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LL COOL J: So, Wu Tang explodes.

You know, you're one of the breakout solo superstars.

But first, what made you... feel hip hop?

Why did you wanna do hip hop?

It was a movement that was going on that we were all aware of.

Being from New York, you couldn't stop the movement.

Everywhere you looked was hip hop,

from the fashion to the breakdancing,

to the graffiti.

It was such a subculture that we embraced it even more 'cause

everybody wasn't up on it. - Yeah.

You know, that was New York style.

- Y'all ain't up on these? - Yeah.

- Y'all ain't up on this? - Yeah.

And you know what was crazy, though?

You look at us back then, who would ever think

that we could be in a position where we could feed our families

for the rest of our lives, be world-praised and famous

for doing something that we love to fucking do?

I would have never imagined that shit, man.

- We made it this far. - We made it this far, fact.

That was a good reminder for me.

Fact.

♪

LL COOL J: Hip hop is everywhere,

every corner of the globe.

To understand the power of hip hop today,

gotta go back to where it all started...

SINGER: ♪ Ain't no love ♪

LL COOL J: ...my hometown, New York City.

Because listen, when I tell you, hip hop was born here.

SINGER: ♪ In the heart of town ♪

♪ Ain't no love ♪

♪

Now, hip hop was built from the ground up,

from the streets up.

It's just something from nothing.

A new sound,

a New York sound... - [beatboxing]

...always growing and evolving,

breaking down doors.

Because in the early days, there were no doors open.

Y'all ready?

There's so much information to give

and so much we gotta say.

But please understand, hip hop is the ultimate underdog story.

I used to believe in it,

when nobody around me used to believe in it.

They dismissed us as a fad, said we were a flash in the pan.

Now it's the soundtrack of our planet.

♪

So, I'm in Queens, where it all began for me,

far from the billboards

and the boardrooms where hip hop is found today,

to speak to a friend who knows better than anyone

the story of how hip hop went

from an underground New York sound...

to a transformational art form

that impacts culture around the world.

♪

- We in Hollis, Queens. - Yes.

Your home. What I wanna know is,

what was your very, very first exposure to hip hop?

It was dudes in Hollis

that used to bring turntables out on the front step.

I remember that.

The next thing you know, I became DJ Run.

And here is Run-D.M.C.

[audience screaming]

♪ Whose house?

♪ What, what? ♪

♪ Run's house ♪

♪

LL COOL J: Run--hip hop royalty,

founding member of Run-D.M.C.

Along with their DJ, Jam Master Jay,

they were at the forefront

of hip hop's mainstream exposure and commercial success.

DON CORNELIUS: Do you have an explanation for the success

of rapping as an art form?

It's funky, and everybody can dance to it.

- [cheers and applause] - [laughs]

That's it.

LL COOL J: The first hip hop act to have a gold record,

first on MTV,

first to land an endorsement deal.

Adidas gave me this.

And it all began in a Queens alley with Run

and his partner in rhyme, my good friend Darryl McDaniels,

better known as "DMC."

RUN: D had the turntables first. He taught me how to DJ.

Darryl McDaniels, yes, and his brother.

- He taught you how to DJ? - I didn't know how.

That's crazy.

DMC was a DJ before he was a rapper.

His name was DJ Get High.

[laughing]

DJ Get High taught me how to DJ at 15 years old.

We got Run's name right here.

Yep. I wrote this a long time ago,

before Run-D.M.C. even came together.

I'm DMC, and I live around the block.

LL COOL J: Okay, so just back up a second.

- Gotcha, baby. I got you. - You grew up in Queens.

Right. I lived eight blocks from here.

- Okay. - So, I lived on 205th Street.

That's why it's... ♪ My Adidas standing on... ♪

♪ Two fifth street ♪

♪ Funky fresh and yes, cold on my feet ♪

- ♪ With no shoe string... - ♪ In 'em ♪

- ♪ I did not... - ♪ Win 'em ♪

♪ I bought 'em off the ave with the black Lee denim ♪

♪ My Adidas ♪

♪

- So, I lived on 205th Street. - Okay.

