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G-Unit Radio Part 1: Smokin' Day 2
By Diony C.
•April 7, 2026
The tape that launched the franchise. DJ Whoo Kid and 50 Cent, hosted by Snoop Dogg, dropped in March 2003 alongside Get Rich or Die Tryin'. The P.I.M.P. remix. True Loyalty. The beginning of a 25-volume series that changed the mixtape game.
On the intro of this tape, DJ Whoo Kid says it plainly: “This is not a mixtape. This is a revolution.”
He was right.
G-Unit Radio Part 1: Smokin’ Day 2 dropped in 2003, right after Get Rich or Die Tryin’ had already moved over 872,000 copies in its first week. The album had done its job. Now Whoo Kid was doing his, keeping G-Unit in the streets, building the series that would run 25 volumes deep and rewrite how a DJ-anchored mixtape franchise could operate.
The Tape
Snoop Dogg hosts from start to finish. That was the move. 50 Cent had just crossed over in a way that no rapper had in years, and bringing in Snoop, the West Coast legend, the brand, the voice, made a statement about where G-Unit’s reach was going. This was not a New York-only tape. This was a signal.
Fifteen tracks. The P.I.M.P. remix with Don Magic Juan alongside Snoop, one of the sharpest pieces of mixtape sequencing from that era. True Loyalty with Lloyd Banks and Tony Yayo. Yayo still locked up, still present, the unit holding it down with him in absentia. The Realest Killaz with 2Pac. Young Buck on his own track before most of the country knew his name. High All the Time running right into the Snoop-heavy back half.
Whoo Kid’s drops are woven throughout: the “Whoooo Kid,” the gunshots, the “non-stop.” That sonic identity became as recognizable as the music itself during this run, and this tape is where the G-Unit Radio version of it first took full shape.
The Artists on This Tape
Featured Artists
50 Cent
The Realest Killaz, P.I.M.P. (Remix), Baby Get On Yo Knees, Beautiful (Remix), True Loyalty, Interlude, High All The Time, Outro
Where It Sits in the Story
If you read the Bulletproof: G-Unit Pt. 5 piece in the archive, you know the full timeline. Four tapes in 2002 built the audience. Bulletproof dropped the same week as the album. This tape came next, the first chapter of G-Unit Radio, the series that would give every member of the roster their own dedicated volume and run until 2008.
Part 1 is where Whoo Kid named what he was building. Twenty-four more volumes followed. But it started here, with Snoop on the intro and 50 Cent at the peak of the biggest run in hip-hop at the time.
mixtapekings.com was part of the infrastructure that moved these tapes. We were promoting G-Unit Radio when this series was still finding its legs. That history is why it belongs in this archive.
Press Play
Fifteen tracks. Front to back, the way it was made to be heard.
Before G-Unit Radio there was the grind. Bulletproof: G-Unit Pt. 5 is the tape from 2003 that documented what this crew sounded like before the album changed the game. Same DJ, same unit, earlier chapter.