When I was like 13 I used to tell my brother Lloyd was better then buck, my brother insisted buck killed banks on all the songs on beg for mercy. Look where they’re at now
@@rafaelperez6019 where they at now is irrelevant to your brothers statement back then Buck & Banks was the hardest in G-Unit. it doesn't matter Where they at now
@@rafaelperez6019 i still bump both of them, neither of them put out trash, where their both at now makes them hungry and their music gets better and better.
I remember first hearing Banks on Don’t Push Me, I was a sophomore in HS, and I thought he was so dope. I’ve been listening to Banks and keeping up with everything he’s dropped since 2003 now, almost 20 years, and he’s honestly one of my favorite rappers ever. I’ve been given him his flowers, I’m happy so many other people are too now finally.
“Sharpening my weapon to protect my gift, never seen a ghost in my studio if you catch my drift”🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 Ain’t no ghost writers in banks studio. That bar was crazy
Banks at his prime, ran through EVERYTHING!!! Man if yall wasnt there for the G-Unit Radios, Money in the Banks, Big Mike, Kay Slay (RIP), man you missed out. Pure Classics. Sold out the back of the Trunk Mixtape era was a great time in hip hop.
This dude is the coolest, layed back assassin to every spit!!!!!!! You have to rewind a few times because his punch lines are so clever they go over your head. SICK!!!!!!!!
@@TheIcpfan23 The Fuxkin *DISRESPECT Is RIDICULOUSLY BLASPHEMOUS* WHY? BECAUSE YOU SEEMINGLY INTENTIONALLY LEFT CASSIDY(THE PUNCHLINE 🏆) OFF YOUR LIST 🤔🤦🏾♂️
✌🏿2 all. Everyone's entitled to their opinion. Not top 5 in my book. Good, b.u.t. not great. Black Thought, Crooked I, Jadakiss, Method Man easily ahead of him. Not even bringing up greats like KRS One, Pac, Rakim, Redman etc...Peace
@@originalmanis7 KRS defended Afrika Bambaatata and be honest, you're only saying that because you feel the need to put OGs up there out of respect. I doubt you actually listen to KRS in your car.
Banks is just that guy when it comes to spitting. Not many mc’s left that make you sit up in your chair when you see that they have new sh*t out. To memorise Banks’ rhyme patterns is a wonder in itself. Salute 🫡
Banks is a lagend. He’s been consistently dropping bars and gems for more than 20 years. His name is up there with the best. Cats better recognize the greatness.
If you don’t see Banks as one of the best then you don’t know hip hop. Nobody had punchlines like him during the G-Unit mixtape era, he killed every verse he spoke. The Banks Workout is one of the greatest lyrical showcases ever
Banks is absolutely fire and without question one of the best punchline rappers to ever do it, but Big L really made it a style and paved the way for dudes like Banks, Jada, Fab, Cass etc.
I always loved how 50 could write such great songs and his lyrics “paint a picture that make a blind man see” and then Banks has that word play that you can listen to for years and still catch new lines! PLK!
Nah I give it to Buck. He never got enough props. Early on Buck killed all of G Unit and no one has giving that man his flowers. Lloyd Banks got better than Buck that I will agree, and not that he was never nice. Yes, right now Banks is a flawless MC now but early on Buck brought it all.
Nobody can ever touch lloyd banks when it comes to word plays , story telling , similies, metaphors . He has true talent , I wish many ppl knew but the real ones know what time it is
Don’t understand how he is not everyone’s favorite rapper. Been listening to Bank$ since day one. every drop, album or mixtape I’ve never been disappointed.
Lloyd Banks is one of the rappers that made me start rapping when I was 10 years old. 28 years-old now and the man is even better than back then. This is insane.
Same here bro, 28 yo bumping Banks since 02. When I don't know what to write, I put on a random Banks track/freestyle and the bars are coming out like magic haha. Keep doing your things man, you got a new sub!
Just had to hear this again….. Banks is one of the very few that been up to this platform on Flex freestyles and hasn’t spit a bar or a verse that he’s used from his album or up-and-coming album, he always has some new material!
