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The art of rap is the first Ice-T film,
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and I really felt I
had to do this movie,
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because rap music saved my life.
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When I first heard rap,
it just blew my mind.
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I ended up coming to new
york and met with the masters,
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and they told me one thing.
Rap music requires skill.
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This film isn't about the money,
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the cars, the jewelry, the girls.
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This film is about the craft,
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what it takes to write a rap,
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what goes on inside
the head of the masters.
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We go from south bronx all
the way to the west coast.
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This shows you how
powerful rap music is,
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how it's changed the world.
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This isn't a game.
This is the art of rap.
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Okay, the first time
I ever tried to rhyme
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was kurtis blow, okay, had a record,
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these are the breaks,
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and on the back, instead of
calling it the instrumental,
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they called it the
do-it-yourself version.
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Okay?
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And so you were supposed to...
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That's so dope. That's so dope.
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You were supposed to try to
make your own fucking rhyme.
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So me and my man, yo,
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we go to the record store.
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We buy the record. We go to his house.
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You know, we play the original shit.
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Then we flip it over to
the do-it-yourself version.
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Yo, we played that shit.
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Yo, we just starting at the shit.
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Yo, we could not figure
out how the fuck...
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Where to begin. Like,
you know what I mean?
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Like, "how do you do this?"
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Like, and we...
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Ended up that day not doing nothing,
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like, you know what I mean?
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Yo, it was crazy.
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But I think what taught me how to rhyme
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was being such a fan, okay?
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That's like the best rap
story I ever fucking heard.
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Yo, being... Just...
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Getting ready, standing there,
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put it on, and go, "the fuck?"
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You know what I mean?
You got your mouth...
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You know what I mean?
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"I don't know what the fuck to say.
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How do they do that?"
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Like, you know what I mean?
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"How is he doing that?"
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So then, pow, and I
think my first rhyme...
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'Cause at that time, I think my name
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was, like, kid magic or
some shit like that, okay?
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And it was... I was like, uh...
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I think I remember a little. I'm like,
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♪ I'm the kid magic
with the magical touch ♪
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♪ Young ladies, you
know I'm just too much ♪
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♪ With my magical wand,
I could cast a spell ♪
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♪ Cut circles round flash... ♪
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'Cause I was still on
some dj shit. Right.
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♪ And make him go to hell ♪
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♪ I'm the one mc with the wizardry ♪
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♪ Just rocking the house
for all the ladies ♪
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You know what I mean? That's when niggas
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rhymed like that, you know what I mean?
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♪ Niggas broke out
in a goddamn rage ♪
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♪ I even think I seen
a sawed-off gauge ♪
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♪ But, homie, I was sent
from hell, not heaven ♪
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♪ I broke out with
a chrome-plated. 357 ♪
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♪ And the name of the
game is simply survival ♪
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♪ At end of the night,
10 was dead on arrival ♪
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♪ And me and partners, we
was gone like the winds ♪
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♪ Police blamed it on
the crips or the brims ♪
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♪ But some niggas knew in
the corner in the dark ♪
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♪ Them crazy niggas
reside in triangle park ♪
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♪ They go by the name of
brunette zel and trey ♪
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♪ And they belong to the
association called the epa ♪
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And that's when we called ourselves
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the eliminators pimping association.
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I be trying that all the time.
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Now, now, this is... this...
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I was doing this, just how
I entertained you, pre-rap.
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I had never heard rap.
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So I'm in the army, and rap came out,
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and I'm like, "I could do that. "
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But then I tried to do that type of...
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That rhyme over beats.
It's not made for beats.
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Right.
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And I just started to try
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to write shit within the beat,
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and then I came home from the army,
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and I wanted to be a dj,
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but I found out I would
get more love on the mic.
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I was getting more attention.
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So I said, "fuck it.
I'll write some rhymes. "
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And instead of carrying
them speakers around,
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I would go from party
to party and just rap.
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We created something
from nothing with hip-hop.
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That's what the whole
spirit of hip-hop is,
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see, 'cause... 'Cause it was at a time
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when they were taking
instruments and shit
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out the schools and all
of that type of shit.
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See... see, black people
used to be pretty musical
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back in the days. Like a motherfucker...
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It wasn't unusual for a motherfucker
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to know how to play the piano or guitar
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or some sort of horn
or some shit like that.
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And at some point, all of
that shit was removed from us,
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you know what I mean? Through economics
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and through... You know what I mean?
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Uh, cutting things out of
schools and all of that.
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So they tried to take the music
from us, you know what I mean?
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When we had created an
original american music,
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which was jazz, okay?
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Mm-Hmm.
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So what did we do?
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We had no fucking instruments,
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no horn, no drum,
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we're living in the
fucking city, and all the...
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We ain't got room for that
shit anyway up in the projects.
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Where would a fucking...
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You're... you're huddled in that.
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So what did we do?
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We took the fucking record player,
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the only thing that's playing
music in our fucking crib,
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and turned it into an instrument,
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which it wasn't supposed to be.
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♪ Hold it now ♪
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♪ Ho ♪
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♪ Come on, come on ♪
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♪ Huh ♪
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♪ All right, go ♪
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♪ Before rap was a game ♪
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♪ Or hip-hop was a nation ♪
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♪ Before lauryn hill
began her miseducation ♪
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♪ Before milk was chillin'
or p. E. Brought the noise ♪
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♪ Before heavy d & the boyz ♪
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♪ Before the roof caught on fire ♪
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♪ Before fresh was the word ♪
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♪ Before whodini and friends ♪
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♪ And roxanne's revenge ♪
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♪ Before the freaks
came out at night ♪
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♪ Before say ho ♪
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♪ Before the crash crew ♪
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♪ Was rocking on the radio ♪
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♪ Before whitney, mariah
and j-lo and janet ♪
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♪ Before bam & the soulsonic
force rocked the planet ♪
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♪ Before these are the breaks ♪
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♪ Before hard times ♪
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♪ Before the sugarhill gang ♪
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♪ And before super rhymes ♪
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♪ Before reaganomics ♪
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♪ Before rappers got
shot in their stomachs ♪
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♪ Before you found
hip-hop in comics ♪
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♪ Before gs, before weed was trees ♪
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♪ Before going raw dog
gave you a deadly disease ♪
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♪ Before haters, before
thugs and perpetrators ♪
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♪ Before the alphas
and before the betas ♪
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♪ Before beepers and cellphones ♪
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♪ And retro gods and fed-ex ♪
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♪ Food stamps and metro cards ♪
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♪ Before cops was 5-o,
or gats was answers ♪
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♪ Before all the b-boys
turned into break dancers ♪
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♪ Before legs was crazy
or outturned to swayze ♪
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♪ When my man said, "it's
hot, humid, and hazy" ♪
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♪ Before all the bull, and
by no means get it twisted ♪
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♪ See my name is hip-hop,
and I have always existed ♪
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♪ See, I'm a bronx nigga ♪
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♪ And I don't beg your pardon ♪
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♪ Never saw the 13 when
hip-hop was startin' ♪
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♪ I helped lay the cement, and
when the concrete hardened ♪
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♪ I watched hip-hop grow
out the car creepers ♪
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♪ I deal it in around the world ♪
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♪ Son, as well the 'hood ♪
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♪ Helped put the bx on the map ♪
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♪ Repped as well as I could ♪
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♪ I ain't visiting no bitch ♪
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♪ I got keys, I'm a resident ♪
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♪ I ain't no client ♪
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♪ I'm the motherfucking president ♪
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♪ 43rd precinct, south
view of the 'hood ♪
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♪ They say our
corner's got it cozy ♪
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♪ 'Cause we gettin' it good ♪
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♪ You see, we live by the water ♪
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♪ Where niggas be fishing ♪
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♪ Same area they bury ya ♪
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♪ And niggas be missing ♪
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♪ A few blocks from the bruckner ♪
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♪ Not far from the deegan ♪
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♪ And not far away from
the cross bronx expressway ♪
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♪ I ain't hard to find ♪
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♪ I'm right by the zoo ♪
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♪ By the gorilla cage ♪
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♪ Holla at a nigga, ooh-ooh ♪
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♪ Ain't where you from,
it's where you at... ♪
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Hip-hop is not made up from scratch.
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The music and the foundation
of the music of hip-hop
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comes from records that we
found in our parents' crates,
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you know what I mean?
Old funk and soul grooves.
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We've given new life
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to artists like james
brown and isaac hayes
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and sly and the family
stone and george clinton
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and parliament and funkadelic,
and so many other groups,
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because we rapping
over they beats, okay?
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So hip-hop didn't invent anything,
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but hip-hop reinvented everything.
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Lyrics is what rap is all about,
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though being lyrical
and being able to flow
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and have the type of rhymes and raps
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that paint pictures for people.
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♪ I be that stage nigga ♪
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♪ I don't know how to age, nigga ♪
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♪ I'm the first cat that put
the pen to the page, nigga ♪
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♪ I'm the key to the cage, nigga ♪
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♪ That brown and beige nigga ♪
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♪ I'm the
off-the-chain ♪
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♪ Meat rat meter engage nigga ♪
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♪ I'm that top nigga ♪
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♪ Walk through your
'hood with a bop, nigga ♪
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♪ No drop, nigga ♪
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♪ But I, hey, gotta run
from the cop, nigga ♪
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♪ Hip-hop nigga ♪
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♪ I used to run with
your pop, nigga ♪
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♪ Yo, I thought I told you
that I won't stop, nigga ♪
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♪ The mic nigga ♪
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♪ Mcing's like
riding a bike, nigga ♪
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♪ I'm the beige timbaland ♪
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♪ And the white air night nigga ♪
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♪ I'm the rhyme nigga ♪
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♪ The let's-go-back-into-time
nigga ♪
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♪ The prime nigga ♪
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♪ That always keepin'
my dime, nigga ♪
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♪ I'm the sixth nigga ♪
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♪ I'd rather flip flows
than bricks, nigga ♪
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♪ I shoulda been long gone ♪
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♪ But I'm still in the mix, nigga ♪
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♪ I'm the live nigga ♪
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♪ Always-last-to-arrive
nigga ♪
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♪ I'm the cross bronx,
west side, fdr drive nigga ♪
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♪ I'm that 'hood nigga ♪
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♪ I smoke that good wood, nigga ♪
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♪ You-could-never-fuck-with-
but-wish-that-you-could nigga ♪
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♪ I'm that damn nigga ♪
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♪ That
fuck-you-and-your-man nigga ♪
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♪ That get-your-punk-ass-
in-the-back-of-the-van nigga ♪
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♪ I'm that sweet nigga ♪
247
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♪ That
never-off-beat nigga ♪
248
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♪ That circle-and-a-slash-
on-cold-mics-heat nigga ♪
249
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♪ I'm that cool nigga ♪
250
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♪ Ran my whole high school, nigga ♪
251
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♪ And you don't want to ever
challenge me to a duel, nigga ♪
252
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♪ I'm that proud nigga ♪
253
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♪ That
stand-out-in-a-crowd nigga ♪
254
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♪ That go where most of y'all
niggas ain't allowed, nigga ♪
255
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♪ I'm that smart nigga ♪
256
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♪ Always first to start, nigga ♪
257
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♪ I think with my head ♪
258
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♪ But I feel with my heart, nigga ♪
259
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Hip-hop is a masterpiece,
260
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but nobody painted it all.
261
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What stroke did bambaataa,
262
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the soulsonic force put on that map?
263
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What... what did you
bring to that painting?
264
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We brought by naming this culture,
265
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which came from the clichés
of our great brother,
266
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who was also a gang member
and a brother of mine's
267
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of the black spades, kool keith cowboy.
268
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Mm-Hmm.
269
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My brother lovebug starski,
270
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who was... also was
part of the black spades.
271
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Um, using clichés that they was using,
272
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and... and they... rhymes before
were so, quote, "hip-hop. "
273
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'Cause, see, many people
when they say, "hip-hop,"
274
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they don't know exactly
what is hip-hop. Right.
275
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They automatically think
when you say, "hip-hop,"
276
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you're just talking about rap. Right.
277
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But when you talk about hip-hop,
we're talking about the whole movement,
278
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the b-boys,
the b-girls,
279
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the djs, the mc, the... or writers...
280
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And that fifth element
that holds it all together,
281
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which is the knowledge.
282
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So putting all this together
and naming this culture
283
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when it came to the media,
284
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and I could have called it
285
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the boi-yoi-yoing,
the go-off,
286
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or any other type of name.
287
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I decided to take from the cliché.
288
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I said, no, we call this hip-hop.
289
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Is there any other rapper out there,
290
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is there anybody, legend
or anything, that...
291
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Definitely got to give it
to the grandmaster melle mel,
292
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"it's like a jungle sometimes.
293
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It's make me wonder,
keep from going under. "
294
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♪ broken glass everywhere ♪
295
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♪ People pissing on the stage,
you know they just don't care ♪
296
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♪ I can't take the smell,
can't take the noise ♪
297
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♪ Got no money to move out,
I guess I got no choice ♪
298
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♪ Rats in the front room,
roaches in the back ♪
299
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♪ Junkies in the alley
with the baseball bat ♪
300
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It's so funny, man.
301
00:13:53,748 --> 00:13:56,082
Right. Niggas got on all
kind of diamonds and furs.
302
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Hey, they looking for a new
member to join the furious.
303
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Somebody search busy bee, man.
304
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What the fuck is...
305
00:14:04,532 --> 00:14:06,497
What the fuck is going...
306
00:14:06,532 --> 00:14:08,532
Look at his hair.
Hair longer than yours.
307
00:14:08,567 --> 00:14:10,532
Who you talking to, bitch, the feds?
308
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Nigga...
309
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A nigga bitch turn...
310
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A nigga bitch turning in somebody else.
311
00:14:18,999 --> 00:14:22,747
When you writing your best
raps, what's your technique?
312
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Do you need to be mad, and you
like to hear the music first?
313
00:14:25,616 --> 00:14:27,115
I mean, there's lots of
techniques. What's the best...
314
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When you go in there in
some of your best shit.
315
00:14:30,425 --> 00:14:33,082
My, uh, technique, if
I was gonna describe it,
316
00:14:33,582 --> 00:14:34,547
is called make it plain.
317
00:14:34,582 --> 00:14:36,540
My shit is like, you heard me say it,
318
00:14:36,575 --> 00:14:38,328
and that's what it is that I said.
319
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You don't gotta break it down.
320
00:14:40,082 --> 00:14:41,582
I mean, you ain't got...
You ain't gotta break down
321
00:14:41,617 --> 00:14:43,047
what I'm trying to say on beat street.
322
00:14:43,082 --> 00:14:45,582
It... you know, or what I
tried to say in the message
323
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or what I tried to say
when I wrote white lines.
324
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It's all there, so
you just make it plain.
325
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♪ I'm the reason why
your man could cuss ♪
326
00:14:51,793 --> 00:14:53,354
♪ And your man could
bust, no mistake ♪
327
00:14:53,389 --> 00:14:55,168
♪ That's why you got
the game from us ♪
328
00:14:55,203 --> 00:14:56,948
♪ Tell ja rule stop
popping the clutch ♪
329
00:14:56,983 --> 00:14:58,465
♪ True fast and the furious ♪
330
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♪ Grandmaster flash and us ♪
331
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♪ Architects of hip-hop domain ♪
332
00:15:01,948 --> 00:15:02,913
♪ And I'm not your man ♪
333
00:15:02,948 --> 00:15:04,948
♪ Spit so much poison
that I got ptomaine ♪
334
00:15:04,983 --> 00:15:06,913
♪ So much game, my
game came with propane ♪
335
00:15:06,948 --> 00:15:09,948
♪ Mentioning my name is like
sniffing the gang of the cocaine ♪
336
00:15:09,983 --> 00:15:12,465
♪ The dopest cat to walk
on twos, I never lose ♪
337
00:15:12,500 --> 00:15:14,948
♪ Flows of your amigos,
egos battered and bruised ♪
338
00:15:14,983 --> 00:15:16,913
♪ You a lowlife,
get off of my penis ♪
339
00:15:16,948 --> 00:15:19,782
♪ Swingin' on balls like you trying
to call out serena and venus ♪
340
00:15:20,865 --> 00:15:23,416
So now with that thought in mind,
341
00:15:23,451 --> 00:15:24,950
my name is melle mel.
342
00:15:24,985 --> 00:15:26,414
I started the game.
343
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The pleasure's all yours.
344
00:15:27,983 --> 00:15:29,449
Fuck you very much.
345
00:15:30,532 --> 00:15:32,823
If you want to be big in the 'hood,
346
00:15:32,858 --> 00:15:35,080
you gotta do something special.
347
00:15:35,115 --> 00:15:38,473
The mc possesses the great
gift of communication.
348
00:15:38,508 --> 00:15:41,832
He has the ability to
capture everybody's attention
349
00:15:41,867 --> 00:15:44,832
with incredible displays
of verbal acrobatics
350
00:15:44,867 --> 00:15:47,832
and the power to command a crowd.
351
00:15:48,698 --> 00:15:50,747
♪ I'm coming ♪
352
00:15:50,782 --> 00:15:52,747
♪ I'm coming, I'm coming ♪
353
00:15:52,782 --> 00:15:55,932
What's the difference
between a rapper and an mc?
354
00:15:55,967 --> 00:15:59,082
Well, a rapper is, you
know, someone that rhymes.
355
00:15:59,117 --> 00:16:01,282
I mean, you can consider
dr. Seuss a rapper,
356
00:16:01,317 --> 00:16:02,865
you know. Um... Right.
357
00:16:03,366 --> 00:16:05,865
You know, you know, that's
someone that rhymes, you know.
358
00:16:05,900 --> 00:16:07,491
You rhyme "cat" with "hat," you know,
359
00:16:07,526 --> 00:16:09,047
then you can be considered a rapper.
360
00:16:09,082 --> 00:16:16,282
Mc is someone that either
has that party-rocking skill
361
00:16:16,782 --> 00:16:18,449
or that lyrical skill. Right.
362
00:16:18,484 --> 00:16:20,331
Doug e. Fresh, busy bee,
363
00:16:20,366 --> 00:16:21,615
these are mcs, because these are people
364
00:16:21,650 --> 00:16:23,214
that know how to get on the mic.
365
00:16:23,249 --> 00:16:25,832
Like, 'cause you have an
mc that can get up there
366
00:16:25,867 --> 00:16:28,297
and use a whole bunch of big words
367
00:16:28,332 --> 00:16:30,832
like "ostentatious, indubitably,
quagmire" in a rhyme,
368
00:16:30,867 --> 00:16:33,332
and the crowd's sitting
there, looking around,
369
00:16:33,367 --> 00:16:34,332
"what the... " What was that word?
370
00:16:34,367 --> 00:16:35,747
Quagmire. You like...
371
00:16:35,782 --> 00:16:37,416
"What the fuck is he
talking about?" You know.
372
00:16:37,451 --> 00:16:38,964
And then busy bee'll get up on there
373
00:16:38,999 --> 00:16:41,498
and just be like, you
know, "I'm in your city. "
374
00:16:41,533 --> 00:16:43,498
What's your favorite jeans?" You know.
375
00:16:43,533 --> 00:16:44,964
"Is it levi?" You know,
376
00:16:44,999 --> 00:16:46,546
and just tear it down. Right.
377
00:16:46,581 --> 00:16:49,366
If you were gonna personally
train a rapper to be great,
378
00:16:49,401 --> 00:16:50,913
you met a new cat,
379
00:16:50,948 --> 00:16:53,698
what would be the first
lesson you'd give 'em?
380
00:16:53,733 --> 00:16:56,340
The first thing I
would try to teach them,
381
00:16:56,375 --> 00:16:58,948
the very first thing
would be originality.
382
00:16:59,416 --> 00:17:00,913
You know what I'm saying?
383
00:17:00,948 --> 00:17:02,948
I think that is so
important, because it's like,
384
00:17:02,983 --> 00:17:06,449
it's... whenever you're
following a trend,
385
00:17:06,484 --> 00:17:07,948
trends come and go.
386
00:17:08,449 --> 00:17:08,948
True.
387
00:17:09,416 --> 00:17:10,948
So when that trend is gone,
388
00:17:11,449 --> 00:17:12,797
you're gone.
389
00:17:12,832 --> 00:17:14,973
You're basing your career
390
00:17:15,008 --> 00:17:17,115
on a bangin' beat... Mm-Hmm.
391
00:17:17,150 --> 00:17:18,580
And a catchy hook.
392
00:17:18,615 --> 00:17:20,115
So you know what you just did?
393
00:17:20,615 --> 00:17:21,580
What'd you do?
394
00:17:21,615 --> 00:17:22,999
You just made your producer a star.
395
00:17:26,782 --> 00:17:28,698
♪ Rakim'll say ♪
396
00:17:31,165 --> 00:17:32,665
♪ The rakim'll say ♪
397
00:17:35,165 --> 00:17:37,165
♪ Follow the leader, rakim'll say ♪
398
00:17:39,332 --> 00:17:41,615
♪ Follow the leader, rakim'll say ♪
399
00:17:43,698 --> 00:17:46,332
♪ Follow the leader, rakim'll say ♪
400
00:17:46,832 --> 00:17:48,540
♪ Just when things seem the same ♪
401
00:17:48,575 --> 00:17:50,214
♪ And the whole scene is lame ♪
402
00:17:50,249 --> 00:17:52,040
♪ I come and reign
with the unexplained ♪
403
00:17:52,075 --> 00:17:53,832
♪ For the brains
till things change ♪
404
00:17:53,867 --> 00:17:55,349
♪ They strain the sling slang ♪
405
00:17:55,384 --> 00:17:56,858
♪ I'm trained to bring game ♪
406
00:17:56,893 --> 00:17:58,297
♪ History that I arranged ♪
407
00:17:58,332 --> 00:18:00,082
♪ Been regained by king james ♪
408
00:18:00,117 --> 00:18:01,724
♪ Go to practice with tactics ♪
409
00:18:01,759 --> 00:18:03,332
♪ When a track hits, theatrics ♪
410
00:18:03,832 --> 00:18:05,332
♪ Women that look like actresses ♪
411
00:18:05,367 --> 00:18:06,599
♪ Status of cleopatras ♪
412
00:18:06,634 --> 00:18:07,983
♪ Stacks of mathematics ♪
413
00:18:08,018 --> 00:18:09,332
♪ To feed your asiatics ♪
414
00:18:09,832 --> 00:18:12,249
♪ As I find out what the
facts is for geographics ♪
415
00:18:13,332 --> 00:18:14,797
The way you influenced me was...
416
00:18:14,832 --> 00:18:17,448
I guess you said it.
You took the box out.
417
00:18:17,483 --> 00:18:18,948
Like I... one of my favorite lyrics
418
00:18:19,448 --> 00:18:22,448
is when you say, "I'll take
you on a walk through hell,
419
00:18:22,483 --> 00:18:24,948
freeze your dome and watch
your eyeballs swell. "
420
00:18:24,983 --> 00:18:26,448
That's all like...
421
00:18:26,948 --> 00:18:27,948
"Guide you out of
triple-stage darkness. "
422
00:18:28,448 --> 00:18:30,698
It's like who's...
Who's writing this shit?
423
00:18:30,733 --> 00:18:32,913
Like, what is... what
is he talking about?
424
00:18:32,948 --> 00:18:35,948
It's not like, "I'm on the
street. I see a car. I see... "
425
00:18:35,983 --> 00:18:37,413
This is like, "I'm taking you
426
00:18:37,448 --> 00:18:40,948
into a whole 'nother world of thought. "
427
00:18:40,983 --> 00:18:41,448
Exactly.
428
00:18:41,948 --> 00:18:44,448
That I said I gotta try to do, too.
429
00:18:44,483 --> 00:18:47,032
To try to explain that,
430
00:18:47,498 --> 00:18:48,531
I came up listening...
431
00:18:49,032 --> 00:18:51,032
You know, my mother
played a lot of jazz music.
432
00:18:51,067 --> 00:18:53,549
A lot of it didn't have no words on it,
433
00:18:53,584 --> 00:18:56,032
but you could see what was going on,
434
00:18:56,067 --> 00:18:57,496
and it put you in a mood,
435
00:18:57,531 --> 00:18:58,531
put you right where it wanted to.
436
00:18:59,032 --> 00:19:01,032
So my thing was if they can do that
437
00:19:01,531 --> 00:19:03,031
with an instrumental... Mm-Hmm.
438
00:19:03,066 --> 00:19:04,549
I should be able to take somebody
439
00:19:04,584 --> 00:19:06,557
somewhere with... With words, man.
440
00:19:06,592 --> 00:19:08,531
So I just always tried to, you know,
441
00:19:09,032 --> 00:19:10,531
take people somewhere and make 'em see,
442
00:19:10,566 --> 00:19:12,299
you know, what I was doing, man,
443
00:19:12,334 --> 00:19:13,997
and a lot of that come from brothers
444
00:19:14,032 --> 00:19:16,531
like slick rick, too,
you know what I mean?
445
00:19:16,566 --> 00:19:18,048
When... when slick told a story,
446
00:19:18,083 --> 00:19:19,531
you know, you was right there.
447
00:19:20,032 --> 00:19:22,531
Yeah, if... if he was talking
about running through, uh, the park,
448
00:19:23,032 --> 00:19:24,657
you know, you smelled the grass.
449
00:19:24,692 --> 00:19:26,282
Like, you know, um, yesterday was...
450
00:19:26,317 --> 00:19:28,049
Was my wife's birthday, man.
451
00:19:28,084 --> 00:19:29,683
You know, I'm in the crib,
452
00:19:29,718 --> 00:19:31,247
I got the serato rocking
453
00:19:31,282 --> 00:19:33,165
and playing joints, and
I'm playing old joints.
454
00:19:33,200 --> 00:19:35,830
A lot of them songs that was made,
455
00:19:35,865 --> 00:19:37,797
when you hear 'em, man, you know, if...
456
00:19:37,832 --> 00:19:39,832
If you was five years
old, it'd take you back
457
00:19:39,867 --> 00:19:41,296
to when you was five years old, man.
458
00:19:41,331 --> 00:19:43,331
You could smell the chicken
cooking in the kitchen,
459
00:19:43,366 --> 00:19:44,797
know what I mean?
460
00:19:44,832 --> 00:19:46,832
You could smell mom's
perfume, you know what I mean?
461
00:19:47,331 --> 00:19:50,832
Hey, you could smell pop's car, like yo.
462
00:19:50,867 --> 00:19:52,797
Those songs are so classic, man,
463
00:19:52,832 --> 00:19:57,832
and... and it does something to
our psyche, you know what I mean?
464
00:19:57,867 --> 00:20:01,331
When I started writing, I tried to...
465
00:20:01,832 --> 00:20:04,332
I tried to reach that
knowing, you know what I mean?
466
00:20:04,367 --> 00:20:06,832
Like if I do what I'm
supposed to do on this record,
467
00:20:07,331 --> 00:20:10,331
maybe one day, you know,
somebody'll feel the same way,
468
00:20:10,366 --> 00:20:11,797
you know, I feel about...
469
00:20:11,832 --> 00:20:14,296
Like when I hear, um, sexual healing
470
00:20:14,331 --> 00:20:18,331
or... or when you hear, uh,
let's stay together, al green.
471
00:20:18,366 --> 00:20:21,415
I read before that you
said that you would break
472
00:20:21,915 --> 00:20:25,365
the... the music down into
like... in musical segments.
473
00:20:25,400 --> 00:20:26,663
Exactly.
474
00:20:26,698 --> 00:20:27,782
Could you elaborate on that?
475
00:20:27,817 --> 00:20:29,330
I try to start off
476
00:20:29,365 --> 00:20:32,999
with 16 dots on a paper.
477
00:20:33,034 --> 00:20:34,463
What?
478
00:20:34,498 --> 00:20:36,999
I start off with 16 dots on a paper.
479
00:20:37,034 --> 00:20:38,766
Bam, bam, bam, bam, bam.
480
00:20:38,801 --> 00:20:40,498
If it's a 16-bar rhyme,
481
00:20:40,999 --> 00:20:43,581
at least I know, you know,
what I'm dealing with.
482
00:20:43,616 --> 00:20:48,615
My thing was, if four
bars was this long...
483
00:20:48,650 --> 00:20:51,630
My thing was, I got, you know...
484
00:20:51,665 --> 00:20:54,630
I see like a graph in
between them four bars,
485
00:20:54,665 --> 00:20:59,165
and within that, I could place so
many words and so many syllables
486
00:20:59,200 --> 00:21:01,630
and so many words,
and at times, you know,
487
00:21:01,665 --> 00:21:04,630
if the beat was perfect,
I can take it to the point
488
00:21:04,665 --> 00:21:08,531
where there's... there's no other
words you could put in that four bars.
489
00:21:08,566 --> 00:21:10,832
Even though you explained
it, niggas can't do it.
490
00:21:10,867 --> 00:21:12,891
♪ No time to sip mos with hostess ♪
491
00:21:12,926 --> 00:21:14,915
♪ Never mind what
the total gross is ♪
492
00:21:14,950 --> 00:21:16,380
♪ I rip shows, stay focused ♪
493
00:21:16,415 --> 00:21:17,915
♪ And split cheese with soldiers ♪
494
00:21:17,950 --> 00:21:19,682
♪ While you hit trees and coast ♪
495
00:21:19,717 --> 00:21:21,415
♪ I spit flows that be ferocious ♪
496
00:21:21,450 --> 00:21:22,932
♪ And with these explosives ♪
497
00:21:22,967 --> 00:21:24,415
♪ I split seas for moses ♪
498
00:21:24,450 --> 00:21:25,415
♪ Shine permanently ♪
499
00:21:25,915 --> 00:21:27,415
♪ Only my mind's concerning me ♪
500
00:21:27,450 --> 00:21:28,915
♪ Fire burns in me eternally ♪
501
00:21:29,415 --> 00:21:30,380
♪ Time's eternity ♪
502
00:21:30,415 --> 00:21:31,915
♪ Followers that turn on me ♪
503
00:21:31,950 --> 00:21:33,380
♪ Be in a mental infirmary ♪
504
00:21:33,415 --> 00:21:34,915
♪ Determinedly advance technology ♪
505
00:21:35,415 --> 00:21:36,915
♪ Better than germany ♪
506
00:21:36,950 --> 00:21:38,032
You know what I mean?
