1 00:00:00,772 --> 00:00:04,772 [police sirens] 2 00:00:04,998 --> 00:00:17,584 ["Renegades of Funk" by Afrika Bambaataa & Soulsonic Force] 3 00:00:17,767 --> 00:00:21,767 ♪ From a different solar system many, many galaxies away ♪ 4 00:00:21,767 --> 00:00:23,717 ♪ We are the force of another creation ♪ 5 00:00:23,717 --> 00:00:25,787 ♪ A new musical revelation ♪ 6 00:00:26,057 --> 00:00:28,347 ♪ And we're on this musical message ♪ 7 00:00:28,417 --> 00:00:30,247 ♪ To help the others listen ♪ 8 00:00:30,540 --> 00:00:32,550 ♪ Improve momentum and ♪ 9 00:00:32,630 --> 00:00:34,480 ♪ seek the electronic chance ♪ 10 00:00:34,540 --> 00:00:35,640 ♪ - Like - Astrology ♪ 11 00:00:36,576 --> 00:00:38,306 ♪ - Like - Technology ♪ 12 00:00:38,527 --> 00:00:40,567 ♪ - Like - God's Creation ♪ 13 00:00:40,625 --> 00:00:42,695 ♪ - Like - The Zulu station ♪ 14 00:00:42,751 --> 00:00:44,781 ♪ - Like - To the nation ♪ 15 00:00:44,930 --> 00:00:47,020 ♪ - Like - Destroy all nations ♪ 16 00:00:47,065 --> 00:00:49,155 ♪ - Like - Militants ♪ 17 00:00:49,193 --> 00:00:51,233 ♪ - Like - Down in sand ♪ 18 00:00:51,236 --> 00:00:52,731 ♪ - Like! - Through changes, ♪ 19 00:00:52,731 --> 00:00:54,741 ♪ nothing stays the same ♪ 20 00:00:55,087 --> 00:00:55,977 ♪ Oh renegades ♪ 21 00:00:55,977 --> 00:00:58,050 ♪ Way-o way-o way-o waya abanga ♪ 22 00:00:58,050 --> 00:01:02,851 ♪ Way-o way-o way-o way-a way-a way-a... ♪ 23 00:01:04,493 --> 00:01:06,493 ♪ Way-o way-o way-o waya abanga ♪ 24 00:01:06,493 --> 00:01:10,530 ♪ Way-o way-o way-o way-a way-a way-a... ♪ 25 00:01:11,490 --> 00:01:13,250 ♪ I got some more. ♪ 26 00:01:13,250 --> 00:01:16,920 (Narrator) "The Renegades of Funk - Afrika Bambaataa and the Soulsonic Force. 27 00:01:16,921 --> 00:01:20,401 Well, good evening and welcome to another GBE—a Gary Bird experience— 28 00:01:20,535 --> 00:01:22,895 as the funky forces of the universe come together 29 00:01:23,178 --> 00:01:26,024 for us to bring another set of Big Apple jams your way. 30 00:01:26,024 --> 00:01:29,575 In a few minutes my engineer Jonathan E at Master Control and I gonna go 31 00:01:29,575 --> 00:01:32,315 looking for something perfect, the perfect beat for you, 32 00:01:32,315 --> 00:01:35,655 especially if you are up at Planet Rock, The Bronx, or the Zulu Nation, 33 00:01:35,851 --> 00:01:37,381 as in dance formation tonight. 34 00:01:37,673 --> 00:01:41,673 Speaking of dance, have you heard about he WLIB breakdance contest? 35 00:01:42,752 --> 00:01:45,402 You have a chance to win a trip to the mother country; 36 00:01:45,672 --> 00:01:49,096 the place that sent Afrika Bambaataa into a galaxy far, far away. 37 00:01:49,316 --> 00:01:51,006 Who knows? You could be on your way 38 00:01:51,006 --> 00:01:53,476 into the land of the pyramids, checking it all out." 39 00:01:53,956 --> 00:02:31,908 ["Planet Rock - Instrumental" by Afrika Bambaataa & Soulsonic Force] 40 00:02:32,014 --> 00:02:35,264 [robotic voice] Rock, rock to Planet Rock, don't stop 41 00:02:35,798 --> 00:02:38,918 [robotic voice] Rock, rock to Planet Rock, don't stop 42 00:02:39,025 --> 00:03:14,391 ["Planet Rock" music continues] 43 00:03:14,532 --> 00:03:18,976 [robotic voices] 44 00:03:18,976 --> 00:03:20,618 ["Planet Rock" music continues] 45 00:03:20,618 --> 00:03:22,333 What if we to just settle down here? 46 00:03:22,333 --> 00:03:25,259 Well it's a little old-fashioned [voice fades] 47 00:03:25,259 --> 00:03:59,170 ["Planet Rock" music continues] 48 00:03:59,440 --> 00:04:02,760 (Narrator's voice fades in) "...planets, especially Venus and Jupiter, 49 00:04:02,760 --> 00:04:05,520 can be seen in the sky not long after sunset. 50 00:04:07,526 --> 00:04:09,648 With the glow of twilight still lingering, 51 00:04:12,941 --> 00:04:16,941 and a dash of near-sightedness, and some good old human imagination, 52 00:04:17,322 --> 00:04:21,898 and some well-intentioned people will even claim 'it's shooting off sparks, 53 00:04:22,505 --> 00:04:26,505 it's as big as a basketball, it has landing lights', and so on. 54 00:04:28,167 --> 00:04:29,077 Hard to believe? 55 00:04:29,532 --> 00:04:32,232 Well, the most frequently reported UFOs on record 56 00:04:32,232 --> 00:04:34,136 are the planets Venus and Jupiter - 57 00:04:34,982 --> 00:04:39,950 IFOs, once you know a little about the autokinetic illusion and the night sky. 58 00:04:44,461 --> 00:04:49,841 July 24, 1948. An Eastern Airlines flight is en route 59 00:04:49,841 --> 00:04:55,867 from Houston to Atlanta, when suddenly... [otherworldly electronic noise] 60 00:04:55,867 --> 00:04:59,747 The flight crew, all intelligent, trained observers, reported the—" 61 00:04:59,747 --> 00:05:17,652 [strange beeps and sounds] 62 00:05:17,692 --> 00:05:26,672 [banging on timpani] 63 00:05:29,022 --> 00:05:32,522 (robotic voice) "I am the funk overlord. 64 00:05:33,671 --> 00:05:37,351 I have come to take control of your flight. 65 00:05:38,742 --> 00:05:42,802 Who controls the present, controls the past. 66 00:05:43,800 --> 00:05:48,520 Who controls the past, controls the future. 67 00:05:48,745 --> 00:05:49,908 Funk!" 68 00:05:53,311 --> 00:06:10,248 [music from Bambaataa's "Looking for the Perfect Beat"] 69 00:06:10,248 --> 00:06:12,273 (Narrator) "So this is how Bam sends 'em 70 00:06:12,273 --> 00:06:15,257 to the street, hip hoppin', lookin' for the perfect beat." 71 00:06:15,279 --> 00:06:27,801 [music from Bambaataa's Looking for the Perfect Beat] 72 00:06:27,801 --> 00:06:32,201 Rappin', scratchin', breakin', shakin', the success of hip hop is in the making. 73 00:06:32,246 --> 00:06:36,196 [music from Bambaataa's Looking for the Perfect Beat] 74 00:06:36,221 --> 00:06:39,891 (Narrator) "On TV and on radio, you hear and see it, wherever you go." 75 00:06:39,951 --> 00:06:45,201 [music from Bambaataa's Looking for the Perfect Beat] 76 00:06:45,252 --> 00:06:49,502 (Narrator) "Graffiti began on the walls, and now it's sold in stores and malls." 77 00:06:49,502 --> 00:06:51,508 ["Looking for the Perfect Beat" music] 78 00:06:51,508 --> 00:06:54,364 ♪ Want to want to do-do do-do-do-do do-do ♪ 79 00:06:54,364 --> 00:06:57,738 ♪ Do-do-do do do-do-do-do do do-do-do-do do ♪ 80 00:06:57,738 --> 00:07:04,826 ["Looking for the Perfect Beat" music] 81 00:07:04,914 --> 00:07:08,574 (Narrator) " From uptown to Fifth Avenue, the journey took a heck of a crew, 82 00:07:08,574 --> 00:07:10,508 from a neighborhood and a street scene 83 00:07:10,508 --> 00:07:12,768 all around the world to the silver screen." 84 00:07:12,768 --> 00:07:15,492 ["The Hitler Rap"] ♪ Well, hi there people, you know me ♪ 85 00:07:15,492 --> 00:07:17,895 ♪ I used to run a little joint called Germany ♪ 86 00:07:17,895 --> 00:07:20,358 ♪ I was number one The people's choice ♪ 87 00:07:20,358 --> 00:07:22,508 ♪ And everybody listened to my mighty voice ♪ 88 00:07:22,508 --> 00:07:24,418 ♪ My name is Adolf, I'm on the mic ♪ 89 00:07:24,418 --> 00:07:26,966 ♪ Gonna hip you to the story of the New Third Reich ♪ 90 00:07:26,966 --> 00:07:29,676 ♪ It all began down in Munich town & pretty soon ♪ 91 00:07:29,676 --> 00:07:31,266 ♪ Word started gettin' around ♪ 92 00:07:31,266 --> 00:07:33,566 ♪ I said to Martin Boorman, I said "Hey Marty, ♪ 93 00:07:33,611 --> 00:07:35,711 ♪ Why don't we throw a little Nazi party?" ♪ 94 00:07:35,711 --> 00:07:37,760 ♪ So we had an election, well, kinda sorta ♪ 95 00:07:37,760 --> 00:07:40,153 ♪ And before you knew it, hello new order! ♪ 96 00:07:40,153 --> 00:07:42,156 ♪ To all those mothers in the Fatherland ♪ 97 00:07:42,156 --> 00:07:44,496 ♪ I said "Achtung baby! I got me a plan." ♪ 98 00:07:44,496 --> 00:07:46,496 ♪ "Whatcha got, Adolf? Whatcha gonna do?" ♪ 99 00:07:46,496 --> 00:07:49,086 ♪ I said "How about this one? World War Two." ♪ 100 00:07:49,503 --> 00:07:50,688 ♪ To be or not be ♪ 101 00:07:51,515 --> 00:07:52,271 ♪ Oh baby— ♪ 102 00:07:52,272 --> 00:07:58,912 [music fades, record scratching] 103 00:07:58,951 --> 00:08:01,141 All that scratchin' is makin' me itch! 104 00:08:01,179 --> 00:08:23,616 [mixed-up music] 105 00:08:23,616 --> 00:08:26,373 ♪ Duck Duck Duck ♪ ♪ Duck Duck Duck ♪ 106 00:08:26,373 --> 00:08:28,420 (Narrator) "What once was in the underground 107 00:08:28,420 --> 00:08:30,570 has now, by elements, been found 108 00:08:30,570 --> 00:08:34,510 like anywhere you see fresh meat, the culture vultures come to eat. 109 00:08:36,157 --> 00:08:40,517 Now with hip hop on his lip, Malcolm McLaren begins his trip, 110 00:08:40,895 --> 00:08:45,005 how he went to the Planet Rock and came back to Britain in future shock, 111 00:08:45,314 --> 00:08:50,064 cos though he thought punk was the top, he found the groove was in hip hop." 112 00:08:50,249 --> 00:08:54,284 [hip hop music] 113 00:08:54,419 --> 00:08:56,653 ♪ Breakdance Breakdance ♪ 114 00:08:56,653 --> 00:08:58,755 ♪ It's a pretty good job out there Jimmy ♪ 115 00:08:58,755 --> 00:09:00,735 ♪ We oughta dance and dance differently ♪ 116 00:09:00,735 --> 00:09:02,274 ♪ So we sing and dance— ♪ 117 00:09:02,274 --> 00:09:03,864 (Malcolm McLaren) "I was, uh... 118 00:09:03,864 --> 00:09:05,864 working with a group called Bow Wow Wow. 119 00:09:06,066 --> 00:09:08,896 I came over there because they were selling some RCA records 120 00:09:08,896 --> 00:09:12,896 and I was looking to put them on in a hole in Manhattan somewhere, 121 00:09:12,916 --> 00:09:17,156 but the terrible thing was I was really stuck for a responsible 122 00:09:17,156 --> 00:09:20,226 and interesting and exciting kind of opening act. 123 00:09:20,986 --> 00:09:22,926 And nothing was happening in New York. 124 00:09:22,926 --> 00:09:26,542 Then a friend of mine introduced me to a guy who I met on the street, 125 00:09:26,542 --> 00:09:29,727 somewhere down 5th Avenue. He told me about an incredible scene 126 00:09:29,727 --> 00:09:34,689 that was happening not in Manhattan, but out in a suburb known as the South Bronx. 