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Now I don't know if you've heard of this next young man that we bring into the music scene, but it's J.O.N., Pink Dureg. Just to let him know he got the courage. All the God-bought stuff I own, though, just. Yeah. I own that 100%. So that's what you feel. You know what I'm talking about? We know you do. You're the type of nigga who, when you got on, you ain't working for nobody. Man, fuck that. Man, first of all, welcome back to the 85 South Shore. Now, we got a whole ass legend in here today. Thank you. I'm talking about. Come on. Mississippi. Come on. Yay! You feel? Come on. Jackson. But the whole Mississippi. Come on. I'm talking about. We got that fire water. You feel? I'm talking about kamikaze, you know? I'm talking about crooked levels. I'm talking about Mr. Bad Table Mounds. I'm talking about Cadillacs on 22. You feel? I'm talking about Mississippi, the album. I'm talking about baptized and dirty water. I'm talking about come, girl. I'm trying to get you pussy wet. Worked that. I'm talking about real thugs get down on the floor. I'm talking about this man from my state, this I won. We had one till he came along. Now, we had some, but he is that one who brought us to the moon, who made them look at us and say, it's them kind of niggas down there. I'm talking about one of the most phenomenal feats of all time. I'm talking about black snake moth. I'm talking about black, coldest niggas to ever goddamn put them headphones on. Hey, when we go on tour this time, in any TV show I'm coming on, he's starting. Let's mow some talk. I'm talking about the shit and all, man, with the motherfucking slang dude, with the studio winning, with the man team. I was about to say tech man, but it was a man team. Tech man, this the nigga who sold Timbergun and made Tim say, man, what the fuck is that? Hey, just cause you said that, I got a, I got a present for you, bro. I brought this for you. David Bam! Come on, man, come on, man. I'm only a nigga who pre-missions me. Hey, hey, that's the knife from Crocodile Dundee. That's a knife. That's a knife. That's for you. We got something else for you, bro. Stop playing. We got something for y'all, man, from ABV. First of all, even before we give all this, Sully Sully is actually a designer for ABV. So all the clothes that you see. Y'all saw him on a David Battle podcast, he make all the clothes. And I want y'all to see the bag, test the bag the whole night. Okay. All that, you know what I'm saying? Put that down there in front, Lisa, that's what it is. Yeah, he already, thank you. Yeah. So before we even start, y'all want to say something, man, I want to tell y'all how proud I am of what y'all created. Y'all created, I mean, I appreciate it. You got to get that saying. I created something, y'all created something for you. You know, and you created something for your friends that did the same thing. I've been watching y'all slowly, bro. You know what I'm saying? And it's just y'all doing, y'all doing the South and I'm really, really proud of y'all, man, because the one thing that we never had properly was a movement. You know, one of the things that I told people, the reason why the West Coast took off the way that it did was because along with Snoop and Dre and all them, there was also menace to society. You know what I'm saying? It was also colors. So we never had everything to line up at the same time. But now with the comedians coming and we having that real Southern South comedian, because in a lot of cases, man, a lot of people look at the South as a caricature. You know, there's a real thin line between being real and then being exactly what the fuck people want you to be. You know what I'm saying? That was one thing that I learned from Tip. Like Tip actually taught me that. He said, man, people are looking at us. We got a responsibility to hold ourselves a certain way. You know, that's why I sort of, after a while, I sort of cleaned myself up and stood up a certain kind of way because we don't want to end up being what they think we are. Yeah, we this, yeah, we that, but we also where most people who are black get educated. We're also the place where Elijah Muhammad is actually from, Cordell, Georgia. You know what I'm saying? These are the places where the real movement happened in Mississippi and South Carolina and Alabama, all these different places. So I decided, man, that it was my responsibility, bro, to give our children and give the South something to look for. Cause I never forget when I first went on BET for the first time, they really thought that I was a stone cold fucking idiot. And when I got up there and started talking that shit and started talking about Emmett Till and knowledge itself and all that kind of shit, but I was still crazy, high and smoked out. The motherfuckers didn't know how to act. And ever since then, every time something happened, they would call on me, you know? So I'm really, really proud of y'all, man. And keep doing what y'all are doing, bro. Man, we will, we can do that. That's big, man. That's real, bro. Huge right there, man. We ain't through with the gift, with the opening gifts and stuff like that. You know I brought man. Oh, shit! I wanted you to know this. Oh, shit! Come on, this one, man. He's still got the crunchy shit, dawg! Right, right, right. So let me tell y'all. Cause I knew I was gonna run into you. Let me tell y'all to dope shit about this. So this is actually what sold. My album did well. But what I did was I created, they said that this was one of the greatest marketing schemes in hip hop ever. And it's crazy when I was signing the big labels and shit, I would have these kind of marketing ideas and they would say, we can't do that. It was about seven of us did one of the greatest marketing. They said it was one of the greatest marketing employees, but it wasn't a ploy. Cause what I did is say, if I could create a box of consciousness, the shit that made my wild ass straighten up. Like if I could put it in a box for somebody, there was a 50-year-old man that changed his religion because of this box. I think he played for like Confunction or Earth, Wind and Fire or some shit. And he was older than me. And he was like, because of this God box, I literally changed my religion. You know, so what I did was I said, I knew that this album was on another level. So if people didn't understand it, I had to go teach. So I went on a speaking tour, the same way y'all go on comedy tours. I went on a speaking tour. And the thing that people didn't realize is I didn't go to New York. I didn't go to, I haven't even spoken to Atlanta yet. I never brought it to Atlanta. I went to the country towns where don't nobody go. They think that people from country towns don't want knowledge itself. No, you won't bring your black ass there. So if you come, they coming. Even if it's man, I want a record deal. Or even if it's cause a girl like damn, he look good, I want to fuck. However I can get them in the seats. No, I'm serious. I'm a good looking motherfucker. Don't get it wrong. Don't get it wrong. Shit. But once she come, she gonna get something and not literally come. But you know, hey, hey, hey, hey. You know I had no talk to you. So, but when she come, she gonna get something in her head too. Yeah, man. I'm the serve. They be happy to see you. Even in comedy, I can imagine those towns, like they get overlooked by everybody. I went to Tennessee, a small town in Tennessee and spoke. And this older brother came up to me saying something that shocked me. Cause white folks believe it or not, come to my lectures too. And dude said, these people old or young have never seen a black man talk to white folks like that. I be on their motherfucking ass. Dead serious. And he was like, bro, you're showing them how to stand. And Dr. John Henry Clark said something so powerful. He said, one of the pathways to freedom is just acting like you're fucking free. There you go. That's it. Cause if you act free long enough, cause to be honest, when I first really started being conscious, man, I feel uncomfortable with myself. I told the girl I was dating. I don't know this motherfucker that's you dating. I'm trying to get to know this nice motherfucker. Cause like even still to this day, I be wanting to rip a motherfucker head off. This motherfucker said some shit a couple of days ago and I literally almost reverted back to the old me. And what I tell people is meditation. It's prayer. And it's also the fact that I believe in vibrations. I don't know what type of child my son gonna be. My son may deserve to get his motherfucking head ripped off too. But maybe because I showed that fuck, excuse me. Cause I showed him some grace. Then maybe somebody will show my son some grace. You know all my daughter. Man. Right. Hey. And then when you said rip a motherfucker head off and I was like, he probably could do that. Yeah. Cause I remember Def Jam Vendetta. Yes. Nobody whoops David Banner's ass. You wanna know a background story to that? Tina Davis, who was Chris Brown's manager at the time. She was, she oversaw artist development on there. And like I play video games for real. It tripped people out. One dude had a TV show where you came and played video games. I whooped that motherfucker. I tore his ass apart. He was like, you game? Like fuck yeah, I'm human. My fucking thing. I told somebody this one time just cause I'm conscious don't mean I don't like to fuck. I just don't let it control me. Damn. You know, I still like to fuck too. You know. I guess you could say you got fucking control then. Yeah. You fucking right. In control. But the thing was for Def Jam Vendetta. I told him. I get tired of Southern as always coming in last. Like I don't say third coast. We ain't the third coast. We're the first coast. And in actuality, if you study the right knowledge in actuality, the map of the earth is actually turned upside down. So the South is actually North. And people don't know that. Look up Google, the real map or the real world map. It's gonna freak you to fuck out. These white folks are so fucking racist that they put themselves over Africa to. Not just that, to always make you feel like they're above you. Racism is so fucking deep. That's why the Nile River, they said it flows South. It actually flows North. And if you really look at the pyramids in Africa, the pyramids, the development of pyramids