507
00:21:45,032 --> 00:21:46,615
♪ What's up? You say
you want to be down? ♪
508
00:21:47,115 --> 00:21:49,615
♪ Ease back, a
motherfucker get beat down ♪
509
00:21:49,650 --> 00:21:51,580
♪ Out my face, fool,
I'm the illest ♪
510
00:21:51,615 --> 00:21:53,615
♪ Bulletproof, I die
harder than bruce willis ♪
511
00:21:54,115 --> 00:21:56,365
♪ Got my crew in effect,
I bought 'em new jags.
512
00:21:56,400 --> 00:21:58,615
♪ So much cash, gotta
keep it in hefty bags.
513
00:21:58,650 --> 00:22:00,615
♪ All I think about is keys and gs ♪
514
00:22:00,650 --> 00:22:01,615
♪ Imagine that, me working ♪
515
00:22:01,650 --> 00:22:02,615
♪ At mickey-ds ♪
516
00:22:03,115 --> 00:22:04,580
Aw, shit. ♪ that's a joke ♪
517
00:22:04,615 --> 00:22:06,080
♪ 'Cause I'm never gonna be broke ♪
518
00:22:06,115 --> 00:22:07,615
♪ When I die, it'll be
bullets and gun smoke ♪
519
00:22:07,650 --> 00:22:09,865
♪ You don't like my
lifestyle, fuck you ♪
520
00:22:10,865 --> 00:22:11,906
I love this one.
521
00:22:11,941 --> 00:22:12,913
So you saying...
522
00:22:12,948 --> 00:22:15,306
When you want to write the best lyrics,
523
00:22:15,341 --> 00:22:17,665
you physically make yourself hungry.
524
00:22:17,700 --> 00:22:19,213
That's just the way I do.
525
00:22:19,248 --> 00:22:21,248
Or work out physically.
That's another one, too.
526
00:22:21,698 --> 00:22:22,723
Right. Right. Box, you know.
527
00:22:22,758 --> 00:22:23,713
I come back with my blood up,
528
00:22:23,748 --> 00:22:25,748
like I'm ready to get into a fight,
529
00:22:25,783 --> 00:22:27,213
and my mind is racing.
530
00:22:27,248 --> 00:22:29,248
Only instead of thinking
about physically fighting,
531
00:22:29,748 --> 00:22:31,248
I focus on fighting mentally,
532
00:22:31,283 --> 00:22:32,713
because hip-hop, you know,
533
00:22:32,748 --> 00:22:34,213
you have to fight with your mind.
534
00:22:34,248 --> 00:22:36,748
Battles don't just come with,
"I'm gonna see you in the street. "
535
00:22:37,248 --> 00:22:38,047
Right. It's...
536
00:22:38,082 --> 00:22:40,580
I'm gonna take you
apart first. Check it.
537
00:22:40,615 --> 00:22:43,389
♪ They said that the success
of my music was theoretic ♪
538
00:22:43,424 --> 00:22:46,294
♪ But my revenge is sweet
enough to murder diabetics ♪
539
00:22:46,329 --> 00:22:49,129
♪ Eugenics, proctor & gamble
credit racial science ♪
540
00:22:49,164 --> 00:22:52,164
♪ Couldn't produce a more
aggressive intellectual giant ♪
541
00:22:52,199 --> 00:22:54,129
♪ Nephilim, bury 'em, with
the bullets left in 'em ♪
542
00:22:54,164 --> 00:22:57,164
♪ My heart is blacker than the
children of thomas jefferson ♪
543
00:22:57,199 --> 00:23:00,164
♪ Blacker than back in the
days of the tar and feathering ♪
544
00:23:00,199 --> 00:23:01,407
♪ A cancerous endocrine ♪
545
00:23:01,442 --> 00:23:02,580
♪ The eagle that's american ♪
546
00:23:02,615 --> 00:23:04,665
♪ The hatchet and the
sticks, the fascist emblem ♪
547
00:23:05,164 --> 00:23:06,615
♪ You could call it
conspiracy theory ♪
548
00:23:06,650 --> 00:23:08,129
♪ I don't give a motherfuck ♪
549
00:23:08,164 --> 00:23:09,630
♪ You could get your mother fucked ♪
550
00:23:09,665 --> 00:23:12,114
♪ "National security's"
a code word for coverup ♪
551
00:23:12,665 --> 00:23:14,665
♪ Hold that down, I
look at character ♪
552
00:23:14,700 --> 00:23:16,182
♪ Never let the color get to ya ♪
553
00:23:16,217 --> 00:23:17,690
♪ I got white revolutionaries ♪
554
00:23:17,725 --> 00:23:19,129
♪ Like muslims in chechnya ♪
555
00:23:19,164 --> 00:23:22,164
♪ Percussion thumping like
the russian mafia over ya ♪
556
00:23:22,199 --> 00:23:23,681
♪ But even they
know what it's like ♪
557
00:23:23,716 --> 00:23:25,440
♪ When you fighting for svoboda ♪
558
00:23:25,475 --> 00:23:27,164
♪ So whether slavic or islamic ♪
559
00:23:27,199 --> 00:23:28,129
♪ Vodka, gin tonic ♪
560
00:23:28,164 --> 00:23:30,114
♪ Drunken fantasies are cool, son ♪
561
00:23:30,149 --> 00:23:31,580
♪ But here's the grim logic ♪
562
00:23:31,615 --> 00:23:33,114
♪ You rappers want
to play industry ♪
563
00:23:33,149 --> 00:23:34,580
♪ And start to be rich ♪
564
00:23:34,615 --> 00:23:35,665
♪ Until they fuck you for millions ♪
565
00:23:35,700 --> 00:23:37,630
♪ Like paul mccartney's bitch ♪
566
00:23:37,665 --> 00:23:40,129
♪ My lions live inside
a box like jumanji ♪
567
00:23:40,164 --> 00:23:42,914
♪ Sick niggas that'll stab
you up like indira gandhi ♪
568
00:23:42,949 --> 00:23:45,665
♪ So never desecrate the
space on which I meditate ♪
569
00:23:46,164 --> 00:23:48,164
♪ My thoughts rip through
tank armored metal plate ♪
570
00:23:48,199 --> 00:23:50,129
♪ And start to
resonate to the spot ♪
571
00:23:50,164 --> 00:23:52,129
♪ Where moses caused
the sea to separate ♪
572
00:23:52,164 --> 00:23:55,164
♪ The place that the prophet
mohammed started to levitate ♪
573
00:23:55,199 --> 00:23:57,665
♪ The exact moment that
jesus rose dead awake ♪
574
00:23:58,164 --> 00:24:00,665
♪ And siddhartha became the
buddha that regenerates ♪
575
00:24:00,700 --> 00:24:02,129
♪ Half a bar over,
576
00:24:02,164 --> 00:24:04,164
♪ but I bring it home
colder than dead soldiers ♪
577
00:24:04,199 --> 00:24:06,164
♪ Soul controller,
holder of knowledge ♪
578
00:24:06,199 --> 00:24:07,630
♪ Nigga, fuck dianetics ♪
579
00:24:07,665 --> 00:24:10,164
♪ I'm like the whole
library in kemet ♪
580
00:24:10,199 --> 00:24:11,164
♪ With annunaki genetics ♪
581
00:24:14,198 --> 00:24:15,748
♪ Electric boogie ♪
582
00:24:52,331 --> 00:24:55,415
The beatbox is more like
I'm moving with your rhyme,
583
00:24:55,450 --> 00:24:57,380
like I'm moving with your rhyme
584
00:24:57,415 --> 00:25:01,415
rather than I'm just doing the
beatbox like a drum machine.
585
00:25:01,450 --> 00:25:03,432
I'm in sync with you...
586
00:25:03,467 --> 00:25:04,941
Right. Spiritually.
587
00:25:04,976 --> 00:25:06,415
Accompanying. Right.
588
00:25:06,450 --> 00:25:07,880
It's like this.
589
00:25:07,915 --> 00:25:11,415
It's to the point that you
cannot separate one from the other
590
00:25:11,450 --> 00:25:12,880
if you do it right.
591
00:25:12,915 --> 00:25:15,915
Similar to a way a good
dj can accompany us.
592
00:25:15,950 --> 00:25:16,531
Right.
593
00:25:18,865 --> 00:25:20,656
What makes me the originator
594
00:25:20,691 --> 00:25:22,569
is I took it, created it
595
00:25:22,604 --> 00:25:24,413
and made it into a style,
596
00:25:24,448 --> 00:25:27,448
made it into an element in hip-hop
597
00:25:27,483 --> 00:25:29,049
that supported the mc.
598
00:25:29,084 --> 00:25:30,615
You were the first one.
599
00:25:30,650 --> 00:25:31,698
You invented it?
600
00:25:32,198 --> 00:25:33,198
I'm the inventor.
601
00:25:33,665 --> 00:25:35,198
I am the originator.
602
00:25:35,698 --> 00:25:37,615
The buck stops here. Here.
603
00:25:37,650 --> 00:25:39,663
Can you, off the head,
604
00:25:39,698 --> 00:25:43,698
break out, uh, one of your
favorite rhymes from any rapper,
605
00:25:43,733 --> 00:25:45,580
from any generation, from any time
606
00:25:45,615 --> 00:25:48,765
that you walked with that's
just stuck in your head?
607
00:25:48,800 --> 00:25:52,649
I mean, for me, man, the
three best mcs of all time
608
00:25:52,684 --> 00:25:56,498
is melle mel, kool mo
dee, and grandmaster caz.
609
00:25:56,533 --> 00:25:57,515
Right. Hands down...
610
00:25:57,550 --> 00:25:58,774
You got any rhymes?
611
00:25:58,809 --> 00:25:59,963
As far as foundation.
612
00:25:59,998 --> 00:26:01,998
I know all they rhymes,
so don't ask me that.
613
00:26:02,033 --> 00:26:03,581
Say one. Just say one. Say one.
614
00:26:03,616 --> 00:26:05,129
Kool moe dee said,
615
00:26:05,164 --> 00:26:07,414
"I rhyme a hundred miles an hour
616
00:26:07,449 --> 00:26:09,630
"with lightning speed and power,
617
00:26:09,665 --> 00:26:13,414
"sweetest of the sweet, make an mc sour.
618
00:26:13,449 --> 00:26:17,164
"Timber as a tower,
because I devour any mc,
619
00:26:17,665 --> 00:26:18,630
"and I can prove it
620
00:26:18,665 --> 00:26:20,615
now or a little bit later. "
621
00:26:21,164 --> 00:26:22,615
I mean, come on. I could
keep going with this.
622
00:26:23,114 --> 00:26:24,114
That's right. That's all I need.
623
00:26:24,149 --> 00:26:26,163
Yo, yo, and caz said,
624
00:26:26,198 --> 00:26:29,198
"I could play away to the break of day,
625
00:26:29,233 --> 00:26:32,663
"put you on hold just like an oj.
626
00:26:32,698 --> 00:26:35,163
"Steal the feel and make sure it's real,
627
00:26:35,198 --> 00:26:38,698
and if you go and get your
brother, I won't peel. "
628
00:26:38,733 --> 00:26:40,163
You know what I mean? And he...
629
00:26:40,198 --> 00:26:42,698
"I crash and mash and get cold cash,
630
00:26:43,198 --> 00:26:46,296
smoke hash in a flash,
and I won't stash. "
631
00:26:46,331 --> 00:26:50,415
But see the funny thing is each one
of their styles are very different,
632
00:26:50,450 --> 00:26:52,914
like moe dee was technically extreme,
633
00:26:52,949 --> 00:26:54,879
I mean, like... Like sharp.
634
00:26:54,914 --> 00:26:57,415
And then slickness and flavor was caz.
635
00:26:57,450 --> 00:26:59,879
Melle mel was spiritual. Yeah.
636
00:26:59,914 --> 00:27:03,415
Homeboy said, "a picture
can express a thousand words"
637
00:27:03,914 --> 00:27:05,914
"to describe all the
beauty of life you give,
638
00:27:05,949 --> 00:27:08,879
"and if the world was yours to do over,
639
00:27:08,914 --> 00:27:11,879
"I know you'll paint
a better place to live,
640
00:27:11,914 --> 00:27:15,914
"where the colors would
swirl for the boys and girls
641
00:27:15,949 --> 00:27:18,380
"to join in peace and harmony,
642
00:27:18,415 --> 00:27:21,664
"where murals stand on wall so grand
643
00:27:21,699 --> 00:27:24,914
as far as the eyes are able to see. "
644
00:27:24,949 --> 00:27:25,823
That's crazy.
645
00:27:25,858 --> 00:27:26,698
That's crazy.
646
00:27:30,782 --> 00:27:31,782
Hip-hop.
647
00:27:36,998 --> 00:27:41,531
Rap has introduced poetry
to a whole new generation.
648
00:27:41,566 --> 00:27:44,748
We've crossed color
lines and changed lives.
649
00:27:44,783 --> 00:27:46,213
It just seems wrong to me
650
00:27:46,248 --> 00:27:48,213
that we still don't get the respect
651
00:27:48,248 --> 00:27:51,365
like jazz, blues or
other musical art forms.
652
00:27:51,400 --> 00:27:53,413
Why do you think rap music
653
00:27:53,448 --> 00:27:56,448
or the music you...
You were a architect of
654
00:27:56,483 --> 00:27:59,413
doesn't get the full
respect of jazz and blues?
655
00:27:59,448 --> 00:28:03,947
I think it's because we're not banded
together like jazz and blues artists.
656
00:28:03,982 --> 00:28:06,448
You know, you'll see reunions
with jazz and blues artists.
657
00:28:06,483 --> 00:28:08,465
I mean, it's starting to happen now.
658
00:28:08,500 --> 00:28:10,448
You know, we starting to realize it now,
659
00:28:10,947 --> 00:28:12,448
but, you know, you see blues artists,
660
00:28:12,483 --> 00:28:13,829
they have love for each other.
661
00:28:13,864 --> 00:28:16,947
I don't hear about bb king battling...
662
00:28:18,448 --> 00:28:20,197
Battling somebody in the blues world.
663
00:28:20,232 --> 00:28:21,912
I don't hear about in... in jazz...
664
00:28:21,947 --> 00:28:23,912
I don't hear about,
you know, chick corea
665
00:28:23,947 --> 00:28:26,415
talking about, "yo, that
nigga sucks, you know. "
666
00:28:26,450 --> 00:28:27,449
Right, right, right.
667
00:28:27,484 --> 00:28:28,448
"Yo, suck my dick. "
668
00:28:29,448 --> 00:28:31,181
You don't hear that in jazz. Right.
669
00:28:31,216 --> 00:28:32,879
So, you know, it's a respected thing.
670
00:28:32,914 --> 00:28:35,448
So, you know, basically when
we start respecting ourselves
671
00:28:35,483 --> 00:28:38,215
and showing homage and,
you know, getting up there
672
00:28:38,250 --> 00:28:40,947
and win an award, say, "hey,
I'd like to just thank",
673
00:28:40,982 --> 00:28:41,912
"you know, grandmaster flash.
674
00:28:41,947 --> 00:28:43,912
"I'd like to thank, you know, kool herc,
675
00:28:43,947 --> 00:28:46,947
for even starting this so I
could be here getting this. "
676
00:28:46,982 --> 00:28:48,413
Once that happens
677
00:28:48,448 --> 00:28:50,912
and we start showing compassion
for the people before us,
678
00:28:50,947 --> 00:28:53,947
that's when we're gonna have
respect like that. That's what I...
679
00:28:53,982 --> 00:28:54,781
That's what I feel. Sure.
680
00:28:56,864 --> 00:28:58,365
♪ May laughter from backstabbers ♪
681
00:28:58,400 --> 00:28:59,864
♪ Turn to tears faster ♪
682
00:29:00,365 --> 00:29:01,864
♪ For you, I wish no snake
shall slither past you ♪
683
00:29:01,899 --> 00:29:04,365
♪ You have to keep
your vision clear ♪
684
00:29:04,400 --> 00:29:05,829
♪ Only a coward lives in fear ♪
685
00:29:05,864 --> 00:29:08,365
♪ My surrounding got only
real powerful niggas here ♪
686
00:29:08,781 --> 00:29:10,739
♪ Real friends, we
have a code of ethics ♪
687
00:29:10,774 --> 00:29:12,698
♪ No question, no
feminine tendencies ♪
688
00:29:12,733 --> 00:29:14,663
♪ We not expecting no gossip ♪
689
00:29:14,698 --> 00:29:17,198
♪ No phony logic, no
counting your homie pocket ♪
690
00:29:17,233 --> 00:29:19,198
♪ Spare no expense
for legal defense ♪
691
00:29:19,233 --> 00:29:20,663
♪ If your homie locked up ♪
692
00:29:20,698 --> 00:29:22,698
♪ Who cares who was the
last who looked out? ♪
693
00:29:22,733 --> 00:29:24,198
♪ Selfishness, that's
a character flaw ♪
694
00:29:24,698 --> 00:29:25,663
♪ No holding out ♪
695
00:29:25,698 --> 00:29:27,163
♪ Yo, what happened to the honor? ♪
696
00:29:27,198 --> 00:29:29,698
♪ You dealing with
sensitive prima-donna drama ♪
697
00:29:30,198 --> 00:29:32,914
♪ Teflon love to my
dudes who's solid ♪
698
00:29:32,949 --> 00:29:35,498
Why you think rap isn't respected?
699
00:29:35,533 --> 00:29:36,963
Threatening.
700
00:29:36,998 --> 00:29:38,931
We're not supposed to
be thinking like this.
701
00:29:38,966 --> 00:29:40,829
We're not supposed to
be talking like this.
702
00:29:40,864 --> 00:29:44,615
What are we doing proud of how we
talking with this broken english?
703
00:29:44,650 --> 00:29:47,114
How the fuck are we making
poetry out of this broken english?
704
00:29:47,149 --> 00:29:48,663
"Why are you guys bringing
705
00:29:48,698 --> 00:29:51,914
"street conversation
to the mainstream world?
706
00:29:51,949 --> 00:29:53,914
"Stay in your place. Stay out of there.
707
00:29:53,949 --> 00:29:55,431
"I don't like looking at you.
708
00:29:55,466 --> 00:29:56,879
"Fix your pants. Fix your hat.
709
00:29:56,914 --> 00:29:59,415
"Y'all are supposed to stay
in the gutter. Get out of here.
710
00:29:59,450 --> 00:30:01,432
"What are you doing invading my home?
711
00:30:01,467 --> 00:30:03,415
"Why are my kids liking your music?
712
00:30:03,450 --> 00:30:04,415
"What's going on?
713
00:30:04,914 --> 00:30:06,164
"I don't like you.
714
00:30:06,199 --> 00:30:07,415
I don't like you. "
715
00:30:07,914 --> 00:30:09,164
That's all they're saying.
716
00:30:09,199 --> 00:30:10,415
Mm-Hmm. And we know it.
717
00:30:10,914 --> 00:30:14,415
So that's... that's why I'm proud
to wear my shit a little sa...
718
00:30:14,450 --> 00:30:15,879
I mean, I'm a grown man now.
719
00:30:15,914 --> 00:30:17,914
I don't have no business
wearing saggy jeans.
720
00:30:18,415 --> 00:30:19,380
No business at all,
721
00:30:19,415 --> 00:30:20,879
you know what I'm saying?
722
00:30:20,914 --> 00:30:22,879
But I might let it sag a little bit
723
00:30:22,914 --> 00:30:24,914
just to annoy a few
stiff motherfuckers...
724
00:30:24,949 --> 00:30:26,380
Just because I'm...
725
00:30:26,415 --> 00:30:27,879
That's what got me here. Mm-Hmm.
726
00:30:27,914 --> 00:30:30,139
And I'm always gonna stay true to that.
727
00:30:30,174 --> 00:30:32,365
♪ Big I rest in
peace, rest in peace ♪
728
00:30:36,998 --> 00:30:39,681
♪ Do you want to mess with this? ♪
729
00:30:39,716 --> 00:30:42,365
♪ 'Cause I'm one of the best yet ♪
730
00:30:42,400 --> 00:30:43,662
We've got it.
731
00:30:43,697 --> 00:30:45,581
♪ You could feel the realness ♪
732
00:30:46,664 --> 00:30:48,248
♪ In this business of rap... ♪
733
00:30:48,283 --> 00:30:49,746
So why you think
734
00:30:49,781 --> 00:30:52,331
they don't respect it
like jazz and blues?
735
00:30:52,747 --> 00:30:54,789
Because it... it's just like a language.
736
00:30:54,824 --> 00:30:56,827
You have to know how to listen to it.
737
00:30:56,862 --> 00:30:58,796
If you don't listen to it the right way,
738
00:30:58,831 --> 00:31:01,331
all it sounds like is
just a whole bunch of noise
739
00:31:01,366 --> 00:31:03,598
with a lot of loud-ass
beats bang, bang, banging,
740
00:31:03,633 --> 00:31:05,831
and... "What's all that...
" I've seen people go,
741
00:31:05,866 --> 00:31:06,796
"what's all that
742
00:31:06,831 --> 00:31:08,296
Messing up the records?"
743
00:31:08,331 --> 00:31:10,306
It's like, "no, you're not
messing up the record. "
744
00:31:10,341 --> 00:31:12,727
"There's needles designed
for this," you know, that...
745
00:31:12,762 --> 00:31:15,114
Which is why the turntables
still to this day exist.
746
00:31:15,149 --> 00:31:16,662
So they don't know how to listen to it.
747
00:31:16,697 --> 00:31:19,198
Yeah. And if you don't
know how to listen to it,
748
00:31:19,233 --> 00:31:20,715
it doesn't make sense. I mean, again,
749
00:31:20,750 --> 00:31:22,198
my... my parents... My mother's 80.
750
00:31:22,697 --> 00:31:23,781
She don't know how to
listen to no hip-hop,
751
00:31:23,816 --> 00:31:25,330
you know what I'm saying?
752
00:31:25,365 --> 00:31:27,413
You have to know the language.
753
00:31:27,448 --> 00:31:29,198
You have to know, "fresh, dope, fly. "
754
00:31:29,233 --> 00:31:31,281
So it's like, "wait a minute.
755
00:31:31,316 --> 00:31:32,490
Uh, oh, I get it. "
756
00:31:32,525 --> 00:31:33,629
Exactly. "I get it. "
757
00:31:33,664 --> 00:31:35,747
When I do 6 'n the mornin'
758
00:31:35,782 --> 00:31:36,712
and I say...
759
00:31:36,747 --> 00:31:38,213
"Fresh... " "Fresh adidas. "
760
00:31:38,248 --> 00:31:39,997
If I had have said, "fresh sneakers,"
761
00:31:40,032 --> 00:31:41,747
it wasn't as dope as
saying... you say...
762
00:31:41,782 --> 00:31:43,213
"Fresh adidas. "
763
00:31:43,248 --> 00:31:45,747
It made you go, "yo, I
gotta get me a new pair. "
764
00:31:45,782 --> 00:31:46,712
For real.
765
00:31:46,747 --> 00:31:49,213
Like you really had to get a new pair,
766
00:31:49,248 --> 00:31:52,747
'cause he got 'em, and it was
already fly, and... and you said
767
00:31:52,782 --> 00:31:54,747
"fresh adidas sneak
across my bathroom floor,"
768
00:31:54,782 --> 00:31:56,213
and then you escaped from the police,
769
00:31:56,248 --> 00:31:58,747
'cause they busting in your
shit at 6:00 in the morning,
770
00:31:58,782 --> 00:32:00,747
which is the time they bust in on you.
771
00:32:01,248 --> 00:32:03,747
That... and you... That, you
gotta know when the cops roll.
772
00:32:03,782 --> 00:32:06,015
You gotta know when the feds is on you.
773
00:32:06,050 --> 00:32:08,213
Like you gotta know all of that shit.
774
00:32:08,248 --> 00:32:11,248
So they... so they basically don't
understand what we talking about.
775
00:32:11,747 --> 00:32:13,213
Yeah. They don't understand the streets.
776
00:32:13,248 --> 00:32:15,331
♪ Now, let me hit you
with this line drive ♪
777
00:32:15,366 --> 00:32:16,796
♪ This rhyme's fly ♪
778
00:32:16,831 --> 00:32:18,831
♪ This is how it
went down in the 9-5 ♪
779
00:32:18,866 --> 00:32:20,831
♪ That's right,
because I said it did ♪
780
00:32:20,866 --> 00:32:22,098
♪ Don't sweat it, kid ♪
781
00:32:22,133 --> 00:32:23,331
♪ Don't think I'm nice ♪
782
00:32:23,831 --> 00:32:24,796
♪ I am, give me credit, kid ♪
783
00:32:24,831 --> 00:32:26,831
♪ I wreck niggas, collect figures ♪
784
00:32:26,866 --> 00:32:29,098
♪ Shit, I'm like aretha franklin ♪
785
00:32:29,133 --> 00:32:31,296
♪ All I want is
some respect, nigga ♪
786
00:32:31,331 --> 00:32:34,056
♪ I drop facts when I
rock raps over hot tracks ♪
787
00:32:34,091 --> 00:32:36,781
♪ That's why niggas be on
my dick like a jockstrap ♪
788
00:32:36,816 --> 00:32:39,331
♪ Bring the best,
I'll get with 'em ♪
789
00:32:39,366 --> 00:32:40,796
♪ Even deaf people be saying ♪
790
00:32:40,831 --> 00:32:42,998
♪ "I heard that kid
got some shit with 'em ♪
791
00:32:43,033 --> 00:32:45,046
It's like if you in the boxing ring,
792
00:32:45,081 --> 00:32:47,081
I'm throwing combinations
at you. Mm-Hmm.
793
00:32:47,116 --> 00:32:49,046
I'm not just straight coming in there,
794
00:32:49,081 --> 00:32:52,330
trying to throw haymakers
at you the whole fight.
795
00:32:52,365 --> 00:32:55,580
I'm setting you up for a
wild right or a uppercut,
796
00:32:55,615 --> 00:32:57,081
but you're being set up.
797
00:33:19,248 --> 00:33:21,330
I never wrote to no beats ever.
798
00:33:21,365 --> 00:33:23,698
You know, we... We had this, you know,
799
00:33:23,733 --> 00:33:25,996
and all my rhymes are written from that.
800
00:33:26,031 --> 00:33:28,046
The way I write rhymes
is kind of crazy, too,
801
00:33:28,081 --> 00:33:31,614
because I write the story
first, not even as a rhyme.
802
00:33:31,649 --> 00:33:33,614
I just write the story
about what I wanted it...
803
00:33:34,114 --> 00:33:36,614
Uh, you know, I guess
it's from school, you know.
804
00:33:36,649 --> 00:33:37,579
And I write the introduction.
805
00:33:37,614 --> 00:33:40,114
I write the body. I
write the conclusion.
806
00:33:40,149 --> 00:33:41,579
I always write the conclusion first.
807
00:33:41,614 --> 00:33:43,364
I always know where
my story's gonna end,
808
00:33:43,399 --> 00:33:45,548
you know, before I
even start writing it.
809
00:33:45,583 --> 00:33:48,390
I'm never gonna say
like, you know, I just...
810
00:33:48,425 --> 00:33:51,198
I go in the studio and
I just drop it how it is.
811
00:33:51,697 --> 00:33:53,697
I write it, 'cause I'll tell you,
812
00:33:53,732 --> 00:33:54,697
a lot of mcs... Mm-Hmm.
813
00:33:55,198 --> 00:33:57,697
They say they don't
write they rhymes down,
814
00:33:57,732 --> 00:33:59,198
and it sound like it.
815
00:33:59,233 --> 00:34:00,163
No, it's true.
816
00:34:00,198 --> 00:34:01,198
Yeah, that's for real.
817
00:34:01,233 --> 00:34:02,662
It sound like it.
818
00:34:02,697 --> 00:34:04,662
You need to start writing your shit down
819
00:34:04,697 --> 00:34:07,697
and really putting some concepts
and building something else.
820
00:34:08,198 --> 00:34:10,198
Everything... everybody
just can't come off the head
821
00:34:10,233 --> 00:34:12,198
and freestyle and make that shit hot.
822
00:34:12,233 --> 00:34:13,629
What I do is when I write,
823
00:34:13,664 --> 00:34:15,931
I'll write it, like even if I'm writing
824
00:34:15,966 --> 00:34:18,198
in the studio to a track, I'll write it.
825
00:34:18,233 --> 00:34:19,662
Then I'll spit a rough.
826
00:34:19,697 --> 00:34:21,664
I'll spit it, and then
I take that track...
827
00:34:21,699 --> 00:34:23,198
Yeah. And I'll roll with it.
828
00:34:23,233 --> 00:34:23,796
Live with it.
829
00:34:23,831 --> 00:34:24,879
You know, usually,
830
00:34:24,914 --> 00:34:27,372
unless that night I was tremendous,
831
00:34:27,407 --> 00:34:29,831
I'll redo it, because the first time,
832
00:34:29,866 --> 00:34:30,914
I might have been reading it,
833
00:34:31,415 --> 00:34:33,879
so now I'll go in, and I can perform it,
834
00:34:33,914 --> 00:34:36,380
because by rolling with
it, now I've memorized it,
835
00:34:36,415 --> 00:34:39,415
I've locked it in, so you're gonna
get different vocal inflections,
836
00:34:39,450 --> 00:34:40,914
'cause now I know it.
837
00:34:41,415 --> 00:34:42,380
So I'm like, okay, now...
838
00:34:42,415 --> 00:34:44,414
And I might say it word for word,
839
00:34:44,449 --> 00:34:46,414
or I might change some stuff in it,
840
00:34:46,449 --> 00:34:47,879
you know, but I go back in,
841
00:34:47,914 --> 00:34:49,864
and the second time,
I don't need no paper.
842
00:34:49,899 --> 00:34:51,031
I'm just going in, busting it.
843
00:34:51,066 --> 00:34:53,614
Yo, go work at wendy's.
844
00:34:53,649 --> 00:34:55,114
Go somewhere else.
845
00:34:55,149 --> 00:34:56,281
Don't rap.
846
00:34:56,316 --> 00:34:57,414
You're whack.
