Rhyme & Reason documentary (1997) hip hop, rap

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00:00:00WU-TANG

00:00:30You won't get blowed up

00:01:00No, no, no

00:01:01Not about detention

00:01:02Not about suspicions

00:01:03Child's thinking it wrong

00:01:04Not about you

00:01:05Instead

00:01:06Didn't you just come down and you gon' talk to mommy

00:01:07Not for chicken toast

00:01:08She gon' wear some bodies

00:01:09I ain't just a relationship to mom

00:01:11T-shirt

00:01:12But you beat you homin' your sister like who's rich

00:01:14Okay, I'm dead, I have to do school

00:01:16But you gon' want my teacher and my dad

00:01:18Just love love, okay, fuck that

00:01:20Oh, oh, hey, check it out

00:01:25There's not one issue that takes place in this nation

00:01:28That hip-hop hasn't addressed yet

00:01:30There's nothing wrong with somebody who's not black

00:01:33Seeing the struggle that my people been through

00:01:35And acknowledge that and come along with us

00:01:38Hip-hop is an expression of people that ain't got it going on

00:01:42It's what we see daily and what we're doing daily

00:01:44That's what's rapped about

00:01:45Yo, I mean, this is a new music

00:01:47Why can you say whatever I want on a mic?

00:01:49Freedom to create what your heart feels

00:01:52Making rhymes doesn't mean you a hip-hop artist

00:01:54This is really the voice of the young generation

00:01:57Whatever that to do

00:01:59Keep the hood going strong

00:02:00Best believe I was there

00:02:01If hip-hop didn't exist, I'd probably still be so drunk

00:02:04They're not respecting the love of rappers

00:02:06They're respecting the money that it generates

00:02:08Just because they make rap records and they have to be bad people

00:02:11Don't mean that rap is bad

00:02:12You gotta listen to this shit

00:02:13To understand it

00:02:14Rap is delight

00:02:15With these rhymes

00:02:16Making music

00:02:17Black

00:02:18Hip-hop

00:02:19Breakdancing

00:02:20Families

00:02:21Graffiti

00:02:22Feastyle

00:02:23But it's all hip-hop

00:02:28Hip-hop is like a vehicle

00:02:29You can use it to go anywhere you wanna go

00:02:31Yeah, that's what hip-hop is

00:02:32It's the way you dress

00:02:33It's your style

00:02:34You know what I'm saying?

00:02:35Some wear braids in the east

00:02:37Some wear the curls back in the day

00:02:39Some use the way the top fades

00:02:41It's about the culture

00:02:42You live it

00:02:43It's not just saying

00:02:44Yo, I do hip-hop

00:02:45You gotta live it

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

00:02:50You know what I mean?

00:02:51It's all that right there

00:02:53Everything we do

00:02:54Like if I hand this to him

00:02:55I'mma hand it to him

00:02:56Hip-hop is like

00:02:57I'mma go

00:02:58Like this

00:02:59You know what I'm saying?

00:03:00Hip-hop

00:03:01You know what I'm saying?

00:03:02I'mma do something to make it hip-hop

00:03:03You know?

00:03:04I don't give a fuck with what it is

00:03:05You know?

00:03:06I'mma put the hip-hop twist on it

00:03:07You know?

00:03:08Anybody got different slings

00:03:09You got the Brooklyn slings

00:03:10You got the West Coast

00:03:11You got the Down South

00:03:12Like the Goody Mobs

00:03:13All that

00:03:14So it's a culture

00:03:15And we're all part of it

00:03:17We all got our own type of slang

00:03:19It's like talking your own language

00:03:21Word up

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

00:03:25And they had words in there like

00:03:27B-boy, B-girl, fresh, chill

00:03:31We ain't used them shit since we was like 9 years old out this motherfucker, man

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

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

00:03:40If you say what's up to somebody

00:03:42And they say I'm chilling the fresh way

00:03:44Motherfuckers will look at you like you from another planet or something, man

00:03:48Wear it up

00:03:49But when you discuss the history of hip-hop

00:03:55You 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

00:04:10The mother of four or five different elements

00:04:13Like rap, scratching, break dancing, and graffiti

00:04:18Rap is something that's being done

00:04:25Hip-hop is something that is being lived

00:04:28A rap artist can be anybody from anywhere

00:04:33But you've got to visit the Bronx

00:04:37Period

00:04:38Wherever you are in life

00:04:41Wherever you wanna be

00:04:43You will always be a rap artist

00:04:45Until you visit the South Bronx

00:04:49Look at the projects

00:04:52Look at the people

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

00:04:58Go to 123 Park

00:05:02And just stand there

00:05:04And imagine the birth of a culture

00:05:07Happening in this very spot

00:05:10The Bronx is hip-hop

00:05:17Graffiti, breakdancing, emceeing, and DJing

00:05:21All came from the Bronx

00:05:23Yo, where we standing right here

00:05:25This is a historical place in hip-hop

00:05:28This is like where it all began pretty much

00:05:30The Godfather of hip-hop, Kool Herc

00:05:32Used to live right here in this building

00:05:341600

00:05:35And 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

00:05:40Or get like electricity from one of the windows

00:05:42And just play right out here

00:05:44This was back in 1974

00:05:46Yeah, I was hip to New York hip-hop

00:05:48You gotta give props what props is due

00:05:50They originated it

00:05:52Anybody that doesn't believe that is trippin'

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

00:05:57Those niggas in the Bronx, they sparked it up

00:05:59But you know, it traveled from project to project

00:06:01And they just spread it

00:06:02And now it's bigger than ever

00:06:04And it's gonna get bigger

00:06:05Ghetto kids didn't really have the money

00:06:07To learn how to play instruments

00:06:09Or take singing lessons

00:06:10But they found a way regardless

00:06:12You know

00:06:13Because the spirit was still telling them

00:06:14To make some things

00:06:15So it's like

00:06:16They just used whatever was around

00:06:18Whether it be a turntable

00:06:19Or a little nasty mic

00:06:21And 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

00:06:29Back on man Kool Herc

00:06:31Grandmaster Flash

00:06:32Flash all of them in the Bronx

00:06:34You know

00:06:35It was like radio shockwaves

00:06:36With 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

00:06:43And try to learn how to do those cuts

00:06:44Howie 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

00:06:53Everybody was buggin' out

00:06:54And then like

00:06:55Mixmaster Ice did this scratch out

00:07:01He did that

00:07:02And then obviously DST freaked everybody out

00:07:05On Herbie Hancock's stuff

00:07:06When he was like

00:07:07Flash

00:07:08Flash

00:07:09Flash

00:07:10Flash

00:07:11Flash

00:07:12Flash

00:07:13Flash

00:07:14Flash

00:07:15Flash

00:07:16Flash

00:07:17Flash

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00:07:27Flash

00:07:30And early the first DJs at the Bronx

00:07:32Would spend the records

00:07:33And they would only play the breakdown

00:07:35Of the record

00:07:36They would play

00:07:37Every record breaks down

00:07:38And go ahead, down

00:07:39And it breaks

00:07:40Into the beat

00:07:41And the drum

00:07:42Black

00:07:47These are break beats

00:07:49You know what I'm saying

00:07:50And a break beat

00:07:51Anything from any kind of record, any kind of music, be it classical, be it soul, jazz, pop, rock, anything.

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

00:08:05So Flash and people like that, Grand Wizard Theater would spin these records, but they would only play the breaks.

00:08:11And people would dance over the breaks for the records, and these were called break dancers.

00:08:14Back then, everybody that I knew that really had mad flavor in b-boying or popping used 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 and to rob and steal, and you're too tired to fight after you done battled somebody and took all your aggression out on some dancing.

00:08:37You know, hip-hop ain't no easy game to play.

00:08:42If you ain't got no style, hang it up, sit down.

00:08:45My characters make people enjoy themselves with how I move my body and everything like that.

00:08:50So I feel it's a part of fun, popping and breaking and making people laugh.

00:08:58It's not just a hype thing, something that we're just into just to make money.

00:09:02It goes way deeper, deeper than that.

00:09:07You know, they say, well, breaking is not hip-hop, you know.

00:09:11Come on, if breaking wasn't hip-hop, you know, they don't know the history.

00:09:15Breaking means to me that it's a way of expressing myself, getting my anger out there, you know, instead of going out there and smoking or fighting, you know.

00:09:23I go to my own little world and I just express myself through breaking.

00:09:27I dance, you know, and get creative.

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

00:09:31I'm flying in the air, man, you know, and just, I'm free.

00:09:38The origins of graffiti go way past hip-hop.

00:09:49That goes back to World War II when, I mean, soldiers was writing, Kilroy was here and stuff on the balls and, you know, people would just make a statement.

00:09:57Here, it was just about getting up.

00:10:01You wanted to write your name in as many places and many people could see it so you'd be known.

00:10:07Graffiti is one of the most beautiful art films in the world.

00:10:12You know, I'd be looking at some of the stuff Picasso be doing and I'm like, well, Picasso ought to have to be there to understand what you're doing, you know.

00:10:20But then Brothers Graffiti, they're giving you firsthand what they're seeing every day in the hood, you know.

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

00:10:28Brothers shooting dice, they have dice there, they have the trains coming by, all in one tag.

00:10:34Graffiti art means getting out when a lot of people can't get out, you know.

00:10:39It's like expressing beauty, color, excitement, drama.

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

00:10:46I just love the blend of the music.

00:10:49I remember I was grooving to this sound and it was Jackson 5.

00:10:53And this DJ was actually keeping this one part in the record on and on and on.

00:10:59And then the guy was on the microphone just doing that same stuff Muhammad Ali did.

00:11:07The rapper would say, you know what, he's good, but by the way, I'm kind of fly too and I'm all this and I'm all that.

00:11:15The girls would scream, the next emcee said, I have to outdo this person.

00:11:20And the only way to outdo somebody usually is by boasting or outboasting them or trying to insult them in a cool way.

00:11:27And that's where the battle started.

00:11:28When you first start now, it's, you know what I'm saying, it's more natural to just freestyle.

00:11:56Because that's how you start, you know, developing your own style.

00:12:00You know, if you're an emcee for real, you can freestyle.

00:12:03You know, you don't have to be elaborate when you freestyle, you know what I'm saying?

00:12:05But people know if it's written or not.

00:12:08Some people say freestyle and they be saying some stuff, but you know you can't freestyle that well like that.

00:12:12Except a few people that can.

00:12:13Now check it out because I'm serious and I'm dope.

