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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 Bronx is 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.
217
00:11:28,455 --> 00:11:31,691
The next MC said,
"I have to outdo this person."
218
00:11:31,724 --> 00:11:34,361
And the only way
to outdo somebody
usually is by boasting...
219
00:11:34,394 --> 00:11:38,331
or outboasting 'em
or trying to insult them
in a cool way.
220
00:11:38,365 --> 00:11:40,800
And that's where
the battles started.
221
00:11:40,833 --> 00:11:43,803
* So bring the drama
when you're coming
Best believe I'm down *
222
00:11:43,836 --> 00:11:46,573
* The golden child
just arrived straight
out the Chi-town **
223
00:11:46,606 --> 00:11:50,143
* Hi-ho, Silver, nigga
'cause I'm comin'
like the Lone Ranger *
224
00:11:50,177 --> 00:11:52,779
* Danger, danger, Dr. Smith
The human torture chamber *
225
00:11:52,812 --> 00:11:55,782
* A lyrical
bastard child buck wild
straight from the penal *
226
00:11:55,815 --> 00:11:58,485
* I'm foul
Deep 'n' deadly is my style *
227
00:11:58,518 --> 00:12:01,788
* Straight out the gate
a thoroughbred, runnin'
like the Feds, never scared *
228
00:12:01,821 --> 00:12:04,724
* From these streets
quick to bust
a motherfucker's head **
229
00:12:04,757 --> 00:12:08,095
When you're first starting out,
you know what I'm sayin',
230
00:12:08,128 --> 00:12:11,664
it's more natural to just
freestyle, 'cause that's how you
start developing your own style.
231
00:12:11,698 --> 00:12:15,168
You know, if you're
an MC for real,
you can freestyle.
232
00:12:15,202 --> 00:12:17,404
You know, you don't have to be
elaborate with your freestyle,
you know what I'm sayin',
233
00:12:17,437 --> 00:12:20,073
but people know if
it's written or not.
234
00:12:20,107 --> 00:12:22,209
Some people
say they're freestylin',
and they be sayin' some stuff...
235
00:12:22,242 --> 00:12:25,345
which you know you can't
freestyle that well like that,
except a few people that can.
236
00:12:25,378 --> 00:12:27,814
* Now check it out, because
I'm serious and I'm dope *
237
00:12:27,847 --> 00:12:30,350
* Oh, my God, and I can
freestyle without a quote **
238
00:12:30,383 --> 00:12:31,551
* Funk battle
That fool's fatter *
239
00:12:31,584 --> 00:12:32,852
* MCs with their
chitter-chatter *
240
00:12:32,885 --> 00:12:35,255
* This microphone
won't even matter *
241
00:12:35,288 --> 00:12:38,591
* Craig Mack's like
a funk robotic super-sick
psychotic MC who got it *
242
00:12:38,625 --> 00:12:41,828
* New season inside the season
crushin' MCs for
no apparent reason **
243
00:12:41,861 --> 00:12:44,297
* MCs want to battle
but it makes no sense *
244
00:12:44,331 --> 00:12:46,166
* To test the abstract
shahid *
245
00:12:46,199 --> 00:12:48,768
* Phife dog
and Consequence on my left *
246
00:12:48,801 --> 00:12:52,139
* Style is so, so def
And when it comes
to rhymes and styles *
247
00:12:52,172 --> 00:12:54,407
* I got 'em by the pile *
248
00:12:54,441 --> 00:12:56,643
* I'll represent it in a minute
'cause I'm
G Tray Deee *
249
00:12:56,676 --> 00:12:59,146
* Here to set it off and step up
on the M-I-C *
250
00:12:59,179 --> 00:13:02,149
* And let you know, Long Beach
yeah, that's my city *
251
00:13:02,182 --> 00:13:04,651
* Come down here
and we'll never show pity **
252
00:13:04,684 --> 00:13:07,887
It's a personal thing
to me to freestyle.
You know what I mean ?
253
00:13:07,920 --> 00:13:11,258
But, you know, when you're
trying to get onstage
and show off...
254
00:13:11,291 --> 00:13:14,161
like you can
when you really can't--
255
00:13:14,194 --> 00:13:17,197
you're kickin' all kind
of bullshit words-- you get
caught out there, you know.
256
00:13:17,230 --> 00:13:20,733
I've got caught
out there a lot of times,
just sayin' a bunch of nothin'.
257
00:13:20,767 --> 00:13:24,271
That's why I tell all
my artists: "If you don't feel
like freestylin',
258
00:13:24,304 --> 00:13:28,275
[ Man ] Yeah.
do not freestyle and go wild."
259
00:13:28,308 --> 00:13:31,611
Yes,
I am a true MC.
260
00:13:31,644 --> 00:13:34,447
Y'all thought I was about
to kick a little somethin',
didn't ya ?
261
00:13:34,481 --> 00:13:36,483
What's up ? Yo.
262
00:13:36,516 --> 00:13:39,619
* Focus the camera
so I can slam a phat rhyme
down your esophagus *
263
00:13:39,652 --> 00:13:42,722
* Who's dropping us
This is the lyrical
imperial Fat Lip *
264
00:13:42,755 --> 00:13:45,492
* Chillin' with my fools
No, we not no Blood or Crip *
265
00:13:45,525 --> 00:13:48,461
* I don't gang-bang
I don't sling no "caine" *
266
00:13:48,495 --> 00:13:51,198
* But I got these rhymes
when I kick 'em off
the brain *
267
00:13:51,231 --> 00:13:53,933
* I maintain
These rhymes I will sustain *
268
00:13:53,966 --> 00:13:56,469
* Don't try to mess
There ain't no shit
you would gain *
269
00:13:56,503 --> 00:13:59,672
* I'd bust your ass in the know
lookin' at me *
270
00:13:59,706 --> 00:14:01,674
* Open the windows
check out my clothes *
271
00:14:01,708 --> 00:14:03,743
* I got the Nike
I'm not Spike Lee *
272
00:14:03,776 --> 00:14:06,813
* But I do the right thing
On my nuts you might swing *
273
00:14:06,846 --> 00:14:09,649
* But that's all right
'cause I kick the shit
Keep it tight *
274
00:14:09,682 --> 00:14:13,486
* Yo, bust that shit
It's dynamite
So I blow it up *
275
00:14:13,520 --> 00:14:16,489
* Listen to the West Coast shit
Nigga 'bout to throw it up *
276
00:14:16,523 --> 00:14:19,392
* About the pass the shit
to my man Suave *
277
00:14:19,426 --> 00:14:22,229
* So do what
you gotta do, nigga
Represent L.A *
278
00:14:22,262 --> 00:14:24,831
* Yeah, comin' up
on stage two *
279
00:14:24,864 --> 00:14:28,735
* 'Bout to represent to you
I got my man Slim here Tre *
280
00:14:28,768 --> 00:14:30,837
* And he's about to bring
this shit on your way **
281
00:14:30,870 --> 00:14:33,340
Yo, Slim.
[ Laughing ]
282
00:14:35,007 --> 00:14:37,444
Come on, Slim.
[ Shouting ]
283
00:14:37,477 --> 00:14:39,779
* Too many niggas trying
to perp my lifestyle
romance it *
284
00:14:39,812 --> 00:14:42,449
* I was kickin' gang when
y'all kids was break dancin'
Overlords *
285
00:14:42,482 --> 00:14:44,751
* So why you wack niggas
ain't dead *
286
00:14:44,784 --> 00:14:46,753
* Probably because my aim
is over niggas' heads *
287
00:14:46,786 --> 00:14:48,655
* East Coast, West Coast
I played the whole map
and bounced *
288
00:14:48,688 --> 00:14:51,658
* You got a Benz but live
in your mom's house **
289
00:14:51,691 --> 00:14:55,595
So the key--
And the key to
a good rap is like,
290
00:14:55,628 --> 00:14:58,231
it doesn't only rhyme,
but it's, like, clever.
291
00:14:58,265 --> 00:15:01,534
Are you being clever
with the rap ?
292
00:15:01,568 --> 00:15:04,337
And also, good rap music
doesn't need a beat.
293
00:15:04,371 --> 00:15:06,706
* My repertoire is militant
294
00:15:06,739 --> 00:15:08,941
* The last days with the Blood
is we're dealing with *
295
00:15:08,975 --> 00:15:11,010
* The Johnny Blaze
grab your pistols *
296
00:15:11,043 --> 00:15:13,346
* Teflon megabombs
and heat-seekin' missiles *
297
00:15:13,380 --> 00:15:15,348
* Time to go to war
Shit's official *
298
00:15:15,382 --> 00:15:17,584
* The Mic Stalker
Only few can understand it *
299
00:15:17,617 --> 00:15:20,520
* The Skywalker that be
leapin' over planets *
300
00:15:20,553 --> 00:15:23,022
* Pain
Got that ghetto blood
in my vein *
301
00:15:23,055 --> 00:15:26,926
* Spreadin' through my kin
Confess my sins and blame
society for unawareness *
302
00:15:26,959 --> 00:15:29,862
* Fuck the president
He don't represent
the ghetto resident *
303
00:15:29,896 --> 00:15:32,965
* Recognize, fool
within the black hole
there's a jewel *
304
00:15:32,999 --> 00:15:35,868
* The revolution
been in effect
Pull up your shoes *
305
00:15:35,902 --> 00:15:39,839
* Utilize your third eye
It be him or I now
Choose who gotta die *
306
00:15:39,872 --> 00:15:42,975
* Him, every time
the Ticallion Stallion
Now, hold on *
307
00:15:43,009 --> 00:15:45,712
* Like diamond stud medallions
and so on **
308
00:15:45,745 --> 00:15:47,847
[ Laughing ]
Whoo ! Whoo !
309
00:15:49,516 --> 00:15:52,319
Between '75 and '85,
you had to have juice.
310
00:15:52,352 --> 00:15:56,789
You had to have had
political power
in the culture of hip-hop...
311
00:15:56,823 --> 00:15:59,359
to grab the mic,
312
00:15:59,392 --> 00:16:02,595
to step out onto the cardboard
and break-dance...
313
00:16:02,629 --> 00:16:05,832
or even do a piece.
314
00:16:05,865 --> 00:16:08,701
You had to be known
in the community.
315
00:16:08,735 --> 00:16:11,371
- ** [ Scratching ]
- * Radio, TV
316
00:16:11,404 --> 00:16:14,474
* And even the press
Say, what's the meaning
of V-A-P-O-R-S **
317
00:16:14,507 --> 00:16:17,076
A really important part
of hip-hop,
318
00:16:17,109 --> 00:16:20,580
I say,
is Mike and Dave from--
319
00:16:20,613 --> 00:16:24,584
you know, they used to be
with the Crash Crew--
and Afrika Bambaata.
320
00:16:24,617 --> 00:16:27,654
He brought, like, unity
to the people...
321
00:16:27,687 --> 00:16:30,089
from the Bronx, Manhattan--
brought them together.
322
00:16:30,122 --> 00:16:32,625
You know, bringing 'em
into like--
323
00:16:32,659 --> 00:16:36,963
They used to have, like,
Zulu Nation meetings, like,
on Thursdays or Wednesdays.
324
00:16:36,996 --> 00:16:39,632
You know,
God Bless the Dead, Malibu,
325
00:16:39,666 --> 00:16:42,402
God Bless the Dead, B.O.,
and stuff like that.
326
00:16:42,435 --> 00:16:45,872
This is, like,
one of the first fliers
I ever collected.
327
00:16:45,905 --> 00:16:50,510
Kool Herc,
Whiz kid, Disco Prince,
Whipper Whip and Dot-A-Rock.
328
00:16:50,543 --> 00:16:54,347
Then you got the classic battle
of all time,
329
00:16:54,381 --> 00:16:57,116
is Coldcrush
versus Fantastic Five.
330
00:16:57,149 --> 00:17:00,853
Now, here's
an actual flier...
331
00:17:00,887 --> 00:17:03,390
of the Rooftop.
332
00:17:03,423 --> 00:17:07,059
That was a club uptown
where everybody'd go,
333
00:17:07,093 --> 00:17:09,962
from the hustlers
to the strugglers.
334
00:17:09,996 --> 00:17:14,934
Now, this is when
I started to evolve
as a good beatbox.
335
00:17:14,967 --> 00:17:18,805
You know what I'm sayin' ?
You have Rob Bass before
he came out with a record.
336
00:17:18,838 --> 00:17:21,107
EZ Rock, Darrow C.
And look at me.
337
00:17:21,140 --> 00:17:23,843
See me there ?
338
00:17:23,876 --> 00:17:26,413
In the beginning--
Run-D.M.C.
339
00:17:26,446 --> 00:17:28,648
Yeah, we was--
We was tryin' to be--
340
00:17:28,681 --> 00:17:30,850
We was Run-D.M.C.
all over the place.
341
00:17:30,883 --> 00:17:33,152
Actually, they were callin'
us the female Run-D.M.C.
at one time.
342
00:17:33,185 --> 00:17:36,989
So we were like,
"Oh, my God, they sayin'
we're the female Run-D.M.C."
343
00:17:37,023 --> 00:17:39,926
And we also lived
in Queens.
Yeah.
344
00:17:39,959 --> 00:17:42,995
Yeah, so-- Yeah.
We used to go back and forth
like that style, like Run-D.M.C.
345
00:17:43,029 --> 00:17:45,131
We looked up
to them a lot.
346
00:17:45,164 --> 00:17:48,968
And back at that time, in the
pioneering days, it wasn't
about money.
347
00:17:49,001 --> 00:17:51,604
Nobody came out
to get paid.
348
00:17:51,638 --> 00:17:54,474
We used to spend
more money than we made
to come out and play.
349
00:17:54,507 --> 00:17:58,110
It was a lot of hard work, you
know, to bring all them speakers
and all that equipment out.
350
00:17:58,144 --> 00:18:00,880
But we just did it
for the love of hip-hop,
just to play music.
351
00:18:00,913 --> 00:18:10,757
**
352
00:18:10,790 --> 00:18:13,993
Back in the days,
the party was everything.
353
00:18:14,026 --> 00:18:18,631
You would go
from block to block to block,
battling each DJ or each MC,
354
00:18:18,665 --> 00:18:22,802
and that's how you would gain
your reputation.
355
00:18:22,835 --> 00:18:26,739
Oh, yes, you can catch
an occasional block party
here and there.
356
00:18:26,773 --> 00:18:28,641
Sometimes you do see it,
like the old days.
357
00:18:28,675 --> 00:18:32,178
** [ Rapping ]
358
00:18:32,211 --> 00:18:35,147
[ Chattering ]
359
00:18:37,650 --> 00:18:40,086
[ Ice-T ]
Rap is the music
of hip-hop,
360
00:18:40,119 --> 00:18:42,622
or the vocal delivery
of hip-hop.
361
00:18:42,655 --> 00:18:44,691
But hip-hop
is a full-blown culture.
362
00:18:44,724 --> 00:18:47,694
[ Grandmaster Caz ]
Rap was more party-orientated
back then.
363
00:18:47,727 --> 00:18:51,130
We talked about partyin'
and havin' a good time.
364
00:18:51,163 --> 00:18:53,833
* Pickin' niggas, niggas
in the pocket, pocket *
[ Chattering Continues ]
365
00:18:53,866 --> 00:18:55,902
* You wanna get down
if you can suck it *
366
00:18:55,935 --> 00:19:00,172
** [ Rapping Continues ]
367
00:19:00,206 --> 00:19:03,175
* Break the ball, get down
break the ball *
368
00:19:03,209 --> 00:19:05,612
** [ Continues ]
369
00:19:11,150 --> 00:19:14,020
* Yeah *
** [ Scratching ]
370
00:19:14,053 --> 00:19:18,190
From what I see,
hip-hop on the West Coast
started like 1982.
371
00:19:18,224 --> 00:19:21,193
And so-called "gangsta rap"
started the same time...
372
00:19:21,227 --> 00:19:25,565
because those were
the first records that really
made it out here, you know--
373
00:19:25,598 --> 00:19:28,701
Ice-T and Schooly-D,
actually.
374
00:19:28,735 --> 00:19:32,505
Schooly-D had the record PSK
out at the time, and Ice-T had
Six In The Morning.
375
00:19:32,539 --> 00:19:35,608
And these were the only records
we were playin'...
376
00:19:35,642 --> 00:19:39,512
because, you know,
they were sayin' things that
we could relate to, you know.
377
00:19:39,546 --> 00:19:43,516
Early West Coast rap.
I would rap about tryin'
to party.
378
00:19:43,550 --> 00:19:45,985
I did records like
"Doggin' the Wax,"
"You Don't Quit."
379
00:19:46,018 --> 00:19:50,056
My boys were sayin', like,
"Ice, man, why're you rappin'
about parties, man ?
380
00:19:50,089 --> 00:19:52,592
We don't go to parties.
We r parties."
381
00:19:52,625 --> 00:19:55,628
You know what I'm sayin' ?
So I'm like,
"Yeah, that is true."
382
00:19:55,662 --> 00:19:58,230
'Cause while they were havin'
a hip-hop scene in New York,
383
00:19:58,264 --> 00:20:00,967
we were havin'
a gang scene.
384
00:20:01,000 --> 00:20:05,071
Due to the fact they called
themselves a gang, people
called this gangsta rap.
385
00:20:05,104 --> 00:20:08,307
Violence is part
of that lifestyle,
so you have to rap about it.
386
00:20:08,340 --> 00:20:11,143
Yo, this is where
I got stuck.
387
00:20:11,177 --> 00:20:14,146
[ Man ] No shit ?
Yeah, and I got stuck
way up here.
388
00:20:14,180 --> 00:20:16,683
If a kid is in a gang,
389
00:20:16,716 --> 00:20:20,052
then he raps
from the perspective
of a gangbanger.
390
00:20:20,086 --> 00:20:24,256
But what if the kid sells
drugs ? He's rapping from the
perspective of a drug dealer.
391
00:20:24,290 --> 00:20:28,861
What if the guy's a pimp ?
He'll rap from the perspective
of a pimp.
392
00:20:28,895 --> 00:20:32,198
When you rap, basically
you rap to another rapper.
393
00:20:32,231 --> 00:20:35,034
What a Gangsta Rapper
says is:
394
00:20:35,067 --> 00:20:39,572
"You, listener, I will shoot you
in your motherfuckin' face."
395
00:20:42,709 --> 00:20:44,911
He forgets about the rules.
396
00:20:44,944 --> 00:20:47,246
He forgets about the theory;
397
00:20:47,279 --> 00:20:50,850
what's right and wrong;
message versus non-message.
398
00:20:50,883 --> 00:20:54,353
It is reality rap
in its truest form,
399
00:20:54,386 --> 00:20:57,023
because you take out
all the barricades.
400
00:20:57,056 --> 00:21:01,761
It's very direct-- taking rap
to its most real form...
401
00:21:01,794 --> 00:21:05,732
and just rappin' it,
just not giving a fuck.
402
00:21:05,765 --> 00:21:08,234
* Oh, yeah, yeah
403
00:21:08,267 --> 00:21:11,704
** [ Continues ]
404
00:21:11,738 --> 00:21:14,006
They talk about
money, dope,
405
00:21:14,040 --> 00:21:16,843
ho's, cars, guns.
