David Banner says that he takes issue with certain people using the n-word around him.
“They should watch saying the word nigga around me,” David Banner says in an interview with VladTV posted today (June 24). “If you White and you see the word around me, we might have some problems.”
Banner says this in response to artist Chet Hanx’s use of the n-word on social media. Chet Hanx, formerly known as Chet Haze, is the son of actor Tom Hanks.
“People always want to say that we should give up the way we feelin about the word ‘nigga,’” David Banner says, “when really you should give up the power you got from slavery in America.”
The Mississippi artist says that he doesn’t typically criticize what other men say, especially considering that not everyone shares the same experience.
“I feel like any man who sits up and constantly [comments] about what another man says, that’s female like, what women do in high school,” David Banner says. “Because a lot of time people might not have the same experiences as me. My mom says that being a visionary is a blessing and a curse because you’re able to see but you’re cursed to go about it alone. These people may not have experience. A lot of these people are not from the South, and they didn’t know the trees that our people hung from. For me, I don’t really care about nobody’s opinion. I only care about how I feel about my people.”
Banner says that integration has taken Black culture away from his people.
“Black people, we have okayed everything down to a point where our culture is gone,” David Banner says. “Black folks don’t have much to say about Hip Hop and R&B because it has been taken away from us. We have been socialized and we have integrated ourselves into nothingness. Integration is the worst thing to happen, even worse than slavery. At least with slavery we knew what we were fighting against. Now we feel like we are part of something that was designed to enslave us.”
Banner fears the next generation has become beaten down by America.
“We are building a generation of spineless zombies,” David Banner says. “These are the same people who fucking oppressed it. I don’t get it. We call ourselves niggas, the White man’s word. We can call ourselves anything as the descendants of Africans of kings and queens and gods. We can call ourselves Gods, but we call ourselves niggas. That’s how much America has beat us down.”
I feel like David Banner sits around and listens to other real black activists and just copies what they say. lol I could have sworn someone else just said that a few weeks ago.
I’m not a female for commenting on a topic I care about. Artist ignore comments that contradict their public statements because they think they have too much money to respond or they think we are just picking on them. Slavery is an abomination. Integration has its growing pains but I’d rather be free than enslaved NIGGA….
dumbest shit i ever heard lmao .. old racist ppl just need to di eoff
He seems to be referencing a quote by M.L.K where he said, I fear we have integrated into a burning house. Which is true in some respect. As a whole we don’t know and aren’t taught who we are. Words like pride, morality, chivalry have no meaning today. Let’s support the real hiphop
He’s right and black today are weak and controlled by white media..
Sounds like he has a genuine concern for the future of African decendants in America. Refreshing.
David banner needs to shut up and go back to making crude watered down southern rap… intergration is good its the goal but yet he says its worse than slavery, he has no genuine concern about black people, just looking for attention
U must be white David banner speaking the truth why mix wit white other races dont do that u just mad bcus u mixed lmao
this is too wtf George Zimmerman is Hispanic
Dr. King to Harry Belefonte: “You know, we fought long and hard for integration…But I tell you, Harry, I’ve come on a realization that really deeply troubles me. I’ve come to the realization that I think we may be integrating into a burning house.”
Niga and black mean the same thing. But he is a dumb Southern WASHED UP HAS BEEN so what does it matter. African Americans are just a stupid group of spineless degenerates. 12% and quickly disappearing. Great!!!!!!!!!!!!!
You’re not going to heaven with all that hate in your heart. I hope you repent
“I feel like any man who sits up and constantly [comments] about what another man says, that’s female like, what women do in high school,” David Banner says.
What HE is doing. Ha. Low IQ.
So what would you do if hes black and he used th e word? That should be even worse! You can expect the regular.white racist to say the word bc wth… thats expected, but blk people should stop using that word, period. People will follow suit. And no, whitey didnt take hip hop and rnb away from “blacks”, black people SOLD OUT.
This hypocritical bastard NEVER EVER speaks out against mfs like yung thug, bobby shmurder, etc.
