Drink Champs - Episode 153 w/ David Banner

Episode Date: December 21, 2018

N.O.R.E & DJ EFN are the Drink Champs.On this episode the champs sit down with Missisipi legend David Banner. They talk about everything from politics, religion and racism. Follow Drink Champs http://www.drinkchamps.com http://www.instagram.com/drinkchamps http://www.twitter.com/drinkchamps http://www.facebook.com/drinkchamps DJ EFN http://www.crazyhood.com http://www.instagram.com/whoscrazy http://www.twitter.com/djefn http://www.facebook.com/crazyhoodproductions N.O.R.E. http://www.instagram.com/therealnoreaga http://www.twitter.com/noreaga --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/drinkchamps/support Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Where every day is New Year's Eve. It's time for Drink Champs. Drink up, motherfucker. What it good be? Hopefully you're with us. It's your boy, N-O-R-E. What up? It's DJ E-F-N.

And it's Drink Champs, motherfucker. Happy hour. Make some noise! And when it comes, when it comes to people who have stood the test of time, when it comes to people, when you think of rap-tivists, an activist that's a rapper, when you think of people who I want on the front line, who I personally want to run for office, when I think of people who I want to speak for my people, period, I think of this brother. You know what I mean? I call him often at times and I just kick, and I just ask for advice. When we think of us running our own community, this is one of the very first people, him, Killer Mike. And

when I Googled him today, and I Googled all the production he's done, whoo! Holy moly! Quack-a-moly! And he's here. He's still in the test of time. Like I said, I knew him since the early 2000s. About 20 years.

20 years. I texted Tim Rifkin the other day, and Steve Rifkin said, David Banner is a one-man army. Wow. And it was so dope. So if you don't know who I'm talking about, we're talking about motherfucking David Banner. Make some noise!

All right, so listen. I got some stuff I want to tell y'all cool cool, but today y'all gonna have to change Oh, okay The last time you get to X I'm a large now So, okay. These are the very very rare Wow We only given a like this is only a hundred made okay of the black fist bomber jet Hey, yo, okay good look goddamn easy my car right now, bro Thank you so much. You got put sauce on

So no, we got a really um special gift for both of y'all. You got vinyl? I see vinyl right there. Wait, wait, wait. Get hype. But I got the limited God Box vinyl for you. Wow. Woo!

My man. My man. This is Nori. Nori, I got a surprise for you. It's actually coming. OK. It'll be here in about 15 minutes. That's beautiful, man.

Listen, man. David Banner. Hold on, wait. Before you get into it, I want to say something before we get started, man. Please. I feel like I'm fucking special. Yes, you are. Because I was before the television show.

Absolutely, yeah. So, like, you know, they got before Christ. I'm before TV. You know what I'm saying? And to see what it's become now, man, like, I'm humbled, man, for y'all to even let me be a part of the first generation, man. And the thing that both of y'all don't know

is that we all, we both had separate relationships even before y'all connected. And we all talk on the phone separately. And I was telling him, as well as you, how proud I am that you all were able to get out of the box. Thank you. Because when we get any type of success, whether it's a DJ, a rapper,

people don't want to see you do shit ass. You know what I'm saying? And they don't want to see it elevate to a bigger platform. Because I told somebody something, and I think it upset them. I told them, I said, one day I'm gonna be bigger than all of this shit it's like people want they kill each other to be

the best rapper but it's something so much bigger out here man something so much bigger to do somebody said bro it ain't what you what people talk about you in 20 years or how they talk about you in 20 years is what the fuck they say about you in 200 years whether they even talking about your ass at all right you feel what i'm saying that legacy the stuff that we do brother legacy is what matters bro i think in 200 years tupac will be talked about like jesus i hope so bro i hope i hope that he don't have white skin. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, yeah. Because in 200 years, that'd be the time to mature a white boy. Because you know what's the crazy thing?

I'm sorry to get straight into it. But you know the crazy thing? The more that we hear about Jesus, oh, this is the EFM, right? Bring me the joint. The more that we hear about Jesus, ain't he like the homie from the hood? Right.

Like, what I mean by that is, you ever met a killer? Like, I mean, you ever heard of a killer And then as time go on everyone has a different story about this. This is this guy from another and this seems like Jesus It's like a myth. Yeah I would say it's a myth because I'm saying becomes that all things that becomes that But the person is not let me tell you amazing thing, though. It's when your enemy knows that you're bigger than them, so they co-opt you. That's what they did.

Jesus was a black revolutionary. So they did Jesus like they did Tupac. I mean, like they did Malcolm X. They knew they couldn't stop Malcolm X, so they took him and put him on a cap. So to these kids, he was nothing but an X on a cap. So they turn you into a caricature That's why it's important for us to tell our own stories You know what I'm saying

And it's up to us to check a motherfucker Like E if if if if if 50 years from now You know God fearing that That it never happened But let's say you pass And a motherfucker tell a story that ain't correct We gotta check them motherfuckers.

Like, nah, that's some motherfucking bullshit. And we have to stop leaving it to people who don't really give a fuck about our coaches to tell our stories. We got to shoot up. We should have shot the stories of our heroes. Black Panther. Black Panther, Pac, whatever. We can't sit back and criticize was a Vinny Vinny no no but when I when I say when I say not it not I mean us as a culture you mean like even a studio I mean let me tell you

something that I really respected okay when I was living in LA you just tank up and make no movie about Mexican culture right in LA. You just can't up and make no movie about Mexican culture in LA. Somebody gonna die in this bitch. Like for real. It happened in American media. And that's exactly. Made by them.

So that's how it needs to be about black culture. It can't just be one name, because what they'll do a lot of times is they'll go hire that one black face so they can blame whatever happens on that one black face. Can I go a little deeper for you? Yes, always. Can I go hip-hop culture?

Yes. Can it be like that for hip-hop culture? Like for right now, I forget who it is that they're suing. I think it's Bobby Brown suing somebody for using the likeness of Whitney's likeness. Shouldn't we do that? Oh, is it the album cover? It's something that they use of Whitney. It wasn't Pusha T's album cover?

No, it's not Pusha T. They did get mad about that. Yeah, they paid. But they still got mad about that. They still got mad about it. Bobby Brown. Bobby was mad about it. But shouldn't we have some type of stimulation in hip-hop

where if you want to make a hip-hop movie, if you want to even be involved with the culture, you've got to have some type of stripes. Oh, yeah. Like, for instance, right culture, you got to have some type of stripes. Like for instance, right now, right? There's this big little thing. I keep going at this guy. His name is Zane Lowe, right? Zane Lowe works for Apple.

He gets all these big interviews and I just don't know his credentials. Not saying he doesn't have any, but I'm just saying I don't know him. I'm not aware of him. And I'm hip hop. I've been in this fucking shit for 21 years. I got an album about to be 21. But what I'm not aware of them. And I'm hip-hop. I've been in this fucking shit for 21 years. I got an album about to be 21. But what I'm trying to say is

as opposed to Zane Lowe just coming in and just being a part of this culture, we should have a council where listen, okay, we feel like you got the stripes to be. And it's not about race. It's not about race. You know what I'm saying? It's about your stripes in hip-hop. What do you feel about that? Well, for me, it is about race. It's not about race. You know what I'm saying? It's about your stripes in hip-hop.

What do you feel about that? Well, for me, it is about race. But I get what you're saying. I get what you're saying. It definitely is about race. But what I'll say is this, bro, is that's how we should be about everything that comes as it pertains to our culture. I really believe, and this is only my personal opinion, that hip-hop, we gave hip-hop away.

You know? And I said this. I actually said it here at the Revolt music conference. I was like, yo, bro, we criticized these kids, but we were the ones that told them money over everything.

So we told them it's about the bag white people have have killed raped and done everything to own most of the resources on this planet so if you say it's all about the bag you're basically saying you sold your soul to white folks like come on because they're the one that you're getting the money from i was telling somebody recently like bro I'm shooting movies cartoons and for the most part just like the god box I paid for that 100% and people say why don't you want investors well if you want to give me your money I'll take your money but what people don't understand sometimes they

pay you money just so you won't make the final achievement to learn that you really don't need them in the first place So if you build your company and then you sell it before it really blows It's like buying a company out to take out the competition Right Like I found out my generation of rappers in the south we were doing so good independently You know one of us flip was selling like a 120,000 copies. The South Park Mexicans were selling like 180,000.

Pastor Troy was doing his thing. The Bay Area was doing their thing. And what they did was, they gave all of us more money than we had seen at one time in one sitting individually, but we didn't look at the money that we were making as a

collective. So then they signed us all and then moved us out of the way and then they absorbed the whole independent movement then after that the mom-and-pop stores went out of business then they went and attacked like Gonzales oh man I got a $70,000 check one time from I forgot the distribution company Texas was it yeah it was out of Texas easy to distribute my mixtapes yeah like like like bro we were making so much and what we didn't understand was these big corporations was like yo collectively they're like R Kelly collectively they're like a

Beyonce I'm even though Beyonce wasn't out at the time I'm just saying and what they ended up doing was using us all as a tax write-off and then we were no longer competition to us and most of us got phased out. The reason why they couldn't phase me out is because I was a producer. So I can make my own records and I had my own, like,

our relationship. I had my own relationship. People don't even know this. I built a studio when I was homeless In my van I used to do drops for DJs And verses for MCs DJ be like I need a drop

I would do it in my van I got one of those electrical regulators That you hook into the The cigarette lighter Had my studio in Since none of my homeboys Wanted to go on the road with me I built a studio

And if you go back and listen to Mississippi The album, the interludes You can hear the cars pass Like that's why I tell these kids It ain't no excuse Like for me I tell the person If I want to do a deal with you Don't tell me no

Tell me what it's going to take Even if it's a fucking billion dollars. But if I bring a billion and slap it on this motherfucking table, bitch, let's do business. You feel me? Make some noise for that. So when we usually interview people, we always go through their playlist,

we always go look at their videos. And one thing that struck me was the Confederate flag on Like a Pimp, right? Wow, wow wow and the thing about it was it was i seen the video i'm looking at the video i'm watching it right here i put my hood on and i'm watching it not only did you have a confederate flag but you was busting through it but you also had crosses in there and we cut off the head of the clue class clan member and pushed over the flat and pushed over the cross you did that video because

how how the fuck you did that back then and That's the thing that I keep telling people. People thought I just got conscious four years ago. Bro, I was conscious then. I was just high. Angry and mad. I tell a motherfucker all the time, how can you dream if you don't have a bed to sleep in? The consciousness couldn't manifest

because I wasn't eating right. I was drunk. I was mad. I was angry. I needed to fucking pay my fucking bills. And then I went from homeless to being a millionaire in a week. Imagine that. Imagine only a small amount of people knowing you to 30% of the people on this planet knowing you. And then they announced you had a $10 million deal.

And you're from the poorest state That's a mind fuck That's more than a mind fuck And then the thing was I didn't know how to turn it off But the thing that you say I tell people that all the time I say listen

Since you think I just got conscious Go listen to Like a Pimp But turn the music off But that show you how Even we Only listen To what white people give us We only listen to What they say or the single that they put out.

Just like you said, bro, I burned the clock, ripped the Confederate flag up, threw that bitch back at the camera. Cut the Ku Klux Klan. It was funny because I really didn't think MTV was going to play that shit. And then what's funny, MTV played the real version, and BET was the one that cut all the, you know what I'm saying? I was like, what the fuck? And it's all Viacom, too. What did you think about Kanye when you see him rock the Confederate flag?

Because, see, you were making a point, and correct me if I'm wrong. When I look at the video now, that years later, you're actually ripping through the Confederate flag. Like you say, you're cutting off the Ku Klux Klan. But Kanye tried to wear it as a fashion statement. And he tried to, and it was like the ooh, the shock and value, you know. And how did you feel about it?

Because Andre wore it too. Let me tell you how I feel, Nori. Like I said, you've been knowing me for 20 years. You've been knowing me for about 15. Yep. I don't like talking about other men. Right. I get it.

To me, that's high school shit. Right. If people are so angry at Kanye, then why everybody give him so much motherfucking attention? Hold up. And the thing is, I'll comment about how I feel about it The thing is It's similar to what you said about the movies People do shit because they're comfortable

Everybody, even black people Is too comfortable with black culture If a motherfucker felt like they was going to get their ass snatched up They would be very hesitant About some of the things that they do in our culture Let me reiterate the question Because perhaps I didn't say it correct. What I meant was because the Confederate flag means something specifically to people from the South. No, to the whole nation.

To the whole fucking nation. The world is a world symbol. And it's never been for black people. And I add something to that. Okay. As a Southerner, I feel the same way about the Confederate flag. I feel the same way about the word nigga as I feel about the Confederate flag. Wow.

Like, everybody is all willy-nilly and anybody can say the word nigga. Call me a nigga. I'm going to beat your ass. I'm going to fuck who you are. And then I've gotten to the point now it's some black folks that can't call me a nigga. And the thing is, it's because southern people went through a different type of

pain. The Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan said something to me. He called me to a, well, I guess I can't say. He called me to a secret meeting. And he told me, he said, David Banner, he said, I don't even want you to be Muslim. I'm like, for real? He said, because you have a following that a lot of people don't have.

Don't nobody know whether you're Christian, Muslim, atheist. So everybody comes, and they listen to you. He said, you're one of the few people you can go wherever you want to, West Coast, East Coast, Muslim, Christians. That's funny. I was in a Christian church in Mississippi and told them they were gods. And afterwards, they got up

and clapped. You can't go to church in Mississippi and say nothing unless you got Jesus before. But what he was telling me was, is that Southerners have the potential to be the greatest leader because they've been Through the most oppression

So the fact that I have a great uncle That was hung For a fucking real Wow So When black folks Give other people

The I I will tell you something This is something That I've only said One other place The most Damn

The most Disappoint The most Dis the most disappointing moment for me in hip-hop was niggas in paris because to me that was the international okay for everybody to say the word nigga i traveled internationally and when i was at my worst nor you know when i was out there bad all right when i toured internationally i didn't say my worst, and you know when I was out there bad. Alright. When I toured internationally, I didn't say the word nigga. And you know every other word was nigga, nigga, nigga, nigga, nigga, nigga. I always felt a certain way in Europe, like saying that. And if you notice, and this is no attack at either one of those great MCs,

but it was like, notice afterwards. Because bro, I looked and I realized that in africa my generation we were the ones pop generation in my generation was the ones that taught africans the word nigga africans didn't know the word nigga we taught them that and if we are gonna take the responsibility for hip-hop like you say we should we gotta take responsibility for the fuck ups. Right. I fucked up bad. Right. So a lot of people, they applaud me for what I do socially, but a lot of that shit I'm trying to pay back my debt

to my people, dog. Right. We was wild as fuck. I remember for a long time, I was mad at you when you said fuck you and your weak religion. I was like, oh, oh, this motherfucker. And then I met you, you was the coolest motherfucker in the world.

I was like, that was the same motherfucker. But like seriously, like for real man, like, we, bro, we got some making up to do. Yeah, that's true. And we can't blame these children, because these children, they come here with no brain, bro. Like, we're a direct result of Tekashi 6ix9ine. But we are.

Let me just make my point, and I'll pass it back. Like, everything that you see bad about Tekashi 6ix9ine is directly R4. And what I mean by that is... We've been saying that on this show for a while. No, but I want to...