406
00:21:16,876 --> 00:21:18,878
What else ?
That's reality.
407
00:21:18,911 --> 00:21:20,880
There's violence
everywhere.
408
00:21:20,913 --> 00:21:23,082
It's a murder committed
in every city, state,
409
00:21:23,115 --> 00:21:25,384
country, continent,
everywhere.
410
00:21:25,417 --> 00:21:28,187
I just talk about
what the motherfuckers
is really doin'.
411
00:21:28,220 --> 00:21:31,157
California streets
is full of all that shit
I just named.
412
00:21:31,190 --> 00:21:33,359
Can't help
but to talk about it.
413
00:21:33,392 --> 00:21:35,962
* We in the war zone
In the war zone
Where your gun, nigga *
414
00:21:35,995 --> 00:21:38,364
* Show 'em where you from, nigga
Ridin'-ass young nigga
Arsenal equip *
415
00:21:38,397 --> 00:21:42,134
* Hot enough to scorch
with the double fours
on the hip *
416
00:21:42,168 --> 00:21:45,071
* Rollin' with the force
He's out to catch a body **
417
00:21:45,104 --> 00:21:48,207
As far as gangsta rap
is concerned, they talk
about what they know.
418
00:21:48,240 --> 00:21:51,744
Just as we can't hold it
against the people
from New York--
419
00:21:51,778 --> 00:21:55,181
They have their crews.
You know what I'm sayin' ?
And it's like the same thing.
420
00:21:55,214 --> 00:21:59,218
And it's the family-based thing.
You know what I'm sayin' ?
It's misunderstood.
421
00:21:59,251 --> 00:22:01,921
I'm not thuggin' for me.
I'm thuggin' for my family.
422
00:22:01,954 --> 00:22:04,090
I pay all the bills.
You know what I'm sayin' ?
423
00:22:04,123 --> 00:22:08,094
I feed my whole family.
Wrong or right, I do it.
424
00:22:08,127 --> 00:22:10,429
And I can't stop.
You know what I'm sayin' ?
425
00:22:10,462 --> 00:22:12,965
If thuggin' is gonna make me
a million bucks,
426
00:22:12,999 --> 00:22:14,967
'cause it just got me
platinum, then that's
what I got to do.
427
00:22:15,001 --> 00:22:18,370
As far as the music,
all it was...
428
00:22:18,404 --> 00:22:22,742
was guys from the West Coast
using different elements
of music...
429
00:22:22,775 --> 00:22:25,444
that guys from the Northeast
wouldn't touch,
like funk.
430
00:22:25,477 --> 00:22:28,347
The West Coast sound, to me,
was like a Moog keyboard,
431
00:22:28,380 --> 00:22:31,417
a lot more funk-type stuff with
a lot of hand claps for snares,
432
00:22:31,450 --> 00:22:33,953
you know, a lot of whiny,
high synthesizer-type things.
433
00:22:33,986 --> 00:22:37,957
And because of the tempos
and the mixture of the music,
434
00:22:37,990 --> 00:22:42,061
I think that music was more
relevant to more black people
inside the United States.
435
00:22:42,094 --> 00:22:44,697
* We puttin' it down
436
00:22:44,731 --> 00:22:47,166
* From block to block
the scandalous town *
437
00:22:47,199 --> 00:22:50,269
* From crooked cops
to dope shops all around *
438
00:22:50,302 --> 00:22:53,873
* Shit-hot ho's to six-fours
and strawberries *
439
00:22:53,906 --> 00:22:56,976
* Hood's tight like Fort Knox
or like the military *
440
00:22:57,009 --> 00:23:00,412
* Attitudes
Don't even try it
Tech nines-- **
441
00:23:00,446 --> 00:23:03,950
And the fact that you could
do this, and sooner or later,
these records started sellin',
442
00:23:03,983 --> 00:23:06,819
just sayin' whatever
we wanted to say ?
443
00:23:06,853 --> 00:23:09,221
It was great.
It was like God
came and said,
444
00:23:09,255 --> 00:23:11,290
"Here's something
that you can do."
445
00:23:20,767 --> 00:23:25,872
Now, when we started,
and when we signed
our first contract in 1982,
446
00:23:25,905 --> 00:23:28,741
you could count
how many rap groups had...
447
00:23:28,775 --> 00:23:31,310
contracts, signed contracts,
with companies.
448
00:23:31,343 --> 00:23:34,446
And major record companies
was not taking chances
with rap music.
449
00:23:34,480 --> 00:23:38,117
It was the small independent
companies that would give
rappers a chance.
450
00:23:38,150 --> 00:23:42,154
After 1985,
hip-hop and rap made a split.
451
00:23:42,188 --> 00:23:46,058
Graffiti art and break dancin'
no longer became...
452
00:23:46,092 --> 00:23:51,030
viable means of expressing
this piece of the culture.
453
00:23:51,063 --> 00:23:54,066
Rap became the viable means
of expressing this piece
of the culture,
454
00:23:54,100 --> 00:23:56,535
and it was only because...
455
00:23:56,568 --> 00:23:59,271
corporate America--
"Massa"--
456
00:23:59,305 --> 00:24:01,841
deemed it important.
457
00:24:01,874 --> 00:24:05,812
"Oh, we could make some money
pressin' up these records.
So, let's go."
458
00:24:05,845 --> 00:24:08,147
Rap is big business now.
459
00:24:08,180 --> 00:24:11,550
Now record companies aren't
even concerned about the
vinyl and stuff like that.
460
00:24:11,583 --> 00:24:15,121
They talkin' about
CD sales and everything,
461
00:24:15,154 --> 00:24:18,324
but if it wasn't for vinyl,
there wouldn't be any hip-hop
music.
462
00:24:18,357 --> 00:24:21,961
These record labels, man,
is just "shysty."
463
00:24:21,994 --> 00:24:24,163
They don't care
about the artist.
You know what I'm sayin' ?
464
00:24:24,196 --> 00:24:26,999
They let the artist do
what he wanna do, they want--
465
00:24:27,033 --> 00:24:30,002
"Yeah, act silly."
And, you know,
"Yeah, do it for me."
466
00:24:30,036 --> 00:24:33,940
You know, they get
a certain percentage.
Man, we get kibbles.
467
00:24:33,973 --> 00:24:36,075
We don't--
You know what I'm sayin' ?
468
00:24:36,108 --> 00:24:38,277
That's played out.
469
00:24:38,310 --> 00:24:41,814
The first record company,
they robbed me blind.
470
00:24:41,848 --> 00:24:44,817
I didn't know no better.
I'm 17 years old.
You know what I'm sayin' ?
471
00:24:44,851 --> 00:24:47,019
I'm makin' a record.
472
00:24:47,053 --> 00:24:51,190
I'm comin' from $20 a week
allowance, till all of a sudden
somebody gives me $1,000.
473
00:24:51,223 --> 00:24:54,093
And I'm like, you know,
saying, "This is crazy."
But that's all I got.
474
00:24:54,126 --> 00:24:57,529
The record companies are
basically like a merchant bank.
475
00:24:57,563 --> 00:25:01,934
You know, they loan you money,
and they want their money back
with fat interest.
476
00:25:01,968 --> 00:25:05,237
And the conditions
of your contract...
477
00:25:05,271 --> 00:25:08,307
are basically like
the conditions of your loan.
478
00:25:08,340 --> 00:25:11,077
I love the fans, you know,
and I love making music,
479
00:25:11,110 --> 00:25:13,412
but the people
in the middle-- Whoo !
480
00:25:13,445 --> 00:25:16,315
It's like the middlemen,
they just--
[ Groans ]
481
00:25:16,348 --> 00:25:18,885
Everyone welcomes you
into Jerusalem.
482
00:25:18,918 --> 00:25:21,187
Then later, they scream,
"Crucify him."
483
00:25:21,220 --> 00:25:23,255
So, people are
always hypocritical,
484
00:25:23,289 --> 00:25:26,292
especially when you're
inside of an industry...
485
00:25:26,325 --> 00:25:28,460
called the record industry.
486
00:25:28,494 --> 00:25:31,931
You have to always stay
conscious and in reality.
487
00:25:31,964 --> 00:25:34,366
You can't ever believe
your own hype,
488
00:25:34,400 --> 00:25:37,069
'cause those people
will build you up to Superman,
489
00:25:37,103 --> 00:25:39,571
only to find out
that you...
490
00:25:39,605 --> 00:25:42,008
* Garbage man
[ Laughing ]
491
00:25:44,143 --> 00:25:47,880
The record business
is exactly what it is--
492
00:25:47,914 --> 00:25:49,982
record... business.
493
00:25:50,016 --> 00:25:52,251
And you have
to take care of both.
494
00:25:52,284 --> 00:25:56,322
I got into it
just wantin' to make music.
You know what I'm sayin' ?
495
00:25:56,355 --> 00:25:59,325
I didn't really give a damn
about the business part of it.
496
00:25:59,358 --> 00:26:02,061
I was trustin' people,
497
00:26:02,094 --> 00:26:05,464
trustin' that they would
handle my business the way
it was supposed to be handled.
498
00:26:05,497 --> 00:26:07,666
And you get fucked
like that.
499
00:26:07,699 --> 00:26:10,202
So you gotta be on top
of your own business.
500
00:26:10,236 --> 00:26:13,672
Don't trust no managers,
no record company execs,
nothin' like that. Know it.
501
00:26:13,705 --> 00:26:17,977
Basically, every young,
little motherfucker can rap,
so we--
502
00:26:18,010 --> 00:26:21,647
All they wanna see is,
"Well, where's your
two hit singles ?"
503
00:26:21,680 --> 00:26:25,317
They gon' put that out,
you might go double-platinum,
and then next time--
504
00:26:25,351 --> 00:26:28,120
They gon' make
four million off of you,
you're gon' be broke.
505
00:26:28,154 --> 00:26:30,322
You come out
with your next album.
506
00:26:30,356 --> 00:26:33,125
If it flops, they gon'
get rid of you and find
the next motherfucker.
507
00:26:33,159 --> 00:26:35,427
"Where's your
two hit singles ?"
508
00:26:35,461 --> 00:26:37,629
It's music
and it's business...
509
00:26:37,663 --> 00:26:41,133
and, you know what I'm sayin',
I have to find a fine line
in between all of it.
510
00:26:41,167 --> 00:26:43,702
It's cool; I just make sure
I take care of my business.
511
00:26:43,735 --> 00:26:46,372
I accept all the pros and cons
of my record label,
512
00:26:46,405 --> 00:26:49,375
but I try to enjoy my art
and do the best I can.
513
00:26:49,408 --> 00:26:52,678
In this business,
90% of artists...
514
00:26:52,711 --> 00:26:56,115
don't know when they're
supposed to get paid,
515
00:26:56,148 --> 00:26:58,117
how they're
supposed to get paid...
516
00:26:58,150 --> 00:27:00,486
or how much they're
supposed to get paid.
517
00:27:00,519 --> 00:27:05,157
You can ask a new artist,
"How much is a point worth ?"
or what a point is,
518
00:27:05,191 --> 00:27:08,160
and they can't
answer the question;
they don't know.
519
00:27:08,194 --> 00:27:11,463
But they can tell you
how much a Mercedes costs.
520
00:27:11,497 --> 00:27:14,466
And, you know, the business
wanna roll with it,
521
00:27:14,500 --> 00:27:17,669
so they fork money into it
or simply be out of the game.
522
00:27:17,703 --> 00:27:21,673
So it's a give-and-take
and you just gotta know
what's actually goin' on...
523
00:27:21,707 --> 00:27:24,576
and the sacrifices
you actually makin' spiritually,
mentally and emotionally...
524
00:27:24,610 --> 00:27:26,578
when you're messin'
with the music.
525
00:27:26,612 --> 00:27:28,580
I'm one of the few rappers--
526
00:27:28,614 --> 00:27:31,583
You know, I got--
I've had six consecutive
gold records...
527
00:27:31,617 --> 00:27:34,653
and never had a record
on the radio--
none of my music.
528
00:27:36,055 --> 00:27:39,458
**
529
00:27:39,491 --> 00:27:42,461
The first time I heard
my record on the radio,
530
00:27:42,494 --> 00:27:45,764
I was mopping a floor
in Brooklyn
at a day-care center.
531
00:27:45,797 --> 00:27:50,202
Fifteen dollars every time
I mopped and waxed this floor.
532
00:27:50,236 --> 00:27:53,505
In the middle of the street,
her and her girlfriend
jumped out of the car...
533
00:27:53,539 --> 00:27:56,708
and was, like, runnin'
all around the car.
534
00:27:56,742 --> 00:27:59,511
She's telling everybody
on the street--
"That's me on the radio !"
535
00:27:59,545 --> 00:28:01,713
"My song's on the radio !"
536
00:28:01,747 --> 00:28:06,218
I could not believe I was on
the radio. And I'm, like, "Get
in the car !"
537
00:28:06,252 --> 00:28:09,021
So that's a big deal,
'cause you be home
from high school...
538
00:28:09,055 --> 00:28:11,223
with little kids
or whatever--
539
00:28:11,257 --> 00:28:13,459
you be home
listenin' to the radio--
540
00:28:13,492 --> 00:28:17,696
Paco from 92 KTU
and KIIS-FM Red Alert
and them--
541
00:28:17,729 --> 00:28:21,267
They cuttin' up records
and stuff, and then to hear
your record cut up--
542
00:28:21,300 --> 00:28:24,236
You always wonderin',
"What are they gonna do
to mine ?" It was crazy !
543
00:28:24,270 --> 00:28:26,572
That was the best time
of my life right there.
544
00:28:26,605 --> 00:28:29,575
The first time we heard
our stuff on the radio,
545
00:28:29,608 --> 00:28:32,444
that was, like,
like, four years ago.
546
00:28:32,478 --> 00:28:35,214
And, um--
You know what I'm sayin' ?
547
00:28:35,247 --> 00:28:38,117
I can't really go back
and say how we felt,
'cause it was so long ago.
548
00:28:38,150 --> 00:28:41,120
You think about how many
listeners you got out there.
549
00:28:41,153 --> 00:28:44,356
You got, you know what I'm
sayin', millions of people
out there.
550
00:28:44,390 --> 00:28:49,428
So you thinkin',
"They're playin' my shit !"
You know what I'm sayin' ?
551
00:28:49,461 --> 00:28:51,430
You think everybody
heard this automatically.
552
00:28:51,463 --> 00:28:53,799
You call your boys--
"Did you hear me on the radio ?"
553
00:28:53,832 --> 00:28:55,801
"No."
"You didn't hear me ?"
554
00:28:55,834 --> 00:28:58,204
Something
you've worked for--
555
00:28:58,237 --> 00:29:02,608
You can't believe you're on
the radio right after Run-DMC
or just before LL Cool J.
556
00:29:02,641 --> 00:29:05,611
I was like--
I just remember the feeling.
I didn't even smile.
557
00:29:05,644 --> 00:29:09,248
It was just more like,
"Damn. I did it."
558
00:29:09,281 --> 00:29:14,186
That, basically, led to
the demise of my mopping job.
559
00:29:14,220 --> 00:29:16,188
[ Man Laughing ]
560
00:29:16,222 --> 00:29:18,690
** [ Beats ]
Ahhhh !
Okay ?
561
00:29:18,724 --> 00:29:20,692
** Yeah. Yeah.
Check it out.
Together one time.
562
00:29:20,726 --> 00:29:23,162
* Check it out, y'all
Check it out, yeah *
563
00:29:23,195 --> 00:29:26,565
* Y-C, uh, I set it off
Check it out one time, oh *
564
00:29:26,598 --> 00:29:28,400
* It won't stop
565
00:29:28,434 --> 00:29:31,370
* Hey, yo, it's "E" to the "X"
and rough rhyme flexin'
Yeah *
566
00:29:31,403 --> 00:29:33,839
* Yeah
* Check it out, check it out
567
00:29:33,872 --> 00:29:36,708
* In the East it's always
all throat, no teeth *
568
00:29:36,742 --> 00:29:39,411
* I'm the least concerned
how many niggas you burn *
569
00:29:39,445 --> 00:29:42,148
* I extinguish your flame
and take aim at your brain *
570
00:29:42,181 --> 00:29:45,184
* Given ligament pain and
have you walkin' wit' a cane *
571
00:29:45,217 --> 00:29:47,586
* Money and fame
You got your fuckin' self
to blame **
572
00:29:47,619 --> 00:29:49,788
The struggles today
is different.
573
00:29:49,821 --> 00:29:53,459
It's not as hard
as it used to be when
we started ten years ago,
574
00:29:53,492 --> 00:29:55,227
when you had to convince
motherfuckers that...
575
00:29:56,695 --> 00:29:59,198
this shit sells--
rap sells.
576
00:29:59,231 --> 00:30:01,567
* Money, money, money
577
00:30:01,600 --> 00:30:04,336
* You're so good to me
* Moneymaker
578
00:30:04,370 --> 00:30:07,639
* Big money, money, money
* You gotta know the moves
of the moneymakers *
579
00:30:07,673 --> 00:30:10,376
* You got to have the mind
of the money-takers *
580
00:30:10,409 --> 00:30:13,212
* You gotta know the moves
of the moneymakers *
581
00:30:13,245 --> 00:30:16,315
* You got to have the mind
of the money-takers *
* Money, money, money, money *
582
00:30:16,348 --> 00:30:18,817
This is the first
Redman album.
583
00:30:18,850 --> 00:30:22,454
This is the crossover.
This is the biggest record
EPMD ever had.
584
00:30:22,488 --> 00:30:25,157
Number-one album.
Same thing with this one.
585
00:30:25,191 --> 00:30:27,159
Number-one LP,
Unfinished Business.
586
00:30:27,193 --> 00:30:29,161
Hit brothers with
"So What You Sayin',"
587
00:30:29,195 --> 00:30:31,163
bust 'em up with
"The Big Payback"
and all that.
588
00:30:31,197 --> 00:30:33,665
I just got
my platinum joint.
589
00:30:33,699 --> 00:30:36,268
I'll have to
prop these up.
590
00:30:36,302 --> 00:30:38,470
Know what I mean ?
591
00:30:38,504 --> 00:30:41,273
Say, Willie.
First Brooklyn nigga
to go platinum, you know.
592
00:30:41,307 --> 00:30:44,276
It's all good,
livin' in the hood.
593
00:30:44,310 --> 00:30:47,779
Got my gold joint
for the Juicy.
594
00:30:47,813 --> 00:30:50,282
Old joint, you know.
595
00:30:50,316 --> 00:30:52,284
[ Man ]
Straight from Brooklyn.
596
00:30:52,318 --> 00:30:55,487
Straight out the hood,
a nigga did good.
597
00:30:55,521 --> 00:30:58,690
Yeah, we really haven't
checked recently, like,
how many records we've sold.
598
00:31:02,361 --> 00:31:05,531
Aside from the money,
when you in a club
in New York,
599
00:31:05,564 --> 00:31:09,735
you throw on one of my joints
just to see the kids go crazy,
start dancin' hard and smilin',
600
00:31:09,768 --> 00:31:12,771
**
601
00:31:12,804 --> 00:31:15,574
[ Combs ]
grabbin' the girls--
that's the payday right there.