205th street is not nice, and I wanted to escape.

Cool out a little bit.

[laughs] Get a little...

I lived in the worst part of Hollis.

[laughs] Yeah, right.

So, me and D would hang here,

get our 40s from Dolly's, which is up the block,

and we used to just get real high

and we'd go... [beatboxing]

♪ And then you're coming with the... ♪

[both beatboxing]

And that's all we-- not even beating on the wall.

♪ And then you're coming with the... ♪

- [beatboxing] - And it's like, yo.

- ♪ I fly - ♪ Like a dove ♪

- ♪ I come - ♪ From up above ♪

- ♪ I'm rocking - ♪ On the mic ♪

- ♪ And you can call me - ♪ Run-Love ♪

The true vibration of Run-D.M.C.

came from this alley right here. - That's--

And if you look at the first Run-D.M.C. album cover,

this is the pic.

But before we got a record deal, it was only supposed to be me.

Ohh.

So, it was written "Run the MC" in case it didn't work.

Oh, wow.

- Run the MC. - Run the MC. [laughs]

Then it became Run-D.M.C.

RUN: When we was making "Sucker M.C.'s,"

I said, "Let D go in there."

D's like, "What are you talking about?

You gon' get me in trouble with your--"

D went in there and said, ♪ I'm D.M.C... ♪

BOTH: ♪ In the place to be ♪

♪ I go to St. John's University ♪

♪ And since kindergarten I applied the knowledge ♪

♪ And after 12th grade, I went straight to college ♪

♪ I'm light-skinned ♪

He said, "I'm light-skinned." The beat dropped.

- Yeah. - We're signed.

Yeah.

Run-D.M.C. is now signed as a group,

but when they found out he would work.

Yo, that's... insane!

RUN: Once that happened, we did what we did,

it connected, and we changed the game.

♪

NELSON GEORGE: One of the things that you gotta remember,

before Run-D.M.C. records

is that hip hop was not mainstream music at all.

♪ What is wrong? ♪

DOUG E. FRESH: In the beginning of hip hop,

it was looked at as, "Yo, cut that noise off.

Stop making all of that noise. What are you doing?"

♪ Never been to jail, but I stay up here, but yes, yes, y'all ♪

GEORGE: This is rebel music. This is outside of music

that existed in the streets of New York

off of stuff they thought was a fad.

"Rock Steady."

[cheering]

It was this turn.

- They not rolling? - They rolling.

They rolling.

Run-D.M.C.!

When Run-D.M.C. sells 3 million records,

that got everyone's attention.

Run-D.M.C. was articulating a bigger vision

of what hip hop could be.

♪ With mic in hand, I cold took command ♪

GEORGE: And once that happened, every major label's like, "Yo,

they sold three million records?

Okay, we need to be in this game."

So, that--that was really the big bang.

- [cheers and applause] - Yeah, thank you.

We love you, New York. We love you.

[cheers and applause]

LL COOL J: So, when people think about Run-D.M.C.,

you think about "Peter Piper," "My Adidas,"

"Walk This Way." - Yeah, yeah, yeah.

- You think about "Rock Box." - Right.

One last word--legacy.

Legacy means to me...

I came, I made beautiful music for the world.

I made my TV show "Run's House."

Life gives to the giver and takes from the taker.

Life gives from the giver and life--

- Gives to the giver... - Gives to the giver...

- ...and takes from the taker. - ...and takes from the taker.

All right, class dismissed.

Every day I wake up,

I wanna know, what did I contribute to this world

that makes people happy?

- Yes. - That's all it is to it.

Peace and love.

Hi, my name is Jam Master Jay of Run-D.M.C.

[beatboxing]

And we wanna thank y'all for watching "Video Beat."

And we want y'all--we gonna wanna say good night to y'all.

[laughter]

- All right, later. - Let's go up and check that out.

Oh, you wanna go check out that--go to the Bronx.

- All right. - Let's go to the Bronx, man.

The Bronx we go, baby.

- Here we go. - [laughs]

BOTH: ♪ Here we go ♪

♪ Here we go, here we go, here we, here we, here we go ♪

- ♪ DMC and DJ Run - ♪ DMC and LL Run ♪

♪ Dum-dee-dee-dum, dee-dee-dee-dee-dum-dum ♪

LL COOL J: That shit was amazing, bro.

[siren wailing in distance]

Hi. I'm Kurt Loder, and this is "The Year in Rock."

In 1988, an unprecedented total

of 11 rap albums went either gold or platinum.

Right now, man, this whole year has been a highlight to me.

♪ Hit it

♪

LL COOL J: By the late '80s, Run-D.M.C. had propelled

this subcultural movement

out of the streets and alleys of NYC

and into fashion, acting...

[cries] No!

...social justice, and more.

Over the next 40 years, artists would follow the very same path.

♪

With Run by my side,

we're headed to a South Bronx shoe store

owned by one of these artists,

a hip hop heavyweight who transcended the genre

and played a huge role in pushing the culture

to where it is today.

Yo, what up, baby?

Man, the icons. This ain't even legal, man.

You know we had to come through.

- What up, baby? - LL and Rev Run, this is--

- What up, baby? - What up, baby?

Yo, you guys are really walking around human streets like this?

Just came from Queens, baby.

Yo, thank you for coming, man, to Up NYC, man.

- Get him a seat. - Sheesh!

When they say the South Bronx, this is the South Bronx.

- You grew up around here? - Yes.

♪

LL COOL J: Born and raised in the South Bronx...

- Word up. - ...my man Fat Joe does it all.

♪ Now scream ♪

LL COOL J: From chart chopping hits...

♪

...to advancing the culture through philanthropy...

- WOMAN: Fat Joe. - ...literacy...

...and yeah, sneaker culture.

♪

Never been worn before, baby.

But as integral as he's been to building hip hop

and the lifestyle into what it is to today...

Big up, LL, man. Much respect.

...he still pays homage to those who paved the way

for him and for generations of hip hop artists to come.

Yo, listen, let me tell you somethin', Rev Run.

I'm in the South Bronx.

Hip hop was birthed in the South Bronx.

Not only was hip hop birthed in the South Bronx,

they had a chokehold on hip hop for the first 10 years.

I'm in junior high school talent show.

That night I performed...

♪ She only comes out at night ♪

♪ The lean and hungry... ♪

- I--Nah. Yo, listen. - [laughing]

Bro, they are laughing at me so funny in the crowd like, oh--

Did you have long hair?

Yes, I did. I looked like the Beatles.

- Yeah, that's what... [laughs] - But listen what I'm saying.

- Right? Listen what I'm saying. - Ooh!

FAT JOE: The guy plays Run-D.M.C...

RUN-D.M.C.: ♪ Two years ago, a friend of mine ♪

♪ Asked me to say some MC rhymes ♪

FAT JOE: I watched 1,000 kids in the South Bronx

look at each other like this.

♪

I watched the Bronx, who created hip hop,

heard your shit come on.

- Whatever this is... - Is the shit.

- ...is to reign supreme! - [laughs] Yeah.

Stuff--it happened in real time.

Like, I'm so blessed that I got to see it.

♪ Come on, everybody, let's all get down ♪

♪

LL COOL J: While Run and my man D

continued to get recognition outside of Queens,

it was their choice of footwear

and a fortuitous night in 1986 at Madison Square Garden

that truly changed the game forever.

Now take your Adidas! Put 'em up in the goddamn air!

Let everybody put on the Adidas!

♪ My Adidas ♪

Come on, put 'em up in the air!

