Buck the World

Singles

The album was supported with three singles with accompanying music videos: "I Know You Want Me", "Get Buck" and "U Ain't Goin' Nowhere".

Its lead single, "I Know You Want Me", made it to number 67 on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart in the United States.

The second single off of the album, "Get Buck", was a minor success, reaching number 87 on the US Billboard Hot 100 and number 43 on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs in the US.

The album's third single, "U Ain't Goin' Nowhere", peaked at number 57 on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs. Gil Green filmed music video in Cuba after Interscope Records and Gil Green received special authorization from the United States Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control.

The song "Push Em Back" was featured in 2008 comedy film Drillbit Taylor during the first day of school scene.

Critical reception

Buck the World was met with generally favourable reviews from music critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream publications, the album received an average score of 70, based on fourteen reviews.

Simon Vozick-Levinson of Entertainment Weekly praised the album, calling it "G-Unit's strongest LP in recent memory". AllMusic's David Jeffries described it as "a well-built and surprisingly diverse album", and Steve 'Flash' Juon of RapReviews called it "a fun, rambunctious, guilty pleasure of an album".

Christian Hoard of Rolling Stone found "Buck spits grimy, chest-thumping boasts with ear-grabbing command". Alvin Blanco of Spin noted: "despite fairly rote lyrics, Buck's ferocious flow can turn even the most cliched hood yarn into a fire-and-brimstone sermon". Jayson Greene of Stylus Magazine wrote: "like his first record Straight Outta Cashville, Buck the World is a solid-to-great Southern rap genre exercise, graced with immaculate production and boasting an all-star supporting cast". Pitchfork reviewer saw "the problem with Buck the World is that it's largely inconsistent. There are 15 producers over 17 tracks. Sometimes it clicks, but other times it feels forced".

In mixed reviews, Tim Perlich of Now admits "the bigger problem, though, is Young Buck's yawn-inducing rhyme flow, which, paired with relentlessly slow, chugging beats, creates pure aural Sominex".

Commercial performance

In the United States, the album debuted at number 3 on the Billboard 200 and atop both the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums and the Top Rap Albums, with 140,000 copies sold in its first week. It also debuted at number 7 on the Canadian Albums Chart.

In the United Kingdom, the album reached number 94 on the UK Albums Chart, number 99 on the Scottish Albums Chart and number 6 on the Hip Hop and R&B Albums Chart.

The album also made it to number 87 on the Swiss Hitparade and number 131 on the SNEP.

Track listing

;Notes

• Track 17 contains a hidden track "Funeral Music" performed solely by 50 Cent. iTunes version of the album omitted "Lose My Mind" leaving "Funeral Music" only 3:15 in length.

;Sample credits

• Track 3 contains replayed elements from "My Hero Is a Gun" by Michael Masser.
• Track 6 contains elements from "Everybody's Got a Good Thing" by Ronald Millender as performed by Lorlli.
• Track 9 contains resung elements from "Bad Boys" by Ian Lewis.
• Track 15 contains replayed elements from "Havin Thangs" by Michael Barnett, Chad Butler, Will Barnett and George Clinton.

;Leftover songs

• "Do It Myself"
• "Dead or Alive"
• "Sellin' Everything" (featuring B.G.)
• "Gone in the Morning" (featuring Trey Songz)

Charts

Weekly charts

Year-end charts

References

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