847
00:34:58,497 --> 00:35:00,289
♪ Come on in ♪
848
00:35:00,324 --> 00:35:02,081
♪ Come on in ♪
849
00:35:07,664 --> 00:35:09,205
♪ You bitch-ass niggas ♪
850
00:35:09,240 --> 00:35:10,712
♪ As high as wu tang get ♪
851
00:35:10,747 --> 00:35:13,365
♪ Allah allow us pop this shit ♪
852
00:35:13,914 --> 00:35:15,680
♪ Just like black shoe fit ♪
853
00:35:15,715 --> 00:35:17,412
♪ If you can't wear it ♪
854
00:35:17,447 --> 00:35:19,930
♪ Well, don't fuck with it, it ♪
855
00:35:19,965 --> 00:35:22,439
Check the continents and all of that,
856
00:35:22,474 --> 00:35:24,914
and ask them if they know about this.
857
00:35:25,998 --> 00:35:28,081
Rae, right here.
858
00:35:28,530 --> 00:35:29,555
Chill. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
859
00:35:29,590 --> 00:35:30,580
These are serious questions.
860
00:35:31,081 --> 00:35:33,580
Can we... can we close
the doors for the sound?
861
00:35:33,615 --> 00:35:36,580
Anybody want to come in, come on in.
862
00:35:36,615 --> 00:35:37,879
Good?
863
00:35:37,914 --> 00:35:39,329
We ain't done shit.
864
00:35:39,364 --> 00:35:41,447
Fuck you, the source.
865
00:35:41,482 --> 00:35:43,579
Suck my source.
866
00:35:43,614 --> 00:35:46,697
When a rapper refers to
somebody else as whack,
867
00:35:46,732 --> 00:35:48,796
what constitutes whackness?
868
00:35:48,831 --> 00:35:51,379
You know, I mean, it's definitely a word
869
00:35:51,414 --> 00:35:54,414
that niggas take serious
when it comes to mcing,
870
00:35:54,449 --> 00:35:55,879
because, you know, we look for art.
871
00:35:55,914 --> 00:35:58,879
We look for a nigga
to say something slick,
872
00:35:58,914 --> 00:36:00,879
say something with some
meaning, say something with,
873
00:36:00,914 --> 00:36:04,414
you know what I mean, a lot
of dignity behind that rhyme.
874
00:36:04,449 --> 00:36:06,379
And if you ain't coming with something
875
00:36:06,414 --> 00:36:09,664
that we feel reaches that
perimeter where we want it to be,
876
00:36:09,699 --> 00:36:12,914
it's like you put a band-aid
on it on some... say, "Nah",
877
00:36:12,949 --> 00:36:15,364
come back later," you
know what I'm saying?
878
00:36:15,399 --> 00:36:16,379
Shit's whack.
879
00:36:16,414 --> 00:36:17,789
Definitely, no doubt.
880
00:36:17,824 --> 00:36:19,164
Let's keep it moving.
881
00:36:20,747 --> 00:36:23,198
A true rapper knows that
his personality and status
882
00:36:23,747 --> 00:36:26,248
is on the line every time
his pen hits that page.
883
00:36:26,747 --> 00:36:30,747
He's gonna be judged for knowledge,
flavor, style, presentation,
884
00:36:30,782 --> 00:36:32,712
as well as his gift for wordplay.
885
00:36:32,747 --> 00:36:36,781
Grandmaster casanova
fly is widely regarded
886
00:36:36,816 --> 00:36:39,697
as the best that ever did this shit.
887
00:36:39,732 --> 00:36:41,746
Hold up.
888
00:36:41,781 --> 00:36:44,664
Where's my bombaclaat assistant?
889
00:36:44,699 --> 00:36:46,879
Puerto rico, come on.
890
00:36:46,914 --> 00:36:49,248
I ain't gonna burn my fingers on now.
891
00:36:53,697 --> 00:36:55,488
Ah, that's nasty.
892
00:36:55,523 --> 00:36:57,401
That's nasty.
893
00:36:57,436 --> 00:36:59,245
Roll up now, see.
894
00:36:59,280 --> 00:37:01,081
You done... You done set me back.
895
00:37:16,697 --> 00:37:21,781
Normally I don't go into a particular
zone for particular projects.
896
00:37:21,816 --> 00:37:24,407
It depends on where I'm at in my head.
897
00:37:24,442 --> 00:37:26,963
I'm most comfortable when I'm relaxed,
898
00:37:26,998 --> 00:37:29,329
because when I write, I
don't want to hear nothing,
899
00:37:29,364 --> 00:37:32,081
I don't want to see nothing, I
don't want nobody talking to me,
900
00:37:32,116 --> 00:37:33,545
I don't want the phone ringing,
901
00:37:33,580 --> 00:37:35,781
I don't want nothing else going on.
902
00:37:36,280 --> 00:37:38,947
Everything, the rest
of the world gotta wait.
903
00:37:41,998 --> 00:37:43,580
That's it. I can't do this.
904
00:37:43,615 --> 00:37:44,330
Nah.
905
00:37:49,364 --> 00:37:52,662
♪ Party people's
in the place to be ♪
906
00:37:52,697 --> 00:37:58,247
♪ Just for you, it's
the ultramagnetic mcs ♪
907
00:37:59,580 --> 00:38:00,796
♪ Say what, peter piper? ♪
908
00:38:00,831 --> 00:38:02,306
♪ The hell with childish rhymes ♪
909
00:38:02,341 --> 00:38:03,781
♪ 'Cause this jam
is just moving... ♪
910
00:38:03,816 --> 00:38:04,996
You hear rappers
911
00:38:05,031 --> 00:38:07,081
saying words about you
that crosses the line,
912
00:38:07,580 --> 00:38:10,079
so my thing is to humiliate a rapper
913
00:38:10,114 --> 00:38:12,998
so bad that he don't want
to really write against me.
914
00:38:13,033 --> 00:38:14,580
"I just saw a rapper, he ran...
915
00:38:15,081 --> 00:38:17,046
"He ran from me 'cause I'm the police.
916
00:38:17,081 --> 00:38:19,330
"He had... he had a black
hood that was fleece.
917
00:38:19,365 --> 00:38:20,847
"Got so scared, he shit a fece.
918
00:38:20,882 --> 00:38:22,356
"Just one little poodle piece.
919
00:38:22,391 --> 00:38:23,796
"Pink ugg boots on his ass
920
00:38:23,831 --> 00:38:25,831
look like a drag queen wearing a mask. "
921
00:38:27,081 --> 00:38:28,664
So I was like...
922
00:38:30,164 --> 00:38:31,129
It was like... you know,
923
00:38:31,164 --> 00:38:34,530
I wrote just unorthodox on purpose
924
00:38:34,565 --> 00:38:36,579
just to, you know...
925
00:38:36,614 --> 00:38:38,447
Just to make the ear think a little bit.
926
00:38:38,482 --> 00:38:39,996
Your respect is built...
927
00:38:40,031 --> 00:38:42,495
It's built in combat, you know.
928
00:38:42,530 --> 00:38:45,280
I mean, I... I haven't been
battling people in years,
929
00:38:45,315 --> 00:38:48,031
but people still remember
when me and ll went at.
930
00:38:48,530 --> 00:38:49,495
Yeah, yeah. I mean...
931
00:38:49,530 --> 00:38:50,495
And... and just because I did it,
932
00:38:50,530 --> 00:38:52,580
that's part of the
reason they respect you.
933
00:38:52,615 --> 00:38:54,379
I write battle rhymes.
934
00:38:54,414 --> 00:38:56,079
I'm like the russian government.
935
00:38:56,114 --> 00:38:59,864
I have a record ready
prepared for everybody.
936
00:38:59,899 --> 00:39:01,379
♪ Push it ♪
937
00:39:01,414 --> 00:39:03,697
♪ Push, push, push it, push it ♪
938
00:39:03,732 --> 00:39:05,128
♪ Push it ♪
939
00:39:05,163 --> 00:39:06,364
♪ Push, push, push it, push it ♪
940
00:39:06,399 --> 00:39:07,912
There was a time
941
00:39:07,947 --> 00:39:09,430
before you ever started rapping.
942
00:39:09,465 --> 00:39:10,879
Right. ♪ push it, push it... ♪
943
00:39:10,914 --> 00:39:13,664
What made you say out of
everything else in the world,
944
00:39:13,699 --> 00:39:16,414
as a girl, a young girl,
saying, "I'm gonna do that. "
945
00:39:16,449 --> 00:39:18,947
When I did get behind the mic...
946
00:39:18,982 --> 00:39:19,963
Mm-Hmm.
947
00:39:19,998 --> 00:39:21,963
And hearing myself
948
00:39:21,998 --> 00:39:24,963
and experiencing the art
949
00:39:24,998 --> 00:39:28,998
of being on the microphone and
figuring out what your voice is.
950
00:39:29,033 --> 00:39:30,963
That was the hard part for me.
951
00:39:30,998 --> 00:39:32,998
That's what people don't
understand. It's not like...
952
00:39:33,033 --> 00:39:35,990
They think you're just
talking over a record,
953
00:39:36,025 --> 00:39:38,912
but we had to develop
who we were as artists,
954
00:39:38,947 --> 00:39:41,497
our voice, you know, our...
our inflictions, our flow,
955
00:39:41,532 --> 00:39:42,963
how we were gonna sound,
956
00:39:42,998 --> 00:39:45,497
how we were gonna be different
from all the other women,
957
00:39:45,998 --> 00:39:47,864
and that took a minute
for us to develop.
958
00:39:47,899 --> 00:39:49,379
When I first got with my wife,
959
00:39:49,414 --> 00:39:52,364
she said something to
me in the car one day
960
00:39:52,399 --> 00:39:54,447
that almost made me stop the car.
961
00:39:54,947 --> 00:39:56,447
You know, she would listen...
962
00:39:56,482 --> 00:39:57,912
She likes dance music and stuff,
963
00:39:57,947 --> 00:40:00,947
but she told me, "well, I
don't listen to the words. "
964
00:40:00,982 --> 00:40:02,412
And I was like...
965
00:40:02,447 --> 00:40:04,947
To a lyricist, you're like,
you don't listen to the...
966
00:40:04,982 --> 00:40:06,447
My husband says that all the time.
967
00:40:06,482 --> 00:40:07,912
I want to strangle him.
968
00:40:07,947 --> 00:40:08,947
I'm like, "are you serious?"
969
00:40:09,447 --> 00:40:11,697
"Are you kidd... As hard
as I work on these words,
970
00:40:11,732 --> 00:40:13,947
you're telling me you
don't listen to the words?"
971
00:40:13,982 --> 00:40:15,414
"You know how we agonize over words,
972
00:40:15,914 --> 00:40:18,180
and you're not...
You're not listening. "
973
00:40:18,215 --> 00:40:20,447
Like, you're missing,
uh, half of the song
974
00:40:20,482 --> 00:40:22,364
if you don't listen to the words.
975
00:40:22,399 --> 00:40:24,247
But I sit up and listen to lyrics.
976
00:40:24,530 --> 00:40:27,080
I hear every word you're saying,
because that's what we do.
977
00:40:27,115 --> 00:40:28,629
Yeah, absolutely. Yeah.
978
00:40:28,664 --> 00:40:30,197
Give me a rhyme that stuck in your head,
979
00:40:30,697 --> 00:40:32,697
somebody... I don't care who
it was. Just something that...
980
00:40:32,732 --> 00:40:35,197
We all got 'em stuck in our
head from another rapper.
981
00:40:35,232 --> 00:40:37,662
Oh, man. Um...
982
00:40:37,697 --> 00:40:40,197
♪ Well, hip, hop,
hippy, hippy to the hip ♪
983
00:40:40,232 --> 00:40:42,662
♪ Hip hop, and you
don't stop rocking ♪
984
00:40:42,697 --> 00:40:45,163
♪ To the bang bang boogie,
say up jump the boogie ♪
985
00:40:45,198 --> 00:40:47,697
♪ To the rhythm of
the boogity beat ♪
986
00:40:47,732 --> 00:40:50,197
♪ Now what you hear is not a test ♪
987
00:40:50,232 --> 00:40:52,364
♪ I'm rapping to the beat ♪
988
00:40:54,447 --> 00:40:56,414
♪ Check it out now ♪
989
00:40:56,449 --> 00:40:57,330
♪ Unh ♪
990
00:40:58,914 --> 00:41:00,914
♪ No doubt now ♪
991
00:41:00,949 --> 00:41:01,996
♪ Unh ♪
992
00:41:02,031 --> 00:41:06,280
♪ Yo, check it out now ♪
993
00:41:06,315 --> 00:41:08,829
♪ Unh ♪
994
00:41:08,864 --> 00:41:10,329
♪ No doubt, yo ♪
995
00:41:10,364 --> 00:41:12,947
♪ Special girl, real good girl ♪
996
00:41:12,982 --> 00:41:14,530
Yo, player!
997
00:41:14,565 --> 00:41:15,995
Okay.
998
00:41:16,030 --> 00:41:18,128
Okay. Okay, okay.
999
00:41:18,163 --> 00:41:20,280
You know, this is what it
is when you on the block.
1000
00:41:20,315 --> 00:41:22,256
It could be... It could be worse.
1001
00:41:22,291 --> 00:41:24,197
Niggas could be shooting at us, so...
1002
00:41:24,232 --> 00:41:25,197
Right, right, right, right.
1003
00:41:25,232 --> 00:41:26,662
We'll take that.
1004
00:41:26,697 --> 00:41:28,662
"Yo, Ice-T!" You turn around, pow.
1005
00:41:28,697 --> 00:41:31,197
So we'll accept that.
We'll accept the love.
1006
00:41:31,232 --> 00:41:32,714
Love is good. Love is good.
1007
00:41:32,749 --> 00:41:34,197
All right, homie, homie,
1008
00:41:34,697 --> 00:41:35,947
homie, you see the camera right there?
1009
00:41:35,982 --> 00:41:37,197
I see that. Keep it moving, pimpin'.
1010
00:41:37,232 --> 00:41:38,330
All right, love is love.
1011
00:41:38,365 --> 00:41:39,329
♪ Yo ♪
1012
00:41:39,364 --> 00:41:41,414
♪ I be the all I seein' ♪
1013
00:41:41,914 --> 00:41:44,379
♪ Mcing human being ♪
1014
00:41:44,414 --> 00:41:46,414
♪ Soon to be in your museum ♪
1015
00:41:46,449 --> 00:41:48,414
♪ When I'm in your coliseum ♪
1016
00:41:48,449 --> 00:41:49,879
♪ I'm mcing ♪
1017
00:41:49,914 --> 00:41:52,914
♪ Punishing whack
niggas for disagreeing ♪
1018
00:41:52,949 --> 00:41:54,379
♪ "Did you see him?" ♪
1019
00:41:54,414 --> 00:41:56,914
♪ No, 'cause he moves
like the wind in flight ♪
1020
00:41:56,949 --> 00:41:59,379
♪ Counterattack like a jedi knight ♪
1021
00:41:59,414 --> 00:42:02,414
♪ If you ever did
think about combating ♪
1022
00:42:02,449 --> 00:42:03,879
♪ General patton ♪
1023
00:42:03,914 --> 00:42:05,914
♪ Of this mc shit you did ♪
1024
00:42:05,949 --> 00:42:06,879
♪ Chill out ♪
1025
00:42:06,914 --> 00:42:09,414
♪ He just a private
in the lower class ♪
1026
00:42:09,449 --> 00:42:10,879
♪ I be the upper echelon ♪
1027
00:42:10,914 --> 00:42:12,662
♪ Don juan when the mic's on ♪
1028
00:42:12,697 --> 00:42:14,914
My voice is... is so
much a part of my style,
1029
00:42:14,949 --> 00:42:17,912
that once you get past and beyond that
1030
00:42:17,947 --> 00:42:20,947
and you hear what's
going on, my... my thing
1031
00:42:20,982 --> 00:42:24,464
is about substance and presentation,
1032
00:42:24,499 --> 00:42:27,912
so I kind of fall into the beat.
1033
00:42:27,947 --> 00:42:31,447
I'm like a... my shit is...
I'm a chameleon when I rhyme.
1034
00:42:31,946 --> 00:42:33,879
Mm-Hmm. Which is a part of like
1035
00:42:33,914 --> 00:42:36,930
why I... I kind of stay,
'cause I fall into the rhythm,
1036
00:42:36,965 --> 00:42:39,946
and I become a slave in the
rhythm, and then it's like...
1037
00:42:39,981 --> 00:42:42,447
So you was wu tang,
you'd be chameleon style?
1038
00:42:43,447 --> 00:42:44,911
Right, right, right. No doubt.
1039
00:42:44,946 --> 00:42:47,530
Can you recite a rhyme
that's stuck in your head
1040
00:42:48,030 --> 00:42:49,530
from another mc that you roll with
1041
00:42:50,030 --> 00:42:52,222
that's part of your brain now?
1042
00:42:52,257 --> 00:42:54,414
Yeah. Ah, man, it's so many.
1043
00:42:54,449 --> 00:42:55,764
♪ I take seven mcs ♪
1044
00:42:55,799 --> 00:42:57,045
♪ Put 'em in a line ♪
1045
00:42:57,080 --> 00:42:58,621
♪ And add seven more brothers ♪
1046
00:42:58,656 --> 00:42:59,909
♪ Who think they can rhyme ♪
1047
00:42:59,944 --> 00:43:01,163
♪ Well, it'll take seven more ♪
1048
00:43:01,198 --> 00:43:02,629
♪ Before I go for mine ♪
1049
00:43:02,664 --> 00:43:05,128
♪ That's 21 mcs ate
up at the same time ♪
1050
00:43:05,163 --> 00:43:08,163
♪ Easy does it, do it easy,
that's what I'm doin' ♪
1051
00:43:08,198 --> 00:43:10,664
♪ No fessin', no messin'
around, no chewin' ♪
1052
00:43:10,699 --> 00:43:12,163
♪ No robbin', no buyin', bitin' ♪
1053
00:43:12,198 --> 00:43:13,629
♪ Why bother? ♪
1054
00:43:13,664 --> 00:43:15,664
♪ It's time to stop
trying to fight and ♪
1055
00:43:15,699 --> 00:43:16,629
♪ To follow ♪
1056
00:43:16,664 --> 00:43:17,629
♪ My unusual style ♪
1057
00:43:17,664 --> 00:43:18,664
♪ Will confuse you a while ♪
1058
00:43:19,163 --> 00:43:21,128
♪ If I was water, I'd
flow with the nile ♪
1059
00:43:21,163 --> 00:43:23,664
♪ So many rhymes, you won't
have time to go for yours ♪
1060
00:43:24,163 --> 00:43:26,413
♪ Just because of the
pause, I had to pause ♪
1061
00:43:26,448 --> 00:43:28,805
♪ Right after tonight
is when I prepare ♪
1062
00:43:28,840 --> 00:43:31,163
♪ To take another
sucka duck mc out here ♪
1063
00:43:31,664 --> 00:43:33,664
♪ 'Cause my strategy
has to be tragedy ♪
1064
00:43:33,699 --> 00:43:34,629
♪ Catastrophe ♪
1065
00:43:34,664 --> 00:43:36,205
♪ And after this, you'll call me ♪
1066
00:43:36,240 --> 00:43:37,747
♪ Your majesty ♪ ♪ my melody ♪
1067
00:43:37,782 --> 00:43:39,306
Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey. Hey, yo.
1068
00:43:39,341 --> 00:43:40,796
Can't you see we shooting something?
1069
00:43:40,831 --> 00:43:43,330
You dumb-ass, stand
around the other way.
1070
00:43:43,365 --> 00:43:44,598
Stupid.
1071
00:43:44,633 --> 00:43:45,796
God damn.
1072
00:43:45,831 --> 00:43:47,330
Let's stand in front of the camera.
1073
00:43:47,365 --> 00:43:48,796
No, no, no, no, no, no.
1074
00:43:48,831 --> 00:43:49,796
Yo, hold up, player, player, player,
1075
00:43:49,831 --> 00:43:51,831
player, you see what
we doing? We working.
1076
00:43:51,866 --> 00:43:52,796
This is work, work, work.
1077
00:43:52,831 --> 00:43:54,796
Let us work, and then we do it.
1078
00:43:54,831 --> 00:43:56,828
Help me out with these niggas. Okay.
1079
00:43:56,863 --> 00:43:59,904
♪ I'm sure to bust
your shit like bolo ♪
1080
00:43:59,939 --> 00:44:02,942
♪ Black nation needs
a team, fuck solo ♪
1081
00:44:02,977 --> 00:44:05,961
♪ I could see it in
your eyes, the redness ♪
1082
00:44:05,996 --> 00:44:08,946
♪ When your ass starts
to cry, it's webness ♪
1083
00:44:09,447 --> 00:44:10,911
♪ You could witness the shit ♪
1084
00:44:10,946 --> 00:44:13,447
♪ That I kick from the linguistics ♪
1085
00:44:13,482 --> 00:44:14,946
♪ But please be specific ♪
1086
00:44:15,447 --> 00:44:18,447
♪ Dealing with the
tribe, but you never can ♪
1087
00:44:18,482 --> 00:44:21,447
♪ Yo, Ice-T, I'm
glad I got my man ♪
1088
00:44:22,747 --> 00:44:24,781
♪ Get it, get it,
get, get it, get it ♪
1089
00:44:24,997 --> 00:44:26,414
♪ Get down ♪ ♪ come on ♪
1090
00:44:26,913 --> 00:44:28,295
♪ Get down ♪ ♪
get it, get it... ♪
1091
00:44:28,330 --> 00:44:30,580
I'm what you call like...
they call a method writer.
1092
00:44:30,615 --> 00:44:32,822
There has to be a
method for the madness.
1093
00:44:32,857 --> 00:44:34,995
I have to always be
conscious of the fact
1094
00:44:35,030 --> 00:44:37,614
that my words are always gonna
be watched no matter what.
1095
00:44:37,649 --> 00:44:39,078
Because if I make a statement,
1096
00:44:39,113 --> 00:44:41,614
I gotta make sure that
I'm 100% behind it.
1097
00:44:41,946 --> 00:44:43,163
♪ Come on ♪ ♪ get down ♪
1098
00:44:43,198 --> 00:44:44,447
♪ Ohh ♪
1099
00:44:44,482 --> 00:44:45,697
♪ 1989 ♪
1100
00:44:46,030 --> 00:44:47,545
♪ The number, another summer ♪
1101
00:44:47,580 --> 00:44:49,447
♪ Get down ♪ ♪ sound
of the funky drummer ♪
1102
00:44:49,863 --> 00:44:50,911
♪ Music hittin' your heart ♪
1103
00:44:50,946 --> 00:44:52,414
♪ 'Cause I know you got soul... ♪
1104
00:44:52,913 --> 00:44:54,911
When you show me some lyrics in there,
1105
00:44:54,946 --> 00:44:58,030
what's your mind state when
you write your best stuff?
1106
00:44:58,065 --> 00:45:00,530
I mean, are you tired, are you angry,
1107
00:45:00,565 --> 00:45:01,995
or... or are you in light?
1108
00:45:02,030 --> 00:45:04,280
When do you go in, and you
say, "okay, I can do it?"
1109
00:45:04,315 --> 00:45:06,672
'Cause me myself, like I
cannot write for a week,
1110
00:45:06,707 --> 00:45:09,030
and then one night, I can
damn near write an album.
1111
00:45:09,065 --> 00:45:10,162
Right. It just happens.
1112
00:45:10,197 --> 00:45:11,989
The inspiration could
come from anywhere.
1113
00:45:12,024 --> 00:45:13,781
It's always been able
to come from anywhere
1114
00:45:14,280 --> 00:45:15,780
as far as music is concerned. Mm-Hmm.
1115
00:45:15,815 --> 00:45:17,245
I wrote fear of a black planet
1116
00:45:17,280 --> 00:45:19,364
listening to a whole lot
of sly and the family stone.
1117
00:45:19,399 --> 00:45:22,589
All I would say is that you're surprised
1118
00:45:22,624 --> 00:45:25,745
that sometimes your simplest shit...
1119
00:45:25,780 --> 00:45:27,745
Right. Is the thing
that sticks the most.
1120
00:45:27,780 --> 00:45:30,280
I mean... I mean, okay,
"elvis was a hero to most. "
1121
00:45:30,315 --> 00:45:31,780
That never meant shit to me. "
1122
00:45:32,280 --> 00:45:34,530
I mean, that's really
basic, simple and plain.
1123
00:45:34,565 --> 00:45:36,579
♪ Elvis was a hero to most ♪
1124
00:45:36,614 --> 00:45:38,155
♪ But he never meant sh... to me ♪
1125
00:45:38,190 --> 00:45:39,697
♪ You see straight-out racist ♪
1126
00:45:39,997 --> 00:45:41,471
♪ That sucka was simple and plain ♪
1127
00:45:41,506 --> 00:45:42,946
♪ Mother him and john wayne... ♪
1128
00:45:42,981 --> 00:45:44,795
The key in a rapper back then
1129
00:45:44,830 --> 00:45:46,830
is that you had to have a strong voice,
1130
00:45:47,330 --> 00:45:48,830
'cause you had to cut
through bullshit systems.
1131
00:45:49,330 --> 00:45:50,295
Right.
1132
00:45:50,330 --> 00:45:51,795
That was the key to melle mel.
1133
00:45:51,830 --> 00:45:53,830
Motherfuckers be getting on the mic...
1134
00:45:53,865 --> 00:45:55,795
Melle mel, "1, 2, 1, 2."
1135
00:45:55,830 --> 00:45:57,580
You like "damn, man. " You like,
1136
00:45:57,615 --> 00:45:59,330
they using different mics and shit?
1137
00:45:59,365 --> 00:46:01,330
Nah. No. It was, like, okay.
1138
00:46:01,365 --> 00:46:02,795
So even in '87,
1139
00:46:02,830 --> 00:46:05,080
we're getting down at latin quarter.
1140
00:46:05,115 --> 00:46:07,295
They got their system going out,
1141
00:46:07,330 --> 00:46:10,080
and, you know, we amped up or whatever.
1142
00:46:10,115 --> 00:46:12,795
We playing our song,
and you hear one voice
1143
00:46:12,830 --> 00:46:16,330
out of everybody in whole
motherfucking packed latin quarter.
1144
00:46:16,365 --> 00:46:18,295
"Get them suckers off the stage.
1145
00:46:18,330 --> 00:46:21,330
"Get them niggas off
the stage. They whack.
1146
00:46:21,365 --> 00:46:22,847
They whack. "
1147
00:46:22,882 --> 00:46:24,295
I'm like...
1148
00:46:24,330 --> 00:46:25,795
They keep turning the sound up,
1149
00:46:25,830 --> 00:46:27,830
and you still hear one
motherfucking voice.
1150
00:46:27,865 --> 00:46:29,330
Oh, my god, and it's mel.
1151
00:46:29,365 --> 00:46:30,795
So... and it's mel.
1152
00:46:30,830 --> 00:46:33,330
It's like his voice is like this big,
1153
00:46:33,365 --> 00:46:35,097
which meant that fuck a system.
1154
00:46:35,132 --> 00:46:36,981
Move them shits out of the way.
1155
00:46:37,016 --> 00:46:38,830
I'll rap you a cappella, no system.
1156
00:46:39,330 --> 00:46:42,330
That was the epitome of a mighty rapper,
1157
00:46:42,365 --> 00:46:45,330
"and if you were... If
you had a 3'4" voice,
1158
00:46:45,365 --> 00:46:46,330
you wasn't fucking with that.
1159
00:46:46,830 --> 00:46:48,330
The motherfucker got
wilt chamberlain voice.
1160
00:46:48,830 --> 00:46:51,330
So how did you all
reconcile it at the end?
1161
00:46:51,830 --> 00:46:53,330
We reconciled it by getting good.
1162
00:47:04,414 --> 00:47:07,614
I hate changing up the
texture of my fucking shit.
1163
00:47:07,649 --> 00:47:09,696
Yo, that's nasty, yo.
1164
00:47:15,997 --> 00:47:19,580
My writing process
has always been geared
1165
00:47:19,615 --> 00:47:21,780
towards going steps beyond
1166
00:47:22,280 --> 00:47:25,663
what the next person is going
to say, think or write about.
1167
00:47:30,113 --> 00:47:32,197
I had the motherfucker right here.
1168
00:47:32,232 --> 00:47:33,661
It's gone.
1169
00:47:33,696 --> 00:47:35,197
"That's part of the art of rap.
1170
00:47:35,696 --> 00:47:37,696
"20 minutes flat, write
a rap in real time,
1171
00:47:37,731 --> 00:47:39,713
"and I was fucking with that,
1172
00:47:39,748 --> 00:47:41,696
so y'all can fall back... "
1173
00:47:56,663 --> 00:47:57,711
Done!
1174
00:47:57,746 --> 00:47:59,197
I'm gonna torch this, man,
1175
00:47:59,746 --> 00:48:01,946
because, you know,
I'm definitely against,
1176
00:48:01,981 --> 00:48:05,495
you know, marijuana,
1177
00:48:05,530 --> 00:48:08,580
so whenever I get the
opportunity, I burn it.
1178
00:48:14,163 --> 00:48:16,997
Oh, shit. That's tight.
1179
00:48:21,913 --> 00:48:24,696
♪ I said I've been down with
this since the start of rap ♪
1180
00:48:24,731 --> 00:48:27,213
♪ I guess you could say I
played a big part of rap ♪
1181
00:48:27,248 --> 00:48:29,696
♪ Not only been the brain,
but the heart of rap ♪
1182
00:48:30,197 --> 00:48:32,697
♪ And it beats just like a
drum, and that's the art of rap ♪
1183
00:48:32,732 --> 00:48:35,214
♪ I've been known to flip
flows like bricks and pancakes ♪
1184
00:48:35,249 --> 00:48:37,972
♪ And, yeah, I seen my share
of tricks and handshakes ♪
1185
00:48:38,007 --> 00:48:40,602
♪ By tricks and bandmates
with a different agenda ♪
1186
00:48:40,637 --> 00:48:43,166
♪ Female and male snakes
and some great pretenders ♪
1187
00:48:43,201 --> 00:48:45,696
♪ But trust me on this, for
as long as I'm breathing ♪
1188
00:48:46,197 --> 00:48:47,163
♪ I'm gonna check a wet rapper ♪
1189
00:48:47,198 --> 00:48:48,697
♪ And call out a heathen ♪
1190
00:48:48,732 --> 00:48:50,162
♪ I'm gonna lead by example ♪
1191
00:48:50,197 --> 00:48:51,446
♪ With this hot shit I'm spitting ♪
1192
00:48:51,481 --> 00:48:52,696
♪ And y'all just saw me write it ♪
1193
00:48:53,197 --> 00:48:54,697
♪ So you damn right it's written ♪
1194
00:48:54,732 --> 00:48:56,197
♪ That's part of the art of rap ♪
1195
00:48:56,232 --> 00:48:57,162
♪ In 20 minutes flat ♪
1196
00:48:57,197 --> 00:48:58,197
♪ Write a rhyme in real time ♪
1197
00:48:58,696 --> 00:48:59,661
♪ And I was fucking with that ♪
1198
00:48:59,696 --> 00:49:01,696
♪ So you can fall back
from that old cat ♪
1199
00:49:01,731 --> 00:49:03,162
♪ Don't get it twisted ♪
1200
00:49:03,197 --> 00:49:04,847
♪ The mc train just
left the station ♪
1201
00:49:04,882 --> 00:49:06,497
♪ And I was driving, you missed it ♪
1202
00:49:10,579 --> 00:49:12,544
It's in some rappers' dna.
