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[ Men Hooting ] Basically-- You know what I'm saying ?
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Basically,
and shit, Wu-Tang,
we like this, man.
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As far as the music go,
you got your
watered-down niggas,
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then you got
your happy-go-lucky niggas,
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then you got
your hard-core niggas
and your underground niggas.
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Basically, it's all drug blocks.
Everybody's selling they dope
on they block.
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What we sayin'
to y'all is like this:
We got our shit sewed up.
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So don't try
and come on our block
sellin' your synthetic shit,
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'cause you
gonna get blowed up;
it ain't happenin'.
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♪♪ [ Scratching ]
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♪ Just another day's gone down Everybody, throw your hands in the air !
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Come on, come on !
Busta Rhymes--
♪♪ [ Rapping ]
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♪♪ [ Rapping ]
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♪♪ [ Continues ]
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♪ Personal hip-hop ♪ Rest assured
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♪♪ [ Rapping Continues ]
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♪ Teacher, teacher
don't try to flash ♪
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♪ Busta Rhymes
got a pretty cool place ♪Right on !
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♪♪ [ Continues ] ♪ Word
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♪♪ [ Rapping ] ♪ No, no, no
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♪ Now it's detention
Now it's suspension ♪
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- ♪ Tried makin' the rounds - ♪ It's down
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♪♪ [ Continues ]
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[ Rapping ]♪ She's goin'
Where's the party ♪
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- ♪ I hate this relationship
to talk ♪
- ♪ Teacher
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♪ What the teacher told me
does not compute ♪
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♪ Okay, I'll tell ya
I'm the new school ♪
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♪♪ [ Continues ]
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♪ Just another case
of bad old P.T.A. ♪♪ Uh, uh, uh, uh ♪
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Check it out ! Ha !
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[ Man #1 ] There's not one issue that takes place in this nation...
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that hip-hop hasn't addressed yet.
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[ Man #2 ] There's nothing wrong with somebody who's not black...
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seein' the sufferin' that my people been through and acknowledge that...
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and come along with us.
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[ Man #3 ] Hip-hop is an expression of people that ain't got it goin' on.
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[ Man #4 ] It's what we see daily and what we're doin' daily;
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that's what rapped about.
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[ Man #5 ] Yo, I mean, this is a new music where I can just say whatever I want on a mike ?
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[ Woman ] Freedom to create what your heart feels.
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[ Man #6 ] Makin' rhymes doesn't mean you're a hip-hop artist.
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[ Man #7 ] This is really the voice of the young generation.
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[ Man #8 ] Whatever I have to do to keep the hood goin' strong, best believe I was there.
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[ Man #9 ] If hip-hop didn't exist, I'd probably still be sellin' drugs.
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[ Man #10 ] They're not respecting the love of the rap music.
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[ Beeping ] They're respecting the money that it generates.
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[ Man #11 ] Because they make rap records and happen to be bad people don't mean rap is bad.
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- You gotta listen to this shit to understand it. - Rapper's delight.
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- With these rhymes-- - Makin' music-- - Black--
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- Hip-hop. - Break dancin'. - Families.
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- Black music. - Graffiti. - Parents.
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- Freestyle. - The ghetto. - Culture.
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[ Man ] Call it rap. [ Woman ] But it's all hip-hop.
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Hip-hop is like a vehicle.
You can use it to go anywhere
you want to go.
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Yeah, that's what hip-hop is.
It's the way you dress;
it's your style.
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You know what I'm sayin' ? Some wear braids in the East.
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Some wear
the curls back in the day.
Some used to wear the top fade.
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It's about the culture you live in.
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It's not just saying, "Yo, I do hip-hop." You gotta live it.
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'Cause hip-hop is how you walk,
live, dress, act, see, smell,
fart, shit, fuck.
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You know what I mean ?
It's all that right there.
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Everything we do. Like if I
hand this to him, I'm gonna
hand it to him hip-hop style.
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I'm gonna go like this.
I wouldn't just go, "Here." [ Laughs ] Hip-hop.
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You know,
I'm gonna do something
that make it hip-hop.
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I don't give a fuck what it is.
I'm gonna put the hip-hop
twist on it.
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[ Pras ] Everybody got different slangs.
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You got the Brooklyn slangs; you got the West Coast;
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you got the Down South, like the Goody Mobs, all that.
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So it's a culture,
and we're all part of it.
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We all got our own type
of slang.
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It's like talking
your own language.
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Word up. I heard they had a hip-hop slang book.
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And they had words
in there like "b-boy,"
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"b-girl," "fresh,"
"chill."
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We ain't used them shit since
we was, like, nine years old
out this motherfuckin', man.
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[ Chattering, Laughing ]We don't even be saying
"cool it" no more.
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[ Chattering, Laughing
Continue ]
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If you say "what's up"
to somebody and they say,
"I'm chillin' the fresh way,"
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motherfuckers'll look at you
like you're from another planet
or somethin', man, word up.
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♪♪ [ Scratching ]
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Well, when you discuss
the history of hip-hop,
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uh, you gotta understand
that hip-hop has many starts.
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Hip-hop had a start in gospel;
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it had a start in jazz; it had a start in blues,
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rock and roll, disco.
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Hip-hop.
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Hip-hop is a culture,
the mother of four or five
different elements,
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like rap, scratching,
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break dancing and graffiti.
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♪♪
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Rap is something
that's being done.
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Hip-hop is something that is being lived.
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A rap artist can be anybody from anywhere,
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but you've got to visit the Bronx.
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Period.
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Wherever you are in life,
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wherever you wanna be, you
will always be a rap artist,
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until you visit the South Bronx.
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Look at the projects. Look at the people.
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See the environment that hip-hop started in.
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Go to 123 Park...
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and just stand there...
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and imagine the birth of a culture...
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happening in this very spot.
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Hey ! Hey ![ Chattering ]
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The Bronxis hip-hop.
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Graffiti, break dancing,
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MCing and DJing all came from the Bronx.
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Yo, where we're standing right
here, this is a historical place
in hip-hop.
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This is like where
it all began pretty much.
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The godfather of hip-hop,
Kool Herc, used to live right
here in this building, 1600.
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And he used to give jams right here in this little park. You know what I'm sayin' ?
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Plug up to a light pole,
or get, like, electricity
from one of the windows...
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and just play
right out here.
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This was back in 1974.
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Yeah, I was hip to New York
hip-hop. You gotta give props
where props is due.
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They originated it.
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Anybody that doesn't
believe that is trippin'.
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You know, see,
I know niggas in the Bronx,
they sparked it up.
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But, you know, it traveled
from project to project.
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And they just spread it,
and now it's bigger than ever,
and it's gonna get bigger.
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Ghetto kids didn't really have
the money...
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to learn how to play instruments
or take singing lessons,
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but they found a way,
regardless, you know.
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Because the spirit was still
telling them to make
some things.
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So it's like they just used
whatever was around,
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whether it be a turntable
or a little nasty mike
and some old, dirty records.
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♪♪ That's how the whole thing starts.
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DJs are the ones who started this hip-hop thing.
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Back when my man Kool Herc,
Grandmaster Flash, all them
in the Bronx, you know.
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It was like radio shock waves
with new styles of scratching
and stuff--
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This is one of the original instruments of hip-hop.
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Us DJs would, like,
go nuts and try to learn
how to do those cuts.
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Howie T might do
a new scratch on this record.
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He did this one scratch.
He went like--♪♪
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He did that.
When he first did that,
everybody was buggin' out.
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And then, like,
Mixmaster Ice did this scratch.
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He did that.
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And then, obviously, DST
freaked everybody out on Herbie
Hancock stuff when he was like--
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♪ F-F-Fresh
Fresh ♪
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♪ F-F-F-F-Fresh ♪
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♪♪
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♪♪
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♪♪
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And early, the first DJs
in the Bronx would spin
the records,
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and they would only play
the breakdown of the record.
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They would play--
Every record breaks down.
♪ Get down
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And it breaks
into just the beat
and the drums.
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♪♪ [ Interrupted Vocals ]
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♪♪
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These are break beats.
You know what I'm sayin' ?
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And a break beat
can be anything
from any kind of record,
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any kind of music,
be it classical,
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be it soul, jazz, pop,
rock, anything.
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It's any record that has
a breakdown beat in it.
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So, Flash
and people like that--
Grand Wizard Theodore--
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would spin these records, but
they would only play the breaks,
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and people would dance over the breaks in the record,
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and these were called "break dancers."
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[ Man ] Back then, everybody that I knew that really had mad flavor...
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in b-boying or poppin' used to be a hard-core criminal.
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Popping came along, and it made a difference in my life.
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You're too busy learning how to windmill than to rob and steal,
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and, you know, you're too tired to fight after you done battled somebody...
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and took all your aggression out on some dancin', you know.
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[ Mr. Animation ] Hip-hop ain't no easy game to play.
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If you ain't got no style, hang it up, sit down.
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My characters make people enjoy themselves...
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with how I move my body and everything like that.
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So I feel it's a part of fun, poppin' and breakin' and makin' people laugh.
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[ Chico ] It's not just a hype thing,
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something that we're just into just to make money.
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It goes way deeper, deeper than that.
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[ Lil' Caesar ] You know, they say, well, breakin' is not hip-hop, you know ?
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[ Chuckles ] Come on. If breakin' wasn't hip-hop, you know,
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they don't know the history.
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Breaking means to me that it's a way of expressing myself,
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getting my anger out there, you know, instead of going out there...
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and smoking or fighting, you know.
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I go to my own little world, and I just express myself through breaking.
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I dance, you know, and get creative.
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I'm just spinning, and I feel like I'm flying.
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I'm flying in the air, man, you know, and just-- I'm free.
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- ♪ Yeah The only reality is now ♪ - ♪ Come on
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♪ But when I say free
back-- ♪♪
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The origins of graffiti go way past hip-hop.
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That goes back to World War II
when, I mean,
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soldiers was writin'
"Kilroy was here"
and stuff on the walls,
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and, you know, people
were just making statements.
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Here, it was just about gettin' up.
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You wanted to write your name in as many places...
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for as many people to see it so you'd be known.
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Graffiti is one of
the most beautiful
art forms in the world.
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You know, I'll be lookin' at
some of the stuff Picasso
be doin',
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and I'm like, well, Picasso
ought to had to be there...
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to understand what
you doin', you know.
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But then brothers' graffiti-ing they're givin' you firsthand...
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what they're seein' every day in the hood, you know.
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They're bringin' the news to you.
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Brothers shooting dice. They have dice there.
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They have the trains comin' by. All in one tag.
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Graffiti art
means getting out...
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what a lot of people
can't get out, you know.
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It's like expressing
beauty, color,
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excitement, drama.
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It's everything
like music.
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I just love the blend
of the music.
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I remember I was
groovin' to this sound,
and it was Jackson Five.
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And this DJ was actually keeping this one part in the record...
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on and on and on,
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and then the guy was on the microphone just doin' that same stuff Muhammad Ali did.
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♪ Let me see your hands
flow like this ♪
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♪ Let me see your hands
flow like this ♪♪
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[ Ice-T ] The rapper would say, "You know what ?
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He's good, but, by the way, I'm kinda fly too. And I'm all this and I'm all that."
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The girls would scream.
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The next MC said, "I have to outdo this person."
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And the only way
to outdo somebody
usually is by boasting...
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or outboasting 'em
or trying to insult them
in a cool way.
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And that's where
the battles started.
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♪ So bring the drama
when you're coming
Best believe I'm down ♪
224
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♪ The golden child
just arrived straight
out the Chi-town ♪♪
225
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♪ Hi-ho, Silver, nigga
'cause I'm comin'
like the Lone Ranger ♪
226
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♪ Danger, danger, Dr. Smith
The human torture chamber ♪
227
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♪ A lyrical
bastard child buck wild
straight from the penal ♪
228
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♪ I'm foul
Deep 'n' deadly is my style ♪
229
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♪ Straight out the gate
a thoroughbred, runnin'
like the Feds, never scared ♪
230
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♪ From these streets
quick to bust
a motherfucker's head ♪♪
231
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When you're first starting out, you know what I'm sayin',
232
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it's more natural to just
freestyle, 'cause that's how you
start developing your own style.
233
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You know, if you're
an MC for real,
you can freestyle.
234
00:12:14,951 --> 00:12:17,214
You know, you don't have to be
elaborate with your freestyle,
you know what I'm sayin',
235
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but people know if
it's written or not.
236
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Some people
say they're freestylin',
and they be sayin' some stuff...
237
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which you know you can't
freestyle that well like that,
except a few people that can.
238
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♪ Now check it out, because
I'm serious and I'm dope ♪
239
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♪ Oh, my God, and I can
freestyle without a quote ♪♪
240
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♪ Funk battle
That fool's fatter ♪
241
00:12:31,446 --> 00:12:32,795
♪ MCs with their
chitter-chatter ♪
242
00:12:32,839 --> 00:12:35,015
♪ This microphone
won't even matter ♪
243
00:12:35,058 --> 00:12:38,453
♪ Craig Mack's like
a funk robotic super-sick
psychotic MC who got it ♪
244
00:12:38,496 --> 00:12:41,761
♪ New season inside the season
crushin' MCs for
no apparent reason ♪♪
245
00:12:41,804 --> 00:12:44,067
♪ MCs want to battle
but it makes no sense ♪
246
00:12:44,111 --> 00:12:45,895
♪ To test the abstract
shahid ♪
247
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♪ Phife dog
and Consequence on my left ♪
248
00:12:48,724 --> 00:12:51,858
♪ Style is so, so def
And when it comes
to rhymes and styles ♪
249
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♪ I got 'em by the pile ♪
250
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♪ I'll represent it in a minute
'cause I'm
G Tray Deee ♪
251
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♪ Here to set it off and step up
on the M-I-C ♪
252
00:12:58,908 --> 00:13:01,868
♪ And let you know, Long Beach
yeah, that's my city ♪
253
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♪ Come down here
and we'll never show pity ♪♪
254
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It's a personal thing
to me to freestyle.
You know what I mean ?
255
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But, you know, when you're
trying to get onstage
and show off...
256
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like you can
when you really can't--
257
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you're kickin' all kind
of bullshit words-- you get
caught out there, you know.
258
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I've got caught
out there a lot of times,
just sayin' a bunch of nothin'.
259
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That's why I tell all
my artists: "If you don't feel
like freestylin',
260
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[ Man ] Yeah.do not freestyle and go wild."
261
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Yes,
I am a true MC.
262
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Y'all thought I was about
to kick a little somethin',
didn't ya ?
263
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What's up ? Yo.
264
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♪ Focus the camera
so I can slam a phat rhyme
down your esophagus ♪
265
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♪ Who's dropping us
This is the lyrical
imperial Fat Lip ♪
266
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♪ Chillin' with my fools
No, we not no Blood or Crip ♪
267
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♪ I don't gang-bang
I don't sling no "caine" ♪
268
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♪ But I got these rhymes
when I kick 'em off
the brain ♪
269
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♪ I maintain
These rhymes I will sustain ♪
270
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♪ Don't try to mess
There ain't no shit
you would gain ♪
271
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♪ I'd bust your ass in the know
lookin' at me ♪
272
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♪ Open the windows
check out my clothes ♪
273
00:14:01,579 --> 00:14:03,625
♪ I got the Nike
I'm not Spike Lee ♪
274
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♪ But I do the right thing
On my nuts you might swing ♪
275
00:14:06,758 --> 00:14:09,500
♪ But that's all right
'cause I kick the shit
Keep it tight ♪
276
00:14:09,544 --> 00:14:13,287
♪ Yo, bust that shit
It's dynamite
So I blow it up ♪
277
00:14:13,330 --> 00:14:16,290
♪ Listen to the West Coast shit
Nigga 'bout to throw it up ♪
278
00:14:16,333 --> 00:14:19,162
♪ About the pass the shit
to my man Suave ♪
279
00:14:19,206 --> 00:14:21,948
♪ So do what
you gotta do, nigga
Represent L.A ♪
280
00:14:21,991 --> 00:14:24,733
♪ Yeah, comin' up
on stage two ♪
281
00:14:24,776 --> 00:14:28,606
♪ 'Bout to represent to you
I got my man Slim here Tre ♪
282
00:14:28,650 --> 00:14:30,739
♪ And he's about to bring
this shit on your way ♪♪
283
00:14:30,782 --> 00:14:33,089
Yo, Slim.
[ Laughing ]
284
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Come on, Slim.
[ Shouting ]
285
00:14:37,267 --> 00:14:39,661
♪ Too many niggas trying
to perp my lifestyle
romance it ♪
286
00:14:39,704 --> 00:14:42,229
♪ I was kickin' gang when
y'all kids was break dancin'
Overlords ♪
287
00:14:42,272 --> 00:14:44,622
♪ So why you wack niggas
ain't dead ♪
288
00:14:44,666 --> 00:14:46,624
♪ Probably because my aim
is over niggas' heads ♪
289
00:14:46,668 --> 00:14:48,496
♪ East Coast, West Coast
I played the whole map
and bounced ♪
290
00:14:48,539 --> 00:14:51,499
♪ You got a Benz but live
in your mom's house ♪♪
291
00:14:51,542 --> 00:14:55,416
So the key--
And the key to
a good rap is like,
292
00:14:55,459 --> 00:14:57,940
it doesn't only rhyme,
but it's, like, clever.
293
00:14:57,984 --> 00:15:01,335
Are you being clever
with the rap ?
294
00:15:01,378 --> 00:15:04,077
And also, good rap music
doesn't need a beat.
295
00:15:04,120 --> 00:15:06,557
♪ My repertoire is militant
296
00:15:06,601 --> 00:15:08,864
♪ The last days with the Blood
is we're dealing with ♪
297
00:15:08,908 --> 00:15:10,953
♪ The Johnny Blaze
grab your pistols ♪
298
00:15:10,997 --> 00:15:13,086
♪ Teflon megabombs
and heat-seekin' missiles ♪
299
00:15:13,129 --> 00:15:15,088
♪ Time to go to war
Shit's official ♪
300
00:15:15,131 --> 00:15:17,394
♪ The Mic Stalker
Only few can understand it ♪
301
00:15:17,438 --> 00:15:20,310
♪ The Skywalker that be
leapin' over planets ♪
302
00:15:20,354 --> 00:15:22,965
♪ Pain
Got that ghetto blood
in my vein ♪
303
00:15:23,009 --> 00:15:26,838
♪ Spreadin' through my kin
Confess my sins and blame
society for unawareness ♪
304
00:15:26,882 --> 00:15:29,754
♪ Fuck the president
He don't represent
the ghetto resident ♪
305
00:15:29,798 --> 00:15:32,888
♪ Recognize, fool
within the black hole
there's a jewel ♪
306
00:15:32,932 --> 00:15:35,760
♪ The revolution
been in effect
Pull up your shoes ♪
307
00:15:35,804 --> 00:15:39,721
♪ Utilize your third eye
It be him or I now
Choose who gotta die ♪
308
00:15:39,764 --> 00:15:42,898
♪ Him, every time
the Ticallion Stallion
Now, hold on ♪
309
00:15:42,942 --> 00:15:45,553
♪ Like diamond stud medallions
and so on ♪♪
310
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[ Laughing ]Whoo ! Whoo !
311
00:15:49,296 --> 00:15:52,038
Between '75 and '85,
you had to have juice.
312
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You had to have had political power in the culture of hip-hop...
313
00:15:56,694 --> 00:15:59,088
to grab the mic,
314
00:15:59,132 --> 00:16:02,396
to step out onto the cardboard and break-dance...
315
00:16:02,439 --> 00:16:05,703
or even do a piece.
316
00:16:05,747 --> 00:16:08,532
You had to be known
in the community.
317
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- ♪♪ [ Scratching ]
- ♪ Radio, TV
318
00:16:11,144 --> 00:16:14,234
♪ And even the press
Say, what's the meaning
of V-A-P-O-R-S ♪♪
319
00:16:14,277 --> 00:16:17,019
A really important part of hip-hop,
320
00:16:17,063 --> 00:16:20,370
I say,
is Mike and Dave from--
321
00:16:20,414 --> 00:16:24,374
you know, they used to be
with the Crash Crew--
and Afrika Bambaata.
322
00:16:24,418 --> 00:16:27,464
He brought, like, unity to the people...
323
00:16:27,508 --> 00:16:30,032
from the Bronx, Manhattan--
brought them together.