[cheering]

♪ My Adidas ♪

GEORGE: Famously, Run-D.M.C.'s headline

in Madison Square Garden, they hold up their sneakers,

and they have everyone in the crowd wearing Adidas

hold up their sneakers, and, like,

and a third to half the crowd had Adidas on.

Executives from Adidas were there, and they're like,

"Yo, this is our market."

- ♪ We started - ♪ Alley ♪

- ♪ Now we chill in - ♪ Cali ♪

♪ And I won't trade my Adidas for no bullshit Bally's ♪

♪ My Adidas... [echoing] Adidas, Adidas ♪

That changed the game for hip hop.

When Run-D.M.C. signed that million-dollar deal with Adidas,

that set hip hop on its course

to be able to dominate in those spaces.

GEORGE: That got everyone's attention.

It brings hip hop through all these different audiences,

so now it's not just an urban kid audience.

And that expands what hip hop is.

[shouts indistinctly]

TONE: Later on, you had Cross Colours

and Kriss Kross, right?

You had Will Smith selling Ray-Bans, right?

I make this look good.

Big brands partnering up with young entertainers,

you know, from Rockaway and Sean John.

♪

That was really the big bang.

♪

We're actually selling product outside of music.

I think once we realized that the artists were brands,

I think that really pushed it into the mainstream.

♪

OSORIO: As it started to grow up,

it transitioned into this business.

You're not just making money off of the music.

That is when we started to see more of a hip hop entrepreneur.

LL COOL J: Look, at the end of the day,

hip hop was influenced by Run-D.M.C., bar none.

Like, I don't think nobody could even argue

with the type of impact.

How did these change the world?

RUN: Well, when I got into the game...

Yo, D's house right there.

I don't know nothin' about publishing.

I don't know nothin' about nothin'.

Right.

So, our basic thing that we did to get money was with shows.

As we made the record, "My Adidas," things changed.

It connected with the people.

I remember going to Detroit wearing 'em.

I remember going all around the world wearing 'em.

These sneakers--they were accessible in everybody's hood.

So, everybody picked them up,

and we got the first million-dollar check.

We got the connection with Adidas.

We put out our own sneakers. Changed my life.

Okay, Joe, you was generating income

with your music, doing shows.

Why did you decide to expand beyond that?

Well, you know, we're artists.

We rely so much on touring money.

- Right. - Promoters are the promoters.

So, when they know that you only relying on this,

they start playing them games.

Like, "Joe, how many times people wanna see 'Lean Back'?"

Are you kidding? It happens to everybody. I'm like, what?

And so you got your whole family depending on you.

- Right. - So, I realized

I gotta diversify.

Too many rappers, know what I'm saying?

You done seen 'em go platinum...

- Right. - ...and make hits

back in the days... - Right.

...and sell 20 million records, and now they all broke,

- Know what I'm saying? - Right.

No disrespect.

- Even if my touring goes low... - Mm-hmm.

I got other sources of income coming in.

- Mm-hmm. - So, that is the root of

why I branch out into other businesses.

Now all the little kids is like, "Yo, Ma, look,

Fat Joe got a store," they mother could hit him

like, "Yo, you know, he was on welfare.

He was on the cheese line like you.

He grew up in the projects down the block.

If he did it, you could do it."

Now I've become such a good businessman that

the shows are cherries on top. - LL COOL J: Mm.

You, maybe you don't understand, but you went to acting early.

LL COOL J: Mm-hmm.

FAT JOE: You went to doing business early.

- Oh, yeah. - You, you--

you was clear before anybody.

Oh, because a smart rabbit has more than one hole.

- [laughs] - You know what I mean?

The fox start chasing him and all that he got.

- Whoo! - You know what I mean?

♪

It's no big deal to see Fat Joe up in the Bronx.

- Right. - Know what I'm sayin'?

'Cause that's my home. You know, no matter

how much money I make, I'm still gon' be up in there.

♪

[siren wailing in distance]

[child yells in distance]

♪

So, hip hop, in many ways has saved your life.

