Lloyd Banks
G-Unit
Real name : Christopher Lloyd
Birthday : April 30, 1982
Hometown : New Carrollton, Maryland

Lloyd Banks was born Christopher Lloyd twenty-two years ago and raised in Jamaica, Queens. "My mom is Puerto Rican, my pops is black," he informs. "It was kinda like when I was with my mother’s side of the family I was the bad seed, I was the one who was most unlikely to succeed. And then when I was with the black side of the family, I was the angel, because all my uncles are career felons." His parents were young and never married. And his father, who choose to pursue tax-free income on the streets, spent more time behind bars then he did with his son. That left his mother to raise a young man who was close to six feet tall by the 6th grade and who started sprouting facial hair in his early teens. "My mother showed me everything," Banks says. "When I was in the third grade, she took a cucumber and showed me how to put the condom on." Like many kids in the inner city his age, Lloyd Banks sought to escape the poverty and death of his environment.

With his father in and out of the prison system, Banks’ mother was left to raise him. Dropping out of high-school before his sixteenth birthday, Lloyd began performing his rhymes on the streetcorner where he gained local fame, appearing on several mixtapes. Together with two other local aspiring artists, Tony Yayo and 50 Cent, G-Unit was created. Banks would later sign a record deal with the label after it was established as a subsidiary of Interscope Records

Early on he took to writing various musings-ghetto poetry, loose narratives ; nothing quite structured, though he was influenced by rap gods like Big Daddy Kane and Slick Rick. "I listened to Big Daddy Kane a lot, cause that’s what my pops listened to," he says. Banks’ favorite songs were Rick’s "Young World" and Kane’s "Smooth Operator," and "Ain’t No Half-Steppin’." High school didn’t agree with Banks, so he dropped out before his 16th birthday. The freewriting he had been doing had morphed into full-fledged rhymes, but that was a secret. "I never let nobody know I did it," he says. But he soon got his courage up. "I started rhyming outside and everybody started telling me, ’You should shop your material.’ This is before I even got in the studio." Banks appeared on local mixtapes becoming one of the neighborhood’s best unsigned rappers. His only competition was a childhood friend named Tony Yayo.

One day, Tony, along with another childhood friend who rapped under the name 50 Cent, approached Banks with the idea of becoming a group. If Banks wanted to be down, he could be part of the crew that they were calling G Unit. Banks was down. "I always felt like if I was to get into doing rap professionally, I wanted to get into it with somebody who was from my neighborhood," he says. "Who better than people who I’ve known my whole life ?"

Fronted by 50 Cent, the G Unit quickly redefined the urban music industry. They produced a series of street albums with original numbers and high quality artwork, making the discs something more than a bootleg, but not quite an independent release. 50 Cent was soon signed to Shady/Aftermath/ Interscope Records and released the instantly classic, record breaking Get Rich Or Die Tryin’, on which Banks was featured. Then came G Unit’s Beg For Mercy, which was still riding high in the top 20 of the Billboard 200 after four months on the shelves.

Though these successes allowed Lloyd Banks to tour the world multiple times over, one accomplishment means a bit more than all the rest : Earlier this year, Banks was anointed as 2003’s Mixtape Artist of the Year due to his appearance on G Unit mixtapes as well as his own Money in the Bank series. "I take pride in that cause I’m not qualified for a MTV Awards or a Vibe Awards or Grammys or any of that yet," says Banks. "I got my name through the mixtapes."

Lloyd Banks public notoriety has risen since his 2004 debut, establishing him as a skilled lyricist. Banks’ reputation is based on his ability as a punch-line rapper, meaning that his verses often contain many one-to-two bar sets of lyrics (often metaphorical or with similes) that are amusing by themselves and can also be lyrically vicious towards other rappers. As an example of this type of rapping, on the song "I’m So Fly", Banks raps, "Don’t confuse me with these suckas/Cause When I spit, you hear more ’oohs’ than a Skip to My Lou move at the Rucker."

