WEBVTT 00:00:00.772 --> 00:00:04.772 [police sirens] 00:00:04.998 --> 00:00:17.584 ["Renegades of Funk" by Afrika Bambaataa & Soulsonic Force] 00:00:17.767 --> 00:00:21.767 ♪ From a different solar system many, many galaxies away ♪ 00:00:21.767 --> 00:00:23.717 ♪ We are the force of another creation ♪ 00:00:23.717 --> 00:00:25.787 ♪ A new musical revelation ♪ 00:00:26.057 --> 00:00:28.347 ♪ And we're on this musical message ♪ 00:00:28.417 --> 00:00:30.247 ♪ To help the others listen ♪ 00:00:30.540 --> 00:00:32.550 ♪ Improve momentum and ♪ 00:00:32.630 --> 00:00:34.480 ♪ seek the electronic chance ♪ 00:00:34.540 --> 00:00:35.640 ♪ - Like - Astrology ♪ 00:00:36.576 --> 00:00:38.306 ♪ - Like - Technology ♪ 00:00:38.527 --> 00:00:40.567 ♪ - Like - God's Creation ♪ 00:00:40.625 --> 00:00:42.695 ♪ - Like - The Zulu station ♪ 00:00:42.751 --> 00:00:44.781 ♪ - Like - To the nation ♪ 00:00:44.930 --> 00:00:47.020 ♪ - Like - Destroy all nations ♪ 00:00:47.065 --> 00:00:49.155 ♪ - Like - Militants ♪ 00:00:49.193 --> 00:00:51.233 ♪ - Like - Down in sand ♪ 00:00:51.236 --> 00:00:52.731 ♪ - Like! - Through changes, ♪ 00:00:52.731 --> 00:00:54.741 ♪ nothing stays the same ♪ 00:00:55.087 --> 00:00:55.977 ♪ Oh renegades ♪ 00:00:55.977 --> 00:00:58.050 ♪ Way-o way-o way-o waya abanga ♪ 00:00:58.050 --> 00:01:02.851 ♪ Way-o way-o way-o way-a way-a way-a... ♪ 00:01:04.493 --> 00:01:06.493 ♪ Way-o way-o way-o waya abanga ♪ 00:01:06.493 --> 00:01:10.530 ♪ Way-o way-o way-o way-a way-a way-a... ♪ 00:01:11.490 --> 00:01:13.250 ♪ I got some more. ♪ 00:01:13.250 --> 00:01:16.920 (Narrator) "The Renegades of Funk - Afrika Bambaataa and the Soulsonic Force. 00:01:16.921 --> 00:01:20.401 Well, good evening and welcome to another GBE—a Gary Bird experience— 00:01:20.535 --> 00:01:22.895 as the funky forces of the universe come together 00:01:23.178 --> 00:01:26.024 for us to bring another set of Big Apple jams your way. 00:01:26.024 --> 00:01:29.575 In a few minutes my engineer Jonathan E at Master Control and I gonna go 00:01:29.575 --> 00:01:32.315 looking for something perfect, the perfect beat for you, 00:01:32.315 --> 00:01:35.655 especially if you are up at Planet Rock, The Bronx, or the Zulu Nation, 00:01:35.851 --> 00:01:37.381 as in dance formation tonight. 00:01:37.673 --> 00:01:41.673 Speaking of dance, have you heard about he WLIB breakdance contest? 00:01:42.752 --> 00:01:45.402 You have a chance to win a trip to the mother country; 00:01:45.672 --> 00:01:49.096 the place that sent Afrika Bambaataa into a galaxy far, far away. 00:01:49.316 --> 00:01:51.006 Who knows? You could be on your way 00:01:51.006 --> 00:01:53.476 into the land of the pyramids, checking it all out." 00:01:53.956 --> 00:02:31.908 ["Planet Rock - Instrumental" by Afrika Bambaataa & Soulsonic Force] 00:02:32.014 --> 00:02:35.264 [robotic voice] Rock, rock to Planet Rock, don't stop 00:02:35.798 --> 00:02:38.918 [robotic voice] Rock, rock to Planet Rock, don't stop 00:02:39.025 --> 00:03:14.391 ["Planet Rock" music continues] 00:03:14.532 --> 00:03:18.976 [robotic voices] 00:03:18.976 --> 00:03:20.618 ["Planet Rock" music continues] 00:03:20.618 --> 00:03:22.333 What if we to just settle down here? 00:03:22.333 --> 00:03:25.259 Well it's a little old-fashioned [voice fades] 00:03:25.259 --> 00:03:59.170 ["Planet Rock" music continues] 00:03:59.440 --> 00:04:02.760 (Narrator's voice fades in) "...planets, especially Venus and Jupiter, 00:04:02.760 --> 00:04:05.520 can be seen in the sky not long after sunset. 00:04:07.526 --> 00:04:09.648 With the glow of twilight still lingering, 00:04:12.941 --> 00:04:16.941 and a dash of near-sightedness, and some good old human imagination, 00:04:17.322 --> 00:04:21.898 and some well-intentioned people will even claim 'it's shooting off sparks, 00:04:22.505 --> 00:04:26.505 it's as big as a basketball, it has landing lights', and so on. 00:04:28.167 --> 00:04:29.077 Hard to believe? 00:04:29.532 --> 00:04:32.232 Well, the most frequently reported UFOs on record 00:04:32.232 --> 00:04:34.136 are the planets Venus and Jupiter - 00:04:34.982 --> 00:04:39.950 IFOs, once you know a little about the autokinetic illusion and the night sky. 00:04:44.461 --> 00:04:49.841 July 24, 1948. An Eastern Airlines flight is en route 00:04:49.841 --> 00:04:55.867 from Houston to Atlanta, when suddenly... [otherworldly electronic noise] 00:04:55.867 --> 00:04:59.747 The flight crew, all intelligent, trained observers, reported the—" 00:04:59.747 --> 00:05:17.652 [strange beeps and sounds] 00:05:17.692 --> 00:05:26.672 [banging on timpani] 00:05:29.022 --> 00:05:32.522 (robotic voice) "I am the funk overlord. 00:05:33.671 --> 00:05:37.351 I have come to take control of your flight. 00:05:38.742 --> 00:05:42.802 Who controls the present, controls the past. 00:05:43.800 --> 00:05:48.520 Who controls the past, controls the future. 00:05:48.745 --> 00:05:49.908 Funk!" 00:05:53.311 --> 00:06:10.248 [music from Bambaataa's "Looking for the Perfect Beat"] 00:06:10.248 --> 00:06:12.273 (Narrator) "So this is how Bam sends 'em 00:06:12.273 --> 00:06:15.257 to the street, hip hoppin', lookin' for the perfect beat." 00:06:15.279 --> 00:06:27.801 [music from Bambaataa's Looking for the Perfect Beat] 00:06:27.801 --> 00:06:32.201 Rappin', scratchin', breakin', shakin', the success of hip hop is in the making. NOTE Paragraph 00:06:32.246 --> 00:06:36.196 [music from Bambaataa's Looking for the Perfect Beat] 00:06:36.221 --> 00:06:39.891 (Narrator) "On TV and on radio, you hear and see it, wherever you go." 00:06:39.951 --> 00:06:45.201 [music from Bambaataa's Looking for the Perfect Beat] 00:06:45.252 --> 00:06:49.502 (Narrator) "Graffiti began on the walls, and now it's sold in stores and malls." 00:06:49.502 --> 00:06:51.508 ["Looking for the Perfect Beat" music] 00:06:51.508 --> 00:06:54.364 ♪ Want to want to do-do do-do-do-do do-do ♪ 00:06:54.364 --> 00:06:57.738 ♪ Do-do-do do do-do-do-do do do-do-do-do do ♪ 00:06:57.738 --> 00:07:04.826 ["Looking for the Perfect Beat" music] 00:07:04.914 --> 00:07:08.574 (Narrator) " From uptown to Fifth Avenue, the journey took a heck of a crew, 00:07:08.574 --> 00:07:10.508 from a neighborhood and a street scene 00:07:10.508 --> 00:07:12.768 all around the world to the silver screen." 00:07:12.768 --> 00:07:15.492 ["The Hitler Rap"] ♪ Well, hi there people, you know me ♪ 00:07:15.492 --> 00:07:17.895 ♪ I used to run a little joint called Germany ♪ 00:07:17.895 --> 00:07:20.358 ♪ I was number one The people's choice ♪ 00:07:20.358 --> 00:07:22.508 ♪ And everybody listened to my mighty voice ♪ 00:07:22.508 --> 00:07:24.418 ♪ My name is Adolf, I'm on the mic ♪ 00:07:24.418 --> 00:07:26.966 ♪ Gonna hip you to the story of the New Third Reich ♪ 00:07:26.966 --> 00:07:29.676 ♪ It all began down in Munich town & pretty soon ♪ 00:07:29.676 --> 00:07:31.266 ♪ Word started gettin' around ♪ 00:07:31.266 --> 00:07:33.566 ♪ I said to Martin Boorman, I said "Hey Marty, ♪ 00:07:33.611 --> 00:07:35.711 ♪ Why don't we throw a little Nazi party?" ♪ 00:07:35.711 --> 00:07:37.760 ♪ So we had an election, well, kinda sorta ♪ 00:07:37.760 --> 00:07:40.153 ♪ And before you knew it, hello new order! ♪ 00:07:40.153 --> 00:07:42.156 ♪ To all those mothers in the Fatherland ♪ 00:07:42.156 --> 00:07:44.496 ♪ I said "Achtung baby! I got me a plan." ♪ 00:07:44.496 --> 00:07:46.496 ♪ "Whatcha got, Adolf? Whatcha gonna do?" ♪ 00:07:46.496 --> 00:07:49.086 ♪ I said "How about this one? World War Two." ♪ 00:07:49.503 --> 00:07:50.688 ♪ To be or not be ♪ 00:07:51.515 --> 00:07:52.271 ♪ Oh baby— ♪ 00:07:52.272 --> 00:07:58.912 [music fades, record scratching] 00:07:58.951 --> 00:08:01.141 All that scratchin' is makin' me itch! 00:08:01.179 --> 00:08:23.616 [mixed-up music] 00:08:23.616 --> 00:08:26.373 ♪ Duck Duck Duck ♪ ♪ Duck Duck Duck ♪ 00:08:26.373 --> 00:08:28.420 (Narrator) "What once was in the underground 00:08:28.420 --> 00:08:30.570 has now, by elements, been found 00:08:30.570 --> 00:08:34.510 like anywhere you see fresh meat, the culture