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♪ Fast, I'm coming in fast, uh-huh ♪

♪ First place, you coming in last… ♪

♪ I'm hitting that, hitting that gas… ♪

♪ I'm hitting that gas… ♪

♪ Women been leading the way Since Roxanne Shante… ♪

♪ To the beat that makes you wanna rap C'mon, Rockwell, cut out the crap ♪

♪ And when you get on the mic To start the rap ♪

♪ And let everybody know You can never be the wack… ♪

♪ I am the one with the most unique The Funky 4 got rhymes galore ♪

-♪ I'm the best ♪ -♪ Sha-Rock… ♪

♪ I said-a hip, hop, the hippie The hippie to the hip hip hop ♪

♪ You don't stop Rock it to the bang-bang boogie… ♪

I says, "What is this?"

♪ I said-a hip, hop, the hippie… ♪

♪ Now, what you hear is not a test I'm rapping to the beat… ♪

♪ Everybody go hotel… ♪

♪ Dance, get up and get with this ♪

♪ Shante is here To take care of business ♪

♪ 'Cause Shante don't lose no battle ♪

♪ Beyond a shadow of a doubt I'll wear a bitch out ♪

♪ Bet against Shante You made a bad investment ♪

-♪ 'Cause I'll drop a ho and say ♪ -♪ Next contestant… ♪

And we call on the poet laureate, Nipsey Russell.

♪ I thought I had it In the palm of my hand ♪

♪ But, man, oh man If I was grand, I'd bang Roxanne… ♪

-Is there really a girl, Roxanne? -Yes, there is.

-Is she as cold as you guys say she is? -She is.

Did you guys have any luck with her or…?

-No, we didn't. -No. We wish to.

♪ But stuck-up Roxanne paid me no mind… ♪

Here's Roxanne Shante and "Roxanne's Revenge."

My favorite and yours,

put your hands together, welcome fly girl Roxanne Shante.

♪ I give you credit for giving a try But, Roxanne, suck my dick and die ♪

♪ You can't really rap 'Cause you ain't down, bitch ♪

♪ You not even the talk of the town… ♪

♪ I'm saying some peace I'm telling you, brother ♪

♪To suck your dick You better tell your mother… ♪

♪ Look at my show footage How girls be spazzin' ♪

♪ So fuck I look like Gettin' back to a has-been ♪

♪ Yeah, I said it! ♪

♪ Hey, you dumb ♪

♪ I'm a bad bitch, I'm a cunt ♪

♪ And I'll kick that ho… ♪

I love Roxanne from back in the day. Shante was the realest,

and she was taking on everybody. Yeah, come on!

♪ All my haters kneel down… ♪

♪ Bad motherfucker ♪

♪ I got Louis for my luggage ♪

♪ I need money, so I hustle ♪

♪ This ain't FakeWatchBusta ♪

♪ Ice me out ♪

♪ Ice me out ♪

♪ Ice me out ♪

♪ Ice me the fuck out… ♪

♪ I've been dancing for a year And you let me take over… ♪

Right about now, we about to get into MC Lyte, y'all!

♪ MC, master of creativity ♪

♪ Rapping is the activity ♪

♪ Rhyme is the sport ♪

♪ Let it be taught That Lyte the MC is takin' no shorts… ♪

Why don't they have Swahili as a language? Why is it always French and Spanish?

♪ Yo, this beat is stupid fresh ♪

♪ Oh yeah, you know it Cold dissed Doug Fresh… ♪

You don't expect females to be so rough and so aggressive, you know.

♪ In elementary Lyte had the Jordache look ♪

♪ Like me and any other kid Who cared about books ♪

♪ But then I got wise And I begin to listen ♪

♪ To the wack teachers And the wick-wack system ♪

♪ My mother put me in Weusi Shule ♪

♪ Which means "Black school" in Swahili ♪

♪ And there is where I learned Black history ♪

♪ And how to be the best that I can be… ♪

♪Just like a test I cram to understand U… ♪

♪ Because I'm gonna strip you Of your peace of mind… ♪

♪ I met him in the club Hanging out one night… ♪

♪ When the MCs came To live out their name ♪

♪ Inscribed in the halls And the walls of fame ♪

♪ Balancing life Wrote both the yin and the yang ♪

♪ Hands bury the man And they raised the son, Lorraine… ♪

♪ I must be a criminal ♪

♪ Keep your talkin' minimal ♪

♪ 'Cause most of it's subliminal And it'll put you in a critical ♪

♪ Used to be invisible They would refer to me as mythical ♪

♪ Sipping Mastika, I sip it slow Not on my level, not on your tippy-toes… ♪

♪ I'm coming at ya neck M16, Desert Eagle, put it on you… ♪

-Hello there. - Hey, yo.

Let them know your name.

My name's Tierra!

♪ They coppin' me sloppily ♪

♪ Please approach me properly Property, used to be poverty ♪

♪ Now, I'm taking your money Like robberies ♪

♪ You're damn wrong if you think… ♪

♪ My flow was chocolatey I'm guaranteed a record deal ♪

♪ On top near Lauryn's Hill ♪

♪ (You whack) How Tierra feel ♪

♪ Ill ♪

♪ Rappin' is my destiny Especially for these hysterectomies ♪

♪ That be testing me You're deaf to me… ♪

♪ But you know I never go by, yo ♪

-Uh! Yo. Dope. -What's up?

