Pimp C was from a small town called Port Arthur. He ain't have a clique around him, just like I didn’t. So I had someone I could talk to about my situation, even about the dangers of staying in Mississippi once I [became famous] coming from a town that ain't never had nothing. Pimp C came from that situation, and there wasn’t many people that could tell me about that situation. So to have somebody that close to me die…he’s on my album, so every time I listen to the album, I gotta hear his voice…it’s a crazy situation. It hurts.

DX: So what’s next for you?
DB: I’m working on a movie with Ice Cube called The Comeback. It’s a true story about a girl who played Pop Warner football and she was like the best quarterback in the league and just the rigors that she had to go through being female and being black, being poor and coming from a single family home… It’s a great movie. I also got about three or four tracks on Lil Wayne’s album, and new singles with Chris Brown coming out.

DX: Dope. And I know you mentioned earlier about the charity work you do that never gets any media attention, so are you still going strong with that?
DB: Well I’m not going as strong with that particular project. I gave about $30,000 towards it; I’ve been still doing stuff for Katrina. My mentality has changed this year…my career was almost ruined; I spent seven months helping people with Katrina. Did the rap community come back and say, "David Banner you did a good job, let me make sure that you get back on your feet?" Did deejays give me extra support? Na, they was like, "See you on your next album, pimp!" and that was my fault. I chose to do that. But God gave me blessings 'cause that’s how I discovered movies. But I realized I have to be a superstar in order to do superstar things. If I’m at the level of a Will Smith, then I can give $2 million instead of $100,000. So please, please, put this in bold print: If people want people to do good things then we have to support good people. We support assholes and that’s why we get so much shit.

DX: Couldn’t have said it better myself.