vultures come to eat. 00:08:36.157 --> 00:08:40.517 Now with hip hop on his lip, Malcolm McLaren begins his trip, 00:08:40.895 --> 00:08:45.005 how he went to the Planet Rock and came back to Britain in future shock, 00:08:45.314 --> 00:08:50.064 cos though he thought punk was the top, he found the groove was in hip hop." 00:08:50.249 --> 00:08:54.284 [hip hop music] 00:08:54.419 --> 00:08:56.653 ♪ Breakdance Breakdance ♪ 00:08:56.653 --> 00:08:58.755 ♪ It's a pretty good job out there Jimmy ♪ 00:08:58.755 --> 00:09:00.735 ♪ We oughta dance and dance differently ♪ 00:09:00.735 --> 00:09:02.274 ♪ So we sing and dance— ♪ 00:09:02.274 --> 00:09:03.864 (Malcolm McLaren) "I was, uh... 00:09:03.864 --> 00:09:05.864 working with a group called Bow Wow Wow. 00:09:06.066 --> 00:09:08.896 I came over there because they were selling some RCA records 00:09:08.896 --> 00:09:12.896 and I was looking to put them on in a hole in Manhattan somewhere, 00:09:12.916 --> 00:09:17.156 but the terrible thing was I was really stuck for a responsible 00:09:17.156 --> 00:09:20.226 and interesting and exciting kind of opening act. 00:09:20.986 --> 00:09:22.926 And nothing was happening in New York. 00:09:22.926 --> 00:09:26.542 Then a friend of mine introduced me to a guy who I met on the street, 00:09:26.542 --> 00:09:29.727 somewhere down 5th Avenue. He told me about an incredible scene 00:09:29.727 --> 00:09:34.689 that was happening not in Manhattan, but out in a suburb known as the South Bronx. 00:09:35.438 --> 00:09:37.894 He said if I liked, I could come on a Saturday night 00:09:37.898 --> 00:09:40.268 to a big party where I would see something 00:09:40.268 --> 00:09:43.004 that couldn't possibly have ever existed in England. 00:09:44.415 --> 00:09:49.395 And, I decided to actually pitch up with him on Saturday night. 00:09:50.032 --> 00:09:51.512 Upon arriving, the party 00:09:51.512 --> 00:09:53.752 —unknown to me, I thought it would be indoors— 00:09:53.752 --> 00:09:57.259 was actually out in the open, in a wasteland, 00:09:57.433 --> 00:09:59.783 surrounded by these huge fired out condominiums. 00:10:00.748 --> 00:10:04.678 There, in the midst of it, was about thousand kids and I couldn't believe it. 00:10:04.678 --> 00:10:07.508 I was very, very worried being the only white guy there and 00:10:07.508 --> 00:10:10.870 the cab driver signaled me to put my dollars in my socks. 00:10:10.870 --> 00:10:13.980 [stammers, laughs] Nevertheless, I escorted myself across the road 00:10:13.980 --> 00:10:17.627 with this guy, made my way through the crowd, pushing and shoving 00:10:17.698 --> 00:10:21.418 until I got to the decks where the music was coming from, 00:10:22.640 --> 00:10:26.160 shook hands with this huge fat guy, who later became known to me 00:10:26.160 --> 00:10:28.094 as a guy called Afrika Bambaataa. 00:10:28.661 --> 00:10:31.761 And what I witnessed was a various group of different young kids, 00:10:32.187 --> 00:10:35.877 who were poppin' in and out amongst the decks, messin' about with records. 00:10:36.395 --> 00:10:38.815 What l saw was extraordinary, because the sound 00:10:38.815 --> 00:10:42.215 coming out was totally inarticulate. It was a load of rough noises 00:10:42.215 --> 00:10:47.492 that sounded a little like a guitar, but sort of like a concrete chisel sound. 00:10:47.492 --> 00:10:50.966 And the sound, I realized, was actually coming from the way they were 00:10:50.966 --> 00:10:54.711 messin' with their hands on the decks, movin' records backwards and forwards. 00:10:55.511 --> 00:10:58.208 They weren't just doing it with one record, but with two, 00:10:58.208 --> 00:11:00.398 and they were mixing across one to the other. 00:11:00.899 --> 00:11:03.649 In fact, it was making music out of other people's music." 00:11:03.649 --> 00:11:16.809 [mixed music plays, repeating] 00:11:16.915 --> 00:11:19.495 As time went on and I stuck around for an hour or so, 00:11:19.495 --> 00:11:23.093 the crowd was extremely volatile jumping into pitch battles at times. 00:11:23.362 --> 00:11:26.172 But at one point or another, people would move to the side, 00:11:26.172 --> 00:11:29.632 and a group of kids would start freakin' out in the middle, 00:11:29.635 --> 00:11:32.136 doing all this incredible gymnastic dancing. 00:11:32.183 --> 00:12:06.483 [distorted, choppy music plays over beats] 00:12:06.483 --> 00:12:08.966 (Narrator) "What McLaren saw was called 'hip-hop', 00:12:08.966 --> 00:12:11.056 energy and motion that you could not stop. 00:12:11.404 --> 00:12:15.404 Demanding all of your imagination if you were to share in the celebration. 00:12:15.779 --> 00:12:19.209 It wasn't enough to just be good, you had to be super bad, 00:12:19.278 --> 00:12:20.748 cos when you hit that floor, 00:12:20.748 --> 00:12:23.448 your reputation was just about all you had." 00:12:25.936 --> 00:12:28.756 (McLaren) "I think hip-hop is being in control of your body, 00:12:28.756 --> 00:12:31.244 that's the whole art of it, understanding that 00:12:31.244 --> 00:12:33.953 you're much bigger than you are, a demo of your prowess. 00:12:33.953 --> 00:12:36.373 If you're penniless, the one thing you can do 00:12:36.373 --> 00:12:39.664 on Madison Avenue is spin on your head and show all the white honkies 00:12:39.664 --> 00:12:43.126 moving out of the Chase Manhattan Bank on their lunch time and say, 'Well 00:12:43.383 --> 00:12:47.053 Beat that, and if you can't, here's my cap. Give me a few dollars.' " 00:12:47.214 --> 00:12:52.214 [train moving, faint commotion] 00:12:52.214 --> 00:12:54.628 (Narrator) "But the story of hip-hop doesn't belong 00:12:54.628 --> 00:12:57.148 in New York, LA, or London, that's wrong. 00:12:57.148 --> 00:13:02.064 The true story begins in devastation, bad housing, gang wars, and desperation, 00:13:02.624 --> 00:13:04.994 in the Bronx ghetto, or Planet Rock. 00:13:05.491 --> 00:13:09.662 Let's take a minute - turn back the clock. ["Space Cowboy" by Jonzun Crew] 00:13:09.677 --> 00:13:14.552 To the first hero of the hip hop groove, the man who made the people move. 00:13:14.649 --> 00:13:18.399 ["Space Cowboy" music] 00:13:18.566 --> 00:13:20.656 From Jamaica he came with a sense of rhythm, 00:13:20.949 --> 00:13:23.869 and what he brought to the Bronx was a sound system. 00:13:24.282 --> 00:13:28.032 The music he played made life work, and made him a legend: 00:13:28.136 --> 00:13:29.691 Kool DJ Herc." 00:13:29.909 --> 00:13:31.969 ["Space Cowboy" music] 00:13:32.207 --> 00:13:32.907 ♪ He's bad! ♪ 00:13:32.986 --> 00:13:36.786 ♪ ["Space Cowboy" music] ♪ 00:13:36.925 --> 00:13:37.925 ♪ Space Cowboy ♪ 00:13:38.095 --> 00:13:42.285 ♪ ["Space Cowboy" music] ♪ 00:13:42.425 --> 00:13:45.605 (Herc) "When Kool Herc have a party, everybody be there. 00:13:46.638 --> 00:13:48.532 Lot of people say I'm fun, big fun. 00:13:48.532 --> 00:13:52.694 That was the talk for the whole weekend or the whole summer, 00:13:52.694 --> 00:13:53.759 'Where did you party?' 00:13:53.759 --> 00:13:57.112 'I was partying with Kool Herc, man. Ghetto block party, you know, 00:13:57.405 --> 00:14:00.695 tennis court, disco... a lot of other things, too.' " 00:14:00.792 --> 00:14:05.002 ["Space Cowboy" music] 00:14:05.072 --> 00:14:05.772 ♪ He's bad! ♪ 00:14:06.252 --> 00:14:07.072 ♪ He's mean! ♪ 00:14:07.522 --> 00:14:09.732 ♪ He's a Space Cowboy in the spacey jeans ♪ 00:14:09.732 --> 00:14:10.512 ♪ He's bad! ♪ 00:14:10.512 --> 00:14:13.092 I like to buy my records... right over here. 00:14:14.451 --> 00:14:17.231 But now it's not there no more, called 'Sounds and Things'. 00:14:17.968 --> 00:14:21.219 There used to be a ballroom up there, I used to play, matter of fact, 00:14:21.219 --> 00:14:25.629 I play up there for the transit authority dinner, one time, and... 00:14:25.832 --> 00:14:28.282 Mario Cuomo was there before becoming governor. 00:14:29.381 --> 00:14:30.521 Basically, right here. 00:14:31.370 --> 00:14:32.820 A place called 'Galaxy 2000'. 