00:12:16Oh my God, and I can freestyle without a quote.

00:12:18Funk battle, that flow's fatter.

00:12:20Emcees with that chitter chatter, his microphone won't even matter.

00:12:23Craig Max like a funk robotic, super sick, psychotic.

00:12:25Emcee who got it.

00:12:27New season, inside the season, crushing emcees for no apparent reason.

00:12:30Emcees won a battle, but it makes no sense to test the abstract.

00:12:34Shaheed's fight door, the consequence.

00:12:36On my left, style is so, so deaf.

00:12:38And when it comes to rhymes and styles, I got them by the pie.

00:12:42I represent it in a minute because I'm G-Trey D.

00:12:44Here to set it off and step up on the M.I.C.

00:12:47And let you know Long Beach, yeah, that's my city.

00:12:50Come down here and we never show pity.

00:12:52It's a personal thing to me to freestyle, you know what I mean?

00:12:56But, you know, when you're trying to get on stage and show off like you can when you really can't,

00:13:01and you're kicking all kind of bullshit words, you get caught out there.

00:13:05You know, I've got caught out there a lot of times just saying a bunch of nothing.

00:13:08That's why I tell all my artists, if you don't feel like freestyling, do not freestyle and go out.

00:13:16Yes, I am a true emcee.

00:13:19I thought I was about to kick a little something, didn't you?

00:13:22Yo, focus on camera so I can slammer.

00:13:26Fat rhyme down your esophagus, who's dropping this?

00:13:28This is the Liverpool Imperial Fat Lips.

00:13:31Chilling with my fools, no, we not no blood or crip.

00:13:33I don't gang bang, I don't slang no kang.

00:13:36But I got these rhymes when I kick them off the brain.

00:13:39I maintain these rhymes I will sustain.

00:13:42Don't try to mess, yo, you don't shit you a gang.

00:13:44I bust your ass in the nose, looking at me fresh dip.

00:13:48Open the window, check out my clothes.

00:13:49I got the Nike, I'm not spiky.

00:13:52But I do the right thing on my nut, you might swing.

00:13:55But that's my hike, cause I kick the shit, keep it tight.

00:13:57Yo, bust that shit.

00:13:59It's dynamite, so I'ma blow it up.

00:14:01Listen to the West Coast shit, nigga bout to throw it up.

00:14:04Bout to pass the shit to my man Suave.

00:14:07So do what you gotta do, nigga, represent LA.

00:14:10Yeah, coming up on stage 2.

00:14:13Bout to represent to you.

00:14:14I got my man Slim Kid Trey.

00:14:17And he's bout to bring this shit on your way.

00:14:19Yo, Slim.

00:14:19Too many niggas trying to perk my lifestyle, romancing.

00:14:27I was kicking game and y'all kids was breakdancing, overlord.

00:14:30So why you whack niggas ain't dead?

00:14:32Probably because my aim is over niggas' heads.

00:14:34East Coast, West Coast, I play the whole map and bounce.

00:14:36You gotta Benz but live in your mom's house.

00:14:39So the key, and the key to a good rap is like,

00:14:44it doesn't only rhyme, but it's like clever.

00:14:46Are you being clever with the rap?

00:14:48And also good rap music does need a beat.

00:15:16He don't represent the ghetto resident.

00:15:18Recognize food within the black code as a Jew.

00:15:21The revolution been in effect.

00:15:23Pull up your shoes.

00:15:24Utilize your third eye.

00:15:25It be him or I now, Jews who gotta die.

00:15:28Him every time.

00:15:29Decai and Stallion, now hold on.

00:15:31Like diamond stud medallions and so on.

00:15:33Between 75 and 85, you had to have juice.

00:15:40You had to have had political power in the culture of hip-hop to grab the mic,

00:15:47to step out onto the cardboard and breakdance, or even do a piece.

00:15:53You had to be known in the community.

00:15:56Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha.

00:15:58Radio TV and even the press.

00:16:00There was the meaning of V-A-T-O.

00:16:02A really important part of hip-hop, I say, is Mike and Dave from, you know,

00:16:09they used to be with the Crash Crew.

00:16:10And Africa Bambot.

00:16:12He brought, like, unity to the people from the Bronx, Manhattan.

00:16:17Brought them together.

00:16:18You know, bringing them into, like, they used to have, like, Zulu Nation meetings,

00:16:23like, on Thursdays and Wednesdays.

00:16:25You know, God bless the dead Malibu.

00:16:28God bless the dead B.O. and stuff like that.

00:16:30This is, like, one of the first flies I ever collected.

00:16:34Cool Herc WizKid.

00:16:36Disco Prince.

00:16:37Whippin' Whippin' Dottorak.

00:16:38Then you got the classic battle of all time.

00:16:43It's Cold Quest versus Fantastic Five.

00:16:45Now, here's an actual flyer of the rooftop.

00:16:51That was a club uptown where everybody go, from the hustlers to the strugglers.

00:16:58Now, this is when I started to evolve as a good beatbox.

00:17:03You know what I'm saying?

00:17:04You have raw bass before he came out with a record.

00:17:06Easy rocked out seat.

00:17:09And look at me.

00:17:09See, Mina?

00:17:10In the beginning, Run DMC.

00:17:14Yeah.

00:17:15Run DMC.

00:17:15We was trying to be there.

00:17:16We weren't Run DMC all over the place.

00:17:17Actually, they were calling us the female Run DMC at one time.

00:17:21So we were like, oh, my God.

00:17:22He's saying we're female Run DMC.

00:17:24So.

00:17:25And we also lived in Queens.

00:17:27Yeah.

00:17:28Yeah.

00:17:28So we used to go back and forth like that style, like Run DMC.

00:17:31We looked up to them a lot.

00:17:33And back at that time, in the pioneering days, it wasn't about money.

00:17:37Nobody came out to get paid.

00:17:39We used to spend more money than we made to come out and play.

00:17:42It was a lot of hard work, you know, to bring all them speakers and all that equipment out.

00:17:46But we just did it for the love of hip-hop, just to play music.

00:17:59Back in the days, the party was everything.

00:18:02And you would go from block to block to block, battling each DJ or each MC.

00:18:07And that's how you would gain your reputation.

00:18:10Oh, yes.

00:18:11You can catch an occasional block party here and there.

00:18:14Sometimes you do see it like the old days.

00:18:26Rap is the music of hip-hop or the vocal delivery of hip-hop.

00:18:30But hip-hop is a full-blown culture.

00:18:33Rap was more party-orientated back then.

00:18:36We talked about partying and having a good time.

00:18:39I'm picking niggas in the bucket, tuck it.

00:18:41You want to get down and you can suck it.

00:18:43Twist the bliss, it's a vocal system with the blind shit.

00:18:46Oh, yes.

00:18:46Coming from North New Jersey, from this.

00:18:48Jump the ball, get down, break the ball.

00:18:51Bitch, you come to me, your best to be jumping that tall shit.

00:18:55Touch my back, like a beta.

00:18:56Touch it, quick, quick, cause it ain't gonna make a mess.

00:18:59Yeah.

00:19:00What I see, hip-hop on the West Coast started like 1982 and so-called gangsta rap started

00:19:08at the same time because those were the first records that really made it out here, you

00:19:13know?

00:19:14Ice-T and Schooly-D, actually.

00:19:16Schooly-D had the record PSK out at the time and Ice-T had 6 in the morning.

00:19:20And these were the only records we were playing because, you know, they were saying things

00:19:26that we could relate to, you know?

00:19:27Early West Coast rap, I would rap about trying to party.

00:19:31I did records like Dog in a Wax, You Don't Quit.

00:19:34But my boys were like saying, Ice, man, how you rapping about parties, man?

00:19:38Y'all, we don't go to parties, we rob parties, you know what I'm saying?

00:19:41So I'm like, yeah, that is true.

00:19:44Cause while they were having a hip-hop scene in New York, we were having a gang scene.

00:19:49Due to the fact they called themselves a gang, people called this gangster rap.

00:19:53Violence is part of that lifestyle, so you have to rap about it.

00:19:57No, this one got stuck.

00:19:59Oh, shit.

00:20:00Yeah, they got stuck way up here.

00:20:02If a kid is in a gang, then he raps from the perspective of a gang banger.

00:20:08But what if the kid sells drugs?

00:20:10He's rapping from the perspective of a drug dealer.

00:20:12What if the guy's a pimp?

00:20:14He'll rap in the perspective of a pimp.

00:20:17When you rap, basically you rap to another rapper.

00:20:20What a gangster rapper says is,

00:20:23You listener, I will shoot you in your motherfucking face.

00:20:30He forgets about the rules.

00:20:33He forgets about the theory, what's right and wrong, message versus non-message.

00:20:38It is reality rap in its truest form because you take out all the barricades.

00:20:45It's very direct.

00:20:46Taking rap to its most real form and just rapping it, just not giving a fuck.

00:20:53Then I talk about money, dope, hoes, cars, guns.

00:21:05What else?

00:21:06That's reality.

00:21:07It's violence everywhere.

00:21:09It's a murder committed every city, state, country, continent, everywhere.

00:21:13I just talk about what the motherfuckers is really doing.

00:21:16California streets is full of all that shit I just named.

00:21:20Can't help but to talk about it.

00:21:21As far as gangster rap is concerned, they talk about what they know, you know what I mean?

00:21:36Just as we can't hold it against people from New York, they have their crews, you know what I'm saying?

00:21:41And it's like the same thing.

00:21:43It's a family-based thing, you know what I'm saying?

00:21:45It's misunderstood.

00:21:47I'm not thugging for me.

00:21:48I'm thugging for my family.

00:21:50I pay all the bills.

00:21:51You know what I'm saying?

00:21:52I feed my whole family.

00:21:54Wrong or right, I do.

00:21:56And I can't stop.

00:21:58You know what I'm saying?

00:21:58And if thugging is going to make me a million bucks, because it just got me platinum, that's what I got to do.

00:22:03As far as music, all it was is guys from the West Coast using different elements of music that guys from the Northeast wouldn't touch, like funk.

00:22:13The West Coast sound to me was like a moved keyboard, a lot more funk type stuff with a lot of hand claps for snares, you know, a lot of whiny high synthesizer type things.

00:22:22And because of the tempos and the mixture of the music, I think that music was more relevant to more black people inside the United States.

00:22:31We put in the dam, from block to block to scandalous town, from crooked cops to dope shops, all around.

