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Though 50 Cent has always been the undisputed star of his crew, the members of G-Unit bring out the best in each other, from their influential mixtape work to big-budget hits like “Stunt 101”. Fiddy's original Queens, New York running mates were witty wordsmith Lloyd Banks and loose cannon Tony Yayo. Sometimes the group took on new members, including Nashville's charismatic Young Buck and, briefly, Compton's The Game. But in any configuration, the nucleus of 50 Cent's irrepressible trash talk and Banks' brilliant punchlines makes the Unit one of rap's most entertaining crews.

L.A.-based producer Khalil Abdul-Rahman's knack for polished, cinematic hip-hop beats caught the ear of Dr. Dre, whose Aftermath Records released many of DJ Khalil's tracks for 50 Cent and Eminem. His wide arsenal of sounds, like the rumbling percussion and guitar stabs of Clipse's “Kinda Like a Big Deal” or the stuttering synths of 50 Cent's “I'll Still Kill”, has kept his works sounding fresh.

When she penned the gut-punching hook for “Love the Way You Lie”, Eminem’s massive 2010 hit with Rihanna, Skylar Grey began her complete domination of the pop charts. The singer/songwriter brings an emotional vulnerability to everything she touches, helping to soften the edges of rap’s hardest players (Dr. Dre, Nicki Minaj) and EDM’s heaviest hitters (Zedd, Kaskade), while saving her most intimate confessions for her own cinematic ballads.