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Man, first of all, welcome back to the 85 South Shore.  Thank you. I'm talking about. Come on. Mississippi. Come on. Yay! You feel? Come on. Jackson. But the whole Mississippi. Come on. I'm talking about. We got that fire water. You feel? I'm talking about kamikaze, you know? I'm talking about crooked levels. I'm talking about Mr. Bad Table Mounds. I'm talking about Cadillacs on 22. You feel? I'm talking about Mississippi, the album. I'm talking about baptized and dirty water. I'm talking about come, girl.  Worked that. I'm talking about real thugs get down on the floor. I'm talking about this man from my state, this I won. We had one till he came along. Now, we had some, but he is that one who brought us to the moon, who made them look at us and say, it's them kind of niggas down there. I'm talking about one of the most phenomenal feats of all time. I'm talking about black snake moth. I'm talking about black, coldest niggas to ever goddamn put them headphones on. Hey, when we go on tour this time, in any TV show I'm coming on, he's starting. Let's mow some talk.  I was about to say tech man, but it was a man team.  Hey, just cause you said that, I got a, I got a present for you, bro. I brought this for you. David Bam! Come on, man, come on, man. I'm only a nigga who pre-missions me. Hey, hey, that's the knife from Crocodile Dundee. That's a knife. That's a knife. That's for you. We got something else for you, bro. Stop playing. We got something for y'all, man, from ABV. First of all, even before we give all this, Sully Sully is actually a designer for ABV. So all the clothes that you see. Y'all saw him on a David Battle podcast, he make all the clothes. And I want y'all to see the bag, test the bag the whole night. Okay. All that, you know what I'm saying? Put that down there in front, Lisa, that's what it is. Yeah, he already, thank you. Yeah. So before we even start, y'all want to say something, man, I want to tell y'all how proud I am of what y'all created. Y'all created, I mean, I appreciate it. You got to get that saying. I created something, y'all created something for you. You know, and you created something for your friends that did the same thing. I've been watching y'all slowly, bro. You know what I'm saying? And it's just y'all doing, y'all doing the South and I'm really, really proud of y'all, man, because the one thing that we never had properly was a movement. You know, one of the things that I told people, the reason why the West Coast took off the way that it did was because along with Snoop and Dre and all them, there was also menace to society. You know what I'm saying? It was also colors. So we never had everything to line up at the same time. But now with the comedians coming and we having that real Southern South comedian, because in a lot of cases, man, a lot of people look at the South as a caricature.  You know what I'm saying? That was one thing that I learned from Tip. Like Tip actually taught me that. He said, man, people are looking at us. We got a responsibility to hold ourselves a certain way. You know, that's why I sort of, after a while, I sort of cleaned myself up and stood up a certain kind of way because we don't want to end up being what they think we are. Yeah, we this, yeah, we that, but we also where most people who are black get educated. We're also the place where Elijah Muhammad is actually from, Cordell, Georgia. You know what I'm saying? These are the places where the real movement happened in Mississippi and South Carolina and Alabama, all these different places. So I decided, man, that it was my responsibility, bro, to give our children and give the South something to look for.   The motherfuckers didn't know how to act. And ever since then, every time something happened, they would call on me, you know? So I'm really, really proud of y'all, man. And keep doing what y'all are doing, bro. Man, we will, we can do that. That's big, man. That's real, bro. Huge right there, man. We ain't through with the gift, with the opening gifts and stuff like that. You know I brought man.  I wanted you to know this.  Come on, this one, man.  Right, right, right. So let me tell y'all. Cause I knew I was gonna run into you.  So this is actually what sold. My album did well. But what I did was I created, they said that this was one of the greatest marketing schemes in hip hop ever. And it's crazy when I was signing the big labels and shit, I would have these kind of marketing ideas and they would say, we can't do that. It was about seven of us did one of the greatest marketing. They said it was one of the greatest marketing employees, but it wasn't a ploy.  Like if I could put it in a box for somebody, there was a 50-year-old man that changed his religion because of this box.  And he was older than me. And he was like, because of this God box, I literally changed my religion. You know, so what I did was I said, I knew that this album was on another level. So if people didn't understand it, I had to go teach. So I went on a speaking tour, the same way y'all go on comedy tours. I went on a speaking tour. And the thing that people didn't realize is I didn't go to New York. I didn't go to, I haven't even spoken to Atlanta yet. I never brought it to Atlanta. I went to the country towns where don't nobody go. They think that people from country towns don't want knowledge itself.  So if you come, they coming. Even if it's man, I want a record deal.  However I can get them in the seats. No, I'm serious. I'm a good looking motherfucker. Don't get it wrong. Don't get it wrong. Shit. But once she come, she gonna get something and not literally come.  You know I had no talk to you. So, but when she come, she gonna get something in her head too. Yeah, man. I'm the serve. They be happy to see you. Even in comedy, I can imagine those towns, like they get overlooked by everybody. I went to Tennessee, a small town in Tennessee and spoke. And this older brother came up to me saying something that shocked me. Cause white folks believe it or not, come to my lectures too. And dude said, these people old or young have never seen a black man talk to white folks like that.  Dead serious. And he was like, bro, you're showing them how to stand. And Dr. John Henry Clark said something so powerful.  There you go. That's it. Cause if you act free long enough, cause to be honest, when I first really started being conscious, man, I feel uncomfortable with myself. I told the girl I was dating.  I'm trying to get to know this nice motherfucker.   And what I tell people is meditation. It's prayer. And it's also the fact that I believe in vibrations.   But maybe because I showed that fuck, excuse me. Cause I showed him some grace. Then maybe somebody will show my son some grace. You know all my daughter. Man. Right. Hey.  Yes.  You wanna know a background story to that? Tina Davis, who was Chris Brown's manager at the time. She was, she oversaw artist development on there. And like I play video games for real. It tripped people out. One dude had a TV show where you came and played video games. I whooped that motherfucker.  He was like, you game?    I just don't let it control me. Damn.  You know.   In control. But the thing was for Def Jam Vendetta. I told him. I get tired of Southern as always coming in last. Like I don't say third coast. We ain't the third coast. We're the first coast. And in actuality, if you study the right knowledge in actuality, the map of the earth is actually turned upside down. So the South is actually North. And people don't know that. Look up Google, the real map or the real world map.   Not just that, to always make you feel like they're above you.  That's why the Nile River, they said it flows South. It actually flows North. And if you really look at the pyramids in Africa, the pyramids, the development of pyramids actually came from the South. The pyramids were lower and lower and they were perfecting them as they moved what people consider is the North, right? So in actuality, the information as it pertains to the pyramids actually came from South Africa and they developed them more as it went so-called North but that was actually down. So we actually up. I don't like motherfucking saying down South. I don't like to say third coast. I say we up South. Motherfucker, we ain't last.  There you go.   Yes you do.       Yo, relax. Don't bust anybody's balls, don't relax.  It's what you're doing. It's what you're doing. It's what you're doing, baby. Relax. Bring out the good cold away. Bring out the bagzini, ma. We got David Bannon. We got David Bannon here. Put some of the screws here, Tom. Hey, welcome back to the 85 Stop Show.  Come here. We got David Bannon here.   You got me crying. What is this knife?      I got this knife from David Bannon. I do my own work. I do my own work.  I don't know why I took so long. Bro, I got to call this David Bannon story. You had a show in my hometown of Oxford. And I was like, fuck, I got to work. I was delivering pizza.  You was outside.  Shot back to work, came back, made it to the show, bro. But something happened. He was just outside talking to everybody.  But you're not always here by Bannon. He going to talk to people. But I literally went to about six bounder shows. This nigga, I went like Dreamland, Hollisbury.    We went and seen about six or eight of this nigga's shows. I'm going to address something both to both of y'all. And I'm going to say something I've never said on anybody else's show, because you're from the crib. All right, so what happened was, is when people used to come to the South or come to Mississippi, they should treat the kids. And they would treat us like we was dirty, dog. My fuckers didn't want to come outside of VIP. I don't do VIP. What I do is wait to write before. Because what I did find out is that you don't want to become too common either. You want to keep the mystique and the superhero vibe. So what I usually do now is I wait until the end of the show, then I hang out. But you always want to make motherfuckers feel like is he coming? You know what I'm saying? But what it was, was I didn't like the way they made our people feel. And I said, I would try to never do people. I have my days and when I feel like that, I stay in the motherfucking house. But I still train at the YMCA. I still go around people. As a matter of fact, what I used to do when I would do 106 and Park, it would show the next day unless it was live. I would rush back to Jackson and go and shop in Walmart just so the kids could see me after 106 and Park to make themselves feel like they was that much closer to their dream. The other thing was people thought that I got on in Mississippi and moved to Atlanta.  I got on in Atlanta. Bonecrusher introduced me to everybody. And the thing that I would like to say from the bottom of my heart is I'd like to thank Atlanta because a lot of artists came here and they had to share where they were from. They had to say that they were from Atlanta. Atlanta loved me so much and they wanted Mississippi to get on. They held me up and allowed me to use the vibrations from Atlanta to focus it on my people. And as soon as I got my big deal, I moved back to Mississippi. I lost millions of dollars.  