1203
00:49:12,579 --> 00:49:15,530
Like myself, we gotta tell
the stories of our lives
1204
00:49:16,030 --> 00:49:18,030
and daily struggles in this world.
1205
00:49:18,065 --> 00:49:19,995
This is a world outside the law,
1206
00:49:20,030 --> 00:49:23,530
full of dangerous characters
surviving off the game
1207
00:49:23,565 --> 00:49:24,495
and unfortunately
1208
00:49:24,530 --> 00:49:27,995
sometimes the exploitation of others.
1209
00:49:28,030 --> 00:49:31,030
Everybody always talk about
when the money's coming in,
1210
00:49:31,065 --> 00:49:33,197
when we ballin', when we looking good.
1211
00:49:33,232 --> 00:49:35,031
We chose to speak on what happened
1212
00:49:35,066 --> 00:49:36,795
when the drug dealer goes home,
1213
00:49:36,830 --> 00:49:38,830
what happened when the
hustler's in the living room
1214
00:49:38,865 --> 00:49:40,295
counting the money at
the end of the night,
1215
00:49:40,330 --> 00:49:42,830
even though, you know, he
might have had to do this
1216
00:49:42,865 --> 00:49:44,295
or do that in order to make that money.
1217
00:49:44,330 --> 00:49:46,330
There's conflicts about
that type of thing, you know.
1218
00:49:46,830 --> 00:49:48,330
None of us really just
choose this lifestyle.
1219
00:49:48,365 --> 00:49:50,097
Some of us just kind of fall into it.
1220
00:49:50,132 --> 00:49:51,830
I call that the b side of the game.
1221
00:49:52,330 --> 00:49:53,462
Absolutely. The b side.
1222
00:49:53,497 --> 00:49:55,247
It's like everybody want
to hear the good stuff,
1223
00:49:55,282 --> 00:49:57,414
but there's an entirely other b side
1224
00:49:57,780 --> 00:50:00,154
that only real hustlers
know about, you know?
1225
00:50:00,189 --> 00:50:02,494
And I always would
look at people's music,
1226
00:50:02,529 --> 00:50:04,997
and if I didn't hear that
side, I knew it was fake.
1227
00:50:05,032 --> 00:50:06,494
Absolutely. I got to talk
1228
00:50:06,529 --> 00:50:08,030
about the pitfalls of the game.
1229
00:50:08,529 --> 00:50:11,414
The song starts with a hustler
at the nickel and dime level
1230
00:50:11,449 --> 00:50:13,414
that works himself up to the big baller,
1231
00:50:13,449 --> 00:50:14,414
ends up getting busted,
1232
00:50:14,913 --> 00:50:16,962
and all the money he
stacked up in the game
1233
00:50:16,997 --> 00:50:19,529
was the money that it took to
try to get him out the trouble.
1234
00:50:19,564 --> 00:50:21,464
He ended up not getting
out of trouble anyway,
1235
00:50:21,499 --> 00:50:23,364
so all the money that
he made was for nothing.
1236
00:50:23,399 --> 00:50:24,878
He goes to jail, he comes home,
1237
00:50:24,913 --> 00:50:27,413
and because he never game
hisself an opportunity
1238
00:50:27,448 --> 00:50:29,878
to experience anything else
outside of drug dealing,
1239
00:50:29,913 --> 00:50:32,364
he never gave hisself an
opportunity to try something else.
1240
00:50:32,399 --> 00:50:34,406
When he comes home,
he's got no education,
1241
00:50:34,441 --> 00:50:36,379
he's got no skills, so he's forced to go
1242
00:50:36,414 --> 00:50:38,663
right back on that corner
selling the drugs again.
1243
00:50:38,698 --> 00:50:40,878
It's this ugly cycle
that we see all the time,
1244
00:50:40,913 --> 00:50:43,946
that no writer really speaks
about, because they're in the cycle.
1245
00:50:43,981 --> 00:50:46,529
And so now you stuck,
and now you looking around
1246
00:50:46,564 --> 00:50:48,494
at the second-rate players around you.
1247
00:50:48,529 --> 00:50:51,330
Your team's missing. It's
a fucked-up situation.
1248
00:50:53,414 --> 00:50:56,414
Sometimes I hear death
knocking at my front door.
1249
00:50:56,449 --> 00:50:58,529
I'm living every day like a hustle,
1250
00:50:58,564 --> 00:51:00,494
another drug to juggle,
1251
00:51:00,529 --> 00:51:02,578
another day, another struggle, yo.
1252
00:51:02,613 --> 00:51:05,113
I know it's fucked up
what a lack of cake'll do.
1253
00:51:05,148 --> 00:51:07,672
A few people want to
move in and stay with you.
1254
00:51:07,707 --> 00:51:10,197
You wish you could help
more. You unable to.
1255
00:51:10,696 --> 00:51:13,197
'Cause the rent's a little
late, plus the cable's due.
1256
00:51:13,232 --> 00:51:15,696
You and girlfriend are
beefing in a serious way.
1257
00:51:16,247 --> 00:51:19,078
You used to be faithful.
You in the curious stage.
1258
00:51:19,113 --> 00:51:22,113
Finally got your mind made
and going your separate ways.
1259
00:51:22,148 --> 00:51:23,795
Wait, Nah, homeboy, her period's late.
1260
00:51:23,830 --> 00:51:26,830
Now think. Time's running
out. Do it quickly,
1261
00:51:26,865 --> 00:51:29,795
'cause she start crying,
mood's getting sticky.
1262
00:51:29,830 --> 00:51:32,579
If I don't want it, she'll
want nothing to do with me.
1263
00:51:32,614 --> 00:51:35,163
Just get the abortion,
and I'll give you the 250.
1264
00:51:35,198 --> 00:51:37,878
But if you say that
to her, then you wrong,
1265
00:51:37,913 --> 00:51:39,913
you ain't think about that.
You was getting your groove on.
1266
00:51:39,948 --> 00:51:42,997
I can't take care of
myself, never mind a newborn.
1267
00:51:43,032 --> 00:51:45,579
I guess that pussy got
too good for too long.
1268
00:51:45,614 --> 00:51:48,071
It seem like my money goes by too easy,
1269
00:51:48,106 --> 00:51:50,529
why I hate that my
job only pays biweekly.
1270
00:51:50,564 --> 00:51:52,078
My hoopty done shit it.
1271
00:51:52,113 --> 00:51:53,929
You spending more money trying to fix it
1272
00:51:53,964 --> 00:51:55,711
then what you did when trying to get it.
1273
00:51:55,746 --> 00:51:57,795
The fridge is empty,
but I survive the hunger.
1274
00:51:57,830 --> 00:52:00,455
Who the fuck keeps calling
from this private number?
1275
00:52:00,490 --> 00:52:03,051
There's crime on my mind,
and my nails are dirty,
1276
00:52:03,086 --> 00:52:05,749
but the floors are real
cold in the jails at jersey.
1277
00:52:05,784 --> 00:52:08,390
Depression starts talking,
and his voice is raspy,
1278
00:52:08,425 --> 00:52:10,997
'cause he ain't shut the
fuck up in 31/2 weeks.
1279
00:52:11,496 --> 00:52:13,711
Look, the beard is full, hair is nappy,
1280
00:52:13,746 --> 00:52:16,863
these jeans ain't mine,
so they way too baggy.
1281
00:52:16,898 --> 00:52:17,828
Priorities is fucked,
1282
00:52:17,863 --> 00:52:19,628
and it's starting to gas me.
1283
00:52:19,663 --> 00:52:21,746
It's like my whole just
flipped right past me.
1284
00:52:22,247 --> 00:52:23,245
You starting to trap me.
1285
00:52:23,280 --> 00:52:25,363
His name's dwayne, so why the fuck
1286
00:52:25,398 --> 00:52:27,328
my son keep calling him daddy?
1287
00:52:27,363 --> 00:52:30,080
Same shit that I feared
after all these years.
1288
00:52:30,115 --> 00:52:32,405
I gotta breathe. I
can't believe my ears.
1289
00:52:32,440 --> 00:52:34,661
Wiping out my eyes,
I'm damn near in tears,
1290
00:52:34,696 --> 00:52:37,863
but you can't be mad, 'cause you
know you ain't been there, Nah.
1291
00:52:37,898 --> 00:52:40,529
You grab his moms up,
throw her against the door,
1292
00:52:40,564 --> 00:52:41,529
but in the back of your mind,
1293
00:52:42,030 --> 00:52:43,488
you know it ain't her fault.
1294
00:52:43,523 --> 00:52:44,946
Nah. I ain't mad at all.
1295
00:52:44,981 --> 00:52:45,963
I'm just bothered.
1296
00:52:45,998 --> 00:52:46,911
I get honest for real.
1297
00:52:46,946 --> 00:52:49,096
I ain't been the best father.
1298
00:52:49,131 --> 00:52:51,212
Like toys r us, chuck e. Cheese,
1299
00:52:51,247 --> 00:52:54,413
you know a little nigga
grow up with these needs.
1300
00:52:54,448 --> 00:52:57,294
New year's or christmas,
even a birthday.
1301
00:52:57,329 --> 00:52:59,329
At least bring the nigga to
his school on the first day.
1302
00:52:59,830 --> 00:53:03,413
I can't believe it. It's the
same way that I was treated,
1303
00:53:03,448 --> 00:53:04,911
so maybe it's history repeated.
1304
00:53:04,946 --> 00:53:07,737
I know it sounds sick, the
idea of having another kid,
1305
00:53:07,772 --> 00:53:10,529
'cause this one, you'll
really feel like it's his.
1306
00:53:10,564 --> 00:53:12,422
It's the truth, and I hate that fact.
1307
00:53:12,457 --> 00:53:14,393
Wait, I shouldn't have said that.
1308
00:53:14,428 --> 00:53:16,104
I'll take that back. I apologize.
1309
00:53:16,139 --> 00:53:17,745
Let's rewind this whole story,
1310
00:53:17,780 --> 00:53:20,280
like, Nah, c-4, just erase that track.
1311
00:53:20,315 --> 00:53:21,411
Check it.
1312
00:53:21,446 --> 00:53:23,494
I don't care if only
the track trusts me.
1313
00:53:23,529 --> 00:53:25,946
Fuck what niggas say.
Only god could judge me.
1314
00:53:25,981 --> 00:53:28,363
Fuck what niggas heard
or think or even thought,
1315
00:53:28,398 --> 00:53:30,214
tried to fix my shortcomings.
1316
00:53:30,249 --> 00:53:31,995
I just came up short. Joey.
1317
00:53:32,030 --> 00:53:35,071
♪ Redman, I'm back
like fuck, you pay me ♪
1318
00:53:35,106 --> 00:53:37,859
♪ A street fighter like
baraka, you may lee ♪
1319
00:53:37,894 --> 00:53:40,578
♪ Who does it better
than the bricks? Call it ♪
1320
00:53:40,613 --> 00:53:43,113
♪ You couldn't mark the spot
if you shopped at target ♪
1321
00:53:43,148 --> 00:53:46,130
♪ Believe me, boy, I'm
just getting this started ♪
1322
00:53:46,165 --> 00:53:49,078
♪ And y'all stupid like
tripping over a cordless ♪
1323
00:53:49,113 --> 00:53:51,579
♪ I've been the dope nigga
since swimming and balling ♪
1324
00:53:52,113 --> 00:53:53,113
♪ Your hot chicks on your block ♪
1325
00:53:53,148 --> 00:53:54,578
♪ I'm digging in all them ♪
1326
00:53:54,613 --> 00:53:57,078
♪ Damn it feel good to
see people up on it ♪
1327
00:53:57,113 --> 00:54:00,113
♪ To see who's the raw and
what nigga stepped on it ♪
1328
00:54:00,148 --> 00:54:01,578
♪ I'm in your harlem night ♪
1329
00:54:01,613 --> 00:54:04,113
♪ Black tenant six,
the cops calhoun ♪
1330
00:54:04,613 --> 00:54:06,613
♪ And I'm hauling ass quick ♪
1331
00:54:07,113 --> 00:54:09,078
♪ When I'm gone, I
redline the needle ♪
1332
00:54:09,113 --> 00:54:13,246
♪ Cause trying to find me is
like trying to find nemo, bitch ♪
1333
00:54:13,281 --> 00:54:15,795
Name an mc that has
earned redman's respect.
1334
00:54:15,830 --> 00:54:18,830
Not, you know... Somebody
you say did they thizzle.
1335
00:54:18,865 --> 00:54:20,745
Oh, that did... That did they thizzle,
1336
00:54:20,780 --> 00:54:23,329
but, all right, besides
krs-one and slick rick.
1337
00:54:23,364 --> 00:54:24,795
Them are my mentors, you know.
1338
00:54:24,830 --> 00:54:27,795
Um, I-I'll pick
somebody, like, new now.
1339
00:54:27,830 --> 00:54:31,329
Far as eminem, he gained
my respect as an mc.
1340
00:54:31,830 --> 00:54:34,294
He been gaining my respect as an mc,
1341
00:54:34,329 --> 00:54:38,294
but he definitely gains my
respect as an mc, straight up.
1342
00:54:38,329 --> 00:54:42,329
Big up to em and the whole d12
camp and everything over there.
1343
00:54:42,364 --> 00:54:44,795
I think em knew when he came out,
1344
00:54:44,830 --> 00:54:47,329
being a white kid coming into
a predominately black culture,
1345
00:54:47,830 --> 00:54:49,329
that he had to fight uphill.
1346
00:54:49,364 --> 00:54:50,294
He had to fight.
1347
00:54:50,329 --> 00:54:52,830
And I think that made
him that much more better.
1348
00:54:52,865 --> 00:54:54,097
He's an mc. Yeah. No.
1349
00:54:54,132 --> 00:54:55,294
He's an mc. He did it.
1350
00:54:55,329 --> 00:54:56,830
Niggas can say what they want about em.
1351
00:54:56,865 --> 00:54:57,830
They don't want to fuck with him.
1352
00:54:57,865 --> 00:54:58,795
No, not at all.
1353
00:54:58,830 --> 00:55:00,330
Not at all. Not at all.
1354
00:55:00,365 --> 00:55:01,795
He gained that respect,
1355
00:55:01,830 --> 00:55:04,329
because he knew he
had a job to do, like,
1356
00:55:04,830 --> 00:55:06,329
"okay, I could... " He
could have easily said,
1357
00:55:06,364 --> 00:55:07,795
"well, I'm going over to stick...
1358
00:55:07,830 --> 00:55:09,745
"Just stick to my white fans. Fuck that.
1359
00:55:09,780 --> 00:55:12,830
I got enough white fans
over here to sell 30 mil. "
1360
00:55:12,865 --> 00:55:15,329
But he like, yo, Nah,
Nah. I mean, you know,
1361
00:55:15,364 --> 00:55:17,329
he was in my 'hood before he blew up.
1362
00:55:17,364 --> 00:55:18,597
Right. He was in newark.
1363
00:55:18,632 --> 00:55:19,795
He was with the outsiders,
1364
00:55:19,830 --> 00:55:22,330
so he been in the
'hood before he got on,
1365
00:55:22,365 --> 00:55:24,597
so I think it always
been in him to be like,
1366
00:55:24,632 --> 00:55:26,830
"yo, I know I'm white,
but this is music,
1367
00:55:27,329 --> 00:55:29,613
and music don't have no color,
and that's where it's at, man. "
1368
00:55:29,648 --> 00:55:31,211
♪ uhh, uhh ♪
1369
00:55:31,246 --> 00:55:32,412
♪ To the bang to the boogie ♪
1370
00:55:32,447 --> 00:55:33,544
♪ Say up jump the boogie ♪
1371
00:55:33,579 --> 00:55:35,512
♪ To the rhythm of
the boogity beat ♪
1372
00:55:35,547 --> 00:55:37,446
♪ To the rhythm of
the boogity beat ♪
1373
00:55:37,780 --> 00:55:39,162
♪ There it go, like
simple and plain ♪
1374
00:55:39,197 --> 00:55:40,828
♪ Prominent basic ♪
1375
00:55:40,863 --> 00:55:42,946
♪ Zulu arrangement,
rocking amazement ♪
1376
00:55:42,981 --> 00:55:45,030
♪ Flocko, radio from
heaven to pavement ♪
1377
00:55:45,363 --> 00:55:47,544
♪ Phony is the face, but
nothing to play with ♪
1378
00:55:47,579 --> 00:55:49,413
♪ Spent time hating it,
but that ain't changing it ♪
1379
00:55:49,448 --> 00:55:50,911
♪ Malcolm x to marley marl ♪
1380
00:55:50,946 --> 00:55:52,496
♪ The word of god
and work's involved ♪
1381
00:55:52,997 --> 00:55:54,496
♪ Portraits of the brain and
other unexplained phenomenon ♪
1382
00:55:54,531 --> 00:55:56,962
♪ Shot down babylon,
smash all automatons ♪
1383
00:55:56,997 --> 00:55:59,496
♪ Feel the beat, got 'em feeling
geeked like it's comic-con ♪
1384
00:55:59,531 --> 00:56:00,911
♪ Far from the hardy-har ♪
1385
00:56:00,946 --> 00:56:02,446
♪ More like a tomahawk
rocket launch ♪
1386
00:56:02,481 --> 00:56:03,461
♪ Ali right cross ♪
1387
00:56:03,496 --> 00:56:04,496
♪ Knock they choppers off ♪
1388
00:56:04,531 --> 00:56:05,962
♪ Boomiya, baba bey ♪
1389
00:56:05,997 --> 00:56:06,997
♪ Fresh, not from concentrate ♪
1390
00:56:07,496 --> 00:56:08,461
♪ Looking very sharp today ♪
1391
00:56:08,496 --> 00:56:09,962
♪ Thank you, darling, danke schoen ♪
1392
00:56:09,997 --> 00:56:11,496
♪ Craft working more
than german engineering ♪
1393
00:56:11,531 --> 00:56:12,962
♪ And build a frequency ♪
1394
00:56:12,997 --> 00:56:14,411
♪ That don't hear the interference ♪
1395
00:56:14,446 --> 00:56:15,997
♪ Flashes of the spirit,
seekers in the clearing ♪
1396
00:56:16,496 --> 00:56:17,496
♪ Say the tongue is the mirror ♪
1397
00:56:17,531 --> 00:56:18,496
♪ Of the heart, so mirror, mirror ♪
1398
00:56:18,531 --> 00:56:19,962
♪ Look, in that window ♪
1399
00:56:19,997 --> 00:56:20,946
♪ It's the freedom
fighter's grandson ♪
1400
00:56:20,981 --> 00:56:22,446
♪ Fixed up, looking sharp ♪
1401
00:56:22,481 --> 00:56:23,461
♪ Automatic handgun ♪
1402
00:56:23,496 --> 00:56:24,962
♪ Look, parade, caravan ♪
1403
00:56:24,997 --> 00:56:26,997
♪ Diplomat, degenerate,
messiah, pariah ♪
1404
00:56:27,032 --> 00:56:27,997
♪ The leader of the syndicate ♪
1405
00:56:28,496 --> 00:56:30,496
♪ Peace treaty written
in loophole penmanship ♪
1406
00:56:30,997 --> 00:56:33,496
♪ Same rows, two sides,
palaces and tenements ♪
1407
00:56:33,531 --> 00:56:34,513
♪ Dispossessed native tongue ♪
1408
00:56:34,548 --> 00:56:35,772
♪ Noble open lonely heart ♪
1409
00:56:35,807 --> 00:56:36,962
♪ Peel apart, come together ♪
1410
00:56:36,997 --> 00:56:38,997
♪ Come together, peel
apart, come together ♪
1411
00:56:39,032 --> 00:56:41,529
One of the things that
I feel about hip-hop
1412
00:56:41,564 --> 00:56:43,496
and I quote all the time is from q-tip
1413
00:56:44,030 --> 00:56:46,030
when he goes, "rap is not pop.
1414
00:56:46,065 --> 00:56:47,995
If you call it that, then stop. "
1415
00:56:48,030 --> 00:56:52,030
Uh, it didn't start out as
a popular culture movement.
1416
00:56:52,065 --> 00:56:55,529
It didn't even have
pop culture ambitions.
1417
00:56:55,564 --> 00:56:57,797
Uh, it's a folk art.
1418
00:56:57,832 --> 00:56:59,995
It's folk music.
1419
00:57:00,030 --> 00:57:02,328
It's tribal experience.
1420
00:57:02,363 --> 00:57:04,795
Hip-hop started in new york,
1421
00:57:04,830 --> 00:57:07,830
so always it's gonna... it's
like, you know, you know,
1422
00:57:07,865 --> 00:57:09,795
in the mississippi delta and the blues,
1423
00:57:09,830 --> 00:57:13,030
it's just like, you know,
that or new orleans and jazz,
1424
00:57:13,065 --> 00:57:14,995
just that... that physical environment
1425
00:57:15,030 --> 00:57:18,997
just informs the way that people
apply the sound and whatever.
1426
00:57:19,032 --> 00:57:21,529
But as it started to migrate, you know,
1427
00:57:21,564 --> 00:57:24,911
the sound started to... to change
1428
00:57:24,946 --> 00:57:30,613
according to the... The places
that it was, you know, traveling to.
1429
00:57:30,648 --> 00:57:34,797
Geography shapes how
these, um, mediums sound,
1430
00:57:34,832 --> 00:57:38,946
because the people and
the places are different.
1431
00:57:41,529 --> 00:57:42,997
♪ Look ♪
1432
00:57:43,496 --> 00:57:47,363
♪ If you had one shot ♪
1433
00:57:48,079 --> 00:57:50,162
♪ Or one opportunity ♪
1434
00:57:51,196 --> 00:57:53,780
♪ To seize everything
you ever wanted ♪
1435
00:57:53,815 --> 00:57:55,911
♪ In one moment ♪
1436
00:57:55,946 --> 00:57:57,696
♪ Would you capture it ♪
1437
00:57:57,731 --> 00:57:59,838
♪ Or just let it slip? ♪
1438
00:57:59,873 --> 00:58:01,946
♪ Yo, his palms are sweaty ♪
1439
00:58:02,446 --> 00:58:03,911
♪ Knees weak, arms are heavy ♪
1440
00:58:03,946 --> 00:58:05,746
♪ There's vomit on
his sweater already ♪
1441
00:58:05,781 --> 00:58:07,211
♪ Mom's spaghetti, he's nervous ♪
1442
00:58:07,246 --> 00:58:09,446
♪ But on the surface,
he looks calm and ready ♪
1443
00:58:09,481 --> 00:58:10,411
♪ To drop bombs ♪
1444
00:58:10,446 --> 00:58:12,246
♪ But he keeps on forgetting ♪
1445
00:58:12,281 --> 00:58:13,211
♪ What he wrote down ♪
1446
00:58:13,246 --> 00:58:14,746
♪ The whole crowd goes so loud ♪
1447
00:58:15,246 --> 00:58:17,746
♪ He opens his mouth, but
the words won't come out ♪
1448
00:58:17,781 --> 00:58:19,263
♪ He's choking, how? ♪
1449
00:58:19,298 --> 00:58:20,711
♪ Everybody's joking now ♪
1450
00:58:20,746 --> 00:58:22,346
♪ The clocks run out, time's up ♪
1451
00:58:22,381 --> 00:58:23,913
♪ How the fuck he got an oscar? ♪
1452
00:58:23,948 --> 00:58:25,411
♪ Passed out in his red mazda ♪
1453
00:58:25,446 --> 00:58:26,946
♪ With his fucking
head in his pasta ♪
1454
00:58:26,981 --> 00:58:28,446
♪ In the parking
lot of kmart plaza ♪
1455
00:58:28,481 --> 00:58:29,413
♪ Across from the red lobster ♪
1456
00:58:29,946 --> 00:58:31,446
♪ Looking like the
loch ness monster ♪
1457
00:58:31,481 --> 00:58:33,197
♪ Dressed like a
cross-dressed mobster ♪
1458
00:58:33,232 --> 00:58:35,089
♪ Talk is cheap, it
costs less to gossip ♪
1459
00:58:35,124 --> 00:58:36,911
♪ I'll probably be
a lot less hostile ♪
1460
00:58:36,946 --> 00:58:38,913
♪ If you snots kept your
snozzes out the air hose ♪
1461
00:58:38,948 --> 00:58:40,697
♪ Or get fucked in all seven holes ♪
1462
00:58:40,732 --> 00:58:42,446
♪ Ass, mouth, pussy,
yeah, both ears ♪
1463
00:58:42,481 --> 00:58:43,963
♪ And, ha, yes, nostrils ♪
1464
00:58:43,998 --> 00:58:45,446
♪ At the ozzfest with nas ♪
1465
00:58:45,946 --> 00:58:47,196
♪ Bumping das efx in
a wrecked-up datsun ♪
1466
00:58:47,231 --> 00:58:48,446
♪ And dropped two
extra-strength wats ♪
1467
00:58:48,481 --> 00:58:49,878
♪ And vicodin out my pocket ♪
1468
00:58:49,913 --> 00:58:51,411
♪ They cost less, I'm a hot mess ♪
1469
00:58:51,446 --> 00:58:53,429
♪ 'Cause I tripped
and got my head stuck ♪
1470
00:58:53,464 --> 00:58:55,413
♪ In a wasp nest in
the process, awesome ♪
1471
00:58:55,448 --> 00:58:56,446
♪ Drunk as fuck, one sock ♪
1472
00:58:56,946 --> 00:58:58,696
♪ Pulling my boxers
up with boxing gloves ♪
1473
00:58:58,731 --> 00:59:00,446
♪ But I keep dropping
my fucking binoculars ♪
1474
00:59:00,481 --> 00:59:01,828
♪ Got two fucking hydroxycuts ♪
1475
00:59:01,863 --> 00:59:03,904
♪ And four oxys stuck
in my esophagus ♪
1476
00:59:03,939 --> 00:59:05,942
♪ These three lesbian
little stocky sluts ♪
1477
00:59:05,977 --> 00:59:07,911
♪ Thought I swallowed
two hockey pucks ♪
1478
00:59:07,946 --> 00:59:09,946
♪ Started screaming, "serves
you right, you cocky fuck ♪
1479
00:59:09,981 --> 00:59:11,463
♪ "That's what you
get for mocking us ♪
1480
00:59:11,498 --> 00:59:12,945
♪ Ain't as cool as
you thought you was" ♪
1481
00:59:13,446 --> 00:59:15,945
♪ Bitch, all I did when I walked
up was have my dick in a sock ♪
1482
00:59:15,980 --> 00:59:17,962
♪ Said it's a sock puppet,
so no strings attached ♪
1483
00:59:17,997 --> 00:59:19,945
♪ You can all suck a
chick-ah, get it? Ah, fuck it ♪
1484
00:59:19,980 --> 00:59:21,910
♪ Shit's about to get hairy ♪
1485
00:59:21,945 --> 00:59:25,329
♪ As motherfucking
chewbacca's nuts, cocksuckers ♪
1486
00:59:25,364 --> 00:59:29,196
When I came out, I think maybe I gave...
1487
00:59:29,231 --> 00:59:31,196
People a voice, like, I don't know,
1488
00:59:31,231 --> 00:59:32,745
maybe from the other side.
1489
00:59:32,780 --> 00:59:34,780
Like I represented the
other side of the tracks.
1490
00:59:34,815 --> 00:59:35,780
Mm-Hmm. Like, here's this world,
1491
00:59:36,279 --> 00:59:37,780
you know, that you may not know about,
1492
00:59:38,279 --> 00:59:40,780
and the people who lived in that world
and knew what I was talking about,
1493
00:59:40,815 --> 00:59:42,044
I think I gave them a voice.
1494
00:59:42,079 --> 00:59:44,663
I used to rap, and I used
to play around with it,
1495
00:59:44,698 --> 00:59:45,663
and then I went to this club,
1496
00:59:46,162 --> 00:59:47,912
and I wasn't a rapper at the time,
1497
00:59:47,947 --> 00:59:49,628
but I... I kind of knew how to rhyme.
1498
00:59:49,663 --> 00:59:52,663
And I went to a club and,
um... called the carolina west,
1499
00:59:52,698 --> 00:59:54,430
and they had a rap contest,
1500
00:59:54,465 --> 00:59:56,127
and kurtis blow was the judge.
1501
00:59:56,162 --> 01:00:00,663
And, uh, I went up and said
little rhymes I had in my head,
1502
01:00:01,162 --> 01:00:02,127
you know, and I won.
1503
01:00:02,162 --> 01:00:05,162
And the fact that a
real rapper said I won,
1504
01:00:05,663 --> 01:00:09,363
I went home that night like,
well, maybe I could do this.
1505
01:00:09,398 --> 01:00:11,988
The first time I grabbed
a mic, like the...
1506
01:00:12,023 --> 01:00:13,818
Like in front of actual
people that mattered.
1507
01:00:13,853 --> 01:00:15,613
You know what I'm
saying? Mm-Hmm. Mm-Hmm.
1508
01:00:16,112 --> 01:00:17,544
Like at a... at a club, I got booed.
1509
01:00:17,579 --> 01:00:19,845
I remember that. It was
very traumatic for me,
1510
01:00:19,880 --> 01:00:22,112
and I had actually... I
think I at that point...
1511
01:00:22,147 --> 01:00:23,613
Like the 8 mile thing was kinda...
1512
01:00:23,648 --> 01:00:25,077
Right, right, right, yeah.
1513
01:00:25,112 --> 01:00:26,578
That's what I, like,
take it from or whatever.
1514
01:00:26,613 --> 01:00:29,862
So I just remember that
being so fucking traumatic,
1515
01:00:29,897 --> 01:00:33,112
and I think I went home,
like, "man, I... I quit. "
1516
01:00:33,147 --> 01:00:34,077
Right.