324
00:16:30,076 --> 00:16:32,426
You know, bringing 'em
into like--
325
00:16:32,469 --> 00:16:36,865
They used to have, like,
Zulu Nation meetings, like,
on Thursdays or Wednesdays.
326
00:16:36,908 --> 00:16:39,433
You know,
God Bless the Dead, Malibu,
327
00:16:39,476 --> 00:16:42,131
God Bless the Dead, B.O.,
and stuff like that.
328
00:16:42,175 --> 00:16:45,743
This is, like, one of the first fliers I ever collected.
329
00:16:45,787 --> 00:16:50,270
Kool Herc,
Whiz kid, Disco Prince,
Whipper Whip and Dot-A-Rock.
330
00:16:50,313 --> 00:16:54,056
Then you got the classic battle
of all time,
331
00:16:54,100 --> 00:16:57,059
is Coldcrush
versus Fantastic Five.
332
00:16:57,103 --> 00:17:00,715
Now, here's
an actual flier...
333
00:17:00,758 --> 00:17:03,109
of the Rooftop.
334
00:17:03,152 --> 00:17:06,982
That was a club uptown
where everybody'd go,
335
00:17:07,026 --> 00:17:09,854
from the hustlers
to the strugglers.
336
00:17:09,898 --> 00:17:14,816
Now, this is when
I started to evolve
as a good beatbox.
337
00:17:14,859 --> 00:17:18,646
You know what I'm sayin' ?
You have Rob Bass before
he came out with a record.
338
00:17:18,689 --> 00:17:21,040
EZ Rock, Darrow C.
And look at me.
339
00:17:21,083 --> 00:17:23,694
See me there ?
340
00:17:23,738 --> 00:17:26,132
In the beginning--Run-D.M.C.
341
00:17:26,175 --> 00:17:28,438
Yeah, we was--We was tryin' to be--
342
00:17:28,482 --> 00:17:30,701
We was Run-D.M.C.
all over the place.
343
00:17:30,745 --> 00:17:33,095
Actually, they were callin'
us the female Run-D.M.C.
at one time.
344
00:17:33,139 --> 00:17:36,881
So we were like,
"Oh, my God, they sayin'
we're the female Run-D.M.C."
345
00:17:36,925 --> 00:17:39,797
And we also lived
in Queens.Yeah.
346
00:17:39,841 --> 00:17:42,887
Yeah, so-- Yeah.We used to go back and forth
like that style, like Run-D.M.C.
347
00:17:42,931 --> 00:17:45,064
We looked up
to them a lot.
348
00:17:45,107 --> 00:17:48,850
And back at that time, in the
pioneering days, it wasn't
about money.
349
00:17:48,893 --> 00:17:51,374
Nobody came out
to get paid.
350
00:17:51,418 --> 00:17:54,203
We used to spend
more money than we made
to come out and play.
351
00:17:54,247 --> 00:17:58,033
It was a lot of hard work, you
know, to bring all them speakers
and all that equipment out.
352
00:17:58,077 --> 00:18:00,731
But we just did it
for the love of hip-hop,
just to play music.
353
00:18:00,775 --> 00:18:10,567
♪♪
354
00:18:10,611 --> 00:18:13,875
Back in the days, the party was everything.
355
00:18:13,918 --> 00:18:18,401
You would go from block to block to block, battling each DJ or each MC,
356
00:18:18,445 --> 00:18:22,623
and that's how you would gain your reputation.
357
00:18:22,666 --> 00:18:26,540
Oh, yes, you can catch an occasional block party here and there.
358
00:18:26,583 --> 00:18:28,411
Sometimes you do see it, like the old days.
359
00:18:28,455 --> 00:18:32,111
♪♪ [ Rapping ]
360
00:18:32,154 --> 00:18:35,070
[ Chattering ]
361
00:18:37,420 --> 00:18:39,988
[ Ice-T ] Rap is the music of hip-hop,
362
00:18:40,031 --> 00:18:42,382
or the vocal delivery of hip-hop.
363
00:18:42,425 --> 00:18:44,471
But hip-hop
is a full-blown culture.
364
00:18:44,514 --> 00:18:47,474
[ Grandmaster Caz ] Rap was more party-orientated back then.
365
00:18:47,517 --> 00:18:51,042
We talked about partyin' and havin' a good time.
366
00:18:51,086 --> 00:18:53,654
♪ Pickin' niggas, niggas in the pocket, pocket ♪[ Chattering Continues ]
367
00:18:53,697 --> 00:18:55,743
♪ You wanna get down if you can suck it ♪
368
00:18:55,786 --> 00:19:00,095
♪♪ [ Rapping Continues ]
369
00:19:00,139 --> 00:19:03,098
♪ Break the ball, get down
break the ball ♪
370
00:19:03,142 --> 00:19:05,361
♪♪ [ Continues ]
371
00:19:11,062 --> 00:19:13,891
♪ Yeah ♪ ♪♪ [ Scratching ]
372
00:19:13,935 --> 00:19:18,113
From what I see, hip-hop on the West Coast started like 1982.
373
00:19:18,157 --> 00:19:21,116
And so-called "gangsta rap"
started the same time...
374
00:19:21,160 --> 00:19:25,294
because those were
the first records that really
made it out here, you know--
375
00:19:25,338 --> 00:19:28,471
Ice-T and Schooly-D, actually.
376
00:19:28,515 --> 00:19:32,214
Schooly-D had the recordPSK out at the time, and Ice-T hadSix In The Morning.
377
00:19:32,258 --> 00:19:35,348
And these were the only records
we were playin'...
378
00:19:35,391 --> 00:19:39,221
because, you know,
they were sayin' things that
we could relate to, you know.
379
00:19:39,265 --> 00:19:43,225
Early West Coast rap.
I would rap about tryin'
to party.
380
00:19:43,269 --> 00:19:45,836
I did records like
"Doggin' the Wax,"
"You Don't Quit."
381
00:19:45,880 --> 00:19:49,927
My boys were sayin', like, "Ice, man, why're you rappin' about parties, man ?
382
00:19:49,971 --> 00:19:52,321
We don't go to parties.
We robparties."
383
00:19:52,365 --> 00:19:55,368
You know what I'm sayin' ?
So I'm like,
"Yeah, that is true."
384
00:19:55,411 --> 00:19:58,153
'Cause while they were havin'
a hip-hop scene in New York,
385
00:19:58,197 --> 00:20:00,808
we were havin'
a gang scene.
386
00:20:00,851 --> 00:20:04,942
Due to the fact they called themselves a gang, people called this gangsta rap.
387
00:20:04,986 --> 00:20:08,250
Violence is part of that lifestyle, so you have to rap about it.
388
00:20:08,294 --> 00:20:11,035
Yo, this is where
I got stuck.
389
00:20:11,079 --> 00:20:14,038
[ Man ] No shit ?Yeah, and I got stuck
way up here.
390
00:20:14,082 --> 00:20:16,432
If a kid is in a gang,
391
00:20:16,476 --> 00:20:19,914
then he raps
from the perspective
of a gangbanger.
392
00:20:19,957 --> 00:20:24,179
But what if the kid sells drugs ? He's rapping from the perspective of a drug dealer.
393
00:20:24,223 --> 00:20:28,662
What if the guy's a pimp ? He'll rap from the perspective of a pimp.
394
00:20:28,705 --> 00:20:32,100
When you rap, basically you rap to another rapper.
395
00:20:32,143 --> 00:20:34,885
What a Gangsta Rapper says is:
396
00:20:34,929 --> 00:20:39,281
"You, listener, I will shoot you in your motherfuckin' face."
397
00:20:42,458 --> 00:20:44,721
He forgets about the rules.
398
00:20:44,765 --> 00:20:47,158
He forgets about the theory;
399
00:20:47,202 --> 00:20:50,640
what's right and wrong; message versus non-message.
400
00:20:50,684 --> 00:20:54,296
It is reality rap in its truest form,
401
00:20:54,340 --> 00:20:56,864
because you take out all the barricades.
402
00:20:56,907 --> 00:21:01,521
It's very direct-- taking rap to its most real form...
403
00:21:01,564 --> 00:21:05,481
and just rappin' it,
just not giving a fuck.
404
00:21:05,525 --> 00:21:08,136
♪ Oh, yeah, yeah
405
00:21:08,179 --> 00:21:11,444
♪♪ [ Continues ]
406
00:21:11,487 --> 00:21:13,837
They talk about
money, dope,
407
00:21:13,881 --> 00:21:16,623
ho's, cars, guns.
408
00:21:16,666 --> 00:21:18,668
What else ?
That's reality.
409
00:21:18,712 --> 00:21:20,670
There's violence
everywhere.
410
00:21:20,714 --> 00:21:22,933
It's a murder committed
in every city, state,
411
00:21:22,977 --> 00:21:25,327
country, continent, everywhere.
412
00:21:25,371 --> 00:21:28,069
I just talk about what the motherfuckers is really doin'.
413
00:21:28,112 --> 00:21:31,028
California streets is full of all that shit I just named.
414
00:21:31,072 --> 00:21:33,292
Can't help but to talk about it.
415
00:21:33,335 --> 00:21:35,772
♪ We in the war zone
In the war zone
Where your gun, nigga ♪
416
00:21:35,816 --> 00:21:38,297
♪ Show 'em where you from, nigga Ridin'-ass young nigga
Arsenal equip ♪
417
00:21:38,340 --> 00:21:41,996
♪ Hot enough to scorch with the double fours
on the hip ♪
418
00:21:42,039 --> 00:21:44,912
♪ Rollin' with the force He's out to catch a body ♪♪
419
00:21:44,955 --> 00:21:48,089
As far as gangsta rap is concerned, they talk about what they know.
420
00:21:48,132 --> 00:21:51,484
Just as we can't hold it
against the people
from New York--
421
00:21:51,527 --> 00:21:55,052
They have their crews. You know what I'm sayin' ? And it's like the same thing.
422
00:21:55,096 --> 00:21:59,100
And it's the family-based thing. You know what I'm sayin' ? It's misunderstood.
423
00:21:59,143 --> 00:22:01,711
I'm not thuggin' for me. I'm thuggin' for my family.
424
00:22:01,755 --> 00:22:03,931
I pay all the bills.
You know what I'm sayin' ?
425
00:22:03,974 --> 00:22:07,935
I feed my whole family.
Wrong or right, I do it.
426
00:22:07,978 --> 00:22:10,372
And I can't stop.
You know what I'm sayin' ?
427
00:22:10,416 --> 00:22:12,766
If thuggin' is gonna make me
a million bucks,
428
00:22:12,809 --> 00:22:14,768
'cause it just got me
platinum, then that's
what I got to do.
429
00:22:14,811 --> 00:22:18,293
As far as the music,
all it was...
430
00:22:18,337 --> 00:22:22,471
was guys from the West Coast using different elements of music...
431
00:22:22,515 --> 00:22:25,387
that guys from the Northeast wouldn't touch, like funk.
432
00:22:25,431 --> 00:22:28,259
The West Coast sound, to me, was like a Moog keyboard,
433
00:22:28,303 --> 00:22:31,350
a lot more funk-type stuff with
a lot of hand claps for snares,
434
00:22:31,393 --> 00:22:33,743
you know, a lot of whiny,
high synthesizer-type things.
435
00:22:33,787 --> 00:22:37,747
And because of the tempos
and the mixture of the music,
436
00:22:37,791 --> 00:22:41,882
I think that music was more relevant to more black people inside the United States.
437
00:22:41,925 --> 00:22:44,406
♪ We puttin' it down
438
00:22:44,450 --> 00:22:47,017
♪ From block to block
the scandalous town ♪
439
00:22:47,061 --> 00:22:50,151
♪ From crooked cops
to dope shops all around ♪
440
00:22:50,194 --> 00:22:53,633
♪ Shit-hot ho's to six-fours and strawberries ♪
441
00:22:53,676 --> 00:22:56,766
♪ Hood's tight like Fort Knox or like the military ♪
442
00:22:56,810 --> 00:23:00,335
♪ Attitudes Don't even try it
Tech nines-- ♪♪
443
00:23:00,379 --> 00:23:03,730
And the fact that you could do this, and sooner or later, these records started sellin',
444
00:23:03,773 --> 00:23:06,559
just sayin' whatever
we wanted to say ?
445
00:23:06,602 --> 00:23:09,083
It was great.
It was like God
came and said,
446
00:23:09,126 --> 00:23:11,172
"Here's something
that you can do."
447
00:23:20,486 --> 00:23:25,621
Now, when we started, and when we signed our first contract in 1982,
448
00:23:25,665 --> 00:23:28,450
you could count
how many rap groups had...
449
00:23:28,494 --> 00:23:31,192
contracts, signed contracts,
with companies.
450
00:23:31,235 --> 00:23:34,369
And major record companies
was not taking chances
with rap music.
451
00:23:34,413 --> 00:23:37,938
It was the small independent
companies that would give
rappers a chance.
452
00:23:37,981 --> 00:23:41,985
After 1985, hip-hop and rap made a split.
453
00:23:42,029 --> 00:23:45,859
Graffiti art and break dancin' no longer became...
454
00:23:45,902 --> 00:23:50,820
viable means of expressing this piece of the culture.
455
00:23:50,864 --> 00:23:53,867
Rap became the viable means
of expressing this piece
of the culture,
456
00:23:53,910 --> 00:23:56,478
and it was only because...
457
00:23:56,522 --> 00:23:59,133
corporate America--
"Massa"--
458
00:23:59,176 --> 00:24:01,570
deemed it important.
459
00:24:01,614 --> 00:24:05,531
"Oh, we could make some money
pressin' up these records.
So, let's go."
460
00:24:05,574 --> 00:24:07,968
Rap is big business now.
461
00:24:08,011 --> 00:24:11,493
Now record companies aren't
even concerned about the
vinyl and stuff like that.
462
00:24:11,537 --> 00:24:14,931
They talkin' about
CD sales and everything,
463
00:24:14,975 --> 00:24:18,195
but if it wasn't for vinyl,
there wouldn't be any hip-hop
music.
464
00:24:18,239 --> 00:24:21,721
These record labels, man,
is just "shysty."
465
00:24:21,764 --> 00:24:23,984
They don't care
about the artist.
You know what I'm sayin' ?
466
00:24:24,027 --> 00:24:26,769
They let the artist do
what he wanna do, they want--
467
00:24:26,813 --> 00:24:29,772
"Yeah, act silly."
And, you know,
"Yeah, do it for me."
468
00:24:29,816 --> 00:24:33,689
You know, they get
a certain percentage.
Man, we get kibbles.
469
00:24:33,733 --> 00:24:35,865
We don't--
You know what I'm sayin' ?
470
00:24:35,909 --> 00:24:38,128
That's played out.
471
00:24:38,172 --> 00:24:41,523
The first record company, they robbed me blind.
472
00:24:41,567 --> 00:24:44,526
I didn't know no better.
I'm 17 years old.
You know what I'm sayin' ?
473
00:24:44,570 --> 00:24:46,789
I'm makin' a record.
474
00:24:46,833 --> 00:24:51,011
I'm comin' from $20 a week
allowance, till all of a sudden
somebody gives me $1,000.
475
00:24:51,054 --> 00:24:53,883
And I'm like, you know,
saying, "This is crazy."
But that's all I got.
476
00:24:53,927 --> 00:24:57,452
The record companies are
basically like a merchant bank.
477
00:24:57,496 --> 00:25:01,674
You know, they loan you money,
and they want their money back
with fat interest.
478
00:25:01,717 --> 00:25:05,068
And the conditions of your contract...
479
00:25:05,112 --> 00:25:08,158
are basically like the conditions of your loan.
480
00:25:08,202 --> 00:25:10,857
I love the fans, you know,
and I love making music,
481
00:25:10,900 --> 00:25:13,294
but the people
in the middle-- Whoo !
482
00:25:13,337 --> 00:25:16,166
It's like the middlemen,
they just--
[ Groans ]
483
00:25:16,210 --> 00:25:18,604
Everyone welcomes you
into Jerusalem.
484
00:25:18,647 --> 00:25:20,997
Then later, they scream,
"Crucify him."
485
00:25:21,041 --> 00:25:23,086
So, people are
always hypocritical,
486
00:25:23,130 --> 00:25:26,133
especially when you're inside of an industry...
487
00:25:26,176 --> 00:25:28,352
called the record industry.
488
00:25:28,396 --> 00:25:31,660
You have to always stay conscious and in reality.
489
00:25:31,704 --> 00:25:34,228
You can't ever believe your own hype,
490
00:25:34,271 --> 00:25:36,839
'cause those people will build you up to Superman,
491
00:25:36,883 --> 00:25:39,494
only to find out
that you...
492
00:25:39,538 --> 00:25:41,757
♪ Garbage man
[ Laughing ]
493
00:25:43,933 --> 00:25:47,589
The record business is exactly what it is--
494
00:25:47,633 --> 00:25:49,722
record... business.
495
00:25:49,765 --> 00:25:52,072
And you have
to take care of both.
496
00:25:52,115 --> 00:25:56,163
I got into it just wantin' to make music. You know what I'm sayin' ?
497
00:25:56,206 --> 00:25:59,166
I didn't really give a damn about the business part of it.
498
00:25:59,209 --> 00:26:01,821
I was trustin' people,
499
00:26:01,864 --> 00:26:05,346
trustin' that they would handle my business the way it was supposed to be handled.
500
00:26:05,389 --> 00:26:07,609
And you get fucked
like that.
501
00:26:07,653 --> 00:26:10,003
So you gotta be on top
of your own business.
502
00:26:10,046 --> 00:26:13,615
Don't trust no managers,
no record company execs,
nothin' like that. Know it.
503
00:26:13,659 --> 00:26:17,706
Basically, every young,
little motherfucker can rap,
so we--
504
00:26:17,750 --> 00:26:21,580
All they wanna see is,
"Well, where's your
two hit singles ?"
505
00:26:21,623 --> 00:26:25,148
They gon' put that out,
you might go double-platinum,
and then next time--
506
00:26:25,192 --> 00:26:27,890
They gon' make
four million off of you,
you're gon' be broke.
507
00:26:27,934 --> 00:26:30,153
You come out
with your next album.
508
00:26:30,197 --> 00:26:32,895
If it flops, they gon'
get rid of you and find
the next motherfucker.
509
00:26:32,939 --> 00:26:35,289
"Where'syour
two hit singles ?"
510
00:26:35,332 --> 00:26:37,552
It's music
and it's business...
511
00:26:37,596 --> 00:26:40,903
and, you know what I'm sayin',
I have to find a fine line
in between all of it.
512
00:26:40,947 --> 00:26:43,645
It's cool; I just make sure
I take care of my business.
513
00:26:43,689 --> 00:26:46,213
I accept all the pros and cons
of my record label,
514
00:26:46,256 --> 00:26:49,216
but I try to enjoy my art
and do the best I can.
515
00:26:49,259 --> 00:26:52,611
In this business,
90% of artists...
516
00:26:52,654 --> 00:26:55,875
don't know when they're
supposed to get paid,
517
00:26:55,918 --> 00:26:57,877
how they're
supposed to get paid...
518
00:26:57,920 --> 00:27:00,357
or how much they're
supposed to get paid.
519
00:27:00,401 --> 00:27:04,927
You can ask a new artist, "How much is a point worth ?" or what a pointis,
520
00:27:04,971 --> 00:27:07,930
and they can't answer the question; they don't know.
521
00:27:07,974 --> 00:27:11,325
But they can tell you
how much a Mercedes costs.
522
00:27:11,368 --> 00:27:14,328
And, you know, the business wanna roll with it,
523
00:27:14,371 --> 00:27:17,592
so they fork money into it
or simply be out of the game.
524
00:27:17,636 --> 00:27:21,596
So it's a give-and-take
and you just gotta know
what's actually goin' on...
525
00:27:21,640 --> 00:27:24,468
and the sacrifices
you actually makin' spiritually,
mentally and emotionally...
526
00:27:24,512 --> 00:27:26,470
when you're messin'
with the music.
527
00:27:26,514 --> 00:27:28,472
I'm one of the few rappers--
528
00:27:28,516 --> 00:27:31,475
You know, I got--
I've had six consecutive
gold records...
529
00:27:31,519 --> 00:27:34,565
and never had a record
on the radio--
none of my music.
530
00:27:35,784 --> 00:27:39,309
♪♪
531
00:27:39,353 --> 00:27:42,312
The first time I heard
my record on the radio,
532
00:27:42,356 --> 00:27:45,707
I was mopping a floor
in Brooklyn
at a day-care center.