If you don't correct something like if i see you knowing that you're doing something wrong and i don't say nothing about it i'm just as guilty right as you i i think but i think with him i think for these kids who are black uh-huh who came up who who latino who are inside of the culture, I would take that comment and say yes, because when I said yes, I didn't mean, I had to think about who you were talking about. They are guests, some people are guests to our culture. Right.

And they look at the weaknesses, because I even look at a lot of rappers, bro, who on TV, they play the dumbest motherfuckers in the world and i know they're the smartest motherfucker like him he actually was a smart kid so what they're doing is they're taking advantage of what's happening to our people who don't have a choice of whether they're smart or dumb i think i think we're trying to say a simplest form is these people are acting when we didn't know that you can act when we came out we didn't know you can that that was really look i looked at all your videos from

from them that was really you like you look at all my videos that was really me that's like like one of the reasons too is because our culture you and the south whether you was acting or not if you were acting you couldn't cut that shit off Cause you had to go through Birmingham You had to go through Lafayette, Louisiana And the motherfuckers gonna pull your chain And see if you really the motherfucker You say you are And so like

Would you being able to go straight from the internet To being a star And not having to go to these cities Until you have There's no training why none it's just like sorry to cut you off it's just like one of the biggest problems is when you took away the chicago and you look you took away all the the gang leaders and for all the bad things that gang is when you took away the gang leaders look at the look at look at look at chicago that's

probably the worst place because because they took away our structure because we policed ourselves. The hierarchy. You know what I'm saying? I went to competing green. To tell you the truth, it was the most dangerous, safest place I ever went to in my life.

It was dangerous if you didn't know who the fuck he was with. And it was safe because once you knew who the hell he was with, they laid out the red carpet for me. You just touched on one of the most relevant topics in the world and most people don't understand it.

Just so y'all will know know what the Chicago officials did. They complained about Chicago. They know what they did. What they did is they manipulated the RICO laws. So what happened was if you are higher up or you are a regional, you are elder in the gangs. What people don't know about gangs, they actually have a beautiful structure. Yeah. Like unless somebody blasted you directly. all right like you gotta go get permission

you gotta work to the higher ups them motherfuckers knew what they did so let's say if you were my higher up yep and i killed somebody they gave me 10 years you get 10 years too all right whether you knew about it or not they knew what they did so what they did was they soaked up all the elders and when they soaked up all the elders And when they soaked up all the elders They were no more struck Larry who was in everyone under him and everyone above him And to put it to relevancy of right now

Let's show Narcos for example I haven't seen Narcos But if you watch Narcos it talks about the beginning of the Mexican cartels But this is an example For how it's been done for years The whole thing is Cut the head off of a snake And this is an example for how it's been done for years right the the whole thing has cut the head off of the snake right what do and this is the old mexican the original mexican cartel what's happening today it's it's crazy it's a war in the streets all right wow the medal of

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I look at somebody like Chuck D. Imagine what Chuck D right now could do with one hit record. He would be rich for the rest of his fucking life because we know the fucking game. I told somebody this recently, man. Fucked his head up. He came to me and he was like,

Yo, I'll give you 40% Of all the proceeds on your song I said sir I get 90 already Alright See I've been through so much I know every aspect of the rap game Alright You know

And I was even telling people that about streaming T.I. was the only other person I heard talk about this Bro they got everybody excited about streaming Why would an artist be excited about streaming? You were getting pennies before. Now you're getting fractions of pennies. And all streaming is is you going to somebody else's site

and they're playing your music over and over again and you send somebody else to another corporation. The corporation gets paid before you do to play your music. When we had just learned how to burn our own CDs had just learned how to burn our own CDs we learned how to market our own distribution we gotta stop for a second we got a surprise okay so this is the surprise to give our surprise you so I

need you all these international sizes yeah sizes, bro. All right, so give me mine. Yeah, these are yours right here. These two. Okay, so. That's from Noriega. You got the records. So I was able to get one, and I'm going to tell y'all what it is. Brian Samuel is a black-owned, high-end shoe designer.

I'm talking about on the level of Christian Louis Vuitton. Don't tell him how much it costs, just look at the price tag, Nori, right there. Okay. Hold on, I'll show you right there, look at that right there. Okay, goddamn. So, this is what I'm about to do, you all.

Show it to him. Okay, pull it out. And I'm inking the deal with him right now. Okay. So let me tell y'all what I'm doing so you would know Okay I am trying to own every fucking thing that I own Everybody talks about white supremacy

I don't look at white supremacy as a bad thing no more You know what white supremacy is to me? Anytime somebody shows me white supremacy That means that's something else I need to own. If you don't let me be Superman, then fuck it, I'll make my own superhero. You boys,

you Christian Louboutin, you don't want black folks in your motherfucking shoes. You Gucci, y'all act funny when black folks come in your motherfucking store, then I'm on it.

And when my shoes come out, I don't want to hear one motherfucker complain about the price of my shoes because you would spend $3,000 on a motherfucker that hates you. So it's like everything

on this planet that I see. Like, I was talking to a motherfucker today, I want to own water. One of the reasons why they'll never stop killing our people is because we need their water and their motherfucking electricity. That's what I want. It's to a point right now, you can't even go to the shade tree motherfucking mechanic. Y's what I want. It's to a point right now,

you can't even go to the shade tree motherfucking mechanic. Y'all ain't drinking enough. This drinks it. No, no, no, no. I'm talking to you, my brother. Hold on. Hold on. Ask me, I want wine or champagne.

I mean, I want wine or champagne. Champagne? Okay, let's go. But what I'm saying is, and what I'm saying is, is like I look at everything that they do to us. Like, bro, I'm going to tell and what I'm saying is, is like, I look at everything that they do to us. Like, bro, I'm going to tell y'all

the real secret, bro. Whether it comes into fruition or not, I am paying a whole, I ain't going to tell y'all. I can't tell y'all. But I'm making plans for us to have a place to stay.

Right. A place for us to go. Right. And that's something that we can't talk about. We got to stop running our mouth on TV all the fucking time

because if I say it right now, they go, but I'm really, and the sad thing about it, I said when I came on here because I had wrote down, remember when we talked, I had wrote down

all the stuff I wanted to talk about, but I said I didn't want to make it too heavy, but I do want to say this. One of the problems in our community is that most black people don't want to say this. One of the problems in our community is that most black people don't want to

be black. See, when other people start corporations, like you look at Donald Trump, you look at the shit that just happened in Mississippi, a motherfucker come and tell you that they're racist. Wait, the lady that says he wanted to get a front row to hang in? That's Mississippi, right? Yeah. They will tell you that they racist, but a motherfucker that support black people, they act like they ashamed of their black constituency.

And they won't even say what they going to do for black people. That's why I don't support these motherfuckers. If you can't tell me straight up and down, these motherfuckers

will tell you that they racist and that they support certain motherfuckers and you can't even say what your agenda is for black people because you act like you embarrassed so if you embarrassed of us that you embarrassed of my motherfucking vote and I am a Republican I am a Democrat I'm thinking motherfucking sentient being I'm

a fucking god so you don't come to me and tell me about history of voting and all that bullshit bitch you should gonna do for my people that's all i want to know i don't give a fuck if you a clan member if you got an agenda for black folks some of these motherfucking clan members that do better than some of the motherfucking black folks that's running because you're fucking democrat and you lazy and you ain't doing shit anyway so if you don't say it or write it down on a sheet of paper, I ain't fucking with you. You got some champagne right there, too. So, sorry, did you see Black Class, man? No, I didn't.

I love that movie, man. I feel like I'm the only black person who saw it. I swear to God, everybody. I was spending time writing the movie. I came back to it. Well, it's funny because it's a true story. It's a true story how a black man really just answered the phone and infiltrated the Ku Klux Klan. And I really enjoyed the movie because he gets these other people arrested.

And this one cop felt up this black sister. And at the end, he had to take it. But then at the end, he got him arrested. So it was like, it was a dope little movie. I think Spike Lee, it was real. I'm sorry to change the subject. Oh, no, man, it's dope. But what I will say, man, is like,

and we have to get these political people to tell us and say what they're going to do on TV. That's the contract. And afterwards, we got to hold them to it. How do we feel about a Florida guy, Andrew Gillum, and then what's the ladies in Atlanta? Because you live in Atlanta, correct? I live, well, I have to tell you where I live.

I am from Mississippi, but I live on this planet. I live wherever the job is. God damn is. You know what I'm saying? This is how I feel, man. And this is how I feel. And I really want to say this. I think our people have gotten lazy. And we want a one-step deal

to solve all of our problems. Politics is only a component. Like, if you look at Asian people, for the most part, they're not really involved in politics because they own every fucking thing that has to do with their life. They created their own infrastructure

within their own microcosm. So they don't have to worry about politics because the only thing you can really do is raise their fucking taxes. And that don't matter because their money's going to go up as the taxes go up anyway. For me, it's about just what I say.

Own it your own shit. Because what I'm going to start doing, I'm telling everybody right motherfucking now. I'm about to do some things, and by the time people find out about it, I'm going to be the man with too much money. It ain't going to matter no. I'm going to start buying politicians and treating them like whores. Because that's all they are anyway. They're fucking whores. So, ho, and I'm not saying a whore has to be a woman,

ho, if I give you this money for your campaign, and you don't do what I say, bitch, I'm gonna come slap you. And I mean literally, oh, well, actually we can't say that. They'll convict us for that. I am not condoning it. Fuck that, yes we are, slap that bitch. You know, man, I'm so motherfucking proud of y'all, man.

I know what I want though. I saw on the internet, there's some special Patrick Ewers around this motherfucker. Oh no, no, we got you, we got you. Around this guy, the five. What size, what size are you? 13. Ladies, that's literally a figure 10. Nah, I just, I just, because I want people to know this.

Can I say that for a minute? Okay, yeah. Ladies, I mean literally or figuratively. Damn. Hold on one second. Hold on one second. Hold on, because I just want people to know because this is not rehearsed. Yo, Ray.

What up? You're live on the podcast without saying too much things. What was I told you not to bring tonight? Because I didn't want to show everybody. You told me not to bring the big surprise because you didn't want to get drunk and start showing off

when we're not supposed to show anybody. But you could just say what it is. So, I didn't say there's some shit I'm not supposed to say. Just say what it is. It's a say what it is just say what it is All right cool, what love I hit you back Okay This ever so good It came out And he was like I got my own I already knew about it I seen them already You wanna know why

Okay Cause I got one of those too Okay Okay Okay Okay So we Just so we all know

Yeah yeah yeah But I'm with that I'm I feel like that's the way You know You know You know what I I said the other day

Right We had T.I. on here T.I. said that he's an activist He said he's a rapper He said he's a trapper He said he'll kiss your girl in the mouth And then he'll motherfucking break up the Sunday school church And march And I said we need more people like that

He said the dopest shit He said why can't I be all of them I'm human Him he said that And Nipsey Hussle Said something that was so fucking profound And I've been drinking So Nipsey, if I misquote you

He said, I'm not that smart I just didn't quit Them kids need to hear that One of the biggest problems Is we make people heroes You need to know that Martin Luther King got some side pussy. Yeah.

So if you fuck up and get some, well, if you fuck up, then people will know, well, okay, David Bowie. Because I'm going to tell you what I do. It's serious. I fuck up one time every year. But I try to do, when I went to jail that time in D.C., that wasn't no person. But I try to fuck up every year, and I try to control it. So kids see. And clarify that.

I do some dumb shit. Do some dumb shit. On purpose. You get drunk. On purpose? Like you try to reach your quota once a year? Yeah, once a year. I try to make sure once a year I do something.

Balance. Well, balance and to show these kids that it's okay to not be. That's my point I was trying to bring up. And that's why this show is so important. I don't drink on TV. Motherfuckers need to see Dave Bannacuda's fuck. He drink back here too. And he going back and forth.

But my point was, when our parents send us away, when people in the hood just say, it's nighttime, you got to go home, I wouldn't listen to a person who wasn't respected. Right. I would, if it was a local guy that was a preacher, you got to go home, kid. I'm looking at this guy, what the fuck? But if it was a drug dealer, if it was a guy that's well-respected in the hood, he say, you know, Nori, Poppy, excuse me, you got to go upstairs. I'll listen to him.

Bro, you got to do something about left rack, bro, because people don't understand how real left rack is, bro. Like, I got some partners outside of you that's from left rack that. Well, it's being better now. Well, now it's being gentrified. No, what my homeboy said about left rack now is it's gentrified up until about 7 o'clock. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. No, no, no.

And then it come right back. I'll be honest. I'll be honest Oh, this is probably the fuck them shit about mother is the police and the hood gotta understand it everything goes on this But it gotta be on that side, but it's actually no violence the violence has went down and that's the reason That's important, bro, is because for kids to see where we came from, bro. Like when I was growing up, Jackson, Mississippi was the murder capital of the United States. You know, and that's the reason, one of the reasons why I did the God Box, bro. Because, go ahead. Pardon me for jumping around, but you being from Mississippi.

Right. And you hearing that, what was she, a councilwoman? Yeah. Because she said it in public's eye. She was running for. And didn't laugh. No, she's not a councilwoman. She was running for, what was she?

Somebody Google it. She didn't. The guy Googled her. And she didn't apologize for it. I'm happy about that, though, bro. Bro, let me tell you this, man. Because the most dangerous races are the hidden races, not the ones that you. And she pulls about that, though, bro. Bro, let me tell you this, man. Because the most dangerous races are the hidden races, not the ones that...

But this is what it is, though. I don't understand why... I don't understand why black people want shit to be covered up again. Like, motherfuckers real live want a Hillary Clinton when we still getting our ass beat. For the first

time with Trump, a liberal white person said, maybe it is that bad. Y'all remember when I was on CNN and I got about 10,000 followers because of this shit. The lady said, it's pretty rough in America right now. And I told her, I said, for black

folks, it's been about 400 years. And everybody was like that motherfucker said it on CNN what the fuck and liberal white people are saying black people were not lying it's fucked up

be real all the shit we see on TV we not surprised about that shit that's why when NWA came out and said fuck the police We was like fucking yes When David Banner came out Ripping up the confederates The thing is

If we don't allow Them to show their face When the retaliation Or the reprimanding comes Then you gotta think We not just white people, but we paint a picture that people of culture are savages.

Because white America pays us. Go ahead, think about it. America pays two people. The black person with no culture at all, you can't see no no beard no nothing and the stalk raving unapologetic nigga those are the two stereotypes they want so when which is like a Bobby Smurda uh uh uh uh six nine I mean it's it's to me won't you when you name a specific person, then you make it personal.

No, when in actuality, it's a mindset. And we were the ones that told him to go get the bag. So being a nigga, it's true. Or being a whatever you are like, we were drug dealers because we didn't have a choice. It's true. Like, dog, man, I've been trying to get this money. I'm a hustle and I'm gonna get out. One of the biggest things that's happening where I'm from,

the drug dealing isn't the problem, it's the middle class drug dealer. Because they start snitching before they even get the deal. Because them motherfuckers, they ain't never been in jail, they ain't never had to fight. You know, it's easy to kill a motherfucker with a pistol.

