Blue Hefner’s back with the second installment of his The Cold Corner mixtape series. The G-Unit lieutenant has been dropping some really good songs as of late, so expect more of his consistently chuckle-inducing punch lines with this effort. Read the rest of this entry »

Seeing as Harlem’s A$AP Rocky hails just about 20 minutes from the Jamaica, Queens neighborhood G-Unit made infamous a decade ago, it’s only right these two generations of New York share a song on Banks’ long-awaited Cold Corner 2 mixtape. Read the rest of this entry »

Christmas just so happens to come several times of year in Hip-Hop. There’s the real Christmas where rappers gift wrap new EP’s to spread yuletide joy and there’s also 4/20 where every rapper strives to be the High Times man of the year. Biggest of all though, there’s Halloween when it pays to keep it gangsta. You may not get to listen to all your candy in one sitting but here’s your one-stop shop for all the rap goodies that’s getting passed out today. Read the rest of this entry »

Hip-Hop is pretty much past its stages of sporadically “making it rain,” especially when the average rap Joe got a bank loan just to toss in front of some cameras and swiftly return it as soon as they shut off. When we have Capital One putting it in the commercials, you know the gag has ran stale. Lloyd Banks actually had it to blow back then but maturity has sent in and he’s preaching the opposite on “Make It Stack,” his latest leak from Cold Corner 2. Read the rest of this entry »

Back before The Unit was The Unit, I remember being so impressed with how easily Lloyd Banks commanded 2Pac’s “Can’t C Me” beat, I actually ended up buying The Hunger For More. Read the rest of this entry »

Miss Universe Accused of Fabricating Pageant Documents [Clutch]

Cop Arrests Disabled Woman for Sitting [AJC]

Is Kurtis Blow the Father of Kanye West? [Boxden] Read the rest of this entry »

As far as I’m concerned Lloyd Banks is the only rapper from the once glorious G-Unit who can, well, rap anymore and now he’s back to follow up the very solid HFM2 album with the release of “Love Me in the Hood.” Read the rest of this entry »

Lloyd Banks is a f*cking bear. He hibernates, only choosing to come out to rap during certain seasons. Read the rest of this entry »

Young, disrespectful, vibrant and immune to any rules the establishment set forth before them, one could make the argument the early 2000′s G-Unit and 1992′s Bébé’s Kids were one in the same. Read the rest of this entry »

Cold Corner 2 was cut meaning the next release Lloyd Banks puts his name on will be the follow up to last year’s The Hunger For More 2. The final destination for the Cardiak-constructed “Check Me Out” is unknown and truthfully wouldn’t be surprising if it doesn’t land anywhere. Read the rest of this entry »

I’ve never noticed Vevo’s “Go Shows” concept series previously but this seems pretty dope as they capture Fab performing “Y’all Don’t Hear Me Tho” on the Brooklyn Bridge.

As an aside, did anyone else notice NYTimes declared Lloyd Banks as the city’s “most important rapper”? Read the rest of this entry »

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Laurence Fishburne Exits CSI After Two Seasons [OMG]

Working While Drinking [Creative Loafing]

Yao Ming Still Has Ankle Problems [Inside Hoops]

Wanda Sykes: It’s Harder to Be Gay Than Black [The Root] Read the rest of this entry »

If you take one part Don Cornelius, two parts midnight oil, a little dry sarcasm and a whole lot of Brooklyn, you’ll find yourself circling the block where Fabolous just bought property to set up shop for The Soul Tape. When he isn’t in between reels (pick one: movie or music) portraying some Mafia Don with an oversized suit, he’s in his zone; his element, giving the ladies something to vibe to so the fellas can catch their vibrations. Read the rest of this entry »

Emilio sat down with Lloyd Banks recently to talk about everything from the business to threesomes -wait…what’s it called when you get seven chicks? A septetsome? Anyway, this is a pretty interesting interview, but we’ll let Emilio tell it. Read the rest of this entry »

“Two G’s on my new sleeves
Big percent of the new breed
Smell like money and blue cheese
Stealth bomb on my true steez Read the rest of this entry »