actually came from the South. The pyramids were lower and lower and they were perfecting them as they moved what people consider is the North, right? So in actuality, the information as it pertains to the pyramids actually came from South Africa and they developed them more as it went so-called North but that was actually down. So we actually up. I don't like motherfucking saying down South. I don't like to say third coast. I say we up South. Motherfucker, we ain't last. We cleaned in a bitch. There you go. You just fucked me up. I don't know where the fuck I'm from no more than that. Yes you do. Hold your fucking balls, Bobby. How you let this stand now, the nigga coming here and eat my food, son? How you let this nigga come here and eat my food, bitch? I knew it was fucking cold. Fuck this winter. Niggas busting my balls, bitch. Yo, relax. Don't bust anybody's balls, don't relax. Niggas don't want no smoke, bitch. It's what you're doing. It's what you're doing. It's what you're doing, baby. Relax. Bring out the good cold away. Bring out the bagzini, ma. We got David Bannon. We got David Bannon here. Put some of the screws here, Tom. Hey, welcome back to the 85 Stop Show. Hey, we're not going to bust your balls over here. Come here. We got David Bannon here. They smoke it, got this fucking knife. Look at these shit. You got me crying. What is this knife? Fuck it, you want to fuck it. He'll fucking chop some of this shit. He'll fucking chop some of this shit. I'll cut his balls up. Son of a bitch. I got this knife from David Bannon. I do my own work. I do my own work. Oh, shit. Yeah. Oh, man. I don't know why I took so long. Bro, I got to call this David Bannon story. You had a show in my hometown of Oxford. And I was like, fuck, I got to work. I was delivering pizza. So I rode by the bitch. You was outside. And I pulled up in the Caprice with the motherfucking Domino's saying, I was like, the shit ain't started. Shot back to work, came back, made it to the show, bro. But something happened. He was just outside talking to everybody. Like before the show, I was like, this nigga famous as fuck. But you're not always here by Bannon. He going to talk to people. But I literally went to about six bounder shows. This nigga, I went like Dreamland, Hollisbury. Bro, this nigga won the shit. Because this shit hit in Mississippi before the world got to peace. And he went to every motherfucking city, coffee fields, and water valleys, and the bruises and shit. We went and seen about six or eight of this nigga's shows. I'm going to address something both to both of y'all. And I'm going to say something I've never said on anybody else's show, because you're from the crib. All right, so what happened was, is when people used to come to the South or come to Mississippi, they should treat the kids. And they would treat us like we was dirty, dog. My fuckers didn't want to come outside of VIP. I don't do VIP. What I do is wait to write before. Because what I did find out is that you don't want to become too common either. You want to keep the mystique and the superhero vibe. So what I usually do now is I wait until the end of the show, then I hang out. But you always want to make motherfuckers feel like is he coming? You know what I'm saying? But what it was, was I didn't like the way they made our people feel. And I said, I would try to never do people. I have my days and when I feel like that, I stay in the motherfucking house. But I still train at the YMCA. I still go around people. As a matter of fact, what I used to do when I would do 106 and Park, it would show the next day unless it was live. I would rush back to Jackson and go and shop in Walmart just so the kids could see me after 106 and Park to make themselves feel like they was that much closer to their dream. The other thing was people thought that I got on in Mississippi and moved to Atlanta. That's a fucking lie. I got on in Atlanta. Bonecrusher introduced me to everybody. And the thing that I would like to say from the bottom of my heart is I'd like to thank Atlanta because a lot of artists came here and they had to share where they were from. They had to say that they were from Atlanta. Atlanta loved me so much and they wanted Mississippi to get on. They held me up and allowed me to use the vibrations from Atlanta to focus it on my people. And as soon as I got my big deal, I moved back to Mississippi. I lost millions of dollars. I'm talking about like $12, $13 million because I went home because I used to write down all the shit that people would say about me. They said I wasn't gonna do this. They said I actually had a list and I went down and did all of them. Right before I went on my big tour, I went to just about every small town in Mississippi. So motherfuckers wouldn't have shit to say. I've always been that way. But what I realized, bro, and this is for everybody out there, no matter, PMC taught me this, no matter how much you do for people, there's always gonna be motherfuckers that talk shit. And the reason is because most people don't love themselves. What I did, and people didn't even notice this, I knew, because I've seen some of my homeboys that would lie and say they was from Houston, say they was from New York, say they was from New Orleans, all these different places. Nigga, we grew up together, you lying. So I realized that people didn't love themselves. And if they didn't love themselves and where they were from, they wouldn't give a fuck about David Bannon. So I made Mississippi poppin' first. Every fuckin' day of my life, I had a Mississippi t-shirt on. And this was really fun, yeah. No, this was before the Jersey. I couldn't afford the Jersey, yeah, dawg. I was dead, bro. I was gonna get to the Jersey because like before you did that, you know, besides Mississippi State and Ole Miss, nigga, we ain't have no team. So the niggas saw that in my life. You know, I cut the sleeves off the Ole Miss Jersey because I couldn't stand Ole Miss. But they were the only motherfuckers that spelled Mississippi all the way out. Exactly. So I cut the sleeves off of the jackets. My first day of name grade was the Mississippi Jersey because it had the whole motherfuckin' Mississippi spread apart. And the other thing that I didn't do, people never noticed, I never talked about Jackson because I never wanted people from smaller towns to feel like other states made us feel. I always represented Mississippi as a whole. I said I would never, ever make people feel bad and when y'all was talking about my shows, I used to literally do this. I used to stand up in front of like 5,000 people and say make the last song, we make the girls get down on the floor, on the floor like a pill. And then I would step to the front of the stage, sit down and sign every fuckin' autograph. I really believe one of the reasons why I am still here is because I really believe 45% of every one of my fans I've either taken a picture with or signed something. And like that's all motherfuckers really want is somebody to acknowledge them because the South had been shitted on for so fuckin' long. And one of the things that I did, I took everything that they said about the South and I turned it on the motherfuckers. Excuse me, nigga, where your motherfuckin' grandma from? When I say nigga, I mean it the same way them crackers do. I don't say nigga as a term of them demon. Nigga, where the fuck your grandma from? If you ain't from the Isles, you from South Carolina, you from Georgia, you from Alabama, you from Louisiana. The first two slave ports was South Carolina and Mississippi. So you can't say you ain't from the motherfuckin' South. And what people don't know is there was a unsigned law between black folks. It was called the black exodus. So if you left the South, your responsibility was one of two things. You was supposed to go to the North, go to the West, go to the East, and find heaven and either bring us there or come back and teach us. The reason why hood motherfuckers don't like uppity smart motherfuckers is because they didn't do their job. They get the same thing white folks did. They went up North and they started looking down on black motherfuckers in the South. When nigga, that's where the fuck you from and you didn't do your job. So since you didn't do your job, we created our own culture and now our culture is hotter than you fuck that shit. So that is the reason why, that was the reason why I wanted to teach our people that there ain't nothing wrong with being educated because people made folks feel so bad about not knowing. If you were God, you supposed to teach, nigga. Most motherfuckers build just to show how smart they are. If I'm sitting, if somebody showed me this about Malcolm X, you know Malcolm X probably had one of the greatest commands of the English language, but he never said a word that the ordinary black person couldn't understand. If I'm out here pontificating, our fucks don't know what the fuck that mean. So if I don't get the point over, I shouldn't have my motherfucking job if you don't understand what I'm talking about. I tell everybody when I'm learning, teach me on the kindergarten level. Yeah, I'm smarter than the motherfucking, but I may have missed something. So it is our responsibility to teach. I never forget I was watching Dave Chappelle's one of his Netflix joints. And he made motherfuckers laugh. I'm talking about the whole fucking show and he came right back to Emmett Till and dropped Emmett Till on the motherfuckers and dropped the motherfucking mic. I said, that's what you're supposed to do. Laugh and leave a motherfucker with something to make them want to learn. Cause I'll say this and then we'll move on. Cause I know I start talking that shit. No, that's what you're here for, man. No, that's what I'm telling you. That's why we got this. We seen you talking that shit like, he needs somewhere else to do it. Ain't nobody going to be behind the camera talking about. Well, no, well, they can't do that to me. No way. Cause we got our own camera. That's what I was saying. What I was telling you, but seriously though, bro, like, what I realized was this man is like, I didn't know why kids listen to me, bro. Like I got millions of kids and Charlemagne pulled me to the side. And he said, you kill a mic and tip whether y'all know it or not. A lot of these kids don't have fathers. So the same way they get on the internet and look for pussy