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Several years ago 50 Cent was scouting Philadelphia for talent. That's how he met Meek Mill and other rappers from the area.
Tony Yayo was cool with Mike Knox and the idea was born to start G-Unit Philly. Members included Knox, Cotic, I've Vegas and Tone Trump.
Although things didn't pan out as planned and the members went their separate ways, Mike Knox remained down with G-Unit until this day.
Tone recently sat down with Mikey T The Movie Star to talk about meeting 50, the G-Unit Philly movement, Knox and revealed that 50 shot a reality show based on the Philadelphia hip hop scene that was too real for television.
"50 had an interest in doing a reality show on Philadelphia and the underground music scene, The streets... real gritty joint" Tone said. "Me, Knox and the team we put together, I don't even wanna say a trailer. We shot four episodes. 50 was loving it. This was before reality shows got real big. 50's whole thing was he needed to be able to justify how hard the content was, to be able to sell it to a network. The shit was so gangster, This was giving a look of Philadelphia that was so authentic, like how the fuck could they air this on TV? What channel could air this shit? From the violence, to the honesty, the plights of what's going on with young black men and the crookedness of the justice system. It was just deep. It was way bigger than any type of music shit."
Shouts to Mikey T The Movie Star and Tone Trump. Free Mike Knox!
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