Posts about Lloyd Banks

Here is the full episode of VH1 Behind The Music chronicling 50 Cent’s life and rise to fame, including how he signed to Eminem and Dr. Dre with comments by Shady himself.

Part 2 and 3 after the jump…

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No doubt yo. 50 Cent definitely held it down for the ThisIs50 Music Festival for an interview with MTV on October 3rd from Governors Island in NYC. Cameo’s from Cory Gunz, Trav, Maino, Jadakiss, Sheek Louch, Styles P, Tony Yayo, Lloyd Banks and a whole lot of cats. It was good seein’ 50 and the G-Unit crew givin’ daps to D-Block after they squashed their beef.

DJ Whoo Kid caught up with Lloyd Banks for an interview about his upcoming mixtape and album and what he’s been up to. Banks also comments on Kanye and Lil Mama, like everyone is doing right now.

Apparently not happy with being left out of Summer Jam, 50 Cent has teamed up with Hot 97 for a ThisIs50 Festival at the Governor’s Island on October 3rd.

Acts include 50 Cent, G-Unit, Uncle Murda, Papoose, Hell Rell, J.R. Writer, Ron Browz, Corey Gunz, Maino, Trav, DJ Rob E Rob, Kid Cudi, Wale, Dipset and more.

That’s a nice line up.

Lloyd Banks has been proving over the last year why he was once considered the mixtape king, and let’s face it, he was often doper on the G-Unit Radio mixtapes than 50 Cent. Banks is back on his “I’ll put a red dot on your face like it’s part of your religion” shit.

DOWNLOAD: Lloyd Banks – 730
DOWNLOAD: Lloyd Banks – Haters

Lloyd Banks did a solo show in London a couple nights ago.

Fabolous sat down with ThisIs50 to discuss his upcoming album Loso’s Way, Jay-Z’s “D.O.A,” Lloyd Banks and more.

The Game reflects on his departure from G-Unit, apologizes to 50 Cent and the crew, and says everyone would have made more money together if he had stayed.

Now, four albums in, I can say as a man that G-Unit, Game, Aftermath, Black Wall Street, Interscope, Geffen, Eminem, Shady, from [Lloyd] Banks to [Young] Buck to [Tony] Yayo to Dre to whoever; If it woulda kept going: endless paper. Millions of albums sold. Because we were great together.

Me and Fif’s chemistry is what Method Man was to Redman when they get in. Red ain’t from Wu-Tang but you know when Meth gets wit’ Redman it’s goin’ down… [Me and 50’s] biggest records were together. Whether I was on them or I wasn’t on them. Whether he was on them or he wasn’t on them. When we were in gellin’ writing together as a family, we had it man. If we never would have [broken] up, I think Detox would have been out and we all would have been selling millions from Banks to Buck, and Tony Yayo. I’m going to apologize for my role.

50 Cent has told MTV that he will be releasing a project called War Angel LP next Tuesday at 9PM on ThisIs50.com.

He says the mixtape is more like an album, and he’s treating it as such and his “core audience” will understand it. No word though on if that means it will have all new production, or mixtape beats.

After that he says he will drop Sincerely Yours 2 and an as yet untitled G-Unit mixtape, all as a lead up to his September release of Before I Self Destruct.

Continue reading after the jump for a full tracklist for War Angel LP as well as streaming audio of Fif’ talking about the project, and

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A bunch of rappers talking about abolishing record labels, at least in their current incarnation, for 50 minutes. Pretty interesting.

This is the full DVD featuring 50 Cent, Lloyd Banks, Chamillionaire, Bun B, Maino, DJ Drama, Young Buck, Juelz Santana, Green Lantern, Lil Scrappy, Jim Jones, Red Cafe, Mike Jones, Kid Capri and more.

UPDATE: Focus Media has instructed us to take this down, well, by instructed I mean they contacted our host and tried to have us shut down. Please keep in mind we actually didn’t host this file, we embedded it from BooBooTV, the site owned by 50 Cent. Now, embedding a file is not illegal, nor are we responsible for it. If we were, every time someone embedded a YouTube video they would be responsible for it, but no, it doesn’t work that way. So in short, instead of asking BooBooTV to take the file down, a site with a corporate backing and money behind it, they decided to attack us, a 100% independent non profit website; the easier target.

So, it has been removed. But if you want to watch it, it’s out there, just not here anymore… Sorry.

Wow, two G-Unit posts in a row (Lloyd Banks – Practice here), I don’t think this has happened since the Unit’s golden mixtape era.

Tony Yayo just dropped a new mixtape that I’ll get around to posting eventually called Swine Flu, and below is a video for one of the songs called “They Hate.” The whole concept surrounds Yayo getting hated on by fans on the net.

I think it is pretty obvious to anyone that Yayo is the least talented of the group, and that he probably wouldn’t have been a rapper if it wasn’t for 50 Cent, but the truth is, the guy has stayed loyal, has heart, and obviously loves rapping. I mean why else drop songs, mixtapes and albums, if most are met by hate? The guy doesn’t need the money and just seems to like doing what he’s doing. He coulda just stayed in the background and made money with 50 and the group albums and been set for life.

Anyway, here’s the video.

Flame me all you want in the comments below, but I think Lloyd Banks is the only G-Unit member really holding it down right now lyrically.

Here is a new song called “Practice” that was premiered by 2dbz today.

DOWNLOAD: Lloyd Banks – Practice