name was Kobi, I think,” Buck told DJ Paul during the live stream. “I tell the guard, ‘put that n***a in a cell with me.’ You feel me?”

He added, “And the little time I was locked up. A little bit of it, I done most of it with his son. His lil’ one. I think I talked to Casino, his uncle’s and shit… but it fucked me up, man.”

Future’s son is 17 which means in the state of Georgia, he’ll be tried as an adult. Buck said he didn’t know the charges but he made sure to tell Casino that he’s holding him down.

“I don’t really know what his charges was and shit but we was back there, you know?… I just told Casino, ‘I got him while he back here. I know y’all finna get this n***a all this money you n***as got but I got ’em while he back here.'”

Check the clip out below. 

Young Buck and 50 Cent used to be cool. Over the years, the G-Unit teammates witnessed their relationship go downhill to a point where things are now irreversible. We will likely never see a full G-Unit reunion because Buck and Fif just can’t see eye-to-eye. 

For years, Young Buck has been trying to get out of his contract with 50 Cent and G-Unit Records, going public with his issues. Earlier this week, it was reported that he had filed for bankruptcy in an attempt to sliver his way out of the deal. Now that he’s officially out of jail after a 4-month stint, he’s back addressing this dramatic situation.

Buck hopped on Instagram Live with DJ Paul to discuss his return.

“I went in that motherfucker and got my mind right, so I was able to walk up out that motherfucker not just free from that bullshit, but free from not being able to work,” said Buck before dragging his former friend. “Now I can get to work, you get what I’m saying? That’s all I ever wanted to do in regards to whatever, dealing with the contract and shit with dude over there.”

Of course, “dude over there” is 50 Cent.

“I know I don’t owe n***a but even me at a point in time, Paul, I got to a place where I was like, you know what, I just want to get to work. Fuck it, I’ll pay him,” continued Buck, claiming to have offered him two installments of $150,000 to pay off his debt. I don’t owe Interscope or G-Unit a quarter.”

What do you think Fiddy will have to say about this?

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Young Buck and 50 Cent have a damaged relationship and, at this point, we’re not sure if they’ll ever be able to repair it. Young Buck has been in jail all year, getting arrested for being a fugitive from justice after a reported child abandonment charge. He’s been feeling the financial effects of his current situation and he decided to try to get some relief, filing for bankruptcy.

According to All Hip Hop, Young Buck filed for Chapter 13 bankruptcy protection earlier in the year. However, this all may be a ploy from Buck to get out of his contract with G-Unit.

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For years, the rapper has publicly spoken about how he’s been trapped into his contract with G-Unit Records, going at 50 Cent on social media for facilitating his hard time. In the legal documents for his bankruptcy filing, Buck is reportedly disputing an undisclosed amount of money owed to Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson and G-Unit Records. In fact, it is written that he’s looking to “reject any and all executory contracts with G-Unit and/or Curtis Jackson.”

In the paperwork, Buck lists G-Unit as his sole employer for the last seven years. However, there have been clear issues on both sides. You may recall 50 Cent actually having one of Buck’s videos blocked for copyright violation on YouTube, preventing the release altogether.

We’ll keep you posted on how this turns out.

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For years, 50 Cent has been going at his former friend and bandmate Young Buck. After being so close for such a long time, 50 Cent switched his tune when he alleged that Young Buck was dating a transgender woman, seemingly writing him off from that point on. Buck has denied those allegations but still, Fif isn’t letting up.

Once he finds one aspect of your character that he can clown, Fif will amplify that to the world and continually make you a laughing stock. That’s what happened with Buck and it all continues this week.

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Normally, the summer would be filled with parades to celebrate all sorts of different causes. One of those is the Gay Pride Parade, which places the LGBTQ+ community at the forefront. 50 Cent wondered if the coronavirus outbreak would cancel said Gay Pride Parade, hoping that that isn’t the case so that his longtime friend and rival could still turn up in the streets.

“Hey is 2020 gay pride parade cancelled?” asked the rapper on Instagram. “Asking for a friend, young Buck. LOL.”

50 Cent has absolutely no chill and this is another reminder of that. He doesn’t care if he hurts your feelings. If he can get a laugh out of your hardships, he’s going for it.

Check out the post below.

Since the arrival of Get Rich Or Die Tryin’ in February 2003, 50 Cent has been entrenched in the hip-hop mainstream. Working as both an active participant and the proprietor of his own G-Unit stable, the South Jamaica, Queens native has never strayed far from the audience’s mind even after twenty years in the game. In the era of alleged “industry plants”, it’d be assumed that anyone shifting 872,000 copies of their debut album in first week sales had been groomed for the spotlight. 50, on the other hand, wasn’t chaperoned to that point. A quadrilogy of iconic mixtapes mapped out his path to superstardom. Tearing through the game like a cyclone, 50’s mixtape success left the perfect blueprint for others to follow as technology evolved from physical distribution into an online marketplace.

