Lloyd Banks

See also: Lloyd

Lloyd Banks is a American Rap fear born Christopher lloyd the April 30th 1982 with New Carrollton in Maryland of an Oporto-ricaine mother and an American father of Haitian descent.

Biography

At six years, his/her mother arranges in Jamaïca, in the Queens. His/her parents were young and never married. And his/her father, who chose to earn his living in the streets without having to pay taxes, spent more time behind the bars than with his son, which obliged his/her mother to raise it all alone. Ma mother all montré, said me Banks. Quand I was in 3rd, it took a cucumber and my shown how to put a préservatif. Like many children in a big city, Banks as far as possible tried to escape from poverty and death. It dedicated its first album solo The hunger for more with his Huey brother deceased.

Very early it started to write rhymes ghetto, passing the major part of its time to write. These writings then are not very structured because it was influenced by rappeurs like Big Daddy Kane and Slick Rick. J' listened to much Big Daddy, because it is what my father écoutait says it. The preferred songs of Banks are " Young World" of Slick Rick and Smooth Operator and Ain' T No Half-Steppin' of Big Daddy Kane. Not being able to open out from a lyric point of view to the college, it leaves it with same step sixteen years.

Texts without rhymes which he tranforment wrote in texts structured and full with rhymes, but he does not reveal it. I never said to anybody but I faisais, says it. I started to make rhymes in the street and everyone said to me, “You should buy your material.” Ca it passed before even as I go in studio. Banks appeared on local mixtapes, becoming the best artist of the district which does not have a contract yet. The only able one to rise on its level was a friend of childhood named Tony Yayo.

One day, Tony, accompanied by another friend of childhood which grated under the name of 50 Hundred, proposed in Banks the idea to become a group. If Banks wanted it, it could belong to the crew which they would call G-Links. It is Banks which chose name. Banks accepted: Je am always tell to me that if I were to enter the rap professionally, I would have liked to do it with somebody of my vicinity. Who of better than people whom I knew all my life?

Carried out by 50 Hundred, the G-Links quickly redefines the industry of the music by producing a certain number of mixtapes original. 50 Hundred sign quickly at Shady/Aftermath/Interscope Records and left the album which brings success to him, Get Rich Or Die Tryin' and in which Banks takes part.

In November 2003 leaves Beg for Mercy G-Links, which remains during more than four months in signal 20 of the classification Billboard 2000. This success makes it possible Banks to make several times the round the world tour, which represents for him an achievement more important than its discs. A little earlier in the same year, Banks is named Mixtape artist the year 2003 thanks to its appearances as much on the mixtapes of G-Links that on his in Money in the Bank . Je am proud of that because I was never yet nominated for Vibe Awards or MTV Awards or even Grammys. I had a name through the mixtapes.

Its first album solo left in 2004 is entitled The Hunger For More , it includes the title One Fire , " Karma" like " I' m So Fly". This first album was sold to 4 million specimen in the world.

Its second album, heading " Rotten Apple " on October 10th, 2006 left. It is in particular composed of the first individual " Hands Up" (feat. 50 hundred) and of " The Cake" .cet album made sales average nevertheless gold disc with the industry of the disc in crisis In 2007, it cancelled several dates following the death of his father In May 2008 it will leave new a opus " gang green" or " South side story" announced like a true return to the sources.

Discography

Individual

  • 2004 : One Fire feat. 50 Hundred
  • 2004: Karma feat. Before
  • 2004: I' m So Fly
  • 2006: hands Up feat. 50 Hundred
  • 2006: Cake feat. 50 hundred
  • 2006: Help feat. Hilson
  • 2006 : My House (Not on the album Rotten Apple)
  • 2007: You don' T know (feat 50 Hundreds, Eminen and Cashis)
  • 2007: go hardware gold go home
  • 2007: so high
  • 2007 : too sick
2003
  • Don' T Push Me feat. 50 Hundred & Eminem on the album Get Rich Gold Die Tryin'
  • True Loyality feat. 50 Hundred & Tony Yayo on the album The New Breed
  • 8 Road Mile (G Links Remix) feat. 50 Hundred & Tony Yayo on the album The New Breed
  • Follow Me Gangster feat. 50 Hundred & Tony Yayo on the album Cradle To The Serious OST
  • We All Die One Day feat. Obie Trice, 50 Hundred & Eminem on the album Cheers
  • Wrinkle Wit U feat. Joe & Young Buck on the album And Then…
  • Why You Gotta Look So Good? feat. Mýa on the album Moodring
2004 2005 2006

2007: talk butt me dj drama album feat Young buck and Tony yayo

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