Early on in his G-Unit career, Lloyd Banks was considered by many to be G-Unit’s best storyteller. Boasting his talents on songs like 50 Cent’s “Don’t Push Me” and his own “Til The End,” Banks had no problem spinning tales of crime and regret.
So when G-Unit’s youngest member got away from his lyrical plots, it took one of Hip Hop’s most renowned storytellers to get him back on track: Raekwon of the Wu-Tang clan.
When the Wu member sent Banks an unfinished “Last Train to Scotland” off of Rae’s upcoming Shaolin vs. Wu-Tang album, the Queens emcee knew exactly what to do. “Soon as I heard [Raekwon’s] verse it was on some storytelling shit, so I already knew what I had to do with it,” he said to Vibe.com. “Rae is one of the best at that, so his verse opened up my mind. It wasn’t like I had a blank beat to go off of.”
“It’s crazy because I’d already planned on going back into the storytelling thing on my next project… that’s a cool start for me,” added Banks, who collaborated with Raekwon on his recent Hunger For More 2. “It’s actually easier for me to paint pictures as far as stories because it’s less punchlines, it’s more out the mind. It’s different than having to break your brain to come up with a witty line.”
Lloyd Banks is looking to drop a mixtape in March, followed by his next studio album in late 2011.
Mandy – where are you darling?
Shut Up Bitch
Break your brain. AHAHAHA
nigga you know good and damn well raekwon didn’t send you no tracks.
you PAID raekwon to be on his shit just like rick ross and jim jones did cuz you need the exposure
Banks needs exposure? Beamer, Benz, & Bentley got him plenty of exposure since the shit went gold and was killing the radio. Dude is all over websites and magazines and runs with one of the biggest crews of the past decade. His 5 and Better mixtape series killed alot of studio albums too. Ross and alot of other cats(Diddy, Minaj, Drake) are OVERexposed and Banks not falling in that category is a good thing.
Jin dissing Raekwon:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0w8EgTMU0Y0
Good to see this brother getting lyrical again. Fucking young ass haters.
Do your thing akh
Raekwon THE CHEF!
Rozay sold more in his 6th month than Banks did in his 5 week. Face it Lloyd Banks and G-Unit stans, the Unit is done. Rozay done finished off them niggas!
Bawse!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! LOL
“SMH2” Oops, I meant “HFM2” went Double Cooper (pocket lint)!!!!! GGG-GGG-GGet tha fuck outta here!!!! Hungry For More 2, I bet yo ass is hungry with those record sales Banks.
Banks’ SMH2 is the biggest flop of the year. i mean u got good production,50, Eminem and Kanye and u just sold 44k ROFLMAO!!!! & iv’e fucked better looking bitches than that hoe Andrea Marie..real talk.
When you got 50 spending money on Akon, Swiss beats, loso, Juelz, styles P, pusha T, rae, Justic League, Kanye, ryan leslie, Lloyd, Jeremih and the list goes on it can “never” be called a INDIE ALBUM homie. $500K- 2million EASY
That nigga just put a DJ Khaled album lol
Aint no way in hell 70k are decent numbers when u got Kanye,Eminem & 50 cent features. get your head out of the gutter brah
Rozay sold more in his 6th month than Banks did in his 5 week. Face it Lloyd Banks and G-Unit stans, the Unit is done. Rozay done finished off them niggas!
Bawse!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I would just once again like to ask all the Lloyd Banks/G-unot stans what happened to The Hunger For Cock pt2 moving 250,000 in the first week?!?!?
G-unot is over, Banks is over, give it up…
This nigga still talking? I thought he died when the first week sales came out. Wacka Flocka sold more than this nigga. Go flip burgers Banks your career was over when rotten apple dropped. Now your boss saw you flop so he shelved Black Tragic.
I hope you saved your money Banks. I sure hope you did. Wacka Flocka sold more than you dog, so fo sho you know it is over. The whole world is waiting for Yayo to drop- LMAO. When you niggas were selling mad records you didn’t want to fuck with nobody now you got everybody on your tracks cuz your careers went from sugar to shit. Can’t have respect for niggas like you. Shit on others when you’re up but come kissing booty when you’re down. You should have built business relationships not destroy them.
Little bitch ass niggas talking about sales and shit. Fuck outta here
Does EVERYBODY see how the G-Unit stans don’t care about album sales anymore? I wonder why???
50 would put out a youtube video dissing an artist’s low album sales.
