If you from NY you know who the spitters are.
Swizz and the LOX fukk with Banks heavy.
DMX mad the PLK didnt bless him with a verse. He should drop a diss track since X wanna talk shyt
Lloyd Banks Responds To DMX Saying He’s Not Lyrical & Trash: "He Begged To Work With Me"
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If you from NY you know who the spitters are.
Swizz and the LOX fukk with Banks heavy.
DMX mad the PLK didnt bless him with a verse. He should drop a diss track since X wanna talk shyt
bigbadbossup2012
Biggest baddest boss
True but X dismissing and bringing up canibus (cause they came out at the same time) is laughable
gangreen
Top Notch
Banks is a lyricist especially back in that era and especially now seeing where hip hop was taken.
The Hunger for More was a classic, in my opinion it was better than get rich or die tryin. Less smash hits but just a well constructed album all around.
If Banks would have just worked harder and got togheter with some better producers and really challenged himself to get out of his comfort zone, he would have had a run back then like drake is having now.
50 kinda stunted his growth with all that beef shyt back then but Banks wasnt interested in ever stepping up to that next level of stardom, which is cool but thats why he doesnt get universal respect as a hip hop legend
But yea X was whyllin with that one, all fatmanscoop had to do was play Banks' funk flex freestyles at a minimum to let X know he is a top tier lyricist
The Hunger for More was a classic, in my opinion it was better than get rich or die tryin. Less smash hits but just a well constructed album all around.
If Banks would have just worked harder and got togheter with some better producers and really challenged himself to get out of his comfort zone, he would have had a run back then like drake is having now.
50 kinda stunted his growth with all that beef shyt back then but Banks wasnt interested in ever stepping up to that next level of stardom, which is cool but thats why he doesnt get universal respect as a hip hop legend
But yea X was whyllin with that one, all fatmanscoop had to do was play Banks' funk flex freestyles at a minimum to let X know he is a top tier lyricist
Cheech&Chong
rip chinx
Lmao. fukk does ras kass or public enemy have to do with this? Take that bull shyt somewhere else
Theo Penn
on that Earl Stevens wine
Scoop fukked up and put Banks’ name in a class of legends. He doesn’t belong there. He may be lyrical, but you can’t rattle off all those legends, then say Lloyd Banks. That’s probably what tilted DMX. Shyt went left after that.
Man couldn’t come up with 2 bars
Man couldn’t come up with 2 bars
I get what you are saying. Someone like Banks or Black Thought would have crazy pen games to some.
Crazy pen could mean a lot of things though.
Bullsh*t chicken scratch could also result from a crazy pen. Writing about complex things in a simple way for anyone to understand. That is the sign of a good writer, an effective communicator. X wins in a landslide in that regard. Banks can't duplicate what X does. Not even close.
please don’t mention banks next to black thought
Pinyapplesuckas
He's A Good Man
i dont expect X to really know who is spitting if they dropped way after him...Banks dropped when X was damn near on his way out. No way he truly sat and listened to dude and prob thinks he's Tony Yayo.
ItsTheRoc
Legend
Banks always been trash...Can barely hear what he's sayin, like the Kanye thru the wire demo smh....Anyways Beans over Banks ANYDAY!!!
It just always seemed banks was layed back and relatively peaceful....but in hindsight, I don’t get how he was talkin all that “I wanna be a big star like I should be” shyt, but turnin down feature requests wit mega artists like DMX at that time........was/is this nikka retarted ......
.....now I see why Fif was lookin at him like 
behind closed doors, lazy dude man wowBeans and banks is a tough one, but I gotta say beans too.......
Canibus is widely considered amongst the all the greatest lyricists.
Lloyd Banks name is only brought up in the Coli, like ever.
Hunger for More dropped June 2004
X dropped a 2x platinum album in late 2003
And had a #1 album in 2005 and was still on major movies up until 2006.
Pinyapplesuckas
He's A Good Man
what i'm saying is X was a very well established artist by that point and also by 2003 he was way more shot out than he was in 98.. He's in his own world. My statement is basically a year or so off but it still remains. Its an opinion tho. I dont be expecting some rich ass crazy dude to be necessarily checking for a random mixtape rapper as deep as one of us would. like X clearly knew Banks, but he wasnt really listening and didnt feel he needed to.