Lloyd Banks
G-Unit’s 2002 song over the 8 Mile beat is remarkable; even today’s industry-punchline Tony Yayo managed to hang with the other MCs: youtube link.
Lloyd Banks:
Listen, I went through Mama bitching in and out the kitchen
With probable causes: Papa was in and out of prison…
You got soldiers, but you still gotta respect ours,
We got more 4-5s and 9s than a deck of cards
Tony Yayo:
You can sniff me, cut me—I’ll turn you to a junkie
I’m the number one seller in the whole fucking country
Wall Street niggas, they cop me on the low
White boys don’t call me coke, they call me blow
50 Cent:
I wonder if you’re mad cause I’m doing good,
Or cause niggas feeling me more than you in your hood
And it hurts, cause you love ‘em and they don’t love you back,
Cause they know you just rapping, and you don’t bust a gat…
Their 2005 remix of Hate It or Love It underscores the talent of now-ousted members Game and Young Buck: youtube link.
The Game:
I told Dre from the gate, “I’d carry the heat for ya”,
First mixtape song I inherited beef for ya
Put Compton on my back when you was in need of soldiers…
So niggas better get up outta mine,
Before I creep and turn your projects into Columbine
Lloyd Banks:
Bad enough they want me to choke, my boy just got poked in the throat
Now I’m speeding, reminiscing; holding my weed in, never listen
If I see him I’ma lift him, and maybe that’ll even the score,
But if not, it’ll be me on the floor.
Young Buck:
You know I’m still nice with my cook game,
Look man, it’s a hood thang; that’s why I’m loved in Brooklyn
I handle mine just like a real nigga should,
If I do some time homie, I’m still all good
Let me show you what a thug about, born to die
I took the bullets out of 50, put them in my .45
And I ain’t even got my feet wet yet:
A seven figure nigga who ain’t seen a royalty check.
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