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I'm rich, biatch.

(CAR ENGINE SPUTTERING)

You filming us?

Hey, man, what's happening?

We were riding.

Car just broke down?
Yeah.

Try it one more time.
Try it one more time.

Short bursts.

(ENGINE SPUTTERING)

MAN: Hey, yo, Dave!

What happened?
Oh, I'm sorry.
You're...

We stopped the engine.
We can't get it started again.

MAN: Yo, Dave!

Uh...

You put too much gas in it.
That's what I'm saying.

♪(MARCHING BAND PLAYING)

I have the butterfly
wide open.
Try it now. Try it now.

(ENGINE SPUTTERING)

Stop, stop, stop.

How much of this
did you spray in there?

He said, "How much of that
did you spray in there?"

How much of this
did you spray in?

I don't know
what his answer is.

That's right. Saturday,
coming at you!

The Block Party of life!

With Kanye West,

Mos Def, Talib Kweli, Common.

Did I mention the Fugees?
Did I mention Dead Prez?

Did I tell you Erykah Badu
was gonna be there?

And Jill Scott's gonna
be there. And The Roots crew
is gonna be there.

And yours truly,
David Chappelle!

That's right!
Once in a lifetime!

I've got the Brooklyn Steppers
behind me.

And we do a little something
like this.

(EXCLAIMING)

Saturday night,
Saturday afternoon

featuring barbecued chicken
for lunch.

DAVE: It's a celebration,
bitches.

It's a celebration.

Ha, ha, ha!

All right, I'm gonna go
talk some stuff
and then we're gonna...

And then,
I'm gonna bring you up, Kanye.

MAN: Hey, yo, Brooklyn,
make some noise for Mos Def,
y'all.

MOS DEF: Brooklyn.

Bed-Stuy!

Brooklyn!

Let the shouting out begin!

♪(PERFORMING TWO WORDS)

(RAPPING) ♪ Now throw your
hands up, hustlers, busters,
boosters, hoes, everybody ♪

Most High, we thank you just
for being here with us.

We thank you
for this day, God.

The sun is shining.
They said
it was supposed to rain.

But, God,
you letting your face show
that you want us here.

You want every soul here,
right now.

We thank you for this message
that you sending
through all these people.

We thank you for bringing Dave
to bring us together.

We dreamed of this day
and we ask that you
just utilize our souls

and our spirits and our voices
to glorify you
in all that we do.

We don't forget people
that's poor.

We don't forget
those that's at war right now.

We don't forget our comrades
that's in prison.

We don't forget
our children, God.

And we praying
that you can just be
through us and live through us

so that we can raise
our people up
and raise ourselves up.

We put you first in all we do.

And now just bless
the energy of us
and the people out there.

And allow your message
to be through us.

Amen.
Amen.

In the name of Jesus, in the
name of Allah and the Spirit
of the Ancestors, amen, ashe.

DAVE: All these people,
what we all have in common?

I think we all have
a very personal message
that they try to get across.

And it's about more
than just making money.

All these people that have
come here to this concert,
before I ever met them,

I was fans of theirs.

So to work with these people,
in this kind of setting,
it's a dream come true.

This is the concert
I've always wanted to see.

♪(PERFORMING GET 'EM HIGH)

(RAPPING)
♪ Keep your hands up,

♪ hustlers, busters, boosters,
hoes, everybody, fuck that ♪

♪ Still nowhere to go
Still nowhere to go ♪

♪ Brooklyn ♪

It's your boy, M Def.
Yeah, he back.

Feels good to be home, y'all.

DAVE: This is
my local coffee shop.
The journey starts here.

Preparing for game day,
Saturday.

We got to get some people
to come to this concert.

I don't think
that'll be so hard.

Hey, Bobby,
guess what he offered us?
What?

He said that there's gonna be
a rap concert in Brooklyn

and if we wanna go,
he'll give us tickets.

Man, I can't rap.
Dave, you know better
than that.

You don't have to rap.

But I'll get up there
and try.

All you gotta do is listen.

MAN: What?

How often does a brother
get a chance to chill out
with the probation officers?

On some social stuff.

Man. And some social...
No problems.

I ain't even... I ain't
asking you to turn around,
drop me a cup of urine.

None of that. No cups, man.
DAVE: Yeah.
No peeing in the cup.

It might look like a lot,
but this is it. These are
the golden tickets.

Wee Willy Wonka
didn't even give out
this many.

This will get you guys there.

It'll get you a hotel
in New York for the night.

All right.

And it'll get you
into the concert.
And it'll get you a ride back.

Okay. We get
in our Cadillac like we...
My Cadillac, I should say.

Like we always do.
And we go drive, go golfing.

It's this little corner store
that we always go to
for snacks.

And the next thing we know,
we see Dave Chappelle.

I was like, "Oh!"

Chappelle,
he grabbed this ticket.

Out of nowhere.
He pulled it out his ass.

We was like, "Oh!"

We were like,
"Where did that come from?"

After we got done
seeing Chappelle,
we went on golfing.

And we going on
to the hole number 11.

Just imagine,
we feeling like this high.

Man, we feeling
like this high.

This high.
Top of the world right now.
This top of the world, man.

You can't crush us.
We untouchable.

Can't crush
none of our feelings.

There's a house to the left.

It's deep
over there to the left.

And the tee right here.
He had to take a piss.
So he respected the house.

You know, he respected it.

I was down
into some woods somewhere.

You know,
on some adventure stuff.
And he went on this side.

You know,
he handled his business,
you know.

Right.
Everybody does it
on the golf course.

It's nothing.
Man.

But...

Some guy comes out
and just says,

"You nigger."
I said, "Oh!" I said, "No."

Man.
It's a new era, though.

I thought it was over.
And this old guy
was so old-school.

I never thought
somebody would say "nigger."

I said, "Oh, my."

And then,
I'm up here
just holding him back.

"No. No."
If it wasn't for him,
it'd been over.

'Cause you know, that's his
private property. We want to
go to Chappelle on Saturday.

(SINGING) ♪ Chappelle's Show
Chappelle's Show ♪

♪ Chappelle, Chappelle ♪

♪ Yeah, Chappelle's Show ♪

So, we gotta go.

So we did it for you, Dave.
Yeah.

We didn't whoop nobody's ass
for you, Dave.

It was for you, Dave.
For you, Dave. For you.

Watch your back.
You almost bumped into a pole.

I never steer you wrong.
Anyway, I come here
and get cigarettes.

Nice lady, Miss Hall, owns
this place. I had the pleasure
of meeting her before.

I wanna see if she'll come
listen to some rap music.

Just 'cause she's not a
traditional person to
a rap concert. Look out. Pole.

I'm telling you,
I'll never lie to you.

So, you're ready?
Saturday night?
Bring your Timberlands.

All right.

And get the dance.

Do you think I would
enjoy that at my age,
really and truly?

DAVE: And I just wanted
people from around
the area that I live in,

that might not normally go
to something like this...

That's right.

...to get a chance
to experience something
like this.

So, I figure,
I'll go to the store.

I come here,
I buy my cigarettes
sometimes in the morning.

I just wanted you to
be able to come in and
do your business and leave.

So...
No, that's why I live here.

Everybody treats me like...

But inside, I was screaming,
"That's Dave Chappelle!"

(DAVE LAUGHING)

Hi.
CAMERAMAN: Hi.

CAMERAMAN:
How's it going? Yeah.
Do you wanna come in?

Come on in.

I really don't know what
to take to a rap party,
Block Party.

I knew I should have
bought a thong.

(RAPPING)
♪ I'm trying
to catch the beat ♪

♪ I need to catch the beat ♪

♪ I need to catch the beat ♪

♪ I need to catch the beat ♪

♪ Now, throw your
motherfucking hands,
get them high ♪

♪ Throw them high,
get them high ♪

♪ And all the girls
pass the weed
to your motherfucking man ♪

♪ Get them high, get them high
Come on, get ♪

♪ Now I ain't never tell you
to put down your hands ♪

♪ Keep them high,
keep them high, yeah ♪

♪ And if you're losing
your high then smoke again ♪

♪ Keep them high ♪

♪ Now, my flow is
in the pocket like wallets ♪

♪ I got the bounce
like hydraulics ♪

♪ I can't call it,
I got the swerve
like alcoholics ♪

♪ My freshman year,
I was going through
hella problems ♪

♪ Till I built up the nerve
to drop my ass up
out of college ♪

♪ My teacher said I'm a loser,
I told her
why don't you kill me ♪

♪ I give a fuck if you feel me
I'm gonna follow my heart ♪

♪ And if you follow the charts
or the plaques or the stacks ♪

♪ You ain't gotta
guess who's back, you see ♪

♪ I'm so shy
you thought I was bashful ♪

♪ but this bastard's flow
will bash your skull ♪

♪ And I will cut your girl
like Pastor Troy ♪

♪ And I don't usually smoke,
but pass the 'dro ♪

♪ And I won't give you
that money
that you asking for ♪

♪ Why you think me
and Dame cool?
We assholes ♪

♪ That's why we hear
your music in fast-forward ♪

♪ 'Cause we don't wanna hear
that weak shit no more ♪

♪ Now everybody
throw their hands ♪

♪ Get them high,
get them high, yeah ♪

♪ And all the girls
pass the weed
to your motherfucking man ♪

♪ Get them high, get them high
Get them high, yeah ♪

♪ Now I ain't never tell you
to put down your hands ♪

♪ So, keep them high,
keep them high, keep them
high, keep them high ♪

♪ And if you're
losing your high
then smoke again ♪

Hey, yo, Kwe, I need you
to spit that shit right now.

(RAPPING) ♪ Yo, yo, yo ♪

♪ I can't believe this nigga
use my name
for picking up dimes ♪

♪ But never mind,
I need some tracks
He trying to pull tracks out ♪

♪ And my rhymes
is fitting to blow,
he about to blow back South ♪

♪ Well, okay,
you twisted my arm,
I'll assist with the charm ♪

♪ Hey, yo, ain't you
meet that chick at the
conference with your mom? ♪

♪ Her sister's the bomb,
but she got
the bougie behavior ♪

♪ Always got something to say
like a Okay Player hater ♪

♪ Anyway, I don't usually
fuck with the Internet ♪

♪ Or chicks with birth control
stuck to their arm
like Nicorette ♪

♪ You really fucking that much
or trying to get off
cigarettes? ♪

♪ And she think it's fly
She ain't met
a real nigga yet ♪

♪ I apologize if I come off
a little inconsiderate ♪

♪ I got the Bubba Kush
and a sister
could get a hit of it ♪

♪ Get them high,
get them high, yeah ♪

♪ All the girls pass the weed
to your motherfucking man ♪

♪ Get them high, get them high
Come on, yeah ♪

♪ Now I ain't never tell you
to put down your hands ♪

♪ Get them high,
get them high ♪

Old people
fucking love me, man.
They love me.

You know you must be doing
something right
if old people like you.

Hi, miss.
WOMAN: Hi.

Do you like rap music?

I like you, man, I tell you.

I'll take that. You want
to come see a rap concert
I'm throwing?

When?
It's in Brooklyn
on Saturday.

Sorry, I can't do that.

I'll get you on the bus.

I'm going to Canada
on a bus.

Canada? You trying to
dodge the war?

I don't know if you like
rap music, but...

No, it's not a question
of liking.

I don't hear well enough
to catch the words.

You know, I got
the concert jump-off
this weekend.

Oh, do you?
I can get you there.

Hell, yeah.
If you get me there, I'll go.

On a bus.

It don't make
no difference to me.

You'll go?
Yeah.

No matter how
we get you there? I ain't
gonna send you on a donkey.

MAN: He'll hurt the donkey.

I'm a football player.
I'm 320 pounds.

You play football?
Where? At Central?

No. Hell, no.
Oh, excuse me,
I shouldn't be cursing.

Oh, that's all right. Look.
Pussy hole. You see?