1517
01:00:34,112 --> 01:00:36,112
And then, you know,
maybe a couple days later,
1518
01:00:36,613 --> 01:00:38,112
week later, hour later, whatever it was.
1519
01:00:38,147 --> 01:00:39,544
I don't know. I just...
1520
01:00:39,579 --> 01:00:41,613
I got the urge to like,
"Nah, man, I gotta...
1521
01:00:41,648 --> 01:00:43,613
I gotta get up. Gotta do it again. "
1522
01:00:43,648 --> 01:00:44,780
That's right. Thank god.
1523
01:00:44,815 --> 01:00:45,912
You really gotta live it.
1524
01:00:45,947 --> 01:00:48,961
My mind, 24/7,
1525
01:00:48,996 --> 01:00:50,961
aside from family stuff, obviously...
1526
01:00:50,996 --> 01:00:55,496
Is... is, uh, constantly
thinking of ways to bend words,
1527
01:00:55,531 --> 01:00:58,496
or, you know, I may...
Like if I don't got paper,
1528
01:00:58,531 --> 01:01:00,013
I'll write it on my hand and whatever,
1529
01:01:00,048 --> 01:01:01,496
and sometimes when I fill up the hand,
1530
01:01:01,531 --> 01:01:02,994
then I'll transfer it to paper.
1531
01:01:03,029 --> 01:01:05,112
Do they tumble out of
your head complicated?
1532
01:01:05,147 --> 01:01:06,613
'Cause you write complicated rhymes.
1533
01:01:06,648 --> 01:01:08,578
Oh, I wake up in the morning,
1534
01:01:08,613 --> 01:01:10,079
and they just tum... They just fall out.
1535
01:01:10,114 --> 01:01:11,029
Yeah. I'm kidding.
1536
01:01:12,112 --> 01:01:13,595
Do they come complicated,
1537
01:01:13,630 --> 01:01:15,079
or do you complicate them?
1538
01:01:15,114 --> 01:01:19,578
Um, sometimes...
1539
01:01:19,613 --> 01:01:21,578
What I love about rap
1540
01:01:21,613 --> 01:01:25,112
is that it feels like
it's puzzles to me.
1541
01:01:25,147 --> 01:01:26,880
Hmm. Like words are like puzzles
1542
01:01:26,915 --> 01:01:28,578
and trying to figure out a puzzle
1543
01:01:28,613 --> 01:01:31,112
and trying to figure out
what word can go here,
1544
01:01:31,613 --> 01:01:33,362
and how many words can I make...
1545
01:01:33,397 --> 01:01:35,005
Like if I can take a rhyme...
1546
01:01:35,040 --> 01:01:36,578
Like, I'm real into the craft,
1547
01:01:36,613 --> 01:01:37,613
like, just of the, you know, mcing,
1548
01:01:38,112 --> 01:01:40,613
and I feel like... Like
I always think, like,
1549
01:01:41,112 --> 01:01:43,613
how can I take a... how can
I figure this puzzle out?
1550
01:01:43,648 --> 01:01:45,578
Like, how can I take, uh, words
1551
01:01:45,613 --> 01:01:47,613
and put 'em at the end of the sentence,
1552
01:01:47,648 --> 01:01:49,613
but in between maybe
make some words rhyme
1553
01:01:50,112 --> 01:01:52,112
in between, that... that
rhyme and, like, sandwich 'em?
1554
01:01:52,147 --> 01:01:53,380
Mm-Hmm. You know what I'm saying?
1555
01:01:53,415 --> 01:01:54,613
Like, so sandwich those words
1556
01:01:55,112 --> 01:01:57,079
and try to make 'em
rhyme inside of the phrase
1557
01:01:57,613 --> 01:01:59,321
and then come back outside and try to,
1558
01:01:59,356 --> 01:02:01,029
you know, try to rhyme with the word
1559
01:02:01,064 --> 01:02:02,613
that I ended on the snare.
1560
01:02:03,112 --> 01:02:05,044
You know, like, I just,
like... I'm just...
1561
01:02:05,079 --> 01:02:08,579
I'm kind of real into the...
The technical part of... of it.
1562
01:02:08,614 --> 01:02:10,494
I studied everybody, man.
1563
01:02:10,529 --> 01:02:13,804
I studied you. I
studied, uh, fucking krs.
1564
01:02:13,839 --> 01:02:17,044
I studied treach,
naughty by nature, I...
1565
01:02:17,079 --> 01:02:20,044
Well, treach is... Treach
is difficult to rap like,
1566
01:02:20,079 --> 01:02:23,579
'cause treach is like... his
shit is really complicated,
1567
01:02:23,614 --> 01:02:26,079
you know. I just heard
a new record with treach.
1568
01:02:26,114 --> 01:02:27,079
♪ I can click clack pat tat... ♪
1569
01:02:27,114 --> 01:02:28,544
Wait, what does he say?
1570
01:02:28,579 --> 01:02:31,044
♪ I can click clack snap
rap pat tat a tat tat ♪
1571
01:02:31,079 --> 01:02:33,579
♪ Take that ass to the point you
have to ask for your ass back ♪
1572
01:02:33,614 --> 01:02:35,579
♪ The fucking joker
smoker, taunted by no one ♪
1573
01:02:36,079 --> 01:02:37,579
♪ If I was born in
chung li's temple ♪
1574
01:02:37,614 --> 01:02:39,079
♪ I would've turned out a shogun ♪
1575
01:02:39,114 --> 01:02:40,544
That song...
1576
01:02:40,579 --> 01:02:42,044
Yoke the joker, when that shit came out,
1577
01:02:42,079 --> 01:02:45,579
I swear to god, I was...
I was in my peak at rap,
1578
01:02:45,614 --> 01:02:47,044
and what I mean is, like... Right.
1579
01:02:47,079 --> 01:02:50,579
When I realized this is what
I want to do with my life.
1580
01:02:50,614 --> 01:02:51,544
Right, right, right.
1581
01:02:51,579 --> 01:02:53,044
And proof came over. Right.
1582
01:02:53,079 --> 01:02:54,579
He brought the fucking tape. Right.
1583
01:02:54,614 --> 01:02:56,044
And my world ended.
1584
01:02:56,079 --> 01:02:59,544
Like, I was like, "oh, my
god, what the fuck is this?"
1585
01:02:59,579 --> 01:03:02,029
Like I... it literally... I didn't
write a rap for the whole summer.
1586
01:03:02,529 --> 01:03:03,544
Right, right.
1587
01:03:03,579 --> 01:03:05,079
Didn't write a rap for the whole summer.
1588
01:03:05,114 --> 01:03:05,945
Fucking around with treach.
1589
01:03:05,980 --> 01:03:07,994
Yo, that dude was...
1590
01:03:08,029 --> 01:03:10,512
I mean, he... He's still incredible.
1591
01:03:10,547 --> 01:03:12,961
Final thoughts on the art of rap,
1592
01:03:12,996 --> 01:03:16,496
which you are one of
the grandmasters at now.
1593
01:03:16,531 --> 01:03:18,077
Mm, final thoughts.
1594
01:03:18,112 --> 01:03:19,696
Shit, I don't know. I mean,
1595
01:03:20,196 --> 01:03:22,695
I certainly feel like
if it wasn't for rap,
1596
01:03:23,196 --> 01:03:25,196
like, obviously I wouldn't be here,
1597
01:03:25,613 --> 01:03:28,695
but it gave me... It gave me a voice.
1598
01:03:28,730 --> 01:03:30,161
It gave me an outlet.
1599
01:03:30,196 --> 01:03:32,660
It gave me a... It gave me strength.
1600
01:03:32,695 --> 01:03:35,945
Fuck, man, you know, what
I just came back from,
1601
01:03:35,980 --> 01:03:39,161
you know, overdose and
the whole shit, you know.
1602
01:03:39,196 --> 01:03:42,695
Like it... without rap, I wouldn't
have been able to... to get through it.
1603
01:03:42,730 --> 01:03:44,161
I mean, obviously without my daughters,
1604
01:03:44,196 --> 01:03:46,663
I wouldn't have been able to
get through a fucking thing,
1605
01:03:46,698 --> 01:03:48,710
but when you hit that wall,
1606
01:03:48,745 --> 01:03:51,945
like, how quick can you
bounce back, you know?
1607
01:03:51,980 --> 01:03:53,446
Um, and if it wasn't for rap,
1608
01:03:53,945 --> 01:03:56,695
I wouldn't have been able
to bounce back, you know.
1609
01:03:56,730 --> 01:03:59,837
This is the one thing
that... This is the one thing
1610
01:03:59,872 --> 01:04:02,945
that I feel like I have
that, you know, I can do well.
1611
01:04:02,980 --> 01:04:05,962
So if I didn't have
this, I don't know what...
1612
01:04:05,997 --> 01:04:08,945
I really can't do a fucking
thing else, you know.
1613
01:04:08,980 --> 01:04:10,462
Except for play basketball.
1614
01:04:10,497 --> 01:04:12,763
I'm kind of fucking nasty,
1615
01:04:12,798 --> 01:04:14,994
but, uh, like rap is just,
1616
01:04:15,029 --> 01:04:18,413
you know, it's... It's
everything to me. Like, this is...
1617
01:04:18,448 --> 01:04:19,961
This is... this is my world.
1618
01:04:19,996 --> 01:04:21,329
This is... you know what I'm saying?
1619
01:04:21,364 --> 01:04:23,054
Like, this is what I do, like...
1620
01:04:23,089 --> 01:04:24,710
Hey, if somebody said, "royce 5'9","
1621
01:04:24,745 --> 01:04:27,246
what... what do they...
What do they expect?
1622
01:04:27,281 --> 01:04:29,246
Well, I'm gonna be rapping my ass off.
1623
01:04:29,281 --> 01:04:30,710
A nigga that raps his ass off.
1624
01:04:30,745 --> 01:04:33,246
Yeah. I'm gonna be... I'm
gonna be rapping my ass off.
1625
01:04:33,281 --> 01:04:34,710
I'm not... I'm not...
1626
01:04:34,745 --> 01:04:37,745
I'm not about to be probably
talking to the girls a lot,
1627
01:04:37,780 --> 01:04:39,513
you know what I'm saying? I'm really,
1628
01:04:39,548 --> 01:04:41,246
like, a competitive mc with my peers.
1629
01:04:41,281 --> 01:04:42,794
♪ I'm a heavyweight ♪
1630
01:04:42,829 --> 01:04:44,779
♪ I'm catastrophic when I said it ♪
1631
01:04:44,814 --> 01:04:46,294
♪ Like fahrenheit 9/11 ♪
1632
01:04:46,329 --> 01:04:48,079
♪ Meditate till the levies break ♪
1633
01:04:48,114 --> 01:04:49,829
♪ I tar and feather featherweights ♪
1634
01:04:49,864 --> 01:04:50,794
♪ Until my fetti straight ♪
1635
01:04:50,829 --> 01:04:52,579
♪ The mac-11'll clap your melon ♪
1636
01:04:52,614 --> 01:04:54,329
♪ And give your ass spaghetti face ♪
1637
01:04:54,829 --> 01:04:57,329
♪ Uhh, you ever looked
inside some dying eyes? ♪
1638
01:04:57,364 --> 01:04:58,794
♪ You'll see surprise ♪
1639
01:04:58,829 --> 01:05:00,579
♪ And realize there's
no denying god ♪
1640
01:05:00,614 --> 01:05:02,329
♪ When was the last
time that you heard ♪
1641
01:05:02,364 --> 01:05:04,096
♪ That the iron tried? ♪
1642
01:05:04,131 --> 01:05:05,794
♪ Ryan vibes like cyanide ♪
1643
01:05:05,829 --> 01:05:07,829
♪ I am proud to say
that I've evolved ♪
1644
01:05:07,864 --> 01:05:09,829
♪ There's only one
"I" in "defying odds" ♪
1645
01:05:09,864 --> 01:05:11,346
♪ Small-time arrogance perishes ♪
1646
01:05:11,381 --> 01:05:12,794
♪ Every time the giant pride ♪
1647
01:05:12,829 --> 01:05:15,079
♪ Who y'all respect is
probably cross-dressing ♪
1648
01:05:15,114 --> 01:05:17,329
♪ Your favorite mc could
probably find hisself ♪
1649
01:05:17,829 --> 01:05:19,329
♪ Vibing to my lost sessions ♪
1650
01:05:19,364 --> 01:05:20,695
♪ I'm legendary ♪
1651
01:05:20,730 --> 01:05:22,279
Oh, now turn...
1652
01:05:22,779 --> 01:05:23,779
There you go.
1653
01:05:24,279 --> 01:05:26,279
♪... dj's task was
just to play records ♪
1654
01:05:26,314 --> 01:05:27,710
♪ What more could you ask? ♪
1655
01:05:27,745 --> 01:05:30,779
♪ But then came remixes,
scratching and cuts ♪
1656
01:05:30,814 --> 01:05:32,779
♪ Which was too much for many ♪
1657
01:05:32,814 --> 01:05:34,279
♪ Drove some djs nuts ♪
1658
01:05:34,314 --> 01:05:35,546
♪ But the dj ♪
1659
01:05:35,581 --> 01:05:36,744
♪ Named glove ♪
1660
01:05:36,779 --> 01:05:39,012
♪ Has reined supreme
on the ♪ as the... wait.
1661
01:05:39,047 --> 01:05:41,246
♪ As the turntable wizard
of the hip-hop scene ♪
1662
01:05:41,281 --> 01:05:43,279
♪ So listen to him, check it out ♪
1663
01:05:43,314 --> 01:05:44,744
♪ But remember this ♪
1664
01:05:44,779 --> 01:05:46,779
♪ When the glove's on
the wheels of steel ♪
1665
01:05:47,279 --> 01:05:48,279
♪ He's reckless ♪
1666
01:05:50,529 --> 01:05:55,912
Who would have ever thought the one
of the greatest rappers of all time
1667
01:05:55,947 --> 01:05:58,029
would be a white cat?
1668
01:06:19,912 --> 01:06:22,012
♪ Y'all know me,
still the same old g ♪
1669
01:06:22,047 --> 01:06:24,077
♪ But I'm being low-key, hated on ♪
1670
01:06:24,112 --> 01:06:26,345
♪ By most of these
niggas with no cheese ♪
1671
01:06:26,380 --> 01:06:28,604
♪ No deals and no gs,
no wheels and no keys ♪
1672
01:06:28,639 --> 01:06:30,692
♪ No boats, no
snowmobiles, and no skis ♪
1673
01:06:30,727 --> 01:06:32,586
♪ Mad at me 'cause I
can finally afford ♪
1674
01:06:32,621 --> 01:06:34,446
♪ To provide my
family with groceries ♪
1675
01:06:34,481 --> 01:06:35,528
♪ Got a crib with a studio ♪
1676
01:06:35,912 --> 01:06:36,827
♪ And it's all full of tracks ♪
1677
01:06:36,862 --> 01:06:38,595
♪ To add to the wall
full of plaques ♪
1678
01:06:38,630 --> 01:06:40,329
♪ Hanging up in the office in back ♪
1679
01:06:40,364 --> 01:06:41,627
♪ Of my house like trophies ♪
1680
01:06:41,662 --> 01:06:43,495
♪ But y'all think I'm
gonna let my dough freeze ♪
1681
01:06:43,530 --> 01:06:44,495
♪ Ho, please ♪
1682
01:06:44,912 --> 01:06:45,744
♪ You better bow
down on both knees ♪
1683
01:06:45,779 --> 01:06:47,912
♪ Who do you think taught
you to smoke trees? ♪
1684
01:06:47,947 --> 01:06:49,912
♪ Who you think brought
you the oldies? ♪
1685
01:06:49,947 --> 01:06:52,112
♪ Eazy-es, ice cubes and d. O.C.S ♪
1686
01:06:52,147 --> 01:06:53,577
♪ The snoop
d- o-double-gs ♪
1687
01:06:53,612 --> 01:06:56,112
♪ And the group that said
motherfuck the police ♪
1688
01:06:58,779 --> 01:07:01,279
♪ I spit from the genitals, bitch ♪
1689
01:07:01,314 --> 01:07:02,279
♪ Leave a masculine stench ♪
1690
01:07:02,779 --> 01:07:04,470
♪ Got niggas panicking petrol ♪
1691
01:07:04,505 --> 01:07:05,833
♪ I make a mannequin flinch ♪
1692
01:07:05,868 --> 01:07:06,973
♪ Grew a botanical wench ♪
1693
01:07:07,008 --> 01:07:08,079
♪ The root of all evil ♪
1694
01:07:08,662 --> 01:07:10,077
♪ Green thumb for greenbacks ♪
1695
01:07:10,112 --> 01:07:12,695
♪ Ran to the tech, but
we can't all eat, though ♪
1696
01:07:12,730 --> 01:07:15,244
♪ 'Cause y'all fecal,
we brawl lethal ♪
1697
01:07:15,279 --> 01:07:17,578
♪ Homicide victims off
of fairfax and pico ♪
1698
01:07:18,079 --> 01:07:19,828
♪ Sugar, nobody's ever equal ♪
1699
01:07:19,863 --> 01:07:21,543
♪ 'Cause the more we make ♪
1700
01:07:21,578 --> 01:07:23,079
♪ The more we're taking
from other people ♪
1701
01:07:23,114 --> 01:07:24,596
♪ Pimping puerto rico ♪
1702
01:07:24,631 --> 01:07:26,044
♪ Pandering lax to jfk ♪
1703
01:07:26,079 --> 01:07:29,079
♪ At baggage claim with
three hoes, like santa say ♪
1704
01:07:29,114 --> 01:07:32,079
♪ My third eye be the
equivalent of the algebraic pi ♪
1705
01:07:32,114 --> 01:07:34,112
♪ So if give you a
piece of my mind ♪
1706
01:07:34,612 --> 01:07:36,112
♪ Just multiply it times infiny ♪
1707
01:07:36,147 --> 01:07:37,577
♪ Spiritually elevate so I ♪
1708
01:07:37,612 --> 01:07:39,612
♪ Commit a drive-by
while I sky-dive ♪
1709
01:07:40,112 --> 01:07:43,612
♪ Sip a mai tai and perform
shit only conceived in sci-fi ♪
1710
01:07:43,647 --> 01:07:44,612
♪ So why try and test? ♪
1711
01:07:45,112 --> 01:07:47,112
♪ It's boom, bye-bye,
mr. Ice grill guy ♪
1712
01:07:47,612 --> 01:07:49,070
♪ You must be looking
somewhere else ♪
1713
01:07:49,105 --> 01:07:50,493
♪ Like biggie smalls' lazy eye, ha ♪
1714
01:07:50,528 --> 01:07:52,612
Now, I think when niggas
listen to some of your shit,
1715
01:07:52,647 --> 01:07:54,612
they are insulted by your intelligence,
1716
01:07:54,647 --> 01:07:56,112
and they don't like you. Right.
1717
01:07:56,612 --> 01:07:57,862
They're like, "ah, no, fuck, what... "
1718
01:07:57,897 --> 01:07:59,077
You know, you let a
nigga listen to that.
1719
01:07:59,112 --> 01:08:01,362
I'll put it on in front
of some thug niggas, like,
1720
01:08:01,397 --> 01:08:03,612
they're, uh... They'll
listen to about two minutes,
1721
01:08:03,647 --> 01:08:04,629
and, "fuck this nigga, man. "
1722
01:08:04,664 --> 01:08:05,612
It's just too much information.
1723
01:08:05,647 --> 01:08:07,077
I love it.
1724
01:08:07,112 --> 01:08:08,779
Like, "fucking, I mean,
what is he at?" All right.
1725
01:08:08,814 --> 01:08:10,328
Well, I force you think. Yeah.
1726
01:08:10,363 --> 01:08:12,412
You know what I'm saying?
And they don't like that.
1727
01:08:12,447 --> 01:08:14,460
But I... I can't be mad at the result,
1728
01:08:14,495 --> 01:08:17,612
and I figured the people...
And ironically my fan base
1729
01:08:17,647 --> 01:08:20,660
has always kind of been two extremes.
1730
01:08:20,695 --> 01:08:23,196
You know who got enough
time to fucking learn?
1731
01:08:23,231 --> 01:08:24,161
Right.
1732
01:08:24,196 --> 01:08:25,662
People in college and niggas in prison.
1733
01:08:25,697 --> 01:08:27,196
Right. And those are my fans.
1734
01:08:27,231 --> 01:08:28,363
Wow, that's a jewel.
1735
01:08:28,398 --> 01:08:29,460
Those are my fans.
1736
01:08:29,495 --> 01:08:32,079
Can you explain your technique
1737
01:08:32,578 --> 01:08:34,261
when you writing your best lyrics?
1738
01:08:34,296 --> 01:08:35,910
Like what... Where's you head at?
1739
01:08:35,945 --> 01:08:39,154
I don't know how I did it. For my
junior high, I stole the school desk.
1740
01:08:39,189 --> 01:08:42,363
I don't know how I stole it, but
it was at the crib, and everybody...
1741
01:08:42,398 --> 01:08:44,862
Badass niggas'll, xhibit'll
tell you I had a school desk.
1742
01:08:44,897 --> 01:08:46,862
So I had the school desk,
and I would go to school,
1743
01:08:47,363 --> 01:08:48,862
you know what I'm saying,
when I was writing my rhymes.
1744
01:08:48,897 --> 01:08:50,827
That was... that was your writing chair.
1745
01:08:50,862 --> 01:08:52,363
That was my writing chair,
and I'd sit at the little...
1746
01:08:52,398 --> 01:08:53,862
You know, the wooden
ones like, you know...
1747
01:08:53,897 --> 01:08:55,327
Right, right.
1748
01:08:55,362 --> 01:08:56,862
And I'd go to school,
'cause I took it seriously.
1749
01:08:56,897 --> 01:08:59,362
This is my homework.
I gotta put my work in.
1750
01:08:59,397 --> 01:09:00,629
So, um, I started like that,
1751
01:09:00,664 --> 01:09:01,862
and that was my comfort zone.
1752
01:09:02,362 --> 01:09:03,862
And then of course you
get into the business,
1753
01:09:03,897 --> 01:09:05,827
and whatever, you may move or whatever,
1754
01:09:05,862 --> 01:09:07,862
so then I started having
to write on the spot,
1755
01:09:07,897 --> 01:09:08,862
you know what I'm saying? Right, right.
1756
01:09:08,897 --> 01:09:10,827
So then we're in the studio,
1757
01:09:10,862 --> 01:09:12,862
and dre gives a nigga a notebook
and says, "what you got?"
1758
01:09:12,897 --> 01:09:13,827
Right. Well, I don't...
1759
01:09:13,862 --> 01:09:16,327
Can't go home and go
get the school desk.
1760
01:09:16,362 --> 01:09:20,329
So now I'm just a... You
know, I can write anyway.
1761
01:09:20,364 --> 01:09:21,279
Were you doing xzibit, too?
1762
01:09:21,314 --> 01:09:22,794
I can't find xzibit.
1763
01:09:22,829 --> 01:09:24,794
Hold on. He right up the street.
1764
01:09:24,829 --> 01:09:26,329
Him and b-real, they
got a studio together.
1765
01:09:26,695 --> 01:09:28,779
I'm gonna send you his number,
'cause he not answering the phone.
1766
01:09:28,814 --> 01:09:30,244
Okay.
1767
01:09:30,279 --> 01:09:32,279
But I'll... I'll send you
his house number and his...
1768
01:09:32,314 --> 01:09:33,362
That's good luck. Hold on.
1769
01:09:38,196 --> 01:09:40,612
What's your technique
when you really going in?
1770
01:09:40,647 --> 01:09:42,660
When I go in, I usually...
1771
01:09:42,695 --> 01:09:44,262
I still write on pen and paper.
1772
01:09:44,297 --> 01:09:46,079
Call me old-fashioned, but fuck it,
1773
01:09:46,114 --> 01:09:47,827
you know what I'm saying? Like, for me,
1774
01:09:47,862 --> 01:09:53,445
it's something to be said
about the way I memorize things,
1775
01:09:53,480 --> 01:09:55,528
because I have to write
it down and repeat it...
1776
01:09:55,563 --> 01:09:57,279
Mm-Hmm. And then when I repeat it,
1777
01:09:57,314 --> 01:09:58,961
then it's here, and I never lose it.
1778
01:09:58,996 --> 01:10:01,994
Sometimes I can go in
the studio, hear a beat,
1779
01:10:02,029 --> 01:10:04,577
get inspired, write it in
15 minutes, spit it, done.
1780
01:10:04,612 --> 01:10:08,112
And then sometimes I hear a
beat, and I write a piece to it,
1781
01:10:08,147 --> 01:10:10,629
and then I'll come back
around a month later
1782
01:10:10,664 --> 01:10:13,077
and fill the rest down
because of this piece,
1783
01:10:13,112 --> 01:10:16,720
I've been milling over it,
and I got a concept now.
1784
01:10:16,755 --> 01:10:20,328
When I say something and
just start writing fast,
1785
01:10:20,363 --> 01:10:21,829
and then... And then I just copy...
1786
01:10:22,328 --> 01:10:23,829
And then you try to say something to me,
1787
01:10:23,864 --> 01:10:26,328
like... Wait, wait, wait.
1788
01:10:26,363 --> 01:10:28,829
Wait. I got it!
1789
01:10:28,864 --> 01:10:30,293
Aah!
1790
01:10:30,328 --> 01:10:31,829
Okay, now, what's up?
1791
01:10:31,864 --> 01:10:32,794
Right.
1792
01:10:32,829 --> 01:10:34,293
That's what I'm talking about,
1793
01:10:34,328 --> 01:10:36,078
you just feel it. You feel it, like...
1794
01:10:36,113 --> 01:10:37,794
Yeah. It's that line that you know...
1795
01:10:37,829 --> 01:10:40,328
If you know what it feel
like to rip a crowd...
1796
01:10:40,829 --> 01:10:41,794
Right. Or hold a mic
1797
01:10:41,829 --> 01:10:43,328
and get in front of people,
1798
01:10:43,829 --> 01:10:45,829
and then they respond to
that, call and response,
1799
01:10:45,864 --> 01:10:47,328
the energy, movement, you can feel it,
1800
01:10:47,829 --> 01:10:49,794
you could move it around in your head,
1801
01:10:49,829 --> 01:10:52,328
then that's the line
that needs to be written.
1802
01:10:52,363 --> 01:10:54,794
If you feel it, if you study it,
1803
01:10:54,829 --> 01:10:56,794
if you know that... What's
coming right after that,
1804
01:10:56,829 --> 01:10:59,779
or you can think five lines
down and work your way back up.
1805
01:10:59,814 --> 01:11:01,571
Yeah. You know what I'm saying?
1806
01:11:01,606 --> 01:11:03,328
If you... if you on it like that,
1807
01:11:03,363 --> 01:11:04,961
then, I mean, come on.
1808
01:11:04,996 --> 01:11:07,079
All right, motherfuckers,
bring out your ballistics.
1809
01:11:07,114 --> 01:11:09,044
You know you can't fuck with me,
1810
01:11:09,079 --> 01:11:11,578
because if you could've,
you would've did it by now.
1811
01:11:11,613 --> 01:11:12,543
Fuck off.
1812
01:11:12,578 --> 01:11:14,044
X to the motherfucking z.
1813
01:11:14,079 --> 01:11:16,528
West coast representing, bitch.
1814
01:11:27,412 --> 01:11:30,412
♪ I want to get high ♪
1815
01:11:30,447 --> 01:11:33,210
♪ So high ♪
1816
01:11:33,245 --> 01:11:36,245
♪ I want to get high ♪
1817
01:11:36,280 --> 01:11:39,127
♪ So high... ♪
1818
01:11:39,162 --> 01:11:40,710
Let me tell you, I'm...
1819
01:11:40,745 --> 01:11:41,660
I was... I was hanging around muggs.
1820
01:11:41,695 --> 01:11:44,245
Muggs was living with
aladdin at the time.
1821
01:11:44,280 --> 01:11:46,245
Right. And I heard, uh...
1822
01:11:46,280 --> 01:11:47,710
I think it's, uh,
1823
01:11:47,745 --> 01:11:49,662
♪ sawed-off shotgun,
hand on the... ♪
1824
01:11:49,697 --> 01:11:51,221
Right. I heard the track,
1825
01:11:51,256 --> 01:11:52,710
the ♪ dunh, Tch, doo doo ♪
1826
01:11:52,745 --> 01:11:54,245
And I'm asking muggs, "what's that?"
1827
01:11:54,280 --> 01:11:55,762
And he said, "this is cypress hill. "
1828
01:11:55,797 --> 01:11:57,245
And I'm like, "what is cypress hill?"
1829
01:11:57,745 --> 01:12:00,245
But I didn't... I never heard
none of the vocals over it,
1830
01:12:00,280 --> 01:12:02,210
and I'm, like, listening to it.
1831
01:12:02,245 --> 01:12:04,745
I said, "well, that shit's
funky, whatever it's gonna be. "
1832
01:12:04,780 --> 01:12:06,762
And then when I heard it, I was like,
1833
01:12:06,797 --> 01:12:08,996
"oh, my god, this shit sounded crazy. "
1834
01:12:09,031 --> 01:12:11,195
But I think when you
came out, the whole...
1835
01:12:11,745 --> 01:12:15,245
The vocal delivery was so unique.
1836
01:12:15,662 --> 01:12:18,245
Now, here's a question I'm
gonna come right out and ask.
1837
01:12:18,280 --> 01:12:19,762
Right. Did b-real always sound
1838
01:12:19,797 --> 01:12:21,245
like the b-real we know? No.
1839
01:12:21,280 --> 01:12:22,210
No. No.
1840
01:12:22,245 --> 01:12:24,195
It took... it took a
couple years to get that,
1841
01:12:24,230 --> 01:12:25,660
'cause when we started,
1842
01:12:25,695 --> 01:12:28,779
I was rapping in this
voice that I talk in,
1843
01:12:28,814 --> 01:12:30,327
and muggs didn't like it,
1844
01:12:30,362 --> 01:12:31,862
and sen dog was like, "I don't know.
1845
01:12:32,362 --> 01:12:33,327
The raps were dope. " Mm-Hmm.