or sex or whatever the fuck they looking for, they're also looking for a dad. So they'll pull up y'all's speeches, pull up the shit that y'all talking about. And you all are their fathers, whether you like it or not. And that's what it made me straighten up just a little bit more. And one of the things that I always like to do, I don't know if y'all noticed this, man. I always fuck up once a year on purpose. I got into the fight with the cops in DC. You know, I did a couple other things. But I actually do some of that shit on purpose. That didn't happen on purpose. That was anger. But what I try to do is show these kids that I'm not perfect. You're doing a great job. Cause yeah. And I actually try to do that. You know, I always try to grow and become smarter and get better. But I want to do like Harriet Tubman did. To me, she was the most successful freedom fighter because she went to heaven and she came back to hell and got up people and went back like 80 times, y'all. You know? And so that's what I always wanted to do. But you do shit like that already. Like one of the hurricanes in the bad weather and shit hit the coast and Katrina and all that. David Bennett sent them trucks before anybody. And a lot of people know that but a lot of people don't know that. You get what I'm saying? Cause it's like with the whole way that the media is being consumed right now, it's like everybody has to reintroduce themselves to the internet crowd. So a lot of motherfuckers who watch our show or you know, fans of this shit, never really heard a whole Tupac album. Or they don't look at the shit that we think is classic or great the same way. You get what I'm saying? Shit go so fast. Right. But like you were saying, why people admire you? Because you can give us a record where we can still be niggers. But then it's like, you the motherfucker who be like, all right, now we gonna do this shit. But hey, let's not forget we got some other shit to do. And then they saw you actually stand on your words. So that's what's always commending. A kid told me one time, David Bennett, I listen to you because you don't judge us. He said, you say what the fuck you gotta say and you move on. Or you drink or whatever the fuck you gonna do, man. Cause yeah, I tell y'all something that's personal to me, man. I just want us to treat each other better, man. Like, I see how hard motherfuckers say that they are. And that's cool. But where motherfuckers at when me crackers be killing our kids? Like we know what these motherfuckers cops stay at. We know what these motherfuckers stay at and don't keep they fucking word. And I kept quiet, cause I know how black folks are about Democrats, but Democrats ain't no fucking better than Republicans. These motherfuckers shine in front of you and then they never do anything. The president ain't done shit for you. And what it is, is we give these motherfuckers, we give these motherfuckers our constituents their way and they don't do shit for our communities. And I honestly believe that politicians ain't number prostitutes. So you treat them like prostitutes. First of all, what we don't understand is you gotta invest money into it. You gotta make them look good. You gotta put some shining shit on them. Then after that, give some commands. Get out there if it's rainy but it dogs some motherfucking rain drops. And then if you- Walk between them. Walk between them. Right. And then if you don't do it, I'm on your ass. There's repercussions to you not doing something. Let them motherfucking not do something. Let them motherfuckers say something about Trump. Let somebody not do what they were supposed to do. Their constituency is gonna do something. That's why we have to do the same thing. I believe we should find a kid. No bullshit. We find a kid. Damn, that motherfucker got to give the gab. He not scared to speak. And we all like about four or five of us. I already talked to Mike in them. Me, Tip and Mike talked about this. Grab them motherfucking and be like, yo, we gotta raise him. Bill Clinton, they was raising Bill Clinton and little white motherfuckers like that since they were, look, kids. Say, hey dog, we gonna take care of you for the rest of your fucking life. But here's the contract. This is what we want. When we get you in there, we want you. And if the same way you go after motherfuckers, they'll have a dime on your dope bag. Literally a dime, not a dollar. On your dope bag, if you do not meet this criteria, we gonna come see you. Bruh. Period. We should start a political party just to niggas. I would love to see Republicans, Democrats, the niggas voted no. That's right. The niggas voted no. Proposition 1899 is not going through because of the niggas. The niggas came down to the vote. The niggas said no. Bruh, you not in there to fuck everything up? What if we be the gods supported by the niggas? The niggas. Right, right. With niggas backing? Yeah, with niggas backing. If you got niggas, niggas is the army. There you go. That's like niggas the army. Yeah. Keep the Dracoes, niggas. Keep your Dracoes, niggas. You know what I'm saying? Donate some of that money from the block, man. Let the niggas be the army. The niggas. All right, we gonna be the gods. And then we gonna have the niggas. To see nobody coming home be like, I'm going to the niggas. Why not? You signed up to join the niggas. I go to the niggas all the time. They already doing it. I got niggas work for me. Niggas in my family. We gonna be recruiting, we gonna have an office. Yo, wait, they already doing it. Let me tell y'all the hardest shit. I gotta share this with y'all. I gotta share this with y'all. I had actually posted about this and I took it down. One of my employees belongs to one of the most powerful black organizations in the United States. And he said, banner, I gave my life to this organization. He said, but statistics show that the people who belong to my organization will kill me before the ops wheel. He said, you help me take care of my family. Look at how much work I put in for that organization. Imagine what I'll do for you. I was like, oh, shit. He said, not a motherfucker, breathe wrong. He said, it's nothing for me to ride. He must don't know you got a knife this big. Well, what the thing about it was, and the reason why I say that, that's how I feel about most of these kids, man. These kids just wanna be listened to and wanna know that somebody's gonna be there. They always watching, bro. See if that shit that you mean, they always consider it. Cause one thing I say about our children, our children are not lost. You just can't give them that bullshit. They don't wanna hear that religion bullshit. They don't wanna hear that politics shit. They know the truth. Y'all motherfuckers lying. Parents tell you to do as I say, not as I do. What the fuck? We are people, a tribal people who learn about what we see. I used to always tell my trainers that, do 4,000 push-ups, motherfuckers, you do it first. You do 4,000, I do what? You do 4,000, I'ma do 4,000. You gonna tell you he did them before you got here? I just did them. My motherfucker told you to do 4,000 push-ups at a time. It wasn't quite 4,000, it was a lot, though. Don't fuckin' say it. What type of evil shit is that? It's under here now, don't get it fucked up now. I get you, I get you a couple of them. Yeah, man. Nah, man, that shit is just dope to have you in this motherfucker. And you say you get to talking that shit, that's all we do. And I'm happy. We talk a whole lot of shit, but we mean well also. And you make the South proud, because like you said, we got looked down on, we got talked about so bad from those other places, and when you see it, you like, oh, that's what it really is. Like you got somebody to point to, like. What is it like now to see the South where it is? And then you were one of the people in the front to say this is where it's going to be. Now to see the end result of what you would say, like predicting, all right, fuck it, here it comes. I remember when I was on this radio station, I scared the shit out of this DJ. He literally almost pissed on himself. I actually laughed after I walked out of the studio. I kept it G while I was in there. He was criticizing trap music. And I said, sir, let me ask you a question. I said, who would you say coined? Like the trap movement. He was like T.I. And I was like, what album ushered that in? He was like, trap music. I said, what was the number one single on that album? He said, Rubber Band Man. I said, who produced that? He said, you. I said, so watch your fucking mouth. I said, if he coined trap, if he coined the trap movement, I damn sure helped to coin trap music, the actual music, instrumentation of it. Motherfucker, watch your mouth and watch who you talking to and watch who you talking about. I said, because you really only say trap music is because you're afraid of the older Southerners. And so you want to say trap music so you can pick on those kids. Watch your fucking mouth. That's south music. So you, so check this out. There's some cold shit. You don't never see nobody do this. So you at the height of your career and you producing the biggest hits, how you separated David Banner beats from the shit that's for sale? Oh man. Bruh, if I knew Rubber Band Man was that out of character for myself, I ain't gonna be bullshitting you. Bruh, that motherfucker was that. I didn't like like a pill. Shit, hold on, I'm serious. I did. I didn't like it, but it had, so flip, what I would do, I would barter. I was dead broke. Like people used to see me in big cars. I used to rent cars, all kind of shit. Like I was sleeping in a rap room, I was homeless. So I was a little bit broke then, yeah, I was fucked up. I was fucked up back then. Think about your come up. When I was in Atlanta, bro, when I was in Atlanta, I was sleeping on the floor next to dogs, pissing shit off on the floor. I went from being, I'll never forget this white boy named Billy Hume. He did a lot of the early Lil John. He did Big Crit, he did Bulk Rush, he did me. I had been renting cars and staying in hotels so long. Billy Hume literally came and hugged me and said, bro, you're not homeless no more. Go buy a car. Go buy you a house, man. Stop this shit. I was just on grind. You was grinding that hard. That's all I was doing was grinding, bro. And so like with the beats and shit, like I said, with like a pip, it had pip C on the sample