"It’s Either Cause They Boyfriends a Scrub Like Brillo/Or Cause Banks is Cooler than The Other Side of the Pillow." "You can either get bucked or get your ass jumped/ The only trigger you’ve touched is on a gas pump." Some other punchlines are : "I’m Hugh Hefner all over when it comes to broads/ Even the ones that don’t fit in hump the cars.", "Hoes rushin me without the tag spray on."Some more punchlines are "theses niggias better start acting right i aint rap to tight ill leave ur head red and white like a apple bite i got a fat niggias appatite pass throught the trafic light smash on tthe coppas light. Also on a other song he says "he game u see now show him cuz hes a punk two niggias in 1 like shot G and humptyhump.

His solo debut for G Unit/Interscope Records, The Hunger for More, was released in June 2004. The album included the hit singles "On Fire", "I’m So Fly", and "Karma". The Hunger for More sold over 400,000 copies in its first week, putting him behind only millionaire rap mogul 50 Cent for most sold in the opening week in G-Unit.

In the fall of 2005, an album titled, The Big Withdraw was leaked on the internet and featured an extensive collection of songs,23 recordings total.

More infos : see G-Unit page

Lloyd Banks Discography :

Lloyd Banks Albums
2006 : Rotten Apple (September 19, 2006)
2004 : The Hunger For More

Lloyd Banks Mixtapes

2006 : Gang Green Season by DJ Whoo Kid
2004 : Cashing In (Mo Money In The Bank pt. 3) by DJ Whoo Kid
2003 : Mo Money in The Bank by DJ Whoo Kid
2002 : Money In The Bank by DJ Whoo Kid

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Lloyd Banks, by Goodies [2008-08-04 18:08:54]

You alright and yo group cool as hell,. Thats a comment coming from me so, you must be alright and G-unit.

Lloyd Banks, by [2008-06-14 19:52:50]

BANK$ iz da gr8est MC out betta than weezy kanye game and lame rat joe

Lloyd Banks, by SAMMY-L [2008-02-11 08:29:50]

Y’UR MA FAVOURITE MC DESPITE OF YA WACK GROUP-G-UNIT LOVE YA BANKS

Lloyd Banks, by *fucc you* [2007-12-17 09:39:22]

i don’t give a fucc what yall say lloyd banks a hoe ass nukka fucc u

Lloyd Banks, by flowsick [2007-12-16 20:17:37]

yo these young bulls are d**k rydas for real you know banks can eat half or al the rappers that are spitting keep it real and get of game and little waynes dick . because game was getting wrote for when he was in g unit . and little wayne kissed bird man on the lips thats faggot for real aki.

Lloyd Banks, by eric beaune [2007-11-30 18:28:02]

yo it aint about g unit or g unot u herbs dont know anything about hip hop its all about good music lloyd banks can spit it so hard hes an ill rapper and dont say g unot u pussys u just think ur hard theres no way u can think banks cant rap and im not gonan lie the game is also a great hip hop artist but dont come with that g unot shit there both 2 of the dopest rappers out there

Lloyd Banks, by THEREALIST08 [2007-11-17 18:33:56]

Ay you fuckin fake ass G-UNOT YOUR A BITCH ASS NIGGA. Lloyd Banks is tha shit hit rhymes are filthy nigga so your tha one whos a faggot. FUCK YOU !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Lloyd Banks, by * Di$ Ur Cuzz* $crew$ton Texa$ [2007-11-16 09:31:54]

yeah that true g-unit are nothing but pussy man and that nigga lloyd think he can talk down on Big Moe nigga u got me fukked up Cuzz the S.U.C will smoke g-unit man that why alot of people dont like your bitch ass fukk u and 50cent yall both can fukk each other.. holding it down for HOUSTON TEXAS AKA SCREWSTON TEXAS> and fukk a nigga name lloyd banks is going down in the south//

Lloyd Banks, by * HOOVA RYDA* $OOWOOP KILLA* [2007-11-15 10:09:32]

I JUST GOT COUPLE OF THINGS TO SAY TO THIS FAKE ASS NIGGA MAN... G-UNIT ARE NOTHING BUT LITTLE PUSSY YALL 6E FUKKING EACH OTHER IN THE ASS

Lloyd Banks, by shanika [2007-10-10 14:11:28]

banks is wats up

Lloyd Banks, by alias [2007-08-13 19:55:33]

i kno your brother , hes in my schoool =)

Lloyd Banks, by g-UnIt neva Gon Die [2007-08-08 18:00:59]

Ayo How U a YoUnG bUcC LuvER But LlOyd BaNkx Numba 1 FaN

Lloyd Banks, by YOUNG BUCK LOVER [2007-08-01 19:25:05]

you is very sexy

Lloyd Banks, by VIVI [2007-06-07 08:15:45]

wAT up banks YOU ARE SO SEXY love u your #1 fan !!

