Lloyd Banks shows love for 50 Cent’s songwriting in new interview.
Around 2 decades in the game, Lloyd Banks continues to give fans new music with the release of two back-to-back albums “The Course Of The Inevitable” and a sequel which dropped this week.
The rapper now made a visit to “The Joe Budden Podcast” as part of the promo run, where he talked about his career, and shows praise for the likes of 50 Cent for helping him become a better artist.
“Coming into mixtapes, starting from Master C, the [DJ] Clues, DJ Absoluts, and this was even before ‘Bad News’ dropped and things like that, watching 50, to be perfectly honest with you. He wasn’t just a writer, he was an exceptional songwriter,” he said. “Just conceptually and sticking to the whole subject matter, which was a plus for me because you’re looking around the game, there wasn’t many like that. Some of the biggest artists weren’t the best songwriters – he was. From the introduction, what you say in the beginning, where to pause. So that’s how I write.”
Lloyd Banks spoke on his songwriting technique, revealing how he progressed from tracks on the 2002 mixtapes 50 Cent Is the Future and Money in the Bank. “I write in four bar pieces and my first four is gonna usually be aggressive,” he said. “There’s gonna be a line in that first four. Second four will be some type of breakdown, where I might get bouncy with it. The next four, it’s gonna be a little melodic cheat code. And that’s what I got from 50. ‘Cause I was always bar heavy. That’s why ‘Victory’ is 50 bars. That’s why ‘The Banks Workout’ is 50 bars, because I didn’t know structure. So I was just doing 50 bar verses. If it wasn’t 50 bars, I felt like I cheated you and myself.”
The Course of the Inevitable 2 by Lloyd Banks, featuring Conway The Machine, Benny The Butcher, Jadakiss, Tony Yayo, Vado, and Dave East, was released on Friday, July 15. The album is the follow-up to The Course of the Inevitable, which was released in June 2021 and was his first record since 2010’s The Hunger for More 2.
Check out the interview below and stream the album The Course of the Inevitable 2.
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