G-UNIT STANS BE LOVING THAT SHIT!!! LAUGHING AND CARING ON, saying shit like “50 ROCKS & HE’S A COMEDIAN”….
SO what “THA FUCK” happened or what changed all of a sudden???(Lames) haaa lol
That “spoiled apple” bullshit. hahahahahahahahahah(YOU CAN SHOUT OUT ALL THE ARTIST YOU WANT BUT THAT DON’T MEAN SHIT)
G-Unit was built nationally on 50 Cent, Game and Young Buck. Not Banks lol
40 glocc and taking pics with soulja boy ain’t even close to the answer either. lol
Whats funny is they think it is though.
G-UNIT NEEDS TO STICK TO SELLING CAPRI SUNS BECAUSE YOUR NATIONAL BUZZ IS DEAD WITHOUT BUCK AND GAME.
I like Banks and he ain’t bad but its just aight
If you haven’t heard the whole CD yet it sounds like a rap version of “Now That’s What I Call Music! 34”. An album that EMI is famously known for. So it sounds like a G-Unit/EMI album.
If you ask me Back On My Buck Shit 2 is killing that shit.
yeah Buck is more real with his shit. Banks is idk he just ain’t the same
B.I.S.D 110k
HFM2 40k
Yoyo is next. lol
Wave the white flag already Techno-Unit cause a C.O. destroyed yall.
Kanye has beaten 50 twice so now will you retire as promised?
50 is spending alotta MONEY on Banks and wait till those 1st week numbers come in.
When you got 50 spending money on Akon, Swiss beats, loso, Juelz, styles P, pusha T, rae, Justic League, Kanye, ryan leslie, Lloyd, Jeremih and the list goes on it can “never” be called a INDIE ALBUM homie. $500K EASY
That nigga just put a DJ Khaled album lol
Aint no way in hell 40-50k are decent numbers when u got Kanye,Eminem & 50 cent features. get ure head out of the gutter brah
Rotten Apple in 2006, but unfortunately the album did not chart as well and Banks was eventually dropped from his record label, Interscope. Banks vowed to bounce back, and showed he had a lot left to give the hip hop world, when he dropped the huge first single from the Hunger for More 2, Beamer, Benz or Bentley. The single was so big that Interscope actually tried to resign him, but Banks signed with a different label that he felt had faith and supported him better. Is his latest album, worthy of being the sequel to The Hunger For More, or is it more of a sequel to Rotten Apple?
Lloyd Banks
Hunger for More 2
G-Unit/Interscope
Not so long ago, Lloyd Banks and his once mighty G-Unit crew could do no wrong. But after the departure of popular members (Game, Young Buck), and several mediocre releases, the once unassailable commercial appeal of Banks and label frontman 50 Cent is in peril.
Banks became an almost forgotten rap star: His sophomore album, “Rotten Apple,” was widely ignored by fans. His new album, “Hunger For More 2,” may be G-Unit’s last hope.
Attempting to recapture the magic of his 2004 platinum debut “The Hunger for More,” Banks excels with the new album, in part due to solid production and superb guest features from artists including Styles P (“Unexplainable”), Pusha T (“Home Sweet Home”) and Raekwon (“Sooner or Later”), who bring their A-games. If lead singles “Beemer, Benz, or Bentley” – one of the summer’s biggest hits – and “Start It Up,” featuring Kanye West and Fabolous, don’t get you hyped, you need your pulse checked.
On “H.F.M. 2,” Banks plays the role of conductor as his star talent helps him deliver a much-needed win for the G-Unit collective.
– Geraud Blanks, Special to the Journal Sentinel
DAMN!!! So this means G-unit is Finish.
The saddest part is there are way more that 40k people on thisis50 and fifs twitter….
So whatever happened to all those people that was on the lloyd banks bandwagon saying they were gonna buy the album and how he is so hot but dont even cop the album!
G-Unit sucks ass!!!! G-Unit’s fan base said it not me.
Not so long ago, Lloyd Banks and his once mighty G-Unit crew could do no wrong. But after the departure of popular members (Game, Young Buck), and several mediocre releases, the once unassailable commercial appeal of Banks and label frontman 50 Cent is in peril.
Banks became an almost forgotten rap star: His sophomore album, “Rotten Apple,” was widely ignored by fans and he got dropped from his record label.(Interscope) His new album, “Hunger For More 2,” may be G-Unit’s last hope.
