David Banner Album: “The Greatest Story Ever Told [Edited]”

David Banner is somewhat of an enigma. He has a level of awareness that most rappers from the south dont seem to have but he insists on making these mindless commercial records. This album has its good joints but are outweighed by the garbage joints. Suicide Doors feat UGK and Kandi is not bad. 9mm feat Akon, Lil Wayne and Snoop Dogg and the song Faith are cool also. Hold On, So Long, I Get By(feat Carl Thomas) and Free are the type of songs that I wanted to hear more of from David Banner. He has two tracks which are just instrumentals(Marz and Bonus Beat Drum) which are not bad also. What ruins this album are ridiculous amounts of filler in this album. Shawty Say(feat Lil Wayne), F*** You Hoes(feat Jim Jones), Get Like Me(feat Chris Brown, Yung Joc and Jim Jones), Ball With Me(feat Chamillionaire) and Fly feat Jazze Pha are all filler. A Girl sounds like a cheap remake of Play of David Banner's last album certified. B.A.N. and K.O are just plain stupid and Cadillac's on 22s part 2 is a huge mistake and we'll just leave it at that.

Bottom Line: The Greatest Story Ever Told is far from a bad album but its not the best album that David Banner can give you. The production is good but these repetitive commercial records are easily forgettable plus this album could use more tracks like Hold On, So Long, Free and I Get By and less songs like A Girl, Shawty Say, B.A.N., Ball With Me and Get Like Me. Its safe to say that Certified is David Banner's best album in recent memory.

Standouts: SUICIDE DOORS, HOLD ON, SO LONG, I GET BY, FAITH, 9MM, MARZ AND BONUS BEAT DRUM.

I almost didn't buy this album after reading the reviewer who gave this album two stars. I'm glad I was hard headed. Most of the tracks have a nice beat, and the lyrical content is solid. Banner has some enlightening words on a few tracks, but still manages to have several certified bangers. My favorite tracks are, "So Long," "Get Like Me," "9mm," "Suicide Doors," "KO," and "Ball With Me." Pick it up, you won't be disappointed.

David Banner's newest release is "better than most" hip-hop albums in circulation right now, but as a hip-hop fan that's over 30 years old, that's not saying much. While much of the skits and conversation on the album talk revolution and doing things differently as a hip hop nation and a black community, the tracks really don't. He's certainly got some club bangers in store for you, among them are "get like me" and "shorty say" (featuring Lil' Wayne) - but the truth is beyond that it's just not that entertaining and not that special. It's simply better than most. Greatest story ever sold. Not at all.

A Walk Through LifeIf you enjoyed Missippi,

MTA2: Baptized in Dirty Water and certified than you will be disappointed with David Banners latest release. There is only about three good cuts out of a 17 track album 5 being interludes and these tracks are Suicide Doors featuring UGK, Kandi Burruss, & Young Dro

9mm/Speaker featuring Akon, Lil Wayne & Snoop Dogg and Get like me featuring Chris Brown and yung Joc. I don't feel the music Like I have done on David Banners other studio albums the production is weak. Maybe you might disagree but I feel David Banner is capable of bringing us much more talent then what is manifested on the greatest story ever told.

D A Poole.

First off this album is good.I read the other reviews and almost didn't get the cd and would've made a mistake listening to the 30sec soundbites when plenty of the songs beats and flow change midway in the song.There is a blend of content on this album: awakening consciousness and activism, a couple of stories,true gutter ganster s..., thug love music, and autobiographical lyrics.His beats are crucial and change often within one song showing quality and impeccable timing when his lyrics and flow change to complement at that exact moment the beat changes. Plenty of times I had to check the cd to see if it was still David Banner rapping or if it was someone else.I might go through and try and do a song by song later but one funny song is the BAN song. You have to watch Boondocks to get it.His content is country meaning to the point very few analogies and yet musical b/c there's something about the south that makes all its rappers hear the beat first and then rap instead of rapping first and then adding a beat or a beat starting and then with a flow you already had in your head you decide to use.