They said I wasn't gonna do this. They said I actually had a list and I went down and did all of them. Right before I went on my big tour, I went to just about every small town in Mississippi.  I've always been that way.  And the reason is because most people don't love themselves. What I did, and people didn't even notice this, I knew, because I've seen some of my homeboys that would lie and say they was from Houston, say they was from New York, say they was from New Orleans, all these different places. Nigga, we grew up together, you lying. So I realized that people didn't love themselves.  So I made Mississippi poppin' first.  And this was really fun, yeah. No, this was before the Jersey. I couldn't afford the Jersey, yeah, dawg. I was dead, bro. I was gonna get to the Jersey because like before you did that, you know, besides Mississippi State and Ole Miss, nigga, we ain't have no team. So the niggas saw that in my life.  But they were the only motherfuckers that spelled Mississippi all the way out. Exactly. So I cut the sleeves off of the jackets. My first day of name grade was the Mississippi Jersey because it had the whole motherfuckin' Mississippi spread apart. And the other thing that I didn't do, people never noticed, I never talked about Jackson because I never wanted people from smaller towns to feel like other states made us feel. I always represented Mississippi as a whole. I said I would never, ever make people feel bad and when y'all was talking about my shows, I used to literally do this. I used to stand up in front of like 5,000 people and say make the last song, we make the girls get down on the floor, on the floor like a pill.  I really believe one of the reasons why I am still here is because I really believe 45% of every one of my fans I've either taken a picture with or signed something. And like that's all motherfuckers really want is somebody to acknowledge them because the South had been shitted on for so fuckin' long. And one of the things that I did, I took everything that they said about the South and I turned it on the motherfuckers. Excuse me, nigga, where your motherfuckin' grandma from? When I say nigga, I mean it the same way them crackers do. I don't say nigga as a term of them demon.  If you ain't from the Isles, you from South Carolina, you from Georgia, you from Alabama, you from Louisiana. The first two slave ports was South Carolina and Mississippi. So you can't say you ain't from the motherfuckin' South. And what people don't know is there was a unsigned law between black folks. It was called the black exodus. So if you left the South, your responsibility was one of two things. You was supposed to go to the North, go to the West, go to the East, and find heaven and either bring us there or come back and teach us. The reason why hood motherfuckers don't like uppity smart motherfuckers is because they didn't do their job. They get the same thing white folks did. They went up North and they started looking down on black motherfuckers in the South.   So that is the reason why, that was the reason why I wanted to teach our people that there ain't nothing wrong with being educated because people made folks feel so bad about not knowing. If you were God, you supposed to teach, nigga. Most motherfuckers build just to show how smart they are. If I'm sitting, if somebody showed me this about Malcolm X, you know Malcolm X probably had one of the greatest commands of the English language, but he never said a word that the ordinary black person couldn't understand.  So if I don't get the point over, I shouldn't have my motherfucking job if you don't understand what I'm talking about. I tell everybody when I'm learning, teach me on the kindergarten level. Yeah, I'm smarter than the motherfucking, but I may have missed something. So it is our responsibility to teach. I never forget I was watching Dave Chappelle's one of his Netflix joints. And he made motherfuckers laugh.  I said, that's what you're supposed to do. Laugh and leave a motherfucker with something to make them want to learn. Cause I'll say this and then we'll move on.  No, that's what you're here for, man. No, that's what I'm telling you. That's why we got this.  Ain't nobody going to be behind the camera talking about. Well, no, well, they can't do that to me. No way. Cause we got our own camera. That's what I was saying. What I was telling you, but seriously though, bro, like, what I realized was this man is like, I didn't know why kids listen to me, bro. Like I got millions of kids and Charlemagne pulled me to the side. And he said, you kill a mic and tip whether y'all know it or not. A lot of these kids don't have fathers.    And that's what it made me straighten up just a little bit more. And one of the things that I always like to do, I don't know if y'all noticed this, man.  I got into the fight with the cops in DC. You know, I did a couple other things.  That didn't happen on purpose. That was anger. But what I try to do is show these kids that I'm not perfect. You're doing a great job. Cause yeah. And I actually try to do that. You know, I always try to grow and become smarter and get better. But I want to do like Harriet Tubman did. To me, she was the most successful freedom fighter because she went to heaven and she came back to hell and got up people and went back like 80 times, y'all. You know? And so that's what I always wanted to do.   David Bennett sent them trucks before anybody. And a lot of people know that but a lot of people don't know that. You get what I'm saying?   Or they don't look at the shit that we think is classic or great the same way. You get what I'm saying? Shit go so fast. Right. But like you were saying, why people admire you? Because you can give us a record where we can still be niggers.   And then they saw you actually stand on your words. So that's what's always commending. A kid told me one time, David Bennett, I listen to you because you don't judge us.   Cause yeah, I tell y'all something that's personal to me, man. I just want us to treat each other better, man. Like, I see how hard motherfuckers say that they are. And that's cool. But where motherfuckers at when me crackers be killing our kids? Like we know what these motherfuckers cops stay at.      And I honestly believe that politicians ain't number prostitutes. So you treat them like prostitutes. First of all, what we don't understand is you gotta invest money into it. You gotta make them look good.  Then after that, give some commands.  And then if you- Walk between them. Walk between them. Right.  There's repercussions to you not doing something. Let them motherfucking not do something. Let them motherfuckers say something about Trump. Let somebody not do what they were supposed to do. Their constituency is gonna do something. That's why we have to do the same thing. I believe we should find a kid.  We find a kid.  He not scared to speak. And we all like about four or five of us. I already talked to Mike in them. Me, Tip and Mike talked about this. Grab them motherfucking and be like, yo, we gotta raise him.   But here's the contract. This is what we want. When we get you in there, we want you.  Literally a dime, not a dollar. On your dope bag, if you do not meet this criteria, we gonna come see you. Bruh. Period. We should start a political party just to niggas. I would love to see Republicans, Democrats, the niggas voted no. That's right. The niggas voted no. Proposition 1899 is not going through because of the niggas. The niggas came down to the vote.  What if we be the gods supported by the niggas? The niggas. Right, right. With niggas backing? Yeah, with niggas backing. If you got niggas, niggas is the army. There you go. That's like niggas the army. Yeah. Keep the Dracoes, niggas. Keep your Dracoes, niggas. You know what I'm saying? Donate some of that money from the block, man. Let the niggas be the army. The niggas. All right, we gonna be the gods.  To see nobody coming home be like, I'm going to the niggas. Why not? You signed up to join the niggas. I go to the niggas all the time. They already doing it. I got niggas work for me. Niggas in my family. We gonna be recruiting, we gonna have an office. Yo, wait, they already doing it.  I gotta share this with y'all. I gotta share this with y'all. I had actually posted about this and I took it down. One of my employees belongs to one of the most powerful black organizations in the United States. And he said, banner, I gave my life to this organization. He said, but statistics show that the people who belong to my organization will kill me before the ops wheel. He said, you help me take care of my family. Look at how much work I put in for that organization. Imagine what I'll do for you.  He said, not a motherfucker, breathe wrong. He said, it's nothing for me to ride. He must don't know you got a knife this big. Well, what the thing about it was, and the reason why I say that, that's how I feel about most of these kids, man. These kids just wanna be listened to and wanna know that somebody's gonna be there. They always watching, bro.  Cause one thing I say about our children, our children are not lost.    They know the truth. Y'all motherfuckers lying. Parents tell you to do as I say, not as I do.  We are people, a tribal people who learn about what we see. I used to always tell my trainers that, do 4,000 push-ups, motherfuckers, you do it first. You do 4,000, I do what? You do 4,000, I'ma do 4,000.  I just did them.  It wasn't quite 4,000, it was a lot, though. Don't fuckin' say it.    Yeah, man.  And you say you get to talking that shit, that's all we do. And I'm happy. We talk a whole lot of shit, but we mean well also. And you make the South proud, because like you said, we got looked down on, we got talked about so bad from those other places, and when you see it, you like, oh, that's what it really is. Like you got somebody to point to, like. What is it like now to see the South where it is? And then you were one of the people in the front to say this is where it's going to be.   He literally almost pissed on himself. I actually laughed after I walked out of the studio. I kept it G while I was in there. He was criticizing trap music. And I said, sir, let me ask you a question. I said, who would you say coined? Like the trap movement. He was like T.I. And I was like, what album ushered that in? He was like, trap music. I said, what was the number one single on that album? He said, Rubber Band Man. I said, who produced that? He said, you.  I said, if he coined trap, if he coined the trap movement, I damn sure helped to coin trap music, the actual music, instrumentation of it.  I said, because you really only say trap music is because you're afraid of the older Southerners. And so you want to say trap music so you can pick on those kids.  That's south music. So you, so check this out.  You don't never see nobody do this.  