A Hip Hop legend in all aspects. Arguably one of the best emcees to ever grace the mic. I've been rocking with Banks for more than half my life and I just turned 33 this year. The new album has been on repeat, as expected. Salute.
"only time I miss a step is when I skip one" and "come twice like sneezes" is so f***ing dope, love it. I still listen to his hot 97 freestyle with 50 and Tony Yayo all the time
‘Flex only time I miss a step is when I skip one, grind now celebrate when the flip done, cool with it long as the outcome is income’ Banks aint miss a step he still crazy with it
Still my fave lyricist ❤️❤️ anyone know why so many tour shows are pending or cancelled ?! 😩 seeing him live is on my bucket list! Been a fan since I was 15 and I’ll be 35 next week! 💪🏼💪🏼
I saw Banks at Universal Orlando 2 years ago walking around with his family being a family man and was cool to see and I gave a fist bump and kept it moving .. Had my family and we were just both being dads and husbands . was dope
This dude has carried me though many years. I dont know what it is about Banks- but he just delivers something that permeates my sou. When i start up my car- I always think..what Banks track ? Thats my mark of a dope MC
He ain't even trying n makes it look so easy that some might go over ya head. Rap comes natural to that man. Underrated. Unpopular opinion but man is easily top 5 imo
Through the era of oversized jerseys and 2 way pagers... Was the punchline king that provided us some of the hottest bars in Rap. You really had to be there to know the impact.. I still throw on the banks workout freestyles. 🌹🌹🌹
To those who gave Banks his roses decades ago like he deserved, salute to you, you know real lyricists!
When I was like 13 I used to tell my brother Lloyd was better then buck, my brother insisted buck killed banks on all the songs on beg for mercy. Look where they’re at now
@@rafaelperez6019 where they at now is irrelevant to your brothers statement back then Buck & Banks was the hardest in G-Unit. it doesn't matter Where they at now
@@rafaelperez6019 i still bump both of them, neither of them put out trash, where their both at now makes them hungry and their music gets better and better.
💯
I remember first hearing Banks on Don’t Push Me, I was a sophomore in HS, and I thought he was so dope. I’ve been listening to Banks and keeping up with everything he’s dropped since 2003 now, almost 20 years, and he’s honestly one of my favorite rappers ever. I’ve been given him his flowers, I’m happy so many other people are too now finally.
Lloyd Banks is so effortlessly laid back and flawless when he on the mic. It’s like he’s unimpressed while giving you bars of terror
Word plk
Facts king
Facts.
Big facts
The wors you looking for is uncharismatic.
I didn’t know flex still brought artists like this up there. There’s hope.
😂😂
Why wouldn't he it's new York lol, you have to have bars to be up there
U out the loop for thinking that
Then you must be under 29
@@42Deondrea that’s a lie and u know it 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
“Sharpening my weapon to protect my gift, never seen a ghost in my studio if you catch my drift”🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 Ain’t no ghost writers in banks studio. That bar was crazy
And that was a 50 diss as well lol 😂 you missed that one
Hardest ever
Damn that went over my head
@@antoniom5107 I didnt understand the diss, can you explain it bro?
@@ttgtankthegreat9858 me too I didn't catch it
If you grew up listening to rap in the early to mid 00’s you know this man is a lyricist
What a time to be alive
@@justblaze11784 the best time to be alive.. besides the 90’s
Didn't banks rap over this beat back int the day or was it just 50. If so how can i find it.
Straight big fuckin facts 💯
Yeah...had the roach spray bar
This man has NEVER disappointed me . Definitely top 5 underrated lyrically
#MAJORFACTS
I say top 3
Bro NEVER
NEVERRRRR
And flow top 2…and not 2
I thought I would never see another freestyle from banks today was epic
Get the album 💿 coti
Why would you think something like that?🤨,I think we have to screen you first like banks said🤣🤣
Facts. Off how he was talking a while ago. Glad he here
Nah REAL TAK #QGTM
But the same bs beats..he literally had a mixtape rapping over this beat
Lloyd Banks is on my top 10 rappers list of all time. Witty punchlines, metaphors, underrated albums, mixtape legend.
Deffo!!!
