[police sirens]
["Renegades of Funk" by Afrika Bambaataa & Soulsonic Force]
♪ From a different solar system many, many galaxies away ♪
♪ We are the force of another creation ♪
♪ A new musical revelation ♪
♪ And we're on this musical message ♪
♪ To help the others listen ♪
♪ Improve momentum and ♪
♪ seek the electronic chance ♪
♪ - Like - Astrology ♪
♪ - Like - Technology ♪
♪ - Like - God's Creation ♪
♪ - Like - The Zulu station ♪
♪ - Like - To the nation ♪
♪ - Like - Destroy all nations ♪
♪ - Like - Militants ♪
♪ - Like - Down in sand ♪
♪ - Like! - Through changes, ♪
♪ nothing stays the same ♪
♪ Oh renegades ♪
♪ Way-o way-o way-o waya abanga ♪
♪ Way-o way-o way-o way-a way-a way-a... ♪
♪ Way-o way-o way-o waya abanga ♪
♪ Way-o way-o way-o way-a way-a way-a... ♪
♪ I got some more. ♪
(Narrator) "The Renegades of Funk - Afrika Bambaataa and the Soulsonic Force.
Well, good evening and welcome to another GBE—a Gary Bird experience—
as the funky forces of the universe come together
for us to bring another set of Big Apple jams your way.
In a few minutes my engineer Jonathan E at Master Control and I gonna go
looking for something perfect, the perfect beat for you,
especially if you are up at Planet Rock, The Bronx, or the Zulu Nation,
as in dance formation tonight.
Speaking of dance, have you heard about he WLIB breakdance contest?
You have a chance to win a trip to the mother country;
the place that sent Afrika Bambaataa into a galaxy far, far away.
Who knows? You could be on your way
into the land of the pyramids, checking it all out."
["Planet Rock - Instrumental" by Afrika Bambaataa & Soulsonic Force]
[robotic voice] Rock, rock to Planet Rock, don't stop
["Planet Rock" music continues]
[robotic voices]
["Planet Rock" music continues]
What if we to just settle down here?
Well it's a little old-fashioned [voice fades]
["Planet Rock" music continues]
(Narrator's voice fades in) "...planets, especially Venus and Jupiter,
can be seen in the sky not long after sunset.
With the glow of twilight still lingering,
and a dash of near-sightedness, and some good old human imagination,
and some well-intentioned people will even claim 'it's shooting off sparks,
it's as big as a basketball, it has landing lights', and so on.
Hard to believe?
Well, the most frequently reported UFOs on record
are the planets Venus and Jupiter -
IFOs, once you know a little about the autokinetic illusion and the night sky.
July 24, 1948. An Eastern Airlines flight is en route
from Houston to Atlanta, when suddenly... [otherworldly electronic noise]
The flight crew, all intelligent, trained observers, reported the—"
[strange beeps and sounds]
[banging on timpani]
(robotic voice) "I am the funk overlord.
I have come to take control of your flight.
Who controls the present, controls the past.
Who controls the past, controls the future.
Funk!"
[music from Bambaataa's "Looking for the Perfect Beat"]
(Narrator) "So this is how Bam sends 'em
to the street, hip hoppin', lookin' for the perfect beat."
[music from Bambaataa's Looking for the Perfect Beat]
Rappin', scratchin', breakin', shakin', the success of hip hop is in the making.
[music from Bambaataa's Looking for the Perfect Beat]
(Narrator) "On TV and on radio, you hear and see it, wherever you go."
[music from Bambaataa's Looking for the Perfect Beat]
(Narrator) "Graffiti began on the walls, and now it's sold in stores and malls."
["Looking for the Perfect Beat" music]
♪ Want to want to do-do do-do-do-do do-do ♪
♪ Do-do-do do do-do-do-do do do-do-do-do do ♪
["Looking for the Perfect Beat" music]
(Narrator) " From uptown to Fifth Avenue, the journey took a heck of a crew,
from a neighborhood and a street scene
all around the world to the silver screen."
["The Hitler Rap"] ♪ Well, hi there people, you know me ♪
♪ I used to run a little joint called Germany ♪
♪ I was number one The people's choice ♪
♪ And everybody listened to my mighty voice ♪
♪ My name is Adolf, I'm on the mic ♪
♪ Gonna hip you to the story of the New Third Reich ♪
♪ It all began down in Munich town & pretty soon ♪
♪ Word started gettin' around ♪
♪ I said to Martin Boorman, I said "Hey Marty, ♪
♪ Why don't we throw a little Nazi party?" ♪
♪ So we had an election, well, kinda sorta ♪
♪ And before you knew it, hello new order! ♪
♪ To all those mothers in the Fatherland ♪
♪ I said "Achtung baby! I got me a plan." ♪
♪ "Whatcha got, Adolf? Whatcha gonna do?" ♪
♪ I said "How about this one? World War Two." ♪
♪ To be or not be ♪
♪ Oh baby— ♪
[music fades, record scratching]
All that scratchin' is makin' me itch!
[mixed-up music]
♪ Duck Duck Duck ♪ ♪ Duck Duck Duck ♪
(Narrator) "What once was in the underground
has now, by elements, been found
like anywhere you see fresh meat, the culture vultures come to eat.
Now with hip hop on his lip, Malcolm McLaren begins his trip,
how he went to the Planet Rock and came back to Britain in future shock,
cos though he thought punk was the top, he found the groove was in hip hop."
