Rhyme & Reason (1997 )- Final

Jerome

A study in the world of hip-hop, done mostly with interviews, in order to see why it is as popular as it is today and what the future holds.

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00:02:17Hip-hop, breakdancers, families, black music, graffiti, dance, freestyle, legato, cultured, rap, but it's all hip-hop.

00:02:28Hip-hop is like a vehicle. You can use it to go anywhere you want to go.

00:02:31Yeah, that's what hip-hop is. It's the way you dress. It's your style.

00:02:35You know what I'm saying? Some wear braids in the East. Some wear the curls back in the day.

00:02:39Some used to wear the top fades. It's about the culture. You live it.

00:02:42It's not just saying, yo, I do hip-hop. You gotta live it.

00:02:46Because hip-hop is how you walk, talk, live, dress, act, see, smell, fart, shit, fuck.

00:02:51You know what I mean? It's all that right there.

00:02:53Everything we do. Like, if I hand this to him, I'm gonna hand it to him.

00:02:57Hip-hop is like, I'm gonna go. Like this.

00:02:59You know what I'm saying? I'm gonna do something to make it hip-hop.

00:03:03You know, I don't give a fuck what it is. You know, I'm gonna put the hip-hop twist on it.

00:03:07You know what I mean? Anybody got different slings.

00:03:08You got the Brooklyn slings, you got the West Coast, you got the Down South, like the Goody Mobs, all that.

00:03:14So it's a culture, and we're all part of it.

00:03:17We all got our own type of slang. It's like talking your own language.

00:03:22I heard they had a hip-hop slang book.

00:03:25And they had words in there like B-boy, B-girl, fresh, chill.

00:03:32We ain't used them shit since we was like nine years old out this motherfucker, man.

00:03:36We don't even be saying coolin' no more.

00:03:39What's up, huh?

00:03:40If you say what's up to somebody and they say I'm chillin' the fresh way,

00:03:44motherfucker's gonna look at you like you from another planet or something, man.

00:03:48Wear it up.

00:03:48Well, when you discuss the history of hip-hop, you gotta understand that hip-hop has many starts.

00:03:59Hip-hop had a start in gospel.

00:04:01It had a start in jazz.

00:04:03It had a start in blues and rock and roll, disco, hip-hop.

00:04:08Hip-hop is a culture, the mother of four or five different elements like rap, scratching, breakdancing, and graffiti.

00:04:22Rap is something that's being done.

00:04:26Hip-hop is something that is being lived.

00:04:28A rap artist can be anybody from anywhere, but you've got to visit the Bronx.

00:04:36Period.

00:04:38Wherever you are in life, wherever you want to be, you will always be a rap artist until you visit the South Bronx.

00:04:50Look at the projects.

00:04:52Look at the people.

00:04:54See the environment that hip-hop started in.

00:04:59Go to 123 Park and just stand there and imagine the birth of a culture.

00:05:07Happening in this very spot.

00:05:10The Bronx is hip-hop.

00:05:18Graffiti, breakdancing, emceeing, and DJing.

00:05:21All came from the Bronx.

00:05:22Yo, where we standing right here, this is a historical place in hip-hop.

00:05:27This is like where it all began pretty much.

00:05:29The godfather of hip-hop, Kool Herc, used to live right here in this building, 1600, and he used to give jams right here in this little park.

00:05:37You know what I'm saying?

00:05:38Plug up to a light pole or get electricity from one of the windows and just play right out here.

00:05:43This was back in 1974.

00:05:45Yeah, I was hip to New York hip-hop.

00:05:47You got to give props what props is due.

00:05:50They originated it.

00:05:52Anybody that doesn't believe that is tripping.

00:05:56You know what I'm saying?

00:05:56I know niggas in the Bronx, they sparked it up.

00:05:58But, you know, it traveled from project to project.

00:06:01And they just spread it, and now it's bigger than ever, and it's going to get bigger.

00:06:05Ghetto kids didn't really have the money to learn how to play instruments or take singing lessons, but they found a way, regardless, you know.

00:06:12Because the spirit was still telling them to make some things, so it's like they just used whatever was around, whether it be a turntable or a little nasty mic and some old dirty records.

00:06:23And that's how the whole thing starts.

00:06:26DJs are the ones who started this hip-hop thing.

00:06:30Back on man, Kool Herc, Grandmaster Flash, all of them in the Bronx, you know.

00:06:34It was like radio shockwaves with new styles of scratching and stuff.

00:06:38It's one of the original instruments of hip-hop.

00:06:41Us DJs would, like, go nuts and try to learn how to do those cuts.

00:06:45Howie T might do a new scratch on his record.

00:06:47He did this one scratch.

00:06:48He went like...

00:06:49He did that.

00:06:52When he first did that, everybody was bugging out.

00:06:54And then, like, Mixmaster Ice did this scratch out.

00:07:01He did that.

00:07:02And then, obviously, DST freaked everybody out on Herbie Hancock's stuff when he was like...

00:07:07And early, the first DJs in the Bronx.

00:07:32would spin the records and they would only play

00:07:34the breakdown of the record.

00:07:35They would play, every record breaks down,

00:07:38go ahead, down, and it breaks

00:07:39until it's the beat and the drum.

00:07:47These are break beats,

00:07:48you know what I'm saying?

00:07:49And a break beat can be anything

00:07:51from any kind of record,

00:07:53any kind of music, be it classical,

00:07:56be it soul, jazz, pop,

00:07:58rock, anything.

00:08:00It's any record that has a breakdown beat in it.

00:08:04So Flash and people like that,

00:08:06Grand Wizard Theater would spin these records,

00:08:09but they would only play the breaks.

00:08:11And people would dance over the breaks

00:08:12of the records and these were called break dancers.

00:08:19Back then, everybody that I knew

00:08:21that really had mad flavor

00:08:23in b-boying or popping

00:08:24used to be a hardcore criminal.

00:08:27Popping came along and it made a difference in my life.

00:08:29You're too busy learning how to windmill

00:08:31and to rob and steal,

00:08:32and you're too tired to fight

00:08:33after you done battled somebody

00:08:35and took all your aggression out

00:08:36on some dancing, you know.

00:08:40Hip-hop ain't no easy game to play.

00:08:42If you ain't got no style,

00:08:43hang it up, sit down.

00:08:45My characters make people enjoy themselves

00:08:47with how I move my body

00:08:49and everything like that.

00:08:49So I feel it's a part of fun,

00:08:52popping and breaking

00:08:53and making people laugh.

00:08:58It's not just a hype thing,

00:09:00something that we're just into

00:09:01just to make money.

00:09:02It goes way deeper,

00:09:03deeper than that.

00:09:04You know, they say,

00:09:08well, breaking is not hip-hop,

00:09:09you know.

00:09:11Come on, if breaking wasn't hip-hop,

00:09:13you know, they don't know the history.

00:09:15Breaking means to me that

00:09:16it's a way of expressing myself,

00:09:18getting my anger out there,

00:09:20you know,

00:09:20instead of going out there

00:09:21and smoking or fighting,

00:09:22you know.

00:09:23I go to my own little world

00:09:25and I just express myself

00:09:26through breaking.

00:09:27I dance, you know,

00:09:28and get creative.

00:09:29I'm just spinning

00:09:29and I feel like I'm flying.

00:09:31I'm flying in the air, man,

00:09:36you know,

00:09:36and just,

00:09:37I'm free.

00:09:46The origins of graffiti

00:09:47go way past hip-hop.

00:09:49That goes back to World War II

00:09:50when, I mean,

00:09:52Soldiers was writing,

00:09:53Kilroy was here

00:09:54and stuff on the balls

00:09:55and, you know,

00:09:56people would just make statements.

00:09:58Here,

00:09:59it was just about

00:10:00getting up.

00:10:01You wanted to write your name

00:10:02in as many places

00:10:03and many people could see it

00:10:05so you'd be known.

00:10:07Graffiti is one of the most

00:10:09beautiful art forms

00:10:11in the world.

00:10:12You know,

00:10:12I'd be looking at some of the stuff

00:10:13Picasso be doing

00:10:14and I'm like,

00:10:16well,

00:10:17Picasso ought to have to be there

00:10:18to understand

00:10:19what you're doing,

00:10:20you know,

00:10:20but then Brothers Graffiti,

00:10:22they're giving you firsthand

00:10:24what they're seeing

00:10:25every day in the hood.

00:10:26You know,

00:10:27they're bringing the news to you.

00:10:28Brothers shooting dice,

00:10:29they have dice there,

00:10:30they have the trains coming by

00:10:32all in one tag.

00:10:34Graffiti art means

00:10:35getting out

00:10:36when a lot of people

00:10:37can't get out.

00:10:38You know,

00:10:39it's like expressing

00:10:39beauty, color,

00:10:41excitement,

00:10:43drama.

00:10:44It's everything like music.

00:10:46I just love the blend

00:10:48of the music.

00:10:49I remember,

00:10:50I was grooving to this sound

00:10:51and it was Jackson 5

00:10:53and this DJ

00:10:54was actually

00:10:54keeping this one part

00:10:56in the record

00:10:57on and on and on

00:10:58and then the guy

00:10:59was on the microphone

00:11:00just doing that same stuff

00:11:02Muhammad Ali did.

00:11:03Let me see your hands

00:11:04flow like this.

00:11:05Let me see your hands

00:11:06flow like this.

00:11:07The rapper would say,

00:11:09you know what?

00:11:09He's good,

00:11:10but by the way,

00:11:12I'm kind of fly too

00:11:13and I'm all this

00:11:14and I'm all that.

00:11:15The girls would scream.

00:11:17The next MC said,

00:11:18I have to outdo this person

00:11:20and the only way

00:11:20to outdo somebody

00:11:21usually is by boasting

00:11:22or outboasting them

00:11:23or trying to insult them

00:11:26in a cool way

00:11:26and that's where

00:11:27the battle started.

00:11:28So bring the drama

00:11:30when you're coming

00:11:30best believe I'm down

00:11:31the golden child

00:11:32just to ride

00:11:33straight out the chat town.

00:11:34How you silver nigga

00:11:35cause I'm coming

00:11:36like the little ranger

00:11:38danger danger

00:11:39Dr. Smith

00:11:39the human torture chamber

00:11:40a lyrical bastard child

00:11:42book wild

00:11:43straight from the penile

00:11:44I'm foul

00:11:44deep and deadly

00:11:45is my style

00:11:46straight out the gate

00:11:47a thoroughbred

00:11:48running like the fads

00:11:49never scared

00:11:50from these streets

00:11:50quick to bust

00:11:51a motherfucker's head

00:11:52when you first start

00:11:53now it's

00:11:54you know what I'm saying

00:11:55it's more natural

00:11:56to just freestyle

00:11:56cause that's how you start

00:11:57you know

00:11:58developing your own styles

00:11:59you know

00:12:00you're an MC for real

00:12:01you can freestyle

00:12:02you know

00:12:03you don't have to be

00:12:03elaborate once you freestyle

00:12:05you know what I'm saying

00:12:05but people know

00:12:06if it's written or not

00:12:07some people say freestyle

00:12:09and they be saying

00:12:10some stuff

00:12:10but you know

00:12:10you can't freestyle

00:12:11that well like that

00:12:12except a few people

00:12:13that can

00:12:13now check it out

00:12:14because I'm serious

00:12:15and I'm dope

00:12:16oh my god

00:12:17and I can freestyle

00:12:18without a quote

00:12:18funk battle

00:12:19that flow's fatter

00:12:20MC's with that chitter chat

00:12:21his microphone

00:12:21won't even matter

00:12:22Craig Max like

00:12:23a funk robotic

00:12:24super sick

00:12:25psychotic

00:12:25MC who got it

00:12:26new season

00:12:27inside the season

00:12:28crushing MC's

00:12:29for no apparent reason

00:12:30MC's won a battle

00:12:31but it makes no sense

00:12:32to test the abstract

00:12:33Shaheed

00:12:34fight door

00:12:35and consequence

00:12:35on my left

00:12:37style is so so deaf

00:12:38and when it comes to

00:12:39rhymes and styles

00:12:40I got them by the pie

00:12:42I represented in a minute

00:12:43cause I'm G-Tray-D

00:12:44here to set it off

00:12:45and step up on the M-I-C

00:12:47and let you know

00:12:48Long Beach

00:12:48yeah that's my city

00:12:50come down here

00:12:51and we never show pity

00:12:52it's a personal thing

00:12:53to me to freestyle

00:12:54you know what I mean

00:12:55but you know

00:12:57when you're trying to

00:12:57get on stage

00:12:59and show off

00:12:59like you can

00:13:00when you really can't

00:13:01and you're kicking

00:13:02all kind of bullshit words

00:13:03you get caught out there

00:13:05you know

00:13:05I've got caught out there

00:13:06a lot of times

00:13:07just saying a bunch of nothing

00:13:08that's why I tell all my artists

00:13:10if you don't feel like freestyling

00:13:12do not freestyle

00:13:14and go out

00:13:15yes I am a true MC

00:13:18I thought I was about

00:13:20to kick a little son

00:13:21didn't you

00:13:22focus the camera

00:13:25so I can slam her

00:13:26bat rhyme down your

00:13:27atopagus

00:13:27who's dropping this

00:13:28this is the liver

00:13:29called imperial

00:13:30fat lip

00:13:30chilling with my fools

00:13:32no we not no blood

00:13:33a crip

00:13:33I don't gang bang

00:13:34I don't slang no king

00:13:36but I got these rhymes

00:13:37when I kick them off

00:13:38the brain

00:13:39I maintain

00:13:39these rhymes

00:13:40I will sustain

00:13:41don't try to mess

00:13:43yo you don't shit

00:13:43you a gang

00:13:44I bust your ass

00:13:45in the nose

00:13:46looking at me

00:13:47fresh dip

00:13:47open the window

00:13:48check out my clothes

00:13:49I got the Nike

00:13:50I'm not spiky

00:13:51but I do the right thing

00:13:53on my nut

00:13:53your mic swing

00:13:54but that's my height

00:13:55cause I kick the shit

00:13:56keep it tight

00:13:57yo

00:13:58bust that shit

00:13:59it's dynamite

00:14:00so I'ma blow it up

00:14:01listen to the west coast shit

00:14:03nigga bout to throw it up

00:14:04bout to pass the shit

00:14:05to my man Suave

00:14:07to do what you gotta do

00:14:08nigga rappers in LA

00:14:09yeah

00:14:10coming up on 32

00:14:12about to represent to you

00:14:14I got my man Slim

00:14:15kid Trey

00:14:16and he's bout to bring

00:14:18this shit on your way

00:14:19yo Slim

00:14:19too many niggas

00:14:25trying to perk

00:14:26my lifestyle

00:14:27romancing

00:14:27I was kicking game

00:14:28and y'all kids

00:14:29was breakdancing

00:14:30overlord

00:14:30so why you whack

00:14:31niggas ain't dead

00:14:32probably because

00:14:33my aim is over

00:14:33niggas heads

00:14:34east coast

00:14:34west coast

00:14:35I play the whole

00:14:35map and bounce

00:14:36you gotta Benz

00:14:37but live in your

00:14:38mom's house

00:14:39so the key

00:14:40and the key to a good rap

00:14:43is like

00:14:43it doesn't only rhyme

00:14:44but it's like clever

00:14:46are you being clever

00:14:47with the rap

00:14:48and also good rap music

00:14:51does need a beat

00:14:52my repertoires is militant

00:14:54the last days

00:14:55what the blood

00:14:56is we dealing with

00:14:56did Johnny Blaze

00:14:57grab your pistol

00:14:58teflon

00:14:59megabombs

00:15:00and heat-seeking missiles

00:15:01time to go to war

00:15:02shit's official

00:15:03the Mike Stalker

00:15:04only few can understand it

00:15:05the Skywalker

00:15:06that be leaping over planets

00:15:08pain

00:15:09got that ghetto blood

00:15:10in my vein

00:15:10spread it through my kin

00:15:12confess my sins

00:15:13and blame

00:15:13society for unawareness

00:15:15fuck the president

00:15:16he don't represent

00:15:17the ghetto resident

00:15:18recognize

00:15:18fool within the black

00:15:20cold as a Jew

00:15:21the revolution

00:15:22been in effect

00:15:22pull up your shoes

00:15:23utilize your third eye

00:15:25it be him or I

00:15:26now choose who gotta die

00:15:28him every time

00:15:29the Kallion stallion

00:15:30now hold on

00:15:31like diamond stud

00:15:32medallias

00:15:33and so on

00:15:33between 75 and 85

00:15:39you had to have juice

00:15:40you had to have

00:15:41political power

00:15:42in the culture

00:15:44of hip-hop

00:15:45to grab the mic

00:15:46to step out

00:15:48onto the cardboard

00:15:49and break dance

00:15:50or even do

00:15:51a piece

00:15:53you had to be

00:15:54known

00:15:55in the community

00:15:56a really

00:16:02important part

00:16:04of hip-hop

00:16:05I say

00:16:06is Mike and Dave

00:16:07from you know

00:16:09they used to be

00:16:09with the Crash Crew

00:16:10and Africa Band

00:16:11he brought

00:16:13like unity

00:16:14to the people

00:16:15from the Bronx

00:16:16Manhattan

00:16:16brought them together

00:16:17you know

00:16:18bringing them

00:16:19into like

00:16:19they used to have

00:16:20like Zulu Nation

00:16:21meetings

00:16:23like on Thursdays

00:16:24and Wednesdays

00:16:25you know

00:16:25God bless the dead

00:16:26Malibu

00:16:27God bless the dead

00:16:28BO

00:16:29and stuff like that

00:16:30this is like

00:16:31one of the first

00:16:32flyers I ever

00:16:33collected

00:16:33Cool Herc

00:16:34Wizkid

00:16:35Disco Prince

00:16:36Whippin' Whippin'