Oh man. Bruh, if I knew Rubber Band Man was that out of character for myself, I ain't gonna be bullshitting you. Bruh, that motherfucker was that. I didn't like like a pill. Shit, hold on, I'm serious. I did. I didn't like it, but it had, so flip, what I would do, I would barter. I was dead broke. Like people used to see me in big cars.  Like I was sleeping in a rap room, I was homeless.   Think about your come up.  I went from being, I'll never forget this white boy named Billy Hume. He did a lot of the early Lil John. He did Big Crit, he did Bulk Rush, he did me. I had been renting cars and staying in hotels so long. Billy Hume literally came and hugged me and said, bro, you're not homeless no more.  Go buy you a house, man.  I was just on grind. You was grinding that hard. That's all I was doing was grinding, bro.  So I was like, well, I'm just gonna put flip on this. And I know here like this is Texas, Texas. Let me make that connection. And I was just gonna make another beat to it. But everybody flipped and DJ Will, DJ Will from Atlanta actually was the one that helped change my life. We were, I think we were in a bounce. I think it was the bounce at the time. And so I brought him, might get your job bro. Might get your wig split.  Right. Might get your dope kick. Might get your gig now. Might get your wig snap. Might get your feelings hurt. Thinking this is just the rush. So I bought that because Lil John was just like, ah. And Will told me he was like, bro, this cool but Lil John on every song now. He was like, bro, I don't know how you gonna be able to get through the noise. Let me check out the B side.   People didn't go crazy, but did nobody lead the motherfucking flow? He said, you gotta hit. They never heard of you. That intro is so crazy that. And watch this.       You did it. They need to holler at me. You did it first. They will never give us credit.  I wasn't the first person to put a tag before my song, but I was the first person to put my name. And Tilt was the reason why they kept it on the radio cause they used to take my tags off of my music, right?  That boy worked hard. And the reason why I did that is because Southern rappers used to hide their producers. They didn't want nobody to know. But Jay-Z would say, just play and you did it again.    Yes, yes.  Like, did nobody, did nobody know who they were. I really believe that they should be right next to Timberland and Pharrell. What Master P did in general should go down in music history. He changed the way people put out music. They did so much music. He changed the way people and nobody gives him the business acumen for what he did. But what they did as producers, bro, I went to KLC house. KLC walls go all the way to the top of this ceiling. It was platinum plaques from the bottom of the floor on that side, all the way up to the ceiling, all the way over. What most rappers do in their lifetime, them boys did in a year. Think about the albums. They would do albums. So much. Like, literally, bro, and they was putting out, what, two, three albums a month.  Now, see, you talking about credit and that's perfect for what I wanna ask you. Because you produce a lot of music that motherfuckers don't even know that you produce. I did 85 major groups, people don't know. 85? I think that a cool thing that I got down, hey. What's that dude that produced for Michael Quincy Jones? Come on. I did Quincy Jones, Maroon 5, Chris Brown and Justin Bieber, bro, you know, people know about, well, some people didn't even know about the tip stuff. A lot of people didn't know I did, my first big record was a Thug Holiday by Trick Daddy. That's so motherfucking cool. But people didn't know me, so it came out before I got poppy.   That's like, that's like, the thing though. Do you understand when you grew your beard long, every nigga from the South with a long beard, that's the David Bannon, yeah. You know, I can't take total credit for that. I think that was me and past the truth. Yeah, but see. The short had it at the same time. In Mississippi though? Yeah. Come on. But what I will say that I know a lot of motherfuckers start putting, they start showing how old they were after I did. Motherfuckers slid that in there, cause I was like man, I ain't never forget one of my best homeboys at R&B singing. I wiped before 106 Park went off, went off TV.   Like being indigenous, being from indigenous people, you're supposed to be proud to grow old. These kids don't even know who to go ask a question cause everybody trying to look like a baby. When they see this beard, they know I can go ask him a question. Mr. Bannerwood is publishing. Mr. Dave Banner, like what do I do if I don't want to do, if I don't want to wrap this way no more? What if they try to make me do this or that? These kids know they can come to me. Y'all would be surprised what rappers call me at four o'clock in the morning depressed looking for vision. And that's the thing that I'm the most proud of. I went to- I wouldn't be surprised cause I stopped answering rapper calls at that late. They can call you at 2.30, he gonna be on the phone. I'm like, bro, what are you on? Cause I'm not on that. I am tired.   Let me tell you why I do though, bro. I went through the worst impression work ever do and when nobody there for me. And Scott, hold on, Scott was just about to say that. And then I ended up, I was close to dying. And I ended up meeting Scott Parker. He was a trainer at the time. And he knocked 56 pounds off of me. And I had never drunk, I had never drunk like more than two glasses of water in a day. I had been dehydrated my whole life. We grew up on Kool-Aid dog and the only time I really drank water was when mama would let us in the house and we had to get it out of the hose. You know what I'm saying? So I used to play ball. I actually thought I was fly.  You know after I played six, seven games I was dehydrated.   He was crazy. Because I come from one of the poorest places on in the United States. I didn't start getting depressed until I had something to lose.  But like I had million dollar problems and my uncle don't know nothing about no million dollar problem.  Everybody was broke that was around me. They needed me. And I didn't have nobody to depend on. So I think God let me sit in that place by myself and then he allowed me to meet Scott and Scott helped me get through some of that stuff. But I know what it feels like to be alone. Dude, I went from being homeless and two weeks later being a millionaire. Can you imagine being in the middle of Mississippi and the motherfucker announced, David Banner got 10 million dollars? Hell no. Dog, people don't understand the pressure that I went through. Lucky that I was the person that I was.   Like, and so like, bro, for me, when I see other rappers going through that shit, I gotta wake up. Cause God put me through that by myself.  I said, there's no way I won't pick up that phone. Like I gotta pick up that phone, man. Not too many people have my number, but those that do. And then I watched these folks grow, man. I'll never forget this. He may not, he may not want me to say this, man, but my offset hack, it is one of the greatest things that happened. Offset had just got out, right when the Migos had blew up. He was walking through midtown. And I was like, what's up? He was like, what's up, OG? And he pulled me over to the side. He was like, man, I wanna do better, bro, but I don't know how. He's like, I wanna do better. I just don't know how. And bro, for a young man that didn't need nobody, they were popping so far. He might not even remember that. Man, that meant the world to me that he literally, I wouldn't even say humble. He trusted me enough to say, bro, I need help.  That's the reason why motherfuckers so mean. Motherfuckers really be wanting to say, I need help. Better, I wanna make my life better, but they don't know how to come to you.   You feel what I'm saying? So to be in that position, bro, I'm honored to pick that call up, bro. Seriously. That's it, man. Yeah, yeah, we in this big. That's the phone, man. It wasn't talking for hours, man. Shit. We in this bitch, man. We in this bitch, bro. I gotta say something before, because they always get on me. They always get on me. God Box 2 is about to come out. Man, say it in my God Box. That's really important. Say it in the God Box, bro. That's really important. All I'm gonna say is it ain't nothing like the first one. Open it up. Say it on the whiteboard. It ain't nothing like the first one, man.   Everybody always ask it, how can I help? Go to davidbatter.com. That's straight from us. Let me ask you this. What made you go on the independent route this time around? Well, between us, I can say this now. I've been independent almost 12 years. Very, very. What I did was I found out, motherfuckers was hurting themselves, because when black people think about independent and black, they always, they have fooled us into thinking that that means low quality. That's why everything, touch that motherfucking bag.  Everything that I do is shiny and it feels good. You heard, got some money. Look at them good.  But now, seriously, I'm, I can spend the night. This ain't no Kroger saying. I can spend the night. Okay. Uh-oh. So what I realized is that, that was the mindset of our people. So literally, people don't know this. I went to Steve Rifkin. And I said, Steve Rifkin, I can't be you, sign to you. Like I found out like a universal owed me a lot of money. And I said like, man, like, I went to the head of universal. He literally said, Dave Bannon, you smart dude. I know you're gonna find out soon. He literally showed me all the stuff, even how they worked records and all that kind of stuff. It's not what we think it is. That's one of the reasons why I never signed anybody.  Cause I'm a producer and I make all the beats if I sign artists.  And then they grab the one that stick. But you know us, man, we love the people that we signed to. They family now. I can't just let you fall on the floor. I can't take 10 motherfuckers failing and one or two having a total line. I can't do that. So what I decided to do, I'll help anybody that want to be helped.  I want to free the slaves. Most black people, and I'm just being honest with you, most black people don't want to free the slaves. They want the opportunity to hold a whip. You feel what I'm saying? So like for me, I always wanted to help people to get free.  They don't want to do the work. They don't know how hard it is for you to be on tour.    So when I told Salee, Salee loves music. Like he got an old soul, bro.  And I say, bro, if you really love music like that and you bring artists, I'll help you, bro.  And I end up, man, getting soaked up and used up, man. I'll never forget, bro, when I did the work for Katrina, we raised all that money, bro. And I never say it this nowhere, bro. I'm giving you this because you from where I'm from and y'all representing, like I love what y'all represent.  