00:14:32.883 --> 00:14:35.603 ["Space Cowboy" plays in the background] 00:14:35.676 --> 00:14:37.878 (Herc) "They had a big shootout here one time. 00:14:37.988 --> 00:14:39.828 Same time I played at Bronx River. 00:14:39.828 --> 00:14:42.272 I came back, I'd seen the canopy knocked down, 00:14:43.032 --> 00:14:46.317 the fire escape was let down, and I knew something was wrong." 00:14:46.471 --> 00:14:48.254 The Bronx is on the uplift. 00:14:48.321 --> 00:14:50.231 ["Space Cowboy" music] 00:14:50.269 --> 00:14:53.159 A lot of places are being rehabilitated. 00:14:53.225 --> 00:14:56.885 [Traffic sounds and "Space Cowboy" music] 00:14:56.885 --> 00:15:00.368 Well, I think there's still more that could be done - a whole lot. 00:15:00.438 --> 00:15:01.648 ♪ with the laser gun! ♪ 00:15:01.688 --> 00:15:03.969 All those unforgettable promises... 00:15:03.974 --> 00:15:05.259 ♪ Yippey-Yi, Yippey-Yi ♪ 00:15:05.259 --> 00:15:07.755 From the South Bronx when the Carters came over. 00:15:08.485 --> 00:15:09.702 Made out of iron, right? 00:15:09.749 --> 00:15:16.219 ♪ Yay... A Space Cowboy... [beats] Yippey-Yi, Yippey-Yi, Yippey-Yi, Yay ♪ 00:15:16.276 --> 00:15:18.756 Well, I never left the Bronx, and I love the Bronx. 00:15:18.789 --> 00:15:20.624 [music and trafic noise] 00:15:20.683 --> 00:15:22.357 I don't wanna leave. 00:15:22.406 --> 00:15:25.546 [music and trafic noise] 00:15:25.645 --> 00:15:30.055 [upbeat funky music] 00:15:30.055 --> 00:15:32.435 (Narrator) "What Herc did was throw down the sound 00:15:32.435 --> 00:15:35.275 of forgotten heroes, like James Brown, 00:15:35.275 --> 00:15:40.155 and separate the good stuff from the junk, with the emphasis on a lot of funk. 00:15:40.951 --> 00:15:42.781 And in the middle of a funky sound, 00:15:42.834 --> 00:15:45.427 Coke La Rock, his rapper, would go to town. 00:15:45.899 --> 00:15:50.339 The music was hot, very loud, with participation to excite the crowd. 00:15:51.209 --> 00:15:55.689 Then Herc would drop a mighty blast with a golden oldie from music past." 00:15:56.013 --> 00:15:59.183 [sound of the tape spinning while recording] 00:15:59.222 --> 00:16:01.762 Um ... Sedgwick, 1520... 00:16:01.856 --> 00:16:04.406 [sound of the tape spinning while recording] 00:16:04.450 --> 00:16:05.833 over 10 years ago... 00:16:05.896 --> 00:16:09.496 [sound of the tape spinning while recording] 00:16:09.519 --> 00:16:12.473 (Woman) "Ooh, look at that medallion, what happened to that?" 00:16:12.473 --> 00:16:13.843 [sound of the tape spinning] 00:16:13.843 --> 00:16:16.984 Um... It got stolen. That was my badge, like a sheriff. 00:16:17.008 --> 00:16:19.288 [sound of the tape spinning while recording] 00:16:19.313 --> 00:16:20.333 Place was packed. 00:16:20.389 --> 00:16:23.389 [sound of the tape spinning while recording] 00:16:23.389 --> 00:16:25.207 (Woman) "How was it?" 00:16:25.207 --> 00:16:26.734 (Kool Herc) "It was pretty good. 00:16:27.356 --> 00:16:29.523 Everybody showed up, had a good time. 00:16:29.564 --> 00:16:34.634 [sound of the tape spinning while recording] 00:16:34.745 --> 00:16:36.605 Everybody put on their best that day." 00:16:36.725 --> 00:16:44.965 [sound of the tape spinning while recording] 00:16:45.086 --> 00:16:48.196 All of the sudden— I don't know, all of the sudden... 00:16:48.271 --> 00:16:50.721 [sound of the tape spinning while recording] 00:16:50.787 --> 00:16:54.357 Something happened, made it so that we didn't get into the parties no more. 00:16:54.448 --> 00:17:00.468 [sound of the tape spinning while recording] 00:17:00.534 --> 00:17:03.864 [sound fades out] 00:17:03.920 --> 00:17:09.400 I got injured. I got stabbed. Fatally stabbed, now. 00:17:10.770 --> 00:17:13.075 And that just put a hole through the whole thing. 00:17:15.384 --> 00:17:18.268 I walk right into it, and I just... 00:17:18.998 --> 00:17:20.918 I didn't know where the knife came from. 00:17:20.998 --> 00:17:25.568 I just literally walk into it. I was hit four times. 00:17:26.368 --> 00:17:29.478 The last of them pierced my hand, and it went all the way through. 00:17:31.101 --> 00:17:32.501 It shouldn't have happened. 00:17:35.311 --> 00:17:38.071 And that does draw me a show, you know? 00:17:39.935 --> 00:17:43.365 I just stopped. I stopped playing for— I didn't accept a gig, I wasn't— 00:17:43.888 --> 00:17:46.268 I was not out in the public eyes too much. 00:17:46.268 --> 00:17:52.013 ["Space Cowboy" music] 00:17:52.099 --> 00:17:54.389 That was the rise of a lot of DJs. 00:17:55.303 --> 00:17:57.713 Herc wasn't on the scene, this is our chance. 00:17:58.179 --> 00:18:02.229 And a lot of them dashed in and capitalized on it. 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. 00:18:10.243 --> 00:18:13.813 [beats] 00:18:13.910 --> 00:18:17.060 Kool Herc is not a stepping stone, he's a horse that can't be rode, 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. 00:18:23.365 --> 00:18:25.335 It could've been on my obituary - 00:18:25.479 --> 00:18:28.604 that this was the guy who started this, this was what he did." 00:18:28.890 --> 00:18:32.680 [Hip-hop music beats] 00:18:32.680 --> 00:18:34.681 (Narrator) "Though he may be a fallen hero, 00:18:34.681 --> 00:18:37.751 all will forever say that in the history of hip-hop, 00:18:37.976 --> 00:18:39.836 he was its number one DJ." 00:18:41.500 --> 00:18:45.190 You see, Herc had started something that not even his enemies wanted to stop. 00:18:45.511 --> 00:18:49.401 Kool DJ Herc had launched the birth of a movement called hip-hop. 00:18:50.493 --> 00:18:51.493 (Narrator continues) 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, 00:18:55.653 --> 00:18:59.133 the gangs were in the Bronx and they were seriously getting down. 00:18:59.685 --> 00:19:03.645 It was little Vietnam, where even the police watched out for raids, 00:19:04.107 --> 00:19:08.217 and where the baddest of them all was a street gang known as the Black Spades. 00:19:08.837 --> 00:19:12.267 And from them emerged a boy who became the adopted father 00:19:12.599 --> 00:19:16.749 of the hip hop generation, a Zulu, Afrika Bambaataa." 00:19:19.228 --> 00:19:21.508 I got into street gangs, the Black Spades. NOTE Paragraph 00:19:21.574 --> 00:19:24.664 I was in a lot of other groups before I became a Spade. 00:19:24.718 --> 00:19:27.148 P.O.W.E.R, Crowns, Savage Nomads... 00:19:28.695 --> 00:19:29.405 and um, 00:19:29.811 --> 00:19:33.741 but Spades was one of the groups that I really loved a lot. 00:19:33.741 --> 00:19:36.769 There was a lot of unity in the group. [clears throat]. 00:19:36.769 --> 00:19:39.503 It was one of the most hated groups in the whole city 00:19:39.503 --> 00:19:43.218 cause all it was about was um, trouble and stuff and aesthetic. 00:19:43.638 --> 00:19:46.908 But it was one of the most organized Black youth groups. 00:19:47.090 --> 00:19:49.881 As for, if you mess with them, they would mess with you. 00:19:50.261 --> 00:19:56.921 (Bambaata) "Plus in that year, 1975, um, one of the brothas that was close to me, 00:19:56.921 --> 00:20:00.047 that lived with me for about two years, by the name Solsky, 00:20:00.517 --> 00:20:02.751 got shot by the police on Pelham Bay, 00:20:02.751 --> 00:20:05.569 with some other members of the Spades. 00:20:05.569 --> 00:20:09.889 And um, he died and this other member died and one survived." 00:20:09.889 --> 00:20:13.726 [hip hop music plays in background] 00:20:13.726 --> 00:20:16.502 (Narrator) "The violent death of Bam's best friend, 00:20:16.502 --> 00:20:18.562 marked for him the end of the line. 00:20:18.737 --> 00:20:21.192 And he went back to a vision that once had occurred 00:20:21.202 --> 00:20:23.532 inside of his youthful mind. 00:20:23.732 --> 00:20:26.491 A way to fight, yet maintain peace. 00:20:27.122 --> 00:20:28.632 An impossible situation, 00:20:29.373 --> 00:20:31.663 unless you could create something powerful 00:20:32.209 --> 00:20:34.796 like his memory of the Zulu nation." 00:20:34.989 --> 00:21:05.035 [Zulu chants and beats on TV] 00:21:05.545 --> 00:21:07.965 I say violence is necessary. 