00:16:37Donorock

00:16:38then you got

00:16:39the classic battle

00:16:41of all time

00:16:42is

00:16:43Cold Quest

00:16:43vs. Fantastic Five

00:16:45now

00:16:46here's an actual

00:16:47flyer

00:16:48of

00:16:49the rooftop

00:16:50that was a club

00:16:52uptown

00:16:53where everybody go

00:16:55from the hustlers

00:16:56to the

00:16:56strugglers

00:16:58now

00:16:58this is when

00:17:00I started to evolve

00:17:01as a good beatbox

00:17:02you know what I'm saying

00:17:03you have raw bass

00:17:05before he came out

00:17:06on a record

00:17:06Easy Rock

00:17:08Dow C

00:17:08and look at me

00:17:09see me now

00:17:10in the beginning

00:17:13Run DMC

00:17:14yeah

00:17:14Run DMC

00:17:15we was trying to be

00:17:16the

00:17:16we were

00:17:17Run DMC

00:17:17all over the place

00:17:19actually they were calling us

00:17:19the female Run DMC

00:17:21at one time

00:17:21so we were like

00:17:22oh my god

00:17:22he's saying

00:17:23we

00:17:23female Run DMC

00:17:24so

00:17:25and we also

00:17:25lived in Queens

00:17:26yeah

00:17:27and so

00:17:28we used to go back and forth

00:17:30like that style

00:17:30like Run DMC

00:17:31we looked up to them

00:17:33a lot

00:17:33and back at that time

00:17:34in the pioneering days

00:17:35it wasn't about money

00:17:37nobody came out

00:17:38to get paid

00:17:39we used to spend more money

00:17:40than we made

00:17:41to come out and play

00:17:42it was a lot of hard work

00:17:43you know

00:17:43to bring all them speakers

00:17:45and all that equipment out

00:17:46but we just did it

00:17:47for the love of hip hop

00:17:48just to play music

00:17:49music

00:17:50music

00:17:51music

00:17:52music

00:17:53music

00:17:54back in the days

00:18:00the party

00:18:01was everything

00:18:01and you would go

00:18:02from block to block

00:18:03to block

00:18:04battling

00:18:04each DJ

00:18:05or each MC

00:18:06and that's how you

00:18:07would gain your reputation

00:18:08oh yes

00:18:11you can catch

00:18:12an occasional block party

00:18:13here and there

00:18:14sometimes you do see it

00:18:15like the old days

00:18:16rap is the music of hip hop

00:18:27or the vocal delivery of hip hop

00:18:30but hip hop is a full blown culture

00:18:32rap was more party orientated back then

00:18:36we talked about partying

00:18:37and having a good time

00:18:39I'm picking niggas in the bucket

00:18:40fuck it

00:18:41you wanna get down

00:18:42if you can suck it

00:18:43twist the bliss

00:18:44it's a vocal bliss

00:18:45with the blind shit

00:18:46oh shit

00:18:46coming from North New Jersey

00:18:47from this

00:18:48jump the ball

00:18:49get down break the ball

00:18:51bitch you come to me

00:18:52you're best to be jumping

00:18:53that's wrong

00:18:53what I see hip hop

00:19:02on the west coast

00:19:03started like 1982

00:19:05and so called gangsta rap

00:19:07start at the same time

00:19:09because those were the first records

00:19:10that really made it

00:19:12out here

00:19:13you know

00:19:13Ice-T and Skoolie-D actually

00:19:15Skoolie-D had the record

00:19:17PSK out at the time

00:19:19and Ice-T had 6 in the morning

00:19:20and these were the only records

00:19:22we were playing

00:19:22because you know

00:19:23they were saying things

00:19:26that we could relate to

00:19:27you know

00:19:27early west coast rap

00:19:28I would rap about

00:19:30trying to party

00:19:31I did records like

00:19:32Dog in the Wax

00:19:33you don't quit

00:19:34but my boys were like

00:19:35saying Ice man

00:19:36why you rapping about parties

00:19:37man

00:19:38y'all

00:19:38we don't go to parties

00:19:39we rob parties

00:19:40you know what I'm saying

00:19:41so I'm like

00:19:41yeah that is true

00:19:44because while they were having

00:19:44a hip hop scene

00:19:45in New York

00:19:46we were having a gang scene

00:19:48due to the fact

00:19:49they called themselves a gang

00:19:51people called this

00:19:51gangsta rap

00:19:52violence is part of that lifestyle

00:19:54so you have to rap

00:19:55about it

00:19:57no this one got stuck

00:19:59no shit

00:20:00yeah they got stuck

00:20:01way up here

00:20:02if a kid is in a gang

00:20:04then he raps

00:20:05from the perspective

00:20:06of a gang banger

00:20:08but what if the kid

00:20:09sells drugs

00:20:10he's rapping from the

00:20:11perspective of a drug dealer

00:20:12what if the guy's a pimp

00:20:13he'll rap in the perspective

00:20:15of a pimp

00:20:16when you rap

00:20:18basically you rap

00:20:19to another rapper

00:20:20what a gangsta rapper

00:20:21says is

00:20:22you listener

00:20:24I will shoot you

00:20:26in your motherfucking face

00:20:27he forgets about

00:20:32the rules

00:20:33he forgets about

00:20:34the theory

00:20:35what's right and wrong

00:20:36message versus

00:20:37non-message

00:20:38it is reality

00:20:40rap in its

00:20:41truest form

00:20:41because you

00:20:42you take out

00:20:43all the barricades

00:20:44it's very direct

00:20:46taking

00:20:47rap

00:20:48to its

00:20:49most real

00:20:49form

00:20:50and just

00:20:51rapping it

00:20:51just not

00:20:52giving a

00:20:53fuck

00:20:54then I talk about

00:21:01money

00:21:01dope

00:21:02hoes

00:21:02cars

00:21:04guns

00:21:04what else

00:21:05that's reality

00:21:07it's violence

00:21:08everywhere

00:21:08it's a murder

00:21:09committed

00:21:10every city

00:21:10state

00:21:11country

00:21:11continent

00:21:12everywhere

00:21:13I just talk about

00:21:14what the motherfuckers

00:21:15is really doing

00:21:16California streets

00:21:17is full of all

00:21:18that shit

00:21:18I just named

00:21:19can't help

00:21:20but to talk about it

00:21:21as far as

00:21:33gangster rap is concerned

00:21:34they talk about

00:21:35what they know

00:21:35you know what I mean

00:21:36just as we can't

00:21:37hold it against

00:21:37like people from

00:21:39like New York

00:21:39they have their

00:21:40crews

00:21:41you know what I'm

00:21:41saying

00:21:41and it's like

00:21:42the same thing

00:21:43it's a family based

00:21:44thing

00:21:44you know what I'm

00:21:45saying

00:21:45it's misunderstood

00:21:46I'm not thugging

00:21:48for me

00:21:48I'm thugging

00:21:49for my family

00:21:49I pay all the

00:21:51bills

00:21:51you know what I'm

00:21:52saying

00:21:52I feed my whole

00:21:53family

00:21:53wrong or right

00:21:55I do

00:21:56and I can't

00:21:57stop

00:21:57you know what I'm

00:21:58saying

00:21:58if thugging is

00:21:59going to make me

00:21:59a million bucks

00:22:00because it just

00:22:01got me platinum

00:22:02and that's what

00:22:02I got to do

00:22:03as far as a music

00:22:04all it was

00:22:06is guys from

00:22:07the west coast

00:22:07using different

00:22:09elements of music

00:22:11that guys from

00:22:11the northeast

00:22:12wouldn't touch

00:22:13like funk

00:22:13west coast

00:22:14sound to me

00:22:15was like

00:22:15like a mood

00:22:16keyboard

00:22:16a lot more

00:22:17funk type

00:22:17stuff

00:22:18with a lot

00:22:18of hand claps

00:22:19for snares

00:22:19you know

00:22:19a lot of

00:22:20whiny

00:22:21synthesizer

00:22:21type things

00:22:22and because of

00:22:23the tempos

00:22:24and the mixture

00:22:25of the music

00:22:26I think that music

00:22:27was more relevant

00:22:27to more black

00:22:28people inside

00:22:29the United States

00:22:30we put in the dam

00:22:32from block

00:22:33to block

00:22:34to scandalous

00:22:34town

00:22:35from crooked

00:22:36cops

00:22:36to dope

00:22:37shops

00:22:37all around

00:22:38shit

00:22:39hot

00:22:39hose

00:22:39six

00:22:40four

00:22:40berries

00:22:41hoods

00:22:42tight

00:22:42like

00:22:42what

00:22:43nuts

00:22:43one like

00:22:43the military

00:22:44attitude

00:22:46and the fact

00:22:49and the fact that

00:22:49you could do this

00:22:50and sooner or later

00:22:50these records

00:22:51started selling

00:22:51just saying

00:22:52whatever we wanted

00:22:53to say

00:22:54it was great

00:22:55it was like

00:22:56god came and

00:22:57said

00:22:57here's something

00:22:58that you can do

00:22:59now when we started

00:23:10and when we signed

00:23:11our first contract

00:23:11in 1982

00:23:12you can count

00:23:14how many rap groups

00:23:15had contracts

00:23:17signed contracts

00:23:18with companies

00:23:19and major record

00:23:20companies

00:23:20was not taking chances

00:23:21with rap music

00:23:22it was the small

00:23:23independent companies

00:23:24that would give rappers

00:23:25a chance

00:23:26after 1985

00:23:27hip hop and rap

00:23:29made a split

00:23:30graffiti art

00:23:31and breakdancing

00:23:32no longer became

00:23:33viable means

00:23:35of expressing

00:23:37this piece of the culture

00:23:38rap became

00:23:40the viable means

00:23:41of expressing

00:23:41this piece of the culture

00:23:42and it was only because

00:23:44corporate America

00:23:46NASA

00:23:47deemed it important

00:23:49oh we can make some money

00:23:50pressing up these records

00:23:51so

00:23:52let's go

00:23:53rap is big business now

00:23:56now record companies

00:23:57aren't even concerned

00:23:58about the vinyl

00:23:58and stuff like that

00:24:00they talking about

00:24:01CD sales and everything

00:24:03but if it wasn't for vinyl

00:24:05there wouldn't be

00:24:05any hip hop music

00:24:06these record labels

00:24:08man just shysty

00:24:09they don't care

00:24:10about the artist

00:24:11you know what I'm saying

00:24:11they let the artist

00:24:13do what he want to do

00:24:14they want yeah

00:24:15act silly

00:24:16and you know

00:24:16yeah do it for me

00:24:18you know

00:24:18they get a certain percentage

00:24:20we don't man

00:24:20we get kibbles

00:24:21we don't

00:24:22you know what I'm saying

00:24:23that's played out

00:24:25the first record company

00:24:28they robbed me blind

00:24:29the record company

00:24:29I didn't know no better

00:24:31I'm 17 years old

00:24:32you know what I'm saying

00:24:33I'm making a record

00:24:34I'm coming from

00:24:3520 hours a week allowance

00:24:37to all of a sudden

00:24:38somebody giving me

00:24:38a thousand dollars

00:24:39and I'm like

00:24:39you know what I'm saying

00:24:40this is crazy

00:24:40you know what I'm saying

00:24:41but that's all I got

00:24:42the record companies

00:24:43are basically like

00:24:44a merchant bank

00:24:45you know

00:24:46they loan you money

00:24:47and they want their money

00:24:48back with fat interest

00:24:49and the conditions

00:24:51of your contract

00:24:52are basically like

00:24:53the conditions

00:24:54of your loan

00:24:55it's like

00:24:56I love the fans

00:24:57yo

00:24:57and I love making music

00:24:58but the people

00:24:59in the middle

00:25:00you know

00:25:01it's like the middle men

00:25:03they just

00:25:03ugh

00:25:04everyone welcomes you

00:25:05into Jerusalem

00:25:06and later they scream

00:25:08crucify him

00:25:09so people are always

00:25:10hypocritical

00:25:11especially when you

00:25:12are inside of an industry

00:25:14called the record industry

00:25:16you know

00:25:17you have to always

00:25:18stay conscious

00:25:19and in reality

00:25:20you can't never

00:25:21believe your own hype

00:25:22because those people

00:25:23will build you up

00:25:24to Superman

00:25:24only to find out

00:25:26that you

00:25:26garbage man

00:25:29the record business

00:25:33is exactly what it is

00:25:36record business

00:25:37and you have to

00:25:39take care of both

00:25:40I got into it

00:25:41just wanting

00:25:43to make music

00:25:44you know what I'm saying

00:25:44I didn't really give a damn

00:25:46about the business

00:25:47part of it

00:25:47I was trusting people

00:25:49trusting that they

00:25:50would handle my business

00:25:51the way it was supposed

00:25:52to be handled

00:25:53and you get fucked

00:25:54like that

00:25:55so you know

00:25:55you got to be on top

00:25:56of your own business

00:25:57you know

00:25:58don't trust no managers

00:25:59no record company

00:26:00execs

00:26:00nothing like that

00:26:01know it

00:26:01but basically

00:26:02every fucking

00:26:03young little

00:26:04motherfucker can rap

00:26:05so we

00:26:05all they want to see

00:26:07is well

00:26:07where's your two hit singles

00:26:09and they're gonna

00:26:10put that out

00:26:10and you might go

00:26:11double platinum

00:26:12and then next time

00:26:13they're gonna make

00:26:14you know

00:26:15four million off of you

00:26:16you're gonna be broke

00:26:17and then you're gonna

00:26:17come out with your next album

00:26:18and if it flopped

00:26:19they're gonna get rid of you

00:26:20and find the next motherfucker

00:26:21well where's your next

00:26:22where's your two hit singles

00:26:23it's music

00:26:24and it's business

00:26:25and you know what I'm saying

00:26:26I have to find a fine line

00:26:27in between all of it

00:26:28it's cool

00:26:29I just make sure

00:26:30I take care of my business

00:26:31and I accept

00:26:31all the pros and cons

00:26:33of my record label

00:26:34but I try to enjoy my art

00:26:36and do the best I can

00:26:37in this business

00:26:3890%

00:26:39of artists

00:26:40don't know

00:26:41when they're supposed

00:26:43they're supposed to get paid

00:26:44how they're supposed to get paid

