![]() Banks used this combination to execute 50’s formula to platinum-selling success with his 2004 debut The Hunger for More. He became a punchline king, rounding into a hitmaker just like his mentor. He was bar heavy and made it look easy with his endless punchlines, impressing early mixtape listeners with “The Banks Workout” series and winning Mixtape Artist of the Year at Justo’s Mixtape Awards two years in a row.Īs he learned song structure from 50, Banks started to establish himself as a force in his own right. Within the trio, Banks contrasted 50’s aggressive gangster themes and Yayo’s hype man theatrics. When Interscope entered into a deal with 50’s G-Unit Records to develop artists, the bulletproof superstar tapped up his childhood friends Banks and Tony Yayo to be his first signees. ![]() During G-Unit’s heyday in the early 2000s, Lloyd Banks served as protégé to 50 Cent.
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