David Banner
David Banner
Lavell William Crump, better known by his alias David Banner, is an American rapper, record producer, occasional actor and activist...
ProfessionRapper
Date of Birth11 April 1974
CityJackson, MS
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I can admit there are some problems in hip hop but it is only a reflection of what's taking place in our society. Hip hop is sick because America is sick.
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...Maybe Hell ain't a place meant for us to Burn, maybe Earth is Hell and just a place for us to Learn..
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One of the worst things that happened to black people in America historically is integration. People ask me why I say that and I tell them it's because we gave up all of our control.
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Our situation is more psychological than people will admit. Black kids kill Black kids for the same reason cops do. They see no value.
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If you want a man that respects the way you think then show more mind than ass.
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This was a star-studded event. We had cats flying in from LA and all over just to be there. We had over 10,000 people there, it was amazing,
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I think it's a natural progression. The door have been nudged on and pushed on for years, and it's sort of giving way now. If you research music, the foundation of most contemporary music originates from the South. It's just the natural progression of time and music that it comes back to the place where it originated from. I think it's beautiful, and snap is a new movement that allows people to stay current and allows people to dance again. Everybody wants to be hard, everybody wants to be gangsters. Yeah, that's cool but we also gotta learn how to have fun.
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He looked better than he ever looked to me. But he's the one who decides whether he can look at himself in the daytime. The one thing you have to understand about comedians is, the more they make people smile, the more pain that they usually feel inside.
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Honestly, I have a tendency not to enjoy my work, and the one thing that I got from Samuel Jackson is ... he wants me to enjoy it, ... He tells me that all the time, 'Loosen up a little bit.' But the thing is, me coming from Mississippi, I understand these opportunities are not readily available to my people. So I have to make sure that everything that I do, I do it to the best of my ability because it's a reflection of more than just me. When people look at David Banner they see Mississippi, so I have to make sure that it's good. And you have to understand my acting debut was with Samuel L. Jackson, so imagine that flavor. If you suck and he is as good as he is, he's going to show you how bad you suck in front of the whole world.
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I need y'all to be sure that you go back home. They been waiting to tear our ghettos down and separate us from our land.
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Artists who've had big problems with each other came together today, hugged ... and said, 'We gonna come together and make this happen.'
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I'm really happy with the role, ... I feel blessed that my debut role is a major one, starring beside someone as great as Samuel L. Jackson.
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Anyone who knows me, knows that I am a workaholic, ... I am just going to use this time while I am shooting the film to really rest. I am totally focused on acting because that has always been my dream. After we are done shooting, I am planning on starting the European tour to promote Certified and dive back into the swing of things with music.
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It's like an alternate world. It's a day in the life of the actual group, so they took little quirks about everybody's personality and amplified it a whole lot. David the drummer is the pretty boy in the group, so he keeps a mirror around, he has to make sure that he's tight before he goes onstage.