UGK. So I was like, well, I'm just gonna put flip on this. And I know here like this is Texas, Texas. Let me make that connection. And I was just gonna make another beat to it. But everybody flipped and DJ Will, DJ Will from Atlanta actually was the one that helped change my life. We were, I think we were in a bounce. I think it was the bounce at the time. And so I brought him, might get your job bro. Might get your wig split. Might get your car shot up. Right. Might get your dope kick. Might get your gig now. Might get your wig snap. Might get your feelings hurt. Thinking this is just the rush. So I bought that because Lil John was just like, ah. And Will told me he was like, bro, this cool but Lil John on every song now. He was like, bro, I don't know how you gonna be able to get through the noise. Let me check out the B side. If you look at the original single, like a pimp with side two, he played that shit in the middle of Atlanta. I'm talking about right at 11, 30 at night when motherfuckers get shot for playing some shit folks don't know. People didn't go crazy, but did nobody lead the motherfucking flow? He said, you gotta hit. They never heard of you. That intro is so crazy that. And watch this. What people don't know is as a producer, I be wanting shit to be creative. That shit was so dope that I didn't, I didn't take no breaks. Didn't change up the same eight bars went through the whole fucking song. Every time I tried to do something else to that motherfucker and that's what I learned. You leave shit alone. And about that tag shit, any motherfucker who put their name before they beat they need to holler at me. You did it. They need to holler at me. You did it first. They will never give us credit. They will never give us credit for the shit that we do. I wasn't the first person to put a tag before my song, but I was the first person to put my name. And Tilt was the reason why they kept it on the radio cause they used to take my tags off of my music, right? And Tilt was like, you play my mother, he caught up the hype and was like, you play my motherfucking record the way I sent it to you. That boy worked hard. And the reason why I did that is because Southern rappers used to hide their producers. They didn't want nobody to know. But Jay-Z would say, just play and you did it again. Come y'all, you a fool, fool, fool. And they would go up $10,000 every time they said that shit. You a fool, you a fool. Yes, yes. And look at KLC from beats by the KLC and beats by the pound who did most of P shit. Like, did nobody, did nobody know who they were. I really believe that they should be right next to Timberland and Pharrell. What Master P did in general should go down in music history. He changed the way people put out music. They did so much music. He changed the way people and nobody gives him the business acumen for what he did. But what they did as producers, bro, I went to KLC house. KLC walls go all the way to the top of this ceiling. It was platinum plaques from the bottom of the floor on that side, all the way up to the ceiling, all the way over. What most rappers do in their lifetime, them boys did in a year. Think about the albums. They would do albums. So much. Like, literally, bro, and they was putting out, what, two, three albums a month. Bro, we changed culture and we such kind people that we allow people to take credit for the shit that we do. Now, see, you talking about credit and that's perfect for what I wanna ask you. Because you produce a lot of music that motherfuckers don't even know that you produce. I did 85 major groups, people don't know. 85? I think that a cool thing that I got down, hey. What's that dude that produced for Michael Quincy Jones? Come on. I did Quincy Jones, Maroon 5, Chris Brown and Justin Bieber, bro, you know, people know about, well, some people didn't even know about the tip stuff. A lot of people didn't know I did, my first big record was a Thug Holiday by Trick Daddy. That's so motherfucking cool. But people didn't know me, so it came out before I got poppy. But I'm in the video skinny as fuck. Matt Nurse, the shit, yeah. That's like, that's like, the thing though. Do you understand when you grew your beard long, every nigga from the South with a long beard, that's the David Bannon, yeah. You know, I can't take total credit for that. I think that was me and past the truth. Yeah, but see. The short had it at the same time. In Mississippi though? Yeah. Come on. But what I will say that I know a lot of motherfuckers start putting, they start showing how old they were after I did. Motherfuckers slid that in there, cause I was like man, I ain't never forget one of my best homeboys at R&B singing. I wiped before 106 Park went off, went off TV. He was on TV in front of little children grinding in their face telling them to drink. I mean it was the song, but I was like bro, like everybody want to be a fucking kid. Like being indigenous, being from indigenous people, you're supposed to be proud to grow old. These kids don't even know who to go ask a question cause everybody trying to look like a baby. When they see this beard, they know I can go ask him a question. Mr. Bannerwood is publishing. Mr. Dave Banner, like what do I do if I don't want to do, if I don't want to wrap this way no more? What if they try to make me do this or that? These kids know they can come to me. Y'all would be surprised what rappers call me at four o'clock in the morning depressed looking for vision. And that's the thing that I'm the most proud of. I went to- I wouldn't be surprised cause I stopped answering rapper calls at that late. They can call you at 2.30, he gonna be on the phone. I'm like, bro, what are you on? Cause I'm not on that. I am tired. Let me tell you why- Don't let you have this many problems for you so I call it with me. We could break this shit down. Let me tell you why I do though, bro. I went through the worst impression work ever do and when nobody there for me. And Scott, hold on, Scott was just about to say that. And then I ended up, I was close to dying. And I ended up meeting Scott Parker. He was a trainer at the time. And he knocked 56 pounds off of me. And I had never drunk, I had never drunk like more than two glasses of water in a day. I had been dehydrated my whole life. We grew up on Kool-Aid dog and the only time I really drank water was when mama would let us in the house and we had to get it out of the hose. You know what I'm saying? So I used to play ball. I actually thought I was fly. I still smell good and shit. You know after I played six, seven games I was dehydrated. Scott, man, would come and just shit over at the crib, man. I didn't know what the fuck was wrong with me. He was crazy. Because I come from one of the poorest places on in the United States. I didn't start getting depressed until I had something to lose. See, when you ain't got nothing to lose, you ain't worried about shit. But like I had million dollar problems and my uncle don't know nothing about no million dollar problem. Everybody around me at the time, I didn't have mentors and shit. Everybody was broke that was around me. They needed me. And I didn't have nobody to depend on. So I think God let me sit in that place by myself and then he allowed me to meet Scott and Scott helped me get through some of that stuff. But I know what it feels like to be alone. Dude, I went from being homeless and two weeks later being a millionaire. Can you imagine being in the middle of Mississippi and the motherfucker announced, David Banner got 10 million dollars? Hell no. Dog, people don't understand the pressure that I went through. Lucky that I was the person that I was. But I know for a fucking fact, if I would have been an inch weaker, an inch shorter, I would have got eight up dog. Like people don't understand the, we had as black folks in America, there's some underlying shit that we gotta go through that don't know other race of people have to go through, bro. Like, and so like, bro, for me, when I see other rappers going through that shit, I gotta wake up. Cause God put me through that by myself. And it was so fucking hard. I said, there's no way I won't pick up that phone. Like I gotta pick up that phone, man. Not too many people have my number, but those that do. And then I watched these folks grow, man. I'll never forget this. He may not, he may not want me to say this, man, but my offset hack, it is one of the greatest things that happened. Offset had just got out, right when the Migos had blew up. He was walking through midtown. And I was like, what's up? He was like, what's up, OG? And he pulled me over to the side. He was like, man, I wanna do better, bro, but I don't know how. He's like, I wanna do better. I just don't know how. And bro, for a young man that didn't need nobody, they were popping so far. He might not even remember that. Man, that meant the world to me that he literally, I wouldn't even say humble. He trusted me enough to say, bro, I need help. And you know in the streets, especially where the fuck we from? That's the reason why motherfuckers so mean. Motherfuckers really be wanting to say, I need help. Better, I wanna make my life better, but they don't know how to come to you. So they, nigga, I hate you. I hate you for reminding me of what I'm not. You feel what I'm saying? So to be in that position, bro, I'm honored to pick that call up, bro. Seriously. That's it, man. Yeah, yeah, we in this big. That's the phone, man. It wasn't talking for hours, man. Shit. We in this bitch, man. We in this bitch, bro. I gotta say something before, because they always get on me. They always get on me. God Box 2 is about to come out. Man, say it in my God Box. That's really important. Say it in the God Box, bro. That's really important. All I'm gonna say is it ain't nothing like the first one. Open it up. Say it on the whiteboard. It ain't nothing like the first one, man. Yeah, I want my shit to be presented. And another thing that I want everybody in this bitch to do, go to davidbatter.com and go and buy you something directly from me. Everybody always ask it, how can I help? Go to davidbatter.com. That's straight from us. Let me ask you this. What made you go on the independent route this time around? Well, between us, I can say this now. I've been independent almost 12 years. Very, very. What I did was I found out, motherfuckers was hurting themselves, because