Lloyd Banks - The Course Of The Inevitable 3: Pieces Of My Pain (Discussion Thread)

[Nitro Tuggle]

Banks on sinister beats

 

[West Coast Avenger]

"Women trigger clown shyt, suckaz want you to never change, Boy you walking around whipped, Shannon Sharpe with the sweater game"..... ....

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[TripleAgent]

Very good. The highs on 1 and 2 were a bit higher, but 3 is consistently good with no real lows.

 

[Menna]

fukk bro. His whole catalogue is crazy hard for me to rank, because so many portions are so different. I honestly think I got the albums and the early Money in the Bank tapes lower.

Within the COTI series I have this on par with 1 right now, but it could become my favorite just due to it being shorter and more personal songs. COTI 2 was dope but I rarely went back to it for whatever reasons.

I think my overall favorites are still FNO and Cold Corner 2. COTI 1 and 3 are definitely in those upper tiers, I think. I like AON, V6, and HH2 a lot too. Those would be the A and S tier joints to me.

I definitely need to listen to this one and sit with it more. He's also got so much music too. I'm spacing a little bit on what joints are on HH3 and the 5 and Better Series tapes.

EDIT: HFM and Money in the Bank 1, 2, and 4 based on nostalgia would high up there I guess. B-Tier maybe.

You?

Considering everything the below is better than COTI3

HFM1
HFM2
V6
FNO
CC2
V5
Rotten Apple

The above is in no particular order I think COTI3 is his 7th 8th or 9th best body of work but it’s still early I need a month to pick up on all the shyt Banks says this is my take now it could change

 

[TheDarceKnight]

Considering everything the below is better than COTI3

HFM1
HFM2
V6
FNO
CC2
V5
Rotten Apple

The above is in no particular order I think COTI3 is his 7th 8th or 9th best body of work but it’s still early I need a month to pick up on all the shyt Banks says this is my take now it could change

I mean it's definitely early, but I've always wanted Banks to give songs like Showers, Voices, Daddy's Girl, and Deceitful Intentions. I'll take all of that subject matter over stuff like Rotten Apple. I rode for that album back in the day too, but in my 30's now I just really love this type of content so much more than punchlines, gun talk, and old Eminem beats.

Not trying to shyt on Rotten Apple too hard. But I'd never listen to it over stuff like that.

That being said, shouts to 9thn Wonder and Fatin for Cake and One Night Stand. And I also love joints like Survival, Change, Stranger, the title track, etc.

And this Black Milk produced joint should've made the album

 

[Green Ranger]

Voices

 

[Menna]

I mean it's definitely early, but I've always wanted Banks to give songs like Showers, Voices, Daddy's Girl, and Deceitful Intentions. I'll take all of that subject matter over stuff like Rotten Apple. I rode for that album back in the day too, but in my 30's now I just really love this type of content so much more than punchlines, gun talk, and old Eminem beats.

Not trying to shyt on Rotten Apple too hard. But I'd never listen to it over stuff like that.

That being said, shouts to 9thn Wonder and Fatin for Cake and One Night Stand. And I also love joints like Survival, Change, Stranger, the title track, etc.

And this Black Milk produced joint should've made the album

Rotten Apple was def a time period piece for me and in the middle of the G unit hype right after Beg For Mercy so the time period def adds to everything and my age at the time. It is alittle heavy on the punchline but survival and change and being ignorant very early 20"s I liked it and when I listen it brings me back. To me its still better than COTI3 as of now but its early... and as time goes on I can see this knocking off Rotten and V5 on that list. He also carried T.O.S that was HIS album he was Jordan on there like he was playing on the Bulls in the 80's...

If we all think about it add in the triple Platinum Beg For Mercy all Banks loosies and his Mixtapes including the lost album (Big Withdraw) his Platinum HFM1 and all his Gold shyt, Grammy nominated and the fact he started in 97-98 with 134 Allstars and still here in 2023+ putting out this quality who started in late 90's still doing this in real rap without the pop I am trying to sell you something shyt added to it?...8ppl? 10? he is rare is what I am trying to say I guess...

 

[Funcrusher]

If we listing favorites then Money in the bank 4 most definitely for me.
This album is alright, pretty good if you're in the mood for it I guess. Gonna give it more spins.

 

[Poetical Poltergeist]

This shyt is hard. Banks showing cats how it's done. Back to back bangers.

 

[Trey0'5Blue2Gz]

U shouldn't even be next to the rat, that's a professional trap, what kinda protection is that?!
U got a confession then snap!
U know to be checking the jack
Motherfukkas know all of the ropes
And real as a wrestling match
U sound like u stuck up in time
And ain't nobody checking for that
U fukking it up for the city and the real nikkas catching the flack
U wasting yo time with ya nod, cuz I gone message u back.
Watch out who you let in yo circle, there's always a lesson in that.

 

[Big Dick]

Rotten Apple was def a time period piece for me and in the middle of the G unit hype right after Beg For Mercy so the time period def adds to everything and my age at the time. It is alittle heavy on the punchline but survival and change and being ignorant very early 20"s I liked it and when I listen it brings me back. To me its still better than COTI3 as of now but its early... and as time goes on I can see this knocking off Rotten and V5 on that list. He also carried T.O.S that was HIS album he was Jordan on there like he was playing on the Bulls in the 80's...

If we all think about it add in the triple Platinum Beg For Mercy all Banks loosies and his Mixtapes including the lost album (Big Withdraw) his Platinum HFM1 and all his Gold shyt, Grammy nominated and the fact he started in 97-98 with 134 Allstars and still here in 2023+ putting out this quality who started in late 90's still doing this in real rap without the pop I am trying to sell you something shyt added to it?...8ppl? 10? he is rare is what I am trying to say I guess...

Always dope to me to see the differences in peoples taste on here because to me this is clearly better then Rotten Apple and V5.

Rotten Apple was underrated though. That joint with the Rakim sample was hard.

 

[HDKG_]

Might be early but this the best of the 3 to me. I got it 3,1,2

 

[Regular_P]

This is the best COTI off the first couple listens. It goes from start to finish with no lulls.

LSD is the best verse of I've heard from Vado. He killed that shyt.

 

[Tunez]

Daddy's Little Girl

 

[TrifeGod]

no words can describe how dope and scary banks is