You can say anything.
This is a movie.

You got
a big hat for me?
Yeah.

And the mirror's
right here?
Yeah.

That's the one.
All right,
I'm gonna surprise myself.

Here I go. Damn! Oh, snap!

Pimpalicious.

This a bad coat.
Yeah.

You think I can wear this
to a rap concert?

You sure could.

Where is my money, bitch?

Now, this is
the popular stuff?
Yeah.

All right.
This is current styles.

(IMITATING PIMP)
Look here, bitch.

I'm gonna tell you this
and I'm gonna
tell you this once.

I want my goddamn money.

Tell your wife I said hi.
I can't wait to meet her.

What's she like?

She's the shit.
Red hair, big tits.

Red hair and big titties?
All right,
I'll keep an eye out.

Get her drunk,
she'll show them.
Really?

All right, make sure
we have beer at the concert.

This place is called
HaHa's Pizza, right?

Back in the day,
it was started
by some hippies.

And they had certain
pizza toppings that made you
laugh. Get my drift?

You ordered a mushroom pizza
at this place back in '71,

chances were
you were gonna hallucinate.

(RAPPING) ♪ Keep them high ♪

Brooklyn, make some noise.

I rolled up on you guys
completely by chance.

What are the odds
that I'd be shooting
the beginning?

It's God.
I'm shooting a concert movie.

That's God.
That's God, man.

I'm trying to think,
how am I gonna get
people to come?

And all of a sudden,
a marching band
crosses the street.

How perfect is that?

Now, ladies and gentlemen,

I'm standing here
with a piece of black history.

The first black man
named Milsapp, right here,
ladies and gentlemen.

And not only
is his name Milsapp,
but he's also the director

of Central State University's
band we got here.

This is not any old band
though, is it?

No, it isn't.
This the drum line.

Mr. Milsapp?
Yes.

All right, how do y'all travel
when you travel?

Very carefully.

We travel by charter bus.

By charter bus?

We gotta have a huddle, guys.
Come on, let's huddle up
real quick.

Look, man. All right,
say I chartered y'all
a bus, right?

Would you all come play
at my concert, Block Party,
in New York?

I don't have a problem
with it.
The whole band?

Yeah, yeah,
with two buses, right?
Yeah.

It's not gonna be more
than two buses, is it?

No, it won't be more
than two buses.

Yeah, man, come on,
rep southwest Ohio, man.

Yes, we would.
You'll do it?

Yes, we would.

Is there a compensation,
or what?

Compensation?
It comes with a sandwich.

Will there be snacks?

Oh, there'll be snacks.
We got...

Don't we got snacks
in the budget?
This is a low-budget movie.

You know how Steven Spielberg

have all them trucks
and stuff?
Got the hookup.

DAVE: This is it.
We pulled up
in a minivan, baby.

We're working
on a tight budget.

You have to go through the
channels, right? Run it up the
flagpole, that type of thing.

Yeah, and that would
be done expediently.
That could be done.

And now we're just caught up
in a little bureaucracy.

Now, how hot would it be
if these kids got a chance
to come through Bed-Stuy,

beating them drums,
playing them horns?

The whole neighborhood
is amped, screaming.

They're saying "It's CSU!"
That's what we're hoping for.

The anticipation
is killing me.

♪(PERFORMING DEFINITION)

(RAPPING) ♪ One ♪

♪ Two ♪

♪ Three ♪

♪ Four ♪

♪ Lord have mercy ♪

♪ Hey, yo, from the first
to the last of it
delivery is passionate ♪

♪ Whole and not
the half of it, vocab
and not the math of it ♪

♪ Projectile
and I'll blast away
Accurate assassin shit ♪

♪ Me and Kweli close like
Bethlehem and Nazareth ♪

♪ After this
you be pressing rewind
on top your master disk ♪

♪ Shining like an asterisk
for all those
that be gathering ♪

♪ Connecting like a roundhouse
from the townhouse
to the tenements ♪

♪ All my Brooklyn residents,
all the heavy regiments ♪

♪ Don't believe,
here the evidence ♪

♪ Brooklyn! ♪

♪ From where
they selling tree at
to where the police be at ♪

♪ Talib Kweli e-Kweli-ty
Yo, tell them where we be at ♪

(RAPPING) ♪ We be in Brooklyn,
New York City ♪

♪ Where they paint murals
of Biggie
In cash we trust ♪

♪ 'Cause it's ghettofabulous,
Life look pretty ♪

♪ What a pity
Blunts is still 50 cents,
it's intense ♪

♪ Tree scent is dominant
can't be covered
with incense ♪

♪ My presence felt,
my name is Kweli
from the Eternal Reflection ♪

♪ People thinking MC
is shorthand
for misconception ♪

♪ I meditate,
set it straight ♪

♪ Came to the conclusion
that most of these cats
is featherweight ♪

♪ Let me demonstrate
Walking the streets
is like battling ♪

♪ Be careful with your body ♪

♪ You know karate
or think your soul
is bulletproof like Sade ♪

♪ Stop acting
like a bitch already,
be a visionary ♪

♪ And maybe you can see
your name
in the column of obituary ♪

That's where it's all
going down, baby.

Stage will be right there
where you guys are standing.

I'm gonna be running up
and down from here.

All this is gonna be people.
I can see it now!

Like a vision. Don't look
at me like I'm crazy.
It's going down!

This is real.

I'm sorry
for screaming like this.

(SINGING) ♪ One, two, three
Mos Def and Talib Kweli ♪

♪ We came to rock it on
to the tip-top
Best alliance in ♪

♪ Sing it up! ♪

♪ Singing one, two, three
It's kind of dangerous
to be a MC ♪

♪ They shot 2Pac and Biggie
God bless the day
and this hip-hop ♪

Whose house is this anyway?

This your house?

You know, we're having
a concert in front of your
house Saturday. You excited?

Yes, and you're welcome
to come and rest your loins
at any point.

I can come rest my loins
in the crib, you heard that?

With a glass of champagne.

Ladies and gentlemen,

today is their fortieth...

Sixth.

Forty-sixth
wedding anniversary.
Good God Almighty.

Thank you.
Hold your applause to the end.

We took a trip
on the Staten Island Ferry,
a little ocean voyage.

Okay.
On the Staten Island...

All right.
To Staten Island.

And, as we walked
in the streets
of Staten Island,

what did we discover
in the gutter, but an angel
broken in seven pieces.

When we both discovered this,

I turned to him,
who was not my husband
at the time,

and I said,
"It's an omen. It's a sign.

"I'm to marry you,
of all people."

Really?
And I did. I married him.

And Sunday is our 46th
wedding anniversary.

I put that angel
back together again.

But after I did, we found
the original, of which there
may be thousands of them.

The original's rather stiff.
Mine is kind of graceful.

So, that's why we call this
Broken Angel.

Because this building
was wrecked and vandalized

and lying in the street.

And I'm putting it
back together again,
better than it was.

Because they bought it,
it kind of had
some sort of meaning.

But if I was a location scout,

and we needed a crack house,
I might refer that place.

MILSAPP: Can I see
the whole band
for a moment, please?

BOY: Quiet.
GIRL: Be quiet.

All right.

Upon a discussion
I had with our president

and Mr. David Chappelle,

the performances on Saturday
have been canceled.

Are you serious?
I'm serious.

However, there has been
a change in plans.

We will be traveling
to New York.

♪(PERFORMING
KING OF THE GAME)

CODY CHESNUTT: (SINGING)
♪ I've stood here
in these streets of men ♪

♪ Dying a little ♪

♪ That I might comprehend ♪

♪ A concept like purpose
or worry there ♪

♪ The earth is mine
by divine prophecy I'm told ♪

♪ I am free if I'm meek ♪

Greetings. Cody Chesnutt,
The Headphone Masterpiece.

By the grace of Almighty God,
here for the celebration.

Miss, I'm having a Block Party
on Saturday around the corner.

All you need to do
is bring yourself.

Bring yourself! Bring yourself
to the Block Party, won't you?

Attention, Huxtables.

There is
a Block Party jump-off
right around the corner.

Downing and Quincy.
Downing and Quincy.

Bring Rudy, Theo, Denise...

On the actual block?

It's like a warehouse
where they make chairs.

No human ass
has touched these seats yet.

Some lucky person
is gonna get a chair.

DAVE: There's like
a nursery school.

There's this ill house called
the Broken Angel house.

Then there's
the Salvation Army.

These guys have been
kind enough to loan us
furniture for the party.

And now we're just kind
of looking around
at furniture,

so that we can be comfortable
on the rooftop
during the concert.

I'm also just taking some time

to look at all this good stuff
that people just throw out.

If I went to a white person's
house and saw this,
I'd be furious.

Think I can play this,
even though it says
"Do not play"?

♪(PLAYING 'ROUND MIDNIGHT)

(SINGING)
♪ Midnight, 'round midnight ♪

QUESTLOVE: I think,
right now, man, Dave has
two songs in his repertoire.

He has Round About Midnight
and Misty.

And he... Once he has...

♪(PLAYING MISTY ON ORGAN)

♪ (HUMMING)

Wait, get...

Go back to Round Midnight.

He always gets to the bridge

and then he does
these real
immaculate arpeggios,

which trips me out.

The fact that
he's not a trained musician,

but he's dedicated
his whole life
to Round About Midnight.

BOTH: We're dating.

It's called...
Courtship.

Christian courtship.
That's what it's called.

We're dating.
It's called dating.

We've been friends
for how long? A year.

Best friends for a year.

A month.
And a month.

And a day.
And a day.

And a day, a day.
It's a year,
a month and a day.

So, how many hours
and how many minutes
and how many seconds?

Can I breathe your air?
Breathe mine.

(GIRLS LAUGHING)

That was Round Midnight
I was playing.
That's a Thelonious Monk song.

One of my favorite musicians
because his timing was so ill.

Every comedian
is a stickler for timing.

And Thelonious Monk
was off time,
yet perfectly on time.

You should study it
if you're an aspiring comedian

or an aspiring musician,
you should study it.

Which brings me
to my next point.

Comedians and musicians,
we're like this.

Every comic
wants to be a musician.

Every musician
thinks they're funny.

It's a very strange
relationship that we have.

Some musicians are funny,
some comedians can play.

I'll give you an example.
Mos Def, funny guy.

Jamie Foxx,
good singer and piano player.

So you never know.
You never know what kind
of talents a person has.

I'm mediocre at both,
but have managed
to talk my way into a fortune.

Life is a funny,
unpredictable thing.

DAVE: So, you do
the drums, right?

And then do
like the straight...
Like, if I say,

"I saw this lady
who was so fat."
You'd be like, "Really, Dave?"

Like, "How fat was..."

You do the straight man
and then I'll do...
All right, you ready?

But this is how it works.

That you gotta stop
when I say stop. It's gotta
be, like, on a dime.

Okay.

And then keep going again.
Stop, keep going again.

All right.
All right,
so we'll try it out.

But when we do it,
we're gonna practice it
in front of the audience.

This shit never fails.
It's like a walking bassline,

and then like a swing beat,
and then like whatever else...

MAN: This is sort of like
making that noise.

All right. That's right.
Okay, it should be like this.

Hey, Mos, what's happening?

Then you be like...
Hey, what's happening, Dave?

Mos, I'm gonna tell you
a little...

How many white people
does it take to screw in
a light bulb?

I don't know, Dave, how many?

None. 'Cause they'll get
a nigga to do it for them.

Carry on.

Oh, that's right.

Just a little warm-up.

All right, all right.

MILSAPP: Okay, listen up.

Upon getting your keys
and your luggage,

you can go to your room.

We are going to eat down here,
I believe, in the dining room.

So once you
put your luggage up,
you can come back downstairs.

Glad we're here, though.

Time to relax, get some
sleep before we go and
kick it tomorrow or whatever.