They gonna have to come get sound bites from y'all. Come on, man. Bro, we wrote along with Atlanta. People don't know. We threw the largest urban relief concert in history for Katrina. And it was the first time that different radio conglomerates they were on each other's station. Like V103 was on hot. Like they literally got on each other's station.    But let me tell you what hurt me.  If all the rappers, including Jay-Z, gave their money, it wouldn't be enough. Like what's going on at home in Jackson right now? We just raised money to me, Monty Ellis, Big Crit and Mo Williams. We just sitting gallons and gallons of water home. But that's a structural problem, bro. That's over a billion dollar problem. That's billions of dollars, bro. What was, like think about it. Let's say if I had a million dollars, right? How many houses could I build with a million dollars? Not many, at the most 20. You talking about tens of thousands of people who are displaced, but people are looking at rappers to do stuff that they don't even expect their government to do, bro. And so people will sit back and talk about what we doing, bro. You have no idea of how come, when I figured out, dude, I ain't even as much as people were holding me up.   Like when I realized, man, that a lot of times we get, that's the reason why if y'all come to any of my lectures, I speak three times better than I actually do in my lectures, but I don't want you to catch the holy ghost.  We want people that make us feel good, that give us turkeys doing Thanksgiving. I don't even praise Thanksgiving.       That's why a lot of motherfuckers wanna stay dumb.   Like even, watch this, I'm serious about this. I ain't never say, Sali, I know I shouldn't say it, I'ma say it anyway. I am no way, and I know people gonna try to, y'all help me on this, cause I know people gonna try to flip this against me. But I actually wanted the political situation to stay that it was, stay the way that it was a little bit longer. And I'm gonna tell you why. For the first time since the 60s, you saw motherfuckers that were selling dope on the corner talking about politics.  I've never seen black people talk about politics every day for four years straight.   And I wrote online, don't be in a rush to go back to sleep. You know how mama told us, don't go across, don't walk across that street without looking both ways.  And if you look at it, when Obama was president, dog, white folks were saying, this is a post-racial America.  That's like me telling a woman, oh, pregnancy don't hurt that much.  So I started watching because of the pain and how America was treating us.  Cause no lie. Last year, the last year of Trump's presidency was the best it ever been for me business wise. Black people started seeing the relevancy in that black fist. That sign that I had created had started being like the shield for black people. And if you really even think about Bill Clinton, most of the laws that really affect black and Latino people will pass by Bill Clinton. They'll pass by Bill. What's your president now name? Tell me his name. Who, Joe Biden?  All of them. He wrote the show first, didn't he? Wasn't he the one who wrote it down? So niggas doing the jail. Drew some pictures to go with it, baby. So what I'm saying is, bro, it's like, I realized, as far as the answer, your independent question, is I realized a long time ago, motherfucker ain't gonna help you.  It ain't.  Like, I tell y'all, well, I was sick, really sick, about two months ago.  And there were some things that I didn't even think about, bro. Like, I didn't think about smelling. You don't think about smell. Like, you just take that for granted.  Some people don't have this. And listen to me, this is really important. It'll make your life better. Every problem that you have on this planet is connected to a blessing.  Some people don't know their mama.    Talk your shit, man.  Yeah, you look, yeah.  Smoked that dough! Smoked that dough! If you lost it. Smoked that dough! That nigga got me. What a midget sense!   I got this thing for small women.  Hey, he said he got him! I got him. No, no, Lee, come here and look at me in my face. Come here, dawg! He said he got him! I'ma plug you in. I'ma plug you in. They love me. I've been on Lil' Women of Atlanta never. Really? They love me. They love me, bro. Y'all just fucking... They love me, too. Oh, yeah! Yeah, they love me. I'm sorry, I met Lil' people y'all. Y'all like, can you beat that out for me, bro? Yeah, let's do that. You get to say the M-Wave one more time. Yeah, one time, that's it. But don't say it when I'ma take you in. Now you're gonna make everybody... Listen to me, listen to me, look at me in my...  Actually, what I would like her to do, bro, I had a hernia, so my ball's a little bit longer than most people. She can box the motherfuckers up there.  Not why I'm hitting the weed. This nigga just...  Ball box. Ball box. Oh, shoot. With Lil' Tina. Yo, son. Yo, son, she literally busting my balls, man. She's a real boy, bro. I don't even know why you said that on here, because now the comments are gonna be like, hey, bro, David Banner is serious, bro. Tiny Tina's down. We're getting 80,000 a month on OnlyFans. Please, can you send me a contact for David Banner? No. He's coming. Don't do that. Don't do that. Don't do that. Don't do that. Let me drop this and we're gonna save you all the beef.  Where's David Banner? I'm dead serious.  Hey, Scott, what you coming for? I'm saying loud so people can hear. Tell them what I asked you to do when I die. No, six. Little people. Little people. You a big guy. I don't know if they're gonna bear the pain. Well, 12. Yeah, you gotta double up. We'll make it a bigger studs than to get 13. I'm dead serious, though. No disrespect. I'm serious.  I try not to lie. I just be quiet.  Just don't say nothing. Talk about these cold-ass beets you be putting in, man.  Oh, man. It's crazy.  Can you tailor that shit?  I got some. No. And I'm gonna tell you why the only beat that I've ever made for somebody that they wanted that beat was Nellie Tipdrill. Wait a minute.  David Banner.  Tipdrill. You didn't know I did Tipdrill? Yes. I didn't know when you were saying that you did it, double.  I didn't even know, bro. The video? Because the song period, the whole video. Because the whole album was a remix album. So that's actually the remix to E.I., right? I didn't know it. So why? I'm gonna tell y'all something that's even crazier, right? And this is when I was still sort of old David Banner trying to be better. So y'all saw the video, right? Nellie never told me that he was shooting the video until the day up. I didn't understand. So I was like, I'll be, he said I'm shooting videos. Because he shot like seven videos, right? He said I'm shooting videos. And I was like, well, I ain't tripping. Like, you know, I didn't want to stand there. Most people would be looking for the camera. He never told me he was shooting my song. So I rolled up right at the end. Benny Boom. I'm cool with Benny Boom.  I was like, Benny, shoot me in as many places as you can and sprinkle me through the whole video. Y'all, I know this is gonna break a lot of my whole boys heart. I was only at the tip drill video for literally about 15 minutes. So I missed the credit card. I missed the date. Like literally it was at night. I was there the last 15 minutes. But everybody always, they held me up when I went back home. Like it was in the video. And I was like, sort of. Like, yeah, I caught the video last 15 minutes. Yeah. And I don't even think it was no more. That many women even left there when I talked. They were tired. Yeah, man. Started out hustling. Ended up balling. Yeah. I'll tell y'all this, man. This will really trip a lot of people out. Wayne. Chris Brown. Tilt. Devin the dude. Fiend.  Devin the dude. Like, yeah. Devin the man from Mississippi. Yeah. I always made big beats. And a lot of artists are not really, they rap, but they're not rappers.  So like.  I'm the type of person like, I grew up liking like lyrics to Fury, rock to bells, like the really hard songs. I used to tell people, because people didn't even know, like I used to be a freestyle champion. Like people are surprised about the God Box. I didn't rap a certain way just because I wanted my people to get it. You feel what I'm saying?  And if you go back and listen to all my albums, I would always have one of those songs on every one of my albums, right? But what it was was that, is that most people are intimidated. Like when I make a beat, a rapper is just another instrument to me. I really, no lie, I think my beats are bigger than most rappers.    Like that's how I look when I used to go. Like when I only had like a pimp and I had to prove myself. Like I never forget, we did Canada with 50. And they had never seen, like if any of y'all, you'd have seen my show, this is like a black rock show.  And then he might say, hold up, hold up, man.  And then the niggas be like, hold up, man. I'm talking about backflips. I used to spit fire.  So- That should be good. By the time we left Canada, they say that Dave Bennett is one of the best artists that ever came through Canada. But that was before people really even knew who I was. And I appreciate 50, because 50 gave me my first tour opportunity. Like I literally went, I gotta tell y'all, I literally went from doing like 5,000 to 15,000, 20, 30,000, bro.   For real.   But since we were up there in the cold, I had got some black Timbs. I would never wear like the construction Timbs, because I was like, we from the south, so if I had some Timbs, I would wear some black Timbs, right? So I used to flip off of the stage.   Bam! Knocked her out.  He was so crumby, he was like, yeah!  You all gave it better rock! And I was like, yo, I was scared for like a month. I was waiting on the motherfucking lawsuit. I'm not lying, he literally kicked her in the fucker! Rock! Okay, now let me show you how the 85 South shall work. This is what you're saying, that there's going to be somebody in the comments who's like, that lady, what's my aunt? I swear to God, she wants to come on the show. Then she's going to have a mark across her motherfucking head. Flip kick!  So you flip kick into the crowd. Yeah, bam! So let me, I want to ask you this, how long did you have that play beat before you let everybody else hear it? Before the world got it? All right. Was that one of the ones you were sitting on? No, I actually didn't produce that. Collis Park produced that. And it was funny because when it came out, people thought that I was biting off the yin-yang twins. And that wasn't the truth. Collis Park wanted to create something that was called intimate club music.    Like anyway, so, so what happened was, I would always keep, actually I had it today and end up leaving. I keep a checkbook. Like one of the things that people always talk about they bosses and they CEOs, but you still waiting on that check from New York L.A. Like not me. And I can give you what other people can give you, but I can pay you today. So actually me and E40 are really tight. He wanted that beat, but he told Collis Park he was going to give back. I heard the beat and I was like, I got 10, I got 10,000 right now. I know you get paid more, but I got 10 stacks right now. Now I'm going to be honest with you. I never said this before. You, I get paid a lot of money for my beat.   