00:21:08.635 --> 00:21:10.585 Violence is a part of America's culture, 00:21:10.651 --> 00:21:13.095 it is as American as Cherry Pie 00:21:13.159 --> 00:21:16.058 American calls for Black people to be violent. 00:21:16.268 --> 00:21:18.449 We will use that violence to get ourselves up. 00:21:18.449 --> 00:21:22.999 [voice fades to hip hop music] 00:21:23.064 --> 00:21:26.711 (Martin Luther King Jr) "Former slaves and the sons of former slave owners... 00:21:27.909 --> 00:21:32.349 Will they be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood? 00:21:32.517 --> 00:21:33.790 I have a dream... 00:21:34.851 --> 00:21:35.851 One day..." 00:21:38.203 --> 00:21:39.943 (KKK member) "Basically, uh, my goal 00:21:39.943 --> 00:21:42.963 in the clan is to bring about a unification 00:21:42.963 --> 00:21:46.734 of all of the Anglo-saxon, Protestant, American citizens 00:21:46.734 --> 00:21:51.539 into a bond of unity to counter-act the philosophies of the minority and—" 00:21:51.587 --> 00:21:53.880 (Nelson Mandela) "There are many people who feel 00:21:53.880 --> 00:21:55.650 that it is useless and futile 00:21:56.469 --> 00:21:58.849 for us to continue talking peace and non-violence 00:21:59.509 --> 00:22:02.859 against a government whose reply is only 00:22:02.859 --> 00:22:06.575 savage attacks on an unarmed, defenseless people." 00:22:08.925 --> 00:22:26.006 [radio static] [hip-hop music] 00:22:26.006 --> 00:22:30.406 (Malcolm X) "We are not human beings unless we ourselves, band together 00:22:30.616 --> 00:22:34.136 and do whatever, however, whenever, is necessary 00:22:34.136 --> 00:22:36.796 to see that our lives and our property is protected, 00:22:36.796 --> 00:22:40.496 and I doubt that any person in here would refuse to do the same thing, 00:22:40.496 --> 00:22:42.106 were he in the same position. 00:22:42.106 --> 00:22:44.524 Or I should say, were he in the same condition." 00:22:44.524 --> 00:22:49.776 [hip hop music] 00:22:49.826 --> 00:22:52.386 (Narrator) "It was with the vision of the Zulu nation, 00:22:52.386 --> 00:22:55.133 a trip to Africa, and a death situation, 00:22:55.133 --> 00:22:57.626 that produced a man who put on Zulu dress 00:22:58.120 --> 00:23:00.076 and began to transform a violent mix." 00:23:01.056 --> 00:23:16.180 [Malcolm X's, "No Sell Out" echoes in the background] 00:23:16.298 --> 00:23:18.420 (Narrator) "Bambaataa was always a music man, 00:23:18.570 --> 00:23:20.870 a record collector who was a DJ jammed. 00:23:21.289 --> 00:23:25.399 Now he saw a new idea to use stand and prow in his career, 00:23:25.759 --> 00:23:28.119 to put the Bronx in a music trance 00:23:28.235 --> 00:23:30.755 and move from violence to Zulu dance..." 00:23:30.866 --> 00:23:37.900 [hip-hop music] 00:23:38.137 --> 00:23:40.027 (Narrator) "And so it became hip to hop 00:23:40.027 --> 00:23:42.487 in the land known as Planet Rock, 00:23:42.748 --> 00:23:45.228 where gangs used to fight in the street every day, 00:23:45.356 --> 00:23:47.766 now they began to compete in a different way. 00:23:47.891 --> 00:23:50.273 As the DJ's music made the house shake, 00:23:50.273 --> 00:23:52.611 the dancers would begin to break. 00:23:52.611 --> 00:23:55.021 Some electric boogie to move like toys, 00:23:55.231 --> 00:23:58.177 others would spin and became b-boys." 00:23:58.313 --> 00:25:00.473 [hip hop beats] 00:25:00.473 --> 00:25:05.520 [music fades out] 00:25:05.520 --> 00:25:07.192 Yeah! [laughs] 00:25:08.328 --> 00:25:10.398 There you go. Hey you guys ready? 00:25:10.440 --> 00:25:11.510 - Yeah. - Let's go. 00:25:11.592 --> 00:25:13.872 (Narrator) "The breakers know what they have got 00:25:13.872 --> 00:25:16.522 from electro-boogie to street robot. 00:25:16.522 --> 00:25:19.072 They dance off the anger in a street or room... 00:25:19.134 --> 00:25:21.514 Who needs a gang when the beat goes boom" 00:25:21.514 --> 00:25:22.856 - Yes, can I help you? - Yes. 00:25:22.856 --> 00:25:25.000 - Whatchu doin' here? - You guys can come back 00:25:25.000 --> 00:25:26.877 - Gonna take control here - Don't think— 00:25:26.877 --> 00:25:28.287 Ah, take us out, ha ha ha! 00:25:28.287 --> 00:25:29.367 - Yeah - Is that so? 00:25:29.367 --> 00:25:50.916 ["The Wildstyle" by Afrika Bambaataa] 00:25:51.670 --> 00:25:53.439 ♪ It ain't nothin' ♪ 00:25:53.761 --> 00:25:56.271 ♪ It ain't nothin' but the wildstyle ♪ 00:25:57.257 --> 00:25:58.503 ♪ The wildstyle ♪ 00:25:58.763 --> 00:25:59.763 ♪ Hit me! ♪ 00:26:01.522 --> 00:26:04.942 ♪ You can do it, do it, do it, do it, do it, do it. The wildstyle ♪ 00:26:05.732 --> 00:26:07.232 ♪ The wildstyle ♪ 00:26:07.232 --> 00:26:08.012 ♪ Get down! ♪ 00:26:11.477 --> 00:26:12.477 ♪ So funky ♪ 00:26:14.759 --> 00:26:17.483 ♪ What Bootsy said? To the bridge mother! Do it, do it ♪ 00:26:20.173 --> 00:26:20.893 ♪ Do it ♪ 00:26:20.893 --> 00:26:21.975 B-Side, rock on 00:26:21.975 --> 00:26:22.777 ♪ Do it, do it ♪ 00:26:22.777 --> 00:26:24.182 ♪ B-Side, rock on ♪ 00:26:24.182 --> 00:26:25.182 ♪ Shout shout ♪ 00:26:25.182 --> 00:26:26.979 ♪ People over here People over there ♪ 00:26:26.979 --> 00:26:29.266 ♪ Dancin' in the street And dancin' to our beat ♪ 00:26:29.266 --> 00:26:31.561 ♪ Poppin' in the door And breakin' on the floor ♪ 00:26:31.561 --> 00:26:34.531 ♪ Checkin' out the feet that's movin' to a beat. Do it ♪ 00:26:34.531 --> 00:26:35.522 ♪ Do what? ♪ 00:26:35.522 --> 00:26:37.502 ♪ The wildstyle ♪ 00:26:37.502 --> 00:26:38.957 ♪ Motivator ♪ 00:26:39.744 --> 00:26:40.934 ♪ Motivator ♪ 00:26:41.756 --> 00:26:43.256 ♪ Motivator ♪ 00:26:43.862 --> 00:26:44.994 ♪ Motivator ♪ 00:26:45.884 --> 00:26:47.314 ♪ Can you funk? Do it, do it ♪ 00:26:48.124 --> 00:26:49.234 ♪ Can you funk? Do it ♪ 00:26:50.280 --> 00:26:52.020 ♪ Do it. Break it down! Down! ♪ 00:26:52.756 --> 00:26:54.896 ♪ Break it down! Down! Shout! ♪ 00:26:54.920 --> 00:26:57.120 ♪ Life is so hard Tryin' to get a job ♪ 00:26:57.127 --> 00:26:59.077 ♪ Employee so new, no cash money green ♪ 00:26:59.077 --> 00:27:01.357 ♪ The systеm is mean Destroying all dreams ♪ 00:27:01.357 --> 00:27:03.527 ♪ Flying to thе moon Nobody's in the schools ♪ 00:27:03.527 --> 00:27:04.427 ♪ Do it ♪ 00:27:04.427 --> 00:27:05.127 ♪ Do what? ♪ 00:27:05.407 --> 00:27:08.887 ♪ It's the wildstyle C'mon. The wildstyle ♪ 00:27:08.887 --> 00:27:12.800 ♪ Do it, do it, do it, do it, do it, do it, do it, do it ♪ 00:27:13.748 --> 00:27:14.748 ♪ Do it, do it ♪ 00:27:16.436 --> 00:27:17.186 ♪ Shout ♪ 00:27:18.434 --> 00:27:19.154 ♪ Shout ♪ 00:27:19.749 --> 00:27:20.659 ♪ Good God! ♪ 00:27:20.659 --> 00:27:21.517 ♪ Shout ♪ 00:27:21.631 --> 00:27:22.776 ♪ Good Good Good Good! ♪ 00:27:22.776 --> 00:27:23.526 ♪ Shout ♪ 00:27:24.109 --> 00:27:24.833 ♪ Do it ♪ 00:27:24.833 --> 00:27:25.543 ♪ Shout ♪ 00:27:27.004 --> 00:27:27.813 ♪ Shout ♪ 00:27:28.713 --> 00:27:30.443 ♪ It's the wildstyle ♪ 00:27:31.104 --> 00:27:32.424 ♪ The wildstyle ♪ 00:27:37.597 --> 00:27:38.697 ♪ Talk about rap ♪ 00:27:38.771 --> 00:27:39.751 ♪ Talk about funk ♪ 00:27:39.893 --> 00:27:40.918 ♪ Talk about rock ♪ 00:27:40.939 --> 00:27:41.979 ♪ Talk about life ♪ 00:27:43.849 --> 00:27:45.359 ♪ It's the wildstyle ♪ 00:27:45.975 --> 00:27:48.505 ♪ The wildstyle ♪ 00:27:50.068 --> 00:27:52.548 ♪ My heart is beating fast I'm running out of gas ♪ 00:27:52.549 --> 00:27:55.515 ♪ No not the Zulu style With your own sense of style. Do it ♪ 00:27:55.757 --> 00:27:57.987 ♪ Do it It's the wildstyle ♪ 00:27:57.987 --> 00:28:02.144 ♪ Do do do the wild style-style-style-style-style ♪ 00:28:03.281 --> 00:28:05.441 ♪ Do it ♪ 00:28:05.485 --> 00:28:06.195 ♪ Do it ♪ 00:28:06.195 --> 00:28:07.505 ♪ C'mon, everybody! ♪ 00:28:07.505 --> 00:28:09.509 ♪ In life, you got to fight ♪ 00:28:09.509 --> 00:28:11.749 ♪ In life, you're not always right ♪ 00:28:11.749 --> 00:28:13.746 ♪ In life, if the tone is right ♪ 00:28:13.746 --> 00:28:15.959 ♪ In life, stop thinkin' you're Christ! ♪ 00:28:16.029 --> 00:28:17.029 ♪ Do it ♪ 00:28:22.219 --> 00:28:23.259 ♪ B-Side ♪ 00:28:24.529 --> 00:28:25.615 ♪ B-Side ♪ 00:28:26.519 --> 00:28:27.549 ♪ Speak your mind ♪ 00:28:27.769 --> 00:28:29.479 ♪ C'mon, speak your mind ♪ 00:28:30.523 --> 00:28:31.293 ♪ B-Side ♪ 00:28:34.521 --> 00:28:35.511 ♪ To the bridge! ♪ 00:28:35.511 --> 00:28:37.394 ♪ In the land of Oz People on Mars ♪ 00:28:37.394 --> 00:28:38.606 ♪ Livin' in a timezone ♪ 00:28:38.606 --> 00:28:39.874 ♪ Tryin' not to be alone ♪ 00:28:44.041 --> 00:28:46.634 (Narrator) "The elements of hip-hop go beyond the dance 00:28:46.634 --> 00:28:48.794 to the streets where artists take a chance 00:28:48.854 --> 00:28:51.034 and the Bronx where young men on the go 00:28:51.228 --> 00:28:53.528 paint trains and walls like Picasso 00:28:53.992 --> 00:28:55.792 Graffiti is what they call their art 00:28:56.020 --> 00:28:58.225 and it's here where they get their start 00:28:58.882 --> 00:29:01.162 Though you may think these policemen bars, 00:29:01.367 --> 00:29:04.177 they battle kids like Brim and graffiti wars." 00:29:04.177 --> 00:29:06.524 Chief, all these stickers were used as settlements 00:29:06.974 --> 00:29:09.284 Those kids were locked up on the graffiti 00:29:09.411 --> 00:29:11.901 (Sergeant) "Art versus transit... fame... 00:29:13.323 --> 00:29:15.243 The new king of all offenders... 