Rapper David Banner sparks a revolution with Gatorade’s “Evolve”

17 May
2010


6th Annual Roots Jam SessionThe song “Evolve” has been play­ing in my head for weeks since I first heard it in Gatorade’s new cam­paign for its G Series. Imagine my sur­prise when I learned that the song was writ­ten, pro­duced and arranged by rap­per David Banner.

It is per­formed by Blackstreet’s newest mem­ber Kermit Quinn aka Quinn who was also nom­i­nated along­side Boney James for a Grammy for Best Traditional R & B for their remake of the Isley Brothers’ “Don’t Let Me Be Lonely Tonght”. You can lis­ten to the track here off of Boney James’ Send One Your Love album. The tal­ented Quinn’s voice is rem­i­nis­cent of great R&B singers like Sam Cooke and has made Banner’s Evolve res­onate with many music lovers young and old.

While “Evolve” is labeled as a hip hop song it cer­tainly was one that reg­is­tered as pure R&B and had me dig­ging through the archives try­ing to find it. Here is the full song:

David Banner known for his songs like “Get Like Me” (Stuntin’ is a habit) fea­tur­ing Chris Brown is releas­ing an album this sum­mer enti­tled, “Death of a Pop Star” which includes “Evolve”. You can down­load the full song on Gatorade’s web­site.

The words of the song, “If you want a rev­o­lu­tion the only solu­tion, evolve” are true. Forget sports, let’s hope this is the evo­lu­tion of music.

Thanks for read­ing,

Literary Nobody

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  • Therran

    Haha! Yeah, I like this. Never would have guessed my man D Bizzle was behind it.

  • http://www.literarynobody.com/ Literary Nobody

    Therran this is def­i­nitely my new anthem lol. I was shocked he was behind it too just hop­ing it sparks some­thing pos­i­tive in music

  • Therran

    I’ve been run­ning around singing this dang song so much! I’m buy­ing the album now, too. If you lis­ten to his albums, he always has some sur­pris­ing tracks on each, but this I never expected.

  • Therran

    Haha! Yeah, I like this. Never would have guessed my man D Bizzle was behind it.

  • http://www.literarynobody.com/ Literary Nobody

    Therran this is def­i­nitely my new anthem lol. I was shocked he was behind it too just hop­ing it sparks some­thing pos­i­tive in music

  • Therran

    I’ve been run­ning around singing this dang song so much! I’m buy­ing the album now, too. If you lis­ten to his albums, he always has some sur­pris­ing tracks on each, but this I never expected.



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