A baby can do that. My uncle always said, a real man will stab a bitch. When you get up close to a motherfucker and get some blood on your hand, you a man then. I said this. I said this on one of my old records. If you a real

man choke a bitch with your bare hands, that's what I want to see choke a motherfucker out watch his life bleed out his fucking mouth that's the real that's where i come from you're gonna huh you're gonna oh yeah oh 30 40 well see i don't know whether it's 30 or 40 because somebody broke into one of my cars oh god so i'm still trying to figure out Like dog I own And I'm gonna tell you exhibit right and CeeLo right young to my little green. Yeah People I ever seen the head Morgan

My favorite my favorite gun is I have a Navy issue ar-15 It's a short one with the Mickey Mouse clip on it. You know what I'm saying? With the 100-round Mickey Mouse clip on it. Big Chris saw that shit. Yeah, you're doing that just to show off. No. I'm doing it.

That clip is to show off. Let me ask you a quick question. No, that's not true. I'm going to tell you the difference between me and other people. No, the clip. No, no, no. Watch this.

Who came here with me? You, by yourself. When you see me, what am I always? By myself. So you see how many motherfuckers in this room? Let's say if y'all didn't like me, what do I have to have? I need a hundred. Motherfuckers always saying, better to be judged by 12 than cared by 6.

I'm killing everybody. And I'm not joking. I'm talking about judged by 12, then killed by 6. I'm killing everybody. And I'm not joking. I'm talking about innocent bystanders. I'm talking about rats, dogs, and a little lamb. I'm getting out this motherfucker. I don't care if I gotta go through a motherfucker asshole. I'm shooting through his ass. And I'm gonna create a hole big enough for my big ass to run through it.

Like, for me, nothing is for show. Because my dad taught me, my dad gave me a gun at 10. And my dad said, if you show it, you blow it. Right. That was our rule. That's the right way. So you're not gonna see my clip, if you see my clip,

It's gonna be real. And hold on, this camera, can you come to me? Cause my brother need to see my face. You see my clip, that be the last thing you see in your life. Yeah. That's the reason why I train physically. The last thing, I said a prayer before I got my first gun that I would never have to do some of the stuff I did before. Well, actually, no, that wasn't my prayer.

My prayer is that I would never have to kill a man with these guns. Like, I'd rather have a gun and not need it. One of my friends came into my house and was like, bro, what you need all this shit for? And why do you have them out? In my house, if you kick in my door, there's a gun in every position. If I'm cooking, it's one under the stove. But is it, I'm pardon me for cutting you off, but I want you to get right back to this. But I rented a house in Malibu one time.

And a lady who I rented it from had the same exact setup. But everywhere she went, you had to put your fingerprint on it. Like, so she had one under the thing. You had to release it. So she had guns all over the house. The shit was ill.

Which is dope. Let me ask you a question. But you had to put a fingerprint on it. Both of you all come from the same environment I come from. Yeah. One second is the difference between what that's true I am oh if I'm gonna put my fingerprint it's gonna be on the fucking trigger and I'm squeezing that bitch You know anything is if you if you if you study the state of Mississippi and you look at there's almost no

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Let me tell you something. Let me tell you something about white folks in Mississippi. If I had to pick a white person on this planet, it would be a white person from Mississippi. Because you think of

their past history they're trying to make up? If a white person in Mississippi love you they'll die for you if they hate you they'll kill you that's all I want right I want to know where you stay if you see a white person past a certain street in Mississippi you know you know he or she really fuck what well probably fucking, but I mean the females at least. Literally, they really fuck with us.

Real live. And that's all I want is the truth. Don't do like they did in New York where they hang around you for 80 years and then they stealing your pension. And then you about to retire and you figure out that motherfucker who been smiling in your face giving you coffee every day

You going to they child's bar mitzvahs or whatever This motherfucker done stole your whole fucking pension No the white folks in Mississippi If they fuck with you they fuck with you If they don't they don't And that's all I fucking want And that's the point that we didn't finish about the politics Let's finish that point

With the lady right She was running for senate Yeah she was running for a Senate position. Thank you. I'm supposed to know that. The thing is is don't you want to really know what's going on in your state so you can fix it?

Don't you really want to know how America feels about you? Why do you want to live a lie? In the Matrix, the white dude said, I know the steak doesn't exist, but it tastes so good. Motherfuckers know we live in a lie. I want to see all y'all racism.

Because think about this. This is something people never talk about. Obama was a direct result of how bad Bush fucked up So if we get These motherfuckers Who are real live They show they fucking face

Then we can really get to fixing shit Because I'm going to tell you all a secret people don't know A lot of these Different people They had their representatives to call me. David Bannon, we need your support. I don't want your representative. If you want the people that follow me, you call me directly like a fucking man.

Let me come and see you. And if I come and see you, I want you to tell me exactly what the fuck you're doing for black people. So all these motherfuckers who asked me why I wasn't involved in politics this year, it's because the motherfuckers would not call me directly. And if I'm not important enough for you to call me directly, because you know I'm going to check your ass, and you know if you tell me something...

Steve, who used to be the head of Motown at Universal? Kadar. Okay, Kadar. Kadar lives out here. Kadar said something. So yeah, I saw him in a Soho house. Who used to be the head of Motown at Universal? Kadar. Okay, Kadar. Kadar lives out here. Kadar said something. See, yeah, I saw him in the Soho house. Yeah, Soho house.

Kadar Entertainment. Let's make some noise for Dave Van Floss. He got there. That's my favorite place. I got a little more to do, dog. You know what I'm saying? Actually, I got a lot. But I don't want to talk about it too much.

But the thing that Kadar, when I first came to Universal, Kadar told all the white people something. I had this big meeting with all the white executives at Universal. And people don't know, me and my ex-girlfriend wrote, I produced, and even though they had A&Rs on, I produced an A&R 90% of all my projects. Most of them I paid for The records

Because I didn't want Nobody stealing my money I knew That the only money That we really could get Was that budget money They was eating our radio money up And all that bullshit

We knew that shit You knew it didn't you All we had was that budget So Pimp C taught me You if you can afford it You record your album yourself and then make them cut the whole shit to you and I would do this debt shit bitch not before and what Kadar said when we had the meetings I

was telling them they was giving you know how they blow shit up I asked I was writing down everything they said Kadar told me after the meeting said you know what I told him got it'all done fucked up. Y'all done told that little country motherfucking militant ass motherfucker. Y'all made him promises and he was sitting there writing it down and y'all never noticed it. So you gonna have to do

it for him. It's the same thing with these politicians. If you want black voters, tell us what you gonna do for us. They tell what they gonna do for every other community. If you ask the average Mexican in L.A. what's their political platform about, it's usually about immigration. You ask anybody when it comes to gender equality, they're going to tell you it's about marriage rights. It's about this.

It's about that. You ask 15 black people what they want you're gonna get 15 different answers so me when it comes to these politicians i don't play with my fans motherfuckers try to pay me because i have a high efficiency rate on all my social media accounts so people try to pay me a lot of money i'm not i'moring my fans out. If I tell my fans I support somebody, even if it's somebody I'm really close to, because Angela Rye was the reason why I supported Gillian. He didn't call me personally, but Angela said the dude is the real deal.

I fuck with him. I said, Angela, is that on you? She said, you're damn right it's on you. Just like if you call me something's happening in Miami You like my because you know if they fuck up who I'm coming to come to you My love everybody love the mob so much, but they don't they don't do they don't sit down like gentlemen They don't use the laws if if you vouch for somebody then it's on you I'm not fucking playing with these politicians.

Because tell me this. Be real. And I know the statistics. As much as motherfuckers love Obama, shit got worse in the hood. But we got so duped by a black man being in office in suits and ties. And I had one woman say, he shows my son how to be a man. I'm like, that's bullshit. I'd rather my son be like Pop, spitting motherfuckers,

than a motherfucker who won't stand up for his own fucking people. And the reason why I know it was some bullshit, because everybody said, you know, he's the president. You know, he has some constraints. Trump got in that bitch, and then he was like, fuck, he's right, dude. But you're right. You're right. You're right.

You're 100% right. But if it wasn't for Obama, Trump wouldn't's right, too. But you're right. You're right. You're right. You're 100% right. But if it wasn't for Obama, Trump wouldn't have been able to. That was our point. Bush, and I didn't calculate this. And I usually calculate the whole movie. I didn't calculate this. Bush birthed Obama. But I didn't think that Obama would birth

Trump. Wait, wait. And he did. But Clinton has, because Clinton's not in there at all? What you mean? Yeah, no, I think Clinton started the whole movement. It's a domino effect from the Clinton era. Because of getting ahead and he's still being in office and staying in office. Clinton got something to do with this as well. I don't think so because Clinton

played the saxophone. Clinton the closest dude. Clinton made everybody. Clinton made it. Don't say that. Don't say that. Because that may be the worst mistake you make. Let me tell you why. The Clinton family was the ones that signed the law that put over 600,000 black people in jail.

So as far as I'm concerned, and I know maybe I shouldn't say that, I have a bigger problem with the Clinton family than I do with Trump. That's why I think it was a tough decision between Hillary and Trump. It wasn't hard for me. It was not hard for me. So who'd you vote for? I ain't telling you who I voted for. But I'm going to tell you why it wasn't hard for me. Because Trump, still

to this day, is a theory. He ain't really done shit with talk. That's it. But the Clinton family passed laws. That affected motherfuckers. There's 600. Listen to me.

600,000. We're not even talking about Latino males. We're just talking about black males. 600,000. Man, fuck that shit. And people think it was Reagan. People think it was the Bush family. Clinton was the motherfucker

that signed those bills. And then a motherfucker had the audacity to come back and just apologize? My dad said something that I will live by to the day that I die. My dad had a rule

that's called wreck a Benz, buy a Benz. Don't tell me you sorry. If you wreck my Benz, buy a Benz Don't tell me you sorry If you wreck my Benz, buy me a Benz If you kill me, if you kill my child Give me yours That's when you sorry So if you sorry, free 600,000 black men

Because if 600,000 black men are incarcerated Imagine how many black babies we didn't have And isn't that the goal To all this shit I'm gonna tell you straight up I got no problem saying that I voted for Hillary in the election but I had a hard time with it because I did do a film in Haiti and saw what the Clinton Foundation didn't do in Haiti. And I felt that they fucked that whole

shit up. But I was so afraid of a Trump that I did vote for her, but it was such a fucked up decision. Trump is one of the most... And I cannot stand Trump. But Trump is one of the reasons why people don't think I'm crazy.

Remember before Trump, motherfuckers thought I was crazy? I didn't think you was crazy. But I Trump motherfuckers thought I was crazy? I didn't think you was crazy. But I know what motherfuckers said about me. Me and my mother got into the worst argument ever over Obama. Because I said,

and I don't know if y'all remember this, I said on BET, I actually wrote an agenda for black people. It took me almost a fucking month to write an agenda. And then BET didn't even read the motherfuckers. Because I got on BET and said, if we don't make Obama

agree to a black agenda, he's not going to do shit for black folks. And my mama got on my ass, but the thing was, she came back four years later and said, Billy, you right. Though none of y'all motherfuckers called me Billy that's what my mama called me my mom said she wanted to name me Billy but it was too white so she named me William

and then I'll tell you something I never told nobody my mom was infatuated with Billy D. Williams so I think that was the fucking reason you know what I thought about? Sorry to jump to the subject but you brought me there. I think Nas is our version of Billy Dee Williams. I think he is. That came from that came from

that came from left rack. I was going to say left rack. I was going to hit Nas the other day and say I think you are our version of Billy Dee. I'm sorry. Well you know where his father's from? Mississippi. I just want to hit Nas the other day and say, I think you are a version of Billy Dee. But I'm sorry. I'm sorry. Well, you know where his father's from? Mississippi.

I just want to make sure. Ray Sherman is from Mississippi as well. Yeah, I can hear you. Big K.R.I.T. Yeah. Oprah Winfrey. Oprah Winfrey. She don't claim y'all at all. Yeah.

She don't? She don't be claiming y'all at all. But the thing is. Ray Sherman, they act like they from Atlanta too. No, they act like they from Atlanta. They are just some talented kids. And people want them to see... Because...

Let me tell you something that Mississippi did that fucked up the whole world. As much as people try to stereotype Mississippi, some of the smartest rappers on this planet came from Mississippi. Tito Lopez, who Dr. Dre signed, who was on the level of Nas, Big Krip, David Banner, Ray Schumer.

Like, people was looking for this super nigga to come out of Mississippi. But some of the most intelligent, most articulate, Big K.R.I.T. left Def Jam and made more money than Def Jam made off of him when he was signed to. I'm going to be honest. I'm going to be honest with you When you speak of Big Crit And you could ask him One day I'm on my independent thing On my independent grind

I'm at MTV Big Crit walked in With a whole bunch of staff Right This is brand new Artist mode And I looked And I said

Yo he's gonna be so happy In two years When he can walk In the same building without none of them. Do you know that Big Krik recorded some of his earlier albums in the closet at Def Jam? He set up a studio in Def Jam in the closet. Yeah, I know that studio. I know that little studio.

No, no, no. He set up his own. His own. In a real closet. I ain't talking about that. We had one up there. But I'll tell you this, man. I want to say a couple things, man.

I want to tell y'all how much I appreciate y'all giving me this opportunity because we take for granted, man. I made a conscious choice that they could have all this shit before I give my people away. People keep saying that this is a fucking black renaissance. That's a fucking lie. This is one of the worst times in history for black people. And I always tell people, I would rather be in chains than to be free and not know that I'm at war.

All people of culture Are at war right now One of my friends showed me some statistics Did y'all see What Putin said Oh shit I gotta show you I gotta read this to you This is on Instagram

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hold on, come on. Pooing out here on horses and shit. Man, let me, listen to this shit now, bro. Chest necking on horses.

Bro, listen to this shit. Nigga out here with Q-tips picking his nose and shit. That's hilarious. This motherfucker said, oh my gosh, bro.

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We got subtitles coming. Thank you, bro. Look, that's the brand new Blackberry. This is brand new. Look at that. Look at that, man. God damn it. Anything else, Mr. Lee?

Come on, give me the box, man. I will say about Blackberry. Give me the box. Blackberry was the greatest business phone I've ever had in my life. It was. Most of the shit I do on my iPhone, I'm playing. Even right now, iPhone, iPhone, when you get an email, it doesn't alert you when you get an email. You got to go to your email.

So, Nori, watch this shit. Listen. Pull it. Vladimir Putin says, Africa is a cemetery for Africans. Oh. says. Africa is a cemetery for Africans. Oh, y'all, listen to this shit. When an African becomes rich, his bank accounts are in Switzerland.

He travels to France for medical treatment. He invests in Germany. He buys from Dubai. He consumes Chinese. He prays in Rome or Mecca. His children study in Europe. He travels to Canada, USA, and Europe for tourism. If he dies, he will be buried in his native country.

Africa is just a cemetery for Africans. How could a cemetery be developed? But that applies to all of us. That's the same thing I'm saying. You can't pay for a David Banner shoe, but you will go and give the most oppressive crackers on this planet. Think about it. As soon as we get money, even me and you, and we conscious,

I want to get a Bentley. Bentley hate our motherfucking ass, dog. We go to Christian Louboutin. Yeah, they do. Damn, I didn't know that. Christian Louboutin. My homeboys that work in the Louboutin show in New York said that they don't want us. I heard you say Christian Louboutin. Yeah, they do. Damn, I didn't know that. Christian Louboutin. My homeboys that work in the Louboutin show in New York said that they don't want us. This is the second time I heard you say Christian Louboutin.