00:26:45or how much they're supposed

00:26:47to get paid

00:26:48you know

00:26:48you can ask

00:26:49a new artist

00:26:50how much is a point worth

00:26:52or what a point is

00:26:53and they can't answer the question

00:26:55they don't know

00:26:55but

00:26:56they can tell you

00:26:58how much a Mercedes costs

00:26:59and you know

00:27:01the business wanna roll with it

00:27:02so they fork money into it

00:27:04or simply just be out of the game

00:27:05so it's a give and take

00:27:07and you just gotta know

00:27:08you know

00:27:08what's actually going on

00:27:10and the sacrifices

00:27:10you actually make

00:27:11spiritually, mentally

00:27:12and emotionally

00:27:13when you're messing with the music

00:27:14I'm one of the few rappers

00:27:16you know

00:27:17I got

00:27:17I've had six consecutive gold records

00:27:20and never had a record

00:27:20on the radio

00:27:21none of my music

00:27:22the first time

00:27:28I heard my record

00:27:28on the radio

00:27:29I was mopping a floor

00:27:31in Brooklyn

00:27:32at a daycare center

00:27:33for $15

00:27:34every time I mop

00:27:36and wax this floor

00:27:37in the middle of the street

00:27:39her and her girlfriend

00:27:41jumped out of the car

00:27:42was like

00:27:42running all around the car

00:27:44she's telling everybody

00:27:45to speak

00:27:46that's me

00:27:47I could not believe it

00:27:51I could not believe

00:27:52and I'm like

00:27:53get in the car

00:27:54so you know

00:27:54that's a big deal

00:27:55because you'd be home

00:27:56all your life

00:27:57from high school

00:27:57with little kids

00:27:58or whatever

00:27:58you'd be home

00:27:59listening to the radio

00:28:01Paco

00:28:02from 92 KTU

00:28:03and Kids FM

00:28:04Red Alert

00:28:04and they're cutting up

00:28:07records and stuff

00:28:07and then they hear

00:28:08your record cut up

00:28:09they always wonder

00:28:10what are they gonna do to mine

00:28:10you know what I'm saying

00:28:11so it was crazy

00:28:12and that was the best

00:28:13time of my life

00:28:14right there

00:28:14the first time

00:28:15we like heard our stuff

00:28:16on the radio

00:28:17that was like

00:28:17like four years ago

00:28:20and you know what I'm saying

00:28:22I can't really go back

00:28:23and say how we felt

00:28:24you know what I'm saying

00:28:24because it was so long ago

00:28:26you think about how many

00:28:27listeners you got out there

00:28:29you got you know what I'm saying

00:28:29it spans millions

00:28:30of people out there

00:28:32so you know what I'm saying

00:28:33you think they playing my shit

00:28:35you know what I'm saying

00:28:35like damn it

00:28:36you think everybody

00:28:37heard their shit

00:28:38all day

00:28:38you call up the voice

00:28:39you be like

00:28:40hey you hear me

00:28:40did you hear me on the radio

00:28:41I'd be like

00:28:42nah

00:28:42you be like

00:28:43you didn't hear me

00:28:44something you worked for

00:28:45like you can't believe

00:28:45that you're on the radio

00:28:46and you played right after

00:28:47running DMC

00:28:48or just before

00:28:49LL Cool J

00:28:50you know

00:28:50and I was like

00:28:51I didn't even smile

00:28:53it was just more like

00:28:54damn

00:28:54I did it

00:28:56that

00:28:58basically led to

00:29:00the demise of my

00:29:01mopping job

00:29:02I'm the least concerned

00:29:26how many niggas you burn

00:29:27I extinguish your flame

00:29:28and take aim

00:29:29at your brain

00:29:30you been ligament pain

00:29:31now have you walking

00:29:32with a cane

00:29:33money and fame

00:29:34you got your fucking

00:29:35self to blame

00:29:36it's different today

00:29:37the struggles today

00:29:38are different

00:29:38it's not as hard

00:29:39as it used to be

00:29:39for people when we

00:29:40started 10 years ago

00:29:41when you had to

00:29:42convince motherfuckers

00:29:43that

00:29:43this shit sells

00:29:47rap sells

00:29:48this is the first red man album

00:30:06this is the

00:30:08cross the cross

00:30:08this is the biggest record

00:30:09EPMD ever had

00:30:10boom number one album

00:30:11same thing with this one

00:30:13number one LP

00:30:14unfinished business

00:30:14hit brothers with

00:30:15so what you're saying

00:30:16bust them up with

00:30:17the big payback

00:30:18and all that other stuff

00:30:19yeah I just got my

00:30:19platinum joints

00:30:20about to prop these out

00:30:23you know

00:30:24you know what I mean

00:30:25Big Willie

00:30:26first Brooklyn nigga

00:30:28to go platinum

00:30:28you know

00:30:29it's all cut

00:30:30nothing like the hood

00:30:31got my gold joint

00:30:33juicy gold joint

00:30:37you know

00:30:37straight out the hood

00:30:41my nigga did good

00:30:42yeah we really haven't

00:30:44checked recently

00:30:45like

00:30:45how many records

00:30:47we've sold

00:30:47aside from the money

00:30:51but like you in a club

00:30:52you in a club

00:30:53in New York

00:30:53you throwing one of my joints

00:30:54just to see the kids

00:30:55go crazy

00:30:56and start dancing hard

00:30:57and smiling

00:30:58grabbing the girls

00:31:02that's the payday

00:31:03right there

00:31:03looking at people

00:31:07that have made it

00:31:08in the business

00:31:09you know

00:31:10Quincy Jones

00:31:10people like that

00:31:11that's my mentor

00:31:13right there

00:31:13because he started

00:31:15at a young age

00:31:16the same as I did

00:31:16and he's still doing

00:31:17his thing

00:31:17and having fun with it

00:31:18you know

00:31:19it ain't about

00:31:20who has the flyest car

00:31:21who has the most jewelry

00:31:22you know

00:31:23it ain't about that

00:31:24I think it's very important

00:31:27for me to not lose sight

00:31:28of how I started

00:31:29and keep my background

00:31:30as a DJ

00:31:31and throwing parties

00:31:33it's always had a lot

00:31:35to do with my success

00:31:35it's how I first initially

00:31:37got in the business

00:31:38it's how I met a lot

00:31:39of people

00:31:39and the parties

00:31:42are kind of an intricate

00:31:43part of the business

00:31:44we had a party

00:31:47for delinquent habits

00:31:48because we wanted

00:31:49people to hear

00:31:50their album

00:31:51that came to me

00:31:52from Send Dog

00:31:53of Cypress Hill

00:31:53people that love music

00:31:56artists and people

00:31:57that are really into it

00:31:57stick together

00:31:58and they'll support you

00:32:00if your stuff is true

00:32:01no matter what label

00:32:02you're on

00:32:02or what coast

00:32:03you're from

00:32:04or whatever

00:32:05it's important

00:32:27to get the press out

00:32:28and get them involved

00:32:29and that's how

00:32:31you get the buzz going

00:32:31Orlando's Buena Vista Hotel

00:32:48plays host this week

00:32:49to rap music's

00:32:50premiere convention

00:32:51Jack the Rapper

00:32:52prominent artists

00:32:53along with young hopefuls

00:32:55are arriving

00:32:55from all over the country

00:32:56to rub shoulders

00:32:57with industry heavyweights

00:32:58perform and attend lectures

00:33:00although the convention

00:33:01promoters are calling

00:33:02this event a family affair

00:33:04security has been elevated

00:33:05but local sheriffs

00:33:07do not foresee any problems

00:33:08you know Snoop Dogg

00:33:10is going to be out here

00:33:10you know everybody

00:33:11you know I've seen

00:33:12Kid already

00:33:13got his autograph

00:33:14you know that's a great thing

00:33:15right

00:33:15get those nice autographs

00:33:17together

00:33:18oh yeah

00:33:18everybody that we see

00:33:19you got to understand

00:33:20there's people like

00:33:21Jack the Rapper himself

00:33:22who takes time out

00:33:22and spend money

00:33:23to bring us all up in there

00:33:24and they got different

00:33:26energies coming from

00:33:26all over the world

00:33:27you know what I'm saying

00:33:28everybody's trying to do

00:33:28their music

00:33:29and we kicking it

00:33:30it's showtime

00:33:31well Jack the Rapper

00:33:32was important

00:33:33when I was coming out

00:33:33because there was a lot

00:33:34of people who wanted

00:33:35to be exposed to the industry

00:33:36and this you know

00:33:37this was an avenue

00:33:38where they can network

00:33:39and a lot of stars

00:33:41were found there

00:33:41and a lot of things

00:33:42came out good

00:33:43you go down there

00:33:43you learn

00:33:44you know they have panels

00:33:45they have good shows

00:33:46it's just a great event

00:33:47to be at

00:33:48it hurts me to see

00:33:50young guys

00:33:51that get a record deal

00:33:52and the first thing

00:33:52they go out

00:33:52and buy is a Mercedes

00:33:53buy some rings

00:33:55buy some joy

00:33:56around their neck

00:33:57and they live in an apartment

00:33:58I mean when I first started

00:34:00in this business

00:34:00I had an ulcer after a year

00:34:01because I couldn't understand

00:34:03why my clients

00:34:04were making millions of dollars

00:34:05and I had more money

00:34:06in my bank account

00:34:07than they had in theirs

00:34:08the hype's got me

00:34:10I knock them out

00:34:10the box and out socks

00:34:12because when I come around

00:34:13niggas skate like the rocks

00:34:14my block's hot

00:34:16so give me all you got

00:34:17when I'm done rocking

00:34:18I'll leave you all

00:34:19doing a bus stop

00:34:20when I die my ashes

00:34:21flip my carpet backwards

00:34:22blow shit up

00:34:23like the 4th of July

00:34:24with half sticks

00:34:25and on and on

00:34:26to the break of radar charm

00:34:28of killing you softly

00:34:29with this song

00:34:30with this ball

00:34:30kick the flow

00:34:31is harder than the music

00:34:32so you feel it in your head

00:34:33then your chest

00:34:34then you pass it to the next

00:34:36and give me five mic checks

00:34:37in all due respect

00:34:38please fill it up

00:34:40to check the antifreeze

00:34:41because Keith Murray

00:34:42dropped mad degrees

00:34:43Jack the Rappers

00:34:44waiting for people

00:34:45that need to get on

00:34:46people pass out demo tickets

00:34:47all in on

00:34:47this is my group

00:34:48whoop de roop

00:34:49boom boom

00:34:49look for management

00:34:50look for deals

00:34:51look for whatever

00:34:51that's what Jack the Rappers

00:34:52is about

00:34:53is for people

00:34:53getting people on

00:34:54who did the music

00:34:56on the album

00:34:56Eric Summers

00:34:57and Redman

00:34:58so what type

00:34:59is it like some funk shit

00:35:00what type

00:35:01cosmic slop funk

00:35:02some new shit

00:35:03it's about keeping it real

00:35:04as you notice

00:35:05I'm out here

00:35:06doing my own thing

00:35:07I ain't large

00:35:08I ain't up in the hotel room

00:35:10having people pass out my shit

00:35:12you got the original article

00:35:14right here

00:35:14passing out a tape

00:35:15that's realness

00:35:17and I'm gold

00:35:18right now

00:35:19I'm trying to fool party

00:35:20warm it up

00:35:22bad boy representing

00:35:23fuck daddy

00:35:24called bad boy

00:35:26you know what I'm saying

00:35:26yeah I'm riding

00:35:27you got big

00:35:28ain't fucking with y'all

00:35:28yeah we got

00:35:29we got Craig Mack

00:35:30yeah them niggas

00:35:31we got Mary J Blige

00:35:32yeah

00:35:33we got your new shit

00:35:34coming out with new shit

00:35:35bad boy

00:35:36how's it going

00:35:37oh

00:35:37it's your birthday

00:35:38fast my girl

00:35:39right here

00:35:40she's going to

00:35:41are you going to be over here

00:35:44are you going to be over here

00:35:4422

00:35:44no

00:35:45stay clear

00:35:47maybe why you have to pick your much drink

00:35:50you know what you mean

00:35:51it's your birthday

00:35:53it's your birthday

00:35:54go about that

00:35:55go about that

00:35:56go about that

00:35:57woo

00:35:58yeah for sure

00:36:00no no no

00:36:01we need some money

00:36:02a little bit more

00:36:03man

00:36:03go to our show

00:36:05go to our show

00:36:06at 2 o'clock

00:36:07man throw it down

00:36:08on the ground man

00:36:09you got to make that shit

00:36:10hit the ground

00:36:11sublime

00:36:12shut that shit up

00:36:13hey y'all

00:36:13what's up with tall baby

00:36:15what's up

00:36:15you do that shit

00:36:16you got to

00:36:16the Jack the Rapper

00:36:18music convention

00:36:19held at the Disney owned

00:36:20Buena Vista Hotel

00:36:22concludes tomorrow

00:36:23the word among

00:36:24local insiders

00:36:25is that management

00:36:26is concerned

00:36:26about the behavior

00:36:27of some of the convention goers

00:36:29guests at the hotel

00:36:31not expecting

00:36:32the Jack the Rapper convention

00:36:33have been relocated

00:36:35to nearby hotels

00:36:36Buena Vista hotel officials

00:36:38are not commenting

00:36:39on reports of vandalism

00:36:41in the pool party

00:36:44it wasn't really nothing

00:36:45going on for young people

00:36:46it wasn't nothing

00:36:46that was scheduled

00:36:47so we just brought

00:36:48a system out there

00:36:49and told everybody

00:36:51it was time to pool party

00:36:51that's how it started

00:36:53DJ Red Alert

00:36:54I'm coming

00:37:03you first

00:37:05hey my man

00:37:05you first

00:37:06you first

00:37:10hey

00:37:12hey

00:37:13you first

00:37:15police cruisers

00:37:37surround the

00:37:38Buena Vista

00:37:38Palace Hotel