I guarantee that David Banner was dancing to Shmurda song “hot N” in the club, guaranteed!
“I feel like any man who sits up and constantly [comments] about what another man says, that’s female like, what women do in high school.” Great so shut the fuck up you retarded hypocrite.
Brother is 100% right and all those foos and white bitches on this page can go to hell!!!!
Stop using the N-word in music, period !!!!!!
Stop makin’ this wackass damaging music. Stop glorifyin’ crime, gangs, drugs and prostitution.
David Banner has a point, but he’s also part of the problem. Just listen to some of his earlier work.
Most of these artists are hypocrites.
We need 2 take rap back to days of b.d.p public enemy and etc. where they uplift those who listen 2 them because they didn’t use the n word they said brothers and sisters
i dont have a problem with the word niggah,but we should must stop racism,David banner has a point but its also gud 2 see whites do hip hop doesn’t mean they r taking d culture from niggles,we must stop been naiv
It’s sad seeing hip hop and black culture in such a state of insecurity. Nobody can “take” a culture. Culture only dies when people stop doing it and innovating it. Black culture largely abandoned jazz and right now the only people doing it are Japanese cover bands and white hipsters. Nobody can “gentrify” the concept of “black people making and doing things.” It makes no sense, the same way black heavy metal bands can’t “steal” white heavy metal culture. If it’s strong and confident and people keep doing it, it can’t become the property of someone else. But hip hop is in such a bitchy, quivering state that they think Iggy Azalea is Ronald Regan.
What a fucking joke.
Mad he isn’t relative any longer. Solution = Blame the White man. Classic.
” Now we feel like we are part of something that was designed to enslave us.” Let’s get real, the music industry is built to enslave every musician so put out the sparklers on your pity party. I hate when black artists speak on Slavery like they went through it. Slavery was one of the most horrific acts in history & to toss it around as if you’re going thru something similar because you get a 7% royalty rate from the Music industry isn’t “visionary” it’s simply disrespectful to your black ancestors who endured it.
My God!!! I have read these comments and it makes me sad. I’m not addressing anyone white because this wasn’t meant for you anyway. Black men, especially under 30 have become less powered than ever. Every other race in America can survive without being dependent on another race except for black people. Rappers get multi million dollar deals for talking about killing their own kind. If a rapper decided to talk about killing white people do you think they would get a record deal? The powers that be control what gets pushed so when an artists starts challenging the systematic bondage that we are under they are made to look irrelevant. We have been conditioned to except the unexceptable. We have deemed holding people accountable as “hating”. When black people are attacked today literally we start yelling “black lives matter” but they don’t matter when we talk about killing one another or killing a baby because we are too stupid to wear a condom. We are jokes to them. We gazed in awe for seven years at a black president that has done more for the lgbt community than his own and everyone else have moved to shackle us. What in the hell do you think is going to happen when they put the next president in office. Until there is unity among black men again, we will continue to be powerless. Oh I’m sorry y’all are going to tweet like a MF.
I feel bad for most you who commented here. And Banner is wrong. We’re descendents of the kings and queens that inhabited this continent before the European invaders came. Integration essentially severed any ties Blacks had with their history. How can you integrate into a society that was designed to exclude you? Instead of fighting for our right to be left to our own devices in our own land, we fought to eat in the same restaurants as the folks who hated us. To work along side of our oppressors. We should have fought for the wealth built by our ancestors. But that’s not what’s gonna happen. White folks want us to stop talking about slavery because they don’t want to think about the atrocities that have yet to be rectified.
“For a long time Black people have been without the true G.O.December. who is Black, without a teaching priest who is Black and without law that is what it is” (2 Chronicles 15:3) Don’t blame the people who enslaved you for your stupidity. Why has slavery lasted 432 years and oppression 150 Years? Because integration is genocide. Every living being that GOD created was created in pairs, but most Blacksuccessful today act like they single cell organisms with plenty of Dick to go around. G.O.DO. says you are becoming nothing but disease carriers, because Black people are stupid.