533
00:27:45,751 --> 00:27:49,972
Fifteen dollars every time
I mopped and waxed this floor.
534
00:27:50,016 --> 00:27:53,367
In the middle of the street,
her and her girlfriend
jumped out of the car...
535
00:27:53,410 --> 00:27:56,631
and was, like, runnin'
all around the car.
536
00:27:56,675 --> 00:27:59,373
She's telling everybody
on the street--"That's me on the radio !"
537
00:27:59,416 --> 00:28:01,636
"My song's on the radio !"
538
00:28:01,680 --> 00:28:05,988
I could not believe I was on
the radio. And I'm, like, "Get
in the car !"
539
00:28:06,032 --> 00:28:08,730
So that's a big deal,
'cause you be home
from high school...
540
00:28:08,774 --> 00:28:10,993
with little kids
or whatever--
541
00:28:11,037 --> 00:28:13,300
you be home
listenin' to the radio--
542
00:28:13,343 --> 00:28:17,608
Paco from 92 KTU
and KIIS-FM Red Alert
and them--
543
00:28:17,652 --> 00:28:21,047
They cuttin' up records
and stuff, and then to hear
your record cut up--
544
00:28:21,090 --> 00:28:24,006
You always wonderin',
"What are they gonna do
to mine ?" It was crazy !
545
00:28:24,050 --> 00:28:26,443
That was the best time
of my life right there.
546
00:28:26,487 --> 00:28:29,446
The first time we heard
our stuff on the radio,
547
00:28:29,490 --> 00:28:32,275
that was, like,
like, four years ago.
548
00:28:32,319 --> 00:28:34,974
And, um-- You know what I'm sayin' ?
549
00:28:35,017 --> 00:28:37,846
I can't really go back and say how we felt, 'cause it was so long ago.
550
00:28:37,890 --> 00:28:40,849
You think about how many
listeners you got out there.
551
00:28:40,893 --> 00:28:44,157
You got, you know what I'm
sayin', millions of people
out there.
552
00:28:44,200 --> 00:28:49,249
So you thinkin',
"They're playin' my shit !"
You know what I'm sayin' ?
553
00:28:49,292 --> 00:28:51,251
You think everybody
heard this automatically.
554
00:28:51,294 --> 00:28:53,732
You call your boys--
"Did you hear me on the radio ?"
555
00:28:53,775 --> 00:28:55,734
"No."
"You didn't hear me ?"
556
00:28:55,777 --> 00:28:57,953
Something
you've worked for--
557
00:28:57,997 --> 00:29:02,479
You can't believe you're on
the radio right after Run-DMC
or just before LL Cool J.
558
00:29:02,523 --> 00:29:05,482
I was like-- I just remember the feeling. I didn't even smile.
559
00:29:05,526 --> 00:29:09,008
It was just more like, "Damn. I did it."
560
00:29:09,051 --> 00:29:13,926
That, basically, led to
the demise of my mopping job.
561
00:29:13,969 --> 00:29:15,928
[ Man Laughing ]
562
00:29:15,971 --> 00:29:18,582
♪♪ [ Beats ]Ahhhh ! Okay ?
563
00:29:18,626 --> 00:29:20,584
♪♪ Yeah. Yeah.Check it out. Together one time.
564
00:29:20,628 --> 00:29:22,891
♪ Check it out, y'all
Check it out, yeah ♪
565
00:29:22,935 --> 00:29:26,416
♪ Y-C, uh, I set it off
Check it out one time, oh ♪
566
00:29:26,460 --> 00:29:28,201
♪ It won't stop
567
00:29:28,244 --> 00:29:31,160
♪ Hey, yo, it's "E" to the "X"
and rough rhyme flexin'
Yeah ♪
568
00:29:31,204 --> 00:29:33,772
♪ Yeah ♪ Check it out, check it out
569
00:29:33,815 --> 00:29:36,600
♪ In the East it's always all throat, no teeth ♪
570
00:29:36,644 --> 00:29:39,212
♪ I'm the least concerned how many niggas you burn ♪
571
00:29:39,255 --> 00:29:41,867
♪ I extinguish your flame
and take aim at your brain ♪
572
00:29:41,910 --> 00:29:44,913
♪ Given ligament pain and
have you walkin' wit' a cane ♪
573
00:29:44,957 --> 00:29:47,437
♪ Money and fame
You got your fuckin' self
to blame ♪♪
574
00:29:47,481 --> 00:29:49,700
The struggles today
is different.
575
00:29:49,744 --> 00:29:53,269
It's not as hard
as it used to be when
we started ten years ago,
576
00:29:53,313 --> 00:29:54,967
when you had to convince
motherfuckers that...
577
00:29:56,577 --> 00:29:58,927
this shit sells--
rap sells.
578
00:29:58,971 --> 00:30:01,408
♪ Money, money, money
579
00:30:01,451 --> 00:30:04,106
♪ You're so good to me ♪ Moneymaker
580
00:30:04,150 --> 00:30:07,501
♪ Big money, money, money ♪ You gotta know the moves of the moneymakers ♪
581
00:30:07,544 --> 00:30:10,156
♪ You got to have the mind of the money-takers ♪
582
00:30:10,199 --> 00:30:12,941
♪ You gotta know the moves of the moneymakers ♪
583
00:30:12,985 --> 00:30:16,075
♪ You got to have the mind of the money-takers ♪ ♪ Money, money, money, money ♪
584
00:30:16,118 --> 00:30:18,729
This is the first Redman album.
585
00:30:18,773 --> 00:30:22,255
This is the crossover.
This is the biggest record
EPMD ever had.
586
00:30:22,298 --> 00:30:24,866
Number-one album.
Same thing with this one.
587
00:30:24,910 --> 00:30:26,868
Number-one LP,
Unfinished Business.
588
00:30:26,912 --> 00:30:28,870
Hit brothers with
"So What You Sayin',"
589
00:30:28,914 --> 00:30:30,872
bust 'em up with
"The Big Payback"
and all that.
590
00:30:30,916 --> 00:30:33,527
I just got
my platinum joint.
591
00:30:33,570 --> 00:30:36,008
I'll have to
prop these up.
592
00:30:36,051 --> 00:30:38,271
Know what I mean ?
593
00:30:38,314 --> 00:30:41,013
Say, Willie.
First Brooklyn nigga
to go platinum, you know.
594
00:30:41,056 --> 00:30:44,016
It's all good,
livin' in the hood.
595
00:30:44,059 --> 00:30:47,671
Got my gold joint
for the Juicy.
596
00:30:47,715 --> 00:30:50,022
Old joint, you know.
597
00:30:50,065 --> 00:30:52,024
[ Man ] Straight from Brooklyn.
598
00:30:52,067 --> 00:30:55,288
Straight out the hood,
a nigga did good.
599
00:30:55,331 --> 00:30:58,552
Yeah, we really haven't
checked recently, like,
how many records we've sold.
600
00:31:02,121 --> 00:31:05,341
Aside from the money, when you in a club in New York,
601
00:31:05,385 --> 00:31:09,606
you throw on one of my joints
just to see the kids go crazy,
start dancin' hard and smilin',
602
00:31:09,650 --> 00:31:12,653
♪♪
603
00:31:12,696 --> 00:31:15,395
[ Combs ] grabbin' the girls-- that's the payday right there.
604
00:31:15,438 --> 00:31:17,832
♪♪
605
00:31:17,876 --> 00:31:21,053
Looking at people that have made it in the business, you know--
606
00:31:21,096 --> 00:31:23,359
Quincy Jones,
people like that.
607
00:31:23,403 --> 00:31:27,755
That's my mentor right there,
because he started at
a young age, the same as I did,
608
00:31:27,798 --> 00:31:30,758
and he's still doin' his thing
and havin' fun with it.
609
00:31:30,801 --> 00:31:34,022
It ain't about
who has the flyest car
or who has the most jewelry.
610
00:31:34,066 --> 00:31:36,111
You know ?
It ain't about that.
611
00:31:37,634 --> 00:31:39,593
[ Stewart ] It's very important for me...
612
00:31:39,636 --> 00:31:42,335
to not lose sight of how I started...
613
00:31:42,378 --> 00:31:46,078
and keep my background as a DJ, throwing parties.
614
00:31:46,121 --> 00:31:49,995
That's always had a lot to do with my success. It's how I initially got in the business.
615
00:31:50,038 --> 00:31:53,259
It's how I met a lot of people.
616
00:31:53,302 --> 00:31:56,262
The parties are kind of an intricate part of the business.
617
00:31:58,394 --> 00:32:00,570
We had a party for Delinquent Habits...
618
00:32:00,614 --> 00:32:02,703
because we wanted people to hear their album.
619
00:32:02,746 --> 00:32:06,925
They came to me from Sen Dog of Cypress Hill.
620
00:32:06,968 --> 00:32:10,363
People that love music-- artists and people that are really into it-- stick together.
621
00:32:10,406 --> 00:32:14,106
They'll support you if your stuff is true, no matter what label you're on...
622
00:32:14,149 --> 00:32:16,935
or what coast you're from or whatever.
623
00:32:16,978 --> 00:32:18,806
♪♪
624
00:32:18,849 --> 00:32:21,374
♪ Check it out, now, hey, hey True style's hard to find ♪
625
00:32:21,417 --> 00:32:24,072
♪ I'm sick, r-real sick It's time to go for mine ♪
626
00:32:24,116 --> 00:32:26,683
♪ See, I remain unphased with shit so funky ♪
627
00:32:26,727 --> 00:32:29,164
♪ You can bite for days My shit remains crunchy ♪
628
00:32:29,208 --> 00:32:31,645
♪ Good with my own style droppin' dat ♪
629
00:32:31,688 --> 00:32:33,864
♪ Lookie-loos all hawkin' but I'm stoppin' that ♪
630
00:32:33,908 --> 00:32:36,824
♪ You's a c-copycat Now watch me take you
to the hill ♪
631
00:32:36,867 --> 00:32:39,131
♪ Eyes peeled lookin' for fighters
in the big bad world ♪♪
632
00:32:39,174 --> 00:32:42,047
[ Stewart ] It's important to get the press out and get them involved.
633
00:32:42,090 --> 00:32:44,223
That's how you get the buzz going.
634
00:32:44,266 --> 00:32:57,932
♪♪
635
00:32:57,976 --> 00:33:00,674
[ Announcer ] Orlando's Buena Vista Hotel plays host this week...
636
00:33:00,717 --> 00:33:04,417
to rap music's premier convention, Jack the Rapper.
637
00:33:04,460 --> 00:33:06,854
Prominent artists, along with young hopefuls,
638
00:33:06,897 --> 00:33:10,249
are arriving from all over the country to rub shoulders with industry heavyweights,
639
00:33:10,292 --> 00:33:13,208
perform and attend lectures.
640
00:33:13,252 --> 00:33:15,994
Although the convention promoters are calling this a family affair,
641
00:33:16,037 --> 00:33:18,213
security has been elevated.
642
00:33:18,257 --> 00:33:21,042
But local sheriffs do not foresee any problems.
643
00:33:21,086 --> 00:33:24,915
Snoop Dogg's gonna be out here.
You know, everybody.
I've seen Kid already.
644
00:33:24,959 --> 00:33:27,657
I got his autograph. That's a great thing, right ? [ Laughing ]
645
00:33:27,701 --> 00:33:31,270
Get those nice autographs,
everybody that you see.
646
00:33:31,313 --> 00:33:33,924
It's people like
Jack the Rapper himself...
647
00:33:33,968 --> 00:33:36,666
who takes time out and
spends money to bring us
all up in there.
648
00:33:36,710 --> 00:33:39,713
They got different energies
from all over the world.
649
00:33:39,756 --> 00:33:42,063
Everybody's tryin'
to do their music,
and we kickin' it.
650
00:33:42,107 --> 00:33:45,675
It's show time ! Jack the Rapper was important when I was comin' up...
651
00:33:45,719 --> 00:33:48,809
because there was a lot of people that wanted to be exposed to the industry...
652
00:33:48,852 --> 00:33:51,899
and this was an avenue
where they could network.
653
00:33:51,942 --> 00:33:55,294
A lot of stars were found there and a lot of things came out good.
654
00:33:55,337 --> 00:33:58,297
You learn; they have panels; they have good shows.
655
00:33:58,340 --> 00:34:00,690
It's a great event to be at.Show. Look at that.
656
00:34:00,734 --> 00:34:03,128
It hurts me to see young
guys get a record deal,
657
00:34:03,171 --> 00:34:06,261
the first thing they go out
and buy is a Mercedes,
658
00:34:06,305 --> 00:34:08,220
some rings, some jewelry
around they neck,
659
00:34:08,263 --> 00:34:10,483
and they live
in an apartment.
660
00:34:10,526 --> 00:34:13,921
When I first started
in this business I had
an ulcer after a year.
661
00:34:13,964 --> 00:34:17,490
I couldn't understand
why my clients were making
millions of dollars...
662
00:34:17,533 --> 00:34:20,449
and I had more money
in my bank account
than they had in theirs.
663
00:34:20,493 --> 00:34:23,800
♪ The hype's got me
I knock 'em out the box
and out socks ♪
664
00:34:23,844 --> 00:34:26,412
♪ 'Cause when I come around niggas skate like the rocks ♪
665
00:34:26,455 --> 00:34:29,371
♪ My block's hot So gimme all you got ♪
666
00:34:29,415 --> 00:34:32,505
♪ When I'm done rockin' I'll leave you all
doin' the bus stop ♪
667
00:34:32,548 --> 00:34:34,724
♪ When I die, my ashes
Flip my coffin backwards ♪
668
00:34:34,768 --> 00:34:37,466
♪ Blow shit up
like the Fourth of July
with half sticks ♪
669
00:34:37,510 --> 00:34:39,947
♪ And on and on to the break
of Rae Dawn Chong ♪
670
00:34:39,990 --> 00:34:42,602
♪ I'm killin' you softly
with this song
with this bomb ♪♪
671
00:34:42,645 --> 00:34:44,386
♪ Kickin' flows
harder than the music ♪
672
00:34:44,430 --> 00:34:46,127
♪ So you fill it in your head
Then your chest ♪
673
00:34:46,171 --> 00:34:47,911
♪ Then you pass it
to the next ♪
674
00:34:47,955 --> 00:34:50,697
♪ They give 'em
the five mic checks
and all due respect ♪
675
00:34:50,740 --> 00:34:53,178
♪ Please fill it up
and check the antifreeze ♪
676
00:34:53,221 --> 00:34:55,789
♪ 'Cause Keith Murray
drops mad degrees ♪♪
677
00:34:55,832 --> 00:34:59,314
Jack the Rapper's really for
people that need to get on,
to pass out demo tapes--
678
00:34:59,358 --> 00:35:01,316
"This is my group."
Whoop-de-whoop. Boom-boom.
679
00:35:01,360 --> 00:35:03,318
Lookin' for management,
lookin' for deals, whatever.
680
00:35:03,362 --> 00:35:07,279
That's what
Jack the Rapper's about--
for people gettin' people on.
681
00:35:07,322 --> 00:35:10,282
Who did the music
on the album ?Eric Sermon and Redman.
682
00:35:10,325 --> 00:35:13,154
W-What type ? Is it,
like, some funk shit ?Cosmic slop funk.
683
00:35:13,198 --> 00:35:15,417
Some new shit.
684
00:35:15,461 --> 00:35:19,813
This is about keepin' it real.
As you notice, I'm out here
doin' my own thing.
685
00:35:19,856 --> 00:35:24,296
I ain't large.
I ain't up in the hotel room
havin' people pass out my shit.
686
00:35:24,339 --> 00:35:27,777
You got the
original article right here
passin' out a tape.
687
00:35:27,821 --> 00:35:30,128
That's realness.
And I'm gold !
688
00:35:30,171 --> 00:35:33,218
Great time outside
at the pool party !
689
00:35:33,261 --> 00:35:36,656
Bad boys representin'
Puff Daddy !
690
00:35:36,699 --> 00:35:38,658
Bad boy.
You know what I'm sayin' ?
691
00:35:38,701 --> 00:35:41,182
Big
fuckin' wit' y'all ?
692
00:35:41,226 --> 00:35:44,925
Yeah, we got Big, we got Craig
Mack, we got Mary J. Blige. Yeah
693
00:35:44,968 --> 00:35:47,057
She comin' out
with new shit, huh ? Yeah.
694
00:35:47,101 --> 00:35:50,670
[ Woman Yells ] Bathroom !
[ Man ] What's goin' on ?
695
00:35:50,713 --> 00:35:53,542
Bathroom ! Right here !
She's goin' too !
696
00:35:53,586 --> 00:35:55,544
She's 18.How old are you ?
697
00:35:55,588 --> 00:35:57,981
Twenty-two.Ooh.
Where you from ?
698
00:35:58,025 --> 00:35:59,983
From L.A.L.A. ?
699
00:36:00,027 --> 00:36:04,118
Baby, why you got
to pick in my drink ?
It ain't even like that.
700
00:36:04,162 --> 00:36:06,251
It's your birthday !
It's your birthday !
701
00:36:06,294 --> 00:36:08,992
Go further.
Go further.
Go further.
702
00:36:09,036 --> 00:36:12,126
Whoo-oooh !See you
at the show !
703
00:36:12,170 --> 00:36:15,129
Hey, hey ! No, no, no.We need some more
contestants, man !
704
00:36:15,173 --> 00:36:18,480
Hey, go to our show.
Go to our show at 2:00.
705
00:36:18,524 --> 00:36:20,656
Man, throw it down
on the ground !
706
00:36:20,700 --> 00:36:24,312
You gotta make that shit
hit the ground !
707
00:36:24,356 --> 00:36:28,229
Come on with it, baby.Hey, what's up with tall baby ?
You do that shit ?
708
00:36:28,273 --> 00:36:31,232
[ Announcer ] The Jack the Rapper music convention...
709
00:36:31,276 --> 00:36:34,061
held at the Disney-owned Buena Vista Hotel concludes tomorrow.
710
00:36:34,104 --> 00:36:38,108
The word among local insiders is that management is concerned...
711
00:36:38,152 --> 00:36:42,330
about the behavior of some of the conventiongoers.
712
00:36:42,374 --> 00:36:45,551
Guests at the hotel not expecting the Jack the Rapper convention...
713
00:36:45,594 --> 00:36:48,597
have been relocated to nearby hotels.
714
00:36:48,641 --> 00:36:52,819
Buena Vista hotel officials are not commenting on reports of vandalism.
715
00:36:54,777 --> 00:36:58,999
[ Man ] There wasn't really nothin' goin' on for young people,
716
00:36:59,042 --> 00:37:03,090
so we just brought a system out there and told everybody we was havin' a pool party.
717
00:37:03,133 --> 00:37:05,092
That's how it started.
718
00:37:05,135 --> 00:37:08,138
[ Man ] DJ red alert ! [ Whistle Blowing ]
719
00:37:08,182 --> 00:37:10,358
[ Whistle Continues ]
720
00:37:10,402 --> 00:37:14,101
[ Man On Megaphone ]
Technical foul ! You !
Bring that ass here !
721
00:37:14,144 --> 00:37:16,451
I'm comin' ! [ Man ]
You first !
722
00:37:16,495 --> 00:37:18,627
Hey, my man !
You first !
723
00:37:18,671 --> 00:37:20,412
[ Chattering, Shouting ]
724
00:37:20,455 --> 00:37:22,414
You first !
725
00:37:22,457 --> 00:37:25,417
Hey ! Hey !
726
00:37:25,460 --> 00:37:27,506
You first !
727
00:37:27,549 --> 00:37:29,899
♪ I'm gon' freak it
like this ♪♪ I'm gon' freak it like that
728
00:37:29,943 --> 00:37:32,293
-♪ I'm gon' freak it
like this ♪ -♪ I'm gon' freak it like that
729
00:37:32,337 --> 00:37:33,555
♪ And I'm gon' freak it like this ♪
730
00:37:33,599 --> 00:37:35,296
♪ Well, I'm gon' freak it like that ♪
731
00:37:35,340 --> 00:37:37,255
♪ Gon' freak it like this ♪ I'm gon' freak it
like that ♪
732
00:37:37,298 --> 00:37:40,127
♪ Not like I bust caps
with rough raps
Unless I just accept that ♪
733
00:37:40,170 --> 00:37:42,260
♪ Flip scripts and bust caps
off with the quickness ♪
734
00:37:42,303 --> 00:37:44,044
♪ I'm wicked
with the propaganda ♪
735
00:37:44,087 --> 00:37:47,090
♪ And hot damn
I got more props than
that fox, Samantha ♪
736
00:37:47,134 --> 00:37:49,397
♪♪ [ Continues ] [ Announcer ] Police cruisers surround...
