Official LLOYD BANKS - F.N.O. (Failure's No Option) thread

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Like i said in that other thread on banks being hard on hoes....i know for a fact(he may have said it himself) that he was fat at some point in high school....

doesn't even need to say it...you just know there was at least ONE broad in school that looked down on him and tried to play him

they didn't know they would create a monster :pachaha:


during an interview 50 said there was a girl he had a crush on but she liked some other nikka haha
 

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Failure's No Option

[Hook]
I'm a give them hell until I rest in peace
Been through it all, need my respect at least
Who got the bet? Better you bet on me, baby
Made man, America's most wanted lately
Show much I want you to see
Feel like I'm boxed in, only wins will bring the comfort to me
Still ain't no stopping
I'm a wind up on top with the key
Until then they watching
Ain't not rules, got to play for keeps
Failure's no option

[Verse 1]
Everybody want the light
I'm like fine you can have this
The top don't mean your living right, keep your mind on what matters
These hoes don't love you, they rehearse those common theatrics
Supposed to build each other up but most time it be backwards
Until then we got to wait and pray until they finally catch us
Toe tags, no dads in a county of b*stards
Going to need a cape to see our future
You blind and need glasses?
Ten, twenty years rewinding these classics
Let's toast to living our vision
Love this town and these glasses
Envious b*stards off the axis, mahogany caskets
The blocks banging if you survive these harmony flashes
No few passes, just regrets and R.I.P ad-libs
Dearly departed, keep me guarded and all that we ask is
Put a good word in while we hurting and dodging these scratches
And, my position is go hard or get missing
It's like dope and I'm running, the other part of me twitching
Listen...

[Hook]

[Verse 2]
Attitude like "fukk it today"
I need chilling and Louie buckets to play
Man keep your outlet, I ain't got nothing to say
Rappers duck out and just be stuck in the way
I'm pushing two decades of killing these bars
Here's my parade
Sun don't always shine
shyt get too bright, it throw your shade
I hope you make it there
Top of that, make it from older age
nikkas want you to snap. Give it all back
It's sporting rage, bloody contact
Slipping off track, caught in a maze
If I should hang up my number, you'll love me then?
shyt! I wonder, pedal to floors
Still soaring above the rim
Good morning, I'm up to wind
Who brought us more within
A quarter sent out to gems
Six songs without the pen
I gave it all I had and you shot me down
I ain't change, same nikka they copy know
Pay homage, pour out the commas and smile
Outside of the family, can't nobody come near him
I throw it all on my shoulders, front on the rap game clearly
 

