Lloyd Banks chats to I Like Music

• You are here:
• I Like Music
• >
• interviews
• >
• Lloyd Banks chats to I Like Music

BANKS: Oh man, I didn't celebrate to be honest with you. The night it came out, I was staying right across the street from a 24 hour Tower Records, so midnight came and I went straight over to the record store to purchase the album. I didn't know what to expect to be honest, but there was a long line man, black people, white people, Spanish people, Chinese people, just no way I would have thought all those different people would be going to buy my CD, and sure enough they all walked out with my CD. So I kind of had a good vibe about it. But the next morning I left LA to go overseas, so I didn't actually get a chance to celebrate, and by the time I came back home it was September, and I had already sold close to half a million records in the first week.

ILM: Must've been a good feeling though, right?

BANKS: Oh definitely a good feeling, the success definitely outshines all the envy that was going on in the rest of hip hop, and the media just agreeing to disagree. When you start to win too much they start wanting you to fail. So me coming, nobody, as far as the media, they didn't really get my album Just Do It until it was way over 2 million records sold, so I never really have a chance to develop an ego or anything like that. I'm really in the same vein as the first album… there's not a lot to celebrate, because I know how far I want to go. That was just my baby, my first album, my entrance to hip hop.

ILM: You've been touring the world on the Anger Management tour. What's been the stand out moment from that tour?

BANKS: The biggest stand out moment is when I performed with me, Fifty and Em on stage; me, Fifty and Snoop, the same night. It's just performances that will go down in history. There's too many to point one out, because I've been on three Anger Management tours, including Beg For Mercy, Get Rich Or Die Tryin' and Rock The Mic tours. I've been on a lot of tours so…. We have footage of all the shows, I have to leave that up to the fans, because every show I feel like I killed it. So I'll leave it up to the fans to decide which was the most memorable.

Also See: ilikemusic.com

Bookmark & Share: