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These are the user uploaded subtitles that are being translated: 1 00:00:06,965 --> 00:00:08,258            [cars honking] 2 00:00:17,392 --> 00:00:19,060        [Ralph] Video Music Box                 is the place to be. 3 00:00:19,102 --> 00:00:20,895             And you can see                    they got it going on. 4 00:00:20,937 --> 00:00:22,480          I'm VJ Ralph McDaniels                   doing my thing. 5 00:00:23,940 --> 00:00:28,528           [indistinct rapping] 6 00:00:28,570 --> 00:00:31,406      [Ralph]   Recorded live from              Miss Jones' birthday party, 7 00:00:31,448 --> 00:00:33,783          Nas and Biggie Smalls                    getting wrecked. 8 00:00:33,825 --> 00:00:36,786         [indistinct rapping] 9 00:00:50,008 --> 00:00:54,095    So what happened was somebody--      they was fighting behind me. 10 00:00:54,137 --> 00:00:55,805            -[Ralph] Yeah.                      -And stuff flew. 11 00:00:55,847 --> 00:00:58,183     And my boy tried to be smooth          with it in wiping me off. 12 00:00:58,224 --> 00:01:00,435       They say, "Yo, why is he          touching your head like that?" 13 00:01:01,811 --> 00:01:04,564         [indistinct rapping] 14 00:01:04,606 --> 00:01:06,107         [Nas]   And me and Big                   were starting a crew 15 00:01:06,149 --> 00:01:07,776         called The Goodfellas                    at the time. 16 00:01:07,817 --> 00:01:09,861    That-- That's why we said that,               Goodfellas. 17 00:01:09,903 --> 00:01:11,905               When I look                       at clips like that, 18 00:01:11,946 --> 00:01:15,617          I'm, like, it's, like,             a miracle that someone knew 19 00:01:15,658 --> 00:01:19,079             that they should                      be taping that. 20 00:01:19,120 --> 00:01:21,122         Those are lost moments,                      you know? 21 00:01:21,164 --> 00:01:23,625      They could easily be forgotten              moments forever 22 00:01:23,666 --> 00:01:26,086         if nobody had a camera. 23 00:01:26,127 --> 00:01:28,963           But Ralph McDaniels                   and   Video Music Box 24 00:01:29,005 --> 00:01:31,925        were there, capturing it. 25 00:01:31,966 --> 00:01:35,637             I go back in a time           where there being a chance 26 00:01:35,678 --> 00:01:40,016       to get seen, get noticed,                    be heard. 27 00:01:40,058 --> 00:01:42,018             That was big. 28 00:01:42,060 --> 00:01:44,604             This is a story                    that needs to be told. 29 00:01:44,646 --> 00:01:47,315         A story that I've always                  wanted to tell. 30 00:01:47,357 --> 00:01:48,483        [Gladys]   Hey, you know,                  everybody is talking 31 00:01:48,525 --> 00:01:50,110  about the good old days, right? 32 00:01:50,151 --> 00:01:51,986      Everybody, the good old days, 33 00:01:52,028 --> 00:01:53,780            the good old days. 34 00:01:53,822 --> 00:01:56,866             Well, let's talk                  about the good old days. 35 00:01:56,908 --> 00:02:00,120           Come to think of it               as bad as we think they are, 36 00:02:00,161 --> 00:02:03,998        these will become the good            old days for our children. 37 00:02:07,335 --> 00:02:08,336          [record scratches] 38 00:02:11,172 --> 00:02:13,174                 Backstage,                       Spitkicker's tour. 39 00:02:13,216 --> 00:02:14,175         Mos Def, what's up, baby? 40 00:02:14,217 --> 00:02:15,677             What's up, Ralph? 41 00:02:15,718 --> 00:02:17,095       Now what were you saying                     about Dream? 42 00:02:17,137 --> 00:02:20,181     Shit. I'm on Video Music Box. 43 00:02:20,223 --> 00:02:23,309           -Fuck everything.                            -[laughs] 44 00:02:23,351 --> 00:02:25,854        This is a magic moment. 45 00:02:25,895 --> 00:02:27,272        Like fireworks and shit 46 00:02:27,313 --> 00:02:28,982           -should be going off.                -You just arrived. 47 00:02:29,023 --> 00:02:31,025             Oh, man, I'm here. 48 00:02:31,067 --> 00:02:32,527             -Hey, look, man.                 -I want give a shoutout. 49 00:02:32,569 --> 00:02:35,488               -Oh, shit!                           -Yes! Go! Go! 50 00:02:35,530 --> 00:02:37,866         [upbeat music plays] 51 00:02:37,907 --> 00:02:39,701             Video Music Box                     got it going on. 52 00:02:39,742 --> 00:02:40,743        We in here at the Ark. 53 00:02:40,785 --> 00:02:42,203        We got some shoutouts. 54 00:02:42,245 --> 00:02:43,997       -[Tuffy] How old are you?                    -I'm 22. 55 00:02:44,038 --> 00:02:46,332  Just got off the plane from LA. 56 00:02:46,374 --> 00:02:49,210         Praise God I made it                   without crashing. 57 00:02:49,252 --> 00:02:51,588       It's Greg Nice and Scooter D         And we came to rock a spot 58 00:02:51,629 --> 00:02:53,173               So won't you                       take our advice 59 00:02:53,214 --> 00:02:54,215           And turn to the box 60 00:02:54,257 --> 00:02:56,384          -[man] Go, Biggie.                            -What? 61 00:02:56,426 --> 00:02:59,345         [indistinct rapping] 62 00:03:03,057 --> 00:03:04,726  Yo, what's up? We're Run-D.M.C. 63 00:03:04,767 --> 00:03:06,561        When we ain't chillin'                  in Jamaica Park, 64 00:03:06,603 --> 00:03:08,438        we chillin' out looking               at   Video Music Box   . 65 00:03:08,479 --> 00:03:09,898                -Word.                               -Word. 66 00:03:09,939 --> 00:03:11,733        Yeah, to all the killers 67 00:03:11,774 --> 00:03:13,735     And a hundred dollar billas 68 00:03:13,776 --> 00:03:15,486      What's up? This is 50 Cent              on   Video Music Box   , 69 00:03:15,528 --> 00:03:16,654      the number one video show. 70 00:03:16,696 --> 00:03:18,573         Bet, take that. What! 71 00:03:18,615 --> 00:03:20,742            I'm just an addict                   addicted to music 72 00:03:20,783 --> 00:03:22,911             Maybe as a habit,                      I gotta use it 73 00:03:22,952 --> 00:03:24,245               [Daymond]                     Coming home, racing home, 74 00:03:24,287 --> 00:03:25,580  and getting in there and hearing 75 00:03:25,622 --> 00:03:26,831      that opening theme song... 76 00:03:26,873 --> 00:03:28,249             [vocalizing] 77 00:03:28,291 --> 00:03:29,709             [vocalizing] 78 00:03:29,751 --> 00:03:31,044             [vocalizing] 79 00:03:31,085 --> 00:03:32,253             [vocalizing] 80 00:03:32,295 --> 00:03:33,421             [vocalizing] 81 00:03:33,463 --> 00:03:35,423        It's like you look up. 82 00:03:35,465 --> 00:03:36,674          Video Music Box   is on. 83 00:03:36,716 --> 00:03:37,842  And then, you know, that's it. 84 00:03:37,884 --> 00:03:38,843         You're shutting down. 85 00:03:38,885 --> 00:03:41,971           [upbeat music plays] 86 00:04:14,254 --> 00:04:15,630  [Ed]   Give you a little history 87 00:04:15,672 --> 00:04:18,132      about television in New York. 88 00:04:20,510 --> 00:04:22,303       We didn't always have cable. 89 00:04:22,345 --> 00:04:25,974          There was Channel 2,                Channel 4, Channel 5. 90 00:04:26,015 --> 00:04:27,976               7, 9, 11. 91 00:04:28,017 --> 00:04:29,435           13, educational. 92 00:04:29,477 --> 00:04:30,895       And then for some reason,                    it jumped 93 00:04:30,937 --> 00:04:32,897            from 13 to 31. 94 00:04:32,939 --> 00:04:34,732         Nas, why did you do it? 95 00:04:34,774 --> 00:04:36,317         You know you got the mad                    fat fluid 96 00:04:36,359 --> 00:04:38,069              When you rhyme,                      it's halftime 97 00:04:38,111 --> 00:04:39,821       [Nas]   And the U Channel,                 whatever that meant, 98 00:04:39,862 --> 00:04:41,656       you go to the other knob 99 00:04:41,698 --> 00:04:43,741            and find these                    outer space channels 100 00:04:43,783 --> 00:04:45,910  that don't-- just white noise. 101 00:04:45,952 --> 00:04:48,454            Empty channels.                 They were empty channels. 102 00:04:48,496 --> 00:04:50,957                  Dance,                       get up and get with it 103 00:04:50,999 --> 00:04:53,334              Shante is here                  to take care of business 104 00:04:53,376 --> 00:04:55,670            So plug up the mic                and stack the dough, yo 105 00:04:55,712 --> 00:04:57,005      [Roxanne]   It's almost like                  cracking a safe. 106 00:04:57,046 --> 00:04:58,965  When you finally get that right 107 00:04:59,007 --> 00:05:00,591  little combination, you be like, 108 00:05:00,633 --> 00:05:02,302           "Don't touch it. 109 00:05:02,343 --> 00:05:03,803               So this way                when   Video Music Box   comes on, 110 00:05:03,845 --> 00:05:05,680           we can see it clear. 111 00:05:05,722 --> 00:05:08,099              I got it made,                I got it made, I got it made 112 00:05:08,141 --> 00:05:09,392           [Tuffy]   You'd pick up                    the telephone, 113 00:05:09,434 --> 00:05:10,476          "Yo,   Video Music Box   . 114 00:05:10,518 --> 00:05:13,396        Channel 31 on the UHF dial. 115 00:05:13,438 --> 00:05:15,440       He's playing music videos                   right now. 116 00:05:15,481 --> 00:05:17,150           He's playing hip-hop."                 We were going crazy. 117 00:05:17,191 --> 00:05:18,234       We were losing our minds. 118 00:05:18,276 --> 00:05:20,236              You was fly once 119 00:05:20,278 --> 00:05:21,487                Now you're losing                all your fronts, yeah 120 00:05:21,529 --> 00:05:22,822            Started off light 121 00:05:22,864 --> 00:05:24,198     On the tip of woolie blunts 122 00:05:24,240 --> 00:05:25,533          But now you get a stripe 123 00:05:25,575 --> 00:05:26,868          Graduated to the pipe 124 00:05:26,909 --> 00:05:29,037     Took a long pull, hype, yeah 125 00:05:29,078 --> 00:05:31,706           You started off,                  R. Kelly produced you. 126 00:05:31,748 --> 00:05:34,375               -Mm-hmm.                      -And you got out there. 127 00:05:34,417 --> 00:05:36,127       And, I mean, he's produced      a couple of projects this year 128 00:05:36,169 --> 00:05:38,338        but yours was the most            successful outside of his own 129 00:05:38,379 --> 00:05:39,505           -that he's done.                    -[Aaliyah chuckles] 130 00:05:39,547 --> 00:05:41,174       And, of course, you know, 131 00:05:41,215 --> 00:05:43,217     there was some controversies                   going on, 132 00:05:43,259 --> 00:05:44,886     so I'm gonna cut to the chase         and we're gonna get it off. 133 00:05:44,927 --> 00:05:46,721       I know everybody asks it. 134 00:05:46,763 --> 00:05:48,723         What is the situation                'cause we don't know? 135 00:05:48,765 --> 00:05:50,725  Okay. Well, I'll let you know-- 136 00:05:50,767 --> 00:05:54,228        -to let you know-- no.                     -[laughter] 137 00:05:54,270 --> 00:05:55,813       But, no, really. I wanna                let everybody know 138 00:05:55,855 --> 00:05:57,023          that it's not true. 139 00:05:57,065 --> 00:05:59,233  I'm Aaliyah, not Aaliyah Kelly. 140 00:05:59,275 --> 00:06:02,570         Video Music Box   in the '80s            was must-see TV. 141 00:06:02,612 --> 00:06:05,198        You made an appointment.             You watch   Video Music Box   . 142 00:06:05,239 --> 00:06:07,450     You watch Ralph's interviews. 143 00:06:07,492 --> 00:06:09,827          LL Cool J. Well, LL                stands for ladies love, 144 00:06:09,869 --> 00:06:11,496          legend in leather,                     long and lean, 145 00:06:11,537 --> 00:06:13,623            love of ladies,                last of the red hot lovers. 146 00:06:13,664 --> 00:06:15,750         Looking for little,                  level-headed leader. 147 00:06:15,792 --> 00:06:17,877                [Wendy]                      And you watch the videos. 148 00:06:17,919 --> 00:06:19,504      And then he gets into parties. 149 00:06:19,545 --> 00:06:22,340              Video Music Box                    broadcasting live 150 00:06:22,382 --> 00:06:24,467       from the Peppermint Lounge          in East Orange, New Jersey. 151 00:06:24,509 --> 00:06:25,551          I'm Wendy Williams. 152 00:06:25,593 --> 00:06:26,677         You can see the parties. 153 00:06:26,719 --> 00:06:28,596           ...in full effect 154 00:06:28,638 --> 00:06:30,223      [Wendy]   And you know where             you wanna be the next week 155 00:06:30,264 --> 00:06:31,724        if you can gain access. 156 00:06:31,766 --> 00:06:34,268     [Shaggy]    Mr. Lover lover 157 00:06:34,310 --> 00:06:37,188           Mr. Lover lover. Oh 158 00:06:37,230 --> 00:06:40,024          Mr. Lover lover. Hmm 159 00:06:40,066 --> 00:06:41,275             Sexy mothafucka 160 00:06:41,317 --> 00:06:43,069           [crowd cheering] 161 00:06:43,111 --> 00:06:44,404     She call me Mr. Boombastic 162 00:06:44,445 --> 00:06:45,905            Tell me fantastic 163 00:06:45,947 --> 00:06:47,532              We've been                    in the gutters together. 164 00:06:47,573 --> 00:06:48,950               -Exactly.                  -It's nice to do all of this. 165 00:06:48,991 --> 00:06:50,118      And now we back up in here. 166 00:06:50,159 --> 00:06:51,953      I did a song called "Big Up". 167 00:06:51,994 --> 00:06:54,247            And that's how I got             the whole idea for "Big Up" 168 00:06:54,288 --> 00:06:56,040          by everybody going                      on the mic saying... 169 00:06:56,082 --> 00:06:58,126           Big up. Big up. Easy. 170 00:06:58,167 --> 00:07:00,211        This just came together            like my man, Doug E Fresh. 171 00:07:00,253 --> 00:07:01,754         And all of the beautiful                   women out here 172 00:07:01,796 --> 00:07:03,589     who came together just to have               a good time, 173 00:07:03,631 --> 00:07:05,049       celebrate the overweight                  lovers' party. 174 00:07:05,091 --> 00:07:06,050                We out. 175 00:07:06,092 --> 00:07:07,510        Actually seeing people 176 00:07:07,552 --> 00:07:08,845             that look like you, 177 00:07:08,886 --> 00:07:12,390       unapologetically hip hop 178 00:07:12,432 --> 00:07:14,350            and, and Black, 179 00:07:14,392 --> 00:07:17,311        it empowered the whole,                you know, culture. 180 00:07:17,353 --> 00:07:19,564       We got the Wu right here,       my man Raekwon up in this piece. 181 00:07:19,605 --> 00:07:21,190      Peace. Peace. What's poppin'? 182 00:07:21,232 --> 00:07:22,859      -Good to see you, brother.                 -He had perfect pop. 183 00:07:22,900 --> 00:07:24,026         He's the first uncle. 184 00:07:24,068 --> 00:07:25,194       Everybody thought hip-hop 185 00:07:25,236 --> 00:07:26,779  wasn't really gonna do nothing. 186 00:07:26,821 --> 00:07:28,114         They thought it was just                 going to be a phase, 187 00:07:28,156 --> 00:07:29,866       like, "Man, it's over with." 188 00:07:29,907 --> 00:07:33,369         No, Ralph carried it                on his back like Santa. 189 00:07:33,411 --> 00:07:35,329     [Ralph]   Heavy D and The Boyz. 190 00:07:35,371 --> 00:07:37,165            I'm rough and tough                  and all that stuff 191 00:07:37,206 --> 00:07:38,291            I'll make you dance                      and prance 192 00:07:38,332 --> 00:07:39,834        As a rapper, you had to get 193 00:07:39,876 --> 00:07:41,669       your videos on his show. 194 00:07:41,711 --> 00:07:43,588        If you didn't get on there,           you didn't matter. 195 00:07:43,629 --> 00:07:45,423               Sucker you missed                I put feelings aside 196 00:07:45,465 --> 00:07:47,842                I know who I am                      My name is Lyte 197 00:07:47,884 --> 00:07:49,510            Is your name Sam? 198 00:07:49,552 --> 00:07:50,636         [Willie]   My earliest                   memories of hip-hop 199 00:07:50,678 --> 00:07:53,681  are frankly from Ralph McDaniels 200 00:07:53,723 --> 00:07:55,600          and   Video Music Box   . 201 00:07:55,641 --> 00:07:57,810         And he was playing music 202 00:07:57,852 --> 00:07:59,770             that we couldn't get                      our hands on. 203 00:07:59,812 --> 00:08:01,731  I try to explain this to my kids 204 00:08:01,772 --> 00:08:03,608     that we didn't have everything              at our fingertips. 205 00:08:03,649 --> 00:08:07,195              We all knew                     there was no coverage 206 00:08:07,236 --> 00:08:09,322          of our rap heroes. 207 00:08:09,363 --> 00:08:14,076        And that if they would              just give us five seconds 208 00:08:14,118 --> 00:08:18,206            of The Fat Boys               on-- on national television, 209 00:08:18,247 --> 00:08:20,374  we were waiting, I was waiting. 210 00:08:20,416 --> 00:08:22,251       Somebody had to start it. 211 00:08:22,293 --> 00:08:25,421            It's like Moses                     and the apostles. 212 00:08:25,463 --> 00:08:27,673           Video Music Box                        has that impact. 213 00:08:27,715 --> 00:08:31,969      It's that biblical for us,                    you know? 214 00:08:32,011 --> 00:08:36,474     These legends that gave birth              to a whole world. 215 00:08:36,516 --> 00:08:39,310           Summer Jam, really,                you need to be like-- 216 00:08:39,352 --> 00:08:41,229  to have like the records ready. 217 00:08:41,270 --> 00:08:44,398             It just always kept                  its credibility. 218 00:08:44,440 --> 00:08:46,025                [Ralph]                     Welcome to   Video Music Box   . 219 00:08:46,067 --> 00:08:47,401           Today a special show 220 00:08:47,443 --> 00:08:49,403                 recorded                      at Rahway State Prison. 221 00:08:49,445 --> 00:08:52,573               [Sabrina]                      It was always authentic. 222 00:08:52,615 --> 00:08:56,827          Whatever was happening                 in the neighborhood 223 00:08:56,869 --> 00:08:59,080           was gonna happen                    on   Video Music Box. 224 00:08:59,121 --> 00:09:02,083  [Willie] Video Music Box   to me            is an underrated piece, 225 00:09:02,124 --> 00:09:04,001  not just of the story of hip-hop 226 00:09:04,043 --> 00:09:06,170           but of the story                   of American culture. 227 00:09:06,212 --> 00:09:08,089     Like that, I gotta like that 228 00:09:08,130 --> 00:09:10,049           I need it like that,                 I love it like that 229 00:09:10,091 --> 00:09:12,093           I made it like that,                 I know it like that 230 00:09:12,134 --> 00:09:14,220          I don't feel like that,               I hide it like that 231 00:09:14,262 --> 00:09:15,846          I'm rockin' like that,               I'm feeling like that 232 00:09:15,888 --> 00:09:17,557     I'll take it like that, yeah 233 00:09:17,598 --> 00:09:20,351    Yo, you're looking at the best              MC in the world. 234 00:09:20,393 --> 00:09:22,186      -You know what I'm saying?                 -Yo, what's up? 235 00:09:22,228 --> 00:09:24,480          This is Kool Keith               from the Ultramagnetic MCs. 236 00:09:24,522 --> 00:09:25,982     And I'm with my main protégé. 237 00:09:26,023 --> 00:09:27,567               Money D.                     You know what I'm saying? 238 00:09:27,608 --> 00:09:29,694      Yo, this is my man Craig G. 239 00:09:29,735 --> 00:09:31,153      And this is DJ Mister Cee. 240 00:09:31,195 --> 00:09:32,572      He DJs for Big Daddy Kane. 241 00:09:32,613 --> 00:09:34,740           Hello, everybody.                My name is Doug E. Fresh. 242 00:09:34,782 --> 00:09:37,118            -And we are...                    -The Get Fresh Crew. 243 00:09:37,159 --> 00:09:38,536          Yo, I'm Teddy Ted. 244 00:09:38,578 --> 00:09:40,204           And I'm Special K                    of the Awesome 2. 245 00:09:40,246 --> 00:09:41,581          And we're chilling                 with triple number one. 246 00:09:41,622 --> 00:09:42,873       This my man Steady Pace. 247 00:09:42,915 --> 00:09:44,417      And this my man, Masta Ace. 248 00:09:44,458 --> 00:09:46,919             I'm MC Shan,                  the crowned prince of rap. 249 00:09:46,961 --> 00:09:49,505     And I'm the royal microphone,            Lord Big Daddy Kane. 250 00:09:49,547 --> 00:09:52,133        And I'm Cutmaster Cool V            and you know I do damage. 251 00:09:52,174 --> 00:09:53,801           And we're rocking                      with the box. 252 00:09:53,843 --> 00:09:55,636          When we ain't out                    cooking hibachi... 253 00:09:55,678 --> 00:09:57,221              [laughter] 254 00:09:57,263 --> 00:09:59,557        -With Barry Manilow...               -[laughter continues] 255 00:09:59,599 --> 00:10:01,976     And stealing gummi bears from               grocery stores. 256 00:10:02,018 --> 00:10:03,811  You are watching   Video Music Box 257 00:10:03,853 --> 00:10:06,397         with Ralph McDaniels                 and the VidGrownup. 258 00:10:06,439 --> 00:10:07,982              [laughter] 259 00:10:08,024 --> 00:10:10,234    It basically became a religion,            all jokes aside. 260 00:10:10,276 --> 00:10:11,611             It was something                   that we couldn't miss. 261 00:10:11,652 --> 00:10:13,654  You turned   Video Music Box   on, 262 00:10:13,696 --> 00:10:15,489               you was like,                  "This happened Saturday. 263 00:10:15,531 --> 00:10:17,408      That happened Friday. This--" 264 00:10:17,450 --> 00:10:20,119         and then he was there                 and they was there. 265 00:10:20,161 --> 00:10:22,330          It was revolutionary. 266 00:10:22,371 --> 00:10:24,123         It was revolutionary. 267 00:10:24,165 --> 00:10:26,292  -You know we didn't have WHT...               -That's right. 268 00:10:26,334 --> 00:10:28,127       Well, Mecca Home Theater                for you--for you guys 269 00:10:28,169 --> 00:10:29,462      -that don't remember that.                    -That's right. 270 00:10:29,503 --> 00:10:31,964               And HBO.                You know we had Ralph McDaniels. 271 00:10:32,006 --> 00:10:33,633     That's the only thing we had. 272 00:10:33,674 --> 00:10:35,176      You know,   Video Music Box   .                  The VidKid. 273 00:10:35,217 --> 00:10:36,510        I'm VJ Ralph McDaniels. 274 00:10:36,552 --> 00:10:38,012          And I'm the VidKid. 275 00:10:38,054 --> 00:10:40,181              Right here                  where you keep the music at. 276 00:10:40,222 --> 00:10:42,850               -Video...                           -Music Box. 277 00:10:42,892 --> 00:10:46,479        [Sway]   Ralph McDaniels             and his partner, visionaries. 278 00:10:46,520 --> 00:10:49,690      Man, I guarantee you, they had       no idea where this would lead. 279 00:10:49,732 --> 00:10:52,526      There was something divine             speaking through them. 280 00:10:52,568 --> 00:10:54,362         Yeah.   Video Music Box                    doing it up, 281 00:10:54,403 --> 00:10:56,906               backstage                    at the Spitkicker's tour. 282 00:10:56,947 --> 00:10:58,366            It's going down                  like that. My man Black 283 00:10:58,407 --> 00:10:59,992          throwing the place.                   What's up, baby? 284 00:11:00,034 --> 00:11:01,535           What's the word?                  What's the word, baby? 285 00:11:01,577 --> 00:11:03,287       [Lionel] Video Music Box                 started with Ralph. 286 00:11:03,329 --> 00:11:05,331           It was Ralph's idea.                 It was Ralph's baby. 287 00:11:05,373 --> 00:11:08,376       [Ralph] Three, two, one. 288 00:11:08,417 --> 00:11:11,379            New York City,                     in the place to be. 289 00:11:11,420 --> 00:11:13,881           Hi. I'm your VJ,                     Ralph McDaniels. 290 00:11:13,923 --> 00:11:18,052  Tonight,   Video Music Box   kicks      it live from the South Bronx. 291 00:11:18,094 --> 00:11:20,721       It's the 10th anniversary               of the Disco Fever. 292 00:11:20,763 --> 00:11:23,391          So if you're ready,                    let's get busy. 293 00:11:26,268 --> 00:11:27,728  [Nas]   State your name, gangster. 294 00:11:27,770 --> 00:11:29,647      [chuckles]   Ralph McDaniels, 295 00:11:29,689 --> 00:11:34,235     R-A-L-P-H M-C-D-A-N-I-E-L-S. 296 00:11:39,073 --> 00:11:41,784        I was born in Brooklyn,                Brooklyn Hospital, 297 00:11:41,826 --> 00:11:43,703        in Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn. 298 00:11:43,744 --> 00:11:45,287       My parents are from the-- 299 00:11:45,329 --> 00:11:47,289          one is from the Caribbean,                 Trinidad, 300 00:11:47,331 --> 00:11:50,376         and one is from down south,              American Indian. 301 00:11:50,418 --> 00:11:52,545               [singer]                      We live in Brooklyn, baby 302 00:11:52,586 --> 00:11:54,755      [Ernie]   Brooklyn was rough. 303 00:11:54,797 --> 00:11:57,091           A lot of people talk                     about the '60s 304 00:11:57,133 --> 00:11:59,427           as though it was all                   hippies and love. 305 00:11:59,468 --> 00:12:02,930         Nah. That never reached                  to where we were. 306 00:12:02,972 --> 00:12:04,515  There was no hearts and flowers 307 00:12:04,557 --> 00:12:07,768         and girls with long hair               singing-- no, no. 308 00:12:07,810 --> 00:12:10,104        It was-- It was rough. 309 00:12:10,146 --> 00:12:13,107        [Ed]   Totally different                 from what it is today. 310 00:12:13,149 --> 00:12:16,777         You know, you had a lot                 of heroin back then. 311 00:12:16,819 --> 00:12:20,614           In the projects,                  it was pretty intense. 