Christopher Charles Lloyd (born April 30 1982), better known by his stage name, Lloyd Banks, is an American rapper and member of the rap group G-Unit.

Lloyd Banks was born Christopher Lloyd in Baltimore, Maryland and was raised in the South Jamaica section of the Queens borough of New York City, New York. His mother is Puerto Rican and his father was African-American. His parents were young and never married. His father spent most of Banks’ childhood in prison because of his status as a repeat offender “squeegie guy”. This left Banks’ mother to raise Banks and his siblings alone. Young Christopher Lloyd had the responsibility of taking