[hip hop music]
♪ Breakdance Breakdance ♪
♪ It's a pretty good job out there Jimmy ♪
♪ We oughta dance and dance differently ♪
♪ So we sing and dance— ♪
(Malcolm McLaren) "I was, uh...
working with a group called Bow Wow Wow.
I came over there because they were selling some RCA records
and I was looking to put them on in a hole in Manhattan somewhere,
but the terrible thing was I was really stuck for a responsible
and interesting and exciting kind of opening act.
And nothing was happening in New York.
Then a friend of mine introduced me to a guy who I met on the street,
somewhere down 5th Avenue. He told me about an incredible scene
that was happening not in Manhattan, but out in a suburb known as the South Bronx.
He said if I liked, I could come on a Saturday night
to a big party where I would see something
that couldn't possibly have ever existed in England.
And, I decided to actually pitch up with him on Saturday night.
Upon arriving, the party
—unknown to me, I thought it would be indoors—
was actually out in the open, in a wasteland,
surrounded by these huge fired out condominiums.
There, in the midst of it, was about thousand kids and I couldn't believe it.
I was very, very worried being the only white guy there and
the cab driver signaled me to put my dollars in my socks.
[stammers, laughs] Nevertheless, I escorted myself across the road
with this guy, made my way through the crowd, pushing and shoving
until I got to the decks where the music was coming from,
shook hands with this huge fat guy, who later became known to me
as a guy called Afrika Bambaataa.
And what I witnessed was a various group of different young kids,
who were poppin' in and out amongst the decks, messin' about with records.
What l saw was extraordinary, because the sound
coming out was totally inarticulate. It was a load of rough noises
that sounded a little like a guitar, but sort of like a concrete chisel sound.
And the sound, I realized, was actually coming from the way they were
messin' with their hands on the decks, movin' records backwards and forwards.
They weren't just doing it with one record, but with two,
and they were mixing across one to the other.
In fact, it was making music out of other people's music."
[mixed music plays, repeating]
As time went on and I stuck around for an hour or so,
the crowd was extremely volatile jumping into pitch battles at times.
But at one point or another, people would move to the side,
and a group of kids would start freakin' out in the middle,
doing all this incredible gymnastic dancing.
[distorted, choppy music plays over beats]
(Narrator) "What McLaren saw was called 'hip-hop',
energy and motion that you could not stop.
Demanding all of your imagination if you were to share in the celebration.
It wasn't enough to just be good, you had to be super bad,
cos when you hit that floor,
your reputation was just about all you had."
(McLaren) "I think hip-hop is being in control of your body,
that's the whole art of it, understanding that
you're much bigger than you are, a demo of your prowess.
If you're penniless, the one thing you can do
on Madison Avenue is spin on your head and show all the white honkies
moving out of the Chase Manhattan Bank on their lunch time and say, 'Well
Beat that, and if you can't, here's my cap. Give me a few dollars.' "
[train moving, faint commotion]
(Narrator) "But the story of hip-hop doesn't belong
in New York, LA, or London, that's wrong.
The true story begins in devastation, bad housing, gang wars, and desperation,
in the Bronx ghetto, or Planet Rock.
Let's take a minute - turn back the clock. ["Space Cowboy" by Jonzun Crew]
To the first hero of the hip hop groove, the man who made the people move.
["Space Cowboy" music]
From Jamaica he came with a sense of rhythm,
and what he brought to the Bronx was a sound system.
The music he played made life work, and made him a legend:
Kool DJ Herc."
["Space Cowboy" music]
♪ He's bad! ♪
♪ ["Space Cowboy" music] ♪
♪ Space Cowboy ♪
♪ ["Space Cowboy" music] ♪
(Herc) "When Kool Herc have a party, everybody be there.
Lot of people say I'm fun, big fun.
That was the talk for the whole weekend or the whole summer,
'Where did you party?'
'I was partying with Kool Herc, man. Ghetto block party, you know,
tennis court, disco... a lot of other things, too.' "
["Space Cowboy" music]
♪ He's bad! ♪
♪ He's mean! ♪
♪ He's a Space Cowboy in the spacey jeans ♪
♪ He's bad! ♪
I like to buy my records... right over here.
But now it's not there no more, called 'Sounds and Things'.
There used to be a ballroom up there, I used to play, matter of fact,
I play up there for the transit authority dinner, one time, and...
Mario Cuomo was there before becoming governor.
Basically, right here.
A place called 'Galaxy 2000'.
["Space Cowboy" plays in the background]
(Herc) "They had a big shootout here one time.
Same time I played at Bronx River.
I came back, I'd seen the canopy knocked down,
the fire escape was let down, and I knew something was wrong."
The Bronx is on the uplift.
["Space Cowboy" music]
A lot of places are being rehabilitated.
[Traffic sounds and "Space Cowboy" music]
Well, I think there's still more that could be done - a whole lot.
♪ with the laser gun! ♪
All those unforgettable promises...
♪ Yippey-Yi, Yippey-Yi ♪
From the South Bronx when the Carters came over.
Made out of iron, right?
♪ Yay... A Space Cowboy... [beats] Yippey-Yi, Yippey-Yi, Yippey-Yi, Yay ♪
Well, I never left the Bronx, and I love the Bronx.
[music and trafic noise]
I don't wanna leave.
