In 2003, he released both his major-label solo debut, 'Mississippi: The Album' (SRC/Universal), as well as its sequel, 'MTA2: Baptized in Dirty Water' (SRC/Universal). He renamed himself after the 'The Incredible Hulk,' and he clearly relishes playing the part of the superhero. He is Lavell Crump, a Mississippi native and a graduate of Southern University in Baton Rouge. A few hours before it started, Banner was in a small hotel room, wearing flip-flops and socks with a tight tank top that turned his enormous, shoulder-to-shoulder tattoo into a crossword clue: starts with an M, ends with an PI, lots of letters in between.Дavid Banner has a birth name that might be even better than his stage name. Rappers from the fertile New Orleans hip-hop scene responded particularly gracefully: Juvenile was one who lost his home, but he plays down his own story, focusing instead on those who lost much more.ДЇrom all this came the idea for the Heal the Hood concert, a small benefit that ballooned into one of the year's most important hip-hop shows. And yet others, like Eminem, wrote sizable checks. Others, like Paul Wall, led clothing drives. and Fat Joe) hit the radio airwaves for impromptu telethons. Just about everyone heard Kanye West's impassioned claim that 'George Bush doesn't care about black people.' Fewer know that some stars (like T.I. No other event has ever mobilized so many rappers so quickly. The cause had everyone excited, but the 'because' had everyone even more excited: the night was made possible by the extraordinary continuing success of Southern hip-hop. He had corralled an impressive lineup of rappers, especially Southern rappers: Young Jeezy, T.I., Big Boi from OutKast and many others. The night was organized by the tireless Mississippi rapper David Banner. King Blues Club and Grill in Manhattan.) On Saturday, Atlanta's famously competitive hip-hop stations had joined forces to promote an event that would be, as the jocks constantly reminded their listeners, historic.ДЄnd they were right. (A New York hurricane relief benefit is to be held Monday night at 10:30 at the B.B. The victim was the New Orleans rapper (and reality-TV veteran) known variously as Young City or Chopper, an aspiring star who joined loads of established ones inside the Philips Arena for a concert called Heal the Hood, a hip-hop fund-raiser for - and, in a few cases, by - victims of Hurricane Katrina.

This was, in a twisted way, one of the most moving moments of Saturday night's concert. 'But it ain't about me.' Then, without pausing to acknowledge the absurdity, he delivered an exuberant, bare-chested ode to the shiny rims on the wheels of vehicles he no longer had. 18 - 'I lost my house,' said one victim of Hurricane Katrina, although this particular victim was equipped with some wildly refractive ornamentation and, more importantly, a very loud microphone.

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