00:29:15.310 --> 00:29:18.310 Uh...the rest of you got your assignments? Yeah all right. 00:29:18.955 --> 00:29:21.975 Hickey and Ski, I want you to stay half the roll call. 00:29:21.975 --> 00:29:24.305 I have a special assignment for you on a graffiti. 00:29:24.305 --> 00:29:25.643 All right, thank you both." 00:29:25.643 --> 00:29:27.933 (Hickey) "We'll thwart it one day, right sarge?" 00:29:28.859 --> 00:29:32.909 (Sarge) "We have some information that they cut the fence on the Jerome yards 00:29:33.253 --> 00:29:36.573 That's the new fence and they cut it right open again." 00:29:36.770 --> 00:29:38.927 [sound of a train moving] 00:29:38.927 --> 00:29:41.217 (Narrator) "Let's take a look inside the machine 00:29:41.217 --> 00:29:43.837 and watch New York's finest on the graffiti scene." 00:29:44.266 --> 00:29:56.038 [sound of a train moving] 00:29:56.096 --> 00:30:10.596 [train sounds fade away] 00:30:10.664 --> 00:30:12.933 (Brim Fuentes) "What does this look like to you? 00:30:12.933 --> 00:30:15.643 Does this look like something that'd be in a city? 00:30:15.643 --> 00:30:20.297 This looks like a jail, a prison [laughs] with all this barbed wire around you. 00:30:20.367 --> 00:30:21.507 What kind of feeling— 00:30:21.547 --> 00:30:25.114 I wonder how the people that live around here feel 00:30:25.114 --> 00:30:27.164 with all this wire and stuff around them. 00:30:27.485 --> 00:30:30.265 Looks like something from Germany the Nazis and all that." 00:30:31.064 --> 00:30:34.530 Kryolan, astounding. I feel like I'm doing a commercial for these things. 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! 00:30:39.263 --> 00:30:41.463 They never pay for the paint, they'll steal it. 00:30:42.428 --> 00:30:43.858 The only way I can figure it - 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. 00:30:49.673 --> 00:30:52.243 It's that they don't like something they can't control. 00:30:52.621 --> 00:30:55.959 This is vandalism. That's what it is. 00:30:55.959 --> 00:30:58.725 They're defacing somebody else's property. 00:30:58.725 --> 00:31:02.531 I wouldn't want them coming to my house and painting it up, nor my car. 00:31:02.851 --> 00:31:05.281 Mayor Koch tried to get us to make a deal with him— 00:31:06.195 --> 00:31:08.385 that he would give us 10 cars to paint 00:31:09.511 --> 00:31:11.384 and we would stop with the graffiti. 00:31:11.767 --> 00:31:13.667 But it doesn't work like that because 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 00:31:18.625 --> 00:31:22.167 cos they got to express their feelings the same way I get to express mine. 00:31:22.167 --> 00:31:25.837 I'm not gonna tell someone, "You can't express your feelings, only I can." 00:31:25.837 --> 00:31:27.095 That's not how it works 00:31:28.303 --> 00:31:31.488 Like I said there's tens of thousands of these kids doing graffiti. 00:31:31.790 --> 00:31:35.848 Only a handful of them are really good but whether they're good or bad, 00:31:35.848 --> 00:31:39.270 they have no business being down here. It's dangerous, they can get hurt 00:31:39.482 --> 00:31:41.542 and it's not their property. 00:31:42.106 --> 00:31:44.980 (Brim) "As long as there's something to be said in the ghetto 00:31:44.980 --> 00:31:46.490 there'll be graffiti. 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 00:31:50.675 --> 00:31:53.905 you know, in New York city that's the way we express ourselves 00:31:54.467 --> 00:31:56.460 It might seem silly to someone else but 00:31:56.552 --> 00:31:59.121 in New York city that's the way, we express ourselves." 00:31:59.121 --> 00:32:40.094 [Hip hop music] 00:32:40.651 --> 00:32:43.771 All this just makes me madder and makes me wanna go painting more. 00:32:43.771 --> 00:32:48.071 When I see this you know it burns me up, I wanna go out and paint 00:32:48.250 --> 00:32:51.110 and I wanna show them that they can't win because they can't. 00:32:51.343 --> 00:32:55.343 The war against graffiti been like 10 yrs and they haven't won nothing. 00:32:55.355 --> 00:33:07.175 [Hip hop music] 00:33:07.515 --> 00:33:09.669 It took them 10 years to put this fence on. 00:33:09.797 --> 00:33:12.147 It'll just take us another year to get into them 00:33:13.356 --> 00:33:15.166 Just give us some time. We'll return. 00:33:15.250 --> 00:33:45.782 [Hip hop music] 00:33:45.878 --> 00:33:53.168 [music fades out] 00:33:53.266 --> 00:33:57.526 Now we are here today in order to induct into the rapper's Hall of Fame 00:33:57.526 --> 00:34:01.296 just a few of the greatest rappers who ever made rapping their life and fame. 00:34:01.325 --> 00:34:04.785 It didn't start with the Sugarhill Gang, it didn't start with Kurtis Blow 00:34:05.248 --> 00:34:08.468 nor with Flash or the Furious Five, you can take it from me, I know. 00:34:08.929 --> 00:34:10.819 We're going back to where it all began 00:34:10.819 --> 00:34:12.779 at radio stations all over the land 00:34:12.840 --> 00:34:16.710 with Jocko, Hot Rod and Montague - DJs who rap like DJs do 00:34:16.763 --> 00:34:20.403 with names like Hatter and Dr.Jive in the 50s and 60s keeping rap alive. 00:34:20.670 --> 00:34:24.240 Just a step for our tradition for rap to take on a social mission. 00:34:24.518 --> 00:34:26.248 Rap gives kids a whole new way 00:34:26.298 --> 00:34:28.348 to express themselves and sometimes pay. 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. 00:34:32.462 --> 00:34:36.262 (Muhammad Ali) "Man can't fake, he's a Geechee... 00:34:38.121 --> 00:34:39.501 Hey he's Joe Frazier. 00:34:39.933 --> 00:34:40.769 Joe Frazier 00:34:41.989 --> 00:34:42.707 Joe Frazier" 00:34:43.017 --> 00:34:45.263 (Narrator) "People of the world, the man you see 00:34:45.263 --> 00:34:47.823 was the world's greatest rapper Muhammad Ali 00:34:47.823 --> 00:34:51.913 and the days when he was Cassius Clay was the first national rapper in the USA." 00:34:52.068 --> 00:34:55.557 (Muhammad Ali) "He's going around saying that he's a championship fighter 00:34:55.818 --> 00:34:58.178 but when he meets me he'll fall 20 pounds lighter. 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. 00:35:02.331 --> 00:35:04.167 I'm not sayin' this just to be funny, 00:35:04.167 --> 00:35:07.505 but I'm fightin' Ernie because he needs the money." [laughter] 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. 00:35:11.235 --> 00:35:14.695 I understand he wants to stand toe to toe and with me trade blow for blow 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. 