- Saved my life. - It saved your life.

- So, tell me how. - I'm in the streets.

This Mitchel projects, Patterson,

Brook Avenue, Cypress.

It's my neighborhood. It's my world.

You know, this is a drug pot before my time.

- Mm-hmm. - So, I'm getting

major money out here, but all my friends start going to jail.

LL COOL J: Mm-hmm.

FAT JOE: So, I knew I had to change my life.

My brother used to carry the vinyl

to the block parties for Grandmaster Flash.

All that... ♪ Mary, Mary ♪

BOTH: ♪ Why you buggin'? ♪

♪ On ♪

- ♪ That funk is on - ♪ Is on [laughs]

- I'm studying all this. - Yeah, yeah, yeah.

And outside my house, we had two DJs, Supreme and Hutch,

and they would jam every day.

And whenever you heard the music ricochet off the wall,

you stopped playing baseball. You stopped playing basketball.

You stopped everything. You go to the jam.

I was born in hip hop.

♪

LL COOL J: So, then when did you first pick up the mic?

No older than 10.

And you gotta understand, my father's Cuban.

My mother's Puerto Rican.

They used to be like, "Yo, what are you doing?"

- They had no concept. - [laughs]

I'm like, "Yo, I'm writing rhymes," and they be like,

"Nah, you ain't never gonna succeed in that."

But I would go everywhere, battle everybody.

I loved it since my birth.

Hip hop, the inception, was right outside my window.

Ruby Dee, the first Puerto Rican MC,

♪ Ruby Dee is my name, and I'm a Puerto Rican ♪

♪ You might think I'm Black by the way that I'm speaking ♪

He's from around the corner.

- Sha-Rock, first female MC... - No doubt.

...two blocks away from me on Prospect Avenue.

Lovebug Starski-- from my projects.

I mean, hip hop was so fresh

that every day you learned something new.

- Yeah. - You go to the block party

and learn a new dance, to wear your clothes a different way.

- Yeah. - I was born in that.

♪

LL COOL J: Hip hop went from South Bronx

to top of the food chain financially.

And one thing about you, and I love it,

You always talk about abundance. You talk about getting rich.

You talk about getting money. You talk about this stuff.

Sure ain't about the smoking blunts,

drinking 40s on the corner no more.

But if they wanna talk to me about business,

I'm down for that.

LL COOL J: And it's more to it than just, "I want money."

It's more to it than that.

- FAT JOE: It's my wife... - LL COOL J: Yeah.

FAT JOE: ...my family and my community.

It's the real trickle down effect for me.

The thing I love the most is giving back to my community.

So, the more I get, I tell God,

"God, I'm really gonna give back."

- I love that. - You know?

- My man. - A'ight.

- Fat Joe. - LL Cool J.

- Mr. Cartagena. - Whoo!

You did it. Hip hop born here.

[siren wailing in distance]

♪

LL COOL J: From Fat Joe's world

to hip hop business and philanthropy in the Bronx

to SOB's nightclub in Manhattan,

I made the journey downtown to meet someone

who helped hip hop cross over into the broader culture

like never before--

a man who showed a new generation

how artists could impact the culture beyond the mic.

♪ M-E-T-H-O-D Man ♪

- Oh, what's happening? - What's going on? What's good?

- What's good? - Oh, living legend himself.

- How are you? - Good, baby.

My man. Respect, respect.

What's happening? What's happening?

- You know, I'm chillin'. - You are?

- 'Chillin'. Yeah. - Supposed to be. You are.

Yes, I am, sir. We in SOB's.

- Yeah. - A little monumental spot here,

and shit, a lot of great talent came through here, you know.

♪ M-E-T-H-O-D Man ♪

♪ M-E-T-H-O-D Man, hey, you ♪

LL COOL J: An original member of the Wu-Tang Clan,

Method Man's talent, captivating stage presence,

and charisma launched him from Staten Island

all the way to the top.