They don't like us, bro. I didn't know that. Bro, my mom and I. Are they the Cristal shoes? Are they the Cristal shoes? Let me tell you. Mr. Lee, you got to stop. Let me tell you, bro.

Motherfuckers want to know who in their shoes. They don't want the average black person in their shoes. And I can't hate on them. Because it's about their culture. And they don't want any motherfucker just bringing down their culture. It's just like, as much as I love, and I go to the strip club, and I love the strip club. I don't want to see nobody in the strip club with a God box t-shirt on because it stands for something and I told one of my hustler homeboys I said

when you out there selling dope bro do your thing but when you put on this black fist emblem that means something you got to hold yourself to a certain standard but is there album that you got a drop with those brothers can rock those t-shirts no no they can just go buy something else. No, because I'm not, see, that's the thing. Okay. It's not about just the bag to me anymore. I said, since I said it on somebody else's show, I can say it on y'all's show.

I had an opportunity about six, seven months ago to do a very big TV show. No, I was a little bit, no, no, because it's just coming out. It was about a year and a half ago, right when, two years ago, right when the God Box dropped. They wanted me to do this big TV show and they wanted me

to be this, just wow ass motherfucker. And they was paying so much money and not only did they say that, they said, listen David Banner, this is a major TV show

but we'll shoot the TV show around your schedule because we want somebody that has lived this lifestyle. But what this young Asian kid from Buffalo, New York told me is that they use your six foot two non comedic black frame to perpetuate black fear. So they pay me all of this money. Notice there's only a certain type of black person that they let get certain type of roles. I'm a semester in the thesis away from a master's degree, dog. I got a 3.998 from

one of the top universities in this world and an accelerated master's program. What the fuck? I can't play a doctor. I just lost 30 fucking pounds. I put my motherfucking shirt off in this bitch and your female constituency will go up by 30%. I pull my motherfucking shirt off in this bitch and your female But the thing is is bro man is like well, we don't want to see a six-pack

I told them no I Said because I got the guy box out. And for one of the first times in history, bro, these kids are listening to me. It's actually scary, bro. And it was funny. To be truthful with you, a guy came and told me when I was on another show. He said, the reason why these kids listen to you the way that they do, because a lot of them don't have fathers. So since the Internet is now their home, they comb through the Internet to look at a person that's like a father.

So to some of these people, we're their fathers, dude. So I was like, bro, while I got the God box out, I'm not doing that shit. And I turned it down. And I ended up seeing the start of that show at LAX, bro. And he said the producer told him about it. And he said, David Banner, he basically told me, like, bro, I didn't think black folks was really about honor, bro. Like, bro, to know that somebody turned down that kind of money. And I needed it, bro.

Because I spent so much money on the God box. That you can get at DavidBanner.com. As a matter of fact, I didn't spend enough time selling my products. That's right. All these jackets, all this shit you see, you can go to DavidBanner.com and get it. I got mine. Shout out to Sally. You know what I'm saying?

Regina, that's up in the office making this shit happen. DavidBanner.com. But Nori, it's just to the point, man, where we got to hold ourselves a certain way. I remember, bro, when you told me Nori came up with the idea of having like a hip-hop health care plan. You remember when you called me and told me about that, bro? Well, I want a union as well. Yeah, a union, right. I want a union because the thing about it, well, I mean, health care, of course, as well.

He actually said a union, but I'm a little, yeah, I'm a little hammered. No, because you know why? The thing about it is, it's like I always reference this when I think about that. It's like your brother Kamikaze, right? Kamikaze was a part of Crooked Letters, right? Yeah, I got to know your brothers very early on in life, right? Penalty Records. Penalty Records, big up to Neil Levine as well.

Now, in my opinion, just like me and Capone, just because I'm the blessed one, just because I'm the one who might have reached a bigger success doesn't mean I don't feel like Capone's health is more important than mine. Right. You know what I'm saying? So I feel like the fact that me and Capone came in together to this life,

and I suppose I'm making all this money in the world, and Capone gets sick, I don't feel that anybody, I feel like he's putting the same amount of work, and there's people getting richer off of everything that we're doing, richer than us. I feel like this should be money put to the side.

And no disrespect, but Neil Levine made a hell of a lot of money because of Capone, too. Of course. So we can talk about all of these different things, but he made a lot of money. That's what I'm trying to start with, though. What I'm trying to start with, Banner, is letanner is let's suppose we sit there and now, now we know, right? So now, so, so, so one thing is we have to have equity, right? We have to have liquid. We have to have finances, right? Because none of these young niggas, that's the point I was trying to bring up earlier was when a drug dealer told me to go upstairs, I went upstairs. Mr. Lee, let's do a shot. We can either do the coconut or tiger. But so what I'm trying to say is if we get together and we say.

Let's actually do two shots because I don't think they were drinking like I was. No, no, no. I just wanted to be on point with you. And we were pre-partying. We were pre-partying too. But what I'm trying to say is there should be something. Like I don't feel like, okay, Scott LaRock, right? I wasn't around, I was born in 1977, wasn't around when Scott LaRock happened.

But Scott LaRock, me looking at this, me knowing that BDP might not, I might not be around if it wasn't for BDP. And I'm from Queens, and they diss Queens. But Karis Ron influenced me so much that I look at it that Scott LaRock should have the illest tombstone in the world or hip-hop it was funny I was just listening to OC yesterday so so but this was saying my bad for cutting you off because I'm so like really really like adamant and so like emotional. I know.

We talked on the motherfucking phone for two hours. Yeah, yeah. Emotional about this. Let me tell people. I was at the post office and I was, I was,

this is when I first, this is when I first opened up davidbanner.com and I was literally taking the stuff to the post office. He was actually trying to count me out.

He's like, I'm not sure, Nori. He was like, he was like, he was like, I want to talk to you For a minute brother I don't know why Nori forget how long He always got to say brother with me

You know you ain't got to You mind a few people that can actually say my nigga You're like Nori was like brother brother I want to talk to you So I wanted to hear his whole conversation And bro he started And that was the reason why I'm saying I'm so proud about you Did you notice how he was talking At first and it was super hood when he started talking about? Yeah, you know people getting health care shit. He was actually said if you look at the statistics

Like my mom's my mom's she worked for 20 years She was a social worker. My mother don't have nothing to worry about. Like, you know, my father passed away. Like, they stepped up. Like, what the... And my mother did not make, for her corporations... This is the up cigar. And my mother did not make, for her corporations,

not near as much as I have contributed to three or four different... So what I'm trying to say is I know right now that if someone in my family gets sick, that's purely on me. Now, I can accept that. But now, if someone gets sick in my family who's gave their life to hip-hop,

if motherfucking Rapper Noid from Mobb Deep gets sick, I feel like Rapper Noid shouldn't have to worry about a $20,000 bill. I feel like it's... I don't feel like it should be one of us. I feel like itapper Nori shouldn't have to worry about a $20,000 bill. I don't feel like it should be one of us. I feel like it should be a monthly. It should be like SAG.

It should be like SAG. Let me tell you something that I think, though. I think, similar to what we were talking about white supremacy earlier, we can't expect the same people that oppress us to do that. It's going to take black men and women who have done well. And I'm not saying that I came up with this idea, nor he actually said this. Let me be clear. We're

going to have to be the ones that pay into this process. But the thing is, it shouldn't just be us. That's the same thing that I'm saying about black folks, man. It hurts me. I do very well on davidbanner.com, but bro, I don't really, where I

get my real freedom, and I probably just may go on, like, bro, I score movies and video games. I did the music for Mercedes Benz. Like, I don't talk about where I get my money from, but bro. But I'll tell you, those will be the first people to donate for us. I'm going to be honest with you. Sorry to cut you off, but it'll be

Mercedes Benz. It'll be a Neil Levine. It'll be a Steve Rifkin. It'd be these people that I'm just telling you. They can afford it and they can write it off. But I get what you're saying. Hold the shot. I can go first. Both of y'all can go pissed, but not together.

I don't have any of this shit. Let me tell y'all something. But listen, what I'm trying to say is that's all we need because what I notice is our people, when I say our people what I'm trying to say is that's all we need because what I notice is our people, when I say our people, I'm talking about hip-hop. I'm talking about color, race, creed. Our people will follow the next

best thing, right? So right now, if you get on the motherfucking joint and you say, you know what? This is what we're doing. This is what we're rocking. Maybe you have 800,000 followers. And maybe out of them 800,000 followers, 80% or maybe 20% will follow what you're doing. That's enough.

Imagine we all get together. But this is the same. Hold on. I want to say this because it's important. Yes. Yeah, people will come together when we tell them to go buy some white folk shit. But when it's really time for us to do some shit that really

matter, that's when we can tell if Drake Chaps really has power or David Banner really has power. I got a million followers just on Facebook. If 20% of my followers would have bought the God Box, I'd never have to rap again in my whole entire fucking life

And everybody say how I influenced them How I influenced them Or how man I was going to commit suicide And you saved my life And I'd be like yo bro did you go get the God Box So my thing is Can we get our people To direct that same power

To give it to our people Just like you said. To support our people. That's all I want. That is the trick. I'm going to be honest with you. You always honest with me bro. I buy everybody's shit. I buy people's shit that I don't know them.

I buy people's shit that I might not necessarily like because you know what it is? I know how it felt to be in that position and to need that help. So I and if you can't invest in the thing that saved your life you are not worthy to live but I don't have no stream you know that I don't have no string I don't have no streaming account all my friends say I'm crazy I buy I steal buy CDs let me oh no can i say what can i ship one time this is so important listen to me all of you new rappers let me tell you something

and i mean this with all my heart everything else i say if you're artists fuck that shit listen to this people laugh at me because i still print up cds and vinyl. Tupac taught me something. You remember how Tupac used to always talk about being immortal? Do you remember when iTunes or Apple, excuse me, Apple had the Snow Leopard update where everybody had to do the Snow Leopard update or you couldn't listen to iTunes. You couldn't play any music. You remember that? That showed me that if we come up with a record

that changes the whole fucking planet, they're saying Virginia now, they don't let the prisoners, I don't know if this is true, and I usually don't say shit that I don't research, but this shit hit me so hard, that they don't let the prisoners read anything from Malcolm, Martin, or Marcus Garvey

or Farrakhan like you can't even read that if you're in prison but my point is is that if we are in a position and we put all our stuff on the internet if they don't like you, they can push one button and you don't exist no more. I still have CD and vinyl because what Tupac said, that makes you immortal. Things that you hold in your physical hand, a motherfucker got to come in your house with an army to take that shit. Album hard copies will always be for your hardcore fans.

It will always be for memorabilia. It will always be for memorabilia. Right. It will always, that's for our era and there's going to be this new generation who's going to, who's going to,

who's going to gravitate towards that. I hope they do. No, it makes a comeback. It makes a comeback. So much better. Because this whole thing, like we looked at,

what we did was we put it on the studio, big up to Roland Loud, by the way. We have Roland Loud we looked up all your stuff and what happened was they put in

all your related videos so it's like you just like you know related to fucking everybody you know what I want you to watch I don't think that you got a chance

to see I know you saw it I want you to go see the Black Fist video the Black Fist video that was the most revolutionary video man no if you go see that black fist video the black video is the most revolutionary video I know if you go see that video right now you might not come back I got a serious question for you. So being I'm the Cuban guy here on the table and we're talking all this stuff.

And you're one of my closest friends. And Latinos are multiracial. In all this conversation that you're having, where do you figure Latinos? Can I be very honest with you? Yeah, no, no. Might as well. There's no sense of being not honest. Bro, there's so much stuff

happening with black folks. Because I've seen you reference Mexicans, but we got to remember there's so many different variations of Latinos. The reason why I reference Mexicans so much

is because I lived a long time in L.A. And I love the way that they were about La Raza. They were about culture. This is what I tell you, bro. We try to act like we're all of these different things,

but when a cop pull us over, to most cops, we niggas. All of us. So for me, the struggle goes in tears. If you think about the break dancing, if you think about half of him, Have for him. In New York especially, motherfuckers grew up together in the same motherfucking hoods. To me, oh man, I'm so glad you asked that question.

That was one of the questions I wrote down. I left my questions because I said I didn't want to make it dark. One of the things that I said, I don't understand why people of Latin descent, Native Americans, you've heard me say this before people all over the world have been oppressed by the same

person yep and for the most part we don't really really fuck with each other I don't know why Native Americans and black folks don't fuck with each other I don't understand for the most part. Like, we are cordial to each other. But these same motherfuckers have fucked up our... The smartest motherfuckers were the Asians. They built the fucking wall. That's the reason why their culture is still intact.

My dude, for me, pain is the common denominator for all of us, bro. I lived in Harlem for six years, homie And they got quotas in New York And a lot of the black cops Say, dude, I gotta fuck with black folks Because ain't nobody gonna come and help Black folks And for the most part, young folks

And if we don't find a way to say, bro You know something about white folks A dude had a joke one time folks. And if we don't find a way to say, bro, notice something about white folks. A dude had a joke one time that I didn't find funny. I think I choked this motherfucker. But the joke was real. He said, you know one thing that two

warring white people can come together on? Keeping a black man down. Black folks, other race of people, we can't even come together on our common denominator. And what's funny, I see all these people in all these different movements, bro, they're quick to talk about males

from all of these different races, but most of the motherfuckers are scared to talk about the biggest oppressor in this world as a black man. One thing that you know know if you put your hand on a white man what's gonna happen i wish i had an effect you're going to jail forever ever ever you know as long as it's not a political season you shoot a black man maybe three four five years maybe so for me bro like no wait wait i do want to of, I think I have an answer for why you're saying why the different, whether Native Americans, Latinos, blacks, don't see eye to eye to a degree.

To answer your question, though, directly. Can we do a shot first? Wait, wait, come on, guy. Let's do a shot. Let's wait, let's wait. Come on, man. This may not be the thing to take a shot to. Let me answer real quick. A person, one of the Moorish brothers asked me today, what do I think about the word black?

And I was like, bro, we have bigger problems. I don't really, when I think about that, if you really want the real answer to that question, I don't think about it because I have a clear and present enemy that's killing my people right now. So if you are an ally, you are an ally. because I have a clear and present enemy that's killing my people right now. So if you are an ally, you are an ally. I'll get to that later. But shit, I can't even get together with my own people yet. Before I can even get, I don't even really, to be honest with you, I don't even think about that, homie.

Only because... About what? About what exactly? What are you saying? About relations with other groups of people outside of black and white folks. Although Latinos are multiracial and are your folks as well. Right, right. But they're only my people if they accept it. Because a lot of people.

Which is a reverberation of colonialism. Exactly. Which we're all suffering from. Exactly. And the fact that it's really what a boat dropped off in. Because at one time in history, people was fucking all over, bro, dude, I said that, dude. Motherfuckers be talking about this and that, bro.

Like, at the end of the day, bro, I'll be real with you. At the end of the day, bro, it's crazy that a white woman said it. Bro, everybody is a descendant of a black woman. I'm going to fuck who you are. It may hurt your motherfucking feelings. Fuck it.