312 00:12:20,656 --> 00:12:22,032         A lot of street life. 313 00:12:23,993 --> 00:12:25,870        [Ralph]   My grandmother                    and grandfather 314 00:12:25,911 --> 00:12:27,872           owned the house that                we lived in in Brooklyn. 315 00:12:27,913 --> 00:12:29,540              A brownstone. 316 00:12:29,582 --> 00:12:31,250           Everybody that lived                in our house was family. 317 00:12:31,292 --> 00:12:33,461       You know, a cousin lived                 on the top floor. 318 00:12:33,502 --> 00:12:35,546            My uncle lived                    on the second floor. 319 00:12:35,588 --> 00:12:37,339      You know, everybody had their         own entrance and everything. 320 00:12:37,381 --> 00:12:39,008        But we knew each other. 321 00:12:40,843 --> 00:12:44,972            My mom is born                    in the United States. 322 00:12:45,014 --> 00:12:46,432      She's the first generation. 323 00:12:46,474 --> 00:12:48,476            Everybody else                     came from Trinidad. 324 00:12:48,517 --> 00:12:51,979       She's like a hard worker. 325 00:12:52,021 --> 00:12:55,816      Trinidadians have 20 jobs,               if you don't know. 326 00:12:55,858 --> 00:12:57,735          I'm a Trinidadian.                 I have that in me too. 327 00:12:57,777 --> 00:13:00,196     I have 20 jobs all the time. 328 00:13:00,237 --> 00:13:02,114          My grandmother's house                   is also the spot 329 00:13:02,156 --> 00:13:03,616          where if you're coming                 from the Caribbean, 330 00:13:03,657 --> 00:13:05,785         you can use our address. 331 00:13:05,826 --> 00:13:07,620    So-- 'cause you had to, "Where                 you going?" 332 00:13:07,661 --> 00:13:09,330      You get to the Immigration,           "Well, what's the address 333 00:13:09,371 --> 00:13:11,123         that you're going to?                You need an address." 334 00:13:11,165 --> 00:13:14,585        So all of these people             were coming from Trinidad. 335 00:13:14,627 --> 00:13:16,086  One of them is Geoffrey Holder. 336 00:13:16,128 --> 00:13:17,505        Never had it, never will. 337 00:13:17,546 --> 00:13:19,965                  -Why?                                 -Why? 338 00:13:20,007 --> 00:13:22,176           Why? Good question. 339 00:13:22,218 --> 00:13:23,344              [chuckles] 340 00:13:23,385 --> 00:13:26,972         [upbeat music plays] 341 00:13:27,014 --> 00:13:29,809      [Yvonne]   My cousin Geoffrey                came to New York, 342 00:13:29,850 --> 00:13:32,019  and where was he going to stay?                At Uncle Johnny's. 343 00:13:32,061 --> 00:13:34,855        And that was, you know-- he   lived with us for quite a while. 344 00:13:37,066 --> 00:13:40,027           [Geoffrey laughs] 345 00:13:42,238 --> 00:13:43,823        He's in the Bond movie. 346 00:13:43,864 --> 00:13:44,907     He's in-- He's in, you know, 347 00:13:44,949 --> 00:13:46,534    all of these different things. 348 00:13:46,575 --> 00:13:48,869       And it's like Geoffrey's                 a big deal, man. 349 00:13:48,911 --> 00:13:50,246         Like he's a painter. 350 00:13:50,287 --> 00:13:51,747       He's a writer, you know? 351 00:13:51,789 --> 00:13:54,208            And he's become                 this New York socialite. 352 00:13:54,250 --> 00:13:57,378          And that's, you know,                  my mother's cousin. 353 00:13:57,419 --> 00:14:00,047           And I think that                    that's where I got 354 00:14:00,089 --> 00:14:02,883       the idea to wanna do TV. 355 00:14:04,718 --> 00:14:07,179             So my dad worked                at the shipyard in Brooklyn, 356 00:14:07,221 --> 00:14:10,057         the Brooklyn Navy Yard,        and he drew the drafts of them, 357 00:14:10,099 --> 00:14:14,478      the schematics of, you know,          of-- of the aircraft carriers. 358 00:14:14,520 --> 00:14:16,730               You know,                  those are pretty decent jobs 359 00:14:16,772 --> 00:14:19,191            for Black folks                around that time, you know? 360 00:14:19,233 --> 00:14:21,360           We weren't rich,                  but we had enough money 361 00:14:21,402 --> 00:14:23,028           to have something                   in the refrigerator 362 00:14:23,070 --> 00:14:25,573         and I had, you know,                 some decent sneakers 363 00:14:25,614 --> 00:14:27,575        at the time, you know?                  So we were cool. 364 00:14:27,616 --> 00:14:28,993            The Jackson 5. 365 00:14:29,034 --> 00:14:30,536             So let's have                       a fine welcome. 366 00:14:30,578 --> 00:14:31,745              [applause] 367 00:14:34,748 --> 00:14:36,584     [Ralph]   As a kid I watched--                    of course, 368 00:14:36,625 --> 00:14:38,085      everybody watched Ed Sullivan. 369 00:14:38,127 --> 00:14:39,587              That was where                      the music was at. 370 00:14:39,628 --> 00:14:41,422       Please, please, please... 371 00:14:41,463 --> 00:14:43,048      [Ralph]   I love James Brown. 372 00:14:43,090 --> 00:14:46,218             I love the soul.                 I love the way he danced. 373 00:14:46,260 --> 00:14:49,054      And James Brown was considered         like rebellious back then. 374 00:14:49,096 --> 00:14:50,639     You know, like, "Say it loud.            I'm Black and proud." 375 00:14:50,681 --> 00:14:51,807  People were like, "Oh, oh, oh." 376 00:14:51,849 --> 00:14:53,267         And then Dick Clark, 377 00:14:53,309 --> 00:14:55,102          American Bandstand,                    I watched that. 378 00:14:55,144 --> 00:14:56,645       People all over the world               are just beginning 379 00:14:56,687 --> 00:14:58,188      to talk about   The Beatles. 380 00:14:58,230 --> 00:14:59,440          [Ralph]   Dick Clark                     was like amazing. 381 00:14:59,481 --> 00:15:01,233      He knew all this information. 382 00:15:01,275 --> 00:15:03,694      I was like this guy is cool           and he's smooth as hell. 383 00:15:03,736 --> 00:15:05,112     [Todd]   We saw   The Jeffersons. 384 00:15:05,154 --> 00:15:06,989            We saw   Good Times. 385 00:15:07,031 --> 00:15:10,117           But we didn't see                    too many people that, 386 00:15:10,159 --> 00:15:12,620             that looked like us                    on television. 387 00:15:12,661 --> 00:15:16,248       [Ralph]   Anytime there was            a, a Black person on a show, 388 00:15:16,290 --> 00:15:18,042                 we'd be like,                  "Oh, shit. Aretha Franklin 389 00:15:18,083 --> 00:15:20,127           is gonna be on tonight.                 Yay." We'd be happy. 390 00:15:20,169 --> 00:15:21,378               [Ed] Stand up                    and take a bow there. 391 00:15:21,420 --> 00:15:23,213             -Diana Ross.                         -[APPLAUSE] 392 00:15:23,255 --> 00:15:25,799     [Ralph]   We saw   The Supremes,                 a lot of Motown, 393 00:15:25,841 --> 00:15:27,468             The Temptations, 394 00:15:27,509 --> 00:15:29,470        Ellis Haizlip who had                this show called   Soul! 395 00:15:29,511 --> 00:15:32,306       which was amazing to me. 396 00:15:32,348 --> 00:15:33,641        [man]   Live and in color                 from of New York... 397 00:15:33,682 --> 00:15:35,142      [Ralph]   But then later on, 398 00:15:35,184 --> 00:15:36,936               I started                     to get into   Soul Train. 399 00:15:36,977 --> 00:15:38,938          Always in parting,               we're gonna wish you love, 400 00:15:38,979 --> 00:15:41,440           peace, and soul. 401 00:15:41,482 --> 00:15:43,442    [Ralph]   Black people was having       a good time on the   Soul Train. 402 00:15:43,484 --> 00:15:45,945        I'm like, "What club is--             what club do they go to? 403 00:15:45,986 --> 00:15:47,613          They look mad happy." 404 00:15:47,655 --> 00:15:49,406         'Cause you didn't see it                     too often. 405 00:15:49,448 --> 00:15:50,741          There wasn't too many                  Black people on TV. 406 00:15:53,869 --> 00:15:57,039           We moved into Queens                     when I was 11. 407 00:15:57,081 --> 00:15:59,750    [Yvonne]   We wanted a different            environment to raise him 408 00:15:59,792 --> 00:16:00,918           and we felt that                     moving to Queens 409 00:16:00,960 --> 00:16:03,212     would be a nice surrounding. 410 00:16:03,253 --> 00:16:04,672      The idea of going to Queens 411 00:16:04,713 --> 00:16:07,800           was that Brooklyn                  was kind of crowded. 412 00:16:07,841 --> 00:16:09,343          Let's go to Queens                   where we can have 413 00:16:09,385 --> 00:16:10,928       our own home, first of all. 414 00:16:10,970 --> 00:16:12,638               They didn't                       have their own home. 415 00:16:12,680 --> 00:16:14,181        Better schools in Queens. 416 00:16:14,223 --> 00:16:15,766              The education                      is gonna be better. 417 00:16:15,808 --> 00:16:17,017              The community                      is gonna be better. 418 00:16:19,561 --> 00:16:24,191        In the '60s, early '70s,             there was a lot of movement 419 00:16:24,233 --> 00:16:27,486             as African Americans                 made more money 420 00:16:27,528 --> 00:16:30,030             or had better jobs. 421 00:16:30,072 --> 00:16:31,699            They were looking                     to purchase homes. 422 00:16:31,740 --> 00:16:33,033               [Roxanne]                      When it comes to Queens, 423 00:16:33,075 --> 00:16:34,702  you can literally find someone 424 00:16:34,743 --> 00:16:36,537     from everywhere in the world. 425 00:16:36,578 --> 00:16:38,706         And we've always been                   very accepting. 426 00:16:38,747 --> 00:16:41,792     [Lance]   Queens was nice, man.              It was residential. 427 00:16:41,834 --> 00:16:43,961          It was a neighborhood.                 It was a community. 428 00:16:44,003 --> 00:16:48,632        Everybody on the block           knew each other type of thing. 429 00:16:48,674 --> 00:16:52,386    [Ralph]   When we get to Queens,           there's not a lot of people 430 00:16:52,428 --> 00:16:54,805      that I see that look like me. 431 00:16:54,847 --> 00:16:58,017       In fact, we're the third            Black family on the block. 432 00:16:58,058 --> 00:17:00,894       In the early 1970s, a few           middle-class Black families 433 00:17:00,936 --> 00:17:03,063            with very much                    the same idea in mind 434 00:17:03,105 --> 00:17:04,732          began to move too. 435 00:17:04,773 --> 00:17:06,734       The Whites saw their coming                   as a threat. 436 00:17:06,775 --> 00:17:08,861    [Ralph]   All right. No big deal.          I'm gonna get on my bike 437 00:17:08,902 --> 00:17:11,530        and I'm gonna ride around             and we're gonna have fun. 438 00:17:15,034 --> 00:17:17,327              So I'm riding                      and this White kid, 439 00:17:17,369 --> 00:17:19,079          sitting on his stoop, 440 00:17:19,121 --> 00:17:20,748        and it's him sitting there                 with his mother. 441 00:17:20,789 --> 00:17:23,083           And the kid goes,                  "Look, Ma. A nigger." 442 00:17:23,125 --> 00:17:25,002      And I looked at him and I-- 443 00:17:25,044 --> 00:17:26,962      now, I've never been called              a nigger in my life 444 00:17:27,004 --> 00:17:28,464           up to that point, 445 00:17:28,505 --> 00:17:30,549        and I didn't even know                     it was bad. 446 00:17:30,591 --> 00:17:32,342  I just knew that it wasn't good. 447 00:17:32,384 --> 00:17:33,969          We don't want that.                    We want to keep 448 00:17:34,011 --> 00:17:35,429           the neighborhood                      the way it is. 449 00:17:35,471 --> 00:17:36,597        We love our neighbors.                     We're all-- 450 00:17:36,638 --> 00:17:38,265        we're very, very close. 451 00:17:38,307 --> 00:17:41,268            So I was like,                   "Okay." I kept riding. 452 00:17:41,310 --> 00:17:43,103  Came back to the crib, told mom, 453 00:17:43,145 --> 00:17:45,105        "The kid down the block               called me a nigger." 454 00:17:45,147 --> 00:17:48,108         [indistinct shouting] 455 00:17:52,488 --> 00:17:54,865    We were riding down this block         and, and these white people 456 00:17:54,907 --> 00:17:57,076            started saying,                "Get out of here, niggers." 457 00:17:57,117 --> 00:17:59,620         And my mother looked                      at me like, 458 00:17:59,661 --> 00:18:01,705         "We come all the way                     from Brooklyn 459 00:18:01,747 --> 00:18:03,248          for a better life." 460 00:18:03,290 --> 00:18:06,543         At that time, I was--                   my concern was 461 00:18:06,585 --> 00:18:11,298      did we make the right move          moving here to Queens Village 462 00:18:11,340 --> 00:18:13,884       because now he's exposed            to a different environment 463 00:18:13,926 --> 00:18:17,054        than he was exposed to             when we lived in Bed-Stuy. 464 00:18:17,096 --> 00:18:18,764             I just wanted                    a White neighborhood. 465 00:18:18,806 --> 00:18:20,849           No Blacks at all. 466 00:18:23,268 --> 00:18:25,813        [Ralph]   We lived here.               There was a Black family. 467 00:18:25,854 --> 00:18:29,233      My friend Dawn and her family           lived over there, and JJ. 468 00:18:29,274 --> 00:18:31,026     Maybe one other Black family                  down there. 469 00:18:31,068 --> 00:18:32,444       It was all White people. 470 00:18:32,486 --> 00:18:35,447            Within 10 years,                    it was all Black. 471 00:18:35,489 --> 00:18:37,032  White people probably was like, 472 00:18:37,074 --> 00:18:38,826            "Damn, why did                all the White people leave?" 473 00:18:38,867 --> 00:18:40,536              [chuckles]                        But that was it. 474 00:18:40,577 --> 00:18:41,829         They was outta here. 475 00:18:41,870 --> 00:18:43,288            -White flight.                       -White flight. 476 00:18:43,330 --> 00:18:44,832         There was some people                    that you saw 477 00:18:44,873 --> 00:18:47,292      that were blatantly racist. 478 00:18:47,334 --> 00:18:49,670  And then there were other people         that were White people 479 00:18:49,711 --> 00:18:52,172     that were like the connection               was the music. 480 00:18:52,214 --> 00:18:55,509            [upbeat music] 481 00:18:55,551 --> 00:18:57,344    [Ralph]   Me and Lionel, we used           to go buy records together. 482 00:18:57,386 --> 00:19:00,973         That's how we started            our relationship as friends. 483 00:19:01,014 --> 00:19:03,016      He'd buy a certain amount.           I'd buy a certain amount. 484 00:19:03,058 --> 00:19:06,103       We'd be like, "Yo, I need             a second copy of that. 485 00:19:06,145 --> 00:19:07,896     You know, you can hold mine." 486 00:19:07,938 --> 00:19:10,190      I was just buying records.             That's all I was doing. 487 00:19:10,232 --> 00:19:13,193      And I see this guy next to me 488 00:19:13,235 --> 00:19:15,154  when you're going to pay for it 489 00:19:15,195 --> 00:19:18,031      and I have a stack of records         literally about this thick. 490 00:19:18,073 --> 00:19:20,576       We've created a DJ group 491 00:19:20,617 --> 00:19:23,579           and it was called               The Brothership Connection. 492 00:19:23,620 --> 00:19:26,623            [upbeat music] 493 00:19:26,665 --> 00:19:28,542      [Fred]   New York late '60s,                     early '70s 494 00:19:28,584 --> 00:19:31,128        was a hotbed of, of music 495 00:19:31,170 --> 00:19:33,463        like Parliament-Funkadelic 496 00:19:33,505 --> 00:19:36,258      and Sly and the Family Stone,                  James Brown. 497 00:19:36,300 --> 00:19:38,010            Then, of course,                      you had the music 498 00:19:38,051 --> 00:19:40,846           out of Philadelphia,                     The Delfonics. 499 00:19:40,888 --> 00:19:44,057             And then you had                        the Latin fave man, 500 00:19:44,099 --> 00:19:46,727          Joe Cuba, Joe Bataan, 501 00:19:46,768 --> 00:19:49,271                you know,                         the Jimmy Castor. 502 00:19:49,313 --> 00:19:51,982      So we were very plugged in 503 00:19:52,024 --> 00:19:53,775     with music across the board. 504 00:19:55,569 --> 00:19:58,530      [Ralph]   So my Uncle Michael                   is my hero. 505 00:19:58,572 --> 00:20:00,991  He's the guy who got me started           in this whole music thing. 506 00:20:01,033 --> 00:20:05,746        And he would buy vinyl,                     45s, LPs. 507 00:20:05,787 --> 00:20:09,082       So there were all these cool            clubs he used to go to. 508 00:20:09,124 --> 00:20:13,670         One summer, he said,             "We're going to Riis Beach," 509 00:20:16,256 --> 00:20:17,716          which is in Brooklyn. 510 00:20:17,758 --> 00:20:20,719       And there was an outside jam 511 00:20:20,761 --> 00:20:23,430       and a basketball tournament                    going on. 512 00:20:23,472 --> 00:20:26,600       And you got like pro players               there like Clyde, 513 00:20:26,642 --> 00:20:28,727             Frazier's there,                   Earl Monroe is there. 514 00:20:28,769 --> 00:20:30,979          You know, I'm like,                   "This is amazing." 515 00:20:31,021 --> 00:20:33,732        But more amazing to me                    than that was 516 00:20:33,774 --> 00:20:35,984      there was a guy playing music               and he had crates 517 00:20:36,026 --> 00:20:40,322          of records, speakers,         and turntables, and these amps. 518 00:20:40,364 --> 00:20:42,491           I was just like,                     "What is this?" 519 00:20:42,532 --> 00:20:45,160             I heard records                  I never heard in my life. 520 00:20:45,202 --> 00:20:47,579      And the crowd is going crazy. 521 00:20:47,621 --> 00:20:49,414        Especially if you play                 Love Is the Message. 522 00:20:49,456 --> 00:20:52,292            [upbeat music] 523 00:20:55,170 --> 00:20:57,839      [Ralph]   Love Is the Message              by   MFSB is like the song 524 00:20:57,881 --> 00:20:59,383         that will never go away. 525 00:20:59,424 --> 00:21:02,886            And back then,                  you know, party's poppin' 526 00:21:02,928 --> 00:21:05,138            and then, boom,                 comes   Love Is the Message 527 00:21:05,180 --> 00:21:09,101            [upbeat music] 528 00:21:09,142 --> 00:21:10,936  [Ralph]   And the place goes nuts. 529 00:21:10,978 --> 00:21:13,897             And I'm like,                  "That's what I wanna do. 530 00:21:13,939 --> 00:21:15,732             I like that." 531 00:21:15,774 --> 00:21:18,151              I want to make                     the people go nuts. 532 00:21:21,029 --> 00:21:22,823       [Lionel]   There was a club           in Queens called the Blue Ice 533 00:21:22,864 --> 00:21:24,658           where Ralph started. 534 00:21:24,700 --> 00:21:26,493        And all I could tell you,               like, it was amazing. 535 00:21:26,535 --> 00:21:29,663           It was a little bar,                     a corner bar. 536 00:21:29,705 --> 00:21:32,666          It was always crowded,            and, uh, and we were playing, 537 00:21:32,708 --> 00:21:35,794            like, disco, R&B. 538 00:21:35,836 --> 00:21:37,629                [Fred]                       Ralph was playing the R&B, 539 00:21:37,671 --> 00:21:39,298        some of the dance records                that were happening, 540 00:21:39,339 --> 00:21:40,882         coming out of the '70s. 541 00:21:40,924 --> 00:21:43,635             And in the '80s,                  we had the Furious Five, 542 00:21:43,677 --> 00:21:46,221               Spoonie Gee,                   and Donna Summer records. 543 00:21:46,263 --> 00:21:48,056            Whatever was hot,                     he was playing it. 544 00:21:48,098 --> 00:21:49,891            [upbeat music] 545 00:21:49,933 --> 00:21:51,518         As a matter of fact,                 a lot of the rhymes 546 00:21:51,560 --> 00:21:54,062        that people were doing                   in the streets 547 00:21:54,104 --> 00:21:57,065            were off the beats                of these big street bands. 548 00:21:57,107 --> 00:21:59,109             Ralph shined                       like nobody else. 549 00:21:59,151 --> 00:22:02,946     I mean, I've just never seen             a guy command a room 550 00:22:02,988 --> 00:22:04,698         the way Ralph commanded                       a room. 551 00:22:04,740 --> 00:22:06,491      [Ralph]   People always talk                  about Studio 54 552 00:22:06,533 --> 00:22:08,368         in that particular time                    and I'm like, 553 00:22:08,410 --> 00:22:10,203      "Oh, they were Black discos."             Like there were like-- 554 00:22:10,245 --> 00:22:12,873            there was a whole               Black disco scene where like-- 555 00:22:12,914 --> 00:22:15,876        like if you like Chic,            Chic came out of that scene. 556 00:22:15,917 --> 00:22:17,544           And those people                     weren't going-- 557 00:22:17,586 --> 00:22:19,463       they weren't even allowed              to go into Studio 54. 558 00:22:19,504 --> 00:22:22,215    Like, if we went to Studio 54,           we weren't getting in. 559 00:22:22,257 --> 00:22:24,217         Steve Rubell was not                checking us right now. 560 00:22:24,259 --> 00:22:27,387        He was like, "You all          definitely at the wrong club." 561 00:22:27,429 --> 00:22:29,139       [Lionel]   And then slowly               but surely rap started 562 00:22:29,181 --> 00:22:31,308       to come into the picture. 563 00:22:31,350 --> 00:22:34,895        Every disco that died                turned into a hip-hop club. 564 00:22:34,936 --> 00:22:37,022          Hip-hop here. No, no!                 Don't Close the venue. 565 00:22:37,064 --> 00:22:39,107          We'll take that over.                     Set the DJ up. 566 00:22:39,149 --> 00:22:41,610     [Ralph]   Russell Simmons and I                 became friends 567 00:22:41,651 --> 00:22:44,404     because I was into the music,               playing music. 568 00:22:44,446 --> 00:22:46,198      He was into giving parties. 569 00:22:46,239 --> 00:22:48,241         And Russell had already                went up to The Bronx. 570 00:22:48,283 --> 00:22:50,285           He saw what hip-hop                      was all about. 571 00:22:50,327 --> 00:22:52,871      I remember he gave me a record       with somebody rapping on it. 572 00:22:52,913 --> 00:22:55,374       "Yo, Ralphie, play this."                 And I was like, 573 00:22:55,415 --> 00:22:58,710         "So why would people                   buy this record?" 574 00:22:58,752 --> 00:23:00,379     He said, "What do you mean?"                    I said, 575 00:23:00,420 --> 00:23:02,839        "We, we rap in the park                for free every day. 576 00:23:02,881 --> 00:23:04,508           Like why are people                     gonna buy these? 577 00:23:04,549 --> 00:23:06,051            They can just come                  and hang out with us." 578 00:23:06,093 --> 00:23:07,427     He stood there for a minute,               he looked at me, 579 00:23:07,469 --> 00:23:09,054           and he was like, 580 00:23:09,096 --> 00:23:11,431       "Everybody is not coming                   to the park." 581 00:23:11,473 --> 00:23:14,518           And I said, "Oh." 582 00:23:14,559 --> 00:23:17,354  You mean that this is happening          in other parts of the world 583 00:23:17,396 --> 00:23:19,439       or could, could potentially                   be happening 584 00:23:19,481 --> 00:23:21,191       in other parts of the world? 585 00:23:21,233 --> 00:23:23,402         I didn't even imagine               that that could happen. 586 00:23:23,443 --> 00:23:26,446            [hip-hop music] 587 00:23:26,488 --> 00:23:29,074         [DJ Chuck]   Flash and,             and Bambaataa, and, and Herc-- 588 00:23:29,116 --> 00:23:31,618          gotta talk about Herc.                 Can't leave him out. 589 00:23:31,660 --> 00:23:33,954         Herc's the godfather.                    But everybody 590 00:23:33,995 --> 00:23:35,872      had their own little crews. 591 00:23:35,914 --> 00:23:37,791       So the MC was on the mic. 592 00:23:37,833 --> 00:23:42,421       The MC was really the one             who got the party hyped. 593 00:23:42,462 --> 00:23:44,589           Everybody starts                  going to, to this dance 594 00:23:44,631 --> 00:23:45,841         called the freestyle. 595 00:23:47,676 --> 00:23:49,469              In The Bronx,                  they called it breakdancing. 596 00:23:49,511 --> 00:23:51,346             In Brooklyn,                  they called it freestyling. 597 00:23:51,388 --> 00:23:53,390     So that became the new thing. 598 00:23:57,018 --> 00:24:00,063          Then everybody started                  wanting turntables 599 00:24:00,105 --> 00:24:02,023               at that point,                   but everybody couldn't 600 00:24:02,065 --> 00:24:05,318          afford turntables            until we had the '77 blackout. 601 00:24:05,360 --> 00:24:07,863            [siren blaring] 602 00:24:07,904 --> 00:24:09,406             [DJ Scratch]                   Once the blackout happened, 603 00:24:09,448 --> 00:24:11,533          my brothers came home                    with turntables, 604 00:24:11,575 --> 00:24:13,201          speakers, you name it, 605 00:24:13,243 --> 00:24:15,662     and we had our DJ equipment. 606 00:24:15,704 --> 00:24:18,748      The b-boy was the kid who may       not have had shoestrings. 607 00:24:18,790 --> 00:24:22,085           They may have had               some fly slip-on sneakers. 