00:35:18.072 --> 00:35:22.072 From the northeast to the northwest, from the southeast to the west coast, 00:35:22.269 --> 00:35:25.814 from the northwest to the mid-west every rapper thinks he can rap the most. 00:35:26.190 --> 00:35:30.080 But it all began in Aka-Bo land many many moons ago 00:35:30.082 --> 00:35:34.372 It was among the vibes, the powerful vines from which our roots do grow 00:35:34.383 --> 00:35:38.083 The Yoruba and the Bantu, the Sotho and the Gotha, 00:35:38.165 --> 00:35:42.165 the Akan people of Ghana, the Rwanda and the Hausa, 00:35:42.219 --> 00:35:45.949 they engaged in a form of praise done by griots or a chosen bard. 00:35:46.255 --> 00:35:48.945 Today we call it throwing down, or, maybe rapping hard. 00:35:49.558 --> 00:35:51.768 - Who are you? - Who am I? Who are you? 00:35:51.807 --> 00:35:54.847 - Who am I? Who are you? - Who am I? Who are you? 00:35:54.985 --> 00:35:56.502 Who am I? I'm Caz! 00:35:56.502 --> 00:35:58.382 Oh what what do that mean? 00:35:58.382 --> 00:36:01.119 That I'm the baddest MC lover on the Hip-Hop Scene 00:36:01.119 --> 00:36:03.789 J.D.L big deal, what does that prove? 00:36:03.796 --> 00:36:06.696 That I'm the MC that make the people move. 00:36:06.696 --> 00:36:09.356 - I'm Easy! - Easy who and what is your game? 00:36:09.356 --> 00:36:12.196 I'm Easy A D I bet your girls know my name. 00:36:12.196 --> 00:36:12.962 I'm Jay-Z 00:36:12.962 --> 00:36:14.912 That's your business, what you gotta say? 00:36:14.912 --> 00:36:17.737 That I can rock you anywhere anytime anyday. 00:36:17.737 --> 00:36:20.597 What chasing to the DJs? What do they wanna do? 00:36:20.647 --> 00:36:23.287 Bring in the funky record when you give us the cue. 00:36:23.287 --> 00:36:27.761 Like 10, 9, 8-7-6, 5-4-3-2-1 00:36:27.761 --> 00:36:28.471 Have fun! 00:36:28.471 --> 00:36:29.774 [knocking] Who's that now? 00:36:29.774 --> 00:36:32.514 - Ya, who's that man, carry on. - It's okay, no bother. 00:36:32.645 --> 00:36:34.921 Oh no girls, no! All risks! 00:36:34.921 --> 00:36:37.411 - No! - Heartbreakers! Got a nice one in there. 00:36:37.411 --> 00:36:40.767 I know you has the cold cause whats the Heartbreakers supposed to mean? 00:36:40.767 --> 00:36:43.746 - No! She wanna know— - She knows actually friends, she knows! 00:36:43.746 --> 00:36:45.996 .,,all in your mind. 00:36:45.996 --> 00:36:48.877 Would you actually tell her what Heartbreakers mean? 00:36:49.752 --> 00:36:53.112 ♪ We'll promise you the world and won't deliver ♪ 00:36:53.112 --> 00:36:55.281 ♪ A broken heart is what we'll give ya ♪ 00:36:55.281 --> 00:36:57.786 ♪ Make you feel like a million by the things we say ♪ 00:36:57.786 --> 00:37:00.036 ♪ Make you feel like a fool the very next day ♪ 00:37:00.036 --> 00:37:03.521 ♪ We're heartbreakers ha-ha. We're heart-heart-heartbreakers.♪ 00:37:03.521 --> 00:37:04.931 [phone rings] 00:37:04.978 --> 00:37:08.838 ♪ Hello, Yeah girl, it's me, the captain, with some raps for you ♪ 00:37:08.936 --> 00:37:11.356 ♪ So listen up, don't talk until I'm through ♪ 00:37:11.408 --> 00:37:13.868 ♪ Now you're sweet, you're fine, and you got class ♪ 00:37:13.945 --> 00:37:16.425 ♪ I feel things are going way too fast ♪ 00:37:16.459 --> 00:37:18.869 ♪ It's not that I don't enjoy having you around ♪ 00:37:18.967 --> 00:37:21.597 ♪ But I'm the kind of man that can't be tied down ♪ 00:37:21.709 --> 00:37:24.249 ♪ Thanks for all the joy that you brought to me ♪ 00:37:24.481 --> 00:37:26.861 ♪ And I hope you understand that I gotta be free ♪ 00:37:26.905 --> 00:37:30.256 ♪ We're heart-breakers And this is how we break your heart ♪ 00:37:30.256 --> 00:37:33.109 Ask them a simple question, they're gonna come out the face, 00:37:33.109 --> 00:37:35.691 - try talk what it's all about. - You see the problem? 00:37:35.691 --> 00:37:38.363 Caz guy were on the phone, he was talkin to the girl, 00:37:38.363 --> 00:37:41.603 - and he jested like that? - Mutha, he was a saint. Ha ha ha ha. 00:37:41.603 --> 00:37:44.088 Eh ben, il s'opérait pas bien, comment aller? 00:37:44.088 --> 00:37:46.401 ♪ Ah, Sophisticated queen MC ♪ 00:37:46.401 --> 00:37:48.841 ♪ Yes of course, that's me, mistress of ceremony ♪ 00:37:48.929 --> 00:37:51.459 ♪ The one that's gonna take it to the top of the key ♪ 00:37:51.484 --> 00:37:53.848 ♪ Introducing myself, MC Lisa Lee ♪ 00:37:53.973 --> 00:37:56.323 ♪ The blast from the past, superb in every word ♪ 00:37:56.417 --> 00:37:58.720 ♪ Supest female rapper, yes, the best you heard ♪ 00:37:58.720 --> 00:38:00.928 ♪ Lisa Lee is known to be the people's choice ♪ 00:38:00.928 --> 00:38:03.163 ♪ I get parties rocking with my sensuous voice ♪ 00:38:03.163 --> 00:38:05.483 ♪ When you see the queen walking up the street ♪ 00:38:05.483 --> 00:38:07.765 ♪ I'm not souped up, conceited, just incognit' ♪ 00:38:07.765 --> 00:38:10.395 ♪ I make the fellas sweat coz I keep their bodies hot ♪ 00:38:10.395 --> 00:38:12.751 ♪ It's a woman's world, you gotta give whatu got ♪ 00:38:12.751 --> 00:38:14.891 ♪ I'm Sha, party people, & I'm ready to rock ♪ 00:38:14.891 --> 00:38:17.303 ♪ If you wanna be down, you gotta gimme whatu got ♪ 00:38:17.303 --> 00:38:19.513 ♪ Fellas in the place I won't steer you wrong ♪ 00:38:19.513 --> 00:38:21.793 ♪ You gotta give it up or leave it alone ♪ 00:38:21.793 --> 00:38:24.073 ♪ So get ready for this, get ready for this ♪ 00:38:24.073 --> 00:38:26.327 ♪ Partypeople in the place, get ready for this ♪ 00:38:26.327 --> 00:38:28.487 ♪ To you! So what you gonna do? ♪ 00:38:28.487 --> 00:38:30.929 ♪ Do you wanna rock the house Turn this mutha out? ♪ 00:38:30.929 --> 00:38:32.829 ♪ Fly girls, are you with us? ♪ 00:38:32.829 --> 00:38:34.303 ♪ And if you're ready to rock ♪ 00:38:34.303 --> 00:38:35.540 ♪ to help me turn it out ♪ 00:38:35.540 --> 00:38:37.684 ♪ Let the world know what we're talkin about ♪ 00:38:37.684 --> 00:38:38.906 ♪To all the ladies ♪ 00:38:38.906 --> 00:38:40.206 ♪ Yeah! ♪ 00:38:40.206 --> 00:38:42.066 ♪ I want you to listen dana-da-dan ♪ 00:38:42.158 --> 00:38:43.521 ♪ Hey, ladies! ♪ 00:38:43.521 --> 00:38:44.781 ♪ Yeah! ♪ 00:38:44.781 --> 00:38:46.461 ♪ 1980! Dana-da. ♪ 00:38:46.461 --> 00:38:50.891 ♪ Watch out for the fellas, yeah! That'll drive you crazy dana-da. ♪ 00:38:51.070 --> 00:38:51.790 ♪ Look out! ♪ 00:38:51.790 --> 00:38:53.000 ♪ Hey, you better abide ♪ 00:38:53.000 --> 00:38:55.226 ♪ While we rock your ass on the solo side ♪ 00:38:55.226 --> 00:38:57.126 ♪ Grandmaster Caz, you are the Cap ♪ 00:38:57.126 --> 00:38:59.502 ♪ Get on the mic Show 'em you're the lord of rap ♪ 00:38:59.502 --> 00:39:01.692 ♪ Well I'm the Cap of the Four, MC exec ♪ 00:39:01.692 --> 00:39:03.964 ♪ And I don't come at all if it ain't correct ♪ 00:39:03.964 --> 00:39:06.274 ♪ Don't have to bite, not necessary ♪ 00:39:06.274 --> 00:39:08.504 ♪ The Grandmaster Caz got a rhyme library ♪ 00:39:08.504 --> 00:39:10.514 ♪ Rhyme from now until the break of day ♪ 00:39:10.514 --> 00:39:12.524 ♪ Don't have a big mouth just lots to say ♪ 00:39:12.524 --> 00:39:14.770 ♪ If you run outta rhymes, start sounding dumb ♪ 00:39:14.770 --> 00:39:17.730 ♪ Come see me, me, me, G.M.C ♪ 00:39:17.730 --> 00:39:21.412 ♪ I am the Captain of the Four And I'm guaranteed to sell you some ♪ 00:39:21.412 --> 00:39:23.760 ♪ A-Duracell J.D.L. you're the number-one flaker ♪ 00:39:23.760 --> 00:39:25.810 ♪ Get on the mic Show 'em you're hut maker ♪ 00:39:25.810 --> 00:39:28.000 ♪ You hear my (2) You hear my (2) ♪ 00:39:28.000 --> 00:39:30.056 ♪ You hear my (2) You hear my (2) ♪ 00:39:30.056 --> 00:39:32.536 ♪ You hear my voice on cassettes and on 8-track ♪ 00:39:32.536 --> 00:39:34.506 ♪ Next step is to have it put on wax ♪ 00:39:34.506 --> 00:39:36.825 ♪ On the radio station to make the jam sell ♪ 00:39:36.825 --> 00:39:38.755 ♪ I came to you again on WJDL ♪ 00:39:38.755 --> 00:39:40.955 ♪ Doing worldwide tours, TV of course ♪ 00:39:40.955 --> 00:39:43.194 ♪ Plus my own line of products which I endorse ♪ 00:39:43.194 --> 00:39:45.334 ♪ Financial clout, a piece of the rock ♪ 00:39:45.334 --> 00:39:49.494 ♪ And 600 shares, 6,000 shares, 6,000,000 shares of IBM stock ♪ 00:39:49.494 --> 00:39:51.854 ♪ Now Easy A.D. making your girl scream ♪ 00:39:51.854 --> 00:39:54.077 ♪ Get on the mic, show 'em why you're Supreme ♪ 00:39:54.077 --> 00:39:56.157 ♪ I'm girl-taker A.D. top of the chart ♪ 00:39:56.157 --> 00:39:58.477 ♪ I'm not a thief but known to steal your heart ♪ 00:39:58.477 --> 00:40:00.650 ♪ Won't be too long before I'm