when black people think about independent and black, they always, they have fooled us into thinking that that means low quality. That's why everything, touch that motherfucking bag. Just tell, ooh, don't that shit feel good? Everything that I do is shiny and it feels good. You heard, got some money. Look at them good. They don't even own that bitch. But now, seriously, I'm, I can spend the night. This ain't no Kroger saying. I can spend the night. Okay. Uh-oh. So what I realized is that, that was the mindset of our people. So literally, people don't know this. I went to Steve Rifkin. And I said, Steve Rifkin, I can't be you, sign to you. Like I found out like a universal owed me a lot of money. And I said like, man, like, I went to the head of universal. He literally said, Dave Bannon, you smart dude. I know you're gonna find out soon. He literally showed me all the stuff, even how they worked records and all that kind of stuff. It's not what we think it is. That's one of the reasons why I never signed anybody. You know, bro, you know how much money I can make? Cause I'm a producer and I make all the beats if I sign artists. But the thing is, the truth is, is the way this shit worked, they throw a, they threw, like I say they throw 15 artists up against the wall. And then they grab the one that stick. But you know us, man, we love the people that we signed to. They family now. I can't just let you fall on the floor. I can't take 10 motherfuckers failing and one or two having a total line. I can't do that. So what I decided to do, I'll help anybody that want to be helped. I'll help you start your own shit. I want to free the slaves. Most black people, and I'm just being honest with you, most black people don't want to free the slaves. They want the opportunity to hold a whip. You feel what I'm saying? So like for me, I always wanted to help people to get free. And then motherfuckers turn around and hate you because most motherfuckers want to be put on. They don't want to do the work. They don't know how hard it is for you to be on tour. I be watching you, dog, from city to motherfucking city every night, having to prove your fucking self. People don't understand that shit, dog. This shit not easy. So when I told Salee, Salee loves music. Like he got an old soul, bro. Like he listen to the shit that we listen to, bro. And I say, bro, if you really love music like that and you bring artists, I'll help you, bro. But the thing is I just don't want to take the responsibility of somebody else's life because I take that shit serious. And I end up, man, getting soaked up and used up, man. I'll never forget, bro, when I did the work for Katrina, we raised all that money, bro. And I never say it this nowhere, bro. I'm giving you this because you from where I'm from and y'all representing, like I love what y'all represent. So I give y'all some shit. They gonna have to come get sound bites from y'all. Come on, man. Bro, we wrote along with Atlanta. People don't know. We threw the largest urban relief concert in history for Katrina. And it was the first time that different radio conglomerates they were on each other's station. Like V103 was on hot. Like they literally got on each other's station. That shit like gang banging. If y'all know anything about the radio, they don't play that shit. They put all that shit aside, man. But let me tell you what hurt me. We raised close to a million dollars and then I realized most of the shit black people want rappers to do. If all the rappers, including Jay-Z, gave their money, it wouldn't be enough. Like what's going on at home in Jackson right now? We just raised money to me, Monty Ellis, Big Crit and Mo Williams. We just sitting gallons and gallons of water home. But that's a structural problem, bro. That's over a billion dollar problem. That's billions of dollars, bro. What was, like think about it. Let's say if I had a million dollars, right? How many houses could I build with a million dollars? Not many, at the most 20. You talking about tens of thousands of people who are displaced, but people are looking at rappers to do stuff that they don't even expect their government to do, bro. And so people will sit back and talk about what we doing, bro. You have no idea of how come, when I figured out, dude, I ain't even as much as people were holding me up. That wasn't shit, dawg. And it made me feel so fucking helpless, bro. Like when I realized, man, that a lot of times we get, that's the reason why if y'all come to any of my lectures, I speak three times better than I actually do in my lectures, but I don't want you to catch the holy ghost. I want you to keep your fucking mind intact. We want people that make us feel good, that give us turkeys doing Thanksgiving. I don't even praise Thanksgiving. That's some evil shit. Fuck that. You don't want a motherfucker to give you a turkey. You want a motherfucker to teach you how to get and eat, how to grow fucking crops, how to create your own fucking shit, dawg. And I'm starting to realize this shit and this shit is so fucking lonely, bro. It's the loneliest shit in the world, bro, because I see shit being illuminated. That's why a lot of motherfuckers wanna stay dumb. Just bliss and being dumb ain't no better, bro. So I be looking like fuck, we fucking up. Like even, watch this, I'm serious about this. I ain't never say, Sali, I know I shouldn't say it, I'ma say it anyway. I am no way, and I know people gonna try to, y'all help me on this, cause I know people gonna try to flip this against me. But I actually wanted the political situation to stay that it was, stay the way that it was a little bit longer. And I'm gonna tell you why. For the first time since the 60s, you saw motherfuckers that were selling dope on the corner talking about politics. You saw motherfuckers fed up. I've never seen black people talk about politics every day for four years straight. We had just started fucking with each other. We said, just started realizing America don't give a fuck about us. And I wrote online, don't be in a rush to go back to sleep. You know how mama told us, don't go across, don't walk across that street without looking both ways. And we don't look both ways until that motherfucker tapped our ass. And if you look at it, when Obama was president, dog, white folks were saying, this is a post-racial America. Crocker, how the fuck you know? That's like me telling a woman, oh, pregnancy don't hurt that much. How the fuck would I know? So I started watching because of the pain and how America was treating us. We had started fucking waking up. Cause no lie. Last year, the last year of Trump's presidency was the best it ever been for me business wise. Black people started seeing the relevancy in that black fist. That sign that I had created had started being like the shield for black people. And if you really even think about Bill Clinton, most of the laws that really affect black and Latino people will pass by Bill Clinton. They'll pass by Bill. What's your president now name? Tell me his name. Who, Joe Biden? Go and look at how many bills he was a part of that black folks up. All of them. He wrote the show first, didn't he? Wasn't he the one who wrote it down? So niggas doing the jail. Drew some pictures to go with it, baby. So what I'm saying is, bro, it's like, I realized, as far as the answer, your independent question, is I realized a long time ago, motherfucker ain't gonna help you. It ain't a motherfucker responsibility. It ain't. Somebody told me today, if everybody came from a grateful situation, like being grateful that you fucking breathe. Like, I tell y'all, well, I was sick, really sick, about two months ago. I ain't gonna tell y'all how sick I was, but I was really sick. And there were some things that I didn't even think about, bro. Like, I didn't think about smelling. You don't think about smell. Like, you just take that for granted. The fact that I can smell, I can use my eyes, I can touch and feel shit. Some people don't have this. And listen to me, this is really important. It'll make your life better. Every problem that you have on this planet is connected to a blessing. If you lose your mama, well, you had a mama. Some people don't know their mama. Never had a mama in their life. If you wreck a fucking car, you had a car. In order for you to lose something, you must have had first been blessed with that shit. Talk your shit, man. And when I realized that, bro, changed the whole fucking course of my life, Jack. Yeah, you look, yeah. She ain't got me looking for some shit. Smoked that dough! Smoked that dough! If you lost it. Smoked that dough! That nigga got me. What a midget sense! What a small people, Scott! What a small people! I got this thing for small women. I'ma hook you up. Hey, he said he got him! I got him. No, no, Lee, come here and look at me in my face. Come here, dawg! He said he got him! I'ma plug you in. I'ma plug you in. They love me. I've been on Lil' Women of Atlanta never. Really? They love me. They love me, bro. Y'all just fucking... They love me, too. Oh, yeah! Yeah, they love me. I'm sorry, I met Lil' people y'all. Y'all like, can you beat that out for me, bro? Yeah, let's do that. You get to say the M-Wave one more time. Yeah, one time, that's it. But don't say it when I'ma take you in. Now you're gonna make everybody... Listen to me, listen to me, look at me in my... What y'all do, you got damn fast. Actually, what I would like her to do, bro, I had a hernia, so my ball's a little bit longer than most people. She can box the motherfuckers up there. What type of shit is she on? Not why I'm hitting the weed. This nigga just... That's a whole ass website fetish. Ball box. Ball box. Oh, shoot. With Lil' Tina. Yo, son. Yo, son, she literally busting my balls, man. She's a real boy, bro. I don't even know why you said that on here, because now the comments are gonna be like, hey, bro, David Banner is serious, bro. Tiny Tina's down. We're getting 80,000 a month on OnlyFans. Please, can you send me a contact for David Banner? No. He's coming. Don't do that. Don't do that. Don't do that. Don't do that. Let me drop this and we're gonna save you all the beef. Now he's gonna be a gang of little chicks in my... Where's David Banner? I'm dead serious. Now I'm gonna pull up at your farm with a hundred little women. Hey, Scott, what you coming for? I'm saying loud so people can hear. Tell them what I asked