In the near five years that it’s been since G-Unit dropped their debut effort Beg For Mercy the Southside Jamaica Queens crew has undergone more roster changes than the Washington Redskins. Basically the crew has seen their stock peak and drop irrepressibly over the last few years. This year’s Terminate On Sight effort is sort of like a passage to righteousness due to the fact that basically after this one G-Unit will either be heralded as legit or they will be labeled flops. From the looks of things that have come on the heels of their latest albums, things are not at all looking good for the once thriving Interscope click.

If the G-Unit still had some of the luster they had when they first came out then I’m sure that the opening "Straight Outta Southside" would be way more significant. Producer Tha Bizness laces the Unit with some throwback sounding material on the Young Buck assisted loyal fan favorite "Piano Man." "Close To Me" sounds like your typical G-Unit love song but in the end the three amigos spit about runnin trains and basically just doggin other dudes chicks… always a sour scenario. I don’t know about anyone else but 50 Cent sounds gay as fuck on the opening of "Rider Part 2." I’m really not understanding why the fuck everybody feels the need to bite Lil Wayne on every fuckin song these days.

The Unit come with some eerie and somewhat violent efforts on "Casualties Of War" and "You So Tough." The album’s highlight comes when 50, Banks, and Yayo are in older form on the perfectly laid out "No Days Off." As the album wears on one can’t help but to notice the abundance of filler tracks that end up making up the most part of the collection. Even producers like Swizz Beatz and Don Cannon can’t do anything to doctor up the soundscapes on the lackluster album with their contributions on "Get Down" and "Let It Go" respectively. Luckily for the Unit the album’s last two offerings are actually a bit above average. Both "Ready Or Not" and "Money Makes The World Go Round" find Lloyd Banks and Tony Yayo spitting alongside each other without assistance from general 50.

Throughout Terminate On Sight the Gorilla Unit show some signs of still living in their own skin but in the end its just not enough to warrant the same respect the once achieved so easily. 50 Cent, Lloyd Banks, and Tony Yayo just don’t live up to their lofty expectations anymore these days and if Terminate On Sight is a glimpse of some of their new solo efforts to come then the G-Unit is all but already terminated.