608 00:24:22,127 --> 00:24:24,796        Some may have gloves on               for like a spin and-- 609 00:24:24,838 --> 00:24:26,673           it's like a crew, 610 00:24:26,715 --> 00:24:28,800  Rock Steady and all these guys. 611 00:24:28,842 --> 00:24:31,303            [hip-hop music] 612 00:24:31,344 --> 00:24:33,680      [DJ Chuck]   Back then, like            I said, it was territorial. 613 00:24:33,722 --> 00:24:35,348         The streets was buzzing. 614 00:24:35,390 --> 00:24:37,100           The home of hip-hop                    was in The Bronx. 615 00:24:37,142 --> 00:24:40,187            And, um, and then                      it moved around 616 00:24:40,228 --> 00:24:41,980              to, you know,                    other parts of the city, 617 00:24:42,022 --> 00:24:43,690           Queens, Long Island. 618 00:24:43,732 --> 00:24:45,442         And then it branched on. 619 00:24:45,484 --> 00:24:47,486          Listen, if you're--               if you're a hip-hop guy, 620 00:24:47,527 --> 00:24:51,865       the majority of the guys            that engaged in this music 621 00:24:51,907 --> 00:24:55,202      at that time are criminals,            of the criminal nature. 622 00:24:55,243 --> 00:24:56,578       It's just the tough era. 623 00:24:56,620 --> 00:25:00,707            [hip-hop music] 624 00:25:00,749 --> 00:25:04,002        You know, we were sort         of like influencers of that era. 625 00:25:04,044 --> 00:25:06,671        When rap really started                to become popular, 626 00:25:06,713 --> 00:25:09,591          we were kind of, like,            the supporters and sponsors. 627 00:25:09,633 --> 00:25:13,261         Back then, you know,                we was rich, you know? 628 00:25:13,303 --> 00:25:15,388  [Shadi] Why were you guys rich? 629 00:25:15,430 --> 00:25:18,391           From that street                entrepreneurship, you know? 630 00:25:18,433 --> 00:25:21,186      And so one thing about us,            we're not braggadocious. 631 00:25:21,228 --> 00:25:23,897       We don't kind of glorify                 our past history, 632 00:25:23,939 --> 00:25:25,690            but, you know,                  for folks that's viewing, 633 00:25:25,732 --> 00:25:27,234      I would say just Google us. 634 00:25:30,237 --> 00:25:33,532     [Fat Joe]   A big misconception                is that hip-hop 635 00:25:33,573 --> 00:25:35,867        was always nice guy music. 636 00:25:35,909 --> 00:25:37,744                You know,                    every block party I went to 637 00:25:37,786 --> 00:25:39,829        ended up with violence. 638 00:25:39,871 --> 00:25:42,082         Somebody got robbed,              they turned off the music, 639 00:25:42,123 --> 00:25:44,334       or some shots in the air. 640 00:25:44,376 --> 00:25:46,419        [Ralph]   The Feurtados,              they weren't flashy at all. 641 00:25:46,461 --> 00:25:47,879        They weren't--you know,            there was some people that, 642 00:25:47,921 --> 00:25:50,257          you know, they had                all the flash, fly gear. 643 00:25:50,298 --> 00:25:52,759        They was regular dudes,             but they were everywhere. 644 00:25:52,801 --> 00:25:54,594       -[Nas] Serious business.                -Serious business. 645 00:25:54,636 --> 00:25:57,597            [upbeat music] 646 00:26:04,312 --> 00:26:06,815       [Ralph]   By the time I got            to my first year of college, 647 00:26:06,856 --> 00:26:08,567               they had                     this internship program. 648 00:26:08,608 --> 00:26:10,235        One was communications. 649 00:26:10,277 --> 00:26:12,362       I said, "I'll take that.               What does that mean?" 650 00:26:12,404 --> 00:26:14,948       "Oh, you might get a job               at a-- a TV station." 651 00:26:14,990 --> 00:26:17,492         "Oh, sounds exciting.              Yeah, I'm down for that." 652 00:26:17,534 --> 00:26:20,620      And so my first internship               was at this company 653 00:26:20,662 --> 00:26:23,290      called Manhattan Cable TV. 654 00:26:25,333 --> 00:26:28,003          It was on 23rd Street                 and I would go there 655 00:26:28,044 --> 00:26:29,546        two or three times a week. 656 00:26:29,588 --> 00:26:31,798             And there was                 all these little monitors. 657 00:26:31,840 --> 00:26:33,925      And my job was every hour, 658 00:26:33,967 --> 00:26:36,136      there's a microphone there                  and you say, 659 00:26:36,177 --> 00:26:37,887         "Hi. You're watching                    Manhattan Cable 660 00:26:37,929 --> 00:26:39,472          and it's 6:00 PM," 661 00:26:39,514 --> 00:26:40,890         or, "You're watching                    Manhattan Cable 662 00:26:40,932 --> 00:26:42,100          and it's 2:30 AM." 663 00:26:42,142 --> 00:26:43,935       And I was like, "I talk? 664 00:26:43,977 --> 00:26:46,229              Ooh. Nice. 665 00:26:46,271 --> 00:26:48,148  Nice. I get to talk on a mic." 666 00:26:48,189 --> 00:26:50,275         And there were shows               like   The Robin Byrd Show. 667 00:26:50,317 --> 00:26:53,737       If Santa can't come down                   your chimney, 668 00:26:53,778 --> 00:26:55,822  you just may be able to see me. 669 00:26:55,864 --> 00:26:57,657       [Ralph]   It was like porn. 670 00:26:57,699 --> 00:27:00,076            And I was like, 671 00:27:00,118 --> 00:27:02,579          "Yo, this is dope." 672 00:27:02,621 --> 00:27:04,789       [Coca] And what you do is,          you light up your hash pipe 673 00:27:04,831 --> 00:27:06,291           and get it going. 674 00:27:06,333 --> 00:27:07,792             Al Goldstein. 675 00:27:07,834 --> 00:27:09,961       Fuck you, Carlyle Hotel. 676 00:27:10,003 --> 00:27:11,504    [Ralph]   Oh, man. This is crazy.             We don't have this 677 00:27:11,546 --> 00:27:13,131            on my regular TV. 678 00:27:13,173 --> 00:27:15,300            [upbeat music] 679 00:27:15,342 --> 00:27:17,260      [Ralph]   It was enlightening                because I realized 680 00:27:17,302 --> 00:27:20,513     there were other things going            on outside of Queens, 681 00:27:20,555 --> 00:27:22,182       'cause I was in Manhattan                   every day. 682 00:27:22,223 --> 00:27:23,475           I'm in 23rd Street.                       I'm getting 683 00:27:23,516 --> 00:27:25,101         on a train, getting off. 684 00:27:25,143 --> 00:27:26,728               I'm looking                       at different people. 685 00:27:26,770 --> 00:27:27,729               People come                      from different places. 686 00:27:27,771 --> 00:27:28,813           They look different. 687 00:27:28,855 --> 00:27:30,440      They-- They act different. 688 00:27:30,482 --> 00:27:31,775              You know,                and I'm at the age where I'm-- 689 00:27:31,816 --> 00:27:33,777  I'm-- I'm-- I'm able to get it. 690 00:27:33,818 --> 00:27:37,781            [upbeat music] 691 00:27:37,822 --> 00:27:39,991          [Ralph]   Channel 31                  was my third internship. 692 00:27:40,033 --> 00:27:42,452        A bunch of Black folks            are now starting to get hired 693 00:27:42,494 --> 00:27:45,830      at networks, ABC, NBC, CBS. 694 00:27:45,872 --> 00:27:48,208           Oh, I met Ralph, 695 00:27:48,249 --> 00:27:50,335        back in the early '80s. 696 00:27:50,377 --> 00:27:53,296  We was just two young brothers 697 00:27:53,338 --> 00:27:54,673      trying to figure out how-- 698 00:27:54,714 --> 00:27:56,800  after graduating from college, 699 00:27:56,841 --> 00:27:59,886      how we was gonna get a job              in this TV industry. 700 00:27:59,928 --> 00:28:02,430               One day,                   these tapes came in from a-- 701 00:28:02,472 --> 00:28:04,391           and it said Sony                    or something on it. 702 00:28:04,432 --> 00:28:06,101                I said,                    "Yo, Ed, let's put this in. 703 00:28:06,142 --> 00:28:07,852     Let's see what we got here." 704 00:28:07,894 --> 00:28:09,270            Ed puts in it.                And it's all of these groups 705 00:28:09,312 --> 00:28:11,231      performing in a soundstage. 706 00:28:11,272 --> 00:28:13,274      Now, I'm starting to see MTV   . 707 00:28:13,316 --> 00:28:15,985            But I realize that          they don't play any Black music 708 00:28:16,027 --> 00:28:18,279       other than Michael Jackson. 709 00:28:18,321 --> 00:28:20,949        I was like, "Why don't              we just play this on TV?" 710 00:28:20,990 --> 00:28:24,577         Ralph would sit down               and write a little script 711 00:28:24,619 --> 00:28:26,913  of what he was gonna be saying. 712 00:28:26,955 --> 00:28:31,042     And basically it started out          where we had the videos... 713 00:28:31,084 --> 00:28:33,044        And we put it together,                     and like, 714 00:28:33,086 --> 00:28:35,046          like we were making                   a mixtape, really. 715 00:28:35,088 --> 00:28:36,756     That's what we thought we was         doing. But it was for video. 716 00:28:36,798 --> 00:28:39,300      So it was really a, a video           mixtape in the beginning. 717 00:28:39,342 --> 00:28:41,720          I was like, "Boom box, 718 00:28:41,761 --> 00:28:44,431              music, video. 719 00:28:44,472 --> 00:28:46,391           We're gonna call it                  Video Music Box   ." 720 00:28:46,433 --> 00:28:48,768         And everybody looked                at me like, "You sure?" 721 00:28:48,810 --> 00:28:50,186              I'm like... 722 00:28:50,228 --> 00:28:51,771            "Sure it's not                      Music Video Box?" 723 00:28:51,813 --> 00:28:54,357              "Nah, son.                     It's   Video Music Box   ." 724 00:28:54,399 --> 00:28:56,943            And that's it.                     It's a big boom box 725 00:28:56,985 --> 00:28:59,487         and it shows videos."           And that's what we're gonna do. 726 00:28:59,529 --> 00:29:01,364            And that's when                  Video Music Box   was born. 727 00:29:08,496 --> 00:29:10,874            [hip-hop music] 728 00:29:10,915 --> 00:29:12,959  [man] Hello,   Video Music Box   . 729 00:29:13,001 --> 00:29:16,129       We keep it on the block,                  the house, yo. 730 00:29:17,714 --> 00:29:19,716           [Ralph] Yo, kid,                   it's about that time. 731 00:29:19,758 --> 00:29:22,010             -Whose time?                          -Box time. 732 00:29:22,051 --> 00:29:24,262         Lionel didn't wanna do              the video thing either. 733 00:29:24,304 --> 00:29:26,014       Half of   Video Music Box. 734 00:29:26,055 --> 00:29:28,016  He didn't want to be on screen            or nothing like that. 735 00:29:28,057 --> 00:29:30,351               [laughs] 736 00:29:30,393 --> 00:29:33,813      He brought me in to, uh, kind     of check out what was going on. 737 00:29:35,940 --> 00:29:37,609  When I went to the station WNYC, 738 00:29:37,650 --> 00:29:39,444         it was on Channel 31, 739 00:29:39,486 --> 00:29:42,489         that was the first time        that I ever was in a TV studio. 740 00:29:42,530 --> 00:29:44,532           I saw the monitors,                  the waveform monitors, 741 00:29:44,574 --> 00:29:47,160      cameras, and I was hooked.               I was like, "Wow." 742 00:29:47,202 --> 00:29:49,621  Lionel was getting ready to go                to the service. 743 00:29:49,662 --> 00:29:51,289          He didn't figure--                 he was trying to figure out 744 00:29:51,331 --> 00:29:53,166       what to do with his life.                    And I'm like, 745 00:29:53,208 --> 00:29:55,335        "Yo, you might wanna mess             around with this TV thing. 746 00:29:55,376 --> 00:29:57,170       It's kind of like deejaying,                but it's video." 747 00:29:57,212 --> 00:29:59,172              Everything                    was like deejaying to me. 748 00:29:59,214 --> 00:30:00,673  [Nas] It's crazy where hip-hop, 749 00:30:00,715 --> 00:30:02,175              you can say                     it started with a DJ. 750 00:30:02,217 --> 00:30:04,344                -Yeah.                       -[Nas] And video shows 751 00:30:04,385 --> 00:30:06,513          for hip-hop started                    with a DJ too. 752 00:30:06,554 --> 00:30:08,306       -So it's, it's attached.                      -Yeah. 753 00:30:08,348 --> 00:30:09,849  [Nas] And the way the show ran 754 00:30:09,891 --> 00:30:11,434          -was like records.                         -Right. 755 00:30:11,476 --> 00:30:13,144        You know,   Video Music Box 756 00:30:13,186 --> 00:30:15,855           brings you the best                  and the latest first. 757 00:30:15,897 --> 00:30:18,775          Here's Talking Heads,                 "Once in a Lifetime." 758 00:30:18,817 --> 00:30:22,529        And you may find yourself            living in a shotgun shack 759 00:30:22,570 --> 00:30:25,698       Basically, he was playing                  music videos 760 00:30:25,740 --> 00:30:27,534     and he was doing a voiceover. 761 00:30:27,575 --> 00:30:29,202                [Ralph]                I never wanted to be on camera. 762 00:30:29,244 --> 00:30:30,912      I didn't wanna be a celebrity. 763 00:30:30,954 --> 00:30:32,205  I didn't wanna do none of that. 764 00:30:32,247 --> 00:30:33,498  I just want it to be my voice. 765 00:30:33,540 --> 00:30:35,333         [hip-hop music plays] 766 00:30:35,375 --> 00:30:38,211           It's gonna be, like,                  a video radio show. 767 00:30:39,712 --> 00:30:43,758           [indistinct chatter] 768 00:30:43,800 --> 00:30:46,219           [indistinct chatters] 769 00:30:46,261 --> 00:30:48,596             What's up, man?                    Nice to meet you. 770 00:30:48,638 --> 00:30:49,889           Hi,   Video Music Box. 771 00:30:49,931 --> 00:30:51,724           [indistinct chatters] 772 00:30:51,766 --> 00:30:53,852      How you doing, Music Box? I'm             with Salt-N-Peppa. 773 00:30:53,893 --> 00:30:55,103  This is Salt and this is Peppa. 774 00:30:55,144 --> 00:30:56,813            You got Sandy D                          right here. 775 00:30:56,855 --> 00:30:58,815        We used to hold the mic                    like this. 776 00:30:58,857 --> 00:31:00,650     So we hold the mic out and--      to the artists we would talk to. 777 00:31:00,692 --> 00:31:02,318       So you never saw the person. 778 00:31:02,360 --> 00:31:03,736      You just saw the microphone 779 00:31:03,778 --> 00:31:05,572         and the artist, like,                  saying whatever. 780 00:31:05,613 --> 00:31:07,407    Yo, The Afros are gonna tell us           what the next video 781 00:31:07,448 --> 00:31:09,868    is gonna be on   Video Music Box,        show what they wanna see. 782 00:31:09,909 --> 00:31:11,911          Believe that, baby. 783 00:31:11,953 --> 00:31:13,746     [Lionel]   I was like, "Well,            why don't we get in the shot 784 00:31:13,788 --> 00:31:16,416      with them and hold the mic              and stuff like that." 785 00:31:16,457 --> 00:31:17,876  And the camera person was like, 786 00:31:17,917 --> 00:31:20,086          "One, two, three."                   And Ralph said... 787 00:31:20,128 --> 00:31:21,421  Video Music Box   in full effect. 788 00:31:21,462 --> 00:31:23,006       I'm VJ Ralph McDaniels... 789 00:31:23,047 --> 00:31:25,758         And I was like, "Uh."                 I just, like, froze. 790 00:31:25,800 --> 00:31:27,427      I had no idea what to say. 791 00:31:27,468 --> 00:31:29,554     I pulled out the sunglasses,             put them on my face. 792 00:31:29,596 --> 00:31:30,805          I said, "All right.                  Let's do it again." 793 00:31:30,847 --> 00:31:32,265               He goes,                     "I'm VJ Ralph McDaniels." 794 00:31:32,307 --> 00:31:33,808              And I said,                     "And I'm the VidKid." 795 00:31:33,850 --> 00:31:35,643         And I went like this.                 And I said, "Word." 796 00:31:35,685 --> 00:31:37,770  That's right. Keep on rocking       with the Box with yours truly, 797 00:31:37,812 --> 00:31:39,397          VJ Ralph McDaniels. 798 00:31:39,439 --> 00:31:42,609          -And, of course...                      -The VidKid. 799 00:31:42,650 --> 00:31:44,277           And that caught on. 800 00:31:44,319 --> 00:31:46,279              And that's how                      VJ Ralph McDaniels 801 00:31:46,321 --> 00:31:48,239         and the VidKid was born. 802 00:31:48,281 --> 00:31:51,826         [DMC]   Ralph on camera             comes across like your brother 803 00:31:51,868 --> 00:31:53,661       or your uncle, Uncle Ralph. 804 00:31:53,703 --> 00:31:57,790       He didn't come across like          a, uh, a media personality. 805 00:31:57,832 --> 00:32:00,585             The term uncle mean                    another level 806 00:32:00,627 --> 00:32:03,421        where you're elder to them, 807 00:32:03,463 --> 00:32:05,214             but they look at you                 as you're cool, 808 00:32:05,256 --> 00:32:07,634              you're hip,                   you impact it with them. 809 00:32:07,675 --> 00:32:09,052        But you have a respect. 810 00:32:09,093 --> 00:32:10,553    And I start calling Ralph that 811 00:32:10,595 --> 00:32:12,388       because I saw how people               was taking to Ralph. 812 00:32:12,430 --> 00:32:15,475  Ralph was the one who took uncle       and made it mean something. 813 00:32:15,516 --> 00:32:17,435               Ralph became                     Uncle Ralph for real. 814 00:32:17,477 --> 00:32:19,228           And he deserved that                because that was a title 815 00:32:19,270 --> 00:32:21,314         of endearment, for sure,                    and respect. 816 00:32:21,356 --> 00:32:23,816        I like to say what's up          and peace to Uncle Ralph first. 817 00:32:23,858 --> 00:32:25,318             -   Video Music Box.                     -Uncle Ralph. 818 00:32:25,360 --> 00:32:27,111            Uncle Ralph...                    everybody love y'all. 819 00:32:27,153 --> 00:32:29,405                [Ralph]                     From our reggae spectacular, 820 00:32:29,447 --> 00:32:32,617              he is Moja Nya                        with Rise Up. 821 00:32:32,659 --> 00:32:34,452         [indistinct singing] 822 00:32:34,494 --> 00:32:36,162      [Ralph]   There were certain               videos that we played 823 00:32:36,204 --> 00:32:37,830           that you didn't see                      anywhere else. 824 00:32:37,872 --> 00:32:40,166       [Fat Joe]   We were exposed                 to other cultures. 825 00:32:40,208 --> 00:32:42,126          Ralph used to play                      the Caribbean stuff, 826 00:32:42,168 --> 00:32:44,837       the-- the-- the reggae stuff      before we even knew Jamaicans. 827 00:32:44,879 --> 00:32:46,839             [DJ Scratch]                    I would see Jimi Hendrix, 828 00:32:46,881 --> 00:32:50,343            Madonna, Run-DMC.                      We saw Whodini. 829 00:32:50,385 --> 00:32:51,719           Of course, we know                  what they look like 830 00:32:51,761 --> 00:32:53,554  but we never seen them like in, 831 00:32:53,596 --> 00:32:56,724  in-- in physical form performing              and stuff like that. 832 00:32:56,766 --> 00:33:01,229        [Diddy]   You gots Tha Chill,        Big Daddy Kane, and Rob Base. 833 00:33:01,270 --> 00:33:04,023        [singer]    It takes two              to make a thing go right 834 00:33:04,065 --> 00:33:05,608          [Diddy]   I remember                   just being in my room, 835 00:33:05,650 --> 00:33:07,068          going back and forth, 836 00:33:07,110 --> 00:33:08,569             trying to learn                      the choreography. 837 00:33:08,611 --> 00:33:10,363           The first artist                     I saw on the Box 838 00:33:10,405 --> 00:33:13,199      was probably the Force MDs,                     Force MCs, 839 00:33:13,241 --> 00:33:15,451        Roxanne Shante, UTFO... 840 00:33:15,493 --> 00:33:17,370     [singer]    Gizmo's scratching              Milk Dee's rhyming 841 00:33:17,412 --> 00:33:19,038             Milk is chillin',                    Giz is chillin' 842 00:33:19,080 --> 00:33:21,666         [Tuffy]   Milk and Giz                    all day, MC Lyte. 843 00:33:21,708 --> 00:33:25,003     It was just amazing to watch            all these new artists. 844 00:33:25,044 --> 00:33:26,963          There wasn't enough                    hip-hop videos, 845 00:33:27,005 --> 00:33:28,047     so I had to fill up the time. 846 00:33:28,089 --> 00:33:30,133       I was on six days a week. 847 00:33:30,174 --> 00:33:32,051              -   Say...                    -   Tell me what you want... 848 00:33:32,093 --> 00:33:33,720     [Ralph]   We would say, "Okay,             let's play Hall & Oates 849 00:33:33,761 --> 00:33:35,555  because that's some funky soul,                White boy shit, 850 00:33:35,596 --> 00:33:37,056      but we love it," you know? 851 00:33:37,098 --> 00:33:38,808        We-- We-- We loved that                   right there. 852 00:33:38,850 --> 00:33:40,977  "Or let's play Bernard Wright,              Who Do You Love." 853 00:33:41,019 --> 00:33:42,395              Who do you love? 854 00:33:42,437 --> 00:33:43,563     Girl I'm in love with you 855 00:33:43,604 --> 00:33:44,897            Are you for sure? 856 00:33:44,939 --> 00:33:46,566         Sure as the sky is blue 857 00:33:46,607 --> 00:33:48,568             So all of these things             was coming into my head 858 00:33:48,609 --> 00:33:50,945           as I was putting                    the show together. 859 00:33:50,987 --> 00:33:53,239     And I think we gathered that                from being DJs. 860 00:33:53,281 --> 00:33:55,074         [upbeat music plays] 861 00:33:55,116 --> 00:33:56,701               Are you ready                      to go 'cause... 862 00:33:56,743 --> 00:33:59,203             The streets dictated               to what we were doing. 863 00:33:59,245 --> 00:34:01,205     The streets would tell you if        you're playing something wack 864 00:34:01,247 --> 00:34:02,915                 on the radio                   or on the television, 865 00:34:02,957 --> 00:34:04,876     "Yo, that shit is wack, son. 866 00:34:04,917 --> 00:34:06,753           What you doing?" 867 00:34:06,794 --> 00:34:08,504          [Ralph]   So one day,                     I'm on the train 868 00:34:08,546 --> 00:34:12,216      and these dudes are, like,           grilling me on the train. 869 00:34:12,258 --> 00:34:14,177     Like, like, you could easily                  get jumped 870 00:34:14,218 --> 00:34:16,763        on a train like quick. 871 00:34:16,804 --> 00:34:20,099  So I'm like, this is going to be          a problem, you know? 872 00:34:20,141 --> 00:34:23,019      And as I'm about to get off                  the train, 873 00:34:23,061 --> 00:34:24,771            the dude goes, 874 00:34:24,812 --> 00:34:28,066     "You're the dude on that show          that played the videos?" 875 00:34:28,107 --> 00:34:29,442         And I'm like, "Yeah." 876 00:34:29,484 --> 00:34:30,777       "Yo, we like that shit." 877 00:34:30,818 --> 00:34:33,071       And I'm like, "Damn, man. 878 00:34:33,112 --> 00:34:35,406       We sat here for 10 stops. 879 00:34:35,448 --> 00:34:36,949            Like, I thought                 it was about to go down-- 880 00:34:36,991 --> 00:34:39,285        why you ain't say that                   10 stops ago?" 881 00:34:39,327 --> 00:34:41,454       And so that's when I knew                that the streets 882 00:34:41,496 --> 00:34:42,622         was checking for me. 883 00:34:42,663 --> 00:34:45,374         [hip-hop music plays] 884 00:34:45,416 --> 00:34:47,752    [Lord Black]    Big gettin' wide        Gettin' money up in honies 885 00:34:47,794 --> 00:34:49,921        Not funny, you're my sonny                Or your honey 886 00:34:49,962 --> 00:34:51,964       -   We're getting large                -   On   Video Music Box 887 00:34:52,006 --> 00:34:54,133         -   With Ralph McDaniels                 -   And the VidKid 888 00:34:54,175 --> 00:34:56,761          [Todd]   Ralph stayed                 steadfast his commitment 889 00:34:56,803 --> 00:34:58,012               that this is                    what he is going to do. 890 00:34:58,054 --> 00:34:59,722  Because once you are visionary, 891 00:34:59,764 --> 00:35:01,432            you can see things             that you really don't realize 892 00:35:01,474 --> 00:35:03,726         that's in your psyche                  until it manifests. 893 00:35:03,768 --> 00:35:06,604    That this is gonna be something        that's gonna not only set 894 00:35:06,646 --> 00:35:08,564           the world on fire                but it's gonna get people 895 00:35:08,606 --> 00:35:11,150           who look like me                    a fair opportunity 896 00:35:11,192 --> 00:35:14,195          to get into the world                 and make some money. 897 00:35:14,237 --> 00:35:16,072  Video Music Box   doing it right. 898 00:35:16,114 --> 00:35:18,157      Got my man Funkmaster Flex                  in the house. 899 00:35:18,199 --> 00:35:19,784         [Roxanne]   I remember                 when everybody was dying 900 00:35:19,826 --> 00:35:21,244                to get on                    Video-- Video Music Box. 901 00:35:21,285 --> 00:35:22,829           Like if you heard                 it was gonna be filming 902 00:35:22,870 --> 00:35:24,664           somewhere at a club,                   everybody went to go. 903 00:35:24,705 --> 00:35:25,832             They'd look for                         that bright light 904 00:35:25,873 --> 00:35:26,916  and wanna get right over there. 905 00:35:26,958 --> 00:35:28,751          Why? Because you knew 906 00:35:28,793 --> 00:35:30,503          everybody's gonna know                you was at the party. 907 00:35:30,545 --> 00:35:32,338     Now, the same effects happen           to people who don't want 908 00:35:32,380 --> 00:35:33,840       people to know that they          was in the motherfucking party. 909 00:35:33,881 --> 00:35:35,174        That's what he brought to 910 00:35:35,216 --> 00:35:36,676        even the darkest times                     of hip-hop. 911 00:35:36,717 --> 00:35:38,636      He brought that bright light. 912 00:35:38,678 --> 00:35:40,471           And now you see me jiggy,                  you puzzled 913 00:35:40,513 --> 00:35:41,806              He ain't sellin'                     no records, is he? 914 00:35:41,848 --> 00:35:44,642         That nigga gotta hustle 915 00:35:44,684 --> 00:35:46,519      [Jay-Z]   It's super important,   you know, for us to be seen in, 916 00:35:46,561 --> 00:35:50,148       in a light by someone who                truly understands us, 917 00:35:50,189 --> 00:35:51,983              you know,                'cause once we're in the room, 918 00:35:52,024 --> 00:35:53,860          then we-- you know,              we're gonna-- we're gonna-- 919 00:35:53,901 --> 00:35:55,903      we're gonna navigate that            and do what we have to do. 920 00:35:55,945 --> 00:35:59,031            [Nas] Hey, man.                 This is Ralph McDaniels. 921 00:35:59,073 --> 00:36:00,616        And everybody's on pins                    and needles 922 00:36:00,658 --> 00:36:02,743         for what you're about                 to introduce next. 923 00:36:02,785 --> 00:36:04,495             And this is--                     and we didn't know, 924 00:36:04,537 --> 00:36:06,122       we just have to sit here                     and wait, 925 00:36:06,164 --> 00:36:08,541    and then you would introduce us             to new videos. 926 00:36:08,583 --> 00:36:10,626                [Ralph]                     ...with Kool G Rap & DJ Polo 927 00:36:10,668 --> 00:36:12,753            and the all-stars                    from Cold Chillin'. 928 00:36:12,795 --> 00:36:14,755      [Nas]   And then you would do             all the shoutouts which-- 929 00:36:14,797 --> 00:36:17,550             you brought--                you brought the radio to TV. 930 00:36:17,592 --> 00:36:19,177                -Yeah.                      -[Nas] You start to get-- 931 00:36:19,218 --> 00:36:20,386      I don't think anybody else                 did shoutouts. 932 00:36:20,428 --> 00:36:21,804                No. No. 933 00:36:21,846 --> 00:36:23,431        I wanna give a shoutout                 to all my family 934 00:36:23,472 --> 00:36:25,808       and all my true friends.                 Love you, Janet. 935 00:36:25,850 --> 00:36:28,102      I'd like to give a shoutout           to my daughter, Ratisha. 936 00:36:28,144 --> 00:36:30,313       Big shoutout to my moms,                 my girl, my son, 937 00:36:30,354 --> 00:36:33,566       my nephew, my brother...                       Yeah! 938 00:36:33,608 --> 00:36:35,568         Everything originates                   from the hood. 939 00:36:35,610 --> 00:36:37,403  The shoutout, it's all of that. 940 00:36:37,445 --> 00:36:39,530       Happy birthday, Jennifer.                   I love you. 941 00:36:39,572 --> 00:36:41,240             [Michael]   Yo!                    Shoutout to every nigga 942 00:36:41,282 --> 00:36:43,201        that came from the projects            that's behind the wall 943 00:36:43,242 --> 00:36:45,036        in Rikers, we love you. 944 00:36:45,077 --> 00:36:48,414  Whatever that is, that resonates         and moves through the city. 945 00:36:48,456 --> 00:36:50,416  And it touches down and lands. 946 00:36:50,458 --> 00:36:52,084        I wanna give a shoutout                to the Bronzeville 947 00:36:52,126 --> 00:36:54,045           south side posse. 948 00:36:54,086 --> 00:36:56,422    Yo, I'd like to give a shoutout          to everybody's girl. 949 00:36:56,464 --> 00:36:57,715            It's priceless. 950 00:36:57,757 --> 00:36:59,091             [indistinct] 951 00:36:59,133 --> 00:37:00,426           ...working out of                     Rikers Island. 952 00:37:00,468 --> 00:37:02,303         Yo, my name Monique.                     I'm from AC. 953 00:37:02,345 --> 00:37:03,471      I'd like to give a shoutout            to everybody at Rutgers 954 00:37:03,512 --> 00:37:05,264          and New Brunswick! 955 00:37:05,306 --> 00:37:07,892       Yo, I wanna give a shoutout       to lockdown brothers, word up. 956 00:37:07,934 --> 00:37:10,019        Sea-cacus, Yards-ville. 957 00:37:10,061 --> 00:37:12,730     Motherfuckin' Northern State.            All that good stuff. 958 00:37:12,772 --> 00:37:14,190  [Mike Tyson]   That's our world. 959 00:37:14,232 --> 00:37:15,983           Sometime when you get                  a shoutout from my-- 960 00:37:16,025 --> 00:37:19,278           my husband in C76                    or whatever it may be, 961 00:37:19,320 --> 00:37:22,323       or he might be upstate,              somebody in Green Haven, 962 00:37:22,365 --> 00:37:24,617               Comstock,                   that makes them feel good, 963 00:37:24,659 --> 00:37:26,285         makes them feel like            someone's thinking about them, 964 00:37:26,327 --> 00:37:28,412        especially if they're--                 they doing time. 965 00:37:28,454 --> 00:37:31,999  Say peace to my cousin, Jazzy,             back in A Town. PA. 966 00:37:32,041 --> 00:37:34,502      I'd like to give a shoutout            to my daughter, Janika, 967 00:37:34,543 --> 00:37:37,088           my moms, my pops,                    and the 40 Crew. 968 00:37:37,129 --> 00:37:38,923     Everybody in Flatbush, yo. In                 the house. 969 00:37:38,965 --> 00:37:42,051             Video Music Box                 shoutout is your moment, 970 00:37:42,093 --> 00:37:43,636        is your moment in the sun. 971 00:37:43,678 --> 00:37:45,304           ...Akeem, Ameen,                    my boyfriend, Hale. 972 00:37:45,346 --> 00:37:47,640  Growing up and being able to see            images of myself, 973 00:37:47,682 --> 00:37:50,393      especially on   Video Music Box             was a blessing, 974 00:37:50,434 --> 00:37:52,561           'cause you didn't see                    too many kids 975 00:37:52,603 --> 00:37:54,313             who looked like me. 976 00:37:54,355 --> 00:37:56,482     I'm, like, really not too much           of a partier anyway, 977 00:37:56,524 --> 00:37:58,985       so, you know, it was the Box           was perfect for me 978 00:37:59,026 --> 00:38:00,486       so I could just watch it,                 you know, say, 979 00:38:00,528 --> 00:38:01,946     from the comfort of the home               and just be like, 980 00:38:01,988 --> 00:38:03,990             "Okay, yeah."                    Feel like I'm there. 981 00:38:04,031 --> 00:38:07,326           I'm in the middle           of thousands of people sometimes 982 00:38:07,368 --> 00:38:08,786           with the camera. 983 00:38:08,828 --> 00:38:10,579       They grabbing at the camera. 984 00:38:10,621 --> 00:38:13,833  They--everybody was just trying             to get on film and... 985 00:38:13,874 --> 00:38:15,584    -Lot of classy people in here.              -I'm feeling it. 986 00:38:15,626 --> 00:38:17,712      -All right. I'm feeling it.                -I'm feeling-- 987 00:38:17,753 --> 00:38:19,380         I'm feeling you out,                      for truth. 988 00:38:22,174 --> 00:38:25,303     So you're just standing here,         making a fashion statement, 989 00:38:25,344 --> 00:38:27,680         interrupting the flow                    of the party. 990 00:38:27,722 --> 00:38:30,599     [Ray]   It was just an exciting              part of what we did, 991 00:38:30,641 --> 00:38:33,352           which is the core                   of   Video Music Box. 992 00:38:33,394 --> 00:38:36,856            "Let's go to France,           Egypt where we came from!" 993 00:38:36,897 --> 00:38:40,026  Crazy Sam was doing this thing      called the Uptown Comedy Club. 994 00:38:40,067 --> 00:38:42,695              Went up there,                   I ain't hear no comedy. 995 00:38:42,737 --> 00:38:46,615     And then finally, Crazy Sam          came out and he just talked. 996 00:38:46,657 --> 00:38:48,034        And people would laugh. 997 00:38:48,075 --> 00:38:49,785       I wanna give a shout out                    to my man, 998 00:38:49,827 --> 00:38:51,620         you know who you are. 999 00:38:51,662 --> 00:38:53,497           I like when y'all                     say that shit, 1000 00:38:53,539 --> 00:38:55,541      "And you know who you are,                     nigga. 1001 00:38:55,583 --> 00:38:58,002      All six of y'all." [laughs] 1002 00:38:58,044 --> 00:39:02,506     And he did these characters,               Billy Strong Boy, 1003 00:39:02,548 --> 00:39:04,759              and this lady,                the Spanish lady on the bench 1004 00:39:04,800 --> 00:39:06,635        who talks about everybody. 1005 00:39:06,677 --> 00:39:09,513                [yawns] 1006 00:39:09,555 --> 00:39:11,015     [Lionel]   He was a character. 1007 00:39:11,057 --> 00:39:13,184       Best way I can describe him                     is like, 1008 00:39:13,225 --> 00:39:16,103     what Flava Flav is to Chuck D         and Public Enemy, you know? 1009 00:39:16,145 --> 00:39:17,938     And-- And that was something               interesting too, 1010 00:39:17,980 --> 00:39:19,523         for the fans, you know,                    they liked it. 1011 00:39:19,565 --> 00:39:21,150     He became his own personality 1012 00:39:21,192 --> 00:39:23,277  and he developed on that show. 1013 00:39:23,319 --> 00:39:27,073           I come from a family              of religious gangsters. 1014 00:39:27,114 --> 00:39:29,492  I mean, I buy crabs for, like,             a whole city block. 1015 00:39:29,533 --> 00:39:32,453    You got crabs, you got lobster,      you got everything out there. 1016 00:39:32,495 --> 00:39:35,122     Welcome to Nervous Thursdays. 1017 00:39:35,164 --> 00:39:36,832     Where everything is nervous. 1018 00:39:36,874 --> 00:39:38,584          [Ralph]   Started out                  as alternative videos, 1019 00:39:38,626 --> 00:39:41,712           and he was so hot                    that he was like, 1020 00:39:41,754 --> 00:39:43,714          "Why are you giving me                  the wack videos?" 1021 00:39:43,756 --> 00:39:45,174        [chuckles] He was like, 1022 00:39:45,216 --> 00:39:46,675  "Ralph, I need the good videos." 1023 00:39:46,717 --> 00:39:49,428          Welcome. I am here                   with my home boys. 1024 00:39:49,470 --> 00:39:51,013        And we're all chilling. 1025 00:39:51,055 --> 00:39:53,224           We would send him               out with a-- with a camera, 1026 00:39:53,265 --> 00:39:55,726        and he'd just come back           with the craziest shit ever. 1027 00:39:55,768 --> 00:39:57,228     Oh, I don't like the wind 1028 00:39:57,269 --> 00:39:59,271     It's strong, it's going... 1029 00:39:59,313 --> 00:40:00,856       [Ralph]   He was a nutcase. 1030 00:40:00,898 --> 00:40:03,734         This lady right here.                   She's so short. 1031 00:40:03,776 --> 00:40:06,278  Don't get me upset or nervous. 1032 00:40:06,320 --> 00:40:08,614            Uh-huh. Uh-huh. 1033 00:40:08,656 --> 00:40:11,075               Tim Dog.                      Tim Dog's in the house. 1034 00:40:11,117 --> 00:40:12,785              [laughter] 1035 00:40:12,827 --> 00:40:14,787                  Hello. 1036 00:40:14,829 --> 00:40:17,623        [group]   We're Five Star              and you can see our video 1037 00:40:17,665 --> 00:40:21,252             "All Falls Down"                     on Video Music Box   . 1038 00:40:21,293 --> 00:40:24,630       [Ralph] Video Music Box                continues with a hot one 1039 00:40:24,672 --> 00:40:27,133             from Billy Ocean                    "Mystery Lady". 1040 00:40:27,174 --> 00:40:28,467            [Billy Ocean's                   "Mystery Lady" playing] 1041 00:40:28,509 --> 00:40:30,136         Na, na, na, na, na, na 1042 00:40:30,177 --> 00:40:32,263     [Evelyn]   I actually met Ralph                on a blind date. 1043 00:40:32,304 --> 00:40:33,639             I don't think                    he'll remember this, 1044 00:40:33,681 --> 00:40:35,307          but he came, like,                   with a teddy bear. 1045 00:40:35,349 --> 00:40:38,144        [chuckles] And we met, 1046 00:40:38,185 --> 00:40:40,604         and then my cousin left, 1047 00:40:40,646 --> 00:40:42,815              and he left--                   they left us by ourselves. 1048 00:40:42,857 --> 00:40:44,984      And then the rest is history, 1049 00:40:45,025 --> 00:40:46,569  Thirty-five years here together. 1050 00:40:48,821 --> 00:40:50,448       [Ralph]   Three, two, one. 1051 00:40:50,489 --> 00:40:52,867        No, this is not-- ugh. 1052 00:40:52,908 --> 00:40:54,952                Three. 1053 00:40:54,994 --> 00:40:58,497            -[man] Rolling.                     -Three, two, one. 1054 00:40:58,539 --> 00:41:02,001          No, this is not   MTV,                it's   Video Music Box. 1055 00:41:02,042 --> 00:41:05,671           A great program             with positive informa-- sorry. 1056 00:41:05,713 --> 00:41:07,673           No, I'm gonna do               something else here, hold up. 1057 00:41:07,715 --> 00:41:10,676  I'll tell you when to start then      I'm just gonna turn to you so. 1058 00:41:10,718 --> 00:41:12,428                  Go. 1059 00:41:12,470 --> 00:41:14,930    We take the beat to the street           with the top 40 sounds 1060 00:41:14,972 --> 00:41:16,849              of Madonna,                    New Kids on the Block, 1061 00:41:16,891 --> 00:41:18,642        and Bruce Springsteen. 1062 00:41:18,684 --> 00:41:20,019         Let's do another one. 1063 00:41:20,060 --> 00:41:22,688       It was just in the midst                 of the beginning 1064 00:41:22,730 --> 00:41:26,192          of   Video Music Box,               so he prepared me for it. 1065 00:41:29,528 --> 00:41:30,863             [Lionel]   Red,                   how'd you like the party? 1066 00:41:30,905 --> 00:41:34,200           Yeeeeeaa, what's up? 1067 00:41:34,241 --> 00:41:36,035              You know what?                This is a spectacular party. 1068 00:41:36,076 --> 00:41:37,745        I enjoyed it very much, 1069 00:41:37,786 --> 00:41:39,538     and, you know, I hope things             keep on going strong. 1070 00:41:39,580 --> 00:41:41,999             And you guys,                     y'all are the best. 1071 00:41:42,041 --> 00:41:44,043                [Ralph]                     Video Music Box   continues 1072 00:41:44,084 --> 00:41:48,923        with Boogie Down Productions              featuring KRS-One. 1073 00:41:48,964 --> 00:41:50,883        To let us into your skin 1074 00:41:50,925 --> 00:41:52,426                 Why? 1075 00:41:52,468 --> 00:41:54,428     'Cause then you'll begin... 1076 00:41:54,470 --> 00:41:56,263                -Yeah.                          -   ...To master 1077 00:41:56,305 --> 00:41:59,266     Rhymin', rhymin', rhymin' 1078 00:41:59,308 --> 00:42:01,894             Criminal minded,                   you've been blinded 1079 00:42:01,936 --> 00:42:03,395           Lookin', for a style                      like mine 1080 00:42:03,437 --> 00:42:05,231            You can't find it 1081 00:42:05,272 --> 00:42:07,399          They are the audience,                 I am the lyricist 1082 00:42:07,441 --> 00:42:09,860           Sometimes the suckers            on the side gotta hear this 1083 00:42:09,902 --> 00:42:12,530               Page, a rage                    and I'm not in a cage 1084 00:42:12,571 --> 00:42:15,366              Free as a bird                 to fly up out on stage... 1085 00:42:15,407 --> 00:42:17,201         [Professor]   Oh, man.                  The live performances 1086 00:42:17,243 --> 00:42:20,412            on   Video Music Box                    were like a treat. 1087 00:42:20,454 --> 00:42:22,665             Yo. The Jazzy Jeff 1088 00:42:22,706 --> 00:42:24,833           and Fresh Prince                     early joint at 1089 00:42:24,875 --> 00:42:26,585           uh, Union Square. 1090 00:42:26,627 --> 00:42:28,921          Music, and make parents                   and children 1091 00:42:28,963 --> 00:42:31,423          All sit down and they both               be willing to... 1092 00:42:31,465 --> 00:42:33,592                [Professor]                   These are memorable moments 1093 00:42:33,634 --> 00:42:37,763            for like New York                       hip-hop dudes. 1094 00:42:37,805 --> 00:42:39,473            Yo! What's up?                    I'm The Fresh Prince. 1095 00:42:39,515 --> 00:42:40,975  And this is a brand new group                 coming out of Philly 1096 00:42:41,016 --> 00:42:42,601             called 2 Too Many. 1097 00:42:42,643 --> 00:42:44,603        And here's their video. 1098 00:42:44,645 --> 00:42:46,647        -[group] Where's the party?            -Y'all took too long. 1099 00:42:46,689 --> 00:42:48,440         All right. Go ahead,               do it again. Take seven. 1100 00:42:48,482 --> 00:42:50,442               [shouts] 1101 00:42:50,484 --> 00:42:52,403            Yo! What's up?                    I'm The Fresh Prince. 1102 00:42:52,444 --> 00:42:54,613  And there's a brand new group       coming out of Philly called... 1103 00:42:54,655 --> 00:42:56,282            ...2 Too Many. 1104 00:42:56,323 --> 00:42:57,575          I don't like that. 1105 00:42:57,616 --> 00:42:59,493               -[laughs]                       -I don't like that. 1106 00:42:59,535 --> 00:43:01,328    [Ralph]   We didn't make no money             off of the TV show 1107 00:43:01,370 --> 00:43:03,038     because we was non-commercial.   It was a non-commercial station. 1108 00:43:03,080 --> 00:43:05,207     If it became money, it would           turn into something else 1109 00:43:05,249 --> 00:43:06,959         that I wouldn't have                     control over. 1110 00:43:07,001 --> 00:43:08,794         And I liked the idea                   that I could play 1111 00:43:08,836 --> 00:43:11,130         what I wanted to play           and not have to worry about it. 1112 00:43:11,171 --> 00:43:13,132      I said, "We'll, make money                somewhere else." 1113 00:43:13,173 --> 00:43:15,718      The only way we made money             was doing the parties. 1114 00:43:15,759 --> 00:43:17,428  I love New York. This is the-- 1115 00:43:17,469 --> 00:43:19,054       I mean, no place parties                 like New York, baby. 1116 00:43:19,096 --> 00:43:20,139           I'm ripped for real. 1117 00:43:22,016 --> 00:43:23,892                [Ralph]                    These promoters was out here. 1118 00:43:23,934 --> 00:43:25,769            And we're seeing--               we were doing the math like, 1119 00:43:25,811 --> 00:43:28,147       you know, "Wait a minute,                they charged $20. 1120 00:43:28,188 --> 00:43:30,482       It was a thousand people               in that was $20,000. 1121 00:43:30,524 --> 00:43:32,318          Oh, let's do that,                   we could do that." 1122 00:43:32,359 --> 00:43:34,111          And so we started                    doing the parties. 1123 00:43:34,153 --> 00:43:36,614         All right, y'all ready              for Tribe Called Quest, 1124 00:43:36,655 --> 00:43:38,490            New York City?                  Put your hands together. 1125 00:43:38,532 --> 00:43:39,950    [Wendy]   I did go to the parties            that Ralph promoted 1126 00:43:39,992 --> 00:43:42,953     and they'd always be packed. 1127 00:43:42,995 --> 00:43:45,331              [cheering] 1128 00:43:45,372 --> 00:43:47,541       Right now is about New York. 1129 00:43:47,583 --> 00:43:50,127      And that's what we--you know,   we all about New York right now. 1130 00:43:50,169 --> 00:43:52,129             You could see                the Wu Tang Clan over there. 1131 00:43:52,171 --> 00:43:55,090        [rapping indistinctly] 1132 00:44:02,181 --> 00:44:04,183  Tribe Called Quest over there... 1133 00:44:04,224 --> 00:44:06,143          Well, can I get a level       on the bass and on the treble 1134 00:44:06,185 --> 00:44:08,479              Footin up and down                   like a UNLV Rebel 1135 00:44:08,520 --> 00:44:11,440     The answer be amongst us cause            we rarely dig acoustics 1136 00:44:11,482 --> 00:44:13,567        Can't be too much flackin',             not too much packin' 1137 00:44:13,609 --> 00:44:15,527        You must container that at      least to dip your hand in rap 1138 00:44:15,569 --> 00:44:17,613       Foxy Brown getting ready              to warm up over there. 1139 00:44:17,655 --> 00:44:20,574           [crowd cheering] 1140 00:44:26,330 --> 00:44:27,831     [Wendy]   And a few White people               were in there, 1141 00:44:27,873 --> 00:44:29,291       like, you could feel them 1142 00:44:29,333 --> 00:44:32,169             trying to steal                    our flavor again. 1143 00:44:32,211 --> 00:44:33,545             You could feel it. 1144 00:44:33,587 --> 00:44:35,673        Black comedy is blowing up. 1145 00:44:35,714 --> 00:44:37,549       You know, what I'm saying            it's blowing up, word up.                      Def Jam. 1146 00:44:37,591 --> 00:44:39,218           We got the power,                    we got Uptown Comedy. 1147 00:44:39,259 --> 00:44:40,803       You know what I'm saying? 1148 00:44:40,844 --> 00:44:42,137          And there was a lot               of Black comics out there 1149 00:44:42,179 --> 00:44:43,222  that's just as good as me, man. 1150 00:44:43,263 --> 00:44:44,723      We need places to work out. 1151 00:44:44,765 --> 00:44:46,141     Please look out for us, man. 1152 00:44:46,183 --> 00:44:49,061             Check us out                   and support Black comedy. 1153 00:44:49,103 --> 00:44:51,271            And I got Beast                     over here hiding. 1154 00:44:51,313 --> 00:44:52,856      Beast found this man for me 1155 00:44:52,898 --> 00:44:54,608         'cause it was hectic                    to get to them. 1156 00:44:54,650 --> 00:44:56,443         [Sam]   Beast was, uh,                the head of our security. 1157 00:44:56,485 --> 00:44:59,238          And, um, we had a team              called the Gorilla Force. 1158 00:44:59,279 --> 00:45:01,448      And it was a no nonsense crew. 1159 00:45:01,490 --> 00:45:02,991        So artists would come, 1160 00:45:03,033 --> 00:45:05,744          we were able to get                    A-list artists 1161 00:45:05,786 --> 00:45:07,454       to come even to Brooklyn. 1162 00:45:07,496 --> 00:45:09,581             Ooh, la, la, la 1163 00:45:09,623 --> 00:45:12,501             It's the natural law             that the refugees bring 1164 00:45:12,543 --> 00:45:16,630        Ooh, la, la, la, la, la, la,             la, la la, la, lah 1165 00:45:16,672 --> 00:45:18,799           -   Sweet thing                        -   Yeah, yeah 1166 00:45:18,841 --> 00:45:20,259            -   Yeah, yeah                         -   Yeah, yeah 1167 00:45:20,300 --> 00:45:22,219            Yeah, yeah, yeah 1168 00:45:22,261 --> 00:45:23,929             Yeah, in saloons                     we drink Boone's 1169 00:45:23,971 --> 00:45:25,681             And battle goons                     till high noon 1170 00:45:25,723 --> 00:45:29,143         [indistinct rapping] 1171 00:45:34,398 --> 00:45:37,192        [Beast] So when you see          like the Fugees and Lauryn Hill 1172 00:45:37,234 --> 00:45:39,611             and Wyclef perform, 1173 00:45:39,653 --> 00:45:41,447         again, it's breathtaking               because, remember, 1174 00:45:41,488 --> 00:45:44,241      you were in a neighborhood            that people don't expect 1175 00:45:44,283 --> 00:45:46,577          nothing to come out             of a neighborhood like this. 1176 00:45:46,618 --> 00:45:48,245     We never had any casualties. 1177 00:45:48,287 --> 00:45:50,456         People had a great time               and a great experience. 1178 00:45:52,249 --> 00:45:53,917       Oh, yeah,   Video Music   ... 1179 00:45:53,959 --> 00:45:55,794               [Fat Joe]                       This is the guy on TV. 1180 00:45:55,836 --> 00:45:58,464           Like, how many times              do you see the guy from TV, 1181 00:45:58,505 --> 00:46:00,007      let alone the number one show? 1182 00:46:00,048 --> 00:46:01,842             Video Music Box,                  Pete Rock, CL Smooth. 1183 00:46:01,884 --> 00:46:04,344      And he's in your neighborhood             hosting the party. 1184 00:46:04,386 --> 00:46:06,680         We're in the inner city.                We're poor as hell. 1185 00:46:06,722 --> 00:46:08,932               We're watching TV.                  This is the guy. 1186 00:46:08,974 --> 00:46:11,018       Guess what, he's in the spot             down the block. 1187 00:46:11,059 --> 00:46:13,812        -[indistinct screaming]                    -We going. 1188 00:46:13,854 --> 00:46:15,397      [Ralph] You know there's some        old people sitting out there 1189 00:46:15,439 --> 00:46:17,024            watching going,                  "How can that young man now 1190 00:46:17,065 --> 00:46:19,026            wear that thing                  around his neck like that?" 1191 00:46:19,067 --> 00:46:20,944              [laughing] 1192 00:46:20,986 --> 00:46:23,447  He's just fulfilling his dreams.          That's all, you know. 1193 00:46:23,489 --> 00:46:26,158        [Wendy] Video Music Box                  definitely was very, 1194 00:46:26,200 --> 00:46:28,660             very influential                in terms of fashion as well. 1195 00:46:28,702 --> 00:46:30,662          [Havoc]   You'll see                     a certain artist, 1196 00:46:30,704 --> 00:46:31,914            you'd be like "Yo,               what's that hat right there? 1197 00:46:31,955 --> 00:46:33,165        Oh, I wanna get that hat. 1198 00:46:33,207 --> 00:46:35,083               You know,                    I wanna get that jacket." 1199 00:46:35,125 --> 00:46:37,628       [Wendy]   We saw everything                  from the jewelry 1200 00:46:37,669 --> 00:46:40,422              to, you know,                     Ghostface in his robes 1201 00:46:40,464 --> 00:46:43,008            to, you know, Mary                 with her hair pulled out 1202 00:46:43,050 --> 00:46:45,636        of the top of her hat.             And we were all doing that. 1203 00:46:45,677 --> 00:46:48,347        Well, hip-hop started                on independent labels, 1204 00:46:48,388 --> 00:46:51,350     you had all these local hits. 1205 00:46:51,391 --> 00:46:54,311           It went from that                  to more serious deals 1206 00:46:54,353 --> 00:46:55,938          with better labels, 1207 00:46:55,979 --> 00:46:57,523         it became more normal 1208 00:46:57,564 --> 00:46:59,691          to see the artists                  that you were buying, 1209 00:46:59,733 --> 00:47:02,236            put out videos                     with those albums. 1210 00:47:02,277 --> 00:47:04,571             Now, we know                       there's no reason 1211 00:47:04,613 --> 00:47:07,282       these records can't reach               the masses anymore. 1212 00:47:07,324 --> 00:47:09,827 1213 00:47:09,868 --> 00:47:11,537     [Ralph]   Up the block from me                 were these guys 1214 00:47:11,578 --> 00:47:13,288            named Full Force. 1215 00:47:13,330 --> 00:47:16,375      And Full Force was a group           that came out early days. 1216 00:47:16,416 --> 00:47:19,127             And they knew                      where I lived so, 1217 00:47:19,169 --> 00:47:21,547       they would come and knock             on my door in my house, 1218 00:47:21,588 --> 00:47:24,216      I'm like, "How did you guys           even get in the building?" 1219 00:47:24,258 --> 00:47:26,760       And I'm like, "All right.             What's about to happen?" 1220 00:47:26,802 --> 00:47:29,388    And so, "Did you get our video,                 Ralph?" 1221 00:47:29,429 --> 00:47:31,265             And I'm like,                  "No, your record company 1222 00:47:31,306 --> 00:47:33,392        is not giving it to me                because they want me 1223 00:47:33,433 --> 00:47:35,894            to pay for it."                     "We'll fix that". 1224 00:47:35,936 --> 00:47:38,230       The next week, the woman             from the record company 1225 00:47:38,272 --> 00:47:40,649         calls me, "Hi, Ralph,                 I'm gonna send you 1226 00:47:40,691 --> 00:47:42,317            all the videos                     that we have out." 1227 00:47:42,359 --> 00:47:45,237            And that's how                 my relationship got better 1228 00:47:45,279 --> 00:47:48,031            with the labels               and as well with the artists, 1229 00:47:48,073 --> 00:47:51,201       because now, we were working       hand in hand with each other. 1230 00:47:51,243 --> 00:47:52,911           [crowd cheering] 1231 00:47:52,953 --> 00:47:54,246            [man]   Ah, yeah. 1232 00:47:54,288 --> 00:47:55,914         When I say "Can I kick it?" 1233 00:47:55,956 --> 00:47:58,333           I want everybody to say                   "Yes, you can!" 1234 00:47:58,375 --> 00:48:00,460           One, two, three, go. 1235 00:48:00,502 --> 00:48:01,962      -    It's like that, y'all                   -    What! 1236 00:48:02,004 --> 00:48:03,630        It's like that, y'all 1237 00:48:03,672 --> 00:48:05,215          It's like that, y'all 1238 00:48:05,257 --> 00:48:06,675        It's like that, y'all 1239 00:48:06,717 --> 00:48:08,218          It's like that, y'all 1240 00:48:08,260 --> 00:48:09,386        It's like that, y'all 1241 00:48:09,428 --> 00:48:11,179            Come on, come on 1242 00:48:11,221 --> 00:48:12,973          -   Can I kick it?                   -[crowd] Yes, you can! 1243 00:48:13,015 --> 00:48:15,267          -   Can I kick it?                   -[crowd] Yes, you can! 1244 00:48:15,309 --> 00:48:17,811          -   Can I kick it?                   -[crowd] Yes, you can! 1245 00:48:17,853 --> 00:48:20,397          -   Can I kick it?                   -[crowd] Yes, you can! 1246 00:48:20,439 --> 00:48:22,232             Can I kick it? 1247 00:48:22,274 --> 00:48:24,443            [Ralph] This is              the   Video Music Box   collection, 1248 00:48:24,484 --> 00:48:26,445        You know, this is where                we keep everything. 1249 00:48:26,486 --> 00:48:29,156         This is what we used          at TV stations back in the days. 1250 00:48:29,197 --> 00:48:31,158         And this is how I did                    Video Music Box 1251 00:48:31,199 --> 00:48:32,659      most in the '80s, that's... 1252 00:48:32,701 --> 00:48:34,578             classic Ralph                 with the-- with the high-- 1253 00:48:34,620 --> 00:48:36,288           with the high-top 1254 00:48:36,330 --> 00:48:38,749       talking to the legendary                 Dizzy Gillespie. 1255 00:48:38,790 --> 00:48:41,793            What influence               did Charlie Parker have on you? 1256 00:48:41,835 --> 00:48:44,463         The greatest influence. 1257 00:48:44,504 --> 00:48:48,050          The biggest influence                     on my playing. 1258 00:48:48,091 --> 00:48:50,427      [Ralph]   And how do you feel          about the music business now, 1259 00:48:50,469 --> 00:48:52,137          in general right now? 1260 00:48:52,179 --> 00:48:55,641         In comparison to before               when you first started? 1261 00:48:55,682 --> 00:48:57,935              Well, there's                       much more respect. 1262 00:48:57,976 --> 00:49:01,772             They respect it                     as an art form now. 1263 00:49:01,813 --> 00:49:03,607           [Ralph]   How, what                were the feelings back then 1264 00:49:03,649 --> 00:49:04,983         when you first started? 1265 00:49:06,610 --> 00:49:08,320              Nigger music. 1266 00:49:09,988 --> 00:49:12,366           It's not hot tracks                        or U68 1267 00:49:12,407 --> 00:49:14,534            It's a video show                 that we think is great 1268 00:49:14,576 --> 00:49:16,703            -    Fresh...                -    Fresh out of the pack... 1269 00:49:16,745 --> 00:49:18,330      -    From eight to nine...                - Video Music Box 1270 00:49:18,372 --> 00:49:20,958         It will blow your mind 1271 00:49:20,999 --> 00:49:23,919  [Ralph]   Good evening and welcome            to   Video Music Box. 1272 00:49:23,961 --> 00:49:26,421         Tonight, Fresh Fest 85. 1273 00:49:26,463 --> 00:49:28,757                Taped live                     at the Nassau Coliseum. 1274 00:49:28,799 --> 00:49:31,218                 [DMC]                       It was the Fresh Fest tour 1275 00:49:31,259 --> 00:49:34,054               that put us                       in the big coliseums 1276 00:49:34,096 --> 00:49:36,431             and once again, 1277 00:49:36,473 --> 00:49:38,266       Ralph was the only camera                  in the room. 1278 00:49:38,308 --> 00:49:41,561 1279 00:49:41,603 --> 00:49:43,480     [Chuck Chillout]   Him filming 1280 00:49:43,522 --> 00:49:46,066              the Fresh Fest                     in Nassau Coliseum. 1281 00:49:46,108 --> 00:49:48,151                 Run-DMC, 1282 00:49:48,193 --> 00:49:50,362              18,000 people. 1283 00:49:50,404 --> 00:49:52,114             It was crazy. 1284 00:49:52,155 --> 00:49:54,032        Everybody in the world                     was there. 1285 00:49:54,074 --> 00:49:56,034        [Ralph]   I think that's               the first press conference 1286 00:49:56,076 --> 00:49:57,369       -I ever went to in my life.         -[reporter] Run-DMC, you guys 1287 00:49:57,411 --> 00:49:58,829          got anything to say                      to the...? 1288 00:49:58,870 --> 00:50:00,038       [Ralph]   And we get there                      and we see 1289 00:50:00,080 --> 00:50:01,540       all the different cameramen. 1290 00:50:01,581 --> 00:50:03,500              I mean, like,                       national networks. 1291 00:50:03,542 --> 00:50:05,711        And we just set our cameras            down right there. 1292 00:50:05,752 --> 00:50:07,671             We just fit in,                    like that's the thing 1293 00:50:07,713 --> 00:50:11,008      that Russell and Run-DMC did,       they brought every new first, 1294 00:50:11,049 --> 00:50:13,176     a press conference you know, 1295 00:50:13,218 --> 00:50:15,804     a press pass to be backstage, 1296 00:50:15,846 --> 00:50:18,724          [electronic music] 1297 00:50:18,765 --> 00:50:20,642        [Ralph]   The Fresh Fest                      was amazing. 1298 00:50:20,684 --> 00:50:22,602       Come on, clap your hands.                 Come on, clap. 1299 00:50:22,644 --> 00:50:25,272           [Chuck Chillout]                    Kurtis Blow, Fat Boys, 1300 00:50:25,313 --> 00:50:26,898               Whodini, 1301 00:50:26,940 --> 00:50:28,734     they had these break dancers. 1302 00:50:28,775 --> 00:50:31,236        Chad and Jermaine Dupri                were breakdancers. 1303 00:50:31,278 --> 00:50:33,739     This is my brother Dynasty... 1304 00:50:33,780 --> 00:50:36,533          We had a good time. 1305 00:50:36,575 --> 00:50:39,411    [Chuck Chillout]   They was like,         probably 10, 11 back then. 1306 00:50:39,453 --> 00:50:43,749       But that tour went shit,               like, 40 some cities. 1307 00:50:43,790 --> 00:50:46,084       [upbeat electronic plays                    on speaker] 1308 00:50:46,126 --> 00:50:48,628  [DJ Scratch]   Grandmaster Flash             is on the turntables. 1309 00:50:48,670 --> 00:50:51,798           This is actually                the first time I seen him. 1310 00:50:51,840 --> 00:50:53,884            Like I see him                     on the album covers 1311 00:50:53,925 --> 00:50:57,429       but I never seen him DJ. 1312 00:50:57,471 --> 00:51:00,057    And he had a dude next to him,           he was going like this. 1313 00:51:02,225 --> 00:51:04,436         While Flash was cutting                   and scratching. 1314 00:51:04,478 --> 00:51:06,354         That was epic to me. 1315 00:51:06,396 --> 00:51:08,440       [DJ]   From Hollis Queens, 1316 00:51:08,482 --> 00:51:10,442              Jam Master Jay 1317 00:51:10,484 --> 00:51:15,363               and Run-DMC! 1318 00:51:15,405 --> 00:51:17,407          [Ralph]   After I saw               the Fresh Fest. I was like, 1319 00:51:17,449 --> 00:51:19,910  "Oh, White people are into this             hip-hop thing heavy." 1320 00:51:19,951 --> 00:51:21,912       Because I went to Fresh Fest                in Long Island. 1321 00:51:21,953 --> 00:51:23,413            And it was mixed. 1322 00:51:23,455 --> 00:51:25,624          And everybody knows               the lyrics the same way. 1323 00:51:25,665 --> 00:51:28,460            [crowd singing] 1324 00:51:31,797 --> 00:51:34,466       "Oh, this is crossover.              This-- This-- This has-- 1325 00:51:34,508 --> 00:51:35,926         no, there's no color                   on this anymore. 1326 00:51:35,967 --> 00:51:37,844           This is just rap.                 This is just hip-hop." 1327 00:51:37,886 --> 00:51:40,764 1328 00:51:40,806 --> 00:51:42,516             So, went to   MTV. 1329 00:51:42,557 --> 00:51:44,309          I said, "I got to get                  Video Music Box   on, 1330 00:51:44,351 --> 00:51:46,645                it's time                        for a hip-hop show." 1331 00:51:46,686 --> 00:51:49,106               [groans] 1332 00:51:49,147 --> 00:51:50,690     "You don't understand, Ralph. 1333 00:51:50,732 --> 00:51:53,610           Middle America's                not ready for no hip-hop." 1334 00:51:53,652 --> 00:51:55,821              And I said,                 "What are you talking about? 1335 00:51:55,862 --> 00:51:57,322          I just came from-- 1336 00:51:57,364 --> 00:51:59,199      let me show you the footage                of Fresh Fest. 1337 00:51:59,241 --> 00:52:00,408        Let me show you this." 1338 00:52:00,450 --> 00:52:02,494  White kids are singing, Asian, 1339 00:52:02,536 --> 00:52:04,830              Latino, Black.                       We all together. 1340 00:52:04,871 --> 00:52:08,583            [upbeat music] 1341 00:52:08,625 --> 00:52:11,586              And they said                  "Nah, you don't understand. 1342 00:52:11,628 --> 00:52:13,171          That's in New York.                    That's not how 1343 00:52:13,213 --> 00:52:14,965  the rest of the country works." 1344 00:52:15,006 --> 00:52:17,342       I don't know about that.           These dudes is on tour, bro. 1345 00:52:17,384 --> 00:52:19,010          They're going on--                 ain't just in New York, 1346 00:52:19,052 --> 00:52:20,804      they're doing these shows,                they're touring." 1347 00:52:20,846 --> 00:52:23,473           "Nah. Not ready.              I don't want to scare nobody." 1348 00:52:23,515 --> 00:52:25,016            And I was like,                  "I think you're wrong." 1349 00:52:31,398 --> 00:52:33,275             -[rapper]   Yo!                   -[Evelyn]   A year later, 1350 00:52:33,316 --> 00:52:35,902  they came out with   Yo! MTV Raps. 1351 00:52:35,944 --> 00:52:38,572        [Tuffy]   Their blueprint                 was   Video Music Box. 1352 00:52:38,613 --> 00:52:41,032             Video Music Box                  was the essential show 1353 00:52:41,074 --> 00:52:42,826      for hip-hop on television. 1354 00:52:42,868 --> 00:52:44,744       A lot people want artists                   to live up 1355 00:52:44,786 --> 00:52:46,329           to a certain standard,                you know, like, 1356 00:52:46,371 --> 00:52:48,206            be role models                 and all that kind of stuff. 1357 00:52:48,248 --> 00:52:50,208        I'm sure, that's put on you                all the time. 1358 00:52:50,250 --> 00:52:52,002      Yeah. But it's kinda hard,                    I mean... 1359 00:52:52,043 --> 00:52:55,046     [Diddy]   It was-- It was never                 a competition 1360 00:52:55,088 --> 00:52:57,382               with   MTV                       with   Video Music Box 1361 00:52:57,424 --> 00:53:00,177        because   Video Music Box                was its own thing. 1362 00:53:00,218 --> 00:53:03,221           [crowd cheering] 1363 00:53:07,893 --> 00:53:10,729                You know,                     just the love of the art, 1364 00:53:10,770 --> 00:53:13,523        and it was still important                   and needed, 1365 00:53:13,565 --> 00:53:15,233         the job wasn't done, 1366 00:53:15,275 --> 00:53:16,568                You want to know                    the star status 1367 00:53:16,610 --> 00:53:18,904       When I walk in the studio 1368 00:53:18,945 --> 00:53:20,739          Mic's there, tracks spare,        and I'm ready to do me some 1369 00:53:20,780 --> 00:53:22,908      [Diddy]   You know, new artists             needed to be put on, 1370 00:53:22,949 --> 00:53:24,910  people that don't get the chance 1371 00:53:24,951 --> 00:53:27,495            even before YouTube.            You know what I'm saying? 1372 00:53:27,537 --> 00:53:30,165           To really get a light                  shined on them. 1373 00:53:30,207 --> 00:53:31,166          We're getting ready                   to steam roller, 1374 00:53:31,208 --> 00:53:32,751       so here we go with Ice-T 1375 00:53:32,792 --> 00:53:35,045     and High Rollers on   Yo! MTV. 1376 00:53:35,086 --> 00:53:37,839         [DMC]   The difference                   is   Video Music Box 1377 00:53:37,881 --> 00:53:39,549          was us showing us, 1378 00:53:39,591 --> 00:53:41,635     and   MTV   was them showing us. 1379 00:53:41,676 --> 00:53:43,428        That's the bottom line                     difference. 1380 00:53:43,470 --> 00:53:45,222        That's a different vibe            sitting there watching it. 1381 00:53:45,263 --> 00:53:46,890     So I'm not worried about it,                   you know. 1382 00:53:46,932 --> 00:53:48,475       I'm like, "Nah, we good." 1383 00:53:48,516 --> 00:53:50,936              So finally,                  now, they're getting speed. 1384 00:53:50,977 --> 00:53:52,729               I can see                    they getting comfortable 1385 00:53:52,771 --> 00:53:54,564     with they doing what they do,             they getting better 1386 00:53:54,606 --> 00:53:57,484           at   Yo! MTV Raps.              So I'm watching it, and I said, 1387 00:53:57,525 --> 00:54:00,612  "Okay, we got to go deep, deep, 1388 00:54:00,654 --> 00:54:03,073       deep to the underground." 1389 00:54:03,114 --> 00:54:06,034       And we start pulling out          all these underground artists, 1390 00:54:06,076 --> 00:54:09,704     guys that nobody's heard of,                    Jay-Z. 1391 00:54:09,746 --> 00:54:13,291           [indistinct rapping] 1392 00:54:15,460 --> 00:54:17,254           When I first got                   my little interview, 1393 00:54:17,295 --> 00:54:19,047         I was happy as hell.                    It was like a, 1394 00:54:19,089 --> 00:54:20,966           you know, a badge              to get that Ralph interview. 1395 00:54:21,007 --> 00:54:23,802       I know you got new thing            going on with a new label. 1396 00:54:23,843 --> 00:54:25,470                -Yeah.                     -Production's growing, huh? 1397 00:54:25,512 --> 00:54:27,806         Yeah, yeah. We doing             the same thing as these cats. 1398 00:54:27,847 --> 00:54:30,558        That's why I came down,                     you know,                     I mean, represent them. 1399 00:54:30,600 --> 00:54:32,060      They did a priority thing, 1400 00:54:32,102 --> 00:54:33,895           we doing that too                   Roc-A-Fella Records 1401 00:54:33,937 --> 00:54:35,772        on their priority also,                     you know? 1402 00:54:35,814 --> 00:54:37,816                G Rap. 1403 00:54:37,857 --> 00:54:39,985            To be a billionaire                takes hard work for years 1404 00:54:40,026 --> 00:54:41,945           Some nights I shed a tear           while I said my prayers 1405 00:54:41,987 --> 00:54:45,824        [Ralph]   The most incredible           hip-hop artist to me ever. 1406 00:54:45,865 --> 00:54:48,451        You know, we're looking                for that dope shit 1407 00:54:48,493 --> 00:54:50,495         that's in the clubs,                 that's in the street 1408 00:54:50,537 --> 00:54:52,622       that we hear in the cars.                     Luke... 1409 00:54:52,664 --> 00:54:54,165             Doo Doo Brown                        Doo Doo Brown 1410 00:54:54,207 --> 00:54:55,875              Doo Doo Brown                        Doo Doo Brown 1411 00:54:55,917 --> 00:54:57,544             Doo Doo Brown                        Doo Doo Brown 1412 00:54:57,585 --> 00:54:59,462              Doo Doo Brown                        Doo Doo Brown 1413 00:54:59,504 --> 00:55:01,923                [Ralph]                      You know Miami bass music. 1414 00:55:01,965 --> 00:55:03,883       Nobody's playing Miami bass                   in New York. 1415 00:55:03,925 --> 00:55:05,427               [Luther]                    Nobody was playing our videos. 1416 00:55:05,468 --> 00:55:07,178        Oh, it's too much ass. 1417 00:55:07,220 --> 00:55:08,888         Oh, too many crotch shots. 1418 00:55:08,930 --> 00:55:11,057      Well, Ralph was not playing                the same videos 1419 00:55:11,099 --> 00:55:12,434         that   MTV   was playing. 1420 00:55:12,475 --> 00:55:14,185         Straight outta Compton! 1421 00:55:14,227 --> 00:55:16,062            Crazy motherfucker                     named Ice Cube 1422 00:55:16,104 --> 00:55:17,981        From the gang called Niggaz                With Attitudes 1423 00:55:18,023 --> 00:55:20,066         [Ralph]   Like, by '88,                  we're playing N.W.A. 1424 00:55:20,108 --> 00:55:22,277               Nobody--                      who the hell is N.W.A. 1425 00:55:22,319 --> 00:55:24,321     and why are you playing that                 in New York? 1426 00:55:24,362 --> 00:55:28,616        So we're-- we're going                after hardcore music 1427 00:55:28,658 --> 00:55:29,868        that's for the ghetto. 1428 00:55:29,909 --> 00:55:31,161               All night-a 1429 00:55:31,202 --> 00:55:32,370               All right-a 1430 00:55:32,412 --> 00:55:33,621               All night-a 1431 00:55:33,663 --> 00:55:35,373           Ay, sing with it. Ay! 1432 00:55:35,415 --> 00:55:37,375       Oh! Give it up. [laughs] 1433 00:55:37,417 --> 00:55:39,210               [Luther]                      What people don't realize 1434 00:55:39,252 --> 00:55:41,379        is because it's a show, 1435 00:55:41,421 --> 00:55:42,839         they really made me-- 1436 00:55:42,881 --> 00:55:44,466        it really made New York 1437 00:55:44,507 --> 00:55:46,217     my number one selling market. 1438 00:55:46,259 --> 00:55:48,636          I don't really play             no keyboards and instruments. 1439 00:55:48,678 --> 00:55:50,638                My man,                     I'll hum him song things. 1440 00:55:50,680 --> 00:55:52,557        He'll come with ideas,                  we work together, 1441 00:55:52,599 --> 00:55:54,893         we make hits together,              we make money together. 1442 00:55:54,934 --> 00:55:58,104            The first video                that I begged Ralph to play 1443 00:55:58,146 --> 00:56:00,940      from Bad Boy was Craig Mack              "Flava In Ya Ear". 1444 00:56:00,982 --> 00:56:04,110            Just like Uniblab,                  robotic kicking flab 1445 00:56:04,152 --> 00:56:05,904          My flavor bidder badder                 chitter-chatter 1446 00:56:05,945 --> 00:56:07,697       Madder than the Mad Hatter 1447 00:56:07,739 --> 00:56:10,575  [Diddy]   You know, on that day,              it broke the video. 1448 00:56:10,617 --> 00:56:12,702               And that video                   and that piece of art 1449 00:56:12,744 --> 00:56:14,871           was so impactful 1450 00:56:14,913 --> 00:56:16,831       that it launched Bad Boy. 1451 00:56:16,873 --> 00:56:18,458      [Khalid]   Have you forgotten 1452 00:56:18,500 --> 00:56:19,626  that once we were brought here, 1453 00:56:19,667 --> 00:56:21,586       we were robbed of our name? 1454 00:56:21,628 --> 00:56:23,838        [Nas]   Why did you care                so much about community? 1455 00:56:23,880 --> 00:56:25,840          Because, you know,                     it was violence 1456 00:56:25,882 --> 00:56:28,510      going on in our community. 1457 00:56:28,551 --> 00:56:30,345            Here it is. Bam! 1458 00:56:30,387 --> 00:56:32,222          In your face goddamn 1459 00:56:32,263 --> 00:56:33,932          This is the dope jam 1460 00:56:33,973 --> 00:56:36,393      Crack tore the neighborhood                  to shreds. 1461 00:56:36,434 --> 00:56:37,936    [Shaggy]   A lot of gun violence.             You know, it was-- 1462 00:56:37,977 --> 00:56:39,854     it was tough times and times,              You know I mean. 1463 00:56:39,896 --> 00:56:42,190                 Some of us,                      we sold the drug 1464 00:56:42,232 --> 00:56:44,776               and some of us                was victim to the drug. 1465 00:56:44,818 --> 00:56:48,071                 But the drug               made you do things for $5 1466 00:56:48,113 --> 00:56:49,739     that you wouldn't do for 500. 1467 00:56:49,781 --> 00:56:53,284            So because Ralph             had complete editorial control, 1468 00:56:53,326 --> 00:56:55,912        in between the videos,            he could drop some knowledge. 1469 00:56:55,954 --> 00:56:57,622      You know we're here to talk           about-- we're gonna have, 1470 00:56:57,664 --> 00:56:59,791  you know, like a conversation,               on what I think 1471 00:56:59,833 --> 00:57:01,751            is probably one                   of the major problems 1472 00:57:01,793 --> 00:57:03,837          is young Black men                 killing themselves off. 1473 00:57:03,878 --> 00:57:06,047        And, uh, I wanna first                  talk to you Guru 1474 00:57:06,089 --> 00:57:08,216       about the, uh, the video                that you have out, 1475 00:57:08,258 --> 00:57:09,843  it's called "Just to Get A Rep". 1476 00:57:09,884 --> 00:57:12,137              And this is how                      the story goes 1477 00:57:12,178 --> 00:57:14,347            Brothers are amused               by others brother's reps 1478 00:57:14,389 --> 00:57:16,599       But the thing they know best           is where the gun is kept 1479 00:57:16,641 --> 00:57:18,601      Young brothers are just, like, 1480 00:57:18,643 --> 00:57:20,145           everybody's frontin'               on each other. Everybody-- 1481 00:57:20,186 --> 00:57:22,147            like, it's a lack                      of self-esteem. 1482 00:57:22,188 --> 00:57:23,982          And to gain esteem, 1483 00:57:24,023 --> 00:57:25,650      they want to take something              from the next man. 1484 00:57:25,692 --> 00:57:27,068          Bring him down so, 1485 00:57:27,110 --> 00:57:28,945         to gain more respect,                   to gain a rep. 1486 00:57:28,987 --> 00:57:30,864        I believe it was Ralph                    that came up 1487 00:57:30,905 --> 00:57:32,991              -with Word.                        -[Ralph]   Word. 1488 00:57:33,032 --> 00:57:34,909     That's what they were saying                on the street. 1489 00:57:34,951 --> 00:57:36,661      That's what we was saying,                     "Word?" 1490 00:57:36,703 --> 00:57:39,456          Behind that slang, 1491 00:57:39,497 --> 00:57:41,916           came information. 1492 00:57:41,958 --> 00:57:43,793           If I'm real sad,                   I just cry about it. 1493 00:57:43,835 --> 00:57:46,171         Just get it all out,                 you know, my system. 1494 00:57:46,212 --> 00:57:49,007     I think crying is a good way         to get a lot of things out. 1495 00:57:49,048 --> 00:57:50,675               [Sabrina]                     So we-- we-- we would drop 1496 00:57:50,717 --> 00:57:52,510       in stopping teen pregnancy. 1497 00:57:52,552 --> 00:57:55,346        It was important for me             to get information across 1498 00:57:55,388 --> 00:57:57,807     in the show like edutainment. 