Now, the further you went away from the equator to fuck who you are. It may hurt your motherfucking feelings. Fuck it. Now, the further you went away from the equator, the lighter you got. But let's just be real. That's the reason why black people get the most oppression. Let's take a shot on that. Everybody come from a black woman, god damn it. We got to light it up,

god damn it. You know what? And I don't usually do this kind of shit because I'm on drink chumps. This is the kind of home Big up to Hakeem green leading the legend legend I'm totally my problem to what you do with the kids though. I got a homegrown and kill Washington Um, I do a lot of work in Harlem with Eagle Academy With the males at Eagle Academy, bro People could talk that shit about what rappers do what politicians do bro Y'all with them kids every fucking day, bro

And they pay out'all the least, and our kids are the ones who are leading us into the future, bro. So the shit, the fact that you were man enough, bro, to say, bro, I'm going to where it counts. You could have been an A&R, bro. You could have did what anybody else did, bro. You went back to our children and I.

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So let me describe you a world that I may be, for lack of a better word, naive. I may be sensitive. I may be, for lack of a better word, gullible. But this is how I picture it. T.I., the mayor of Atlanta. You can clap your hands. Killer Mike, the governor of Georgia.

Killer. You can clap your hands. If you say my name, you got to say president. Talib Kweli. Thank you, sir. As mayor of E at least Brooklyn. God damn. I don't think you can be mayor of Brooklyn.

Can you even? This is a county council. I don't think you have to be mayor of the whole city. You'll get the key to Brooklyn. You don't got to get the key to New York City. Do you remember? Hold on. I want to describe this perfect world that I on. Let me just describe this perfect world that I'm visualizing.

Hakeem Green and them running New Jersey. I'm going to throw this out there. It's going to sound fucked up. But we want

our mayor to be the real mayor of Miami. Who? Trick Daddy. We want Trick Daddy. Either Booty Gang. Or Pitbull.

Either Booty Gang. No, Pitbull's the governor. You got to relax. You already put him in the governor's? No. Let's make sure that we say something, though. Okay. Hold on.

Let me finish my point, man. Let me tell you what I'm trying to say. Go ahead. As much as we have done hip-hop, right now Jay-Z can tell you don't wear button-ups and niggas won't wear button-ups. Jay-Z can tell you

Ace of Spades is a piece of shit. Start drinking... I mean, excuse me. Chris Tau is a piece of shit. Start drinking Ace of Spades. If we really got together, right, and said, yo, fuck it, we're going to fuck with politics and take over this shit

because we can do it. And this isn't something we all made. We all made it to a certain extent. Hold on, this is my perfect world. This is my perfect world now. And behind the scenes, we got, what's the nigga from X-Men? Dr. Xavier?

It's Dr. Xavier Farrakhan He's constructing it All behind the scenes But now you got Hov And Will Smith And constituency People in the White House With David Banner

And I think we can do this You don't remember Hip hop You don't remember bro Like You don't remember, bro? You don't remember that conversation? The same day that you had that conversation, I told you quietly

that we should do that. Because if they know that we coming, I was like, if we all ran since you said it, I said if we all quietly ran at the same time, because I was saying we go to the bank in 840. 840?

That's what I'm talking about. You know what I'm saying? You're killing it. We get snooze. Too short? Right. Too short? We make an American holiday, bitch.

But my, no, but we can't do that. No, we can't do that. No, but go to California easy. That was the thing I was going to say. That was the thing that we were going to say. The thing that I will say. I went too far. I went too far.

Yeah, you did. I wasn't going to say that on your own show, dog. He always goes too far. It's okay. It's okay. The people that I picked were only people who were already political. See, the thing is, is we can't do the same thing that we did to hip hop to a certain degree. Let me tell you something.

Let me tell you why. My experience, if I didn't hear David Bannon on Crooked Letters, I would never, ever want to even step a foot in Mississippi. But your experience, your stories, your tales, you guys, it made me say, okay. But the thing is, Nora, you have to have people who want to do that. That's what I'm saying. Because what I'm saying is, one of the reasons why I'm great at politics, and it was funny, every time I usually come,

I bring a book, but I was running late. No problem. I'm reading Marcus Garvey now. And Marcus Garvey said, you have to study every, you have to master history. You have to have people that say,

if I ran for political office, We need you to do that. I'm not doing rap no more until I'm done. I'm not doing no movies that I'm not doing rap no more until I'm done I'm not doing no movies I'm not doing anything But why can't we go back to T.I.T. I said he could be all five days

But no, but the thing is You can be all five in your personal life But hold on, wait, let me tell you But here's the part you're missing Trump did not think how you think But Trump ain't doing shit Trump's a disaster Trump said I'm a New York nigga and I'm going to be New York.

Listen, listen. But what is he doing? I'm not playing about my people, you know what I mean? Yeah, that's true. Hold on, let me give you the point. If I'm going to do this, I'm going to change the fucking world. I'm going to be not the best musical Governor or president Because I don't do that little shit

If I'm doing it, I'm doing it all the way I'm going to really do something for real But everybody know you can't change the world Unless you change your own house first So can we Because you can't say you'll clean up your house If your house is dirty So can we make a Mississippi like a Miami

We can We can We can. We can. And go to Wet Willies. Yeah, absolutely. We can. We can, but the thing is we don't research. We need a Maynard Jackson.

He is the reason why Atlanta is what he is today. People don't know this. He went and got Babyface and L.A. Reid, which would spawn outcast usher and tlc who don't get enough credit for the atlanta move atlanta is a a three two to three billion dollar business just with music we're not even talking about the fact that atlanta now is the number one place that they shoot movies in the world. Not LA. Tyler Perry goes in family too. So what I'm saying.

Tyler Perry got his own factory. What I'm saying is this. Is if we are going to get people to do this. They either got to be one of two things. They have to be an avid studier of politics. And the way to get shit really done. Or they're going to have to be an extreme puppet. Like the Bush son was.

His daddy was running that shit. We all knew that. So we can get something done. That's all I'm saying. Let me ask you something. Let me say something that's been a history on Drink Champs. What I feel, the only positive thing that President Trump

has brung to the whole administration is he turned politics into a smack DVD. that President Trump has brung to the whole administration. Positive? Yes. As he turned politics into a smack DVD. Now, fuck that, man. This shit is a smack DVD out here, my nigga. We didn't ask him what he said, you idiot.

No, no, no, it's true. That's the only positive thing he did. Real quick, I'm going to tell you right now. He, you know he's a part, he went to WWE. He's a part of Smack? No, WWE. Oh, WWE. Oh wwe he oh whatever whatever the wrestling shit is he went there and he was a part of it right and i feel that he saw that and he said this is how i'm gonna win the presidency he's a reality tv show yeah and what he does well i know he knows this but like i have a lot of international friends.

America's a fucking joke right now. A joke. We are a joke. It's true. We are a joke. It's not a lie. We are a joke. We're a fucking joke. And that's the thing that I'm saying, Nori.

Seriously, you just gave the ultimate plan. But if motherfuckers is going to do this, and you're not about building a true political structure for your black people, then it's no different than Obama. It's just hope. We got to go in with a plan and say this is what we're all going to do politically, and this is what we're going to accomplish.

But the one thing I went deeper, the reason why I went deeper and I didn't use any black people, I used hip-hop people, because hip-hop, we live by a code. Not people. Because hip hop, we live by a code. Not hip hop, the streets we live by a code. I still say that but. Hip hop used to live by a code.

We used to live by a code but now this is the upper echelon of hip hop. You notice I didn't say you little Uzi Virk for Philadelphia, I'm gonna say Meek Mill because that makes sense for, we trying to be mature, we're not trying to go to, we're not hiring 6ix9ine to be the Brooklyn Council. So what I'm trying to say is we're gonna to be mature We're not hiring 6ix9ine to be The Brooklyn Council So what I'm trying to say is we're going to be that mature

Upper echelon And I think If we all come into unison I just want you to remember this though For the rest of your fucking life Yes please Before I talk about any of these kids And let's be really honest

I remember how they used to talk about me When Like A Pimp came out They talked about me the same fucking way They didn't stop talking about me that way Until I started busting their ass And I was going to talk to you about your album I promised myself After the hip hop cypher

I remember the conversations we had After the hip hop cypher I said every verse I ever spit from this day on I'm smashing a bitch and hip hop talk all this shit

about how they want hip hop better that's a fucking lie cause when a southern motherfucker spit that shit like Andre 3000 does a motherfucker don't never put them in that top five bitch I'm killing these motherfuckers

on these verses and whether it's one I just bro I just spit on Eric Sherman's album, dog Rock Waller called me and said Bro, we thinking about changing the whole Bro, I'm killing a bitch I say, I'm in the back

I'm in the back of the graveyard grinning You John Lennon You bleeding out on Abbey Road With holes in your white linen I told the motherfucker Uh, uh, uh, um. Uh, um. Spit it.

What's, what's, what's, what's, uh, uh, uh. Pass me the hood if you're not using it. Where's the fourth, what's, what's the fourth, uh, uh, fourth member of Tribe Car Quest? Jerobo. Yeah. He's Kendall. I said, I said, I'm in the kitchen cooking. I said, I'm in the cooking, I'm in the kitchen cooking for my tribe like Jerobe.

You niggas act like you don't know me. What the fuck is up? I put four or five holes in your new Bentley truck. Bitch, what? Make some noise! From the day that, from the hip-hop cypher to the day that I die, a bitch better not put me on the album I don't care whether you old or young

I'm coming Cause what I realize Is as smart as I am And as much as I read Take your time on your verses I'm quick to tell a person If I'm in the studio with them I ain't ready

I go home Ninth Wonderverse I had to wait for a minute Three, four days But when I spit that bitch I'm gonna motherfuckers ass bro, and that's how we got culture. Definitely. He just put out the jamala To record okay. I need to ask you I need to act this is this is this is a personal question of mine. I Know this might be fantasy, but just bear with me

One of my favorite movies I've seen this year is Black Panther. Wakanda seems like a place I want to go. Right. How can we make, even though that's fantasy, how can we make that in real life? Because it has to be a possibility. Because if you can think it, you can achieve it. If you build it, they're going to come. So how can we make our own Wakanda?

I got your answer. When I lecture, people always ask me why I don't go deeper. They know that I'm smarter. This is the biggest thing, and I'll say it again. I've said it. I said it once already. Most black people don't like being black. So no matter how much information I give you, if you don't like living around another black person, we can't build a black community. If you don't like shop, if you, when you look at a black person, you see a nigga. I tell women all the time, if you told your children, they were gods, maybe they would act like gods. And if they they acted like gods maybe someone would treat them like

gods everybody always talk about jesus all the time if you really think that jesus is your father then your father is a god and if my father is a god what the fuck am i i realize with all my heart don't think i'm a god i know i I'm a God, because I can think of something and bring it into the present. If I look at a woman and be like, ooh, she fine as hell, I'm going to get her, and not only am I going to get her, I'm going to make another God.

And I'll make a child, and I thought about that child when I saw her ass. That's God. No, that's real. You look at her like. No, that's real. You were looking like... And not only... But see, that's only part of it. See, we want to say that we men, but the man is not fucking and coming.

It's taking responsibility and making sure that you create a culture that makes a God. So to answer your question, before we can make Wakanda, making sure that you create a culture that makes a God. So to answer your question, before we can make Wakanda, we have to let people know that they're T'Challa. And they don't think that they are. Okay, what's T'Challa? I forgot that part.

T'Challa was the main dude. All right. That was a black man. Come on, man. I got you. I got you. I got you. I got you.

But what I'm saying, bro, is that it's psychology. Right. Most black people don't like being black people. They don't want to be around black folks. Bro, listen. Uh-huh. I said this. I told black folks.

I diss Nike, even though I wear Jordan. I wear Jordan because that's a black man. I did the same. I diss Nike because some of them, I'm going to be real, some of my homies work for Nike. Nike is one of the most fucking, they call Brand Jordan the ghetto. Inside of Nike culture. And the motherfuckers that work for Nike, you know I'm telling

the truth so you can deny it, so fuck you, because I know people that work there, bitch. Listen to what happened. Listen to what happened, and they would deny this shit, but I know people that work for Nike, on and low. This is what happened with the Kaepernick shit. And show you how black folks got duped. I was talking about Nike and black folks went crazy.

I even erased the shit that I said off of Instagram. Because one thing that I'll talk about is religion, gender, or fucking Nikes. Because we love our fucking Nikes because we love our fucking night what happened was this is what people don't know is as a corporation although Nike distributes Jordan Jordan is a separate company that was the reason why they took the Nike logo off the Jordan they didn't believe in that's why Jordan made so much money they made sure that they wouldn't give LeBron the same type of deal because they didn't believe in Jordan.

And the same, which dude that made Star Wars? George Lucas. The same way they did George Lucas. They didn't believe in George Lucas, so he had the rights to the Star Wars figures. Same thing happened with Jordan. They didn't believe Jordan was going to blow, so they gave him all that power. So if you look at the financial statements, when it comes to

white folks, I don't listen to nothing they say. I look at financial statements. White folks don't care about nothing but money and life. That's it. If you look at the financial statements, it was Nike, Jordan, then Adidas. When Kanye left Nike and went to Adidas, he eipsed brand joy yeah see we don't get also Corral came yeah it was Sean Vianna but for the most part it was Kanye but then when Kanye then Nike said oh black folks are important so what are we because we we don't even know we're at war. I told my homeboy today, he said, man,

I wish our people would play chess. I said, I would just be happy if our people played checkers because at least they would know it's a game being played on them. What happened was, they said, okay, damn, black people are important.

Kanye was important. Okay. Then when Kanye said the dumb shit about slavery Nike said this is an opportunity so they went and people also didn't know that Nike had just re-upped their deal

with the NFL they are the main shoe supporter of the NFL black folks wasn't fucking with the NFL for a minute so what they did was they put out a bogus ass commercial with Kaepernick that said nothing about why he kneeled.

See, if you don't put the reason why, then you are totally neglecting the people who Kaepernick were talking about that died. So they just put out something about him, put a little bit of culture in it. Black folks spent $42 million in

two days, start watching the NFL again, and Nike made $42 million. I was one of them niggas. I ain't gonna throw. So peep game. What they did was, is they played us, dude. Why couldn't we have given that $42

million to Kaepernick? We could've gave it directly to him. No, we gave it to some fuckin' elitist ass motherfuckers who don't care about us in the first place, and we started watching the NFL again. They won two times. Damn. Hold on, wait, give me that.

No, no, no, don't damn, because we said it on Dream Champs, and that motherfucker's no better. Yeah, I'ma tell you what's crazy about it, and I'm drinking it on drink, champs, and that motherfucker's no better. Yeah, I'ma tell you what's crazy about it, and I'm attractive. I just lost 30 motherfucking pounds. I'ma lose this one. All you motherfucking entertainers,

I've been giving you an opportunity. I've been rocking the beards. I've been looking like a fucking lumberjack. I've been fat and sloppy. I'm about to lose 20 pounds. Have you ever watched Conan before? The Barbarian? The Barbarian? Yeah. That's how I'm about to lose 20 pounds. Have you ever watched Conan before? The Barbarian? The Barbarian.

That's how I'm about to start dressing. I ain't wearing no shirts no more. After I lose these next 20 pounds, I'm just going to drape some fur around my motherfucking back. If you love your fans and your women, you better marry them now. Because when I lose these 20 pounds, you see my cheekbones right now?