Number 1
!! legend, too hard
“Top 3, and I’m not 3 or 2”
Banks is coming after everything he wasn't able to get under 50. But the ones that grew up in that era know Banks will always be G-Unit.
Banks was the hardest out the WHOLE GROUP
Nah dude.... Banks is still G-Unit. Banks and the unit needed that break
Lol he not he done
Facts tho
G-Unit had been done long ago. Banks has put out much better music after G-Unit.
Banks at his prime, ran through EVERYTHING!!! Man if yall wasnt there for the G-Unit Radios, Money in the Banks, Big Mike, Kay Slay (RIP), man you missed out. Pure Classics. Sold out the back of the Trunk Mixtape era was a great time in hip hop.
Back when they was calling banks mixtape artist of the year and the boy wonder lol
Facts!! That man done did it all already!!
No lies told!💯💯💯💯🎯🎯🎯🎯
SUPER-FACTS!!!
Could say that again
" As long as the outcome is income "
Damn Damn Damn
Basic bar my dude
You feel me bro lol 🔥🔥🔥
@JoeTroyy so what ! The flow and delivery are crazy!
literally NOTHING better than a new Banks freestyle
Is this really a freestyle. It’s all pre written.
this man still rappin like he 25, Lloyd a GOAT
I had a Jadakiss vs Lloyd Banks mixtape back in the day and to this day, it’s one of the greatest mixtapes I’ve ever had the pleasure of listening to
Facts
Think I had the same one
You remember the name of it
Name? I gotta hear it
@@mauricemegginson3625 Jadakiss Vs Lloyd banks pt 2. I still got that tape
I haven't had a stink face for a whole freestyle in awhile.. his metaphors is fuckin insane!! Respect Banks 💯
I was stank facing the whole clip smh fckin crazy 💣💣💣🔥🔥🔥
on god 🔥🔥🔥
Straight up and down 💯
Royce - LA Leakers Freestyle
Facts
Banks lines are just soooo deep, 95% of listeners only understand half of what he really meant... Underrated artist
This dude is the coolest, layed back assassin to every spit!!!!!!! You have to rewind a few times because his punch lines are so clever they go over your head. SICK!!!!!!!!
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💯💯💯
That’s banks for you
hahahaha true s2
He’s back! The Punch Line King. The streets needed this! Shoutout to Banks
Hes never been gone. Hes always been that dude.
@Grammar Police Lloyd banks deserve to be up there with
Styles P
jadakiss
Papoose
Big L
Lord Finses
@Grammar Police Banks nickname has always been the PLK. You just don’t know Banks material like that. Maybe you just only listen to Kiss and Pap
He can't compete with The Island Boys in terms just raw energy
@@TheIcpfan23 The Fuxkin *DISRESPECT Is RIDICULOUSLY BLASPHEMOUS*
WHY? BECAUSE YOU SEEMINGLY INTENTIONALLY LEFT CASSIDY(THE PUNCHLINE 🏆) OFF YOUR LIST 🤔🤦🏾♂️
This is one rapper I will say again he did not get the props he deserved! He is Awesome🌹🌹
Big fakts
What are you talking about? He’s been on billboards. He just didn’t have the steam to stay up.
Big facts
Big big facts I grew up on banks still listen to the no mercy mixtape banks been 🔥
Yea he does. What else you want them to say?
Bank's talent has aged like a fine wine in the damn near 2 decades that I've listened to him. Top 5 DOA
✌🏿2 all. Everyone's entitled to their opinion. Not top 5 in my book. Good, b.u.t. not great. Black Thought, Crooked I, Jadakiss, Method Man easily ahead of him. Not even bringing up greats like KRS One, Pac, Rakim, Redman etc...Peace
@@originalmanis7 Fair assessment, honestly even making a top 10 would be a mountain of a task.
@@originalmanis7 KRS defended Afrika Bambaatata and be honest, you're only saying that because you feel the need to put OGs up there out of respect. I doubt you actually listen to KRS in your car.
"I put a dot on your head ,like it's part of your religion" Banks flow and bars are scathing. He's amazing.
