Only a few days later, Lloyd Banks launched a full-scale attack on Rick Ross, picking up where 50 Cent left off with вЂњOfficer Down.вЂќ Clearly out for blood, Banks proved his acumen for combat as he reserved over three minutes of straight bars for Rick Ross. You sucked your assistantвЂ™s dick on tape and he licked it.вЂќ вЂњLloyd 'Blanks, I know you wonder why I ain't saying nothing bout your bitch ass,вЂќ taunts Ross, reserving the outro for his newfound nemesis. In tandem, Renzel queued up Rakim & Eric BвЂ™s classic for yet another diss track, this time taking direct aim at Lloyd Banks over his involvement on G-UnitвЂ™s вЂњIвЂ™ll Be The Shooter.вЂќ In keeping with the ideas peddled by his dubious cartoon, Rick Ross seemed to center upon the narrative that Banks was a closeted homosexual. The first found him making the foray into animation with the X-rated parody вЂњGay-Unit Workouts,вЂќ a cartoon that depicted Banks, Fifty, and Tony Yayo engaging in sexual escapades in a gym locker room. Wasting little time in responding, Ross clapped back with a two-pronged assault. вЂњWhen we tombstone, bullets hurt, 40s' break a few bones / come around you fool, and my shorty's takin jewels home.вЂќ He also alludes to RossвЂ™ checkered history as a corrections officer, a former title that formed the centerpiece of FifвЂ™s incendiary вЂњOfficer Ricky.вЂќ Unfazed at the prospect of immersing himself in another beef - simply an occupational hazard in the G-Unit clique - Banks willingly opened the door for retaliation.ДЄnd thatвЂ™s exactly what he received. вЂњGet ya goons, fuck all the talkinвЂ™, N***as yappin 'bout who dress the best, get 'em Gucci coffins,вЂќ he spits. G-Unit - 'I'll Be The Shooter' KINGS & BOSSESДirectly alluding to Rick RossвЂ™ then-new album Deeper Than Rap, Banks issued a warning to the Boss in his brief but heated verse. G-Unit soon launched a counterattack with вЂњIвЂ™ll Be The Shooter,вЂќ which found Banks taking aim at Ross for the first time.

Though a case can be made that BanksвЂ™ involvement was inevitable, in hindsight it feels like it was RossвЂ™s hand that ultimately steered him into the fray. Considering that Ross and Fif had already exchanged shots on wax, perfectly capable of handling it on a one-on-one basis, the decision to involve Banks felt like a risky tactic for Ross. вЂњвЂIn Da ClubвЂ™ heard Banks wrote the chorus,вЂќ rapped Ross, on his вЂњOfficer RickyвЂќ response вЂњKiss My Pinky Ring, Curly.вЂќ While not an overt insult per se, itвЂ™s unlikely that Banks appreciated having his name used as ammunition against his G-Unit partner. In fact, Banks only really entered the fray after Rick Ross name-dropped him in a 50 Cent diss track. But despite what it ultimately escalated into, much of the beefвЂ™s early stages transpired on wax. In many ways, the war was one of hip-hopвЂ™s most antagonistic, fueled largely in part to 50 CentвЂ™s utterly ruthless tactics.

The obviousВ theory is that some of the battle scars never truly faded. Though The Boss never really stopped engaging with 50 Cent, who previously did his damndest to ruin Rozay with вЂњOfficer RickyвЂќ and various other shenanigans, his brief but contentious feud with Lloyd Banks was thought to be water under the bridge. Yet some found themselves perplexed - what prompted Ross to diss Banks all these years later? Memories of G-Unit and Rick RossвЂ™ extremely heated beef quickly resurfaced, seen through nostalgia-colored glasses by hip-hop heads across the board. Before long, it felt like 2009 once again. If that wasnвЂ™t made abundantly clear by their long and hostile history, a reminder was recently issued after Rick Ross antagonized the reclusive G-Unit rapper on Instagram Live. Rick Ross and Lloyd Banks arenвЂ™t friends.

A complete history of the long-running and tense beef between Rick Ross and Lloyd Banks, a feud that originally began in 2009.

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