seen ♪ 00:40:00.650 --> 00:40:02.870 ♪ In the cover of Life Magazine ♪ 00:40:02.870 --> 00:40:05.220 ♪ Cos I see it in your eyes when I start rappin' ♪ 00:40:05.220 --> 00:40:07.460 ♪ You kno I'm the man that makes things happen ♪ 00:40:07.460 --> 00:40:09.237 ♪ Furthermore, if you want company ♪ 00:40:09.237 --> 00:40:11.502 ♪ Here's my number & a dial so you can call me ♪ 00:40:11.502 --> 00:40:13.622 ♪ And Almighty Kay Gee, the last, not least ♪ 00:40:13.622 --> 00:40:15.937 ♪ So get on the microphone and speak your piece ♪ 00:40:15.937 --> 00:40:18.127 ♪ I don't beat around the bush I don't stall ♪ 00:40:18.127 --> 00:40:20.167 ♪ When you say Kay Gee, you said it all ♪ 00:40:20.167 --> 00:40:22.427 ♪ If you dunno by now, you should've been told ♪ 00:40:22.427 --> 00:40:24.667 ♪ When they made Almighty, I broke the mold ♪ 00:40:24.667 --> 00:40:26.887 ♪ Rob from the rich, give to the poor ♪ 00:40:26.887 --> 00:40:29.307 ♪ I snatch a few dollars for the Cold Crush Four ♪ 00:40:29.307 --> 00:40:31.277 ♪ Almighty, I'm down with the best ♪ 00:40:31.277 --> 00:40:33.767 ♪ If you don't like me, I wouldn't care less, so ♪ 00:40:33.767 --> 00:40:35.674 ♪ Calling a truce and raise a flag ♪ 00:40:35.674 --> 00:40:37.764 ♪ There ain't an MC crew that we can't rag ♪ 00:40:37.764 --> 00:40:39.873 ♪ Now we got two records and been on tour. ♪ 00:40:41.247 --> 00:40:43.024 Hey, what's up? 00:40:43.024 --> 00:40:44.174 What's up? 00:40:44.174 --> 00:40:45.554 What you doin professor? 00:40:45.619 --> 00:40:48.808 I'm coming up with a new show so hot coals, up moles, funky 00:40:49.238 --> 00:40:49.958 My! 00:40:50.068 --> 00:40:52.048 You're bringing some good stuff, alright. 00:40:52.048 --> 00:40:53.048 Where y'all going? 00:40:53.048 --> 00:40:54.759 Chill it man, we were just talking 00:40:54.759 --> 00:40:57.533 - Yeah, man, we can't go without you. - No way. 00:40:57.810 --> 00:41:00.162 - You know it - Thought you might know something 00:41:00.253 --> 00:41:02.029 - Yeah, man. - What'u got this time? 00:41:02.108 --> 00:41:10.150 [rappers talking and laughing] 00:41:12.285 --> 00:41:13.005 Yeah... 00:41:13.005 --> 00:41:14.457 Dancing baby, can you dance? 00:41:14.457 --> 00:41:15.589 How good can you dance? 00:41:15.589 --> 00:41:17.496 I can dance better than you can rhyme... 00:41:17.496 --> 00:41:20.013 - Ah, stop that brashness Keith - You know that man! 00:41:20.013 --> 00:41:23.154 ♪ I'm always Poppin', sockin', rockin' puttin' a side the hip-hop ♪ 00:41:23.154 --> 00:41:25.507 ♪ while the other MCs all stare... ♪ 00:41:25.517 --> 00:41:27.717 ♪ Cos where I'm goin' there ain't no stoppin' ♪ 00:41:27.717 --> 00:41:28.953 Let's see what you can do. 00:41:28.953 --> 00:41:30.336 - What can you do? - I'm good. 00:41:30.336 --> 00:41:32.651 [rappers laughing] 00:41:32.651 --> 00:41:34.152 Like that man, like that! 00:41:34.152 --> 00:41:34.902 Yeah, show 'em. 00:41:35.352 --> 00:41:36.152 Ha ha ha 00:41:36.152 --> 00:41:38.731 Can do stuff man, show 'em, let's see what you got man 00:41:38.731 --> 00:41:40.281 They say you're flat, show 'em 00:41:40.281 --> 00:41:42.101 Man, by the way, what's her name? 00:41:42.101 --> 00:41:44.560 ♪ Hey her name is Pow-wow with all the know how ♪ 00:41:44.560 --> 00:41:46.770 ♪ who could rock it right here & sock it now ♪ 00:41:46.770 --> 00:41:51.040 ♪ bcos I'm the one shook up but all the party people will work their while ♪ 00:41:51.040 --> 00:41:53.280 ♪ Well introduce to me to G.L.O.B.E ♪ 00:41:53.280 --> 00:41:55.380 ♪ I got the funky harmony as you can see ♪ 00:41:55.380 --> 00:41:58.038 ♪ My rhymes are so sweet for little boy Keith ♪ 00:41:58.038 --> 00:42:00.148 ♪ So get little Keith to show up with me ♪ 00:42:00.148 --> 00:42:03.008 ♪ Just dance little Keith, dance little Keith, dance... ♪ 00:42:03.008 --> 00:42:06.268 Man that was back in the old days though, beat-boy and all that stuff 00:42:06.268 --> 00:42:07.648 Know what it's all about now? 00:42:07.648 --> 00:42:09.797 ♪ Callers talkin about puttin' aside hip-hop ♪ 00:42:09.797 --> 00:42:12.150 ♪ Cos where we're going, there ain't no stoppin ♪ 00:42:12.150 --> 00:42:14.370 ♪ Now the style we use can hardly be measured ♪ 00:42:14.370 --> 00:42:16.893 ♪ We're doin' it for the people surely is a pleasure ♪ 00:42:16.893 --> 00:42:19.245 ♪ Can rock away the sound of the stormy weather ♪ 00:42:19.245 --> 00:42:21.451 ♪ We're 3 for all, that means we are together ♪ 00:42:21.451 --> 00:42:23.601 ♪ We're just too clever & never in our lives ♪ 00:42:23.601 --> 00:42:28.257 ♪ will we hear a rhyme good enough for us to bite. So listen as we recite ♪ 00:42:28.257 --> 00:42:30.526 ♪ It's Mr. Biggs, MC Pow Wow, and Globe ♪ 00:42:30.526 --> 00:42:33.294 ♪ We're just rockin' it up Yeah, what else is so worthy ♪ 00:42:33.294 --> 00:42:36.986 ♪ till you can't believe who are musical and all the mikes we are so magical ♪ 00:42:36.986 --> 00:42:39.916 ♪ We're playin' tricks on your mind steppin' it back & forth ♪ 00:42:39.916 --> 00:42:42.226 ♪ We're tellin' you to run when you should walk ♪ 00:42:42.226 --> 00:42:44.508 ♪ You know our style is incredible ♪ 00:42:44.508 --> 00:42:46.755 ♪ This some people consider a miracle ♪ 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 ♪ 00:42:50.181 --> 00:42:51.515 ♪ We'll beat the MCs but ♪ 00:42:51.515 --> 00:42:54.835 ♪ we're 3 and can perceive high potential with the MC style ♪ 00:42:54.835 --> 00:42:57.095 ♪ I'll know when you're trying hard to compete ♪ 00:42:57.095 --> 00:43:00.381 ♪ You're making the same mistake jumping off the pace that we create ♪ 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, ♪ 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 ♪ 00:43:09.356 --> 00:43:11.936 ♪ So people get out there, gather round ♪ 00:43:11.936 --> 00:43:13.956 ♪ Check out what we three MCs have found ♪ 00:43:13.956 --> 00:43:16.297 ♪ A thing in the future yet here in the present ♪ 00:43:16.297 --> 00:43:18.677 ♪ not sour but sweet, nice, cozy & pleasant ♪ 00:43:18.677 --> 00:43:19.773 ♪ Now lets all party. ♪ 00:43:19.963 --> 00:43:23.291 ♪ It's a chance to dance with the rhythm of the African man ♪ 00:43:23.731 --> 00:43:25.515 How do you like that? 00:43:26.726 --> 00:43:43.805 [hip hop music] 00:43:43.805 --> 00:43:45.978 (Narrator) "He was looking for a perfect beat 00:43:45.979 --> 00:43:47.979 It had to match what he felt in the street 00:43:48.348 --> 00:43:52.348 Arthur Baker and Bam produced the sound that zulus the Nation's feet" 00:43:52.659 --> 00:43:56.179 [Hip-hop music] 00:43:56.179 --> 00:43:58.080 1-2-3 ["Renegades of Funk"] 00:43:58.080 --> 00:44:01.655 ♪ Since the Pre-historic ages and the days of ancient Greece ♪ 00:44:01.867 --> 00:44:05.924 ♪ All down through the Middle Ages Planet Earth kept going through changes ♪ 00:44:05.924 --> 00:44:10.160 ♪And then the Renaissance came Times continued to change ♪ 00:44:10.262 --> 00:44:13.752 ♪ Nothing stayed the same, but there were always renegades ♪ 00:44:13.752 --> 00:44:16.172 ♪ Like Chief Sitting Bull, Tom Paine ♪ 00:44:16.172 --> 00:44:18.318 ♪ Dr. Martin Luther King, Hannibal ♪ 00:44:18.382 --> 00:44:19.529 ♪ Marco Polo ♪ 00:44:19.529 --> 00:44:21.409 ♪ Like Hagar the horrible ♪ 00:44:21.450 --> 00:44:23.170 ♪ Malcolm X They were renegades ♪ 00:44:23.170 --> 00:44:25.518 ♪ Yes the renegades of their time and age ♪ 00:44:25.518 --> 00:44:28.060 ♪ So many renegades What's that ♪ [clapping] 00:44:28.060 --> 00:44:29.598 ♪ Now hand clap ♪ [clapping] 00:44:29.598 --> 00:44:30.508 ♪ The renegades ♪ 00:44:30.870 --> 00:44:31.577 Excellent! 