737
00:37:49,441 --> 00:37:51,399
♪♪ the Buena Vista Palace Hotel.
738
00:37:51,443 --> 00:37:53,749
- [ Sirens Blaring ]
- ♪♪ [ Continues ]
739
00:37:53,793 --> 00:37:56,752
♪♪ Deputies say the emergency response team was on hand...
740
00:37:56,796 --> 00:38:00,582
♪♪ to head off any trouble at the Jack the Rapper urban music convention...
741
00:38:00,626 --> 00:38:03,106
♪♪ going on inside the hotel.
742
00:38:03,150 --> 00:38:05,848
♪♪ [ Man On Megaphone ] Look like they were, uh, waiting for a riot...
743
00:38:05,892 --> 00:38:08,416
♪♪ or some type of war was gonna go down.
744
00:38:08,460 --> 00:38:11,332
♪ I'm gon' freak it like this ♪ I'm gon' freak it
like that ♪
745
00:38:11,376 --> 00:38:13,334
♪ I'm gon' freak it like this ♪ I'm gon' freak it like that ♪
746
00:38:13,378 --> 00:38:16,642
[ Police Radio Dispatcher, Indistinct ] All units, please respond.
747
00:38:16,685 --> 00:38:18,861
♪ I'm gon'
freak it like that ♪
748
00:38:18,905 --> 00:38:21,560
♪ I'm gon' freak it like this ♪ I'm gon' freak it
like that ♪
749
00:38:21,603 --> 00:38:23,344
♪ Yeah ♪ Word up ♪
750
00:38:23,388 --> 00:38:25,694
[ Glass Breaks, Microphone Feedback ] [ Man ] Go ! Go !
751
00:38:25,738 --> 00:38:29,916
[ Woman On P.A. System ]
Officers ! Wait a minute ![ Shouting, Sirens Continue ]
752
00:38:29,959 --> 00:38:33,354
[ Man ] Come on, fellas. [ Woman Continues On P.A.,
Indistinct ]
753
00:38:35,051 --> 00:38:37,271
They called
the riot squad in, man.
754
00:38:37,315 --> 00:38:39,273
Snoop came on,
calmed things down,
755
00:38:39,317 --> 00:38:42,668
but otherwise,
the riot squad
came in, man.
756
00:38:42,711 --> 00:38:46,585
Besides all that negative junk,
I thought it was pretty phat
and everything, you know.
757
00:38:46,628 --> 00:38:50,284
[ Boy Continues ] Everything was cool. Once a year people have some fun.
758
00:38:50,328 --> 00:38:53,983
Yeah, I hope there's
gonna be one next year.
I'll definitely be back.
759
00:38:55,245 --> 00:38:57,683
I think people are people.
760
00:38:57,726 --> 00:39:01,121
Because they make rap records
and happen to be bad people
don't mean that rap is bad.
761
00:39:01,164 --> 00:39:03,123
Whatever you do, you do.
762
00:39:03,166 --> 00:39:06,387
Don't try to be no thug. If you a thug, be a thug.
763
00:39:06,431 --> 00:39:09,738
If you a nice guy like myself, be a nice guy. I don't care what people say about me.
764
00:39:09,782 --> 00:39:12,741
I'm doing what I love to do. There's people who respect me.
765
00:39:12,785 --> 00:39:14,656
I respect every individual I come across.
766
00:39:14,700 --> 00:39:16,397
Who that ? Mike ?
767
00:39:16,441 --> 00:39:18,660
Yeah.Where you been, man ?
768
00:39:18,704 --> 00:39:21,663
Workin' hard, cousin.Don't front.
He was locked up.
769
00:39:21,707 --> 00:39:24,231
No, no, no.Don't front. Don't front.
[ Laughing ]
770
00:39:24,274 --> 00:39:26,973
[ Heavy D ] Especially in hip-hop, you wanna have people around.
771
00:39:27,016 --> 00:39:29,236
Then you can vibe.
772
00:39:29,279 --> 00:39:31,934
Without them sayin' anything, if they knockin' or they bobbin' their head,
773
00:39:31,978 --> 00:39:33,936
you know you onto somethin'.
774
00:39:33,980 --> 00:39:35,634
[ Engine Revving ]
775
00:39:42,510 --> 00:39:46,558
The most gratifying thing about all this is the respect I receive from people...
776
00:39:46,601 --> 00:39:48,560
when I just walk down the street--
777
00:39:48,603 --> 00:39:52,172
the love that they show me, the appreciation and the fan mail that I get,
778
00:39:52,215 --> 00:39:55,523
when people let me know that I inspire them to better themselves.
779
00:39:55,567 --> 00:39:58,918
[ Heavy D Laughing ]
I want to introduce you
to our fellow officers.
780
00:39:58,961 --> 00:40:02,225
They always take care of us
during these functions.
781
00:40:02,269 --> 00:40:05,228
[ Heavy D ] Every year I try to do something where I come from.
782
00:40:05,272 --> 00:40:07,840
I put on basketball games; I sponsor boxing tournaments.
783
00:40:07,883 --> 00:40:10,059
This was the first annual "Nuttin' But Love" cookout.
784
00:40:10,103 --> 00:40:13,323
All right,
who gon' start this up ?What y'all wanna do ?
785
00:40:13,367 --> 00:40:16,065
Let me get back a little.I'm goin' to the diner
over here !
786
00:40:16,109 --> 00:40:18,328
Lemme have
the gas can.Who gon' crank that up ?
787
00:40:18,372 --> 00:40:21,984
What y'all wanna do ?I'll tell you right now,
there's gas all over this shit.
788
00:40:22,028 --> 00:40:24,247
So, who gon' be
G.I. Joe ?
789
00:40:24,291 --> 00:40:26,989
How much insurance
you got on you ? Nothin' ? Nada !
790
00:40:27,033 --> 00:40:28,991
I'm gon' put
a million dollars--
791
00:40:29,035 --> 00:40:31,254
Boom ![ Motor Starts ]
792
00:40:31,298 --> 00:40:34,214
[ Heavy D ] It's just for the community. Kids love it.
793
00:40:34,257 --> 00:40:38,000
People come from all over. They love it. It's in my hometown.
794
00:40:38,044 --> 00:40:40,568
We had tons of food. Crowded. Everybody came.
795
00:40:40,612 --> 00:40:44,224
LL came; Mary J. Blige came; Naughty By Nature.
796
00:40:44,267 --> 00:40:48,663
You know, a lot of people showed up, so it was phat; it was hot.
797
00:40:48,707 --> 00:40:51,013
I love it all.
798
00:40:51,057 --> 00:40:53,886
I love the people, the autograph signin', you know.
799
00:40:53,929 --> 00:40:58,804
I-I'm blessed in every aspect of what I do, so ain't no sense in me fakin' you out.
800
00:40:58,847 --> 00:41:02,764
I love it.
I'd have been doin' somethin'.
I was bound to be famous.
801
00:41:02,808 --> 00:41:05,245
♪♪
802
00:41:05,288 --> 00:41:07,247
♪ 'Cause I'm a super female That's called Shante ♪
803
00:41:07,290 --> 00:41:09,815
♪ And I like Hurricane Annie I'll blow you away ♪
804
00:41:09,858 --> 00:41:12,034
♪ Whenever I'm in a battle Yo, I don't play ♪
805
00:41:12,078 --> 00:41:15,516
♪ So you'd best go about your way
and have a nice day ♪
806
00:41:15,560 --> 00:41:18,519
♪ Shante I'm-- I'm-- I'm-- ♪
807
00:41:19,999 --> 00:41:23,089
♪ I'm Shante I'm-- I'm-- I'm-- ♪♪
808
00:41:23,132 --> 00:41:25,483
♪♪ [ Continues ]The evolution
of women rappers...
809
00:41:25,526 --> 00:41:27,485
definitely started
in the Bronx.
810
00:41:27,528 --> 00:41:30,183
First there was a group called
The Funky Four Plus One More,
811
00:41:30,226 --> 00:41:33,969
and that one more was a female
by the name of Sharock.
812
00:41:34,013 --> 00:41:36,842
Sharock.
I was in love with this girl.
I thought she was the best.
813
00:41:36,885 --> 00:41:39,497
She had a real good,
clean voice.
814
00:41:39,540 --> 00:41:42,108
Powerful, strong,
but still sexy and ladylike.
815
00:41:42,151 --> 00:41:44,458
She had good rhythm.
816
00:41:44,502 --> 00:41:46,460
And then there was The Sequence Girls,
817
00:41:46,504 --> 00:41:49,550
who came along with Sugar Hill Gang Records.
818
00:41:49,594 --> 00:41:52,988
They were actually the first female group on wax.
819
00:41:53,032 --> 00:41:55,730
And of course
you had Salt-N-Pepa,
820
00:41:55,774 --> 00:41:59,517
who came along and came out with the first platinum hit for a female group.
821
00:41:59,560 --> 00:42:02,737
We've been able to endure
a lot of hard times...
822
00:42:02,781 --> 00:42:05,914
because we do care--
care about each other,
823
00:42:05,958 --> 00:42:08,134
but, um, she makes it fun.
824
00:42:08,177 --> 00:42:11,398
[ Giggles ]
This girl is crazy.
825
00:42:11,441 --> 00:42:16,577
Um, we've always found it,
um, our duty as,
as female artists...
826
00:42:16,621 --> 00:42:21,495
to, to, um, tell the other
side of the story, you know.Counteract.
827
00:42:21,539 --> 00:42:23,497
We're about
tellin' the ladies...
828
00:42:23,541 --> 00:42:25,760
Bettering yourself.to respect yourself,
love yourself.
829
00:42:25,804 --> 00:42:29,372
I think, just to tell
the females not to give them
so much to talk about.
830
00:42:29,416 --> 00:42:33,376
Some of the young ladies
have to become themselves,
831
00:42:33,420 --> 00:42:37,380
have to learn
how to stop being what
a man wants them to be...
832
00:42:37,424 --> 00:42:40,383
and start realizing
who they are and what they are.
833
00:42:40,427 --> 00:42:43,386
If they wanna wear
the short skirt,
the baggy jeans,
834
00:42:43,430 --> 00:42:45,475
do whatever it is
they wanna do.
835
00:42:45,519 --> 00:42:48,478
When guys say, like,
"bitch" or "ho,"
it don't bother me...
836
00:42:48,522 --> 00:42:51,481
because for the simple fact--
one, they not talkin'
about me.
837
00:42:51,525 --> 00:42:54,702
Where I'm from--
the west side of Chicago--
838
00:42:54,746 --> 00:42:58,097
we could see our homegirls and
be, like, "What's up, bitch ?
Shut the fuck up. You stupid."
839
00:42:58,140 --> 00:43:01,100
It's all in fun.
It really depends on
how you say the shit.
840
00:43:01,143 --> 00:43:04,930
You know when somebody's
sayin' it wrong or when
they're tryin' to be derogatory.
841
00:43:04,973 --> 00:43:07,497
And some
autographed pictures...
842
00:43:07,541 --> 00:43:09,499
for all you bitches.
843
00:43:09,543 --> 00:43:11,719
And if you a bitch--
844
00:43:11,763 --> 00:43:15,505
It's just like "nigga."
The same thing.
People just take it differently.
845
00:43:15,549 --> 00:43:17,725
That shit turns me off.
846
00:43:17,769 --> 00:43:20,728
If you a lady, you need
to act like a lady.
847
00:43:20,772 --> 00:43:24,993
You can act like a lady
and still have skills rappin'.
You know what I'm sayin' ?
848
00:43:25,037 --> 00:43:27,909
But when you start that old
wanna be like a nigga...
849
00:43:27,953 --> 00:43:30,651
and hats and baggy jeans
and boots--
850
00:43:30,695 --> 00:43:32,653
It's just a turnoff to me.
851
00:43:32,697 --> 00:43:35,264
[ Da Brat ] Why ? That's they life. This is mine.
852
00:43:35,308 --> 00:43:38,354
They don't like me to say "bitch," "fuck," "nigga" and "ho." That's me !
853
00:43:38,398 --> 00:43:41,619
This is how I kick it.
This is how I live.
854
00:43:41,662 --> 00:43:45,274
I'm just tryin' to be
straight real. I ain't
tryin' to come sugarcoated.
855
00:43:45,318 --> 00:43:48,277
I'm just tryin' to put it down
the best way I know how.
856
00:43:48,321 --> 00:43:52,499
I'm not really big on that,
'cause I happen to think...
857
00:43:52,542 --> 00:43:55,894
that if we hold the women in higher respect,
858
00:43:55,937 --> 00:44:00,028
then the women who have the children of these men who call women "bitches" and "ho's"...
859
00:44:00,072 --> 00:44:03,728
will treat their children with more love and will raise up stronger individuals.
860
00:44:03,771 --> 00:44:07,470
My experience is,
it has been hard to find...
861
00:44:07,514 --> 00:44:09,472
a female to work with...
862
00:44:09,516 --> 00:44:11,910
that I'm really diggin',
you know.
863
00:44:11,953 --> 00:44:16,784
Out here on the West Coast
there's not that many females
that get into rap.
864
00:44:16,828 --> 00:44:19,569
They're all nine-to-fives,
you know.
865
00:44:19,613 --> 00:44:23,573
Rome wasn't built in a day.
The world's not gonna
change overnight.
866
00:44:23,617 --> 00:44:25,271
Come here, Santi.
Come here.
867
00:44:28,013 --> 00:44:30,711
Look in that camera,
smile and say "hi."
868
00:44:30,755 --> 00:44:32,713
Hi.Tell 'em your name.
869
00:44:32,757 --> 00:44:34,715
My name is Santineesh.
870
00:44:34,759 --> 00:44:36,717
Who am I ?Uncle Heavy.
871
00:44:36,761 --> 00:44:39,241
Gimme a kiss.
Bye.
872
00:44:39,285 --> 00:44:41,504
[ Chuckling ]
873
00:44:41,548 --> 00:44:44,116
[ Santineesh ]
Hug me again, Daddy ! [ Man Laughing ]
874
00:44:44,159 --> 00:44:46,335
Daddy ! I got you !
I got you !
875
00:44:46,379 --> 00:44:49,121
[ Interviewer ] What kind
of vibe do you like to
create in the studio ?
876
00:44:49,164 --> 00:44:51,514
[ Santineesh
Screaming, Laughing ]When I'm in the studio--
877
00:44:51,558 --> 00:44:53,516
Yo, D.O. Yo !
878
00:44:53,560 --> 00:44:55,431
Gag her.
[ Laughing ]
879
00:45:01,916 --> 00:45:07,574
At its best, hip-hop music can grab the nation by the neck...
880
00:45:07,617 --> 00:45:10,969
and make people realize
what's goin' on.
881
00:45:11,012 --> 00:45:15,451
It's a voice for the oppressed
people that, in many other ways,
just don't have a voice.
882
00:45:15,495 --> 00:45:20,152
We didn't know nothin' about
no West Coast, Philly, Jersey
until rap came.
883
00:45:20,195 --> 00:45:23,416
Then we started communicatin'
and just bein' one.
884
00:45:23,459 --> 00:45:25,418
It's the nigga news.
We speak--
885
00:45:25,461 --> 00:45:28,421
I could tell people in New York
what I'm goin' through...
886
00:45:28,464 --> 00:45:31,685
from my experiences as
a Los Angeles young black man,
887
00:45:31,729 --> 00:45:36,037
and they can speak from a New York young black man, what they goin' through.
888
00:45:36,081 --> 00:45:39,954
You have guys who are rappers
who are from the ghetto...
889
00:45:39,998 --> 00:45:44,132
and the stuff that they say is stuff that they live every day.
890
00:45:44,176 --> 00:45:46,047
These are their lyrics.
891
00:45:52,619 --> 00:45:54,577
After growin' up here...
892
00:45:54,621 --> 00:45:57,580
and seein' my man
that lived upstairs
gettin' killed,
893
00:45:57,624 --> 00:45:59,800
and then
my brother shot--
894
00:45:59,844 --> 00:46:04,762
That showed me what type
of world this shit is.
You know what I'm sayin' ?
895
00:46:06,807 --> 00:46:09,984
[ Nas ] The most time I feared about livin' here...
896
00:46:10,028 --> 00:46:13,553
was when I was young, when I couldn't defend myself from shit was goin' on,
897
00:46:13,596 --> 00:46:15,816
'cause it was older niggas
doin' shit.
898
00:46:15,860 --> 00:46:18,732
It was a big world,
I was young...
899
00:46:18,776 --> 00:46:23,215
and all I had was my moms and my brother, you know, my younger brother.
900
00:46:23,258 --> 00:46:27,654
So all I did was just
handle myself to get to
a position where I could say,
901
00:46:27,697 --> 00:46:29,656
"I'm gon' hold my ground.
902
00:46:29,699 --> 00:46:32,659
"I'm old enough to control my destiny...
903
00:46:32,702 --> 00:46:36,358
and not to be bullshitted by no bullshit niggas no more or nothin'."
904
00:46:36,402 --> 00:46:39,361
I been thinkin' about goin' back to school...
905
00:46:39,405 --> 00:46:42,930
because, I mean, my knowledge is limited right now.
906
00:46:42,974 --> 00:46:46,716
There's a lot of things that I don't know about that I could take advantage of...
907
00:46:46,760 --> 00:46:49,023
as soon as I learn about it.
908
00:46:51,199 --> 00:46:54,072
I'm not a big drug dealer...
909
00:46:54,115 --> 00:46:56,683
with 25 years on my head.
910
00:46:56,726 --> 00:46:58,598
I sing rap records...
911
00:46:58,641 --> 00:47:00,861
and I can make my bread.
912
00:47:00,905 --> 00:47:03,864
I'm not a doctor
or lawyer,
913
00:47:03,908 --> 00:47:06,824
but I'm 21
with a start.
914
00:47:12,830 --> 00:47:16,703
You know, as far
as messages go, what I'm
tryin' to get across--
915
00:47:16,746 --> 00:47:19,880
I'm tryin' to get across,
like, several different things.
916
00:47:19,924 --> 00:47:22,100
You know what I'm sayin' ?
917
00:47:22,143 --> 00:47:25,103
Like, for instance,
there's one side of me...
918
00:47:25,146 --> 00:47:28,236
that's totally for the preservation of black youth,
919
00:47:28,280 --> 00:47:32,066
because we're dyin' at a rapid rate.
920
00:47:32,110 --> 00:47:36,636
The numbers of dyin' youth is increasing, like, daily in our neighborhood.
921
00:47:36,679 --> 00:47:40,118
Look, I can't stand the ghetto.
922
00:47:40,161 --> 00:47:44,122
A lot of rappers, you know, they run around-- "Yeah, I'm from the ghetto !"
923
00:47:44,165 --> 00:47:46,951
I live in the ghetto.
The ghetto don't live in me.
This is an ill situation.
924
00:47:46,994 --> 00:47:49,954
We have been put here for a cause.
925
00:47:49,997 --> 00:47:52,608
We have been put here to die.
926
00:47:52,652 --> 00:47:55,873
That's genocide, man, and that's the bottom line.
927
00:47:55,916 --> 00:47:59,572
If I had the chance
to live with a stream
flowin' through my backyard,
928
00:47:59,615 --> 00:48:01,574
you think I wouldn't ?
929
00:48:01,617 --> 00:48:04,403
We're not here just because we wanna be hip and fly.
930
00:48:04,446 --> 00:48:07,406
It wasn't our choice
to come to the ghetto,
931
00:48:07,449 --> 00:48:10,104
so I'm not stayin' true
to the hood.
932
00:48:10,148 --> 00:48:12,106
I'm stayin' true
to the people inthe hood.
933
00:48:18,939 --> 00:48:22,638
I don't want my kids to grow up in the environment I grew up in,
934
00:48:22,682 --> 00:48:24,902
so I moved out.
935
00:48:24,945 --> 00:48:30,168
I send my kids to the good schools, away from the fucked-up shit,
936
00:48:30,211 --> 00:48:35,390
because I didn't have that opportunity when I was a youth.
937
00:48:35,434 --> 00:48:39,090
I didn't have no choice. I had nowhere else to go. I had to stay there.