When you got the mind, plus you got the resources,

man, this goes on and on. - Yeah.

Music, film, television,

fashion, producing.

My man even made comic books.

Persistence overcomes resistance.

Wu-Tang is forever, and hip hop is forever.

And Method Man played a huge part

in reinforcing that legacy.

♪ M-E-T-H-O-D Man ♪

What was the very first seed

that inspired you to-- to get into hip hop?

[Sugar Hill Gang's "Rapper's Delight" playing]

My first introduction to hip hop was Sugar Hill Gang.

- Straight up? Okay. - Yes, "Rapper's Delight."

♪ Said a hip-hop, the hippie to the hippie ♪

♪ The hip, hip-a-hop and you don't stop the rockin' ♪

♪ To the bang-bang boogie, say up jump the boogie ♪

♪ To the rhythm of the boogie, the beat ♪

METHOD MAN: But this underground movement of hip hop,

being from New York,

we had radio stations that would only play hip hop...

LL COOL J: Mm-hmm.

METHOD MAN: ...late night on Fridays and Saturdays.

- 100%. - And we were well aware of it.

I mean, that set the stage for everything that

I started to love after that, you know what I mean?

I became one of those kids that sat next to the radio

on Friday and Saturday trying to catch up.

A Mr. Magic world, world premiere, premiere, premiere.

DJ: World premiere.

But what inspired me to pick up a pen--no lie--

♪ Queens get the money long time, no cash ♪

♪ I'm caught up in the hustle when the guns go blast ♪

And Roxanne Shanté.

♪ I'm Shanté, and the rhymes are def ♪

♪ Just rap so fresh till I get out of breath ♪

And then we 12, 13 years old, brother.

- Okay. - We would go on the staircase,

smoke, and then somebody would start beatboxing.

The first verse that I ever fucking wrote

was inspired by "Rock the Bells."

♪ I'm a tower full of power with rain and hail ♪

♪ Cut Creator scratch the record with his fingernail ♪

♪ Rock the bells ♪

That cadence that you used to use where it was

two rhyming words in between the two rhyming words...

- Right. - So, it would be something like,

♪ I'm on a mission, don't get up because I'm taking no shorts ♪

♪ I bust a cap, and it's like that ♪

Yeah, yeah.

♪ And I will give it no thought ♪

- Yeah, yeah, yeah. - That kind of shit, so...

- Yeah. - Yeah, I was biting. Facts.

And that was my intro right there and shit.

It's like you taught niggas how to rhyme, L.

- And it worked out. - Yeah.

♪ The king of crowd rockers finally is back ♪

♪ My voice is your choice as the hottest wax ♪

♪ Rock the bells ♪

Welcome to "Yo! MTV Raps."

Tonight, straight from the streets of Shaolin,

the Wu-Tang Clan is in effect!

Whoo!

Whoo!

Shoo!

Yeah. Protect your neck, kid.

Cash Rules Everything Around Me--

- C.R.E.A.M. - Get the money.

♪ In your mind ♪

Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome Method Man!

[applause]

Ah, yeah, baby. My man, Method Man,

on our way Uptown. - Yeah.

Just swinging through the streets of New York.

LL COOL J: Okay, so you're Method Man.

Wu-Tang Clan becomes this worldwide phenomenon.

Worldwide. Worldwide.

Starts going mainstream.

Hey! Wu-Tang!

♪ We got stickup kids, corrupt cops and crack rocks ♪

LL COOL J: Talk to me about what it was like

as the group started going beyond the projects.

♪ To kick the truth to the young Black youth ♪

I vividly remember Wu-Tang is bubbling.

Okay.

We got the "Method Man" single out.

Right.

It's on "Battle of the Beats" on Hot 97.

[radio frequencies tuning]

♪ M-E-T-H-O-D Man ♪

It's constantly winning to the point

where they have to retire the song.

We don't know that because we're touring.

