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.
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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.
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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. But 50 will let you know and explains the situation better.Lloyd Banks (Born Christopher Charles Lloyd, on April 30, 1982), is an American rapper and member of the rap group G-Unit. He will give you the view points on Banks and the whole situation with the Unit. They’re supposed to be cool, I don’t think there are any major problems. Fif says he hasn’t heard from him, I don’t know man. “I mean I don’t even know man, I tried to like talk to them. Last year, G-Unit’s DJ Whoo Kid talked about trying to reunite 50 and Lloyd.
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They’ve had opportunities to make the transitions that a lot of artists don’t because they can behind the scenes without everyone paying attention to them.” ( Hot 97) I gotta be a part of it, I gotta be working, I gotta have something going on, something that I’m doing. Financially I don’t have to, but I have to because it’s just within me. Something in my character that’s not in their character because I almost ‘have’ to do it. Just people, in general, as people, I think there’s something missing. You feel what I’m saying? To be that close in the circle, it’s almost like, I’m going to be honest with you, it feels like there’s something missing from the actual character. “I hope that they can actually figure out, from that, like when we say they haven’t quite followed my blueprint, it’s disappointing that they’re not following. I guess now they understand, so Banks and Yayo are doing it.” ( G-Unit Family)Ī few months ago, Fif said the same level of urgency was not existent between himself and the original members. “When I got on and created the G-Unit brand I always wanted Banks and Yayo to create bigger opportunities for them, build their own teams as far as management, PR, etc and extend the brand as well as generating more outlets for themselves as men. The G-Unit head also suggested Yayo and Banks were focused on building flourishing solo careers. There are big things coming for both labels in 2014!” ( G-Unit Family)
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Pauly D is on G-Note, Tony Yayo, Kidd Kidd, Lloyd Banks and Precious Paris are all on G-Unit. “G-Note is a 2nd level label under G-Unit Records where we focus more so on the Pop side where as G-Unit is more so urban. New York rapper 50 Cent recently updated fans on the status of his G-Unit brand and if there are plans to call up estranged members Tony Yayo and Lloyd Banks for a reunion project.Īccording to Fif, the “Talk of New York” and “Punchline King” are both still with the Unit.