00:37:39deputies say

00:37:43the emergency

00:37:43response team

00:37:44was on hand

00:37:45and head off

00:37:45any trouble

00:37:46at the Jack the Rapper

00:37:47urban music convention

00:37:48going on inside the hotel

00:37:50we got the

00:37:52waiting for a riot

00:37:54and sometimes

00:37:55the war

00:37:56is going to go down

00:37:57all units

00:38:03please response

00:38:04you call the riot squad

00:38:24in man

00:38:25snoop came on

00:38:26calmed things down

00:38:27but otherwise

00:38:28the riot squad came in

00:38:30besides all that

00:38:31negative

00:38:32I thought he was

00:38:32pretty fat

00:38:33and everything

00:38:33everything was cool

00:38:35once a year

00:38:36people had some

00:38:37had some fun

00:38:38yeah I hope

00:38:39there's going to be

00:38:40one next year

00:38:40I'll definitely be back

00:38:41I think people are people

00:38:44just because they make

00:38:45rap records

00:38:46and they happen to be

00:38:47bad people

00:38:48don't mean that

00:38:48rap is bad

00:38:49whatever you do

00:38:51you do

00:38:51don't try to be no

00:38:52thug

00:38:52if you a thug

00:38:53be a thug

00:38:53if you a nice guy

00:38:54like myself

00:38:55be a nice guy

00:38:56I don't care what

00:38:56people say about me

00:38:57I'm doing what I love

00:38:58to do

00:38:58there's people out there

00:38:59who respect me

00:38:59for what I do

00:39:00I respect every

00:39:01individual that I come

00:39:02across

00:39:02especially in hip-hop

00:39:13you want to have

00:39:14people around

00:39:14and you can vibe

00:39:15you know

00:39:15because it'd be like

00:39:16without them saying

00:39:17anything

00:39:18you know

00:39:18if they knocking

00:39:19or you know

00:39:20if they bobbing

00:39:20their head

00:39:21you know

00:39:21that you wanted

00:39:22something

00:39:22the most gratifying

00:39:31thing about all of this

00:39:32is the respect

00:39:33that I receive

00:39:33from people

00:39:34you know

00:39:35when I just walk

00:39:36down the street

00:39:36and the love

00:39:37that they show me

00:39:37and the appreciation

00:39:38and the fan mail

00:39:40that I get

00:39:40when people let me know

00:39:41that I inspire them

00:39:42and better themselves

00:39:43but I want to introduce

00:39:46you to our fellow officers

00:39:47they always take care

00:39:48of us during these functions

00:39:49every year I try

00:39:51to do something

00:39:52where I come from

00:39:52I put on basketball games

00:39:54I sponsor boxing tournaments

00:39:55this was the first annual

00:39:57of the nothing but love

00:39:58cookout

00:39:58alright we're going to

00:39:59start this up

00:39:59alright what y'all want to do

00:40:00let me get back a little bit

00:40:02I'm going to the dino man

00:40:04we're going to crack that up

00:40:06what y'all want to do

00:40:07yeah I'm telling you right now

00:40:08there's gas all over this shit

00:40:10so who's going to beat G.I. Joe

00:40:11hold on

00:40:12hold on

00:40:12how much shit you got

00:40:13nothing

00:40:14nothing

00:40:15$1 million

00:40:16$1 million

00:40:16boom

00:40:18oh yeah

00:40:19it's just for the community

00:40:21the kids love it

00:40:22people come from all over

00:40:23they love it

00:40:24it's in my hometown

00:40:24we had tons of food

00:40:27man

00:40:27crowded

00:40:28everybody came

00:40:29L.L. came

00:40:29Mary J. Blige came

00:40:31naughty by nature

00:40:31you know a lot of people

00:40:33showed up

00:40:33so it was

00:40:34it was

00:40:35fat

00:40:35it was hot

00:40:36I love it all

00:40:39I love the people

00:40:40the autograph signing

00:40:41you know

00:40:42I'm blessed

00:40:43in every aspect

00:40:44of what I do

00:40:45so

00:40:45ain't no sense

00:40:47me faking you out

00:40:47I love it

00:40:48I'd have been doing something

00:40:49I was bound to be famous

00:40:50the evolution of women

00:41:12rappers

00:41:13definitely started

00:41:15in the Bronx

00:41:15first there was

00:41:16a group called

00:41:17the funky four

00:41:17plus one more

00:41:18and that one more

00:41:19was a female

00:41:21by the name of

00:41:21Shawrock

00:41:22Shawrock

00:41:23I was in love

00:41:23with this girl

00:41:24I thought she was the best

00:41:25I mean she had a real

00:41:26good clean voice

00:41:27powerful strong

00:41:29but still sexy

00:41:30and ladylike

00:41:31she had good rhythm

00:41:32and then

00:41:33there was the sequence girls

00:41:34who came along

00:41:35with the Sugar Hill Gang

00:41:36records

00:41:37and they were actually

00:41:38the first female group

00:41:40on wax

00:41:41and of course

00:41:42she had Salt and Pepper

00:41:43who came along

00:41:44and came out

00:41:44with the first

00:41:45platinum hit

00:41:46for a female group

00:41:47we've been able

00:41:48to endure

00:41:49you know

00:41:50a lot of hard times

00:41:51because we do care

00:41:52and care about each other

00:41:54but um

00:41:55she makes it fun

00:41:56this girl is crazy

00:41:58we've always

00:42:00found it

00:42:01our duty

00:42:03as female

00:42:04artists

00:42:05to

00:42:05tell the other side

00:42:08of that story

00:42:09you know

00:42:09we're about

00:42:10telling the ladies

00:42:11to respect yourself

00:42:13love yourself

00:42:14and just

00:42:14to tell the females

00:42:15not to give them

00:42:16so much to talk about

00:42:17some of the young ladies

00:42:18have to become

00:42:19themselves

00:42:21have to learn

00:42:22how to

00:42:22you know

00:42:23stop being

00:42:24what a man

00:42:24wants them to be

00:42:25and you know

00:42:26start realizing

00:42:27who they are

00:42:27and what they are

00:42:28you know what I'm saying

00:42:29if they want to wear

00:42:30the short skirt

00:42:30if they want to wear

00:42:31the baggy jeans

00:42:32do whatever it is

00:42:32that they want to do

00:42:33when guys say like

00:42:35bitch or hoe

00:42:36it don't bother me

00:42:36because

00:42:37for the simple fact

00:42:38one

00:42:38they're not talking

00:42:39about me

00:42:39and where I'm from

00:42:40the west side of Chicago

00:42:42we can see our homegirls

00:42:43and be like

00:42:43what's up bitch

00:42:44shut the fuck up

00:42:45you're stupid

00:42:46you know what I mean

00:42:46it's all in fun

00:42:47it really depends

00:42:48on how you say the shit

00:42:49and you know

00:42:49when somebody's saying it wrong

00:42:50or you know

00:42:51when they're trying

00:42:51to be derogatory

00:42:52about the shit

00:42:53and some autographed pitches

00:42:55and I hope for you bitches

00:42:57and if you a bitch

00:42:59it's just like nigga

00:43:00the same thing

00:43:01you know what I mean

00:43:02people just take it differently

00:43:03that shit turns me off

00:43:05you a lady

00:43:06I think you need to act like a lady

00:43:08you know what I'm saying

00:43:08it's a way that you can act like a lady

00:43:10and still have skills rapping

00:43:12you know what I'm saying

00:43:12but when you start that old

00:43:15wanna be like a nigga

00:43:16and hats

00:43:17and baggy jeans

00:43:18and boots

00:43:18it's just a turn off to me

00:43:20watch

00:43:21that's their life

00:43:22this is mine

00:43:23they don't like me to say

00:43:24bitch, fuck, nigga, and hoe

00:43:26that's me

00:43:26this is how I kick it

00:43:28this is how I live

00:43:29I'm just trying to be straight

00:43:30real with everybody

00:43:31I ain't trying to come

00:43:32sugarcoat it or nothing like that

00:43:33I'm just trying to put it down

00:43:34the best way I know how

00:43:36I'm not really big on that

00:43:38you know

00:43:39because I happen to think

00:43:40that if we hold the women

00:43:42in high respect

00:43:42then the women

00:43:43who have the children

00:43:44of these men

00:43:45who are calling the women

00:43:46bitches and hoes

00:43:47will treat their children

00:43:48you know what I'm saying

00:43:49with more love

00:43:50and will raise up

00:43:51stronger individuals

00:43:52my experience is

00:43:53it's just been

00:43:53it has been hard to find

00:43:55a female to work with

00:43:57that I'm really digging

00:43:59you know

00:43:59and out here on the west coast

00:44:01there's not that many females

00:44:02that get in

00:44:03get into rap

00:44:04you know what I'm saying

00:44:04they're on nine to fives

00:44:06you know

00:44:07you know Rome wasn't built

00:44:09in a day

00:44:09the world's not gonna change

00:44:10overnight

00:44:11come here Santi

00:44:12come here

00:44:13look at the camera

00:44:17smile

00:44:18say hi

00:44:19hi

00:44:19tell them your name

00:44:20my name is Santi

00:44:22who am I

00:44:24Uncle Heavy

00:44:25give me a kiss

00:44:25bye

00:44:27when I'm in the studio

00:44:37yo

00:44:39yo

00:44:40Dio

00:44:40gaga

00:44:50at its best

00:44:51hip hop music

00:44:52can grab the nation

00:44:54by the neck

00:44:55and make people realize

00:44:57what's going on

00:44:58it's a voice for the

00:45:00oppressed people that

00:45:01in many other ways

00:45:02just don't have a voice

00:45:03we didn't know nothing

00:45:04about no west coast

00:45:05we didn't know nothing

00:45:06about Philly

00:45:07we didn't know nothing

00:45:07about Jersey

00:45:08until the rap came

00:45:09and then we just started

00:45:10communicating

00:45:10and it's just been one

00:45:11it's the nigga news

00:45:12it's shit that

00:45:13we speak

00:45:14I can tell people in New York

00:45:15what I'm going through

00:45:16from my experiences

00:45:17as a Los Angeles

00:45:18young black man

00:45:19and they can speak

00:45:20from a New York

00:45:21young black man

00:45:22what they're going through

00:45:23you know you have guys

00:45:24you know who are rappers

00:45:26who are from the ghetto

00:45:27and the stuff that they say

00:45:29is stuff that they live

00:45:31every day

00:45:32these are their lyrics

00:45:33after growing up here

00:45:42and seeing my man

00:45:44that lived upstairs

00:45:45getting killed

00:45:45and then my brother shot

00:45:46like you know what I'm saying

00:45:48that showed me

00:45:49what type of world

00:45:51this shit is

00:45:52you know what I'm saying

00:45:53the most of the time

00:45:56I feared about living here

00:45:57when I was young

00:45:58when I couldn't defend myself

00:46:00from shit was going on

00:46:02because it was older niggas

00:46:03doing shit

00:46:04it was a big world

00:46:06and I was young

00:46:07and all I had was my mom

00:46:08and my brother

00:46:10you know what I'm saying

00:46:10my younger brother

00:46:11you know what I'm saying

00:46:12so all I did was

00:46:13just handle myself

00:46:14to get into a position

00:46:15where I could say

00:46:16I'm going to hold my ground

00:46:18I'm old enough

00:46:18to control my destiny

00:46:20and not to be bullshitted

00:46:22by no bullshit niggas

00:46:23no more

00:46:24or nothing

00:46:25I'd be thinking about

00:46:27going back to school

00:46:28because

00:46:29I mean my knowledge

00:46:30is limited right now

00:46:31there's a lot of things

00:46:32that I don't know about

00:46:33that I could take advantage of

00:46:35as soon as I learn about it

00:46:37I'm not a big drug dealer

00:46:42with 25 years on my head

00:46:44I sing rap records

00:46:46and I can make my brand

00:46:48I'm not a doctor

00:46:51or a lawyer

00:46:51but I'm 21

00:46:53with a start

00:46:54you know as far as messages go

00:47:03you know what I'm trying to get across

00:47:05I'm trying to get across

00:47:06like several different things

00:47:08you know what I'm saying

00:47:09like for instance

00:47:10there's one side of me

00:47:12that's totally for the preservation

00:47:14of black youth

00:47:15you know what I'm saying

00:47:16because we're dying

00:47:17at a rapid rate

00:47:19the numbers of dying youth

00:47:22is increasing like daily

00:47:23in our neighborhood

00:47:24I can't stand

00:47:26the ghetto

00:47:27a lot of rappers

00:47:29you know they run around

00:47:30yeah I'm ghetto

00:47:31you know what I'm saying

00:47:32I live in the ghetto

00:47:33the ghetto don't live in me

00:47:34this is a ill situation

00:47:35we have been put here

00:47:37for a cause

00:47:38we have been put here

00:47:40to die

00:47:40that's genocide man

00:47:42and that's the bottom line

00:47:43if I had the chance to live

00:47:44with a stream flowing through

00:47:46my backyard

00:47:46meadows in my backyard

00:47:48you think I wouldn't

00:47:50we're not here

00:47:51just because we want to be hip and fly

00:47:52it wasn't our choice

00:47:54to come to the ghetto

00:47:54you know so as far as

00:47:56staying true to the hood

00:47:56I'm not really staying true to the hood

00:47:58I'm staying true to the people

00:47:59that are in the hood

00:48:00I don't want my kids to grow up

00:48:09in the environment

00:48:10I grew up in

00:48:11so I moved out

00:48:12you know

00:48:13I send my kids to the good schools

00:48:15away from

00:48:17the fucked up shit

00:48:18because

00:48:19I didn't have that opportunity

00:48:22when I was a youth

00:48:23I didn't have no choice

00:48:24I had nowhere else to go

00:48:26I had to stay there

00:48:27but I know what I did

00:48:28to get here

00:48:29and all the nights

00:48:30I spent in the studio

00:48:32rapping and writing

00:48:33and it was all me

00:48:34and you try to help

00:48:36some of your homies out

