Lloyd Banks chats to I Like Music

BANKS: A lot; the mixtape market is actually…. That was like step one, because that's the market that broke me into the industry. We always had mixtapes, which were located strictly to the street corner people who were actually out there next to the store to buy them, you couldn't really purchase them. For me that was real easy for me to get. I could get them from the dude round the corner from my house, so I really wanted to impress them. I was really concerned about my neighbourhood first, but I'm out of that chapter to the point that my neighbourhood embraces me; they actually have a respect for me that I always wanted. And that's where it starts off, it starts off at your neighbourhood, before hip hop I didn't meet my neighbourhood. So I grew up wanting to impress that crowd, now it's the confidence to take it world wide, and have respect from people around the world in what you do and actually put my neighbourhood on the map. I want people all over the UK and everywhere to know exactly where I came from, which is South Side Jamaica, Queens, and you know, if you stand for something you want to pull from anything, so that's what I'm out there for.
page << 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 >>