Dre and released the album Get Rich or Die Tryin' Lloyd Banks was featured on the song 'Don't Push Me', and the remixed version of 'P.I.M.P'. While Banks was making Mixtapes,50 Cent was soon granted his own record label by Dr. Lloyd Banks has a renowned reputation on the mixtape scene. He then hooked up with neighborhood producers and made tracks for local mixtapes. As Banks remained at home waiting for 50 and Yayo to return, he started rappin around the neighborhood to further increase his buzz on the streets. Tony Yayo, being an older and more experienced rapper, joined 50 Cent on the Nas Promo Tour, the Cash Money Tour and the Ruff Ryders Tour. After 50 Cent signed his contract with Aftermath Entertainment they took Young Buck in the group and signed him. They met Young Buck when UTP group came to New York and 50 Cent heard Young Buck rapping. G-Unit was founded when childhood friends Lloyd Banks, 50 Cent, and Tony Yayo decided to make a group with each other. For his stage name, he took his great, great-grandfather's name Banks, which was passed on by his uncles who also shared it. Lloyd attended August Martin High School but dropped out at age 16. His father spent most of Lloyd's childhood in prison, leaving his mother to raise him and his two siblings.

His mother named Rosa LLoyd of Puerto Rican descent and has a Haitian-American father. He followed with Rotten Apple in 2006 and left Interscope Records 2009.īanks was born in New Carrollton, Maryland and raised in Queens, New York. Banks released his first solo album The Hunger For More in 2004 with the top ten hit single 'On Fire'. With G-Unit, he released two albums, Beg for Mercy in 2003 and T.O.S.

Raised in South Jamaica, Queens, he dropped out of high school in 1998. Lloyd Banks (Born Christopher Charles Lloyd, on April 30, 1982), is an American rapper and member of the rap group G-Unit.

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