1846
01:12:33,362 --> 01:12:35,327
But they came at me
like this. They said,
1847
01:12:35,362 --> 01:12:37,362
"hey, man, if you don't do
something about that voice,
1848
01:12:37,862 --> 01:12:40,362
man, we just gonna have you
write rhymes for sen dog. "
1849
01:12:40,397 --> 01:12:41,827
I'm like, "oh, shit. "
1850
01:12:41,862 --> 01:12:44,195
So, you know, I somehow figured out
1851
01:12:44,230 --> 01:12:46,321
how to pitch my voice a little bit,
1852
01:12:46,356 --> 01:12:48,377
you know, going a little bit higher.
1853
01:12:48,412 --> 01:12:50,453
When I was listening
to early cypress hill,
1854
01:12:50,488 --> 01:12:52,491
I'm like, "these
motherfuckers sound high.
1855
01:12:52,526 --> 01:12:54,460
"Like, they sound like the gangbangers
1856
01:12:54,495 --> 01:12:57,996
that you would not want to run into,
'cause they would be dusted... "
1857
01:12:58,495 --> 01:12:59,961
Right. "And they would shoot you
1858
01:12:59,996 --> 01:13:01,996
"on some bullshit like
you're the wrong person,
1859
01:13:02,031 --> 01:13:03,996
they just felt like shooting somebody. "
1860
01:13:04,031 --> 01:13:04,961
Right.
1861
01:13:04,996 --> 01:13:05,460
Right, right.
1862
01:13:05,495 --> 01:13:06,961
And... and for a time, man,
1863
01:13:06,996 --> 01:13:08,460
we were crazy like that, you know,
1864
01:13:08,495 --> 01:13:10,912
and, uh, that's where
a lot of the... the music
1865
01:13:10,947 --> 01:13:12,460
when we were creating it,
1866
01:13:12,495 --> 01:13:14,995
it reflected that lifestyle
and stuff like that.
1867
01:13:15,030 --> 01:13:17,460
But, you know, we also
were very competitive,
1868
01:13:17,495 --> 01:13:20,495
you know, especially muggs
with the production game,
1869
01:13:20,530 --> 01:13:22,263
because a... a lot of
his... his influences
1870
01:13:22,298 --> 01:13:23,961
were the bomb squad and stuff like that,
1871
01:13:23,996 --> 01:13:26,496
you know, and we were
all big public enemy fans,
1872
01:13:26,531 --> 01:13:28,961
and we all said to
ourselves, well, if we're...
1873
01:13:28,996 --> 01:13:31,495
If we're gonna get in this
game, if we're gonna represent,
1874
01:13:31,530 --> 01:13:33,961
we gotta be as good as
those guys, you know.
1875
01:13:33,996 --> 01:13:36,745
And... and they were like
one of my big influences,
1876
01:13:36,780 --> 01:13:39,495
and... and, uh, when I
was developing the voice,
1877
01:13:39,530 --> 01:13:41,263
there was... There was two things
1878
01:13:41,298 --> 01:13:42,961
that stood out to me in hip-hop
1879
01:13:42,996 --> 01:13:45,996
that I loved in... In all
the groups that were going on.
1880
01:13:46,031 --> 01:13:48,996
There was the beastie boys,
'cause they had a different,
1881
01:13:49,031 --> 01:13:50,961
you know, vocal pitch
than everybody else.
1882
01:13:50,996 --> 01:13:54,195
The other big influence was
public enemy and flava flav,
1883
01:13:54,230 --> 01:13:56,243
how his voice always cut through,
1884
01:13:56,278 --> 01:13:58,779
and I said, well, nobody's, you know...
1885
01:13:58,814 --> 01:14:00,243
Aside from the beastie boys,
1886
01:14:00,278 --> 01:14:01,779
nobody's really cutting
through like that,
1887
01:14:02,278 --> 01:14:05,278
so we... we became, as...
as far as our vocal tones,
1888
01:14:05,779 --> 01:14:06,794
public enemy in reverse.
1889
01:14:06,829 --> 01:14:08,912
♪ Stop scheming and
trying to look hard ♪
1890
01:14:09,412 --> 01:14:10,043
♪ I get my bodyguard ♪
1891
01:14:10,078 --> 01:14:11,662
♪ You get that booty scarred ♪
1892
01:14:12,161 --> 01:14:13,794
♪ I'm a veteran, which means ♪
1893
01:14:13,829 --> 01:14:15,829
♪ That I've been in
the game too long ♪
1894
01:14:15,864 --> 01:14:17,293
♪ Since the days of paper thin ♪
1895
01:14:17,328 --> 01:14:19,543
♪ Way back when I've
been putting it down ♪
1896
01:14:19,578 --> 01:14:22,111
♪ Ask your homie who's the baddest
bitch on this side of town ♪
1897
01:14:22,146 --> 01:14:25,029
♪ I float like a butterfly,
sting like a bee ♪
1898
01:14:25,064 --> 01:14:27,912
♪ Spectacular over m.
I.C., I go for broke ♪
1899
01:14:27,947 --> 01:14:29,863
♪ Never giving it
less than the best ♪
1900
01:14:29,898 --> 01:14:31,744
♪ Face off, 'cause
your shit is twisted ♪
1901
01:14:31,779 --> 01:14:34,779
♪ Screw up your mouth,
'cause this chick is gifted ♪
1902
01:14:34,814 --> 01:14:37,296
♪ I stay whippin' in
something you never seen ♪
1903
01:14:37,331 --> 01:14:39,779
♪ Ain't into flossing, but
I could put it on some ♪
1904
01:14:39,814 --> 01:14:41,243
♪ Call 'em at the crib ♪
1905
01:14:41,278 --> 01:14:43,779
♪ Tell 'em you just
lost 1, 2 and 3 ♪
1906
01:14:43,814 --> 01:14:45,796
♪ I'm about to run a boston ♪
1907
01:14:45,831 --> 01:14:47,554
♪ On, son, how come I'm on one? ♪
1908
01:14:47,589 --> 01:14:49,278
♪ I'm born free, you born dumb ♪
1909
01:14:49,313 --> 01:14:50,744
♪ I pack a fortune ♪
1910
01:14:50,779 --> 01:14:53,243
♪ My time is too much
for what it's costing ♪
1911
01:14:53,278 --> 01:14:55,779
♪ Hear any chick on the
mic, you know I taught them ♪
1912
01:14:55,814 --> 01:14:57,243
♪ What you just might get ♪
1913
01:14:57,278 --> 01:15:00,028
♪ Is a chick that spit
that wiz priceless ♪
1914
01:15:00,063 --> 01:15:02,779
♪ I made a decision
to play my position ♪
1915
01:15:03,278 --> 01:15:04,744
♪ And this is the place in my life ♪
1916
01:15:04,779 --> 01:15:06,245
♪ Where I start
delivering, you know why? ♪
1917
01:15:06,779 --> 01:15:08,278
♪ This game ain't
got nothing on me ♪
1918
01:15:08,779 --> 01:15:10,744
♪ None after, none before me ♪
1919
01:15:10,779 --> 01:15:13,470
♪ I put the work in,
I want the glory ♪
1920
01:15:13,505 --> 01:15:16,126
♪ Here's my chance
to tell my story ♪
1921
01:15:16,161 --> 01:15:19,293
Now, the first rhymes that
you actually did out on a stage
1922
01:15:19,328 --> 01:15:22,612
or you tried to perform, by then
you were writing your own stuff?
1923
01:15:22,647 --> 01:15:25,421
By the time I performed
on a stage for people,
1924
01:15:25,456 --> 01:15:28,195
I was performing I cram to understand u.
1925
01:15:28,230 --> 01:15:30,160
Mm. But prior to that,
1926
01:15:30,195 --> 01:15:32,660
george lucien, full force's father,
1927
01:15:32,695 --> 01:15:35,695
used to come to my
house every saturday...
1928
01:15:35,730 --> 01:15:37,712
Mm-Hmm. And I would practice,
1929
01:15:37,747 --> 01:15:39,695
because my voice was like this,
1930
01:15:40,195 --> 01:15:41,627
and that wasn't a rapper's voice.
1931
01:15:41,662 --> 01:15:43,695
Like there was... who was
I gonna get to listen to me?
1932
01:15:43,730 --> 01:15:45,660
You mean it was low and...
1933
01:15:45,695 --> 01:15:48,195
It was... it was teeny,
tiny, no weight to it.
1934
01:15:48,230 --> 01:15:49,160
Mm-Hmm, right.
1935
01:15:49,195 --> 01:15:50,660
And I would practice,
1936
01:15:50,695 --> 01:15:53,195
and he would say, "get
strong, and come from here,"
1937
01:15:53,230 --> 01:15:54,660
and... and for months,
1938
01:15:54,695 --> 01:15:57,195
I would sing
salt-n-pepa's songs
1939
01:15:57,230 --> 01:15:59,660
or rap them in my living room
1940
01:15:59,695 --> 01:16:03,695
until my vocal was strong
enough that, you know,
1941
01:16:03,730 --> 01:16:05,195
so we owe this to who?
1942
01:16:05,695 --> 01:16:06,660
'Cause you're known to have
1943
01:16:06,695 --> 01:16:09,195
one of the strongest
female mc voices. That's...
1944
01:16:09,230 --> 01:16:10,160
George lucien.
1945
01:16:10,195 --> 01:16:12,695
He... he developed this voice?
1946
01:16:12,730 --> 01:16:13,528
Absolutely.
1947
01:16:15,779 --> 01:16:19,076
The joy and the beauty of
being a... a hip-hop artist,
1948
01:16:19,111 --> 01:16:23,577
you can truly express who you
are and truly be who you are.
1949
01:16:23,612 --> 01:16:27,111
When you're a rapper, you... you get
to say what you think, what you feel.
1950
01:16:27,612 --> 01:16:29,076
People hear your perspective.
1951
01:16:29,111 --> 01:16:32,612
People hear your spirit and
your soul if you're using that,
1952
01:16:32,647 --> 01:16:34,076
and they hear your imagination
1953
01:16:34,111 --> 01:16:35,909
to be able to write a rhyme and say,
1954
01:16:35,944 --> 01:16:37,909
"look, this is what
my life has been about.
1955
01:16:37,944 --> 01:16:40,445
This is some of my purpose.
This is my perspective. "
1956
01:16:40,480 --> 01:16:42,944
People... people will
know what you think.
1957
01:16:42,979 --> 01:16:44,410
They know where you stand.
1958
01:16:44,445 --> 01:16:46,245
They know... they know
where you fly. Mm-Hmm.
1959
01:16:46,280 --> 01:16:47,710
♪ To the hiddip ♪
1960
01:16:47,745 --> 01:16:49,245
♪ The hop, you don't
stop, don't stop ♪
1961
01:16:49,280 --> 01:16:51,111
♪ Das efx with the real hip-hop ♪
1962
01:16:51,495 --> 01:16:52,362
♪ Hip-hop, to the hiddip ♪
1963
01:16:52,944 --> 01:16:55,495
♪ The hop, you don't
quit, don't quit... ♪
1964
01:16:55,530 --> 01:16:56,543
♪ I bust gat heat ♪
1965
01:16:56,578 --> 01:16:58,543
♪ Right here at fat beats ♪
1966
01:16:58,578 --> 01:17:02,078
♪ My man Ice-T, that is that heat ♪
1967
01:17:03,578 --> 01:17:05,078
♪ We here in I.A. Chilling ♪
1968
01:17:05,113 --> 01:17:06,845
♪ Krs always willing ♪
1969
01:17:06,880 --> 01:17:08,578
♪ Rhymes keep spilling ♪
1970
01:17:08,613 --> 01:17:10,345
♪ I'm off the top ♪
1971
01:17:10,380 --> 01:17:11,979
♪ Like what, the sun ♪
1972
01:17:12,014 --> 01:17:13,543
♪ My name is krs-one ♪
1973
01:17:13,578 --> 01:17:15,543
♪ These stars, you don't see none ♪
1974
01:17:15,578 --> 01:17:19,043
♪ When I come out,
you see all the day ♪
1975
01:17:19,078 --> 01:17:22,328
♪ These other whack
rappers, we blow 'em away ♪
1976
01:17:22,363 --> 01:17:25,578
♪ Why? 'Cause they don't
understand my cycle ♪
1977
01:17:25,613 --> 01:17:30,078
♪ I go from tape,
cd, back to vinyl ♪
1978
01:17:31,578 --> 01:17:34,543
♪ Shh, you cats ain't ready ♪
1979
01:17:34,578 --> 01:17:37,078
♪ I'll take it back to rock steady ♪
1980
01:17:37,578 --> 01:17:39,578
♪ And give you a classic medley ♪
1981
01:17:39,613 --> 01:17:43,578
♪ Me? I'm not bet or mtv ♪
1982
01:17:43,613 --> 01:17:45,528
♪ I'm
h- I-p-h-o-p ♪
1983
01:17:45,563 --> 01:17:47,826
Whoo! Freestyle.
1984
01:17:47,861 --> 01:17:50,078
There was a time when
you had never rapped,
1985
01:17:50,113 --> 01:17:51,612
you was a graffiti artist.
1986
01:17:51,944 --> 01:17:55,027
What made you say, "I
think I'm gonna do that. "
1987
01:17:55,062 --> 01:17:58,111
My first battle was in a
park in melrose projects.
1988
01:17:58,146 --> 01:17:59,612
What made... what made
you want to battle?
1989
01:17:59,647 --> 01:18:00,577
What made you even want...
1990
01:18:00,612 --> 01:18:02,612
A dude was talking about my clothes.
1991
01:18:03,578 --> 01:18:06,612
Um, there was... It was an mc cypher,
1992
01:18:06,647 --> 01:18:08,612
and I was not there...
1993
01:18:09,111 --> 01:18:12,076
I was watching the cypher.
1994
01:18:12,111 --> 01:18:16,612
And dude was like, "and like this
dude with his tore-up jeans. "
1995
01:18:16,647 --> 01:18:17,879
I was like, "Ohh!"
1996
01:18:17,914 --> 01:18:19,111
Crowd's screaming.
1997
01:18:19,612 --> 01:18:21,111
I'm like, "Ohh," my jeans was whack,
1998
01:18:21,612 --> 01:18:23,076
everything is whack, I'm whack,
1999
01:18:23,111 --> 01:18:25,612
everything was whack, and
dude was pointing it out.
2000
01:18:25,647 --> 01:18:28,076
Nigga just picked you out the crowd.
2001
01:18:28,111 --> 01:18:30,612
He just picked... I'm there
watching with everybody else.
2002
01:18:30,647 --> 01:18:33,076
He like, "yo, and him, like him,"
2003
01:18:33,111 --> 01:18:35,612
and that's when I
said, "yo, no, hold up,
2004
01:18:36,111 --> 01:18:37,612
I have to say something. "
2005
01:18:38,111 --> 01:18:39,612
And, uh... And I actually did.
2006
01:18:39,647 --> 01:18:40,577
I jumped out right there,
2007
01:18:40,612 --> 01:18:42,861
and I did like a little freestyle
2008
01:18:42,896 --> 01:18:45,111
based on what I heard right there.
2009
01:18:45,612 --> 01:18:47,112
I did a quick piece off the top,
2010
01:18:47,147 --> 01:18:48,612
defended myself, and it was dope.
2011
01:18:48,647 --> 01:18:50,076
And then you said...
2012
01:18:50,111 --> 01:18:52,111
And I said... and everybody
patting you on the back
2013
01:18:52,146 --> 01:18:53,993
like, "yeah, you gave it to him. "
2014
01:18:54,028 --> 01:18:56,578
And then I was like,
"whoa, this is not bad.
2015
01:18:56,613 --> 01:18:58,387
"Yo, you know what?
2016
01:18:58,422 --> 01:19:00,126
I'm gonna do this. "
2017
01:19:00,161 --> 01:19:02,661
So we really owe the birth of krs-one
2018
01:19:02,696 --> 01:19:05,161
to some nigga who just out of nowhere...
2019
01:19:05,196 --> 01:19:06,627
Out of nowhere.
2020
01:19:06,662 --> 01:19:08,470
Picked you out the crowd and dissed you?
2021
01:19:08,505 --> 01:19:10,278
Yeah, started dissing, out the crowd.
2022
01:19:21,828 --> 01:19:26,161
Some mcs get their
notoriety through battling,
2023
01:19:26,196 --> 01:19:28,053
meaning that... Back in the days,
2024
01:19:28,088 --> 01:19:29,876
we used to call it the dozens.
2025
01:19:29,911 --> 01:19:34,861
Slaves were sold one by one
unless there was a defect,
2026
01:19:34,896 --> 01:19:38,362
their leg was hurt, an arm was severed,
2027
01:19:38,397 --> 01:19:40,909
mental issues, maybe sick.
2028
01:19:40,944 --> 01:19:44,969
Those people were sold, um, in a dozen.
2029
01:19:45,004 --> 01:19:48,995
So slaves would start
going back and forth
2030
01:19:49,030 --> 01:19:51,012
with each other, saying, uh, well,
2031
01:19:51,047 --> 01:19:52,995
"your head's bigger than your neck,
2032
01:19:53,412 --> 01:19:55,703
"and that makes you a lollipop.
2033
01:19:55,738 --> 01:19:57,995
"Ahh. Your mother is so this,
2034
01:19:58,495 --> 01:19:59,460
I could do that. "
2035
01:19:59,495 --> 01:20:01,786
"Ahh. " And everybody
would laugh at you.
2036
01:20:01,821 --> 01:20:04,078
Then it eventually became the dozens.
2037
01:20:04,113 --> 01:20:06,793
So the idea of battling,
2038
01:20:06,828 --> 01:20:10,161
coming out of this
tradition called the dozens,
2039
01:20:10,196 --> 01:20:13,487
where you verbally attack your opponent
2040
01:20:13,522 --> 01:20:16,743
and your opponent verbally attacks you
2041
01:20:16,778 --> 01:20:20,911
until somebody breaks down
and either wants to fight,
2042
01:20:20,946 --> 01:20:22,826
cries, whatever it is,
2043
01:20:22,861 --> 01:20:27,245
or... or a judge deems the
battle won by either opponent.
2044
01:20:27,280 --> 01:20:30,744
This trickles over into rapping.
2045
01:20:30,779 --> 01:20:32,043
It was zulu nation
2046
01:20:32,078 --> 01:20:33,626
that first brought up the idea
2047
01:20:33,661 --> 01:20:36,161
of we don't have to shoot at each other
2048
01:20:36,196 --> 01:20:38,661
or beat on each other or... or this.
2049
01:20:39,161 --> 01:20:42,719
We can actually use this
tradition of the dozens
2050
01:20:42,754 --> 01:20:46,278
to actually have verbal
warfare through art.
2051
01:20:46,313 --> 01:20:48,362
♪ Defeating chino's an oxymoron ♪
2052
01:20:48,397 --> 01:20:49,826
♪ Like happy marriage ♪
2053
01:20:49,861 --> 01:20:51,861
♪ I allow for there to
be churches all around ♪
2054
01:20:51,896 --> 01:20:53,362
♪ My neighbors are tired of people ♪
2055
01:20:53,397 --> 01:20:55,112
♪ Worshipping outside of my house ♪
2056
01:20:55,147 --> 01:20:56,828
♪ These entertainers
names and lines ♪
2057
01:20:56,863 --> 01:20:58,293
♪ I started those ♪
2058
01:20:58,328 --> 01:21:00,362
♪ Big chino created
from god's particles ♪
2059
01:21:00,861 --> 01:21:02,861
♪ What flows from my
abdominals, abominable ♪
2060
01:21:02,896 --> 01:21:04,362
♪ Nonvulnerable, part animal ♪
2061
01:21:04,861 --> 01:21:06,111
♪ Dark paranormal like ghosts ♪
2062
01:21:06,146 --> 01:21:07,327
♪ Man, I hate these rappers ♪
2063
01:21:07,362 --> 01:21:08,861
♪ "Why don't you off
'em?" I hear it often ♪
2064
01:21:08,896 --> 01:21:10,327
♪ When I'm gone, son ♪
2065
01:21:10,362 --> 01:21:11,862
♪ They won't be worth a
splinter in my coffin ♪
2066
01:21:11,897 --> 01:21:13,362
♪ But once I auction
off my crown of thorns ♪
2067
01:21:13,397 --> 01:21:14,826
♪ There's no more ♪
2068
01:21:14,861 --> 01:21:16,861
♪ Me fall is what they
invented the word "never" for ♪
2069
01:21:17,362 --> 01:21:19,611
♪ Every rapper should
change their name to nas ♪
2070
01:21:19,646 --> 01:21:21,861
♪ 'Cause when they ask,
"can you outspit chino?" ♪
2071
01:21:21,896 --> 01:21:24,695
♪ All you'll hear
is a lot of "Nah" s ♪
2072
01:21:24,730 --> 01:21:28,112
If you say the right
combination of words
2073
01:21:28,147 --> 01:21:31,495
that makes a crowd go,
"ooh," or, "I agree.
2074
01:21:31,530 --> 01:21:33,495
That's right. He does look like that,"
2075
01:21:33,995 --> 01:21:36,626
you know, then you win the day.
2076
01:21:36,661 --> 01:21:38,702
♪ I'm wise, you could
learn it from me ♪
2077
01:21:38,737 --> 01:21:40,744
♪ Impregnate you
with so many bullets ♪
2078
01:21:40,779 --> 01:21:42,245
♪ You could take maternity leave ♪
2079
01:21:42,280 --> 01:21:43,709
♪ I'm gonna say this ♪
2080
01:21:43,744 --> 01:21:45,245
♪ And I say this
with a jaded cadence ♪
2081
01:21:45,280 --> 01:21:46,709
♪ I'm dedicated to hatred ♪
2082
01:21:46,744 --> 01:21:48,244
♪ Escaping off satan's playlist ♪
2083
01:21:48,279 --> 01:21:49,744
♪ I'm dangerous when I communicate ♪
2084
01:21:50,245 --> 01:21:51,245
♪ What I'm thinking, brain-dead ♪
2085
01:21:51,280 --> 01:21:52,709
♪ I'll spit in morse code ♪
2086
01:21:52,744 --> 01:21:54,744
♪ Write down what I'm blinking ♪
2087
01:21:54,779 --> 01:21:55,709
♪ Rhyme contortionist ♪
2088
01:21:55,744 --> 01:21:57,786
♪ Shot my way out
of hell's orphanage ♪
2089
01:21:57,821 --> 01:22:00,299
♪ Using a slingshot
and live scorpions ♪
2090
01:22:00,334 --> 01:22:02,778
Some guys that use
vocabulary as a weapon
2091
01:22:02,813 --> 01:22:05,327
almost just to brag or show.
2092
01:22:05,362 --> 01:22:07,826
So kind of what I do in that sense
2093
01:22:07,861 --> 01:22:10,362
is like, um, ♪ braggadocious,
rhythmic vernacular ♪
2094
01:22:10,397 --> 01:22:11,826
♪ Designed to back you up ♪
2095
01:22:11,861 --> 01:22:12,826
♪ I back it up with
the spectacular ♪
2096
01:22:12,861 --> 01:22:14,594
♪ Yet just a fraction
of my perpendicular ♪
2097
01:22:14,629 --> 01:22:16,328
♪ With no particular
linear structure ♪
2098
01:22:16,363 --> 01:22:17,327
♪ I'm giving you ruptures ♪
2099
01:22:17,362 --> 01:22:18,826
♪ As I erupt into your cerebellum ♪
2100
01:22:18,861 --> 01:22:20,362
♪ I tried to tell
'em, I open a vortex ♪
2101
01:22:20,861 --> 01:22:21,861
♪ Your cerebral cortex
sends a reaction ♪
2102
01:22:21,896 --> 01:22:23,362
♪ That has 'em like a spasm ♪
2103
01:22:23,861 --> 01:22:25,611
♪ Upon further review, you
see it was lyrical orgasm ♪
2104
01:22:25,646 --> 01:22:27,487
♪ How did it happen? You
can't even describe the vibe ♪
2105
01:22:27,522 --> 01:22:29,442
♪ What was the essence of
god's presence felt inside? ♪
2106
01:22:29,477 --> 01:22:31,419
♪ Bestowed upon you from the
moment I dropped it on you ♪
2107
01:22:31,454 --> 01:22:33,362
♪ I strike like a diva tonight
and can't nobody warn you ♪
2108
01:22:33,397 --> 01:22:35,328
♪ I'm on you, I got
that truly godlike ♪
2109
01:22:35,363 --> 01:22:36,327
♪ Metaphysical, neolithical ♪
2110
01:22:36,362 --> 01:22:38,111
♪ Ask what you see
in me, lyrical deity ♪
2111
01:22:38,146 --> 01:22:39,826
♪ Hip-hop's pantheon,
one step beyond ♪
2112
01:22:39,861 --> 01:22:41,826
♪ So I stand beyond whatever
shaitan's fans be on ♪
2113
01:22:41,861 --> 01:22:43,826
♪ I lights 'em up like neon,
locks 'em down like deion ♪
2114
01:22:43,861 --> 01:22:46,111
♪ Reclaimed my title three times
like ali when he beat leon ♪
2115
01:22:46,146 --> 01:22:48,670
♪ And that's what I
be on for the peon ♪
2116
01:22:48,705 --> 01:22:51,160
I remember the first
rap battle I ever lost,
2117
01:22:51,195 --> 01:22:54,195
and I had this, ♪ hey,
chris, you want to see me? ♪
2118
01:22:54,230 --> 01:22:56,160
♪ You running like a
squirrel up a tree ♪
2119
01:22:56,195 --> 01:22:58,195
So I'm like, you know, I'm
like a little kid and stuff,
2120
01:22:58,230 --> 01:22:59,712
and I had this whole thing planned,
2121
01:22:59,747 --> 01:23:01,160
'cause I was supposed to be the rapper,
2122
01:23:01,195 --> 01:23:04,195
and this one dude was feeling
like he could beat me in school,
2123
01:23:04,230 --> 01:23:08,160
and, um, he had this...
His rap, uh, Nah.
2124
01:23:08,195 --> 01:23:09,694
This whole thing, he
said, "man, you know what?"
2125
01:23:10,195 --> 01:23:11,659
You gotta go first.
You gotta go first. "
2126
01:23:11,694 --> 01:23:14,694
So I spit this whole
long rap, and he's like...
2127
01:23:14,729 --> 01:23:17,694
He's like, "okay, cool.
" And he said, "yo... "
2128
01:23:17,729 --> 01:23:20,160
Uh, his response to my rap was,
2129
01:23:20,195 --> 01:23:22,659
♪ yo, what's up? My name is chris ♪
2130
01:23:22,694 --> 01:23:25,694
♪ Let me tell me one
thing, you smell like piss ♪
2131
01:23:26,195 --> 01:23:28,195
Right? And everybody's like, "ahh!"
2132
01:23:28,230 --> 01:23:29,987
Everybody started running off,
2133
01:23:30,022 --> 01:23:31,709
so I lost my first rap battle.
2134
01:23:31,744 --> 01:23:34,078
Part of the reason why
my raps are so simple now.
2135
01:23:34,113 --> 01:23:35,626
Way more simplicity,
2136
01:23:35,661 --> 01:23:36,909
just get to the point, you know.
