The rapper Tony Yayo calls a hybrid of 2Pac and Biggie Smalls

Lloyd Banks and Tony Yayo are two former G-Unit members who, within the 2000s, as a part of the New York collective, topped the charts recurrently. With hits resembling ‘Stunt 101’ and ‘Wanna Get to Know You’, the crew, led by 50 Cent, have been a formidable power.

Sadly, by the mid-2000s, as 50 Cent began to transition into media and movie-making, the collective slowly dissipated. Nonetheless, the remainder of the members nonetheless remained shut, and Tony Yayo continued his nice friendship with Lloyd Banks.

Banks positively had a smash hit with ‘Beamer, Benz or Bentley?’ in 2010 and has had a reasonably profitable solo profession independent from G-unit. Nonetheless, it has been a few years since he has been a related determine in hip-hop.

No matter his relevancy, in an interview with DJ Vlad for Vlad TV, Tony Yayo (actual title Marvin Bernard) spoke about Banks and the way he believes that he’s a hybrid of the legendary MCs 2Pac and Biggie Smalls.

Yayo defined that it has to do with Banks’ attitudes in direction of the music trade, disclosing, “Banks is a show-and-prove type of guy. He’s like anti-industry. That’s just who he is, but when it comes to material, I go to the studio, he’ll play me 100 records. It’s like his bars is something like Biggie, but he write like a 2Pac.”

2Pac was identified for his anti-establishment rhymes that mirrored his upbringing because the son of an lively Black Panther Celebration member. Biggie additionally had an anti-music trade streak in him by defying the male magnificence requirements of the Nineteen Nineties and changing into an sudden intercourse icon.

In different Tony Yayo information, earlier this 12 months, he launched his 12-song LP The Loyal, which featured appearances from the likes of Nems, TyDaG, Pressa, and fellow G-Unit crewmate Lloyd Banks. 

Yayo took to Instagram to thank his followers who had been ready three years for the undertaking, declaring, “Thank you to everyone who has supported throughout this journey and all of the people who made this possible.”