♪ Hey, you, get off my cloud ♪

We had to come back and perform at the Fever,

not knowing that this record's been bubbling.

The video's been bubbling.

♪ Here I am, here I am, here I am, the Method Man ♪

So, soon as we pull up, it's packed outside.

We've never seen this shit before up to that point.

- Right. - Well, who that for?

I found out when we jumped out that van.

- [audience cheering] - Brooklyn, please,

put your motherfucking hands together!

- Oh! - Method Man! Yeah!

Yeah.

[speaking indistinctly]

[wild cheers and applause]

METHOD MAN: I mean, the excitement and just the--

the energy was totally different.

It was like, holy shit.

I was used to being the underdog.

- Right. - I didn't know how

to take this shit at first. - Now you the big--

you was a big dog. - Yeah, I was like,

but I'm-a meet the challenge.

♪ M-E-T-H-O-D Man ♪

♪ M-E-T-H-O-D Man

♪ Hey, you, get off my cloud ♪

♪ You don't know me, and you don't know my style ♪

♪

- It felt great that night. - LL COOL J: Yeah.

METHOD MAN: Like, they know who we are now.

The beauty was sharing that moment,

'cause it wasn't just me. It was a gang of us.

And it's different when you watch your friends grow from,

you know, grade school

to junior high school to high school.

It's like being

in the same bunkhouse with a bunch of soldiers.

It's like, you got his back. He got yours.

And the only gang that we are--

it's the gang of money that we make.

[laughter]

- You owe me 20 bing-bings. - Look at my six G's.

You look at us back then, who would ever think

that we could be in a position where we could feed our families

for the rest of our lives, be world-praised and famous

for doing something that we love to fucking do?

I would have never imagined that shit.

And sometimes when I'm onstage,

and I'm watching my dudes perform,

I get a euphoric feeling because

I'm seeing them as kids again. - Yeah.

It's like, holy shit, man.

- We made it this far. - We made it this far.

That was a good reminder for me. Shit.

[train tracks rumbling in distance]

LL COOL J: Check it out. One word.

You tell me what it means to you, what you want it to be.

- It's up to you. - All right.

- Legacy. - Ooh.

More than anything...

I want people to recognize my humility

'cause it's genuine. - Yeah.

I want my legacy to be to a point where

when my kids run into people that knew me,

they only have good things to say about their dad.

Wow.

♪

That's the legacy I wanna leave--

a good guy.

So, a legacy of honor and respect.

Yes. Yes.

♪

LL COOL J: What is the feeling now

when you walk around, as you move through the world?

- It's fulfillment. - What is it like

in Method Man's skin moving through the world?

I'm embracing the fact that I am a creative.

I couldn't find a word for it for all these years,

but I know what it is now. I like to create.

I see a blank slate, drives me crazy.

I have to add something to it.

On that blank slate, I see so many different things

and so much potential.

REPORTER: Las Vegas has officially entered the Chamber--

the Wu-Tang Clan announcing they will have a residency.

I feel fulfilled and gracious.

But in the same breath, I deserve it.

- You goddamn right. - Yeah.

- You earned it. - I earned it.

- And you envisioned it. - Yes, I did, sir. [laughs]

- Yes, I did, sir. - You envisioned that shit.

Good shit, man. Let's bounce now.

Chop it up a little bit more. Yeah, that's--that's good shit.

Y'all be good out there, a'ight?

My friends is better than yours, ya heard?

Ya know I mean? Good shit, baby. Good shit.

All right. Y'all brothers wanna talk to me now? All right.

Basically, I'm the Method Man 'cause I smoke the most.

♪ Oh, now be good to me ♪

♪ In the midnight hour

♪ Oh, now be good to me ♪

♪ When I was down in the shadows ♪

♪ Oh, now be good to me ♪

♪ You know you pick me up when I've been moanin' ♪

♪ Oh, now be good to me ♪

♪ I'll be... ♪