00:22:38Shit, hot holes, the six holes, the strawberries, hoods, tight like whatnot, run like the military.

00:22:45Attitudes, don't even try it, take none.

00:22:48And the fact that you could do this, and sooner or later these records started selling, just saying whatever we wanted to say, it was great.

00:22:55It was like God came and said, here's something that you can do.

00:22:59Now, when we started, and when we signed our first contract in 1982, you can count how many rap groups had contracts, signed contracts with companies.

00:23:19And major record companies was not taking chances with rap music, it was the small independent companies that would give rappers a chance.

00:23:26After 1985, hip-hop and rap made a split.

00:23:30Graffiti art and breakdancing no longer became viable means of expressing this piece of the culture.

00:23:39Rap became the viable means of expressing this piece of the culture, and it was only because corporate America, NASA, deemed it important.

00:23:49Oh, we can make some money pressing up these records.

00:23:52So, let's go.

00:23:53Rap is big business now.

00:23:56Now, record companies aren't even concerned about the vinyl and stuff like that.

00:24:00They're talking about CD sales and everything, but if it wasn't for vinyl, there wouldn't be any hip-hop music.

00:24:07These record labels, man, just shysty.

00:24:09They don't care about the artists, you know what I'm saying?

00:24:12They let the artist do what he want to do.

00:24:14They want, yeah, act silly and, you know, yeah, do it for me, you know.

00:24:18They get a certain percentage.

00:24:20We don't, man, we get kibbles.

00:24:22We don't, you know what I'm saying?

00:24:24That's played out.

00:24:27The first record company, they robbed me blind, the record company.

00:24:30You know, I didn't know no better.

00:24:31I'm 17 years old, you know what I'm saying?

00:24:33I'm making a record.

00:24:34I'm coming from $20 a week allowance to all of a sudden somebody giving me $1,000.

00:24:39And I'm like, you know what I'm saying?

00:24:40This is crazy, you know what I'm saying?

00:24:41But that's all I got.

00:24:42The record companies are basically like a merchant bank.

00:24:46You know, they loan you money and they want their money back with fat interest.

00:24:50And the conditions of your contract are basically like the conditions of your loan.

00:24:55It's like I love the fans, yo, and I love making music.

00:24:59But the people in the middle, oof.

00:25:00You know, it's like the middlemen, they just, ugh.

00:25:04Everyone welcomes you into Jerusalem.

00:25:07And later they scream, crucify him.

00:25:09So people are always hypocritical.

00:25:12Especially when you are inside of an industry called the record industry.

00:25:17You know, you have to always stay conscious and in reality.

00:25:21You can't never believe your own hype because those people will build you up to Superman.

00:25:25Only to find out that you garbage man.

00:25:30The record business is exactly what it is.

00:25:36Record business.

00:25:38And you have to take care of both.

00:25:40I got into it just wanting to make music.

00:25:44You know what I'm saying?

00:25:45I didn't really give a damn about the business part of it.

00:25:47I was trusting people, trusting that they would handle my business the way it was supposed to be handled.

00:25:53And you get fucked like that.

00:25:55So, you know, you got to be on top of your own business.

00:25:58You know, don't trust no managers, no record company execs, nothing like that.

00:26:01Know it.

00:26:01Well, basically, every fucking young little motherfucker can rap.

00:26:05So we, all they want to see is, well, where's your two hit singles?

00:26:10And they're going to put that out.

00:26:11And you might go double platinum.

00:26:12And then next time, they're going to make, you know, four million off of you.

00:26:16You're going to be broke.

00:26:17And then you're going to come out with your next album.

00:26:18And if it flopped, they're going to get rid of you and find the next motherfucker.

00:26:21Well, where's your next, where's your two hit singles?

00:26:23It's music and it's business.

00:26:25And, you know what I'm saying, I have to find a fine line in between all of it.

00:26:28It's cool.

00:26:29I just make sure I take care of my business and I accept all the pros and cons of my record label.

00:26:34But I try to enjoy my art and do the best I can.

00:26:37In this business, 90% of artists don't know when they're supposed to get paid,

00:26:44how they're supposed to get paid, or how much they're supposed to get paid, you know.

00:26:48You can ask a new artist, how much is a point worth, or what a point is,

00:26:54and they can't answer the question.

00:26:55They don't know.

00:26:56But they can tell you how much a Mercedes costs.

00:27:00And, you know, the business want to roll with it, so they fork money into it,

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

00:27:05So it's a give and take, and you just got to know, you know, what's actually going on

00:27:10and the sacrifices you actually make in spiritually, mentally, and emotionally

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

00:27:14Like, I'm one of the few rappers, you know, I got, I've had six consecutive gold records

00:27:20and never had a record on the radio, none of my music.

00:27:27The first time I heard my record on the radio, I was mopping a floor in Brooklyn

00:27:32at a daycare center for $15 every time I mop and waxed this floor.

00:27:38In the middle of the street, her and her girlfriend jumped out of the car,

00:27:42was, like, running all around the car.

00:27:44She's telling everybody in the street.

00:27:46That's me, that's me, that's me.

00:27:47My favorite, my favorite radio, I was on the radio.

00:27:50I could not believe it.

00:27:51I could not believe it.

00:27:52And I'm like, get in the car.

00:27:54So, you know, that's a big deal, because you'll be home all your life

00:27:57from high school with little kids or whatever.

00:27:59You'll be home listening to the radio, Paco from 92KTU,

00:28:03and KISS FM, Red Alert, Kool, Chuck Child, and them,

00:28:06and they're cutting up records and stuff.

00:28:08And then to hear your record cut up, you always wonder,

00:28:10what are they going to do to mine?

00:28:11You know what I'm saying?

00:28:11So it was crazy.

00:28:13And that was the best time of my life right there.

00:28:15The first time we, like, heard our stuff on the radio,

00:28:17that was, like, four years ago.

00:28:21And, you know what I'm saying?

00:28:22I can't really go back and say how we felt, you know what I'm saying?

00:28:24Because it was so long ago.

00:28:26You think about how many listeners you got out there.

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

00:28:29It spans millions of people out there.

00:28:32So, you know what I'm saying?

00:28:33You think of me, they playing my shit, you know what I'm saying?

00:28:35Like, damn it!

00:28:36You think everybody heard your shit all day?

00:28:39You call them, you hear me?

00:28:41Did you hear me on the radio?

00:28:42I'd be like, nah.

00:28:43You'd be like, you didn't hear me?

00:28:44Something you worked for, like, you can't believe that you're on the radio

00:28:46and you played right after Run-DMC or just before LL Cool J,

00:28:50you know, and I was like, this was just a feeling.

00:28:52I didn't even smile, it was just more like, damn, I did it.

00:28:55And that basically led to the demise of my mopping job.

00:29:02Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha.

00:29:05Yeah.

00:29:06Okay.

00:29:07Yeah.

00:29:07Together, open one time.

00:29:09Yo, check it out.

00:29:10Yeah.

00:29:11While I see it, uh, I set it off.

00:29:13Check it out.

00:29:14One time, oh, it won't stop.

00:29:16Hey, yo, he took the action.

00:29:18But fine, flex it.

00:29:19Yeah.

00:29:20Yeah.

00:29:20Check it out.

00:29:21Check it out.

00:29:22In the East, it's always off throat, no teeth.

00:29:25I'm the least concerned.

00:29:26How many niggas you burn?

00:29:27I extinguish your flame and take aim

00:29:29At your brain, you've been licking in pain

00:29:31Now have you walking with a cane

00:29:33Money and fame

00:29:34You got your fucking self to blame

00:29:36It's different today.

00:29:37The struggles today are different.

00:29:38It's not as hard as it used to be

00:29:39From people when we started ten years ago

00:29:41When you had to convince motherfuckers that

00:29:43This shit sells.

00:29:47Rap sells.

00:29:48Money, money, money

00:29:49Money, money

00:29:50Money, money

00:29:51Money, money

00:29:53You gotta go to women

00:29:54To the money makers

00:29:55Money

00:29:56You gotta have a line of a money take

00:29:58Money, money

00:29:59You gotta know the moves of the money makers

00:30:01You gotta have a line of a money take

00:30:03Money, money, money

00:30:04This is the first Redman album.

00:30:07This is the, of course, the crossover.

00:30:09This is the biggest record EPMD ever had.

00:30:11Boom, number one album.

00:30:12Same thing with this one.

00:30:13Number one LP, Unfinished Business.

00:30:15Hit Brothers with So What You Saying.

00:30:16Bust them up with the big payback

00:30:18and all that other stuff.

00:30:19Yeah, I just got my platinum joints.

00:30:22I'll prop these out.

00:30:23You know what I mean?

00:30:25Big Willie.

00:30:27First Brooklyn nigga to go platinum.

00:30:29You know, it's all cut.

00:30:30Nothing in the hood.

00:30:32Got my gold joint.

00:30:35For the juicy gold joint.

00:30:37You know?

00:30:39Straight out the hood.

00:30:41My nigga did good.

00:30:43Yeah, we really haven't checked recently.

00:30:45Like, how many records we've sold.

00:30:47Aside from the money.

00:30:51But like, you in a club.

00:30:52You in a club in New York.

00:30:53You throw in one of my joints

00:30:54just to see the kids go crazy

00:30:56and start dancing hard and smiling.

00:31:01Grabbing the girls.

00:31:02That's the payday right there.

00:31:04Looking at people that have made it in the business.

00:31:09You know, Quincy Jones, people like that.

00:31:12That's my mentor right there

00:31:13because he started at a young age the same as I did

00:31:16and he's still doing his thing and having fun with it.

00:31:18You know, it ain't about who has the flyest car,

00:31:21who has the most jewelry.

00:31:23You know, it ain't about that.

00:31:26I think it's very important for me

00:31:28to not lose sight of how I started

00:31:29and keep my background as a DJ

00:31:31and throwing parties.

00:31:34That's always had a lot to do with my success.

00:31:36It's how I first initially got in the business.

00:31:38It's how I met a lot of people.

00:31:41And the parties are kind of an intricate part of the business.

00:31:44We had a party for Delinquent Habits

00:31:48because we wanted people to hear their album.

00:31:51They came to me from Send Dog of Cypress Hill.

00:31:55People that love music, artists,

00:31:56and people that are really into it stick together

00:31:58and they'll support you if your stuff is true

00:32:01no matter what label you're on

00:32:03or what coast you're from or whatever.

00:32:07Check it out now.

00:32:08Hey, hey, true scouts hard to find.

