''It Wasn't Anything Personal''
4:00PM ET September 9th, 2010
Contributor : Hip Hop Blog Staff
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Lloyd Banks elaborated on why he felt the need to apologize to Ashanti. The rapper says that anything disrespectful he said about the singer during his G-Unit crews infamous feud with Murder, Inc. was done out of rivalry with the label and not deliberately out of disrespect for her.

"Ashanti was in the mix over there, she was like the R&B one," Banks said when briefly discussing G-Unit's 2002 beef with Murder Inc. "Yeah, I actually spoke to her and apologized for some of the things I've said in the past before I even let the conversation go anywhere, first off. I was thinking about it, somebody brought it to my attention. We were groomed to go off like that at that point. Anybody would have got it. But we're past that."

"I mean, my reasoning for apologizing, I just felt like I should," Banks told BET. "Even at the time when we were going back and forth in that feud with Murder Inc., she wasn't speaking. She wasn't throwing shots or anything. I think if you're a part of the game then you should get played. At that time, she just was on the roster, so I just felt like it would be cool for me to just apologize for some of the things that were done in the past. Even though it was done in hip-hop, it wasn't anything personal. It just felt that I should do that."