1499 00:57:57,849 --> 00:57:59,809        You know, it was like,                 we can educate you 1500 00:57:59,851 --> 00:58:01,060            at the same time                    as entertain you. 1501 00:58:01,102 --> 00:58:04,439           He also was the voice                of kind of reason 1502 00:58:04,481 --> 00:58:06,316                 and bringing                   to you social issues, 1503 00:58:06,357 --> 00:58:08,985        very-- not as speaking down                 to you, 1504 00:58:09,027 --> 00:58:11,154           speaking with you                and just kind of sharing 1505 00:58:11,196 --> 00:58:13,239       with you what's going on. 1506 00:58:13,281 --> 00:58:15,283              And I think                 he's probably the only person 1507 00:58:15,325 --> 00:58:16,951              we trusted                     about what's going on. 1508 00:58:16,993 --> 00:58:19,496           It's Uncle Ralph.                   He was Uncle Ralph, 1509 00:58:19,537 --> 00:58:20,914      he was bringing it to you. 1510 00:58:20,955 --> 00:58:24,167           [indistinct rapping] 1511 00:58:26,044 --> 00:58:30,965         [indistinct rapping] 1512 00:58:31,007 --> 00:58:34,677           [Ray]   I would say                       that 10% for me 1513 00:58:34,719 --> 00:58:38,932            of   Video Music Box                 at the time was artists. 1514 00:58:38,973 --> 00:58:41,392            The other 90%, 1515 00:58:41,434 --> 00:58:43,853       we were in the community                or doing an event. 1516 00:58:43,895 --> 00:58:45,897  I live in Brooklyn, people from             outside Brooklyn say, 1517 00:58:45,939 --> 00:58:47,815      "Our Brooklyn niggas is wild.         Them niggas is just crazy." 1518 00:58:47,857 --> 00:58:49,400         -Now, we ain't wild.                     -Why is that? 1519 00:58:49,442 --> 00:58:51,152          Because every time                 something bad happened, 1520 00:58:51,194 --> 00:58:52,737       they put it on the news.           But when something happens in 1521 00:58:52,779 --> 00:58:54,572       other places, they don't             bring it out like that. 1522 00:58:54,614 --> 00:58:56,991        [Bryan] Video Music Box                 is based on family. 1523 00:58:57,033 --> 00:58:58,910           It might've really                   come from my parents. 1524 00:58:58,952 --> 00:59:00,578               You know,                     they were really active 1525 00:59:00,620 --> 00:59:02,705         in community-based issues. 1526 00:59:02,747 --> 00:59:04,374       Families is-- is bigger-- 1527 00:59:04,415 --> 00:59:06,376           is a bigger word                   than business to him. 1528 00:59:06,417 --> 00:59:09,128          Well, I think, um,                  the security is good. 1529 00:59:09,170 --> 00:59:11,089        I think everybody feel                      more safe 1530 00:59:11,130 --> 00:59:13,216         and they need to just                leave those guns home 1531 00:59:13,258 --> 00:59:14,801      and, you know, just chill. 1532 00:59:14,842 --> 00:59:16,636          Get their education                 so they can get there 1533 00:59:16,678 --> 00:59:17,845          and make something                   out of their self. 1534 00:59:17,887 --> 00:59:21,891 1535 00:59:21,933 --> 00:59:25,144      [Professor X]   Via survival,             you have become a victim. 1536 00:59:25,186 --> 00:59:26,896             A war victim. 1537 00:59:26,938 --> 00:59:29,649  They're not even being respected 1538 00:59:29,691 --> 00:59:32,527  under the guidelines of wartime. 1539 00:59:32,569 --> 00:59:35,363        [Ralph]   So we would go             to Rikers Island all the time. 1540 00:59:35,405 --> 00:59:38,032      You know, we had relationships             with corrections, 1541 00:59:38,074 --> 00:59:40,076      and they would let us come in 1542 00:59:40,118 --> 00:59:42,036         because the inmates watched       Video Music Box   all the time. 1543 00:59:42,078 --> 00:59:43,788           They would-- uh,                  the correction officers 1544 00:59:43,830 --> 00:59:45,540  that I knew would be like, "Yo, 1545 00:59:45,582 --> 00:59:47,250         when   Video Music Box                       comes on, 1546 00:59:47,292 --> 00:59:49,711       no stabbings, no nothing.              Nothing's going on." 1547 00:59:49,752 --> 00:59:51,462          Soon as it's over,                 it's back to business. 1548 00:59:51,504 --> 00:59:53,047       Everything's crazy again. 1549 00:59:53,089 --> 00:59:54,966                  [] 1550 00:59:55,008 --> 00:59:57,302    [news reporter]   Prosecutors say          they were part of a gang 1551 00:59:57,343 --> 00:59:59,804           of about 30 youths,               so we're on a wilding attack 1552 00:59:59,846 --> 01:00:01,598       in Central Park last April. 1553 01:00:01,639 --> 01:00:05,101          [Ralph]   Korey Wise,                when this thing comes out 1554 01:00:05,143 --> 01:00:07,645             about these guys                   the Central Park Five, 1555 01:00:07,687 --> 01:00:08,813       you got some five Black kids 1556 01:00:08,855 --> 01:00:10,398       and you got one White woman 1557 01:00:10,440 --> 01:00:11,733             and it's just--                       you can't win. 1558 01:00:11,774 --> 01:00:13,651             These Black kids                      are gonna lose, 1559 01:00:13,693 --> 01:00:15,320  it's not gonna-- it's not gonna               work out for them. 1560 01:00:15,361 --> 01:00:17,322           Later on in life,                 I'm watching this tape 1561 01:00:17,363 --> 01:00:19,490          of Korey Wise talk 1562 01:00:19,532 --> 01:00:23,536         and he's in-- he says             "I was in, um Rikers Island 1563 01:00:23,578 --> 01:00:25,538     and watched   Video Music Box." 1564 01:00:25,580 --> 01:00:27,832             So I'm like,                    "What did he just say?" 1565 01:00:27,874 --> 01:00:31,336         After I found myself,                uh, becoming incarcerated, 1566 01:00:31,377 --> 01:00:33,546             that's when I found               myself embracing-- 1567 01:00:33,588 --> 01:00:35,381     embrace the   Video Music Box. 1568 01:00:35,423 --> 01:00:38,384        Video Music Box,   it just--                   it just-- 1569 01:00:38,426 --> 01:00:41,137         it spoke to my soul. 1570 01:00:41,179 --> 01:00:44,057     I guess it helped raised me. 1571 01:00:44,098 --> 01:00:46,559        [man] "Video Music Box             would like to thank the staff 1572 01:00:46,601 --> 01:00:48,895          at Rahway State Prison                   for allowing us 1573 01:00:48,936 --> 01:00:51,189      to come in and do this story." 1574 01:00:51,230 --> 01:00:52,857           [Ralph]   Rahway prison                  used to write me. 1575 01:00:52,899 --> 01:00:54,359        The guys used to write me                   all the time. 1576 01:00:54,400 --> 01:00:56,569           And then they got                     a record deal. 1577 01:00:56,611 --> 01:00:58,863       And-- And traditionally,                  over the years, 1578 01:00:58,905 --> 01:01:00,948         people have come out             of Rahway with record deals. 1579 01:01:00,990 --> 01:01:03,368                With a charge                    and our system locked 1580 01:01:03,409 --> 01:01:05,286        When you don't wanna live 1581 01:01:05,328 --> 01:01:06,996      [Ralph]   And they had a record            deal when I was a kid. 1582 01:01:07,038 --> 01:01:08,873            I used to listen                      to their records. 1583 01:01:08,915 --> 01:01:10,291           It would say "Recorded             in Rahway State Prison." 1584 01:01:10,333 --> 01:01:12,043  We call this the house of pain. 1585 01:01:12,085 --> 01:01:13,628            Because prison                     is about suffering, 1586 01:01:13,670 --> 01:01:16,547           it's about living                 in pain 24 hours a day. 1587 01:01:16,589 --> 01:01:18,383      [Ralph]   And it was the real             deal. These was lifers. 1588 01:01:18,424 --> 01:01:20,551         Like, these was cats             that they wasn't getting out 1589 01:01:20,593 --> 01:01:21,552             no time soon. 1590 01:01:21,594 --> 01:01:24,847        [somber music playing] 1591 01:01:24,889 --> 01:01:27,058            [Hakeem]   Yeah,                    the Rahway presentation 1592 01:01:27,100 --> 01:01:30,728        was particularly searing, 1593 01:01:30,770 --> 01:01:33,189             because it was sort                  of an indication 1594 01:01:33,231 --> 01:01:35,692         without being lectured to, 1595 01:01:35,733 --> 01:01:39,070         you probably wanna avoid               going down this path. 1596 01:01:39,112 --> 01:01:40,196  Because this is a circumstance 1597 01:01:40,238 --> 01:01:42,031  that you may find yourself in, 1598 01:01:42,073 --> 01:01:44,909               if things                     go the wrong direction. 1599 01:01:44,951 --> 01:01:46,744      I'm trying to make babies,           I'm trying to raise babies 1600 01:01:46,786 --> 01:01:48,746            with a strong mother             and a strong father figure, 1601 01:01:48,788 --> 01:01:50,289             and I can't do that              when you're behind bars. 1602 01:01:50,331 --> 01:01:51,290              -Go ahead.                              -So respect. 1603 01:01:51,332 --> 01:01:52,917       But I need you here, too. 1604 01:01:52,959 --> 01:01:54,752        So, maybe you recognize             the fact that I need you, 1605 01:01:54,794 --> 01:01:56,254     if you know what I'm saying?              To build our young 1606 01:01:56,295 --> 01:01:57,755         and create that army. 1607 01:01:57,797 --> 01:01:58,881          If we don't make it                    this generation 1608 01:01:58,923 --> 01:01:59,924     but the next generation will. 1609 01:01:59,966 --> 01:02:01,551      We tried to find a balance 1610 01:02:01,592 --> 01:02:04,762             in presenting             Video Music Box   over the years. 1611 01:02:04,804 --> 01:02:07,265         You know, we can get               as hood as you wanna get, 1612 01:02:07,306 --> 01:02:09,100  we can give you some knowledge 1613 01:02:09,142 --> 01:02:10,893      in between there, you know, 1614 01:02:10,935 --> 01:02:13,438       and we can have some fun.          However, you wanna mix it up. 1615 01:02:13,479 --> 01:02:15,189               I mean, Ralph,                     we come from an era 1616 01:02:15,231 --> 01:02:17,400        where it was really a dream         to get on at this time. 1617 01:02:17,442 --> 01:02:18,943                  -Yeah.                           -You know? 1618 01:02:18,985 --> 01:02:21,446            You know, to become              and maybe get some love 1619 01:02:21,487 --> 01:02:23,906        from Rey, get some love                  from you, you know. 1620 01:02:23,948 --> 01:02:25,575             That was a part                      of the dream, right? 1621 01:02:25,616 --> 01:02:27,243               -That's right.               -Just to make it that far 1622 01:02:27,285 --> 01:02:29,245           and just have a record                 in the neighborhood, 1623 01:02:29,287 --> 01:02:31,080             who would've thought                 it'd be a major 1624 01:02:31,122 --> 01:02:33,291           business conglomerate                like it is today. 1625 01:02:33,332 --> 01:02:35,418        [hip-hop music playing] 1626 01:02:35,460 --> 01:02:38,004      [reporter]   Rap has arrived!             The music and the culture 1627 01:02:38,045 --> 01:02:39,797            has been absorbed                      into many parts 1628 01:02:39,839 --> 01:02:41,466          of mainstream America. 1629 01:02:41,507 --> 01:02:43,426      Rap music and hip-hop culture 1630 01:02:43,468 --> 01:02:45,011           have gone from being                     an inner city 1631 01:02:45,052 --> 01:02:47,764            homeboy lifestyle                    to a popular music. 1632 01:02:47,805 --> 01:02:49,682         Craved even by suburbia. 1633 01:02:49,724 --> 01:02:51,934      [reporter]   At this school,            the kids learn the four Rs, 1634 01:02:51,976 --> 01:02:53,936            reading, writing,                    'rithmetic, and rap. 1635 01:02:53,978 --> 01:02:56,647       Most of the expressions here           make quite a bit of sense. 1636 01:02:56,689 --> 01:03:00,526        Fat cables for example               means big gold chains. 1637 01:03:00,568 --> 01:03:03,863              Full moon,                    that's a large back side. 1638 01:03:03,905 --> 01:03:05,406             [Steele]   I think                 the corporations started 1639 01:03:05,448 --> 01:03:07,617           to see the change,                   the prospect of making 1640 01:03:07,658 --> 01:03:10,161           a lot more money                and being in more control. 1641 01:03:10,203 --> 01:03:12,246      You saw the money grabbing 1642 01:03:12,288 --> 01:03:14,165         and-- and the opportunity               for individuals 1643 01:03:14,207 --> 01:03:18,753             like myself, uh,                 coming from these areas. 1644 01:03:18,795 --> 01:03:21,297          Uh, the-- the lane                  started to kinda get 1645 01:03:21,339 --> 01:03:22,673       a little bit more narrow. 1646 01:03:22,715 --> 01:03:24,675               [Daymond]                      Everything in the world 1647 01:03:24,717 --> 01:03:27,678       has some hip-hop tied to it, 1648 01:03:27,720 --> 01:03:29,430             and corporations                         are making 1649 01:03:29,472 --> 01:03:32,683  an absolute killing off of it. 1650 01:03:32,725 --> 01:03:34,185     Once the inner city got you, 1651 01:03:34,227 --> 01:03:36,646          then the outer city                  wanna get involved, 1652 01:03:36,687 --> 01:03:39,190    the Whites, whatever, the other      people that's living outside. 1653 01:03:39,232 --> 01:03:41,067       They say, "What the hell           are all those niggas doing?" 1654 01:03:41,108 --> 01:03:43,236       It's gotta be something.                Let's get involved. 1655 01:03:43,277 --> 01:03:45,196             That's the money                  we can make out of this. 1656 01:03:45,238 --> 01:03:47,865      All these black motherfuckers              jumping around and shit. 1657 01:03:47,907 --> 01:03:49,367        How can we make some money                   out of that? 1658 01:03:49,408 --> 01:03:52,245             And I am Cash Money,               the number-one stunna. 1659 01:03:52,286 --> 01:03:54,997             I'm the Birdman Jr.                      Weezy, baby. 1660 01:03:55,039 --> 01:03:56,249            I mean, hip hop                       in the '90s, 1661 01:03:56,290 --> 01:03:57,375             we got rich. 1662 01:03:57,416 --> 01:04:00,253               [laughs] 1663 01:04:00,294 --> 01:04:03,214        -[upbeat music playing]               -[indistinct singing] 1664 01:04:06,342 --> 01:04:07,510          [Diddy]   We started                     to know our worth. 1665 01:04:07,552 --> 01:04:09,345        You know what I'm saying? 1666 01:04:09,387 --> 01:04:12,431             So, you know, you--           you started to have people 1667 01:04:12,473 --> 01:04:15,685         that actually, you know,                 became millionaires. 1668 01:04:15,726 --> 01:04:18,020           I'm a capitalist 1669 01:04:18,062 --> 01:04:20,690        and I'm about making money, 1670 01:04:20,731 --> 01:04:24,652            but definitely, uh,             when a corporation comes in, 1671 01:04:24,694 --> 01:04:28,239              that's when                  the manipulation comes in. 1672 01:04:28,281 --> 01:04:30,992      And I'm happy for everybody                getting money, 1673 01:04:31,033 --> 01:04:32,660      but it corrupts the system. 1674 01:04:32,702 --> 01:04:37,707         [indistinct rapping] 1675 01:04:37,748 --> 01:04:40,543       You know, my era came in                with a sense of-of, 1676 01:04:40,585 --> 01:04:42,420           "We're not going                     to work for you. 1677 01:04:42,461 --> 01:04:44,171          We're going to own                     our own shit," 1678 01:04:44,213 --> 01:04:49,427         [indistinct rapping] 1679 01:04:49,468 --> 01:04:51,262       And we had to figure it out             because there was a lot 1680 01:04:51,304 --> 01:04:53,055      of trickery in these contracts 1681 01:04:53,097 --> 01:04:55,558       and a lot of shit like that. 1682 01:04:55,600 --> 01:04:58,644        -[hip-hop music playing]            -Yo, show time, let's go! 1683 01:04:58,686 --> 01:04:59,770                 What? 1684 01:04:59,812 --> 01:05:01,606     [DJ repeating beat on vinyl] 1685 01:05:04,901 --> 01:05:06,360        [DJ Scratch]   When you                  first start, you know 1686 01:05:06,402 --> 01:05:08,112            you're doing it                   because you love it. 1687 01:05:08,154 --> 01:05:09,488             It's something new.              You're trying something, 1688 01:05:09,530 --> 01:05:11,032          and then it became                     something epic. 1689 01:05:11,073 --> 01:05:13,492             Ralph McDaniels                     went from becoming, 1690 01:05:13,534 --> 01:05:15,328            you know, somebody                that was doing this shit. 1691 01:05:15,369 --> 01:05:16,996         It was a great idea. 1692 01:05:17,038 --> 01:05:19,206    And then, now he's an activist              for the culture. 1693 01:05:19,248 --> 01:05:22,919          -[rap music playing]                -[indistinct rapping] 1694 01:05:29,675 --> 01:05:31,552  [Nas]   Everybody deserves a shot. 1695 01:05:31,594 --> 01:05:33,763      He gave people that chance.           He gave people that shot. 1696 01:05:33,804 --> 01:05:35,598               That was part                    of the building blocks 1697 01:05:35,640 --> 01:05:37,475          to get us to where                     we needed to go. 1698 01:05:37,516 --> 01:05:38,893             Video Music Box,                           all right. 1699 01:05:38,935 --> 01:05:41,062               We're here,                      I'm in 125th Street. 1700 01:05:41,103 --> 01:05:43,481       Broad Money about to drop                    this Tuesday. 1701 01:05:43,522 --> 01:05:45,316       I'm taking it's kinda like--                you know, 1702 01:05:45,358 --> 01:05:46,817         to the subways today,            that's kinda crazy right now. 1703 01:05:46,859 --> 01:05:48,486          Oh, yeah. You know                     what I'm saying, 1704 01:05:48,527 --> 01:05:50,071            [clears throat]            ain't no artist get on the train 1705 01:05:50,112 --> 01:05:51,781               since MC Lyte,                   you know what I mean? 1706 01:05:51,822 --> 01:05:53,282                -So...                        -MOP up in the place! 1707 01:05:53,324 --> 01:05:54,825      It's going down like that. 1708 01:05:54,867 --> 01:05:56,327             [Billy]   I can't find                     someone else 1709 01:05:56,369 --> 01:05:58,663  outside of our immediate family 1710 01:05:58,704 --> 01:06:01,415          that's in the business                  that supported MOP 1711 01:06:01,457 --> 01:06:04,377      as much as Ralph McDaniels                 and   Video Music Box. 1712 01:06:04,418 --> 01:06:06,754  -   How about some hardcore?             -   Yeah, we like it raw! 1713 01:06:06,796 --> 01:06:09,507     -   How about some hardcore?            -   Yeah, we like it raw! 1714 01:06:09,548 --> 01:06:12,093  -   How about some hardcore?             -   Yeah, we like it raw! 1715 01:06:12,134 --> 01:06:14,136     [Billy]   You never would think                that your video 1716 01:06:14,178 --> 01:06:15,721            is coming up next, 1717 01:06:15,763 --> 01:06:17,390            and he's gonna                   actually say your name, 1718 01:06:17,431 --> 01:06:19,892       and he's gonna be excited                about your song. 1719 01:06:19,934 --> 01:06:21,852      [Lil Fame]   He didn't care.             He's just doing a video. 1720 01:06:21,894 --> 01:06:23,229          The whole neighborhood                      is hyped. 1721 01:06:23,270 --> 01:06:24,480               -Uh-huh.                       -So we basically did 1722 01:06:24,522 --> 01:06:25,481               the video                      for the neighborhood. 1723 01:06:25,523 --> 01:06:27,191           [hip-hop playing] 1724 01:06:27,233 --> 01:06:28,693        [Ralph]   The reason why                we started making videos 1725 01:06:28,734 --> 01:06:31,112       is because I said sometimes, 1726 01:06:31,153 --> 01:06:33,197         "I don't like the videos              that we get that we play 1727 01:06:33,239 --> 01:06:34,365         on   Video Music Box." 1728 01:06:34,407 --> 01:06:36,158  Sometimes it just doesn't work. 1729 01:06:36,200 --> 01:06:37,994        I always want the video           to take it to the next level. 1730 01:06:38,035 --> 01:06:40,538          So, your movement            can only be, like, right here, 1731 01:06:40,579 --> 01:06:42,289       you come back this block. 1732 01:06:42,331 --> 01:06:43,708         [Ralph]   Me and Lionel                was sitting down one day 1733 01:06:43,749 --> 01:06:45,126            and we came up                   with an idea of a name 1734 01:06:45,167 --> 01:06:46,877             of a company                    called Classic Concept. 1735 01:06:46,919 --> 01:06:48,170           Then, we started,                 like, really producing 1736 01:06:48,212 --> 01:06:49,714      and shooting our own stuff. 1737 01:06:49,755 --> 01:06:51,841          [record scratches] 1738 01:06:51,882 --> 01:06:53,801         Well, my name is Roxanne,               and don't ya know 1739 01:06:53,843 --> 01:06:55,720       -[Nas]   Roxanne's Revenge.           -[Ralph]   Roxanne's Revenge. 1740 01:06:55,761 --> 01:06:57,388         Right. That's the first             hip hop video we ever made. 1741 01:06:57,430 --> 01:06:59,849         We shot it in Queens,             Queens and Brooklyn. Yeah. 1742 01:06:59,890 --> 01:07:03,144        And I remember Ralph,          you know, doing his directing, 1743 01:07:03,185 --> 01:07:05,604          and Lionel Martin,                 and he was like "Yeah." 1744 01:07:05,646 --> 01:07:07,023            And I was like,               "Oh, these are professionals 1745 01:07:07,064 --> 01:07:08,566          with three cameras.                    This is great." 1746 01:07:08,607 --> 01:07:09,942        We weren't really in it                  for the money. 1747 01:07:09,984 --> 01:07:11,652  [gentle hip-hop music playing] 1748 01:07:11,694 --> 01:07:13,529            [Beast]   Ralph's                     perspective is like, 1749 01:07:13,571 --> 01:07:15,281         let me get to know you.                  What do you like, 1750 01:07:15,322 --> 01:07:16,824            let me hang around                    your neighborhood. 1751 01:07:16,866 --> 01:07:18,284         Let me see how you eat,                    how you move, 1752 01:07:18,325 --> 01:07:19,994            -how you walk.                   -Ralph did everything. 1753 01:07:20,036 --> 01:07:22,997            MC Ren, we had                     MC Rail, Steady B. 1754 01:07:23,039 --> 01:07:25,374          We shot music videos                  for all these artists 1755 01:07:25,416 --> 01:07:27,251         and we made them matter. 1756 01:07:27,293 --> 01:07:28,586     I grew up on the crime side 1757 01:07:28,627 --> 01:07:30,129         The New York Times side 1758 01:07:30,171 --> 01:07:31,922         [Ralph]   You know RZA                      was like, "Yo, 1759 01:07:31,964 --> 01:07:33,299        I got a song that's called                    C.R.E.A.M. 1760 01:07:33,340 --> 01:07:35,342         I want you to do it."                  And I said, okay 1761 01:07:35,384 --> 01:07:37,094       and I-- I listened to it,                I was like wooh. 1762 01:07:37,136 --> 01:07:38,888                Cash rules                      everything around me 1763 01:07:38,929 --> 01:07:40,264     C.R.E.A.M., get the money 1764 01:07:40,306 --> 01:07:42,266     Dollar dollar bill, y'all 1765 01:07:42,308 --> 01:07:43,726       [Raekwon]   I'm telling him                 things, like, yo, 1766 01:07:43,768 --> 01:07:45,895             catch the trees.                      Catch the rocks. 1767 01:07:45,936 --> 01:07:47,605                -Yeah.                    -He was just like, "Say less, 1768 01:07:47,646 --> 01:07:48,939         -I got it under control."            -He did what he had to do. 1769 01:07:48,981 --> 01:07:50,775           He made that shit                      match the song. 1770 01:07:50,816 --> 01:07:52,193                   -Yeah.                    -[Nas] When I was starting, 1771 01:07:52,234 --> 01:07:53,778        you gave me my visuals 1772 01:07:53,819 --> 01:07:56,238       to show me to the world. 1773 01:07:56,280 --> 01:07:58,282          Sparkle like a diamond,            sneak a Uzi on the island 1774 01:07:58,324 --> 01:08:00,117        In my army jacket linin' 1775 01:08:00,159 --> 01:08:01,952               Hit the Earth                  like a comet, invasion! 1776 01:08:01,994 --> 01:08:03,788                Nas is like                    the Afrocentric Asian: 1777 01:08:03,829 --> 01:08:05,623        half-man, half-amazin'... 1778 01:08:05,664 --> 01:08:07,458           [Ralph]   I saw us                       as a renaissance 1779 01:08:07,500 --> 01:08:09,460      of young Black filmmakers. 1780 01:08:09,502 --> 01:08:11,295          [Nas]    The buddha                   monk's in your trunk 1781 01:08:11,337 --> 01:08:13,214             Turn the bass up                   not stories by Aesop 1782 01:08:13,255 --> 01:08:14,882            Place your loot up,                  parties I shoot up 1783 01:08:14,924 --> 01:08:16,926           Man, Ralph played                       a-- a big part 1784 01:08:16,967 --> 01:08:18,677        in Nas' rise because he did 1785 01:08:18,719 --> 01:08:20,763       the press kit for Illuminati. 1786 01:08:20,805 --> 01:08:22,556      [reporter]   The 20 year old                  Nas is a product 1787 01:08:22,598 --> 01:08:24,100                   of one of                     the largest and toughest 1788 01:08:24,141 --> 01:08:25,601               housing projects                      in New York City. 1789 01:08:25,643 --> 01:08:28,187           Queensbridge Houses,                    AKA The Bridge. 1790 01:08:28,229 --> 01:08:31,690             It's full of crime,            full of all this crack, drugs, 1791 01:08:31,732 --> 01:08:34,151               all of that.                 