00:48:37I hook niggas up

00:48:38you know

00:48:39if you know how to rap

00:48:40I try to get you a deal

00:48:41I work with you in the studio

00:48:42but it's not a form of just going

00:48:45okay I got paper

00:48:46here go a thousand

00:48:47here go two thousand

00:48:48here go five

00:48:48and that's what brothers expected

00:48:50you have to learn

00:48:51who your true homies are and shit

00:48:53you got the jealous homies

00:48:55that don't want to see you come up

00:48:56you got the player haters

00:48:58you got the crooked females

00:48:59who want to set you up

00:49:00and then you got the niggas in general

00:49:02who just roll around

00:49:03just looking for niggas

00:49:05period to check

00:49:06I don't put my city down

00:49:08I love Compton to the fullest

00:49:09but with me

00:49:11being a father

00:49:12a businessman

00:49:13me staying in Compton

00:49:15would mean me

00:49:16having to deal

00:49:17with the same situations

00:49:18as I dealt with

00:49:20as a teenager

00:49:21I moved out

00:49:22to the community

00:49:23where I could walk

00:49:24out my front door

00:49:25and wouldn't have to see

00:49:26gang writing

00:49:27and shit like that

00:49:28because I lived in that shit

00:49:30all my life

00:49:31and I figure

00:49:32if you can

00:49:33you might as well

00:49:35to better yourself

00:49:36and to better your future family

00:49:37you can't have this

00:49:40out of control

00:49:42dope

00:49:42and stay in the same house

00:49:43that you grew up in

00:49:44it's impossible

00:49:45you're going to get licked

00:49:47sooner or later

00:49:47you know what I'm saying

00:49:48but you ain't got to

00:49:49move from California

00:49:51but of course

00:49:52you get a million dollars

00:49:53and your mama

00:49:54been on section 8

00:49:55all your life

00:49:55or whatever

00:49:56she's been living in

00:49:57apartments

00:49:57you know what I'm saying

00:49:58all her life

00:49:59you get a million dollars

00:49:59you ain't going to stay there

00:50:00you know

00:50:01there's always going to be

00:50:02people that don't like me

00:50:04because they think

00:50:05I'm doing too much

00:50:06or they think

00:50:07I'm showing off

00:50:07but you know

00:50:08I still

00:50:08even though

00:50:09the ones who do be

00:50:10play here

00:50:10they be

00:50:11them be ones

00:50:12who was friends

00:50:12from a long time ago

00:50:13so really

00:50:14when they do talk

00:50:16that kind of stuff

00:50:17and all that

00:50:17I really shine it on

00:50:18but at the same time

00:50:19I still talk to them

00:50:20and let them know

00:50:21I still got a lot of love

00:50:22for them

00:50:22regardless how they playing

00:50:23I still live in my

00:50:25staying neighborhood

00:50:26still do the same thing

00:50:28you know

00:50:28I still wear the same clothes

00:50:29I don't wear the costume

00:50:30when I come to console

00:50:32that's why I wear on stage

00:50:33you know

00:50:34same thing

00:50:35we're just fortunate

00:50:36that you know

00:50:36a lot of people

00:50:37bought the records

00:50:38you know

00:50:38it's great

00:50:39but we're still

00:50:39the same people

00:50:40we make our music

00:50:41for the kids

00:50:42around the block

00:50:43you know what I'm saying

00:50:44we still live in the projects

00:50:45we're still keeping it real

00:50:46as you see

00:50:47it's mad people's

00:50:48right here

00:50:48right now

00:50:49you know what I'm saying

00:50:50that's just with us

00:50:51because this is how it been

00:50:52before this rap shit

00:50:53even came off

00:50:54you know what I'm saying

00:50:55so therefore

00:50:56you see our chamber

00:50:57we're getting high

00:50:59niggas got bad

00:51:00you know what I'm saying

00:51:01niggas are still

00:51:02watching their back

00:51:03from the cops

00:51:04but it's all real

00:51:05and like nobody

00:51:07fucking wants to live

00:51:08in the ghetto

00:51:08the best thing you can do

00:51:10is get out

00:51:10and get your family

00:51:11up out of there

00:51:12interviewers will come over

00:51:13and say

00:51:14you don't live

00:51:15in a black community

00:51:16well where is a black community

00:51:17where do white people live

00:51:19white people live

00:51:20wherever the fuck

00:51:21they want to live

00:51:22there is no black community

00:51:24there's a poor community

00:51:25and I'm not trying

00:51:26to live in no

00:51:27fucking poor community

00:51:28I've been making records

00:51:3014 years

00:51:30and movies

00:51:31I should not have shit

00:51:33would that make you happier

00:51:34I mean

00:51:35what in the fuck

00:51:36did they think

00:51:36we were stealing

00:51:37for in the hood

00:51:37you know

00:51:38when I was out

00:51:38in South Central

00:51:39I used to be doing

00:51:40all that shit

00:51:41and we used to look

00:51:41up at these hills

00:51:42and this was my goal

00:51:43to one day

00:51:44get out of the ghetto

00:51:44and I think the best thing

00:51:46I'm doing for my community

00:51:47is showing them

00:51:48that a brother like myself

00:51:50without giving in to the man

00:51:51can make it

00:51:52and that means

00:51:53they can make it

00:51:54and when my friends

00:51:55come up here

00:51:55they say

00:51:55man this is inspiring

00:51:56nice man

00:51:57because you did it

00:51:58with your hat

00:51:58turned back

00:51:59telling America

00:52:00to kiss your fucking ass

00:52:01interviewers will come over

00:52:03and say

00:52:03well you got a big house

00:52:04and I'm like

00:52:05why don't you say

00:52:05I got a big house

00:52:06for somebody black

00:52:07racist motherfucker

00:52:08I look at it like this

00:52:11when I was in the hood

00:52:12we were selling drugs

00:52:14we was robbing

00:52:15and shit like that

00:52:16you know what I'm saying

00:52:17so the community

00:52:18wasn't really by our side

00:52:20like

00:52:20there wasn't no shit

00:52:22where they was liking us

00:52:23nobody liked us

00:52:24in the area

00:52:24we had to eat

00:52:27my daughter had to eat

00:52:28so we was doing

00:52:28what we had to do

00:52:29regardless

00:52:30no matter what

00:52:30the community

00:52:31felt about it

00:52:33and after I left

00:52:34the drugs alone

00:52:35and started doing

00:52:36the music shit

00:52:36and all of a sudden

00:52:37the community is like

00:52:38yeah well he's doing good

00:52:40now and

00:52:40it seemed like

00:52:41it's fake love to me

00:52:42you know what I'm saying

00:52:43you ain't had no love

00:52:44for me when I was fucked up

00:52:45and I had to sell drugs

00:52:46to live

00:52:46so why have

00:52:48more fucking love

00:52:48for me now

00:52:49because I'm nigga

00:52:49doing good

00:52:50you know what I'm saying

00:52:51my real niggas

00:52:52is by my side

00:52:52that's all I need

00:52:53and I think

00:52:54me hustling

00:52:55selling drugs

00:52:56it schooled me

00:52:57to the streets a lot

00:52:58you know what I'm saying

00:52:59I learned a lot

00:53:00you know what I'm saying

00:53:01I learned some things

00:53:02you can do

00:53:02and some things

00:53:03you can't do

00:53:03you know

00:53:05selling drugs forever

00:53:07is something you can't do

00:53:08you cannot do that

00:53:10you will eventually die

00:53:12or go to jail

00:53:12that's a fact

00:53:13I was in Harlem World

00:53:16Union Square

00:53:17Latin Quarters

00:53:18I was all there

00:53:18up in there like this

00:53:19you know sneaky

00:53:20razor blade in my mouth

00:53:22and shit

00:53:22you know when you young

00:53:23you do anything

00:53:24mess tabs up in my system

00:53:25cocktail cigarettes

00:53:27dust blunts and shit

00:53:29you know what I'm saying

00:53:29I went through that whole phase

00:53:30lived life fast

00:53:31and lived it quick

00:53:32you know what I'm saying

00:53:32but you know

00:53:33then you know

00:53:35it's like when I got

00:53:36the knowledge of myself

00:53:36and shit

00:53:37I was able to adapt

00:53:38and calm things down

00:53:39you know what I'm saying

00:53:40and then when I had

00:53:41my first seed

00:53:42you know

00:53:42nigga woke up

00:53:43like yo

00:53:43life is more than

00:53:44just about me

00:53:45and shit

00:53:46I got generations

00:53:46to bring forth

00:53:47basically Cypress Hill

00:53:48used to hang out

00:53:49in front of right here

00:53:50you know getting fucked up

00:53:52you know drinking beers

00:53:53and shit

00:53:53talking shit

00:53:54and you know

00:53:55we get to rhyming

00:53:55and shit

00:53:56I smoked B-Rail

00:53:57his first joint

00:53:58right there

00:53:58on that tree

00:53:59right there

00:54:00so we used to come

00:54:01chill right here

00:54:01cause we used to come

00:54:02like

00:54:02so you can hide

00:54:03from the cops

00:54:04right here

00:54:04and get high

00:54:05in 85

00:54:06there was a big weed drought

00:54:07in 86 was the year

00:54:09that crack came in

00:54:10and everything changed

00:54:11crack just really

00:54:12just ripped an asshole

00:54:13out of the neighborhood

00:54:14I mean all the

00:54:15even the drug dealers

00:54:16that had all the cars

00:54:17you seen them get smoked

00:54:18and it was like a siphon

00:54:20like anybody who

00:54:21fucked with it

00:54:22just got sucked in

00:54:23the crack movement came out

00:54:37and a lot of people

00:54:38that even vibed on crack

00:54:39the music was faster

00:54:40you know

00:54:41the environment much quicker

00:54:42and the commentary

00:54:43kind of went to the

00:54:44temple of the effects

00:54:46of the drugs

00:54:46and political rap

00:54:47and conscious rap

00:54:48tried to make people

00:54:49look at what they was

00:54:50doing

00:54:50and if they was

00:54:51doing things

00:54:52in a negative way

00:54:52try to look at it

00:54:53in the unhip way

00:54:54try to make it

00:54:55unhip unfashionable

00:54:56all of a sudden

00:54:57all these anti-drug

00:54:59records started

00:54:59coming out

00:55:00out of the hip-hop scene

00:55:01where it's like

00:55:02if you were on crack

00:55:03you know

00:55:03like

00:55:03brand nubians

00:55:05grand poobah

00:55:07was talking about

00:55:08you know

00:55:08slow down

00:55:10so now

00:55:10if somebody tells you

00:55:11yo when

00:55:12we getting ready

00:55:12to go smoke crack

00:55:13you look at them crazy

00:55:14like

00:55:14nigga you finna smoke crack

00:55:16shit is whack

00:55:18shit ain't changing man

00:55:20shit's getting worse

00:55:21out here if anything

00:55:22that's just a part

00:55:23of everyday life

00:55:24man it ain't

00:55:24it ain't nothing

00:55:25shocking or surprising

00:55:26us it's just like

00:55:27a lot of motherfuckers

00:55:28will stop and look at it

00:55:29and be like

00:55:30whoa

00:55:30walk by

00:55:31that's

00:55:32you know

00:55:33same old thing

00:55:34see it everyday

00:55:35I sold it

00:55:38and I've seen

00:55:38what it does to people

00:55:39and

00:55:40I kind of got

00:55:41a bad conscience

00:55:42about that

00:55:43the world is full of thugs

00:55:51hustlers

00:55:52big willy mobsters

00:55:53I kill rappers on the records

00:55:55it's my job to

00:55:56separate the will

00:55:57from the fake

00:55:58so I reveal the truth

00:56:00and break it down

00:56:00on a wax

00:56:01the laws of the underground

00:56:02try to you know

00:56:03express like

00:56:04the funny side

00:56:05the good side

00:56:06or you know

00:56:07out of the normal

00:56:08of the hood

00:56:09that people don't really

00:56:10talk about

00:56:10because we always

00:56:11hearing about the negative

00:56:12but we try to talk about

00:56:13some positives sometimes

00:56:14all you suit on tough guys

00:56:19end up dearly departed

00:56:20as a young juvenile

00:56:21I started

00:56:22learning from some

00:56:23older dudes

00:56:23from the pictures

00:56:24to stick up man

00:56:25and back then

00:56:26you had to know

00:56:26the rules

00:56:27the peer pressure

00:56:28it can get you

00:56:28knocked and locked up

00:56:30or lay the fuck out

00:56:31upon a stretcher

00:56:32this world is full of thugs

00:56:33hustlers

00:56:34big willy mobsters

00:56:35I kill rappers on the records

00:56:37it's my job to

00:56:38separate the real

00:56:39from the fake

00:56:39so I reveal the truth

00:56:41to break it down

00:56:42on the rocks

00:56:43late

00:56:43y'all like

00:56:46michael jackson

00:56:47y'all like

00:56:50michael jackson

00:56:51he grabbed his crotch

00:56:54to us

00:56:55y'all like

00:56:58whitney houston

00:56:58y'all like

00:57:01biggie smolls

00:57:02y'all like

00:57:04wu-tay clan

00:57:05y'all look up

00:57:07to your mom and dad

00:57:08yeah

00:57:08oh boy

00:57:11I heard a no

00:57:12me

00:57:12you don't look up

00:57:13to your mom and dad

00:57:14well you know

00:57:17you have

00:57:17you know

00:57:18some cases like that

00:57:19but some kids don't

00:57:20I ain't gonna get

00:57:21into that

00:57:21young man's

00:57:22reason why

00:57:24but most of the kids

00:57:25say yeah

00:57:25they look up to them

00:57:26and that's important

00:57:27my mom and dad

00:57:28sometimes

00:57:29you know what I'm saying

00:57:29they would

00:57:30get on a fellow nerves

00:57:31you know

00:57:32when I wanted to do

00:57:32things that I wanted to do

00:57:34but now that I look back

