David Banner Complains About Rolling Stone Review of His "Masterpiece"

David Banner doesn't mince words when talking about his new album The Greatest Story Ever Told, which comes out today. "It's a masterpiece, dude," the Mississippi MC told Rolling Stone a few weeks ago. "It's one of the best rap albums in the last three or four years." But Banner wasn't pleased with our review of the album, which praised the rapper's political "bulldozer flow," but complained that he too-often traded in rote rhymes about guns and clubs. "The reviewer only wrote on songs like 'Shawty Say' and 'Get Like Me,' " Banner wrote in an e-mail to RS yesterday. "But those are just the Playboy covers to the Bible inside." Now, that's a good line!

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Song Stories

“Satisfied”

Tom Waits | 2011

Only the genius of Tom Waits could combine the subject of mortality, a reoccurring theme in his work, with wordplay that name checks both Mick and Keith, whom he calls "Mr. Jagger" and "Mr. Richards," and the title of their magnum opus, "Satisfaction." And to show just how cool Waits really is, he even got Mr. Richards to play along, one of nine guest appearances the guitarist has made on three Waits albums. "This growling roadhouse stomp is a late-breaking response to the Stones' greatest hit," Rolling Stone said of the track.

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