I'm from, man, I'm from the crib.  So I told Collis Park. But the tag ain't going to be the same. David Bandana.  That was fun. So, so, so, I can't afford the real tag on that beat. But the other story behind that, bro, is that white folks, I had, I don't know if I should say that. I had kicked open 10 doors at Universal. Like, they owed me money. And like, bro, I had toured for eight months. And my mom was at home hungry, bro. And like, I had toured, because I hadn't, he hadn't owed me money. And so I had done that much earlier. And I was actually about to be black-barred. And I heard this from two different people that I trust, actually three people, that like, these executives are scared of you. And if you don't change something, they're going to make sure that you never do business in the music industry again. Now, I just signed a publishing deal not too long ago, and I signed admin deals. Don't give all your publishing away. I'll teach y'all something. Like, dude, if they give you a publishing deal, your money is already in the system. You can find a publishing lawyer to free your money up. If they give you a million dollars, you got three million in the system. So then they end up taxing you like it's a loan for money that you already have. Won't nobody tell these kids that.  It's the biggest farce of all time. But anyway, publishing with David Banner.  Real quick, too. But they told me that if you don't change something about yourself, they're going to blackball you. You'll never make another album again. So don't play with me. Don't play with me.  And it was so funny, if y'all go back and look at play, I'll tell y'all something I'm playing like a pimp.  Because I was so used to thugging it out, throwing bottles, and it was crazy, bro, because I just didn't know how to be cool. So if you look at play, I'm actually like, I don't know how to two-step. I'm used to this.  My whole life changed. Women came from everywhere. I'm talking about the most ratchet, bro. Two queens, a couple. Bro, I had a model one time that called my manager and asked, could she book me? She a model?  Aha! It was that good.  I was always raised to be aggressive.  So from being the hunter to now women hunting me. Hold on, so what happened when she booked you? When you got there. I'm just saying. It was a dope shoot. Well, it was dope to get booked and work. We're going to put that work in. Ham home, huh? A lot of stuff we may not be able to do, but no. Hell of an alias right there. So I'll tell y'all one other thing. Like a pimp, a lot of people thought that I just got conscious recently. I've been conscious since the 11th grade. We just come from very violent backgrounds.  The truth is you can't lead the people and feed the people.    If I got this smoke, I'm going to get something.  So if you go back and turn the music off, I don't like a pimp. In the video, we ran the Ku Klux Klan out of Mississippi.   Actually, I had an album, a mixtape that was called Sex, Drugs, a video that just said sex, drugs, and something else. It was so serendipitous.  Even lyrics.  One thing was my diction.  That's one of the things that pissed me off actually even more than the beats.  You know?  You got to.   You just get mad. I think, bro, with me, I just got tired, bro. I don't have no kids yet. I just practice a lot. Man, have some kids. You can afford them. Oh, I can.  Don't nobody study. If you look at my career, bro, I was either producing, acting, activist, album, speaking. I went 10 years, bro. This is a story I never told nobody. I went 10 years. And I was supposed to go on Carter III tour with Wayne because my manager at the time was really good friends with Cortez. And I was so burnt out that when I tried to get up I couldn't stand up. And I stayed in the house for seven months and couldn't move.   I literally worked. I just started enjoying my career to about three years ago. All I ever did was work. Damn, yeah. And then you spend all this money, bro, like the money be gone, bro. Like what did Ocelo say that little money be gone? It be true, bro.  And like, bro, I ran through it. You still drive fast as fuck? No. You know you was notorious for driving fast. Yeah. The government had wrote me a letter and said that it was going to suspend my license indefinitely.  That's a Jack Johnson type.  I sure did. I looked at him. He was like... Yeah. Yeah, man. In Mississippi, too. Y'all got it out me today, bro. That's it, man. Yeah. Because you don't understand. Like me and this man right here started our comedy career together.   I'm telling you, man. I'm telling you.  Come on, man. I will keep this sword in the family. Brother power! I will... He will tell you. You see, this is the knife I had in my pack.  I will not let you down. Stay with a knife in the Cadillac. Come on, man.   What you say you slu-foot motherfucker? What's the last thing before we go, bro? What you want to know if I leave? Oh, man. Shit. What's next? I was asking about that cartoon before the... Because you know we're trying to get in the animation industry. Who better to get in it with than... All right. Well, you asked me what's next, bro. Is that I have a company that's called a Banner Vision. And I remember when this dude told me a story about this little black girl. She ran into the kitchen crying uncontrollably and said, daddy, daddy, daddy. Are there going to be any black folks in the future? Yeah. Why you say that, baby? She said because I was watching the Jetsons and I didn't see none. When people do futuristic movies and sci-fi, they're telling you what they want the future to look like. Most of their futures are without us. So it's our responsibility to put ourselves... think about it. When you make a song, when you make a movie, when you write a skit, you can literally be anywhere in the world. We usually put ourselves back in pain.   I ain't gonna even call out this film. I watched this motherfucker dinner.    Every American Vision movie that you see, I got a Cracker Kill quota. And we always go in.   We're American gangsters. It's about the police. It's the hero. What is this really saying? The police is the gangsters. As far as the cartoon is concerned, bro. Come on, man. Talk to me. I'm actually, bro. I'm trying to create, and people always think that I want to do everything positive. I just want us to control the narrative. Everything about us isn't positive. But I do know that I want our children. Like, this is how I feel about racism now. I used to be really angry at white people. No longer angry at white people anymore, because that brings your vibrations down when you hate.   It ain't their responsibility to do for us. We sit back and don't even know that. We're talking like slaves.  And I don't believe they're supreme at all.   Didn't nobody do nothing? That make you look like the G.    So why is that?  I know, I know me.  I don't even want to call the name of the club.    My mama said you drive every day, you can't swallow all that concrete.   But anyway, about the cartoon.  Actually in a strange way it always is. It actually always is. We just want to create stuff that's meant for us. The only thing that I want to say, man, as far as I'm concerned, bro, is I just hate the fact the people that give the most to our communities are the people that we give back to the least. We always talk about how much people sacrifice, but we give our money away to people who treat us like white folks do.  We give him all our money.  You know what I'm saying?  We're supportive, motherfucker. Like, I give you an example.  But I always ask this when I speak. I said, do y'all think I'm the antithesis to Donald Trump? And people say yes. That means the opposite. Am I opposite? Well, yeah. I said, why ain't riches he is? Because white folks made him rich. If I'm the direct opposite, then I should be as rich as Donald Trump right now. But the problem is, is most black people see themselves through the eyes of white people. Most of the time, when we look at some black person suffering on TV in the back of our mind, we say that nigga probably deserved it. What was he doing? Yeah, yeah. It's proven guilty until a motherfucker innocent and even when he innocent, they passed the law about somebody.  Take care of me.  DaveBetter.com right now and this motherfucker go subscribe to Dave Bettermore for the podcast right now.  I want all y'all to come. I got an idea of something I want you to do on my podcast, bro. Let's get it.  Yeah, bro. Literally. No, no, not literally. But yeah. No, whatever the assignment is, I will go there.  I have the knife. You know, you remember the golden child? I was the knife. But without saying closing, man, I appreciate y'all for giving me access to y'all fans because what people don't understand, bro, is when y'all bring them on y'all show, y'all give them the opportunity to touch. Like he said, some people may not know or remember. You know what I'm saying? And I want to be like, I want y'all to come on. You know what? A lot of our fans probably were some of your fans first. Yeah, they probably weren't. Because we keep this show. It's a big crossover. Yeah, we keep this show so thorough. Man, this the type of people that they're gonna say how they roll to you in the comments. That's what it's gonna be. He will let you know that like he can verify that I have actually rolled a Cadillac and played your music at obscene levels. Yes. Came on stage around the world because it was like I needed that to represent. So I can say, yeah, we got one. I'll say this to the people before I leave and then we gotta go. I'm one of the few rappers that the general public allowed to grow up. Most motherfuckers who grow up get smarter. They broke. Or they sell out. You know. And I'm one of the few people, man, I decided to grow up in front of people. And motherfuckers didn't ostracize me. And I'm grateful for that, man. Last year was literally the best year of my life as an independent businessman.  And like literally when people were looking for a flag, when people were looking for something to go to a flag, we had it already ready for them. It hurt us a little bit because we have been struggling so long. And I tell people this I want to still get my flag. Literally everything that you see that I create, we pay for it.   I'm gonna repurpose that motherfucker and that's it.  I was thinking about going to North Mississippi right before you get to Memphis. I was thinking about building That sound like Oxford. It's close. That sound like where I'm from. It's close. It's two below early. I was thinking of Oxford. Oxford is a great city up there. I want to buy, I want to create a city where our people can come and state that we don't talk about.  