the songs i've heard from the new lloyd banks album:

i'm so fly -- those banks punchlines sound so much better mixed in with smooth sexy singing and pretty beats than in his deliberate, pausey mixtape flow and hard-to-sing-on mixtape beats. they sound so clever and cool: "banks is cooler than the other side of the pillow." and he's just talking about being fly and going all over the world fucking girls and being fearless and napping on chinchilla. and like all good punchline rappers he's never too specific, no capitalized nouns. and at the end he gets all abruptly serious, putting black roses on the snitch's coffin and the goody goody girls back up.

on fire -- the two best parts in the video: 1) 50 getting wet in the hot tub behind banks. 2) when the girl starts to lift her shirt with one hand and then drops it and uses her other hand to wag her finger no in an awesome way. i like the way it all looks kind of like an outdoor streetfigher background, kind of, the whole video. with all the flat, exciting backgrounds behind lloyd.

warrior -- lloyd's credibility is sort of questionable. he never gets specific about stuff in songs and 50 always talks too much in interviews and lloyd probably doesn't want to sound like he's competing, because he hasn't been shot a bunch of times, and if 50 isn't being interviewed with him the interview is really short because it's just lloyd and who cares and when's the new g-unit album coming out and whatever. this song is about how he's a warrior and more ruthless than rappers with videos on tv. but it's nice to hear and can sing hooks as sweet as 50 but he's still tough and credible.

karma -- it's kind of like his verse from wanna get to know you, all ambivalent and he's all gangsta but he wants to fuck her, too, because she might be the one girl that's real enough to fuck with him and he needs to fuck her to find out if she's that girl and in the second part they're together and he tells her she has to deal with him being grimy and he's from the hood. plus a slow bouncy beat with an anonymous r&b guy on it!