 Lloyd
Banks is unsatisfied. Unsatisfied, despite having an incredibly
successful 2003. A 2003 where he was crowned the street's number one
artist, appeared on the year's top-selling record, and sold another two
million-plus copies of an album with his own rap troupe. Lloyd Banks is
so unsatisfied he's titled his G Unit/Interscope Records debut The
Hunger For More.
"When I say The Hunger for More, it could be referring to more
success," says Banks, the lyrical submachine gun of 50 Cent's G
Unit arsenal. "It could be more money. Or respect. More power. More
understanding. All those things lead up to that hunger for more, because
my 'more' isn't everybody else's 'more.' I feel like I made it already,
because I already got what everybody on the corners of the neighborhood
I grew up in is striving to get. God forbid anything happen to me, my
family is straight. So anything that happens after this is just me
progressing as a person." Banks' personal progression is seen
throughout his debut album, especially on numbers like the soul-dipped
"When the Chips Are Down," which features The Game; and the
Eminem-produced "Til the End," an elegiac meditation on
mortality tinged with twinkling keys and bolstered by choral flourishes.
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