you to do when I die. No, six. Little people. Little people. You a big guy. I don't know if they're gonna bear the pain. Well, 12. Yeah, you gotta double up. We'll make it a bigger studs than to get 13. I'm dead serious, though. No disrespect. I'm serious. I believe you. No. Hey, I do a lot of shit. I try not to lie. I just be quiet. You ain't gotta lie to a motherfucker. Just don't say nothing. Talk about these cold-ass beets you be putting in, man. You know, historic shit, get like me. Oh, man. It's crazy. Let me ask you all some producer shit. Can you tailor that shit? You can say, I got some Chris Brown shit over here. I got some. No. And I'm gonna tell you why the only beat that I've ever made for somebody that they wanted that beat was Nellie Tipdrill. Wait a minute. Let that bitch breathe, David Banner. David Banner. Let that bitch breathe. Tipdrill. You didn't know I did Tipdrill? Yes. I didn't know when you were saying that you did it, double. When that one came out, that one fucked the whole game up. I didn't even know, bro. The video? Because the song period, the whole video. Because the whole album was a remix album. So that's actually the remix to E.I., right? I didn't know it. So why? I'm gonna tell y'all something that's even crazier, right? And this is when I was still sort of old David Banner trying to be better. So y'all saw the video, right? Nellie never told me that he was shooting the video until the day up. I didn't understand. So I was like, I'll be, he said I'm shooting videos. Because he shot like seven videos, right? He said I'm shooting videos. And I was like, well, I ain't tripping. Like, you know, I didn't want to stand there. Most people would be looking for the camera. He never told me he was shooting my song. So I rolled up right at the end. Benny Boom. I'm cool with Benny Boom. And I saw all that shit. I was like, Benny, shoot me in as many places as you can and sprinkle me through the whole video. Y'all, I know this is gonna break a lot of my whole boys heart. I was only at the tip drill video for literally about 15 minutes. So I missed the credit card. I missed the date. Like literally it was at night. I was there the last 15 minutes. But everybody always, they held me up when I went back home. Like it was in the video. And I was like, sort of. Like, yeah, I caught the video last 15 minutes. Yeah. And I don't even think it was no more. That many women even left there when I talked. They were tired. Yeah, man. Started out hustling. Ended up balling. Yeah. I'll tell y'all this, man. This will really trip a lot of people out. Wayne. Chris Brown. Tilt. Devin the dude. Fiend. I know you fucked with Devin the dude. Devin the dude. Like, yeah. Devin the man from Mississippi. Yeah. I always made big beats. And a lot of artists are not really, they rap, but they're not rappers. Oh shit. So like. Oh shit. I'm the type of person like, I grew up liking like lyrics to Fury, rock to bells, like the really hard songs. I used to tell people, because people didn't even know, like I used to be a freestyle champion. Like people are surprised about the God Box. I didn't rap a certain way just because I wanted my people to get it. You feel what I'm saying? Like, I started off, I started off a fucking battle rapper. And if you go back and listen to all my albums, I would always have one of those songs on every one of my albums, right? But what it was was that, is that most people are intimidated. Like when I make a beat, a rapper is just another instrument to me. I really, no lie, I think my beats are bigger than most rappers. But like I would tell people, I would always look at a beat like a fucking dragon. And I didn't even have a nice, I had a rusty ass spoon. And I'd run that bitch down the back of the dragon neck and drag that motherfucker down. Like that's how I look when I used to go. Like when I only had like a pimp and I had to prove myself. Like I never forget, we did Canada with 50. And they had never seen, like if any of y'all, you'd have seen my show, this is like a black rock show. Like- Hey man, this nigga do about four songs, then he gonna stop, he gonna say some real ass shit, go to the hard ass shit. And then he might say, hold up, hold up, man. Do that motherfucker over. And then the niggas be like, hold up, man. I'm talking about backflips. I used to spit fire. Oh, I'm counting shit, right? So- That should be good. By the time we left Canada, they say that Dave Bennett is one of the best artists that ever came through Canada. But that was before people really even knew who I was. And I appreciate 50, because 50 gave me my first tour opportunity. Like I literally went, I gotta tell y'all, I literally went from doing like 5,000 to 15,000, 20, 30,000, bro. And that shit was something different. I tell y'all, the funnest shit this shit happened. For real. Like I never really wore Timberlands and shit that much. We always wore Jays, because that was our shit in the south. But since we were up there in the cold, I had got some black Timbs. I would never wear like the construction Timbs, because I was like, we from the south, so if I had some Timbs, I would wear some black Timbs, right? So I used to flip off of the stage. This time, I decided to do a front with no hand flip off the stage. And the heel of my boot hit this white girl in her head. Bam! Knocked her out. We was so crunk, she got up and her boyfriend said, fuck her, keep going! He was so crumby, he was like, yeah! And I was like, what about you girl, like fuck her! You all gave it better rock! And I was like, yo, I was scared for like a month. I was waiting on the motherfucking lawsuit. I'm not lying, he literally kicked her in the fucker! Rock! Okay, now let me show you how the 85 South shall work. This is what you're saying, that there's going to be somebody in the comments who's like, that lady, what's my aunt? I swear to God, she wants to come on the show. Then she's going to have a mark across her motherfucking head. Flip kick! I'm going to sign that bitch. So you flip kick into the crowd. Yeah, bam! So let me, I want to ask you this, how long did you have that play beat before you let everybody else hear it? Before the world got it? All right. Was that one of the ones you were sitting on? No, I actually didn't produce that. Collis Park produced that. And it was funny because when it came out, people thought that I was biting off the yin-yang twins. And that wasn't the truth. Collis Park wanted to create something that was called intimate club music. So the lyrics are hella hard, but you're whispering. Like I can't, it's that nasty shit ever. You know, it's in your mouth, like your random mouth. Like anyway, so, so what happened was, I would always keep, actually I had it today and end up leaving. I keep a checkbook. Like one of the things that people always talk about they bosses and they CEOs, but you still waiting on that check from New York L.A. Like not me. And I can give you what other people can give you, but I can pay you today. So actually me and E40 are really tight. He wanted that beat, but he told Collis Park he was going to give back. I heard the beat and I was like, I got 10, I got 10,000 right now. I know you get paid more, but I got 10 stacks right now. Now I'm going to be honest with you. I never said this before. You, I get paid a lot of money for my beat. You got 10 sitting right there in front of me as long as you don't tell nobody, you tell my fuckers you gave me 50 racks. Run that bitch. I'm from, man, I'm from the crib. Fuck that shit. So I told Collis Park. But the tag ain't going to be the same. David Bandana. Who the fuck is David Bandana? That was fun. So, so, so, I can't afford the real tag on that beat. But the other story behind that, bro, is that white folks, I had, I don't know if I should say that. I had kicked open 10 doors at Universal. Like, they owed me money. And like, bro, I had toured for eight months. And my mom was at home hungry, bro. And like, I had toured, because I hadn't, he hadn't owed me money. And so I had done that much earlier. And I was actually about to be black-barred. And I heard this from two different people that I trust, actually three people, that like, these executives are scared of you. And if you don't change something, they're going to make sure that you never do business in the music industry again. Now, I just signed a publishing deal not too long ago, and I signed admin deals. Don't give all your publishing away. I'll teach y'all something. Like, dude, if they give you a publishing deal, your money is already in the system. You can find a publishing lawyer to free your money up. If they give you a million dollars, you got three million in the system. So then they end up taxing you like it's a loan for money that you already have. Won't nobody tell these kids that. The publishing shit is a bullshit. It's the biggest farce of all time. But anyway, publishing with David Banner. Yeah, man, that shit very good. Real quick, too. But they told me that if you don't change something about yourself, they're going to blackball you. You'll never make another album again. So don't play with me. Don't play with me. I got cool little motherfucker on that bitch. And it was so funny, if y'all go back and look at play, I'll tell y'all something I'm playing like a pimp. You go back and look at play, I look like a motherfucking maniac. Because I was so used to thugging it out, throwing bottles, and it was crazy, bro, because I just didn't know how to be cool. So if you look at play, I'm actually like, I don't know how to two-step. I'm used to this. It was the most awkward shit and no bullshit after that. My whole life changed. Women came from everywhere. I'm talking about the most ratchet, bro. Two queens, a couple. Bro, I had a model one time that called my manager and asked, could she book me? She a model? What the fuck she booking me for? Aha! It was that good. My whole fucking life changed, but I wasn't raised to be cool. I was always raised to be aggressive. I was always hunting my whole fucking life. So from being the hunter to now women hunting me. Hold on, so what happened when she booked you? When you got there. I'm just saying. It was a dope shoot. Well, it was dope to get booked and work. We're going to put that work in. Ham home, huh? A lot of stuff we may not be able to do, but no. Hell of an alias right there. So I'll tell y'all one other