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Metascore
51

Mixed or average reviews - based on 14 Critic Reviews What's this?

User Score
6.4

Generally favorable reviews- based on 32 Ratings

  • Summary: This second solo disc for the G-Unit rapper includes contributions from 50 Cent, Young Buck and Mobb Deep.

Top Track

Hands Up
Put 'em up, put 'em up, put 'em up, put 'em up Put 'em up, put 'em up, put 'em up, put 'em up Hands up, shorty when you party with me We goin' way... See the rest of the song lyrics
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 3 out of 14
  2. Negative: 3 out of 14
  1. G-Unit fans and Lloyd Banks fans in particular will be satisfied with "Rotten Apple."
  2. A unifying moodiness holds the album together and succeeds in defining a regional New York City sound.
  3. Banks seems determined to launch a one-man revival with perfectly polished tracks like "Addicted" and "Hands Up."
  4. Vibe
    50
    Clever turns of phrase, the reason you go to Banks in the first place, are in lesser supply on Apple, replaced with boilerplate declarations of supremacy. [Oct 2006, p.148]
  5. Rotten Apple... doesn’t try to address Banks’ shortcomings, it just buries them under tectonic plates of NYC sturm und drang and more of Banks guffawing end rhymes.
  6. G-Unit needs to stop remaking Lloyd Banks's first hit, On Fire, from, like, two years ago.
  7. Even Banks' better-than-average skills can't save "Rotten Apple" from mediocrity.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 13 out of 21
  2. Negative: 5 out of 21
  1. martt
    Oct 29, 2006
    10
    the best ever
  2. demarcusf
    Nov 21, 2006
    10
    banks is fuckin ill,my nigga b out der killen dis mix shit an record shit niggas b sleepin on banks.50 may be the biggest known nigga in g banks is fuckin ill,my nigga b out der killen dis mix shit an record shit niggas b sleepin on banks.50 may be the biggest known nigga in g unit but banks is the illest on that lyric/punch line shit holla banks Collapse
  3. emilio
    Mar 5, 2007
    10
    off the hook
  4. TerryM.
    Oct 12, 2006
    9
    A very good album by Banks.
  5. Mince
    Oct 15, 2006
    8
    Not quite as good as The Hunger For More, but this album delivers. Best tracks are: Survival, Hands Up & You Know The Deal. I recommend you Not quite as good as The Hunger For More, but this album delivers. Best tracks are: Survival, Hands Up & You Know The Deal. I recommend you buy it if you are a fan of Banks or G-Unit. Expand
  6. DanA
    Dec 5, 2006
    5
    Banks has a flow. Too bad the lyrics he spits and production on this record is the same old shit. The same old shit. Failure.
  7. AdrianR
    Nov 25, 2006
    0
    G Unit is for N00Bs!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Wake the Fu*k UP! This album is not worthy of being my coffe coaster u dumbass wiggers. BTW Hunger for G Unit is for N00Bs!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Wake the Fu*k UP! This album is not worthy of being my coffe coaster u dumbass wiggers. BTW Hunger for More, THAT is clasic hip hop, not this garbage. Sad cause even I expected better. Expand

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