00:32:10I'm sick, real rich sick.

00:32:11It's time to go for mine.

00:32:12See, I remain unfazed when she's so fine.

00:32:14You can buy for days.

00:32:16My shit will be scrunchy.

00:32:17Damn, with my own staff dropping that.

00:32:19Look, you lose all hooking, but I'm stopping that.

00:32:21Use like a copycat.

00:32:23Don't watch me take you through the hell.

00:32:24I'm looking for bias in the big bad red.

00:32:26It's important to get the press out

00:32:28and get them involved.

00:32:30And that's how you get the buzz going.

00:32:31Orlando's Buena Vista Hotel plays host this week

00:32:49to rap music's premiere convention, Jack the Rapper.

00:32:53Prominent artists along with young hopefuls

00:32:55are arriving from all over the country

00:32:56to rub shoulders with industry heavyweights,

00:32:58perform and attend lectures.

00:33:00Although the convention promoters are calling this event

00:33:03a family affair, security has been elevated,

00:33:06but local sheriffs do not foresee any problems.

00:33:09You know, Snoop Dogg's going to be out here.

00:33:10You know, everybody.

00:33:12You know, I've seen Kid already.

00:33:13He got his autograph.

00:33:14You know, that's a great thing, right?

00:33:16Let's roll with that.

00:33:16Get those nice autographs together.

00:33:18Oh, yeah.

00:33:18Everybody that we see.

00:33:19You got to understand,

00:33:20it's people like Jack the Rapper himself

00:33:22who takes time out and spend money

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

00:33:24And you got different energies

00:33:26coming from all over the world.

00:33:27You know what I'm saying?

00:33:28Everybody's trying to do their music

00:33:29and we kicking it.

00:33:30It's show time.

00:33:31Well, Jack the Rapper was important

00:33:33when I was coming out

00:33:33because there was a lot of people

00:33:35who wanted to be exposed to the industry.

00:33:37And this, you know,

00:33:38this was an avenue

00:33:38where they could network

00:33:39and a lot of stars were found out there.

00:33:42And a lot of things came out good.

00:33:43You go down there, you learn.

00:33:44You know, they have panels.

00:33:45They have good shows.

00:33:46It's just a great event to be at.

00:33:48So, look at that.

00:33:49It hurts me to see young guys

00:33:51that get a record deal

00:33:52and the first thing they go out

00:33:52and buy is a Mercedes,

00:33:54buy some rings,

00:33:55buy some joy around their neck

00:33:57and they live in an apartment.

00:33:59I 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 were making

00:34:05millions of dollars

00:34:05and I had more money

00:34:06in my bank account

00:34:07than they had in theirs.

00:34:09The hype's got me.

00:34:10I knock them out the box

00:34:11and out socks

00:34:12because when I come around

00:34:13they can skate like the rocks.

00:34:15My 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 coffin backwards,

00:34:23blow shit up like

00:34:24the 4th of July

00:34:24with half sticks.

00:34:26And on and on to

00:34:26the break of Radon Chong,

00:34:28I'm killing you softly

00:34:29with this song

00:34:30with this ball.

00:34:31Kickin' flow's harder

00:34:32than the music,

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

00:34:34then your chest

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

00:34:36and give me five mic checks

00:34:37in order to do respect.

00:34:39Please, fill it up

00:34:40and check the antifreeze

00:34:41because Keith Murray

00:34:42dropped mad degrees.

00:34:44Jackie Rappers,

00:34:44wait 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,

00:34:48look for management,

00:34:50look for deals,

00:34:51look for whatever.

00:34:52That's what Jackie Rappers about,

00:34:53is for people

00:34:54gettin' people on.

00:34:55Who did the music on album?

00:34:57Eric Summers and Redman.

00:34:58So what type?

00:34:59Is it like some funk shit?

00:35:00All of cosmic slop funk,

00:35:02some new shit.

00:35:03It's about keepin' it real.

00:35:05As you notice,

00:35:06I'm out here doin' my own thing.

00:35:08I ain't large,

00:35:09I ain't up in the hotel room

00:35:10havin' people pass out my shit.

00:35:12You got the original article

00:35:14right here passin' out a tape.

00:35:16That's realness.

00:35:17And now go.

00:35:18Right now I'm trying

00:35:19to fool party.

00:35:21Burn it up,

00:35:22bad boy ain't representin'.

00:35:23Put daddy.

00:35:25Callin' bad boy,

00:35:26you know what I'm sayin'?

00:35:26Yeah, I'm Rodgers.

00:35:27Big ain't fuckin' with y'all.

00:35:28Yeah, we got Barry,

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 shit coming out

00:35:34with new shit up.

00:35:36Bad boy!

00:35:36What's goin' on?

00:35:37Bad boy!

00:35:39Bad boy!

00:35:40She was right there,

00:35:41she's goin' to.

00:35:41For real?

00:35:42I can take me.

00:35:42Are you gonna be over here?

00:35:44How are I?

00:35:44No, stay clear.

00:35:48L.A.

00:35:48Baby, why you got

00:35:49to pickin' my drink?

00:35:50You know what I'm sayin'?

00:35:51It's your birthday.

00:35:53It's your birthday.

00:35:54Go about that.

00:35:56Go about that.

00:35:57Go about that.

00:35:57Woo!

00:35:59Give the show.

00:36:00No, no, no.

00:36:01We need some money

00:36:02a little bit more than that.

00:36:04Go 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 gotta make that shit

00:36:10hit the ground.

00:36:11Sublime.

00:36:12Get 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 that.

00:36:17The Jack the Rapper

00:36:18music convention

00:36:19held at the Disney-owned

00:36:21Buena 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

00:36:28convention-goers.

00:36:30Guests at the hotel

00:36:31not expecting

00:36:32the Jack the Rapper

00:36:33convention

00:36:33have been relocated

00:36:35to nearby hotels.

00:36:37Buena Vista hotel

00:36:38officials are not

00:36:39commenting on

00:36:39reports of vandalism.

00:36:41The pool party,

00:36:44it wasn't really

00:36:44nothing going on

00:36:45for 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's time to pool party.

00:36:52That's how it started.

00:36:53DJ ran a nerve.

00:36:58Take the goose now

00:36:59on you.

00:37:00Bring that ass here.

00:37:02I'm coming.

00:37:04You first.

00:37:05And for me.

00:37:06You first.

00:37:07You first.

00:37:10Eddie.

00:37:11Eddie.

00:37:13Eddie.

00:37:14You first.

00:37:15Police cruisers

00:37:37surround the

00:37:38Buena Vista

00:37:38Palace Hotel.

00:37:42Deputies say

00:37:43the emergency

00:37:43response team

00:37:44was on hand

00:37:45and had off

00:37:45any trouble

00:37:46at the Jack the Rapper

00:37:47urban music convention

00:37:48going on

00:37:49inside the hotel.

00:37:51We got you

00:37:52waiting for a ride

00:37:54and some type

00:37:55of war

00:37:56was going to go down.

00:38:01All units,

00:38:04please response.

00:38:04the ride squad in, man.

00:38:25Snoop came on,

00:38:26calmed things down,

00:38:27but otherwise,

00:38:28the ride squad came in, man.

00:38:30Besides all that negative

00:38:32I thought he was pretty fat

00:38:33and everything.

00:38:34Oh, yeah.

00:38:34Everything was cool.

00:38:35Once a year

00:38:36and he was the bomb.

00:38:37Had some fun.

00:38:39Yeah, I hope

00:38:39there's going to be one next year

00:38:40I'll definitely be back.

00:38:43I think people are people

00:38:44just because they make rap records

00:38:46and they happen to be bad people

00:38:48don't mean that rap is bad.

00:38:50Whatever you do, you do.

00:38:51Don't try to be no thug.

00:38:52If you a thug, be a thug.

00:38:54If you a nice guy like myself,

00:38:55be a nice guy.

00:38:56I don't care what people say about me.

00:38:57I'm doing what I love to do.

00:38:58There's people out there

00:38:59who respect me for what I do.

00:39:00I respect every individual

00:39:01that I come across.

00:39:03Who that, Mike?

00:39:04Michael Hope?

00:39:05Yeah.

00:39:05Where you been, man?

00:39:07Working hard.

00:39:08Don't front.

00:39:08He was locked up.

00:39:09Don't front.

00:39:10Don't front.

00:39:13Especially in hip-hop,

00:39:14you want to have people around

00:39:15and you can vibe, you know,

00:39:16because it'd be like,

00:39:16without them saying anything,

00:39:18you know if they knocking

00:39:19or if they bobbing their head,

00:39:21you know that you wanted something.

00:39:28The most gratifying thing

00:39:32about all of this

00:39:32is the respect that I receive

00:39:34from people, you know,

00:39:35when I just walk down the street

00:39:36and the love that they show me

00:39:37and the appreciation

00:39:39and the fan mail that I get

00:39:40when people let me know

00:39:41that I inspire them

00:39:42and better themselves.

00:39:44But I want to introduce you

00:39:46to our fellow officers.

00:39:47They always take care

00:39:48of us during these functions.

00:39:51Every year I try to do

00:39:52somewhere I come from.

00:39:52I put on basketball games.

00:39:54I sponsor boxing tournaments.

00:39:56I think this was the first annual

00:39:57of the nothing but love, cookout.

00:39:58All right, who's going to start this up?

00:40:00All right, what y'all want to do?

00:40:00Let me get back a little bit.

00:40:02I'm going to the dynamo, man.

00:40:04Let me put the gas,

00:40:05let me put the gas.

00:40:05We're going to crank 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 be G.I. Joe?

00:40:12How much shit does she got right here?

00:40:13Nothing?

00:40:14$1 million.

00:40:18Food!

00:40:20It's just for the community, man.

00:40:22The 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, man.

00:40:28Crowded.

00:40:28Everybody came.

00:40:29LL came.

00:40:30Mary J. Blige came.

00:40:31Naughty by Nature.

00:40:32You know, a lot of people showed up.

00:40:33So it was fat.

00:40:35It was hot.

00:40:38I love it all.

00:40:39I love the people,

00:40:40the autograph signing.

00:40:41You know,

00:40:42I'm blessed in every aspect

00:40:44of what I do.

00:40:45So,

00:40:46ain't no sense me faking you out.

00:40:47I love it.

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

00:40:49I was bound to be famous.