Just like every other ghetto. 1792 01:08:34,193 --> 01:08:37,446  [Raplh]   You know what's funny?      Is, like, when we did your EPK, 1793 01:08:37,488 --> 01:08:39,323    -I don't know if you realize...      -[Nas] That was huge for me. 1794 01:08:39,365 --> 01:08:41,158             Right. Right. 1795 01:08:41,200 --> 01:08:43,828  [Nas] I don't know if I ever saw          one of those done... 1796 01:08:43,869 --> 01:08:46,163      -Right. Did not. Not on TV.      -[Nas] ...for anybody else. Nah. 1797 01:08:46,205 --> 01:08:49,166            Because nobody                     played them on TV. 1798 01:08:49,208 --> 01:08:51,502            They just used                    to give him to the... 1799 01:08:51,544 --> 01:08:52,837        you know, TV stations. 1800 01:08:52,878 --> 01:08:54,630         -"Oh, this is Nas...                        -Yeah. 1801 01:08:54,672 --> 01:08:56,298      [Ralph] ...the new artist."              They'd look at it, 1802 01:08:56,340 --> 01:08:57,842          "Oh, this is cool,"             but they never put it on TV. 1803 01:08:57,883 --> 01:08:59,426                -Right.                       -[Ralph] I was like, 1804 01:08:59,468 --> 01:09:00,970          "I'm gonna play it                       on the TV." 1805 01:09:01,011 --> 01:09:03,889  Before even Sony even said it. 1806 01:09:03,931 --> 01:09:05,599      [Nas] You know, we was in--               we was like this, 1807 01:09:05,641 --> 01:09:07,059     it was like, "Oh, shit, bro. 1808 01:09:07,101 --> 01:09:08,477              We're, uh-- 1809 01:09:08,519 --> 01:09:11,272          We're about to be--                   Yo, we made it." 1810 01:09:11,313 --> 01:09:13,357  [Ralph]   He has a lot of style,               you know what I'm saying? 1811 01:09:13,399 --> 01:09:17,153          He-- not only lyric-wise,             you know like, his person. 1812 01:09:17,194 --> 01:09:19,155               I don't even know                     if you remember, 1813 01:09:19,196 --> 01:09:21,031       when they got me on the phone            with you, and I was like, 1814 01:09:21,073 --> 01:09:22,616  "Well, what's your idea? What do       you want it to look like?" 1815 01:09:22,658 --> 01:09:24,326             And you said,                 "Just like   Video Music Box, 1816 01:09:24,368 --> 01:09:26,162      like what you normally do."            So, I said, "Oh, okay. 1817 01:09:26,203 --> 01:09:28,497      We could do that." And that           was all I needed to know. 1818 01:09:28,539 --> 01:09:30,791     So, I said, "We gon' do that,         we might as well play it." 1819 01:09:30,833 --> 01:09:33,169       I'm a product of hip hop,            you know what I'm saying? 1820 01:09:33,210 --> 01:09:35,296         I'm a product from--                   of the old school 1821 01:09:35,337 --> 01:09:37,173      and the newest of the new. 1822 01:09:37,214 --> 01:09:40,050            Ralph had his eyes              on everything that was moving, 1823 01:09:40,092 --> 01:09:42,386           so he knew who I was 1824 01:09:42,428 --> 01:09:45,097           even though I wasn't                   anybody at that time. 1825 01:09:45,139 --> 01:09:48,184            But it's Ralph,               so he knows what's going on. 1826 01:09:48,225 --> 01:09:50,686          Thank God. [laughs] 1827 01:09:50,728 --> 01:09:52,062  It was simple back then right? 1828 01:09:52,104 --> 01:09:53,230          Some of the things                   that you see here, 1829 01:09:53,272 --> 01:09:54,899  I guess, are some of your items. 1830 01:09:54,940 --> 01:09:56,525       I don't know if you have               everything here today 1831 01:09:56,567 --> 01:09:58,319       but just give us the idea             or the audience an idea 1832 01:09:58,360 --> 01:09:59,528      of some of the other items                 you might have 1833 01:09:59,570 --> 01:10:02,364       or the items in general. 1834 01:10:02,406 --> 01:10:04,158     Well, for-- as for right now, 1835 01:10:04,200 --> 01:10:06,243        we, uh-- we're testing               the New York market... 1836 01:10:06,285 --> 01:10:08,913            I tracked Ralph down           all the way into Virginia. 1837 01:10:08,954 --> 01:10:10,581       l saw him and I gave him                a couple of shirts. 1838 01:10:10,623 --> 01:10:12,333               Then, he did                    this interview with us, 1839 01:10:12,374 --> 01:10:14,585            and he was the one                who, kind of, anointed us 1840 01:10:14,627 --> 01:10:17,379          right there and said,                    "Check them out. 1841 01:10:17,421 --> 01:10:19,006             Good clothes. 1842 01:10:19,048 --> 01:10:21,926        And, you know, you need               to know who they are." 1843 01:10:21,967 --> 01:10:24,929        The phone the next day              was ringing off the hook. 1844 01:10:24,970 --> 01:10:27,473         Ralph started to put out           something called Fat Fashions. 1845 01:10:27,514 --> 01:10:28,933             A fashion show.                   I didn't have any money. 1846 01:10:28,974 --> 01:10:30,809         He said, "No problem. 1847 01:10:30,851 --> 01:10:32,937  -You can just show in the show."       -[Ralph]   Please give it up 1848 01:10:32,978 --> 01:10:35,105            for Team FUBU. 1849 01:10:35,147 --> 01:10:37,483             [Daymond]   So,                     when I approached NLL 1850 01:10:37,524 --> 01:10:40,277      or I approached anybody else, 1851 01:10:40,319 --> 01:10:41,654      Ralph had already basically 1852 01:10:41,695 --> 01:10:43,614        whispered in their ear                  due to me airing. 1853 01:10:43,656 --> 01:10:45,407          He opened the door                   for those artists 1854 01:10:45,449 --> 01:10:47,618           to believe in me,                     and I don't care 1855 01:10:47,660 --> 01:10:49,286     what artists they are today, 1856 01:10:49,328 --> 01:10:52,498         they owe a large part              of their career to Ralph. 1857 01:10:52,539 --> 01:10:53,832       [dramatic music playing] 1858 01:10:53,874 --> 01:10:56,543  [Ralph]   In 1998, or before 1998, 1859 01:10:56,585 --> 01:10:58,879             Giuliani decides                 that he was gonna get rid 1860 01:10:58,921 --> 01:11:00,965          of some of the assets                     the city had. 1861 01:11:01,006 --> 01:11:04,551          And one of them became             the city TV station, NYCTV. 1862 01:11:04,593 --> 01:11:07,554      Video Music Box.   Ruff Ryders,       this is how it's going down. 1863 01:11:07,596 --> 01:11:09,306      My man, DMX, in the place, 1864 01:11:09,348 --> 01:11:10,724      it's a beautiful thing man                to see you, man. 1865 01:11:10,766 --> 01:11:12,142     -Once again, congratulations.                   -Yeah. 1866 01:11:12,184 --> 01:11:13,644      Thank you very much to all.                  [stammers] 1867 01:11:13,686 --> 01:11:15,312           And I don't think                 they really understand 1868 01:11:15,354 --> 01:11:16,897         how beautiful it is.               You know what I'm saying? 1869 01:11:16,939 --> 01:11:18,607     'Cause for me, being a dawg,                  lock down, 1870 01:11:18,649 --> 01:11:19,900       you know what I'm saying?             Watching you on the Box, 1871 01:11:19,942 --> 01:11:21,110       you know what I'm saying?                    And now, 1872 01:11:21,151 --> 01:11:22,820         being a part of this?                      I knew-- 1873 01:11:22,861 --> 01:11:24,154         I just did what I had            to do. You know what I mean? 1874 01:11:24,196 --> 01:11:25,572           And, and I'm glad                     to be here, man. 1875 01:11:25,614 --> 01:11:27,199           I am the streets.                   I will be the force 1876 01:11:27,241 --> 01:11:28,659      of the streets till I die. 1877 01:11:28,701 --> 01:11:29,827       You have a fan out here. 1878 01:11:29,868 --> 01:11:31,453           -Thank you very much.                    -For real. 1879 01:11:31,495 --> 01:11:33,163             Video Music Box.                   You know what I'm saying? 1880 01:11:33,205 --> 01:11:37,126          You know I'm with it,              the branch, whatever... 1881 01:11:37,167 --> 01:11:40,045          [Evelyn]   Channel 31              was the biggest outlet we had. 1882 01:11:40,087 --> 01:11:43,674          Everyone got to see              Video Music Box   on channel 31. 1883 01:11:43,716 --> 01:11:46,510             So when they decided                     to sell it, 1884 01:11:46,552 --> 01:11:48,846        it was a big loss for us... 1885 01:11:48,887 --> 01:11:50,723    I gotta stand right here, man. 1886 01:11:50,764 --> 01:11:53,183        Sixteen years, I had been               doing   Video Music Box. 1887 01:11:53,225 --> 01:11:54,351           Can you get this                    in the background? 1888 01:11:54,393 --> 01:11:56,186         So, when that day ended, 1889 01:11:56,228 --> 01:11:57,980        and we got all our tapes,                    and we went, 1890 01:11:58,022 --> 01:11:59,690           put them in storage,                  did whatever we did. 1891 01:11:59,732 --> 01:12:02,109         Video Music Box   doing it            behind the scenes and... 1892 01:12:02,151 --> 01:12:03,694            And I went home                 and I had nothing to do. 1893 01:12:05,821 --> 01:12:08,532          Oh, this is real,            like it's really not happening 1894 01:12:08,574 --> 01:12:10,367            no more, like. 1895 01:12:10,409 --> 01:12:13,287       And, you know, we were still               doing music videos 1896 01:12:13,329 --> 01:12:16,874       but   Video Music Box   was me. 1897 01:12:16,915 --> 01:12:18,334       [Lionel]   I remember Ralph                   was very upset 1898 01:12:18,375 --> 01:12:19,960  because it was like, now it's-- 1899 01:12:20,002 --> 01:12:21,503       I got to start from scratch.          All the relationships 1900 01:12:21,545 --> 01:12:23,213                I developed,                    all of this stuff 1901 01:12:23,255 --> 01:12:24,340       and everything like that. 1902 01:12:24,381 --> 01:12:25,716            [tape rewinds] 1903 01:12:25,758 --> 01:12:28,135       And now you got to start                  all over again, 1904 01:12:28,177 --> 01:12:30,304          on a political side             as far as getting himself in. 1905 01:12:32,598 --> 01:12:34,767      It was like an empty hole. 1906 01:12:34,808 --> 01:12:36,226            I was like, "Okay.                      What can I do? 1907 01:12:36,268 --> 01:12:37,353        Should I go to MTV again?" 1908 01:12:37,394 --> 01:12:39,355               I go to BET. 1909 01:12:39,396 --> 01:12:41,231         Maybe there's another               channel that's out here 1910 01:12:41,273 --> 01:12:43,108         that would take our show. 1911 01:12:43,150 --> 01:12:44,360           You know how like                      you right here, 1912 01:12:44,401 --> 01:12:46,278        you was-- you was hot. 1913 01:12:46,320 --> 01:12:48,739      It wasn't like we did anything          wrong, like we fell off. 1914 01:12:48,781 --> 01:12:51,075       We was hot when we fell off                  that channel. 1915 01:12:51,116 --> 01:12:52,743              -Come on, man.                    -[crowd chanting] 1916 01:12:52,785 --> 01:12:55,287        [Ralph] And I was like,               "Damn, dudes is going 1917 01:12:55,329 --> 01:12:56,789  to be playing me when I come up 1918 01:12:56,830 --> 01:12:58,916         and start trying to get                   a job over here. 1919 01:12:58,957 --> 01:13:00,542       They're gonna handle me." 1920 01:13:01,960 --> 01:13:03,962       My pride got in the way. 1921 01:13:04,004 --> 01:13:06,090           Like, no, I ain't                 asking nobody for that. 1922 01:13:06,131 --> 01:13:08,425        We're gonna wait it out.            And I just waited it out, 1923 01:13:08,467 --> 01:13:10,010          and waited it out,                   and waited it out. 1924 01:13:10,052 --> 01:13:12,012        It wasn't Ralph's fault                 that the channel 1925 01:13:12,054 --> 01:13:13,764             was closing down.         He had nothing to do with that. 1926 01:13:13,806 --> 01:13:16,350           So, he was like,                  "Okay, it's happening". 1927 01:13:16,392 --> 01:13:19,019  This is Ralph, Ralph was like,           "All right, no problem. 1928 01:13:19,061 --> 01:13:21,939       We're gonna figure it out." 1929 01:13:21,980 --> 01:13:24,441            And I remember                    crazy Sam calling me. 1930 01:13:24,483 --> 01:13:26,193            What you think                      the next move is? 1931 01:13:26,235 --> 01:13:28,695       I said, what the fuck you           mean what the next move is? 1932 01:13:28,737 --> 01:13:31,240        Hey, Ralph, you want me               to go in the streets 1933 01:13:31,281 --> 01:13:32,950              and promote                     this shit everywhere, 1934 01:13:32,991 --> 01:13:35,077           every record label,                   every fuckin' place 1935 01:13:35,119 --> 01:13:36,620         that moves, barbershops? 1936 01:13:36,662 --> 01:13:39,456            He said, "Nah,                    I'm gonna lay back," 1937 01:13:39,498 --> 01:13:40,958         I said, "What are you                 gonna lay back for?" 1938 01:13:40,999 --> 01:13:42,501       I wasn't even going out. 1939 01:13:42,543 --> 01:13:44,128          I didn't even want                   to talk to nobody. 1940 01:13:44,169 --> 01:13:45,629              I was like,                 no, I gotta figure this out, 1941 01:13:45,671 --> 01:13:47,089        I gotta figure it out.                  Don't talk to me. 1942 01:13:47,131 --> 01:13:50,759           And crazy Sam's,                   "Yo, come on, nigga, 1943 01:13:50,801 --> 01:13:53,303     come outside. Come outside." 1944 01:13:53,345 --> 01:13:54,930      And I was like, "Fuck it." 1945 01:13:54,972 --> 01:13:56,473               So, let's see                      what's going on. 1946 01:13:56,515 --> 01:13:58,142        And we're gonna proceed on,               all right? 1947 01:13:58,183 --> 01:14:00,769          But it didn't keep                  Ralph from not taking 1948 01:14:00,811 --> 01:14:02,396          his show elsewhere. 1949 01:14:02,438 --> 01:14:05,482         It took a lot to search,               but he never gave up, 1950 01:14:05,524 --> 01:14:07,734           and he made sure                  that he found an outlet 1951 01:14:07,776 --> 01:14:09,027         for   Video Music Box. 1952 01:14:09,069 --> 01:14:10,779              And it was                       this other station, 1953 01:14:10,821 --> 01:14:13,449      which was like channel 31.              It was channel 25... 1954 01:14:13,490 --> 01:14:14,992  He went down for a little while. 1955 01:14:15,033 --> 01:14:16,326        But then when he popped                     back up again, 1956 01:14:16,368 --> 01:14:17,786  it was just like he never left. 1957 01:14:17,828 --> 01:14:19,788             I'm that same                        brother, you know, 1958 01:14:19,830 --> 01:14:21,498         Untouchables, hunny-sixth. 1959 01:14:21,540 --> 01:14:24,585           I'm with Uncle Ralph                 on   Video Music Box. 1960 01:14:24,626 --> 01:14:26,628          [rap music playing                          on speaker] 1961 01:14:26,670 --> 01:14:29,673        [rapping indistinctly] 1962 01:14:29,715 --> 01:14:31,300      You know who this lady is? 1963 01:14:31,341 --> 01:14:33,177           She goes by name                     of Keyshia Cole. 1964 01:14:33,218 --> 01:14:34,845          You know, I prepare                for the worst and wish 1965 01:14:34,887 --> 01:14:37,139        for the best, you know? 1966 01:14:37,181 --> 01:14:40,392           [indistinct singing] 1967 01:14:42,561 --> 01:14:44,021           Can you introduce                 yourselves, real quick? 1968 01:14:44,062 --> 01:14:45,939             -I'm Beyonce.                         -I'm Kelly. 1969 01:14:45,981 --> 01:14:48,734           -Hello, I'm Michelle.             -And we're Destiny's Child. 1970 01:14:48,775 --> 01:14:50,652        It's getting hard for me 1971 01:14:50,694 --> 01:14:56,366        And I don't wanna leave 1972 01:14:56,408 --> 01:14:58,327           [indistinct rapping] 1973 01:15:01,455 --> 01:15:02,956            [Ralph]   I said                      you're the only guy 1974 01:15:02,998 --> 01:15:04,458          that I haven't seen                     before live. 1975 01:15:04,500 --> 01:15:06,084               And when,                  when you got on stage I said, 1976 01:15:06,126 --> 01:15:08,086      "This is incredible, man." 1977 01:15:08,128 --> 01:15:10,255          That'll be the same day                I give the game back 1978 01:15:10,297 --> 01:15:12,466        You know the next question           dog "Yo, where Dame at?" 1979 01:15:12,508 --> 01:15:14,593        This track the Indian dance           to bring our reign back 1980 01:15:14,635 --> 01:15:16,386                [Ralph]                  Yo, go to the studio right now. 1981 01:15:16,428 --> 01:15:19,181          I got the legendary              cats out of Houston, Texas. 1982 01:15:19,223 --> 01:15:21,892          They go by the name          of the Geto Boyz. Check it out. 1983 01:15:21,934 --> 01:15:23,977      When these people's mind stop          playing tricks on them. 1984 01:15:24,019 --> 01:15:25,854             -You got that right.                   -[laughs] 1985 01:15:25,896 --> 01:15:27,523        Every time you're think           you notice something, you know 1986 01:15:27,564 --> 01:15:30,234     no matter what your endeavor,                it is that you do. 1987 01:15:30,275 --> 01:15:33,403        I hated going on radio.                I hated the radio. 1988 01:15:33,445 --> 01:15:35,906  We played the same music over,          and over, and over again. 1989 01:15:35,948 --> 01:15:37,824                 We're doing           the-- the radio show right now 1990 01:15:37,866 --> 01:15:39,493        for my people out there                 that's listening. 1991 01:15:39,535 --> 01:15:40,911        But at the same time,                I got my video cameras 1992 01:15:40,953 --> 01:15:42,412         in here for my video show. 1993 01:15:42,454 --> 01:15:44,206         Yeah, coast-to-coast                  hip hop countdown. 1994 01:15:44,248 --> 01:15:45,916           Your uncle Ralph--                  DJ Ralph McDaniels. 1995 01:15:45,958 --> 01:15:47,584          Westside connection                   in the building. 1996 01:15:47,626 --> 01:15:48,877              [cheering] 1997 01:15:48,919 --> 01:15:50,754     [Ralph]   You needed rotation. 1998 01:15:50,796 --> 01:15:52,548        And people only listen            for a certain amount of time. 1999 01:15:52,589 --> 01:15:53,924     They wanna hear hit records,            and that whole concept. 2000 01:15:53,966 --> 01:15:55,592             I understood                    what they were saying, 2001 01:15:55,634 --> 01:15:57,427        but I felt like people             still wanted more variety. 2002 01:15:57,469 --> 01:15:59,096          And we could throw                in and make the playlist 2003 01:15:59,137 --> 01:16:00,722         a little bit bigger,                 and they go, "Nope. 2004 01:16:00,764 --> 01:16:01,557         It's only these songs                   and that's it." 2005 01:16:01,598 --> 01:16:03,225       [dramatic music playing] 2006 01:16:03,267 --> 01:16:04,935             And I just felt 2007 01:16:04,977 --> 01:16:07,145          like I was trapped                     in that space. 2008 01:16:07,187 --> 01:16:09,648      That's when the-- the whole            hip hop world shifted. 2009 01:16:09,690 --> 01:16:12,734  [man]   Pioneering music retailer,               Tower Records, 2010 01:16:12,776 --> 01:16:16,530          one of several chains             closing its doors nationwide. 2011 01:16:16,572 --> 01:16:19,074        The internet destroyed,               the computer destroyed 2012 01:16:19,116 --> 01:16:20,951       the music business to me,                    I think-- 2013 01:16:20,993 --> 01:16:22,828        [man]   The main culprit              in the decline of the brick 2014 01:16:22,869 --> 01:16:25,872         and mortar record store,                   online music. 2015 01:16:25,914 --> 01:16:29,376  I watched how it destroyed first      of all the recording studios, 2016 01:16:29,418 --> 01:16:31,253        a lot of them all went out                   of business, 2017 01:16:31,295 --> 01:16:32,796           ain't too many left. 2018 01:16:32,838 --> 01:16:34,423           The quality of music                     got horrible, 2019 01:16:34,464 --> 01:16:36,300          you know what I mean? 2020 01:16:36,341 --> 01:16:38,760      The record stores dwindled,           and the people that I knew 2021 01:16:38,802 --> 01:16:41,930        that was getting those         six figure jobs lost their jobs. 2022 01:16:41,972 --> 01:16:43,599             There's a new artist               every time you turn on 2023 01:16:43,640 --> 01:16:46,059       your phone and you really               can't get into anyone. 2024 01:16:46,101 --> 01:16:47,728           Okay. So, we'll put up               some information, 2025 01:16:47,769 --> 01:16:49,771           uh, as well as online              information, so people-- 2026 01:16:49,813 --> 01:16:51,732         'Cause everybody is online          right now. The game-- 2027 01:16:51,773 --> 01:16:52,733               the game                     changed a little bit, right? 2028 01:16:52,774 --> 01:16:53,984       Yeah, yeah, for sure. A lot. 2029 01:16:54,026 --> 01:16:56,653           Well, it-- it changed                      because now, 2030 01:16:56,695 --> 01:17:00,157  we are part of the entertainment 2031 01:17:00,198 --> 01:17:02,492             exploitive monster. 2032 01:17:02,534 --> 01:17:05,245       In my day, I had to give               out flyers that said, 2033 01:17:05,287 --> 01:17:07,748          "Hey, I'm Fat Joe,"                 at the train station. 2034 01:17:07,789 --> 01:17:09,916             I'm on the thug,                but never the drugs though 2035 01:17:09,958 --> 01:17:12,002          When all the kids said            that they hated me, Fat Joe 2036 01:17:12,044 --> 01:17:16,131          At night, we would               put up paste posters, glue. 2037 01:17:16,173 --> 01:17:18,842         I would go to the clubs              and give the DJ the vinyl. 2038 01:17:18,884 --> 01:17:22,012        It was just a real process            to really promote yourself 2039 01:17:22,054 --> 01:17:23,639          and get out there. 2040 01:17:23,680 --> 01:17:27,184       Now, you just press send               and it's in the air, 2041 01:17:27,225 --> 01:17:29,645  and whoever likes it likes it. 2042 01:17:29,686 --> 01:17:32,898       In one way, the internet             is a fantasy for a lot of us 2043 01:17:32,939 --> 01:17:36,735       because we get worldwide             recognition in minutes. 2044 01:17:38,737 --> 01:17:41,031               So, yes,                  there's some bad that came out 2045 01:17:41,073 --> 01:17:44,201     of the internet into hip hop,         but there's some damn good 2046 01:17:44,242 --> 01:17:47,037           that came out of it                  and went into hip hop. 2047 01:17:47,079 --> 01:17:48,830      Man, The Boogie Down Bronx                is in the house. 2048 01:17:48,872 --> 01:17:50,290         Brooklyn's in the house,              Queens is in the house. 2049 01:17:50,332 --> 01:17:51,958           We got it going on. 2050 01:17:52,000 --> 01:17:54,211       It gave   Video Music Box              a different life because 2051 01:17:54,252 --> 01:17:57,839        Video Music Box   has what,            30,000 hours of footage. 2052 01:17:57,881 --> 01:18:00,801              [cheering] 2053 01:18:03,804 --> 01:18:05,597             Video Music Box   ,                  I won't say it lost 2054 01:18:05,639 --> 01:18:07,432             its audience.                   Its audience shifted... 2055 01:18:07,474 --> 01:18:09,935              Yup, come on.                     It's   Video Music Box. 2056 01:18:09,976 --> 01:18:12,479      We out here at Webster Hall      right now, for the launch party. 2057 01:18:12,521 --> 01:18:15,065         It's really, really,          really packed, turned up here... 2058 01:18:15,107 --> 01:18:17,818              [screaming] 2059 01:18:17,859 --> 01:18:20,070        We're in punk Brooklyn!                     Brooklyn! 2060 01:18:20,112 --> 01:18:21,363         We're from the Bronx. 2061 01:18:21,405 --> 01:18:22,989                -Cali!                       -Commack, Long Island. 2062 01:18:23,031 --> 01:18:24,157          Victor from Jersey! 2063 01:18:24,199 --> 01:18:27,202         [indistinct rapping] 2064 01:18:29,538 --> 01:18:31,665      [Lance]   Ralph was dedicated 2065 01:18:31,707 --> 01:18:35,627       and focused on his goals             and his main objectives. 2066 01:18:35,669 --> 01:18:38,797           That's where the love                of what I'm doing, 2067 01:18:38,839 --> 01:18:41,883  not knowing where it's gonna go              played a major role. 2068 01:18:41,925 --> 01:18:44,428         Yeah,   Video Music Box             backstage, Summer Jam '06. 2069 01:18:44,469 --> 01:18:46,346                I mean,                      this is real exclusive. 2070 01:18:46,388 --> 01:18:47,889        And I mean, for, like,            six weeks we've been talking 2071 01:18:47,931 --> 01:18:50,183          about how this guy                 was coming to New York, 2072 01:18:50,225 --> 01:18:51,893      and then he did it tonight. 2073 01:18:51,935 --> 01:18:54,271      -Jamie Foxx, come on, man.            -Oh, man, I had a blast. 2074 01:18:54,312 --> 01:18:55,939        You know, ultimately,                it's a family business 2075 01:18:55,981 --> 01:18:58,567           and we just like love                  to contribute to it 2076 01:18:58,608 --> 01:19:00,110       and see it grow and prosper. 