938
00:48:39,133 --> 00:48:42,093
But I know what I did to get here,
939
00:48:42,136 --> 00:48:45,226
and all them nights I spent in the studio, rappin' and writin',
940
00:48:45,270 --> 00:48:47,228
it was all me.
941
00:48:47,272 --> 00:48:49,491
You try to help your homies out.
942
00:48:49,535 --> 00:48:53,017
I hook niggas up. If you know how to rap, I'll try to get you a deal.
943
00:48:53,060 --> 00:48:55,280
I'll work with you in the studio.
944
00:48:55,323 --> 00:49:00,546
But it's not a form of going, "I got paper. Here you go-- 1,000, 2,000, 5,000."
945
00:49:00,589 --> 00:49:02,548
That's what brothers expected.
946
00:49:02,591 --> 00:49:05,551
You have to learn who your true homies are and shit.
947
00:49:05,594 --> 00:49:08,554
You got the jealous homies that
don't wanna see you come up;
948
00:49:08,597 --> 00:49:12,775
you got the player haters;
you got the crooked females
who wanna set you up.
949
00:49:12,819 --> 00:49:15,953
Then you got the niggas in general who just roll around...
950
00:49:15,996 --> 00:49:18,303
looking for niggas, period, to jack.
951
00:49:18,346 --> 00:49:21,219
I don't put my city down. I love Compton to the fullest.
952
00:49:21,262 --> 00:49:25,440
But with me bein' a father,
a businessman,
953
00:49:25,484 --> 00:49:30,141
me stayin' in Compton would mean me havin' to deal with the same situations...
954
00:49:30,184 --> 00:49:33,753
as I dealt with as a teenager.
955
00:49:33,796 --> 00:49:37,409
I moved out to the community where I could walk out my front door...
956
00:49:37,452 --> 00:49:40,847
and wouldn't have to see gang-writin' and shit like that,
957
00:49:40,890 --> 00:49:44,024
because I lived in that shit
all my life,
958
00:49:44,068 --> 00:49:48,811
and I figure, if you can you might as well, to better yourself and your future family.
959
00:49:48,855 --> 00:49:51,379
[ Barking, Snarling ]
960
00:49:51,423 --> 00:49:54,382
You can't have
this out-of-control dough...
961
00:49:54,426 --> 00:49:57,385
and stay in the same house
you grew up in.
962
00:49:57,429 --> 00:50:00,388
It's impossible;
you gonna get licked
sooner or later.
963
00:50:00,432 --> 00:50:03,391
You ain't gotta, you know,
move from California,
964
00:50:03,435 --> 00:50:07,743
but you get a million dollars
and your mama been on
Section Eight all your life...
965
00:50:07,787 --> 00:50:10,529
and she been livin'
in apartments all her life,
966
00:50:10,572 --> 00:50:12,792
you ain't gonna stay there.
967
00:50:12,835 --> 00:50:16,491
[ C-Style ] There's always gon' be people that don't like me...
968
00:50:16,535 --> 00:50:19,494
because they think I'm doin' too much or showin' off,
969
00:50:19,538 --> 00:50:22,497
but still, even the ones
who do be players,
970
00:50:22,541 --> 00:50:25,848
them be ones who was friends
from a long time ago.
971
00:50:25,892 --> 00:50:29,374
So really, when they do talk that kind of stuff and all that...
972
00:50:29,417 --> 00:50:33,030
I shine it on, but I still talk to 'em...
973
00:50:33,073 --> 00:50:36,076
and let 'em know I still got a lot of love for 'em, regardless of how they playin'.
974
00:50:36,120 --> 00:50:39,079
I still live in my same neighborhood.
975
00:50:39,123 --> 00:50:42,343
Still do the same thing,
still wear the same clothes.
976
00:50:42,387 --> 00:50:47,087
I don't wear no costume.
What I come to a concert with,
that's what I wear on stage.
977
00:50:47,131 --> 00:50:50,090
We're just fortunate
that a lot of people
bought the records.
978
00:50:50,134 --> 00:50:52,745
It's great, but we still
the same people.
979
00:50:52,788 --> 00:50:55,748
We make our music for
the kids around the block.
980
00:50:55,791 --> 00:50:58,751
We still live in the projects;
we still keepin' it real.
981
00:50:58,794 --> 00:51:02,015
As you see, it's mad peoples
right here, right now...
982
00:51:02,059 --> 00:51:05,758
that's just wit' us, 'cause
this is how I been before
this rap shit came off.
983
00:51:05,801 --> 00:51:07,760
You know
what I'm sayin' ?Word up.
984
00:51:07,803 --> 00:51:09,762
So therefore,
you see our chamber.
985
00:51:09,805 --> 00:51:12,373
We're gettin' high;
niggas got beer.[ Laughing ]
986
00:51:12,417 --> 00:51:15,985
Know what I'm sayin' ?
Niggas is still watchin'
they back from the cops.
987
00:51:16,029 --> 00:51:18,205
But it's all real !
988
00:51:18,249 --> 00:51:21,208
Nobody fuckin' wants to live
in the ghetto.
989
00:51:21,252 --> 00:51:25,038
The best thing you can do
is get out and get your family
up outta there.
990
00:51:25,082 --> 00:51:28,041
Interviewers'll come over and say, "You don't live in a black community."
991
00:51:28,085 --> 00:51:31,653
Well, where is "the black community" ? Where do white people live ?
992
00:51:31,697 --> 00:51:34,743
White people live wherever the fuck they want to live.
993
00:51:34,787 --> 00:51:37,746
There is no "black community," there's a poor community,
994
00:51:37,790 --> 00:51:41,141
and I'm not tryin' to live in no fuckin' poor community.
995
00:51:41,185 --> 00:51:43,752
I been makin' records 14 years, and movies.
996
00:51:43,796 --> 00:51:46,755
I should not have shit ? Would that make you happier ?
997
00:51:46,799 --> 00:51:50,150
What in the fuck did they think we was stealin' for in the hood ?
998
00:51:50,194 --> 00:51:53,719
When I was in South Central,
we used to look up
at these hills.
999
00:51:53,762 --> 00:51:57,331
This was my goal,
to one day get out
of the ghetto.
1000
00:51:57,375 --> 00:52:00,334
The best thing I'm doin' for my community is showing them...
1001
00:52:00,378 --> 00:52:03,990
that a brother like myself, without givin' in to the Man, can make it,
1002
00:52:04,033 --> 00:52:06,601
and that means
theycan make it.
1003
00:52:06,645 --> 00:52:09,604
When my friends
come up here they say,
"This is inspiring, Ice,
1004
00:52:09,648 --> 00:52:13,608
'cause you did it with your hat turned back, tellin' America to kiss your fuckin' ass."
1005
00:52:13,652 --> 00:52:16,611
Interviewers'll come over and say, "Well, you got a big house,"
1006
00:52:16,655 --> 00:52:21,355
and I'm like, "Just say I got a big housefor somebody black, you racist motherfucker."
1007
00:52:21,399 --> 00:52:23,618
I look at it like this:
1008
00:52:23,662 --> 00:52:28,101
When I was in the hood
we were sellin' drugs;
we was robbin' and shit.
1009
00:52:29,450 --> 00:52:32,888
The community wasn't really by our side.
1010
00:52:32,932 --> 00:52:36,501
There wasn't no shit where they was likin' us. Nobody liked us in the area.
1011
00:52:38,155 --> 00:52:40,679
We had to eat;
my daughter had to eat;
1012
00:52:40,722 --> 00:52:44,900
so we was doin' what we
had to do, no matter what
"the community" felt about it.
1013
00:52:44,944 --> 00:52:48,948
After I left the drugs alone and started doin' the music shit,
1014
00:52:48,991 --> 00:52:52,691
then all of a sudden the community's, like, "Yeah, he's doin' good now."
1015
00:52:52,734 --> 00:52:55,302
It seemed like
fake love to me.
1016
00:52:55,346 --> 00:52:58,871
You ain't had no love for me
when I was fucked up and I had
to sell drugs to live,
1017
00:52:58,914 --> 00:53:02,657
so why have more fuckin'
love for me now 'cause
a nigga's doin' good ?
1018
00:53:02,701 --> 00:53:05,399
My real niggas
is by my side;
that's all I need.
1019
00:53:05,443 --> 00:53:07,401
I think me hustlin',
sellin' drugs,
1020
00:53:07,445 --> 00:53:10,404
it schooled me
to the streets a lot.
1021
00:53:10,448 --> 00:53:12,667
I learned a lot.
1022
00:53:12,711 --> 00:53:16,889
I learned there's
some things you can do
and some things you can't do.
1023
00:53:16,932 --> 00:53:20,893
Sellin' drugs forever
is something you can't do.
1024
00:53:20,936 --> 00:53:24,157
You cannot do that.
You will eventually die
or go to jail.
1025
00:53:24,201 --> 00:53:26,812
That's a fact.
1026
00:53:26,855 --> 00:53:30,076
I was up in Harlem World,
Union Square, Latin Quarters.
1027
00:53:30,119 --> 00:53:34,254
I was up in there like this--
sneaky, razor blade in my mouth
and shit, you know.
1028
00:53:34,298 --> 00:53:36,256
When you young,
you'll do anything.
1029
00:53:36,300 --> 00:53:41,000
Mesc tabs up in my system,
cocktail cigarettes,
dust, blunts and shit.
1030
00:53:41,043 --> 00:53:44,569
I went through that whole phase.
Lived life fast
and lived it quick.
1031
00:53:44,612 --> 00:53:46,832
But, you know,
there ain't no--
1032
00:53:46,875 --> 00:53:50,052
When I got the knowledge
of myself and shit,
I was able to adapt...
1033
00:53:50,096 --> 00:53:52,272
and calm things down.
1034
00:53:52,316 --> 00:53:54,970
Then when I had my first seed
the nigga woke up.
1035
00:53:55,014 --> 00:53:56,972
Life is more
than just about me.
1036
00:53:57,016 --> 00:53:58,670
I got generations
to bring forth.
1037
00:53:59,366 --> 00:54:01,586
Basically, Cypress Hill used to hang out in front of right here.
1038
00:54:01,629 --> 00:54:04,719
You know, getting fucked up.
You know, drinking beers
and shit, talking shit.
1039
00:54:04,763 --> 00:54:07,156
Then, you know, we get
to rhyming and shit.
1040
00:54:07,200 --> 00:54:10,943
I smoked B-Real his
first joint right down there
on that tree right there.
1041
00:54:10,986 --> 00:54:13,380
So we used to come chill
right here 'cause we used
to could, like--
1042
00:54:13,424 --> 00:54:15,469
you could hide from the cops
right here and get high.
1043
00:54:15,513 --> 00:54:17,819
[ Sen Dog ] But in '85, there was a big weed drought.
1044
00:54:17,863 --> 00:54:20,300
And '86 was the year that crack came in,
1045
00:54:20,344 --> 00:54:22,302
and everything changed.
1046
00:54:22,346 --> 00:54:24,739
Crack really
just ripped an asshole
out of the neighborhood.
1047
00:54:24,783 --> 00:54:26,741
I mean, all the--
even the drug dealers...
1048
00:54:26,785 --> 00:54:30,397
that had all the cars,
you seen them get smoked.
1049
00:54:30,441 --> 00:54:35,402
And it was like a siphon.
Like, anybody who fucked with it
just got sucked in.
1050
00:54:35,446 --> 00:54:38,710
[ Man #1 ]
No, that's incriminating !
Don't do that !
1051
00:54:38,753 --> 00:54:40,712
[ Man #2 ]
That on TV--
1052
00:54:40,755 --> 00:54:43,236
You know what ?
You're gonna have to change
your style.
1053
00:54:43,280 --> 00:54:45,151
This ain't it. You're fallin'
outta control.
1054
00:54:45,194 --> 00:54:47,153
My brother is
putting me out.
1055
00:54:47,196 --> 00:54:49,373
[ Chuck D ] The crack movement came out...
1056
00:54:49,416 --> 00:54:52,506
and a lot of people that even vibed on crack, the music was faster.
1057
00:54:52,550 --> 00:54:54,639
You know, the environment, much quicker.
1058
00:54:54,682 --> 00:54:57,555
And the commentary kind of went
to the tempo of the effects
of the drugs,
1059
00:54:57,598 --> 00:54:59,992
and political rap
and conscious rap...
1060
00:55:00,035 --> 00:55:01,994
tried to make people look at what they was doin'.
1061
00:55:02,037 --> 00:55:05,780
And if they was doin' things
in a negative way, try to look
at it in an unhip way.
1062
00:55:05,824 --> 00:55:08,217
Try to make it unhip
or unfashionable.
1063
00:55:08,261 --> 00:55:10,394
All of a sudden,
all these anti-drug records...
1064
00:55:10,437 --> 00:55:12,874
started comin' out of the--
out of the hip-hop scene,
1065
00:55:12,918 --> 00:55:14,746
where it's, like,
if you're on crack,
you know, like,
1066
00:55:14,789 --> 00:55:17,879
um, Brand Nubians, um--
1067
00:55:17,923 --> 00:55:21,883
Grand Puba was talkin'
about it, you know.
♪ Slow down
1068
00:55:21,927 --> 00:55:25,060
So, now, if somebody tell you,
"Yo, man, we getting ready
to smoke crack,"
1069
00:55:25,104 --> 00:55:29,456
you look at 'em crazy, like,
"Nigga, you're gonna smoke
crack ? That shit is wack."
1070
00:55:29,500 --> 00:55:32,024
[ DJ Muggs ] Shit ain't changin', man.
1071
00:55:32,067 --> 00:55:34,722
It's just gettin' worse out here, if anything.
1072
00:55:34,766 --> 00:55:36,724
That's just the part of everyday life, man. It ain't--
1073
00:55:36,768 --> 00:55:39,379
It ain't nothing shocking us, surprising us. It's just like...
1074
00:55:39,423 --> 00:55:42,730
a lot of motherfuckers will stop and look at it and be like, "Whoa."
1075
00:55:42,774 --> 00:55:45,907
Walk by it. Well, that's, you know, same old thing.
1076
00:55:45,951 --> 00:55:48,867
See it every day.
1077
00:55:48,910 --> 00:55:52,740
[ B-Real ] I sold it, and I've seen what it does to people,
1078
00:55:52,784 --> 00:55:56,048
and I kind of got a bad conscience about that.
1079
00:55:58,006 --> 00:56:01,662
♪♪
1080
00:56:01,706 --> 00:56:06,014
♪ The world is full
of thugs, hustlers
Big Willie mobsters ♪
1081
00:56:06,058 --> 00:56:10,105
♪ I kill rappers on the records It's my job to separate
the real from the fake ♪
1082
00:56:10,149 --> 00:56:13,457
♪ So I reveal the truth and break it down
on a wax plate ♪
1083
00:56:13,500 --> 00:56:16,938
The Lords of the Underground try to, you know, express, like,
1084
00:56:16,982 --> 00:56:20,855
the funny side, the good side,
or, you know, out of the normal
of the hood...
1085
00:56:20,899 --> 00:56:23,728
that people don't really
talk about, because we always
hearing about the negative.
1086
00:56:23,771 --> 00:56:26,905
But we try to talk about the positive sometime.
1087
00:56:29,603 --> 00:56:31,910
♪ All you pseudo tough guys end up dearly departed ♪
1088
00:56:31,953 --> 00:56:33,999
♪ As a young juvenile I started ♪
1089
00:56:34,042 --> 00:56:36,610
♪ Learning from some older dudes From the pimps
to stick-up men ♪
1090
00:56:36,654 --> 00:56:38,612
♪ And back then you had to know the rules ♪
1091
00:56:38,656 --> 00:56:41,702
♪ The peer pressure, it can get you knocked or locked up ♪
1092
00:56:41,746 --> 00:56:43,661
♪ Or laid the fuck out upon a stretcher ♪
1093
00:56:43,704 --> 00:56:46,751
♪ This world is full
of thugs, hustlers
Big Willie mobsters ♪
1094
00:56:46,794 --> 00:56:51,364
♪ I kill rappers on the records It's my job to separate
the real from the fake ♪
1095
00:56:51,408 --> 00:56:55,020
♪ So I reveal the truth and break it down
on a wax plate ♪♪
1096
00:56:56,935 --> 00:56:59,154
Y'all like
Michael Jackson ?
1097
00:56:59,198 --> 00:57:01,287
[ Kids Together ] Yeah ! No !
1098
00:57:01,330 --> 00:57:03,898
You don't like Michael Jackson ?
Why not ? No !
1099
00:57:03,942 --> 00:57:06,640
'Cause he grab his crotch
too much.He grab his crotch too much ?
1100
00:57:06,684 --> 00:57:09,295
[ Kids Laughing ]
1101
00:57:09,338 --> 00:57:12,211
Y'all like Whitney Houston ?[ Together ]
Yeah !
1102
00:57:12,254 --> 00:57:15,257
Y'all like Biggie Smalls ?[ Together ]
Yeah !
1103
00:57:15,301 --> 00:57:17,390
Y'all like Wu-Tang Clan ?[ Together ]
Yeah !
1104
00:57:17,434 --> 00:57:19,523
Y'all look up
to your mom and dad ?
1105
00:57:19,566 --> 00:57:21,960
[ Together ]
Yeah ! No.
1106
00:57:22,003 --> 00:57:24,310
- Oh, boy, I heard a "no."
- Me.
1107
00:57:24,353 --> 00:57:27,226
You don't look up
to your mom and dad ?
1108
00:57:27,269 --> 00:57:30,708
Well, you know,
you have, you know,
some cases like that.
1109
00:57:30,751 --> 00:57:33,232
Some kids don't. Now I ain't gonna get into that--
1110
00:57:33,275 --> 00:57:36,583
that young man's reason why,
but most of the kids say,
1111
00:57:36,627 --> 00:57:39,325
yeah, they look up to them,
and that's important.
1112
00:57:39,368 --> 00:57:41,327
My mom and dad, sometimes,
you know what I'm sayin',
1113
00:57:41,370 --> 00:57:43,329
they would get on
a fella's nerves, you know,
1114
00:57:43,372 --> 00:57:45,549
when I wanted to do things
that I wanted to do.
1115
00:57:45,592 --> 00:57:49,640
But now that I look back
and see how they raised me,
I saw that they was right.
1116
00:57:49,683 --> 00:57:51,642
Y'all may not understand it
right now,
1117
00:57:51,685 --> 00:57:53,905
but when y'all get older,
y'all gonna see what I mean.
1118
00:57:53,948 --> 00:57:56,995
Your mom and dad, man,
those are definite role models,
I think.
1119
00:58:01,913 --> 00:58:04,916
She was just
a single black mother,
and she gave me--
1120
00:58:04,959 --> 00:58:08,093
You know,
she didn't let nothing,
no obstacles stand in her way.
1121
00:58:08,136 --> 00:58:10,356
She overcame every obstacle.
1122
00:58:10,399 --> 00:58:13,925
You know what I'm sayin' ?
My mother owns my company.
She owns Bad Boy.
1123
00:58:13,968 --> 00:58:15,927
You know,
that was my gift to her.
1124
00:58:15,970 --> 00:58:19,017
She was the only one
that was always there for me,
no matter what.
1125
00:58:19,060 --> 00:58:21,846
Yeah, my mother is
the closest one to me,
you know?
1126
00:58:21,889 --> 00:58:25,327
She gave me everything
I always wanted.
You know what I'm sayin' ?
1127
00:58:25,371 --> 00:58:28,722
Christmastime, I had it all,
and my friends didn't.
1128
00:58:28,766 --> 00:58:32,813
She just gave you everything that was in style. She made sure I had it.
1129
00:58:32,857 --> 00:58:37,339
Some things I couldn't get, but the things I did got, I was real happy for.
1130
00:58:37,383 --> 00:58:40,908
When the rest of the world is crazy, I know that I can come home and everything is cool.
1131
00:58:40,952 --> 00:58:43,345
And that's what makes you
want to take a chance.
1132
00:58:43,389 --> 00:58:46,348
But a lot of people
who don't have that,
that type of support--
1133
00:58:46,392 --> 00:58:48,481
And I feel sorry,
you know what I'm sayin' ?
1134
00:58:48,525 --> 00:58:51,702
That's one part of my strength.
It's the fact that
no matter what happens--
1135
00:58:51,745 --> 00:58:53,704
if this industry
falls in love with me...
1136
00:58:53,747 --> 00:58:55,923
or decides that they
no longer love me,
1137
00:58:55,967 --> 00:58:57,925
and they want to get rid
of me, you know--
1138
00:58:57,969 --> 00:58:59,710
those people will always be
in my corner.
