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The Hunger for More, the debut solo album from Lloyd Banks, should be immediately familiar to anyone that's followed the career of New York mix-tape veterans G-Unit or its most famous son, 50 Cent. Steeped in the same celebratory Big Apple gangster spirit as Get Rich Or Die Trying, and boasting cameos from an all-star cast that includ
The Hunger for More, the debut solo album from Lloyd Banks, should be immediately familiar to anyone that's followed the career of New York mix-tape veterans G-Unit or its most famous son, 50 Cent. Steeped in the same celebratory Big Apple gangster spirit as Get Rich Or Die Trying, and boasting cameos from an all-star cast that includes Eminem, Fiddy, Snoop Dogg, and Tony Yayo - not to mention a handful of Marshall Mathers production credits - it's clear that this tight coterie are one of the key clans defining the shape of rap in the `00s. Banks is easily a wordsmith on a par with 50 Cent, even if he lacks Fiddy's effortless swagger - indeed, it's his flexibility and range that allows The Hunger For Moreto hop from the bullish, cocked-pistol likes of "Warrior Part 2" to soulful seduction number "Karma" without disturbing its fluid sense o! f continuity. Perhaps this album's main fault is that it lacks a crossover party hit of the calibre of "In Da Club"--but with braggadocio-laden stand-outs like "On Fire" and "Ain't No Click", that isn't necessarily a problem. --Louis Pattison
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Track listing1. Ain't No Click 2. Playboy 3. Warrior 4. On Fire 5. I Get High 6. I'm So Fly 7. Work Magic 8. If Ya So Gangsta 9. Warrior, Part 2 10. Karma 11. When The Chips Are Down 12. Til The End 13. Die One Day 14. Southside Story 15. Just Another Day 16. Take A Good Look
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