2077 01:19:00,152 --> 01:19:01,611                 And I think,              when we talk about family, 2078 01:19:01,653 --> 01:19:03,488             we're talking                   about the fans as well, 2079 01:19:03,530 --> 01:19:05,115       because they've been on this        ride with us the whole time. 2080 01:19:05,157 --> 01:19:07,033       [Biggie]    Check it out 2081 01:19:07,075 --> 01:19:08,160        [man]    ATL make some                  motherfucking noise 2082 01:19:08,201 --> 01:19:09,911               B-I-G-G-I-E 2083 01:19:09,953 --> 01:19:11,496                AKA B-I-G 2084 01:19:11,538 --> 01:19:12,956                Get it, Biggie 2085 01:19:12,998 --> 01:19:14,708               [Hakeem]                      It's the 20th anniversary 2086 01:19:14,750 --> 01:19:16,460         of Christopher Wallace's                      passing, 2087 01:19:16,501 --> 01:19:19,713         and I said I'm going               to the floor of the house 2088 01:19:19,755 --> 01:19:24,468           and I'm going to give             a tribute to Biggie Smalls. 2089 01:19:24,509 --> 01:19:26,261          It was all a dream. 2090 01:19:26,303 --> 01:19:28,555        I used to read   Word Up!                     magazine. 2091 01:19:28,597 --> 01:19:31,183                 Salt-N-Pepa           and Heavy D up in the limousine. 2092 01:19:31,224 --> 01:19:34,102            I think in many ways,              you know, hip hop's journey 2093 01:19:34,144 --> 01:19:37,773       has been the journey of         the African American community 2094 01:19:37,814 --> 01:19:39,483         over the last 50 years. 2095 01:19:39,524 --> 01:19:42,694             And as a result,                     I think, you know, 2096 01:19:42,736 --> 01:19:44,446       the journey of this country,          because the African-American 2097 01:19:44,488 --> 01:19:46,448               community                   is so intimately connected. 2098 01:19:46,490 --> 01:19:50,285          And President Obama's                 rise and his election, 2099 01:19:50,327 --> 01:19:54,998         his cultural fluency,            his engagement with artists, 2100 01:19:55,040 --> 01:19:57,667       it was just an indication             for me as to how deeply 2101 01:19:57,709 --> 01:20:00,420      his election had penetrated               into the streets. 2102 01:20:00,462 --> 01:20:04,591    Because of what it represented,         not just in the suites. 2103 01:20:04,633 --> 01:20:06,259  But who would've ever thought, 2104 01:20:06,301 --> 01:20:08,428      whereas Christopher Wallace                     said, 2105 01:20:08,470 --> 01:20:11,264     "You never thought that hip          hop would take it this far." 2106 01:20:11,306 --> 01:20:13,642         Now I'm in the limelight               'cause I rhyme tight 2107 01:20:13,683 --> 01:20:15,018              Time to get paid 2108 01:20:15,060 --> 01:20:16,686     Blow up like the World Trade 2109 01:20:16,728 --> 01:20:18,980       I like to give a shoutout               to my fellow nominees. 2110 01:20:19,022 --> 01:20:21,233               Shoutout                    to a very special visitor. 2111 01:20:21,274 --> 01:20:23,193        Shoutout to team USA... 2112 01:20:23,235 --> 01:20:25,487          [Hakeem]   And again,                 it's how hip hop brings 2113 01:20:25,529 --> 01:20:29,032             to you parts                   of, you know, civic life 2114 01:20:29,074 --> 01:20:32,035       in ways that you may not        have even had any understanding. 2115 01:20:32,077 --> 01:20:35,163      With that, I just have two              more words to say... 2116 01:20:36,623 --> 01:20:39,042             "Obama out." 2117 01:20:39,084 --> 01:20:41,378        [Daymond John]   I think                that for the first time, 2118 01:20:41,419 --> 01:20:45,173            kids of all colors               revolted within the system. 2119 01:20:45,215 --> 01:20:47,884  I think because they understood              that this was a true 2120 01:20:47,926 --> 01:20:50,053         president of the people,          this was a hip hop president. 2121 01:20:50,095 --> 01:20:54,391             It's undeniable that      hip hop culture changed the lens 2122 01:20:54,432 --> 01:20:56,309        for a lot of people in this       country of who we look at, 2123 01:20:56,351 --> 01:20:59,563      who we see, who we listen to, 2124 01:20:59,604 --> 01:21:01,815  and to understand the cultures, 2125 01:21:01,857 --> 01:21:03,817      to understand the challenges, 2126 01:21:03,859 --> 01:21:06,570       to understand the triumphs,               and the heartbreak. 2127 01:21:08,530 --> 01:21:12,659       And to me   Video Music Box               and Ralph McDaniels 2128 01:21:12,701 --> 01:21:14,578      were pioneers in, sort of, 2129 01:21:14,619 --> 01:21:16,913          planting this seed                   of hip hop culture 2130 01:21:16,955 --> 01:21:19,082      that is so ubiquitous now. 2131 01:21:22,085 --> 01:21:23,420               [laughs] 2132 01:21:23,461 --> 01:21:24,921        We're back in Coney Island. 2133 01:21:24,963 --> 01:21:28,800 2134 01:21:34,264 --> 01:21:36,808           This is Brooklyn                        right here. 2135 01:21:36,850 --> 01:21:39,644          [man]    Boss shit,                      your Lordship 2136 01:21:39,686 --> 01:21:42,314           Niggas talkin' yachts                 since I'm on shit 2137 01:21:42,355 --> 01:21:44,816         I used to run the block,                now I'm corporate 2138 01:21:44,858 --> 01:21:48,236           Hoppin' out, you know            it's Son when the doors lift 2139 01:21:48,278 --> 01:21:50,405     Whole squad hide the burners 2140 01:21:50,447 --> 01:21:51,573     Mets hats in the sky like... 2141 01:21:51,615 --> 01:21:54,784           [indistinct chatters] 2142 01:21:54,826 --> 01:21:56,953  Put your face on the TV screen. 2143 01:21:56,995 --> 01:21:58,955       Put your ear on the speaker.       He gonna tell you what it is. 2144 01:21:58,997 --> 01:22:00,624           I love my brother                     right here, yo. 2145 01:22:00,665 --> 01:22:01,958            Peace and love. 2146 01:22:03,835 --> 01:22:06,630      If you love hip hop music,             if you love R&B music, 2147 01:22:06,671 --> 01:22:08,298          make some noise up                 in the piece right now. 2148 01:22:08,340 --> 01:22:09,591         [cheers and applause] 2149 01:22:09,633 --> 01:22:11,718             I grew up in,                         uh, projects 2150 01:22:11,760 --> 01:22:14,054                 in Brooklyn               and we didn't have outlets 2151 01:22:14,095 --> 01:22:15,388         where we really got to see 2152 01:22:15,430 --> 01:22:17,432       our own community perform 2153 01:22:17,474 --> 01:22:19,434            or have videos. 2154 01:22:19,476 --> 01:22:22,812        And Ralph McDaniels Video           Music Box provided that for us 2155 01:22:22,854 --> 01:22:24,648            and let us know               that we have the opportunity 2156 01:22:24,689 --> 01:22:27,233            to go out there                 and do these same things. 2157 01:22:27,275 --> 01:22:30,236           [indistinct rapping] 2158 01:22:36,076 --> 01:22:38,828            He made us take                a look at our superheroes. 2159 01:22:38,870 --> 01:22:40,497                -Yeah.                       -And really understand 2160 01:22:40,538 --> 01:22:42,332             who they are, 2161 01:22:42,374 --> 01:22:44,042      and what they bring to us,         and with what they was bringing 2162 01:22:44,084 --> 01:22:47,963     to us was knowledge, wisdom,             you know what I mean? 2163 01:22:48,004 --> 01:22:49,339            Understanding,                     everything, just-- 2164 01:22:49,381 --> 01:22:50,632             -The culture.                       -It's an honor. 2165 01:22:50,674 --> 01:22:53,301           This is Killah Chuck,                      right here. 2166 01:22:53,343 --> 01:22:56,012           I think Chuck got                 a couple of bars, too. 2167 01:22:56,054 --> 01:22:57,514             He might have                        some bars for us. 2168 01:22:57,555 --> 01:23:01,518           Ralph knows this,                 the history of hip hop 2169 01:23:01,559 --> 01:23:03,186         started in the Bronx, 2170 01:23:03,228 --> 01:23:05,313           now it's all over                     the whole world! 2171 01:23:05,355 --> 01:23:07,482              [cheering] 2172 01:23:07,524 --> 01:23:09,192             [DJ Chuck Chillout]             He's got the Mary J Blige 2173 01:23:09,234 --> 01:23:10,318               when she started. 2174 01:23:10,360 --> 01:23:11,861         Heavy D when he started. 2175 01:23:11,903 --> 01:23:13,863         LL Cool J when he started. 2176 01:23:13,905 --> 01:23:16,533         The number one rap song,                 Video Music Box   . 2177 01:23:16,574 --> 01:23:18,493  [DJ Chuck Chillout]   He was there          when they were nobodies. 2178 01:23:18,535 --> 01:23:21,204             [chuckles] So, he--                so, he ate, drank 2179 01:23:21,246 --> 01:23:23,456  and slept it, still to this day. 2180 01:23:26,501 --> 01:23:28,128               I started                    working at the library maybe 2181 01:23:28,169 --> 01:23:31,464             like five years ago,             as a Hip Hop Coordinator 2182 01:23:31,506 --> 01:23:34,175      and I wanted to see, like,            hip hop in institutions. 2183 01:23:34,217 --> 01:23:37,178              In Queens,                 there's 65 different libraries. 2184 01:23:37,220 --> 01:23:38,680                -Right.                         -And I was like, 2185 01:23:38,722 --> 01:23:40,724             if we can get                    in these communities 2186 01:23:40,765 --> 01:23:42,559           and do something,                and put hip hop in there 2187 01:23:42,600 --> 01:23:44,769          just like they have                    other cultures, 2188 01:23:44,811 --> 01:23:46,271        that would be kinda dope. 2189 01:23:46,312 --> 01:23:48,064         [Kev]   We have events                     in the libraries 2190 01:23:48,106 --> 01:23:49,357        where we actually bring in                some of the people 2191 01:23:49,399 --> 01:23:51,735      that were involved in hip hop, 2192 01:23:51,776 --> 01:23:54,446          and not just musically,      people that are writing books, 2193 01:23:54,487 --> 01:23:58,575      documentaries, and we show             that to the kids there. 2194 01:23:58,616 --> 01:24:02,704  So, in the last five years, I've   done over three hundred programs 2195 01:24:02,746 --> 01:24:04,956              with all types                  of different people here. 2196 01:24:04,998 --> 01:24:09,085        We still keep our core              of what we've been doing, 2197 01:24:09,127 --> 01:24:11,629       because it's been working                   since 1983. 2198 01:24:11,671 --> 01:24:13,757           We also have evolved                      with things. 2199 01:24:13,798 --> 01:24:15,675          We're on social media. 2200 01:24:15,717 --> 01:24:16,760         New York's number one            video show,   Video Music Box. 2201 01:24:16,801 --> 01:24:18,261        I'm DJ Ralph McDaniels. 2202 01:24:18,303 --> 01:24:19,512    Yeah. I gonna have Money Love. 2203 01:24:19,554 --> 01:24:20,597     She's gonna check in with us. 2204 01:24:20,638 --> 01:24:22,098  My girl from across the river. 2205 01:24:22,140 --> 01:24:23,683            First of all,              thank you for taking the time. 2206 01:24:23,725 --> 01:24:25,769                I know                     you was on the radio today. 2207 01:24:27,145 --> 01:24:28,730  Oh, please, that's nothing, man. 2208 01:24:28,772 --> 01:24:31,107          Like, you're just--                who can say no to you? 2209 01:24:31,149 --> 01:24:32,901        The hardest working man                    in hip hop. 2210 01:24:32,942 --> 01:24:34,694         Like, who can say no?                       Like-- 2211 01:24:34,736 --> 01:24:36,446      We're in the Smithsonian. 2212 01:24:36,488 --> 01:24:40,617          In Washington, DC,             where our mic is in the museum. 2213 01:24:40,658 --> 01:24:42,118        So, it's like an artifact. 2214 01:24:42,160 --> 01:24:44,079         [Ralph] I think that               young people need to see 2215 01:24:44,120 --> 01:24:46,581        this is all part of us           and this is where we came from. 2216 01:24:46,623 --> 01:24:48,124         That's amazing, man. 2217 01:24:48,166 --> 01:24:49,584       I love what you're doing,                  Ralph, like, 2218 01:24:49,626 --> 01:24:51,294     this is what it's all about. 2219 01:24:51,336 --> 01:24:53,797         The next generation,             them having a better chance. 2220 01:24:53,838 --> 01:24:56,674               We have Video                    Music Box Collection, 2221 01:24:56,716 --> 01:25:01,679        which is the digitizing                 of videos of artists 2222 01:25:01,721 --> 01:25:05,183      from when they first began                 that have been 2223 01:25:05,225 --> 01:25:08,686             in our basement                      for so many years. 2224 01:25:08,728 --> 01:25:12,315            Man, Brooklyn.                       Oh, yeah. Sup? 2225 01:25:12,357 --> 01:25:14,275                   Okay. 2226 01:25:14,317 --> 01:25:16,778           Coming in our woods               Say rhymes that I invent 2227 01:25:16,820 --> 01:25:19,155            I'm about to recollect,                and inject 2228 01:25:19,197 --> 01:25:20,990              And knock you                       out your socks 2229 01:25:21,032 --> 01:25:23,326               This is full                      classic concept 2230 01:25:23,368 --> 01:25:25,286              Video Music Box 2231 01:25:25,328 --> 01:25:28,414       We're trying to put them             in schools and colleges. 2232 01:25:28,456 --> 01:25:29,999           They can see, "Okay, 2233 01:25:30,041 --> 01:25:31,501        this was what was happening                in the '80s." 2234 01:25:31,543 --> 01:25:33,002           or "This was happening                   in the '90s." 2235 01:25:33,044 --> 01:25:34,921         Man, I would love to see               a   Video Music Box 2236 01:25:34,963 --> 01:25:38,466           educational curriculum               that's been placed 2237 01:25:38,508 --> 01:25:40,009      in different junior colleges, 2238 01:25:40,051 --> 01:25:41,427         colleges, or high schools. 2239 01:25:41,469 --> 01:25:43,847           When I started Revolt,                   I had called, 2240 01:25:43,888 --> 01:25:46,182               you know,                    Ralph to tell him, you know, 2241 01:25:46,224 --> 01:25:48,768         thank you for just being                such an inspiration. 2242 01:25:48,810 --> 01:25:50,687  I wanted to be   Video Music Box. 2243 01:25:50,728 --> 01:25:53,523     I want to be unapologetically       Black, do whatever we wanna do, 2244 01:25:53,565 --> 01:25:56,860      say whatever we wanna say,             be whoever we wanna be. 2245 01:25:56,901 --> 01:25:59,529         -[indistinct rapping]                  -Oh, yeah. Yeah. 2246 01:25:59,571 --> 01:26:02,198            But it started                   with   Video Music Box   . 2247 01:26:02,240 --> 01:26:05,869 2248 01:26:17,881 --> 01:26:19,549      [Ralph]   The Ave has always             been important, you know, 2249 01:26:19,591 --> 01:26:21,092         because that's where                   we got our gear. 2250 01:26:21,134 --> 01:26:23,595         You know, Shirt Kings                   was down there. 2251 01:26:23,636 --> 01:26:25,180              [Nas]   Yes. 2252 01:26:25,221 --> 01:26:27,849           The Shirt Kings,                  the mighty Shirt Kings. 2253 01:26:27,891 --> 01:26:29,184         Um, Eddie Gold Caps. 2254 01:26:29,225 --> 01:26:31,978                 -Yes.                            -Barbershop. 2255 01:26:32,020 --> 01:26:34,480        -Uh, Benny the Jeweler.                   -[Ralph] Yup. 2256 01:26:34,522 --> 01:26:37,066             You know what                   the beauty of Ralph is, 2257 01:26:37,108 --> 01:26:39,319     Ralph doesn't demand respect. 2258 01:26:39,360 --> 01:26:40,904         He commands respect. 2259 01:26:40,945 --> 01:26:43,656       And that's truly respect. 2260 01:26:43,698 --> 01:26:44,991              Love, man. 2261 01:26:45,033 --> 01:26:46,075           Everybody grew up                     on you, Ralph. 2262 01:26:46,117 --> 01:26:47,744                I know. 2263 01:26:47,785 --> 01:26:48,870           One of the things                that brought us together, 2264 01:26:48,912 --> 01:26:50,246        honestly, was hip hop. 2265 01:26:50,288 --> 01:26:51,497           We're right here                     at the Coliseum. 2266 01:26:51,539 --> 01:26:53,666           Jamaica Coliseum. 2267 01:26:53,708 --> 01:26:55,710               You know,                     hip hop was the culture 2268 01:26:55,752 --> 01:26:59,923       that allowed us a space         to communicate with each other 2269 01:26:59,964 --> 01:27:02,425              without being                     extremely judgmental. 2270 01:27:02,467 --> 01:27:04,177         [indistinct chatters] 2271 01:27:04,219 --> 01:27:05,595       [Ralph] What store is it?                   Which one? 2272 01:27:05,637 --> 01:27:06,763             I'll be back.                      We'll come back. 2273 01:27:06,804 --> 01:27:09,098           -We'll come back.                         -Yeah. 2274 01:27:10,725 --> 01:27:12,810       -This is a vibe, though.                      -Right. 2275 01:27:12,852 --> 01:27:15,063            I'm Mike Tyson.               I'm kicking everybody's ass. 2276 01:27:15,104 --> 01:27:16,314       I'm the world's greatest. 2277 01:27:16,356 --> 01:27:18,858  But I wouldn't be who I am now. 2278 01:27:18,900 --> 01:27:21,236          It will be a little              different without hip hop. 2279 01:27:21,277 --> 01:27:22,528          Different cultures.                    This is what-- 2280 01:27:22,570 --> 01:27:23,780       -[woman] What's up, Nas?                       -Hey. 2281 01:27:23,821 --> 01:27:25,740      --everything is all about. 2282 01:27:25,782 --> 01:27:28,243    And I love the fact that we are      able to reach these heights. 2283 01:27:28,284 --> 01:27:30,870  Now, we're looking beyond that. 2284 01:27:30,912 --> 01:27:33,122          You know, how you feel                  about the effects 2285 01:27:33,164 --> 01:27:35,291           of these systems               that kept us from the money. 2286 01:27:35,333 --> 01:27:39,212    And create systems that's gonna          bring us to the money 2287 01:27:39,254 --> 01:27:40,713         because we're gonna need                     that money 2288 01:27:40,755 --> 01:27:42,966        to build our communities. 2289 01:27:43,007 --> 01:27:44,425               -Yes, sir.                     -[man] Peace to The God. 2290 01:27:44,467 --> 01:27:46,803            -Peace, peace.                       -I love you... 2291 01:27:46,844 --> 01:27:50,306          And I think hip hop              culture has been incredible 2292 01:27:50,348 --> 01:27:52,308            in contributing                  to the Black community. 2293 01:27:52,350 --> 01:27:54,811          Ralph McDaniels,                       Video Music Box   , 2294 01:27:54,852 --> 01:27:56,646     this is what it's all about. 2295 01:27:56,688 --> 01:27:58,314         We're with the people            right here on Jamaica Avenue, 2296 01:27:58,356 --> 01:28:00,316           Queens, New York.                       You dig me? 2297 01:28:00,358 --> 01:28:02,068              Turn around                   and see the people, man. 2298 01:28:02,110 --> 01:28:04,946 2299 01:28:17,250 --> 01:28:18,584              -All right.                    -[man] Oh, wait, wait, 2300 01:28:18,626 --> 01:28:21,796        -[indistinct chatters]                     -Oh, yeah. 2301 01:28:21,838 --> 01:28:24,132         Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.           Like, like Uncle Ralph's joint. 2302 01:28:24,173 --> 01:28:26,175             Shout out...                You wanna give some shout outs? 2303 01:28:26,217 --> 01:28:28,803              [laughing] 2304 01:28:28,845 --> 01:28:30,430     I give a shout out to my mom. 2305 01:28:30,471 --> 01:28:31,848             I wanna give                   a shout out little thing. 2306 01:28:31,889 --> 01:28:33,558            Shout out to... 2307 01:28:33,599 --> 01:28:35,977     Yo, shout out my first wife,           shout out my second wife. 2308 01:28:36,019 --> 01:28:37,270          I wanna shout out-- 2309 01:28:37,312 --> 01:28:38,938       All you beautiful people                    out there. 2310 01:28:38,980 --> 01:28:41,524        Oh, shout out everybody              from hip hop in Queens. 2311 01:28:41,566 --> 01:28:43,860      -I wanna give a shout out--        -Well, let me give a shout out. 2312 01:28:43,901 --> 01:28:45,695      Fredro used to cut my hair. 2313 01:28:45,737 --> 01:28:47,780      And the pioneers of hip hop 2314 01:28:47,822 --> 01:28:49,866       that made this possible. 2315 01:28:49,907 --> 01:28:51,117        Shout out to Kool Herc. 2316 01:28:51,159 --> 01:28:52,452             Yeah, yeah.                          I wanna give 2317 01:28:52,493 --> 01:28:54,579     a shout out to Lauryn Hill. 2318 01:28:56,247 --> 01:28:57,874            I'm in the gym. 2319 01:28:57,915 --> 01:28:59,876      -I wanna give a shout out--              -[laughs] Shout out 2320 01:28:59,917 --> 01:29:02,462  I give a shout out to my family     that have been supportive of me 2321 01:29:02,503 --> 01:29:04,630            since day one. 2322 01:29:04,672 --> 01:29:06,591    I'm the nut that'd be standing         on the side of the stage... 2323 01:29:06,632 --> 01:29:08,426         Lauryn, I love you.                       I'm sorry. 2324 01:29:08,468 --> 01:29:09,927       Did I make a confession? 2325 01:29:09,969 --> 01:29:12,764        -Um, okay. Yes, I did.                  -All to Brooklyn. 2326 01:29:12,805 --> 01:29:14,349         My partners in FUBU. 2327 01:29:14,390 --> 01:29:15,933       Big shout out to my moms. 2328 01:29:15,975 --> 01:29:18,144                 -LL.                     -Buy my first turned tables. 2329 01:29:18,186 --> 01:29:20,730              -The Rock.                       -And for keeping me                    off the street. 2330 01:29:20,772 --> 01:29:23,441        -Onyx and Mr. Cheeks--               -Alala. 2331 01:29:23,483 --> 01:29:25,735       Alala. What's up, Alala? 2332 01:29:25,777 --> 01:29:27,403     Shout out to Ralph McDaniels. 2333 01:29:27,445 --> 01:29:29,197        Word, and the Vid Kid. 2334 01:29:29,238 --> 01:29:33,034    And the whole squad. Crazy Sam.              My man Tuffy. 2335 01:29:33,076 --> 01:29:35,578       All-- All the whole crew            that helped   Video Music Box 2336 01:29:35,620 --> 01:29:38,498              And us down                     all these years, man. 2337 01:29:38,539 --> 01:29:41,042              All right.               I'm sorry about the baby shower. 2338 01:29:41,084 --> 01:29:44,045      For what's-her-name, 'cause         I didn't give her the 10,000. 2339 01:29:44,087 --> 01:29:47,882     'Cause I don't think no baby              should get $10,000 2340 01:29:47,924 --> 01:29:49,050           for baby shower. 2341 01:29:49,092 --> 01:29:50,343       Unless he's my own baby. 2342 01:29:50,385 --> 01:29:53,346            To my husband.                         To my mom. 2343 01:29:53,388 --> 01:29:57,558              To the fans                 that have devoted themselves 2344 01:29:57,600 --> 01:29:59,018          to   Video Music Box. 2345 01:29:59,060 --> 01:30:00,770             I wanna give                    a shout out to my dad. 2346 01:30:00,812 --> 01:30:02,438           You are awesome. 2347 01:30:02,480 --> 01:30:04,273            I love you and                  I'm forever proud of you. 2348 01:30:04,315 --> 01:30:06,192       I wanna give a shout out                  to you, Ralph. 2349 01:30:06,234 --> 01:30:08,403                 -Love.                        -A shout out to Ralph. 2350 01:30:08,444 --> 01:30:10,780         Thank you for pushing                 the culture forward 2351 01:30:10,822 --> 01:30:12,532  and preserving the culture, man. 2352 01:30:12,573 --> 01:30:15,118  To my husband Ralph McDaniels. 2353 01:30:15,159 --> 01:30:19,247       You have done an amazing,                  amazing job. 2354 01:30:19,288 --> 01:30:21,457  I'm going to spiritually say it,              it's for me, 2355 01:30:21,499 --> 01:30:23,835          and I want to give               a shout out to Biz Markie. 2356 01:30:25,378 --> 01:30:26,671           We love you, Biz. 2357 01:30:26,712 --> 01:30:28,756               Forever. 2358 01:30:28,798 --> 01:30:30,299             Alicia Keys. 2359 01:30:30,341 --> 01:30:33,010     Um, God, I'm so proud of you. 2360 01:30:33,052 --> 01:30:34,971       Shout out to Alicia Keys. 2361 01:30:35,012 --> 01:30:37,265            Okay. Shout out                   to her crazy husband 2362 01:30:37,306 --> 01:30:40,268       for giving us DMX and all           the other shit that he did. 2363 01:30:40,309 --> 01:30:41,853           And the new thing                     that they doing 2364 01:30:41,894 --> 01:30:44,188           with the DJ thing              and all that shit is awesome. 2365 01:30:44,230 --> 01:30:48,484       And Marky D, of course,         and Spider D, and all the D's. 2366 01:30:48,526 --> 01:30:51,154       Big shout out to my wife.          You know, she holds me down. 2367 01:30:51,195 --> 01:30:53,239      You know, this is not easy,           this is a family business. 2368 01:30:53,281 --> 01:30:54,907          This is what we do. 2369 01:30:54,949 --> 01:30:56,576        Video Music Box   for Life.                Thank you, honey. 2370 01:30:56,617 --> 01:30:58,161            Mwah. Love you. 2371 01:30:58,202 --> 01:31:01,372           I wanna give out                   a shout out to Ralph. 2372 01:31:01,414 --> 01:31:03,749       Thank you for everything                you've done for me. 2373 01:31:03,791 --> 01:31:05,626  And for the hip hop community, 2374 01:31:05,668 --> 01:31:06,961           for the culture. 2375 01:31:07,003 --> 01:31:09,422          For New York City,                     for the world. 2376 01:31:09,464 --> 01:31:12,508          Um, thank you, man. 276489

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