[music and trafic noise]
[upbeat funky music]
(Narrator) "What Herc did was throw down the sound
of forgotten heroes, like James Brown,
and separate the good stuff from the junk, with the emphasis on a lot of funk.
And in the middle of a funky sound,
Coke La Rock, his rapper, would go to town.
The music was hot, very loud, with participation to excite the crowd.
Then Herc would drop a mighty blast with a golden oldie from music past."
[sound of the tape spinning while recording]
Um ... Sedgwick, 1520...
[sound of the tape spinning while recording]
over 10 years ago...
[sound of the tape spinning while recording]
(Woman) "Ooh, look at that medallion, what happened to that?"
[sound of the tape spinning]
Um... It got stolen. That was my badge, like a sheriff.
[sound of the tape spinning while recording]
Place was packed.
[sound of the tape spinning while recording]
(Woman) "How was it?"
(Kool Herc) "It was pretty good.
Everybody showed up, had a good time.
[sound of the tape spinning while recording]
Everybody put on their best that day."
[sound of the tape spinning while recording]
All of the sudden— I don't know, all of the sudden...
[sound of the tape spinning while recording]
Something happened, made it so that we didn't get into the parties no more.
[sound of the tape spinning while recording]
[sound fades out]
I got injured. I got stabbed. Fatally stabbed, now.
And that just put a hole through the whole thing.
I walk right into it, and I just...
I didn't know where the knife came from.
I just literally walk into it. I was hit four times.
The last of them pierced my hand, and it went all the way through.
It shouldn't have happened.
And that does draw me a show, you know?
I just stopped. I stopped playing for— I didn't accept a gig, I wasn't—
I was not out in the public eyes too much.
["Space Cowboy" music]
That was the rise of a lot of DJs.
Herc wasn't on the scene, this is our chance.
And a lot of them dashed in and capitalized on it.
DJs and the music that they used to come to hear at my party was all over now.
[beats]
Kool Herc is not a stepping stone, he's a horse that can't be rode,
and a bull that can't be stopped, there ain't a disco I can't rock. Rock on.
It could've been on my obituary -
that this was the guy who started this, this was what he did."
[Hip-hop music beats]
(Narrator) "Though he may be a fallen hero,
all will forever say that in the history of hip-hop,
he was its number one DJ."
You see, Herc had started something that not even his enemies wanted to stop.
Kool DJ Herc had launched the birth of a movement called hip-hop.
(Narrator continues)
"In the middle of Savage Skulls and on the top of the hill with the Seven Crowns,
the gangs were in the Bronx and they were seriously getting down.
It was little Vietnam, where even the police watched out for raids,
and where the baddest of them all was a street gang known as the Black Spades.
And from them emerged a boy who became the adopted father
of the hip hop generation, a Zulu, Afrika Bambaataa."
I got into street gangs, the Black Spades.
I was in a lot of other groups before I became a Spade.
P.O.W.E.R, Crowns, Savage Nomads...
and um,
but Spades was one of the groups that I really loved a lot.
There was a lot of unity in the group. [clears throat].
It was one of the most hated groups in the whole city
cause all it was about was um, trouble and stuff and aesthetic.
But it was one of the most organized Black youth groups.
As for, if you mess with them, they would mess with you.
(Bambaata) "Plus in that year, 1975, um, one of the brothas that was close to me,
that lived with me for about two years, by the name Solsky,
got shot by the police on Pelham Bay,
with some other members of the Spades.
And um, he died and this other member died and one survived."
[hip hop music plays in background]
(Narrator) "The violent death of Bam's best friend,
marked for him the end of the line.
And he went back to a vision that once had occurred
inside of his youthful mind.
A way to fight, yet maintain peace.
An impossible situation,
unless you could create something powerful
like his memory of the Zulu nation."
[Zulu chants and beats on TV]
I say violence is necessary.
Violence is a part of America's culture,
it is as American as Cherry Pie
American calls for Black people to be violent.
We will use that violence to get ourselves up.
[voice fades to hip hop music]
(Martin Luther King Jr) "Former slaves and the sons of former slave owners...
Will they be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood?
I have a dream...
One day..."
(KKK member) "Basically, uh, my goal
in the clan is to bring about a unification
of all of the Anglo-saxon, Protestant, American citizens
into a bond of unity to counter-act the philosophies of the minority and—"
(Nelson Mandela) "There are many people who feel
that it is useless and futile
for us to continue talking peace and non-violence
against a government whose reply is only
savage attacks on an unarmed, defenseless people."
[radio static] [hip-hop music]
(Malcolm X) "We are not human beings unless we ourselves, band together
and do whatever, however, whenever, is necessary
to see that our lives and our property is protected,
and I doubt that any person in here would refuse to do the same thing,
were he in the same position.
Or I should say, were he in the same condition."
[hip hop music]
(Narrator) "It was with the vision of the Zulu nation,
a trip to Africa, and a death situation,
that produced a man who put on Zulu dress
and began to transform a violent mix."
[Malcolm X's, "No Sell Out" echoes in the background]
(Narrator) "Bambaataa was always a music man,
a record collector who was a DJ jammed.
Now he saw a new idea to use stand and prow in his career,
to put the Bronx in a music trance
and move from violence to Zulu dance..."
[hip-hop music]
(Narrator) "And so it became hip to hop
in the land known as Planet Rock,
where gangs used to fight in the street every day,
now they began to compete in a different way.
