David Banner Speaks About The Lack Of Fear And Respect In Response To Trayvon Martin's Murder And His "2M1 Movement

In the wake of the death of Trayvon Martin, David Banner recently stopped by BET's "106 & Park" to discuss how racial profiling is alive and well in America and why it needs to stop. During a fiery diatribe, the Mississippi rapper said that the police system needs to change in order to ensure order and prevent future corruption.

"There's a couple of things. What I want everyone in America to realize is that no matter what we teach our kids about being safe, if it's a flawed system, then there's nothing our children can do. We have to change the system. The truth is, about racial profiling, if there are laws intact that make people who feel they're impowered, that if they do the wrong thing and there's repercussions, then they won't do it," he said. "The problem is, it's not about the hoodies. It's not about the t-shirts. It's not about any of that. Basically, America is telling us, if we don't make them feel comfortable, then they will murder us. It will go that far. So the thing I will ask everybody in America is, we have to find out what the end result is. Is it legislation? Do we get people to police the people who are supposed to be policing us?"

Banner drew from his own personal experience with racial profiling. He says that every time he gets pulled over in his expensive car, he always feels like he did something wrong, even though he isn't at fault. Banner says that Americans need to raise their voices to enact change in the world.

"How do you feel when you get pulled over? I have a Bentley and I get pulled over and I still feel like something's wrong. Why is that? Also everybody, be focused. They try to talk about black-on-black crime, they try to talk about our music. They try to say, well what if Zimmerman got attacked? At the end of the day, there is a black child dead. The thing is, I just want us to figure out what can we do to make sure this doesn't happen again. We just had Sean Bell. We just had Oscar Grant. How many times does this have to happen before we realize, we can march, we can sing, we can make songs? No. We have to do something that means something so this will never happen to another child again.

Banner is going back to the future and re-employing the same hustle and grind he first put to work a year after Grey Skies failed to connect commercially for his self-distributed solo debut,Them Firewater Boyz, and applying it to the digital era for his latest long-player, Sex, Drugs & Video Games (due May 22nd). The revolutionary project is the first offering in what DB has declared to be the “2M1 Movement” to have $1 donations from two million supporters pour the foundation for him, and hopefully other artists as well, to build self-controlled careers upon.


Banner is banking on fans who have become accustomed to being able to obtain their music for free finding at least one song on Sex, Drugs & Video Games that they feel is worth a dollar donation to his cause, whether it be the club banger “Yao Ming” , the thumping social-commentary stab “Swag” , the Big K.R.I.T. bolstered love song to the ‘Sip “Believe” or one of the other 13 tracks slated to appear with appearances from Lil Wayne, Chris Brown, A$AP Rocky, Game, Snoop Dogg, Bun B and several other notable names.  


The minimum donation is a dollar, but he is getting $100 [donations], I’m getting $50. somebody even pledged $1,000. But it’s not about that. It’s about creating a database of two million people who will move wherever you move, whether it’s politics, whether it’s charity … whether it’s a movie. ‘Cause we’re movingfrom this, [and] then after he gets this $2 million,He's taking a million and shooting a movie. He's not worried about putting it in the [theatres], he doesnt feel that's a must because he will already have two million people that showed you they’ll follow you.