thing. Like a pimp, a lot of people thought that I just got conscious recently. I've been conscious since the 11th grade. We just come from very violent backgrounds. I was conscious in my head, but I didn't know how that shit worked in real time. The truth is you can't lead the people and feed the people. I don't give a fuck how much knowledge you give them if they don't see how that manifested in the money. Damn, I fucking don't want to hear that shit. I know if I got some crap, I'm going to get something arrested, some money, fucking AIDS, some pussy, I'm going to get something. If I got this smoke, I'm going to get something. This other shit y'all talking about is hypothetical. So if you go back and turn the music off, I don't like a pimp. In the video, we ran the Ku Klux Klan out of Mississippi. We pushed the fucking cross down. I took the Confederate flag and threw that bitch back. Actually, I had an album, a mixtape that was called Sex, Drugs, a video that just said sex, drugs, and something else. It was so serendipitous. It was so close to the fucking future, but nobody ever fucking listened. Even lyrics. Nobody been rapping my ass off. One thing was my diction. I sound like I had fucking cotton in my mouth, but I always been fucking rapping. That's one of the things that pissed me off actually even more than the beats. As I am just now, since the BET cipher was the first time that I actually started getting fucking credit for my verses, bro. You know? But we don't strangle their ass. You got to. Yeah, but you know, fuck that. Don't never change shit you doing, right? You just get mad. I think, bro, with me, I just got tired, bro. I don't have no kids yet. I just practice a lot. Man, have some kids. You can afford them. Oh, I can. People never even look at shit. Don't nobody study. If you look at my career, bro, I was either producing, acting, activist, album, speaking. I went 10 years, bro. This is a story I never told nobody. I went 10 years. And I was supposed to go on Carter III tour with Wayne because my manager at the time was really good friends with Cortez. And I was so burnt out that when I tried to get up I couldn't stand up. And I stayed in the house for seven months and couldn't move. Literally, Wayne, they was like, you come on this tour. And I tried to get up and I couldn't fucking stand up. I literally worked. I just started enjoying my career to about three years ago. All I ever did was work. Damn, yeah. And then you spend all this money, bro, like the money be gone, bro. Like what did Ocelo say that little money be gone? It be true, bro. I don't know what the fucking money because I never was no big stunner and no shit like that. And like, bro, I ran through it. You still drive fast as fuck? No. You know you was notorious for driving fast. Yeah. The government had wrote me a letter and said that it was going to suspend my license indefinitely. One time a cop asked me why do I do shit like that and I told him because I can afford to. Yeah. Good. That's a Jack Johnson type. I'm surprised he didn't shoot my mother fucking earth. I sure did. I looked at him. He was like... Yeah. Yeah, man. In Mississippi, too. Y'all got it out me today, bro. That's it, man. Yeah. Because you don't understand. Like me and this man right here started our comedy career together. And he'll tell you, we've been everywhere and my fuck is like, bro, you got to get with Banner. You and Banner, what y'all think that shit is going to be crazy? I'm telling you, man. I'm telling you. So just for this shit to happen, this big ass knife. Come on, man. I will keep this sword in the family. Brother power! I will... He will tell you. You see, this is the knife I had in my pack. I will guarantee you, I will do a whole lot of Mississippi shit with it. I will not let you down. Stay with a knife in the Cadillac. Come on, man. You got a little motherfucker chopper. Chopper motherfucker nub off. What you say you slu-foot motherfucker? What's the last thing before we go, bro? What you want to know if I leave? Oh, man. Shit. What's next? I was asking about that cartoon before the... Because you know we're trying to get in the animation industry. Who better to get in it with than... All right. Well, you asked me what's next, bro. Is that I have a company that's called a Banner Vision. And I remember when this dude told me a story about this little black girl. She ran into the kitchen crying uncontrollably and said, daddy, daddy, daddy. Are there going to be any black folks in the future? Yeah. Why you say that, baby? She said because I was watching the Jetsons and I didn't see none. When people do futuristic movies and sci-fi, they're telling you what they want the future to look like. Most of their futures are without us. So it's our responsibility to put ourselves... think about it. When you make a song, when you make a movie, when you write a skit, you can literally be anywhere in the world. We usually put ourselves back in pain. I see so many people, man, when I watch black movies, it'd be the same bullshit that the crackers be doing. Like, we can't even win in our own fucking films. I ain't gonna even call out this film. I watched this motherfucker dinner. Like, what the fuck? We can't even win in our fucking dreams. Them crackers got our heads so fucked up. Every American Vision movie that you see, I got a Cracker Kill quota. And we always go in. You can best believe that shit. They fucked up. We're American gangsters. It's about the police. It's the hero. What is this really saying? The police is the gangsters. As far as the cartoon is concerned, bro. Come on, man. Talk to me. I'm actually, bro. I'm trying to create, and people always think that I want to do everything positive. I just want us to control the narrative. Everything about us isn't positive. But I do know that I want our children. Like, this is how I feel about racism now. I used to be really angry at white people. No longer angry at white people anymore, because that brings your vibrations down when you hate. In order for you to keep them all fucking down in the ditch, you got to get down there with them, right? So, I just want them to leave us the fuck alone. It ain't their responsibility to do for us. We sit back and don't even know that. We're talking like slaves. We don't even know when something, when a Cracker Kill, an innocent black person, and we post that shit and don't do nothing about it, we become the poster child for white supremacy. And I don't believe they're supreme at all. But if you're going to post some shit you're actually showing, that's like if you whoop my ass right now and I post that shit. Posting you whooping my ass and ain't nobody, didn't nobody do nothing about it? Didn't nobody do nothing? That make you look like the G. So why we keep posting that shit if you're not going to do nothing? But let them motherfucking not bring your dope back. You're gonna run up in the house and kill everybody. So why is that? We will throw our fucking lives away. I know, I know me. I used to go to a club every fucking week that people would literally die in that motherfucker. I don't even want to call the name of the club. Like motherfucker would die and people would stop dancing for like an hour and then they'd throw back that ass up from juvenile and motherfuckers would wipe the blood up and get right back out there, right? So if we go places like that knowing, like my mama told some people in the country where she stay at, my mama always go on boat rides and cruises and shit. That lady said, you ain't scared of that water, you can't drink all that water. My mama said you drive every day, you can't swallow all that concrete. So if we're going to be that bold against each other and be quick to throw our lives away over a bullshit, why we can't stand for somebody raping and killing kids? I don't get that shit, homie. But anyway, about the cartoon. The cartoon, bro, I just want to The cartoon is not all that shit you just said. Actually in a strange way it always is. It actually always is. We just want to create stuff that's meant for us. The only thing that I want to say, man, as far as I'm concerned, bro, is I just hate the fact the people that give the most to our communities are the people that we give back to the least. We always talk about how much people sacrifice, but we give our money away to people who treat us like white folks do. Motherfucker tell you, I'm coming to your motherfucking town, I'm a fuck your old lady leave a pussy with. We give him all our money. Oh, man, please come fuck my old lady. You know what I'm saying? Like, seriously, I started peeping that shit like motherfuckers that treat us like white folks treat us as the motherfuckers that we give our money to. We're supportive, motherfucker. Like, I give you an example. I'm doing better than most people on this planet that talk the shit that I talk. But I always ask this when I speak. I said, do y'all think I'm the antithesis to Donald Trump? And people say yes. That means the opposite. Am I opposite? Well, yeah. I said, why ain't riches he is? Because white folks made him rich. If I'm the direct opposite, then I should be as rich as Donald Trump right now. But the problem is, is most black people see themselves through the eyes of white people. Most of the time, when we look at some black person suffering on TV in the back of our mind, we say that nigga probably deserved it. What was he doing? Yeah, yeah. It's proven guilty until a motherfucker innocent and even when he innocent, they passed the law about somebody. They always fuck that. Take care of me. Don't wait till I die. DaveBetter.com right now and this motherfucker go subscribe to Dave Bettermore for the podcast right now. Get you some podcasts. I want all y'all to come. I got an idea of something I want you to do on my podcast, bro. Let's get it. You gonna show your ass. Yeah, bro. Literally. No, no, not literally. But yeah. No, whatever the assignment is, I will go there. I will do this with my ass. I have the knife. You know, you remember the golden child? I was the knife. But without saying closing, man, I appreciate y'all for giving me access to y'all fans because what people don't understand, bro, is when y'all bring them on y'all show, y'all give them the opportunity to touch. Like he said, some people may not know or remember. You know what I'm saying? And I want to be like, I want y'all to come