Born as Christopher Charles Lloyd in the year 1982 of April 30th, Lloyd Banks is the childhood friend of the legendary rapper 50 cent. It was this friendship which made them make the hip hop group of East Coast G-Unit along with Tony Yayo. Banks did have a tough childhood but all seem to finally get better when he started his career in the year 1999 and immediately gained success. One can tell that he had talent to be one of the greatest which was proved when he released many his solo albums which was a huge success and loved by both music lovers and critics.

But what makes him stand out in the crowd will have to be his tattoos. He is heavily tattooed but the one which have caught the attention of every one and made him land on one of the greatest tattoos of a Hip Hop artist of all time has to be his back tattoo. The process of tattooing of this symbol tattoo has been recorded in a well known documentary cum reality TV show called the “Miami Ink” and the tattoo covers his whole back and is a picture of Big Apple or New York City, with some of the well known landmarks of this city in night time where the Statue of Liberty id holding a gun and the word Rotten Apple which is also the name of his solo album written on top.  Besides this, he also has hand tattoos where on one hand the word “South” is written and on the other “Side” is written and this represents his hood the “Southside”.