Based on the accessibility that the internet now affords both artist and consumer, the concept of getting “rich off a mixtape” a la Drake is no longer a noteworthy occasion. What maps 50 out as special is that when it comes down to it, he was the originator. Prior to his arrival, the term “mixtape” held a very different connotation. Usually helmed by a DJ, these compilations would provide an overview of what was hot at the time with the plaudits and financial rewards all going to the name on the marquee.

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When 50’s career was at its lowest ebb, Jackson realized that he had to do something drastic to stay afloat. Dropped by Columbia and “blackballed” from the industry amid the fallout from the revelatory, Supreme Team-chronicling “Ghetto Qu’ran”, the former Jam Master Jay protégé was stripped of his foundations. As his unreleased debut album, The Power Of The Dollar gathered dust on the shelf, 50 refused to be dissuaded. 

Linking up with fellow JMJ mentee Sha Money XL, 50 decamped to the engineer and producer’s home in Westbury, Long Island and set upon the journey that’d take him from the fringes of history to becoming the focal point of a revolution. In the wake of getting shot nine times, 50’s momentum had halted. Under the guidance of Sha, much of the music that’d been laid down prior to that life-altering incident was repurposed for his first groundbreaking mixtape, January 2002’s Guess Who’s Back. “All those records were recorded 18 days, 2 records a day”, Sha told XXL. “Motherfuckers were there for 18 days and had 2 songs. This n***a 50 had 38. He said ‘There’s no way I’m going to leave this place without a record deal. If I don’t have a record deal, I’m going to have 38 Trackmasters’ tracks.’ That’s what I remember him telling me. I said, “This n***a smart.” 

As we’d soon learn, that’s a drastic understatement when talking about 50 and his raw business savvy. Holding the rare distinction of getting dissed by Hov before he’d even pushed a Soundscan unit, his rise to cultural dominance may have seemed meticulously planned out. In truth, the decision to upend the way in which mixtapes were used came from everyday interaction.

“A lot of people don’t even know how different marketing and non-traditional marketing impacts the actual culture”, 50 reminisced. “Before 50 Cent Is The Future was released, what they call a mixtape now didn’t exist. A mixtape prior to that was me sending 16 bars to you for your tape. 16 bars to Clue, Ron G, Doowop, Kid Capri and to the different DJ’s that were around. What happened with 50 Cent Is The Future was I was going across the street to the bootlegger and ‘I said you got anything new?’ And he said ‘yeah, look new 50 Cent, see?’ He was selling to me based on me but I didn’t have any photograph or anything. So, I was like, I’m going to make my own tape.”

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The follow-up to Guess Who’s Back, 50 Cent Is The Future wasn’t just a promotional vehicle for its primary artist, but gave the rest of G-Unit a chance to exhibit their skills. Featuring Tony Yayo, the would-be “punchline king” Lloyd Banks and his inaugural collab with the then-UTP member Young Buck, the second installment of the pre-Get Rich Or Die Tryin’ tapes was the moment that he truly began to pick up momentum. Loaded with interpolations and reworks of The Wu-Tang Clan, Raphael Saadiq, Tweet and Ruff Ryders, the project—which was largely recorded in Canada due to 50’s reputation as an industry pariah—was “physically duplicated” by Sha Money in June 2002. As for distribution, long-time G-Unit affiliate DJ Whoo Kid remembers the grassroots approach to A&R that they employed.

“I would go to the bodega and be like “I’m gonna leave like 20 tapes here”. Cause’ the whole drug culture is connected with 50 Cent”, Whoo Kid told Mass Appeal. “They love his music. So, I’m like “If these guys are coming here to buy drugs, buying weed, getting their nickel bags and shit, there’s a tape on the window right there. Hey, and you get a tape too. I’ll get a bag of chips, a turkey sandwich, and a G-Unit tape.” Using word of mouth as the steam engine to power his eventual come-up, this unsanctioned approach to releasing music changed the world as we know it. And, despite how low-rent its recording and packaging may have been, 50 is aware of the shift that he’d instigated.

Across the remainder of 2002, 50 stuck to the formula and released No Mercy, No Fear and God’s Plan, the latter of which featured the first airing of 50’s “Work It” remix with Missy Elliott. Providing the industry with a lesson about the power of non-conformity, DJ Drama—who ushered in a new era for the mixtape in his own right with Gangsta Grillz—is forthcoming about the impact that this had on an artist’s playbook. “From the 50 era, that’s pretty much when it became a street album. Mixtapes destroyed the demo tape; nobody cared about your demo tape anymore,” he informed Billboard. “It was like, “What are you doing with your mixtape, and how are the streets selling it? I definitely can say that they helped inspire what I went on to do with Gangsta Grillz and the artists that I came up with.”