♪ Never back down 'Cause, nigga, I'm in front of you ♪

♪ One of a kind I will never be a double you ♪

♪ D, I, two Zs, forget the L, E ♪

♪ I told him I was the best Now he is telling me ♪

♪ I was born to perform, born in a storm Whether I wanna rap for 'em ♪

♪ Formed into a champion My grandpa got a handyman ♪

♪ Fellas… ♪

♪ Who you calling a bitch? ♪

-♪ U.N.I.T.Y. ♪ -♪ You gotta let him know ♪

-♪ U.N.I.T.Y. ♪ -♪ That's a unity ♪

-♪ U.N.I.T.Y. ♪ -♪ You gotta let him know ♪

♪You ain't a bitch or a ho Here we go… ♪

♪ We gonna funk you right on up ♪

♪ We gonna funk you right on up ♪

♪ I said get up, get up Get up, get up, get up ♪

♪ Sit back down ♪

Check it out. It's my belief that we are kings and queens

because we descended from kings and queens.

Make some noise in here!

♪ Just pump your fist like this Come on! ♪

♪ Pump your fist like this Come on! Pump your fist like this… ♪

All the ladies in the house tonight.

♪ Ooh, ladies first, ladies first ♪

♪ Ooh, ladies first, ladies first ♪

♪ U.N.I.T.Y. That's for unity… ♪

-♪ U.N.I.T.Y. ♪ -♪ You gotta let him know ♪

♪ U.N.I.T.Y. That's for unity… ♪

♪The time for scared, lip-trembling ♪

♪ Word-changing, self-denying ♪

♪ Compromising, knee-shakin' Black people Is over… ♪

♪ We are at war! ♪

-♪ Come on! ♪ -♪ Black man, where is your army? ♪

You had a… a rap singer here last night named Sister Souljah.

I'm talking about things I really care about.

I was in South Central LA three years before the riots.

Just listen to this.

What she said.

Sister Souljah, are you a racist?

You can't call me or any Black person anyplace in the world a racist.

We don't have the power

to do to white people what white people have done to us.

"And even if we did, we don't have that lowdown, dirty nature."

"If there are any good white people, I haven't met them. Where are they?"

Right here in this room.

That's where they are.

Democratic presidential contender Bill Clinton

has chosen to attack not the issues but a young African woman.

My, my, how things have changed.

Who would have thought that hip-hop would ever be heard in this room?

I'm sure y'all all have heard of James Brown

being referred to as the Godfather of Soul.

Well, give it up for my mentor, my inspiration, my all-in-all,

the Godmother of Hip-Hop, MC Lyte.

If you a champion female in this motherfucking building,

if can't no weak-ass motherfucking clown-ass motherfucking nigga

bring you the fuck down, make some motherfucking noise.

- Say her name! - Breonna Taylor!

-Say her name! -Breonna Taylor!

What's up, guys? Latto,

and I need y'all to pay attention to what's going on in this country.

I need everybody in the audience right now to say,

"My body, my motherfucking choice!"

My body, my motherfucking choice!

One more time! My body, my motherfucking choice!

My body, my motherfucking choice!

Grammy award-winning rapper Cardi B

is one of the 25 most influential people online,

according to Time Magazine.

I don't really put a lot of political things in my music,

but I use the fuck out of my platform.

What type of questions would you like to ask a Democratic candidate?

Considerable time has been spent

debating whether America should take seriously

the words of a rap artist.

We constantly see our men getting killed every day,

and it seems like nobody cares.

Nobody's sympathizing.

Nobody's talking about it.

…hanging out with Lil' Kim, who pulled out all the stops tonight!

I don't know. I'm just me, man. I just like to have fun.

♪ Don't I look like A Halle Berry poster? ♪

♪ See the Belvedere Playing tricks on ya… ♪

They gonna take me to the gas station,

and they gonna take and blow me up with the air pump at the gas station.

♪ Stick up… ♪

We have Roman.

He's my alter ego. He says what I can't say.

♪ Better listen very close 'Cause I don't say this every day ♪

♪ My name is Roxanne And they call me Shante ♪

♪ But every time-a I say a rhyme-a Just-a like-a this-a ♪

♪ It is something you MCs can't miss-a ♪

♪ Kangol if you think you cute It's all right ♪

♪ That's why you said it in a language So you wouldn't have to bite ♪

♪ You started talkin' Pig Latin Didn't make no sense ♪

♪ You thought you was cute Yeah, you thought you was a prince ♪

♪ You're walkin' down the block I'm the one you're gonna clock ♪

♪ But everybody knows That you're all on my yacht ♪

♪ I'm just the devastatin', always rockin' Always have the flyboys clockin' ♪

♪ Everybody knows it's me Yeah, the R-O-X-A-N-N-E… ♪

♪ You know we unstoppable ♪

♪ Take the win, it's probable ♪

♪ Level, level, level, level up ♪

♪ Rebel hot ♪

♪ You know we unstoppable ♪

♪ Take the win, it's probable ♪

♪ Level, level, level, level up ♪

♪ Rebel hot ♪

♪ Take the win, it's probable ♪

♪ Level, level, level, level up ♪

♪ Rebel hot ♪