Critics and buyers alike are suspicious when any rapper gets put on as a guest on someone’s album, only to have their own album a few years later. When it comes to passing a buck down the food chain, there are always going to be skeptics. “The Hunger for More” not only describes the hustler attitude Banks embodies in his lyrics, but the attitude of a worldwide audience who can’t get enough of his gruff voice. After months of anticipation, after teasing the public with appetizers like “Warrior” and “On Fire,” the time has finally come for the main course. Based on the crossover success of G-Unit’s song “Smile,” a solo track starring Banks, it only seemed natural that he would be the first out the gate. 50 Cent had whetted the public’s appetite for G-Unit, and in turn G-Unit had whetted the public’s appetite for solo albums by Lloyd Banks and Young Buck (and undoubtedly Yayo too, when the time is right). To the surprise of almost no one, G-Unit’s album was very well received, and the rappers who had at times been thought of as just “friends of 50 Cent” emerged as stars in their own right. Unfortunately Yayo was largely absent due to a prison bid, but Buck held it down for him in his absence. Thanks to 50’s overwhelming popularity, it was only a matter of time before G-Unit got their own album, and late in 2003 “Beg for Mercy” was the result. Banks and Yayo were both featured on 50’s “Get Rich or Die Tryin'” along with G-Unit’s latest recruit, Young Buck. Though these tapes were largely designed to showcase 50 and succeeded in getting him his first deal since being dropped by Trackmasters/Columbia in 1999, 50’s G-Unit homies were far from left behind.
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50 Cent first introduced us to his friends Banks and Tony Yayo as the “G-Unit,” though a series of well received mixtapes that spread far and wide beyond their New York origin. Got an insatiable need to dine on hardcore, thugged out, rowdy hip-hop? Do you crave to have big beats and fat flows fed into your ear? Lloyd Banks certainly hopes so.
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