♪(PERFORMING MOVE SOMETHIN')

♪ Bed-Stuy! ♪

TALIB KWELI: (RAPPING)
♪ Everybody ♪

♪ Come on, everybody ♪

♪ Get it up, get it up, what
Everybody ♪

♪ Give it up,
give it up, what ♪

♪ Get it up, get it up, what
Everybody ♪

♪ Get it up, get it up, what
Everybody ♪

♪ Give it up,
give it up, what ♪

♪ Give it up,
give it up, what ♪

♪ Get it up, get it up, what ♪

♪ Get it up, get it up ♪

♪ Hating melodrama ♪

♪ Fellas wanna hover
in my cypher
like a helicopter ♪

♪ Like it's a special honor ♪

♪ Stealth bomber, gem dropper
make the ghetto holler
intercontinental ♪

♪ Taking you high
like skydivers when we spark
like live wires ♪

♪ Original caveman,
quest for my fire, ♪

♪ Express my desire
to drop this new shit ♪

♪ These record executives
keep telling me y'all stupid ♪

♪ What, are they what? ♪

♪ Shut the fuck up! ♪

♪ Revolutionaries,
throw your guns up ♪

♪ Whether you a bougie broad
who acting stuck up ♪

♪ Or some ignorant
thug motherfucker
shooting the club up ♪

♪ We make y'all feel this,
break your spirit ♪

♪ If y'all fake that realness,
Word, bringing it ♪

♪ Ringing it in
from the new millennium
to way after that ♪

♪ I call these cats Reynolds
'cause they plastic rap ♪

♪ Kill all the yapping,
let's make it happen ♪

♪ You cats ain't real,
you just a reenactment ♪

♪ Better yet, dramatization ♪

♪ Soon as the director
say action
you start faking ♪

DAVE: I like the element
of surprise.

Take this concert
for instance.

I would have loved it
if nobody saw it coming.

Now it got leaked
to the press,
people have heard about it,

but they still don't know
where it is.

So imagine. There's gonna be
a group of people
that see it here,

and then, people will hear
about it, but they have no
idea what it looks like.

CAMERAMAN:
How'd you find out about this?

Internet.

1iota.com.

1iota.

Oh, through e-mail.

♪ Say it loud, say ♪
♪ Move something ♪

♪ Brooklyn, say it loud, say ♪
♪ Move something ♪

♪ Brooklyn, say it loud, say ♪
♪ Move something ♪

CAMERAMAN:
Where you going?
We made it.

Somewhere in Brooklyn.
We don't know.
We don't know.

Gonna have a good time today.

I don't know where I'm going.

I know that I'm going
to some Block Party,

but I don't know who's
performing or... I'm just here
to have a good time.

We're going to Brooklyn.
We're going to Bed-Stuy.

Bed-Stuy, Bed-Stuy.

Do or die,
we're going to Bed-Stuy.

That's where we think
we're going.

Just get on. Enjoy yourself.
Have a good time. We love you.

MAN: There's no...
Y'all got to squeeze,
I'm sorry.

Put three people.
People with small booties
all sit together.

Big booty people,
y'all got to share
with a small booty.

Wow, how you gonna catch me
while I'm in the middle
of breakfast?

This is not a stereotype.
We were hungry and Pathmark
was out of steak.

MAN: You guys ready
to get on the road?

ALL: Yeah!

DAVE: Thank you,
thank you very much.

Have you tried the hot dogs?
That's right.

(SINGING) ♪ That's right ♪

♪ We're gonna have
a little party tonight ♪

♪ And some jazz comedy ♪

♪ Oh ♪

♪ That's right ♪

(SHOUTING)

We didn't get here
until very late last evening.

And we've only had about four
or five hours' sleep,
most of us.

So we are a little tired,
but we're trying
to weather the storm

and enjoy ourselves
in spite of.

Carry on!

Yeah! We're gonna
bring the house down tomorrow.

(LAUGHING)

Oh, shit!

(SCATTING) ♪ Scooby-doo-wop
Scooby-doo-wee ♪

We need to let them in.
We gotta go.

Downing and Gates.
We got to let them in.

We got a marching band
on Downing and Gates...

Come on in.

Throw them up.

Throw them up.

Give it up for none other
than Kan-Easy,

AKA Kanye West.

Come on.
Make some noise, Bed-Stuy.

Make some noise!

♪(PERFORMING JESUS WALKS)

(RAPPING)
♪ Y'all know what the Midwest
is Young and restless ♪

♪ Where restless niggas
might snatch your necklace ♪

♪ Next these niggas
might jack your Lexus ♪

♪ Somebody tell these niggas
who Kanye West is ♪

♪ I walk through the valley
of the shadow of death ♪

♪ Top floor the view alone
will leave you breathless ♪

♪ Try to catch it
It's kind of hard ♪

♪ Getting choked by detectives
Yeah, now check the method ♪

♪ They asking us questions
Harass and arrest us ♪

♪ Saying, "We eat pieces of
shit like you for breakfast" ♪

♪ Y'all eat pieces of shit?
What's the basis? ♪

♪ We ain't going nowhere
but got suits and cases ♪

♪ A trunk full of coke
Rental car from Avis ♪

♪ My mama used to say
only Jesus could save us ♪

♪ Well, Mama,
I know I act a fool ♪

♪ But I'll be gone
till November
I got packs to move ♪

♪ I hope Jesus walks ♪

♪ God show me the way
The devil's trying
to break me down ♪

♪ Jesus walk with me ♪

♪ The only thing that I pray
is that my feet
don't fail me now ♪

♪ I want Jesus ♪

♪ And I don't think
there is nothing I can do now
to right my wrongs ♪

♪ To walk with me ♪

♪ I want to talk to God
but I'm afraid ♪

♪ 'Cause we ain't spoke
in so long ♪

♪ Jesus ♪

♪ God, show me the way
The devil's trying to
break me down ♪

♪ Walk with me ♪

♪ The only thing that I pray
is that my feet
don't fail me now ♪

(SINGING) ♪ All along my ♪

♪ pilgrim's journey ♪

♪ I want Jesus ♪

♪ to walk with me ♪

(RAPPING) ♪ To the hustlers,
killers murderers,
drug dealers ♪

♪ Even the strippers
Jesus walks with them ♪

♪ To the victims of welfare
For we living in hell here ♪

♪ Hell, yeah
Jesus walks with them ♪

♪ Now hear ye, hear ye
Want to see thee
more clearly ♪

♪ I know he hear me
When my feet get weary ♪

♪ 'Cause we're the almost
nearly extinct ♪

♪ We rappers is role models
We rap, we don't think ♪

♪ I ain't here to argue
about his facial features ♪

♪ Or here to convert atheists
into believers ♪

♪ I'm just trying to say
the way school need teachers ♪

♪ The way Kathie Lee
needed Regis
That's the way I need Jesus ♪

♪ So here go my single, dawg
Radio needs it ♪

♪ Nigga, you can rap
about anything
except for Jesus ♪

♪ That means guns,
sex, lies, videotape ♪

♪ But if I talk about God
my record won't get played ♪

♪ Well if this take away
from my spins ♪

♪ Which will probably
take away from my ends ♪

♪ Then I hope it take away
from my sins ♪

♪ And bring the day
that I'm dreaming about ♪

♪ Next time I'm in the club
everybody screaming out ♪

♪ Jesus walks ♪

♪ God show me the way
The devil's trying
to break me down ♪

♪ Jesus walk with me ♪

♪ The only thing that I pray
is that my feet
don't fail me now ♪

♪ And I don't think
there's nothing I can do now
to right my wrongs ♪

♪ I want to talk to God
but I'm afraid ♪

♪ 'Cause we ain't spoke
in so long ♪

Man, that Kanye West.

Kanye West,
who we came to see,
he came out right away.

He came out, did his thing.

I liked that.

It's a party.

If it wasn't for the rain,
it would have been really
great. But it's still a party.

(IMITATING BEAT POET)
"Rain, rain

"On my parade

"Five thousand black people
chilling in the rain

"Nineteen white people
peppered into the crowd

"Everybody's welcome

"Trying to find a Mexican

"Very hard to find a Mexican!

"Buenos días.
I know you're out there.
Buenos días.

"Qué?

"That's Spanish
Lil Jon. Qué?

"Qué?

"Sí."

Thank you, bitches.
Good night.

Now, I know you guys
are thinking,

"Dave, where have you learned
how to play the congos?"

Nobody taught me that shit!
I'm black!

It's in my blood!

M-1: Throw up my gang sign.

It's bad. Well, no, really,
it means something.
It means ya basta.

Know what I'm saying?
It's Mexican.

For all my compañeros
and compañanas.

This means ya basta.
Enough is enough.

DAVE: Is that
some Mexican shit?
Yeah.

So if I see some Mexicans
and I throw this up...

And this means...
Ya basta.

Ya basta. And they'll be
like, "All right."

Oh, well, you know.
I never really...
Check with them first.

Yeah, I don't wanna...
Don't have me doing this.

Don't just walk up to Mexicans
and start doing this shit.

Enough is enough.
Ya basta.

We had enough here.
We're ready for better.

Any way.

Next time my wife is feeding
me too much... "Would you
like some more potatoes?"

Ya basta. I've had enough.

Oh, yeah.

Yeah.
Oh, yeah.

Put your fists up.
My nigga.

♪(PERFORMING
TURN OFF THE RADIO)

(RAPPING)
♪ Crank up your speakers ♪

♪ Your woofers
and your tweeters ♪

♪ Turn up your receiver ♪

♪ Crank up your speaker ♪

♪ Your woofers
and your tweeter ♪

♪ Turn up your receivers ♪

♪ We banging off the ♪

It's your boy stic.man,
Dead Prez.

You know how we do it.
Fuck the police.

You know what I mean.
Raising the babies up
soldier style.

Greetings.

This is M-Uno, M-1.

The other half of Dead Prez.

(RAPPING)
♪ We banging off the ♪

♪ Yo, come on ♪

♪ Your speakers
Your woofers
and your tweeters ♪

♪ Turn up your receiver ♪

♪ We banging off the meter ♪

♪ I refuse to be a stereotype
in your box ♪

♪ Never wanna try
to be something I'm not ♪

DAVE: I think, like,
the more you say with it,

the less airplay you get.

You know, guys like Dead Prez,
they say it all.

But you hardly ever
hear them on the radio.

Because they say things like,

"The White House
is the rock house.

"Uncle Sam is
the motherfucking pusher man.

"What I gotta do
to make you understand?"

You know.

They don't want to hear that
on the radio.

"The White House
is the rock house,"
and all these kinds of things.

But you hear it
at the barber shop
all the time.

(RAPPING)
♪ Say turn off the radio,
Brooklyn ♪

♪ Turn off that bullshit ♪

♪ Say it
Turn off the radio ♪

♪ Come on, come on ♪
♪ Turn off that bullshit ♪

♪ What's on the radio
Propaganda, mind control ♪

♪ And turning it on is like
Putting on a blindfold ♪

♪ When you bring in the real
You don't get rotation ♪

♪ Unless you take over
the station ♪

♪ And, yeah, I know
it's part of their plans ♪

♪ To make us think
it's all about
Party and dancing ♪

♪ And, yo, it might sound good
when you spitting your rap ♪

♪ But in reality,
don't nobody live like that ♪

♪ You wanna know
what kind of nigga I am? ♪

♪ Let me tell you
about the nigga I'm not ♪

♪ I don't fuck with the cops ♪

♪ Like it gotta be hot ♪

♪ I ain't gotta love it,
even if they play it a lot ♪

♪ How many people they reach?
How they use music to teach? ♪

♪ A radio program
ain't a figure of speech ♪

♪ Don't sleep,
'cause you could be
a radio freak ♪

♪ My nigga, turn off the radio
Say it ♪

♪ Turn off that bullshit ♪

♪ Brooklyn,
turn off the radio ♪
♪ Come on, come on ♪

♪ Turn off that bullshit ♪

♪ Turn off the radio ♪

♪ Turn off that bullshit ♪

♪ Turn off the radio, say it ♪

♪ Turn off that bullshit ♪

♪ Crank up your speakers ♪

♪ Your woofers
and your tweeters ♪

♪ Turn up your receiver ♪

♪ We banging for the people ♪

♪ Crank up your speakers ♪

♪ Your woofers
and your tweeters ♪

♪ Turn up your receivers ♪

♪ We banging off the meter ♪

Or how about when they say,

"Who shot Biggie Smalls?
If we don't get them,
they gonna get us all."

