ARTIST: David Banner
TITLE: Certified
LABEL: SRC/Universal
GENRE: Rap
GRABBER: PPCMRipper/WinDVD
ENCODER: Lame 3.97 / -V2 --vbr-new
QUALITY: 202 Kbps Avg / 48.0 KHz / Joint Stereo
PLAYTIME: 1h 08min 27sec total
SIZE: 98.96MB
RELEASE DATE: 2005-09-20
RIP DATE: 2008-01-13
Track List
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01. Lost Souls (Produced By David Banner) 3:12
02. Treat Me Like (Feat. Jadakiss) 3:53
(Produced By Lil Jon)
03. Gangster Walk (Feat. Three 6 Mafia, 4:27
Marcus, 8Ball & MJG) (Produced By
Cyber Sapp)
04. 2 Fingers (Feat. Jagged Edge) 3:29
(Produced By David Banner)
05. Play (Produced By Mr. Collipark) 3:50
06. Fucking (Feat. Jazze Pha) (Produced By 3:51
Jazze Pha)
07. Thinking Of You (Feat. Case) (Produced 5:02
By David Banner)
08. On Everything (Feat. Twista) (Produced 4:08
By Get Cool)
09. Certified (Feat. Marcus) (Produced By 4:11
David Banner)
10. Ain't Got Nothing (Feat. Magic & Lil 3:52
Boosie) (Produced By David Banner)
11. Bloody War (Feat. B.G.) (Produced By 4:30
David Banner)
12. Westside (Feat. Sky) (Produced By 3:31
Maestro)
13. Take You (Feat. Too $hort, Bun B & 4:41
Jazze Pha) (Produced By David Banner)
14. My Life (Feat. Sky) (Produced By David 3:53
Banner)
15. Ridin' (Feat. Talib Kweli & Dead Prez) 4:33
(Produced By Down Beat)
16. X-ed (Feat. Kamikaze) (Produced By 3:40
David Banner)
17. Crossroads (Feat. Grout) (Produced By 3:44
David Banner)
Release Notes:
Audio Source: 24Bit/48KHz LPCM 2.0
The money rolls in, the inspiration drains out. It happens to a lot of artists.
David Banner, however, does not fall into that camp. Now that he knows he has a
lot of people paying attention, built on the popularity of Mississippi: The
Album and MTA2: Baptized in Dirty Water, he's more fired up and outspoken than
ever, fearlessly and descriptively expressing the rage he feels for the way his
people have been treated throughout history, whether the events went down
centuries or weeks ago. (Needless to say, the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina,
going down as he was promoting this album, must be giving him loads of thoughts
and feelings to work through for his next release.) As on his past albums,
Banner has all the bases covered, so there's also plenty of material to
soundtrack an orgy of any variety, and even those moments are intense and sound
like very pointed protest songs. Every other chorus seems to be have been
written for a mob of some kind, while the production work -- handled mostly by
Banner, along with contributions from Jazze Pha, Lil Jon, Maestro, Get Cool, and
a couple others -- takes on a number of dimensions without making for a
disjointed listen. If Certified has one problem, it's the overabundance of
features that eats up too much time. Banner could hold down every aspect of an
album on his own, no problem, so all the guest spots show that he's actually the
one being supportive. Scanning the list -- from Lil Boosie to Talib Kweli, from
Jagged Edge to Too Short -- also demonstrates his range rather than desperation
to appeal across styles and ideologies. If the album has a second problem, it's
that "Play" is a little too similar to the Ying Yang Twins' "Wait (The Whisper
Song)" (also produced by Michael "ColliPark" Crooms), even if it's no less
amazing, fitted with screwed-and-chopped sirens and frenzied electronic
squiggles (and with that, Ludacris' "Splash Waterfalls" is almost completely
erased from existence). Certified certifies that Banner is as crucial to hip-hop
in the early 2000s as any other MC. Whether in conscious mode or not, he's at
the top, and he's taking all his family and friends with him to celebrate.
Not a dupe of the CDDA release, as the rules allow you to dupe over lower
quality releases. In this case, DVD-Audio is superior to CDDA. This is a rip of
the DVD-Audio portion of the DualDisc. Take note of audio_ts and dvdaexp shots
for authenticity. dvda_crack shows you the command-line interface for removing
the protection. Please note the DVD-Audio is ONLY playable through a standalone
DVD-Audio player, WinDVD, PowerDVD or any software supporting such playback.
Btw, almost all DVD-Audio has a fallback soundtrack in case of unsupported
playback; in the case of this DualDisc it's DD 2.0. Also, DVD-Audio != Audio of
DVD-Video. And Yes, we have our own source, see the other scans. Props to
Ka-boom DVD for putting out the DVD though :P
Don't forget to support the artists! We did.
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