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The Natural

No originality, take a ride with the natural
I ain't blow up yet
Fear the greatest bomb in the Apple
Tackles broke to pieces
The streets are scorching trying to over ease ya
A firm believer, I wore the crown on my Caesar. Freezer, count me up
This test an alley thump just made the tally jump
Wild around me, catch a smiley cut let out the alley up
Writers block, can't get my mind to stop. Most days I alen hop
Karma's a bytch, I found a spot
Wandering trips around the clock
Charming your chick from down the block
Flow got her, she found a shark
My fin show her and two tens throwing a pound a spark
Uh! So many washing up, I'm etched in stone though
You fool pit browse
My testers slam the lomo, exit solo
Big tests for so-so, need us extra promo
No runner ups can catch the pros
So slice the pie like the Lexus logo
Bet my keening alarms impostors
Problems just hanging strange fruit
Hs and orange boxes
Big faces in all the watches
Roses, Aces, and Knockers
Hoes and bricks show stoppers
Hundred papers, more options
With hunger pain there's nonsense
Rumble game I'm all offense
Launching confidence here
And I know these powers won't feel me
They'll be over your shyt in no time
And no you ain't getting no co-sign
I'm fully equipped to go
I'm in solid gold at the gold line
Powder rope through my smoke, climb higher
You can't pick my code, ma
Over matter, fact who's badder?
Ain't no rapper here or after
Back in my zone at night
These new nikkas is over hyped
Steep look into a soldier's life
Three or four minutes of poltergeist
Sweet beginnings, I'm ultra nice
Come kill a God, he multiples
Open eyes hit critics
Visits from broken wives
Through the impossible
The fukk is you doing with oxygen?
These bums done broke up my game in vein
Wondering when you hit your compliments
My conscience vents
Henny and mobster tints
Hell out the audience
Stand up guy, bet he won't hop a fence
If any a consequence
Stepped in good, been stomping since
Different kind, maybe common sense
Calm me down with the capital
Built the crown and no avenue
Boring nikkas will challenge you
Slaughtering since 2002
Pouring visits over my memory
Foreign trips out to Kennedy
Hoing tricks out for energy
Told a bytch I wouldn't let it be
Every week with another head
Ch-check out my symmetry
My maniac rhyme
More amazing than all your favorites combined
I'm killing ya, maaan!
Hit the fire on these bytches one time
I sunshine, I cook the area
Burn up your front line
Turn up my new shyt, product of DJ Dram
Sour out the nose and bottle cliques
Urban model chicks
Life's a room, a dollar should
Slide her a Ferragamo dress
Top of the metropolis
Looking down on your confidence
Hooking up with your confident
Cool and feels like the cop is gone
Hoes in my sweaters
Hoes be over zealous
Hold it down, thirty years
Hell, we roll the town
What's up with all these clowns?
I gave you years, how dare you doubt me?
Even when I ain't here you hear about me
 

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Pain In Variety

(Verse)
Who that trackin grippin up again?
Here I’m rockin these bytches, I’mma trust my pen
I drop em off, don’t talk to gems
What’s up the spin? My tip cut the wing in that custom rim
I’m here now, so all sue me, I’m all Louie
Wreckin shyt, yea yours truly, a horror movie
I’mma trip yea, to this movie I’m loyal usually
Your bars border rhyme except they go and choose me
I’m clappin, rappin like a drawin movie on
I’m back in traffic matchin all my jewelry
You dirty b*stard, don’t you go and screw me
Nothing but G’s down here dog, my flow’s Gucci
Now I’ve struck er, to me them 5 stars supper
Black diamond and its dirty colors, my mind suffer
Guess you were lucky motherfukker
You survived the 21 and didn’t at least one touch ya

(Hook)
It’s a struggle to stay alive
You don’t think I’m gonna make it, I told em open your eyes
I’mma make them drop they faces and tell em man quit the mic
I’mma show up to these places with cases getting drunk
I can’t wait to see you hoes with the vapors, you should run
I’m gon make every fukkin thing in this world
Fast cars, diamonds and gold
Just soon enough the room’s gon be
And we gon keep to let this shyt go away

(Verse)
Pain variety in my society
Death to the government, I know they lied to me
No apology, do this odyssey
King gotta be, chip to seein rap lattery
Uh, no one hot as me, all honesty
New designer provider, I’m only trying to flip
You love me as your ancestors
How you gonna get the answers? You don’t understand the questions
Can you hear me up there? I’m alone
At times I feel like I’m trapped inside the zone
My racks when I get home
Sidetrack, could see the throne
South side’s on my back
This is the dome, we rip crews just to show em
fukk a model, shyt bird, it’s showin hate
Real nikkas in my wake, no surrender, no mistake
Let me get out of this hell hole
There’s nothing but look
Same force here and newspaper printed cover up

(Hook)
It’s a struggle to stay alive
You don’t think I’m gonna make it, I told em open your eyes
I’mma make them drop they faces and tell em man quit the mic
I’mma show up to these places with cases getting drunk
I can’t wait to see you hoes with the vapors, you should run
I’m gon make every fukkin thing in this world
Fast cars, diamonds and gold
Just soon enough the room’s gon be
And we gon keep to let this shyt go away
 