I look, oh shit. So do we open up another bar? We should. Okay. Now cuz when I lose these 20 pounds you see my cheekbones right now Do we open up another bottle we sure okay? Let's take it to ride along okay, how did you get that? How did you get that roll right away? Okay? Okay? 44 right yeah Make some noise for him god damn and I know I look let me tell you somebody what I think all right I don't people always say you should be humble I don't believe we should be humble I believe I'm a god I believe I'm a son and if you a son and I know who I am I want to see you shine if If you're another God, see, what happens is when people are insecure in who they

are. I know who I am. I'm a beautiful motherfucker. I know I'm not the only one. See, that's what men fuck up. It's men that think just because they're God or they're a son or they look awesome that they're the only motherfucker on this world or in this world that can get away with shit. I know I ain't the only one,

but I am one of them god damn it shit boy I'm trying to stay away from you weed bro I want to see people help you if you want to man no no no after we get so so what because I know we touched on it earlier but I would like to um I would like to be a little bit more articulate with the streaming services, right? A lot of us, especially the new generation, they come out,

their thing is clicks, right? When I look at my sons, look at my daughter, I look at, they don't even fuck with the TV. I don't know why I'm paying fucking cable bills cause none of them watch the fucking shit

only me cause I like to watch King of Queens and shit like that and like Al Bundy like I watch I'm an old fart

right but my kids they on the fucking screens all the time and how do we how do we make streaming work

for us a person that's independent let me tell you how smart Jay Z was okay Jay Z saw How do we make streaming work for us? A person that's independent. Let me tell you how smart Jay-Z was. Okay. Jay-Z saw what the trend was going to be. Created his own platform. He created his own.

Tyler. Yeah. Created his own. He's like, fuck that. Bro, the answer to everything is you. Every question that you can ask me is you. You do it. See, let me tell you something.

This is my personal opinion. This is not to disrespect anybody in this room or anybody out there in Drink Champ's world. I think black people have been duped by the story of Jesus.

I think we look at the story of Jesus and we're waiting for Jesus to come back. But the story of Jesus is this. The story of Jesus was to show you that you could be God on earth too. See, people want Jesus to come back but the story of jesus is this the story of jesus was to show you that you could be god on earth too see people want want jesus to come back because they don't want to bear their own cross

you don't want to be a man enough i just fasted for 30 days now i didn't do what jesus did i hadn't made it to 40 days but i fasted for 30 days um juice and soup no solid and the soup that i cook i cook it for a day good enough um so that it's just like water yeah um the one thing i have to say about my fast i drunk wine like a motherfucker during your fast yeah i just don't want to i just don't want to have solids i just don't want to eat food i don't give a fuck what it is and the reason why i didn't mind is i found see we used to everything because we've oppressed, we want everything to be so fucking hard and mean. I got to sacrifice for the world. Fuck that.

Wait a minute. You can fast for wine? Let me tell you me. Let me tell you me. Yo, let's fast right now. Watch this. Watch this. We're talking about calorie intake, right?

Mm-hmm. Okay, if I want to look awesome, if I ain't eating no food, I can take that 70 calories from a glass of wine, and I still look like, look at my cheekbones. You ain't never seen my cheekbones. Matter of fact, I ain't never seen yours. Congratulations, motherfucker. No, but I'm real. You put me on. Hold on.

You fucking me up. Hold on. Tell me. Look at his cheekbones, goddamn it. Don't look too long. So you're telling me you can do a 30-day fast, and then within this 30-day fast, you could have a glass of wine? I had a bottle of wine every day. Let me tell you. I don't know if I agree. But you don't have to agree. You don't have to agree. Look at me.

I'm playing with you. Look at me, though. I look awesome, don't I? You don't want to admit it because we're masculine. No, I like fast. I'm a faster as well. He's a faster Yeah, look at me take a picture got damn it No, you can't I'm I'm the god of my existence I Make my parameters you feel what I'm saying? And if I am man enough

Malcolm X said this the Muslims say this if you can control your appetite you can control the universe They did not say the world. I'm not eating no food. I don't have a fucking bottle of wine No first of all ain't no pork and I have to give it up To Sadat X Derek X At the time he was Derek X He's the reason why I don't eat pork to this day No I have to specifically say

Yeah Brad Nubian Yes Me too But I have to say Sadat X Particularly He is the reason Why I don't eat pork

I haven't ate pork Since the 11th grade In Mississippi And the thing that a motherfucker I lie about all y'all dusty motherfuckers You act like pork is nasty And it's nasty for you But if I could I'd bathe in it

That shit tastes awesome But see that's the kind of shit kids need to hear Your crack is awesome too I don't know Her heroin is fantastic Hold on You say you don't know. I never had crack. Her heroin is fantastic. Hold on. Wait, but you said you don't eat it, but it's awesome. It is.

No, I'm Cuban. Pork is a part of our lifestyle, and I don't eat it. Yeah, I don't eat it either. No, but it's part of my lifestyle too. Like, Ben Neal. That's how we eat. Every Christmas. But, I mean, it is what it is, man.

No, we can't. You have to retract that crack statement No I'm just saying They say crack is awesome too Just cause Nori is my homie Not he's saying Yeah I don't smoke crack at all I sold it to a friend of his

I sold it to a lot You sold it to a friend of yours You was about to say you sold it a little That was a lot He was like I sold it a lot I did mom. You was about to say you sold it a little. That was a lot. He was like, I sold it a lot. I sold it a lot. Yeah, I did. I mean, I had no way out.

Hey, hold on. Let me tell y'all a quick story. Let me tell y'all a quick story about Nori. No problem. No problem. I know I told this the last time, but this shit was so funny. We were trying to shoot a video. And I told y'all this the last time.

Nori was one of the first New York cats I ever saw that really liked Southern music. It wasn't fake. Thank you. Like, he had heard about Master P from D.C. way before Master P had blown. And he was on the tables in New York. Like, this Southern shit is crazy. I can attest to that.

He loved this song that we had, Fire, Water. He ended up getting on the record. Nori told me, you got to go in there and scare the white people. He said, you can throw something through the glass. He said, you can turn over their desk, just don't touch them, man.

Don't touch them. And let me tell you something, man. I don't know if I told y'all this last time. I'll never forget this. Nori don't even remember this. He'll say he do, but he don't. Nori was shooting, what was the video when you was... It was there's nre yeah that was with the pyramids and the oh no that's super thug no no no wait wait wait come on all right the pyramids is uh super thug yeah but the cheetah running is oh no so no it was super thug super thug no no cheetahs in super thug

i think a cheetah was a Super Thug. No, no, no. I think in Super Thug. I don't think a cheetah was in Super Thug. You may go and look at it. No, it's not cheetahs in Super Thug. But anyway, it was the pyramid. I know that you was in the same. At the time, you could. That was a million dollar video. Come on, dog.

No, Super Thug was $500,000. No, what was the video that was a million dollars? Oh, no. Okay, what it was? Oh, no. So Noriega told Neil Levine That this fire water shit Cause most motherfuckers don't want to take away They shine

He was like bro this is actually the shit right here He's like you're shooting a million dollar video Give these boys $70,000 And let them shoot a video Out of my budget You won't be able to tell the difference And Neil Levine still said no And what's funny

This is something that i i really i'm really it really surprises me and i know steve rifkin don't want to hear this but i know he think this the truth neil levine and steve rifkin they think because i'm about black power that i don't like them i saw steve rifkin one time i was running and running in Canyon. He saw me and he did this. Like, bro, you changed my life, homie. Like, as business people, we had some difficulty. But I don't think there's no other person that I could assign to besides Steve Rifkin that would have done what he did. He let me do whatever the fuck I wanted to do. Wasn't nobody else fucking with Crooked Letters.

Neil Levine believed in that shit. You know, so for me, I'm not mad At you, you know what I'm saying I ain't got no problems with you Black power don't mean I hate you Unless you do some fucking white racist shit I'm at your ass You know, but like, man

We have to find a way to do business Like, I'm not emotional About business, I am emotional About black people But I'm not emotional about business. I am emotional about black people. I'm not emotional about business. Business is about contracts. See, that's the thing. Motherfucker can't fuck me. I used to have a

problem. I used to think suing a motherfucker was the weakest shit in the world. I'll sue your ass. Jewish people in New York will sue each other and go to each other's bar mitzvah. It's fucking business. You fucked over me in business. You fucked over me in some street shit, I'm going to beat your ass. If you fucked over me in business You fucked over me in some street shit I'm going to beat your ass

If you fuck over me in business It's because I didn't have the knowledge To put it in the contract And that's my fault Not your fault Can't nobody fuck you You can only allow yourself to be fucked For a lack of knowledge

I tell people you are a slave To whatever you don't know You feel me? I'll tell you a story It was a guy named Michael Ovitz you heard of Michael Ovitz you can google Michael Ovitz come on hazardous well Michael Ovitz had did a deal with Chris lady I didn't know who fuck Michael Ovitz was so Chris lady I'm a cigar? Of course you can. You can give me one of them for later. Yeah, yeah, yeah. No problem. You can have one. No, no. You can give me one of them for later.

Okay, I got you. I got you. I got you. No problem. We won't do it on camera. We'll do it here. I got you. So what happened was Michael Ovis and Chris Lighty, huh?

He's a town major? Yeah. Well, Michael Ovis and Chris Lighty did a deal. At the time, I had nothing to do with Hollywood, but this guy, Michael Ovis, wanted to meet me. So he's like, yo, I don't give a fuck, I want to meet Norris. So we go down, we sit down in Violator, and Michael Ovis tells me, he goes, yo, listen, I sold Samsung to Disney, and then I told Disney that was the worst shit they ever did

in their life, buy Samsung back. So I sold it to Disney, Disney, Samsung, And by the way, it was $360 million lost. And I'm just like, all right, cool. Like, I'm fucking 26 years old from left rack city. I'm trying to act like this is some normal shit. But it's not no normal shit. But I'm sitting there. And then that night, I had went to the Bronx.

And it was a murder over $7. Not $7,000, not $17,000, not $170,000, not $17,000,000. And I just seen a guy who told me, yo Nori, I jerked Samsung to buy Disney and bought Disney to buy Samsung. The companies I'm naming could be incorrect. You might be wrong. You might be wrong But what I'm saying is And he's sitting there telling me

Because they thinking I'm on their level Like they thinking I'm working with 300 million Or some shit like that Where I'm sitting there and I'm like word And that day I seen A murder happen for $7 Over a dice game

Bro let me tell y'all something. I don't even think people are going to get what you're saying, bro, how deep that is. That shit was fucked up. What he's saying is that this dude fucked over a corporation for multi-millions of dollars, and they still do business with each other. And you know the reason why I brung up that story? Because of what you said. Because you know what he told me?

He said, oh, yeah, we're going to, he said, I'm going to ski in with them in Aspen. Like, whatever companies it was, Samsung and Disney. He's like, oh, yeah, we're all going to ski in together. And I was like, what? But still, it didn't hit me. It didn't hit me until that nighttime. At nighttime, I went. I went to the Bronx.

I forget why I went to the Bronx. I went to the Bronx. I know I was going to someone's apartment. And I walked through. And I had to drop Lexus, which was in all actuality, they should have killed me too. Because I had just drove through their block, had to drop Lexus right after a murder. And I stood there and I asked. And then I walked up in the building.

And then when I thought about everything I was like yo I don't belong here at all I'm the exact opposite of what I am the example of what they're saying and what people don't understand

sometimes when people hate you they hate you because you are the exact example of what they were not able to accomplish in their own life. And I realize that about myself. Sometimes, because you know I'm the first one to go to the room. God damn it, please say that one more time. God damn it.

Please say that one more time. Yo, yo, yo, yo, please. Fuck that, I do it for myself. Yo, hold on. You said sometimes people hate you Because you're an exact example Of what they could have been I realized that about some of my old friends

That's crazy Oh my god I got the holy ghost I'm sorry When people look at me I'm an example because we all grew up together So they look at me and like That motherfucker actually had the audacity To do it

To make it To be God No no no I say this on purpose To be God And then to turn around And clean himself up Are you serious

To be God I gotta take one more piss I mean that's alright We good But But this is something that I'll say And um We good. But this is something that I'll say. And we got to do better by ourselves, bro, to each other.

You know, one of the things that I wanted to say about your last album, bro, like we keep saying that we're doing it for hip hop, but hip hop don't do it for us. I agree. That's why I go to the, that's why I stay with, like, I'm going to be real with you, bro. As conscious as I am, the hood motherfuckers are the ones that support me. With the exception of Taleb, Kweli, and maybe 9th Wonder in hip-hop, the rest of the motherfuckers don't fuck with me. T.I. fuck with me.

Jeezy fuck with me. Snoop fuck with me. E-40 fuck with me. You feel me? Like, the rest of the... You're kind of saying everybody in a sense. Huh? In a sense, you're saying everybody. What I'm saying is that conscious hip-hop don't fuck with me. They don't. It's just the real

and I'm cool with that, because I don't give a fuck. I'm for the people, bro. I don't give a fuck about none of these motherfuckers. I care about our people. Motherfuckers that's struggling. I don't give a fuck about no fucking these motherfuckers. I care about our people. Motherfuckers that's struggling. I don't give a fuck about no fucking titles, dog. Jeezy gave me $20,000 doing Katrina. I said, Banner, don't tell nobody that I gave this money

because it ain't about no fucking show. It's about them people, and I know you going to give them that money. T.I. raised $80,000, dog. Out of all these motherfuckers Talib is the only one That pick up the phone When I call Homie You feel me

So like I go like the gangsters It's who I fuck with Cause at least the gangsters The gangsters tell you I don't give a fuck about you I don't give a fuck about you bitches I don't give a fuck about you niggas

And then they make a million dollars And you think they gonna change They told you They didn't give a fuck about N bitches. They don't give a fuck about you niggas. And then they make a million dollars and you think they're going to change. They told you they didn't give a fuck about niggas and bitches. And now you surprised? When they get rich, you think they're going to change? They told you what it was. It's about this fucking bad nigga. So I respect that.

You have a code. You have a code of honor. Your code may be warped. But at least I like a man who stand for his word. All this conscious shit, dog. I don't want to be a part of the conscious community. I am conscious because I know better. I want people who want to do the real fucking work.

I ain't going to fuck about how you rap because I'm going to tell you and I'm not going to name no names. I've been on tour with a lot of the conscious motherfuckers. They be the ones with the white girls. The motherfucking hood motherfuckers. They be the ones with the white girls. The motherfucking hood motherfuckers, they be at Stroker's and Magic City in the line with the black girls. Like, these be the motherfuckers. So, like, for me, I don't want no tags.

Are you ready to work? I'm going to tell you something, and this is something real. A gay dude DM'd me one time and said david where we going with this david just hold on listen to me gay dude dm'd me one time and say david banner i want to be a part of the movement but i'm gay and i say bro d-ray huh no that's my man d-ray's my man D-Ray's my man You ain't no D-Ray gay He is Not D-Ray the comedian

Oh yeah that's my homie Oh yeah Bro you scared me I was like that's my homie But this is a black activist named D-Ray With the blues Oh yeah So hoesy wow I saw His name D-Ray with the blues. Oh, yeah. All right. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So, wow.

Yeah, yeah. I saw it. I saw it. And I'm like, let's drink, man. Let's post. A shot? A shot? Yeah, yeah.

We need a shot. Can we get a shot real quick? Real quick. Whoa. Whoa. Yo, but y'all don't know what I'm talking about? Yeah, we know what you're talking about. And you know what?

I seen him. I seen him in Confidence.com. I told him I'm a fan. I told him I follow him. And that was it. But he didn't fuck with me. He went and spoke to Pharrell. He left me immediately.

