In fact, at times he spits sheer venom at accusations that he was being dropped from Interscope, treated as just a side-kick, or the continual slide that G Unit has facedГўв‚¬В¦ You name it. Yet, Banks manages to keep a handle on proceedings, retaining the main narrative voice. ThereвЂ™s even a bonus track with Eminem on some versions.

Otherwise, we have guest rappers including Tony Yayo, Styles P, 50 Cent, Pusha T, Juelz Santana, Kanye West, Fabolous and Raekwon. There are only about two songs out of the thirteen on here that DONвЂ™T feature guests. ItвЂ™s almost like itвЂ™s 2004 all over again!!! It has a lengthy roster of guest rappers that rap, and guest singers that sing. Here we have вЂњThe Hunger For More 2вЂќ вЂ“ a sequel to his commercially successful debut (which sold 600,000 in the first two weeks, pardon these exclamation marks!!!). KanyeвЂ™s is great but nine minute songs arenвЂ™t everybodyвЂ™s bag NickiвЂ™s is bordering on pop music and R&B for half of the album (at least) youвЂ™d be almost certain to already own JiggaвЂ™s hits the other two could hardly be called вЂњmainstream.вЂќ Which leaves a big old Lloyd Banks-sized hole in the market. Out of all those choices, however, you could successfully argue that not a single one of them is a straight-forward, mainstream, вЂњtraditionalвЂќ hip hop LP.

You could pick up Kanye WestвЂ™s fifth album вЂ“ rated a classic by pretty much everyone thereвЂ™s the Young Money upstart, Nicki Minaj вЂ“ already, in some regards, the most successful female rapper for almost a decade for the more casual fan, a Greatest Hits package from Jay-Z, undoubtedly one of the greatest rappers of all time or a sequence to an underground gem from Curren$y finally, a long lost collection from one of the best, killed in his prime, Big LГўв‚¬В¦ Might sound obvious, but in a week such as this, you really begin to realise just how massive and all-encompassing a monster it has become.

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