{"id":43895,"date":"2025-08-14T21:17:25","date_gmt":"2025-08-14T21:17:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/14\/tyler-the-creator-has-a-surprising-favorite-member-of-g-unit\/"},"modified":"2025-08-14T21:17:25","modified_gmt":"2025-08-14T21:17:25","slug":"tyler-the-creator-has-a-surprising-favorite-member-of-g-unit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/14\/tyler-the-creator-has-a-surprising-favorite-member-of-g-unit\/","title":{"rendered":"Tyler, The Creator Has A Surprising Favorite Member Of G-Unit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hiphopdx.com\/artist\/tyler-the-creator\/\">Tyler, The Creator<\/a> has revealed that he has a favorite member of <a href=\"https:\/\/hiphopdx.com\/artist\/g-unit\/\">G-Unit<\/a> and it\u2019s not who most would expect.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hiphopdx.com\/artist\/50-cent\/\">50 Cent<\/a> is most fans\u2019 pick but Tyler has different thoughts and said that <a href=\"https:\/\/hiphopdx.com\/artist\/lloyd-banks\/\">Lloyd Banks<\/a> is his favorite rhymer from the seminal New York rap crew.<\/p>\n<p>A fan on social media posted a mashup of Tyler\u2019s \u201cHot Wind Blows\u201d along with Banks\u2019 \u201cI\u2019m So Fly\u201d with the clip eventually catching the attention of the Odd Future founder.<\/p>\n<p>In response, Tyler revealed that he was a day one fan of Banks: \u201csick. bought hunger for more the day it came out. banks was my fav from g-unit.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">sick. bought hunger for more the day it came out. banks was my fav from g-unit <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/7S9UOk716j\">https:\/\/t.co\/7S9UOk716j<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 T (@tylerthecreator) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tylerthecreator\/status\/1955640587996233967?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 13, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Banks saw Tyler\u2019s post and responded \u201cAppreciate it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hiphopdx.com\/tyler-the-creator-does-not-like-artists-who-seek-perfection\/\">Tyler recently explained his creative philosophy<\/a> in a conversation with Zane Lowe for Apple Music.<\/p>\n<p>He said: \u201cI didn\u2019t wanna be precious. I didn\u2019t want to spend three years and try to be super innovative. \u2026 I made an album, I was done.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Tyler went on to explain: \u201cI was just gonna upload that muthafucka the moment it was done and continue moving on with my life because I just wanted it out. And it\u2019s so easy to design your own handcuffs, lock yourself up, and put the key over there that just turns\u2026into pressure, whether it\u2019s from you or fans.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He added: \u201cPeople end up scared and not putting albums out for 15 years because they feel like they always have to \u2014 \u2018I got to make the most innovative, best stuff.\u2019 And sometimes, man, that song is good. Just put that bitch out. \u2018Cause when n-ggas is 80 years old, you really think [you] about to sit here [with] all this great music on a hard drive, be like, \u2018Oh fuck, it wasn\u2019t\u2026\u2019 Fuck it, put it out.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The \u201cSticky\u201d rapper concluded by saying: \u201cBut the beauty in it is like my idea on that might change tomorrow. I might work on something new be like, \u2018Oh, I gotta spend five years on this album and this bridge and get these strings right.\u2019 But where I\u2019m at now, I\u2019m like, \u2018Oh my god, I just wanna make stuff and put it out like when I was 17,\u2019 \u2019cause that shit was just fun and free.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/hiphopdx.com\/news\/tyler-the-creator-has-a-surprising-favorite-member-of-g-unit\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tyler, The Creator has revealed that he has a favorite member of G-Unit and it\u2019s not who most would expect. 50 Cent is most&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":43896,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hip-hop","article","has-excerpt","has-avatar","has-author","has-date","has-comment-count","has-category-meta","has-read-more","thumbnail-"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43895","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43895"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43895\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}