As the DJ's music made the house shake,
the dancers would begin to break.
Some electric boogie to move like toys,
others would spin and became b-boys."
[hip hop beats]
[music fades out]
Yeah! [laughs]
There you go. Hey you guys ready?
- Yeah. - Let's go.
(Narrator) "The breakers know what they have got
from electro-boogie to street robot.
They dance off the anger in a street or room...
Who needs a gang when the beat goes boom"
- Yes, can I help you? - Yes.
- Whatchu doin' here? - You guys can come back
- Gonna take control here - Don't think—
Ah, take us out, ha ha ha!
- Yeah - Is that so?
["The Wildstyle" by Afrika Bambaataa]
♪ It ain't nothin' ♪
♪ It ain't nothin' but the wildstyle ♪
♪ The wildstyle ♪
♪ Hit me! ♪
♪ You can do it, do it, do it, do it, do it, do it. The wildstyle ♪
♪ The wildstyle ♪
♪ Get down! ♪
♪ So funky ♪
♪ What Bootsy said? To the bridge mother! Do it, do it ♪
♪ Do it ♪
B-Side, rock on
♪ Do it, do it ♪
♪ B-Side, rock on ♪
♪ Shout shout ♪
♪ People over here People over there ♪
♪ Dancin' in the street And dancin' to our beat ♪
♪ Poppin' in the door And breakin' on the floor ♪
♪ Checkin' out the feet that's movin' to a beat. Do it ♪
♪ Do what? ♪
♪ The wildstyle ♪
♪ Motivator ♪
♪ Can you funk? Do it, do it ♪
♪ Can you funk? Do it ♪
♪ Do it. Break it down! Down! ♪
♪ Break it down! Down! Shout! ♪
♪ Life is so hard Tryin' to get a job ♪
♪ Employee so new, no cash money green ♪
♪ The systеm is mean Destroying all dreams ♪
♪ Flying to thе moon Nobody's in the schools ♪
♪ Do it ♪
♪ Do what? ♪
♪ It's the wildstyle C'mon. The wildstyle ♪
♪ Do it, do it, do it, do it, do it, do it, do it, do it ♪
♪ Do it, do it ♪
♪ Shout ♪
♪ Good God! ♪
♪ Shout ♪
♪ Good Good Good Good! ♪
♪ Shout ♪
♪ Do it ♪
♪ Shout ♪
♪ It's the wildstyle ♪
♪ The wildstyle ♪
♪ Talk about rap ♪
♪ Talk about funk ♪
♪ Talk about rock ♪
♪ Talk about life ♪
♪ It's the wildstyle ♪
♪ The wildstyle ♪
♪ My heart is beating fast I'm running out of gas ♪
♪ No not the Zulu style With your own sense of style. Do it ♪
♪ Do it It's the wildstyle ♪
♪ Do do do the wild style-style-style-style-style ♪
♪ Do it ♪
♪ C'mon, everybody! ♪
♪ In life, you got to fight ♪
♪ In life, you're not always right ♪
♪ In life, if the tone is right ♪
♪ In life, stop thinkin' you're Christ! ♪
♪ Do it ♪
♪ B-Side ♪
♪ Speak your mind ♪
♪ C'mon, speak your mind ♪
♪ B-Side ♪
♪ To the bridge! ♪
♪ In the land of Oz People on Mars ♪
♪ Livin' in a timezone ♪
♪ Tryin' not to be alone ♪
(Narrator) "The elements of hip-hop go beyond the dance
to the streets where artists take a chance
and the Bronx where young men on the go
paint trains and walls like Picasso
Graffiti is what they call their art
and it's here where they get their start
Though you may think these policemen bars,
they battle kids like Brim and graffiti wars."
Chief, all these stickers were used as settlements
Those kids were locked up on the graffiti
(Sergeant) "Art versus transit... fame...
The new king of all offenders...
Uh...the rest of you got your assignments? Yeah all right.
Hickey and Ski, I want you to stay half the roll call.
I have a special assignment for you on a graffiti.
All right, thank you both."
(Hickey) "We'll thwart it one day, right sarge?"
(Sarge) "We have some information that they cut the fence on the Jerome yards
That's the new fence and they cut it right open again."
[sound of a train moving]
(Narrator) "Let's take a look inside the machine
and watch New York's finest on the graffiti scene."
[sound of a train moving]
[train sounds fade away]
(Brim Fuentes) "What does this look like to you?
Does this look like something that'd be in a city?
This looks like a jail, a prison [laughs] with all this barbed wire around you.
What kind of feeling—
I wonder how the people that live around here feel
with all this wire and stuff around them.
Looks like something from Germany the Nazis and all that."
Kryolan, astounding. I feel like I'm doing a commercial for these things.
Here's the best can of paint on the market which they'll invariably go out and steal!
They never pay for the paint, they'll steal it.
The only way I can figure it -
that Mayor Koch and the Head of the MTA... It's not that they don't like graffiti.
It's that they don't like something they can't control.
This is vandalism. That's what it is.
They're defacing somebody else's property.
I wouldn't want them coming to my house and painting it up, nor my car.
Mayor Koch tried to get us to make a deal with him—
that he would give us 10 cars to paint
and we would stop with the graffiti.
But it doesn't work like that because
it'll be fine for me but I cannot stop someone else who wants to paint the train
cos they got to express their feelings the same way I get to express mine.