00:40:50Because I'm a super female

00:40:55that push my cage

00:40:56And like Hurricane Annie

00:40:57I'll blow you away

00:40:58Whenever I'm in a battle

00:40:59Yo, I don't play

00:41:00So you best go evacuate

00:41:02And have a nice day

00:41:03The evolution of women rappers

00:41:13definitely started in the Bronx.

00:41:15First,

00:41:16there was a group called

00:41:17The Funky Four Plus One More

00:41:19And that one more

00:41:20was a female

00:41:21by the name of Sha Rock.

00:41:22Sha Rock,

00:41:23I was in love with this girl.

00:41:24I thought she was the best.

00:41:25I mean,

00:41:26she had a real good,

00:41:27clean voice,

00:41:28powerful,

00:41:28strong,

00:41:29but still sexy

00:41:30and ladylike.

00:41:31She had good rhythm.

00:41:33And then,

00:41:33there was the Sequence Girls

00:41:34who came along

00:41:35with the Sugar Hill Gang records

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 platinum hit

00:41:46for a female group.

00:41:48We'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,

00:41:55she makes it fun.

00:41:57This girl is crazy.

00:41:59We've always found it

00:42:01our duty

00:42:03as female artists

00:42:05to tell the other side

00:42:08of that story,

00:42:09you know?

00:42:10We'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.

00:42:18Some of the young ladies

00:42:19have to become

00:42:20themselves,

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,

00:42:26you know,

00:42:26start realizing

00:42:27who they are

00:42:28and what they are.

00:42:29You 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.

00:42:34When guys say like,

00:42:35bitch or hoe,

00:42:36it don't bother me

00:42:36because for the simple fact,

00:42:38one,

00:42:38they're not talking

00:42:39about me.

00:42:40And where I'm from,

00:42:41the west side of Chicago,

00:42:42we could see our homegirls

00:42:43and be like,

00:42:44what's up,

00:42:44bitch?

00:42:44Shut the fuck up,

00:42:45you stupid.

00:42:46You know what I mean?

00:42:46It's all in fun.

00:42:47It really depends on

00:42:48how you say the shit

00:42:49and you know

00:42:49when somebody's

00:42:50saying 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...

00:43:00It's just like nigga,

00:43:01the same thing.

00:43:02You know what I mean?

00:43:02People just take it differently.

00:43:04That shit turns me off.

00:43:06You a lady,

00:43:06I think you need

00:43:07to act like a lady.

00:43:08You know what I'm saying?

00:43:09It's the way

00:43:09that you can act like a lady

00:43:10and still have skills rapping.

00:43:12You know what I'm saying?

00:43:13But when you start

00:43:14that old wanting to be

00:43:15like a nigga

00:43:16and hats

00:43:17and baggy jeans

00:43:18and boots

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

00:43:21Why?

00:43:22That'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.

00:43:27This is how I kick it.

00:43:28This is how I live.

00:43:29I'm just trying

00:43:30to be straight real

00:43:30with everybody.

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

00:43:32sugarcoat it

00:43:33or nothing like that.

00:43:34I'm just trying to put it down

00:43:35the 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

00:43:41the women in higher respect

00:43:43and 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 stronger

00:43:51individuals.

00:43:52My experience is

00:43:53it has been hard

00:43:54to find a female

00:43:56to work with

00:43:57that I'm really digging

00:43:59you know

00:44:00and out here

00:44:01on the west coast

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

00:44:02that get into rap

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

00:44:05They're on nine to fives

00:44:06you know.

00:44:08You know Rome

00:44:08wasn't built in a day

00:44:09the world's not going

00:44:10to change overnight.

00:44:12Come here Santi

00:44:12come here.

00:44:13look in the camera

00:44:17smile

00:44:18say hi

00:44:19hi

00:44:19tell him your name

00:44:20my name is

00:44:22Tom Tanish

00:44:23who 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

00:44:40gag him

00:44:43at its best

00:44:52hip-hop music

00:44:53can grab

00:44:54the nation

00:44:54by the neck

00:44:55and make people

00:44:57realize

00:44:57what's going on

00:44:58it's a voice

00:45:00for the oppressed

00:45:01people that

00:45:01in many other ways

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

00:45:04we didn't know

00:45:04nothing about

00:45:05the west coast

00:45:05we didn't know

00:45:06nothing about Philly

00:45:07we didn't know

00:45:07nothing about Jersey

00:45:08until the rap came

00:45:09and then we just

00:45:10started communicating

00:45:11and 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

00:45:15in 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 going through

00:45:23you know

00:45:23you have guys

00:45:24you know

00:45:25who are rappers

00:45:26who are from the ghetto

00:45:27and the stuff

00:45:28that they say

00:45:29is stuff that

00:45:30they live

00:45:31every day

00:45:32these are their

00:45:33lyrics

00:45:34after growing up here

00:45:43and seeing my man

00:45:44that lived upstairs

00:45:45getting killed

00:45:45and then my brother shot

00:45:47like

00:45:47you 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

00:46:04it was a big world

00:46:06and I was young

00:46:07and all I had

00:46:07was 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

00:46:13was just handle myself

00:46:14to get into a position

00:46:15where I could say

00:46:16I'm gonna 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'll 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 them up real

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 like

00:47:06several 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

00:47:16you 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

00:47:25I 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 an ill situation

00:47:36we have been put here

00:47:37for a cause

00:47:38we have been put here to 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 my backyard

00:47:46meadows in my backyard

00:47:48y'all you think I wouldn't

00:47:50we're not here just because

00:47:51we 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

00:47:58to the hood

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

00:47:59that are in the hood

00:48:01I 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

00:48:13you know

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

00:48:15away from

00:48:17the fucked up shit

00:48:19because

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

00:48:29to get here

00:48:29and all them 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

00:48:44of 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

00:49:01and then you got the niggas in general

00:49:02who just roll around

00:49:04just 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

00:49:29because 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

00:49:42and 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

00:49:48you 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

00:49:56she's been living in

00:49:57apartments

00:49:58all her life

00:49:59you get a million dollars

00:50:00you 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 play

00:50:10they be

00:50:11them be ones

00:50:12who was friends

00:50:12from a long time ago

00:50:14so really

00:50:15when they do talk

00:50:16that kind of stuff

00:50:17and all that

00:50:17I really shine it on

00:50:19but 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 regardless

00:50:23how they playing

00:50:24I 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

00:50:31when I come to the costume

00:50:32that's why we're 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 the same people

00:50:40we make our music

00:50:41for the kids around the block

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

00:50:44we still living 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 right 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

00:50:58we'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

00:51:06and 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

00:51:14and 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

00:51:27to 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

00:51:37four 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

00:51:45the best thing

00:51:46I'm doing

00:51:46for my community

00:51:47is showing them

00:51:48that a brother like myself

00:51:50without giving in

00:51:51to 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

00:51:57man

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 just 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 was 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

00:52:19wasn'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

00:52:37then all of a sudden

00:52:37the community

00:52:38is like

00:52:38yeah well

00:52:39he's doing good now

00:52:40and

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

00:52:44fucked up

00:52:45and I had to sell drugs

00:52:46to live

00:52:46so why have

00:52:48more fucking love

00:52:49for me now

00:52:49cause I'm nigga doing 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

00:52:58a 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

00:53:07you can't do

00:53:08you cannot do that

00:53:10you will

00:53:11eventually die

00:53:12or go to jail

00:53:13that's a fact

00:53:14I was in

00:53:16Harlem World

00:53:16Union Square

00:53:17Latin Quarters

00:53:18I was all there

00:53:19up in there

00:53:19like this

00:53:19you know sneaky

00:53:20razor blade in my mouth

00:53:22and shit

00:53:22you know when you're young

00:53:23you do anything

00:53:24mess tabs up in my system

00:53:25cocktail

00:53:26cigarettes

00:53:27dust blunts

00:53:28and shit

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

00:53:29I went through that whole phase

00:53:30live life fast

00:53:31and live it quick

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

00:53:33but you know

00:53:33then you know

00:53:35it's like when I got the knowledge of myself

00:53:37and shit

00:53:37I was able to adapt

00:53:38and calm things down

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

00:53:40until I had my first seed

00:53:42you know

00:53:42nigga woke up like

00:53:43yo

00:53:43life is more than just about me

00:53:45and shit

00:53:46I got generations to bring forth

00:53:47basically Cypress Hill

00:53:48used to hang out in front of right here

00:53:50you know getting fucked up

00:53:52you know drinking beers and shit

00:53:53talking shit

00:53:54and you know

00:53:55we get to rhyming and shit

00:53:56I smoked B-Real

00:53:57his first joint right there

00:53:58on that tree right there

00:54:00so we used to come chill right here

00:54:02because we used to come like

00:54:02so you can hire for the cops right here

00:54:04and get hired

00:54:05in 85

00:54:06there was a big weed drought

00:54:07in 86 was the year that crack came in

00:54:10and everything changed

00:54:11crack just really just 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

00:54:19and it was like a siphon

00:54:20like anybody who fucked with it

00:54:22just got sucked in

00:54:23no

00:54:24that's incriminating

00:54:25don't you man

00:54:26let's go out

00:54:30the 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

00:54:43and the commentary kind of

00:54:44went to the temple

00:54:45of the effects of the drugs

00:54:46and political rap

00:54:47and conscious rap

00:54:48tried to make people look at

00:54:49what they was doing

00:54:50and if they was doing things

00:54:52in a negative way

00:54:52try to look at it

00:54:53in an unhip way

00:54:54try to make it unhip

00:54:55unfashionable

00:54:56all of a sudden

00:54:57all these anti-drug records

00:54:59started coming out

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

00:55:01where it's like

00:55:02if you on crack

00:55:03you know like

00:55:03brand nubians

00:55:05grand poobah

00:55:07was talking about

00:55:08you know

00:55:09slow down

00:55:10so now

00:55:11if somebody tells you

00:55:11yo when we 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 shocking

00:55:26or surprising us

00:55:26it'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

00:55:31oh that'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

00:55:40and

00:55:40I kinda got a bad

00:55:42conscious about that

00:55:43the world is full of thugs

00:55:51prosulists

00:55:52big willy mobsters

00:55:53I kill rappers on the records

00:55:55it's my job to separate the real from the fake

00:55:58so I reveal the truth and break it down on a wax lake

00:56:01the laws of the underground try to you know express like

00:56:04the funny side

00:56:05the good side

00:56:06or you know

00:56:07out of the normal of the hood

00:56:09that people don't really talk about

00:56:10because we always hearin' about the negative

00:56:12but we try to talk about some positives sometimes

00:56:14all you pseudo tough guys end up dearly departed

00:56:20as a young juvenile I started

00:56:22learnin' from some older dudes

00:56:24from the pits to stick up man

00:56:25and back then you had to know the rules

00:56:27the peer pressure it can get ya

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 separate the real from the fake