2137
01:23:36,944 --> 01:23:39,993
♪ Penitentiary chances,
the devil dances ♪
2138
01:23:40,028 --> 01:23:42,777
♪ And eventually answers
to the call of autumn ♪
2139
01:23:42,812 --> 01:23:45,527
♪ All them fallin' for
the love of ballin' ♪
2140
01:23:45,562 --> 01:23:46,459
♪ Get caught with 30 rocks ♪
2141
01:23:46,494 --> 01:23:48,028
♪ The cop look like alec baldwin ♪
2142
01:23:48,063 --> 01:23:49,492
♪ End-of-century
anthems ♪
2143
01:23:49,527 --> 01:23:51,527
♪ Based off inner-city tantrums ♪
2144
01:23:51,562 --> 01:23:53,492
♪ Based off the way we was branded ♪
2145
01:23:53,527 --> 01:23:55,993
♪ Face it, jerome get
more time than brandon ♪
2146
01:23:56,028 --> 01:23:58,494
♪ And at the airport, they
check all through my bag ♪
2147
01:23:58,529 --> 01:24:00,028
♪ And tell me that it's random ♪
2148
01:24:00,063 --> 01:24:01,492
♪ But we stay winning ♪
2149
01:24:01,527 --> 01:24:02,993
♪ This week has been a bad massage ♪
2150
01:24:03,028 --> 01:24:05,527
♪ I need a happy ending
and a new beginning ♪
2151
01:24:05,562 --> 01:24:06,993
♪ And a new fitted ♪
2152
01:24:07,028 --> 01:24:09,527
♪ And some job opportunities
that's lucrative ♪
2153
01:24:09,562 --> 01:24:10,993
♪ This the real world ♪
2154
01:24:11,028 --> 01:24:12,277
♪ Homie, school's finished ♪
2155
01:24:12,312 --> 01:24:13,670
♪ They done stole your dreams ♪
2156
01:24:13,705 --> 01:24:14,993
♪ You don't know who did it ♪
2157
01:24:15,028 --> 01:24:17,527
♪ I treat the cash the
way government treat aids ♪
2158
01:24:18,028 --> 01:24:20,528
♪ I won't be satisfied
till all my niggas get it ♪
2159
01:24:20,563 --> 01:24:23,028
♪ Is hip-hop just a euphemism
for a new religion? ♪
2160
01:24:23,494 --> 01:24:24,761
♪ The soul music of the slaves ♪
2161
01:24:24,796 --> 01:24:25,993
♪ That the youth is missing? ♪
2162
01:24:26,028 --> 01:24:28,492
♪ But this is more than
just my road to redemption ♪
2163
01:24:28,527 --> 01:24:31,527
♪ Malcolm west had the whole
nation standing at attention ♪
2164
01:24:31,562 --> 01:24:33,028
♪ As long as I'm in polo smiling ♪
2165
01:24:33,063 --> 01:24:33,995
♪ They think they got me ♪
2166
01:24:34,527 --> 01:24:35,761
♪ But they'll try to crack me ♪
2167
01:24:35,796 --> 01:24:36,960
♪ If they ever see a black me ♪
2168
01:24:36,995 --> 01:24:39,527
♪ I thought I chose a field
where they couldn't sack me ♪
2169
01:24:39,562 --> 01:24:40,995
♪ If a nigga ain't
shooting a jump shot ♪
2170
01:24:41,030 --> 01:24:42,492
♪ Running a track meet ♪
2171
01:24:42,527 --> 01:24:45,261
♪ But this pimp is at
the top of mount olympus ♪
2172
01:24:45,296 --> 01:24:48,162
♪ Ready to the world's
games, this is my olympics ♪
2173
01:24:48,197 --> 01:24:51,028
♪ We make 'em say, "ho,"
'cause the game's so pimpish ♪
2174
01:24:51,063 --> 01:24:53,795
♪ Choke a south park
writer with a fish stick ♪
2175
01:24:53,830 --> 01:24:56,429
♪ I insist that y'all
get up off of this dick ♪
2176
01:24:56,464 --> 01:24:58,993
♪ And these drugs,
niggas can't resist it ♪
2177
01:24:59,028 --> 01:25:01,527
♪ Remind me when they
try, to have ali enlisted ♪
2178
01:25:01,562 --> 01:25:03,028
♪ If I ever wasn't
the greatest nigga ♪
2179
01:25:03,063 --> 01:25:04,492
♪ I must have missed it ♪
2180
01:25:04,527 --> 01:25:05,993
♪ I need mo' drinks
and less lights ♪
2181
01:25:06,028 --> 01:25:08,993
♪ And that american apparel
girl in just tights ♪
2182
01:25:09,028 --> 01:25:11,527
♪ She told the director, "I'm
trying to get into school" ♪
2183
01:25:12,028 --> 01:25:14,527
♪ He told her, "take them
glasses off and get in the pool" ♪
2184
01:25:14,562 --> 01:25:16,527
♪ It's been a while
since I watched the news ♪
2185
01:25:16,562 --> 01:25:18,044
♪ 'Cause like a crip said ♪
2186
01:25:18,079 --> 01:25:19,553
♪ I got way too many blues ♪
2187
01:25:19,588 --> 01:25:20,993
♪ For any more bad news ♪
2188
01:25:21,028 --> 01:25:22,527
♪ I was looking at my résumé ♪
2189
01:25:23,028 --> 01:25:24,277
♪ Feeling real fresh today ♪
2190
01:25:24,312 --> 01:25:25,492
♪ They rewrite history ♪
2191
01:25:25,527 --> 01:25:26,993
♪ I don't believe in yesterday ♪
2192
01:25:27,028 --> 01:25:28,777
♪ And what's a black
beatle anyway? ♪
2193
01:25:28,812 --> 01:25:30,669
♪ A fucking roach,
I guess that's why ♪
2194
01:25:30,704 --> 01:25:32,615
♪ They got me sittin'
in fucking coach ♪
2195
01:25:32,650 --> 01:25:34,492
♪ My guy said I need
a different approach ♪
2196
01:25:34,527 --> 01:25:37,028
♪ 'Cause people is looking
at me like I'm sniffing coke ♪
2197
01:25:37,063 --> 01:25:39,795
♪ It ain't funny anymore,
try different jokes ♪
2198
01:25:39,830 --> 01:25:42,527
♪ Tell 'em and hug and
kiss my ass, x and o ♪
2199
01:25:42,562 --> 01:25:44,527
♪ And kiss the ring
while they at it ♪
2200
01:25:44,562 --> 01:25:45,795
♪ Do my thing while I got it ♪
2201
01:25:45,830 --> 01:25:47,028
♪ Play strings for the dramatic ♪
2202
01:25:47,527 --> 01:25:48,527
♪ Ain't none of that whack shit ♪
2203
01:25:49,028 --> 01:25:51,492
♪ Act like I ain't had
a belt in two classes ♪
2204
01:25:51,527 --> 01:25:54,028
♪ I ain't got it, I'm Comin'
after whoever who has it ♪
2205
01:25:54,063 --> 01:25:56,795
♪ I'm coming after
whoever who has it ♪
2206
01:25:56,830 --> 01:25:59,527
♪ You blowing up,
that's good, fantastic ♪
2207
01:25:59,562 --> 01:26:01,993
♪ That y'all, it's like that y'all ♪
2208
01:26:02,028 --> 01:26:04,492
♪ I don't really give
a fuck about it at all ♪
2209
01:26:04,527 --> 01:26:07,028
♪ 'Cause the same people
that try to blackball me ♪
2210
01:26:07,063 --> 01:26:10,527
♪ Forgot about two
things, my black balls ♪
2211
01:26:10,562 --> 01:26:11,210
♪ Hit it ♪
2212
01:26:11,245 --> 01:26:13,793
♪ Yeah, whoo... ♪
2213
01:26:13,828 --> 01:26:15,292
Victory on the street is one thing.
2214
01:26:15,327 --> 01:26:20,694
Blowing the minds of 10,000
people in a concert is another.
2215
01:26:20,729 --> 01:26:25,778
Run-dmc took the live show
to a whole 'nother level.
2216
01:26:25,813 --> 01:26:27,709
You guys took it to a level
2217
01:26:27,744 --> 01:26:29,778
that made everybody go, "y'all
think this is just rap. "
2218
01:26:30,278 --> 01:26:31,778
This is the biggest shit in the world. "
2219
01:26:32,245 --> 01:26:33,243
And when you came out,
2220
01:26:33,278 --> 01:26:35,278
♪ yo, yo, yo dmc is my name ♪
2221
01:26:35,313 --> 01:26:36,743
And... and it's like...
2222
01:26:36,778 --> 01:26:37,778
Well, can I have your attention, please?
2223
01:26:38,278 --> 01:26:38,743
Just fold my arms.
2224
01:26:38,778 --> 01:26:40,278
Yeah, you know. All run out. Run.
2225
01:26:40,313 --> 01:26:42,245
♪ Run, run, run, run ♪
2226
01:26:42,280 --> 01:26:42,778
Oh, shit. Like...
2227
01:26:43,278 --> 01:26:44,743
I was like what the fuck is going on?
2228
01:26:44,778 --> 01:26:46,778
You know what? We
turned it into a concert.
2229
01:26:46,813 --> 01:26:47,709
I'd never seen it.
2230
01:26:47,744 --> 01:26:50,160
We turned the block
party into a concert,
2231
01:26:50,195 --> 01:26:52,911
'cause we would bust in
there, ♪ here we go ♪
2232
01:26:52,946 --> 01:26:54,220
♪ Dmc and... ♪
2233
01:26:54,255 --> 01:26:55,494
Just, "whose house?"
2234
01:26:55,995 --> 01:26:57,494
Like, it was crazy for 'em.
2235
01:26:57,995 --> 01:26:59,492
They couldn't fuck with that, baby.
2236
01:26:59,527 --> 01:27:02,886
Run-dmc was at the
top of the food chain.
2237
01:27:02,921 --> 01:27:06,245
No other group in rap was on your level.
2238
01:27:06,280 --> 01:27:07,709
Right.
2239
01:27:07,744 --> 01:27:09,245
You're standing at
the top of the pyramid.
2240
01:27:09,280 --> 01:27:10,277
Right. What's that like?
2241
01:27:10,312 --> 01:27:11,327
Run might have knew.
2242
01:27:11,828 --> 01:27:13,326
Okay. He had ego.
2243
01:27:13,361 --> 01:27:16,292
My shit was... My shit was this.
2244
01:27:16,327 --> 01:27:19,327
You turn to the left, there's
fucking chuck coming at you.
2245
01:27:20,361 --> 01:27:21,778
You turn to the right, there's raki...
2246
01:27:22,361 --> 01:27:23,694
You turn over there,
there's the piece...
2247
01:27:23,729 --> 01:27:25,210
You turn over there, there's ll.
2248
01:27:25,245 --> 01:27:26,743
You turn over there, there's kool g rap.
2249
01:27:26,778 --> 01:27:28,778
You turn over there,
there's fucking e. P.M...
2250
01:27:28,813 --> 01:27:30,778
It was crazy, so my whole thing
2251
01:27:31,277 --> 01:27:33,802
continuously wasn't
about just staying on top.
2252
01:27:33,837 --> 01:27:36,327
It was always being...
Staying on top of my game.
2253
01:27:36,362 --> 01:27:37,876
Let me tell you something.
2254
01:27:37,911 --> 01:27:40,911
We are run-dmc, the
baddest fucking group
2255
01:27:40,946 --> 01:27:42,409
in the world ever in hip-hop.
2256
01:27:42,444 --> 01:27:44,527
♪ It's the return of
monotonous hotness ♪
2257
01:27:44,562 --> 01:27:46,044
♪ I rock this, you watch this ♪
2258
01:27:46,079 --> 01:27:47,492
♪ Regardless, we got this ♪
2259
01:27:47,527 --> 01:27:50,027
♪ From hollis, and
y'all gets no chances ♪
2260
01:27:50,062 --> 01:27:52,527
♪ No wins and no ends,
I need no dances ♪
2261
01:27:52,562 --> 01:27:53,459
♪ No rims or no benz ♪
2262
01:27:53,494 --> 01:27:55,010
♪ From the corners of hollis ave ♪
2263
01:27:55,045 --> 01:27:56,492
♪ I came up, blew the game up ♪
2264
01:27:56,527 --> 01:27:58,361
♪ Trying to tell me my reign's up ♪
2265
01:27:58,396 --> 01:28:00,160
♪ Bring my name up ♪ rev run, y'all.
2266
01:28:00,195 --> 01:28:05,327
There was a moment when you
guys were number one group...
2267
01:28:05,362 --> 01:28:06,826
Rap group in the world undisputed,
2268
01:28:06,861 --> 01:28:09,361
top of the mountain,
stood up, looked down.
2269
01:28:09,396 --> 01:28:11,753
Right. What's that like?
2270
01:28:11,788 --> 01:28:14,076
It's good for a second.
2271
01:28:14,111 --> 01:28:16,911
It's when, if you're not
focused to keep making music,
2272
01:28:16,946 --> 01:28:18,409
and you don't cruise...
2273
01:28:18,444 --> 01:28:20,995
It's when you're sitting in the tub,
2274
01:28:21,030 --> 01:28:23,709
for me, eating french toast,
2275
01:28:23,744 --> 01:28:26,244
got weed coming, got a ho coming,
2276
01:28:26,744 --> 01:28:29,244
got kwasi bringing me a rolls royce.
2277
01:28:29,279 --> 01:28:30,244
You remember kwasi? Mm-Hmm.
2278
01:28:30,279 --> 01:28:31,709
All this was coming,
2279
01:28:31,744 --> 01:28:33,744
and rolling stone magazine is coming.
2280
01:28:33,779 --> 01:28:35,511
So this is all in the
presidential suite.
2281
01:28:35,546 --> 01:28:37,244
I just seen Ice-T as I was driving up.
2282
01:28:37,279 --> 01:28:38,511
Mm-Hmm. I just hit I.A.
2283
01:28:38,546 --> 01:28:39,744
Can't wait to get to I.A.
2284
01:28:40,244 --> 01:28:42,744
They got best Endo.
They got the best girls.
2285
01:28:42,779 --> 01:28:44,709
They got the best presidential suite.
2286
01:28:44,744 --> 01:28:46,744
They got the rolls-royce,
rolling stone magazine.
2287
01:28:46,779 --> 01:28:48,659
I'm run. I'm number one.
2288
01:28:48,694 --> 01:28:50,709
And then the realization comes
2289
01:28:50,744 --> 01:28:52,744
that, you know, I'm sitting in the tub.
2290
01:28:52,779 --> 01:28:54,244
The syrup's falling in the tub.
2291
01:28:55,744 --> 01:28:56,744
There's ashes falling in the tub.
2292
01:28:57,244 --> 01:28:58,744
The ho's knocking at the door.
2293
01:28:58,779 --> 01:29:00,261
Rolling stone's behind the ho
2294
01:29:00,296 --> 01:29:01,709
and the man to cut your hair,
2295
01:29:01,744 --> 01:29:04,244
and you're like, "I'm
fucking out of control. "
2296
01:29:06,111 --> 01:29:07,659
What's cracking with it, y'all?
2297
01:29:07,694 --> 01:29:10,694
This is dub sizzle, aka
skip skip the barracuda.
2298
01:29:10,729 --> 01:29:12,659
All you niggas can drown in my nuts.
2299
01:29:12,694 --> 01:29:15,194
Fuck y'all. Can't none of
you niggas fuck with me.
2300
01:29:15,229 --> 01:29:16,694
Nigga I started a lot of this shit
2301
01:29:16,729 --> 01:29:18,159
on this side of town, nigga,
2302
01:29:18,194 --> 01:29:20,194
and I don't give a fuck what
nobody say out there, nigga.
2303
01:29:20,229 --> 01:29:22,461
You come over here, you gotta see me.
2304
01:29:22,496 --> 01:29:24,694
Skip skip, west sier for lier, nier.
2305
01:29:25,194 --> 01:29:26,694
I'm out on the block nigga, for real.
2306
01:29:26,729 --> 01:29:28,043
Fuck y'all.
2307
01:29:28,078 --> 01:29:29,861
One time, I was watching
one of your shows.
2308
01:29:30,444 --> 01:29:32,292
And you was fucking it
up. You was getting down.
2309
01:29:32,327 --> 01:29:34,911
You was out there, and you
was... you was freestyling.
2310
01:29:34,946 --> 01:29:37,376
You're freestyling. And,
uh, I think somebody...
2311
01:29:37,411 --> 01:29:40,411
Some kind of way or something,
I don't know what was going on.
2312
01:29:40,446 --> 01:29:42,411
Whatever, the turntable
must have skipped a song.
2313
01:29:42,446 --> 01:29:43,876
Skipped a song or went off beat.
2314
01:29:43,911 --> 01:29:45,411
Skipped and went off
beat, and, you know...
2315
01:29:45,446 --> 01:29:47,178
And of course you stop and everything.
2316
01:29:47,213 --> 01:29:48,911
But you played it the fuck off, though.
2317
01:29:48,946 --> 01:29:49,876
Yeah.
2318
01:29:49,911 --> 01:29:51,469
You played it off. You
looked in the crowd.
2319
01:29:51,504 --> 01:29:53,028
You know, you was like,
you know, you know,
2320
01:29:53,494 --> 01:29:54,960
♪ I to the c to the e ♪
2321
01:29:54,995 --> 01:29:56,110
♪ Niggas can't fuck
with me ♪ you know.
2322
01:29:56,145 --> 01:29:57,419
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
2323
01:29:57,454 --> 01:29:58,694
And then it went off and shit,
2324
01:29:58,729 --> 01:29:59,659
and, you know, you looked,
2325
01:29:59,694 --> 01:30:01,444
and then you played it real quick.
2326
01:30:01,479 --> 01:30:03,194
You went to the crowd and said, "huh?"
2327
01:30:03,229 --> 01:30:04,194
Hey, on the real.
2328
01:30:04,694 --> 01:30:06,194
You think I'm lying,
nigga. You fucked me up.
2329
01:30:06,229 --> 01:30:07,659
Nigga looked in the
crowd and was like, "huh?"
2330
01:30:07,694 --> 01:30:09,694
You know, you looked at a
bitch and was like, "huh?"
2331
01:30:09,729 --> 01:30:10,659
Ohh. What'd you say?
2332
01:30:10,694 --> 01:30:12,659
You went to the mic, yo, yo, yo,
2333
01:30:12,694 --> 01:30:13,694
let's start this song...
Let's just start...
2334
01:30:13,729 --> 01:30:15,211
I got a... I got a billion of them.
2335
01:30:15,246 --> 01:30:16,694
I got... let me tell you something.
2336
01:30:16,729 --> 01:30:17,659
Am I lying though? No.
2337
01:30:17,694 --> 01:30:19,659
That's some of my shit. Yeah, okay.
2338
01:30:19,694 --> 01:30:21,694
That's some of my best
shit. I got other tricks.
2339
01:30:21,729 --> 01:30:22,694
Like if I fucked up or something
2340
01:30:23,194 --> 01:30:25,159
and I be in the middle of the song,
2341
01:30:25,194 --> 01:30:28,444
what I do is I act like the mic cut off.
2342
01:30:28,479 --> 01:30:32,336
So now that I fucked
up, I'll go like this,
2343
01:30:32,371 --> 01:30:36,194
and then I'll start lip syncing like...
2344
01:30:36,229 --> 01:30:37,659
And I'll...
2345
01:30:37,694 --> 01:30:39,159
"Yo, yo, yo, the mic cut off. "
2346
01:30:39,194 --> 01:30:41,995
And I'll make it look like
there was a technical problem,
2347
01:30:42,030 --> 01:30:43,527
and we got to start the song over.
2348
01:30:43,562 --> 01:30:44,292
There you go.
2349
01:30:44,327 --> 01:30:45,635
That's one of my tricks.
2350
01:30:45,670 --> 01:30:46,909
Here's another trick.
2351
01:30:46,944 --> 01:30:49,527
Usually there's a...
A fan in the front row
2352
01:30:50,028 --> 01:30:52,028
that fucking knows every single word.
2353
01:30:52,063 --> 01:30:52,993
Word, mm-Hmm.
2354
01:30:53,028 --> 01:30:54,492
So I early find him,
2355
01:30:54,527 --> 01:30:55,993
and he becomes my human teleprompter.
2356
01:30:56,028 --> 01:30:59,028
So if I fall off, I put
the mic in his mouth...
2357
01:30:59,063 --> 01:31:00,993
Mic to his face. And he'll say the lyric
2358
01:31:01,028 --> 01:31:03,028
and jump me back on top
and shit like that. Tricks.
2359
01:31:03,063 --> 01:31:05,028
Now, that's the difference
between an mc and a rapper.
2360
01:31:05,063 --> 01:31:05,993
That's secret shit.
2361
01:31:06,028 --> 01:31:07,326
That's the difference. Secret.
2362
01:31:07,361 --> 01:31:09,909
♪ I sold too much
coke in the eighties ♪
2363
01:31:09,944 --> 01:31:12,444
♪ It's my fucking fault,
I made you crack babies ♪
2364
01:31:12,479 --> 01:31:13,944
♪ Now you whine and
cold woke me up ♪
2365
01:31:14,444 --> 01:31:16,694
♪ Like a wild wolf won't
murder his sick pup ♪
2366
01:31:16,729 --> 01:31:18,909
♪ Niggas on the net
talking crazy and reckless ♪
2367
01:31:18,944 --> 01:31:21,944
♪ Busters don't know you
get laid down for much less ♪
2368
01:31:21,979 --> 01:31:23,944
♪ This ain't no game,
cuz, niggas now we come ♪
2369
01:31:23,979 --> 01:31:26,944
♪.50 cal dum-dum
rubber-grip bear guns ♪
2370
01:31:26,979 --> 01:31:28,909
♪ I see you run like diarrhea ♪
2371
01:31:28,944 --> 01:31:30,444
♪ Hide behind your
fucking bodyguards ♪
2372
01:31:30,479 --> 01:31:31,909
♪ Like little ballerinas ♪
2373
01:31:31,944 --> 01:31:34,444
♪ It ain't no thing when
them damn things flame ♪
2374
01:31:34,479 --> 01:31:36,909
♪ Fully automatics makes
the clubs' ears ring ♪
2375
01:31:36,944 --> 01:31:39,444
♪ The oldest nigga, true,
that means I done it the most ♪
2376
01:31:39,479 --> 01:31:41,711
♪ Question is now which
pussy want it the most? ♪
2377
01:31:41,746 --> 01:31:44,345
♪ Y'all ain't shit to
me, never got your g on ♪
2378
01:31:44,380 --> 01:31:46,895
♪ Softening the pillows
at the bed, bath & beyond ♪
2379
01:31:46,930 --> 01:31:49,437
♪ Your mistake thinking
that I'm dead and gone ♪
2380
01:31:49,472 --> 01:31:51,958
♪ Ask your mama, I'm
bloody in the octagon ♪
2381
01:31:51,993 --> 01:31:54,444
♪ I'm iller than
chucky in child's play ♪
2382
01:31:54,479 --> 01:31:56,409
♪ I bench 300 on a bad day ♪
2383
01:31:56,444 --> 01:31:58,326
♪ I'm wild like uganda machetes ♪
2384
01:31:58,361 --> 01:32:00,444
♪ You motherfucking with a
psychopath, you niggas ain't ready ♪
2385
01:32:00,479 --> 01:32:02,911
♪ Cracked my nigga t. I.,
but they didn't catch me ♪
2386
01:32:02,946 --> 01:32:06,361
♪ My silenced p90 sounds
like sewing machines ♪
2387
01:32:06,396 --> 01:32:07,944
♪ Bugatti veyron, plasma screen ♪
2388
01:32:08,444 --> 01:32:10,944
♪ Malibu beach house,
lake house, I'm caked out ♪
2389
01:32:10,979 --> 01:32:12,944
♪ I come in all blue,
I don't know red ♪
2390
01:32:13,444 --> 01:32:15,444
♪ And I don't throw dough,
I make it rain lead ♪
2391
01:32:15,479 --> 01:32:17,409
♪ Coked out, I'm boiling
bricks in the kitchen ♪
2392
01:32:17,444 --> 01:32:20,444
♪ It don't matter if you got
it nigga, tricking is tricking ♪
2393
01:32:20,479 --> 01:32:23,909
♪ Algebraic, I
multiply my metaphors ♪
2394
01:32:23,944 --> 01:32:26,944
♪ I'm so spa from deep
tissues and pedicures ♪
2395
01:32:26,979 --> 01:32:28,909
♪ Overlord of niggas in ski masks ♪
2396
01:32:28,944 --> 01:32:31,444
♪ Westside rider for
life, you ain't gotta ask ♪
2397
01:32:31,479 --> 01:32:33,409
♪ L.A., home of the triple beam ♪
2398
01:32:33,444 --> 01:32:35,943
♪ My niggas run all up in
your crib like a swat team ♪
2399
01:32:35,978 --> 01:32:37,908
♪ I'll make your suv lean ♪
2400
01:32:37,943 --> 01:32:40,444
♪ Full metal jackets have it
rockin' like a raft in rapids ♪
2401
01:32:40,479 --> 01:32:42,444
♪ The last nigga in life
that you want to meet ♪
2402
01:32:42,943 --> 01:32:44,218
♪ Keep talking shit on the net ♪
2403
01:32:44,253 --> 01:32:45,494
♪ I'll see you in the street ♪
2404
01:32:51,194 --> 01:32:53,944
♪ Who is the man with
the master plan? ♪
2405
01:32:53,979 --> 01:32:56,694
♪ A nigga with a motherfucking gun ♪
2406
01:32:56,729 --> 01:32:58,959
♪ 44 reasons come to mind ♪
2407
01:32:58,994 --> 01:33:01,659
♪ Why your motherfucking
brother is hard to find ♪
2408
01:33:01,694 --> 01:33:04,327
♪ He been walking on the
streets and fucking with mine ♪
2409
01:33:04,362 --> 01:33:06,986
♪ Stupid punk can't
fuck with a mastermind ♪
2410
01:33:07,021 --> 01:33:09,611
♪ See I never take a
step on a compton block ♪
2411
01:33:09,646 --> 01:33:12,242
♪ Or I.A. Without the
a. K. Ready to pop ♪
2412
01:33:12,277 --> 01:33:14,861
♪ 'Cause them punk motherfuckers
in black and white ♪
2413
01:33:15,361 --> 01:33:17,760
♪ Ain't the only
motherfuckers I gots to fight ♪
2414
01:33:17,795 --> 01:33:19,869
♪ I think it's better
to be telling the facts ♪
2415
01:33:19,904 --> 01:33:21,923
♪ Than cuffed up and
jacked and fucked up ♪
2416
01:33:21,958 --> 01:33:23,908
♪ What you niggas
Lookin' at? You going ♪
2417
01:33:23,943 --> 01:33:27,444
Everybody knows dr. Dre
don't drop a record a week.
2418
01:33:27,479 --> 01:33:29,409
It's like... It's... it's a process.
2419
01:33:29,444 --> 01:33:32,908
What's your process before
we get to hear a track?
2420
01:33:32,943 --> 01:33:35,444
You know, it's, um... it's
not the same thing every time.
2421
01:33:35,479 --> 01:33:36,943
It really depends on
who I'm working with.
2422
01:33:37,444 --> 01:33:40,444
I try to get inside of the head
of the artist I'm working with,
2423
01:33:40,479 --> 01:33:41,409
and the record has to be them.
2424
01:33:41,444 --> 01:33:43,409
I don't go approach an
artist and say, "okay",
2425
01:33:43,444 --> 01:33:45,943
this is... this is the way I
think your record should be. "
2426
01:33:45,978 --> 01:33:48,943
I just try to... to make
what they're bringing better
2427
01:33:48,978 --> 01:33:50,460
and just add whatever
they're bringing...
2428
01:33:50,495 --> 01:33:51,908
Add my thing to whatever
they're bringing.
2429
01:33:51,943 --> 01:33:54,943
So I just try to get in...
Get in touch with the artist,
2430
01:33:54,978 --> 01:33:56,960
try to get in touch
with their personality
2431
01:33:56,995 --> 01:33:58,908
and what they're trying
to do and try to just
2432
01:33:58,943 --> 01:34:01,444
take that to... you know, to
levels unheard of, you know.
2433
01:34:01,479 --> 01:34:03,875
That's real talk. So
that's... that's just my thing.
2434
01:34:03,910 --> 01:34:07,943
I just... It's no set foundation
or no set way of doing it.
2435
01:34:07,978 --> 01:34:09,711
I'm thinking like... 'Cause, okay,
2436
01:34:09,746 --> 01:34:11,444
everybody knows your gangster shit
2437
01:34:11,479 --> 01:34:13,409
and what you did with snoop,
2438
01:34:13,444 --> 01:34:15,943
but when we heard eminem
for the first time,
2439
01:34:15,978 --> 01:34:17,711
you know, hi. My name is,
2440
01:34:17,746 --> 01:34:19,344
we like... But it was him.
2441
01:34:19,379 --> 01:34:20,908
Right. It was perfect.
2442
01:34:20,943 --> 01:34:22,908
It wasn't 50 cent. You captured eminem.
2443
01:34:22,943 --> 01:34:25,943
Right. You know, and I
think that's the reason
2444
01:34:25,978 --> 01:34:27,444
for longevity, you know what I'm saying?
2445
01:34:27,943 --> 01:34:28,908
You just... you vibe with the artist,
2446
01:34:28,943 --> 01:34:31,943
and you just elaborate
on what they have to give,
2447
01:34:31,978 --> 01:34:33,711
and you just, like,
make what, you know...
2448
01:34:33,746 --> 01:34:35,444
I just add my thing to what they have,
2449
01:34:35,479 --> 01:34:36,908
and that's all it is to it.
2450
01:34:36,943 --> 01:34:38,409
Eminem, I'm gonna add
my thing to eminem.
2451
01:34:38,444 --> 01:34:40,943
Snoop, I can't go in the
studio with snoop with...
2452
01:34:41,444 --> 01:34:42,409
In an eminem state of mind,
2453
01:34:42,444 --> 01:34:43,910
if that makes any sense, you know.
2454
01:34:44,444 --> 01:34:45,908
Absolutely. I just have to just...
2455
01:34:45,943 --> 01:34:47,693
Just be them almost.
You know what I'm saying?
2456
01:34:47,728 --> 01:34:49,409
That's what makes the
projects come out so good.
2457
01:34:49,444 --> 01:34:52,327
You got a young kid, he want
to be a producer like you.
2458
01:34:52,362 --> 01:34:55,277
He want to... He want
to live the dr. Dre life.
2459
01:34:55,827 --> 01:34:59,327
He... he admires you that...
you see something in him.
2460
01:34:59,362 --> 01:35:01,827
What would be the first
lesson you teach him
2461
01:35:01,862 --> 01:35:04,125
about this game of hip-hop?
2462
01:35:04,160 --> 01:35:06,160
First of all, you have to make
sure that this thing is for you
2463
01:35:06,577 --> 01:35:09,626
and it's who you are and
you're built for this, you know.
2464
01:35:09,661 --> 01:35:12,160
And then you have to give it the
passion that's necessary, you know.
2465
01:35:12,661 --> 01:35:14,160
Like I said, I don't
do it for the money.
2466
01:35:14,661 --> 01:35:15,760
The money is gonna come.
2467
01:35:15,795 --> 01:35:16,825
I do it because of the love
2468
01:35:16,860 --> 01:35:18,427
that I have for it, you
know what I'm saying?
2469
01:35:18,462 --> 01:35:19,994
If I was a plumber or
something like that,
2470
01:35:20,029 --> 01:35:21,492
I still would make hip-hop records.
2471
01:35:21,527 --> 01:35:22,959
That's how much love I
have for it, you know.
2472
01:35:22,994 --> 01:35:27,027
I feel like right now, I've been
in the game close to 27 years,
2473
01:35:27,062 --> 01:35:29,527
and I've actually thought
about this just recently.
2474
01:35:29,562 --> 01:35:31,992
Out of the entire
27... My 27-year career,
2475
01:35:32,027 --> 01:35:34,527
there's only been 2 weeks that
I've been out of the studio.
2476
01:35:35,027 --> 01:35:36,277
There's... I've never
been out of the studio
2477
01:35:36,312 --> 01:35:37,527
longer than two weeks
in my entire career.
2478
01:35:38,027 --> 01:35:39,992
That's how much love I have
for this thing that I do.
2479
01:35:40,027 --> 01:35:43,027
So that's the thing, just the
passion that you have for it,
2480
01:35:43,062 --> 01:35:45,992
and really, really put your all into it,
2481
01:35:46,027 --> 01:35:49,527
and make sure that your
word is the last word.
2482
01:35:49,562 --> 01:35:50,959
That way, you don't, you know...
2483
01:35:50,994 --> 01:35:53,027
You don't play the blame
game or anything like that.
2484
01:35:53,062 --> 01:35:54,527
If it comes out hot, it's on you.
2485
01:35:54,562 --> 01:35:55,992
If it doesn't come out hot,
2486
01:35:56,027 --> 01:35:57,527
it's on you, you know what I'm saying?
2487
01:35:57,562 --> 01:35:58,527
That's all it is to it.
2488
01:35:59,027 --> 01:36:00,992
I think, uh, people I've talked to
2489
01:36:01,027 --> 01:36:04,027
that have been... That had the
privilege of working with you
2490
01:36:04,062 --> 01:36:06,992
have said the same thing in another way.
2491
01:36:07,027 --> 01:36:10,527
They like, when you go in the
studio with dre, it's not a game.
2492
01:36:10,562 --> 01:36:11,992
He's not your friend.
