Top Dog : Lloyd Banks & his 2nd Hunger For More on The 2nd Cold Corner with V.6 : The Gift

Lloyd Banks has pretty much been the second-in-line for G-Unit (like Drake is with the current Young Money) since day one. With the decline in G-Unit as an actual rap group, Banks has managed to keep at a steady pace while remaining mainstream. His 2010 single Beamer, Benz, or Bentley (feat. Juelz Santana) kept his name afloat during the same summer Young Money had been rebuilt.
The Cold Corner 2 dropped in 2011, which didnt get much promo before (or even after) its release. If this was done on purpose, then I think this was a smart move on Banks' part. No one really saw it coming, when it dropped it sent a loud subliminal message that said (to me at least) "Yea I'm still around, but now I'm right here." This message echoed and had people on the lookout for
V.6 :  The Gift which started promo on DatPiff late winter of this year.
Banks' recent mixtape has a few more collabs with other artists (Young Chris, Vado, Faboulous, & ScHoolboy Q) compared to The Cold Corner 2 (Styles P, Prodigy, & A$AP Rocky). Banks still keeps his projects mostly "lone wolf". This seems to be putting out the message that he really intends to move on with his solo career, along with not actually having 50 Cent on his tracks. There has also been news of a Gangsta Grillz edition mixtape in the future. While most rappers his age would have "fell off" with the decline of the group they had been identified with for most of their career, Banks' used it as a spring board for his own solo career. The fact that he's going solo but still keeping the ties he has to 50 Cent, Fabolous, and Jim Jones along with the collabs with newer artists like Vado, ScHoolboy Q and A$AP Rocky shows he has a pretty solid chance to stay up. Who knows? Maybe in a few years he'll start up his own version of MMG.