602
00:31:15,607 --> 00:31:17,909
**
603
00:31:17,943 --> 00:31:21,313
Looking at people
that have made it
in the business, you know--
604
00:31:21,347 --> 00:31:23,549
Quincy Jones,
people like that.
605
00:31:23,582 --> 00:31:27,853
That's my mentor right there,
because he started at
a young age, the same as I did,
606
00:31:27,886 --> 00:31:30,856
and he's still doin' his thing
and havin' fun with it.
607
00:31:30,889 --> 00:31:34,293
It ain't about
who has the flyest car
or who has the most jewelry.
608
00:31:34,326 --> 00:31:36,362
You know ?
It ain't about that.
609
00:31:37,763 --> 00:31:39,731
[ Stewart ]
It's very important for me...
610
00:31:39,765 --> 00:31:42,534
to not lose sight
of how I started...
611
00:31:42,568 --> 00:31:46,338
and keep my background
as a DJ, throwing parties.
612
00:31:46,372 --> 00:31:50,276
That's always had a lot to do
with my success. It's how
I initially got in the business.
613
00:31:50,309 --> 00:31:53,479
It's how I met
a lot of people.
614
00:31:53,512 --> 00:31:56,482
The parties are kind of
an intricate part
of the business.
615
00:31:58,584 --> 00:32:00,719
We had a party
for Delinquent Habits...
616
00:32:00,752 --> 00:32:02,821
because we wanted people
to hear their album.
617
00:32:02,854 --> 00:32:06,992
They came to me from Sen Dog
of Cypress Hill.
618
00:32:07,025 --> 00:32:10,562
People that love music--
artists and people that are
really into it-- stick together.
619
00:32:10,596 --> 00:32:14,366
They'll support you if
your stuff is true, no matter
what label you're on...
620
00:32:14,400 --> 00:32:17,002
or what coast you're from
or whatever.
621
00:32:17,035 --> 00:32:18,904
**
622
00:32:18,937 --> 00:32:21,573
* Check it out, now, hey, hey
True style's hard to find *
623
00:32:21,607 --> 00:32:24,343
* I'm sick, r-real sick
It's time to go for mine *
624
00:32:24,376 --> 00:32:26,812
* See, I remain unphased
with shit so funky *
625
00:32:26,845 --> 00:32:29,415
* You can bite for days
My shit remains crunchy *
626
00:32:29,448 --> 00:32:31,783
* Good with my own style
droppin' dat *
627
00:32:31,817 --> 00:32:33,952
* Lookie-loos all hawkin'
but I'm stoppin' that *
628
00:32:33,985 --> 00:32:36,922
* You's a c-copycat
Now watch me take you
to the hill *
629
00:32:36,955 --> 00:32:39,391
* Eyes peeled
lookin' for fighters
in the big bad world **
630
00:32:39,425 --> 00:32:42,328
[ Stewart ] It's important
to get the press out
and get them involved.
631
00:32:42,361 --> 00:32:44,463
That's how you get
the buzz going.
632
00:32:44,496 --> 00:32:58,009
**
633
00:32:58,043 --> 00:33:00,812
[ Announcer ]
Orlando's Buena Vista Hotel
plays host this week...
634
00:33:00,846 --> 00:33:04,616
to rap music's
premier convention,
Jack the Rapper.
635
00:33:04,650 --> 00:33:06,952
Prominent artists,
along with young hopefuls,
636
00:33:06,985 --> 00:33:10,489
are arriving from all over
the country to rub shoulders
with industry heavyweights,
637
00:33:10,522 --> 00:33:13,459
perform
and attend lectures.
638
00:33:13,492 --> 00:33:16,061
Although the convention
promoters are calling this
a family affair,
639
00:33:16,094 --> 00:33:18,464
security has been elevated.
640
00:33:18,497 --> 00:33:21,099
But local sheriffs
do not foresee any problems.
641
00:33:21,132 --> 00:33:25,003
Snoop Dogg's gonna be out here.
You know, everybody.
I've seen Kid already.
642
00:33:25,036 --> 00:33:27,806
I got his autograph.
That's a great thing, right ?
[ Laughing ]
643
00:33:27,839 --> 00:33:31,510
Get those nice autographs,
everybody that you see.
644
00:33:31,543 --> 00:33:34,012
It's people like
Jack the Rapper himself...
645
00:33:34,045 --> 00:33:36,815
who takes time out and
spends money to bring us
all up in there.
646
00:33:36,848 --> 00:33:39,851
They got different energies
from all over the world.
647
00:33:39,885 --> 00:33:42,354
Everybody's tryin'
to do their music,
and we kickin' it.
648
00:33:42,388 --> 00:33:45,824
It's show time !
Jack the Rapper was important
when I was comin' up...
649
00:33:45,857 --> 00:33:48,927
because there was a lot
of people that wanted to be
exposed to the industry...
650
00:33:48,960 --> 00:33:51,997
and this was an avenue
where they could network.
651
00:33:52,030 --> 00:33:55,534
A lot of stars
were found there and a lot
of things came out good.
652
00:33:55,567 --> 00:33:58,537
You learn; they have panels;
they have good shows.
653
00:33:58,570 --> 00:34:00,839
It's a great event
to be at.
Show. Look at that.
654
00:34:00,872 --> 00:34:03,409
It hurts me to see young
guys get a record deal,
655
00:34:03,442 --> 00:34:06,512
the first thing they go out
and buy is a Mercedes,
656
00:34:06,545 --> 00:34:08,480
some rings, some jewelry
around they neck,
657
00:34:08,514 --> 00:34:10,682
and they live
in an apartment.
658
00:34:10,716 --> 00:34:14,019
When I first started
in this business I had
an ulcer after a year.
659
00:34:14,052 --> 00:34:17,689
I couldn't understand
why my clients were making
millions of dollars...
660
00:34:17,723 --> 00:34:20,659
and I had more money
in my bank account
than they had in theirs.
661
00:34:20,692 --> 00:34:23,929
* The hype's got me
I knock 'em out the box
and out socks *
662
00:34:23,962 --> 00:34:26,632
* 'Cause when I come around
niggas skate like the rocks *
663
00:34:26,665 --> 00:34:29,601
* My block's hot
So gimme all you got *
664
00:34:29,635 --> 00:34:32,704
* When I'm done rockin'
I'll leave you all
doin' the bus stop *
665
00:34:32,738 --> 00:34:34,873
* When I die, my ashes
Flip my coffin backwards *
666
00:34:34,906 --> 00:34:37,676
* Blow shit up
like the Fourth of July
with half sticks *
667
00:34:37,709 --> 00:34:40,045
* And on and on to the break
of Rae Dawn Chong *
668
00:34:40,078 --> 00:34:42,781
* I'm killin' you softly
with this song
with this bomb **
669
00:34:42,814 --> 00:34:44,616
* Kickin' flows
harder than the music *
670
00:34:44,650 --> 00:34:46,418
* So you fill it in your head
Then your chest *
671
00:34:46,452 --> 00:34:48,019
* Then you pass it
to the next *
672
00:34:48,053 --> 00:34:50,856
* They give 'em
the five mic checks
and all due respect *
673
00:34:50,889 --> 00:34:53,459
* Please fill it up
and check the antifreeze *
674
00:34:53,492 --> 00:34:55,927
* 'Cause Keith Murray
drops mad degrees **
675
00:34:55,961 --> 00:34:59,565
Jack the Rapper's really for
people that need to get on,
to pass out demo tapes--
676
00:34:59,598 --> 00:35:01,567
"This is my group."
Whoop-de-whoop. Boom-boom.
677
00:35:01,600 --> 00:35:03,569
Lookin' for management,
lookin' for deals, whatever.
678
00:35:03,602 --> 00:35:07,539
That's what
Jack the Rapper's about--
for people gettin' people on.
679
00:35:07,573 --> 00:35:10,542
Who did the music
on the album ?
Eric Sermon and Redman.
680
00:35:10,576 --> 00:35:13,445
W-What type ? Is it,
like, some funk shit ?
Cosmic slop funk.
681
00:35:13,479 --> 00:35:15,647
Some new shit.
682
00:35:15,681 --> 00:35:19,951
This is about keepin' it real.
As you notice, I'm out here
doin' my own thing.
683
00:35:19,985 --> 00:35:24,556
I ain't large.
I ain't up in the hotel room
havin' people pass out my shit.
684
00:35:24,590 --> 00:35:27,926
You got the
original article right here
passin' out a tape.
685
00:35:27,959 --> 00:35:30,195
That's realness.
And I'm gold !
686
00:35:30,228 --> 00:35:33,499
Great time outside
at the pool party !
687
00:35:33,532 --> 00:35:36,835
Bad boys representin'
Puff Daddy !
688
00:35:36,868 --> 00:35:38,837
Bad boy.
You know what I'm sayin' ?
689
00:35:38,870 --> 00:35:41,239
Big
fuckin' wit' y'all ?
690
00:35:41,272 --> 00:35:45,043
Yeah, we got Big, we got Craig
Mack, we got Mary J. Blige. Yeah
691
00:35:45,076 --> 00:35:47,145
She comin' out
with new shit, huh ?
Yeah.
692
00:35:47,178 --> 00:35:50,849
[ Woman Yells ] Bathroom !
[ Man ] What's goin' on ?
693
00:35:50,882 --> 00:35:53,752
Bathroom !
Right here !
She's goin' too !
694
00:35:53,785 --> 00:35:55,754
She's 18.
How old are you ?
695
00:35:55,787 --> 00:35:58,089
Twenty-two.
Ooh.
Where you from ?
696
00:35:58,123 --> 00:36:00,091
From L.A.
L.A. ?
697
00:36:00,125 --> 00:36:04,195
Baby, why you got
to pick in my drink ?
It ain't even like that.
698
00:36:04,229 --> 00:36:06,532
It's your birthday !
It's your birthday !
699
00:36:06,565 --> 00:36:09,100
Go further.
Go further.
Go further.
700
00:36:09,134 --> 00:36:12,203
Whoo-oooh !
See you
at the show !
701
00:36:12,237 --> 00:36:15,206
Hey, hey ! No, no, no.
We need some more
contestants, man !
702
00:36:15,240 --> 00:36:18,710
Hey, go to our show.
Go to our show at 2:00.
703
00:36:18,744 --> 00:36:20,846
Man, throw it down
on the ground !
704
00:36:20,879 --> 00:36:24,583
You gotta make that shit
hit the ground !
705
00:36:24,616 --> 00:36:28,520
Come on with it, baby.
Hey, what's up with tall baby ?
You do that shit ?
706
00:36:28,554 --> 00:36:31,523
[ Announcer ]
The Jack the Rapper
music convention...
707
00:36:31,557 --> 00:36:34,159
held at the Disney-owned
Buena Vista Hotel
concludes tomorrow.
708
00:36:34,192 --> 00:36:38,196
The word among local insiders
is that management
is concerned...
709
00:36:38,229 --> 00:36:42,601
about the behavior of some
of the conventiongoers.
710
00:36:42,634 --> 00:36:45,771
Guests at the hotel not
expecting the Jack the Rapper
convention...
711
00:36:45,804 --> 00:36:48,807
have been relocated
to nearby hotels.
712
00:36:48,840 --> 00:36:52,978
Buena Vista hotel officials
are not commenting
on reports of vandalism.
713
00:36:54,946 --> 00:36:59,117
[ Man ]
There wasn't really nothin'
goin' on for young people,
714
00:36:59,150 --> 00:37:03,188
so we just brought a system
out there and told everybody
we was havin' a pool party.
715
00:37:03,221 --> 00:37:05,190
That's how it started.
716
00:37:05,223 --> 00:37:08,226
[ Man ]
DJ red alert !
[ Whistle Blowing ]
717
00:37:08,259 --> 00:37:10,629
[ Whistle Continues ]
718
00:37:10,662 --> 00:37:14,199
[ Man On Megaphone ]
Technical foul ! You !
Bring that ass here !
719
00:37:14,232 --> 00:37:16,702
I'm comin' !
[ Man ]
You first !
720
00:37:16,735 --> 00:37:18,837
Hey, my man !
You first !
721
00:37:18,870 --> 00:37:20,672
[ Chattering, Shouting ]
722
00:37:20,706 --> 00:37:22,674
You first !
723
00:37:22,708 --> 00:37:25,677
Hey ! Hey !
724
00:37:25,711 --> 00:37:27,746
You first !
725
00:37:27,779 --> 00:37:30,048
* I'm gon' freak it
like this *
* I'm gon' freak it like that
726
00:37:30,081 --> 00:37:32,584
-* I'm gon' freak it
like this *
-* I'm gon' freak it like that
727
00:37:32,618 --> 00:37:33,551
* And I'm gon' freak it
like this *
728
00:37:33,585 --> 00:37:35,587
* Well, I'm gon'
freak it like that *
729
00:37:35,621 --> 00:37:37,322
* Gon' freak it like this
* I'm gon' freak it
like that *
730
00:37:37,355 --> 00:37:40,225
* Not like I bust caps
with rough raps
Unless I just accept that *
731
00:37:40,258 --> 00:37:42,327
* Flip scripts and bust caps
off with the quickness *
732
00:37:42,360 --> 00:37:44,162
* I'm wicked
with the propaganda *
733
00:37:44,195 --> 00:37:47,198
* And hot damn
I got more props than
that fox, Samantha *
734
00:37:47,232 --> 00:37:49,668
** [ Continues ]
[ Announcer ]
Police cruisers surround...
735
00:37:49,701 --> 00:37:51,670
**
the Buena Vista
Palace Hotel.
736
00:37:51,703 --> 00:37:53,939
- [ Sirens Blaring ]
- ** [ Continues ]
737
00:37:53,972 --> 00:37:56,942
** Deputies say
the emergency response team
was on hand...
738
00:37:56,975 --> 00:38:00,812
** to head off any trouble
at the Jack the Rapper
urban music convention...
739
00:38:00,846 --> 00:38:03,214
**
going on inside the hotel.
740
00:38:03,248 --> 00:38:06,017
** [ Man On Megaphone ]
Look like they were, uh,
waiting for a riot...
741
00:38:06,051 --> 00:38:08,687
**
or some type of war
was gonna go down.
742
00:38:08,720 --> 00:38:11,389
* I'm gon' freak it like this
* I'm gon' freak it
like that *
743
00:38:11,422 --> 00:38:13,391
* I'm gon' freak it like this
* I'm gon' freak it
like that *
744
00:38:13,424 --> 00:38:16,862
[ Police Radio Dispatcher,
Indistinct ]
All units, please respond.
745
00:38:16,895 --> 00:38:19,030
* I'm gon'
freak it like that *
746
00:38:19,064 --> 00:38:21,800
* I'm gon' freak it like this
* I'm gon' freak it
like that *
747
00:38:21,833 --> 00:38:23,401
* Yeah
* Word up *
748
00:38:23,434 --> 00:38:25,904
[ Glass Breaks,
Microphone Feedback ]
[ Man ] Go ! Go !
749
00:38:25,937 --> 00:38:30,075
[ Woman On P.A. System ]
Officers ! Wait a minute !
[ Shouting, Sirens Continue ]
750
00:38:30,108 --> 00:38:33,645
[ Man ] Come on, fellas.
[ Woman Continues On P.A.,
Indistinct ]
751
00:38:35,180 --> 00:38:37,348
They called
the riot squad in, man.
752
00:38:37,382 --> 00:38:39,350
Snoop came on,
calmed things down,
753
00:38:39,384 --> 00:38:42,888
but otherwise,
the riot squad
came in, man.
754
00:38:42,921 --> 00:38:46,825
Besides all that negative junk,
I thought it was pretty phat
and everything, you know.
755
00:38:46,858 --> 00:38:50,361
[ Boy Continues ]
Everything was cool. Once
a year people have some fun.
756
00:38:50,395 --> 00:38:54,132
Yeah, I hope there's
gonna be one next year.
I'll definitely be back.
757
00:38:55,333 --> 00:38:57,903
I think people are people.
758
00:38:57,936 --> 00:39:01,239
Because they make rap records
and happen to be bad people
don't mean that rap is bad.
759
00:39:01,272 --> 00:39:03,241
Whatever you do, you do.
760
00:39:03,274 --> 00:39:06,444
Don't try to be no thug.
If you a thug, be a thug.
761
00:39:06,477 --> 00:39:09,948
If you a nice guy like myself,
be a nice guy. I don't care
what people say about me.
762
00:39:09,981 --> 00:39:12,951
I'm doing what I love to do.
There's people who respect me.
763
00:39:12,984 --> 00:39:14,886
I respect every individual
I come across.
764
00:39:14,920 --> 00:39:16,688
Who that ? Mike ?
765
00:39:16,722 --> 00:39:18,890
Yeah.
Where you been, man ?
766
00:39:18,924 --> 00:39:21,893
Workin' hard, cousin.
Don't front.
He was locked up.
767
00:39:21,927 --> 00:39:24,329
No, no, no.
Don't front. Don't front.
[ Laughing ]
768
00:39:24,362 --> 00:39:27,132
[ Heavy D ]
Especially in hip-hop,
you wanna have people around.
769
00:39:27,165 --> 00:39:29,334
Then you can vibe.
770
00:39:29,367 --> 00:39:32,103
Without them sayin' anything,
if they knockin' or they
bobbin' their head,
771
00:39:32,137 --> 00:39:34,105
you know
you onto somethin'.
772
00:39:34,139 --> 00:39:35,874
[ Engine Revving ]
773
00:39:42,781 --> 00:39:46,818
The most gratifying thing
about all this is the respect
I receive from people...
774
00:39:46,852 --> 00:39:48,820
when I just walk
down the street--
775
00:39:48,854 --> 00:39:52,290
the love that they show me,
the appreciation
and the fan mail that I get,
776
00:39:52,323 --> 00:39:55,794
when people let me know
that I inspire them
to better themselves.
777
00:39:55,827 --> 00:39:59,097
[ Heavy D Laughing ]
I want to introduce you
to our fellow officers.
778
00:39:59,130 --> 00:40:02,333
They always take care of us
during these functions.
779
00:40:02,367 --> 00:40:05,336
[ Heavy D ]
Every year I try to do
something where I come from.
780
00:40:05,370 --> 00:40:08,039
I put on basketball games;
I sponsor boxing tournaments.
781
00:40:08,073 --> 00:40:10,208
This was the first annual
"Nuttin' But Love" cookout.
782
00:40:10,241 --> 00:40:13,411
All right,
who gon' start this up ?
What y'all wanna do ?
783
00:40:13,444 --> 00:40:16,214
Let me get back a little.
I'm goin' to the diner
over here !
784
00:40:16,247 --> 00:40:18,416
Lemme have
the gas can.
Who gon' crank that up ?
785
00:40:18,449 --> 00:40:22,153
What y'all wanna do ?
I'll tell you right now,
there's gas all over this shit.
786
00:40:22,187 --> 00:40:24,355
So, who gon' be
G.I. Joe ?
787
00:40:24,389 --> 00:40:27,158
How much insurance
you got on you ? Nothin' ?
Nada !
788
00:40:27,192 --> 00:40:29,160
I'm gon' put
a million dollars--
789
00:40:29,194 --> 00:40:31,362
Boom !
[ Motor Starts ]
790
00:40:31,396 --> 00:40:34,332
[ Heavy D ]
It's just for the community.