00:56:39so I reveal the truth and break it down on a wax lake

00:56:43y'all like michael jackson

00:56:47y'all like michael jackson

00:56:51he grabbed his crotch to us

00:56:55y'all like whitney houston

00:56:58y'all like biggie smoles

00:57:02y'all like wu-tay clan

00:57:05y'all look up to your mom and dad

00:57:08well you know you have you know some cases like that

00:57:19but some kids don't

00:57:20I ain't gonna get into that young man's reason why

00:57:24but most of the kids say yeah they look up to them

00:57:26and that's important

00:57:27my mom and dad sometimes you know what I'm saying

00:57:29they would get on a fellow nerves you know

00:57:32when I wanted to do things that I wanted to do

00:57:34but now that I look back and see how they raised me

00:57:36I saw that they was right

00:57:38y'all may not understand it 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 man

00:57:44those are definite role models I think

00:57:46she was just a single black mother

00:57:52she gave me you know

00:57:54she didn't let nothing

00:57:55no obstacles stand in her way

00:57:57she overcame every obstacle

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

00:57:59my mother owns my company

00:58:00she owns bad boys

00:58:01you know that was my gift to her

00:58:04she was the only one that was always there for me

00:58:06no matter what

00:58:07yeah my mother's the closest one to me

00:58:10you know

00:58:10she gave me everything I always wanted

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

00:58:13Christmas time I had it all

00:58:15when my friends didn't

00:58:17she just gave me everything that was the style

00:58:19she made sure I had it

00:58:21some things I couldn't get

00:58:22but the things I did got

00:58:24I was real happy for

00:58:25the rest of the world is crazy

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

00:58:28and everything is cool

00:58:29and that's what makes you want to take a chance

00:58:31a lot of people who 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 falls in love with me

00:58:42or decides that they no longer love me

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

00:58:45you know

00:58:46those people will always be in my corner

00:58:48when you talk about my mom

00:58:52it's beyond words

00:58:53she just did everything

00:58:57you know

00:58:57I love her for that man

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

00:59:02this is breakdancing

00:59:05this is how he started

00:59:07I think that was just before rapping

00:59:10he was actually in high school on this one

00:59:13he was about 17 years old

00:59:15I go on some video shoots with 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 of my homeboys

00:59:34surrounding her

00:59:35with straps

00:59:36nigga don't let nobody touch my mama

00:59:39oh I worry about his safety a lot

00:59:42a lot of things has happened to him

00:59:44he's been shot at

00:59:45harassed

00:59:48when he was little

00:59:49we thought he was going to be a preacher

00:59:51because he carried a bible around all the time

00:59:54had his name on it

00:59:55well he is a preacher

00:59:57only he does it through his rap

00:59:59he's been promising me a house

01:00:01since he was a little boy

01:00:02and I had no idea how he was going to buy it

01:00:06but now I know

01:00:07all of our heroes were killed off

01:00:12Martin Luther King

01:00:13Malcolm X

01:00:13JFK

01:00:15so I grew up having heroes

01:00:18that were the local drug dealer

01:00:20pimps

01:00:21the pushers

01:00:22the guys with the does

01:00:24the guys who were riding around

01:00:25in the Seville

01:00:26in the Cadillacs

01:00:27you know

01:00:27guys who were flashing

01:00:28the hundred dollar bills

01:00:30the number runners

01:00:30the whole thing about hip hop

01:00:32was to wear the gold chain

01:00:33and you know

01:00:35they're dressed like

01:00:36the street hustler

01:00:36a nigga talk about

01:00:38he got on a Rolex watch

01:00:39and all this shit

01:00:40now without finishing school

01:00:43going 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 where 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 everybody else

01:00:59in the community my age

01:01:00they probably got to get a job

01:01:01at McDonald's

01:01:02and then their mind

01:01:03is just like mine

01:01:04where they really working

01:01:04at McDonald's saying

01:01:05damn I want better than this

01:01:07but you can ask 90%

01:01:08of the people

01:01:09that's involved in 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 on

01:01:44I 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 don't want to hurt nobody

01:01:57so I kind of like

01:01:58send that energy

01:02:00I used to have

01:02:01it was static

01:02:01that I used to act out

01:02:02I put that in my music

01:02:04it's like once you've been

01:02:06a criminal

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

01:02:07and you felt the

01:02:08the excitement

01:02:09and the 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 down

01:02:28like 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 for the rest

01:02:32of my life

01:02:32but I still got the skills

01:02:34and I know I can

01:02:35I'm more of a

01:02:37I'm more of a crook

01:02:38than I am a rapper

01:02:39I know that

01:02:39there you go Jerry

01:02:44that's the way you like

01:02:46that's what you like

01:02:47I'm going inbound

01:02:48yeah and then we did

01:02:49yours the same way

01:02:50there

01:02:50you got a wide line

01:02:51can I get some furniture

01:02:53to work with

01:02:54some furniture

01:02:55if I wasn't in the music

01:02:59fitness

01:03:00what kind of game

01:03:00I 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

01:03:06and for you to find out

01:03:07yeah I was into other stuff

01:03:09you know but

01:03:09it came a time

01:03:11when I got a reality check

01:03:12you know

01:03:12but something happened

01:03:14to me so

01:03:14after that

01:03:15when it happened

01:03:16you know I decided

01:03:17that I knew

01:03:17I better do this

01:03:18because you know

01:03:19I might not be able to

01:03:20do nothing no more

01:03:21period

01:03:21I got shot

01:03:24I was confined to a wheelchair

01:03:27for like a year and a half

01:03:28yeah I mean

01:03:31I'm talking about

01:03:31I got shot nine times

01:03:33you know

01:03:33it ain't no surprising thing

01:03:40your body happens

01:03:41in every ghetto

01:03:42somebody gets shot

01:03:43somebody get killed

01:03:44you know

01:03:44do I ever carry a gun

01:03:57yeah

01:03:58well first I couldn't believe it

01:04:01you know

01:04:02god damn

01:04:03you 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

01:04:18I had to do

01:04:18because

01:04:19the situation

01:04:20I was in

01:04:21shooting that

01:04:22being shot at

01:04:23I'd never get on camera

01:04:29saying no shit

01:04:29like that

01:04:30I ain't finna answer

01:04:32nothing like that

01:04:33say we down south

01:04:34hustling

01:04:35we gotta be scrapped

01:04:36because

01:04:36it's just like that

01:04:37you never know

01:04:38when a player hitter

01:04:39gonna run up on

01:04:39you try to take what you got

01:04:41you know what I'm saying

01:04:41I roll around with a gun

01:04:43every day now

01:04:43because of the situations

01:04:45that I had to deal with

01:04:46when I used to gangbang

01:04:48and the brothers who won't

01:04:49let you live that shit down

01:04:50me being a rapper

01:04:52I'm basically just giving you

01:04:54the real

01:04:54I seen everything

01:04:56so that's what makes me speak

01:04:57like I speak

01:04:58and that's what makes me

01:04:59bring the music like I do

01:05:01because I've been there

01:05:02you know

01:05:03I belong to gangs

01:05:04I done went on drive-bys

01:05:06so it just all has to

01:05:13depend on the situation

01:05:15you know

01:05:15if somebody threatens you

01:05:17you gonna kill them

01:05:18time tried to come in my home

01:05:43Take my chrome

01:05:44I said you're a zone

01:05:46Take cover, son

01:05:47All your ass out

01:05:48I feel like my chrome

01:05:49Then I want the rookie pass

01:05:50I'm getting at the blast

01:05:52Now what I did anyway

01:05:53Your fuck had to pay

01:05:56So I just killed a man

01:05:57Here is something you can't understand

01:06:00I work at this government

01:06:02Here is something you can't understand

01:06:05I work at this government

01:06:06You gotta listen to this shit

01:06:08To understand it

01:06:09Rewind it

01:06:10Three and four times

01:06:11Listen to it

01:06:12You know

01:06:14Then maybe you'll get

01:06:15A little notion

01:06:17Where we're coming from

01:06:18Charlton Heston spoke out today

01:06:20Against gangster rap music

01:06:21That is aimed at the police

01:06:22Heston claimed that

01:06:24The violent content of the lyrics

01:06:25Has a negative influence

01:06:27On American values

01:06:28That's where white America

01:06:30Pisses me off at

01:06:31I'm saying Arnold Schwarzenegger

01:06:32Can kill a whole fucking police force

01:06:34In this movie

01:06:35But the minute Mac 10

01:06:36Talking about shooting one police

01:06:37Or something

01:06:37They want to take my record off the shelf

01:06:39Some of us didn't even graduate

01:06:41From high school

01:06:41And we making seven figures

01:06:43You know what I'm saying

01:06:45It's hard for you to swallow

01:06:46If you went to Harvard

01:06:47To yell all your motherfucking life

01:06:48And you ain't making

01:06:49But 50,000 a year

01:06:50And a motherfucker like us

01:06:52Can make a million a year

01:06:53You know what I'm saying

01:06:53That's hard for you to swallow

01:06:55Put it like this

01:06:56N.W.A. was not a prophet

01:06:58You know what I'm saying

01:06:58When they was talking about

01:06:59Fuck the police

01:06:59And one time it's doing this and that

01:07:01I mean I sat there

01:07:02And I said

01:07:02Hell yeah

01:07:04You know what I'm saying

01:07:04I relate to that

01:07:05But the average white American

01:07:07If we're gonna have to generalize

01:07:09They said

01:07:10Why?

01:07:10Why would they think such a thing?

