{"id":42,"date":"2006-03-20T10:43:17","date_gmt":"2006-03-20T16:43:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unkut.com\/weed\/2006\/03\/young-gunz-fall-on-hard-times\/"},"modified":"2008-06-20T01:19:25","modified_gmt":"2008-06-20T07:19:25","slug":"young-gunz-fall-on-hard-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unkut.com\/weed\/2006\/03\/young-gunz-fall-on-hard-times\/","title":{"rendered":"Young Gunz fall on hard times"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Young<\/p>\n

With all the fall-out in the wake of last year’s traumatic Roc-A-Fella break-up, perhaps it was inevitable State Property weed carriers the Young Gunz would get lost in the shuffle.<\/p>\n

After all, their bag’s proprietor, Beanie Sigel, had no shortage of problems of his own, serving a short prison stint while having his album released by the woefully inept and possibly now-defunct Damon Dash Music Group.<\/p>\n

Hence, I wasn’t exactly shocked to read in today’s Mixtape Monday<\/a> column at MTV that the Young Gunz have fallen on hard times and have actually moved back into the same houses they grew up in, in Philadelphia.<\/p>\n

Shockingly, the group’s second album, Brothers From Another<\/em>, didn’t perform well commercially. Their record label, Roc-A-Fella, refused to release a second single, after whatever their first single was tanked.<\/p>\n

“I blame [the label] but I also blame ourselves. We didn’t get in the streets and bust our ass with [promoting the album] like we did Tough Luv<\/em>,” sayeth bag handler Young Chris.<\/p>\n

Lord knows it can be tough for a young weed carrier these days without the bag’s proprietor around to lend guidance and support.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

With all the fall-out in the wake of last year’s traumatic Roc-A-Fella break-up, perhaps it was inevitable State Property weed carriers the Young Gunz would get lost in the shuffle. After all, their bag’s proprietor, Beanie Sigel, had no shortage of problems of his own, serving a short prison stint while having his album released […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-carriers-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unkut.com\/weed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unkut.com\/weed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unkut.com\/weed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unkut.com\/weed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unkut.com\/weed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unkut.com\/weed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unkut.com\/weed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unkut.com\/weed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unkut.com\/weed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}