Sex and Sermons.(David Banner)(Sound recording review)

Why would you take on a stage name if your given name was the excellent and euphonious Lavell Crump? If, perhaps, you needed to suggest that your persona was not fixed. Calling yourself David Banner--a mild-mannered alter ego of the Incredible Hulk--makes perfect sense for a big, six-foot-three man from Jackson, Mississippi, who has scored club hits with crude, elemental songs about sex and has called himself "the most political motherfucker of all." Lavell Crump was the student-government president at Southern University, is one semester short of a master's degree in education, and is a product of the hip-hop generation who can do a variety of things, most of them well. ...