"I'm up for running up
on them crackers
in their city hall."

You'll never hear that shit
on the radio.

Never in a million years
will you hear somebody
say on the radio,

"I'm up for running up on
some crackers in city hall."

And

people have stopped asking
who shot Biggie Smalls.

But if you in show business
and black, you'll wonder
about that every day.

'Cause they might
get you, too.

Biggie Smalls was
in this daycare center.

Miss Jenkins, Miss Green,

Miss Pennick
was their teachers.

And they're still here.
They've been here
for the past 30 years.

Man. So the next Biggie Smalls
might be here now.

You don't even know.
He may be.

That's it. This is what
I just finished telling you.

All right. All right.
Okay.

So out of here,
you will get the next

star. Maybe...
Maybe Biggie Smalls.

...another Biggie Smalls.

This the old daycare center
right here, man.

DAVE: You were in here, too?

No, I didn't go here,
though my little nephew
used to go here.

I used to always come here
to pick up my nephew.

One of my niggas
from Junior MAFIA,
his mom used to work in here.

Word?
You know,
just all around the way, man.

All down here.

So the whole Junior MAFIA's
from around this way?

Yeah. Yeah, everybody.
Kim, everybody.

Yeah, Kim used to live...

She lived
on the other St. James.

That's two blocks
down this way on Lafayette.

Jay-Z, he from Marcy projects.

That ain't but about
two, three blocks
on that side.

Junior MAFIA, Big, he's two
blocks back down this way,
you know what I'm saying?

So, I mean, you know,

we kind of
put it down ourselves.

You influenced
the whole world.

Yeah, yeah.
For sure, for sure.

It's just like it's a 'hood
thing, man. Like we ain't got
shit to do out here.

That's all you got to do,
is music, man.

That was something that kept
a lot of us niggas
out of trouble.

Kept motherfuckers
off the corner.

Would have been police
out there fucking with you.

You go in the crib,
you listen to some music.

That's the only thing
that kind of cleared
the nigga head.

And the money
never came between you?

No, never that. Never that.

'Cause we all
grew up together.

At the end of the day,
I ain't gotta make
another record no more,

but those will always
be my niggas,
'cause I grew up with them.

It was way bigger
than hip-hop.

Kind of like,
that was our work.

Those were my niggas
right there.
I grew up with them

since we was like this,
so nothing would ever
come between us.

You know what I'm saying?

Me, on the other hand,
I don't see
none of my old friends.

Them motherfuckers is crazy.

And if you watching this,
I mean that shit.

If you know this here, say it.

♪(PERFORMING
IT'S BIGGER THAN HIP HOP)

(RAPPING)
♪ It's bigger than hip-hop
Hip-hop, hip-hop ♪

♪ It's bigger than ♪
♪ Say it ♪

♪ What it bigger than? ♪
♪ Say it ♪

♪ What it bigger than? ♪
♪ Say it ♪

♪ What it bigger than? ♪

♪ One thing about music
When it hit,
you feel no pain ♪

♪ White folks say
it controls your brain ♪

♪ I know better than that
That's game,
and we ready for that ♪

♪ Two soldiers
head of the pack Matter
of fact, who got the gat? ♪

♪ And where my army at? ♪

♪ Rather attack
and not react ♪

♪ Back the beats,
it don't reflect
on how many records get sold ♪

♪ On sex, drugs,
and rock and roll ♪

♪ Whether your project
gets put on hold ♪

♪ In the real world
We just people with ideas ♪

♪ They just like me and you
When the smoke and camera
disappear ♪

♪ In the real world
It's bigger than all these
fake-ass records ♪

♪ When poor folks
got the millions
and my sisters get respect ♪

♪ If you check, one, two
My word of advice to you
is just relax ♪

♪ Just do what you got to do
If that don't work
then here's the facts ♪

♪ If you a fighter, rider,
biter, flame-igniter,
crowd-exciter ♪

♪ Or you wanna just get high,
then just say it ♪

♪ But then if you a liar,
liar, pants on fire Wolf-
crier, agent with a wire ♪

♪ I'm gonna know it
when I play it ♪
♪ Say it ♪

♪ What it bigger than? ♪

♪ It's bigger than hip-hop
Hip-hop, hip-hop ♪

♪ Who shot 2Pac?
If we don't get them,
they gonna get us all ♪

♪ I'm down for running up on
them crackers
In the city hall ♪

♪ We ride for y'all
All my dawgs, stay real ♪

♪ Nigga, don't think
your record deal ♪

♪ Gonna feed your seeds
and pay your bills ♪

♪ Because they're not ♪

♪ MCs get a little bit of love
And think they hot ♪

♪ Talking about
how much money they got ♪

♪ Nigga, all y'all records
sound the same ♪

♪ I sick of that fake thug,
R&B, rap scenario
All day on the radio ♪

♪ Same scenes in the video ♪

♪ Monotonous material
Y'all don't hear me, though ♪

♪ These record labels
sling our tapes like dope ♪

♪ You can be next in line
and signed ♪

♪ and still be writing rhymes
and broke ♪

♪ You rather have a Lexus
or justice?
A dream or some substance? ♪

♪ A Beemer,
a necklace or freedom? ♪

♪ See, a nigga like me
don't player-hate
I just stay awake ♪

♪ This is real hip-hop,
and it don't stop ♪

♪ Till we get them crackers
off our block ♪

♪ They call it hip-hop
Hip-hop, hip-hop ♪

♪ It's bigger than ♪

♪ What? ♪

♪ What it bigger than? ♪

♪ Hip-hop, hip-hop ♪
♪ What it bigger than? ♪

♪ What it bigger than? ♪

♪ It bigger than ♪

♪ hip-hop, hip-hop ♪

♪ D.P.'s got that crazy shit
we keep it crunked up ♪

♪ Come on, blaze this shit ♪

♪ D.P.'s got that crazy shit
We keep it crunked up ♪

Brooklyn, we love you.

Thank y'all.

Free Aaron Patterson.

DAVE: Look at that.
Look at that.
All right, all right.

Ready? This is
for Dead Prez right here.

This is especially
for Dead Prez.

Pow!

The most revolutionary shoe
known to man.
Ya basta!

Who knew that?
Ya basta.
Ya basta.

Enough is enough,
motherfuckers.

You need to get us
in a skit, Dave.

You know what I'm saying?
We can do this.

We can do this.
I'll dance all day.

How many people
in the audience can MC?

Nine hundred MCs.

Mr. T.

Bring up Mr. T.

I wanna battle you.

(IMITATING MR. T)
I pity you, fool.

I pity the fool
that tries to battle
Dave Chappelle.

Where's your time machine
parked?

He got a Mohawk, man.

Come on, man,
you weigh more than me.
God damn!

I pity the fool!

Drink the milk, B.A.

Here's the kicker.

I'm not giving you a mike.
Good luck!

You know, I'm from DC,
where y'all are from.

You from DC? For real?

You know,
we rough it off down there.

He said he's roughing off.

Does that mean that I should
wash my hands?

He's roughing off!

Vaseline!

See, roughing off
is when we take the mike.

All right, hold on.
All right! Take it easy!

You know I got security,
nigga. I'll get you yoked.

I will get you...

I'm worth too much money now,
motherfucker.

There's snipers on the roof,
all kinds of shit!

That's right, Mr. T.
I pity the fool!

I pity the fool
that fuck with me.

What's up, BK?

Yo. It's like this.

This my homie here,
he's from DC, right?

(RAPPING) ♪ Yo, son.
What's up
with that bald head? ♪

♪ I think you got to get
something new
or you'll be dead ♪

♪ Yo, Dave, I ain't gonna
do you like that ♪

♪ 'Cause I'm gonna come to you
real fat with a bat ♪

♪ Yo, I'm rapping like this
'cause I don't
really freestyle ♪

♪ I'm rapping like this
'cause I've traveled
many miles ♪

♪ "Please to meet you,"
I holler "I'll see you
at the gate" ♪

♪ After that, yeah
That shit's gonna be late ♪

Time out, everybody.

First of all, don't ever boo
a rapper on this stage.

The way that he rhymed "gate"
with "late" is genius!

And if you can't see that,
there's something wrong
with you!

Anybody can rhyme like that.

You got nice shoes.

Nigga's got blues.

New York City.

Something about big titties.
You could just do that
all day.

Bring back on that beat!

Uh!

Time out, time out, time out!

Why everybody got to go "uh"
before they freestyle? Uh!

Uh!

All right, go ahead.
Bring that beat back.
Bring that beat back!

I didn't forget about you!

(RAPPING) ♪ It's time
to go to school ♪

♪ Like Mr. T said,
"I pity the fool!" ♪

♪ That ain't platinum
it's not even silver ♪

♪ It's just a piece of shit
I told you that shit
don't rhyme ♪

What? What?

Look at that! Huh?

♪ You said "Free Tibet"
Ain't no niggas in Tibet! ♪

It's probably a free t-shirt!

My flow is too ill.

Damn, I thought
that was a real person.

That's a puppet. God damn!

This puppet had me fooled.

I was like, he's gonna
get in trouble smoking
all this weed out here.

Guy got his hand
up a Jamaican midget's ass.

Doing all...

I didn't know it was a puppet!

All right.
Oh yeah, give it up
for my man, Mr. T.

His cereal is in stores.

(SINGING) ♪ Mr. T! ♪

Can I get somebody
to beatbox for me?

I'll beatbox.
How do you want your beat?
All right.

♪(BEATBOXING)

(RAPPING) ♪ Many women tell me
my style is so different ♪

♪ It is kind of good
but let's be specific ♪

♪ I'm not the type
to be rushing ♪

♪ I'm not the type of guy
who asks
a whole lot of questions ♪

♪ Like where you going,
where you been
and can we ♪

♪ have sex all the time?
That's not important to D ♪

♪ I only date girls
who have men or relations ♪

♪ So to be with me
is like a mini vacation ♪

♪ So I don't let no girl
spend my money
like she crazy ♪

♪ Half on drinks
on the room and the baby ♪

♪ I don't argue,
I control myself ♪

♪ 'Cause I don't have
to be loud
or physical to be felt ♪

♪ 'Cause after it's all over
we realize it was nothing ♪

♪ I walk away and later
return and still be... ♪

♪ You never have to worry
that I lie ♪

♪ 'Cause I don't have to ♪

♪ 'Cause I'm
the nigga on the side ♪

That's right.

All right,
I'll see you Saturday, man.
All right!

Saturday.

2:00.

Be there or be square,
as they say.

She knew what I was going for.
You heard that, buddy?

Quincy and Downing Street.

WOMAN:
How do you spell Downing?

Downing? I don't know,
I went to public school.

D-O-W-N-N-I-G?

When you said you was
doing it over there,
I was like, "Fuck."

DAVE: You grew up over there?

My whole childhood...

Hey, that's crazy.
...was in the Stuy.

So it's a trip.
The Stuy is still, like,

the Stuy.

You know what I'm saying?

This shit has been like that

forever.

It's actually better now
than it has been.
In certain areas, anyway.

DAVE: Some of it look like

when The Cosby Show
comes back
from commercial break.

And some of it look like

when Good Times came back
from the commercial break.

But it could be

in the same block.

MOS DEF: Like, yeah,
you could be in one block,

and then you'd turn the corner
and you'd be like, "Oh, shit."

Tyrone in school?

Folks, right now
I'm sitting in the office
of none other than Luz Grice.