127 00:09:35,438 --> 00:09:37,894 He said if I liked, I could come on a Saturday night 128 00:09:37,898 --> 00:09:40,268 to a big party where I would see something 129 00:09:40,268 --> 00:09:43,004 that couldn't possibly have ever existed in England. 130 00:09:44,415 --> 00:09:49,395 And, I decided to actually pitch up with him on Saturday night. 131 00:09:50,032 --> 00:09:51,512 Upon arriving, the party 132 00:09:51,512 --> 00:09:53,752 —unknown to me, I thought it would be indoors— 133 00:09:53,752 --> 00:09:57,259 was actually out in the open, in a wasteland, 134 00:09:57,433 --> 00:09:59,783 surrounded by these huge fired out condominiums. 135 00:10:00,748 --> 00:10:04,678 There, in the midst of it, was about thousand kids and I couldn't believe it. 136 00:10:04,678 --> 00:10:07,508 I was very, very worried being the only white guy there and 137 00:10:07,508 --> 00:10:10,870 the cab driver signaled me to put my dollars in my socks. 138 00:10:10,870 --> 00:10:13,980 [stammers, laughs] Nevertheless, I escorted myself across the road 139 00:10:13,980 --> 00:10:17,627 with this guy, made my way through the crowd, pushing and shoving 140 00:10:17,698 --> 00:10:21,418 until I got to the decks where the music was coming from, 141 00:10:22,640 --> 00:10:26,160 shook hands with this huge fat guy, who later became known to me 142 00:10:26,160 --> 00:10:28,094 as a guy called Afrika Bambaataa. 143 00:10:28,661 --> 00:10:31,761 And what I witnessed was a various group of different young kids, 144 00:10:32,187 --> 00:10:35,877 who were poppin' in and out amongst the decks, messin' about with records. 145 00:10:36,395 --> 00:10:38,815 What l saw was extraordinary, because the sound 146 00:10:38,815 --> 00:10:42,215 coming out was totally inarticulate. It was a load of rough noises 147 00:10:42,215 --> 00:10:47,492 that sounded a little like a guitar, but sort of like a concrete chisel sound. 148 00:10:47,492 --> 00:10:50,966 And the sound, I realized, was actually coming from the way they were 149 00:10:50,966 --> 00:10:54,711 messin' with their hands on the decks, movin' records backwards and forwards. 150 00:10:55,511 --> 00:10:58,208 They weren't just doing it with one record, but with two, 151 00:10:58,208 --> 00:11:00,398 and they were mixing across one to the other. 152 00:11:00,899 --> 00:11:03,649 In fact, it was making music out of other people's music." 153 00:11:03,649 --> 00:11:16,809 [mixed music plays, repeating] 154 00:11:16,915 --> 00:11:19,495 As time went on and I stuck around for an hour or so, 155 00:11:19,495 --> 00:11:23,093 the crowd was extremely volatile jumping into pitch battles at times. 156 00:11:23,362 --> 00:11:26,172 But at one point or another, people would move to the side, 157 00:11:26,172 --> 00:11:29,632 and a group of kids would start freakin' out in the middle, 158 00:11:29,635 --> 00:11:32,136 doing all this incredible gymnastic dancing. 159 00:11:32,183 --> 00:12:06,483 [distorted, choppy music plays over beats] 160 00:12:06,483 --> 00:12:08,966 (Narrator) "What McLaren saw was called 'hip-hop', 161 00:12:08,966 --> 00:12:11,056 energy and motion that you could not stop. 162 00:12:11,404 --> 00:12:15,404 Demanding all of your imagination if you were to share in the celebration. 163 00:12:15,779 --> 00:12:19,209 It wasn't enough to just be good, you had to be super bad, 164 00:12:19,278 --> 00:12:20,748 cos when you hit that floor, 165 00:12:20,748 --> 00:12:23,448 your reputation was just about all you had." 166 00:12:25,936 --> 00:12:28,756 (McLaren) "I think hip-hop is being in control of your body, 167 00:12:28,756 --> 00:12:31,244 that's the whole art of it, understanding that 168 00:12:31,244 --> 00:12:33,953 you're much bigger than you are, a demo of your prowess. 169 00:12:33,953 --> 00:12:36,373 If you're penniless, the one thing you can do 170 00:12:36,373 --> 00:12:39,664 on Madison Avenue is spin on your head and show all the white honkies 171 00:12:39,664 --> 00:12:43,126 moving out of the Chase Manhattan Bank on their lunch time and say, 'Well 172 00:12:43,383 --> 00:12:47,053 Beat that, and if you can't, here's my cap. Give me a few dollars.' " 173 00:12:47,214 --> 00:12:52,214 [train moving, faint commotion] 174 00:12:52,214 --> 00:12:54,628 (Narrator) "But the story of hip-hop doesn't belong 175 00:12:54,628 --> 00:12:57,148 in New York, LA, or London, that's wrong. 176 00:12:57,148 --> 00:13:02,064 The true story begins in devastation, bad housing, gang wars, and desperation, 177 00:13:02,624 --> 00:13:04,994 in the Bronx ghetto, or Planet Rock. 178 00:13:05,491 --> 00:13:09,662 Let's take a minute - turn back the clock. ["Space Cowboy" by Jonzun Crew] 179 00:13:09,677 --> 00:13:14,552 To the first hero of the hip hop groove, the man who made the people move. 180 00:13:14,649 --> 00:13:18,399 ["Space Cowboy" music] 181 00:13:18,566 --> 00:13:20,656 From Jamaica he came with a sense of rhythm, 182 00:13:20,949 --> 00:13:23,869 and what he brought to the Bronx was a sound system. 183 00:13:24,282 --> 00:13:28,032 The music he played made life work, and made him a legend: 184 00:13:28,136 --> 00:13:29,691 Kool DJ Herc." 185 00:13:29,909 --> 00:13:31,969 ["Space Cowboy" music] 186 00:13:32,207 --> 00:13:32,907 ♪ He's bad! ♪ 187 00:13:32,986 --> 00:13:36,786 ♪ ["Space Cowboy" music] ♪ 188 00:13:36,925 --> 00:13:37,925 ♪ Space Cowboy ♪ 189 00:13:38,095 --> 00:13:42,285 ♪ ["Space Cowboy" music] ♪ 190 00:13:42,425 --> 00:13:45,605 (Herc) "When Kool Herc have a party, everybody be there. 191 00:13:46,638 --> 00:13:48,532 Lot of people say I'm fun, big fun. 192 00:13:48,532 --> 00:13:52,694 That was the talk for the whole weekend or the whole summer, 193 00:13:52,694 --> 00:13:53,759 'Where did you party?' 194 00:13:53,759 --> 00:13:57,112 'I was partying with Kool Herc, man. Ghetto block party, you know, 195 00:13:57,405 --> 00:14:00,695 tennis court, disco... a lot of other things, too.' " 196 00:14:00,792 --> 00:14:05,002 ["Space Cowboy" music] 197 00:14:05,072 --> 00:14:05,772 ♪ He's bad! ♪ 198 00:14:06,252 --> 00:14:07,072 ♪ He's mean! ♪ 199 00:14:07,522 --> 00:14:09,732 ♪ He's a Space Cowboy in the spacey jeans ♪ 200 00:14:09,732 --> 00:14:10,512 ♪ He's bad! ♪ 201 00:14:10,512 --> 00:14:13,092 I like to buy my records... right over here. 202 00:14:14,451 --> 00:14:17,231 But now it's not there no more, called 'Sounds and Things'. 203 00:14:17,968 --> 00:14:21,219 There used to be a ballroom up there, I used to play, matter of fact, 204 00:14:21,219 --> 00:14:25,629 I play up there for the transit authority dinner, one time, and... 205 00:14:25,832 --> 00:14:28,282 Mario Cuomo was there before becoming governor. 206 00:14:29,381 --> 00:14:30,521 Basically, right here. 207 00:14:31,370 --> 00:14:32,820 A place called 'Galaxy 2000'. 208 00:14:32,883 --> 00:14:35,603 ["Space Cowboy" plays in the background] 209 00:14:35,676 --> 00:14:37,878 (Herc) "They had a big shootout here one time. 210 00:14:37,988 --> 00:14:39,828 Same time I played at Bronx River. 211 00:14:39,828 --> 00:14:42,272 I came back, I'd seen the canopy knocked down, 212 00:14:43,032 --> 00:14:46,317 the fire escape was let down, and I knew something was wrong." 213 00:14:46,471 --> 00:14:48,254 The Bronx is on the uplift. 214 00:14:48,321 --> 00:14:50,231 ["Space Cowboy" music] 215 00:14:50,269 --> 00:14:53,159 A lot of places are being rehabilitated. 216 00:14:53,225 --> 00:14:56,885 [Traffic sounds and "Space Cowboy" music] 217 00:14:56,885 --> 00:15:00,368 Well, I think there's still more that could be done - a whole lot. 218 00:15:00,438 --> 00:15:01,648 ♪ with the laser gun! ♪ 219 00:15:01,688 --> 00:15:03,969 All those unforgettable promises... 220 00:15:03,974 --> 00:15:05,259 ♪ Yippey-Yi, Yippey-Yi ♪ 221 00:15:05,259 --> 00:15:07,755 From the South Bronx when the Carters came over. 222 00:15:08,485 --> 00:15:09,702 Made out of iron, right? 223 00:15:09,749 --> 00:15:16,219 ♪ Yay... A Space Cowboy... [beats] Yippey-Yi, Yippey-Yi, Yippey-Yi, Yay ♪ 224 00:15:16,276 --> 00:15:18,756 Well, I never left the Bronx, and I love the Bronx. 225 00:15:18,789 --> 00:15:20,624 [music and trafic noise] 226 00:15:20,683 --> 00:15:22,357 I don't wanna leave. 227 00:15:22,406 --> 00:15:25,546 [music and trafic noise] 228 00:15:25,645 --> 00:15:30,055 [upbeat funky music] 229 00:15:30,055 --> 00:15:32,435 (Narrator) "What Herc did was throw down the sound 230 00:15:32,435 --> 00:15:35,275 of forgotten heroes, like James Brown, 231 00:15:35,275 --> 00:15:40,155 and separate the good stuff from the junk, with the emphasis on a lot of funk. 232 00:15:40,951 --> 00:15:42,781 And in the middle of a funky sound, 233 00:15:42,834 --> 00:15:45,427 Coke La Rock, his rapper, would go to town. 234 00:15:45,899 --> 00:15:50,339 The music was hot, very loud, with participation to excite the crowd. 