Classic bars
That "Banks Victory" freestyle is timeless
@@PhoeniX-Factor that and lyrical exercise
Banks' Victory!🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Head so good it came with a halo 😇😅 🔥
Banks is just that guy when it comes to spitting. Not many mc’s left that make you sit up in your chair when you see that they have new sh*t out. To memorise Banks’ rhyme patterns is a wonder in itself. Salute 🫡
Word
Lloyd banks should do la leakers too
@@renegonzalez8194 Word & Fire In The Booth
Bow Pt. 4 Video Out Now 🔥
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Chills🥶
Banks is a lagend. He’s been consistently dropping bars and gems for more than 20 years. His name is up there with the best. Cats better recognize the greatness.
He really isn’t consistent.
@@JK-nk3hb how?
@@JK-nk3hb maybe you just aint been paying attention
Alright Lloyd 😏
Top 5 Mr Classic Projects
This guy is what you call a “Rapper”… so much talent.
If you don’t see Banks as one of the best then you don’t know hip hop. Nobody had punchlines like him during the G-Unit mixtape era, he killed every verse he spoke. The Banks Workout is one of the greatest lyrical showcases ever
Banks has been top 5 for ages. Real recognise real. The rest don’t matter.
Banks is absolutely fire and without question one of the best punchline rappers to ever do it, but Big L really made it a style and paved the way for dudes like Banks, Jada, Fab, Cass etc.
Literally bro… The workout is in a league of its own🏆part 2 is pretty good as well
FACTS Iykyk
They don’t get it tho
Man this made my day, rap came back to life in 4 minutes.
If I could give your comments a million thumbs up 👍🏽 Banks is the truth every time he step to the 🎤
Facts king
Thank you for saying this
I love the fact that Banks is back outside heavy
HEAVY
Facts
Boi on fire he was SPITTING in this one too
YES ….. Heavy like THOR’S HAMMER !!!!
Banks was always the most lyrical one out of g-unit 🔥🔥🔥
In the game period him and Fab underrated
Buck was a close 2nd I reckon.
I always loved how 50 could write such great songs and his lyrics “paint a picture that make a blind man see” and then Banks has that word play that you can listen to for years and still catch new lines! PLK!
Nah I give it to Buck. He never got enough props.
Early on Buck killed all of G Unit and no one has giving that man his flowers.
Lloyd Banks got better than Buck that I will agree, and not that he was never nice. Yes, right now Banks is a flawless MC now but early on Buck brought it all.
@@bradenwright2586 True
Nobody can ever touch lloyd banks when it comes to word plays , story telling , similies, metaphors . He has true talent , I wish many ppl knew but the real ones know what time it is
Dont forget the mf flow, effortless🔥🔥
Only one is Fabulous
Don’t understand how he is not everyone’s favorite rapper. Been listening to Bank$ since day one. every drop, album or mixtape I’ve never been disappointed.
He in my top 10 fasho arguably top 5 lyricist
I can say proudly that I’ve been a Banks fan since the G-Unit radio mixtape days. This dude is DOPE‼️
I feel you on that
Dude is still one of the hardest rappers out there. Wish people would get him more features, cause he would absolutely wreck these new beats.
Um no. New beats suck
Lloyd Banks is one of the rappers that made me start rapping when I was 10 years old. 28 years-old now and the man is even better than back then. This is insane.
U got any music?
So u made it or nah?
@@Looney504 fax i fr wanna hear since he was influenced by Banks
Same here bro, 28 yo bumping Banks since 02. When I don't know what to write, I put on a random Banks track/freestyle and the bars are coming out like magic haha. Keep doing your things man, you got a new sub!
“Only time I miss a step is when I skip one” 🔥🔥🔥🔥😤😤😤 #TUFF
"My rap clip too heavy for sneak dissin', whoeva thought clout chasin'll have the street shiftin'..." 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Ppl ain’t catch it that was for game and Cassidy and dip set
Damn. 20 years later and he’s still on fire 🔥 .