1139
00:59:02,408 --> 00:59:04,758
When you talk about my mom, it's beyond words.
1140
00:59:07,631 --> 00:59:09,807
[ Spice 1 ] She just did everything, you know.
1141
00:59:09,850 --> 00:59:11,809
I love her for that, man.
1142
00:59:11,852 --> 00:59:15,290
[ Spice 1's Mom ] He was on the Saint B's basketball team.
1143
00:59:15,334 --> 00:59:19,120
And this is, uh, break dancing.
This is how he started.
1144
00:59:19,164 --> 00:59:21,906
I think that was
just before rapping.
1145
00:59:21,949 --> 00:59:24,691
He was actually in high school
on this one.
1146
00:59:24,735 --> 00:59:27,520
He's about 17 years old.
1147
00:59:27,564 --> 00:59:30,741
I go on some video shoots
with him.
1148
00:59:30,784 --> 00:59:35,267
I was very proud of this one,
because his sister
was in it also.
1149
00:59:35,310 --> 00:59:39,576
That's his sister,
and that's Spice 1.
1150
00:59:39,619 --> 00:59:44,189
[ Spice 1 ] Every time we go somewhere, if we got a concert, and she wanna come,
1151
00:59:44,232 --> 00:59:47,975
I have, like, 12 or 13 of my homeboys surrounding her with straps.
1152
00:59:48,019 --> 00:59:51,109
Nigga, don't let nobody touch my mama.
1153
00:59:51,152 --> 00:59:53,851
[ Spice 1's Mom ] Oh, I worry about his safety a lot.
1154
00:59:53,894 --> 00:59:55,853
A lot of things has happened to him.
1155
00:59:55,896 --> 00:59:59,726
He's been shot at, harassed.
1156
00:59:59,770 --> 01:00:02,990
When he was little, we thought
he was gonna be a preacher,
1157
01:00:03,034 --> 01:00:06,080
because he carried a Bible around all the time, had his name on it.
1158
01:00:06,124 --> 01:00:09,170
Well, he is a preacher,
1159
01:00:09,214 --> 01:00:11,433
only he does it through his rap.
1160
01:00:11,477 --> 01:00:14,872
He's been promising me a house since he was a little boy,
1161
01:00:14,915 --> 01:00:17,178
and I had no idea how
he was going to buy it,
1162
01:00:17,222 --> 01:00:19,137
but now I know.
1163
01:00:21,269 --> 01:00:23,358
All of our heroes
were killed off:
1164
01:00:23,402 --> 01:00:27,188
Martin Luther King,
Malcolm X, uh, uh, JFK.
1165
01:00:27,232 --> 01:00:32,193
So I grew up having heroes that were the local drug dealer,
1166
01:00:32,237 --> 01:00:35,675
pimps, the pushers, the-- the-- the guys with the dough,
1167
01:00:35,719 --> 01:00:39,853
the guys who were riding around in the Sevilles and Cadillacs, you know.
1168
01:00:39,897 --> 01:00:42,160
Guys who were flashing the hundred-dollar bills, the number runners.
1169
01:00:42,203 --> 01:00:45,380
The whole thing about hip-hop
was to wear the--
the gold chain...
1170
01:00:45,424 --> 01:00:48,993
and, you know, to dress like the street hustler.
1171
01:00:49,036 --> 01:00:52,779
[ Nas ] The nigga'd tell about-- he got on a Rolex watch and all this shit.
1172
01:00:52,823 --> 01:00:55,129
Now, without finishing school,
going to college...
1173
01:00:55,173 --> 01:00:57,131
or just starting a business
or something,
1174
01:00:57,175 --> 01:00:59,830
you want to wonder how
you get that Rolex watch.
1175
01:00:59,873 --> 01:01:02,659
And that's the part of it. That's the mystique...
1176
01:01:02,702 --> 01:01:05,836
that leads you to want to be where he's at.
1177
01:01:05,879 --> 01:01:09,100
I rap. I try to get money here.
You know what I'm sayin' ?
1178
01:01:09,143 --> 01:01:12,451
But as far as everybody else in the community my age,
1179
01:01:12,494 --> 01:01:14,583
they probably gotta get a job at McDonald's.
1180
01:01:14,627 --> 01:01:16,585
And then they mind is just like mine, where they really working at McDonald's, saying,
1181
01:01:16,629 --> 01:01:19,023
"Damn, I want better
than this."
1182
01:01:19,066 --> 01:01:21,721
But you can ask 90%
of the people that's involved
in hip-hop music...
1183
01:01:21,765 --> 01:01:24,681
what they would be doin'
if hip-hop didn't exist,
1184
01:01:24,724 --> 01:01:28,859
and I can guarantee you
it won't be positive.
1185
01:01:28,902 --> 01:01:31,252
[ Chuck D ] Sometimes the reachin' and the showin' off...
1186
01:01:31,296 --> 01:01:33,864
with the Lexuses and the Big Willie-ism--
1187
01:01:33,907 --> 01:01:36,649
That's cool for some,
but, you know,
1188
01:01:36,693 --> 01:01:40,784
it's a nightmare to most
because 99 out of 100...
1189
01:01:40,827 --> 01:01:43,047
don't achieve
that particular dream.
1190
01:01:43,090 --> 01:01:46,093
So our particular dreams
have to be rooted
more to reality.
1191
01:01:46,137 --> 01:01:49,227
And people talk about
keeping it real, but you gotta
make it real first.
1192
01:01:49,270 --> 01:01:51,229
[ Ice-T ] I mean, I'm an ill individual.
1193
01:01:51,272 --> 01:01:54,972
I mean, if you really get off into me, man, I'm like-- I'm ill.
1194
01:01:55,015 --> 01:02:00,325
I'm, like-- All I watch
is horror movies and shit.
1195
01:02:00,368 --> 01:02:03,545
But I've kind of, like,
learned to control
my negative side and turn--
1196
01:02:03,589 --> 01:02:07,593
I've turned it a very--
I'm a very peaceful,
calm individual.
1197
01:02:07,636 --> 01:02:10,683
I don't wanna hurt nobody,
so I kinda, like,
1198
01:02:10,727 --> 01:02:13,033
send that energy I used to have
that was static,
1199
01:02:13,077 --> 01:02:15,906
that I used to act out--
I put that in my music.
1200
01:02:15,949 --> 01:02:18,212
It's like, once you've been a criminal,
1201
01:02:18,256 --> 01:02:20,649
and you've been out there, and you've felt the-- the excitement...
1202
01:02:20,693 --> 01:02:23,827
and the adrenaline rush
of that life,
1203
01:02:23,870 --> 01:02:25,829
you're intoxicated forever.
1204
01:02:25,872 --> 01:02:29,310
But I know the way I'm living now.
1205
01:02:29,354 --> 01:02:31,965
I-- I respect this life too much.
1206
01:02:32,009 --> 01:02:36,056
I would never take a risk like that, because anything I went after now,
1207
01:02:36,100 --> 01:02:38,102
it would have to be
like a million and up.
1208
01:02:38,145 --> 01:02:41,758
If I put a score down like that, somebody's probably gonna end up dead.
1209
01:02:41,801 --> 01:02:45,457
And I'll probably be on the run for the rest of my life.
1210
01:02:45,500 --> 01:02:47,459
But I still got the skills,
and I know I can--
1211
01:02:47,502 --> 01:02:50,462
I'm more of a--
I'm more of a crook
than I am a rapper.
1212
01:02:50,505 --> 01:02:52,420
I know that.
1213
01:02:53,813 --> 01:02:56,598
[ Chattering ] [ Woman ]
Here you go.
1214
01:02:56,642 --> 01:02:59,123
That's the way you like it. That's right.
1215
01:02:59,166 --> 01:03:02,126
They're golden brown.I really did yours
the same way, dear.
1216
01:03:02,169 --> 01:03:03,823
You know what I like ?
1217
01:03:03,867 --> 01:03:07,653
Can I get some furniture
to work with ?
Some furniture.
1218
01:03:07,696 --> 01:03:10,177
Here you go, baby.
1219
01:03:10,221 --> 01:03:12,745
If I wasn't in the music business, what kind of game I would be in ?
1220
01:03:12,789 --> 01:03:16,401
I'm not gonna let you know
what kind of game I would be in.
1221
01:03:16,444 --> 01:03:19,621
That's for me to know and for you to find out.
1222
01:03:19,665 --> 01:03:21,667
Yeah, I was into other stuff, you know, but...
1223
01:03:21,710 --> 01:03:24,409
there came a time when
I got a reality check,
you know,
1224
01:03:24,452 --> 01:03:26,715
when something happened
to me, so--
1225
01:03:26,759 --> 01:03:29,936
After that, when it happened,
you know, I decided that
I knew I better do this,
1226
01:03:29,980 --> 01:03:33,200
or, you know, I might not be
able to do nothin' no more,
period.
1227
01:03:33,244 --> 01:03:36,900
- [ Gunshot Fired ]
- I got shot.
- [ Gunshot Fired ]
1228
01:03:36,943 --> 01:03:41,252
- I was confined to a wheelchair
for, like, a year-and-a-half.
- [ Gunshot Fired ]
1229
01:03:41,295 --> 01:03:44,342
Yeah, well, I mean,
you know, I talk about it.
I was shot nine times, you know.
1230
01:03:44,385 --> 01:03:46,605
[ Gunshots Firing ]
1231
01:03:49,608 --> 01:03:52,219
It ain't no surprising thing.
1232
01:03:52,263 --> 01:03:56,528
It happens in every ghetto. Somebody get shot or somebody get killed, you know ?
1233
01:03:56,571 --> 01:03:58,835
[ Gunshot Fired ] ♪ What's your angle Rectangle or triangle ♪
1234
01:03:58,878 --> 01:04:01,185
♪ As my truth is spread drains you of your power ♪
1235
01:04:01,228 --> 01:04:02,751
♪ The death angel strangles you like a weed ♪
1236
01:04:02,795 --> 01:04:05,145
♪ Chokin' the helpless flower You cower ♪
1237
01:04:05,189 --> 01:04:07,582
♪ You feel the power of the final shower ♪♪
1238
01:04:07,626 --> 01:04:10,585
Do I ever carry a gun ?
Yeah, no doubt. ♪ Here comes the rain again
1239
01:04:10,629 --> 01:04:13,719
[ B-Real ] Well, at first I couldn't believe it, you know.
1240
01:04:13,762 --> 01:04:16,678
You know, like, goddamn, you know, I got hit. I'm hit.
1241
01:04:16,722 --> 01:04:19,943
I think I knew I was doin' so much wrong,
1242
01:04:19,986 --> 01:04:21,945
that I knew I was goin' straight to hell.
1243
01:04:21,988 --> 01:04:24,861
♪ Causin' new emotions
1244
01:04:26,863 --> 01:04:29,561
It ain't something that I'm proud of. It's something I had to do...
1245
01:04:29,604 --> 01:04:32,607
because of the situation I was in--
1246
01:04:32,651 --> 01:04:34,871
shootin' at, being shot at.
1247
01:04:34,914 --> 01:04:39,397
♪♪
1248
01:04:39,440 --> 01:04:42,443
I'd never get on camera
sayin' no shit like that, home.
1249
01:04:42,487 --> 01:04:44,445
I ain't fen to answer
nothing like that.
1250
01:04:44,489 --> 01:04:46,708
Say, we down South.
1251
01:04:46,752 --> 01:04:49,059
Hustlin', we gotta be strapped
because it's just like that.
1252
01:04:49,102 --> 01:04:51,278
You never know
when a player hater
gonna run up on you,
1253
01:04:51,322 --> 01:04:53,237
try to take what you got,
you know what I'm sayin' ?
1254
01:04:53,280 --> 01:04:56,283
Yeah, I roll around with a gun every day now because of the situations...
1255
01:04:56,327 --> 01:04:59,504
that I had to deal with
when I used to gang-bang...
1256
01:04:59,547 --> 01:05:02,463
and the brothers who won't
let you live that shit down.
1257
01:05:02,507 --> 01:05:07,599
Me being a rapper, I'm basically just giving you the real. I seen everything.
1258
01:05:07,642 --> 01:05:10,471
So that's what makes me speak like I speak.
1259
01:05:10,515 --> 01:05:14,562
And that's what makes me bring the music like I do because I been there, you know.
1260
01:05:14,606 --> 01:05:16,913
I belonged in gangs. I went on drive-bys.
1261
01:05:16,956 --> 01:05:19,263
[ Gunshots ]
1262
01:05:19,306 --> 01:05:23,397
[ Tires Screeching ]
1263
01:05:23,441 --> 01:05:26,923
So, it just all has to depend
on the situation, you know ?
1264
01:05:26,966 --> 01:05:29,099
If somebody threatens you,
you gonna kill him.
1265
01:05:29,142 --> 01:05:32,276
♪ Here is something
you can't understand ♪
1266
01:05:32,319 --> 01:05:35,627
♪ How I could
just kill a man ♪
1267
01:05:35,670 --> 01:05:38,238
♪ Here is something
you can't understand ♪ ♪ How I could just kill a man
1268
01:05:38,282 --> 01:05:41,589
♪ Here is something
you can't understand ♪
1269
01:05:41,633 --> 01:05:43,722
♪ How I could just kill a man ♪
1270
01:05:43,765 --> 01:05:46,246
♪ Here is something
you can't understand ♪
1271
01:05:46,290 --> 01:05:48,248
♪ How I could just kill a man ♪
1272
01:05:48,292 --> 01:05:50,859
♪ Here is something
you can't understand ♪
1273
01:05:50,903 --> 01:05:52,861
♪ How I could just kill a man ♪
1274
01:05:52,905 --> 01:05:55,168
♪ One time tried to come in my home ♪
1275
01:05:55,212 --> 01:05:57,170
♪ Take my chrome I said, yo, it's on ♪
1276
01:05:57,214 --> 01:05:59,651
♪ Take cover, son or you're assed out ♪
1277
01:05:59,694 --> 01:06:03,307
♪ How do you like my chrome Then I watched the rookie
pass out ♪
1278
01:06:03,350 --> 01:06:05,439
♪ Didn't have to blast out But I did anyway ♪ [ Chuckles ]
1279
01:06:05,483 --> 01:06:08,834
♪ Young punk had to pay
So I just killed a man ♪
1280
01:06:08,877 --> 01:06:12,359
♪ Here is something you can't understand ♪
1281
01:06:12,403 --> 01:06:14,144
♪ How I could just kill a man ♪
1282
01:06:14,187 --> 01:06:16,842
♪ Here is something you can't understand ♪
1283
01:06:16,885 --> 01:06:18,844
♪ How I could just kill a man ♪♪
1284
01:06:18,887 --> 01:06:21,064
You gotta listen to this shit to understand it.
1285
01:06:21,107 --> 01:06:25,546
Rewind it
three and four times.
Listen to it, you know.
1286
01:06:25,590 --> 01:06:30,073
Then maybe you'll get
a little notion
of where we're comin' from.
1287
01:06:30,116 --> 01:06:32,814
[ Newscaster ] Charlton Heston spoke out today against gangsta rap music...
1288
01:06:32,858 --> 01:06:35,034
that is aimed at the police.
1289
01:06:35,078 --> 01:06:37,689
Heston claimed that the violent content of the lyrics...
1290
01:06:37,732 --> 01:06:40,387
has a negative influence on American values.
1291
01:06:40,431 --> 01:06:42,824
[ Mack 10 ] That's where white America pisses me off at.
1292
01:06:42,868 --> 01:06:46,828
See, Arnold Schwarzenegger can kill a whole fuckin' police force in his movie,
1293
01:06:46,872 --> 01:06:49,179
but the minute Mack 10 talkin' about shootin' one police or something,
1294
01:06:49,222 --> 01:06:51,181
they wanna take my record off the shelves.
1295
01:06:51,224 --> 01:06:54,184
Some of us didn't even graduate from high school,
1296
01:06:54,227 --> 01:06:56,186
and we makin' seven figures, you know what I'm sayin' ?
1297
01:06:56,229 --> 01:06:58,710
It's hard for you to swallow, if you went to Harvard or Yale...
1298
01:06:58,753 --> 01:07:02,409
all your motherfuckin' life, and you ain't makin' but $50,000 a year.
1299
01:07:02,453 --> 01:07:04,629
And a motherfucker like us can make a million a year.
1300
01:07:04,672 --> 01:07:07,414
You know what I'm sayin' ? That's hard for you to swallow.
1301
01:07:07,458 --> 01:07:10,026
Put it like this.
NWA was not a prophet.
You know what I'm sayin' ?
1302
01:07:10,069 --> 01:07:12,724
When they was talking about
"Fuck the Police," and one time,
was doing this and that--
1303
01:07:12,767 --> 01:07:15,988
I mean, I sat there,
and I said, "Hell, yeah."
1304
01:07:16,032 --> 01:07:17,990
You know what I'm sayin' ?
I relate to that.Mm-hmm.
1305
01:07:18,034 --> 01:07:20,993
But the average white American,
if we-- if we gonna
have to generalize,
1306
01:07:21,037 --> 01:07:23,082
they say,
"Why-- Why would they think
such a thing ?"
1307
01:07:23,126 --> 01:07:25,476
You don't really have
any love for 'em, you know ?
1308
01:07:25,519 --> 01:07:28,435
I ain't never seen no cop
gettin' no cat out of a tree.
1309
01:07:28,479 --> 01:07:30,611
Now I live in
a nice neighborhood, the cops
are different over here.
1310
01:07:30,655 --> 01:07:32,613
They're like,
"Hey, how're you doin' ?"
1311
01:07:32,657 --> 01:07:34,876
Sendin' me
Christmas cards and shit.
1312
01:07:34,920 --> 01:07:38,532
It's just
a little different, but
average kid in the streets,
1313
01:07:38,576 --> 01:07:40,926
he's never had a cop
help him.
1314
01:07:40,969 --> 01:07:42,971
So the attitude is:
Fuck the police.
1315
01:07:43,015 --> 01:07:44,799
♪♪ [ Scratching ]
1316
01:07:47,411 --> 01:07:49,326
[ Police Siren Wails ]
1317
01:07:54,113 --> 01:07:56,768
[ Man ] In the neighborhoods, most of the time, it's the same cops.
1318
01:07:56,811 --> 01:07:59,118
And they know what's goin' on around there.
1319
01:07:59,162 --> 01:08:01,729
And they see you, if you somebody that they been seein'.
1320
01:08:01,773 --> 01:08:03,688
You know what you're doin'. They know what you're doin'.
1321
01:08:03,731 --> 01:08:05,690
They see you, and you see them.
1322
01:08:05,733 --> 01:08:09,302
You know, you know, it's on.
1323
01:08:09,346 --> 01:08:12,131
[ MC Eiht ] When you live where I live, and if you just black, period.
1324
01:08:12,175 --> 01:08:14,351
Like they say, it's a routine.
1325
01:08:14,394 --> 01:08:18,746
A black man in a fancy car, you gonna get pulled over.
1326
01:08:18,790 --> 01:08:20,748
You're gonna get asked
to step out your car.
1327
01:08:20,792 --> 01:08:22,750
You're gonna get your car searched.
1328
01:08:22,794 --> 01:08:26,580
No probable cause, no reason, no whatever.
1329
01:08:26,624 --> 01:08:29,148
It just happens. It's just routine.
1330
01:08:29,192 --> 01:08:32,151
The same crime element
that white people
are scared of,
1331
01:08:32,195 --> 01:08:35,067
black people
are scared of.
1332
01:08:35,111 --> 01:08:38,984
The same crime element
that white people fear,
we fear.
1333
01:08:39,027 --> 01:08:41,204
So we defend ourselves from the same crime element...
1334
01:08:41,247 --> 01:08:43,423
that they scared of,
you know what I'm sayin' ?
1335
01:08:43,467 --> 01:08:47,166
While they waitin'
for legislation to pass,
we next door to the killer.
1336
01:08:47,210 --> 01:08:49,864
We next door to him, you know, 'cause we up in the projects,
1337
01:08:49,908 --> 01:08:51,866
where there's 80 niggas
in the building.
1338
01:08:51,910 --> 01:08:55,131
All them killers that they're lettin' out, they're right there in that building.
1339
01:08:55,174 --> 01:08:58,134
But it's better just 'cause
we black, we get along
with the killers or something ?
1340
01:08:58,177 --> 01:09:00,527
We get along with
the rapists 'cause we black
and we from the same hood ?