00:57:35and see how they raised me

00:57:36I saw that they was right

00:57:38y'all may not understand

00:57:39it right now

00:57:40but when y'all get older

00:57:41y'all gonna see what I mean

00:57:42your mom and dad

00:57:43man

00:57:44those are definite

00:57:44role models

00:57:45I think

00:57:46she was just a single

00:57:51black mother

00:57:52she gave me

00:57:53you know

00:57:53she didn't let nothing

00:57:54no obstacles

00:57:56stand in her way

00:57:56she overcame every obstacle

00:57:58you know what I'm saying

00:57:59my mother owns my company

00:58:00she owns Bad Boy

00:58:01you know

00:58:03that was my gift to her

00:58:04she was the only one

00:58:05that was always there

00:58:06for me no matter what

00:58:07yeah my mother's

00:58:08the closest one to me

00:58:09you know

00:58:10she gave me everything

00:58:11I always wanted

00:58:12you know what I'm saying

00:58:13Christmas time

00:58:14I had it all

00:58:15when my friends didn't

00:58:17she just gave me

00:58:18everything that was

00:58:19the style

00:58:19she made sure I had it

00:58:21some things I couldn't

00:58:22give her

00:58:22the things I did got

00:58:23I was real happy for

00:58:25the rest of the world

00:58:26is crazy

00:58:27I know that I can come home

00:58:28and everything is cool

00:58:29and that's what makes

00:58:30you want to take a chance

00:58:31there are a lot of people

00:58:32who don't have that

00:58:33that type of support

00:58:34and I feel sorry

00:58:35you know what I'm saying

00:58:36that's one part of my strength

00:58:38is the fact that

00:58:39no matter what happens

00:58:40if this industry

00:58:41falls in love with me

00:58:42or decides that they

00:58:43no longer love me

00:58:44and they want to get rid of me

00:58:45you know

00:58:46those people will always

00:58:47be in my corner

00:58:48when you talk about my mom

00:58:52it's beyond words

00:58:53she just did everything

00:58:57I love her for that man

00:58:59he was on the St. B's

00:59:01basketball team

00:59:02this is breakdancing

00:59:05this is how he started

00:59:07I think that was

00:59:08just before rapping

00:59:10he was actually in high school

00:59:12on this one

00:59:13he was about 17 years old

00:59:15I go on some video shoots

00:59:18with him

00:59:19I was very proud of this one

00:59:21because his sister was in it also

00:59:23that's his sister

00:59:24and that's Spice One

00:59:26every time we go somewhere

00:59:29we at a concert

00:59:30and she want to come

00:59:32I have like 12 or 13

00:59:33of my homeboys

00:59:34surrounding her

00:59:35with straps

00:59:36nigga don't let nobody

00:59:37touch my mama

00:59:39oh I worry about his safety

00:59:41a lot

00:59:42a lot of things

00:59:43that's happened to him

00:59:44he's been shot at

00:59:45harassed

00:59:47when he was little

00:59:49we thought he was

00:59:50going to be a preacher

00:59:51because he carried a bible

00:59:53around all the time

00:59:54had his name on it

00:59:55well he is a preacher

00:59:57only he does it

00:59:58through his rap

00:59:59he's been promising me

01:00:00a house since he was

01:00:01a little boy

01:00:02and I had no idea

01:00:04how he was going to buy it

01:00:06but now I know

01:00:07all of our heroes

01:00:11were killed off

01:00:12Martin Luther King

01:00:12Malcolm X

01:00:13JFK

01:00:15so I grew up

01:00:17having heroes

01:00:18that were the local

01:00:19drug dealer

01:00:20pimps

01:00:21the pushers

01:00:21the guys

01:00:23with the doves

01:00:24the guys

01:00:24who were riding around

01:00:25in the sevilles

01:00:26and the cadillacs

01:00:27you know

01:00:27guys who were flashing

01:00:28the hundred dollar bills

01:00:29the number runners

01:00:30the whole thing

01:00:31about hip hop

01:00:32was to wear the gold chain

01:00:33and you know

01:00:35they're dressed like

01:00:35the street hustler

01:00:36a nigga to talk about

01:00:38he got on a Rolex watch

01:00:39and all this shit

01:00:40now without finishing school

01:00:42going to college

01:00:43or just starting a business

01:00:45or something

01:00:45you want to wonder

01:00:46how you get that Rolex watch

01:00:48and that's the part of it

01:00:50that's the mystique

01:00:51that leads you

01:00:52to want to be

01:00:53where he's at

01:00:53I rap

01:00:54I try to get money here

01:00:56you know what I'm saying

01:00:57but as far as

01:00:58everybody else

01:00:59in the community

01:00:59my age

01:01:00they probably got to

01:01:01get a job at McDonald's

01:01:02and then

01:01:02they mind is just like mine

01:01:04where they really working

01:01:04at McDonald's

01:01:05saying

01:01:05damn I want better than this

01:01:07but you can ask

01:01:0890% of the people

01:01:09that's involved

01:01:09in hip hop music

01:01:10what they would be doing

01:01:11if hip hop didn't exist

01:01:13and I can guarantee you

01:01:15it won't be positive

01:01:16sometimes the reaching

01:01:18and the showing off

01:01:19for the Lexuses

01:01:20and the big willyism

01:01:22that's cool for some

01:01:23but you know

01:01:25it's a nightmare to most

01:01:26because 99 out of 100

01:01:29don't achieve

01:01:30that particular dream

01:01:31so our particular dreams

01:01:32have to be rooted

01:01:33more than reality

01:01:34and people talk about

01:01:35keeping it real

01:01:36but you got to make it real first

01:01:37I mean I'm an ill individual

01:01:40I mean if you really

01:01:41get off into me man

01:01:42I'm like

01:01:42I'm ill

01:01:43I like all I watch

01:01:45is horror movies

01:01:46and shit

01:01:46but I've kind of like

01:01:50learned to control

01:01:50my negative side

01:01:51I've turned it into

01:01:52a very

01:01:53I'm a very peaceful

01:01:54calm individual

01:01:55I want to hurt nobody

01:01:57so I kind of like

01:01:58send that energy

01:02:00I used to have

01:02:00of the static

01:02:01that I used to act out

01:02:02I put that in my music

01:02:04it's like

01:02:05once you've been a criminal

01:02:06and you've been out there

01:02:07and you felt the

01:02:08the excitement

01:02:09the adrenaline rush

01:02:10of that life

01:02:11you're intoxicated forever

01:02:14but

01:02:15I know the way

01:02:16I'm living now

01:02:17I respect this life

01:02:19too much

01:02:20I would never take

01:02:21a risk like that

01:02:22because anything

01:02:23I went after now

01:02:24it would have to be

01:02:25like a million and up

01:02:26if I put a score

01:02:28down like that

01:02:28somebody's probably

01:02:29going to end up dead

01:02:30and I'll probably be

01:02:31on the run

01:02:31for the rest of my life

01:02:32but I still got the skills

01:02:34and I know I can

01:02:35I'm more of a

01:02:36I'm more of a crook

01:02:38than I am a rapper

01:02:39and I know that

01:02:39there you go

01:02:44that's the way

01:02:45your life

01:02:46that's what you like

01:02:47I'm going inbound

01:02:48yeah

01:02:48you did yours

01:02:49the same way

01:02:50you got a wide line

01:02:51can I get some furniture

01:02:53to work with

01:02:54some furniture

01:02:55yeah

01:02:57if I went into music

01:02:59finish what kind of

01:03:00game I would be in

01:03:01I'm not going to let you

01:03:03know what kind of game

01:03:03I would be in

01:03:04that's for me to know

01:03:06for you to find out

01:03:06yeah I wasn't

01:03:08the other stuff

01:03:09you know but

01:03:09it came a time

01:03:10when I got a reality

01:03:11check you know

01:03:12but something happened

01:03:13to me so

01:03:14after that when it

01:03:16happened you know

01:03:16I decided that

01:03:17I knew I better

01:03:17do this

01:03:18you know I might

01:03:20not be able to do

01:03:20nothing no more

01:03:21period

01:03:21got shot

01:03:24was confined to a

01:03:27wheelchair for like

01:03:27a year and a half

01:03:28yeah I mean

01:03:30I'm talking about

01:03:31I got shot nine times

01:03:32you know

01:03:33it ain't no

01:03:38surprising thing

01:03:40your body happens

01:03:41in every ghetto

01:03:42somebody gets shot

01:03:43or somebody get

01:03:43killed

01:03:43you know

01:03:44do I ever carry that

01:03:57yeah

01:03:58well done

01:03:58well first I couldn't

01:04:01believe it

01:04:01you know

01:04:02god damn

01:04:02you know

01:04:03I got hit

01:04:04I'm hit

01:04:05I think I knew

01:04:07I was doing

01:04:07so much wrong

01:04:08that I knew

01:04:09I was going

01:04:09straight to hell

01:04:10it ain't something

01:04:16that I'm proud of

01:04:17it's something

01:04:17I had to do

01:04:18because

01:04:19the situation

01:04:20I was in

01:04:21shooting at

01:04:22being shot

01:04:23I'd never get

01:04:28on camera

01:04:29saying no

01:04:29shit like

01:04:29that

01:04:30I ain't

01:04:31finna

01:04:31answer

01:04:31nothing

01:04:32like

01:04:32that

01:04:32say we

01:04:33down

01:04:33south

01:04:34hustling

01:04:35we gotta be

01:04:35scrapped

01:04:36because

01:04:36it's just

01:04:37like that

01:04:37you never

01:04:38know

01:04:38when a player

01:04:38hitter

01:04:39gonna run

01:04:39up on

01:04:39you

01:04:39try to

01:04:40take

01:04:40what

01:04:40you

01:04:40got

01:04:41you

01:04:41know

01:04:41what

01:04:41I'm

01:04:41saying

01:04:41I roll

01:04:42around

01:04:42with a

01:04:42gun

01:04:42every

01:04:43day

01:04:43now

01:04:43because

01:04:44of

01:04:44the

01:04:44situations

01:04:45that

01:04:45I

01:04:45had

01:04:45to

01:04:46deal

01:04:46with

01:04:46when

01:04:46I

01:04:46used

01:04:47to

01:04:47gangbang

01:04:48and

01:04:48the

01:04:48brothers

01:04:48who won't

01:04:49let

01:04:53you

01:04:53the

01:04:54real

01:04:54I

01:04:55seen

01:04:55everything

01:04:55so

01:04:56that's

01:04:56what

01:04:57makes

01:04:57me

01:04:57speak

01:04:57like

01:04:58I

01:04:58speak

01:04:58and

01:04:58that's

01:04:59what

01:04:59makes

01:04:59me

01:04:59bring

01:04:59the

01:05:00music

01:05:00like

01:05:00I

01:05:00do

01:05:01because

01:05:01I

01:05:02been

01:05:02there

01:05:02you

01:05:02know

01:05:02I

01:05:03belong

01:05:03to

01:05:03gangs

01:05:04I

01:05:04done

01:05:04went

01:05:04on

01:05:05drive-bys

01:05:06so

01:05:12it

01:05:12just

01:05:13all has

01:05:13to

01:05:13depend

01:05:14on

01:05:14the

01:05:14situation

01:05:15you

01:05:15know

01:05:15if

01:05:15somebody

01:05:16threatens

01:05:16you

01:05:17you

01:05:17gonna

01:05:17kill

01:05:17them

01:05:23you

01:05:23can't

01:05:24understand

01:05:25work

01:05:25in

01:05:26this

01:05:26kill

01:05:26a

01:05:27time

01:05:42tried

01:05:42to

01:05:42come

01:05:42in

01:05:43my

01:05:43home

01:05:43take

01:05:44my

01:05:44chrome

01:05:44I

01:05:44said

01:05:45you

01:05:45were

01:05:45sewn

01:05:46take

01:05:46cover

01:05:46son

01:05:47or

01:05:47your

01:05:48ass

01:05:48out

01:05:48you

01:05:48like

01:05:49my

01:05:49tone

01:05:49then

01:05:49I

01:05:49want

01:05:49the

01:05:50rookie

01:05:50pass

01:05:50I

01:05:50pinned

01:05:51at

01:05:51the

01:05:51blast

01:05:52I

01:05:52what

01:05:52I

01:05:52did

01:05:52anyway

01:05:53you

01:05:54got to

01:06:07listen

01:06:07to

01:06:08the

01:06:08shit

01:06:08to

01:06:08understand

01:06:09it

01:06:09rewind

01:06:10it

01:06:10three

01:06:10and

01:06:11four

01:06:11times

01:06:11listen

01:06:12to

01:06:12it

01:06:12you

01:06:13know

01:06:14then

01:06:14maybe

01:06:14you'll

01:06:15get

01:06:15a little

01:06:16notion

01:06:17where

01:06:17we're

01:06:17coming

01:06:17from

01:06:18Charlton

01:06:18Heston

01:06:19spoke

01:06:19out

01:06:19today

01:06:19against

01:06:20gangster

01:06:20rap

01:06:21music

01:06:21that

01:06:21is

01:06:21aimed

01:06:22at

01:06:22the

01:06:22police

01:06:22Heston

01:06:23claimed

01:06:23that

01:06:24the

01:06:24violent

01:06:24content

01:06:25of

01:06:25the

01:06:25lyrics

01:06:25has

01:06:26a

01:06:26negative

01:06:26influence

01:06:27on

01:06:27American

01:06:27values

01:06:28that's

01:06:29where

01:06:29white

01:06:29America

01:06:30pisses

01:06:30me

01:06:30off

01:06:30at

01:06:31Arnold

01:06:31Schwarzenegger

01:06:32can

01:06:32kill a

01:06:33whole

01:06:33police force

01:06:34in this

01:06:34movie

01:06:34but the

01:06:35minute

01:06:35Mac

01:06:3610

01:06:36talking

01:06:36about

01:06:36shooting

01:06:36one

01:06:37police

01:06:37or something

01:06:37they want

01:06:38to take

01:06:38my record

01:06:38off

01:06:38the show

01:06:39some

01:06:40some

01:06:40of

01:06:40us

01:06:40didn't

01:06:40even

01:06:40graduate

01:06:41from

01:06:41high

01:06:41school

01:06:41and

01:06:42we

01:06:42making

01:06:42seven

01:06:43figures

01:06:43you

01:06:44know

01:06:44what I'm

01:06:44saying

01:06:44it's

01:06:45hard

01:06:45for you

01:06:45to

01:06:45swallow

01:06:46if you

01:06:46went to

01:06:46Harvard

01:06:46to yell

01:06:47all your

01:06:47motherfucking

01:06:48life

01:06:48and you

01:06:49ain't

01:06:49making

01:06:49but

01:06:4950,000

01:06:50a year

01:06:50and a

01:06:51motherfucker

01:06:51like

01:06:51us

01:06:52can

01:06:52make

01:06:52a

01:06:52million

01:06:52a

01:06:53year

01:06:53you

01:06:53know

01:06:53what I'm

01:06:53saying

01:06:53that's

01:06:54hard

01:06:54for

01:06:54you

01:06:54to

01:06:54swallow

01:06:55put

01:06:55it

01:06:55like

01:06:56this

01:06:56N.W.A.