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From Drake, T.I, and Wiz to Kendrick, Cole and Big Sean, 50’s entrepreneurship paved the way for the next generation of stars that’d make their name on the independent circuit before being beckoned to the comforting arms of the labels. For the most part, 50 is seen as one of two case studies that epitomize the catalytic power of the mixtape. The other, more often than not, is Lil Wayne. Yet while Weezy used these tapes to reconfigure his sound and prove his credentials as an elite-level MC, 50 rebuffs the notion that they should share the distinction as pioneers.

“He wouldn’t even be making a mixtape because I invented that,” 50 snarled at SOHH. “There’s no significance in that. When he freestyles on a mixtape, it’s in song format because he’s following my format but they ask me about him like we’re the same?” No longer bound by the conventional process that other artists had to adhere to, the wealth of material that 50 had at hand was instrumental in forging a connection that’d change his life. In turn, setting the scene for countless other future legends to get signed off the strength of an ad-hoc project in the decade to come.

“Theo, my attorney, and Paul Rosenberg work close together,” he recalled. “Like they know each other, they came up together so, I had a CD called Guess Who’s Back. Em got a copy of it and he was in the middle of completing The Eminem Show, so he didn’t get a chance to properly listen to it, but after he got that done he heard it and he was like “Ya’ll need to come out here now!” so they flew me out on like Friday night, I fly to Los Angeles the next day and I met with him and Dre and then after we met it was kinda all alright.”

Despite admitting that “the word had reverberated around the industry that this guy was pretty much a wrap,” Shady Records’ Paul Rosenberg couldn’t help but take notice of what 50 had accomplished and made Em aware of this exciting upstart. Discussed during a promotional roundtable for Shady XV, Mathers reflected on the moment that 50, embroiled in his underground hustle, stopped the multi-platinum selling artist in his tracks.

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“We were somewhere doing a show and our old DJ, DJ Head had the “Your Life’s On The Line” record”, Em told Shade 45. “That was the first record that I remember hearing and being like “holy shit, this dude is fuckin’ dangerous. He was on some MC shit and it’s like yo, he’s a fuckin’ threat. The way he was saying this shit, he just made you believe it. Fif has always been like that but it wasn’t something I’d heard before. He sounds like he’s going to fuck you up… he believes in what he’s saying right now. It was the passion behind it and the lyrics… I was riding around bumpin’ that shit more than anything I was recording myself.”

“They crushed the mixtapes”, Rosenberg chimed in. “No one’s ever going to do mixtapes like that again. This guy made so much money off selling mixtapes that he pulled up outside BET in a fuckin’ Lamborghini. People were fiending for those things, fiending.” Just as he’d withstood 9 shots, 50 Cent circumvented the barriers to the game that’d leave others immobile and kept moving. Left in a sink-or-swim scenario, Curtis Jackson opted to bet on himself and in doing so, forever altered the infrastructure of hip-hop by prising power away from its traditional brokers and emboldening the artists to go it alone. 

Yesterday, D12 rapper and notorious lyricist Bizarre hit up REVOLT's Drink Champs for a darkly hilarious and informative talk with NORE and DJ EFN. While some of his wild stories were covered here, one of the biggest gems arose much later in the podcast. Anybody familiar with Biz understands his appreciation for some raunchy sexcapades. Luckily, his time spent on the road with Shady Records associates ensured that the groupies came in volume.  

In order to maintain some semblance of a healthy touring dynamic, Bizarre and the crew devised a foolproof practice: homie court. "It started from Dre and his crew and got passed down to us," explains Bizarre. "Dre, Dogg Pound and Snoop. It's rules for the homies on the road. When it comes to females or whatever. We got charges. One charge can be 'harboring a known freak.' It's a freak who want to do everybody but you cuff her. We got one called 'eating roadkill.' Whoo Kid was like, a habitual offender of homie court period."

It was reported last week that former G-Unit rapper, Young Buck, was arrested in Ashland City, Tennessee on an outstanding felony fugitive from justice warrant from Newton County, Georgia. He was placed in jail on December 20th and is being held without bond in Cheatham County, Tennessee. He will remain behind bars after spending Christmas in his cell of the “chronically overcrowded jail” while he awaits his extradition to Georgia for his court date on May 7th, 2020. 

It has now been confirmed by The Cheatham County Sheriff’s Office that Buck, whose real name is David Darnell Brown, that he has been charged with child abandonment. To reach out to Buck, fans and supporters can sign up for a Securus account and “visit” the rapper over live video chat. The website also allows those who wish to show their support to send him written messages as well as load money into his account so that he is able to respond. The system also allows for images to be sent directly to him.

Before he went to jail, Buck was in the middle of a heated back-and-forth between himself and former G-Unit companion, 50 Cent, who was relentlessly mocking Buck for supposedly being in a relationship with a transgender woman. 50 has yet to make any comments on Buck’s arrest.