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Releasing "Speaker" to give first impact, David Banner is ready to release the full length-version. The rapper's fifth studio album "The Greatest Story Ever Told" will be dropped October 9 via SRC/Universal Motown.

Beside working with Snoop Dogg, Akon and Lil Wayne in the first single "Speaker", Banner also tied collaboration with Cool & Dre, UGK, Chris Brown, Jim Jones and Nitti. He also got behind the panel himself claiming that he "likes to change music".

“Everybody wants to hear the hits and I got ‘em,” said Banner of the new record. “But I wouldn’t be calling it ‘The Greatest Story’ if it also wasn’t truthful. My fans know I’m going to be telling it straight-up however I’m coming.”

Banner will be one of the performers to present live tour Rock the Bells that has started since July 26. Others joining him are Wu-Tang Clan, Rage Against the Machine, Pharoahe Monch, Slum Village, Jedi Mind Tricks and many others.

2007 Rock the Bells Tour Dates:

• July 26th - Mansfield, MA Tweeter Center
• July 28th - New York, NY Randall's Island
• July 29th - New York, NY Randall's Island
• August 7th - Dallas, TX Smirnoff Music Center
• August 8th - Houston, TX Reliant Park
• August 11th - San Bernardino, CA Hyundai Pavilion at Glen Helen
• August 12th - San Diego, CA Coors Amphitheatre (parking lot)
• August 18th - San Francisco, CA McCovey Cove (parking lot)
• August 19th - Sacramento, CA TBD
• August 21st - Salt Lake City, UT TBD
• August 22nd - Denver, CO Red Rocks Amphitheatre
• August 25th - Minneapolis, MN TBD
• August 26th - Chicago, IL Charter One Pavilion
• August 29th - Detroit, MI DTE Energy Music Theatre
• September 1st - Honolulu, Hawaii TBD