01:06:57was not

01:06:57a prophet

01:06:57you

01:06:58know

01:06:58what I'm

01:06:58saying

01:06:58when

01:06:58they

01:06:58was

01:06:58talking

01:06:59about

01:06:59fuck

01:06:59the

01:06:59police

01:06:59and

01:06:59one

01:07:00time

01:07:00it's

01:07:00doing

01:07:00this

01:07:00and

01:07:00that

01:07:01I

01:07:01mean

01:07:01I sat

01:07:02there

01:07:02and I

01:07:02said

01:07:02hell yeah

01:07:04you know

01:07:04what I'm

01:07:04saying

01:07:04I relate

01:07:05to

01:07:05that

01:07:05but

01:07:06the

01:07:06average

01:07:06white

01:07:07American

01:07:07if we

01:07:08if we're

01:07:08gonna have

01:07:08to generalize

01:07:09they said

01:07:09why

01:07:10why would

01:07:10they think

01:07:11such a

01:07:11thing

01:07:11you

01:07:12don't

01:07:12really

01:07:12have

01:07:12any

01:07:13love

01:07:13for

01:07:13him

01:07:13you

01:07:13know

01:07:14I

01:07:14ain't

01:07:14never

01:07:14seen

01:07:14no

01:07:14cop

01:07:15get

01:07:15no

01:07:15cat

01:07:15out

01:07:15of

01:07:15the

01:07:16tree

01:07:16now

01:07:17I

01:07:17live

01:07:17in

01:07:17a

01:07:17nice

01:07:17neighborhood

01:07:18the

01:07:18cops

01:07:18are

01:07:18different

01:07:19over

01:07:19here

01:07:19they're

01:07:19like

01:07:19hey

01:07:19how

01:07:19you

01:07:20doing

01:07:20sending

01:07:20me

01:07:20Christmas

01:07:21cards

01:07:21and

01:07:21shit

01:07:22it's

01:07:23a

01:07:23little

01:07:23different

01:07:24but

01:07:24average

01:07:26kid

01:07:26in the

01:07:26streets

01:07:27he's

01:07:27never

01:07:27had

01:07:27a

01:07:27cop

01:07:28help

01:07:28him

01:07:28so

01:07:29the

01:07:30attitude

01:07:30is

01:07:30fuck

01:07:30the

01:07:31police

01:07:42in

01:07:43the

01:07:43neighborhoods

01:07:43most

01:07:43of

01:07:44the

01:07:44time

01:07:44it's

01:07:44the

01:07:45same

01:07:45cops

01:07:45and

01:07:45they

01:07:45know

01:07:46what's

01:07:46going

01:07:46on

01:07:46around

01:07:47there

01:07:47and

01:07:47they

01:07:47see

01:07:47you

01:07:47and

01:07:48you

01:07:50know

01:07:50what

01:07:50you

01:07:50doing

01:07:51they

01:07:51know

01:07:51what

01:07:51you

01:07:51doing

01:07:52and

01:07:52they

01:07:52see

01:07:53you

01:07:53and

01:07:53you

01:07:53see

01:07:53them

01:07:54you

01:07:54know

01:07:54what's

01:07:55on

01:07:55well you

01:07:58live

01:07:58where I

01:07:58live

01:07:58and if

01:07:59you

01:07:59just

01:07:59black

01:07:59period

01:08:00like

01:08:01they

01:08:01say

01:08:01it's

01:08:01a

01:08:01routine

01:08:02a

01:08:03black

01:08:03man

01:08:03in

01:08:03a

01:08:04fancy

01:08:04car

01:08:05you

01:08:06gonna

01:08:06get

01:08:06pulled

01:08:06over

01:08:07you

01:08:07gonna

01:08:07ask

01:08:08to

01:08:08step

01:08:08out

01:08:08your

01:08:09car

01:08:09you

01:08:09gonna

01:08:09get

01:08:10your

01:08:10car

01:08:10searched

01:08:11no

01:08:11probable

01:08:12cause

01:08:12no

01:08:12reason

01:08:13no

01:08:14whatever

01:08:14it

01:08:15just

01:08:15happens

01:08:15it's

01:08:16just

01:08:16routine

01:08:16the

01:08:17same

01:08:18crime

01:08:18element

01:08:19that

01:08:19white

01:08:19people

01:08:20are

01:08:20scared

01:08:20of

01:08:20black

01:08:21people

01:08:21are

01:08:21scared

01:08:22of

01:08:22the

01:08:23same

01:08:24crime

01:08:24element

01:08:25that

01:08:25white

01:08:25people

01:08:26fear

01:08:26we

01:08:26fear

01:08:27so

01:08:27we

01:08:28defend

01:08:28ourselves

01:08:28from

01:08:28the

01:08:29same

01:08:29crime

01:08:29element

01:08:29that

01:08:30they

01:08:30scared

01:08:30of

01:08:31you

01:08:31know

01:08:31I'm

01:08:31saying

01:08:31while

01:08:32they

01:08:32waiting

01:08:32for

01:08:32legislation

01:08:33to

01:08:33pass

01:08:34and

01:08:34everything

01:08:34we

01:08:34next

01:08:35door

01:08:35to

01:08:35the

01:08:35killer

01:08:35we

01:08:36next

01:08:36door

01:08:36to

01:08:36him

01:08:37you

01:08:37know

01:08:37cause

01:08:37we

01:08:37up

01:08:37in

01:08:37projects

01:08:38where

01:08:38there's

01:08:3880

01:08:39niggas

01:08:39in

01:08:39a

01:08:39building

01:08:39all

01:08:40them

01:08:40killers

01:08:40that

01:08:41they

01:08:41letting

01:08:41out

01:08:41they

01:08:41right

01:08:42there

01:08:42in

01:08:42that

01:08:42building

01:08:42but

01:08:44it's

01:08:44better

01:08:44just

01:08:44cause

01:08:44we

01:08:44black

01:08:45we

01:08:45get

01:08:45along

01:08:45with

01:08:45the

01:08:46killers

01:08:46or

01:08:46something

01:08:46we

01:08:46get

01:08:46along

01:08:47with

01:08:47the

01:08:47rapists

01:08:47cause

01:09:02why

01:09:02you

01:09:02do

01:09:02drug

01:09:03money

01:09:03what's

01:09:03going

01:09:04on

01:09:04I

01:09:05don't

01:09:05hate

01:09:05all

01:09:05cops

01:09:06I

01:09:06hate

01:09:06certain

01:09:06cops

01:09:07you

01:09:09know

01:09:09what

01:09:09I

01:09:09mean

01:09:09we

01:09:12got

01:09:12beef

01:09:12in

01:09:12the

01:09:12west

01:09:13coast

01:09:13we

01:09:13got

01:09:13beef

01:09:13in

01:09:13the

01:09:13east

01:09:14coast

01:09:14with

01:09:14police

01:09:15hey

01:09:15the

01:09:15big

01:09:16police

01:09:16the

01:09:16biggest

01:09:16motherfucking

01:09:17gang

01:09:17out

01:09:17this

01:09:17motherfuck

01:09:18with

01:09:18guns

01:09:18the

01:09:19other

01:09:19day

01:09:19you

01:09:19know

01:09:19what I'm

01:09:20saying

01:09:20I

01:09:20wear

01:09:21my

01:09:21one

01:09:21pants

01:09:22leg

01:09:22down

01:09:22one

01:09:22pants

01:09:23leg

01:09:23up

01:09:23we

01:09:23in

01:09:23Chicago

01:09:32thought

01:09:32he

01:09:32was

01:09:32playing

01:09:33but

01:09:33then

01:09:33he

01:09:33got

01:09:33all

01:09:34up

01:09:34in

01:09:34my

01:09:35face

01:09:35we

01:09:35just

01:09:36performed

01:09:36why

01:09:36you

01:09:36even

01:09:37swip

01:09:37me

01:09:37like

01:09:37that

01:09:37well

01:09:38it's

01:09:38a gang

01:09:39thing

01:09:39all

01:09:39up

01:09:39in

01:09:39my

01:09:39face

01:09:40though

01:09:40you

01:09:40know

01:09:40what I'm

01:09:40saying

01:09:40that's

01:09:41not even

01:09:41necessary

01:09:41now if

01:09:42I was

01:09:43to punch

01:09:43him

01:09:43in

01:09:43his

01:09:43shit

01:09:44I'd

01:09:44have

01:09:44been

01:09:44wrong

01:09:45you

01:09:45know

01:09:45what I'm

01:09:46saying

01:09:46but

01:09:46I

01:09:47kept

01:09:47it

01:09:47cool

01:09:48you

01:09:48know

01:09:48what I'm

01:09:48saying

01:09:49not

01:09:49trying

01:09:49to be

01:09:49rude

01:09:50and all

01:09:50that

01:09:50I

01:09:50said

01:09:50money

01:09:51could

01:09:51you

01:09:51please

01:09:51just

01:09:52get

01:09:52out

01:09:52my

01:09:52face

01:09:52because

01:09:53I'm

01:09:53not

01:09:53rolling

01:09:54my

01:09:54pants

01:09:54leg

01:09:54down

01:09:55respect

01:09:55is a

01:09:56really

01:09:56high

01:09:57thing

01:09:57in

01:09:57the

01:09:57black

01:09:57community

01:09:58and

01:09:59once

01:09:59somebody

01:09:59feels

01:09:59disrespected

01:10:00that's

01:10:01when an

01:10:01issue

01:10:02arises

01:10:03cops

01:10:04need

01:10:04to

01:10:04learn

01:10:04how

01:10:04to

01:10:04talk

01:10:05to

01:10:05people

01:10:05wasn't

01:10:08bothering

01:10:09nobody

01:10:09wasn't

01:10:09no other

01:10:10cars

01:10:10around

01:10:10the cop

01:10:11that pulled

01:10:12me over

01:10:12just wanted

01:10:13me to keep

01:10:13my wheels

01:10:14on the ground

01:10:14and he

01:10:15said I

01:10:15could

01:10:15impound

01:10:16your

01:10:16car

01:10:16now

01:10:16but

01:10:17I

01:10:17ain't

01:10:17gonna

01:10:17trip

01:10:17right

01:10:18now

01:10:18so

01:10:18I

01:10:18said

01:10:18alright

01:10:19just

01:10:19don't

01:10:20trip

01:10:20right

01:10:20now

01:10:20give me

01:10:21my

01:10:21break

01:10:22then

01:10:22it

01:10:22ain't

01:10:23nothing

01:10:23but a

01:10:23hydraulic

01:10:24ticket

01:10:24I

01:10:25don't

01:10:25worry

01:10:25about it

01:10:26he

01:10:28just

01:10:28wanted

01:10:28to pull

01:10:28me

01:10:28over

01:10:28because

01:10:29he

01:10:29was

01:10:29a

01:10:29asshole

01:10:30I

01:10:35can feel

01:10:35it right

01:10:36here

01:10:36man

01:10:36that's

01:10:37real

01:10:46said

01:10:46when I

01:10:48heard a

01:10:48preacher

01:10:48about

01:10:48it

01:10:49look

01:10:49here

01:10:49every

01:10:50year

01:10:50about

01:10:51this

01:10:51time

01:10:51I

01:10:51get to

01:10:51thinking

01:10:52up old

01:10:52school

01:10:52memories

01:10:53that I

01:10:53keep

01:10:53stored

01:10:53in the

01:10:53back

01:10:54of the

01:10:54head

01:10:54and the

01:10:54back

01:10:54of my

01:10:55mind

01:10:55that I

01:10:55always

01:10:55seem

01:10:56to find

01:10:56when I'm

01:10:57urinating

01:10:57with my

01:10:58weed

01:10:58for swatting

01:10:58bones and

01:10:59drinking

01:10:59wine

01:11:00just

01:11:00come

01:11:00home

01:11:01from

01:11:01Quentin

01:11:01and all

01:11:02I

01:11:02know

01:11:02is

01:11:02shrine

01:11:03grind

01:11:04time

01:11:05no

01:11:05game

01:11:06been

01:11:06gone

01:11:06it's

01:11:06either

01:11:07white

01:11:07collared

01:11:07crime

01:11:08or

01:11:08hooking

01:11:09the

01:11:09phones

01:11:10how

01:11:10can I

01:11:10make

01:11:10some

01:11:11sort

01:11:11of

01:11:11dividend

01:11:11how

01:11:12can I

01:11:12get

01:11:12my

01:11:12mathematics

01:11:13on

01:11:13how

01:11:13can I

01:11:13get

01:11:13in

01:11:14where

01:11:14I

01:11:14feel

01:11:14and

01:11:14how

01:11:14can I

01:11:15get

01:11:15in

01:11:15get

01:11:16going

01:11:16every

01:11:16year

01:11:17about

01:11:17this

01:11:18time

01:11:19they lock

01:11:22up

01:11:23and throw

01:11:23away

01:11:24the

01:11:25key

01:11:26I'ma come

01:11:27out there

01:11:27and listen

01:11:28I think rap

01:11:29is just like

01:11:29country music

01:11:30okay

01:11:30cause you get

01:11:31to express

01:11:32yourself

01:11:32you know

01:11:33I left

01:11:33my heart

01:11:34in Arizona

01:11:34you know

01:11:35what I'm

01:11:35saying

01:11:36it's just

01:11:36the same

01:11:36thing

01:11:37it's like

01:11:37a stress

01:11:37reliever

01:11:39just like

01:11:40the little

01:11:40Chinese

01:11:41balls

01:11:41you rolling

01:11:42your hand

01:11:42and what have

01:11:43you

01:11:43to relieve

01:11:43the stress

01:11:44we rapping

01:11:45on the

01:11:46microphone

01:11:46and spitting

01:11:46all on

01:11:47the popper

01:11:48stopper

01:11:48feel me

01:11:50I'm running

01:11:57into older

01:11:57people of

01:11:58all colors

01:11:59they don't

01:11:59understand it

01:12:00they just

01:12:00think it's

01:12:00all bad

01:12:01which a lot

01:12:03of it is

01:12:03we'll give

01:12:03a damn

01:12:04but a lot

01:12:05of it is

01:12:06good too

01:12:06playboy

01:12:07when fools

01:12:10didn't even

01:12:11think it

01:12:11was gonna

01:12:11happen

01:12:12me

01:12:12my uncle

01:12:13St.