1341
01:09:00,571 --> 01:09:03,400
What is that ?
We need protection too.
1342
01:09:03,443 --> 01:09:05,706
This is why we rhyme,
and this is our reason.
1343
01:09:05,750 --> 01:09:07,839
You know what I'm sayin' ?
We live this life.
1344
01:09:07,882 --> 01:09:10,537
I got copper friends.
1345
01:09:10,581 --> 01:09:13,671
But now I'm makin'
proper ends.
1346
01:09:13,714 --> 01:09:16,543
My illegal drug money.
What's going on ?
1347
01:09:16,587 --> 01:09:20,808
I don't hate all cops.
I hate certain cops.
1348
01:09:20,852 --> 01:09:23,507
You know what I mean ? [ Man ] I hate cops. They hate us.
1349
01:09:23,550 --> 01:09:26,988
We got beef in the West Coast.
We got beef in the East Coast.
We're police.
1350
01:09:27,032 --> 01:09:30,383
Hey, the big police,
the biggest motherfucking gang
out this motherfucker with guns.
1351
01:09:30,427 --> 01:09:32,298
The other day,
you know what I'm sayin,
1352
01:09:32,342 --> 01:09:35,171
I wear my one pants leg down, one pants leg up.
1353
01:09:35,214 --> 01:09:37,738
We were in Chicago, and one of the security guys,
1354
01:09:37,782 --> 01:09:40,219
you know, he came at me, all sayin':
1355
01:09:40,263 --> 01:09:43,353
"Either you roll
your pants leg down,
or you keep both of them up."
1356
01:09:43,396 --> 01:09:47,226
I thought he was playin', but he got all-- all up in my face.
1357
01:09:47,270 --> 01:09:49,620
We just performed.
Why you even sweatin' me
like that ?
1358
01:09:49,663 --> 01:09:51,622
"Well, it's a gang thing."
All up in my face, though.
1359
01:09:51,665 --> 01:09:53,754
You know what I'm sayin' ?
That's not even necessary.
1360
01:09:53,798 --> 01:09:56,931
Now, if I was to punch him in
the shit, I'd have been wrong.
1361
01:09:56,975 --> 01:10:00,674
You know what I'm sayin' ?
But I kept it cool,
you know what I'm sayin' ?
1362
01:10:00,718 --> 01:10:02,937
Not tryin' to be rude
and all that, I said,
"Money,
1363
01:10:02,981 --> 01:10:06,245
could you please just get
out of my face, 'cause I'm not
rollin' my pants leg down."
1364
01:10:06,289 --> 01:10:09,901
Respect is a really high thing
in the black community.
1365
01:10:09,944 --> 01:10:12,469
And once somebody
feels disrespected,
1366
01:10:12,512 --> 01:10:14,819
that's when
the issue arises.
1367
01:10:14,862 --> 01:10:16,995
Cops need to learn
how to talk to people.
1368
01:10:17,038 --> 01:10:19,606
[ Police Siren Wailing ]
1369
01:10:19,650 --> 01:10:23,262
[ Mack 10 ] Wasn't botherin' nobody. Wasn't no other cars around.
1370
01:10:23,306 --> 01:10:26,787
The cop that pulled me over just wants me to keep my wheels on the ground.
1371
01:10:26,831 --> 01:10:29,703
And he said, "I could impound your car now, but I ain't gonna trip right now."
1372
01:10:29,747 --> 01:10:34,230
So I said, "All right, then don't trip right now. Give me my break then."
1373
01:10:34,273 --> 01:10:36,362
It ain't nothin' but a hydraulic ticket.
1374
01:10:36,406 --> 01:10:39,235
I don't worry about it.
1375
01:10:39,278 --> 01:10:42,150
He just wanted to pull me over 'cause he was a asshole.
1376
01:10:46,981 --> 01:10:48,940
[ E-40 ] I can feel it right here, man. It's real.
1377
01:10:48,983 --> 01:10:52,248
♪ Every year about this time ♪
1378
01:10:52,291 --> 01:10:55,555
Every year about this time, it's a--
1379
01:10:55,599 --> 01:10:59,255
There's always a dark cloud that lingers over the city. ♪ There's someone like me
1380
01:10:59,298 --> 01:11:01,953
And I'm here to preach about it. Look here.
1381
01:11:01,996 --> 01:11:04,477
♪ Every year about this time
I get to diggin' up
old school memories ♪
1382
01:11:04,521 --> 01:11:07,306
♪ That I keep stored in the back of the head
and the back of my mind ♪
1383
01:11:07,350 --> 01:11:10,657
♪ That I always seem to find when I'm marinatin'
with my impulse ♪
1384
01:11:10,701 --> 01:11:12,746
♪ Slappin' bones and drinkin' wine
Just come home from Quentin ♪
1385
01:11:12,790 --> 01:11:16,097
♪ And all I know is strained and grind ♪
1386
01:11:16,141 --> 01:11:19,231
♪ Time, no gang be honest either ♪
1387
01:11:19,275 --> 01:11:21,451
♪ White-collared crime or, uh, hookin' up bones ♪
1388
01:11:21,494 --> 01:11:23,670
♪ How can I make some sort of dividend ♪
1389
01:11:23,714 --> 01:11:25,977
♪ How can I get my mathematics How can I get in
where I fit in ♪
1390
01:11:26,020 --> 01:11:28,022
♪ How can I get in Get goin' ♪
1391
01:11:28,066 --> 01:11:33,114
♪ Every year about this time
1392
01:11:33,158 --> 01:11:38,816
♪ They lock us up and throw away the key ♪♪
1393
01:11:38,859 --> 01:11:42,559
I'm gonna come out there
and listen, okay ? Rap is just like country music.
1394
01:11:42,602 --> 01:11:44,561
'Cause you get to express yourself.
1395
01:11:44,604 --> 01:11:46,563
You know ? ♪ I left my heart in Arizona
1396
01:11:46,606 --> 01:11:48,216
Something, you know what I'm sayin' ? It's just the same thing.
1397
01:11:48,260 --> 01:11:51,524
It's like a stress reliever.
You know what I'm sayin' ?
1398
01:11:51,568 --> 01:11:53,700
Just like the little
Chinese balls that
you roll in your hand,
1399
01:11:53,744 --> 01:11:56,312
and what have you,
to relieve the--
relieve the stress.
1400
01:11:56,355 --> 01:11:58,314
We rappin' it
on the microphone.
1401
01:11:58,357 --> 01:12:01,142
We're spittin' all over
the popper-stopper.
Feel me ?
1402
01:12:01,186 --> 01:12:08,193
♪♪
1403
01:12:08,236 --> 01:12:10,848
I run into older people
of all colors.
1404
01:12:10,891 --> 01:12:15,156
They don't understand it. They just think it's all bad, which a lot of it is.
1405
01:12:15,200 --> 01:12:18,812
We don't give a damn.
But a lot of it is good too,
playboy.
1406
01:12:21,641 --> 01:12:23,774
When fools didn't even think it was gonna happen,
1407
01:12:23,817 --> 01:12:26,167
me and my Uncle St. Charles,
1408
01:12:26,211 --> 01:12:28,692
T-Shop, B-Legit--
we all had confidence--
Sugar T.
1409
01:12:28,735 --> 01:12:30,694
We all had confidence
in ourselves.
1410
01:12:30,737 --> 01:12:32,870
And we kept it goin'. You know what I'm sayin' ?
1411
01:12:32,913 --> 01:12:35,220
Legal dope. We homegrown, man.
1412
01:12:35,263 --> 01:12:37,396
I feel good
about bein' homegrown.
1413
01:12:39,746 --> 01:12:41,879
[ Dupri ] I think the move that hip-hop is takin' now--
1414
01:12:41,922 --> 01:12:46,362
What I see is that the artists are gaining more control of the business aspect.
1415
01:12:46,405 --> 01:12:49,669
They're doin' a lot more of their own production, you know ?
1416
01:12:49,713 --> 01:12:51,976
I mean, I don't really know how many days it's gonna take.
1417
01:12:52,019 --> 01:12:54,065
I'm sayin', I just know
we gotta get a joint.
1418
01:12:54,108 --> 01:12:56,546
You know, a lot of artists are starting managements.
1419
01:12:56,589 --> 01:12:58,939
♪ Is there a heaven for a gangsta
Grew up in the ghetto ♪
1420
01:12:58,983 --> 01:13:01,768
♪ Raised by a killer T.R.U. across my stomach ♪
1421
01:13:01,812 --> 01:13:06,773
♪ Your neighborhood thug nigga trying to make it out
this fucked-up environment ♪
1422
01:13:06,817 --> 01:13:10,429
♪ We niggas die trying to make a dollar out of fifty cents ♪
1423
01:13:10,473 --> 01:13:12,997
♪ The ghetto got me crazy I smell daisies ♪
1424
01:13:13,040 --> 01:13:16,174
♪ But I can't die tonight My old lady pregnant
with a baby ♪
1425
01:13:16,217 --> 01:13:19,003
♪ Tupac said there's a heaven for a G ♪
1426
01:13:19,046 --> 01:13:22,398
♪ But I wonder if there's a resting place for killers
and gangstas like me ♪♪
1427
01:13:22,441 --> 01:13:25,488
[ Master P ] Independent, black-owned.
1428
01:13:25,531 --> 01:13:28,795
We're from the hood, and we take what we made about the hood...
1429
01:13:28,839 --> 01:13:31,972
and show people from the ghetto that you can have something.
1430
01:13:32,016 --> 01:13:34,932
You can be successful, if you put your mind to it.
1431
01:13:34,975 --> 01:13:38,457
We're about being
the next biggest entourage,
1432
01:13:38,501 --> 01:13:42,026
independent, successful
record company in the world.
1433
01:13:42,069 --> 01:13:45,638
Not the United States, the world.
1434
01:13:45,682 --> 01:13:47,423
[ E-40 ]
We used to sell tapes
at grocery stores,
1435
01:13:47,466 --> 01:13:51,862
liquor stores, barbershops,
uh, beauty salons,
1436
01:13:51,905 --> 01:13:55,039
tire shops,
whatever, however,
and it took off from there.
1437
01:13:55,082 --> 01:13:57,302
Well, I mean, you know
what I'm sayin' ?
1438
01:13:57,345 --> 01:13:59,870
It's all good, you know,
that-- that we out here
doin' our thing.
1439
01:13:59,913 --> 01:14:02,307
I mean, I'm real pleased.
I mean, we've been
workin' hard.
1440
01:14:02,350 --> 01:14:04,570
I've been workin' hard
all my life, you know what
I'm sayin', tryin' to do it.
1441
01:14:04,614 --> 01:14:07,094
You know what I'm sayin' ?
Tryin' to get this job done.
1442
01:14:07,138 --> 01:14:09,923
So, I mean, the-- the--
the idea that we are now here
is good.
1443
01:14:09,967 --> 01:14:12,360
I mean, we still have
a long way to go though.
1444
01:14:12,404 --> 01:14:15,494
You know,
'cause I'm tired of goin'
into the fuckin' record shops...
1445
01:14:15,538 --> 01:14:18,541
and the rap section bein'
all the way in the back
of the fuckin' store.
1446
01:14:18,584 --> 01:14:22,109
And you gotta go through there, and the section is about five feet wide.
1447
01:14:22,153 --> 01:14:24,808
Gonna continue to be in the back of the store until everybody...
1448
01:14:24,851 --> 01:14:27,071
steps up and starts doin'
different shit.
1449
01:14:27,114 --> 01:14:29,377
We do have to start owning,
like, a pressing plant,
1450
01:14:29,421 --> 01:14:32,424
or having your label run
so professionally to where...
1451
01:14:32,468 --> 01:14:35,079
you can acquire other companies.
1452
01:14:35,122 --> 01:14:38,648
Like get into publishing, get in the synchronization, get into cues on film.
1453
01:14:38,691 --> 01:14:44,131
The asset of the business, as
opposed to a physical check.
You want to own something.
1454
01:14:44,175 --> 01:14:46,699
Rap now is
a $3-billion-a-year industry.
1455
01:14:46,743 --> 01:14:50,442
Black-owned labels aren't being intimidated anymore, you know.
1456
01:14:50,486 --> 01:14:53,750
There's, uh-- Russell Simmons
has always been out there
with Def Jam,
1457
01:14:53,793 --> 01:14:56,274
and Sean "Puffy" Combs, uh,
you know,
1458
01:14:56,317 --> 01:14:58,711
with Bad Boy Entertainment,
you know-- they're all
doin' their thing.
1459
01:14:58,755 --> 01:15:01,888
Bill Bellamy called me and told me the jam of the week. He called me today.
1460
01:15:01,932 --> 01:15:03,890
You know what I'm sayin' ?
We have no mainstream play.
1461
01:15:03,934 --> 01:15:06,502
We don't have those resources.
We gettin' no Z-100s.
1462
01:15:06,545 --> 01:15:08,852
What's up with VH-1
and all that ?
1463
01:15:08,895 --> 01:15:11,507
The minute it's gone,
it's on, dog.
1464
01:15:11,550 --> 01:15:13,683
There's records out here,
they burnin', and then
Ernie's sayin' them,
1465
01:15:13,726 --> 01:15:16,903
the black stations
about to pull up--
pull off of this shit.
1466
01:15:16,947 --> 01:15:18,905
Puffy's real tight.
That's my boy.
1467
01:15:18,949 --> 01:15:20,907
He look out for me,
you know what I'm sayin' ?
1468
01:15:20,951 --> 01:15:24,258
Took me off the streets.
Gave a nigga a chance. [ Puffy ] That's cool.
1469
01:15:24,302 --> 01:15:28,001
Yo, Leon. I don't like
the way you're treatin' me
on me gettin' my second halves.
1470
01:15:28,045 --> 01:15:31,527
That shit is bullshit.
Yo, bust-- Yo, yo, yo, yo,
bust your asses...
1471
01:15:31,570 --> 01:15:35,356
to-to-- and ask me
for Method Man or Method Man.
1472
01:15:35,400 --> 01:15:38,359
When y'all asked me to use that,
you told me you had
the Marvin Gaye sample.
1473
01:15:38,403 --> 01:15:40,579
You asked me
to play the shit over.
I'm not payin'.
1474
01:15:40,623 --> 01:15:43,626
Nor am I involved
in any of that shit.
1475
01:15:43,669 --> 01:15:45,976
Okay, well, y'all need to pay
on what y'all need.
1476
01:15:46,019 --> 01:15:48,152
I'll go back in the studio.
You know, just pay for me
to go back in the studio.
1477
01:15:48,195 --> 01:15:51,590
Yo, and tell me
exactly what you want.
1478
01:15:51,634 --> 01:15:54,114
Be exact.
1479
01:15:54,158 --> 01:15:57,988
People who represent, like, the establishment, they are threatened by hip-hop.
1480
01:15:58,031 --> 01:16:01,165
And they are threatened
by intelligent, articulate
black people,
1481
01:16:01,208 --> 01:16:03,471
who happen to represent,
you know what I'm sayin',
1482
01:16:03,515 --> 01:16:06,823
the poor people,
you know what I mean,
the have-nots.
1483
01:16:06,866 --> 01:16:08,999
When I first started in rap, you know, a lot of people said,
1484
01:16:09,042 --> 01:16:11,828
that-- that rap was just a fad.
1485
01:16:11,871 --> 01:16:14,178
It would never last, or it'd just be around for a couple of years,
1486
01:16:14,221 --> 01:16:16,833
and then it's over.
1487
01:16:16,876 --> 01:16:20,097
But, you know, it's been goin' around for a long time.
1488
01:16:20,140 --> 01:16:24,405
And-- And, I mean, you even have
major, major rap artists
retiring, you know ?
1489
01:16:24,449 --> 01:16:29,541
Like-- Like, for instance,
we're getting ready to go into
the retirement of Too Short.
1490
01:16:29,585 --> 01:16:32,152
♪♪
1491
01:16:37,070 --> 01:16:39,769
The almighty Xzibit comin' down
from the liquid squad,
1492
01:16:39,812 --> 01:16:41,945
killin' that Too Short,
you know what I'm sayin',
retirement party.
1493
01:16:41,988 --> 01:16:43,860
♪♪
1494
01:16:43,903 --> 01:16:46,645
It's like a whole bunch of people and shit here.
1495
01:16:46,689 --> 01:16:49,692
♪♪
1496
01:16:49,735 --> 01:16:51,694
Yeah, this is Melle Mel.My name's Scorpio.
1497
01:16:51,737 --> 01:16:54,566
Yeah, we in the house
of my man Too Short's party,
you know,
1498
01:16:54,610 --> 01:16:58,178
hanging out with all the players and all the fly ladies, you know.
1499
01:16:58,222 --> 01:17:00,616
- [ DJ Scorpio ] It's all good.
- Comin' back from way back
into the day.
1500
01:17:00,659 --> 01:17:03,401
Straight from the East Coast right here in California.
1501
01:17:03,444 --> 01:17:05,882
[ Young MC ] It's kind of sad to see him retiring,
1502
01:17:05,925 --> 01:17:08,275
but I feel good for him because I know he had a real good career.
1503
01:17:08,319 --> 01:17:11,409
He did a lot of good things for
rap, and he helped influence me
and a whole lot of other people.
1504
01:17:11,452 --> 01:17:15,369
So, I just wanna
let that be known.
And peace, Too Short.
1505
01:17:15,413 --> 01:17:18,851
I think it's a damn shame,
1506
01:17:18,895 --> 01:17:22,072
for a young man so great,
1507
01:17:22,115 --> 01:17:24,291
to wanna leave
this illustrious business.
1508
01:17:24,335 --> 01:17:29,035
So, brothers and sisters, we're not gonna let this great young man retire, are we ?
1509
01:17:29,079 --> 01:17:31,777
[ Kurtis Blow ] Even with all of the success and progress...
1510
01:17:31,821 --> 01:17:35,607
that hip-hop has made throughout the last 20 years,
1511
01:17:35,651 --> 01:17:40,525
it has been with,
you know, some great cost.
1512
01:17:40,568 --> 01:17:44,747
Uh, lives have been lost,
careers have been forgotten.
1513
01:17:46,705 --> 01:17:49,534
[ Q-Tip ] I've been losing a lot of people lately.
1514
01:17:49,577 --> 01:17:52,145
[ Stammering ] It's at a alarming rate.
1515
01:17:52,189 --> 01:17:54,974
It's sad, you know what I'm sayin' ?
1516
01:17:55,018 --> 01:17:57,281
I lost five people...
1517
01:17:57,324 --> 01:18:00,066
in the past four months.
1518
01:18:02,112 --> 01:18:04,767
I don't care who you are.
1519
01:18:04,810 --> 01:18:07,508
Fuck, if y'all niggas
are playing all that
hard-core shit, stop it,
1520
01:18:07,552 --> 01:18:10,773
'cause y'all niggas
have kissed your mama
before, man.
1521
01:18:10,816 --> 01:18:14,733
Y'all niggas have been
in vulnerable states where
y'all niggas have cried.
1522
01:18:14,777 --> 01:18:17,780
'Cause if-- 'Cause ain't
none of y'all niggas
out there ironmen.
1523
01:18:17,823 --> 01:18:20,304
You know what I'm sayin' ?
And if you say that,
you're lyin'.
1524
01:18:22,175 --> 01:18:24,874
[ Q-Tip ]
I have faith that people
are gonna wake up, man.
1525
01:18:24,917 --> 01:18:26,658
I really do.
I have that faith.
1526
01:18:30,096 --> 01:18:33,230
[ Female Reporter ] It's been two days since the shooting that left...
1527
01:18:33,273 --> 01:18:37,800
recording manager Shug Knight injured and Tupac Shakur in critical condition.
1528
01:18:37,843 --> 01:18:40,498
Metro says Shakur and Knight were driving to a club...
1529
01:18:40,541 --> 01:18:42,587
following the Tyson-Seldon fight.
1530
01:18:42,630 --> 01:18:45,285
A car pulled up alongside Shakur's BMW,
1531
01:18:45,329 --> 01:18:47,679
and gunshots rang out.
1532
01:18:47,723 --> 01:18:50,160
Police are looking for a late-model white Cadillac,
1533
01:18:50,203 --> 01:18:54,730
last seen speeding southbound on Colbalt Lane.
1534
01:18:54,773 --> 01:18:57,907
Meanwhile, family, friends and fans of the rap singer...
1535
01:18:57,950 --> 01:18:59,996
surround U.M.C., wishing they could share...
