Hunger For More (Explicit Version) (2004)

Product Summary Label: Universal Music Group UPC: 00602498627624 Release Date: 6/29/2004 Buy.com Sku: 61010656 Item#: MYXRR6 Buy.com Sales Rank: 1804 Format:  CD Song Listing Disc 1 Song Title Sample 1. Ain't No Click - (with Tony Yayo) ~ Lloyd Banks 2. Playboy ~ Lloyd Banks 3. Warrior ~ Lloyd Banks 4. On Fire ~ Lloyd Banks 5. I Get High - (with 50 Cent/Snoop Dogg) ~ Lloyd Banks 6. I'm So Fly ~ Lloyd Banks 7. Work Magic - (with Young Buck) ~ Lloyd Banks 8. If You So Gangsta ~ Lloyd Banks 9. Warrior Part 2 - (with Eminem/50 Cent/Nate Dogg) ~ Lloyd Banks 10. Karma ~ Lloyd Banks 11. When The Chips Are Down - (with The Game) ~ Lloyd Banks 12. Til The End ~ Lloyd Banks 13. Die One Day ~ Lloyd Banks 14. South Side Story ~ Lloyd Banks (P) 2004 G Unit/Interscope Records (C) 2004 G Unit/Interscope Records   Album Notes and Credits Notes & Personnel Info Personnel include: Lloyd Banks (rap vocals); Eminem, 50 Cent, Nate Dogg, Snoop Dogg, The Game, Tony Yayo, Young Buck (rap vocals). Recording information: The Big House, Farmington, Connecticut; Sony Studios, New York, New York; Spydadonme, New York, New York; Right Track, New York, New York; 54 Sound, Detroit, Michigan; Team Work Studios, New York, New York. Queens, New York-born Lloyd Banks couldn't have asked for a better stage on which to emerge. With 50 Cent's sudden ascension in 2003, his band of longtime mixtape stars, G-Unit, received a dose of national attention on the sturdy BEG FOR MERCY. The three-pronged attack of G-Unit is, as its name would imply, a collective effort, but on that record Banks repeatedly stole the show with his uncompromising, yet poetic rhymes and confident, wry delivery. Banks makes his hotly anticipated debut with THE HUNGER FOR MORE, an album whose title sums up the tough, yet introspective artist, a ravenous rapper who devours words hungrily. The world is spinning around nonstop in Banks's brain, and there is clearly not enough time for it all to get out. However, in the course of THE HUNGER FOR MORE, he tackles everything from the simple topics of love and sex and life on the streets to problems like bad karma and getting racially profiled at the airport. His paramount ability may be his talent for taking a timeworn topic and transforming it into something fresh, as on "I Get High" (fittingly featuring 50 Cent and Snoop Dogg) and "If You So Gangsta." Banks deftly balances the hardcore, the poetic, and the melodic, and THE HUNGER FOR MORE portends great things for the rapper.   Artist Overview Aside from 50 Cent, Lloyd Banks is the most successful member of G-Unit to go solo. Banks was a founding member of the Queens rap group along with Tony Yayo and Fiddy himself; he released his first solo album, THE HUNGER FOR MORE, in 2004. Bringing the same controlled-fire flow and street professionalism that marked his appearances on early G-Unit mix tapes, Banks had, by the release of 2006's THE ROTTEN APPLE, risen to be if not the commercial equal to 50 Cent then certainly the G-Unit second-in-command. Artist Influences Cam'Ron | Dr. Dre | Eminem | Jay-Z | Lil Wayne | Ludacris | Mase | Mobb Deep | Nas | The Notorious B.I.G. | Tupac Artist Contemporaries 50 Cent | DJ Whoo Kid | Freeway | Jadakiss | Juelz Santana | Lil Scrappy | M.O.P. | Spider Loc | Styles P. | Tony Yayo | Young Buck | Young Jeezy   Compilation Appearances Get Rich Or Die Tryin (Explicit Version) Get Rich Or Die Tryin (Clean Version) New Breed,The 0403 The Hits!: Bad Boy's 10th Anniversary (Explicit Version) (Bonus DVD) (w/ Bonus DVD) Hunger For More (Explicit Version) Hunger For More Straight Outta Cashville (Explicit Version) Massacre (Clean) Thoughts Of A Predicate Felon (Explicit Version) Thoughts Of A Predicate Felon (Clean) Director Get Rich or Die Tryin' (Clean Version) 1st Infantry: Instrumental Fidel Cashflow Blood Money (Clean Version) Massacre (Explicit Version) Entourage (Explicit Version) Entourage (Clean) Eminem Presents The Re-up(Explicit Version) Eat Or Die 0906 Hip Hop Is Dead: G-unit Radio Pt 22 G-unit Radio 5:All Eyez O So Seductive G Unit Radio 12 Return Of The Mixtape Millionare G Un Bulletproof Radio Are You A Window Shopper G Unit Radio Guess Whoo's Back Mutha Fuck Gangsta Grillz The Album(Explicit Version) Gangsta Grillz The Album Return Of Thr Body Snatchers Drug Users Handbook Look What You Made Me (Explicit Version) Look What You Made Me   Associated Artists and Works Kid, DJ Whoo Money Moves The World [PA] ~ Kid, DJ Whoo Kid, DJ Whoo   Technical Info Release Date : 06/29/2004 Original Release Date : 2004 Catalog ID : 0002826 Label : Interscope Records (USA) Number of Discs : 1 Studio/Live : Studio Mono/Stereo : Stereo SPAR Code : n/a UPC : 00602498627624   Professional Reviews Rolling Stone (p.112) - 3 stars out of 5 - "'On Fire' is deliriously addictive....[Banks] raps each verse as if his entire career depends on it."    Product Image