01:12:13Charles

01:12:14D-Shot

01:12:15Be Legit

01:12:15we all

01:12:16had confidence

01:12:16Sugar T

01:12:17we all

01:12:17had confidence

01:12:18in ourselves

01:12:18and we kept

01:12:19it going

01:12:20you know

01:12:20what I'm

01:12:20saying

01:12:21legal

01:12:21dope

01:12:22we home

01:12:23grown

01:12:23man

01:12:24I feel

01:12:24good

01:12:24about

01:12:24being

01:12:25home

01:12:25grown

01:12:26I think

01:12:28the move

01:12:29that hip hop

01:12:29is taking

01:12:29now

01:12:30what I see

01:12:30that the

01:12:31artists

01:12:31are gaining

01:12:32more control

01:12:32of the business

01:12:33aspect

01:12:34they're doing

01:12:35a lot more

01:12:35of their own

01:12:36production

01:12:36you know

01:12:37I mean

01:12:38I don't really

01:12:39know how many

01:12:39days it's gonna

01:12:40take

01:12:40I'm saying

01:12:41I just

01:12:41know

01:12:41we gotta

01:12:41get a joint

01:12:42you know

01:12:42a lot

01:12:43of artists

01:12:43are starting

01:12:43management

01:12:44independent

01:13:12black

01:13:12owned

01:13:13we're from

01:13:14the hood

01:13:15and we

01:13:15take

01:13:15what we

01:13:16made

01:13:16about

01:13:17the hood

01:13:17and show

01:13:18people

01:13:18from the

01:13:19ghetto

01:13:19that you

01:13:19can have

01:13:20something

01:13:20you can

01:13:21be successful

01:13:22if you put

01:13:22your mind

01:13:23to it

01:13:23we're about

01:13:24being the

01:13:25next

01:13:25biggest

01:13:26entourage

01:13:26independent

01:13:28successful

01:13:28record company

01:13:29in the world

01:13:30not in the

01:13:31United States

01:13:32but world

01:13:32we used to

01:13:34sell tasting

01:13:35grocery stores

01:13:36liquor stores

01:13:37barbershops

01:13:38beauty saloons

01:13:40tire shops

01:13:42whatever

01:13:42however

01:13:43and it

01:13:43took

01:13:43off

01:13:43from

01:13:44there

01:13:44well

01:13:44I mean

01:13:44you know

01:13:45what I'm

01:13:45saying

01:13:45it's all

01:13:45good

01:13:46you know

01:13:47that we

01:13:47out here

01:13:48doing our

01:13:48thing

01:13:48I mean

01:13:49I'm real

01:13:49pleased

01:13:49I mean

01:13:49we've been

01:13:50working hard

01:13:50I've been

01:13:51working hard

01:13:51all my life

01:13:52you know

01:13:52what I'm

01:13:52saying

01:13:52trying to

01:13:53do it

01:13:53you know

01:13:53what I'm

01:13:53saying

01:13:53and trying

01:13:54to get

01:13:54this job

01:13:54done

01:13:55so I

01:13:55mean

01:13:56the idea

01:13:57that we

01:13:57are now

01:13:57here

01:13:58is good

01:13:59I mean

01:13:59we still

01:13:59have a

01:13:59long way

01:14:00to go

01:14:00though

01:14:00you know

01:14:01because I'm

01:14:01tired

01:14:01of going

01:14:02in the

01:14:02record shops

01:14:03and the

01:14:04rap section

01:14:05being all

01:14:05the way

01:14:06in the

01:14:06back of

01:14:06the fucking

01:14:06store

01:14:07and you

01:14:07gotta go

01:14:08through there

01:14:08and the

01:14:08section

01:14:08is about

01:14:09five feet

01:14:10wide

01:14:10it's gonna

01:14:10continue to

01:14:11be in the

01:14:11back of

01:14:11the store

01:14:12until everybody

01:14:13steps up

01:14:14and starts

01:14:14doing different

01:14:15shit

01:14:15we do have

01:14:15to start

01:14:16owning like

01:14:16a pressing

01:14:17plant

01:14:17or having

01:14:18your label

01:14:19run so

01:14:19professionally

01:14:20to where

01:14:21you can

01:14:21acquire

01:14:22other companies

01:14:23like get

01:14:23into publishing

01:14:24get into

01:14:24synchronization

01:14:25get into

01:14:26queues

01:14:26on films

01:14:27the asset

01:14:28of the

01:14:28business

01:14:28as opposed

01:14:29to a

01:14:29physical

01:14:30check

01:14:30you want

01:14:31to own

01:14:32something

01:14:32rap now

01:14:33is a

01:14:333 billion

01:14:34dollar

01:14:34a year

01:14:34industry

01:14:35black

01:14:35owned

01:14:36labels

01:14:36aren't

01:14:37being

01:14:37intimidating

01:14:38anymore

01:14:38you know

01:14:38there's

01:14:38this

01:14:39Russell

01:14:40Simmons

01:14:40has always

01:14:40been out

01:14:41there

01:14:41with

01:14:41Def Jam

01:14:42and Sean

01:14:42Puffy Combs

01:14:43with Bad Boy

01:14:45Entertainment

01:14:45they're all

01:14:46doing their

01:14:46thing

01:14:47Bill Bellamy

01:14:47called me

01:14:48and told me

01:14:48Jam

01:14:48of the Week

01:14:49he called

01:14:49me today

01:14:50we have

01:14:50no mainstream

01:14:51play

01:14:51we don't

01:14:52have

01:14:52those

01:14:53we supposed

01:14:53to be

01:14:53getting

01:14:54those

01:14:54Z100's

01:14:55what's up

01:14:55with VH1

01:14:56and all

01:14:56that

01:14:57the minute

01:14:58is gone

01:14:59it's on

01:14:59the directors

01:15:00out here

01:15:00they burn

01:15:01it

01:15:01and then

01:15:01Ernie

01:15:01saying

01:15:02the black

01:15:03station

01:15:03is about

01:15:03to pull

01:15:03off

01:15:04of the

01:15:04shit

01:15:04Puffy

01:15:05Puffy

01:15:05is real

01:15:06tight

01:15:06that's

01:15:06my boy

01:15:07he look

01:15:08out

01:15:08for me

01:15:08he took

01:15:09me out

01:15:09the streets

01:15:10gave a

01:15:11nigga a

01:15:11chance

01:15:11that's

01:15:12cool

01:15:12yo Leo

01:15:12I don't

01:15:13like

01:15:14the way

01:15:14you're

01:15:14treating

01:15:14me

01:15:14or

01:15:15me

01:15:15getting

01:15:15my

01:15:15second

01:15:16half

01:15:16this

01:15:16shit

01:15:16is

01:15:17bullshit

01:15:17yo

01:15:18yo

01:15:19yo

01:15:20yo

01:15:21yo

01:15:22yo

01:15:23yo

01:15:25yo

01:15:27yo

01:15:28yo

01:15:29yo

01:15:30yo

01:15:31yo

01:15:32yo

01:15:33yo

01:15:34yo

01:15:35yo

01:15:36and tell

01:15:37me

01:15:37exactly

01:15:38what

01:15:38you

01:15:38want

01:15:38be

01:15:40exact

01:15:41people

01:15:42who

01:15:43represent

01:15:43like

01:15:43the

01:15:43establishment

01:15:44they are

01:15:45threatened

01:15:45by

01:15:46hip-hop

01:15:46and

01:15:46they

01:15:47are

01:15:47threatened

01:15:47by

01:15:47intelligent

01:15:48articulate

01:15:48black

01:15:48people

01:15:49who

01:15:49happen

01:15:50to

01:15:50represent

01:15:50you know

01:15:50what I'm

01:15:51saying

01:15:51the

01:15:52poor

01:15:52people

01:15:52you know

01:15:53what I

01:15:53mean

01:15:53the

01:15:53have-nots

01:15:54when I

01:15:55first started

01:15:56in rap

01:15:56you know

01:15:57a lot

01:15:57of people

01:15:57said

01:15:58that

01:15:58rap

01:15:59was

01:15:59just

01:15:59a fad

01:15:59it

01:16:00would

01:16:00never

01:16:00last

01:16:00oh

01:16:01it

01:16:01would

01:16:01just

01:16:01be

01:16:01around

01:16:02for

01:16:02a couple

01:16:02years

01:16:06for

01:16:07a

01:16:07long

01:16:07time

01:16:08and

01:16:08I

01:16:08mean

01:16:09you

01:16:09even

01:16:09have

01:16:09major

01:16:10major

01:16:10rap

01:16:10artists

01:16:11retiring

01:16:12you know

01:16:13like

01:16:13for

01:16:13instance

01:16:14we're

01:16:14getting ready

01:16:15to go

01:16:15into

01:16:15the

01:16:15retirement

01:16:16of

01:16:16Too Short

01:16:17party

01:16:29hanging out

01:16:44with all

01:16:44the

01:16:44players

01:16:45and all

01:16:45the

01:16:45fly

01:16:45ladies

01:16:46you know

01:16:46coming

01:16:47back

01:16:48from

01:16:48way

01:16:48back

01:16:48into

01:16:48the

01:16:49day

01:16:49straight

01:16:49from

01:16:49the

01:16:50East

01:16:50Coast

01:16:50right

01:16:50here

01:16:50in

01:16:51California

01:16:51it's

01:16:52kind of

01:16:52sad

01:16:52to be

01:16:53retiring

01:16:53but I feel

01:16:54good for him

01:16:54because I know

01:16:55he had a real

01:16:55good career

01:16:56and he did a lot

01:16:57of good things

01:16:57for rapping

01:16:57he helped

01:16:58influence me

01:16:58and a whole

01:16:59lot of other

01:16:59people

01:16:59so I just

01:17:00want to let

01:17:00that be

01:17:01known

01:17:01and peace

01:17:02and big

01:17:02I'll be

01:17:02too short

01:17:03even with all of the success and progress that hip hop has made throughout the last 20 years

01:17:23it has been with you know some great cost lives have been lost careers have been forgotten

01:17:32I've been losing a lot of people lately and it's at an alarming rate it's sad you know saying I lost five people in the past four months

01:17:48I don't care who you are

01:17:52fuck if you all niggas playing all that hardcore shit

01:17:55stop it because y'all niggas have kissed your mama before man

01:17:58y'all niggas have been in vulnerable states where y'all niggas have cried

01:18:02because if you

01:18:03because ain't none of y'all niggas out there iron man

01:18:05you know what I'm saying

01:18:07and if you say that you're the lion

01:18:09I have faith that people gonna wake up man

01:18:13I really do

01:18:14I have that faith

01:18:15it's been two days since the shooting that left recording manager suge knight injured

01:18:23and tupac shakur in critical condition

01:18:26metro says shakur and knight were driving to a club following the tyson selden fight

01:18:31the car pulled up alongside shakur's bmw and gunshots rang out

01:18:35police are looking for a late model white cadillac

01:18:39last seen speeding southbound on koval lane

01:18:42meanwhile family friends and fans of the rap singer surround umc

01:18:48wishing they could share their messages with shakur

01:18:51i'm one of his biggest fans and i love him so very much

01:18:53and i don't want to get shot

01:18:55and i don't want to get shot no more

01:18:58breaking news to tell you about

01:19:01the rapper tupac shakur died in las vegas

01:19:04he died apparently this afternoon in a las vegas hospital

01:19:07you might remember he was shot

01:19:10pak is a prophet

01:19:13he knew things

01:19:17that none of us seen yet

01:19:22and he put in his music

01:19:25his only release

01:19:27was his music

01:19:29i rolled with pak

01:19:31we came up together

01:19:33and pak ain't never let me roll with him

01:19:35to pull no gun

01:19:37on no black man

01:19:38pak wasn't no gangster

01:19:40pak was a soldier

01:19:44we all should work together

01:19:53to try to get more unity within rap

01:19:55and and i see that happening for the most part

01:19:58i see a lot of rappers doing duets with each other

01:20:01from the different coast

01:20:02east coast west coast together

01:20:03basically

01:20:04like that

01:20:05east coast and west coast

01:20:06get down together

01:20:07and make it happen

01:20:08you know what i'm saying

01:20:08queens new york

01:20:09they speak nice

01:20:10you all pound gangsters

01:20:12i can't diss the whole east coast

01:20:17i got homeboys

01:20:18you know

01:20:19from the east coast

01:20:20i can't

01:20:21and everybody on the east coast

01:20:22don't hate mac 10

01:20:23i don't give a fuck

01:20:24i got down with mca

01:20:25that's my nigga

01:20:26that's west coast

01:20:27you know what i'm saying

01:20:28and it's blowing up over there

01:20:29you know what i'm saying

01:20:30that east coast west coast shit is stupid

01:20:32because how the fuck

01:20:33i'm gonna be for a nigga

01:20:33who ain't got nothing

01:20:34they ain't got nothing

01:20:35when these all motherfuckers

01:20:36got everything

01:20:37and nobody ain't beefing with them

01:20:38like nigga just quick

01:20:40to pull out a gun on you

01:20:40once i'm gonna shoot that nigga

01:20:42bye bye fucked

01:20:43i'ma kill him

01:20:43and when the cops come

01:20:44he getting scared

01:20:45how the fuck you scared of him

01:20:46when you ain't scared of him

01:20:47so that shit don't really add up to me

01:20:49and shit

01:20:49i deal with mathematics

01:20:50if you got a problem with somebody

01:20:52you got a problem with that individual

01:20:53you know

01:20:55score off with him

01:20:56don't go dissing the whole fucking coast

01:20:58this spread the love

01:21:00this spread the love

01:21:00this coast west coast

01:21:01that right there

01:21:01settles everything

01:21:02there's no people that's involved

01:21:03you know

01:21:04you don't see niggas fighting

01:21:05and robbing and killing

01:21:06and shooting over this here

01:21:07right

01:21:08you know what i'm saying

01:21:08when niggas get together with this here

01:21:09it's all about peace

01:21:10ain't nothing wrong

01:21:11you know what i'm saying

01:21:12at the state east coast west coast

01:21:14this ain't crack

01:21:15this is weed

01:21:16right

01:21:17we smoke weed

01:21:18because when we smoke weed

01:21:19we breathe

01:21:20yeah

01:21:20all right

01:21:21yeah

01:21:21so it's more than just knowing

01:21:24your block

01:21:25knowing your state

01:21:26east coast west coast

01:21:27there's seven continents out there

01:21:29and there's you know

01:21:31hundreds of countries

01:21:32education is key

01:21:34because it tells people

01:21:35what to look out for

01:21:35and how to prepare themselves

01:21:37economically you know

01:21:39we can't talk about more black jobs

01:21:40without black businesses

01:21:41everybody's not fortunate enough

01:21:44to be a doctor or a lawyer

01:21:45you know

01:21:46everybody doesn't complete

01:21:48four years of college

01:21:49you know

01:21:50it gives you something else to do

01:21:52and it is a job

01:21:53straight up

01:21:54it's bringing a lot of niggas

01:21:55out of the ghettos

01:21:56it's a power force

01:21:58you know what i'm saying

01:21:59and anytime you get black

01:22:00with a power force

01:22:01and a gang of money

01:22:02generating

01:22:03then it's gonna scare us

01:22:06close to your spirit

01:22:07close to your soul

01:22:08black

01:22:09not being scared of who you are

01:22:11and step out express

01:22:12grandmaster flash

01:22:13curtis blow on them

01:22:14passed the torch to us

01:22:15awesome run dmc

01:22:18ll cool j

01:22:19had it

01:22:20passing on

01:22:21barack

01:22:21kim public enemy

01:22:22boogie down production

01:22:24they took it all

01:22:25passing on

01:22:26who's getting it

01:22:26you got epmd coming out

01:22:28then you got your tribe

01:22:29called quest coming out

01:22:30and then the west coast

01:22:32caught some

01:22:32at the same time

01:22:33they catching it

01:22:34with iced tea

01:22:35he caught part of it

01:22:36he's running

01:22:37and now

01:22:37the torch is going on

01:22:38to the next one

01:22:39is going on

01:22:40hip hop is an element

01:22:42that was created

01:22:43by the youth

01:22:43from the street

01:22:44you know

01:22:45and we're gonna continue

01:22:46to express that truth

01:22:47and that expression

01:22:48that youthful expression

01:22:50i'm just trying to see

01:22:51what it's gonna be like

01:22:52in the year 2000

01:22:54or something

01:22:55cause it's always

01:22:56changing constantly

01:22:57you know

01:22:58everyone's coming up

01:22:59with a new style

01:22:59new this

01:23:00new music

01:23:00it's a

01:23:01it's adult music

01:23:02as well now

01:23:03more

01:23:03but it's still

01:23:04a kids music

01:23:06so it's something

01:23:06for the kids

01:23:07to enjoy

01:23:08and call their own

01:23:08still

01:23:09so

01:23:09like for my son

01:23:10to grow up

01:23:11into hip hop

01:23:11you know

01:23:12that'd be cool

01:23:13never want to chitter chatter

01:23:15about to make it fatter

01:23:16and all that matter

01:23:17is how it scatter

01:23:18forgot i spray

01:23:19with the words i say

01:23:20be it night or day

01:23:21never no time to play

01:23:23up in the morning

01:23:24and out to school

01:23:25cause i'm cool

01:23:25mom ain't raising no food

01:23:27has not combined

01:23:28all the juice

01:23:29from the mind

01:23:30what

01:23:30eat up

01:23:30we know

01:23:31we get black

01:23:31come be mine

01:23:32fire for the night

01:23:33whoo

01:23:34i'm trying to knock

01:23:35black and

01:23:35try to reap my mind

01:23:36just imagine

01:23:37rock

01:23:38can't you

01:23:38never necessary

01:23:40we're taking a

01:23:41thought

01:23:41my life period

01:23:42oh my god

01:23:44oh my god

01:23:45the night to school

01:23:46like the water

01:23:46beat the chancer

01:23:47oh

01:23:48oh

01:23:48alone from the trash

01:23:50buzz

01:23:50oh

01:23:50pardon me

01:23:51oh

01:23:51as i come back

01:23:52back to the day

01:23:53on a pool of water

01:23:54leafy flight

01:23:54we're taking your jeans

01:23:55the buses were sick

01:23:56now we're out

01:23:57fight for

01:23:58we read the app chat

01:23:59see my signals slow up

01:24:00and got the bubbles on my heart

01:24:01ayo tip

01:24:02leave you the phone

01:24:03and we used to off

01:24:04and the rest of fucking routine

01:24:05back on shy's block

01:24:06where we at

01:24:07mass film in the house

01:24:09you got to

01:24:09where we at

01:24:10kennedy in the house

01:24:11you got to

01:24:12where we at

01:24:12mass film in the house

01:24:14here we go

01:24:15check the vibe

01:24:16yo

01:24:16here we go

01:24:17check the vibe

01:24:19here we go

01:24:20check the vibe

01:24:21check it out

01:24:23check it out

01:24:24rock

01:24:24and mass film

01:24:25check the vibe

01:24:26so

01:24:27everybody put a

01:24:36piece side up

01:24:36in the air

01:24:37put that shit up

01:24:39high

01:24:40i want y'all to say

01:24:42we need peace

01:24:43in rhythm with us

01:24:44say we need peace

01:24:47come on

01:24:48say we need peace

01:24:52come on

01:24:52i know that hip-hop is the representation of this oppressed culture

01:25:18and i will represent that to the day i die

01:25:21don't ever shoot a documentary without the lost boys and dog power it just won't happen

01:25:32that's why i'm glad mary max did this film

01:25:34that's right

01:25:34back in the day

01:25:35back in the day

01:25:35biting used to be a crime

01:25:38you know how many bites of snoop there is there's mad bites of snoop

01:25:41snoop's the original you can't bite him he's dumb

01:25:43onyx is the original but everybody wants to change their voice now and

01:25:46rhyme like this and beat

01:25:48onyx is the original they're dope

01:25:50you can't front on them

01:25:51and we went through that same experience early in the game but you know what i'm saying we

01:25:55realized it's all you know what i'm saying the best way to do something that's powerful

01:25:58ain't it

01:25:59you know what i mean

01:26:01over to them baby

01:26:02you know what i'm saying the best the best way to do something is to do it yourself

01:26:06if i make enough money i'm out of here you understand what i'm saying because i've lived

01:26:11in the ghetto all my life i've been here and done that and there's a bigger world out there

01:26:16there's a lot of shit to get and i want it

01:26:18check over honey's out though you gotta get this little movie this is a movie baby

01:26:22you see that right there they're filming right now making a rhyme and reason and squeezing

01:26:29um the critics out there can basically like kiss my ass straight up because

01:26:36they know nothing about what goes into this they're just people with a nine to five behind

01:26:41a fucking typewriter cd player listening to it and critiquing it uh bring the noise on

01:26:47less than zero soundtrack you know and um that's part of the clip right you can use right

01:26:53i'll be dre for a day dre day this is what you call a biz marquee breakfast

01:26:59you pour the crisps in the wall right you get a whole bunch of shit cause i'm a junk food junkie everybody

01:27:12everybody got this on film still got it on film you pray

01:27:26now you rockin you're bouncin you're still bouncin you're gonna say i wanted to thank your mother

01:27:34for giving their butt like that i had to go for the bathroom i had to go for the tip and did this

01:27:38you had to have had political power in the culture of hip-hop to grab the mic to step out onto the

01:27:50cardboard and breakdance watch the light

01:27:53yo radio is very important very very important you know airplay to be heard

01:27:59everybody in this motherfucker got a dark thing to him

01:28:08some of y'all motherfuckers do some things you don't want me to know about right

01:28:13but on my album i'm doing it all and i'm letting you know about it

01:28:17you know what i'm saying it ain't about when you journey my shit you need flashlights

01:28:21you want it into my mind you need flashlights you want it into my dwell you need flashlights

01:28:28cause it's dark over here

01:28:30and that's about it we'll be back

01:28:47you

01:28:49you

01:28:50you

01:28:52you

01:28:54you

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