1536
01:19:00,039 --> 01:19:02,781
their messages with Shakur.
1537
01:19:02,825 --> 01:19:05,175
I'm one of his biggest fans,
and I love him so very much.
1538
01:19:05,218 --> 01:19:07,438
And I don't want Tupac to get shot.
1539
01:19:07,481 --> 01:19:10,528
I don't-- I don't want Tupac
to get shot no more.
1540
01:19:10,571 --> 01:19:12,878
[ Male Reporter ] Breaking news to tell you about.
1541
01:19:12,922 --> 01:19:15,794
The rapper Tupac Shakur died in Las Vegas.
1542
01:19:15,838 --> 01:19:19,450
He died, apparently, this afternoon in a Las Vegas hospital.
1543
01:19:19,493 --> 01:19:22,453
You might remember he was shot-- [ Fades Out ]
1544
01:19:22,496 --> 01:19:26,544
Pac was a prophet.
1545
01:19:26,587 --> 01:19:28,851
He knew things...
1546
01:19:31,941 --> 01:19:33,638
that none of us see yet.
1547
01:19:35,596 --> 01:19:37,555
And he put it in his music.
1548
01:19:37,598 --> 01:19:41,341
His only release was his music.
1549
01:19:41,385 --> 01:19:45,389
I rolled with Pac. We came up together.
1550
01:19:45,432 --> 01:19:47,478
And Pac ain't never let me roll with him,
1551
01:19:47,521 --> 01:19:50,002
to pull no gun
on no black man.
1552
01:19:50,046 --> 01:19:52,352
Pac wasn't no gangster.
1553
01:19:54,267 --> 01:19:56,879
Pac was a soldier.
1554
01:19:56,922 --> 01:20:00,708
[ Applause ]
1555
01:20:02,928 --> 01:20:07,411
We all should work together
to try to get more unity
within rap.
1556
01:20:07,454 --> 01:20:10,196
And-- And-- And I see that
happening, for the most part.
1557
01:20:10,240 --> 01:20:13,765
I see a lot of rappers
doin' duets with each other
from the different coasts.
1558
01:20:13,809 --> 01:20:16,594
East Coast, West Coast
together, like that.
1559
01:20:16,637 --> 01:20:18,596
East Coast and West Coast
get down together...
1560
01:20:18,639 --> 01:20:20,598
and make it happen,
you know what I'm sayin' ?
1561
01:20:20,641 --> 01:20:22,730
In Queens, New York,
they speak nice.
1562
01:20:22,774 --> 01:20:25,516
These are
all-town gangsters.Right, right.
1563
01:20:25,559 --> 01:20:27,910
I'm gettin' sassed.
Ow !
1564
01:20:27,953 --> 01:20:32,218
I can't dis the whole East Coast. I got homeboys, you know, from the East Coast.
1565
01:20:32,262 --> 01:20:35,004
I-- I-- I can't-- I mean,
everybody in the East Coast
don't hate Mack 10.
1566
01:20:35,047 --> 01:20:37,833
I don't give a fuck.
I got down with MC Eiht.
That's my nigga.
1567
01:20:37,876 --> 01:20:39,835
That's West Coast,
you know what I'm sayin' ?
1568
01:20:39,878 --> 01:20:41,837
And it's blowin' up over there,
you know what I'm sayin' ?
1569
01:20:41,880 --> 01:20:44,056
The East Coast, West Coast shit
is stupid,
1570
01:20:44,100 --> 01:20:46,929
'cause how am I gonna beef with
a nigga who ain't got nothin'
and I ain't got nothin' ?
1571
01:20:46,972 --> 01:20:48,844
When these-- When these other
motherfuckers got everything,
1572
01:20:48,887 --> 01:20:51,063
and nobody's beefin' with them.
1573
01:20:51,107 --> 01:20:53,674
And nigga's quick to pull out
a gun on you, wants me,
I'm a shoot that nigga.
1574
01:20:53,718 --> 01:20:56,808
I'm gonna kill him.
And when the cops come,
he gets scared.
1575
01:20:56,852 --> 01:20:59,158
How the fuck are you scared
of him, when you ain't scared
of him ?
1576
01:20:59,202 --> 01:21:01,900
So that shit don't really
add up to me and shit.
I deal with mathematics.
1577
01:21:01,944 --> 01:21:03,902
If you got a problem
with somebody,
1578
01:21:03,946 --> 01:21:06,949
you got a problem
with that individual,
you know ?
1579
01:21:06,992 --> 01:21:10,822
Square off with him.
Don't go dissin'
a whole fucking coast.
1580
01:21:10,866 --> 01:21:12,824
Go and spread the love.
East Coast and West Coast.
1581
01:21:12,868 --> 01:21:15,914
That right there settles
everything. There's no need
gettin' us involved.
1582
01:21:15,958 --> 01:21:18,177
You know, you don't see niggas
fightin' and robbin'...
1583
01:21:18,221 --> 01:21:20,179
and killin' and shootin'
over this here, you know
what I'm sayin' ?
1584
01:21:20,223 --> 01:21:21,920
When niggas get together
with this here,
it's all about peace.
1585
01:21:21,964 --> 01:21:23,922
And that's
what we're tryin'--Ain't nothin' wrong.
1586
01:21:23,966 --> 01:21:26,272
East Coast, West Coast.We get into our vibe
that we--
1587
01:21:26,316 --> 01:21:28,796
This ain't crack.
This is weed.
1588
01:21:28,840 --> 01:21:33,758
We smoke weed, 'cause
when we smoke weed, we breed.
All right ? Yo.
1589
01:21:33,801 --> 01:21:36,630
So, it's more than just
knowin' your block.
1590
01:21:36,674 --> 01:21:39,242
Know your state,
East Coast, West Coast.
1591
01:21:39,285 --> 01:21:41,548
There's seven continents
out there.
1592
01:21:41,592 --> 01:21:44,247
And there's, you know,
hundreds of countries.
1593
01:21:44,290 --> 01:21:46,902
Education is key,
because it tells people...
1594
01:21:46,945 --> 01:21:49,165
what to look out for
and how to prepare themselves.
1595
01:21:49,208 --> 01:21:51,950
Economically, you know, we can't talk about more black jobs...
1596
01:21:51,994 --> 01:21:54,300
without black businesses.
1597
01:21:54,344 --> 01:21:58,826
Everybody's not fortunate enough to be a doctor or lawyer, you know ?
1598
01:21:58,870 --> 01:22:02,221
Everybody doesn't complete
four years of college,
you know ?
1599
01:22:02,265 --> 01:22:05,311
It gives you something else
to do, and it is a job,
straight up.
1600
01:22:05,355 --> 01:22:08,053
[ Man ] It's bringing in a lot of niggas out of the ghettos.
1601
01:22:08,097 --> 01:22:10,490
It's a power force, you know what I'm sayin' ?
1602
01:22:10,534 --> 01:22:12,492
And anytime you get black with a power force...
1603
01:22:12,536 --> 01:22:15,017
and a gang of money generatin',
1604
01:22:15,060 --> 01:22:18,020
then it's gonna scare.
1605
01:22:18,063 --> 01:22:20,979
Close to your spirit,
Close to your soul. Black.
1606
01:22:21,023 --> 01:22:23,982
Not being scared of who you are. And step out and express.
1607
01:22:24,026 --> 01:22:27,986
Grandmaster Flash, Kurtis Blow and them passed the torch to us.
1608
01:22:28,030 --> 01:22:33,209
Also, Run DMC, LL Cool J had it.
Passed it on with Rakim.
1609
01:22:33,252 --> 01:22:35,951
Public Enemy,
Boogie Down Productions.
1610
01:22:35,994 --> 01:22:39,998
They took it on, pass it on.
You got E.P.M.D. comin' out.
1611
01:22:40,042 --> 01:22:42,566
Then you got your
Tribe Called Quest comin' out.
1612
01:22:42,609 --> 01:22:44,829
And then the West Coast
caught some at the same time.
1613
01:22:44,872 --> 01:22:46,831
They catchin' it with Ice-T.
1614
01:22:46,874 --> 01:22:49,138
He grew a part of it.
He's runnin' it now.
1615
01:22:49,181 --> 01:22:51,662
The torch is goin' on
to the next one that goin' on.
1616
01:22:51,705 --> 01:22:54,404
Hip-hop is an element
that was created...
1617
01:22:54,447 --> 01:22:56,928
by the youth from
the street, you know ?
1618
01:22:56,972 --> 01:22:59,539
And we gonna continue
to express that truth...
1619
01:22:59,583 --> 01:23:02,281
and that expression,
that youthful expression.
1620
01:23:02,325 --> 01:23:04,501
[ Pepa ]
I'm just tryin' to see
what it's gonna be like...
1621
01:23:04,544 --> 01:23:06,938
in the year
two-thousand-and-something.
1622
01:23:06,982 --> 01:23:10,420
'Cause it's-- it's always
changin' constantly, you know ?
1623
01:23:10,463 --> 01:23:12,291
Everyone's comin' up with a new style, new music.
1624
01:23:12,335 --> 01:23:16,034
It's a-- It's adult music as well now. More.
1625
01:23:16,078 --> 01:23:18,297
But it's still a kid's music,
1626
01:23:18,341 --> 01:23:21,692
so it's something for the kids to enjoy and call their own still, so--
1627
01:23:21,735 --> 01:23:25,174
Like for my son to grow up
in the hip-hop, you know,
that would be cool.
1628
01:23:25,217 --> 01:23:27,785
♪ Never one to chitter-chatter
I'd rather make you phatter ♪
1629
01:23:27,828 --> 01:23:29,787
♪ And all that matters
is how we scatter ♪
1630
01:23:29,830 --> 01:23:31,789
♪ That's right, I spray
with the words I say ♪
1631
01:23:31,832 --> 01:23:34,139
♪ Be it night or day
Never no time to play ♪
1632
01:23:34,183 --> 01:23:36,141
♪ Up in the morning
and out to school ♪
1633
01:23:36,185 --> 01:23:38,883
♪ 'Cause I'm cool
Mama ain't raisin' no fool ♪♪
1634
01:23:38,926 --> 01:23:41,755
♪ As I combine all
the juice from the mind ♪
1635
01:23:41,799 --> 01:23:44,062
♪ Heal up, wheel up
Bring it back ♪ ♪ Come rewind
1636
01:23:44,106 --> 01:23:46,456
♪ Powerful impact
from the cannon ♪ ♪ Boom
1637
01:23:46,499 --> 01:23:48,936
♪ Not braggin'
Try to read my mind ♪ ♪ Just imagine
1638
01:23:48,980 --> 01:23:51,548
♪ Vo-cab-u ♪ Lary's necessary
1639
01:23:51,591 --> 01:23:54,638
♪ Went diggin' in to ♪ My library
1640
01:23:54,681 --> 01:23:56,727
♪ Oh, my God ♪ Oh, my God
1641
01:23:56,770 --> 01:23:58,946
♪ Maybe mine's
too close to want me ♪ ♪ To Tosh
1642
01:23:58,990 --> 01:24:01,775
♪ Oh, Oh ♪ All over the track boss ♪
1643
01:24:01,819 --> 01:24:03,777
♪ Oh, pardon me ♪ Oh, as I come back ♪
1644
01:24:03,821 --> 01:24:05,997
♪ Back in the day On the boulevard Olympic ♪
1645
01:24:06,041 --> 01:24:10,349
♪ We picked up routines
because it was fit
It was I, Phifer ♪
1646
01:24:10,393 --> 01:24:13,265
♪ See my super soul
rubbin' at the bumpers ♪
1647
01:24:13,309 --> 01:24:15,746
♪ Hey, yo, Tip Do you recall where
we used to mark walls ♪
1648
01:24:15,789 --> 01:24:18,618
♪ [ Indistinct ]
1649
01:24:18,662 --> 01:24:20,577
♪ Where we at ♪ Nashville in the house
Check it out ♪
1650
01:24:20,620 --> 01:24:23,406
♪ Where we at ♪ Tennessee in the house
Check it out ♪
1651
01:24:23,449 --> 01:24:25,886
♪ Where we at ♪ Nashville in the house
1652
01:24:25,930 --> 01:24:29,412
♪ Here we go, yo
Check the rhymes, yo
Here we go, yo ♪
1653
01:24:29,455 --> 01:24:33,416
♪ Check the rhymes, yo
Here we go, yo
Check the rhymes, yo ♪
1654
01:24:33,459 --> 01:24:35,983
♪ Check it out ♪ Check it out
1655
01:24:36,027 --> 01:24:39,161
♪ And, Nashville
check the rhymes, yo ♪♪
1656
01:24:39,204 --> 01:24:43,643
[ Audience Cheering ]
1657
01:24:45,776 --> 01:24:49,432
- Everybody put a peace sign
up in the air.
- Raise your hand !
1658
01:24:49,475 --> 01:24:52,739
Put that shit up high.
1659
01:24:52,783 --> 01:24:56,265
I want y'all to say, "We need peace," in rhythm with us.
1660
01:24:56,308 --> 01:24:59,659
♪ Say, we need peace Come on ♪
1661
01:25:01,748 --> 01:25:03,794
♪ Say, we need peace Come on ♪
1662
01:25:03,837 --> 01:25:06,318
♪ We need peace Put your hands high !
1663
01:25:06,362 --> 01:25:08,494
♪ Tribe Called Quest We got ♪♪ Peace on our side
1664
01:25:08,538 --> 01:25:11,323
♪ Busta Rhymes comin' We got ♪ ♪ Peace on our side
1665
01:25:11,367 --> 01:25:14,283
♪ The Fugees got the score We got ♪♪ Peace on our side
1666
01:25:14,326 --> 01:25:17,286
♪ One love, one love, one love
one love, one love ♪
1667
01:25:17,329 --> 01:25:20,245
♪ One love, one love, one love
one love, one love ♪
1668
01:25:20,289 --> 01:25:22,813
♪ One love, one love
one love, one love ♪
1669
01:25:22,856 --> 01:25:24,858
♪ One love, one love
one love, one love ♪♪
1670
01:25:24,902 --> 01:25:30,299
I know that hip-hop
is the representation
of this oppressed culture,
1671
01:25:30,342 --> 01:25:33,128
and I will represent that
till the day I die.
1672
01:25:33,171 --> 01:25:36,827
[ Film Projector Rolling ]
1673
01:25:40,178 --> 01:25:43,355
And don't ever shoot
a documentary without
the Lost Boyz and Dogg Pound.
1674
01:25:43,399 --> 01:25:46,663
It just won't happen.
That's why I'm glad Miramax
did this film, you know ?
1675
01:25:46,706 --> 01:25:49,666
Back in the day,
biting used to be a crime.
1676
01:25:49,709 --> 01:25:52,408
You know how many bites
of Snoop there is ?
There's mad bites of Snoop.
1677
01:25:52,451 --> 01:25:55,150
Snoop's the original.
You can't bite him. He's dope.
1678
01:25:55,193 --> 01:25:57,978
Onyx is the original,
but everybody wants to change
their voice now...
1679
01:25:58,022 --> 01:26:00,416
and rhyme like this.
1680
01:26:00,459 --> 01:26:03,810
Onyx is the original.
They're dope.
You can't front on them.
1681
01:26:03,854 --> 01:26:06,726
And we went through that same
experience early in the game,
1682
01:26:06,770 --> 01:26:08,728
but, I'm sayin',
we realized that, yo,
you know what I'm sayin' ?
1683
01:26:08,772 --> 01:26:11,340
The best way to do something.
That's powerful, ain't it ?
1684
01:26:11,383 --> 01:26:15,082
[ Chuckling ]
You know what I mean ?
Hold it in, baby.
1685
01:26:15,126 --> 01:26:18,564
The best-- The best way
to do something
is to do it yourself.
1686
01:26:18,608 --> 01:26:22,177
If I make enough money,
I'm outta here.
You understand what I'm sayin' ?
1687
01:26:22,220 --> 01:26:26,746
Because I've lived
in the ghetto all my life.
I've been here and done that.
1688
01:26:26,790 --> 01:26:30,359
And there's a bigger world
out there. There's a lot
of shit to get, and I want it.
1689
01:26:30,402 --> 01:26:33,623
Check all the honeys out though.
You gotta get this on the movie.
1690
01:26:33,666 --> 01:26:36,452
This is a movie, baby.
You see that right there ?
They're filmin' right now.
1691
01:26:36,495 --> 01:26:40,238
The making of Rhyme and Reason.
1692
01:26:40,282 --> 01:26:43,110
And squeezin'.
[ Chuckles ]
1693
01:26:43,154 --> 01:26:46,331
Uh, the critics out there
can basically, like,
1694
01:26:46,375 --> 01:26:50,335
kiss my ass straight up
because they know nothing
about what goes into this.
1695
01:26:50,379 --> 01:26:52,685
They're just people
with a nine-to-five...
1696
01:26:52,729 --> 01:26:54,209
behind a fuckin' typewriter
and a CD player,
1697
01:26:54,252 --> 01:26:57,037
listenin' to it
and critiquing it.
1698
01:26:57,081 --> 01:27:01,781
"Bring The Noise" was on
the "Less than Zero" soundtrack.You're Dr. Dre.
1699
01:27:01,825 --> 01:27:06,264
And, uh-- And, uh,
that's part of the clip, right,
you could use, right ?
1700
01:27:06,308 --> 01:27:08,397
I'll be Dre for a day.
Dre day.
1701
01:27:08,440 --> 01:27:12,662
This is what you call
a Biz Markie breakfast.
1702
01:27:12,705 --> 01:27:15,621
You pour the Crispix
in the bowl.
1703
01:27:15,665 --> 01:27:18,668
Right ?
1704
01:27:18,711 --> 01:27:21,453
You get a whole bunch
of sugar,
1705
01:27:21,497 --> 01:27:25,675
'cause I'm a--
I'm a junk-food junkie,
everybody.
1706
01:27:25,718 --> 01:27:28,547
Everybody got this on film ?
1707
01:27:28,591 --> 01:27:32,029
Still got it on film ?
1708
01:27:32,072 --> 01:27:34,161
You pray.
1709
01:27:34,205 --> 01:27:37,164
♪ Because I'm true to this rap ♪
1710
01:27:37,208 --> 01:27:41,081
Now.
1711
01:27:41,125 --> 01:27:44,041
You rock, and we bouncin'.
We still bouncin.
1712
01:27:44,084 --> 01:27:47,218
I dare say, I wanna thank
your mother for givin' you
a butt like that.
1713
01:27:47,262 --> 01:27:50,003
You know where the bathroom at ?I had-- I had to go
to the gym and did this.
1714
01:27:50,047 --> 01:27:54,007
[ Chattering ]
1715
01:27:54,051 --> 01:27:56,967
You had to have had
political power...
1716
01:27:57,010 --> 01:27:59,926
in the culture of hip-hop
to grab the mike,
1717
01:27:59,970 --> 01:28:03,843
to step out
onto the cardboard
and break dance.
1718
01:28:03,887 --> 01:28:06,368
Watch the light.[ Glass Shattering ]
1719
01:28:06,411 --> 01:28:09,109
Yo, radio's very important.
Very, very important.
1720
01:28:09,153 --> 01:28:12,417
You know, airplay,
to be heard.[ Phone Ringing ]
1721
01:28:12,461 --> 01:28:14,724
[ Man ]
How do you experience--[ Ringing Continues ]
1722
01:28:17,379 --> 01:28:21,513
Everybody in this motherfucker
got a dark thing to him.
1723
01:28:21,557 --> 01:28:25,300
Some of y'all motherfuckers
do some things you don't want
me to know about, right ?
1724
01:28:25,343 --> 01:28:27,519
But on my album,
I'm doin' it all,
1725
01:28:27,563 --> 01:28:29,652
and I'm lettin' you
know about it, you know
what I'm sayin' ?
1726
01:28:29,695 --> 01:28:33,090
It ain't about--
When you journey my shit,
you need flashlights.
1727
01:28:33,133 --> 01:28:35,135
You wanna enter my mind,
you need flashlights.
1728
01:28:35,179 --> 01:28:38,400
You want to enter my realm,
you need flashlights.
1729
01:28:38,443 --> 01:28:43,405
'Cause it's dark over here.
Word.
1730
01:28:43,448 --> 01:28:46,364
And that's about it.
We be back.
1731
01:28:46,408 --> 01:28:50,542
♪ Even though phat LPs Can make a nigga Gs ♪
1732
01:28:50,586 --> 01:28:51,630
♪ Real hip-hop ♪
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