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You Wish

(Verse)
Tell me you love me
Now tell the world you love me louder
The most beautifulest things come with ugly power
From our struggling hour
We’re celebrating right?
Big dream, I reach for heights
One of the greatest teachers takes it right
One of the patients sees and takes your life
Cold as world, I had to break the ice
You know that girl, you’d love to make her a wife
Nice like but she made pop right sex
For TV to play highlight clips
Thought I’ll be gum seeking the mob
Half man plans God laughs
Some of us we might even in Nas class
You give your life to the ghetto, ain’t nothing from it
And show these rum when they see me I give em hunneds
Most wanted,

(Hook)
Bought my way out of the track
Looking for change? Good, I got that exact
My time to step, I got from something
Came from nothing but too far to look back
Can’t even have my style, nikkas took that
Kid where you’re going? Wish that hood black
Now that they shoot you down, another reason to fall
Reason I never come down to get this shyt here fully
You’ll see me high, high

(Verse)
Life’s a bytch, since when you know it’s wuddup
I as the homie little, tend to outshine,
Find me the gold danila mack
I can’t stop, I went back to my grandpa
They brought that man ‘cus he ain’t hot
Beat too much soldiers the way the sand blocks
And like the hoes hiking, don’t know a flow like em
Feels like I been here before, ironic, I’m ghostwriting
Chronicking gold plating, illuminate em hate when
I lose and play the choice then
The rules that cage your life in
But I feel it’s my time again
Spill my survival gems, the rap game in question and I’m your novicin
My dog in the gym and I got a rival then
It’s all about the hand and they let the robbers in
To the sky with it

(Hook)
Bought my way out of the track
Looking for change? Good, I got that exact
My time to step, I got from something
Came from nothing but too far to look back
Can’t even have my style, nikkas took that
Kid where you’re going? Wish that hood black
Now that they shoot you down, another reason to fall
Reason I never come down to get this shyt here fully
You’ll see me high, high

(Verse)
The furthest thing born, perfect and I deserve it
No doubt that my mom is worth it
One of a kind is under the grimy surface
Could leave you a body dissin like the churches
Okay to get high? Just don’t get out yo purpose, worthless
Mad man, I feel like it’s workin, they got my shyt in years
Studio, pain killin, in 2 weeks I’m Julius Servin
A star was born in April, I swear I’m shootin for it
Back to the future boy, I’m in the booth, I’m super Lloyd
C notes singing your heart’s serenade
Samples of separation, fowlest shyt they ever made
I spot my people the same point and we latch pain
Said I ain’t lose a step, knew me since half days hey

(Hook)
Bought my way out of the track
Looking for change? Good, I got that exact
My time to step, I got from something
Came from nothing but too far to look back
Can’t even have my style, nikkas took that
Kid where you’re going? Wish that hood black
Now that they shoot you down, another reason to fall
Reason I never come down to get this shyt here fully
You’ll see me high, high
 

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Saw y'all postin some classic Banks earlier for the dudes who were sleepin... let me help out too


After listening some more, I think this is the best album/mixtape of the year. Might even be his best work (gotta listen more before it dethrones V5).
Def mixtape of the year so far... who's left to drop tapes this year? The whole lyricism, flow and vibe of this tape is crazy..... and there's literally no club records.. just strong songs..... I wish he rapped on a better mic or got some better mixing though
 

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yep. ppl need to stop mentioning v6 and cc2. most heads will acknowledge that the first 5 >>>>>

reborn > v5 > cold corner > return of PLK > cc2 > hallween havoc > v6

After listening to all of the 5 and Better Series this whole weekend, I can now co-sign the fukk outta this post
*adds Banks to current top 10 list* :wow:
 

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Feels like I've been here before
Ironic I'm ghostwriting
Chronic & gold lighting
Illuminate & hype when
I lose & play it twice then
The rules'll cage your life in


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