01:07:12You don't really have any love for them

01:07:14You know

01:07:14I ain't never seen no cop

01:07:15Get no cat out of the tree

01:07:16Now I live in a nice neighborhood

01:07:18The cops are different over here

01:07:19They're like

01:07:19Hey how you doing

01:07:20Sending me Christmas cards and shit

01:07:22Shit's a little different

01:07:24But

01:07:24The average kid in the streets

01:07:27He's never had a cop help him

01:07:28So the attitude is

01:07:30Fuck the police

01:07:31And the neighborhoods

01:07:43Most of the time

01:07:44It's the same cops

01:07:45And they know what's going on around there

01:07:47And they see you

01:07:48If he's somebody that they've been seeing

01:07:49And you know what you're doing

01:07:51They know what you're doing

01:07:52And they see you

01:07:53And you see them

01:07:54You know

01:07:55You know what's on

01:07:55Well you live where I live

01:07:59And if you just black period

01:08:00Like they say

01:08:01It's a routine

01:08:02A black man in a fancy car

01:08:05You're gonna get pulled over

01:08:07You're gonna ask to step out your car

01:08:09You're gonna get your car searched

01:08:11No probable cause

01:08:12No reason

01:08:13No whatever

01:08:15It just happens

01:08:15It's just routine

01:08:16The same crime element

01:08:19That white people are scared of

01:08:20Black people are scared of

01:08:22The same crime element

01:08:25That white people fear

01:08:26We fear

01:08:27So we defend ourselves

01:08:28From the same crime element

01:08:30That they scared of

01:08:31You know what I'm saying

01:08:32While they wait for legislation

01:08:33To pass and everything

01:08:34We next door to the killer

01:08:35We next door to him

01:08:37You know

01:08:37Cause we up in the projects

01:08:38Where there's 80 niggas in the building

01:08:40All them killers

01:08:41That they letting out

01:08:41They right there in that building

01:08:42But it's better

01:08:44Just cause we black

01:08:45We get along with the killers

01:08:46Or something

01:08:46We get along with the rapists

01:08:47Cause we black

01:08:48And we from the same hood

01:08:49What is that?

01:08:50We need protection too

01:08:51This is why we rhyme

01:08:53And this is our reason

01:08:54You know what I'm saying?

01:08:54We live this life

01:08:558 days

01:08:56I got copper friends

01:08:57But now we're making proper ends

01:09:01We got beef in the west coast

01:09:13We got beef in the east coast

01:09:14With police

01:09:15Hey the big police

01:09:16The biggest motherfucking gang

01:09:17Out this motherfuck

01:09:18With guns

01:09:19The other day

01:09:19You know what I'm saying

01:09:20I wear my one pants leg down

01:09:22One pants leg up

01:09:23We were in Chicago

01:09:24And one of the security guys

01:09:26You know

01:09:27He came at me on some

01:09:28Either you roll your pants leg down

01:09:30Or you keep bofing them up

01:09:31I thought he was playing

01:09:33But then he got all up in my face

01:09:35We just performed

01:09:36Why you even swiping me like that?

01:09:38Well it's a gang thing

01:09:39All up in my face though

01:09:40You know what I'm saying?

01:09:41That's not even necessary

01:09:42Now if I was to punch him in his shit

01:09:44I'd have been wrong

01:09:45You know what I'm saying?

01:09:46But I kept it cool

01:09:48You know what I'm saying?

01:09:49Not trying to be rude and all that

01:09:50I said money

01:09:51Could you please just get out of my face?

01:09:53Cause I'm not rolling my pants leg down

01:09:55Respect is a really high thing

01:09:57In the black community

01:09:58And once somebody feels disrespected

01:10:00That's when an issue arises

01:10:03Cops need to learn how to talk to people

01:10:05Wasn't bothering nobody

01:10:09Wasn't no other cars around

01:10:10The cop that pulled me over

01:10:12Just wanted me to keep my wheels on the ground

01:10:14And he said

01:10:15I could impound your car now

01:10:16But I ain't gonna trip right now

01:10:18So I said alright

01:10:19Then don't trip right now

01:10:21Give me my brake then

01:10:22And it ain't nothing but a hydraulic ticket

01:10:25I don't worry about it

01:10:26He just wanted to pull me over

01:10:29Cause he was an asshole

01:10:30I can feel it right here man

01:10:36That's real

01:10:37Every year about this time

01:10:39Every year about this time

01:10:42It's a

01:10:42It's always a dark cloud

01:10:45That lingers over the city

01:10:46And I hear the preacher about it

01:10:49Look here

01:10:49Every year about this time

01:10:51I get to thinking of old school memories

01:10:53That I keep stored in the back of the head

01:10:54And the back of my mind

01:10:55That I always seem to find

01:10:56When I'm urinating with my weed

01:10:58For some flattened bones

01:10:59And drinking wine

01:11:00Just come home from Quentin

01:11:01And all I know is shrine

01:11:03Grind

01:11:04Time

01:11:05No game being known

01:11:06It's either white collet crime

01:11:08Or a hook in the bones

01:11:10How can I make some sort of dividend

01:11:11How can I get my mathematics on?

01:11:13How can I get in where I feel?

01:11:14And how can I get in, get going?

01:11:16Every year about this time

01:11:19They lock us up

01:11:23And throw away the keys

01:11:26I'm gonna come out there and listen

01:11:28I think rap is just like country music, okay?

01:11:31Cause you get to express yourself

01:11:32You know, I left my heart in Arizona

01:11:34You know what I'm saying

01:11:36It's just the same thing

01:11:37It's like a stress reliever

01:11:38You know what I'm saying?

01:11:40Just like the little Chinese boss

01:11:41You rolling your hand and what have you

01:11:43To relieve the stress

01:11:44We rapping on the microphone

01:11:46And spitting all on the popper stopper

01:11:48Feel me?

01:11:57I'm running to older people of all colors

01:11:59They don't understand it

01:12:00They just think it's all bad

01:12:01Which a lot of it is

01:12:03We'll give a damn

01:12:04But a lot of it is good too, playboy

01:12:07When fools didn't even think it was gonna happen

01:12:12Me, my uncle St. Charles

01:12:14D-Shot

01:12:15Be legit

01:12:15We all had confidence

01:12:17Sugar T

01:12:17We all had confidence in ourselves

01:12:19And we kept it going

01:12:20You know what I'm saying?

01:12:21Legal dough

01:12:22We homegrown, man

01:12:24I feel good about being homegrown

01:12:26I think the move that hip hop is taking now

01:12:30What I see

01:12:30But the artists are gaining more control

01:12:32Of the business aspect

01:12:34They're doing a lot more of their own production

01:12:36You know

01:12:37I mean I don't really know how many days it's gonna take

01:12:40I'm saying I just know we gotta get a joint

01:12:42You know a lot of artists are starting management

01:12:44I'm saying I'm having a bitch

01:12:45Yeah, I have them for a day

01:12:46Do I feel a ghetto

01:12:47Raised by a killer

01:12:48T-R-U cross my stomach

01:12:49Your neighborhood

01:12:50Thug nigga

01:12:51Trying to make it

01:12:52Out this fucked up environment

01:12:54With niggas died

01:12:55Trying to make a dollar out of fifty

01:12:57Said the ghetto got me crazy

01:12:59I smell daisies, but I can't die tonight, more ladies pregnant with a baby.

01:13:05Tupac said there's a heaven for a cheat, but I want it there's a resting place for killers and gangsters like me.

01:13:11Independent, black-owned, we're from the hood and we take what we made up out the hood

01:13:17and show people from the ghetto that you can have something, you can be successful if you put your mind to it.

01:13:23We're about being the next biggest, entourage, independent, successful record company in the world, not in the United States, the world.

01:13:34We used to sell tasting at grocery stores, liquor stores, barbershops, beauty saloons, tire shops, whatever, however, and it took off from there.

01:13:44Well, I mean, you know what I'm saying, it's all good, you know, that we out here doing our thing.

01:13:48I mean, I'm real pleased, I mean, we've been working hard, I've been working hard all my life, you know what I'm saying, trying to do it.

01:13:53You know what I'm saying, and trying to get this job done.

01:13:55So, I mean, the idea that we are now here is good.

01:13:59I mean, we still have a long way to go, though.

01:14:01You know, because I'm tired of going in the fucking record shops and the rap section being all the way in the back of the fucking store.

01:14:07And you got to go through there and the section is about five feet wide.

01:14:10It's going to continue to be in the back of the store until everybody steps up and starts doing different shit.

01:14:15We do have to start owning, like, a pressing plant or having your label run so professionally to where you can acquire other companies,

01:14:23like, get into publishing, get into synchronization, get into cues on films.

01:14:27The asset of the business, as opposed to a physical check, you want to own something.

01:14:32Rap now is a $3 billion a year industry.

01:14:35Black-owned labels aren't being intimidated anymore.

01:14:38You know, there's this.

01:14:39Russell Simmons has always been out there with Def Jam and Sean Puffy Combs, you know, with Bad Boy Entertainment.

01:14:45You know, they're all doing their thing.

01:14:47Bill Bellamy called me and told me the jam of the week.

01:14:49He called me today.

01:14:50You know what I'm saying?

01:14:50We have no mainstream play.

01:14:52We don't have those.

01:14:53We supposed to be getting those Z-100s.

01:14:55What's up with VH1 and all that?

01:14:58The minute is going.

01:14:59It's on, dawg.

01:15:00The record's out here.

01:15:00They burning.

01:15:01And then Ernie's saying that the black station's about to pull off of the shit.

01:15:05Puffy, man, Puffy's real tight.

01:15:06That's my boy.

01:15:07He look out for me.

01:15:08You know what I'm saying?

01:15:09He took me out the streets.

01:15:10Gave a nigga a chance.

01:15:12That's cool.

01:15:12Yo, Leo, I don't like the way you're treating me or me getting my second half.

01:15:16This shit is bullshit.

01:15:17Yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, bust your ass and ask me for, on Method Man, on Method Man,

01:15:24where y'all asked me to use that.

01:15:25Y'all told me I had the Marvin Gaye sample.

01:15:27Y'all asked me to play the shit over.

01:15:28I'm not paying, nor am I involved in any of that shit.

01:15:32Okay, well, y'all need to pay for what y'all need.

01:15:34I'll go back in the studio.

01:15:35Y'all just pay for me to go back in the studio and tell me exactly what you want.

01:15:40Be exact.

01:15:42People who represent, like, the establishment, they are threatened by hip-hop.

01:15:46And they are threatened by intelligent, articulate black people who happen to represent, you

01:15:51know what I'm saying, the poor people, you know what I mean?

01:15:53The have-nots.

01:15:55When I first started in rap, you know, a lot of people said that rap was just a fad.

01:16:00It would never last.

01:16:01Oh, it would just be around for a couple of years.

01:16:03And then it's over.

01:16:05But, you know, it's been going around for a long time.

01:16:08And, I mean, you even have major, major rap artists retiring, you know?

01:16:13Like, for instance, we're getting ready to go into the retirement of Too Short.

01:16:17You know what I'm saying?

01:16:18You know what I'm saying?

01:16:19You know what I'm saying?

01:16:20You know what I'm saying?