I'm not gonna tell someone, "You can't express your feelings, only I can."
That's not how it works
Like I said there's tens of thousands of these kids doing graffiti.
Only a handful of them are really good but whether they're good or bad,
they have no business being down here. It's dangerous, they can get hurt
and it's not their property.
(Brim) "As long as there's something to be said in the ghetto
there'll be graffiti.
If it's in a building or it's in a train, wherever something has to be said
you know, in New York city that's the way we express ourselves
It might seem silly to someone else but
in New York city that's the way, we express ourselves."
[Hip hop music]
All this just makes me madder and makes me wanna go painting more.
When I see this you know it burns me up, I wanna go out and paint
and I wanna show them that they can't win because they can't.
The war against graffiti been like 10 yrs and they haven't won nothing.
[Hip hop music]
It took them 10 years to put this fence on.
It'll just take us another year to get into them
Just give us some time. We'll return.
[Hip hop music]
[music fades out]
Now we are here today in order to induct into the rapper's Hall of Fame
just a few of the greatest rappers who ever made rapping their life and fame.
It didn't start with the Sugarhill Gang, it didn't start with Kurtis Blow
nor with Flash or the Furious Five, you can take it from me, I know.
We're going back to where it all began
at radio stations all over the land
with Jocko, Hot Rod and Montague - DJs who rap like DJs do
with names like Hatter and Dr.Jive in the 50s and 60s keeping rap alive.
Just a step for our tradition for rap to take on a social mission.
Rap gives kids a whole new way
to express themselves and sometimes pay.
You might've been told you were no good, with rap, you're king of the neighborhood.
(Muhammad Ali) "Man can't fake, he's a Geechee...
Hey he's Joe Frazier.
Joe Frazier
Joe Frazier"
(Narrator) "People of the world, the man you see
was the world's greatest rapper Muhammad Ali
and the days when he was Cassius Clay was the first national rapper in the USA."
(Muhammad Ali) "He's going around saying that he's a championship fighter
but when he meets me he'll fall 20 pounds lighter.
He thinks he's a real heavyweight champ. After I'm finished he'll just be a tramp.
I'm not sayin' this just to be funny,
but I'm fightin' Ernie because he needs the money." [laughter]
I decided to let him make a little bread but to catch his I must whip his head.
I understand he wants to stand toe to toe and with me trade blow for blow
but if he's hip he'll take a dip because I plan to bust his lip.
From the northeast to the northwest, from the southeast to the west coast,
from the northwest to the mid-west every rapper thinks he can rap the most.
But it all began in Aka-Bo land many many moons ago
It was among the vibes, the powerful vines from which our roots do grow
The Yoruba and the Bantu, the Sotho and the Gotha,
the Akan people of Ghana, the Rwanda and the Hausa,
they engaged in a form of praise done by griots or a chosen bard.
Today we call it throwing down, or, maybe rapping hard.
- Who are you? - Who am I? Who are you?
- Who am I? Who are you?
Who am I? I'm Caz!
Oh what what do that mean?
That I'm the baddest MC lover on the Hip-Hop Scene
J.D.L big deal, what does that prove?
That I'm the MC that make the people move.
- I'm Easy! - Easy who and what is your game?
I'm Easy A D I bet your girls know my name.
I'm Jay-Z
That's your business, what you gotta say?
That I can rock you anywhere anytime anyday.
What chasing to the DJs? What do they wanna do?
Bring in the funky record when you give us the cue.
Like 10, 9, 8-7-6, 5-4-3-2-1
Have fun!
[knocking] Who's that now?
- Ya, who's that man, carry on. - It's okay, no bother.
Oh no girls, no! All risks!
- No! - Heartbreakers! Got a nice one in there.
I know you has the cold cause whats the Heartbreakers supposed to mean?
- No! She wanna know— - She knows actually friends, she knows!
.,,all in your mind.
Would you actually tell her what Heartbreakers mean?
♪ We'll promise you the world and won't deliver ♪
♪ A broken heart is what we'll give ya ♪
♪ Make you feel like a million by the things we say ♪
♪ Make you feel like a fool the very next day ♪
♪ We're heartbreakers ha-ha. We're heart-heart-heartbreakers.♪
[phone rings]
♪ Hello, Yeah girl, it's me, the captain, with some raps for you ♪
♪ So listen up, don't talk until I'm through ♪
♪ Now you're sweet, you're fine, and you got class ♪
♪ I feel things are going way too fast ♪
♪ It's not that I don't enjoy having you around ♪
♪ But I'm the kind of man that can't be tied down ♪
♪ Thanks for all the joy that you brought to me ♪
♪ And I hope you understand that I gotta be free ♪
♪ We're heart-breakers And this is how we break your heart ♪
Ask them a simple question, they're gonna come out the face,
- try talk what it's all about. - You see the problem?
Caz guy were on the phone, he was talkin to the girl,
- and he jested like that? - Mutha, he was a saint. Ha ha ha ha.
Eh ben, il s'opérait pas bien, comment aller?