"Niggas be up here rappin' wit a pre-writ verse, before the next nigga come up here cappin' let me screen 'em 1st..."🔥🔥🔥🔥 #PLK #PLKSEASON
Just had to hear this again….. Banks is one of the very few that been up to this platform on Flex freestyles and hasn’t spit a bar or a verse that he’s used from his album or up-and-coming album, he always has some new material!
this dude is a GOAT he may be the most under appreciated in the history of the genre
Lloyd banks is up there with the real emcees like Jadakiss, AZ, NAS
Facts
A Hip Hop legend in all aspects. Arguably one of the best emcees to ever grace the mic. I've been rocking with Banks for more than half my life and I just turned 33 this year. The new album has been on repeat, as expected. Salute.
Just turned 33 in July myself and I’m from queens, Banks basically raised me lol if you know you know
I'm 33 too and banks is a legend
Just turned 30 first heard Banks when i was 17. 13 years later niggas still not fuckin with him on the mic.
word
I'm 30. Been roccin' with em' since like 04' .
This Freestyle has literally made my day… I wasn’t expecting to see Banks on Funk Flex in 2022.
Yall hear this before, but I gotta said it again… Banks the most underrated rappers of all time!
Lmao....comment and name
Noo
I didn’t think so before. I now know this is fact.
Ransom is the most underrated
Ain't no such thing as underrated, those who know him, hold him in a high regard
"only time I miss a step is when I skip one" and "come twice like sneezes" is so f***ing dope, love it. I still listen to his hot 97 freestyle with 50 and Tony Yayo all the time
Banks is the true definition of an MC. He still manages to inspire me to this day. Super crack flows 2.0
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WORD MY G ESPECIALLY 💯 ON HIGH LEVEL RAP..
The "flow" god..... He killed it ... straight Flamez....
COTI 2 might be my fav rap album this year. Even over Kendrick, Lupe, Pusha, Denzel, Joey, Conway, Benny. This year been crazyyy
Cap,cap, cap. Not over kendrick never
@@shaneali7389 a joke kendricks album was MEDIOCRE for him HORRIBLE if it was anyone else
pusha album was VERY good i put them neck and neck
@@shaneali7389 definitely better. Great album but this mf was spitting in this album. You have your opinion we have ours.
It’s my album of the year but that Kendrick album garbage. No replay value at all
Last two albums been on repeat!! Classics if you ask me!
Lloyd Banks is a very rare case of a rapper getting better with time, he is aging like fine wine.
he is better on his older work but is still good.
Rare and appreciated.
About time flex got a real spitter up there. A legend too.
Man we don't hear lyrics like that no more. That boy Banks got more bars than a County Jail 🔥 🔥 🔥 🔥 🔥
‘Flex only time I miss a step is when I skip one, grind now celebrate when the flip done, cool with it long as the outcome is income’
Banks aint miss a step he still crazy with it
Still my fave lyricist ❤️❤️ anyone know why so many tour shows are pending or cancelled ?! 😩 seeing him live is on my bucket list! Been a fan since I was 15 and I’ll be 35 next week! 💪🏼💪🏼
Facts im 38
Me too fam
Same 33!!
I turned 38 this month
Turning 32 in August. Real recognize real.
I hope all the people that this just woke up go and support this man’s last album COTI 2 and the one before it, COTI. Run this man’s streams up 💪🏿
Banks has been providing Upper level Bars N Punches for so long just the thought of him Rapping on Any platform is Pure Inspiration!🙌🏾💯 PLK👑
“Who wouldve thought clout chasing would have the streets switching” 🔥🔥🔥🔥
Clout*
His word selection is on point
Hell yeah
Glad I’m one of the one’s who recognized his greatness long ago that I didn’t miss out on one of the greatest lyricist of all time 🐐🐐
Fa sho. 💯
Blue heff is the illest… plk all day
People have to understand that this is not normal. I’m a hip hop head and this level is top 5. Sheeeeeesh 🔥🔥🔥🔥
This gotta be top 3 best freestyle of the last 10 years
"....Head so good, it gotta Halo on it!"🔥🔥🔥
He just dropped two albums back to back that deserve to be considered classics.