Kids love it.
791
00:40:34,365 --> 00:40:38,169
People come from all over.
They love it.
It's in my hometown.
792
00:40:38,203 --> 00:40:40,839
We had tons of food.
Crowded. Everybody came.
793
00:40:40,872 --> 00:40:44,342
LL came;
Mary J. Blige came;
Naughty By Nature.
794
00:40:44,375 --> 00:40:48,914
You know, a lot of people
showed up, so it was phat;
it was hot.
795
00:40:48,947 --> 00:40:51,182
I love it all.
796
00:40:51,216 --> 00:40:54,085
I love the people,
the autograph signin',
you know.
797
00:40:54,119 --> 00:40:59,024
I-I'm blessed in every
aspect of what I do, so ain't
no sense in me fakin' you out.
798
00:40:59,057 --> 00:41:02,994
I love it.
I'd have been doin' somethin'.
I was bound to be famous.
799
00:41:03,028 --> 00:41:05,363
**
800
00:41:05,396 --> 00:41:07,365
* 'Cause I'm a super female
That's called Shante *
801
00:41:07,398 --> 00:41:10,035
* And I like Hurricane Annie
I'll blow you away *
802
00:41:10,068 --> 00:41:12,203
* Whenever I'm in a battle
Yo, I don't play *
803
00:41:12,237 --> 00:41:15,807
* So you'd best
go about your way
and have a nice day *
804
00:41:15,841 --> 00:41:18,810
* Shante
I'm-- I'm-- I'm-- *
805
00:41:20,178 --> 00:41:23,248
* I'm Shante
I'm-- I'm-- I'm-- **
806
00:41:23,281 --> 00:41:25,550
** [ Continues ]
The evolution
of women rappers...
807
00:41:25,583 --> 00:41:27,552
definitely started
in the Bronx.
808
00:41:27,585 --> 00:41:30,321
First there was a group called
The Funky Four Plus One More,
809
00:41:30,355 --> 00:41:34,159
and that one more was a female
by the name of Sharock.
810
00:41:34,192 --> 00:41:37,062
Sharock.
I was in love with this girl.
I thought she was the best.
811
00:41:37,095 --> 00:41:39,564
She had a real good,
clean voice.
812
00:41:39,597 --> 00:41:42,267
Powerful, strong,
but still sexy and ladylike.
813
00:41:42,300 --> 00:41:44,535
She had good rhythm.
814
00:41:44,569 --> 00:41:46,537
And then there was
The Sequence Girls,
815
00:41:46,571 --> 00:41:49,607
who came along with
Sugar Hill Gang Records.
816
00:41:49,640 --> 00:41:53,178
They were actually
the first female group on wax.
817
00:41:53,211 --> 00:41:55,981
And of course
you had Salt-N-Pepa,
818
00:41:56,014 --> 00:41:59,584
who came along and came out
with the first platinum hit
for a female group.
819
00:41:59,617 --> 00:42:02,988
We've been able to endure
a lot of hard times...
820
00:42:03,021 --> 00:42:06,124
because we do care--
care about each other,
821
00:42:06,157 --> 00:42:08,293
but, um, she makes it fun.
822
00:42:08,326 --> 00:42:11,496
[ Giggles ]
This girl is crazy.
823
00:42:11,529 --> 00:42:16,634
Um, we've always found it,
um, our duty as,
as female artists...
824
00:42:16,667 --> 00:42:21,572
to, to, um, tell the other
side of the story, you know.
Counteract.
825
00:42:21,606 --> 00:42:23,574
We're about
tellin' the ladies...
826
00:42:23,608 --> 00:42:26,011
Bettering yourself.
to respect yourself,
love yourself.
827
00:42:26,044 --> 00:42:29,480
I think, just to tell
the females not to give them
so much to talk about.
828
00:42:29,514 --> 00:42:33,484
Some of the young ladies
have to become themselves,
829
00:42:33,518 --> 00:42:37,488
have to learn
how to stop being what
a man wants them to be...
830
00:42:37,522 --> 00:42:40,491
and start realizing
who they are and what they are.
831
00:42:40,525 --> 00:42:43,494
If they wanna wear
the short skirt,
the baggy jeans,
832
00:42:43,528 --> 00:42:45,563
do whatever it is
they wanna do.
833
00:42:45,596 --> 00:42:48,566
When guys say, like,
"bitch" or "ho,"
it don't bother me...
834
00:42:48,599 --> 00:42:51,569
because for the simple fact--
one, they not talkin'
about me.
835
00:42:51,602 --> 00:42:54,973
Where I'm from--
the west side of Chicago--
836
00:42:55,006 --> 00:42:58,276
we could see our homegirls and
be, like, "What's up, bitch ?
Shut the fuck up. You stupid."
837
00:42:58,309 --> 00:43:01,279
It's all in fun.
It really depends on
how you say the shit.
838
00:43:01,312 --> 00:43:05,150
You know when somebody's
sayin' it wrong or when
they're tryin' to be derogatory.
839
00:43:05,183 --> 00:43:07,585
And some
autographed pictures...
840
00:43:07,618 --> 00:43:09,587
for all you bitches.
841
00:43:09,620 --> 00:43:11,990
And if you a bitch--
842
00:43:12,023 --> 00:43:15,593
It's just like "nigga."
The same thing.
People just take it differently.
843
00:43:15,626 --> 00:43:17,996
That shit turns me off.
844
00:43:18,029 --> 00:43:20,999
If you a lady, you need
to act like a lady.
845
00:43:21,032 --> 00:43:25,203
You can act like a lady
and still have skills rappin'.
You know what I'm sayin' ?
846
00:43:25,236 --> 00:43:28,139
But when you start that old
wanna be like a nigga...
847
00:43:28,173 --> 00:43:30,708
and hats and baggy jeans
and boots--
848
00:43:30,741 --> 00:43:32,710
It's just a turnoff to me.
849
00:43:32,743 --> 00:43:35,413
[ Da Brat ]
Why ? That's they life.
This is mine.
850
00:43:35,446 --> 00:43:38,483
They don't like me to say
"bitch," "fuck," "nigga"
and "ho." That's me !
851
00:43:38,516 --> 00:43:41,686
This is how I kick it.
This is how I live.
852
00:43:41,719 --> 00:43:45,423
I'm just tryin' to be
straight real. I ain't
tryin' to come sugarcoated.
853
00:43:45,456 --> 00:43:48,426
I'm just tryin' to put it down
the best way I know how.
854
00:43:48,459 --> 00:43:52,597
I'm not really big on that,
'cause I happen to think...
855
00:43:52,630 --> 00:43:56,134
that if we hold the women
in higher respect,
856
00:43:56,167 --> 00:44:00,238
then the women who have the
children of these men who call
women "bitches" and "ho's"...
857
00:44:00,271 --> 00:44:04,009
will treat their children
with more love and will raise up
stronger individuals.
858
00:44:04,042 --> 00:44:07,578
My experience is,
it has been hard to find...
859
00:44:07,612 --> 00:44:09,580
a female to work with...
860
00:44:09,614 --> 00:44:12,150
that I'm really diggin',
you know.
861
00:44:12,183 --> 00:44:17,055
Out here on the West Coast
there's not that many females
that get into rap.
862
00:44:17,088 --> 00:44:19,657
They're all nine-to-fives,
you know.
863
00:44:19,690 --> 00:44:23,661
Rome wasn't built in a day.
The world's not gonna
change overnight.
864
00:44:23,694 --> 00:44:25,430
Come here, Santi.
Come here.
865
00:44:28,233 --> 00:44:31,002
Look in that camera,
smile and say "hi."
866
00:44:31,036 --> 00:44:33,004
Hi.
Tell 'em your name.
867
00:44:33,038 --> 00:44:35,006
My name is Santineesh.
868
00:44:35,040 --> 00:44:37,008
Who am I ?
Uncle Heavy.
869
00:44:37,042 --> 00:44:39,410
Gimme a kiss.
Bye.
870
00:44:39,444 --> 00:44:41,612
[ Chuckling ]
871
00:44:41,646 --> 00:44:44,315
[ Santineesh ]
Hug me again, Daddy !
[ Man Laughing ]
872
00:44:44,349 --> 00:44:46,017
Daddy !
I got you !
I got you !
873
00:44:46,051 --> 00:44:49,320
[ Interviewer ] What kind
of vibe do you like to
create in the studio ?
874
00:44:49,354 --> 00:44:51,622
[ Santineesh
Screaming, Laughing ]
When I'm in the studio--
875
00:44:51,656 --> 00:44:53,624
Yo, D.O.
Yo !
876
00:44:53,658 --> 00:44:55,560
Gag her.
[ Laughing ]
877
00:45:02,167 --> 00:45:07,672
At its best, hip-hop music can
grab the nation by the neck...
878
00:45:07,705 --> 00:45:11,209
and make people realize
what's goin' on.
879
00:45:11,242 --> 00:45:15,580
It's a voice for the oppressed
people that, in many other ways,
just don't have a voice.
880
00:45:15,613 --> 00:45:20,351
We didn't know nothin' about
no West Coast, Philly, Jersey
until rap came.
881
00:45:20,385 --> 00:45:23,554
Then we started communicatin'
and just bein' one.
882
00:45:23,588 --> 00:45:25,556
It's the nigga news.
We speak--
883
00:45:25,590 --> 00:45:28,559
I could tell people in New York
what I'm goin' through...
884
00:45:28,593 --> 00:45:31,762
from my experiences as
a Los Angeles young black man,
885
00:45:31,796 --> 00:45:36,267
and they can speak from
a New York young black man,
what they goin' through.
886
00:45:36,301 --> 00:45:40,205
You have guys who are rappers
who are from the ghetto...
887
00:45:40,238 --> 00:45:44,342
and the stuff that they say
is stuff that they live
every day.
888
00:45:44,375 --> 00:45:46,277
These are their lyrics.
889
00:45:52,717 --> 00:45:54,685
After growin' up here...
890
00:45:54,719 --> 00:45:57,688
and seein' my man
that lived upstairs
gettin' killed,
891
00:45:57,722 --> 00:46:00,091
and then
my brother shot--
892
00:46:00,125 --> 00:46:05,062
That showed me what type
of world this shit is.
You know what I'm sayin' ?
893
00:46:06,864 --> 00:46:10,235
[ Nas ]
The most time I feared
about livin' here...
894
00:46:10,268 --> 00:46:13,671
was when I was young,
when I couldn't defend myself
from shit was goin' on,
895
00:46:13,704 --> 00:46:15,873
'cause it was older niggas
doin' shit.
896
00:46:15,906 --> 00:46:18,809
It was a big world,
I was young...
897
00:46:18,843 --> 00:46:23,414
and all I had was my moms
and my brother, you know,
my younger brother.
898
00:46:23,448 --> 00:46:27,752
So all I did was just
handle myself to get to
a position where I could say,
899
00:46:27,785 --> 00:46:29,754
"I'm gon' hold my ground.
900
00:46:29,787 --> 00:46:32,757
"I'm old enough
to control my destiny...
901
00:46:32,790 --> 00:46:36,527
and not to be bullshitted
by no bullshit niggas
no more or nothin'."
902
00:46:36,561 --> 00:46:39,530
I been thinkin' about
goin' back to school...
903
00:46:39,564 --> 00:46:43,201
because, I mean, my knowledge
is limited right now.
904
00:46:43,234 --> 00:46:46,804
There's a lot of things
that I don't know about that
I could take advantage of...
905
00:46:46,837 --> 00:46:49,274
as soon as I learn about it.
906
00:46:51,409 --> 00:46:54,312
I'm not a big drug dealer...
907
00:46:54,345 --> 00:46:56,781
with 25 years on my head.
908
00:46:56,814 --> 00:46:58,716
I sing rap records...
909
00:46:58,749 --> 00:47:01,152
and I can make my bread.
910
00:47:01,186 --> 00:47:04,155
I'm not a doctor
or lawyer,
911
00:47:04,189 --> 00:47:07,124
but I'm 21
with a start.
912
00:47:12,897 --> 00:47:16,801
You know, as far
as messages go, what I'm
tryin' to get across--
913
00:47:16,834 --> 00:47:19,937
I'm tryin' to get across,
like, several different things.
914
00:47:19,970 --> 00:47:22,340
You know what I'm sayin' ?
915
00:47:22,373 --> 00:47:25,343
Like, for instance,
there's one side of me...
916
00:47:25,376 --> 00:47:28,446
that's totally for
the preservation
of black youth,
917
00:47:28,479 --> 00:47:32,317
because we're dyin'
at a rapid rate.
918
00:47:32,350 --> 00:47:36,754
The numbers of dyin' youth
is increasing, like, daily
in our neighborhood.
919
00:47:36,787 --> 00:47:40,358
Look,
I can't stand the ghetto.
920
00:47:40,391 --> 00:47:44,362
A lot of rappers, you know,
they run around--
"Yeah, I'm from the ghetto !"
921
00:47:44,395 --> 00:47:47,232
I live in the ghetto.
The ghetto don't live in me.
This is an ill situation.
922
00:47:47,265 --> 00:47:50,235
We have been put here
for a cause.
923
00:47:50,268 --> 00:47:52,737
We have been put here
to die.
924
00:47:52,770 --> 00:47:55,940
That's genocide, man,
and that's the bottom line.
925
00:47:55,973 --> 00:47:59,710
If I had the chance
to live with a stream
flowin' through my backyard,
926
00:47:59,744 --> 00:48:01,712
you think I wouldn't ?
927
00:48:01,746 --> 00:48:04,582
We're not here just because
we wanna be hip and fly.
928
00:48:04,615 --> 00:48:07,585
It wasn't our choice
to come to the ghetto,
929
00:48:07,618 --> 00:48:10,355
so I'm not stayin' true
to the hood.
930
00:48:10,388 --> 00:48:12,357
I'm stayin' true
to the people in the hood.
931
00:48:18,996 --> 00:48:22,767
I don't want my kids to grow up
in the environment I grew up in,
932
00:48:22,800 --> 00:48:24,969
so I moved out.
933
00:48:25,002 --> 00:48:30,408
I send my kids
to the good schools,
away from the fucked-up shit,
934
00:48:30,441 --> 00:48:35,580
because I didn't
have that opportunity
when I was a youth.
935
00:48:35,613 --> 00:48:39,350
I didn't have no choice.
I had nowhere else to go.
I had to stay there.
936
00:48:39,384 --> 00:48:42,353
But I know what I did
to get here,
937
00:48:42,387 --> 00:48:45,456
and all them nights
I spent in the studio,
rappin' and writin',
938
00:48:45,490 --> 00:48:47,458
it was all me.
939
00:48:47,492 --> 00:48:49,660
You try to help
your homies out.
940
00:48:49,694 --> 00:48:53,298
I hook niggas up.
If you know how to rap,
I'll try to get you a deal.
941
00:48:53,331 --> 00:48:55,500
I'll work with you
in the studio.
942
00:48:55,533 --> 00:49:00,705
But it's not a form of going,
"I got paper. Here you go--
1,000, 2,000, 5,000."
943
00:49:00,738 --> 00:49:02,707
That's what brothers
expected.
944
00:49:02,740 --> 00:49:05,710
You have to learn
who your true homies are
and shit.
945
00:49:05,743 --> 00:49:08,713
You got the jealous homies that
don't wanna see you come up;
946
00:49:08,746 --> 00:49:12,883
you got the player haters;
you got the crooked females
who wanna set you up.
947
00:49:12,917 --> 00:49:16,020
Then you got
the niggas in general
who just roll around...
948
00:49:16,053 --> 00:49:18,523
looking for niggas, period,
to jack.
949
00:49:18,556 --> 00:49:21,459
I don't put my city down.
I love Compton to the fullest.
950
00:49:21,492 --> 00:49:25,630
But with me bein' a father,
a businessman,
951
00:49:25,663 --> 00:49:30,401
me stayin' in Compton
would mean me havin' to deal
with the same situations...
952
00:49:30,435 --> 00:49:33,871
as I dealt with
as a teenager.
953
00:49:33,904 --> 00:49:37,608
I moved out to the community
where I could walk out
my front door...
954
00:49:37,642 --> 00:49:40,945
and wouldn't have
to see gang-writin'
and shit like that,
955
00:49:40,978 --> 00:49:44,315
because I lived in that shit
all my life,
956
00:49:44,349 --> 00:49:48,919
and I figure, if you can
you might as well, to better
yourself and your future family.
957
00:49:48,953 --> 00:49:51,589
[ Barking, Snarling ]
958
00:49:51,622 --> 00:49:54,592
You can't have
this out-of-control dough...
959
00:49:54,625 --> 00:49:57,595
and stay in the same house
you grew up in.
960
00:49:57,628 --> 00:50:00,598
It's impossible;
you gonna get licked
sooner or later.
961
00:50:00,631 --> 00:50:03,601
You ain't gotta, you know,
move from California,
962
00:50:03,634 --> 00:50:07,872
but you get a million dollars
and your mama been on
Section Eight all your life...
963
00:50:07,905 --> 00:50:10,708
and she been livin'
in apartments all her life,
964
00:50:10,741 --> 00:50:12,910
you ain't gonna stay there.
965
00:50:12,943 --> 00:50:16,681
[ C-Style ]
There's always gon' be people
that don't like me...
966
00:50:16,714 --> 00:50:19,684
because they think
I'm doin' too much
or showin' off,
967
00:50:19,717 --> 00:50:22,687
but still, even the ones
who do be players,
968
00:50:22,720 --> 00:50:25,956
them be ones who was friends
from a long time ago.
969
00:50:25,990 --> 00:50:29,594
So really, when they do
talk that kind of stuff
and all that...
970
00:50:29,627 --> 00:50:33,097
I shine it on,
but I still talk to 'em...
971
00:50:33,130 --> 00:50:36,367
and let 'em know I still got
a lot of love for 'em,
regardless of how they playin'.
972
00:50:36,401 --> 00:50:39,370
I still live in
my same neighborhood.
973
00:50:39,404 --> 00:50:42,573
Still do the same thing,
still wear the same clothes.
974
00:50:42,607 --> 00:50:47,378
I don't wear no costume.
What I come to a concert with,
that's what I wear on stage.
975
00:50:47,412 --> 00:50:50,381
We're just fortunate
that a lot of people
bought the records.
976
00:50:50,415 --> 00:50:52,883
It's great, but we still
the same people.
977
00:50:52,917 --> 00:50:55,886
We make our music for
the kids around the block.
978
00:50:55,920 --> 00:50:58,889
We still live in the projects;
we still keepin' it real.
979
00:50:58,923 --> 00:51:02,092
As you see, it's mad peoples
right here, right now...
980
00:51:02,126 --> 00:51:05,896
that's just wit' us, 'cause
this is how I been before
this rap shit came off.
981
00:51:05,930 --> 00:51:07,898
You know
what I'm sayin' ?
Word up.
982
00:51:07,932 --> 00:51:09,900
So therefore,
you see our chamber.
983
00:51:09,934 --> 00:51:12,603
We're gettin' high;
niggas got beer.
[ Laughing ]
984
00:51:12,637 --> 00:51:16,073
Know what I'm sayin' ?
Niggas is still watchin'
they back from the cops.