2493
01:36:12,027 --> 01:36:13,492
He's in there, he's working,
2494
01:36:13,527 --> 01:36:16,527
and you gonna do it till
dre thinks it's right.
2495
01:36:16,562 --> 01:36:17,992
And they all appreciate that. Yeah.
2496
01:36:18,027 --> 01:36:21,027
That's a big difference between
a beat maker and a producer.
2497
01:36:21,062 --> 01:36:22,992
Yeah, yeah. I... You know what?
2498
01:36:23,027 --> 01:36:25,527
There's definitely a big difference
between a beat maker and a producer,
2499
01:36:25,562 --> 01:36:26,992
'cause you... Once you finish the beats,
2500
01:36:27,027 --> 01:36:29,027
you have to produce the record.
You know what I'm saying?
2501
01:36:29,062 --> 01:36:31,027
And I think there's a big
difference between the rapper
2502
01:36:31,062 --> 01:36:32,527
and the songwriter, you
know what I'm saying?
2503
01:36:33,027 --> 01:36:36,027
Rappers, you know, anybody
can go spit a 16, you know.
2504
01:36:36,062 --> 01:36:39,027
The minute you ask the mc
to... To give me the hook first,
2505
01:36:39,062 --> 01:36:40,492
most of them get lost.
2506
01:36:40,527 --> 01:36:41,777
Mm-Hmm. You know what I'm saying?
2507
01:36:41,812 --> 01:36:43,027
I look for songwriters, you know.
2508
01:36:43,062 --> 01:36:44,492
So that's all it is.
2509
01:36:44,527 --> 01:36:46,777
I know, you know, I'm a
little bit tough in the studio,
2510
01:36:46,812 --> 01:36:49,027
but everybody's happy once
they come out of the booth.
2511
01:36:49,062 --> 01:36:49,792
Mm-Hmm.
2512
01:36:49,827 --> 01:36:52,411
Well, you as close as we can get to pac.
2513
01:36:52,446 --> 01:36:53,803
What was the experience like?
2514
01:36:53,838 --> 01:36:55,125
It was incredible, you know.
2515
01:36:55,160 --> 01:36:57,660
I remember being in the studio with pac,
2516
01:36:57,695 --> 01:37:00,125
and, um, he actually
went in the mic booth
2517
01:37:00,160 --> 01:37:04,160
to write, you know, and I'm
like, okay, that's different.
2518
01:37:04,195 --> 01:37:08,160
So I'm in the control room,
and, um, he writes the lyrics.
2519
01:37:08,195 --> 01:37:09,661
"All right, I'm ready," you know.
2520
01:37:09,696 --> 01:37:11,125
He spits california love.
2521
01:37:11,160 --> 01:37:14,611
One or two takes, it was like,
all right, put the next thing up.
2522
01:37:14,646 --> 01:37:16,125
And he would just sit
in the booth, you know,
2523
01:37:16,160 --> 01:37:18,660
like, put the next thing up,
write, put the next thing up.
2524
01:37:18,695 --> 01:37:20,625
You know, I think that's the reason why
2525
01:37:20,660 --> 01:37:23,160
he has so many songs and
so much material, you know.
2526
01:37:23,195 --> 01:37:24,660
It was just... It was incredible.
2527
01:37:24,695 --> 01:37:25,459
He's like a machine.
2528
01:37:25,494 --> 01:37:27,742
Serious machine. Serious talent.
2529
01:37:27,777 --> 01:37:30,994
When I speak of you, of
course I'm incorporating nwa,
2530
01:37:31,029 --> 01:37:32,459
'cause you were a movement.
2531
01:37:32,494 --> 01:37:34,459
What... what stroke did you guys
2532
01:37:34,494 --> 01:37:36,494
put on the painting that wasn't there?
2533
01:37:36,994 --> 01:37:39,994
I think, um, just the
element of... of the street,
2534
01:37:40,029 --> 01:37:41,459
you know what I'm saying?
2535
01:37:41,494 --> 01:37:42,459
That's what we were going for.
2536
01:37:42,494 --> 01:37:43,959
I think you were a big part of that,
2537
01:37:43,994 --> 01:37:46,494
because our first record
was basically just a...
2538
01:37:46,529 --> 01:37:47,959
Um, almost a remix of what you did
2539
01:37:47,994 --> 01:37:49,994
with 6 n' the morning,
you know what I mean?
2540
01:37:50,029 --> 01:37:51,459
We did boyz n the hood because of...
2541
01:37:51,494 --> 01:37:53,459
Because of the love
for that record so much,
2542
01:37:53,494 --> 01:37:56,494
but we just wanted to basically
put where we came from on the map.
2543
01:37:56,529 --> 01:37:58,994
Back then, it was just a
lot of new york going on,
2544
01:37:59,029 --> 01:38:00,486
and we wanted to represent compton,
2545
01:38:00,521 --> 01:38:01,908
and we wanted to put compton out there
2546
01:38:01,943 --> 01:38:04,959
in a way where it was
just like, it was hard,
2547
01:38:04,994 --> 01:38:07,994
and... and we wanted to hit everybody
across the head with a sledgehammer.
2548
01:38:08,029 --> 01:38:10,494
Like, "listen to what the
fuck we're doing out here,"
2549
01:38:10,529 --> 01:38:11,860
you know? "We got
something to say, too. "
2550
01:38:13,444 --> 01:38:15,152
♪ Yeah, unh ♪
2551
01:38:15,187 --> 01:38:16,860
♪ Yeah, unh ♪
2552
01:38:18,244 --> 01:38:19,244
♪ Yeah, unh ♪
2553
01:38:20,743 --> 01:38:21,708
♪ Straight out of compton ♪
2554
01:38:21,743 --> 01:38:23,992
♪ Crazy motherfucker
named ice cube ♪
2555
01:38:24,027 --> 01:38:26,135
♪ From the gang called
niggaz with attitudes ♪
2556
01:38:26,170 --> 01:38:28,209
♪ When I'm called off,
I got a sawed off ♪
2557
01:38:28,244 --> 01:38:30,743
♪ Squeeze the trigger,
and bodies are hauled off ♪
2558
01:38:30,778 --> 01:38:32,792
♪ You too, boy, if
you fuck with me ♪
2559
01:38:32,827 --> 01:38:34,910
♪ The police are gonna
have to come and get me ♪
2560
01:38:34,945 --> 01:38:37,875
♪ Off your ass, that's
how I'm going out ♪
2561
01:38:37,910 --> 01:38:39,993
♪ For the punk motherfuckers
that's showing out ♪
2562
01:38:40,028 --> 01:38:42,319
♪ Niggas start to mumble,
they want to rumble ♪
2563
01:38:42,354 --> 01:38:44,715
♪ Mix 'em and cook 'em
in a pot like gumbo ♪
2564
01:38:44,750 --> 01:38:47,788
♪ Going off on the
motherfucker like that ♪
2565
01:38:47,823 --> 01:38:50,827
♪ With a gat that's
pointed at your ass ♪
2566
01:38:51,411 --> 01:38:53,576
♪ That's the way it goes
in the city of compton ♪
2567
01:38:53,611 --> 01:38:55,160
♪ Gang bang mentality ♪
2568
01:38:55,660 --> 01:38:56,625
♪ Movie after movie ♪
2569
01:38:56,660 --> 01:38:58,035
♪ Can't get it out of me ♪
2570
01:38:58,070 --> 01:38:59,411
♪ Who want to battle me? ♪
2571
01:38:59,446 --> 01:39:00,494
♪ Mouth is an uzi ♪
2572
01:39:00,994 --> 01:39:03,244
♪ I'll thumbtack your
ass to the concrete ♪
2573
01:39:03,279 --> 01:39:04,658
♪ Treat you like a floozy ♪
2574
01:39:04,693 --> 01:39:07,125
♪ The pyroclastic flow that I lay ♪
2575
01:39:07,160 --> 01:39:09,660
♪ Will turn this fucking
booth to pompeii ♪
2576
01:39:10,160 --> 01:39:12,785
♪ Now what will I do in broad day? ♪
2577
01:39:12,820 --> 01:39:15,376
♪ I'll turn broadway
into a hallway ♪
2578
01:39:15,411 --> 01:39:17,886
♪ Motherfuckers want to
know the herbs and spices ♪
2579
01:39:17,921 --> 01:39:20,361
♪ They come to me and want
to know what my advice is ♪
2580
01:39:20,396 --> 01:39:22,836
♪ I'm spiritual, nigga,
like jesus christ is ♪
2581
01:39:22,871 --> 01:39:25,277
♪ And lyrical, bitch,
I'm 'bout the nicest ♪
2582
01:39:25,312 --> 01:39:27,326
♪ Content, longevity ♪
2583
01:39:27,361 --> 01:39:30,860
♪ Plus I spit shit that sit
on your brain, nigga, heavily ♪
2584
01:39:30,895 --> 01:39:33,194
♪ I can do this shit till I'm 70 ♪
2585
01:39:33,777 --> 01:39:35,576
♪ On the vegas strip,
yeah, there I'll be ♪
2586
01:39:35,611 --> 01:39:37,625
Rap has many styles,
2587
01:39:37,660 --> 01:39:42,077
party, gangster, political, battle.
2588
01:39:42,112 --> 01:39:43,959
Give your style a name.
2589
01:39:43,994 --> 01:39:46,077
And I think gangsta is too simple,
2590
01:39:46,112 --> 01:39:48,427
'cause I think you much more complex.
2591
01:39:48,462 --> 01:39:50,743
I would call it street knowledge.
2592
01:39:51,244 --> 01:39:52,209
Okay.
2593
01:39:52,244 --> 01:39:54,625
You know, I mean, that's
the ultimate title.
2594
01:39:54,660 --> 01:39:59,994
And what it means to me
is letting the streets know
2595
01:40:00,029 --> 01:40:03,493
what the politicians
is trying to do to 'em
2596
01:40:03,528 --> 01:40:05,959
and then letting the politicians know
2597
01:40:05,994 --> 01:40:07,994
what the streets think
of them if they listening.
2598
01:40:08,029 --> 01:40:09,458
Mm-Hmm.
2599
01:40:09,493 --> 01:40:11,994
So it's street knowledge, if you ask me.
2600
01:40:12,029 --> 01:40:13,458
I agree. I agree.
2601
01:40:13,493 --> 01:40:15,493
I always felt that my style was...
2602
01:40:15,994 --> 01:40:18,135
I was always attempting to drop game.
2603
01:40:18,170 --> 01:40:20,248
It was not about... It was all game.
2604
01:40:20,283 --> 01:40:22,055
There was morals. They were parables.
2605
01:40:22,090 --> 01:40:23,958
It was things that you'd listen to,
2606
01:40:23,993 --> 01:40:25,827
and you would learn. I wanted somebody
2607
01:40:25,862 --> 01:40:27,327
to take my album when they done,
2608
01:40:27,827 --> 01:40:30,792
be more intelligent about
the game than they were,
2609
01:40:30,827 --> 01:40:34,160
versus me saying, "you know,
hey, I'm tough," like I...
2610
01:40:34,195 --> 01:40:35,660
You don't want to get
rich and die trying.
2611
01:40:35,695 --> 01:40:39,194
You know what I mean?
2612
01:40:49,411 --> 01:40:51,959
♪ 1, 2, 3 into the 4 ♪
2613
01:40:51,994 --> 01:40:54,260
♪ Snoop doggy dog and
dr. Dre is at the door ♪
2614
01:40:54,295 --> 01:40:56,410
♪ Ready to make an
entrance, so back on up ♪
2615
01:40:56,445 --> 01:40:58,526
♪ 'Cause you know we're
about to rip shit up ♪
2616
01:40:58,561 --> 01:41:00,043
♪ Give me the microphone first ♪
2617
01:41:00,078 --> 01:41:01,552
♪ So I can bust like a bubble ♪
2618
01:41:01,587 --> 01:41:03,056
♪ Compton and long beach together ♪
2619
01:41:03,091 --> 01:41:04,526
♪ Now you know you in trouble ♪
2620
01:41:06,110 --> 01:41:08,575
We need to take my
bag with my phone in it
2621
01:41:08,610 --> 01:41:11,110
out of here, kid. I think
it's in that gray bag.
2622
01:41:11,145 --> 01:41:12,110
'Cause it's gonna keep going off.
2623
01:41:12,610 --> 01:41:13,110
These bitches won't stop calling.
2624
01:41:14,610 --> 01:41:16,610
I tell 'em I'm only in town for a night.
2625
01:41:16,645 --> 01:41:18,075
"There's only one of me. "
2626
01:41:18,110 --> 01:41:20,110
I'm saying. I wish I was an octopus.
2627
01:41:20,610 --> 01:41:22,875
This is one of my favorites of all time.
2628
01:41:22,910 --> 01:41:25,458
♪ 6:00 in the morning,
police at my door ♪
2629
01:41:25,493 --> 01:41:28,493
♪ Fresh adidas squeak
across my bathroom floor ♪
2630
01:41:28,528 --> 01:41:30,959
♪ Out the back window,
I make my escape ♪
2631
01:41:30,994 --> 01:41:33,994
♪ Didn't even get a chance
to grab my Ice-T tape ♪
2632
01:41:34,029 --> 01:41:36,959
♪ Mad with no music,
but happy 'cause free ♪
2633
01:41:36,994 --> 01:41:39,493
♪ But the streets to a
player is the place to be ♪
2634
01:41:39,994 --> 01:41:42,493
♪ I got a knot in my pocket
weigh at least a grand ♪
2635
01:41:42,528 --> 01:41:45,510
♪ Gold on my neck, my
pistol's close at hand ♪
2636
01:41:45,545 --> 01:41:48,269
♪ I'm a self-made monster
from the city streets ♪
2637
01:41:48,304 --> 01:41:50,898
♪ Remotely controlled
by hard hip-hop beats ♪
2638
01:41:50,933 --> 01:41:53,493
♪ But just living in the
city is a serious task ♪
2639
01:41:53,528 --> 01:41:55,302
♪ Nigga didn't know what hit him ♪
2640
01:41:55,337 --> 01:41:57,042
♪ Didn't have time
to ask ♪ thank you.
2641
01:41:57,077 --> 01:41:59,160
♪ Benz with my money ♪ ♪
the rest went on clothes ♪
2642
01:41:59,195 --> 01:42:01,677
♪ Went to the strip,
started pimpin' the hos ♪
2643
01:42:01,712 --> 01:42:04,686
♪ My hair grew long
on my seven-year stay ♪
2644
01:42:04,721 --> 01:42:07,660
♪ When I got it done,
on my shoulders it lay ♪
2645
01:42:07,695 --> 01:42:09,594
Oh, that was so cold.
2646
01:42:09,629 --> 01:42:11,458
That was so cold.
2647
01:42:11,493 --> 01:42:14,410
Rap to you, more music or a sport?
2648
01:42:14,445 --> 01:42:15,792
It's a sport to me,
2649
01:42:15,827 --> 01:42:17,658
because it's like you driving me
2650
01:42:17,693 --> 01:42:20,777
to want to outdo you. You
understand what I'm saying?
2651
01:42:20,812 --> 01:42:22,277
It's like when you hear a certain lyric,
2652
01:42:22,312 --> 01:42:23,742
it's like you just saw a 360 dunk.
2653
01:42:23,777 --> 01:42:25,777
Yeah. And I'm like,
"oh, I can't have that. "
2654
01:42:25,812 --> 01:42:26,708
I need to try this...
2655
01:42:26,743 --> 01:42:29,242
This 720 on a nigga real quick, ice.
2656
01:42:29,277 --> 01:42:32,277
Work with me. Work with me,
ice, this 720 gonna work.
2657
01:42:32,312 --> 01:42:34,836
I'm gonna spin around two
times. It's gonna work.
2658
01:42:34,871 --> 01:42:37,360
When snoop dogg getting
ready to write a song,
2659
01:42:37,395 --> 01:42:38,694
how do you like it to be?
2660
01:42:38,729 --> 01:42:39,994
I mean, you need to get...
2661
01:42:40,410 --> 01:42:41,493
You gotta get blunted? You gotta...
2662
01:42:41,528 --> 01:42:42,994
I gotta smoke a lot of weed.
2663
01:42:43,029 --> 01:42:43,959
Okay.
2664
01:42:43,994 --> 01:42:46,594
I gotta have some
old-school music playing,
2665
01:42:46,629 --> 01:42:48,911
whether it's old-school
r & b, hip-hop,
2666
01:42:48,946 --> 01:42:51,194
anything that's seventies, eighties,
2667
01:42:51,693 --> 01:42:53,009
sixties, you know what I'm saying?
2668
01:42:53,044 --> 01:42:54,291
Something that's inspiring to me.
2669
01:42:54,326 --> 01:42:56,868
Then I gotta have a couple of, you know,
2670
01:42:56,903 --> 01:42:59,375
females around to give
me some inspiration,
2671
01:42:59,410 --> 01:43:02,576
'cause I like looking at 'em
while I'm writing my woo-wop.
2672
01:43:02,611 --> 01:43:04,708
And then at the same time, I like...
2673
01:43:04,743 --> 01:43:07,027
I just like the whole
mode to just be natural.
2674
01:43:07,062 --> 01:43:08,110
What's your style?
2675
01:43:08,610 --> 01:43:11,360
My style, I would say, is tae kwon do.
2676
01:43:11,910 --> 01:43:13,375
Bruce lee created that.
2677
01:43:13,410 --> 01:43:16,410
Which that means... is
that I'll fuck a nigga up
2678
01:43:16,445 --> 01:43:17,875
if a nigga try to play me wrong,
2679
01:43:17,910 --> 01:43:22,493
but for the most part, I'm a good
guy making great music to party to.
2680
01:43:22,528 --> 01:43:24,042
Here's what I'm gonna do.
I'm gonna give you something
2681
01:43:24,077 --> 01:43:26,576
off the top of the dome, so
that way, I know I won't fuck up.
2682
01:43:26,611 --> 01:43:27,541
I like that. Now, check this.
2683
01:43:27,576 --> 01:43:30,541
♪ Artistic as it gets
is big snoop dogg ♪
2684
01:43:30,576 --> 01:43:33,076
♪ The one and only, so
throw a pawn in the lawn ♪
2685
01:43:33,111 --> 01:43:35,576
♪ And let me show you
how it's supposed to be ♪
2686
01:43:35,611 --> 01:43:37,541
♪ Blow up like a bomb, napalm ♪
2687
01:43:37,576 --> 01:43:40,076
♪ Let me show you what
it's supposed to be ♪
2688
01:43:40,111 --> 01:43:42,843
♪ Now get close to me,
these are groceries ♪
2689
01:43:42,878 --> 01:43:45,576
♪ File them in the cabinet,
stab it, let it go ♪
2690
01:43:45,611 --> 01:43:48,077
♪ This is my art
form, I'm so original ♪
2691
01:43:48,576 --> 01:43:51,576
♪ Like Ice-T, but I don't
drip, drop on the floor ♪
2692
01:43:51,611 --> 01:43:53,077
♪ Get a ho, get the door ♪
2693
01:43:53,576 --> 01:43:54,826
♪ Let 'em know from the door ♪
2694
01:43:54,861 --> 01:43:56,077
♪ Here we go, let it ride ♪
2695
01:43:56,576 --> 01:43:58,576
♪ Snoopy d-o-double-g,
eastside Ibc ♪
2696
01:43:58,611 --> 01:44:00,576
♪ Show you how it's supposed to be ♪
2697
01:44:00,611 --> 01:44:01,576
♪ Look up at the sky ♪
2698
01:44:02,077 --> 01:44:03,576
♪ Do you see the moon and sun? ♪
2699
01:44:03,611 --> 01:44:04,844
♪ It's snoop
d- o-doub ♪
2700
01:44:04,879 --> 01:44:06,042
♪ Yes, I am the only one ♪
2701
01:44:06,077 --> 01:44:09,042
♪ When it come to
freestyle, boy, I'm so cold ♪
2702
01:44:09,077 --> 01:44:11,576
♪ Make a nigga flip to it
to a whole 'nother episode ♪
2703
01:44:12,077 --> 01:44:13,326
♪ Watch a ho, hit the stroll ♪
2704
01:44:13,361 --> 01:44:14,541
♪ Get the money, bring it back ♪
2705
01:44:14,576 --> 01:44:17,077
♪ Ice-T got his wife
sitting in the cadillac ♪
2706
01:44:17,112 --> 01:44:18,541
♪ Cold, cold, there you go ♪
2707
01:44:18,576 --> 01:44:20,042
♪ Steal the money, steal the show ♪
2708
01:44:20,077 --> 01:44:22,443
♪ Snoop d-o-double-g, I
told you I'm original ♪
2709
01:44:22,478 --> 01:44:24,208
Now you could use that one. Dope.
2710
01:44:24,243 --> 01:44:26,827
Final thoughts. Melle
mel said an art form
2711
01:44:26,862 --> 01:44:28,992
can only be as great as its masters.
2712
01:44:29,027 --> 01:44:32,576
So speak to the people
coming up under you
2713
01:44:32,611 --> 01:44:35,110
that are striving to be snoop dogg.
2714
01:44:35,145 --> 01:44:36,377
Final thought.
2715
01:44:36,412 --> 01:44:37,575
Final thought.
2716
01:44:37,610 --> 01:44:39,575
With this thing that we call hip-hop,
2717
01:44:39,610 --> 01:44:42,610
this art, this thing
that we love and treasure,
2718
01:44:42,645 --> 01:44:45,610
you must treat it with
love and compassion
2719
01:44:45,645 --> 01:44:46,610
and always cherish it,
2720
01:44:47,110 --> 01:44:49,610
because one day soon, it will be yours.
2721
01:44:49,645 --> 01:44:52,361
And once it becomes
yours, make it yours.
2722
01:44:52,396 --> 01:44:55,077
Put your name on it.
Put your brand on it.
2723
01:44:55,112 --> 01:44:56,042
Put your game on it.
2724
01:44:56,077 --> 01:44:58,075
Stamp it like it's
supposed to be stamped.
2725
01:44:58,110 --> 01:45:01,360
That way, when you are gone,
your music will live on.
2726
01:45:01,395 --> 01:45:04,610
Look at the greats before
us, those who have passed,
2727
01:45:04,645 --> 01:45:06,110
and their music is outlasting.
2728
01:45:06,610 --> 01:45:09,110
It's because of the art form.
It's because of the passion
2729
01:45:09,145 --> 01:45:10,627
that they put in they projects.
2730
01:45:10,662 --> 01:45:12,075
It's because of what they spoke,
2731
01:45:12,110 --> 01:45:15,110
the way their pen cried,
the way their heart followed.
2732
01:45:15,145 --> 01:45:17,075
You could be the same thing.
2733
01:45:17,110 --> 01:45:20,593
It's one snoop dogg,
just like there's one you.
2734
01:45:20,628 --> 01:45:24,077
Find yourself. Find your
art. Find your heart.
2735
01:45:27,160 --> 01:45:29,160
So the answer is obvious.
2736
01:45:29,660 --> 01:45:32,193
Rap means something
different to every mc...
2737
01:45:33,777 --> 01:45:35,276
Whether it's writing something simple
2738
01:45:35,311 --> 01:45:37,241
just to rock the crowd
2739
01:45:37,276 --> 01:45:41,051
or writing something deep
meant to move the world.
2740
01:45:41,086 --> 01:45:44,827
The one thing I do know
is hip-hop requires skill,
2741
01:45:44,862 --> 01:45:47,291
the skill of a great dj,
2742
01:45:47,326 --> 01:45:49,576
the ability of a great break dancer,
2743
01:45:50,077 --> 01:45:53,042
the style of a great graffiti writer
2744
01:45:53,077 --> 01:45:56,576
or the flavor and
technique of a talented mc.
2745
01:45:56,611 --> 01:45:59,385
To me, rap was always one of two things.
2746
01:45:59,420 --> 01:46:02,159
I was either out to drop some knowledge
2747
01:46:02,660 --> 01:46:04,760
and give the streets some game,
2748
01:46:04,795 --> 01:46:06,825
or it was straight-up combat.
2749
01:46:06,860 --> 01:46:09,860
I always look at the
microphone as my weapon.
2750
01:46:09,895 --> 01:46:11,825
My ammunition is my intelligence,
2751
01:46:11,860 --> 01:46:16,193
and my caliber, that's
my cadence and flow.
2752
01:46:16,228 --> 01:46:18,158
This is not a game.
2753
01:46:18,193 --> 01:46:20,193
This is the art of rap.
2754
01:48:45,360 --> 01:48:48,325
♪ I was a fiend before
I became a teen ♪
2755
01:48:48,360 --> 01:48:50,860
♪ I melted microphones
instead of cones of ice cream ♪
2756
01:48:50,895 --> 01:48:53,360
♪ Music orientated, so when
hip-hop was originated ♪
2757
01:48:53,395 --> 01:48:55,825
♪ Fitted like pieces
of puzzle, complicated ♪
2758
01:48:55,860 --> 01:48:58,360
♪ 'Cause I grabbed the mic and
tried to say, "yes, y'all" ♪
2759
01:48:58,395 --> 01:49:00,877
♪ They tried to take it
and say that I'm too small ♪
2760
01:49:00,912 --> 01:49:03,325
♪ Cool, cool, cool ♪ ♪
'cause I don't get upset ♪
2761
01:49:03,360 --> 01:49:06,360
♪ I kick a hole in the speaker,
pull the plug, then I jet ♪
2762
01:49:06,395 --> 01:49:08,877
♪ Back to the lab
without a mic to grab ♪
2763
01:49:08,912 --> 01:49:11,325
♪ So then I add all
the rhymes I had ♪
2764
01:49:11,360 --> 01:49:14,093
♪ One after the other one,
then I make another one ♪
2765
01:49:14,128 --> 01:49:16,827
♪ To dis the opposite then
ask if the brother's done ♪
2766
01:49:16,862 --> 01:49:18,825
♪ I get a craving like
a fiend for nicotine ♪
2767
01:49:18,860 --> 01:49:21,360
♪ But I don't need a
cigarette, know what I mean? ♪
2768
01:49:21,395 --> 01:49:23,360
♪ I'm raging, ripping up the stage ♪
2769
01:49:23,395 --> 01:49:25,291
♪ And don't it sound amazing? ♪
2770
01:49:25,326 --> 01:49:27,360
♪ 'Cause every rhyme
is made and thought of ♪
2771
01:49:27,395 --> 01:49:29,360
♪ 'Cause it's sort of an addiction ♪
2772
01:49:29,395 --> 01:49:31,825
♪ Magnetized by the mixing ♪
2773
01:49:31,860 --> 01:49:34,360
♪ Vocals, vocabulary, your
verses you're stuck in ♪
2774
01:49:34,395 --> 01:49:36,860
♪ The mic is a drain,
though, volcano's erupting ♪
2775
01:49:36,895 --> 01:49:39,325
♪ Rhymes overflowing,
gradually growing ♪
2776
01:49:39,360 --> 01:49:42,360
♪ Everything is written in
a code so it can coincide ♪
2777
01:49:42,395 --> 01:49:45,360
♪ Cide, cide ♪ ♪
my thoughts to guide ♪
2778
01:49:45,395 --> 01:49:46,825
♪ 48 tracks to slide ♪
2779
01:49:46,860 --> 01:49:49,860
♪ The invincible
microphone fiend rakim ♪
2780
01:49:49,895 --> 01:49:52,360
♪ Spread the word 'cause I'm in ♪
2781
01:49:52,395 --> 01:49:54,360
♪ E-F-F-E-C-T ♪
2782
01:49:54,860 --> 01:49:57,360
♪ A smooth operator
operating correctly ♪
2783
01:49:57,395 --> 01:49:59,860
♪ But back to the
problem, I gotta have it ♪
2784
01:49:59,895 --> 01:50:02,325
♪ You can't solve it, silly rabbit ♪
2785
01:50:02,360 --> 01:50:04,860
♪ The prescription is a
hypertone that's thorough when ♪
2786
01:50:04,895 --> 01:50:07,627
♪ I fiend for a
microphone like heroin ♪
2787
01:50:07,662 --> 01:50:10,011
♪ Soon as the bass
kicks, I need a fix ♪
2788
01:50:10,046 --> 01:50:12,360
♪ Give me a stage
and a mic and a mix ♪
2789
01:50:12,395 --> 01:50:14,127
♪ And I'll put you in the mood ♪
2790
01:50:14,162 --> 01:50:15,860
♪ Or is it a state of unawareness? ♪
2791
01:50:15,895 --> 01:50:17,627
♪ Beware, it's the re-animator ♪
2792
01:50:17,662 --> 01:50:19,325
♪ A menace to a microphone ♪
2793
01:50:19,360 --> 01:50:21,360
♪ A lethal weapon, an assassinator ♪
2794
01:50:21,395 --> 01:50:22,825
♪ If the people ain't stepping ♪
2795
01:50:22,860 --> 01:50:24,860
♪ You'll see a part of
me that you never seen ♪
2796
01:50:24,895 --> 01:50:26,860
♪ When I'm fiending
for a microphone ♪
2797
01:50:26,895 --> 01:50:28,325
♪ I'm the microphone fiend ♪
2798
01:50:28,360 --> 01:50:30,360
♪ After 12:00, I'm
worse than a gremlin ♪
2799
01:50:30,860 --> 01:50:32,825
♪ Feed me hip-hop,
and I start trembling ♪
2800
01:50:32,860 --> 01:50:35,325
♪ The thrill of suspense is
intense, you're horrified ♪
2801
01:50:35,360 --> 01:50:37,859
♪ But this ain't the cinemas
or tales from the darkside ♪
2802
01:50:38,360 --> 01:50:40,859
♪ By any means necessary,
this is what has to be done ♪
2803
01:50:40,894 --> 01:50:42,859
♪ Make way, 'cause here I come ♪
2804
01:50:42,894 --> 01:50:44,627
♪ My dj cuts material ♪
2805
01:50:44,662 --> 01:50:46,360
♪ Material, material ♪
2806
01:50:46,395 --> 01:50:47,824
♪ Grand imperial ♪
2807
01:50:47,859 --> 01:50:50,777
♪ It's a must that I bust
any mic you're handing me ♪
2808
01:50:50,812 --> 01:50:53,291
♪ It's inherited, it
runs in the family ♪
2809
01:50:53,326 --> 01:50:54,592
♪ I wrote the rhyme that
broke the bull's back ♪
2810
01:50:54,627 --> 01:50:55,859
♪ If that don't slow 'em
up, I carry a full pack ♪
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