She is the director

of the daycare center

whose roof
we'll be shooting on Saturday.

I just wanted to say
thank you, first of all,
for letting us shoot here.

Thank you.

And thank you
for introducing me
to all the kids today.

You're quite welcome.

It's a mixed area.

Bed-Stuy, it's black,

Hispanic...

There are a few Caucasians
coming in.

You know, that's what I like
about Bed-Stuy.
You say it's a mixed area.

Blacks and Hispanics.

Blacks, Hispanics,
and a few Caucasians

coming into the neighborhood.

Do you got a limo?

Do I have a limo?
Today I have a limo.

(CHILDREN CHEERING)

Thank you. Thank you.
Can we ride in it?

If you guys could ride
in my limousine, right,

where would you want to go?

No, wait a minute!
Wait a minute!

Let's go to Alabama.

You wanna go to Alabama?

We get to see the roof?

Now we going
to the roof.
To the roof?

Yes.
The roof.

I hope you can climb stairs.

Right

over the ledge

is the actual
Block Party/concert.

All right, to my right
is Tyrone. One of the fastest
kids on the East Coast.

I'm gonna give you
a head start,
that's how confident I am.

You ready?
Yeah.

Set?

I didn't say go.

I didn't say go, Tyrone.

Come on, now, all right?

Now this time I mean it.
Are you ready?

Set.

I'm gonna give you
a head start.

Go.

Just gonna let him run
real quick.

Oh, he is fast!

Is the jump-off
jumping off?

Who wants to go next?
Ready?

Yeah, I'm ready.

All right, come on, y'all.
Let's keep the show going.

DAVE: All right, everybody.

I don't know what to say.

Ya'll just gonna have to
go crazy now.

Just make some noise.

Hey! I smell reefer!

I'm calling the police!

All right, everybody.
Make some noise.

Show your love.

Erykah Badu.

♪(PERFORMING BACK IN THE DAY)

(SINGING)
♪ Back in the day now ♪

♪ Back in the day
when things were cool ♪

♪ Hey ♪

♪ All we needed was bop-bop
bop-bop, bop-ba-dop ♪

♪ Hey ♪

♪ Bop-bop, bop-bop,
bop-ba-dop ♪

Wait.

♪ Well, well, well
Sing ♪

♪ Back in the day
when things were cool ♪

♪ Back in the day ♪

♪ All we needed was ♪
♪ Bop-bop, bop-bop,
bop-ba-dop ♪

♪ Hey ♪

♪ Oh, well, well, well ♪

♪ Look, gotta say ♪

♪ Soul flower
take me flying with you ♪

♪ Hey, child ♪

♪ Just give me that
bop-bop, bop-bop,
bop-ba-dop ♪

Let me just say, just because
you guys are younger than me,

don't think for a second
I'm gonna take it easy on you.

I play to win.
Yeah, you can't win.

I'm putting some money
on the table.

I'm just kidding.
Gambling is wrong, kids.

James, watch this.

♪(SINGING)

We gonna go back, all right?

Say good morning.

KIDS: Good morning!

Good morning, kids.

Say, "Good morning,
Mr. Chappelle."

Good morning, Mr. Chappelle.

Thanks. Can you say,
"Good morning,
Mr. Black Bush?"

KIDS: Good morning,
Mr. Black Bush.

I love kids. Thank you.

♪ The laughing, the singing
The jamming, the talking ♪

♪ And pumping the trunk
With the windows rolled up ♪

♪ Puff ♪

♪ Hours ago ♪

♪ Then we could ride
around the park
till it's after dark ♪

♪ And when we get home
hope the dog don't bark ♪

♪ Puff ♪

DAVE: It's always more
interesting to look at
the person behind the image.

Everyone's got a difference
between their personal life
and their public life.

You kind of have to.
Not every part of you
can be for sale, right?

But this is something
where I just wanted
to get a feeling of,

like, that third dimension.

Something just a little bit
beyond that superficial image.

Just meet the people
beyond the gold
or whatever it is

that their image is.

That, you know,

you hear someone like
Erykah Badu's music and you
get the idea she's so serious,

but she's a hilarious person.
You'd never know this.

So hopefully we hang out here
for 12 hours together,

we perform together,
or we talk together,

maybe we get to see
a little bit more
about what we're all about.

DAVE: Hey, look at Erykah!

JILL SCOTT:
Go ahead, girl.

I really love
that woman.

We all have our own thing.
That's the magic.

That everybody comes with
their own sense of strength
and their own queendom.

Mine could never compare
to hers, and hers could never
compare to mine.

♪(PERFORMING LOVE OF MY LIFE)

(SINGING) ♪ Love of my life ♪

♪ You are my friend ♪

♪ Love of my life ♪

♪ I can depend ♪

♪ Love of my life ♪

♪ Without you, baby ♪

♪ Feels like a
simple true love, yeah ♪

♪ But the shit didn't clear ♪

(RAPPING)
♪ Y'all know how I met her ♪

♪ We broke up
and got back together ♪

♪ To get her back
I had to sweat her ♪

♪ Thought she'd roll
with bad boys forever ♪

♪ In many ways
them boys made her better ♪

♪ To grow I had to let her ♪
♪ Let her ♪

♪ She needed cheddar
and I understood that ♪

♪ Looking at cheese
that don't make her
a 'hood rat ♪

♪ In fact she's a queen to me
Her light beams on me ♪

♪ I love it
when she sings to me
It's like ♪

(SINGING) ♪ Ooh, you know
you rock my world ♪

♪ And you be boy ♪

CROWD: ♪ And I'll be girl ♪

♪ And it don't stop ♪

♪ Until the break of dawn ♪

♪ Sing it, y'all,
come on ♪

♪ It don't, it don't
It don't, it don't ♪

She jumped off
into the crowd's arms.

That was exciting.

(RAPPING) ♪ Yes, yes, y'all
And you don't stop ♪

♪ We like to rock to the beat
And you don't stop ♪

♪ Kool Herc in the house
And you don't stop ♪

JILL SCOTT:
That chick right there
has definitely led the way

for me
and a lot of other sisters.

You know, I appreciate it.

MICHEL GONDRY: Are you nervous
you're gonna perform
after her?

I'm trying to get
your feelings out.

Have you ever
seen me perform?

I am the lady, Jill Scott.

I am a poet and a singer

and a lot of other things.

And this is my pimple,
Herbert.

He arrived today
and he decided to stay.

So we'll see
his performance tomorrow.

They're fixing me.

Now I can't see him.

He said,
"Can I see your pimple?" No.

♪(PERFORMING THE WAY)

(SINGING)
♪ Woke up this morning ♪

♪ With a smile on my face ♪

♪ Jumped out of bed ♪

♪ Took a shower ♪

♪ And I cleaned up my place ♪

♪ Made me some breakfast ♪

♪ I had some toast
and two scrambled eggs ♪

♪ Grabbed my keys
Grabbed my purse ♪

♪ Grabbed my jacket
Off to work ♪

♪ Beaming all the way ♪

♪ You love me, baby ♪

♪ You love me, baby ♪
♪ You love me, baby ♪

♪ Is it the way ♪

♪ You love me, baby ♪

I know.

Jill Scott. I love her.

I've seen Mos Def.

Oh, my gosh, I'm so excited!

Oh, it's wonderful.

It's great being out here
in New York for my first time.

I feel kind of like
I'm at home.
Yeah.

Seeing all these people
out here with locks,
it's comfortable.

You know,
it's nice, though.

See, you can't come
to Brooklyn
without coming to the rooftop.

This is New York
when you're on the rooftop.

Every time you show a movie,
it always show somebody
on the rooftop.

This is it.

So we here doing it.

On a rooftop.

The barbeque...
You should see
the lovely women.

QUESTLOVE: All of us have...
What we have in common

is that our audience
doesn't look like us.

And it's the same for him.

Because of whatever vehicle
that he's working at the time,

it attracts
a certain demographic.

And I guess around the time
when the thing
that was out for him

was, you know, like people
knowing about Half Baked.

And it was like post-9/11.

So, pretty much like...

The audience was
full of, like,

these wild frat boys, like,
you know, like,

that just wanted him
to do his character.

'Cause he was telling stories,
they would always
interrupt his narrative.

But tell them what I said,

that's when
the sniper was out,
what did I say?

I said
the sniper was black.
Oh. We, we...

Yeah...
Did I not say that?

Yeah. He predicted
that the DC Sniper...

Was black.
...was black.

'Cause he was taking
weekends off.

What kind of white sniper's
gonna do some shit like that?

A white sniper's
up early, killing.

♪(PERFORMING BOOM)

(RAPPING) ♪ Party people
gather round ♪

♪ What we have here
is a brand new sound ♪

♪ Reach for my waist
Y'all hit the ground ♪

♪ You better duck
when I start
spitting the rounds ♪

♪ It goes, boom, boom, boom ♪

♪ Yeah,
that's what's happening
in the parking lot ♪

♪ Check it out, y'all ♪

♪ That's what's happening
on stage ♪

♪ Hold your flix,
I'm not for the photo ops ♪

♪ It's Black,
code name Yaphet Kotto ock ♪

What's good? Black Thought
from the Roots crew,
holding it down.

Frank Knuckles of the Roots.
One love.

I'm Kamal from the Roots
and I'm an alcoholic.

Ahmir Thompson.
I'm the official photographer
of this event.

My name is Kirk,
AKA Captain Kirk.

AKA Roscoe, AKA Tracy Chapman.

I play guitar
with the Roots crew.

What's happening?
Martin Luther,
Rebel Soul Music.

(RAPPING) ♪ Party people... ♪

This is H-U-B, Hub,
Leonard Hubbard on the bass,
representing the Roots Crew

and keeping black music alive.

BIG DADDY KANE: What's up?
Big Daddy Kane. Just here
to show love, you know.

I'm glad to be a part
of this, you know.

Big ups to the Roots.
Big up to Dave, for, you know,
showing a brother love.

(RAPPING) ♪ The man at hand
that rule the school ♪

♪ And teach
and reach the blind
and find a way from A to Z ♪

♪ And be the most
to boast I'm loud and proud ♪

♪ The game to reign
You remain guilty ♪

♪ The heat is on
so feel the fire
come off the empire ♪

♪ all the more higher
level of depth
one step beyond dope ♪

♪ To suckers all smoke
and hope to cope with notes ♪

♪ 'Cause I could never
let them on top of me ♪

♪ I play them out
like a game of Monopoly ♪

♪ Let it speed
around the board
like an astro ♪

♪ And send them to jail
for trying to pass go ♪

♪ Shaking them up,
breaking them up,
taking no stuff ♪

♪ But it still ain't
loud enough So Questlove
let the fire grow ♪

♪ Everybody in the house
say, "Ho!" ♪

♪ Party people gather round
What we have here
is a brand new sound ♪

♪ Reach for my waist
y'all hit the ground ♪

♪ You better duck
when I start
spitting the rounds ♪

♪ and going,
"Boom, boom, boom, boom" ♪

♪ That's what's happening
in the parking lot ♪

♪ Y'all are not ready for it ♪

Yo, check it.

♪ I'm live,
design a finer rhyme
that's right on time ♪

♪ One step beyond
and not behind the line ♪

♪ That separates thought
from divine ♪

♪ You can take it as a caution
or a warning sign ♪

♪ Antonyms, words,
I'm blending them ♪

♪ Homonyms, synonyms
good like M&Ms ♪

♪ With Polo,
and while I'm slicing ♪

♪ I turn a mike's last name
into Tyson ♪

♪ My brain like a factory
constantly creating ♪

♪ Materials stitch by stitch
for decoration ♪

♪ My lyrics are fabric,
beat is a lining ♪

♪ My passion of rhyming
is fashion designing ♪

♪ Now it gets ordered 'cause
people wanna sport it,
you bought it ♪

♪ If you didn't
then you couldn't afford it ♪

♪ Poetry full of surprises
It's like a game show ♪

♪ And my brain go...
I do my thing, yo ♪

♪ Party people gather round
What we have here
is a brand new sound ♪

♪ Reach for my waist
Y'all hitting the ground ♪

♪ You better duck
when I start
spitting the rounds ♪

♪ I go, "Boom, boom, boom" ♪

♪ What's happening
in the parking lot ♪

♪ Check it out, y'all ♪

♪ That's what's happening
on stage ♪

(WHOOPING)

Yes, they deserved to die,
and I hope they burn in hell!