235 00:15:51,209 --> 00:15:55,689 Then Herc would drop a mighty blast with a golden oldie from music past." 236 00:15:56,013 --> 00:15:59,183 [sound of the tape spinning while recording] 237 00:15:59,222 --> 00:16:01,762 Um ... Sedgwick, 1520... 238 00:16:01,856 --> 00:16:04,406 [sound of the tape spinning while recording] 239 00:16:04,450 --> 00:16:05,833 over 10 years ago... 240 00:16:05,896 --> 00:16:09,496 [sound of the tape spinning while recording] 241 00:16:09,519 --> 00:16:12,473 (Woman) "Ooh, look at that medallion, what happened to that?" 242 00:16:12,473 --> 00:16:13,843 [sound of the tape spinning] 243 00:16:13,843 --> 00:16:16,984 Um... It got stolen. That was my badge, like a sheriff. 244 00:16:17,008 --> 00:16:19,288 [sound of the tape spinning while recording] 245 00:16:19,313 --> 00:16:20,333 Place was packed. 246 00:16:20,389 --> 00:16:23,389 [sound of the tape spinning while recording] 247 00:16:23,389 --> 00:16:25,207 (Woman) "How was it?" 248 00:16:25,207 --> 00:16:26,734 (Kool Herc) "It was pretty good. 249 00:16:27,356 --> 00:16:29,523 Everybody showed up, had a good time. 250 00:16:29,564 --> 00:16:34,634 [sound of the tape spinning while recording] 251 00:16:34,745 --> 00:16:36,605 Everybody put on their best that day." 252 00:16:36,725 --> 00:16:44,965 [sound of the tape spinning while recording] 253 00:16:45,086 --> 00:16:48,196 All of the sudden— I don't know, all of the sudden... 254 00:16:48,271 --> 00:16:50,721 [sound of the tape spinning while recording] 255 00:16:50,787 --> 00:16:54,357 Something happened, made it so that we didn't get into the parties no more. 256 00:16:54,448 --> 00:17:00,468 [sound of the tape spinning while recording] 257 00:17:00,534 --> 00:17:03,864 [sound fades out] 258 00:17:03,920 --> 00:17:09,400 I got injured. I got stabbed. Fatally stabbed, now. 259 00:17:10,770 --> 00:17:13,075 And that just put a hole through the whole thing. 260 00:17:15,384 --> 00:17:18,268 I walk right into it, and I just... 261 00:17:18,998 --> 00:17:20,918 I didn't know where the knife came from. 262 00:17:20,998 --> 00:17:25,568 I just literally walk into it. I was hit four times. 263 00:17:26,368 --> 00:17:29,478 The last of them pierced my hand, and it went all the way through. 264 00:17:31,101 --> 00:17:32,501 It shouldn't have happened. 265 00:17:35,311 --> 00:17:38,071 And that does draw me a show, you know? 266 00:17:39,935 --> 00:17:43,365 I just stopped. I stopped playing for— I didn't accept a gig, I wasn't— 267 00:17:43,888 --> 00:17:46,268 I was not out in the public eyes too much. 268 00:17:46,268 --> 00:17:52,013 ["Space Cowboy" music] 269 00:17:52,099 --> 00:17:54,389 That was the rise of a lot of DJs. 270 00:17:55,303 --> 00:17:57,713 Herc wasn't on the scene, this is our chance. 271 00:17:58,179 --> 00:18:02,229 And a lot of them dashed in and capitalized on it. 272 00:18:02,524 --> 00:18:10,156 DJs and the music that they used to come to hear at my party was all over now. 273 00:18:10,243 --> 00:18:13,813 [beats] 274 00:18:13,910 --> 00:18:17,060 Kool Herc is not a stepping stone, he's a horse that can't be rode, 275 00:18:17,112 --> 00:18:21,872 and a bull that can't be stopped, there ain't a disco I can't rock. Rock on. 276 00:18:23,365 --> 00:18:25,335 It could've been on my obituary - 277 00:18:25,479 --> 00:18:28,604 that this was the guy who started this, this was what he did." 278 00:18:28,890 --> 00:18:32,680 [Hip-hop music beats] 279 00:18:32,680 --> 00:18:34,681 (Narrator) "Though he may be a fallen hero, 280 00:18:34,681 --> 00:18:37,751 all will forever say that in the history of hip-hop, 281 00:18:37,976 --> 00:18:39,836 he was its number one DJ." 282 00:18:41,500 --> 00:18:45,190 You see, Herc had started something that not even his enemies wanted to stop. 283 00:18:45,511 --> 00:18:49,401 Kool DJ Herc had launched the birth of a movement called hip-hop. 284 00:18:50,493 --> 00:18:51,493 (Narrator continues) 285 00:18:51,493 --> 00:18:55,393 "In the middle of Savage Skulls and on the top of the hill with the Seven Crowns, 286 00:18:55,653 --> 00:18:59,133 the gangs were in the Bronx and they were seriously getting down. 287 00:18:59,685 --> 00:19:03,645 It was little Vietnam, where even the police watched out for raids, 288 00:19:04,107 --> 00:19:08,217 and where the baddest of them all was a street gang known as the Black Spades. 289 00:19:08,837 --> 00:19:12,267 And from them emerged a boy who became the adopted father 290 00:19:12,599 --> 00:19:16,749 of the hip hop generation, a Zulu, Afrika Bambaataa." 291 00:19:19,228 --> 00:19:21,508 I got into street gangs, the Black Spades. 292 00:19:21,574 --> 00:19:24,664 I was in a lot of other groups before I became a Spade. 293 00:19:24,718 --> 00:19:27,148 P.O.W.E.R, Crowns, Savage Nomads... 294 00:19:28,695 --> 00:19:29,405 and um, 295 00:19:29,811 --> 00:19:33,741 but Spades was one of the groups that I really loved a lot. 296 00:19:33,741 --> 00:19:36,769 There was a lot of unity in the group. [clears throat]. 297 00:19:36,769 --> 00:19:39,503 It was one of the most hated groups in the whole city 298 00:19:39,503 --> 00:19:43,218 cause all it was about was um, trouble and stuff and aesthetic. 299 00:19:43,638 --> 00:19:46,908 But it was one of the most organized Black youth groups. 300 00:19:47,090 --> 00:19:49,881 As for, if you mess with them, they would mess with you. 301 00:19:50,261 --> 00:19:56,921 (Bambaata) "Plus in that year, 1975, um, one of the brothas that was close to me, 302 00:19:56,921 --> 00:20:00,047 that lived with me for about two years, by the name Solsky, 303 00:20:00,517 --> 00:20:02,751 got shot by the police on Pelham Bay, 304 00:20:02,751 --> 00:20:05,569 with some other members of the Spades. 305 00:20:05,569 --> 00:20:09,889 And um, he died and this other member died and one survived." 306 00:20:09,889 --> 00:20:13,726 [hip hop music plays in background] 307 00:20:13,726 --> 00:20:16,502 (Narrator) "The violent death of Bam's best friend, 308 00:20:16,502 --> 00:20:18,562 marked for him the end of the line. 309 00:20:18,737 --> 00:20:21,192 And he went back to a vision that once had occurred 310 00:20:21,202 --> 00:20:23,532 inside of his youthful mind. 311 00:20:23,732 --> 00:20:26,491 A way to fight, yet maintain peace. 312 00:20:27,122 --> 00:20:28,632 An impossible situation, 313 00:20:29,373 --> 00:20:31,663 unless you could create something powerful 314 00:20:32,209 --> 00:20:34,796 like his memory of the Zulu nation." 315 00:20:34,989 --> 00:21:05,035 [Zulu chants and beats on TV] 316 00:21:05,545 --> 00:21:07,965 I say violence is necessary. 317 00:21:08,635 --> 00:21:10,585 Violence is a part of America's culture, 318 00:21:10,651 --> 00:21:13,095 it is as American as Cherry Pie 319 00:21:13,159 --> 00:21:16,058 American calls for Black people to be violent. 320 00:21:16,268 --> 00:21:18,449 We will use that violence to get ourselves up. 321 00:21:18,449 --> 00:21:22,999 [voice fades to hip hop music] 322 00:21:23,064 --> 00:21:26,711 (Martin Luther King Jr) "Former slaves and the sons of former slave owners... 323 00:21:27,909 --> 00:21:32,349 Will they be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood? 324 00:21:32,517 --> 00:21:33,790 I have a dream... 325 00:21:34,851 --> 00:21:35,851 One day..." 326 00:21:38,203 --> 00:21:39,943 (KKK member) "Basically, uh, my goal 327 00:21:39,943 --> 00:21:42,963 in the clan is to bring about a unification 328 00:21:42,963 --> 00:21:46,734 of all of the Anglo-saxon, Protestant, American citizens 329 00:21:46,734 --> 00:21:51,539 into a bond of unity to counter-act the philosophies of the minority and—" 330 00:21:51,587 --> 00:21:53,880 (Nelson Mandela) "There are many people who feel 331 00:21:53,880 --> 00:21:55,650 that it is useless and futile 332 00:21:56,469 --> 00:21:58,849 for us to continue talking peace and non-violence 333 00:21:59,509 --> 00:22:02,859 against a government whose reply is only 334 00:22:02,859 --> 00:22:06,575 savage attacks on an unarmed, defenseless people." 335 00:22:08,925 --> 00:22:26,006 [radio static] [hip-hop music] 336 00:22:26,006 --> 00:22:30,406 (Malcolm X) "We are not human beings unless we ourselves, band together 337 00:22:30,616 --> 00:22:34,136 and do whatever, however, whenever, is necessary 338 00:22:34,136 --> 00:22:36,796 to see that our lives and our property is protected, 339 00:22:36,796 --> 00:22:40,496 and I doubt that any person in here would refuse to do the same thing, 340 00:22:40,496 --> 00:22:42,106 were he in the same position. 341 00:22:42,106 --> 00:22:44,524 Or I should say, were he in the same condition." 342 00:22:44,524 --> 00:22:49,776 [hip hop music] 343 00:22:49,826 --> 00:22:52,386 (Narrator) "It was with the vision of the Zulu nation, 344 00:22:52,386 --> 00:22:55,133 a trip to Africa, and a death situation, 345 00:22:55,133 --> 00:22:57,626 that produced a man who put on Zulu dress 346 00:22:58,120 --> 00:23:00,076 and began to transform a violent mix." 347 00:23:01,056 --> 00:23:16,180 [Malcolm X's, "No Sell Out" echoes in the background] 348 00:23:16,298 --> 00:23:18,420 (Narrator) "Bambaataa was always a music man, 349 00:23:18,570 --> 00:23:20,870 a record collector who was a DJ jammed. 