Lloyd Banks

Are you up to speed on all things in the Unit? Find out interesting facts like the rapper that prevented 50 Cent from being on a Jennifer Lopez song and how Lloyd Banks' sophomore album really got leaked to the public. This is You Think You Know Hip-Hop? -- the G-G-G-G-G-G-G-Unit edition.

Apparently, Lloyd Banks doesn't need security when he wants to interact with his fans.

50 Cent and G-Unit continue their lyrical onslaught, this time spitting boastful rhymes over YG and Drake's street banger, 'Who Do You Love.'

Troy Ave and Lloyd Banks go to the skating rink with a bevy of ladies in 'Your Style' video.

G-Unit continue their comeback with a second new track in as many days, this time remaking Drake's '0 to 100.'

When 50 Cent fails to find a big single (hell, even a release date) for his fifth solo album, you know his G-Unit cronies are hardly going to be flourishing. Lloyd Banks announced a new mixtape, 'All or Nothing Vol. 1: Failure's No Option,' back in January, but has since scrapped and re-recorded the entire thing.

During his time on Irv Gotti's label The Inc., Lloyd released three successful albums and established himself as a talented R&B vocalist with hit singles like 2007's 'Get It Shawty' and 'You.' After the label's dissolution, the 25-year-old lingered on Universal Motown where he developed a close working relationship with Lil Wayne's Young Money crew. He...

"You still a protégé, that's the reason I don't holler," Drake declares on the track 'A Scorpio's Mind.' Well, no disrespect to Drake, but that's how he started out. Alongside every great rap leader is an upcoming protégé -- learning the ropes of the craft in the hopes of excelling in the Hip-Hop School of Thought, paving a way for themselves. Protégés start out wet beh...

Having released three solo albums and worked with many of hip-hop's top producers, including Timbaland, Danja, Swizz Beatz, Hi-Tek and Havoc, G-Unit rapper Lloyd Banks is ready for something new. While most rappers attempt a transition to the big screen when they grow restless with the booth (i...

Beamer, Benz, Bentley or a knifing? A weekend Lloyd Banks show went about as poorly as possible when a Buffalo, N.Y. crowd got more than a little rowdy and a melee broke out that culminated with two men in the hospital with multiple stab wounds...