By LocalCD.Com  May 2003 contact writer at dhonore@localcd.com 901-827-2128

April 13, 2003

David Banner Gets Crunk with the Folks in South Memphis

David Banner, Mississippi top local rapper, is blowing out the frame in dirty south to a successful nation wide music career. His high energetic rap music is a reflection of his live performance, which is comparable to a Black Baptist choir on a Sunday morning. When David Banner arrived on a stage during a pre Easter block party in South Memphis, TN sponsored by Hot 107.1 FM, an urban radio station, and begin spitting his dirty southern lyrics marinade in flavoring bass and stuff with drum kicks and high hats, folks in south Memphis flung their gang signs up in the air with their bodies bouncing as if they were flowing in orbit and their heads bobbing in an effortless frenzy to David Banner’s crunk music.

David Banner is currently on a national promotional tour promoting his album “Mississippi” that scheduled to be released in stores on May 20, 2003 that will feature songs like“ Like a Pimp featuring LiL Flip “ and “ Might Getcha Featuring LIL’Jon” which are receiving heavy rotation on urban radio stations throughout the south.

David Banner stage presence is similar to a gospel choir director. Without any tattoos or gold fronts or any other bling bling accessories, the rap artist vacuums his fans into his world of southern ghetto entertainment just by being simply dirty. He begins his show by preaching to his audience over one of his instrumental phat hot tracks that stick to your soul like southern fried chicken seasoned with just the right blend of black pepper and salt. He does not begin rapping his songs until he had captures the majority of the folks in the crowd amens.

He does this by explaining to the folks attending the block party that they all should support each other’s music because they all come from poor families, and they should not player hate him just because he is from Mississippi. He continues to preach to the audience by telling them that he supports other artists from other Southern states. He told the crowd that he produced songs for LIL FLIP and Trick Daddy. Then he asked the folks if they ever heard the song “Thug Holiday”, rapped by Trick Daddy? After the crowd responded to the question, he then boasted proudly that he had produced the songs for them. He told the crowd that he always shows the other southern rappers luv although the music industry ignores rappers from Mississippi like himself.

After ending his sermon, he asked the crowd of folks to represent their hood. When they shouted in a frenzy the name of their hood, David Banner cuts loose into the South new club anthem ”Might Getcha” with one of his leg left up in the air and skipping frantically across the stage and then at times running across the stage jerking his head backward and forward. Then he sporadically jumps into the provocative audience. He repeated the routine until his performance came to an exhausting halt that left him wiping the sweat from his brow and his gritty goat tee with a white towel while folks at the south Memphis block party remained in a trance chanting frantically in a tribal circle waving gang signs in the air.