Featuring blistering beats, fist-pumping lyrics, and punchlines galore, Banks is absolutely beastly on this track, and it's considered by rap critics to be one of his best album songs of all time.įew hip-hop fans today understand the importance of Lloyd Banks pulling off the "Victory" freestyle.
It features the notable lyrics, "In the era of the leecher, if you find a lady that you love with a head, you'd better keep her."Īs a general rule, Banks does better on his mixtapes than he does on his albums, but "Playboy" (off his debut album The Hunger for More) is an exception. And while hip-hop fans seem to be stupid enough to let that sort of thing be swept under the rug (really, guys? REALLY?), Banks isn't quite as forgiving, as he demonstrated in his absolutely lethal dis track, "Officer Down."īanks never did well with romantic lyrics ( really, though: what is a cynic, Chris, but a battered romantic?), but the closest he came to a "love song" was "Open Arms," produced by prolific producer Doe Pesci and found on the "V6" mixtape. You need the eye of the tiger, the heart of a lion, and King Kong's nuts."īefore the rest of the world caught onto the fact that rapper Rick Ross was really Corrections Officer William Roberts of West Palm Beach, FL, Lloyd Banks - and the rest of G-Unit - were coming for his neck for that very fact. One of Banks' most memorable punchlines is "To fade me, it's gonna take more than guts. This is a song that's been lost to the annals of time, but it's worth checking out because it's one of the few that succeeds in "dissing" Nas. Here, then, without further ado, is a list of the top 5 Lloyd Banks songs of all time. And while it was certainly no easy feat to narrow down his top 5 songs - since he's released so many - since he announced his semi-retirement on Twitter last month, we felt it was the least we could do. Born Christopher Charles Lloyde - and rumoured to be the ghost-writer of the infamous Get Rich or Die Trying - Lloyd Banks is one of the most prolific, and oft-quoted, rappers of our time. And why wouldn't they: he's one of the greatest rappers of the early 2000's, and one of the few to achieve diamond status (with more than 10 million sales of his landmark album, Get Rich or Die Trying).īut there's another member of G-Unit who, though not as popular in the mainstream, deserves as much credit as the capo: Lloyd Banks. Whenever hip-hop fans think of G-Unit, they automatically default to 50 Cent.
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