350 00:23:21,289 --> 00:23:25,399 Now he saw a new idea to use stand and prow in his career, 351 00:23:25,759 --> 00:23:28,119 to put the Bronx in a music trance 352 00:23:28,235 --> 00:23:30,755 and move from violence to Zulu dance..." 353 00:23:30,866 --> 00:23:37,900 [hip-hop music] 354 00:23:38,137 --> 00:23:40,027 (Narrator) "And so it became hip to hop 355 00:23:40,027 --> 00:23:42,487 in the land known as Planet Rock, 356 00:23:42,748 --> 00:23:45,228 where gangs used to fight in the street every day, 357 00:23:45,356 --> 00:23:47,766 now they began to compete in a different way. 358 00:23:47,891 --> 00:23:50,273 As the DJ's music made the house shake, 359 00:23:50,273 --> 00:23:52,611 the dancers would begin to break. 360 00:23:52,611 --> 00:23:55,021 Some electric boogie to move like toys, 361 00:23:55,231 --> 00:23:58,177 others would spin and became b-boys." 362 00:23:58,313 --> 00:25:00,473 [hip hop beats] 363 00:25:00,473 --> 00:25:05,520 [music fades out] 364 00:25:05,520 --> 00:25:07,192 Yeah! [laughs] 365 00:25:08,328 --> 00:25:10,398 There you go. Hey you guys ready? 366 00:25:10,440 --> 00:25:11,510 - Yeah. - Let's go. 367 00:25:11,592 --> 00:25:13,872 (Narrator) "The breakers know what they have got 368 00:25:13,872 --> 00:25:16,522 from electro-boogie to street robot. 369 00:25:16,522 --> 00:25:19,072 They dance off the anger in a street or room... 370 00:25:19,134 --> 00:25:21,514 Who needs a gang when the beat goes boom" 371 00:25:21,514 --> 00:25:22,856 - Yes, can I help you? - Yes. 372 00:25:22,856 --> 00:25:25,000 - Whatchu doin' here? - You guys can come back 373 00:25:25,000 --> 00:25:26,877 - Gonna take control here - Don't think— 374 00:25:26,877 --> 00:25:28,287 Ah, take us out, ha ha ha! 375 00:25:28,287 --> 00:25:29,367 - Yeah - Is that so? 376 00:25:29,367 --> 00:25:50,916 ["The Wildstyle" by Afrika Bambaataa] 377 00:25:51,670 --> 00:25:53,439 ♪ It ain't nothin' ♪ 378 00:25:53,761 --> 00:25:56,271 ♪ It ain't nothin' but the wildstyle ♪ 379 00:25:57,257 --> 00:25:58,503 ♪ The wildstyle ♪ 380 00:25:58,763 --> 00:25:59,763 ♪ Hit me! ♪ 381 00:26:01,522 --> 00:26:04,942 ♪ You can do it, do it, do it, do it, do it, do it. The wildstyle ♪ 382 00:26:05,732 --> 00:26:07,232 ♪ The wildstyle ♪ 383 00:26:07,232 --> 00:26:08,012 ♪ Get down! ♪ 384 00:26:11,477 --> 00:26:12,477 ♪ So funky ♪ 385 00:26:14,759 --> 00:26:17,483 ♪ What Bootsy said? To the bridge mother! Do it, do it ♪ 386 00:26:20,173 --> 00:26:20,893 ♪ Do it ♪ 387 00:26:20,893 --> 00:26:21,975 B-Side, rock on 388 00:26:21,975 --> 00:26:22,777 ♪ Do it, do it ♪ 389 00:26:22,777 --> 00:26:24,182 ♪ B-Side, rock on ♪ 390 00:26:24,182 --> 00:26:25,182 ♪ Shout shout ♪ 391 00:26:25,182 --> 00:26:26,979 ♪ People over here People over there ♪ 392 00:26:26,979 --> 00:26:29,266 ♪ Dancin' in the street And dancin' to our beat ♪ 393 00:26:29,266 --> 00:26:31,561 ♪ Poppin' in the door And breakin' on the floor ♪ 394 00:26:31,561 --> 00:26:34,531 ♪ Checkin' out the feet that's movin' to a beat. Do it ♪ 395 00:26:34,531 --> 00:26:35,522 ♪ Do what? ♪ 396 00:26:35,522 --> 00:26:37,502 ♪ The wildstyle ♪ 397 00:26:37,502 --> 00:26:38,957 ♪ Motivator ♪ 398 00:26:39,744 --> 00:26:40,934 ♪ Motivator ♪ 399 00:26:41,756 --> 00:26:43,256 ♪ Motivator ♪ 400 00:26:43,862 --> 00:26:44,994 ♪ Motivator ♪ 401 00:26:45,884 --> 00:26:47,314 ♪ Can you funk? Do it, do it ♪ 402 00:26:48,124 --> 00:26:49,234 ♪ Can you funk? Do it ♪ 403 00:26:50,280 --> 00:26:52,020 ♪ Do it. Break it down! Down! ♪ 404 00:26:52,756 --> 00:26:54,896 ♪ Break it down! Down! Shout! ♪ 405 00:26:54,920 --> 00:26:57,120 ♪ Life is so hard Tryin' to get a job ♪ 406 00:26:57,127 --> 00:26:59,077 ♪ Employee so new, no cash money green ♪ 407 00:26:59,077 --> 00:27:01,357 ♪ The systеm is mean Destroying all dreams ♪ 408 00:27:01,357 --> 00:27:03,527 ♪ Flying to thе moon Nobody's in the schools ♪ 409 00:27:03,527 --> 00:27:04,427 ♪ Do it ♪ 410 00:27:04,427 --> 00:27:05,127 ♪ Do what? ♪ 411 00:27:05,407 --> 00:27:08,887 ♪ It's the wildstyle C'mon. The wildstyle ♪ 412 00:27:08,887 --> 00:27:12,800 ♪ Do it, do it, do it, do it, do it, do it, do it, do it ♪ 413 00:27:13,748 --> 00:27:14,748 ♪ Do it, do it ♪ 414 00:27:16,436 --> 00:27:17,186 ♪ Shout ♪ 415 00:27:18,434 --> 00:27:19,154 ♪ Shout ♪ 416 00:27:19,749 --> 00:27:20,659 ♪ Good God! ♪ 417 00:27:20,659 --> 00:27:21,517 ♪ Shout ♪ 418 00:27:21,631 --> 00:27:22,776 ♪ Good Good Good Good! ♪ 419 00:27:22,776 --> 00:27:23,526 ♪ Shout ♪ 420 00:27:24,109 --> 00:27:24,833 ♪ Do it ♪ 421 00:27:24,833 --> 00:27:25,543 ♪ Shout ♪ 422 00:27:27,004 --> 00:27:27,813 ♪ Shout ♪ 423 00:27:28,713 --> 00:27:30,443 ♪ It's the wildstyle ♪ 424 00:27:31,104 --> 00:27:32,424 ♪ The wildstyle ♪ 425 00:27:37,597 --> 00:27:38,697 ♪ Talk about rap ♪ 426 00:27:38,771 --> 00:27:39,751 ♪ Talk about funk ♪ 427 00:27:39,893 --> 00:27:40,918 ♪ Talk about rock ♪ 428 00:27:40,939 --> 00:27:41,979 ♪ Talk about life ♪ 429 00:27:43,849 --> 00:27:45,359 ♪ It's the wildstyle ♪ 430 00:27:45,975 --> 00:27:48,505 ♪ The wildstyle ♪ 431 00:27:50,068 --> 00:27:52,548 ♪ My heart is beating fast I'm running out of gas ♪ 432 00:27:52,549 --> 00:27:55,515 ♪ No not the Zulu style With your own sense of style. Do it ♪ 433 00:27:55,757 --> 00:27:57,987 ♪ Do it It's the wildstyle ♪ 434 00:27:57,987 --> 00:28:02,144 ♪ Do do do the wild style-style-style-style-style ♪ 435 00:28:03,281 --> 00:28:05,441 ♪ Do it ♪ 436 00:28:05,485 --> 00:28:06,195 ♪ Do it ♪ 437 00:28:06,195 --> 00:28:07,505 ♪ C'mon, everybody! ♪ 438 00:28:07,505 --> 00:28:09,509 ♪ In life, you got to fight ♪ 439 00:28:09,509 --> 00:28:11,749 ♪ In life, you're not always right ♪ 440 00:28:11,749 --> 00:28:13,746 ♪ In life, if the tone is right ♪ 441 00:28:13,746 --> 00:28:15,959 ♪ In life, stop thinkin' you're Christ! ♪ 442 00:28:16,029 --> 00:28:17,029 ♪ Do it ♪ 443 00:28:22,219 --> 00:28:23,259 ♪ B-Side ♪ 444 00:28:24,529 --> 00:28:25,615 ♪ B-Side ♪ 445 00:28:26,519 --> 00:28:27,549 ♪ Speak your mind ♪ 446 00:28:27,769 --> 00:28:29,479 ♪ C'mon, speak your mind ♪ 447 00:28:30,523 --> 00:28:31,293 ♪ B-Side ♪ 448 00:28:34,521 --> 00:28:35,511 ♪ To the bridge! ♪ 449 00:28:35,511 --> 00:28:37,394 ♪ In the land of Oz People on Mars ♪ 450 00:28:37,394 --> 00:28:38,606 ♪ Livin' in a timezone ♪ 451 00:28:38,606 --> 00:28:39,874 ♪ Tryin' not to be alone ♪ 452 00:28:44,041 --> 00:28:46,634 (Narrator) "The elements of hip-hop go beyond the dance 453 00:28:46,634 --> 00:28:48,794 to the streets where artists take a chance 454 00:28:48,854 --> 00:28:51,034 and the Bronx where young men on the go 455 00:28:51,228 --> 00:28:53,528 paint trains and walls like Picasso 456 00:28:53,992 --> 00:28:55,792 Graffiti is what they call their art 457 00:28:56,020 --> 00:28:58,225 and it's here where they get their start 458 00:28:58,882 --> 00:29:01,162 Though you may think these policemen bars, 459 00:29:01,367 --> 00:29:04,177 they battle kids like Brim and graffiti wars." 460 00:29:04,177 --> 00:29:06,524 Chief, all these stickers were used as settlements 461 00:29:06,974 --> 00:29:09,284 Those kids were locked up on the graffiti 462 00:29:09,411 --> 00:29:11,901 (Sergeant) "Art versus transit... fame... 463 00:29:13,323 --> 00:29:15,243 The new king of all offenders... 464 00:29:15,310 --> 00:29:18,310 Uh...the rest of you got your assignments? Yeah all right. 465 00:29:18,955 --> 00:29:21,975 Hickey and Ski, I want you to stay half the roll call. 466 00:29:21,975 --> 00:29:24,305 I have a special assignment for you on a graffiti. 467 00:29:24,305 --> 00:29:25,643 All right, thank you both." 468 00:29:25,643 --> 00:29:27,933 (Hickey) "We'll thwart it one day, right sarge?" 469 00:29:28,859 --> 00:29:32,909 (Sarge) "We have some information that they cut the fence on the Jerome yards 470 00:29:33,253 --> 00:29:36,573 That's the new fence and they cut it right open again." 471 00:29:36,770 --> 00:29:38,927 [sound of a train moving] 472 00:29:38,927 --> 00:29:41,217 (Narrator) "Let's take a look inside the machine 473 00:29:41,217 --> 00:29:43,837 and watch New York's finest on the graffiti scene." 474 00:29:44,266 --> 00:29:56,038 [sound of a train moving] 475 00:29:56,096 --> 00:30:10,596 [train sounds fade away] 476 00:30:10,664 --> 00:30:12,933 (Brim Fuentes) "What does this look like to you? 477 00:30:12,933 --> 00:30:15,643 Does this look like something that'd be in a city? 478 00:30:15,643 --> 00:30:20,297 This looks like a jail, a prison [laughs] with all this barbed wire around you. 479 00:30:20,367 --> 00:30:21,507 What kind of feeling— 480 00:30:21,547 --> 00:30:25,114 I wonder how the people that live around here feel 481 00:30:25,114 --> 00:30:27,164 with all this wire and stuff around them. 482 00:30:27,485 --> 00:30:30,265 Looks like something from Germany the Nazis and all that." 483 00:30:31,064 --> 00:30:34,530 Kryolan, astounding. I feel like I'm doing a commercial for these things. 484 00:30:34,530 --> 00:30:38,662 Here's the best can of paint on the market which they'll invariably go out and steal! 485 00:30:39,263 --> 00:30:41,463 They never pay for the paint, they'll steal it. 486 00:30:42,428 --> 00:30:43,858 The only way I can figure it - 487 00:30:45,043 --> 00:30:49,673 that Mayor Koch and the Head of the MTA... It's not that they don't like graffiti. 