00:00Your latest song, Marry Me, is a love letter to black women.
00:06Why did you want to write this piece?
00:08Me talking to so many women, they would always tell me how just black women in general didn't feel protected, nor did they feel wanted.
00:18I said, especially, you know, in my career, I've done enough damage myself.
00:25So when I speak, in no way am I criticizing other men and what they do in their music.
00:31But, you know, I have to sort of cleanse my soul and sort of, you know, balance my vibrations out.
00:37And it was crazy because my assistant called me crying when she heard the song.
00:43Because I sent it to her to write the lyrics out so that, you know, you can put them online.
00:48And, you know, I always talk to her like, why you being such a punk, girl? Like, woman up!
00:54And she said, I had given up on the institution of marriage.
00:59Really?
01:00And she said, whether you and Rudy Kearns meant that or not, you thought of it.
01:06And to know that someone even thinks like that anymore is a blessing.
01:12So it was very important to me to do that.
01:18And I hope that, you know, black women especially support me.
01:24I definitely hear what you're saying.
01:26You hear more and more these days, especially black women like late 20s, early 30s.
01:31We're in that difficult time, if you will, where most people aren't talking about marriage.
01:36So it is different to be speaking about marriage.
01:38It is.
01:39See how I'm saying that?
01:40Like, it's different.
01:41You don't hear that often.
01:42You don't hear that often.
01:43Especially coming from a black man.
01:44The other thing is that a friend of mine told me, he said, you know, David Benner,
01:48I understand that you're a Pan-Africanist and you want to change the world and, you know,
01:54you want to start the revolution for the people.
01:57He said, but until we mend what was broken in slavery, and that was that relationship between
02:04men and women, black men and women.
02:07Until we mold that and mend that back, you will never be able to move forward as a whole.
02:17It was like, look at the families in America.
02:19The Rothschilds, the Bushes and, you know, the Kennedys.
02:24It's families.
02:25Right.
02:26Throughout history, it was always families.
02:29So it's hard for us to start and build that type of momentum when we don't have the base.
02:35And that's the love between a man and a woman.
02:37Essence Live, David Banner, please be sure to check out his album, The God Box.
02:41Wait, Essence, thank you for letting me come on here and get so philosophical.
02:45And thank you for giving me the opportunity to apologize to the things that I've done to our women.
02:54And this was the best place and this was the place that I wanted to come and say, you know,
03:00thank you for allowing me to change because my career is what it is right now because of women.
03:07Ladies, I will make it up.
03:09Oh, Lord.
03:10Not like this.
03:11They told me not to do this.
03:12Not like this.
03:13Not like this.
03:14Not like this.
03:15It was a way you can smell this shit.
03:18Go!
03:19Not like this.
03:20Yeah.
03:21I will become a woman.
03:23What it is.
03:25It'săăŁă loving me.
03:26You get married then.
03:28Yeah.
03:29You run.
03:31You get married.
03:32You get married.
03:33I will be troubled me.
03:34You, see, we're faking this damn clutteremo.
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