Close To Me by G-Unit - Official Music Video ｜ 50 Cent Music

What this video is

Released August 18, 2008 as the third and final single from G-Unit's second studio album T.O.S.: Terminate on Sight, 'Close to Me' arrived during a turbulent period for the group marked by internal friction and the departure of Young Buck. The album debuted at #4 on the Billboard 200 with 102,000 first-week units, but label support from Interscope had already begun to wane, preventing a planned fourth single. The…

Why it matters

As one of the relatively rare animated videos in G-Unit's catalog, 'Close to Me' documents a specific sub-mode of 2000s East Coast hip-hop visual production: the use of 2D digital animation to project artist persona without the logistical cost of live-action location shoots. The dark, warm,…