That's a fact. You a cold piece of work. No, I'm not. Look, I'm not even trying to be funny. Hey, who in my voice is in here? You know what he's just saying. No, I'm just... Let me finish my point, though.

I'm not even trying to be funny. This is really important. A gay guy hit me. He was like, David, man, I want to be a part of the black power movement, but I'm gay. Right. And I told him, bro, if you doing the work. Yeah. If you working, if you handing out boxes, if you seeing people, how the fuck I know who you fucking anyway?

If you working, let's get your work dog cuz when a policeman put a fucking pistol to your head he not said excuse me are you Muslim are you gay are you gay no he said my last year you were niggas yeah you're a nigga so for me bro I don't care what you are you about to work my dude of liberating my people we deal with all the rest of that shit later on honey let me let me let me let me, let me, let me, let me, let me, let me interrupt you for one second. That's funny.

My six years on the West Coast just came. Because you know why? You know why? It's because what I feel like we're doing right now is I feel like we're announcing the problem, right? Let's, while we're getting out of here, let's lean towards the solution. Well, I disagree. Because all night, while we're getting out of here, let's lean towards solutions. Well, I disagree.

Okay. Because all night, all we really been talking about is solutions. Can I tell you? Okay. The first thing we said is own your own shit.

No, you're right. You just laid out a whole fucking... You're right. I'm only saying that so you can give yourself credit. No, no, you're right. Dude, you laid out

two or three political plans for people. But I want to, because I know our fans, so the people who haven't been to education, who haven't been to school, is they want to support. Most of us, you know, to tell you the truth, poverty-stricken people can never be racist.

Because you know why? The Russian that lives next door to me is damn near going through the same struggle i'm going through um no no no don't get me wrong 90 of us is us but that you know that chinese guy like i i live next door to to chinese people it was a black man who had made love to a chinese woman uh korean woman, excuse me, Freddie, Joseph, and Robert. It was my best friends growing up.

And they were black and Korean. And in the streets, they were naked. Because they sold drugs, they shot niggas, they did whatever the fuck they wanted to do. But, so how do we move forward in the future? This is what I'm trying to say. I'm sorry I was long-winded. No, no, no.

I just wanted to make sure you knew that, bro. You actually did a very good job of articulating a whole lot of fun bro you just laid out a fucking union who has ever done I'm being very serious let's just be serious for a second I'm very who has ever done that but you all right and you called me bro I could tell he was nearly in tears, dog. Yeah, I did cry. And Norris is one of the hardest niggas I know. I didn't know you knew that. That's the first time I used it in a long time. I didn't know. I must be getting drunk.

I didn't know you knew that. I used it. Salud, man. I didn't know you knew that. Salud. I'm getting teary eyed right now. I can hear you, bro. Salud.

Because you know what? He was dead serious. Hold on. You got to take it. You got to do it. Drink it up. I'm sorry. What?

I'm the motherfucker that did this, though. Let's stick to the... Hold though. Let's keep it continuing. Hold on, let me do mine. You know where we're from, we turned it over to make sure motherfuckers ain't cheating. Oh, but yeah. You know why I banned him? Because I think of brothers like Kamikaze, right? And I think of brothers like Capone, who I don't feel I'm better than or more privileged than.

I might have had a better chance, or I might have hustled more. It doesn't make me a better person than him. But if we came into this game together, I think about a person like Tragedy. You know, he put me on. Regardless of how it went from there, if he was to ever get sick, I would want to be there for him. And maybe I'm in Africa curing whatever or trying to do whatever I'm trying to do. I shouldn't feel obligated to stop my life.

I feel like it should automatically come. Pause. That sounded crazy. But because, you know what I'm saying? And the thing about it is, if we're not going to do it, then who will? Yeah. Who will? At the end of the day, if we're not going to do it, then who will? Yeah. Who will? At the end of the day, you said to me, right?

You said to us, who did I come with? You came by yourself. Pause. But the fact that you... Hold on. At this point in our life, the pause makes it worse, don't it? I know. Because I didn't even hear it.

I'm so serious. No, but I didn't hear it until the pause makes it worse, don't it? I know. Because I didn't even hear it. I'm so serious. No, but I didn't hear it until on the pause. But now something happened in the banner, right? Right. Now, and God bless, because we don't want to wish that. But if something happened, I don't feel like you should go in your own stash. I feel like you put in enough work. I feel like I've hit CEOs, myself, personally, and each one of them said

that's, he gonna do it on his own. When is the time for you not to do it on your own? But the problem is, Nori, and let me get back to my political self. No problem. Go every time, everybody in

this room, every time a white cop who we all know because of a video has killed an innocent black person. If you go and look at their crowdfunding pages, they get anywhere from $500 to $2 million. Wow. Bro, the man who killed Mike... Mike Jackson? No, don't even worry about it. Mike Brown.

Let's just stay on point, bro. Okay. Let's make it even better. Who killed Trayvon Martin? Say his name. Don't say his whole name. George Zimmerman? Yeah.

This motherfucker is around selling paraphernalia. And all these so-called hard-ass motherfuckers always talking this shit. If I step on his shoes, he'll take my life. If I don't bring... If he front me some dope

and I don't bring back a dollar He'll slit my fucking throat But this motherfucker is You're right Bro It go back to what I said before How many How you right

Like if we don't love self Like I love black people so much And I know And I'm just gonna be honest with you I ain't one of the few people That I know black folks love me, bro. I really do. Like, I do.

But, like, I know they love Pac better than they love my black ass. Motherfuckers know who killed Pac. Fuck what they say. Motherfuckers always pillow talk when they fucking. They always do. You go, uh, uh. Yeah, I do. We always do.

He didn't do shit about that. He didn't do shit about that. He didn't do shit about Emmett Till. He didn't do shit about Mike Brown. He didn't do shit about nobody. So why would our children, I said it on the guard box, which your black ass could go by. Why would somebody want to be king when you let them kill a king? Why would people want to be Martin Luther King when Martin Luther King stood for you

that killed his black ass and you did nothing? And motherfuckers talk about I want to be peaceful or I want to be militant. They killed Martin Luther King and Malcolm X and nobody did shit. So why would a child want to be a revolutionary? If a motherfucker is a racist, they're a billionaire or a fucking president. You a motherfucking black revolutionary, you broke. That's some bullshit. And the reason is, is because most motherfuckers want to be a white man.

But what about the black revolutionaries that's not broke? How do we support them? But my question is, show me one. Styles P is one. I'm sorry, Styles P is a personal friend of mine. Styles P is doing good, but if Styles P was white, doing the same thing, he would be a fucking billionaire. I am doing marginally well. I'm doing better than most black men. But for the work

I put in, if I turned around and put the same energy into Trump, what would that be? Let's be real. No, we gotta be. That's the reason why I say it's cool to have the white negative people

be in power because we got to be real with each other, dog. If we don't have a real talk, it's bullshit. If I turned around right now and supported Trump, what you think these shoes would do? What you think this jacket would fucking do on davidbanner.com? Matter of fact, how many followers you have? Tell me how many followers y'all have.

It's millions. All together, yeah. It's millions. Go to davidbanner.com. Everybody that's looking at our drink champs right now, let's see what our people do right now. If after this, hold on. If after this views, I make, hold on, let's say,

watch this, because I'm about science. I told one of my friends, I do. Hold on, let's say. Watch this, because I'm about science. I told one of my friends, I do believe in God, but I believe God is a God of science and mathematics. God doesn't have people that he likes more. You may be susceptible, more susceptible to his message because you

have melanin, because you come from the original place, but that's just like Steph Curry. One more shot and that's it. That's good. All right. People talk about Golden State. And this is a good example.

People always talk about Golden State. And I tell motherfuckers to get out of here about Golden State. Before Kevin Durant, there was nobody on Golden State team who was supposed to be a superstar. Steph Curry? No, no, no, no. He was never small. He was too small. He had bad ankles.

He can't jump. Come on, dude. Look at Steph Curry. He's a kid. That motherfucker practiced. I read a book that said talent is only a head start. God doesn't have any favorites. The law of God is mathematical and it's scientific.

And if you follow it, you win. That's the reason why they separated us from Africa. If we knew the math and we knew the science, we can do the same thing that they do. But this is my point. Bro, if we as a people don't support and love each other, we can have drink champs,

we can be David Banner, they will let us be successful individually, but if we can't move the masses, what's the reason why they kill Pop? That's the reason why they killed Bob Marley. Well, not killed Bob Marley, but allowed Bob Marley legacy to be with the boys.

But they recently said that they killed Bob Marley. Right. So, it's your effect on people's movement. If I say right now, everybody on Drink Champs, if 30% of Drink Champs people right now, not even David Banner's fans, Drink Champs, went and bought a David Banner jacket from DavidBanner.com. 30%. We're going to push them to do that.

No, it's not about pushing them. You got to say it one time. Trump say some shit one time. Yeah, he's proving a point right now. He's right. Yeah. Bro, it's about our ability for people to do stuff for other people besides ourselves. If we say on Drink Champs right now, we want Gilliam to win.

If 50% of Drink Champ motherfuckers, if 50% of David Banner motherfuckers, you can have all these. That's why I don't really put no money in the followers. Because to follow somebody is free. I only calculate the people who went to DavidBanner.com and bought something. Because you can click a button and say, ah, this motherfucker talking like a shit. Let me see what he going to say. It's how much money you put into it. Drink that shit.

Salud. I love y'all, bro. Let me just say something. I don't know if you know David Banner, but when the person come on Drink Champs, we salute them. Because a lot of people, they don't give you the fucking flowers until you dead and gone. They want to say David Banner's a good nigga. No, I'm going to tell you David Banner's

a good nigga. I'm going to tell you David Banner's a great person. I'm going to tell you that David Banner's the person that I want to represent for me. Can you call me a God? For me. Can you call me a God? And my whole people. Can you call me a God? Not only me, my whole people. Can we say that we're gods? Yes, yes. And you know what? We're going to salute you while

you're alive. That's what the fuck we do at Drink Check. Salud. This is a terrible shot. But I'm going to tell y'all something before I drink mine. You didn't drink all yours, bro. Relax, relax. Because you my homie. I'm going to drink all mine.

But I want to tell y'all something mine Yeah yeah But I wanna tell y'all Something bro Yep I don't salute y'all Both of you two I love y'all Love you too And it's something

That we don't say as men And it's our relationship Like I told my I told my homeboys Like The people that work for me I don't love them Until we had years Like you ain't my Fucking friend You work for me I don't love them Until we had years

You ain't my fucking friend You work for me Until consistently I can see Over years bro There's so many times That you could've said Fuck me

Nore did something That was so crazy I'ma say one more thing And I'ma drink my Motherfucking shot When Nore started Figuring out The TV game

He called me And said Can I say this? Yeah, please. He was like, Banner, bro, I'm going to tell you how to do this shit. He said, as a matter of fact, if you need some help, he said, bro, I don't even need no money from you, bro. He said, I'll show you how to do this shit, man, and I'll do this shit for you. Right. Bro, me and you had only met like Four or five times bro

When you was doing that Rock and roll shit Brown Oh you're talking about Mayday Yeah oh yeah No but we met on the mixtape days first No no no I know that

I was saying the mixtape days But when you call me About Mayday Bro I don't do no Mayday Bro I rap for a living Bro when you call me Because of your consistency I don't know if you even, I rap for a living. Bro, when you call me, because of your consistency.

I don't know if you even remember that time I came down here and needed a pair of shoes, bro. And I remember everything. I remember people, I act stupid to catch a fucking fool. Every time I ever call you, and we ain't talking much, every time I call you, you was front and center, dog. When you call me about Mayday, bro, I didn't give a fuck about who they were. You asked me, bro. And that shit was jamming. So, like, that's how we got to be about

each other. Before I take my shot, I'll ask you one thing before we close. Bro, when they killed Pop, they did nothing. When they killed Biggie, they did nothing. If you name all the people from all our homies, bro,

who has ever been taken off of this earth, we did nothing. The only thing that I ask people if anything ever happened to me in life... Let's kill everybody. I'm in. He said it. I ain't tell you that. I said it.

I don't want no peace. I don't want peace. I don't want you to go and fuck your shit up. I don't tell you that I said it. I don't want no peace. I don't want peace. Right. I don't want you to go and fuck your shit up. I don't want you to go burn your shit. I want you to find out who did it and go find that specific motherfucker. Because one thing that I do like about the new revolutionaries, if you look, when somebody do some dumb shit, they tell you where them motherfuckers work. Word. They tell you specifically who their name.

We got to stop saying the man. If we're talking about motherfuckers who are investing in the prison industrial system, let's find out who that company is, who runs that company. Jordan. How he. Yeah. No, it's much bigger than Jordan. I know.

But as you want to know. But we got to talk about some white folks. Yeah. Okay. We got to specifically find out who those people are, bro, and handle that business. This is Drink Champs. I love you.

I'm David Banner and davidbanner.com. I love you. God damn, he's the first artist who ended his own thing. But let me just say something. Hold on, hold on. David Banner, let me just tell you something. As a person who met you in the early, you know, 2000s, maybe even the early 90s.

I was sleeping on windy days, Flo. I was homeless, bro. I just want you to know how much you did for me. Big up to windy days. Big up to windy days. How much you did for me. Like, look at me, bro. I'm serious.

Like, bro, you were the first. You were the motherfucker that gave me money to go home. Like, when you bought those beats for your brothers, bro. All right, thank you. For that military machine, you were the first person that paid significant money for a David Banner beat, bro. Well, thank you. I'll never forget this. Right, listen, hold on.

You know what? I was on Wendy Day's Float drinking beer and pound cake. Wow. The weed or real pound cake? For intimates. For intimates? Okay, all right. But what I'm saying, bro, is that's one of the reasons why I even do this. Wow The weed or Real power For intimates For intimates Okay alright But what I'm saying bro

Is That's one of the reasons Why I even do this I don't let people See my weaknesses You sure But for you all I do this man

Because It helps build your brand And I know Motherfuckers watch me But bro You both Have done something To invest in my career bro

And Nori at the time like what's the album that you did with that you did the first one for Foxy Brown the firm. Nori know that? Yeah. Nori know that? Bruh like that was somebody I knew I was in I was living in New York homeless on Wendy Day's floor, me and Raskass. Wow. Bro, when you blew and you ran that shit and you fucked with me at a point. And I tell you somebody else who fucked with me, bro.

And I want y'all to say it because I know you know their name. Who ran Rough Riders? D from... D and Y. Yep. Cause I know you know their name Who ran Rough Riders? D from DMW Yep DMW was two motherfuckers That fucked with me When

They were like two motherfuckers Just like you bro Like Uh huh They had signed Fiend To Rough Riders And Fiend was my homie And

He was one of the people That helped me And believed in me When I didn't have no money bro I gotta try Afterwards Okay Um

And DMW I remember I was in. Ice Peak, everybody was in there, bro. And I was in. Rest in peace. Thank you, bro. I was doing a beat for Fiend, and we was listening to some Rough Riders shit, and everybody was rocking, bumping their head. And I was like, bro, that shit ain't jamming.

And I said it. And all the motherfuckers in the room was like, oh, man, he from the South, man. DMY was like, shut up. Hey, Mississippi, what you got to say? And I told him, like, man, that shit cool. But you can do this, this, that, that, that, and the other. And D.N.Y. both was like, hey, bro, do that shit. And I remember that shit came out.