We let the enemy know that we're coming way too early. I want to tell y'all this in a meanness. We need to get a group of us that when we really get our paper up and say, okay, you start a water company. You start an electricity company. You start a security company. You, um, I'd never forget this when I went to see the minister. When it's our minister, Farrakhan, he said, I really want to be that billionaire you're talking about. Grow organic food. He said, like, these white folks are destroying the food and the earth so much. If you create organic food, they will come and bow to you like a king. So watch this.   If they got the food, bro, I think that's the one thing that the South did fail the world with. We were supposed to be the farmers.  That's what you put inside of your body to sustain yourself. If you don't have food, water, and electricity, motherfuckers gonna get right. They gonna be like, yeah, man, let's get deep crackers. I'm hungry. Let's get deep crackers. Cold.  Well, I know a lot of places up in North Mississippi that just happens to be my neck of the woods, so if you would like to discuss a plan. Yes, sir.  I have the knife now. Hey, man, you heard it here first, man. This is the first time David Banner then came to the track. Come on, man. I'm coming back. Thanks a lot, man. Thanks a lot. Here we go. All ready. Oh, no, that's about to steal somebody from us.  That's all right. Let's give it a quick. Come on.   That's what I've been like. Look at me. You ain't been what I've been. I've been with you being a young nigga.  I'm trying to get to where you've been.  You ain't been out here long enough.   Looked like some bad wings. What you to say?   It was dirty, but it was clean. Yeah.  I ain't seen nothing.  No.    I'm off the top like Tyson.  Big long.  And that's the name of this song.  Y'all ain't seen what I seen. Because it ain't working yet.   Let me start playing. She get me turkey now.  When we was in the club, nigga was first topping beans. That's when they first hit the scene.      You ain't seen what I seen taking perks. I can't go that route.   Make no percusses, but you tell it.   I can do all type of things.  But see, the world got you fooled, young nigga. And let me tell you how it is when you're old. Because the world gets colder.  And if she get mad, she putting everybody out.  Two benzes. Good job. A lot of ends to see. We up in here on 85 South. I walk in the house, full of bitches, and I see 85 miles wide open. Ready to catch everything that I'm about to throw to them.   I done played hard and seeking. You ain't hit the places I hit.  Can you fly to places I flew?  While you was playing hide and seek, nigga, that was my yard.   Okay, okay. And what you to sing? You, nigga. I'm gonna tell you something about your yard. I'm gonna tell you something about your yard. Okay, for the motherfuckers who know. Uh huh, uh huh. I ain't up with it. Hunting on somebody daughter playing hide and go get it. I ain't seen what you're seeing because you was in the house on the couch while I was out here putting something in their mouth behind a tree man.    And what you think your mama at? You know what he seen.    Hold up, I said your life is getting good but my life is getting greater.   He ain't seen what I seen.  So what was really going on inside that house man?   Come on.  No? I guess y'all niggas got me man.  I didn't know it was you looking out the window with the whole time. We want you to win. That's why we ain't stop you. Young nigga, some whole game what you need Miss Carlos ain't got no sense but we can stand right here. You can't see my face. That's how much motherfucking land I own. I'm so old school got a landline phone. And you can call the house. I be like hold up.   That's the part of the house that I know about. You feel me? I feel what you're saying.  You know I'm an old nigga what I seen. But you gonna see it. You gonna see it.  How much? We had to come before you. 85 times. So you can just walk over the stumbles that we didn't already made smooth for you. Like I saw him and I know why you're here. Yeah, exactly.  Check out how the ecosystem worked. If it wasn't for niggas like me and Chico and niggas and I demographic coming through and leaving 50-80 dollars. Talk to me, don't lie to me. They wouldn't already be fine when you run into them. Damn. We helping y'all. It's the niggas behind us. So now all I gotta do is pay the 40.     Who you think those niggas are? I'm just a substitute.  Something to do. And he ain't even flinch. Hot damn. Hot damn. You hear that, brother? What up first? I ain't wanna ruin the young niggas confidence, man. This has been another pimped out, spaced out. Flapped out. Adition. And y'all make sure y'all support Akeem Ali. Man, this is a superstar in the making. We're here first. This is a superstar.  We tried to put you on early.


okay so let's open these light poles up here I'm excited about these ones because I set up a lot of Christmas decorations and these will come in very handy for me so these are rust resistant poles so you don't have to worry about them rusting while they're out and they're easy to set up and here are the instructions very easy now let's put these together very nice they're very strong poles and they just screw together very easily and here's what they look like if you have campsites you can attach a tiki torch on top of there with some zip ties if you want and you can have tiki torches around your camp area it doesn't just have to be for Christmas lights but also like to mention you don't have to have them this tall you can use only one pole if you want and they would be you know about this tall two poles would be about this tall and then your third pole so very versatile there they are at night rust resistant strong easy to set up very very versatile


Welcome to NTN Nightly, I am Jadal Novel, this edition's top stories. Saint Lucia has received high marks from CDMA for achievements in the Model Safe School Program. The National Apprenticeship Program has set some 40 young persons on a career path. This week, the year-long celebration of the Island's 40th anniversary of independence takes on new meaning. All that plus the latest in youth development and sports, and the NTN novel, a quay all. Saint Lucia has received high marks from the Caribbean Disaster Emergency Management Agency, CDMA, the Implementing Agency for the Model Safe School Program in the Caribbean. CDMA has commended the Ministry of Education, Innovation, Gender Relations and Sustainable Development for leading the charge among the beneficiary countries. Saint Lucia following the commencement of consultations is now finalizing the National Safe School Policy. The National Safe School Policy will facilitate the amendment of existing legislation to integrate disaster risk reduction and environmental protection measures for schools in the implementing countries. The first stage of the policy consultations was designed to garner stakeholder participation and consensus building within the national context. Now in its second phase, key policy expert and consultant on the Safe Schools Policy, Dr Winston McCullough said the aim is to validate the document. The country that really has led the way is in this area, Saint Lucia. So what we are doing is finalizing what a document called a safety schools policy for Saint Lucia. This is our second visit. We were here in May for about a week, had extensive consultations throughout the country and some team members visited a number of schools. And out of that, an initial discussion with the Ministry, the document was prepared. So what we are doing today is validating the document, finding out if any changes are needed, making the changes, resubmitting the document. That document will go to the Ministry of Education and hopefully will go from the Ministry to Cabinet for approval. The goal of the Model Safe School Program for CDEMA participating states is to create safe, secure, protective and green educational institutions from primary to tertiary levels, including public and private institutions through the development of simple, applicable and adaptable tools. Project coordinator for the implementation of the Model Safe School Program in the Caribbean, Kerry Ann Thompson, highlighted the importance of the policy. This declaration points to a road map for school safety, a regional road map for school safety, which bears three pillars. One speaks to school disaster management. One speaks to basically the mainstreaming of safe schools in the education curriculum. And one speaks to the institutional framework. And essentially the policy will basically be the vehicle for the advancement of the different aspects of the pillars of school safety. So for example, as you mentioned, the integration of resilience concepts and safe school concepts within the curriculum is a very important imperative and that will be reflected in the policy. The implementation of the Model Safe School Program in the Caribbean MSSP project was designed to, among other things, enhance the capacity of the six target curriculum states to incorporate and mainstream comprehensive risk and disaster management considerations into education sector policies, planning and operations. The policy document provides the legal means by which the school safety program will be put into force. Ministry of Education School Safety Coordinator, Bonaise Kodra, said that the project has been high on the ministry's priority. So school safety has been on the priority list for the Department of Education. We look at school safety holistically, as we've said before. And for us at the Department, this second round of consultations is critical because we are looking at a multi-sectorial perspective as it relates to this school safety policy. As we move forward, school safety is not just going to be a ministry of education, but it'll be all of St. Lucia. Technical support for the consultations is being provided by the Caribbean Disaster Emergency Management Agency, CDEMA, for environmental solutions limited in Jamaica under the MSSP project in the Caribbean. The CDEMA Coordinating Unit has received grand funding from the Caribbean Development Bank, CDB, to the amount of Euro $746,000 to implement the program toolkit in St. Lucia, Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, Dominica, St. Kitts and Neves, and St. Vincent and the Grenadines. For the Government Information Service, I am General Norvel. The National Apprenticeship Programme has set some 40 young persons on a career path. They are now better equipped for employment in the tourism hospitality sector, having been trained and graduated from Monroe College, more from Anissa Antoine. A cohort of students have graduated from the hospitality training course through the National Apprenticeship Programme at the Monroe College in Vue Fort. The three-month program is part of an initiative by the Government of St. Lucia to help alleviate the high unemployment rate amongst our youth, especially in the south of the island. Dr. Wendy Montserie, Director of the National Apprenticeship Programme, congratulated all students on the successful completion of the training course and wished them the best in their future endeavors. The economic