David Banner Quotations

This was a star-studded event. We had cats flying in from LA and all over just to be there. We had over 10,000 people there, it was amazing,

He looked better than he ever looked to me. But he's the one who decides whether he can look at himself in the daytime. The one thing you have to understand about comedians is, the more they make people smile, the more pain that they usually feel inside.

I think it's a natural progression. The door have been nudged on and pushed on for years, and it's sort of giving way now. If you research music, the foundation of most contemporary music originates from the South. It's just the natural progression of time and music that it comes back to the place where it originated from. I think it's beautiful, and snap is a new movement that allows people to stay current and allows people to dance again. Everybody wants to be hard, everybody wants to be gangsters. Yeah, that's cool but we also gotta learn how to have fun.

I can admit there are some problems in hip hop but it is only a reflection of what's taking place in our society. Hip hop is sick because America is sick.

...Maybe Hell ain't a place meant for us to Burn, maybe Earth is Hell and just a place for us to Learn..

One of the worst things that happened to black people in America historically is integration. People ask me why I say that and I tell them it's because we gave up all of our control.

Our situation is more psychological than people will admit. Black kids kill Black kids for the same reason cops do. They see no value.

If you want a man that respects the way you think then show more mind than ass.

The sad thing is that people are going to think this is a reflection of rap music. But it's not a reflection ... people have lives outside of the music.

Anyone who knows me, knows that I am a workaholic, ... I am just going to use this time while I am shooting the film to really rest. I am totally focused on acting because that has always been my dream. After we are done shooting, I am planning on starting the European tour to promote Certified and dive back into the swing of things with music.

There's a lot more we can do as artists, ... but I'm really, really proud of the rappers who have stepped up to help. I can honestly say that we've concentrated so much on helping because it's in our hearts and it's the right thing to do.

It's about a white family and a black family living in modern day North Mississippi but the white family's mind set is that of 1869 and no matter what you do it won't change, they still think and talk the way they would in 1869, so it's really pushing it, ... My character is a member of black rock band who works at Sonic, but he is moving upward and is in direct conflict with the white family. I think that it's really going to push the envelope and address the issue of race relations in America, even if we don't want to.

It might be a band coming towards you, ... So y'all can bring us out on tour, hint, hint. Give us some of that Korn money.

It's like an alternate world. It's a day in the life of the actual group, so they took little quirks about everybody's personality and amplified it a whole lot. David the drummer is the pretty boy in the group, so he keeps a mirror around, he has to make sure that he's tight before he goes onstage.

It was a blessing because, to see all of us three years ago, we could barely get in the building. So for us to have a medley and represent a place that has been hit so hard ...

I wanna change the whole perception of rap. That's why I come in here looking like this. I wanna surprise 'em.

Artists who've had big problems with each other came together today, hugged ... and said, 'We gonna come together and make this happen.'

I'm really happy with the role, ... I feel blessed that my debut role is a major one, starring beside someone as great as Samuel L. Jackson.

I need y'all to be sure that you go back home. They been waiting to tear our ghettos down and separate us from our land.

Honestly, I have a tendency not to enjoy my work, and the one thing that I got from Samuel Jackson is ... he wants me to enjoy it, ... He tells me that all the time, 'Loosen up a little bit.' But the thing is, me coming from Mississippi, I understand these opportunities are not readily available to my people. So I have to make sure that everything that I do, I do it to the best of my ability because it's a reflection of more than just me. When people look at David Banner they see Mississippi, so I have to make sure that it's good. And you have to understand my acting debut was with Samuel L. Jackson, so imagine that flavor. If you suck and he is as good as he is, he's going to show you how bad you suck in front of the whole world.

I don't think that what happened was any different than at any other event where you have a lot of people. It's tragic that it happened and that the media magnified this so much.