488 00:30:49,673 --> 00:30:52,243 It's that they don't like something they can't control. 489 00:30:52,621 --> 00:30:55,959 This is vandalism. That's what it is. 490 00:30:55,959 --> 00:30:58,725 They're defacing somebody else's property. 491 00:30:58,725 --> 00:31:02,531 I wouldn't want them coming to my house and painting it up, nor my car. 492 00:31:02,851 --> 00:31:05,281 Mayor Koch tried to get us to make a deal with him— 493 00:31:06,195 --> 00:31:08,385 that he would give us 10 cars to paint 494 00:31:09,511 --> 00:31:11,384 and we would stop with the graffiti. 495 00:31:11,767 --> 00:31:13,667 But it doesn't work like that because 496 00:31:13,756 --> 00:31:18,206 it'll be fine for me but I cannot stop someone else who wants to paint the train 497 00:31:18,625 --> 00:31:22,167 cos they got to express their feelings the same way I get to express mine. 498 00:31:22,167 --> 00:31:25,837 I'm not gonna tell someone, "You can't express your feelings, only I can." 499 00:31:25,837 --> 00:31:27,095 That's not how it works 500 00:31:28,303 --> 00:31:31,488 Like I said there's tens of thousands of these kids doing graffiti. 501 00:31:31,790 --> 00:31:35,848 Only a handful of them are really good but whether they're good or bad, 502 00:31:35,848 --> 00:31:39,270 they have no business being down here. It's dangerous, they can get hurt 503 00:31:39,482 --> 00:31:41,542 and it's not their property. 504 00:31:42,106 --> 00:31:44,980 (Brim) "As long as there's something to be said in the ghetto 505 00:31:44,980 --> 00:31:46,490 there'll be graffiti. 506 00:31:46,490 --> 00:31:50,140 If it's in a building or it's in a train, wherever something has to be said 507 00:31:50,675 --> 00:31:53,905 you know, in New York city that's the way we express ourselves 508 00:31:54,467 --> 00:31:56,460 It might seem silly to someone else but 509 00:31:56,552 --> 00:31:59,121 in New York city that's the way, we express ourselves." 510 00:31:59,121 --> 00:32:40,094 [Hip hop music] 511 00:32:40,651 --> 00:32:43,771 All this just makes me madder and makes me wanna go painting more. 512 00:32:43,771 --> 00:32:48,071 When I see this you know it burns me up, I wanna go out and paint 513 00:32:48,250 --> 00:32:51,110 and I wanna show them that they can't win because they can't. 514 00:32:51,343 --> 00:32:55,343 The war against graffiti been like 10 yrs and they haven't won nothing. 515 00:32:55,355 --> 00:33:07,175 [Hip hop music] 516 00:33:07,515 --> 00:33:09,669 It took them 10 years to put this fence on. 517 00:33:09,797 --> 00:33:12,147 It'll just take us another year to get into them 518 00:33:13,356 --> 00:33:15,166 Just give us some time. We'll return. 519 00:33:15,250 --> 00:33:45,782 [Hip hop music] 520 00:33:45,878 --> 00:33:53,168 [music fades out] 521 00:33:53,266 --> 00:33:57,526 Now we are here today in order to induct into the rapper's Hall of Fame 522 00:33:57,526 --> 00:34:01,296 just a few of the greatest rappers who ever made rapping their life and fame. 523 00:34:01,325 --> 00:34:04,785 It didn't start with the Sugarhill Gang, it didn't start with Kurtis Blow 524 00:34:05,248 --> 00:34:08,468 nor with Flash or the Furious Five, you can take it from me, I know. 525 00:34:08,929 --> 00:34:10,819 We're going back to where it all began 526 00:34:10,819 --> 00:34:12,779 at radio stations all over the land 527 00:34:12,840 --> 00:34:16,710 with Jocko, Hot Rod and Montague - DJs who rap like DJs do 528 00:34:16,763 --> 00:34:20,403 with names like Hatter and Dr.Jive in the 50s and 60s keeping rap alive. 529 00:34:20,670 --> 00:34:24,240 Just a step for our tradition for rap to take on a social mission. 530 00:34:24,518 --> 00:34:26,248 Rap gives kids a whole new way 531 00:34:26,298 --> 00:34:28,348 to express themselves and sometimes pay. 532 00:34:28,387 --> 00:34:32,347 You might've been told you were no good, with rap, you're king of the neighborhood. 533 00:34:32,462 --> 00:34:36,262 (Muhammad Ali) "Man can't fake, he's a Geechee... 534 00:34:38,121 --> 00:34:39,501 Hey he's Joe Frazier. 535 00:34:39,933 --> 00:34:40,769 Joe Frazier 536 00:34:41,989 --> 00:34:42,707 Joe Frazier" 537 00:34:43,017 --> 00:34:45,263 (Narrator) "People of the world, the man you see 538 00:34:45,263 --> 00:34:47,823 was the world's greatest rapper Muhammad Ali 539 00:34:47,823 --> 00:34:51,913 and the days when he was Cassius Clay was the first national rapper in the USA." 540 00:34:52,068 --> 00:34:55,557 (Muhammad Ali) "He's going around saying that he's a championship fighter 541 00:34:55,818 --> 00:34:58,178 but when he meets me he'll fall 20 pounds lighter. 542 00:34:58,461 --> 00:35:02,331 He thinks he's a real heavyweight champ. After I'm finished he'll just be a tramp. 543 00:35:02,331 --> 00:35:04,167 I'm not sayin' this just to be funny, 544 00:35:04,167 --> 00:35:07,505 but I'm fightin' Ernie because he needs the money." [laughter] 545 00:35:07,505 --> 00:35:11,235 I decided to let him make a little bread but to catch his I must whip his head. 546 00:35:11,235 --> 00:35:14,695 I understand he wants to stand toe to toe and with me trade blow for blow 547 00:35:14,695 --> 00:35:17,779 but if he's hip he'll take a dip because I plan to bust his lip. 548 00:35:18,072 --> 00:35:22,072 From the northeast to the northwest, from the southeast to the west coast, 549 00:35:22,269 --> 00:35:25,814 from the northwest to the mid-west every rapper thinks he can rap the most. 550 00:35:26,190 --> 00:35:30,080 But it all began in Aka-Bo land many many moons ago 551 00:35:30,082 --> 00:35:34,372 It was among the vibes, the powerful vines from which our roots do grow 552 00:35:34,383 --> 00:35:38,083 The Yoruba and the Bantu, the Sotho and the Gotha, 553 00:35:38,165 --> 00:35:42,165 the Akan people of Ghana, the Rwanda and the Hausa, 554 00:35:42,219 --> 00:35:45,949 they engaged in a form of praise done by griots or a chosen bard. 555 00:35:46,255 --> 00:35:48,945 Today we call it throwing down, or, maybe rapping hard. 556 00:35:49,558 --> 00:35:51,768 - Who are you? - Who am I? Who are you? 557 00:35:51,807 --> 00:35:54,847 - Who am I? Who are you? - Who am I? Who are you? 558 00:35:54,985 --> 00:35:56,502 Who am I? I'm Caz! 559 00:35:56,502 --> 00:35:58,382 Oh what what do that mean? 560 00:35:58,382 --> 00:36:01,119 That I'm the baddest MC lover on the Hip-Hop Scene 561 00:36:01,119 --> 00:36:03,789 J.D.L big deal, what does that prove? 562 00:36:03,796 --> 00:36:06,696 That I'm the MC that make the people move. 563 00:36:06,696 --> 00:36:09,356 - I'm Easy! - Easy who and what is your game? 564 00:36:09,356 --> 00:36:12,196 I'm Easy A D I bet your girls know my name. 565 00:36:12,196 --> 00:36:12,962 I'm Jay-Z 566 00:36:12,962 --> 00:36:14,912 That's your business, what you gotta say? 567 00:36:14,912 --> 00:36:17,737 That I can rock you anywhere anytime anyday. 568 00:36:17,737 --> 00:36:20,597 What chasing to the DJs? What do they wanna do? 569 00:36:20,647 --> 00:36:23,287 Bring in the funky record when you give us the cue. 570 00:36:23,287 --> 00:36:27,761 Like 10, 9, 8-7-6, 5-4-3-2-1 571 00:36:27,761 --> 00:36:28,471 Have fun! 572 00:36:28,471 --> 00:36:29,774 [knocking] Who's that now? 573 00:36:29,774 --> 00:36:32,514 - Ya, who's that man, carry on. - It's okay, no bother. 574 00:36:32,645 --> 00:36:34,921 Oh no girls, no! All risks! 575 00:36:34,921 --> 00:36:37,411 - No! - Heartbreakers! Got a nice one in there. 576 00:36:37,411 --> 00:36:40,767 I know you has the cold cause whats the Heartbreakers supposed to mean? 577 00:36:40,767 --> 00:36:43,746 - No! She wanna know— - She knows actually friends, she knows! 578 00:36:43,746 --> 00:36:45,996 .,,all in your mind. 579 00:36:45,996 --> 00:36:48,877 Would you actually tell her what Heartbreakers mean? 580 00:36:49,752 --> 00:36:53,112 ♪ We'll promise you the world and won't deliver ♪ 581 00:36:53,112 --> 00:36:55,281 ♪ A broken heart is what we'll give ya ♪ 582 00:36:55,281 --> 00:36:57,786 ♪ Make you feel like a million by the things we say ♪ 583 00:36:57,786 --> 00:37:00,036 ♪ Make you feel like a fool the very next day ♪ 584 00:37:00,036 --> 00:37:03,521 ♪ We're heartbreakers ha-ha. We're heart-heart-heartbreakers.♪ 585 00:37:03,521 --> 00:37:04,931 [phone rings] 586 00:37:04,978 --> 00:37:08,838 ♪ Hello, Yeah girl, it's me, the captain, with some raps for you ♪ 587 00:37:08,936 --> 00:37:11,356 ♪ So listen up, don't talk until I'm through ♪ 588 00:37:11,408 --> 00:37:13,868 ♪ Now you're sweet, you're fine, and you got class ♪ 589 00:37:13,945 --> 00:37:16,425 ♪ I feel things are going way too fast ♪ 590 00:37:16,459 --> 00:37:18,869 ♪ It's not that I don't enjoy having you around ♪ 591 00:37:18,967 --> 00:37:21,597 ♪ But I'm the kind of man that can't be tied down ♪ 592 00:37:21,709 --> 00:37:24,249 ♪ Thanks for all the joy that you brought to me ♪ 593 00:37:24,481 --> 00:37:26,861 ♪ And I hope you understand that I gotta be free ♪ 594 00:37:26,905 --> 00:37:30,256 ♪ We're heart-breakers And this is how we break your heart ♪ 595 00:37:30,256 --> 00:37:33,109 Ask them a simple question, they're gonna come out the face, 596 00:37:33,109 --> 00:37:35,691 - try talk what it's all about. - You see the problem? 