environment in St. Lucia is influenced by forces both internal and external, and so we believe the best way to prepare you is by giving you knowledge and experience that will prepare you to effectively function in the wider communities. I want to remind you, those who are graduating, that this is just the beginning of a new path for some of you and the extension of an existing path for others. Cabinet Secretary and Keynote Speaker Benjamin Emmanuel encouraged students to take control of their destiny. Gotten here through the partnership of Monroe College and NAP are among the tools that you require in order for you to succeed, but it is you who will determine how that training, the skill, and the opportunity that you've been given helps you to achieve your goal and your destiny. Graduate Speaker Deborah Cooper expressed gratitude to the professors on behalf of the graduating class for their guidance and counseling. My journey at Monroe College has been quite a learning experience. It's been a life-changing. The friendships and relationships I have fostered here at Monroe made this a comfortable environment to grow and transform. I have acquired skills and become empowered with knowledge that will prepare me for the future endeavors, though it was not without challenges. But being in the front of this class taught me how to be professional. The graduation ceremony took place on Thursday, September 26th, 2019. From the Government Information Service, I am Anisia Antoine reporting. On Thursday 3rd October, the year-long celebration of the Island's 40th anniversary of Independence takes on new meaning with the unveiling of the All-In Sculpture at the Castery's Waterfront Roundabout. Internationally renowned sculptor Jali Mudovic was commissioned to artistically capture the essence of Sinclusio. He recently sat down with the GIS's Geraldine B. Sett-Joseph to discuss the piece. It speaks to our united stride into the future and where we project ourselves.  We've given the world literature. We've given the world economic philosophy. We've given the world acts. We've given the world this they have so much to be proud of. We have so much stalwarts that has emanated from this small dot. You know, and I often see synergies like an atom.   Yeah. You know, so I really believe that this company encapsulates all that. Jali Mudovic's sculptures have been displayed at museums worldwide. In recent years, he has worked extensively in China. He says being asked to produce a sculpture for the Island's 40th Independence celebration was an honor. So when opportunity came, it's something that I received with much elation, but also with a great degree of reverence and seriousness, I would say, to find a better word. Seriousness because this is epic. Our people need those because all the developed world, you have these iconic things, these iconic statues, you know, that break the monotony of your daily lives, that give inspiration, that serves as beacons for inspiration and also sort of a mapping of a map of who you are and where you are and where you want to go, and people need these things. And also society needs these things to grow. This is very essential to our growth. The unveiling takes place Thursday at 3.30pm. The event will be broadcast live on the national television network NTN and streamed. The St. Lucia Bureau of Standards SLBS is spearheading a series of activities in commemoration of World Standards Day, which is observed annually on October 14. World Standards Day this year is being observed under the theme, video standards create a global stage, a reference to how standards have been critical to developments in video technology that have expanded opportunities for advances in medicine, entertainment and social interactions between people wherever they are in the world. In St. Lucia, the observance will focus on the importance of standards in various sectors of the economy, including beauty and wellness, construction, agriculture and the environment. The St. Lucia Bureau of Standards will launch its activities on Thursday 3 October at 10am at its headquarters in Bisey. This is NTN Nightly. Ryan O'Brien is up next. When a hurricane is approaching, safety of life and the preservation of livelihoods is most important. We should take heed. Create proper drainage along the contour of your farm. Harvest and store all crops that could be harvested. And if possible to sell any produce, do so. Reinforce farmhouses by using screws or hurricane ties to secure the roof and ensure that it is boarded up. Remove all plastic covers from greenhouses and store properly in your reinforced farmhouse. Secure all official agriculture and farming business documents and policies in sealed plastic coverings. And perhaps consider taking out a crop insurance policy to secure your agro livelihood. Take all possible precautions ahead of a hurricane or tropical storm. This is the hurricane season and we should be prepared. A message brought to you by the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries, Physical Planning, Natural Resources and Cooperatives. Welcome back. We join Ryan O'Brien for the latest happenings in youth development and sports. Welcome everyone to your update from the Ministry of Youth Development and Sports on the NTN Nightly News. I'm Ryan O'Brien. Athletics coach in the Ministry of Youth Development and Sports, Coughbert Modest recently facilitated a one-day workshop for district three primary schools physical education teachers ahead of schools athletics competition. More in this report. More emphasis is being placed on honing the sporting skill of primary school students on island. On Friday, an athletics workshop for district three primary school physical education teachers was held. The engagement took the form of theoretical and practical sessions on how to make athletics more appealing to the students while using fundamental training techniques for future star athletes. Facilitating the workshop was ministry coach Coughbert Modest. He says what is most important at the primary school level is nurturing the children's sporting development. Well, the objective, like you know, is sprints, green sprints, right? So I give them some drills and some games. So when they go back to the school, I mean, they'll make the running fun. Once you make it fun, you'll get kids coming out to play, right? But it makes them too hard, they'll run away. And the emphasis is not on winning. The objective is developing the athlete. So by the time they reach secondary school, they'll put whatever they learn into the sport right now. PE teachers who participated in Friday's sessions appreciated the training exercises. Well, this session is a timely one because most of the schools around the island are preparing for the annual district and inter-district athletics meet. So it's a timely workshop in that it allows us to teach the students the correct procedures in terms of sprinting and, you know, how they use the lanes designated so that they can run. This is like a refresher for me. We haven't had a track and field workshop in a while. So Mr. Tuatine coming out and doing this with us is a great initiative. One thing that has stuck with me is the starting position for a sprint. The knowledge I had before coming in today, I found that it was wrong. So now that I've learned the correct technique, I can go back to my school and teach the girls the right thing to do. A lot of information and a lot of strategy and a lot of eye-openers, certain things that we, certain practices that we were engaging in which were not adequate for the students, we were able to augment them and we're able to have a wider knowledge of activities, drills and stuff that we can do so that we can enable our students to be better athletes. So we learned a little about athletics in the morning, more about nutrition, what needs to be taught to the children, how do they engage in the track activity. Okay, it's health because we teach special education. I teach special education and I can apply a lot of what I have learned today in the classroom and for sports. Coach Modest is confident that such training sessions for PE teachers will make for overall improved performance of budding athletes and sporting seasons over time. Training is not so good. That's why I train to help them out because when I come I see some children doing some stats, run, wrong position, they don't train too many races and they just come and maybe a week or two before the sports, I mean the children run, run, run, run, run. No, it doesn't work so. It's like a build up, build your strength first, your confidence and then show them how to run. Sporting is a must in the primary school market. So from then on, you know you have a core of children you're watching because most children are at most children that's come to secondary school and you cannot do nothing, nothing, nothing. Okay, so everyone starts from young from a primary school. Friday's athletic workshop for district three primary school PE teachers was held at the Mindo Phillip Park. From the information unit of the Ministry of Youth Development and Sports, I am Jesse Leons reporting. Cricket West Cindy's Vice President Keshon Shalo is impressed by what he saw following a visit to the San Lucia Sports Academy in Gosele. Mr. Shalo was part of a delegation from Cricket West Cindy's that visited the facility with Prime Minister the Honourable Alan Shasne. Excellent, excellent initiative. I think this is definitely a model for the West Pacific Caribbean. I see it as a similar model to a campus, a sports campus that I saw in Ireland all year this year which I think is fantastic. So to have the different sports in this event coming together, giving children the opportunity to play sport while you know continuing their studies is phenomenal and I think this is an excellent, excellent initiative. The San Lucia Sports Academy was conceptualized to facilitate the merging of sporting and academic excellence among outstanding young San Lucia sports personalities. That's your update for today from the Ministry of Youth Development and Sports. I'm Ryan O'Brien. Thanks Ryan. Bank of San Lucia recently partnered with a local author to host its 11th annual Back to School Student Success workshop for scholarship recipients. The workshop which forms part of the bank's overall scholarship program was held at the Financial Centre in Casstrees. There are many businesses belonging to both the private and public sector who host scholarship programs for the children of their shareholders and staff. For many years however, Bank of San Lucia has been going a little further by hosting a full one day workshop to better prepare its scholarship recipients for school, success and for life. This year's 11th annual Student Success Workshop was based on the theme achieving success through positive relationships and covered several topics including self-esteem, conflict resolution and the importance of listening and body language among others. I'm very happy to be here today to host these students. So actually children of