Lloyd Banks, by sponge bob’s [2007-04-20 14:06:45]

hey lloyd i love your music my brother do to he has your songs u should hear him rap to he is good at it i want u to com to my birthday party it’s june 12th im in riverhead new york u can meet my brother u will like him he is cool he read your lyrick’s he sed your nasty at rapping well i holla at u later k o my name is dominique but people call me sponge bob’s k later ????

Lloyd Banks, by noughskrilla,Nima-Gh. [2007-03-13 08:09:46]

banks is fucked he need to be schooled on this rap shit.

Lloyd Banks, by IzABOo [2007-01-22 12:41:51]

HEY LLOYD !!! DAYUM DIS IS YO NUMBER ONE

FAN !!! LOL U ARE THE HOTTEST MAN ON

EARTH OH MY GOSH U ARE SO DAYUM FYNE !!!<3

AND I LOVE UR SONG KARMA MAN THAT SONG WILL

NEVER GET OLD !!

DAYUM SON U HAVE SOME SICK ASS BEATZ I LOVE DEM !!!<3 XOXOXO

Lloyd Banks, by Ciara [2006-12-07 11:34:54]

hey lloyd how r u doin iam ur #1 fan

Lloyd Banks, by PHIL [2006-10-20 04:27:30]

Hey Lloyd !You the man.Yo style rocks and you knoe yoh clothes.I dig yo beats especially "Smile".Keep it flowing Chris.PHIL.

Shovel Lips, by Ghost rider [2006-10-17 16:57:01]

Look at this guys lips c’mon u could kill him if u them.

> Lloyd Banks, by curtisturner [2006-09-24 16:53:43]

lloyd banks is great one of the best rappers in the world and nearly the best in G UNIT.but i still didnt hear the rotten apple album i here its great.can’t wait to get it.

> Lloyd Banks, by G-Unot [2006-09-20 22:26:38]

Waz up lord wanks i jus wanned to tell ya that u the worst rapper goin and thats true u cross eyed gay boi game all the way your thick as shit really sort ya lyrics out cauz u sound like a fucking imagrent rappin bout bin laden i hate ya lyrics using lines like (so im out for revenge like one of bin ladens cousins) how can u even say shit like that them peps who died that day have respect from peps like me your scum using them as examples u pussy i spose game oll be using a line like (so im splittin n......s wigs like i did lloyd banks mom) fuck u ggggggg unot cum out the closed u bent fuck head

> Lloyd Banks, by 2TEARZ [2006-09-06 02:19:04]

ALYSSA FUCK U HO BITCH GGGG-UNOT STUPID FUCK

> Lloyd Banks, by Alyssa [2006-08-30 20:34:17]

Keep it up ! Stay sexy ! And u jus don’t kno wat i will do to u if i saw u n person looking so damn good ! Holla @ me cause dis shorty wana ride wit u !

> Lloyd Banks, by V I$3 [2006-08-25 03:33:37]

ALL I GOTTA SAY IZ DAT UR ONE OF DA BEST RAPPERZ N ONE OF DA REALEST. LLOYD BANKS U CAN RAP. DA ONE THING I LUV MOST BOUT U IZ DAT UR NOT FAKE N U SPIT DA TRUTH IN UR RHYMEZ...KEEP UP YO SHIT GANGSTA...BEST WISHZ 4 U IN DA BIZNESS N IN LIFE...LUV U ALL DA WAY....DIS YA GURL...DONT 4GET IT

> Lloyd Banks, by ahmad [2006-07-27 20:36:19]

new york city ur now rickin widda best lloyd banks..g-unit we on fire up in here its burning hot we on fire shorty take it off if it get tooo hot up in this spot we on fire tear the roof off this mothafuk lite the roof on fire uh nigga wat u say we get lose in this motha fuk lite the roof on fire fire fire..thats ma favorite song banks ur da best wid 50 an yayo an buck