985
00:51:16,106 --> 00:51:18,476
But it's all real !
986
00:51:18,509 --> 00:51:21,479
Nobody fuckin' wants to live
in the ghetto.
987
00:51:21,512 --> 00:51:25,115
The best thing you can do
is get out and get your family
up outta there.
988
00:51:25,149 --> 00:51:28,118
Interviewers'll come over
and say, "You don't live
in a black community."
989
00:51:28,152 --> 00:51:31,822
Well, where is
"the black community" ?
Where do white people live ?
990
00:51:31,856 --> 00:51:34,892
White people
live wherever the fuck
they want to live.
991
00:51:34,925 --> 00:51:37,895
There is no "black community,"
there's a poor community,
992
00:51:37,928 --> 00:51:41,198
and I'm not tryin' to live
in no fuckin' poor community.
993
00:51:41,231 --> 00:51:43,901
I been makin' records
14 years, and movies.
994
00:51:43,934 --> 00:51:46,904
I should not have shit ?
Would that make you happier ?
995
00:51:46,937 --> 00:51:50,207
What in the fuck
did they think we was
stealin' for in the hood ?
996
00:51:50,240 --> 00:51:53,878
When I was in South Central,
we used to look up
at these hills.
997
00:51:53,911 --> 00:51:57,582
This was my goal,
to one day get out
of the ghetto.
998
00:51:57,615 --> 00:52:00,585
The best thing I'm doin'
for my community
is showing them...
999
00:52:00,618 --> 00:52:04,088
that a brother like myself,
without givin' in to the Man,
can make it,
1000
00:52:04,121 --> 00:52:06,791
and that means
they can make it.
1001
00:52:06,824 --> 00:52:09,794
When my friends
come up here they say,
"This is inspiring, Ice,
1002
00:52:09,827 --> 00:52:13,798
'cause you did it with your hat
turned back, tellin' America
to kiss your fuckin' ass."
1003
00:52:13,831 --> 00:52:16,801
Interviewers'll
come over and say,
"Well, you got a big house,"
1004
00:52:16,834 --> 00:52:21,606
and I'm like, "Just say I got
a big house for somebody black,
you racist motherfucker."
1005
00:52:21,639 --> 00:52:23,808
I look at it like this:
1006
00:52:23,841 --> 00:52:28,178
When I was in the hood
we were sellin' drugs;
we was robbin' and shit.
1007
00:52:29,680 --> 00:52:33,017
The community wasn't really
by our side.
1008
00:52:33,050 --> 00:52:36,721
There wasn't no shit
where they was likin' us.
Nobody liked us in the area.
1009
00:52:38,222 --> 00:52:40,858
We had to eat;
my daughter had to eat;
1010
00:52:40,891 --> 00:52:45,029
so we was doin' what we
had to do, no matter what
"the community" felt about it.
1011
00:52:45,062 --> 00:52:49,066
After I left the drugs alone
and started doin'
the music shit,
1012
00:52:49,099 --> 00:52:52,870
then all of a sudden
the community's, like,
"Yeah, he's doin' good now."
1013
00:52:52,903 --> 00:52:55,573
It seemed like
fake love to me.
1014
00:52:55,606 --> 00:52:59,009
You ain't had no love for me
when I was fucked up and I had
to sell drugs to live,
1015
00:52:59,043 --> 00:53:02,847
so why have more fuckin'
love for me now 'cause
a nigga's doin' good ?
1016
00:53:02,880 --> 00:53:05,650
My real niggas
is by my side;
that's all I need.
1017
00:53:05,683 --> 00:53:07,652
I think me hustlin',
sellin' drugs,
1018
00:53:07,685 --> 00:53:10,655
it schooled me
to the streets a lot.
1019
00:53:10,688 --> 00:53:12,857
I learned a lot.
1020
00:53:12,890 --> 00:53:17,027
I learned there's
some things you can do
and some things you can't do.
1021
00:53:17,061 --> 00:53:21,031
Sellin' drugs forever
is something you can't do.
1022
00:53:21,065 --> 00:53:24,234
You cannot do that.
You will eventually die
or go to jail.
1023
00:53:24,268 --> 00:53:26,971
That's a fact.
1024
00:53:27,004 --> 00:53:30,174
I was up in Harlem World,
Union Square, Latin Quarters.
1025
00:53:30,207 --> 00:53:34,545
I was up in there like this--
sneaky, razor blade in my mouth
and shit, you know.
1026
00:53:34,579 --> 00:53:36,547
When you young,
you'll do anything.
1027
00:53:36,581 --> 00:53:41,118
Mesc tabs up in my system,
cocktail cigarettes,
dust, blunts and shit.
1028
00:53:41,151 --> 00:53:44,789
I went through that whole phase.
Lived life fast
and lived it quick.
1029
00:53:44,822 --> 00:53:46,991
But, you know,
there ain't no--
1030
00:53:47,024 --> 00:53:50,160
When I got the knowledge
of myself and shit,
I was able to adapt...
1031
00:53:50,194 --> 00:53:52,563
and calm things down.
1032
00:53:52,597 --> 00:53:55,099
Then when I had my first seed
the nigga woke up.
1033
00:53:55,132 --> 00:53:57,101
Life is more
than just about me.
1034
00:53:57,134 --> 00:53:58,869
I got generations
to bring forth.
1035
00:53:59,637 --> 00:54:01,806
Basically, Cypress Hill
used to hang out
in front of right here.
1036
00:54:01,839 --> 00:54:04,909
You know, getting fucked up.
You know, drinking beers
and shit, talking shit.
1037
00:54:04,942 --> 00:54:07,244
Then, you know, we get
to rhyming and shit.
1038
00:54:07,277 --> 00:54:11,081
I smoked B-Real his
first joint right down there
on that tree right there.
1039
00:54:11,115 --> 00:54:13,651
So we used to come chill
right here 'cause we used
to could, like--
1040
00:54:13,684 --> 00:54:15,720
you could hide from the cops
right here and get high.
1041
00:54:15,753 --> 00:54:17,988
[ Sen Dog ]
But in '85, there was
a big weed drought.
1042
00:54:18,022 --> 00:54:20,357
And '86 was the year
that crack came in,
1043
00:54:20,390 --> 00:54:22,359
and everything changed.
1044
00:54:22,392 --> 00:54:24,929
Crack really
just ripped an asshole
out of the neighborhood.
1045
00:54:24,962 --> 00:54:26,931
I mean, all the--
even the drug dealers...
1046
00:54:26,964 --> 00:54:30,668
that had all the cars,
you seen them get smoked.
1047
00:54:30,701 --> 00:54:35,673
And it was like a siphon.
Like, anybody who fucked with it
just got sucked in.
1048
00:54:35,706 --> 00:54:38,909
[ Man #1 ]
No, that's incriminating !
Don't do that !
1049
00:54:38,943 --> 00:54:40,911
[ Man #2 ]
That on TV--
1050
00:54:40,945 --> 00:54:43,313
You know what ?
You're gonna have to change
your style.
1051
00:54:43,347 --> 00:54:45,249
This ain't it.
You're fallin'
outta control.
1052
00:54:45,282 --> 00:54:47,251
My brother is
putting me out.
1053
00:54:47,284 --> 00:54:49,654
[ Chuck D ]
The crack movement came out...
1054
00:54:49,687 --> 00:54:52,757
and a lot of people
that even vibed on crack,
the music was faster.
1055
00:54:52,790 --> 00:54:54,859
You know, the environment,
much quicker.
1056
00:54:54,892 --> 00:54:57,795
And the commentary kind of went
to the tempo of the effects
of the drugs,
1057
00:54:57,828 --> 00:55:00,130
and political rap
and conscious rap...
1058
00:55:00,164 --> 00:55:02,132
tried to make people look
at what they was doin'.
1059
00:55:02,166 --> 00:55:05,970
And if they was doin' things
in a negative way, try to look
at it in an unhip way.
1060
00:55:06,003 --> 00:55:08,305
Try to make it unhip
or unfashionable.
1061
00:55:08,338 --> 00:55:10,675
All of a sudden,
all these anti-drug records...
1062
00:55:10,708 --> 00:55:13,043
started comin' out of the--
out of the hip-hop scene,
1063
00:55:13,077 --> 00:55:14,945
where it's, like,
if you're on crack,
you know, like,
1064
00:55:14,979 --> 00:55:18,048
um, Brand Nubians, um--
1065
00:55:18,082 --> 00:55:22,052
Grand Puba was talkin'
about it, you know.
* Slow down
1066
00:55:22,086 --> 00:55:25,189
So, now, if somebody tell you,
"Yo, man, we getting ready
to smoke crack,"
1067
00:55:25,222 --> 00:55:29,727
you look at 'em crazy, like,
"Nigga, you're gonna smoke
crack ? That shit is wack."
1068
00:55:29,760 --> 00:55:32,162
[ DJ Muggs ]
Shit ain't changin', man.
1069
00:55:32,196 --> 00:55:34,932
It's just gettin' worse
out here, if anything.
1070
00:55:34,965 --> 00:55:36,934
That's just the part
of everyday life, man.
It ain't--
1071
00:55:36,967 --> 00:55:39,436
It ain't nothing
shocking us, surprising us.
It's just like...
1072
00:55:39,469 --> 00:55:42,940
a lot of motherfuckers
will stop and look at it
and be like, "Whoa."
1073
00:55:42,973 --> 00:55:46,076
Walk by it. Well, that's,
you know, same old thing.
1074
00:55:46,110 --> 00:55:49,046
See it every day.
1075
00:55:49,079 --> 00:55:52,950
[ B-Real ]
I sold it, and I've seen
what it does to people,
1076
00:55:52,983 --> 00:55:56,186
and I kind of got
a bad conscience about that.
1077
00:55:58,155 --> 00:56:01,892
**
1078
00:56:01,926 --> 00:56:06,163
* The world is full
of thugs, hustlers
Big Willie mobsters *
1079
00:56:06,196 --> 00:56:10,234
* I kill rappers on the records
It's my job to separate
the real from the fake *
1080
00:56:10,267 --> 00:56:13,738
* So I reveal the truth
and break it down
on a wax plate *
1081
00:56:13,771 --> 00:56:17,107
The Lords of the Underground
try to, you know, express, like,
1082
00:56:17,141 --> 00:56:21,045
the funny side, the good side,
or, you know, out of the normal
of the hood...
1083
00:56:21,078 --> 00:56:23,948
that people don't really
talk about, because we always
hearing about the negative.
1084
00:56:23,981 --> 00:56:27,084
But we try to talk
about the positive sometime.
1085
00:56:29,854 --> 00:56:32,089
* All you pseudo tough guys
end up dearly departed *
1086
00:56:32,122 --> 00:56:33,690
* As a young juvenile
I started *
1087
00:56:33,724 --> 00:56:36,861
* Learning from some older dudes
From the pimps
to stick-up men *
1088
00:56:36,894 --> 00:56:38,863
* And back then
you had to know the rules *
1089
00:56:38,896 --> 00:56:41,932
* The peer pressure, it can
get you knocked or locked up *
1090
00:56:41,966 --> 00:56:43,901
* Or laid the fuck out
upon a stretcher *
1091
00:56:43,934 --> 00:56:46,971
* This world is full
of thugs, hustlers
Big Willie mobsters *
1092
00:56:47,004 --> 00:56:51,441
* I kill rappers on the records
It's my job to separate
the real from the fake *
1093
00:56:51,475 --> 00:56:55,179
* So I reveal the truth
and break it down
on a wax plate **
1094
00:56:57,114 --> 00:56:59,283
Y'all like
Michael Jackson ?
1095
00:56:59,316 --> 00:57:01,385
[ Kids Together ] Yeah !
No !
1096
00:57:01,418 --> 00:57:04,088
You don't like Michael Jackson ?
Why not ?
No !
1097
00:57:04,121 --> 00:57:06,891
'Cause he grab his crotch
too much.
He grab his crotch too much ?
1098
00:57:06,924 --> 00:57:09,393
[ Kids Laughing ]
1099
00:57:09,426 --> 00:57:12,329
Y'all like Whitney Houston ?
[ Together ]
Yeah !
1100
00:57:12,362 --> 00:57:15,365
Y'all like Biggie Smalls ?
[ Together ]
Yeah !
1101
00:57:15,399 --> 00:57:17,467
Y'all like Wu-Tang Clan ?
[ Together ]
Yeah !
1102
00:57:17,501 --> 00:57:19,804
Y'all look up
to your mom and dad ?
1103
00:57:19,837 --> 00:57:22,139
[ Together ]
Yeah !
No.
1104
00:57:22,172 --> 00:57:24,408
- Oh, boy, I heard a "no."
- Me.
1105
00:57:24,441 --> 00:57:27,344
You don't look up
to your mom and dad ?
1106
00:57:27,377 --> 00:57:30,948
Well, you know,
you have, you know,
some cases like that.
1107
00:57:30,981 --> 00:57:33,350
Some kids don't. Now I ain't
gonna get into that--
1108
00:57:33,383 --> 00:57:36,854
that young man's reason why,
but most of the kids say,
1109
00:57:36,887 --> 00:57:39,423
yeah, they look up to them,
and that's important.
1110
00:57:39,456 --> 00:57:41,425
My mom and dad, sometimes,
you know what I'm sayin',
1111
00:57:41,458 --> 00:57:43,427
they would get on
a fella's nerves, you know,
1112
00:57:43,460 --> 00:57:45,830
when I wanted to do things
that I wanted to do.
1113
00:57:45,863 --> 00:57:49,900
But now that I look back
and see how they raised me,
I saw that they was right.
1114
00:57:49,934 --> 00:57:51,902
Y'all may not understand it
right now,
1115
00:57:51,936 --> 00:57:54,104
but when y'all get older,
y'all gonna see what I mean.
1116
00:57:54,138 --> 00:57:57,174
Your mom and dad, man,
those are definite role models,
I think.
1117
00:58:02,112 --> 00:58:05,115
She was just
a single black mother,
and she gave me--
1118
00:58:05,149 --> 00:58:08,252
You know,
she didn't let nothing,
no obstacles stand in her way.
1119
00:58:08,285 --> 00:58:10,454
She overcame every obstacle.
1120
00:58:10,487 --> 00:58:14,124
You know what I'm sayin' ?
My mother owns my company.
She owns Bad Boy.
1121
00:58:14,158 --> 00:58:16,126
You know,
that was my gift to her.
1122
00:58:16,160 --> 00:58:19,196
She was the only one
that was always there for me,
no matter what.
1123
00:58:19,229 --> 00:58:22,066
Yeah, my mother is
the closest one to me,
you know?
1124
00:58:22,099 --> 00:58:25,435
She gave me everything
I always wanted.
You know what I'm sayin' ?
1125
00:58:25,469 --> 00:58:28,973
Christmastime, I had it all,
and my friends didn't.
1126
00:58:29,006 --> 00:58:33,043
She just gave you everything
that was in style.
She made sure I had it.
1127
00:58:33,077 --> 00:58:37,447
Some things I couldn't get,
but the things I did got,
I was real happy for.
1128
00:58:37,481 --> 00:58:41,118
When the rest of the world
is crazy, I know that I can come
home and everything is cool.
1129
00:58:41,151 --> 00:58:43,453
And that's what makes you
want to take a chance.
1130
00:58:43,487 --> 00:58:46,456
But a lot of people
who don't have that,
that type of support--
1131
00:58:46,490 --> 00:58:48,558
And I feel sorry,
you know what I'm sayin' ?
1132
00:58:48,592 --> 00:58:51,962
That's one part of my strength.
It's the fact that
no matter what happens--
1133
00:58:51,996 --> 00:58:53,964
if this industry
falls in love with me...
1134
00:58:53,998 --> 00:58:56,133
or decides that they
no longer love me,
1135
00:58:56,166 --> 00:58:58,135
and they want to get rid
of me, you know--
1136
00:58:58,168 --> 00:58:59,970
those people will always be
in my corner.
1137
00:59:02,506 --> 00:59:05,009
When you talk about my mom,
it's beyond words.
1138
00:59:07,677 --> 00:59:10,047
[ Spice 1 ]
She just did everything,
you know.
1139
00:59:10,080 --> 00:59:12,049
I love her
for that, man.
1140
00:59:12,082 --> 00:59:15,419
[ Spice 1's Mom ]
He was on the Saint B's
basketball team.
1141
00:59:15,452 --> 00:59:19,289
And this is, uh, break dancing.
This is how he started.
1142
00:59:19,323 --> 00:59:22,126
I think that was
just before rapping.
1143
00:59:22,159 --> 00:59:24,962
He was actually in high school
on this one.
1144
00:59:24,995 --> 00:59:27,597
He's about 17 years old.
1145
00:59:27,631 --> 00:59:31,001
I go on some video shoots
with him.
1146
00:59:31,035 --> 00:59:35,405
I was very proud of this one,
because his sister
was in it also.
1147
00:59:35,439 --> 00:59:39,643
That's his sister,
and that's Spice 1.
1148
00:59:39,676 --> 00:59:44,348
[ Spice 1 ] Every time we go
somewhere, if we got a concert,
and she wanna come,
1149
00:59:44,381 --> 00:59:48,185
I have, like, 12 or 13
of my homeboys surrounding her
with straps.
1150
00:59:48,218 --> 00:59:51,288
Nigga, don't let nobody
touch my mama.
1151
00:59:51,321 --> 00:59:54,091
[ Spice 1's Mom ]
Oh, I worry about
his safety a lot.
1152
00:59:54,124 --> 00:59:56,093
A lot of things
has happened to him.
1153
00:59:56,126 --> 00:59:59,997
He's been shot at,
harassed.
1154
01:00:00,030 --> 01:00:03,200
When he was little, we thought
he was gonna be a preacher,
1155
01:00:03,233 --> 01:00:06,270
because he carried a Bible
around all the time,
had his name on it.
1156
01:00:06,303 --> 01:00:09,339
Well, he is a preacher,
1157
01:00:09,373 --> 01:00:11,541
only he does it
through his rap.
1158
01:00:11,575 --> 01:00:15,112
He's been promising me a house
since he was a little boy,
1159
01:00:15,145 --> 01:00:17,347
and I had no idea how
he was going to buy it,
1160
01:00:17,381 --> 01:00:19,316
but now I know.
1161
01:00:21,418 --> 01:00:23,487
All of our heroes
were killed off:
1162
01:00:23,520 --> 01:00:27,357
Martin Luther King,
Malcolm X, uh, uh, JFK.
1163
01:00:27,391 --> 01:00:32,362
So I grew up having heroes
that were the local drug dealer,
1164
01:00:32,396 --> 01:00:35,732
pimps, the pushers, the-- the--
the guys with the dough,
1165
01:00:35,765 --> 01:00:40,104
the guys who were riding around
in the Sevilles and Cadillacs,
you know.
1166
01:00:40,137 --> 01:00:42,339
Guys who were flashing
the hundred-dollar bills,
the number runners.
1167
01:00:42,372 --> 01:00:45,509
The whole thing about hip-hop
was to wear the--
the gold chain...
1168
01:00:45,542 --> 01:00:49,213
and, you know, to dress
like the street hustler.
1169
01:00:49,246 --> 01:00:53,050
[ Nas ] The nigga'd
tell about-- he got on
a Rolex watch and all this shit.