All right, band, you ready?
Yes!

Hit me, hit me.
Hit me two times.

♪(BAND RESPONDING)

That's not how
James Brown did it.

His shits was crisp, decisive.

I said, "Hit me."
Y'all was like...

(MOCKING BAND)

I got to get that
James Brown shit.
Hit me two times.

♪(BAND RESPONDING)
That's better, motherfuckers.
Three times.

That's right.
Two from both nuts.

♪(BAND RESPONDING)

That's right.

Ain't nothing like
a James Brown hit
to set the mood. Hit me.

♪(BAND RESPONDING)
See? Hit me again.

That's right. Hit me.

♪(BAND RESPONDING)
See?

If you could do that
in real life,
you'd be powerful.

If I could walk
into the meeting,

"I want more money,
motherfuckers." Hit me.

♪(BAND RESPONDING)

(CROWD LAUGHING)

Just might get it.

"Excuse me, baby,
would you like to dance?"

"I ain't dancing with you."
"Well, fuck you, bitch.
Hit me."

♪(BAND RESPONDING)

(CROWD CHEERING)

Hit me again.

♪(BAND RESPONDING)

All right, just checking
to make sure you... Hit me.

♪(BAND RESPONDING)
Watching, that's all. Hit me.

(SHOUTING)

♪(BAND RESPONDING)
Hit me!

They're good. What can I say?
They're professionals.

♪(BAND RESPONDING)
Hit me!

♪(BAND RESPONDING)
See, I can't shake them...
Hit me! Shit.

Life is deep. You know,
the other day... Hit me!

Damn! These motherfuckers
are good.
You see what I'm saying?

I'm telling you,
the crowd's not gonna know
what hit them.

You see, what I'm saying
is that the crowd's
not gonna...

See, y'all motherfuckers
don't even know what hit you.

MOS DEF: All you got is the
mother jokes. You in Bed-Stuy.
Got the mother jokes.

There you go. There you go.

All right. Your fucking...
Your short-ass mother,
motherfucker.

I seen your mother's picture.
You could see her feet on
the driver's license picture.

How about that? Hit me.

Boom, in your face,
motherfuckers,
'cause I got a band, too.

I got a band, too.

Oh, yeah.
Then we'll tear them up.

We'll tear them up.

You see, your mother's
got an eye here,
here, here and here.

When someone knock
on the door, she looks
in the peephole and say,

"Who is it?" Hit me!

That's right,
your ugly-ass mother.

I'll be going on
like this all day long.

That's right.

Your mother got three titties.
One for milk, one for water
and other one's out of order.

Hit me.

You see, it's not even
that funny, but with the hit,

it just pushes it
over the top.

Nobody has three titties.
That's ridiculous.

One more hit.

Two times.

Three times.

BLACK THOUGHT: I think we're
gonna have some fun with
this one right here.

♪(PERFORMING YOU GOT ME)

(SINGING) ♪ When I use my mind
I win the race ♪

♪ I am the moon
and the rising sun ♪

♪ My new shit has just begun ♪

♪ I can take you higher ♪

♪ I can take you low ♪

♪ If you were worried
about where ♪

♪ I been or who I saw ♪

♪ Or what club I went to
with my homies ♪

♪ Baby, don't worry ♪

Yeah.

♪ Don't worry, don't worry ♪

♪ You know ♪

(RAPPING) ♪ That snake could
be that chick and that rat
could be that cool cat ♪

♪ That's whispering
"She trying to play you
for a fool, Black" ♪

♪ If something's on your chest
then let it be known ♪

♪ See I'm not
every five minutes
all on the phone ♪

♪ And on the topic of trust
It's just a matter of fact ♪

♪ That people be biting
that shit trying to fracture
what's intact ♪

♪ And they'll forever be ♪

♪ I ain't on some
"Oh, I'm a celebrity" ♪

♪ I deal with the real
And if it's artificial,
let it be ♪

♪ I seen people caught in love
like whirlwinds ♪

♪ Listening to their squabbles
and fucking
their girlfriends ♪

♪ That's exactly the spot
they whole world ends ♪

♪ Lies come in,
that's where
the drama begins ♪

(SINGING) ♪ If you were
worried about where
I went or who I saw or ♪

♪ What club I went to
with my homies, baby ♪

♪ Yeah. ♪

♪ Shout out, y'all ♪

♪ If you were worried
about where ♪

♪ If you were worried
about where ♪

♪ I went or who I saw or ♪
♪ I went or who I saw or ♪

♪ What club I went to
with my homies
Baby, don't worry ♪

♪ If you were worried ♪

♪ About where I been ♪

♪ Baby, don't worry,
don't worry ♪

♪ I take you everywhere ♪

♪ You know it yet ♪

♪ When I am faithful
to you all ♪

♪ If you were worried
about where ♪
♪ Don't worry ♪

♪ I went or who I saw ♪
♪ About where I been ♪

♪ What club I went to
with my homies ♪

♪ Baby, don't worry
You know that you got me ♪

♪ If you were worried
about where
I been or who I saw ♪

♪ You know got me ♪
♪ What club I went to
with my homies ♪

♪ Baby, don't worry ♪
♪ You know that you got me ♪

♪ Don't worry about me ♪

Say what?

BLACK THOUGHT: Roots crew
up in the place, y'all.

(SINGING)
♪ Be-bop, be-dop, yeah ♪

Brooklyn!

Wah-do-dem,
give it just a little bit.

Go, come on.

Jill Scott, Erykah Badu.

The legendary Roots crew
from Philly,
ladies and gentlemen.

Brooklyn!

The party ain't over.

The party is not over.

QUESTLOVE: The Roots
used to hold jam sessions

at this club called Wetlands
in New York City
every Sunday night.

So, a lot of the times,
we were...
The Roots were the house band.

And Jill would get up
and do something.

Then Talib would be there,
he'd do something.

Then Common would be there
and he'd do something.

And Erykah would be there
and do something.

And Mos would get up,
the same thing, you know.

So, it's not even surprising

that these are
the particular artists
that are chosen.

You know, like, all of us
were interacting
with each other,

even before
we all had record contracts.

(SINGING)
♪ Take my paw, Jill ♪
(SINGING) ♪ Write this down ♪

♪ No ♪
♪ I'm not gonna say it
right now ♪

♪ Tomorrow may never come ♪

(SINGING) ♪ For you or me,
life is not promised ♪

♪ Tomorrow may never show up ♪

♪ For you or me,
this life is not promised ♪

♪ Yeah ♪

♪(PERFORMING UMI SAYS)

♪ I ain't no perfect man
I'm trying to do
the best that I can ♪

♪ with what it is I have ♪

(VOICEOVER) My name is Dante.

Some people call me Mos Def.
Some people call me
other things.

(SINGING) ♪ With this mike
in my hand ♪

♪ Even though
it's feeding back and shit
I'm still gonna come legit ♪

♪ Put my heart and soul
into it, y'all ♪

♪ Bed-Stuy, do you feel me? ♪

♪ From where I am
to wherever you are ♪

♪ I mean it, I mean it,
I mean it ♪

♪ You better hold
this very moment
very close to you ♪

♪ 8:00 in the p.m.,
September 18, 2004,
happy birthday ♪

♪ So close to you ♪

♪ Don't be afraid ♪

♪ Brooklyn,
let it shine, sing ♪

♪ My Umi said shine your light
on the world ♪

♪ What'd she say? ♪

CROWD: ♪ Shine your light
on the world ♪

♪ That's what she said,
my Umi said shine your light
on the world ♪

♪ What'd she say? ♪
♪ Shine your light
for the world to see ♪

♪ Break it down ♪

♪ I put my heart and soul
into this show ♪

♪ Brooklyn, do you feel me? ♪

♪ Sometimes I don't want
to be bothered ♪

♪ Sometimes I just want
a quiet life ♪

♪ Me and my babies
Me and my lady ♪

♪ Sometimes I don't want
to get into no war ♪

♪ Sometimes I don't wanna
be a soldier ♪

♪ Sometimes
I just wanna be Dante ♪

♪ But Umi said
shine your light
on the world ♪

♪ Shine your light
for the world to see ♪

♪ My Umi said shine your light
on the world ♪

♪ Shine it right
on the world ♪

♪ I want my people
to be free ♪

That's Fred Hampton Jr.
That's Fred Hampton.

Fred Hampton Jr.?
What's up, baby?

Fred Hampton Jr.,
the gentleman
that was on camera

not long ago

is a good friend of mine,
comrade, and he's an excellent
gentleman.

He's the son of Fred Hampton,

who was a young
18-, 19-year-old Black Panther
in Chicago,

working with people
in the communities,
in the streets

and the police came
and killed him in his bed

with his woman,

and his newborn...
His yet-to-be-born son
in his woman's belly.

Which is Chairman Fred
over here.

Free all political prisoners.
Don't edit that.

Don't cut that.
Make sure you put that
on there.

Free all political prisoners.

Make sure that on there.
Don't edit. Don't cut it.

In the raw, no mix, no segue.

Free Mumia Abu-Jamal,
Sundiata Acoli
and all political prisoners.

Free the New York Three.
Don't edit that. Make sure
they go there. Uncut.

Tell it, Fred Hampton.

Right on. Right on.
Heads up, eyes open
and fists clenched.

Heads up, eyes open
and fists clenched.

Heads up, eyes open,
fists clenched.

Look here, right on.
Say, "Power to the people."

MOS DEF: Power to the people.

Right on. We sense a lot
of talk going around
about terrorism.

We say black people
are the O.V.s, the original
victims of terrorism.

We say political prisoners
are victims of terrorism.

We say our position is
"Free them all."

We say,
those soldiers in Attica,
free them all.

What's the call?
Free them all.

Mumia Abu-Jamal.
Free them all.

Sundiata Acoli.
Free them all.

Ruchell Cinque Magee!
Free them all.

The New York Three.
Free them all.

Man, we say,
free all political prisoners
and prisoners of war.

Power to the people.
Free them all.

(SINGING)
♪ To be free, to be free
To be free, to be free ♪

♪ To be free, to be free
To be free, to be free ♪

♪ To be free ♪

♪ To be free ♪

♪ Break it down ♪

♪ To be free, to be free ♪

All right, listen.

We're going to settle this
racial shit right now.

We're playing these
white people for our freedom.

"Can Dave Chappelle ball?"

No, I can't ball,
motherfucker.
What do you mean, can I ball?

Y'all missed it.

You was reloading the camera,
I was all the way
on the other court.

Tell them what I did.
They'll never believe me.

All right , here I am.
Okay, look. This is me.

I'm all the way back,
I dribble,
get my confidence, aim, fire.

TALIB KWELI: ♪ What's up? ♪

Oh, shit!