♪ Ah, Sophisticated queen MC ♪
♪ Yes of course, that's me, mistress of ceremony ♪
♪ The one that's gonna take it to the top of the key ♪
♪ Introducing myself, MC Lisa Lee ♪
♪ The blast from the past, superb in every word ♪
♪ Supest female rapper, yes, the best you heard ♪
♪ Lisa Lee is known to be the people's choice ♪
♪ I get parties rocking with my sensuous voice ♪
♪ When you see the queen walking up the street ♪
♪ I'm not souped up, conceited, just incognit' ♪
♪ I make the fellas sweat coz I keep their bodies hot ♪
♪ It's a woman's world, you gotta give whatu got ♪
♪ I'm Sha, party people, & I'm ready to rock ♪
♪ If you wanna be down, you gotta gimme whatu got ♪
♪ Fellas in the place I won't steer you wrong ♪
♪ You gotta give it up or leave it alone ♪
♪ So get ready for this, get ready for this ♪
♪ Partypeople in the place, get ready for this ♪
♪ To you! So what you gonna do? ♪
♪ Do you wanna rock the house Turn this mutha out? ♪
♪ Fly girls, are you with us? ♪
♪ And if you're ready to rock ♪
♪ to help me turn it out ♪
♪ Let the world know what we're talkin about ♪
♪To all the ladies ♪
♪ Yeah! ♪
♪ I want you to listen dana-da-dan ♪
♪ Hey, ladies! ♪
♪ Yeah! ♪
♪ 1980! Dana-da. ♪
♪ Watch out for the fellas, yeah! That'll drive you crazy dana-da. ♪
♪ Look out! ♪
♪ Hey, you better abide ♪
♪ While we rock your ass on the solo side ♪
♪ Grandmaster Caz, you are the Cap ♪
♪ Get on the mic Show 'em you're the lord of rap ♪
♪ Well I'm the Cap of the Four, MC exec ♪
♪ And I don't come at all if it ain't correct ♪
♪ Don't have to bite, not necessary ♪
♪ The Grandmaster Caz got a rhyme library ♪
♪ Rhyme from now until the break of day ♪
♪ Don't have a big mouth just lots to say ♪
♪ If you run outta rhymes, start sounding dumb ♪
♪ Come see me, me, me, G.M.C ♪
♪ I am the Captain of the Four And I'm guaranteed to sell you some ♪
♪ A-Duracell J.D.L. you're the number-one flaker ♪
♪ Get on the mic Show 'em you're hut maker ♪
♪ You hear my (2) You hear my (2) ♪
♪ You hear my voice on cassettes and on 8-track ♪
♪ Next step is to have it put on wax ♪
♪ On the radio station to make the jam sell ♪
♪ I came to you again on WJDL ♪
♪ Doing worldwide tours, TV of course ♪
♪ Plus my own line of products which I endorse ♪
♪ Financial clout, a piece of the rock ♪
♪ And 600 shares, 6,000 shares, 6,000,000 shares of IBM stock ♪
♪ Now Easy A.D. making your girl scream ♪
♪ Get on the mic, show 'em why you're Supreme ♪
♪ I'm girl-taker A.D. top of the chart ♪
♪ I'm not a thief but known to steal your heart ♪
♪ Won't be too long before I'm seen ♪
♪ In the cover of Life Magazine ♪
♪ Cos I see it in your eyes when I start rappin' ♪
♪ You kno I'm the man that makes things happen ♪
♪ Furthermore, if you want company ♪
♪ Here's my number & a dial so you can call me ♪
♪ And Almighty Kay Gee, the last, not least ♪
♪ So get on the microphone and speak your piece ♪
♪ I don't beat around the bush I don't stall ♪
♪ When you say Kay Gee, you said it all ♪
♪ If you dunno by now, you should've been told ♪
♪ When they made Almighty, I broke the mold ♪
♪ Rob from the rich, give to the poor ♪
♪ I snatch a few dollars for the Cold Crush Four ♪
♪ Almighty, I'm down with the best ♪
♪ If you don't like me, I wouldn't care less, so ♪
♪ Calling a truce and raise a flag ♪
♪ There ain't an MC crew that we can't rag ♪
♪ Now we got two records and been on tour. ♪
Hey, what's up?
What's up?
What you doin professor?
I'm coming up with a new show so hot coals, up moles, funky
My!
You're bringing some good stuff, alright.
Where y'all going?
Chill it man, we were just talking
- Yeah, man, we can't go without you. - No way.
- You know it - Thought you might know something
- Yeah, man. - What'u got this time?
[rappers talking and laughing]
Yeah...
Dancing baby, can you dance?
How good can you dance?
I can dance better than you can rhyme...
- Ah, stop that brashness Keith - You know that man!
♪ I'm always Poppin', sockin', rockin' puttin' a side the hip-hop ♪
♪ while the other MCs all stare... ♪
♪ Cos where I'm goin' there ain't no stoppin' ♪
Let's see what you can do.
- What can you do? - I'm good.
[rappers laughing]
Like that man, like that!
Yeah, show 'em.
Ha ha ha
Can do stuff man, show 'em, let's see what you got man
They say you're flat, show 'em
Man, by the way, what's her name?
♪ Hey her name is Pow-wow with all the know how ♪
♪ who could rock it right here & sock it now ♪
♪ bcos I'm the one shook up but all the party people will work their while ♪
♪ Well introduce to me to G.L.O.B.E ♪
♪ I got the funky harmony as you can see ♪
♪ My rhymes are so sweet for little boy Keith ♪
♪ So get little Keith to show up with me ♪
♪ Just dance little Keith, dance little Keith, dance... ♪
Man that was back in the old days though, beat-boy and all that stuff
Know what it's all about now?
