Lloyd Banks says he was planning to drop a trap mixtape in 2013 until Trinidad James dissed his home state in a show in New York.
“I remember when New York ran this sh-t dawg, when Dipset was turned the f-ck up,” he said. “I remember when New York rap was the sh-t and us’ bamas,’ us from the South was like, ‘What the f–c?’ And we just did our own thing, but now we run y’all musically. That’s crazy,” James added.
His comments upset NY.
“I really got into that mode where I wanted to make really powerful music,” Banks told Joe Budden. “Not to blame it on him, but he was the tail end of what kinda pissed me off. There was a point in New York where they were saying New York radio didn’t sound like New York, right? Like all the way. And Trinidad James had did some type of show, and he was on the stage saying how he was in New York and it didn’t sound like New York, and I’m like, ‘Wow.’ This was sh-t you would hear behind closed doors, but this n-gga said it publicly.”