♪(PERFORMING GET BY)

(RAPPING)
♪ We go through episodes like
Attack of the Clones ♪

♪ Work till we break our back
and you hear the crack
of the bone ♪

♪ To get by, just to get by
Just to get by,
just to get by ♪

♪ We asking why some people
got to live in a trailer ♪

♪ 'Cause like a sailor
I paint a picture
with the pen like Norman ♪

♪ Mi abuela raised
three daughters
all by herself, with no help ♪

♪ I think about her struggle
and I find the strength
in myself ♪

♪ These words melt in my mouth
They hot like the jail cell
in the South ♪

♪ Before my nigga Core ♪
♪ Bailed me out ♪

♪ To get by, just to get by
Just to get by,
just to get by ♪

♪ We do or die like Bed-Stuy
through the red sky ♪

♪ Out the window
of the red eye ♪

♪ Let the lead fly
on some G Rap shit ♪

♪ This morning I woke up ♪

♪ Feeling brand new
and I jumped up ♪

♪ Feeling my highs,
and my lows ♪

♪ In my soul, and my goals ♪

♪ And tried to stop smoking
and stop drinking ♪

♪ And I've been thinking
I've got my reasons ♪

♪ Just to get by,
just to get by Just to get by,
just to get by ♪

♪ Just to get by,
just to get by ♪

♪ Tell them, Kweli ♪

♪ We keep it gangster,
say "for shizzle," "for
sheezy" and "staying crunk" ♪

♪ It's easy to pull a breezy,
smoke trees,
and we stay drunk ♪

♪ Yo, our activism
attacking the system, ♪

♪ the blacks and Latins
in prison ♪

♪ Numbers have risen
They reach us
like inner vision ♪

♪ Shit and all they got
is rapping to listen to ♪

♪ Let them know we missing you
Love is unconditional ♪

♪ Even when the condition
is critical
When the living is miserable ♪

♪ Your position is pivotal,
I ain't bullshitting you ♪

♪ Now, why would I lie? ♪

♪ Try to get by,
just to get by ♪

♪ We can't fly
See, the TV got us
reaching for stars ♪

♪ Not the ones
between Venus and Mars, ♪

♪ the ones that be
reading for parts ♪

♪ People get
breast enhancements
and penis enlargements ♪

♪ Saturday sinners
Sunday morning
at the feet of the Father ♪

♪ They need something
to rely on We get high
on all types of drug ♪

♪ All you really need
is love to get by ♪

♪ Just to get by,
just to get by Just to get by,
just to get by ♪

♪ Like John Lennon
"Imagine all the people" ♪

♪ Watch me rock
like Paul McCartney ♪

♪ from now
until the last Beatle drop ♪

♪ This morning I woke up ♪

♪ Feeling brand new
and jumped up ♪

♪ Feeling my highs
and my lows ♪

♪ In my soul and my goals ♪

♪ Just to stop smoking,
stop drinking ♪

♪ But I've been thinking
I've got my reasons ♪

♪ Just to get by,
just to get by Just to get by,
just to get by ♪

One more time!

♪ Some people cry
Some people try ♪

♪ Just to get by,
for a piece of the pie ♪

♪ We love to eat
and get high ♪

♪ We deceive and we lie,
and we keeping it fly ♪

♪ When people decide
to keep a disguise ♪

♪ You can't see them
We see the evil inside ♪

♪ The best people you find ♪

♪ Strong or feeble in mind
I stay reading the signs ♪

♪ Yo, yo, yo, yo, I get by ♪

♪ Just to get by ♪

I love y'all, Brooklyn.
I love y'all. Word up.

Talib Kweli, Brooklyn,
New York City.

MOS DEF: Black Star Embassy
is in the building.

Brooklyn, do you feel
good tonight?

I know I do.

MICHEL GONDRY: What do you
think of rock music
and hip-hop?

Well, personally,
I am for classical music.

I play the piano.
I want to play.

And I wish to marry,
when I die,
Sergei Rachmaninoff.

I am terribly in love
with him.

Thank you.
Over my dead body.

Well, it would have to be,
wouldn't it?

I guess so, Arthur.
That's very normal.

You know,
I don't like rap music.

Because rap music composes
a lot of foul language,

and I don't think
it's proper for children.

I don't even think
it's proper for adults either

to be using that type
of language.

Hey, Mos.
Hey, Dave.

You know, I was in the public
restroom the other day...
It's a long story.

This guy was peeing
in the urinal next to me,

I didn't look or nothing,
but I couldn't help
but notice.

His dick was so small...

How small was it, Dave?

He peed on his balls.

All day, babe.
We could do this all day long.

All day long.

All right. One more.

This is as dirty
as it's gonna get.
All the kids, plug your ears.

Ready? Here we go.

Hey, Mos.
Hey, Dave.

Did I ever tell you the one
about the industrious
prostitute?

No, I don't believe
you did.

Well, it's a funny story.

She actually had a vagina
surgically implanted
in her hip.

Oh, my God.
Yeah.

So she could make some money
on the side.

Oh, it goes on like this
for days and days and days.

We just tell straight jokes.
That's it, we'll kill them.

All right, everybody,
listen up.

Listen up, there's been
some technical difficulties.

Listen, I'm gonna tell you
what happened.

As you all know,

we were expecting to have
Lauryn Hill close the show.

Unfortunately,

Columbia Records
would not clear
any of her songs.

Lucky for us,

Lauryn Hill came up
with an alternative solution.

Ladies and gentlemen,
make some noise for a miracle.

The Fugees.

(RAPPING) ♪ Yeah, yeah, yeah ♪

♪ Black Star Jack Bush ♪

♪ Put your hands up,
get your hands up ♪

♪ One, two, three,
put your hands up ♪

♪ Get your hands up,
get your hands up ♪

♪ Get your hands up ♪

Hold on, hold on,
hold on, hold on.

♪(PERFORMING NAPPY HEADS)

(SINGING) ♪ Yo, Mona Lisa ♪

♪ Can I get a date on Friday
And if you're busy ♪

♪ I wouldn't mind
taking Saturday ♪

♪ Round up the posse
Fugee comin' around the way ♪

♪ Nappy heads in the zone
And we ain't going home ♪

Put your hands in the air
right now.

I've been waiting
for this shit!

(RAPPING)
♪ Yo! A cheeba cheeba, y'all
Well I'm a Libra, y'all ♪

♪ Yes, yes, y'all,
and it don't stop ♪

♪ A cheeba cheeba y'all,
well I'm a Libra y'all ♪

♪ Yes, yes, y'all, let's ♪
♪ Yo ♪

♪ You wanna battle swing
I bring commanding men
like I was king ♪

♪ In all your dreams
I write the horror flick
of Stephen King ♪

♪ Cling to false also
those papers say ock ♪

♪ I got tired of the fat lady
So I sing to my own opera ♪

♪ Ba-lang-balang-balang
-to-de-man-de-rock
'cause I love thee ♪

♪ If you live by the sword
you will be die by the gun ♪

♪ 'Cause all guys tell lies
and poor girls commit sin ♪

♪ I was ordered the code red
but now I'm chillin'
with A Few Good Men ♪

♪ Assassination on the kid
from the capital ♪

♪ I never played a soap opera
Now I'm in General Hospital ♪

♪ Condition critical
Spirit overrules
the physical ♪

♪ So if I die,
catch me at the funeral ♪

♪ I'll fly away, oh glory
With a mike in my hand ♪

♪ To a land where only
And the angels write raps
on holy paper ♪

♪ I said I'm lookin' for Jesus
He said take the escalator ♪

♪ One flight up
is guaranteed ♪
♪ I'll be there ♪

♪ My sister'd be there
I want to see everybody
like this ♪

LAURYN HILL:
♪ Yo, Mona Lisa ♪

Stop, Brooklyn!

Yo!

WYCLEF: Ladies and gentlemen,
Lauryn Hill!

(RAPPING)
♪ Yo, I don't puff blunts
so I always got my breath ♪

♪ Never had to battle
with a bulletproof vest ♪

♪ They call me cock-weasel
but I still cave a chest ♪

♪ I don't wear Jheri curls
'cause I'm not from the West ♪

♪ No disrespect to the West,
true indeed ♪

♪ I rock it to the East,
the East is the seed, yo ♪

♪ To see that them days back
Yo, sheepskins
and Hot Tracks ♪

♪ Peace to Mr. Magic
Things are getting tragic ♪

♪ Now we on some new stuff ♪

♪ Ku Klux, whatcha gonna do ♪

♪ Kids are actin' oh ♪

Yeah, put your hands up.
Lauryn Hill's in the building.

♪ Hey, hey, hey,
hey, hey, hey ♪

Praswell,
where you at? Come on.

(RAPPING) ♪ Hey, yo,
a battle is a battle
but a battle's not a battle ♪

♪ If it's...
If your snake doesn't rattle ♪

♪ 'Cause my style,
it's old as a reptile ♪

♪ As new as a new Nile
As new as a new child ♪

♪ Come follow me
to the land of Abraham ♪

♪ This land's your land,
this land's my land ♪

♪ The blacker the black man
The better the next man ♪

♪ Yo, some nappy heads
need to check they necks
for red ♪

PRAS: Brother, let me
ask you something.

When you got the word

that the Fugees
is coming back together to...

DAVE: I didn't believe it.

I didn't believe it 'cause...
You know, what happened is,
I got a call.

Yo, I said, "Fugee what?"

I said, "Who is this?"

Then I got a call from Clef.

And you know,

I still don't know
the science on it.

I mean, you know,
both of us,
speaking for both of us,

yo, it's like, when we
see Lauryn, you know what
I'm saying?

It's like, we just,
like, speechless,
you know what I mean?

Yeah. 'Cause she was singing

Killing Me Softly last night.

She was like...
We was just like,

"God damn, she's a beast."

Like, I'm a fan. I mean, yeah,
you know, me and Clef went
through our little bullshit.

Well, people go through that.
You know what I'm saying?

But I think, like they say,
to err is human,
but to forgive is divine.

You know
what I'm saying? So...

We just came together.

'Cause I'm a fan
of both Clef and Lauryn.

Even though I'm
a part of the group,
I'm a fan of them,

and when she started singing
Killing Me Softly,

I almost wanted to cry.

♪(PERFORMING
KILLING ME SOFTLY
WITH HIS SONG)

(SINGING) ♪ Strumming my pain
with his fingers ♪

♪ Singing my life ♪

♪ With his words ♪

♪ Killing me softly
with his song ♪

♪ Killing me softly ♪

♪ with his song ♪

♪ Telling my whole life ♪

♪ with his words ♪

♪ Killing me softly ♪

WOMAN: Lauryn!

♪ ...with his song ♪

♪ I heard he sang
a good song, yes ♪

♪ And I heard
that he had a style ♪

♪ And so I came to see him ♪

♪ And listen for a while ♪

♪ And there he was ♪

♪ This young boy ♪

♪ singing ♪

♪ straight and strong ♪

♪ Strumming my pain
with his fingers ♪

♪ Singing my life
with his words ♪

♪ He was killing me softly
with his song ♪

♪ Killing me softly ♪

♪ with his song ♪

♪ Telling my whole life ♪

♪ with his words ♪

♪ Killing me softly ♪

♪ with his song ♪

♪ Yo! ♪

♪ What, what? ♪

♪ I heard he had a style ♪

♪ Come on ♪

♪ And so I came to see him ♪

♪ And listen for a while ♪
♪ Yeah, yeah, yeah ♪

♪ And there he was,
this young boy ♪

♪ Yeah, yeah, yeah ♪

♪ A stranger to my eyes ♪
♪ Check it ♪

♪ Strumming my pain
with his fingers ♪

♪ One time ♪

♪ Singing my life
with his words ♪

♪ Two time ♪
♪ Yeah, yeah ♪

♪ Killing me softly
with his song ♪

♪ Killing me softly ♪

♪ with his song ♪

♪ Telling my whole life ♪
♪ Yeah, yeah ♪

♪ with his words ♪

♪ Killing me softly ♪
♪ Yeah, yo ♪

♪ Softly with his song ♪

PRAS: ♪ Yo, L-Boogie,
take it to the bridge ♪

♪ Yeah, yeah ♪

♪ Sing it
Oh, yeah ♪

Where y'all been?

What'd you...
You said, where I've been?

You see,
that's where I've been.

See, that's where I've been.

Yeah.
You see where I've been?

Yeah, the first day
that we rehearsed, it was...

You know, it was familiar.

You could feel why...
You know.

Why we had made music together
in the first place.

'Cause there was a certain
synergy at the time.

