Lloyd Banks Start It Up appreciation

[2manyFCKNrappers]

This song is fukking fire from start to finish

Beat is fukking amazing and everybody sound crazy on it.

Ryan Leslie killed it on the background vocals
Kanye went in on it
Fab killed his verse
Swizz ad libs fit the track perfectly
Banks verse was so fukking wavy

This is probably the best collab of the 2010s and it kind of flew under the radar. Every time I listen I can never play it just once. I end up looping it for like an hour.

 

[Prince Cairo]

Banks the PLK

This album was my shyt.

Home Sweet Home

 

[Kilgore Trout]

I thought Lloyd would come back after this but he quickly faded back into obscurity

 

[WSFGDan]

PLK

 

[2manyFCKNrappers]

I thought Lloyd would come back after this but he quickly faded back into obscurity

I feel like NY radio really dropped the ball on this. I remember at the time they were playing O lets do it and a bunch of southern artists. They were playing every Ross and Wayne record round the clock but I only heard DJs spin this during their live sets. It disgusted me how much they were dikkriding the south at that time and showing no love to artists at home.

 

[Tunez]

fukk Kanye

 

[WickedGames]

HFM2 was under rated. If I remember the only track I didn't like was the one with Akon

 

[eastsideTT]

2010-2011 was really my shyt. Really got me back into rap again after being with a lot of stuff in 05,06, 07 etc...

one of my favorite songs from this era

thought banks was "back" after this. HFM2 was fire... the song with Styles P was insane. Should have been an anthem. wtf happened?

Kanye killed his verse on this

Swizz's bridge-verse where he's naming the bikes

 

[msa13]

 

[darealvelle]

2010-2011 was really my shyt. Really got me back into rap again after being with a lot of stuff in 05,06, 07 etc...

one of my favorite songs from this era

thought banks was "back" after this. HFM2 was fire... the song with Styles P was insane. Should have been an anthem. wtf happened?

Kanye killed his verse on this

Swizz's bridge-verse where he's naming the bikes

Real great years for hiphop imo. I call it the blog rap era. Krit, curren$y, smoke dza, asap rocky, good music fridays, kendrick lamar and tde, j cole, wale. A lot of good rap was releasing at that time period.

 

[Da King]

@SpacelySprockets Godfather Banks

 

[Tunez]

Real great years for hiphop imo. I call it the blog rap era. Krit, curren$y, smoke dza, asap rocky, good music fridays, kendrick lamar and tde, j cole, wale. A lot of good rap was releasing at that time period.

Blue Fridays

 

[darealvelle]

Blue Fridays

whats blue fridays?

 

[eastsideTT]

Real great years for hiphop imo. I call it the blog rap era. Krit, curren$y, smoke dza, asap rocky, good music fridays, kendrick lamar and tde, j cole, wale. A lot of good rap was releasing at that time period.

facts 2009-2011 was all good with 2011 being the biggest year IMO
and yes blogs were really jumping off id be checking traps n trunks daily and i even called out sick for work the day future dropped streets calling

everyone was trying to do their version of the good music fridays too. the general vibe right around the time when kanye was releasing MBDTF was exciting. i haven't been as excited for rap music since this time frame anyway. its all underwhelming shyt, fake beef and memes now

 

[BK The Great]

yea this joint was dope, radio was playing it back to back too. too bad Banks never kept the momentum and continued with albums.