IF YOU KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT ME, THEN YOU KNOW IM A BALLER

The basketball is my favorite sport
I like the way they dribble up and down the court
I keep it so fresh on the microphone
I like no interruption when the game is on
I like slam-dunks that take me to the hoop
My favorite play is the alley-oop
I like the pick-n-roll
I like the give-n-go
And its basketball E.L.O.G.E lets go

Real Name: Chris Lloyd
Birthdate: April 30th, 1982

Facts: LLoyd Banks is the youngest member of G-unit and started rapping with 50 Cent and Tony Yayo right out of high school at the age 17. In 2001, he was shot two times.

Lloyd Banks was raised in Jamaica, Queens by his Puerto Rican mother his father spent much of his son's childhood behind bars. Like many young men, he found solace amidst the poverty and ruin of his community through ghetto poetry and the work of rappers like Big Daddy Kane and Slick Rick. He dropped out of high school at the age of sixteen, finding the structured environment a hindrance to his developing talent for rhyming. After appearing on numerous local "mixtapes", Banks, along with childhood friends Tony Yayo and 50 Cent formed a crew called G Unit, a group that proceeded to redefine the term "street marketing" with a series of self-released albums that included original numbers and quality artwork. Banks stayed on with 50 Cent, appearing on the artist's now classic 2003 debut Get Rich Or Die Tryin' November of that same year saw the release of G Unit's Beg For Mercy. His long awaited solo debut for G Unit/Interscope Records, Hunger For More, was released in June 2004.

FULL NAME: Curtis James Jackson a.k.a 50 Cent
BIRTHDAY: July 6, 1976
BIRTHPLACE: South Side Jamaica, Queens -NY-
PARENTS: Sabrina Jackson (died when he was 8, so he moved in w/his grandparents) -50 never knew his father
SCHOOL/ED: Attended Andrew Jackson High School, but got kicked out in 10th grade for posession of crack *Later got his GED in jail
SON: Marquise Jackson
FORMER JOB: Hustling-started at 12 years old, selling crack
INSPIRATION: Jam Master Jay taught him how to format songs and told him to keep rappin
NEARLY SHOT TO DEATH: May 24, 2000-Shot 9 times in a drive-by near his grandma's house Injuries included: Hand, hip, calf, chest, and his face (bullet went through his left cheek and knocked out a tooth and a piece of his gum)
50'S RAP GROUP: The G- Unit (Guerilla Unit) Including: Tony Yayo, Lloyd Banks, Sha Money XL
LABEL BEFORE SIGNING TO SHADY RECORDS: JMJ, then Columbia Records...but 50 says they were wack. They never released his Power of a Dollar album cuz of his "dangerous reputation".
Nickname:

Interscope
Fiddy
Boo Boo

Height
6' (1.83 m)

Mini biography
Born in South Jamaica, Queens, Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson has lived in New York City all his life. Raised by his grandparents after his father ran out and his mother was shot when he was only eight. Growing up, the Queens rapper originally wanted to be a heavyweight boxer, but eventually fell back on rapping. DJs had taken it upon themselves to release two Best of 50 Cent mix CDs, before he had even signed to a major label. 50 Cent hit the scene with "How To Rob An Industry Nigga" and he's been on a rampage ever since dealing with bootleggers, label back stabbing and other platinum selling artists trying to get at him physically. In 1999 his album Power of the Dollar, was heavily bootlegged and Trackmasters/Columbia never released it. Supposedly, Trackmasters weren't comfortable with him being caught up in the streets and getting shot three days before filming the video for "Thug Love," (with Destiny's Child) -- his first single. 50 was shot nine times that night, two shots hitting him in the head, the bullet that struck his face he carries as a reminder of what happened. That event led to the fall out with Columbia and negotiating his release from their grasps. He still showed love and rhymed over a Trackmasters produced remix of "I'm Gonna Be Alright" on J-Lo's latest album, but rivals at Murder Inc. had 50 cut from the track which could have launched the rapper. This all changed in one night when Eminem said on a radio show that "50 Cent is definitely my favorite rapper right now, he's the only one keeping it real." The very next day a bidding war started on 50, ending when 50 signed to Eminem's very own label Shady/Aftermath. 50 Cent's fame has exploded, being produced by Dr. Dre and Eminem and finally making his debut album "Get rich or Die Tryin'." 50 has full access and advantage of the streets through mix-tapes; that's his forum because he controls it. 50 Cent is the most anticipated artist of 2003. It's well deserved because he's "been patiently waiting."

Real Name: David Brown

Birthdate: March 15th 1981

Facts: Young Buck hails from Memphis, Tennessee where he is one half of the Nashville duo Young Buck and D-Tay. He started off in the group UTP which was started by Juvenile in St. Louis. He was the fourth member to join G-Unit.

To most, rapper Young Buck was a fresh face when he became a member of 50 Cent's crew G-Unit, but he spent a long time waiting on the bench before that. The Nashville, TN, native started rapping at 12 and was in a recording studio by 14, the same age he was when he began peddling narcotics. Cash Money's main man, Brian "Baby" Williams, caught a 16-year-old Young Buck at a rap battle and soon the rapper was out of high school and in New Orleans, crowded into a small apartment with the rest of the Cash Money crew. Dedicated heart and soul to the crew, Buck "secured" the expensive cars for Juvenile's 1999 "Ha" video and spent the next four years working behind the scenes. It was too long for him not to get his own shot at stardom, so Buck left Cash Money and headed home. Back peddling and pushing, Buck paid the price when his door was kicked in by one man, guns blazing. He made it out the back with two gunshot wounds.