Bye Bye G G G G-(I forgot the rest))
Does EVERYBODY see how the G-Unit stans don’t care about album sales anymore? I wonder why???
50 would put out a youtube video dissing an artist’s low album sales.
G-UNIT STANS BE LOVING THAT SHIT!!! LAUGHING AND CARING ON, saying shit like “50 ROCKS & HE’S A COMEDIAN”…..
SO what “THA FUCK” happened or what changed all of a sudden???(Lames) haaa lol
Do you remember when 50 told Styles P over the radio that he aint shit because you can’t sale 1 million records?? I wonder how 50 feels about that statement now????
Doggies, let’s not sugarcoat the fact of the matter. Lloyd Banks flopped. You know it, I know it, he knows it and Game knows it. SMFH. Say whatever the h*ll y’all want about him being up on EMI/G-Unit and how 40K independently is really like selling 200K on a major. STOP IT. That’s 100 percent bullsh*t and just a lame a** excuse. If y’all really believe that, then explain these 2010 first-week sales:
Now let me point something out that y’all didn’t realize doggies. F*ck the placement, I’ll let Banks slide with debuting at No. 26 b/c that sh*t is horribly embarassing, I mean, FAT JOE type-a** bad, but let’s look at what really f*cks me up with Banks’ new CD. He’s got Kanye West, Swizz Beatz, Fabolous, 5-0 Cent, Pusha T, Raekwon, Juelz Santana, Eminem, Ryan Leslie, Pusha T, Jeremih, Akon, Lloyd and some other cats. WTF?!?! You can’t have that many good artists on your record and not sell at least 60K, just look at Nelly’s punk a** 5.0.
TRU
your all obsessed with the sales, if people could acept good music that aint funded by these big finanacial programmers, maybe hip hop would awake from it’s graveyard state. Instead of all these little ass barely teenagers worrying about first week sales!
I don’t see Eminem, Kanye, Lil Wayne, Jay-Z, signing to Amalgam Digital & EMI (graveyard)
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
YOU KEEP TELLING YOURSELF WHATEVER MAKES YOU FEEL BETTER
This nigga still talking? I thought he died when the first week sales came out. Wacka Flocka sold more than this nigga. Go flip burgers Banks your career was over when rotten apple dropped. Now your boss saw you flop so he shelved Black Tragic.
I hope you saved your money Banks. I sure hope you did. Wacka Flocka sold more than you dog, so fo sho you know it is over. The whole world is waiting for Yayo to drop- LMAO. When you niggas were selling mad records you didn’t want to fuck with nobody now you got everybody on your tracks cuz your careers went from sugar to shit. Can’t have respect for niggas like you. Shit on others when you’re up but come kissing booty when you’re down. You should have built business relationships not destroy them.
Since there’s a better chance of Jean Claude Van Damme winning an Oscar, Banks probably should just focus on digital singles, like Flo rida does.
Yall bitch ass niggas prolly aint never heard hfm2 yall was pray’n dat shit would flop yall da same pussies dat was spam’n on songs b4 da shit even drop KILL YA SELF if u aint heard da album go cop it shit is fire fuck wat des lame ass niggas talk’n bout …
Banks is fire big ups album got some nice buzz up here in canada i payed my 12.99 dats the respect for tha rap game
So according to most of you clowns Nicki Minaj had a great album cause it sold a bunch? Great logic. You all can keep worrying about the sales and I’ll play the dope music. HFM2 was clean as hellll!
Be apart of something greater
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OlO6DMay_CY
Have you heard of Rockstar Muzik?
Good to hear. Banks needs to work wit big producers man. He needs to drop a hip hop classic. He needs to get in wit Primo, Just Blaze, Pete Rock, 9th wonder..etc.
Banks gots potential to takeover this rap shit.
PRODUCERS?????
When you got 50 spending money on Akon, Swiss beats, loso, Juelz, styles P, pusha T, rae, Justic League, Kanye, ryan leslie, Lloyd, Jeremih and the list goes on it can “never” be called a INDIE ALBUM homie. $500K- 2million EASY
That nigga just put a DJ Khaled album lol
I don’t see Eminem, Kanye, Lil Wayne, Jay-Z, signing to Amalgam Digital & EMI (graveyard)
so banks is wack? him and lupe are the best under 30, and they are up there wit the legends too.
All great minds think alike. Lloyd Banks is one of the greatest lyricists along with Raekwon.
for real. banks is just headed into his prime i think. he’s gonna drop some classics soon
BOTH YALL DICK RIDERS NEED TO WAKE UP!!!
wake up?
banks is sick nigga. wtf you listen to?
fuck outta here bitch ass nigga.