on. You know what? A lot of our fans probably were some of your fans first. Yeah, they probably weren't. Because we keep this show. It's a big crossover. Yeah, we keep this show so thorough. Man, this the type of people that they're gonna say how they roll to you in the comments. That's what it's gonna be. He will let you know that like he can verify that I have actually rolled a Cadillac and played your music at obscene levels. Yes. Came on stage around the world because it was like I needed that to represent. So I can say, yeah, we got one. I'll say this to the people before I leave and then we gotta go. I'm one of the few rappers that the general public allowed to grow up. Most motherfuckers who grow up get smarter. They broke. Or they sell out. You know. And I'm one of the few people, man, I decided to grow up in front of people. And motherfuckers didn't ostracize me. And I'm grateful for that, man. Last year was literally the best year of my life as an independent businessman. Because because we were independent, other motherfuckers was trying to find a way to get this shit set up online when COVID we had all our shit ready. And like literally when people were looking for a flag, when people were looking for something to go to a flag, we had it already ready for them. It hurt us a little bit because we have been struggling so long. And I tell people this I want to still get my flag. Literally everything that you see that I create, we pay for it. So like when a motherfucker dropped a fly on the ground, y'all be like, why they better picking up flies and shit? Fuck around and throw that bag on the ground. I'm gonna repurpose that motherfucker and that's it. I know how much all that shit cost but bro, like I'll tell y'all this my dream and hopefully because you're great at doing this man my dream is to be able to create a city like Silent City. I was thinking about going to North Mississippi right before you get to Memphis. I was thinking about building That sound like Oxford. It's close. That sound like where I'm from. It's close. It's two below early. I was thinking of Oxford. Oxford is a great city up there. I want to buy, I want to create a city where our people can come and state that we don't talk about. We talk too much shit. We let the enemy know that we're coming way too early. I want to tell y'all this in a meanness. We need to get a group of us that when we really get our paper up and say, okay, you start a water company. You start an electricity company. You start a security company. You, um, I'd never forget this when I went to see the minister. When it's our minister, Farrakhan, he said, I really want to be that billionaire you're talking about. Grow organic food. He said, like, these white folks are destroying the food and the earth so much. If you create organic food, they will come and bow to you like a king. So watch this. I don't give a fuck how much we fight. I don't give a fuck how much we jump up and down in March. If they got the food, bro, I think that's the one thing that the South did fail the world with. We were supposed to be the farmers. Kids think fucking around with the dirt is whack. That's what you put inside of your body to sustain yourself. If you don't have food, water, and electricity, motherfuckers gonna get right. They gonna be like, yeah, man, let's get deep crackers. I'm hungry. Let's get deep crackers. Cold. Like, literally, bro, that's my dream, bro, to be able to build somewhere where our families could fuck with each other and we won't need nobody. Well, I know a lot of places up in North Mississippi that just happens to be my neck of the woods, so if you would like to discuss a plan. Yes, sir. I am with the shit, David Banner. I have the knife now. Hey, man, you heard it here first, man. This is the first time David Banner then came to the track. Come on, man. I'm coming back. Thanks a lot, man. Thanks a lot. Here we go. All ready. Oh, no, that's about to steal somebody from us. Don't steal my shit, man. That's all right. Let's give it a quick. Come on. You can meet a bitch with six-pack abs. They still had a little baby mama shit on top of it. Yep. That's what I've been like. Look at me. You ain't been what I've been. I've been with you being a young nigga. You ain't seen what I didn't see. I'm trying to get to where you've been. You ever seen the clip with the dickhead on it? You ain't been out here long enough. I thought I was ready for this shit. I didn't see the pussy long. Looked like some bad wings. What you to say? Hey, young nigga, you ain't seen the shit that I didn't see. I didn't win over a bitch house. It was dirty, but it was clean. Yeah. Because you ain't seen what I seen. I ain't seen nothing. You ever had a young bitch whose name was Irene? No. Because you ain't seen what I seen. Yeah. You ain't seen what I seen. You ain't seen what I seen. I'm off the top like Tyson. Bitch pussy lips look like she Fort Tyson. Big long. But I'ma still fuck strong. And that's the name of this song. You ain't seen what I seen. Y'all ain't seen what I seen. Because it ain't working yet. I might fuck a bitch all night on three percusses. And wake up in the morning and lick on her perky breasts. Let me start playing. She get me turkey now. So you ain't seen what I seen. When we was in the club, nigga was first topping beans. That's when they first hit the scene. Because you ain't seen what I seen. See the young niggas don't know that when you get my age, you ain't gonna remember shit you did when you was your age. Because you ain't seen what I seen. You ain't seen what I seen. And you ain't seen what I seen. You ain't seen what I seen taking perks. I can't go that route. If I took three perks, my dick is gonna cuss me out. Like what the fuck is you trying to do, nigga? Make no percusses, but you tell it. So every time I go over a bitch house, it's nice, neat, and clean. I call my dick codeine because when I hit her, she lean in and she knows that a keem is gonna probably break a spleen. I can do all type of things. What you mean, I ain't seen what you seen. But see, the world got you fooled, young nigga. And let me tell you how it is when you're old. Because the world gets colder. When I go to a bitch house, she on the house. And if she get mad, she putting everybody out. Grown woman shit. Two benzes. Good job. A lot of ends to see. We up in here on 85 South. I walk in the house, full of bitches, and I see 85 miles wide open. Ready to catch everything that I'm about to throw to them. I walk out and I don't go to them. So y'all ain't never seen what I seen because you ain't did the shit I did. I done played hard and seeking. You ain't hit the places I hit. Can you do the shit I do? Can you fly to places I flew? See, young nigga, I'm about to tell you how life get hard. While you was playing hide and seek, nigga, that was my yard. Because you ain't seen what I seen. And you ain't seen what I seen. Okay, okay. And what you to sing? You, nigga. I'm gonna tell you something about your yard. I'm gonna tell you something about your yard. Okay, for the motherfuckers who know. Uh huh, uh huh. I ain't up with it. Hunting on somebody daughter playing hide and go get it. I ain't seen what you're seeing because you was in the house on the couch while I was out here putting something in their mouth behind a tree man. I ain't gonna say that shit was fake but why you hunting in the yard where you think your mama at? But you ain't seen what I seen. You ain't seen what I seen. And what you think your mama at? You know what he seen. I'm in the back room fucking on Auntie Arlene. Cause you ain't seen what he seen. And you ain't seen what he seen. Hold up, I said your life is getting good but my life is getting greater. You ever fucked a bitch when the body shape her? Cause you ain't seen what I seen. He ain't seen what I seen. Now you said what was her mama I was outside hunting her and her romper and the way I'll explain it and shit I think y'all could be my uncles. So what was really going on inside that house man? You don't wanna know lil bro You ain't seen what we seen. And we not gonna miss your shit strong but could you get your pussy with shit like this? Come on. You ain't seen what I seen. No? I guess y'all niggas got me man. Every time you said it was your house I was really kind of shit. I didn't know it was you looking out the window with the whole time. We want you to win. That's why we ain't stop you. Young nigga, some whole game what you need Miss Carlos ain't got no sense but we can stand right here. You can't see my face. That's how much motherfucking land I own. I'm so old school got a landline phone. And you can call the house. I be like hold up. I'm gonna take this shit down stairs cause the house got three layers. You wanna talk about some shit while I'm a player and I'll be there in the motherfucking dragon layer. That's the part of the house that I know about. You feel me? I feel what you're saying. The shit that you said. You know I'm an old nigga what I seen. But you gonna see it. You gonna see it. You know how much shit we had to do so young niggas like you ain't have to do it. How much? We had to come before you. 85 times. So you can just walk over the stumbles that we didn't already made smooth for you. Like I saw him and I know why you're here. Yeah, exactly. You still gonna be the coldest nigga in the world. Check out how the ecosystem worked. If it wasn't for niggas like me and Chico and niggas and I demographic coming through and leaving 50-80 dollars. Talk to me, don't lie to me. They wouldn't already be fine when you run into them. Damn. We helping y'all. It's the niggas behind us. So now all I gotta do is pay the 40. Sometimes you ain't even gonna have to pay the 40. You just gonna have to show up. All you gotta do is walk in and be the cool nigga you need. They be in the club talking shit like my nigga got money. Who you think those niggas are? I'm just a substitute. I'm coming out the bitch. Something to do. And he ain't even flinch. Hot damn. Hot damn. You hear that, brother? What up first? I ain't wanna ruin the young niggas confidence, man. This has been another pimped out, spaced out. Flapped out. Adition. And y'all make sure y'all support Akeem Ali. Man, this is a superstar in the making. We're here first. This is a superstar. So don't be surprised. We tried to put you on early. But if you wait too late, you ain't gonna be great.