1170
01:00:53,083 --> 01:00:55,319
Now, without finishing school,
going to college...
1171
01:00:55,352 --> 01:00:57,321
or just starting a business
or something,
1172
01:00:57,354 --> 01:01:00,090
you want to wonder how
you get that Rolex watch.
1173
01:01:00,124 --> 01:01:02,726
And that's the part of it.
That's the mystique...
1174
01:01:02,759 --> 01:01:06,096
that leads you
to want to be where he's at.
1175
01:01:06,130 --> 01:01:09,299
I rap. I try to get money here.
You know what I'm sayin' ?
1176
01:01:09,333 --> 01:01:12,569
But as far as everybody else
in the community my age,
1177
01:01:12,602 --> 01:01:14,204
they probably gotta get
a job at McDonald's.
1178
01:01:14,238 --> 01:01:16,673
And then they mind is just
like mine, where they really
working at McDonald's, saying,
1179
01:01:16,706 --> 01:01:19,243
"Damn, I want better
than this."
1180
01:01:19,276 --> 01:01:22,012
But you can ask 90%
of the people that's involved
in hip-hop music...
1181
01:01:22,046 --> 01:01:24,748
what they would be doin'
if hip-hop didn't exist,
1182
01:01:24,781 --> 01:01:29,119
and I can guarantee you
it won't be positive.
1183
01:01:29,153 --> 01:01:31,421
[ Chuck D ]
Sometimes the reachin'
and the showin' off...
1184
01:01:31,455 --> 01:01:34,124
with the Lexuses
and the Big Willie-ism--
1185
01:01:34,158 --> 01:01:36,726
That's cool for some,
but, you know,
1186
01:01:36,760 --> 01:01:41,065
it's a nightmare to most
because 99 out of 100...
1187
01:01:41,098 --> 01:01:43,267
don't achieve
that particular dream.
1188
01:01:43,300 --> 01:01:46,303
So our particular dreams
have to be rooted
more to reality.
1189
01:01:46,336 --> 01:01:49,406
And people talk about
keeping it real, but you gotta
make it real first.
1190
01:01:49,439 --> 01:01:51,408
[ Ice-T ]
I mean, I'm an ill individual.
1191
01:01:51,441 --> 01:01:55,212
I mean, if you really get off
into me, man, I'm like--
I'm ill.
1192
01:01:55,245 --> 01:02:00,484
I'm, like-- All I watch
is horror movies and shit.
1193
01:02:00,517 --> 01:02:03,653
But I've kind of, like,
learned to control
my negative side and turn--
1194
01:02:03,687 --> 01:02:07,691
I've turned it a very--
I'm a very peaceful,
calm individual.
1195
01:02:07,724 --> 01:02:10,760
I don't wanna hurt nobody,
so I kinda, like,
1196
01:02:10,794 --> 01:02:13,263
send that energy I used to have
that was static,
1197
01:02:13,297 --> 01:02:16,166
that I used to act out--
I put that in my music.
1198
01:02:16,200 --> 01:02:18,402
It's like,
once you've been a criminal,
1199
01:02:18,435 --> 01:02:20,737
and you've been out there,
and you've felt the--
the excitement...
1200
01:02:20,770 --> 01:02:24,108
and the adrenaline rush
of that life,
1201
01:02:24,141 --> 01:02:26,110
you're intoxicated forever.
1202
01:02:26,143 --> 01:02:29,479
But I know the way
I'm living now.
1203
01:02:29,513 --> 01:02:32,216
I-- I respect
this life too much.
1204
01:02:32,249 --> 01:02:36,286
I would never take a risk
like that, because anything
I went after now,
1205
01:02:36,320 --> 01:02:38,322
it would have to be
like a million and up.
1206
01:02:38,355 --> 01:02:41,825
If I put a score down like that,
somebody's probably gonna
end up dead.
1207
01:02:41,858 --> 01:02:45,595
And I'll probably be on the run
for the rest of my life.
1208
01:02:45,629 --> 01:02:47,597
But I still got the skills,
and I know I can--
1209
01:02:47,631 --> 01:02:50,600
I'm more of a--
I'm more of a crook
than I am a rapper.
1210
01:02:50,634 --> 01:02:52,569
I know that.
1211
01:02:53,870 --> 01:02:56,706
[ Chattering ]
[ Woman ]
Here you go.
1212
01:02:56,740 --> 01:02:59,343
That's the way
you like it.
That's right.
1213
01:02:59,376 --> 01:03:02,346
They're golden brown.
I really did yours
the same way, dear.
1214
01:03:02,379 --> 01:03:03,880
You know what I like ?
1215
01:03:03,913 --> 01:03:07,751
Can I get some furniture
to work with ?
Some furniture.
1216
01:03:07,784 --> 01:03:10,387
Here you go, baby.
1217
01:03:10,420 --> 01:03:12,822
If I wasn't in
the music business, what kind
of game I would be in ?
1218
01:03:12,856 --> 01:03:16,560
I'm not gonna let you know
what kind of game I would be in.
1219
01:03:16,593 --> 01:03:19,729
That's for me to know
and for you to find out.
1220
01:03:19,763 --> 01:03:21,765
Yeah, I was into other stuff,
you know, but...
1221
01:03:21,798 --> 01:03:24,568
there came a time when
I got a reality check,
you know,
1222
01:03:24,601 --> 01:03:26,803
when something happened
to me, so--
1223
01:03:26,836 --> 01:03:30,207
After that, when it happened,
you know, I decided that
I knew I better do this,
1224
01:03:30,240 --> 01:03:33,410
or, you know, I might not be
able to do nothin' no more,
period.
1225
01:03:33,443 --> 01:03:37,181
- [ Gunshot Fired ]
- I got shot.
- [ Gunshot Fired ]
1226
01:03:37,214 --> 01:03:41,451
- I was confined to a wheelchair
for, like, a year-and-a-half.
- [ Gunshot Fired ]
1227
01:03:41,485 --> 01:03:44,521
Yeah, well, I mean,
you know, I talk about it.
I was shot nine times, you know.
1228
01:03:44,554 --> 01:03:46,723
[ Gunshots Firing ]
1229
01:03:49,726 --> 01:03:52,429
It ain't
no surprising thing.
1230
01:03:52,462 --> 01:03:56,666
It happens in every ghetto.
Somebody get shot or
somebody get killed, you know ?
1231
01:03:56,700 --> 01:03:58,902
[ Gunshot Fired ]
* What's your angle
Rectangle or triangle *
1232
01:03:58,935 --> 01:04:01,405
* As my truth is spread
drains you of your power *
1233
01:04:01,438 --> 01:04:02,839
* The death angel
strangles you like a weed *
1234
01:04:02,872 --> 01:04:05,375
* Chokin' the helpless flower
You cower *
1235
01:04:05,409 --> 01:04:07,711
* You feel the power
of the final shower **
1236
01:04:07,744 --> 01:04:10,714
Do I ever carry a gun ?
Yeah, no doubt.
* Here comes the rain again
1237
01:04:10,747 --> 01:04:13,817
[ B-Real ]
Well, at first I couldn't
believe it, you know.
1238
01:04:13,850 --> 01:04:16,786
You know, like, goddamn,
you know, I got hit.
I'm hit.
1239
01:04:16,820 --> 01:04:20,224
I think I knew
I was doin' so much wrong,
1240
01:04:20,257 --> 01:04:22,226
that I knew I was goin'
straight to hell.
1241
01:04:22,259 --> 01:04:24,928
* Causin' new emotions
1242
01:04:26,930 --> 01:04:29,699
It ain't something
that I'm proud of.
It's something I had to do...
1243
01:04:29,733 --> 01:04:32,736
because of the situation
I was in--
1244
01:04:32,769 --> 01:04:34,938
shootin' at,
being shot at.
1245
01:04:34,971 --> 01:04:39,576
**
1246
01:04:39,609 --> 01:04:42,612
I'd never get on camera
sayin' no shit like that, home.
1247
01:04:42,646 --> 01:04:44,614
I ain't fen to answer
nothing like that.
1248
01:04:44,648 --> 01:04:46,816
Say, we down South.
1249
01:04:46,850 --> 01:04:49,319
Hustlin', we gotta be strapped
because it's just like that.
1250
01:04:49,353 --> 01:04:51,488
You never know
when a player hater
gonna run up on you,
1251
01:04:51,521 --> 01:04:53,457
try to take what you got,
you know what I'm sayin' ?
1252
01:04:53,490 --> 01:04:56,493
Yeah, I roll around
with a gun every day now
because of the situations...
1253
01:04:56,526 --> 01:04:59,663
that I had to deal with
when I used to gang-bang...
1254
01:04:59,696 --> 01:05:02,632
and the brothers who won't
let you live that shit down.
1255
01:05:02,666 --> 01:05:07,737
Me being a rapper, I'm basically
just giving you the real.
I seen everything.
1256
01:05:07,771 --> 01:05:10,640
So that's what makes me speak
like I speak.
1257
01:05:10,674 --> 01:05:14,711
And that's what makes me
bring the music like I do
because I been there, you know.
1258
01:05:14,744 --> 01:05:16,980
I belonged in gangs.
I went on drive-bys.
1259
01:05:17,013 --> 01:05:19,483
[ Gunshots ]
1260
01:05:19,516 --> 01:05:23,587
[ Tires Screeching ]
1261
01:05:23,620 --> 01:05:26,990
So, it just all has to depend
on the situation, you know ?
1262
01:05:27,023 --> 01:05:29,359
If somebody threatens you,
you gonna kill him.
1263
01:05:29,393 --> 01:05:32,496
* Here is something
you can't understand *
1264
01:05:32,529 --> 01:05:35,765
* How I could
just kill a man *
1265
01:05:35,799 --> 01:05:38,468
* Here is something
you can't understand *
* How I could just kill a man
1266
01:05:38,502 --> 01:05:41,738
* Here is something
you can't understand *
1267
01:05:41,771 --> 01:05:43,840
* How I could
just kill a man *
1268
01:05:43,873 --> 01:05:46,476
* Here is something
you can't understand *
1269
01:05:46,510 --> 01:05:48,478
* How I could
just kill a man *
1270
01:05:48,512 --> 01:05:50,947
* Here is something
you can't understand *
1271
01:05:50,980 --> 01:05:52,949
* How I could
just kill a man *
1272
01:05:52,982 --> 01:05:55,419
* One time tried
to come in my home *
1273
01:05:55,452 --> 01:05:57,421
* Take my chrome
I said, yo, it's on *
1274
01:05:57,454 --> 01:05:59,789
* Take cover, son
or you're assed out *
1275
01:05:59,823 --> 01:06:03,527
* How do you like my chrome
Then I watched the rookie
pass out *
1276
01:06:03,560 --> 01:06:05,629
* Didn't have to blast out
But I did anyway *
[ Chuckles ]
1277
01:06:05,662 --> 01:06:08,932
* Young punk had to pay
So I just killed a man *
1278
01:06:08,965 --> 01:06:12,569
* Here is something
you can't understand *
1279
01:06:12,602 --> 01:06:14,404
* How I could
just kill a man *
1280
01:06:14,438 --> 01:06:16,940
* Here is something
you can't understand *
1281
01:06:16,973 --> 01:06:18,942
* How I could
just kill a man **
1282
01:06:18,975 --> 01:06:21,345
You gotta listen to this shit
to understand it.
1283
01:06:21,378 --> 01:06:25,715
Rewind it
three and four times.
Listen to it, you know.
1284
01:06:25,749 --> 01:06:30,354
Then maybe you'll get
a little notion
of where we're comin' from.
1285
01:06:30,387 --> 01:06:32,922
[ Newscaster ]
Charlton Heston spoke out today
against gangsta rap music...
1286
01:06:32,956 --> 01:06:35,325
that is aimed at the police.
1287
01:06:35,359 --> 01:06:37,827
Heston claimed that
the violent content
of the lyrics...
1288
01:06:37,861 --> 01:06:40,597
has a negative influence
on American values.
1289
01:06:40,630 --> 01:06:42,932
[ Mack 10 ]
That's where white America
pisses me off at.
1290
01:06:42,966 --> 01:06:46,936
See, Arnold Schwarzenegger
can kill a whole fuckin'
police force in his movie,
1291
01:06:46,970 --> 01:06:49,439
but the minute Mack 10
talkin' about shootin'
one police or something,
1292
01:06:49,473 --> 01:06:51,441
they wanna take
my record off the shelves.
1293
01:06:51,475 --> 01:06:54,444
Some of us didn't even
graduate from high school,
1294
01:06:54,478 --> 01:06:56,446
and we makin' seven figures,
you know what I'm sayin' ?
1295
01:06:56,480 --> 01:06:58,848
It's hard for you to swallow,
if you went to Harvard
or Yale...
1296
01:06:58,882 --> 01:07:02,619
all your motherfuckin' life,
and you ain't makin'
but $50,000 a year.
1297
01:07:02,652 --> 01:07:04,788
And a motherfucker like us
can make a million a year.
1298
01:07:04,821 --> 01:07:07,624
You know what I'm sayin' ?
That's hard for you to swallow.
1299
01:07:07,657 --> 01:07:10,093
Put it like this.
NWA was not a prophet.
You know what I'm sayin' ?
1300
01:07:10,126 --> 01:07:12,862
When they was talking about
"Fuck the Police," and one time,
was doing this and that--
1301
01:07:12,896 --> 01:07:16,065
I mean, I sat there,
and I said, "Hell, yeah."
1302
01:07:16,099 --> 01:07:18,067
You know what I'm sayin' ?
I relate to that.
Mm-hmm.
1303
01:07:18,101 --> 01:07:21,070
But the average white American,
if we-- if we gonna
have to generalize,
1304
01:07:21,104 --> 01:07:23,373
they say,
"Why-- Why would they think
such a thing ?"
1305
01:07:23,407 --> 01:07:25,675
You don't really have
any love for 'em, you know ?
1306
01:07:25,709 --> 01:07:28,645
I ain't never seen no cop
gettin' no cat out of a tree.
1307
01:07:28,678 --> 01:07:30,780
Now I live in
a nice neighborhood, the cops
are different over here.
1308
01:07:30,814 --> 01:07:32,782
They're like,
"Hey, how're you doin' ?"
1309
01:07:32,816 --> 01:07:34,984
Sendin' me
Christmas cards and shit.
1310
01:07:35,018 --> 01:07:38,722
It's just
a little different, but
average kid in the streets,
1311
01:07:38,755 --> 01:07:41,024
he's never had a cop
help him.
1312
01:07:41,057 --> 01:07:43,059
So the attitude is:
Fuck the police.
1313
01:07:43,092 --> 01:07:44,928
** [ Scratching ]
1314
01:07:47,631 --> 01:07:49,566
[ Police Siren Wails ]
1315
01:07:54,170 --> 01:07:56,906
[ Man ]
In the neighborhoods, most of
the time, it's the same cops.
1316
01:07:56,940 --> 01:07:59,409
And they know what's goin' on
around there.
1317
01:07:59,443 --> 01:08:01,878
And they see you, if you
somebody that they been seein'.
1318
01:08:01,911 --> 01:08:03,847
You know what you're doin'.
They know what you're doin'.
1319
01:08:03,880 --> 01:08:05,849
They see you,
and you see them.
1320
01:08:05,882 --> 01:08:09,553
You know, you know, it's on.
1321
01:08:09,586 --> 01:08:12,188
[ MC Eiht ]
When you live where I live,
and if you just black, period.
1322
01:08:12,221 --> 01:08:14,591
Like they say,
it's a routine.
1323
01:08:14,624 --> 01:08:18,895
A black man in a fancy car,
you gonna get pulled over.
1324
01:08:18,928 --> 01:08:20,897
You're gonna get asked
to step out your car.
1325
01:08:20,930 --> 01:08:22,899
You're gonna get
your car searched.
1326
01:08:22,932 --> 01:08:26,770
No probable cause,
no reason, no whatever.
1327
01:08:26,803 --> 01:08:29,205
It just happens.
It's just routine.
1328
01:08:29,238 --> 01:08:32,208
The same crime element
that white people
are scared of,
1329
01:08:32,241 --> 01:08:35,144
black people
are scared of.
1330
01:08:35,178 --> 01:08:39,082
The same crime element
that white people fear,
we fear.
1331
01:08:39,115 --> 01:08:41,485
So we defend ourselves
from the same crime element...
1332
01:08:41,518 --> 01:08:43,186
that they scared of,
you know what I'm sayin' ?
1333
01:08:43,219 --> 01:08:47,223
While they waitin'
for legislation to pass,
we next door to the killer.
1334
01:08:47,256 --> 01:08:49,993
We next door to him, you know,
'cause we up in the projects,
1335
01:08:50,026 --> 01:08:51,995
where there's 80 niggas
in the building.
1336
01:08:52,028 --> 01:08:55,198
All them killers that
they're lettin' out, they're
right there in that building.
1337
01:08:55,231 --> 01:08:58,201
But it's better just 'cause
we black, we get along
with the killers or something ?
1338
01:08:58,234 --> 01:09:00,737
We get along with
the rapists 'cause we black
and we from the same hood ?
1339
01:09:00,770 --> 01:09:03,640
What is that ?
We need protection too.
1340
01:09:03,673 --> 01:09:05,875
This is why we rhyme,
and this is our reason.
1341
01:09:05,909 --> 01:09:07,977
You know what I'm sayin' ?
We live this life.
1342
01:09:08,011 --> 01:09:10,747
I got copper friends.
1343
01:09:10,780 --> 01:09:13,850
But now I'm makin'
proper ends.
1344
01:09:13,883 --> 01:09:16,753
My illegal drug money.
What's going on ?
1345
01:09:16,786 --> 01:09:20,957
I don't hate all cops.
I hate certain cops.
1346
01:09:20,990 --> 01:09:23,727
You know what I mean ?
[ Man ]
I hate cops. They hate us.
1347
01:09:23,760 --> 01:09:27,096
We got beef in the West Coast.
We got beef in the East Coast.
We're police.
1348
01:09:27,130 --> 01:09:30,634
Hey, the big police,
the biggest motherfucking gang
out this motherfucker with guns.
1349
01:09:30,667 --> 01:09:32,569
The other day,
you know what I'm sayin,
1350
01:09:32,602 --> 01:09:35,238
I wear my one pants leg down,
one pants leg up.
1351
01:09:35,271 --> 01:09:37,907
We were in Chicago,
and one of the security guys,
1352
01:09:37,941 --> 01:09:40,276
you know, he came at me,
all sayin':
1353
01:09:40,309 --> 01:09:43,613
"Either you roll
your pants leg down,
or you keep both of them up."
1354
01:09:43,647 --> 01:09:47,283
I thought he was playin',
but he got all--
all up in my face.
1355
01:09:47,316 --> 01:09:49,819
We just performed.
Why you even sweatin' me
like that ?
1356
01:09:49,853 --> 01:09:51,821
"Well, it's a gang thing."
All up in my face, though.
1357
01:09:51,855 --> 01:09:53,923
You know what I'm sayin' ?
That's not even necessary.
1358
01:09:53,957 --> 01:09:57,060
Now, if I was to punch him in
the shit, I'd have been wrong.
1359
01:09:57,093 --> 01:10:00,864
You know what I'm sayin' ?