597 00:37:35,691 --> 00:37:38,363 Caz guy were on the phone, he was talkin to the girl, 598 00:37:38,363 --> 00:37:41,603 - and he jested like that? - Mutha, he was a saint. Ha ha ha ha. 599 00:37:41,603 --> 00:37:44,088 Eh ben, il s'opérait pas bien, comment aller? 600 00:37:44,088 --> 00:37:46,401 ♪ Ah, Sophisticated queen MC ♪ 601 00:37:46,401 --> 00:37:48,841 ♪ Yes of course, that's me, mistress of ceremony ♪ 602 00:37:48,929 --> 00:37:51,459 ♪ The one that's gonna take it to the top of the key ♪ 603 00:37:51,484 --> 00:37:53,848 ♪ Introducing myself, MC Lisa Lee ♪ 604 00:37:53,973 --> 00:37:56,323 ♪ The blast from the past, superb in every word ♪ 605 00:37:56,417 --> 00:37:58,720 ♪ Supest female rapper, yes, the best you heard ♪ 606 00:37:58,720 --> 00:38:00,928 ♪ Lisa Lee is known to be the people's choice ♪ 607 00:38:00,928 --> 00:38:03,163 ♪ I get parties rocking with my sensuous voice ♪ 608 00:38:03,163 --> 00:38:05,483 ♪ When you see the queen walking up the street ♪ 609 00:38:05,483 --> 00:38:07,765 ♪ I'm not souped up, conceited, just incognit' ♪ 610 00:38:07,765 --> 00:38:10,395 ♪ I make the fellas sweat coz I keep their bodies hot ♪ 611 00:38:10,395 --> 00:38:12,751 ♪ It's a woman's world, you gotta give whatu got ♪ 612 00:38:12,751 --> 00:38:14,891 ♪ I'm Sha, party people, & I'm ready to rock ♪ 613 00:38:14,891 --> 00:38:17,303 ♪ If you wanna be down, you gotta gimme whatu got ♪ 614 00:38:17,303 --> 00:38:19,513 ♪ Fellas in the place I won't steer you wrong ♪ 615 00:38:19,513 --> 00:38:21,793 ♪ You gotta give it up or leave it alone ♪ 616 00:38:21,793 --> 00:38:24,073 ♪ So get ready for this, get ready for this ♪ 617 00:38:24,073 --> 00:38:26,327 ♪ Partypeople in the place, get ready for this ♪ 618 00:38:26,327 --> 00:38:28,487 ♪ To you! So what you gonna do? ♪ 619 00:38:28,487 --> 00:38:30,929 ♪ Do you wanna rock the house Turn this mutha out? ♪ 620 00:38:30,929 --> 00:38:32,829 ♪ Fly girls, are you with us? ♪ 621 00:38:32,829 --> 00:38:34,303 ♪ And if you're ready to rock ♪ 622 00:38:34,303 --> 00:38:35,540 ♪ to help me turn it out ♪ 623 00:38:35,540 --> 00:38:37,684 ♪ Let the world know what we're talkin about ♪ 624 00:38:37,684 --> 00:38:38,906 ♪To all the ladies ♪ 625 00:38:38,906 --> 00:38:40,206 ♪ Yeah! ♪ 626 00:38:40,206 --> 00:38:42,066 ♪ I want you to listen dana-da-dan ♪ 627 00:38:42,158 --> 00:38:43,521 ♪ Hey, ladies! ♪ 628 00:38:43,521 --> 00:38:44,781 ♪ Yeah! ♪ 629 00:38:44,781 --> 00:38:46,461 ♪ 1980! Dana-da. ♪ 630 00:38:46,461 --> 00:38:50,891 ♪ Watch out for the fellas, yeah! That'll drive you crazy dana-da. ♪ 631 00:38:51,070 --> 00:38:51,790 ♪ Look out! ♪ 632 00:38:51,790 --> 00:38:53,000 ♪ Hey, you better abide ♪ 633 00:38:53,000 --> 00:38:55,226 ♪ While we rock your ass on the solo side ♪ 634 00:38:55,226 --> 00:38:57,126 ♪ Grandmaster Caz, you are the Cap ♪ 635 00:38:57,126 --> 00:38:59,502 ♪ Get on the mic Show 'em you're the lord of rap ♪ 636 00:38:59,502 --> 00:39:01,692 ♪ Well I'm the Cap of the Four, MC exec ♪ 637 00:39:01,692 --> 00:39:03,964 ♪ And I don't come at all if it ain't correct ♪ 638 00:39:03,964 --> 00:39:06,274 ♪ Don't have to bite, not necessary ♪ 639 00:39:06,274 --> 00:39:08,504 ♪ The Grandmaster Caz got a rhyme library ♪ 640 00:39:08,504 --> 00:39:10,514 ♪ Rhyme from now until the break of day ♪ 641 00:39:10,514 --> 00:39:12,524 ♪ Don't have a big mouth just lots to say ♪ 642 00:39:12,524 --> 00:39:14,770 ♪ If you run outta rhymes, start sounding dumb ♪ 643 00:39:14,770 --> 00:39:17,730 ♪ Come see me, me, me, G.M.C ♪ 644 00:39:17,730 --> 00:39:21,412 ♪ I am the Captain of the Four And I'm guaranteed to sell you some ♪ 645 00:39:21,412 --> 00:39:23,760 ♪ A-Duracell J.D.L. you're the number-one flaker ♪ 646 00:39:23,760 --> 00:39:25,810 ♪ Get on the mic Show 'em you're hut maker ♪ 647 00:39:25,810 --> 00:39:28,000 ♪ You hear my (2) You hear my (2) ♪ 648 00:39:28,000 --> 00:39:30,056 ♪ You hear my (2) You hear my (2) ♪ 649 00:39:30,056 --> 00:39:32,536 ♪ You hear my voice on cassettes and on 8-track ♪ 650 00:39:32,536 --> 00:39:34,506 ♪ Next step is to have it put on wax ♪ 651 00:39:34,506 --> 00:39:36,825 ♪ On the radio station to make the jam sell ♪ 652 00:39:36,825 --> 00:39:38,755 ♪ I came to you again on WJDL ♪ 653 00:39:38,755 --> 00:39:40,955 ♪ Doing worldwide tours, TV of course ♪ 654 00:39:40,955 --> 00:39:43,194 ♪ Plus my own line of products which I endorse ♪ 655 00:39:43,194 --> 00:39:45,334 ♪ Financial clout, a piece of the rock ♪ 656 00:39:45,334 --> 00:39:49,494 ♪ And 600 shares, 6,000 shares, 6,000,000 shares of IBM stock ♪ 657 00:39:49,494 --> 00:39:51,854 ♪ Now Easy A.D. making your girl scream ♪ 658 00:39:51,854 --> 00:39:54,077 ♪ Get on the mic, show 'em why you're Supreme ♪ 659 00:39:54,077 --> 00:39:56,157 ♪ I'm girl-taker A.D. top of the chart ♪ 660 00:39:56,157 --> 00:39:58,477 ♪ I'm not a thief but known to steal your heart ♪ 661 00:39:58,477 --> 00:40:00,650 ♪ Won't be too long before I'm seen ♪ 662 00:40:00,650 --> 00:40:02,870 ♪ In the cover of Life Magazine ♪ 663 00:40:02,870 --> 00:40:05,220 ♪ Cos I see it in your eyes when I start rappin' ♪ 664 00:40:05,220 --> 00:40:07,460 ♪ You kno I'm the man that makes things happen ♪ 665 00:40:07,460 --> 00:40:09,237 ♪ Furthermore, if you want company ♪ 666 00:40:09,237 --> 00:40:11,502 ♪ Here's my number & a dial so you can call me ♪ 667 00:40:11,502 --> 00:40:13,622 ♪ And Almighty Kay Gee, the last, not least ♪ 668 00:40:13,622 --> 00:40:15,937 ♪ So get on the microphone and speak your piece ♪ 669 00:40:15,937 --> 00:40:18,127 ♪ I don't beat around the bush I don't stall ♪ 670 00:40:18,127 --> 00:40:20,167 ♪ When you say Kay Gee, you said it all ♪ 671 00:40:20,167 --> 00:40:22,427 ♪ If you dunno by now, you should've been told ♪ 672 00:40:22,427 --> 00:40:24,667 ♪ When they made Almighty, I broke the mold ♪ 673 00:40:24,667 --> 00:40:26,887 ♪ Rob from the rich, give to the poor ♪ 674 00:40:26,887 --> 00:40:29,307 ♪ I snatch a few dollars for the Cold Crush Four ♪ 675 00:40:29,307 --> 00:40:31,277 ♪ Almighty, I'm down with the best ♪ 676 00:40:31,277 --> 00:40:33,767 ♪ If you don't like me, I wouldn't care less, so ♪ 677 00:40:33,767 --> 00:40:35,674 ♪ Calling a truce and raise a flag ♪ 678 00:40:35,674 --> 00:40:37,764 ♪ There ain't an MC crew that we can't rag ♪ 679 00:40:37,764 --> 00:40:39,873 ♪ Now we got two records and been on tour. ♪ 680 00:40:41,247 --> 00:40:43,024 Hey, what's up? 681 00:40:43,024 --> 00:40:44,174 What's up? 682 00:40:44,174 --> 00:40:45,554 What you doin professor? 683 00:40:45,619 --> 00:40:48,808 I'm coming up with a new show so hot coals, up moles, funky 684 00:40:49,238 --> 00:40:49,958 My! 685 00:40:50,068 --> 00:40:52,048 You're bringing some good stuff, alright. 686 00:40:52,048 --> 00:40:53,048 Where y'all going? 687 00:40:53,048 --> 00:40:54,759 Chill it man, we were just talking 688 00:40:54,759 --> 00:40:57,533 - Yeah, man, we can't go without you. - No way. 689 00:40:57,810 --> 00:41:00,162 - You know it - Thought you might know something 690 00:41:00,253 --> 00:41:02,029 - Yeah, man. - What'u got this time? 691 00:41:02,108 --> 00:41:10,150 [rappers talking and laughing] 692 00:41:12,285 --> 00:41:13,005 Yeah... 693 00:41:13,005 --> 00:41:14,457 Dancing baby, can you dance? 694 00:41:14,457 --> 00:41:15,589 How good can you dance? 695 00:41:15,589 --> 00:41:17,496 I can dance better than you can rhyme... 696 00:41:17,496 --> 00:41:20,013 - Ah, stop that brashness Keith - You know that man! 697 00:41:20,013 --> 00:41:23,154 ♪ I'm always Poppin', sockin', rockin' puttin' a side the hip-hop ♪ 698 00:41:23,154 --> 00:41:25,507 ♪ while the other MCs all stare... ♪ 699 00:41:25,517 --> 00:41:27,717 ♪ Cos where I'm goin' there ain't no stoppin' ♪ 700 00:41:27,717 --> 00:41:28,953 Let's see what you can do. 701 00:41:28,953 --> 00:41:30,336 - What can you do? - I'm good. 702 00:41:30,336 --> 00:41:32,651 [rappers laughing] 703 00:41:32,651 --> 00:41:34,152 Like that man, like that! 704 00:41:34,152 --> 00:41:34,902 Yeah, show 'em. 705 00:41:35,352 --> 00:41:36,152 Ha ha ha 706 00:41:36,152 --> 00:41:38,731 Can do stuff man, show 'em, let's see what you got man 707 00:41:38,731 --> 00:41:40,281 They say you're flat, show 'em 708 00:41:40,281 --> 00:41:42,101 Man, by the way, what's her name? 709 00:41:42,101 --> 00:41:44,560 ♪ Hey her name is Pow-wow with all the know how ♪ 710 00:41:44,560 --> 00:41:46,770 ♪ who could rock it right here & sock it now ♪ 711 00:41:46,770 --> 00:41:51,040 ♪ bcos I'm the one shook up but all the party people will work their while ♪ 712 00:41:51,040 --> 00:41:53,280 ♪ Well introduce to me to G.L.O.B.E ♪ 713 00:41:53,280 --> 00:41:55,380 ♪ I got the funky harmony as you can see ♪ 714 00:41:55,380 --> 00:41:58,038 ♪ My rhymes are so sweet for little boy Keith ♪ 715 00:41:58,038 --> 00:42:00,148 ♪ So get little Keith to show up with me ♪ 716 00:42:00,148 --> 00:42:03,008 ♪ Just dance little Keith, dance little Keith, dance... ♪ 717 00:42:03,008 --> 00:42:06,268 Man that was back in the old days though, beat-boy and all that stuff 718 00:42:06,268 --> 00:42:07,648 Know what it's all about now? 719 00:42:07,648 --> 00:42:09,797 ♪ Callers talkin about puttin' aside hip-hop ♪ 720 00:42:09,797 --> 00:42:12,150 ♪ Cos where we're going, there ain't no stoppin ♪ 721 00:42:12,150 --> 00:42:14,370 ♪ Now the style we use can hardly be