He makes it look so effortlessly 🔥
Was still stuck on last freestyle and now we got a new one, what a gift🔥🔥🔥PLK a machine 🦾🥋
Yes! Back to the time, when they gave you goosebumps from the rhymes! Thank You Banks! 🔥🔥🔥 #PLK
As soon as the beat dropped and banks said "Uh"... I smiled big as hell lol
I swear I had the same reaction! I’m just blessed to witness this greatness 🙌🏾🔥🔥
“Always been ahead of the game didn’t have to change wit it, anywhere they pour out cement I put my name in it”🔥🔥🔥🔥
Without any effort! Born to do it! Underrated MC
I saw Banks at Universal Orlando 2 years ago walking around with his family being a family man and was cool to see and I gave a fist bump and kept it moving .. Had my family and we were just both being dads and husbands . was dope
Banks *always* goes off! 🔥🔥🔥
That scheme starting at 1:48 is something else.
📠
ong😵💫
This Nigga just put on a Masterclass in rhyming. A Straight Clinic!!💯💪🏾💙👑 #Banks
Banks kills it everytime!!! 💯
every freestyle he does he's always looks like he's not about to rap and starts staring off into space then kills it😂😂😂😂 everytime
well hes staring a screen reading lyrics here. you can see his eyes going back and forth
@@Liverpool1616so explain the other freestyles
I have to watch this atleast 10 times to catch certain bars, Lloyd really goes over heads man.😕🔥
He just cemented his spot as top tier lyrical Rapsmith G UNIT!!!!
You’re a few years late this Man doesn’t miss
Been cemented sir
Never a dull moment with Banks 🔥🔥🔥
I feel like Banks can literally continue to rap like this & effortlessly kill it even though rap/hip hop continues to changes 🔥🔥🔥
I’m glad Banks still puttin out music. Recent album was needed. We only got a few left in the game puttin out good quality music
There's a very shortlist of rappers who's voices are just meant for rap. Banks is one of them...
He could spit the alphabet and make it sound hard af.
🤣FACTS!!! 💪🏿💯
Busta Rhymes black thought and j cole to name a few others
@@garinbaker_ Jada, 2Pac, BIG and Freddie Gibbs
Lloyd banks freestyle are legendary
This dude has carried me though many years. I dont know what it is about Banks- but he just delivers something that permeates my sou. When i start up my car- I always think..what Banks track ? Thats my mark of a dope MC
Lloyd has fluent poccets. It's so seamless the way he transitions. It's like threading a needle how pinpointed it seems. Sheessshhhh 🔥🔥🔥🔥
Mannnn thanks 4 letting a real Lyricist get on the mic😎💯🔥 Made me smile hearing this 💪🏿⚔️
Never Ever Disappoint....still one of the greatest lyricist .....
I've listened to this 20 or more times, but tonight it took me to a whole nother level.
Three words: it's so effortless. Banks is still and always will be 🔥🔥
*Banks shyt was the best freestyle this year on hot 97 🔥*
One of the most unique voices in hiphop
I just can't he's the Definition of Hip Hop ....I can't say this enough A BEAST ON THAT 🎤💯💯💯🔥🔥🔥
Was sick when Kobe died/ laughed when Oprah fell!! 🔥 🔥 🔥 Thanks Banks .. We needed that. On the most classic instrumental too..
Him and ransom are on another level with the lyricism .....too dope
My two favorite 💯
Banks one of those rappers that everybody will always respect
Banks is consistent af!!! His independent releases are all top notch ! Respect Banks!
Always been ahead of the game, Never had to change with it… 🔥🔥🔥
Banks always show out for Flex. Never disappoints 🔥🔥🔥
He ain't even trying n makes it look so easy that some might go over ya head. Rap comes natural to that man. Underrated. Unpopular opinion but man is easily top 5 imo
Day 1 banks fan. Never fell off. Never!
Through the era of oversized jerseys and 2 way pagers... Was the punchline king that provided us some of the hottest bars in Rap. You really had to be there to know the impact.. I still throw on the banks workout freestyles. 🌹🌹🌹
"Never seen a ghost in my studio if you catch my drift"🔥🔥🔥
One of the best freestyles of all time. Been a Banks Fan since the P.I.M.P remix 🔥 🔥 🔥
Cant say how many time i HAD to rewind this. Banks has always been my top 5 lyricists!!