In 2005, the hip-hop world was surprised when G-Unit Records announced that they'd signed Mobb Deep to a record deal. Part of the surprise was that Mobb Deep was a well-established rap group that was vastly different from the G-Unit image. So the deal was rather unexpected.
At the time, every G-Unit artist was going platinum. So it kind of seemed Mobb Deep would reach their highest level of notoriety with a machine like G-Unit behind them.
But contrary to the expectations of some fans such as myself that didn't happen.
So, the question is what caused Mobb Deep to leave one of hip-hop's most successful labels at the time?