measured ♪ 722 00:42:14,370 --> 00:42:16,893 ♪ We're doin' it for the people surely is a pleasure ♪ 723 00:42:16,893 --> 00:42:19,245 ♪ Can rock away the sound of the stormy weather ♪ 724 00:42:19,245 --> 00:42:21,451 ♪ We're 3 for all, that means we are together ♪ 725 00:42:21,451 --> 00:42:23,601 ♪ We're just too clever & never in our lives ♪ 726 00:42:23,601 --> 00:42:28,257 ♪ will we hear a rhyme good enough for us to bite. So listen as we recite ♪ 727 00:42:28,257 --> 00:42:30,526 ♪ It's Mr. Biggs, MC Pow Wow, and Globe ♪ 728 00:42:30,526 --> 00:42:33,294 ♪ We're just rockin' it up Yeah, what else is so worthy ♪ 729 00:42:33,294 --> 00:42:36,986 ♪ till you can't believe who are musical and all the mikes we are so magical ♪ 730 00:42:36,986 --> 00:42:39,916 ♪ We're playin' tricks on your mind steppin' it back & forth ♪ 731 00:42:39,916 --> 00:42:42,226 ♪ We're tellin' you to run when you should walk ♪ 732 00:42:42,226 --> 00:42:44,508 ♪ You know our style is incredible ♪ 733 00:42:44,508 --> 00:42:46,755 ♪ This some people consider a miracle ♪ 734 00:42:46,755 --> 00:42:50,181 ♪ It's a rap, a clap on its way to the top That's the peak of the chart ♪ 735 00:42:50,181 --> 00:42:51,515 ♪ We'll beat the MCs but ♪ 736 00:42:51,515 --> 00:42:54,835 ♪ we're 3 and can perceive high potential with the MC style ♪ 737 00:42:54,835 --> 00:42:57,095 ♪ I'll know when you're trying hard to compete ♪ 738 00:42:57,095 --> 00:43:00,381 ♪ You're making the same mistake jumping off the pace that we create ♪ 739 00:43:00,381 --> 00:43:04,954 ♪ Get on it Soulsonic coz we're the boss and we've got the force, the backup, ♪ 740 00:43:04,954 --> 00:43:09,356 ♪ the melody, the harmony and we're 3 MCs and most definitely this is an MC tree ♪ 741 00:43:09,356 --> 00:43:11,936 ♪ So people get out there, gather round ♪ 742 00:43:11,936 --> 00:43:13,956 ♪ Check out what we three MCs have found ♪ 743 00:43:13,956 --> 00:43:16,297 ♪ A thing in the future yet here in the present ♪ 744 00:43:16,297 --> 00:43:18,677 ♪ not sour but sweet, nice, cozy & pleasant ♪ 745 00:43:18,677 --> 00:43:19,773 ♪ Now lets all party. ♪ 746 00:43:19,963 --> 00:43:23,291 ♪ It's a chance to dance with the rhythm of the African man ♪ 747 00:43:23,731 --> 00:43:25,515 How do you like that? 748 00:43:26,726 --> 00:43:43,805 [hip hop music] 749 00:43:43,805 --> 00:43:45,978 (Narrator) "He was looking for a perfect beat 750 00:43:45,979 --> 00:43:47,979 It had to match what he felt in the street 751 00:43:48,348 --> 00:43:52,348 Arthur Baker and Bam produced the sound that zulus the Nation's feet" 752 00:43:52,659 --> 00:43:56,179 [Hip-hop music] 753 00:43:56,179 --> 00:43:58,080 1-2-3 ["Renegades of Funk"] 754 00:43:58,080 --> 00:44:01,655 ♪ Since the Pre-historic ages and the days of ancient Greece ♪ 755 00:44:01,867 --> 00:44:05,924 ♪ All down through the Middle Ages Planet Earth kept going through changes ♪ 756 00:44:05,924 --> 00:44:10,160 ♪And then the Renaissance came Times continued to change ♪ 757 00:44:10,262 --> 00:44:13,752 ♪ Nothing stayed the same, but there were always renegades ♪ 758 00:44:13,752 --> 00:44:16,172 ♪ Like Chief Sitting Bull, Tom Paine ♪ 759 00:44:16,172 --> 00:44:18,318 ♪ Dr. Martin Luther King, Hannibal ♪ 760 00:44:18,382 --> 00:44:19,529 ♪ Marco Polo ♪ 761 00:44:19,529 --> 00:44:21,409 ♪ Like Hagar the horrible ♪ 762 00:44:21,450 --> 00:44:23,170 ♪ Malcolm X They were renegades ♪ 763 00:44:23,170 --> 00:44:25,518 ♪ Yes the renegades of their time and age ♪ 764 00:44:25,518 --> 00:44:28,060 ♪ So many renegades What's that ♪ [clapping] 765 00:44:28,060 --> 00:44:29,598 ♪ Now hand clap ♪ [clapping] 766 00:44:29,598 --> 00:44:30,508 ♪ The renegades ♪ 767 00:44:30,870 --> 00:44:31,577 Excellent! 768 00:44:31,577 --> 00:44:33,137 Shoulda punched in the word LIKE 769 00:44:33,137 --> 00:44:35,052 So you all go "LIKE" real strong 770 00:44:35,522 --> 00:44:36,652 - Alright - Go on! 771 00:44:37,253 --> 00:44:37,963 ♪ LIKE ♪ 772 00:44:38,510 --> 00:44:40,217 ♪ In the electronic chants ♪ 773 00:44:40,217 --> 00:44:42,177 ♪ Like - 1 2 3 ♪ 774 00:44:42,274 --> 00:44:44,114 Like - Yeah [beats] 775 00:44:44,280 --> 00:44:46,260 Like! [beats] 776 00:44:46,299 --> 00:44:48,259 Like! [beats] 777 00:44:48,389 --> 00:44:49,699 Like! [beats] 778 00:44:49,770 --> 00:44:53,500 ♪ Now renegades are the people with their own philosophy ♪ 779 00:44:53,642 --> 00:44:55,412 ♪ They change the course of history ♪ 780 00:44:55,686 --> 00:44:57,896 ♪ Everyday people like you and me, you know! ♪ 781 00:44:57,896 --> 00:45:00,509 That isn't really right. What the hell is going on here? 782 00:45:00,509 --> 00:45:02,073 Come on tell me something 783 00:45:02,073 --> 00:45:05,833 ♪ Now renegades are the people with their own philosophy ♪ 784 00:45:05,833 --> 00:45:07,678 ♪ They changed the course of history ♪ 785 00:45:07,678 --> 00:45:08,642 What is wrong? 786 00:45:08,642 --> 00:45:11,732 We ain't coming in on time man... 787 00:45:11,732 --> 00:45:12,532 I can't hear you 788 00:45:12,532 --> 00:45:13,994 - The punching? - No man... 789 00:45:14,457 --> 00:45:17,447 ♪ But come on Mr. Engineer Get it right, get it right! ♪ 790 00:45:17,570 --> 00:45:20,250 ♪ Come on Mr. Engineer Get it right, get it right! ♪ 791 00:45:20,250 --> 00:45:23,306 ♪ Cause if you don't if you don't if you don't and if you don't ♪ 792 00:45:23,316 --> 00:45:26,833 ♪ Renegades are people [laugh] with their own philosophy ♪ 793 00:45:26,840 --> 00:45:28,670 ♪ They changed the course of history ♪ 794 00:45:28,868 --> 00:45:30,584 ♪ Everyday people like you and me ♪ 795 00:45:30,735 --> 00:45:32,535 ♪ And the days of ancient Greece ♪ 796 00:45:32,636 --> 00:45:34,656 ♪ All down through the Middle Ages ♪ 797 00:45:34,664 --> 00:45:36,672 ♪ Planet Earth kept going through changes ♪ 798 00:45:36,756 --> 00:45:39,360 ♪ And then the Renaissance came ♪ 799 00:45:39,256 --> 00:45:41,346 ♪ Times continued to change ♪ 800 00:45:41,346 --> 00:45:42,966 ♪ Nothing stayed the same ♪ 801 00:45:42,966 --> 00:45:44,776 ♪ There were always renegades ♪ 802 00:45:44,776 --> 00:45:47,126 ♪ Like Chief Sitting Bull, Tom Paine ♪ 803 00:45:47,126 --> 00:45:49,323 ♪ Dr. Martin Luther King, Hannibal ♪ 804 00:45:49,323 --> 00:45:50,323 ♪ Marco Polo ♪ 805 00:45:50,923 --> 00:45:52,253 ♪ Hagar the Horrible! ♪ 806 00:45:52,515 --> 00:45:54,105 ♪ Malcolm X They were renegades ♪ 807 00:45:54,105 --> 00:45:56,257 ♪ Yes the renegades Of their time and age ♪ 808 00:45:56,257 --> 00:45:57,257 ♪ So many renegades ♪ 809 00:45:57,257 --> 00:45:59,270 (Narrator) "Years ago it was up on the roof 810 00:45:59,270 --> 00:46:01,880 where Duo Whoppers sang and drank 100 proof. 811 00:46:01,880 --> 00:46:04,599 Today Bam and Biggs are a part of the force 812 00:46:04,601 --> 00:46:07,341 that rules and overlooks the Bronx Concourse." 813 00:46:07,387 --> 00:46:10,157 Near here in the Bronx, the Savage Skulls, 814 00:46:10,208 --> 00:46:13,280 further down by Stephens Avenue the Ghetto Brothers, 815 00:46:13,280 --> 00:46:15,978 Black pearls - those boys man... but that was alright. 816 00:46:15,978 --> 00:46:19,138 They're still there man, probably still doing the same old man... 817 00:46:19,138 --> 00:46:20,508 Probably crazy stuff... 818 00:46:20,508 --> 00:46:25,268 And our whole kingdom Black Spade area savage space... 819 00:46:25,268 --> 00:46:28,504 - Nobody come missing space area - That was the good thing about it 820 00:46:28,504 --> 00:46:31,515 We used to always go to jail and nobody ever come over here 821 00:46:31,515 --> 00:46:34,165 especially in Bronx river, the home of gods... 822 00:46:34,269 --> 00:46:37,189 Everybody messing with little Vietnam 823 00:46:37,189 --> 00:46:41,640 with all the Black Spades and Reapers was fun, empowered. 824 00:46:42,197 --> 00:46:43,587 Then Immortals... 825 00:46:43,587 --> 00:46:45,647 Look how different Monroe looked though man 826 00:46:45,647 --> 00:46:47,237 That school used to be all grassy 827 00:46:47,237 --> 00:46:49,767 Now it's all a dust bowl 828 00:46:50,267 --> 00:46:52,257 Yeah it looks wild now, critical... 829 00:46:53,264 --> 00:46:56,240 As you get older you get to see the beauty from up here 830 00:46:56,240 --> 00:46:59,890 You can see that your town Bronx is definitely number one 831 00:46:59,890 --> 00:47:01,044 Number one... 832 00:47:01,044 --> 00:47:04,494 Everybody talk about Bronx is black and dirty and stinks... 833 00:47:04,993 --> 00:47:08,280 Looking from here the Bronx is definitely the most beautiful... 834 00:47:08,718 --> 00:47:11,508 There are a lot of Zulu Nation men in Monroe now... 835 00:47:11,819 --> 00:47:14,795 Yeah lot of Zulu Nation in Monroe in Stephens Avenue... 836 00:47:14,795 --> 00:47:17,325 And then all these housing development projects... 837 00:47:18,360 --> 00:47:20,780 Soon the Zulu Nation will take over the Bronx 838 00:47:21,242 --> 00:47:22,204 The Bronx! 839 00:47:22,774 --> 00:47:25,614 - Yeah! - It's the Bronx in Monroe! 840 00:47:25,629 --> 00:47:28,479 - Yeah! - Is everybody in the house? 841 00:47:28,732 --> 00:47:29,922 - Yeah! - Amazing! 