David Banner & 9th Wonder ft. Lisa Ivey, “Something Is Wrong” MP3
- story Peter Macia
- photo Alisdair McLellan (F28)
Following on from Nas’ open letter and Killer Mike’s recent, stirring blog post regarding the senseless murder of Derrion Albert, the always outspoken David Banner steps up to address Albert’s death in song. Banner uses the tragedy as a launching pad to rap about many modern problems—violence, racism, sexism and abuse—and in turn, at least somewhat, responds to the criticism that hip hop is not taking a large enough roll in confronting the issues that led to Albert’s death. To Mike’s point though, last year over 30 students were murdered in Chicago alone and this was not an anomaly, either geographically or statistically. It is not something new to many who have grown up in area’s like the south side of Chicago. So that Derrion’s death and the boys responsible for it were caught on tape, that he was an honor student and they were not, that he did not deserve to die and they now apparently do, are all things that have motivated these three artists to speak is powerful. Whether it motivates anyone else remains to be seen.
Download: David Banner & 9th Wonder ft. Lisa Ivey, “Something Is Wrong”
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posted on Oct 5, 2009 in MP3 / STREAMS tags 9th Wonder, David Banner, Derrion Albert, hip hop, Killer Mike, nas
RCRD LBL: Kid Sister f. David Banner, “Family Reunion”
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With summer having officially chunked the deuce, and this weekend promising to be especially gloomy in NYC, the mood around the FADER editorial office hasn’t exactly lent itself to an electric slide session. With Kid Sister giving a play by play of her family reunions and David Banner sounding especially uncle-ish, “Family Reunion” is a chance to latch onto that summertime fly one last time. This doesn’t really sound like the rest of what we’ve heard from the upcoming Dream Date, but it makes for audio sunshine on a dreary Thursday evening.
Download: Kid Sister f. David Banner, “Family Reunion”
Live: David Banner At The Knitting Factory
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Last night at the Knitting Factory, David Banner taught us that being a perfect gentleman means giving lots of enormous bear hugs. He also taught us about how the Government is bullshit (dude, obvi) and how to properly fashion our belts into whips (dubious). Mostly though, he tore the stage apart. Banner played with a live band, and his energy was undeniable as usual—there’s no question that he knows most of what there is to know about being a performer. Fierce and low-voiced one minute, cracking a joyful grin the next, we totally understood why there were hoards of young women in the crowd trying to literally rip him off stage and onto the floor with them. Banner’s long gestating The Greatest Story Ever Told came out last week, go spend money on it.
Video: Polow And Bangladesh At Castle T-Pania
- story THE FADER
There literally is not one person who appears or is talked about in this newest episode of Bangladesh TV, filmed at a T-Pain album party, who hasn’t been in the pages of The FADER. In fact, the one dude doing most of the talking, Polow Da Don, shared an issue with Bill Callahan, successfully forming one of our oddest cover duos ever (Smog not big triangle samples and goblin voices, maybe should be). The best thing about the video though is that those of us who didn’t get to interview Polow for that story can now imagine how much fun it must have been listening to him talk this fast about Rich Boy for three days.
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posted on Jul 8, 2008 in MUSIC VIDEO tags Bangladesh, David Banner, hip hop, Kardinal Offishal, Polow da Don, Static Major, T-Pain
Freeload: Bun B f. Rick Ross, David Banner & 8-Ball & MJG, “You’re Everything”
- story THE FADER
In honor of a certain FADER editor with the initials JES, we are putting up the best rap song from 2008 that samples Jodeci and has two dudes she bro’d with in Texas this year. It’s from Bun’s II Trill, which comes out next Tuesday, it features a song-stealing verse from Banner, MJG rapping like he is a deflating balloon, and an 8-Ball verse that is disappointing because it is actually just a list of his friends, but other than that, great song dudes!
Download: Bun B f. Rick Ross, David Banner & 8-Ball & MJG, “You’re Everything”
Levi’s®/FADER Fort Video: David Banner
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You may have already read about David Banner’s heroic performance at the Levi’s®/FADER Fort on Saturday but we’re doing everyone else one better by putting up video of Mister Mississippi destroying “Suicide Doors” with a full band, including Mannie Fresh on DJ duties. Beer gets drank, beer gets spit, photographers get ridden like donkeys and Pimp C gets a moment of silence. It was probably the best thing we witnessed or thought about witnessing all week.