♪ Callers talkin about puttin' aside hip-hop ♪
♪ Cos where we're going, there ain't no stoppin ♪
♪ Now the style we use can hardly be measured ♪
♪ We're doin' it for the people surely is a pleasure ♪
♪ Can rock away the sound of the stormy weather ♪
♪ We're 3 for all, that means we are together ♪
♪ We're just too clever & never in our lives ♪
♪ will we hear a rhyme good enough for us to bite. So listen as we recite ♪
♪ It's Mr. Biggs, MC Pow Wow, and Globe ♪
♪ We're just rockin' it up Yeah, what else is so worthy ♪
♪ till you can't believe who are musical and all the mikes we are so magical ♪
♪ We're playin' tricks on your mind steppin' it back & forth ♪
♪ We're tellin' you to run when you should walk ♪
♪ You know our style is incredible ♪
♪ This some people consider a miracle ♪
♪ It's a rap, a clap on its way to the top That's the peak of the chart ♪
♪ We'll beat the MCs but ♪
♪ we're 3 and can perceive high potential with the MC style ♪
♪ I'll know when you're trying hard to compete ♪
♪ You're making the same mistake jumping off the pace that we create ♪
♪ Get on it Soulsonic coz we're the boss and we've got the force, the backup, ♪
♪ the melody, the harmony and we're 3 MCs and most definitely this is an MC tree ♪
♪ So people get out there, gather round ♪
♪ Check out what we three MCs have found ♪
♪ A thing in the future yet here in the present ♪
♪ not sour but sweet, nice, cozy & pleasant ♪
♪ Now lets all party. ♪
♪ It's a chance to dance with the rhythm of the African man ♪
How do you like that?
[hip hop music]
(Narrator) "He was looking for a perfect beat
It had to match what he felt in the street
Arthur Baker and Bam produced the sound that zulus the Nation's feet"
[Hip-hop music]
1-2-3 ["Renegades of Funk"]
♪ Since the Pre-historic ages and the days of ancient Greece ♪
♪ All down through the Middle Ages Planet Earth kept going through changes ♪
♪And then the Renaissance came Times continued to change ♪
♪ Nothing stayed the same, but there were always renegades ♪
♪ Like Chief Sitting Bull, Tom Paine ♪
♪ Dr. Martin Luther King, Hannibal ♪
♪ Marco Polo ♪
♪ Like Hagar the horrible ♪
♪ Malcolm X They were renegades ♪
♪ Yes the renegades of their time and age ♪
♪ So many renegades What's that ♪ [clapping]
♪ Now hand clap ♪ [clapping]
♪ The renegades ♪
Excellent!
Shoulda punched in the word LIKE
So you all go "LIKE" real strong
- Alright - Go on!
♪ LIKE ♪
♪ In the electronic chants ♪
♪ Like - 1 2 3 ♪
Like - Yeah [beats]
Like! [beats]
♪ Now renegades are the people with their own philosophy ♪
♪ They change the course of history ♪
♪ Everyday people like you and me, you know! ♪
That isn't really right. What the hell is going on here?
Come on tell me something
♪ Now renegades are the people with their own philosophy ♪
♪ They changed the course of history ♪
What is wrong?
We ain't coming in on time man...
I can't hear you
- The punching? - No man...
♪ But come on Mr. Engineer Get it right, get it right! ♪
♪ Come on Mr. Engineer Get it right, get it right! ♪
♪ Cause if you don't if you don't if you don't and if you don't ♪
♪ Renegades are people [laugh] with their own philosophy ♪
♪ They changed the course of history ♪
♪ Everyday people like you and me ♪
♪ And the days of ancient Greece ♪
♪ All down through the Middle Ages ♪
♪ Planet Earth kept going through changes ♪
♪ And then the Renaissance came ♪
♪ Times continued to change ♪
♪ Nothing stayed the same ♪
♪ There were always renegades ♪
♪ Like Chief Sitting Bull, Tom Paine ♪
♪ Dr. Martin Luther King, Hannibal ♪
♪ Marco Polo ♪
♪ Hagar the Horrible! ♪
♪ Malcolm X They were renegades ♪
♪ Yes the renegades Of their time and age ♪
♪ So many renegades ♪
(Narrator) "Years ago it was up on the roof
where Duo Whoppers sang and drank 100 proof.
Today Bam and Biggs are a part of the force
that rules and overlooks the Bronx Concourse."
Near here in the Bronx, the Savage Skulls,
further down by Stephens Avenue the Ghetto Brothers,
Black pearls - those boys man... but that was alright.
They're still there man, probably still doing the same old man...
Probably crazy stuff...
And our whole kingdom Black Spade area savage space...
- Nobody come missing space area - That was the good thing about it
We used to always go to jail and nobody ever come over here
especially in Bronx river, the home of gods...
Everybody messing with little Vietnam
with all the Black Spades and Reapers was fun, empowered.
Then Immortals...
Look how different Monroe looked though man
That school used to be all grassy
Now it's all a dust bowl
Yeah it looks wild now, critical...
As you get older you get to see the beauty from up here
You can see that your town Bronx is definitely number one
Number one...
Everybody talk about Bronx is black and dirty and stinks...
Looking from here the Bronx is definitely the most beautiful...
There are a lot of Zulu Nation men in Monroe now...
Yeah lot of Zulu Nation in Monroe in Stephens Avenue...