01:16:21You know what I'm saying?

01:16:22It's like a whole bunch of people and shit here.

01:16:24Yeah, this is Mellie Mel.

01:16:25My name is Scorpio.

01:16:26Yeah, we in the house at the Too Short's party, you know, hanging out with all the players

01:16:45and all the fly ladies, you know.

01:16:46It's all good.

01:16:47Coming back from way back into the day, straight from the East Coast right here in California.

01:16:52It's kind of sad to see him retiring, but I feel good for him because I know he had a real

01:16:55career and he did a lot of good things for rapping.

01:16:57He helped influence me and a whole lot of other people.

01:16:59So, I just want to let that be known and peace and Big Up Too Short.

01:17:04I think it's a downside for a young man so great to want to leave this illustrious business.

01:17:12So, guys, we're not going to let this great young man retire, are we?

01:17:17Even 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.

01:17:28Lives 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.

01:17:40It's sad, you know what I'm saying?

01:17:42I lost five people in the past four months.

01:17:51I don't care who you are.

01:17:52Fuck, if y'all niggas playing all that hardcore shit, stop it.

01:17:55Because y'all niggas have kissed your momma before, man.

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

01:18:01Because ain't none of y'all niggas out there Iron Man, you know what I'm saying?

01:18:06And if you say that, you're the lion.

01:18:10I have faith that people are going to wake up, man.

01:18:13I really do. I have that faith.

01:18:15It's been two days since the shooting that left recording manager Suge Knight injured and Tupac Shakur in critical condition.

01:18:25Metro says Shakur and Knight were driving to a club following the Tyson Selden fight.

01:18:30The car pulled up alongside Shakur's BMW and gunshots rang out.

01:18:35Police are looking for a late model white Cadillac last seen speeding southbound on Koval Lane.

01:18:42Meanwhile, family, friends and fans of the rap singer surround UMC, wishing they could share their messages with Shakur.

01:18:50I'm one of his biggest fans and I love him so very much.

01:18:53And I don't want Tupac to get shot. And I don't want Tupac to get shot no more.

01:18:58Breaking news to tell you about. The rapper Tupac Shakur died in Las Vegas.

01:19:03He died apparently this afternoon in a Las Vegas hospital.

01:19:07You might remember he was shot.

01:19:10Pac is a prophet.

01:19:15He knew things

01:19:20that none of us see yet.

01:19:23And he put in his music. His only release was his music.

01:19:29I rolled with Pac. We came up together.

01:19:33And Pac ain't never let me roll with him to pull no gun on no black man.

01:19:38Pac wasn't no gangster. Pac was a soldier.

01:19:44We all should work together to try to get more unity within rap.

01:19:54And I see that happening for the most part.

01:19:57I see a lot of rappers doing duets with each other from the different coasts.

01:20:01East Coast, West Coast together.

01:20:03Basically.

01:20:04Like that.

01:20:05East Coast and West Coast get down together and make it happen.

01:20:08Queens, New York.

01:20:09They speak nice.

01:20:10New York pound gangsters.

01:20:12Right, right.

01:20:13Back here getting sassy.

01:20:15Ow!

01:20:16I can't diss the whole East Coast. I got homeboys, you know, from the East Coast.

01:20:20I can't. And everybody on the East Coast don't hate Mac-10.

01:20:23I don't give a fuck. I got down with MC8.

01:20:25That's my nigga. That's West Coast.

01:20:27You know what I'm saying?

01:20:28And it's blowing up over there. You know what I'm saying?

01:20:30That East Coast, West Coast shit is stupid.

01:20:31Because how the fuck I'm a beef with a nigga who ain't got nothing, ain't got nothing?

01:20:34When these all motherfuckers got everything and nobody ain't beefing with them.

01:20:38A nigga that's quick to pull out a gun on you.

01:20:40I'm a shoot that nigga.

01:20:41I'm about fucked. I'm a kill him.

01:20:43And when the cops come, he getting scared.

01:20:44How the fuck you scared of him when you ain't scared of him?

01:20:46So that shit don't really add up to me and shit.

01:20:48I deal with mathematics.

01:20:50If you got a problem with somebody, you got a problem with that individual.

01:20:54You know?

01:20:55Score off with him.

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

01:20:58That's how I go in.

01:20:59Let's spread the love. East Coast, West Coast.

01:21:00That right there settles everything.

01:21:02There's no people that's involved.

01:21:03You know?

01:21:04You don't see niggas fighting and robbing and killing and shooting over this hair.

01:21:07Right, right.

01:21:08When niggas get together with this hair, it's all about peace.

01:21:10Ain't nothing wrong.

01:21:11You know what I'm saying?

01:21:12Out of state, East Coast, West Coast.

01:21:13This ain't crap. This is weed.

01:21:16Right.

01:21:17We smoke weed.

01:21:18We breathe.

01:21:19Yeah.

01:21:20All right?

01:21:21Yeah.

01:21:22So it's more than just knowing your block, knowing your state, East Coast, West Coast.

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

01:21:29And there's, you know, hundreds of countries.

01:21:32Education is key because it tells people what to look out for and how to prepare themselves.

01:21:36Economically, you know, we can't talk about more black jobs without black businesses.

01:21:41Everybody's not fortunate enough to be a doctor or a lawyer.

01:21:45You know?

01:21:46Everybody doesn't complete four years of college.

01:21:49You know?

01:21:50It gives you something else to do.

01:21:51And it is a job.

01:21:52Straight up.

01:21:53It's bringing a lot of niggas out of the ghettos.

01:21:56It's a power force.

01:21:57You know what I'm saying?

01:21:58And any time you get black with a power force and a gang of money generating, then it's

01:22:04gonna scare us.

01:22:05Close to your spirit.

01:22:06Close to your soul.

01:22:07Black.

01:22:08Not being scared of who you are.

01:22:10And step out.

01:22:11Express.

01:22:12Master Flash.

01:22:13Curtis Blow on them.

01:22:14Pass the torch to us.

01:22:15Us and Run.

01:22:16DMC.

01:22:17LL Cool J.

01:22:19Had it.

01:22:20Passing on with Rock Kim.

01:22:21Public Enemy.

01:22:22Boogie Down Production.

01:22:23They took it all.

01:22:24Passing on.

01:22:25Who's getting it?

01:22:26You got EPMD coming out.

01:22:28Then you got your tribe called Quest coming out.

01:22:30And then the West Coast caught some.

01:22:32At the same time, they catching it with Ice-T.

01:22:34He caught part of it.

01:22:35He's running.

01:22:36And now the torch is going on.

01:22:38To the next one is going on.

01:22:40Hip Hop is an element that was created by the youth from the street.

01:22:44You know?

01:22:45And we gonna continue to express that truth and that expression, that youthful expression.

01:22:49I'm just trying to see what it's gonna be like in the year 2000 or something.

01:22:54Cause it's always changing constantly.

01:22:57You know?

01:22:58Everyone's coming up with a new style, new this, new music.

01:23:00It's adult music as well now.

01:23:02More.

01:23:03But it's still a kid's music.

01:23:05So it's something for the kids to enjoy and call their own still.

01:23:08So, like for my son to grow up into hip hop, you know?

01:23:11That would be cool.

01:23:12Never want to chitter chatter.

01:23:14About to make it fatter.

01:23:15And all that matter is how it scatter.

01:23:17Forgot I spray with the words I say.

01:23:19Be it night or day.

01:23:20Never no time to play.

01:23:22Up in the morning and out to school cause I'm cool.

01:23:25Mom ain't raising no fools.

01:23:27Has that combined all the truth from the mind?

01:23:29What?

01:23:30Ena, Ena, make it back!

01:23:31Come be mine!

01:23:32Woo!

01:23:33Woo!

01:23:34I'm trying to knock my pocket.

01:23:35Try to read my mind.

01:23:36Just imagine.

01:23:37Fuck!

01:23:38Can't you?

01:23:39Never necessarily.

01:23:40We're taking a hint of.

01:23:41My life is.

01:23:42Oh my god!

01:23:43Oh my god!

01:23:44The night to school like the water.

01:23:46Pizza Johnson.

01:23:47Oh!

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01:24:23What in Nashville?

01:24:25Check the rise on

01:24:34Everybody put a piece side up in the air

01:24:38Put that shit up high

01:24:40I want y'all to say we need peace

01:24:42In rhythm with us

01:24:44Say we need peace

01:24:46Come on

01:24:48Say we need peace

01:24:51Come on

01:25:17I know that hip-hop is the representation of this oppressed culture

01:25:19And I will represent that till 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 that's right back in the day biting used to be a crime

01:25:38you know how many bites of snoop there is there's mad bites of snoop snoop's the original you can't

01:25:42bite him he's dumb onyx is the original but everybody wants to change their voice now and

01:25:47i'm like this onyx is the original that dope you can't front of me we went through that same

01:25:53experience early in the game but you know what i'm saying we realized it's dope you know what i'm

01:25:57saying the best way to do something that's powerful ain't it you know what i mean over to them baby

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

01:26:08enough money i'm out of here you understand what i'm saying because i've lived in the ghetto all my

01:26:13life i've been here and done that and there's a bigger world out there there's a lot of shit to

01:26:17get and i want it check over honey's out though you gotta get this little movie this is a movie baby

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

01:26:30um the critics out there can basically like kiss my ass straight up because they know nothing about

01:26:38what goes into this they're just people with a nine to five behind a fucking typewriter cd player

01:26:43listening to it and critiquing it uh bring the noise on less than zero soundtrack you know

01:26:50and um that's part of the clip right you can use right i'll be dre for a day dre day this is what

01:26:57you call a bismarcky breakfast you pour the crisps in the bowl right you get a whole bunch of sugar

01:27:10and i'm a i'm a junk food junkie everybody everybody got this on film still got it on film

01:27:18about the cheese even though fatty and pees you pray

01:27:33i want to thank your mother for giving their butt like that i had to go with the bathroom

01:27:37i had to go for the tip and did this

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

01:27:50cardboard and break dance watch the light yo radio is very important very very important you know

01:27:58airplay to be heard everybody in this motherfucker got a dark thing to him some of y'all motherfuckers do

01:28:11some things you don't want me to know about right but on my album i'm doing it all and i'm letting you

01:28:16know about it you know i'm saying it ain't about when you journey my shit you need flashlights you want

01:28:22to enter my mind you need flashlights you want to enter my dwell you need flashlights because it's dark

01:28:29over here burn and that's about it we'll be back

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