But I kept it cool,
you know what I'm sayin' ?
1360
01:10:00,897 --> 01:10:03,066
Not tryin' to be rude
and all that, I said,
"Money,
1361
01:10:03,099 --> 01:10:06,536
could you please just get
out of my face, 'cause I'm not
rollin' my pants leg down."
1362
01:10:06,570 --> 01:10:10,039
Respect is a really high thing
in the black community.
1363
01:10:10,073 --> 01:10:12,709
And once somebody
feels disrespected,
1364
01:10:12,742 --> 01:10:14,978
that's when
the issue arises.
1365
01:10:15,011 --> 01:10:17,113
Cops need to learn
how to talk to people.
1366
01:10:17,146 --> 01:10:19,816
[ Police Siren Wailing ]
1367
01:10:19,849 --> 01:10:23,553
[ Mack 10 ]
Wasn't botherin' nobody.
Wasn't no other cars around.
1368
01:10:23,587 --> 01:10:26,956
The cop that pulled me over
just wants me to keep
my wheels on the ground.
1369
01:10:26,990 --> 01:10:29,893
And he said, "I could impound
your car now, but I ain't gonna
trip right now."
1370
01:10:29,926 --> 01:10:34,297
So I said, "All right,
then don't trip right now.
Give me my break then."
1371
01:10:34,330 --> 01:10:36,633
It ain't nothin'
but a hydraulic ticket.
1372
01:10:36,666 --> 01:10:39,302
I don't worry about it.
1373
01:10:39,335 --> 01:10:42,238
He just wanted to pull me over
'cause he was a asshole.
1374
01:10:47,110 --> 01:10:49,078
[ E-40 ]
I can feel it right here, man.
It's real.
1375
01:10:49,112 --> 01:10:52,315
* Every year
about this time *
1376
01:10:52,348 --> 01:10:55,785
Every year about this time,
it's a--
1377
01:10:55,819 --> 01:10:59,322
There's always a dark cloud
that lingers over the city.
* There's someone like me
1378
01:10:59,355 --> 01:11:02,091
And I'm here to preach about it.
Look here.
1379
01:11:02,125 --> 01:11:04,728
* Every year about this time
I get to diggin' up
old school memories *
1380
01:11:04,761 --> 01:11:07,363
* That I keep stored
in the back of the head
and the back of my mind *
1381
01:11:07,396 --> 01:11:10,867
* That I always seem to find
when I'm marinatin'
with my impulse *
1382
01:11:10,900 --> 01:11:12,936
* Slappin' bones
and drinkin' wine
Just come home from Quentin *
1383
01:11:12,969 --> 01:11:16,205
* And all I know is strained
and grind *
1384
01:11:16,239 --> 01:11:19,308
* Time, no gang
be honest either *
1385
01:11:19,342 --> 01:11:21,711
* White-collared crime
or, uh, hookin' up bones *
1386
01:11:21,745 --> 01:11:23,880
* How can I make
some sort of dividend *
1387
01:11:23,913 --> 01:11:26,115
* How can I get my mathematics
How can I get in
where I fit in *
1388
01:11:26,149 --> 01:11:28,151
* How can I get in
Get goin' *
1389
01:11:28,184 --> 01:11:33,222
* Every year about this time
1390
01:11:33,256 --> 01:11:38,995
* They lock us up
and throw away the key **
1391
01:11:39,028 --> 01:11:42,799
I'm gonna come out there
and listen, okay ?
Rap is just like country music.
1392
01:11:42,832 --> 01:11:44,801
'Cause you get
to express yourself.
1393
01:11:44,834 --> 01:11:46,803
You know ?
* I left my heart in Arizona
1394
01:11:46,836 --> 01:11:48,304
Something, you know
what I'm sayin' ?
It's just the same thing.
1395
01:11:48,337 --> 01:11:51,775
It's like a stress reliever.
You know what I'm sayin' ?
1396
01:11:51,808 --> 01:11:53,910
Just like the little
Chinese balls that
you roll in your hand,
1397
01:11:53,943 --> 01:11:56,379
and what have you,
to relieve the--
relieve the stress.
1398
01:11:56,412 --> 01:11:58,381
We rappin' it
on the microphone.
1399
01:11:58,414 --> 01:12:01,250
We're spittin' all over
the popper-stopper.
Feel me ?
1400
01:12:01,284 --> 01:12:08,291
**
1401
01:12:08,324 --> 01:12:11,027
I run into older people
of all colors.
1402
01:12:11,060 --> 01:12:15,264
They don't understand it.
They just think it's all bad,
which a lot of it is.
1403
01:12:15,298 --> 01:12:19,002
We don't give a damn.
But a lot of it is good too,
playboy.
1404
01:12:21,871 --> 01:12:23,973
When fools didn't even think
it was gonna happen,
1405
01:12:24,007 --> 01:12:26,275
me and my Uncle St. Charles,
1406
01:12:26,309 --> 01:12:28,912
T-Shop, B-Legit--
we all had confidence--
Sugar T.
1407
01:12:28,945 --> 01:12:30,914
We all had confidence
in ourselves.
1408
01:12:30,947 --> 01:12:33,049
And we kept it goin'.
You know what I'm sayin' ?
1409
01:12:33,082 --> 01:12:35,318
Legal dope.
We homegrown, man.
1410
01:12:35,351 --> 01:12:37,687
I feel good
about bein' homegrown.
1411
01:12:39,956 --> 01:12:42,058
[ Dupri ]
I think the move that hip-hop
is takin' now--
1412
01:12:42,091 --> 01:12:46,429
What I see is that the artists
are gaining more control
of the business aspect.
1413
01:12:46,462 --> 01:12:49,899
They're doin' a lot more
of their own production,
you know ?
1414
01:12:49,933 --> 01:12:52,135
I mean, I don't really know
how many days it's gonna take.
1415
01:12:52,168 --> 01:12:54,203
I'm sayin', I just know
we gotta get a joint.
1416
01:12:54,237 --> 01:12:56,806
You know, a lot of artists
are starting managements.
1417
01:12:56,840 --> 01:12:59,108
* Is there a heaven
for a gangsta
Grew up in the ghetto *
1418
01:12:59,142 --> 01:13:01,978
* Raised by a killer
T.R.U. across my stomach *
1419
01:13:02,011 --> 01:13:06,983
* Your neighborhood thug nigga
trying to make it out
this fucked-up environment *
1420
01:13:07,016 --> 01:13:10,720
* We niggas die trying to make
a dollar out of fifty cents *
1421
01:13:10,754 --> 01:13:13,156
* The ghetto got me crazy
I smell daisies *
1422
01:13:13,189 --> 01:13:16,292
* But I can't die tonight
My old lady pregnant
with a baby *
1423
01:13:16,325 --> 01:13:19,162
* Tupac said
there's a heaven for a G *
1424
01:13:19,195 --> 01:13:22,465
* But I wonder if there's
a resting place for killers
and gangstas like me **
1425
01:13:22,498 --> 01:13:25,769
[ Master P ]
Independent, black-owned.
1426
01:13:25,802 --> 01:13:29,005
We're from the hood,
and we take what
we made about the hood...
1427
01:13:29,038 --> 01:13:32,141
and show people from the ghetto
that you can have something.
1428
01:13:32,175 --> 01:13:35,111
You can be successful,
if you put your mind to it.
1429
01:13:35,144 --> 01:13:38,748
We're about being
the next biggest entourage,
1430
01:13:38,782 --> 01:13:42,185
independent, successful
record company in the world.
1431
01:13:42,218 --> 01:13:45,889
Not the United States,
the world.
1432
01:13:45,922 --> 01:13:47,490
[ E-40 ]
We used to sell tapes
at grocery stores,
1433
01:13:47,523 --> 01:13:52,061
liquor stores, barbershops,
uh, beauty salons,
1434
01:13:52,095 --> 01:13:55,198
tire shops,
whatever, however,
and it took off from there.
1435
01:13:55,231 --> 01:13:57,400
Well, I mean, you know
what I'm sayin' ?
1436
01:13:57,433 --> 01:14:00,069
It's all good, you know,
that-- that we out here
doin' our thing.
1437
01:14:00,103 --> 01:14:02,405
I mean, I'm real pleased.
I mean, we've been
workin' hard.
1438
01:14:02,438 --> 01:14:04,841
I've been workin' hard
all my life, you know what
I'm sayin', tryin' to do it.
1439
01:14:04,874 --> 01:14:07,243
You know what I'm sayin' ?
Tryin' to get this job done.
1440
01:14:07,276 --> 01:14:10,113
So, I mean, the-- the--
the idea that we are now here
is good.
1441
01:14:10,146 --> 01:14:12,448
I mean, we still have
a long way to go though.
1442
01:14:12,481 --> 01:14:15,551
You know,
'cause I'm tired of goin'
into the fuckin' record shops...
1443
01:14:15,584 --> 01:14:18,822
and the rap section bein'
all the way in the back
of the fuckin' store.
1444
01:14:18,855 --> 01:14:22,258
And you gotta go through there,
and the section is about
five feet wide.
1445
01:14:22,291 --> 01:14:25,028
Gonna continue to be
in the back of the store
until everybody...
1446
01:14:25,061 --> 01:14:27,230
steps up and starts doin'
different shit.
1447
01:14:27,263 --> 01:14:29,465
We do have to start owning,
like, a pressing plant,
1448
01:14:29,498 --> 01:14:32,501
or having your label run
so professionally to where...
1449
01:14:32,535 --> 01:14:35,238
you can acquire
other companies.
1450
01:14:35,271 --> 01:14:38,908
Like get into publishing,
get in the synchronization,
get into cues on film.
1451
01:14:38,942 --> 01:14:44,280
The asset of the business, as
opposed to a physical check.
You want to own something.
1452
01:14:44,313 --> 01:14:46,950
Rap now is
a $3-billion-a-year industry.
1453
01:14:46,983 --> 01:14:50,519
Black-owned labels aren't being
intimidated anymore, you know.
1454
01:14:50,553 --> 01:14:53,990
There's, uh-- Russell Simmons
has always been out there
with Def Jam,
1455
01:14:54,023 --> 01:14:56,392
and Sean "Puffy" Combs, uh,
you know,
1456
01:14:56,425 --> 01:14:58,962
with Bad Boy Entertainment,
you know-- they're all
doin' their thing.
1457
01:14:58,995 --> 01:15:02,098
Bill Bellamy called me
and told me the jam of the week.
He called me today.
1458
01:15:02,131 --> 01:15:04,100
You know what I'm sayin' ?
We have no mainstream play.
1459
01:15:04,133 --> 01:15:06,569
We don't have those resources.
We gettin' no Z-100s.
1460
01:15:06,602 --> 01:15:09,072
What's up with VH-1
and all that ?
1461
01:15:09,105 --> 01:15:11,574
The minute it's gone,
it's on, dog.
1462
01:15:11,607 --> 01:15:13,943
There's records out here,
they burnin', and then
Ernie's sayin' them,
1463
01:15:13,977 --> 01:15:17,113
the black stations
about to pull up--
pull off of this shit.
1464
01:15:17,146 --> 01:15:19,115
Puffy's real tight.
That's my boy.
1465
01:15:19,148 --> 01:15:21,117
He look out for me,
you know what I'm sayin' ?
1466
01:15:21,150 --> 01:15:24,387
Took me off the streets.
Gave a nigga a chance.
[ Puffy ] That's cool.
1467
01:15:24,420 --> 01:15:28,191
Yo, Leon. I don't like
the way you're treatin' me
on me gettin' my second halves.
1468
01:15:28,224 --> 01:15:31,594
That shit is bullshit.
Yo, bust-- Yo, yo, yo, yo,
bust your asses...
1469
01:15:31,627 --> 01:15:35,464
to-to-- and ask me
for Method Man or Method Man.
1470
01:15:35,498 --> 01:15:38,467
When y'all asked me to use that,
you told me you had
the Marvin Gaye sample.
1471
01:15:38,501 --> 01:15:40,636
You asked me
to play the shit over.
I'm not payin'.
1472
01:15:40,669 --> 01:15:43,907
Nor am I involved
in any of that shit.
1473
01:15:43,940 --> 01:15:46,175
Okay, well, y'all need to pay
on what y'all need.
1474
01:15:46,209 --> 01:15:48,311
I'll go back in the studio.
You know, just pay for me
to go back in the studio.
1475
01:15:48,344 --> 01:15:51,647
Yo, and tell me
exactly what you want.
1476
01:15:51,680 --> 01:15:54,283
Be exact.
1477
01:15:54,317 --> 01:15:58,187
People who represent,
like, the establishment,
they are threatened by hip-hop.
1478
01:15:58,221 --> 01:16:01,324
And they are threatened
by intelligent, articulate
black people,
1479
01:16:01,357 --> 01:16:03,559
who happen to represent,
you know what I'm sayin',
1480
01:16:03,592 --> 01:16:07,063
the poor people,
you know what I mean,
the have-nots.
1481
01:16:07,096 --> 01:16:09,198
When I first started in rap,
you know, a lot of people said,
1482
01:16:09,232 --> 01:16:12,068
that-- that rap
was just a fad.
1483
01:16:12,101 --> 01:16:14,337
It would never last,
or it'd just be around
for a couple of years,
1484
01:16:14,370 --> 01:16:17,073
and then it's over.
1485
01:16:17,106 --> 01:16:20,276
But, you know, it's been
goin' around for a long time.
1486
01:16:20,309 --> 01:16:24,513
And-- And, I mean, you even have
major, major rap artists
retiring, you know ?
1487
01:16:24,547 --> 01:16:29,618
Like-- Like, for instance,
we're getting ready to go into
the retirement of Too Short.
1488
01:16:29,652 --> 01:16:32,321
**
1489
01:16:37,260 --> 01:16:40,029
The almighty Xzibit comin' down
from the liquid squad,
1490
01:16:40,063 --> 01:16:42,165
killin' that Too Short,
you know what I'm sayin',
retirement party.
1491
01:16:42,198 --> 01:16:44,100
**
1492
01:16:44,133 --> 01:16:46,702
It's like a whole bunch
of people and shit here.
1493
01:16:46,735 --> 01:16:49,973
**
1494
01:16:50,006 --> 01:16:51,975
Yeah, this is Melle Mel.
My name's Scorpio.
1495
01:16:52,008 --> 01:16:54,643
Yeah, we in the house
of my man Too Short's party,
you know,
1496
01:16:54,677 --> 01:16:58,347
hanging out with all the players
and all the fly ladies,
you know.
1497
01:16:58,381 --> 01:17:00,683
- [ DJ Scorpio ] It's all good.
- Comin' back from way back
into the day.
1498
01:17:00,716 --> 01:17:03,519
Straight from the East Coast
right here in California.
1499
01:17:03,552 --> 01:17:06,122
[ Young MC ]
It's kind of sad
to see him retiring,
1500
01:17:06,155 --> 01:17:07,957
but I feel good for him
because I know he had
a real good career.
1501
01:17:07,991 --> 01:17:11,527
He did a lot of good things for
rap, and he helped influence me
and a whole lot of other people.
1502
01:17:11,560 --> 01:17:15,498
So, I just wanna
let that be known.
And peace, Too Short.
1503
01:17:15,531 --> 01:17:19,102
I think it's a damn shame,
1504
01:17:19,135 --> 01:17:22,271
for a young man so great,
1505
01:17:22,305 --> 01:17:24,440
to wanna leave
this illustrious business.
1506
01:17:24,473 --> 01:17:29,245
So, brothers and sisters,
we're not gonna let this
great young man retire, are we ?
1507
01:17:29,278 --> 01:17:32,048
[ Kurtis Blow ]
Even with all of the success
and progress...
1508
01:17:32,081 --> 01:17:35,684
that hip-hop has made
throughout the last 20 years,
1509
01:17:35,718 --> 01:17:40,623
it has been with,
you know, some great cost.
1510
01:17:40,656 --> 01:17:45,028
Uh, lives have been lost,
careers have been forgotten.
1511
01:17:46,762 --> 01:17:49,632
[ Q-Tip ]
I've been losing
a lot of people lately.
1512
01:17:49,665 --> 01:17:52,335
[ Stammering ]
It's at a alarming rate.
1513
01:17:52,368 --> 01:17:55,204
It's sad, you know
what I'm sayin' ?
1514
01:17:55,238 --> 01:17:57,440
I lost five people...
1515
01:17:57,473 --> 01:18:00,276
in the past four months.
1516
01:18:02,311 --> 01:18:05,048
I don't care who you are.
1517
01:18:05,081 --> 01:18:07,616
Fuck, if y'all niggas
are playing all that
hard-core shit, stop it,
1518
01:18:07,650 --> 01:18:11,054
'cause y'all niggas
have kissed your mama
before, man.
1519
01:18:11,087 --> 01:18:14,790
Y'all niggas have been
in vulnerable states where
y'all niggas have cried.
1520
01:18:14,823 --> 01:18:18,061
'Cause if-- 'Cause ain't
none of y'all niggas
out there ironmen.
1521
01:18:18,094 --> 01:18:20,463
You know what I'm sayin' ?
And if you say that,
you're lyin'.
1522
01:18:22,365 --> 01:18:25,134
[ Q-Tip ]
I have faith that people
are gonna wake up, man.
1523
01:18:25,168 --> 01:18:26,502
I really do.
I have that faith.
1524
01:18:30,306 --> 01:18:33,409
[ Female Reporter ]
It's been two days since
the shooting that left...
1525
01:18:33,442 --> 01:18:38,081
recording manager Shug Knight
injured and Tupac Shakur
in critical condition.
1526
01:18:38,114 --> 01:18:40,616
Metro says Shakur and Knight
were driving to a club...
1527
01:18:40,649 --> 01:18:42,685
following
the Tyson-Seldon fight.
1528
01:18:42,718 --> 01:18:45,454
A car pulled up
alongside Shakur's BMW,
1529
01:18:45,488 --> 01:18:47,756
and gunshots rang out.
1530
01:18:47,790 --> 01:18:50,359
Police are looking
for a late-model white Cadillac,
1531
01:18:50,393 --> 01:18:54,797
last seen speeding southbound
on Colbalt Lane.
1532
01:18:54,830 --> 01:18:58,167
Meanwhile, family, friends
and fans of the rap singer...
1533
01:18:58,201 --> 01:19:00,236
surround U.M.C.,
wishing they could share...
1534
01:19:00,269 --> 01:19:02,838
their messages with Shakur.
1535
01:19:02,871 --> 01:19:05,374
I'm one of his biggest fans,
and I love him so very much.
1536
01:19:05,408 --> 01:19:07,576
And I don't want Tupac
to get shot.
1537
01:19:07,610 --> 01:19:10,646
I don't-- I don't want Tupac
to get shot no more.
1538
01:19:10,679 --> 01:19:13,149
[ Male Reporter ]
Breaking news to tell you about.
1539
01:19:13,182 --> 01:19:15,851
The rapper Tupac Shakur
died in Las Vegas.
1540
01:19:15,884 --> 01:19:19,588
He died, apparently,
this afternoon
in a Las Vegas hospital.
1541
01:19:19,622 --> 01:19:22,591
You might remember
he was shot--
[ Fades Out ]
1542
01:19:22,625 --> 01:19:26,662
Pac was a prophet.
