80's Baby

It's Banks at his most unfiltered, just pure bars and basement beats for a cold night in Queens.

A cold, technical, and relentlessly gritty display of street lyricism.

80's Baby · vs · Lloyd Banks

Lo Fi+1.0σ

The production is pushed a touch harder into lo fi than this artist usually allows.

Tracklist · 23 Tracks · 1h 13m

Best Kept Secret

4:10

For the Momment

3:24

Radio

3:24

Microphone (Freestyle)

2:30

The Get Back (Southside in da House)

4:01

Rock Band

3:19

High Life

2:25

Green Day

3:04

730

4:01

Hater

3:29

You Gonna Remember Me

3:56

Return of the Real

4:21

80's Baby (Snippet)

1:56

Lights Camera Packin

3:35

They Mad

2:22

X-Man

3:15

Nigga Is Trash

3:50

Relay

2:30

Average Bitch

2:46

The Bottom

2:23

Love Come Down (remix)

4:08

I Wanna Rock (Freestyle)

1:28

Practice

3:13

Moments Worth Waiting For

The relentless barrage of internal rhymes on the Microphone Freestyle that proves the technical skill remains sharp.

The way the beat on Return of the Real feels like it was pulled directly from a dusty 1994 basement tape.

The sudden shift in energy when the Love Come Down remix introduces a rare melodic pivot to the gloom.

Sits BesideSee all

The Bank Vault, Part 7

Lloyd Banks

2010

Shares gangsta rap, boom bap, abstract hip-hop (subgenres); brooding, defiant, confident (moods)

Return of the PLK

Lloyd Banks

2008

Shares gangsta rap, boom bap, abstract hip-hop (subgenres); brooding, defiant, confident (moods)

Cashing in Mo Money in the Bank, Pt. 3

Lloyd Banks

2010

Shares gangsta rap, boom bap, abstract hip-hop (subgenres); raspy, deadpan, rap (vocal style)

Bank Vault, Part 2

Lloyd Banks

2008

Shares gangsta rap, boom bap (subgenres); brooding, defiant, confident (moods)

New York Times: The Prequel To Rotten Apple

Lloyd Banks

2006

Shares gangsta rap, boom bap (subgenres); lo_fi, sample_based, tape_saturation (production style)

The Big Withdraw

Lloyd Banks

2005

Shares gangsta rap, boom bap (subgenres); lo_fi, sample_based, tape_saturation (production style)

All Or Nothing: Live It Up

Lloyd Banks

2016

Shares gangsta rap, boom bap, abstract hip-hop (subgenres); raspy, deadpan, rap (vocal style)

Lamborghini Lloyd

Lloyd Banks

2014

Shares gangsta rap, boom bap (subgenres); brooding, defiant, confident (moods)

Al Qaeda Jada: The Prequel

Jadakiss

2008

Shares gangsta rap, boom bap, abstract hip-hop (subgenres); lo_fi, sample_based, tape_saturation (production style)

V6: The Gift

Lloyd Banks

2012

Shares gangsta rap, boom bap, abstract hip-hop (subgenres); raspy, deadpan, rap (vocal style)

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