our staff members here at the bank, it's very important to us to recognize their hard work and their achievements in the common entrance examination and some of them are also repeat participants of the program. We focus a lot on education and youth development as these two areas play such a major part of our corporate social responsibility program here at Bank of San Lucia. Local author Valentine Dantes was first selected to facilitate the workshop based on the success of his educational book entitled orientation made easy what to expect when starting secondary school. As a former teacher and employee of the bank, Dantes says that he is forever grateful to Bank of San Lucia for giving him the opportunity to recognize and harness his talents. It has been a journey, it has been a very wonderful experience meeting so many children and being able to impact them in so many different ways. Bank of San Lucia has been very supportive in terms of helping me grow my business, helping me grow this initiative, this workshop. Bank of San Lucia's HR team oversees the program every year and have been pleased with the results so far based on feedback from both parents and students. BOSL is very grateful to its shareholders and employees for its success and the annual student success workshop is one of the many ways the bank gives back to them, the youth and education. From the Government Information Service, I am Anisia Andouan reporting. Stay with NTN Nightly up next, Primers Hutchingson is here with the NTN Nouvelle Aquial. I was in my neighborhood, it was a very dark night, I decided to go for a drink by a bar. On my way from the bar, I felt distinct to my right leg. When I looked back, I knew it was a full snake. You happen to be in an area where there are snakes and you are bitten by a snake. This is what you do. You call for help and try to reach the Victoria Hospital within one or three hours. You will be seen immediately. My uncle at the time was a police officer called the Victoria Hospital and told them that we are coming down for a snake bite. It is the only facility on the island which has a protocol and a treatment plan where you can be treated adequate. We call them before you go there so they can prepare for you. And rest assured that they are adequate supplies of antivenom with doctors who have been trained in the treatment protocols of the snake bite. Welcome back. We join Primers Hutchingson for the NTN Nouvelle Aquial. Monsieur Madame, Department of Investigation and Investigation, information, government, S.C. G.I.S., National Television and NTN, Caposito Nouvelle Aquial, Puezzatou, Primers Hutchingson. So, you are going to do this? Yes, I am going to do it. Okay, okay. Satisfy? Yes, yes, yes, yes. Okay. Okay. Okay. All right, all right. Thank you very much. Okay. Oh, you are much more shy, because so mad. Okay. As a result, we thank the medical officers for the amount of medical assistance they provided. The Government of the Republic of Korea has provided its own services, and along with the $1,020,000 that has been provided by the International Development Corporation in Korea. The Embassy of the Republic of Korea, the Committee of Korea has provided assistance in providing the capacity to pay for the services provided by the International Development Corporation in Korea. The Embassy of the Republic of Korea, the Committee of the Republic of Korea has provided its own services, and along with the $1,020,000 that has been provided by the International Development Corporation in Korea. The Ministry of Health and Welfare has provided its own services, in the country. They want a grand spectacle, put it officially over a month of Koyol heritage, which could cause a lot of suffering from the last month, and then a full activity like the regional visitation for several places of heritage, a grand spectacle the same, a new place for the Riverdale, Old Trafford. Officers CDF, George Fischalfos, explain the story. Thank you very much for your invitation. If you want to visit Koyol, you can visit Koyol. If you want to visit Koyol, you can visit Koyol. The tide for Castries Harbour was high at 6pm. The tide of Yehfor Bay was low at 1.01pm and is high at present. The seas slight and more rumbling than the sea. The tide for Castries Harbour was high at 6pm. The tide for Yehfor Bay was low at 1.01pm and is high at present. The seas slight and more rumbling than the sea. The seas slight and moderate with waves 3 to 5 feet in 0.9 to 1.5 meters. The sun will rise Thursday at 1.05pm. 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Hi, let's walk through a quick Hello World example in OpenShift.io so you can see just how quickly you can get an application running in the public cloud. First thing you need to do is create a space. I'm going to go ahead into my new account and click Create a Space. Now you don't really need to know what a space is, for now just think of it as a new project you're working on. I'm going to call it Hello OpenShift.io and choose a template. It doesn't matter which template you choose for this example. I'll choose Scenario, Different Planning and click Create Space. You'll now see a wizard.  Go ahead and click on Create a New Quick Start Project. That brings you to the Forge Wizard. It takes a moment to start up. Then in here I'm going to choose on this first page of the dialogue what kind of quick start I want to use. I'll just take this first choice, the basic vertex application and simply click Finish. You don't need to step through all the pages of the dialogue. The wizard is choosing really good defaults for you. Give it a moment and it has now created our quick start. A number of things that have happened. Let's go over to the Create tab. Over here I first thing I'll notice is that a code base has been set up for me and that code has been put into a Git repo. Here's the source code of the quick start in my own Git repository. I could also go over to Pipelines and I can see that a build has started. Not only has OpenShift.io created the quick start for me giving me the code that I need to build upon that quick start, it's also doing a deployment of it for me now out to the public cloud. Let's just give this a moment to run. The stages are now running. It's doing the build of the application. This will take just a few seconds. A bunch of stages have completed and you can see my application has been rolled out to stage. If I click this link, I can now see my application running in the public cloud. There it is, running in the public cloud. It's quite possible that when you run through this exercise, you may in fact instead see application is not available. You may have think you've done something wrong. You actually haven't. You were just simply a little too fast. Not only does your application need to be deployed out to OpenShift online, but it needs to start running. It takes a few seconds for it to start running. One way you can see the current status of your application is to go to the application screen. Here you will see that for my Hello OpenShift.io application that I made, it is currently deployed to stage, version 1.0.1 of my application, the one that is deployed, and it has this green tick mark. That's how I know that it's out there and it's actually currently running. What you may find is that there will be a spinning circle here indicating that it is being deployed and it's starting up, but it's not fully running yet. So if you ever see application is not available, don't fret. Just come here to the application screen and await for it to start running. If I go back to my pipeline view, so I can look at the application. I can see it running in the public cloud. Everything looks good. I can invoke this service. It returns back some JSON. This is, like I said, a Hello World application. Everything looks fine. So let me go back to OpenShift.io and let me go ahead and promote that out to my run environment. Let me go ahead and click Promote. If I go over to the application screen, I can see that it is now deploying out to run and this is that situation whereby if I go and try to hit the application right now in my run environment, it says application is not available and that's because it is still starting up. Give it a couple more seconds to finish starting up. It says that it's ready. Let's go and check that out. And sure enough, I now have version 1.0.1 of my application running in both a stage environment and a run environment. Let's now return to the code basis screen so we can make some changes to the application. I need a workspace in which to work and these are, of course, powered by the amazing Eclipse Che. So I simply click Create Workspace. Now Eclipse Che is starting for me. If you got a warning about a blocked pop-up on the code basis screen when you tried to create the workspace, please disable pop-up blocking for OpenShift.io, refresh the code basis page and you should be able to create a workspace and get into Eclipse Che right after that. Great. Now Eclipse Che is running. My workspace is loaded. I can come in and I can go ahead and make changes to the source code. Let's simply change the greeting from Hello to Welcome. Let me go ahead and commit my code change. I'll get commit page files. New welcome page will be my comment and I will now push that change up to my repository. And this, of course, kicks off a continuous integration process whereby a new build will start for my application and I can see that that has indeed started. Once again, let's give this a moment to run. Now all the stages have completed. Let's go over to the application tab and here I can see that version 1.0.2 is starting up in stage. It's not yet running yet, so let's give it a moment to start and it is now running. So I have version 1.0.2 running in stage and version 1.0.1 running in the run environment. I can simply click here to go over to see it running in stage. Let's invoke the API and it says welcome world as opposed to hello world. I go back and click on the version 1.0.1 that's in the run environment. It says hello world. So I can see that I've got both versions running and if I'm happy with that change, I can come back to my pipelines. Go to this approval step where input is required. Once again, I've got easy access to again verify that application on stage from here if I want. Let's go ahead and do it one last time. Yep, still saying welcome world and I will do promote. Go back to my applications tab. On the application screen, I can see, yes, in fact, it is now rolling version 1.0.2 out to the run environment. I'll give that one moment. It is now running. Go ahead and click this and here I am in the run environment. We invoke it and now welcome world is running there as well. As you can see, OpenShift.io made it extremely fast and easy for me to deploy out a new hello world application to the public cloud powered by OpenShift Online. I then also was able to make a quick and easy change to the application using the amazing Eclipse Che. Hope you enjoyed this short tutorial. Thanks so much for watching and happy coding.