Bitch u need 2 wake up and realize yo hate want help know go finish live’n yo cocaine dreams listen’n Officer Ricky bitch
@Anonymous my nigga
lmao i was respondin to the anonymous nigga dissin banks.
HUNGER FOR MORE COCK PT.2 FLOPPED BECAUSE IT WAS WACK AS HELL!!!!
you are wack as hell
HFM 2 is classic don’t give a fuck about sales
Lmao @ this dude watchin gay porn.
Banks is the leader of the new school nigga. who better?
LOL… BANKS AIN’T EVEN NEW!!!!!!
of course he’s not new, but he’s from a newer era of rap.
Damn, its so many fucking haters right now, on these sites. If this isnt real hip hop, then I dont know what is. Why cant shit just be good music. Why does anything have to have a negative review. Why cant shit just be good. I tell you why. Cause everybody from their fucking mother rapping right now, thinking they fucking better then the next man. Too many rappers on these sites thinking they nice or better then the next rapper. Just appreciate good music
Man, forget bout all dat sales shit. Hunger for more 2 was a sick album , he has always been consistent. When 50 talk bout sales, he talked outta his ass cuz now the same shit happenin to him. Greatness of a album or how dope it is don`t come from figures. Of course they wanna sell, but niggas shouldn`t be talkin down to other niggas if he ain`t got more sales then u cuz the real hip-hop niggas no dat it ain`t bout dat.
When 50/banks/gunit sold millions and millions they were the only winners. When they not selling millions but they still selling thousands they STILL the winners because they still getting paid. How can u clown a nigga on sales? You think they give a shit?! They already won with that shit…
True dat, people sayin it flopped because of sales are fools. The album was fire and thats all that matters. I dont give a shit if nigga sold one record, if it was to me and the shit is fire that all i care about!
True dat,
people sayin it flopped because of sales are fools. The album was fire and thats all that matters. I dont give a shit if nigga sold one record, if it was to me and the shit is fire that all i care about!
I don’t see Eminem, Kanye, Lil Wayne, Jay-Z, signing to Amalgam Digital & EMI (graveyard)
man tracks like tille the end and dont push me r classics!! hope banks next album like the 1st,, hfm2 was hot but no stories
people leaving comments calling other muthafukers coons and racist shi!!!… first off if u not even black why are u on thiz site … thiz site iz for black people … go and get on cmt.com … white mutherfukers or another race iz allways trying to fit in and be black… do u know how stupid it looks when a whiite person trys and act or dress black… u have to feel me on thiz…. u ever seen a white boi wit a pair jays on and baggy jeans and a doo rag…. that shit looks toooooooooo funny lol lol lol … why u think they made the movie (malibu most wanted) it was to show people how dumb white people or another race look when they act black…. when white people try and dance or move they body like a black person … that shit look too funny…
lol, do you know how fuckin’ stupid you sound?
Oh…Your black? You know whats funny. A mexican that thinks hes black commenting on the internet like he is freeway ricky ross. If this site is “for black people” then why the fuck are you on it? You are the deffinition of internet thug. You are in the same catagory as the guy from malibus most wanted. Both a bunch of fakes. You make fun of yourself in your own comment. White mutherfucker or some other race always trying to act like their black…Like you. You look like the fucking mexican hitler. Scottie minor do yourself a favor and the rest of this world a favor and go kill yourself.
platinum album on majaor label=250,000 thousand in the artsist pocket.now take an indie artist selling 80,000 plus show money
so really banks has made over half a mil from the album so far and another half from the single going gold
When you got 50 spending money on Akon, Swiss beats, loso, Juelz, styles P, pusha T, rae, Justic League, Kanye, ryan leslie, Lloyd, Jeremih and the list goes on it can “never” be called a INDIE ALBUM homie. $500K- 2million EASY
That nigga just put a DJ Khaled album lol
I don’t see Eminem, Kanye, Lil Wayne, Jay-Z, signing to Amalgam Digital & EMI (graveyard)
BANKS WAS $2 MILLION OR MORE IN THE HOLE BEFORE THE ALBUM EVEN DROPPED AND FLOPPED!!!
OH SHIT YOUR ON SOME PUNISHER SHIT THAT WAS HARSH
album was sick and did what indi does u idiot even better than most albums of 2010 it sold so shut up hoe