Tony Yayo

Marvin Bernard, better known by his stage name Tony Yayo, is an American rapper. He is best known as a member of G-Unit, a hip hop group he formed with his childhood friends, 50 Cent and Lloyd Banks.

Marvin Bernard's street credentials preceded his rap career by years—he did federal time before "Thoughts of a Predicate Felon" even dropped in 2005, giving his G-Unit tenure an authenticity that many of his peers manufactured. Alongside 50 Cent and Lloyd Banks, Yayo helped build G-Unit into a powerhouse during hip-hop's mid-2000s reign, anchoring the crew's sound with a grittier, less polished aesthetic than his more famous partner. While he never achieved 50's commercial dominance, his prolific run of albums and mixtapes—including "The Enforcer" and "Drug Users Handbook"—kept him visible in the streets and on blogs when G-Unit's cultural moment began to fade.