Lloyd Banks was once adamantly against social media for reasons that still baffle 50 Cent to this day.
According to an audio excerpt from 50 Cent‘s new book Hustle Harder, Hustle Smarter that was released on April 28, Fif detailed his former G-Unit artist’s aversion to the budding platforms at the time.
In the piece, he revealed that in Banks’ reasoning for his disdain, he leaned on two legends who kind of had nothing to do with the conversation.
“Nah that’s corny,” 50 said Banks told him about social media. “Biggie and Pac didn’t do that shit.”
Despite 50 reasonably mentioning that neither rapper even had the opportunity to use or not use the platforms, as they’d passed away (Tupac in 1996, Biggie a year later) more than 20 years before Instagram debuted, but the Punchline King wasn’t trying to hear it.
“And how do you know they wouldn’t be posting on IG if they were alive?” Banks allegedly reckoned as his touché.
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Although he’s no longer a part of G-Unit, Banks has since come around, and he often uses both Twitter and Instagram to share new music and update fans on the happenings in his world.
In the book, the New-York OG also takes blame for how Banks and G-Unit member Tony Yayo‘s careers turned out.
“I always felt that if I had maybe done a better job teaching Banks and Yayo how to evolve and change their habits, they each would be in better places right now.”
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On the real nigga scale Banks a good 9.0 at least
Lloyd Banks is the most underrated rapper of all time… Punch Line King
Banks just being lame. No-one can speak for Big or Pac. I know for them getting love on those social platforms would never replace getting love and respect in the street.
You say that, but odds are they both would have been hiphops biggest ever sellouts. Look at most of the hiphop greats. Mostly all sellouts today. Quite sad. I don’t want to say I’m glad Pac died, but I am glad we never had the hear him fail or make garbage. We only heard his prime.
Tu Pac is the nephew of Black Panther Assasta Shakur_ He was a poet, He wasnt gone make no garbage, He is his prime aka I get around….Tu Pac Just dont stop for hoes…..U too
he only uses grindr
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Glad he’s low key on social media and not showing his ass like everyone else.
Wait Banks isn’t in G-Unit anymore? If that’s the case G-Unit must be no more. Not that anyone’s checking.
So lloyd banks (and seemingly the writer of this article) thinks Tupac and biggie would of skipped out on a free way to talk to the masses because? There goals especially pac was not to be the must dope, street cred gangsters, it was to spread a message. I guarantee either would of jumped at the chance to reach more people, how in the hell would that be selling out?
Social media is fine to use as an artist, but I think the ones who use it a ton are dbags. Like posting constantly has tarnished Snoop Doggs legacy. Dude is looked at as a complete clown, but that is also because Snoop is quite possibly hiphops biggest ever sellout. From crip gangsta, to Nickolodeon, to Martha Stewart… He’d do anything for the money, and ran with family household name over street cred and good rap. And 50 cent also is looked at as an angry troll, due to his posts… I think again, social media is okay, but not if u post 24/7, and act all childish. They need maturity. But hey, they are rich rappers, and I’m not, so I can’t tell em what to do… But we all know Snoop in his prime was beloved as a great artist… Now nobody even thinks of snoop as a rapper lol
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