Lloyd Banks is starting to understand the dynamics of becoming a successful solo artist. With Hunger For More 2, Banks’ third solo effort being pegged as legitimate piece of work in a climate where quality music is scarce, the Queens native is reminding the hip-hop community as to why he should be mentioned in our daily “Top 5 Dead Or Alive” discussions.

Andreas Hale over at TheWellVersed sat with Banks to see where the G-Unit soldier’s mindset is headed next. Banks talks receiving lyrical praise from Kanye, working his project with an independent conglomerate instead of a major, funding “Beamer Benz Or Bentley” on his own, whether or not he’ll continue on with Hunger For More series and the G-Unit brand.

Below, Banks speaks on how today’s approach in making music is purely for the “single” success and dance moves that are birthed from those contagious singles. But instead, Lloyd feels catering to different lanes will make the cipher complete on his projects. Check it out.

The game turned into a singles game where you just drop your single and make a dance to it and go. But then you have artists like myself who can put together a whole album to where 1-14 tracks on the record will have a different feel. One record might be towards the females, one is about my neighborhood, one is a concept record, then you have a weed record, a drunk record, you got an in love record, and you got a fuck a girl record. It has to be every kind of thing in order to make it a classic.

Read Andreas’ entire conversation with Lloyd Banks right here!