With 50 Cent busy doing features, Tony Yayo never really having any talent to begin with and Young Buck wallowing in a gutter somewhere, Lloyd Banks has done well to sustain the G Unit badassery of back in the day all on his lonesome. It took surprise summer anthem Beamer, Benz or Bentley to really put him back on the map and now Banks is back to travelling across it, stopping off in the UK to enlist Giggs and Sway for the Start It Up remix. The beat remains the same as the original, a clattery and turbulent Swizz Beats synth-attack perfect for bumping in the whip, and we're left with the same verses from the Yanks (minus one from Fabolous). Sway and Giggs represent, and while the latter wouldn't exactly be my first pick to show off UK talent, Sway at least shows that British rappers can hold their own on these brash American possee cuts. No question though; Kanye's shamelessly cocky verse still reigns supreme.
