"In 2004, G-Unit soldier Lloyd Banks' debut disc, The Hunger for More, opened at #1 on Billboard's albums sales chart, with week-one sales topping 433,000, and Hunger ended up spending a second-straight week at #1, selling close to 164,000 units.

Of course, Banks would have liked to have seen the same results for his sophomore LP, Rotten Apple — an album that features a slew of special guests, including G-Unit associates Tony Yayo and Young Buck, Rakim, Scarface, Mobb Deep, and, on three cuts, 50 Cent.

But with first-week sales totaling close to 143,000, Banks fell more than 40,000 albums short of a chart-topping repeat, and will have to settle instead for the chart's #3 position. Because this week, the #1 slot belongs to Rod Stewart's Still the Same ... Great Rock Classics of Our Time. Rowdy Rod's new one sold to the tune of more than 184,000 its first week in record stores, which was more than enough for Billboard's title belt.

According to the latest SoundScan figures released Wednesday morning (October 18), a second-place finish wasn't even in the cards for Mr. Banks. That's because with more than 164,000 additional copies of The Open Door being carried away from retail outlets last week, Evanescence — who occupied the chart's #1 spot last week, with 447,000 in week-one scans — are sitting pretty at #2, having suffered the typical and expected second-week sales slump: a 63 percent drop. "


hahahahahaha G-UNOT

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G-UNOT!!! Thats what I'm sayin they fallin off... If only you lived in Sac we'd end their career with one track.

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with those wack ass singles they have playing on sirius n shit....what do u expect

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isn't lloyd banks getting his album pushed on itunes as well? you know, the ol extra songs incentive?

that'd def take away from album sales, but this is still pretty abysmal

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na fuck dat banks gonna do iight tho0o...hope he passes plat....cuz game maken dese dudes look stupid..

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"You're the waste of L.A./get blast up in LA/face down, ass up in LA/you the Crocodile Hunter, I am the sting ray/"
-Ras Kass Diss To Gayme

"Game was a G-Unit Groupie, if they made a flick of bitch ass niggas he'll be in the movie"-Banks Diss To Gayme on BET

Thats cuz Game has a thing called "SKILL" check into it. G-Unit just rambles about senseless shit, theres only so many time i can hear the same old shit recycled

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BUAWHAHAHAHHA.... Game has ZERO "SKILL". He does more name dropping in one track than all of G-unit combined. I don't even like G-unit, but there is no way I could classify Game as a "better" rapper. Plus he got a butterfly tattoo;d on his face, claimin its gangsta, then a couple months later covers it up cause he was gettin hassled too hard. haha.

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*can't wait until kids get over the commercial rap trend... it's like watching lil girls and how they used to jock backstreet boys vs. nsync.*

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^and game doesn't? i'm annoyed by both of them really

there both gay to me now-a-days but i can still bump the old 50 and g Unit shit

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Game has variety and he words his lines alot better i see a movie in my head when Game raps, when 50 comes on i wana stab my eardrums, he uses punches and metas 50 talks about lollipops guns and anal rapping yayo

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I am yet to hear a track about 50 cent anal raping Yayo......Yayo is wack to me.....I haven't really ever felt him sept on that Live By THe Gun song....The Game uses to many damn references to other rappers and that "Change of Heart" video didn't help him to much...50 is selling out more and more second by second and losing fans mintue by mintue..i'll give both artists like 2 more years and they'll be gone

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I in no way see how i'm riding G Unit's nuts in this post?

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i'm givin this shit a listen right now i'll tell you if it was that good

so far the ablum sounds good

the first song is hot

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omg the flip floppin' continues........

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You mean the flip floppin of you off of Banks dick onto Games? I can't believe how hard you used to ride Banks. word.

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whoa, you leave this site yet you still remember my history of who I like online? creepy...

and second, lmao @ you callin' it flip floppin'. Flip floppin' is would be if I stopped likin' Banks, then liked Game, then I went back to Banks, then to Game, etc. that didn't happen. So quit speakin' like you know me.

And I never said Banks all together is wack, I still like his Hunger for more tracks, and his Beg For Mercy verses. I even have said I liked his track on Yayo's album "I know you don't lvoe me" I said his verse was good. I don't like him, cuz he selling out to try and sell, and it ain't workin'.

so wtf? Just cuz a dude doesn't feel somebodies music no more he's flip floppin? Get the fuck outta here kid. Stop talkin' like you know people. Aren't you supposedly Signed? doing big things? Then stop wasting your time worryin' about the history of who I like in hip-hop and go out with your so called "gully" Girlfriend

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