You know, I was... I came from
the straight-up suburbs,

you know,
of South Orange, New Jersey.
You know, I went to,

you know, a school that was
probably like 75 percent...

PRAS: White.
...white, middle-class,
Jewish, you know.

And from,

you know, hardworking parents.
And I went to school

and met Pras first,
who had known my brother.

And he introduced me
to Wyclef.

I remember the first
studio sessions.

I guess Pras was paying
for some place, this other
studio at East Orange.

And I walked in,

and we were
recording the song,
and then Wyclef shows up.

And that was like, you know,
much earlier times.

So he had on
this big, velvet crown,
you know.

This is around the time...
Remember when everything
was Batman?

Big Batman buttons.
Y'all didn't do that
down south?

Okay, well,
a few people did that. Okay.

But he had on these
patent leather boots

with these big

police badge things
on the boots,

with his pants tucked in,
with a velvet hat.

And he came in
and he started...

He started doing like,
some real like
Jamaican-type patois.

So for like
the first five years
that I knew them,

I had no idea
they were Haitian.

You know, I thought t
hey were Jamaican.
'Cause they just, you know...

You know, they talk like that.

What would you do
if you was president?

If I was president,
I would stop the war.

I would provide, like,
a whole lot more people

with job opportunities.

I would give everybody
in this band that need it
scholarships.

I would...
Amen.

All right.

BOY: Right there!
Scholarships!

Yo, what would you do
if you was president, thug?

I'd give, like, everybody,
like, more scholarships

that who needed them.

She said scholarships
already, man.

Don't be biting
what she said.
Financial aid.
For who needs it.

What was that word,
"financial aid"?
Yeah.

'Cause my dude Matlock
had to go back,

and I wish he was still here.

WYCLEF: That's what it is.
So we're gonna do this song
right here.

♪(PERFORMING PRESIDENT)

(SINGING)
♪ If I was president ♪

♪ I'd get elected on Friday ♪

♪ Assassinated on Saturday ♪

♪ Buried on Sunday ♪

♪ Then go back to work
on Monday ♪

♪ If I was president ♪

♪ If I was president ♪

♪ If I was president
Yeah, yeah ♪

♪ Instead of spending
billions on the war ♪

♪ We can use that money ♪

♪ So we can feed the poor ♪

♪ 'Cause I know someone
in Flatbush ♪

♪ When it rains,
that's when they shower ♪

♪ Screaming
"fight the power" ♪

♪ That's when
the vulture devours ♪

♪ If I was president ♪

♪ I'd get elected on Friday ♪

♪ Assassinated on Saturday ♪

♪ Buried on Sunday ♪

♪ Then go back to work
on Monday ♪

♪ If I was president ♪

♪ If I was president ♪

♪ If I was president ♪

Boom!

It's good to see all these
black people in college.
You know what I'm saying?

And listen, man,
I'm gonna tell y'all
like this.

Don't blame the white man
for nothing. Get yours,
you understand?

I came to this country,
I ain't know how
to speak English.

I made something of myself.
I went to the library.

English is like my third
language. I just learned how
to speak English.

So the thing about all
of that, "Yo, the white man
responsible for that"...

White man
ain't responsible for shit.

They got libraries
in the 'hood.

And if they don't got
libraries, tell your mayor,

your governor, whoever,
in your county,

to put some motherfucking
libraries in the 'hood.

I know what the camera's
saying. I shouldn't be cursing
to you kids,

but this shit is all over
the Internet anyway.

DAVE: Holy shit!

Excuse my language.

Man, listen.

There's nothing we can't do.

Let's all go from here, man,
and try to do some good.

God bless you all.
Thank you
for letting me come here.

Thank you, all the artists,
for being here.

We shook up the world.

We shook up the world!

Good night. God bless you.

You know what? I'm gonna
tell you right now,
I'll never forget this.

This is the best single day
of my career.

I'm proud. I'm so happy.
Thank you.

Thank you for sharing it
with me, ma'am.

Hey, my pleasure.

Thank you
for letting us be here.

My pleasure.

Come back.
Oh, I'll be back, Luz.

You haven't seen
the last of me.

I don't want to see...

(LAUGHING EVILLY)

♪(PERFORMING PARTING WAYS)

(SINGING) ♪ Though we are
parting ways, remember this ♪

♪ We shall come around ♪

♪ To touch eyes again ♪

♪ Love is the foundation ♪

♪ The purpose be
to recycle life ♪

♪ The promise shall bring
us to one ♪

♪ beating heart in the end ♪

Everybody was so
down-to-earth,
and just hung out

and gave us their time.
We had a good time.

Say something to my mom,
real quick.

Mama. Hold on one second.
Your son's smoking crack.

Put that pipe down.
What are you doing?

And it doesn't matter
who you are, what you are,

what you've come from,
you can do what you want.

'Cause all of those people out
there, they're celebrities,
they're in high places,

but they're regular,
just like me.

They was happy
to see me doing my work

like I'm happy
to see them doing theirs.

You see an opportunity,
just seize it.

Like Eminem say,
you only got one time.

Don't miss your opportunity.

We're going on another
long trip,
another long voyage.

Hope y'all end up
riding with us.

Look like it's going to be
a little drier today, though.

CODY CHESNUTT: (SINGING)
♪ Talking about love ♪

♪ God-given love,
God-given love ♪

DAVE: I also have a number
that's a blues number.

Would you like to hear it?

You just play some, like...

Yeah, some Muddy Waters.
Yeah, just like that.

♪(PLAYING BLUES RIFF)

All right, but here's
the fun part of the bit,

is everybody can
sing a verse.

(SINGING)
♪ I woke up this mornin' ♪

♪ About quarter of four ♪

♪ Went back to sleep ♪

♪ Then I woke up at 8:00 ♪

♪ Went back to sleep again ♪

♪ Then I woke up at 2:00 ♪

♪ 'Cause I'm a comedian ♪

♪ And I ain't got shit to do ♪

♪ Oh, yeah, baby ♪

♪ And then it goes down. ♪

♪ I've got them comedy blues ♪

Come on. Give me some
of those horns, man.

♪ I just hang out
all day, baby ♪

♪ 'Cause I ain't
got shit else to do ♪

Right, now listen.

What kind of blues musician
would I be

if I didn't talk shit
over the music for you?

And then I just
tell a whole story.

(SINGING) ♪ My baby left me ♪

♪ My car broke down ♪

♪ I lost $20 ♪

♪ and it can't be found ♪

♪ I got issues ♪

♪ That's right,
I'm mad as shit ♪

♪ That's right,
I got more problems
than I can count ♪

♪ That's why I say,
"Fuck it" ♪

♪ That's right ♪

♪(IT'S BIGGER
THAN HIP HOP PLAYING)

(RAPPING) ♪ One two, one two ♪

♪ Get crunk, what it is ♪

♪ Brooklyn ♪

♪ If you know this shit,
say it ♪

♪ It's bigger than ♪

♪ Huh? What? Say it ♪

♪ Hip-hop, hip ♪

♪ It's bigger than ♪

♪ Say it, say it ♪
♪ What it bigger than? ♪

♪ Say it, say it ♪
♪ What it bigger than? ♪

♪ What it bigger than? ♪
♪ Look, look, look ♪

♪ One thing about music,
when it hit you feel no pain ♪

♪ White folk say
it controls your brain ♪

♪ I know better than that ♪

♪ That's game
and we ready for that ♪

♪ Two soldiers
head of the pack ♪

♪ Matter of fact,
who got the gat ♪

♪ And where my army at ♪

♪ Rather attack
and not react ♪

♪ Got the beat,
it don't reflect on
how many records get sold ♪

♪ Want sex, drugs,
and rock and roll ♪

♪ Whether your project
gets put on hold ♪

♪ In the real world,
we just people with ideas ♪

♪ They just like me and you
when the smoke and camera
disappear ♪

♪ Out in the real world,
it's bigger than
all these fake-ass records ♪

♪ When poor folks
got the millions
and my sisters get respect ♪

♪ If you check, one two
My word of advice to you
is just relax ♪

♪ Just do what you got to do ♪

♪ If that don't work
then check the facts ♪

♪ If you're a fighter, writer,
biter, flame-igniter,
crowd-exciter ♪

♪ Or you wanna just get high,
then just say it ♪

♪ But then if you a liar,
liar, pants on fire ♪

♪ wolf-crier,
agent with a wire ♪

♪ I'm gonna know
it when I see it ♪
♪ We ready, say it ♪

♪ Say it, say it ♪
♪ Hip-hop, hip ♪

♪ Yeah, yeah, yeah ♪

♪ What it bigger than? ♪

♪ It's bigger than hip-hop,
hip-hop, hip-hop ♪

♪ Bigger than ♪

♪ Who shot 2Pac?
If we don't get them,
they gonna get us all ♪

♪ I'm down for running up
on them crackers
in the city hall ♪

♪ We rhyme for y'all,
all my dawgs, stay real ♪

♪ Nigga, don't think
your record deal ♪

♪ gonna feed your seeds
and pay your bills ♪

♪ Because they're not ♪

♪ MCs get a little bit of love
and think they're hot ♪

♪ Talking about
how much money they got ♪

♪ Nigga, all your records
sound the same ♪

♪ I'm sick of that fake thug,
R&B rap scenario ♪

♪ All day on the radio ♪

♪ Same scenes in the video ♪

♪ Monotonous material ♪

♪ Y'all don't hear me,
though ♪

♪ You record labels
sling our tapes like dope ♪

♪ You could be next in line
and signed ♪

♪ and still be writing rhymes
and broke ♪

♪ You rather have a Lexus
or justice? ♪

♪ A dream or some substance? ♪

♪ A Beemer, a necklace
or freedom? ♪

♪ See, a nigga like me
don't player-hate ♪

♪ I just stay awake ♪

♪ This real hip-hop
and it don't stop ♪

♪ Till we get them crackers
off our block ♪

♪ They call it hip-hop,
hip-hop, hip-hop ♪

♪ It's bigger than ♪

♪ What it bigger than?
What it bigger than? ♪

♪ It's bigger than hip-hop ♪

♪ What it bigger than?
What it bigger than? ♪

♪ It's bigger than hip-hop ♪

♪ Hip-hop, hip-hop ♪

♪ D.P.'s got that crazy shit ♪

♪ We keep it crunked up ♪

♪ John Blaze and shit ♪

♪ D.P.'s got that crazy shit ♪

♪ We keep it crunked up ♪

♪ John Blaze and shit ♪

♪ My nigga, D.P.'s got
that crazy shit ♪

♪ We keep it crunked up ♪

♪ John Blaze and shit ♪

♪ What? ♪

♪ D.P.'s got that crazy shit ♪

♪ We keep it crunked up ♪

♪ One more time ♪

♪ D.P.'s got that crazy shit ♪

♪ We keep it crunked up ♪

♪(UPSTARTS IN A BLOWOUT
PLAYING)

CODY CHESNUTT: (SINGING)
♪ Young ones ♪

♪ I'm waiting in line ♪

♪ Someone is trying to find ♪

♪ Yeah, yeah ♪

♪ Young upstarts
are gonna get in free ♪

♪ Just to see
how good it sounds ♪

♪ Out under the clouds ♪

♪ Out in the streets ♪

♪ They're willing to run
to share their belief ♪

♪ Because we've come too far ♪

♪ to blow out now ♪

♪ Wake up, folks ♪

♪ No one tomorrow
is gonna be found ♪

♪ Nowhere, y'all looking away
from the crowd ♪

♪ 'Cause love
is in our hearts ♪
Yeah.

♪ And it's in our shoes ♪

♪ Don't you talk like me
Don't you fake my sound ♪

♪ Get up off the ground
Get up on your feet ♪

♪ Because we're the ones ♪

♪ you've been looking to see ♪

♪ And we've come too far ♪

♪ to blow out now ♪

♪ Yeah, yeah, yeah,
yeah, yeah, yeah ♪