1543
01:19:26,695 --> 01:19:29,132
He knew things...
1544
01:19:32,201 --> 01:19:33,736
that none of us see yet.
1545
01:19:35,704 --> 01:19:37,673
And he put it in his music.
1546
01:19:37,706 --> 01:19:41,510
His only release
was his music.
1547
01:19:41,544 --> 01:19:45,548
I rolled with Pac.
We came up together.
1548
01:19:45,581 --> 01:19:47,616
And Pac ain't never
let me roll with him,
1549
01:19:47,650 --> 01:19:50,253
to pull no gun
on no black man.
1550
01:19:50,286 --> 01:19:52,521
Pac wasn't no gangster.
1551
01:19:54,457 --> 01:19:57,160
Pac was a soldier.
1552
01:19:57,193 --> 01:20:00,796
[ Applause ]
1553
01:20:03,199 --> 01:20:07,570
We all should work together
to try to get more unity
within rap.
1554
01:20:07,603 --> 01:20:10,406
And-- And-- And I see that
happening, for the most part.
1555
01:20:10,439 --> 01:20:13,842
I see a lot of rappers
doin' duets with each other
from the different coasts.
1556
01:20:13,876 --> 01:20:16,712
East Coast, West Coast
together, like that.
1557
01:20:16,745 --> 01:20:18,714
East Coast and West Coast
get down together...
1558
01:20:18,747 --> 01:20:20,716
and make it happen,
you know what I'm sayin' ?
1559
01:20:20,749 --> 01:20:22,818
In Queens, New York,
they speak nice.
1560
01:20:22,851 --> 01:20:25,654
These are
all-town gangsters.
Right, right.
1561
01:20:25,688 --> 01:20:28,191
I'm gettin' sassed.
Ow !
1562
01:20:28,224 --> 01:20:32,428
I can't dis the whole
East Coast. I got homeboys,
you know, from the East Coast.
1563
01:20:32,461 --> 01:20:35,264
I-- I-- I can't-- I mean,
everybody in the East Coast
don't hate Mack 10.
1564
01:20:35,298 --> 01:20:37,900
I don't give a fuck.
I got down with MC Eiht.
That's my nigga.
1565
01:20:37,933 --> 01:20:39,902
That's West Coast,
you know what I'm sayin' ?
1566
01:20:39,935 --> 01:20:41,904
And it's blowin' up over there,
you know what I'm sayin' ?
1567
01:20:41,937 --> 01:20:44,307
The East Coast, West Coast shit
is stupid,
1568
01:20:44,340 --> 01:20:47,210
'cause how am I gonna beef with
a nigga who ain't got nothin'
and I ain't got nothin' ?
1569
01:20:47,243 --> 01:20:48,911
When these-- When these other
motherfuckers got everything,
1570
01:20:48,944 --> 01:20:51,314
and nobody's beefin' with them.
1571
01:20:51,347 --> 01:20:53,782
And nigga's quick to pull out
a gun on you, wants me,
I'm a shoot that nigga.
1572
01:20:53,816 --> 01:20:56,885
I'm gonna kill him.
And when the cops come,
he gets scared.
1573
01:20:56,919 --> 01:20:59,388
How the fuck are you scared
of him, when you ain't scared
of him ?
1574
01:20:59,422 --> 01:21:02,191
So that shit don't really
add up to me and shit.
I deal with mathematics.
1575
01:21:02,225 --> 01:21:04,193
If you got a problem
with somebody,
1576
01:21:04,227 --> 01:21:07,230
you got a problem
with that individual,
you know ?
1577
01:21:07,263 --> 01:21:10,899
Square off with him.
Don't go dissin'
a whole fucking coast.
1578
01:21:10,933 --> 01:21:12,901
Go and spread the love.
East Coast and West Coast.
1579
01:21:12,935 --> 01:21:16,205
That right there settles
everything. There's no need
gettin' us involved.
1580
01:21:16,239 --> 01:21:18,407
You know, you don't see niggas
fightin' and robbin'...
1581
01:21:18,441 --> 01:21:20,409
and killin' and shootin'
over this here, you know
what I'm sayin' ?
1582
01:21:20,443 --> 01:21:22,211
When niggas get together
with this here,
it's all about peace.
1583
01:21:22,245 --> 01:21:24,213
And that's
what we're tryin'--
Ain't nothin' wrong.
1584
01:21:24,247 --> 01:21:26,482
East Coast, West Coast.
We get into our vibe
that we--
1585
01:21:26,515 --> 01:21:28,884
This ain't crack.
This is weed.
1586
01:21:28,917 --> 01:21:33,856
We smoke weed, 'cause
when we smoke weed, we breed.
All right ? Yo.
1587
01:21:33,889 --> 01:21:36,759
So, it's more than just
knowin' your block.
1588
01:21:36,792 --> 01:21:39,462
Know your state,
East Coast, West Coast.
1589
01:21:39,495 --> 01:21:41,697
There's seven continents
out there.
1590
01:21:41,730 --> 01:21:44,467
And there's, you know,
hundreds of countries.
1591
01:21:44,500 --> 01:21:46,969
Education is key,
because it tells people...
1592
01:21:47,002 --> 01:21:49,405
what to look out for
and how to prepare themselves.
1593
01:21:49,438 --> 01:21:52,241
Economically, you know, we can't
talk about more black jobs...
1594
01:21:52,275 --> 01:21:54,510
without black businesses.
1595
01:21:54,543 --> 01:21:58,914
Everybody's not fortunate enough
to be a doctor or lawyer,
you know ?
1596
01:21:58,947 --> 01:22:02,451
Everybody doesn't complete
four years of college,
you know ?
1597
01:22:02,485 --> 01:22:05,521
It gives you something else
to do, and it is a job,
straight up.
1598
01:22:05,554 --> 01:22:08,324
[ Man ]
It's bringing in a lot
of niggas out of the ghettos.
1599
01:22:08,357 --> 01:22:10,659
It's a power force,
you know what I'm sayin' ?
1600
01:22:10,693 --> 01:22:12,661
And anytime you get black
with a power force...
1601
01:22:12,695 --> 01:22:15,298
and a gang of money
generatin',
1602
01:22:15,331 --> 01:22:18,301
then it's gonna scare.
1603
01:22:18,334 --> 01:22:21,036
Close to your spirit,
Close to your soul. Black.
1604
01:22:21,069 --> 01:22:24,039
Not being scared of who you are.
And step out and express.
1605
01:22:24,072 --> 01:22:28,277
Grandmaster Flash, Kurtis Blow
and them passed the torch to us.
1606
01:22:28,311 --> 01:22:33,449
Also, Run DMC, LL Cool J had it.
Passed it on with Rakim.
1607
01:22:33,482 --> 01:22:36,018
Public Enemy,
Boogie Down Productions.
1608
01:22:36,051 --> 01:22:40,289
They took it on, pass it on.
You got E.P.M.D. comin' out.
1609
01:22:40,323 --> 01:22:42,725
Then you got your
Tribe Called Quest comin' out.
1610
01:22:42,758 --> 01:22:44,927
And then the West Coast
caught some at the same time.
1611
01:22:44,960 --> 01:22:46,929
They catchin' it with Ice-T.
1612
01:22:46,962 --> 01:22:49,398
He grew a part of it.
He's runnin' it now.
1613
01:22:49,432 --> 01:22:51,800
The torch is goin' on
to the next one that goin' on.
1614
01:22:51,834 --> 01:22:54,603
Hip-hop is an element
that was created...
1615
01:22:54,637 --> 01:22:57,005
by the youth from
the street, you know ?
1616
01:22:57,039 --> 01:22:59,708
And we gonna continue
to express that truth...
1617
01:22:59,742 --> 01:23:02,511
and that expression,
that youthful expression.
1618
01:23:02,545 --> 01:23:04,680
[ Pepa ]
I'm just tryin' to see
what it's gonna be like...
1619
01:23:04,713 --> 01:23:07,015
in the year
two-thousand-and-something.
1620
01:23:07,049 --> 01:23:10,619
'Cause it's-- it's always
changin' constantly, you know ?
1621
01:23:10,653 --> 01:23:12,521
Everyone's comin' up
with a new style, new music.
1622
01:23:12,555 --> 01:23:16,325
It's a-- It's adult music
as well now. More.
1623
01:23:16,359 --> 01:23:18,527
But it's still a kid's music,
1624
01:23:18,561 --> 01:23:21,830
so it's something
for the kids to enjoy
and call their own still, so--
1625
01:23:21,864 --> 01:23:25,434
Like for my son to grow up
in the hip-hop, you know,
that would be cool.
1626
01:23:25,468 --> 01:23:27,903
* Never one to chitter-chatter
I'd rather make you phatter *
1627
01:23:27,936 --> 01:23:29,905
* And all that matters
is how we scatter *
1628
01:23:29,938 --> 01:23:31,907
* That's right, I spray
with the words I say *
1629
01:23:31,940 --> 01:23:34,410
* Be it night or day
Never no time to play *
1630
01:23:34,443 --> 01:23:36,412
* Up in the morning
and out to school *
1631
01:23:36,445 --> 01:23:38,981
* 'Cause I'm cool
Mama ain't raisin' no fool **
1632
01:23:39,014 --> 01:23:41,884
* As I combine all
the juice from the mind *
1633
01:23:41,917 --> 01:23:44,353
* Heal up, wheel up
Bring it back *
* Come rewind
1634
01:23:44,387 --> 01:23:46,655
* Powerful impact
from the cannon *
* Boom
1635
01:23:46,689 --> 01:23:49,024
* Not braggin'
Try to read my mind *
* Just imagine
1636
01:23:49,057 --> 01:23:51,727
* Vo-cab-u
* Lary's necessary
1637
01:23:51,760 --> 01:23:54,797
* Went diggin' in to
* My library
1638
01:23:54,830 --> 01:23:56,865
* Oh, my God
* Oh, my God
1639
01:23:56,899 --> 01:23:59,034
* Maybe mine's
too close to want me *
* To Tosh
1640
01:23:59,067 --> 01:24:01,904
* Oh, Oh
* All over the track
boss *
1641
01:24:01,937 --> 01:24:03,906
* Oh, pardon me
* Oh, as I come back *
1642
01:24:03,939 --> 01:24:06,074
* Back in the day
On the boulevard Olympic *
1643
01:24:06,108 --> 01:24:10,579
* We picked up routines
because it was fit
It was I, Phifer *
1644
01:24:10,613 --> 01:24:13,516
* See my super soul
rubbin' at the bumpers *
1645
01:24:13,549 --> 01:24:15,884
* Hey, yo, Tip
Do you recall where
we used to mark walls *
1646
01:24:15,918 --> 01:24:18,787
* [ Indistinct ]
1647
01:24:18,821 --> 01:24:20,756
* Where we at
* Nashville in the house
Check it out *
1648
01:24:20,789 --> 01:24:23,626
* Where we at
* Tennessee in the house
Check it out *
1649
01:24:23,659 --> 01:24:25,994
* Where we at
* Nashville in the house
1650
01:24:26,028 --> 01:24:29,632
* Here we go, yo
Check the rhymes, yo
Here we go, yo *
1651
01:24:29,665 --> 01:24:33,636
* Check the rhymes, yo
Here we go, yo
Check the rhymes, yo *
1652
01:24:33,669 --> 01:24:36,071
* Check it out
* Check it out
1653
01:24:36,104 --> 01:24:39,442
* And, Nashville
check the rhymes, yo **
1654
01:24:39,475 --> 01:24:43,812
[ Audience Cheering ]
1655
01:24:45,914 --> 01:24:49,652
- Everybody put a peace sign
up in the air.
- Raise your hand !
1656
01:24:49,685 --> 01:24:52,888
Put that shit up high.
1657
01:24:52,921 --> 01:24:56,525
I want y'all to say,
"We need peace,"
in rhythm with us.
1658
01:24:56,559 --> 01:24:59,828
* Say, we need peace
Come on *
1659
01:25:01,897 --> 01:25:03,932
* Say, we need peace
Come on *
1660
01:25:03,966 --> 01:25:06,569
* We need peace
Put your hands high !
1661
01:25:06,602 --> 01:25:08,704
* Tribe Called Quest
We got *
* Peace on our side
1662
01:25:08,737 --> 01:25:11,574
* Busta Rhymes comin'
We got *
* Peace on our side
1663
01:25:11,607 --> 01:25:14,543
* The Fugees got the score
We got *
* Peace on our side
1664
01:25:14,577 --> 01:25:17,546
* One love, one love, one love
one love, one love *
1665
01:25:17,580 --> 01:25:20,516
* One love, one love, one love
one love, one love *
1666
01:25:20,549 --> 01:25:22,951
* One love, one love
one love, one love *
1667
01:25:22,985 --> 01:25:24,987
* One love, one love
one love, one love **
1668
01:25:25,020 --> 01:25:30,559
I know that hip-hop
is the representation
of this oppressed culture,
1669
01:25:30,593 --> 01:25:33,195
and I will represent that
till the day I die.
1670
01:25:33,228 --> 01:25:36,965
[ Film Projector Rolling ]
1671
01:25:40,235 --> 01:25:43,606
And don't ever shoot
a documentary without
the Lost Boyz and Dogg Pound.
1672
01:25:43,639 --> 01:25:46,842
It just won't happen.
That's why I'm glad Miramax
did this film, you know ?
1673
01:25:46,875 --> 01:25:49,845
Back in the day,
biting used to be a crime.
1674
01:25:49,878 --> 01:25:52,648
You know how many bites
of Snoop there is ?
There's mad bites of Snoop.
1675
01:25:52,681 --> 01:25:55,217
Snoop's the original.
You can't bite him. He's dope.
1676
01:25:55,250 --> 01:25:58,086
Onyx is the original,
but everybody wants to change
their voice now...
1677
01:25:58,120 --> 01:26:00,656
and rhyme like this.
1678
01:26:00,689 --> 01:26:03,959
Onyx is the original.
They're dope.
You can't front on them.
1679
01:26:03,992 --> 01:26:06,895
And we went through that same
experience early in the game,
1680
01:26:06,929 --> 01:26:08,897
but, I'm sayin',
we realized that, yo,
you know what I'm sayin' ?
1681
01:26:08,931 --> 01:26:11,600
The best way to do something.
That's powerful, ain't it ?
1682
01:26:11,634 --> 01:26:15,170
[ Chuckling ]
You know what I mean ?
Hold it in, baby.
1683
01:26:15,203 --> 01:26:18,774
The best-- The best way
to do something
is to do it yourself.
1684
01:26:18,807 --> 01:26:22,244
If I make enough money,
I'm outta here.
You understand what I'm sayin' ?
1685
01:26:22,277 --> 01:26:26,915
Because I've lived
in the ghetto all my life.
I've been here and done that.
1686
01:26:26,949 --> 01:26:30,619
And there's a bigger world
out there. There's a lot
of shit to get, and I want it.
1687
01:26:30,653 --> 01:26:33,822
Check all the honeys out though.
You gotta get this on the movie.
1688
01:26:33,856 --> 01:26:36,692
This is a movie, baby.
You see that right there ?
They're filmin' right now.
1689
01:26:36,725 --> 01:26:40,529
The making of Rhyme and Reason.
1690
01:26:40,563 --> 01:26:43,198
And squeezin'.
[ Chuckles ]
1691
01:26:43,231 --> 01:26:46,602
Uh, the critics out there
can basically, like,
1692
01:26:46,635 --> 01:26:50,606
kiss my ass straight up
because they know nothing
about what goes into this.
1693
01:26:50,639 --> 01:26:52,875
They're just people
with a nine-to-five...
1694
01:26:52,908 --> 01:26:54,276
behind a fuckin' typewriter
and a CD player,
1695
01:26:54,309 --> 01:26:57,145
listenin' to it
and critiquing it.
1696
01:26:57,179 --> 01:27:01,950
"Bring The Noise" was on
the "Less than Zero" soundtrack.
You're Dr. Dre.
1697
01:27:01,984 --> 01:27:06,555
And, uh-- And, uh,
that's part of the clip, right,
you could use, right ?
1698
01:27:06,589 --> 01:27:08,657
I'll be Dre for a day.
Dre day.
1699
01:27:08,691 --> 01:27:12,861
This is what you call
a Biz Markie breakfast.
1700
01:27:12,895 --> 01:27:15,831
You pour the Crispix
in the bowl.
1701
01:27:15,864 --> 01:27:18,867
Right ?
1702
01:27:18,901 --> 01:27:21,704
You get a whole bunch
of sugar,
1703
01:27:21,737 --> 01:27:25,874
'cause I'm a--
I'm a junk-food junkie,
everybody.
1704
01:27:25,908 --> 01:27:28,777
Everybody got this on film ?
1705
01:27:28,811 --> 01:27:32,147
Still got it on film ?
1706
01:27:32,180 --> 01:27:34,249
You pray.
1707
01:27:34,282 --> 01:27:37,252
* Because I'm true
to this rap *
1708
01:27:37,285 --> 01:27:41,189
Now.
1709
01:27:41,223 --> 01:27:44,159
You rock, and we bouncin'.
We still bouncin.
1710
01:27:44,192 --> 01:27:47,295
I dare say, I wanna thank
your mother for givin' you
a butt like that.
1711
01:27:47,329 --> 01:27:50,132
You know where the bathroom at ?
I had-- I had to go
to the gym and did this.
1712
01:27:50,165 --> 01:27:54,136
[ Chattering ]
1713
01:27:54,169 --> 01:27:57,105
You had to have had
political power...
1714
01:27:57,139 --> 01:28:00,075
in the culture of hip-hop
to grab the mike,
1715
01:28:00,108 --> 01:28:04,012
to step out
onto the cardboard
and break dance.
1716
01:28:04,046 --> 01:28:06,649
Watch the light.
[ Glass Shattering ]
1717
01:28:06,682 --> 01:28:09,217
Yo, radio's very important.
Very, very important.
1718
01:28:09,251 --> 01:28:12,688
You know, airplay,
to be heard.
[ Phone Ringing ]
1719
01:28:12,721 --> 01:28:14,923
[ Man ]
How do you experience--
[ Ringing Continues ]
1720
01:28:17,425 --> 01:28:21,764
Everybody in this motherfucker
got a dark thing to him.
1721
01:28:21,797 --> 01:28:25,367
Some of y'all motherfuckers
do some things you don't want
me to know about, right ?
1722
01:28:25,400 --> 01:28:27,770
But on my album,
I'm doin' it all,
1723
01:28:27,803 --> 01:28:29,872
and I'm lettin' you
know about it, you know
what I'm sayin' ?
1724
01:28:29,905 --> 01:28:33,208
It ain't about--
When you journey my shit,
you need flashlights.
1725
01:28:33,241 --> 01:28:35,243
You wanna enter my mind,
you need flashlights.
1726
01:28:35,277 --> 01:28:38,681
You want to enter my realm,
you need flashlights.
1727
01:28:38,714 --> 01:28:43,686
'Cause it's dark over here.
Word.
1728
01:28:43,719 --> 01:28:46,421
And that's about it.
We be back.
1729
01:28:46,454 --> 01:28:50,793
* Even though phat LPs
Can make a nigga Gs *
1730
01:28:50,826 --> 01:28:51,860
* Real hip-hop *
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