Lloyd Banks makes top three debut

By: Yves Erwin Salomon

The G-Unit's Lloyd Banks couldn't match the first week sales of his 2004 debut, Hunger For More, which sold 434,000 copies its first week in stores, but the rapper was able to crack the Top Three of the Billboard 200 albums chart with his sophomore set, Rotten Apple. The rapper sold 142,000 copies of the new album to land at Number Three on the chart.

The Rotten Apple features some high powered collaborations with Rakim, Scarface, 8Ball, and others. Banks shared what it was like to record with the hip hop legends. He said: "It's crazy because, like I said, I just turned 24 years-old. You know, so when Scarface, and let only Rakim when he first came out, man I was in school. You know I was a young man so it's just crazy for me to actually come up. My mother trips off of it too. So does my father, 'cause that's who they were listening to."

The rapper added: "You know it's cool man. Having a Rakim stamp, you know that says a lot man. He ain't work with a lot of people. You know and Scarface man, he holds his own. Everybody knows what he's about as far as Texas and everything goes so."