G-Unit - God's Plan: Collector's Edition - 2006 - BCD Music Group
This is actually a more overground re-release of one of the early G-Unit mixtapes that caused so much buzz for their debut. Originally released in 2002, God's Plan was a pretty good highlight of the group's chemistry with plenty of freestyles and 50 singing the hooks. There are however two things that can majorly crush a quality mixtape: too many DJ drops, and random gun sound effects. And unfortunately God's Plan has both. If you can get by that, and you happen to be a G-Unit fan, then there's certainly plenty to like here though. Highlights include Tony Yayo going hard of Dre's "Deep Cover" beat, as well as the inclusion of the "Work It" remix that 50 did with Missy Elliott as well as his cut with Biggie from the Duets album. These tracks really help give it a more album-sounding quality - again that is botched thanks to the DJ drops and gunshots, as well as a few freestyles that cut-off abruptly instead of turning into full tracks (their take on "Mind Playing Tricks On Me" for example). But I do like how lean this set is. Clocking in at a mere 15 tracks instead of meandering like many mixtapes do to try to fill up the 80 minutes that the CD medium allows.