Queens Emcee & G-Unit co-founder Lloyd Banks was part of the wave of rappers who found mainstream success with hard nosed, street ready rap styles in the early 2000's. Along with his G-Unit cohorts, Banks enjoyed charting hits and platinum album sales both as part of G-Unit and as a solo artist with his 2004 debut The Hunger For More.

After a string of high profile releases, Banks focused on mixtapes and stand alone records for the 2010's before parting ways with G-Unit. In 2021, Banks cracked the Top 100 of the Billboard 200 once again with his album The Course of the Inevitable which he followed up with 2022's Course of the Inevitable 2 & 2023's Course of the Inevitable 3 : Piece of My Pain