And then all these housing development projects...
Soon the Zulu Nation will take over the Bronx
The Bronx!
- Yeah! - It's the Bronx in Monroe!
- Yeah! - Is everybody in the house?
- Yeah! - Amazing!
[Drumbeats and cheering]
Everybody say, say Zulu man, Zulu man!
A way for man to bridge the gap
Say Z-U-L-U Everybody say
Zulu!
Z-U-L-U Everybody say
Zulu!
What's the name of this Nation?
Zulus
Who's gonna get on down?
Bambaata Bambaata
One more time!
What's the name of this Nation?
Zulus
Who's gonna get on down?
Bambaata Bambaata
Could everybody say Zulu Nation again?
Zulus
Everybody say Zulu Nation again!
Zulus
Everybody say THE
THE!
Say "Cosmic Force"
Cosmic Force!
Everybody say...
(Narrator) "Well that wraps it up for this evening's edition of our musical mission
I'm Gary Bird inside the GBE.
Remember me next time you're looking for the perfect beat.
Until tomorrow night remember you can make it if you try
but keep your head to the sky."
♪ No matter how hard you try you can't stop us now ♪
[music and clapping]
♪ No matter how hard you try you can't stop us now ♪
["Renegades of Funk" playing]
♪ Renegades of this atomic age ♪
[beats]
♪ This atomic age for renegades ♪
[beats]
♪ Renegades of this atomic age ♪
[beats]
♪ This atomic age for renegades ♪
[music, beats]
♪ Pre-historic ages and the days of ancient Greece ♪
♪ All down through the Middle Ages ♪
♪ Planet Earth kept going through changes ♪
♪ Then the Renaissance came Times continued to change ♪
♪ Nothing stayed the same, but there were always renegades ♪
♪ Like Chief Sitting Bull, Tom Paine ♪
♪ Dr. Martin Luther King, Malcolm X ♪
♪ They were renegades Yes the renegades ♪
♪ Of their time and age ♪
♪ So many renegades What's that ♪
[beats]
♪ It's a hand clap, the renegade ♪
[music and beats]
♪ From a different solar system, many many galaxies away ♪
♪ We are the force of another creation A new musical revelation ♪
♪ And we're on this musical mission to help the others listen ♪
♪ And groove from land to land singin' electronic chants ♪
♪ - Like - Astrology ♪
♪ - Like - Technology ♪
♪ Like - God's Creation ♪
♪ - Like - The Zulu station ♪
♪ - Like - To the nation ♪
♪ - Like - Destroy all nations ♪
♪ - Like - Militants ♪
♪ Like - Down in sand ♪
♪ Like ♪
♪ Through changes, nothing stays the same ♪
♪ Oh renegades ♪
♪ Way-o way-o way-o waya abanga ♪
♪ Way-o way-o way-o way-a way-a way-a... ♪
♪ Way-o way-o way-o waya abanga ♪
♪ Way-o way-o way-o way-a way-a way-a... ♪
♪ I got some more ♪
[music, beats and clapping ]
♪ Now renegades are people with their own philosophy ♪
♪ They change the course of history ♪
♪ Everyday people like you and me ♪
♪ You know they have own their secret notions ♪
♪ And time is endless motion ♪
♪ All people of the moderate ages here in this twentieth century ♪
♪ You have to keep up in time with the moderate time ♪
♪ A state of mind and a sense of pride ♪
♪ A renegade, yes a renegade ♪
♪ Of this time and age So many renegades ♪
♪ Who's that ♪
♪ Now hand clap ♪
♪ The renegades ♪
[music]
♪ We're the renegades of funk ♪
♪ Poppin sockin rockin with a side of hip-hop ♪
♪ Where we're goin' there ain't no stoppin' ♪
♪ Poppin sockin rockin with a side of hip-hop
Where we're goin' there ain't no stoppin'
Poppin sockin rockin with a side of hip-hop
Cos where we're goin' there ain't no stoppin'
Poppin sockin rockin with a side of hip-hop
Cos where we're goin' there ain't no stoppin' ♪
[music, beats]
♪ There was a time when our music Was something called the Bay Street beat ♪
♪ People would gather from all around ♪
♪ To get down on the Bay sound ♪
♪ You had to be a renegade those days ♪
♪ To take a man on the dance floor ♪
♪ Like Afrika Bambattaa and the Soulsonic Force ♪
♪ We're talking about Mr.B Pow Wow, G-L-O-B-E ♪
♪ Was a renegade, yes, a renegade of this time and age ♪
♪ So many renegades What's that ♪
♪ It's a hand clap ♪
♪ The renegade ♪
[music]
♪ - Just jam sucker - Jam sucker ♪
♪ - Say jam sucker - Jam sucker ♪
♪ - Say groove, sucker - Groove, sucker ♪
♪ - Say dance, sucker - Dance, sucker ♪
♪ - Now move, sucker - Move, sucker ♪
[music]
Everybody say
♪ We're the renegades of funk ♪
[music] ♪ Yeah you better shake that fellas ♪
♪ Shake that thing ♪
♪ That makes me swing ♪
♪ I got some great ♪
♪ He's a renegade of funk ♪
♪ Mr. Biggs He's a renegade of funk ♪
♪ Bambaataa He's a renegade of funk ♪
♪ Pow Wow He's a renegade of funk ♪
♪ And MC Globe ♪