Yeah, everybody forgot about the Mississippi motherfucker. Because I remember I went to New York um It was eight days. Let me big you up big you up and then we're gonna Real close up. You gotta go is you should you show you was one of the people who showed me you as a producer off top When you play me something He was like, you know what the hook should be for this and I looked looked at you, and I was like, my album had just got done. So I just wanted to tell you, I looked at you just like Pharrell.

I'm sorry. I don't want to compare y'all. But I looked, and I was like, oh, these are un... Because I'm a New York nigga, and New York niggas don't really give niggas... Y'all got egos. Props outside of the thing. But me, when I looked at Pharrell and I looked at

a person like you, I said, okay, this is the same person as me, but accent. Bro, can I give a shout out

to somebody, bro, who don't get no love, bro, from doing our movement, bro? Yeah. Rest in peace to Half a Mill, bro. Half a Mill.

I was going to bring him up earlier. Yeah, man. Half a Mill, man. Half a Mill, like, yeah, bro. I was going to bring him up earlier. Yeah, man. Half a mil, man. Half a mil. Like, yeah, bro. I love that dude. Like, it would make Cardan, Nelly.

Cardan. Cardan. Nelly. That's all that penalty shit. Yeah, it's a lot of shit, dog. All that penalty shit. Gina Sims, man. Yeah, that's cool.

Yeah. Yeah. Mark Moore. Real quick, though. I don't know what your relationship with him is, but he actually connected us in a lot of ways. Who happened, man? No, TJ.

Yeah. TJ. So shout out to TJ. He's a Florida legend. Yeah. You know, he's a world legend. No, he is. He is.

But he started. He was the one that brought me to the moon. Yeah. You know what I'm saying? So shout out to TJ. Shout out to TJ. Actually, he connected us. Yeah.

And TJ was one of the motherfuckers that really pushed for Like A Pimp earlier. Matter of fact, I was fucking with TJ before. I'll tell you a secret about TJ. TJ brought me T-Pain. That's the first time I saw T-Pain was at TJ's DJs with the group. Wow. Right, when they redid my neck and my back. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

There's a Robin joint. And he brought me B.O.B. Yeah. You know, like. B.O.B. That's the first time I saw B.O.B. That's what I'm telling you. At the moon.

That was the type of love that TJ had for me, man. And TJ is one of the motherfuckers still to this day. He's still putting it down. Nah, he's a legend, man. For independent artists, period period man and and I appreciate no one shot out one more person but I want to shout out big fun yeah on the bay man but and the reason why I do and the reason why I want to talk about said big Vaughn I pop my collar yeah well the reason I want to

say DJ Vaughn it's cuz DJ Vaughn does the same types of things that other billion-dollar DJs do, but he don't want the credit and the money, bro. He breaks records. When my career did this, I mean, Big Vaughn was the one that, like, when I did play, when I did Get Like Me. I always wondered, did you receive, you receive any criticism of the play? Because that was a commercial commercial Let me tell you

Y'all got time for the real story? We got one Shaka Zulu Ludacris And Tina Brown Who was Chris Chris Brown Tina Davis

Tina Davis I'm sorry Please forgive me I've been Chris Brown. Tina Davis. Tina Davis, I'm sorry. Okay, I got you back. Tina, I'm sorry. Please forgive me. I've been drinking all night. Tina Davis. They both came to me, and they didn't know that they told me the same thing. I had kicked open 15 doors in Universal because I had worked eight months for Universal Universal and they didn't cut my check.

They owe me like a $600,000 check. I kicked open $15 in New York. Bitch, where my money at? And the thing that I didn't understand is I kicked open 15 doors. You didn't hear this black man cussing out this white woman in the door before you? Like, why didn't everybody leave? They actually put me. And it's funny.

I told Raheem Devon. They had put me And it's funny I told Rahim and Devon They had put me On the terrorist list In Universal Cause I had worked And they didn't have my money I worked eight months For Universal

I was the type of person I would Most artists did Two weeks of promo I did eight months At a time You know what I mean And what happened was

Tina Davis And Shaka Zulu came to me privately and said, bro, these white folks are terrified of you. And the reason why I wasn't getting a big publishing deal is because you know that's when they was giving three, they was giving millions for publishing deals. And I had records. And people didn't know the big records,

like people didn't know I produced Maroon 5. People didn't know that I did Chris Brown and Justin Bieber. People don't know that, bro, I've done 80 major. People didn't know. What's the dude that produced Michael Jackson? Quincy Jones? Quincy Jones. I actually knew I wanted you to say it.

People didn't know I produced. Me and Warren Campbell produced Quincy Jones, bro Jones actually knew I wanted you to say it people didn't know I produce me and Warren Campbell produced Quincy Jones Yeah, but people don't know that's that's why when you say all the production people don't know what I've done as a producer Yes, it went way too long But one of the problem was is that I was so attractive as an artist people didn't want to accept me as now I'm just joking. No, you're right. No, you ain't joking. My point is this. What were we talking about? We were talking about life. It was a point I was trying to make, though.

Quincy Jones. No, it was a bigger point, though. I was saying all that shit to say. It was Quincy Jones. Huh? Universal. Oh, yeah, you're right. What happened with me,

oh, for play. I know, that's what you asked me why I did play. That was such a commercial. No, no, no. Yeah, that was the point. What happened was, Tina Davis and Shaka Zulu

said that white people are scared of you and they are about to blackball you. If you don't find a way to become relatable you will never be on the radio or tv again gonna play with it gonna play with it i had to do what i had to do and like he's awesome and big bond broke that record. And the thing was, let me tell you about men. All my homies.

My homeboy Twa, I tell you, he even said it. All my homies looked at me like, you fucking crazy. And all you motherfuckers that said that I be... But they look at you crazy because it was a hit or they look at you crazy because you've been so hardcore military. That's the train bringing me my money that's the bridge yeah that's so much money

on it yeah you don't know what we're calling yeah but what else what happened was it's terrible was when the whisper song came out whisper that's the ying ying twang right who produced y'all y'all remember who produced the ying ying twang no no No, no, no. That was you? No. It wasn't Lil Jon. It was you? No. It was DJ Khaled Park. Oh, Khaled Park. That's right.

Because he was the one that signed the Yin Yang Twins. Why? He said, I want to do intimate club music. He said, let's create a movement. Do you want to be a part of it? And he said, David Banner, do the most shocking shit, but don't be aggressive. Everybody's used to you going, yeah, yeah! And I was like, bro, it was the hardest shit

because I'm used to, I'm cropped. Motherfuckers throw bottles and I'm crowd surfing. And if you go and listen to that song, I'm talking about putting thumbs in girls' buttholes, putting it in her mouth and running back like Randy Moss. But I was saying the dopest shit, but I was whispering.

So it wasn't that bad. You know what I'm saying? And people thought, damn, he biting off the whisper song, but it was the same people who made the song. Right, right, right. And that put me back in the game. But let me tell you something that nobody

ever knew about that. Besides Get Like Me, that was the biggest song in my career. Get Like Me. But it was the most uncomfortable time in my life

because that, well, let me tell you what happened to me. And this is serious and it was so uncomfortable for me and I can say it now because I'm older. I'm used to being

a fucking hunter. I'm used to being the motherfucker everybody's scared of. When I made play, girls wasn't scared of me no more. The girls were hunting me. Like, girls were taking their hands. I remember one girl took a hand and put it under my ass and grabbed my balls. No, I'm serious. I squeezed.

I squeezed her fucking hand. I squeezed her motherfucking hand. And I turned around and looked at her. I said, are you a mother? She said, yes. I said, look at yourself. I'm a grown ass man. I'm a grown ass man. Calm your ass down. And you squeezed the shit? No, I squeezed her hand so she couldn't pull her hair down from the balls. I wanted her to see, you know, this moment. And she said, I am a mother. I was like, now be a woman about this shit.

Now give me a couple seconds. We can holler later because she was beautiful. But she had your shit. She had my shit in her hand. But the problem is that my shit was bigger than her hand, so it was still free. But the point of that my shit was bigger than my hand, so it was still free. But the point about play was this. Is that people complained about play, but that without them being real. As much as these conscious motherfuckers, I'm going back to the conscious motherfuckers.

Talk that shit. The reason why people come to my lectures is because of like a pimp, play and get like me. Because you are somebody that could have kept making those songs, but you came back for us. And we fuck with you. And I thank

you for it. Yo, man. I can't stand up. Yo, let me tell you something. This is Drink Champs alumni. When it comes to sitting here talking politics, talking real, like, you know, we've been having a couple of episodes. Oh, motherfucker.

When I was thinking about it, I said, yo, I just hit him off the blue. I was like, yo, it's time for you to come back. He didn't question me at all. This is where I'm like, relax. I got to big you up. He didn't question me in a minute. I thought he was going to say, yo, Norio, I don't got no album coming out. I don't got nothing.

Which most artists do. You said, well, what day, brother? And this time, I ain't talking about no. Because what's funny, do you remember well what day brother and this time i ain't talking about no because it was funny the last do you remember the last time i i can say it now because it's over with last time i came to dream chef is when i got that gun charge at the airport we didn't talk about that thank y'all for not talking about that that's just so over with yeah um because i was rushing here i came straight from the studio, and whenever I go to the studio, I keep my pistol. I had my pistol

in my backpack, and I didn't think about it, and I was rushing to get here, and I almost didn't make it to the last drink, champ, because I almost got a gun charge in the airport. But the fact that all my shit is ready, all 30, 40 guns that I have are all registered to me. 30, 40 guns? Yeah.

No, I'm not playing. I got one. I got one now, if y'all don't mind me pulling the bitch out of the way. No, you can relax. Okay. But listen, the point was this, that like bro, I almost really got fucked up last time I came to drink Champs.

Y'all didn't say nothing about that bro, but the truth is man At the end of the day man The reason like this time I didn't ask about no tickets or nothing I paid for everything Because I'm honored man Like think about this

I just want to say this about y'all now I am a very popular Handsome motherfucker Go ahead But where But where Drink Champs is now, bruh, I'm a choice for y'all. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. Let's be honest, bro. Look at what the other motherfuckers do. I'm not talking about y'all. Look at what these other hoe-ass niggas do. And when I say nigga, I mean nigga. I mean the same thing white folks mean.

These hoe ass niggas do. Once they can smell they own ass. Like, yeah, I'm powerful. I'm beautiful. All that shit. But this is a choice, bro. And think about the shit that we talk about. The shit that we talking about right now.

Get other shows fucking cancelled dog And y'all brought me here And y'all keep the other motherfuckers away And say we want David Banner Let him talk that shit I personally And I don't even have to call EFN On a situation like you

Because me and him already have talks But when I had you know Tyler Carly and we had Depp Prez. Then we had Hakeem Green and the more. I like to call him the more. That's my brother. And I said, damn, you know what? It's time for it, David Bennett.

Because last time you had came, Daz the Dillinger had came. And I didn't want you to feel like, you know, you were shorted in any which way. Hold on, hold on. Stop, stop, stop, stop stop let's be real yeah dash the dog pound snoop my family homie no no no let me tell you did you hear what he said on dream champs of course i did he said you family homie right right that felt so good to me because hold on do do you know who cron don is? Yeah of course So Cron Don Is on Black Lightning now

Cron Don And his family And Snoop Dogg When I was in LA The whole They whole family bro They looked out for me For Daz to be there bro

I was fucking honored And he said that On fucking TV. Like, David Banner, you are affiliated, homie. Like, bro, I never, ever thought that in life, bro, because Daz, the dog pound him, that's my fucking family, bro. But we want you to know how appreciated you are here. Oh, yeah. And that's the thing about it is because you're a crusader.

What I mean by that is. Feel the ag. What's up, dog? What I mean by that is. Feel the agony. You always, your life is the big of someone else. Yeah. So this is probably why Drink Champs made me be attractive to you because this is your only time.

But watch this. Is it your time? No, no, no. Watch this. Watch this. Watch this. This is your time to get picked up. Let me show you how powerful

Dream Champ is. What did I just tell you about being a god? If I am a god, I don't mind another god shining while I shine. But this is your time to shine. Oh, thank you.

And this is us. This is our time to say that we appreciate you. Thank you. This is our time to say that, you know, when we think about black people and we think about people

who speak for us, you know, it's you, T.I., there's Dead Prez, there's Hakeem Green, there's my man, the Black Mall. And there's not a lot of people that we will want. Because, like, I'm going to be honest. If I'm getting drunk in Barbados somewhere, I don't want Flavor Flavor to talk to me. He's my nigga. I love him. Yeah. But I don't want Flavor Flavor to talk to me. But let me nigga. I love him. Yeah. But I don't want Flavor Flavor to talk for me.

But let me tell you something. I'm not sure if he's getting cocaine now. We was about to edit this shit a long time ago. Let me say this and then we... Let go, Duvall. No. Let me tell you this. Let me tell you this last thing.

Bro, if we really about the people, it ain't about me, bro. No, it is. Look at me, seriously. It's not. Let me tell you. Because that's what's wrong with black people we love malcolm we love martin we love all of these different people if you look at other movements it's not about people it's about the movement i always tell people and i learned this from er Badu, I am a humble servant of my people. It's the movement, dog.

Because if they love me, what the fuck they do to everybody they love? Say it. They kill them. So if I focus on David Banner, David Banner, David Banner, I said this, and motherfuckers got mad at me. I said Malcolm and Martin, and that probably should have ended a long time ago, I said Malcolm and Martin and that probably should have ended a long time ago. I said Malcolm and Martin was more of a hindrance to the movement than

it was a help. Everybody said, what do you mean by that? If you look at the black power movement, it was moving slowly. Malcolm and Martin came. They did this. When Malcolm and Martin died, what did the movement do? It was like Drake and Meek Mill. What happened when Malcolm and Martin died, what did the Muslims do? They was like Drake and Meek Mill?

Watch this. What happened when Malcolm and Martin died? It fell. It stopped. I would have rather it crawled and kept going. Bro, I'm a humble servant of God, dog. I serve my people. That's why I make money other ways.

I don't count on my people because I know my people are not conscious enough right now. If my people don't love being black, how the fuck would I expect them to love me? So for me, it ain't about me. Listen to me. I'll tell you this. Godbox Lecture Series. You remember it was the number one black lecture on the circuit about two and a half years ago. I told people this.

I speak three times better than I actually speak at lectures. And people say, why don't you give them it all? I don't want you to catch the Holy Ghost. I want you to keep your mind intact. Because if I teach you, right, they kill me, they can't kill all of us it's not about me it is about the people and the people as a collective is the manifestation of god the most high so if if we big up me too much like i i have i have a muslim homie and he tells me bro i don't like accolades and he said why not and i said he said because if you give me accolades. And he said, why not? And he said,

because if you give me accolades, I want to be judged by God by the accolades I receive. I am a servant of the people. I am not a humble servant. I think slaves are humble. I am a God. I am a God. But do you know the most powerful thing about Jesus?

What did Jesus wash on the people? He washed their feet. And he was the son of God, supposedly. And he washed the people's feet. Because it's not about me. It is about the movement and my father. It is...

I'll stop. I got the Holy Ghost. Say this thing about that. I got the Holy motherfucking Ghost, nigga. Hold. I got the Holy Motherfucking Ghost, nigga. Hold on, let me take a pee again. It's done. We're done. We're done.

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