842 00:47:29,971 --> 00:47:33,280 [Drumbeats and cheering] 843 00:47:33,304 --> 00:47:36,840 Everybody say, say Zulu man, Zulu man! 844 00:47:36,840 --> 00:47:39,240 A way for man to bridge the gap 845 00:47:39,240 --> 00:47:43,497 Say Z-U-L-U Everybody say 846 00:47:43,497 --> 00:47:44,257 Zulu! 847 00:47:44,257 --> 00:47:48,137 Z-U-L-U Everybody say 848 00:47:48,137 --> 00:47:49,137 Zulu! 849 00:47:49,137 --> 00:47:51,002 What's the name of this Nation? 850 00:47:51,002 --> 00:47:52,002 Zulus 851 00:47:52,242 --> 00:47:53,202 Zulus 852 00:47:54,002 --> 00:47:55,522 Who's gonna get on down? 853 00:47:55,757 --> 00:47:57,747 Bambaata Bambaata 854 00:47:57,772 --> 00:47:58,772 One more time! 855 00:47:58,772 --> 00:48:00,742 What's the name of this Nation? 856 00:48:00,742 --> 00:48:01,742 Zulus 857 00:48:01,742 --> 00:48:02,501 Zulus 858 00:48:03,526 --> 00:48:05,216 Who's gonna get on down? 859 00:48:05,499 --> 00:48:07,479 Bambaata Bambaata 860 00:48:07,512 --> 00:48:11,021 Could everybody say Zulu Nation again? 861 00:48:11,047 --> 00:48:12,373 Zulus 862 00:48:12,373 --> 00:48:15,543 Everybody say Zulu Nation again! 863 00:48:15,733 --> 00:48:17,003 Zulus 864 00:48:17,003 --> 00:48:18,733 Everybody say THE 865 00:48:19,243 --> 00:48:20,023 THE! 866 00:48:20,023 --> 00:48:21,483 Say "Cosmic Force" 867 00:48:21,513 --> 00:48:22,604 Cosmic Force! 868 00:48:22,604 --> 00:48:23,630 Everybody say... 869 00:48:23,630 --> 00:48:27,540 (Narrator) "Well that wraps it up for this evening's edition of our musical mission 870 00:48:27,540 --> 00:48:29,900 I'm Gary Bird inside the GBE. 871 00:48:29,900 --> 00:48:32,635 Remember me next time you're looking for the perfect beat. 872 00:48:32,830 --> 00:48:35,575 Until tomorrow night remember you can make it if you try 873 00:48:35,896 --> 00:48:37,876 but keep your head to the sky." 874 00:48:38,139 --> 00:48:42,157 ♪ No matter how hard you try you can't stop us now ♪ 875 00:48:42,399 --> 00:48:45,559 [music and clapping] 876 00:48:46,121 --> 00:48:50,170 ♪ No matter how hard you try you can't stop us now ♪ 877 00:48:50,413 --> 00:48:58,861 ["Renegades of Funk" playing] 878 00:48:58,881 --> 00:49:00,751 ♪ Renegades of this atomic age ♪ 879 00:49:00,753 --> 00:49:02,733 [beats] 880 00:49:02,736 --> 00:49:04,476 ♪ This atomic age for renegades ♪ 881 00:49:04,491 --> 00:49:06,751 [beats] 882 00:49:06,846 --> 00:49:08,849 ♪ Renegades of this atomic age ♪ 883 00:49:08,882 --> 00:49:10,482 [beats] 884 00:49:10,535 --> 00:49:12,981 ♪ This atomic age for renegades ♪ 885 00:49:13,038 --> 00:49:18,728 [music, beats] 886 00:49:18,756 --> 00:49:22,021 ♪ Pre-historic ages and the days of ancient Greece ♪ 887 00:49:22,141 --> 00:49:24,201 ♪ All down through the Middle Ages ♪ 888 00:49:24,201 --> 00:49:26,261 ♪ Planet Earth kept going through changes ♪ 889 00:49:26,261 --> 00:49:30,604 ♪ Then the Renaissance came Times continued to change ♪ 890 00:49:30,604 --> 00:49:34,100 ♪ Nothing stayed the same, but there were always renegades ♪ 891 00:49:34,100 --> 00:49:36,334 ♪ Like Chief Sitting Bull, Tom Paine ♪ 892 00:49:36,334 --> 00:49:38,274 ♪ Dr. Martin Luther King, Malcolm X ♪ 893 00:49:38,274 --> 00:49:40,183 ♪ They were renegades Yes the renegades ♪ 894 00:49:40,183 --> 00:49:41,513 ♪ Of their time and age ♪ 895 00:49:41,513 --> 00:49:43,053 ♪ So many renegades What's that ♪ 896 00:49:43,076 --> 00:49:44,076 [beats] 897 00:49:44,099 --> 00:49:46,549 ♪ It's a hand clap, the renegade ♪ 898 00:49:46,620 --> 00:50:02,170 [music and beats] 899 00:50:02,251 --> 00:50:05,951 ♪ From a different solar system, many many galaxies away ♪ 900 00:50:06,130 --> 00:50:10,055 ♪ We are the force of another creation A new musical revelation ♪ 901 00:50:10,144 --> 00:50:14,144 ♪ And we're on this musical mission to help the others listen ♪ 902 00:50:14,144 --> 00:50:18,114 ♪ And groove from land to land singin' electronic chants ♪ 903 00:50:18,114 --> 00:50:19,984 ♪ - Like - Astrology ♪ 904 00:50:19,984 --> 00:50:21,369 ♪ - Like - Technology ♪ 905 00:50:21,908 --> 00:50:23,204 ♪ Like - God's Creation ♪ 906 00:50:24,074 --> 00:50:25,434 ♪ - Like - The Zulu station ♪ 907 00:50:25,893 --> 00:50:27,433 ♪ - Like - To the nation ♪ 908 00:50:27,860 --> 00:50:29,471 ♪ - Like - Destroy all nations ♪ 909 00:50:29,909 --> 00:50:31,509 ♪ - Like - Militants ♪ 910 00:50:32,105 --> 00:50:33,925 ♪ Like - Down in sand ♪ 911 00:50:33,925 --> 00:50:34,633 ♪ Like ♪ 912 00:50:34,633 --> 00:50:37,148 ♪ Through changes, nothing stays the same ♪ 913 00:50:37,748 --> 00:50:38,572 ♪ Oh renegades ♪ 914 00:50:38,572 --> 00:50:40,560 ♪ Way-o way-o way-o waya abanga ♪ 915 00:50:40,591 --> 00:50:46,181 ♪ Way-o way-o way-o way-a way-a way-a... ♪ 916 00:50:46,562 --> 00:50:48,662 ♪ Way-o way-o way-o waya abanga ♪ 917 00:50:48,662 --> 00:50:53,235 ♪ Way-o way-o way-o way-a way-a way-a... ♪ 918 00:50:53,483 --> 00:50:54,655 ♪ I got some more ♪ 919 00:50:54,775 --> 00:51:14,193 [music, beats and clapping ] 920 00:51:14,257 --> 00:51:17,997 ♪ Now renegades are people with their own philosophy ♪ 921 00:51:17,997 --> 00:51:20,087 ♪ They change the course of history ♪ 922 00:51:20,087 --> 00:51:21,763 ♪ Everyday people like you and me ♪ 923 00:51:21,763 --> 00:51:24,083 ♪ You know they have own their secret notions ♪ 924 00:51:24,376 --> 00:51:26,096 ♪ And time is endless motion ♪ 925 00:51:26,365 --> 00:51:29,805 ♪ All people of the moderate ages here in this twentieth century ♪ 926 00:51:29,805 --> 00:51:32,545 ♪ You have to keep up in time with the moderate time ♪ 927 00:51:32,545 --> 00:51:34,449 ♪ A state of mind and a sense of pride ♪ 928 00:51:34,449 --> 00:51:36,129 ♪ A renegade, yes a renegade ♪ 929 00:51:36,129 --> 00:51:38,259 ♪ Of this time and age So many renegades ♪ 930 00:51:38,259 --> 00:51:40,169 ♪ Who's that ♪ 931 00:51:40,169 --> 00:51:41,339 ♪ Now hand clap ♪ 932 00:51:41,730 --> 00:51:42,850 ♪ The renegades ♪ 933 00:51:42,924 --> 00:52:08,100 [music] 934 00:52:08,368 --> 00:52:09,866 ♪ We're the renegades of funk ♪ 935 00:52:10,268 --> 00:52:11,943 ♪ We're the renegades of funk ♪ 936 00:52:12,372 --> 00:52:13,898 ♪ We're the renegades of funk ♪ 937 00:52:14,306 --> 00:52:16,026 ♪ We're the renegades of funk ♪ 938 00:52:16,026 --> 00:52:18,326 ♪ Poppin sockin rockin with a side of hip-hop ♪ 939 00:52:18,326 --> 00:52:20,467 ♪ Where we're goin' there ain't no stoppin' ♪ 940 00:52:20,467 --> 00:52:22,568 ♪ Poppin sockin rockin with a side of hip-hop 941 00:52:22,568 --> 00:52:24,477 Where we're goin' there ain't no stoppin' 942 00:52:24,477 --> 00:52:26,498 Poppin sockin rockin with a side of hip-hop 943 00:52:26,498 --> 00:52:28,598 Cos where we're goin' there ain't no stoppin' 944 00:52:28,598 --> 00:52:30,608 Poppin sockin rockin with a side of hip-hop 945 00:52:30,608 --> 00:52:32,815 Cos where we're goin' there ain't no stoppin' ♪ 946 00:52:32,845 --> 00:52:36,335 [music, beats] 947 00:52:36,492 --> 00:52:40,097 ♪ There was a time when our music Was something called the Bay Street beat ♪ 948 00:52:40,097 --> 00:52:42,067 ♪ People would gather from all around ♪ 949 00:52:42,067 --> 00:52:44,097 ♪ To get down on the Bay sound ♪ 950 00:52:44,097 --> 00:52:46,094 ♪ You had to be a renegade those days ♪ 951 00:52:46,094 --> 00:52:48,334 ♪ To take a man on the dance floor ♪ 952 00:52:48,334 --> 00:52:51,924 ♪ Like Afrika Bambattaa and the Soulsonic Force ♪ 953 00:52:51,924 --> 00:52:56,264 ♪ We're talking about Mr.B Pow Wow, G-L-O-B-E ♪ 954 00:52:56,264 --> 00:52:59,374 ♪ Was a renegade, yes, a renegade of this time and age ♪ 955 00:52:59,374 --> 00:53:01,124 ♪ So many renegades What's that ♪ 956 00:53:02,045 --> 00:53:03,195 ♪ It's a hand clap ♪ 957 00:53:03,693 --> 00:53:04,493 ♪ The renegade ♪ 958 00:53:04,496 --> 00:53:12,266 [music] 959 00:53:12,266 --> 00:53:14,515 ♪ - Just jam sucker - Jam sucker ♪ 960 00:53:14,515 --> 00:53:16,253 ♪ - Say jam sucker - Jam sucker ♪ 961 00:53:16,253 --> 00:53:18,313 ♪ - Say groove, sucker - Groove, sucker ♪ 962 00:53:18,313 --> 00:53:20,263 ♪ - Say groove, sucker - Groove, sucker ♪ 963 00:53:20,263 --> 00:53:22,373 ♪ - Say dance, sucker - Dance, sucker ♪ 964 00:53:22,373 --> 00:53:24,263 ♪ - Say dance, sucker - Dance, sucker ♪ 965 00:53:24,263 --> 00:53:26,233 ♪ - Now move, sucker - Move, sucker ♪ 966 00:53:26,233 --> 00:53:28,493 ♪ - Now move, sucker - Move, sucker ♪ 967 00:53:28,493 --> 00:53:31,733 [music] 968 00:53:31,733 --> 00:53:32,433 Everybody say 969 00:53:32,433 --> 00:53:34,543 ♪ We're the renegades of funk ♪ 970 00:53:34,634 --> 00:53:36,224 ♪ We're the renegades of funk ♪ 971 00:53:36,238 --> 00:53:38,078 ♪ We're the renegades of funk ♪ 972 00:53:38,248 --> 00:53:40,128 ♪ We're the renegades of funk ♪ 973 00:53:40,248 --> 00:53:41,778 ♪ We're the renegades of funk ♪ 974 00:53:42,238 --> 00:53:44,048 ♪ We're the renegades of funk ♪ 975 00:53:44,474 --> 00:53:45,970 ♪ We're the renegades of funk ♪ 976 00:53:46,484 --> 00:53:48,104 ♪ We're the renegades of funk ♪ 977 00:53:48,180 --> 00:53:52,089 [music] ♪ Yeah you better shake that fellas ♪ 978 00:53:52,256 --> 00:53:53,446 ♪ Shake that thing ♪ 979 00:53:53,504 --> 00:53:55,964 ♪ That makes me swing ♪ 980 00:53:55,964 --> 00:53:57,108 ♪ I got some great ♪ 981 00:53:57,108 --> 00:53:58,438 ♪ He's a renegade of funk ♪ 982 00:53:58,438 --> 00:54:00,209 ♪ Mr. Biggs He's a renegade of funk ♪ 983 00:54:00,249 --> 00:54:02,019 ♪ Bambaataa He's a renegade of funk ♪ 984 00:54:02,255 --> 00:54:03,991 ♪ Pow Wow He's a renegade of funk ♪ 985 00:54:04,269 --> 00:54:05,919 ♪ And MC Globe ♪