00:44:31.577 --> 00:44:33.137 Shoulda punched in the word LIKE 00:44:33.137 --> 00:44:35.052 So you all go "LIKE" real strong 00:44:35.522 --> 00:44:36.652 - Alright - Go on! 00:44:37.253 --> 00:44:37.963 ♪ LIKE ♪ 00:44:38.510 --> 00:44:40.217 ♪ In the electronic chants ♪ 00:44:40.217 --> 00:44:42.177 ♪ Like - 1 2 3 ♪ 00:44:42.274 --> 00:44:44.114 Like - Yeah [beats] 00:44:44.280 --> 00:44:46.260 Like! [beats] 00:44:46.299 --> 00:44:48.259 Like! [beats] 00:44:48.389 --> 00:44:49.699 Like! [beats] 00:44:49.770 --> 00:44:53.500 ♪ Now renegades are the people with their own philosophy ♪ 00:44:53.642 --> 00:44:55.412 ♪ They change the course of history ♪ 00:44:55.686 --> 00:44:57.896 ♪ Everyday people like you and me, you know! ♪ 00:44:57.896 --> 00:45:00.509 That isn't really right. What the hell is going on here? 00:45:00.509 --> 00:45:02.073 Come on tell me something 00:45:02.073 --> 00:45:05.833 ♪ Now renegades are the people with their own philosophy ♪ 00:45:05.833 --> 00:45:07.678 ♪ They changed the course of history ♪ 00:45:07.678 --> 00:45:08.642 What is wrong? 00:45:08.642 --> 00:45:11.732 We ain't coming in on time man... 00:45:11.732 --> 00:45:12.532 I can't hear you 00:45:12.532 --> 00:45:13.994 - The punching? - No man... 00:45:14.457 --> 00:45:17.447 ♪ But come on Mr. Engineer Get it right, get it right! ♪ 00:45:17.570 --> 00:45:20.250 ♪ Come on Mr. Engineer Get it right, get it right! ♪ 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 ♪ 00:45:23.316 --> 00:45:26.833 ♪ Renegades are people [laugh] with their own philosophy ♪ 00:45:26.840 --> 00:45:28.670 ♪ They changed the course of history ♪ 00:45:28.868 --> 00:45:30.584 ♪ Everyday people like you and me ♪ 00:45:30.735 --> 00:45:32.535 ♪ And the days of ancient Greece ♪ 00:45:32.636 --> 00:45:34.656 ♪ All down through the Middle Ages ♪ 00:45:34.664 --> 00:45:36.672 ♪ Planet Earth kept going through changes ♪ 00:45:36.756 --> 00:45:39.360 ♪ And then the Renaissance came ♪ 00:45:39.256 --> 00:45:41.346 ♪ Times continued to change ♪ 00:45:41.346 --> 00:45:42.966 ♪ Nothing stayed the same ♪ 00:45:42.966 --> 00:45:44.776 ♪ There were always renegades ♪ 00:45:44.776 --> 00:45:47.126 ♪ Like Chief Sitting Bull, Tom Paine ♪ 00:45:47.126 --> 00:45:49.323 ♪ Dr. Martin Luther King, Hannibal ♪ 00:45:49.323 --> 00:45:50.323 ♪ Marco Polo ♪ 00:45:50.923 --> 00:45:52.253 ♪ Hagar the Horrible! ♪ 00:45:52.515 --> 00:45:54.105 ♪ Malcolm X They were renegades ♪ 00:45:54.105 --> 00:45:56.257 ♪ Yes the renegades Of their time and age ♪ 00:45:56.257 --> 00:45:57.257 ♪ So many renegades ♪ 00:45:57.257 --> 00:45:59.270 (Narrator) "Years ago it was up on the roof 00:45:59.270 --> 00:46:01.880 where Duo Whoppers sang and drank 100 proof. 00:46:01.880 --> 00:46:04.599 Today Bam and Biggs are a part of the force 00:46:04.601 --> 00:46:07.341 that rules and overlooks the Bronx Concourse." 00:46:07.387 --> 00:46:10.157 Near here in the Bronx, the Savage Skulls, 00:46:10.208 --> 00:46:13.280 further down by Stephens Avenue the Ghetto Brothers, 00:46:13.280 --> 00:46:15.978 Black pearls - those boys man... but that was alright. 00:46:15.978 --> 00:46:19.138 They're still there man, probably still doing the same old man... 00:46:19.138 --> 00:46:20.508 Probably crazy stuff... 00:46:20.508 --> 00:46:25.268 And our whole kingdom Black Spade area savage space... 00:46:25.268 --> 00:46:28.504 - Nobody come missing space area - That was the good thing about it 00:46:28.504 --> 00:46:31.515 We used to always go to jail and nobody ever come over here 00:46:31.515 --> 00:46:34.165 especially in Bronx river, the home of gods... 00:46:34.269 --> 00:46:37.189 Everybody messing with little Vietnam 00:46:37.189 --> 00:46:41.640 with all the Black Spades and Reapers was fun, empowered. 00:46:42.197 --> 00:46:43.587 Then Immortals... 00:46:43.587 --> 00:46:45.647 Look how different Monroe looked though man 00:46:45.647 --> 00:46:47.237 That school used to be all grassy 00:46:47.237 --> 00:46:49.767 Now it's all a dust bowl 00:46:50.267 --> 00:46:52.257 Yeah it looks wild now, critical... 00:46:53.264 --> 00:46:56.240 As you get older you get to see the beauty from up here 00:46:56.240 --> 00:46:59.890 You can see that your town Bronx is definitely number one 00:46:59.890 --> 00:47:01.044 Number one... 00:47:01.044 --> 00:47:04.494 Everybody talk about Bronx is black and dirty and stinks... 00:47:04.993 --> 00:47:08.280 Looking from here the Bronx is definitely the most beautiful... 00:47:08.718 --> 00:47:11.508 There are a lot of Zulu Nation men in Monroe now... 00:47:11.819 --> 00:47:14.795 Yeah lot of Zulu Nation in Monroe in Stephens Avenue... 00:47:14.795 --> 00:47:17.325 And then all these housing development projects... 00:47:18.360 --> 00:47:20.780 Soon the Zulu Nation will take over the Bronx 00:47:21.242 --> 00:47:22.204 The Bronx! 00:47:22.774 --> 00:47:25.614 - Yeah! - It's the Bronx in Monroe! 00:47:25.629 --> 00:47:28.479 - Yeah! - Is everybody in the house? 00:47:28.732 --> 00:47:29.922 - Yeah! - Amazing! 00:47:29.971 --> 00:47:33.280 [Drumbeats and cheering] 00:47:33.304 --> 00:47:36.840 Everybody say, say Zulu man, Zulu man! 00:47:36.840 --> 00:47:39.240 A way for man to bridge the gap 00:47:39.240 --> 00:47:43.497 Say Z-U-L-U Everybody say 00:47:43.497 --> 00:47:44.257 Zulu! 00:47:44.257 --> 00:47:48.137 Z-U-L-U Everybody say 00:47:48.137 --> 00:47:49.137 Zulu! 00:47:49.137 --> 00:47:51.002 What's the name of this Nation? 00:47:51.002 --> 00:47:52.002 Zulus 00:47:52.242 --> 00:47:53.202 Zulus 00:47:54.002 --> 00:47:55.522 Who's gonna get on down? 00:47:55.757 --> 00:47:57.747 Bambaata Bambaata 00:47:57.772 --> 00:47:58.772 One more time! 00:47:58.772 --> 00:48:00.742 What's the name of this Nation? 00:48:00.742 --> 00:48:01.742 Zulus 00:48:01.742 --> 00:48:02.501 Zulus 00:48:03.526 --> 00:48:05.216 Who's gonna get on down? 00:48:05.499 --> 00:48:07.479 Bambaata Bambaata 00:48:07.512 --> 00:48:11.021 Could everybody say Zulu Nation again? 00:48:11.047 --> 00:48:12.373 Zulus 00:48:12.373 --> 00:48:15.543 Everybody say Zulu Nation again! 00:48:15.733 --> 00:48:17.003 Zulus 00:48:17.003 --> 00:48:18.733 Everybody say THE 00:48:19.243 --> 00:48:20.023 THE! 00:48:20.023 --> 00:48:21.483 Say "Cosmic Force" 00:48:21.513 --> 00:48:22.604 Cosmic Force! 00:48:22.604 --> 00:48:23.630 Everybody say... 00:48:23.630 --> 00:48:27.540 (Narrator) "Well that wraps it up for this evening's edition of our musical mission 00:48:27.540 --> 00:48:29.900 I'm Gary Bird inside the GBE. 00:48:29.900 --> 00:48:32.635 Remember me next time you're looking for the perfect beat. 00:48:32.830 --> 00:48:35.575 Until tomorrow night remember you can make it if you try 00:48:35.896 --> 00:48:37.876 but keep your head to the sky." 00:48:38.139 --> 00:48:42.157 ♪ No matter how hard you try you can't stop us now ♪ 00:48:42.399 --> 00:48:45.559 [music and clapping] 00:48:46.121 --> 00:48:50.170 ♪ No matter how hard you try you can't stop us now ♪ 00:48:50.413 --> 00:48:58.861 ["Renegades of Funk" playing] 00:48:58.881 --> 00:49:00.751 ♪ Renegades of this atomic age ♪ 00:49:00.753 --> 00:49:02.733 [beats] 00:49:02.736 --> 00:49:04.476 ♪ This atomic age for renegades ♪ 00:49:04.491 --> 00:49:06.751 [beats] 00:49:06.846 --> 00:49:08.849 ♪ Renegades of this atomic age ♪ 00:49:08.882 --> 00:49:10.482 [beats] 00:49:10.535 --> 00:49:12.981 ♪ This atomic age for renegades ♪ 00:49:13.038 --> 00:49:18.728 [music, beats] 00:49:18.756 --> 00:49:22.021 ♪ Pre-historic ages and the days of ancient Greece ♪ 00:49:22.141 --> 00:49:24.201 ♪ All down through the Middle Ages ♪ 00:49:24.201 --> 00:49:26.261 ♪ Planet Earth kept going through changes ♪ 00:49:26.261 --> 00:49:30.604 ♪ Then the Renaissance came Times continued to change ♪ 00:49:30.604 --> 00:49:34.100 ♪ Nothing stayed the same, but there were always renegades ♪ 00:49:34.100 --> 00:49:36.334 ♪ Like Chief Sitting Bull, Tom Paine ♪ 00:49:36.334 --> 00:49:38.274 ♪ Dr. Martin Luther King, Malcolm X ♪ 00:49:38.274 --> 00:49:40.183 ♪ They were renegades Yes the renegades ♪ 00:49:40.183 --> 00:49:41.513 ♪ Of their time and age ♪ 00:49:41.513 --> 00:49:43.053 ♪ So many renegades What's that ♪ 00:49:43.076 --> 00:49:44.076 [beats] 00:49:44.099 --> 00:49:46.549 ♪ It's a hand clap, the renegade ♪ 00:49:46.620 --> 00:50:02.170 [music and beats] 00:50:02.251 --> 00:50:05.951 ♪ From a different solar system, many many galaxies away ♪ 00:50:06.130 --> 00:50:10.055 ♪ We are the force of another creation A new musical revelation ♪ 00:50:10.144 --> 00:50:14.144 ♪ And we're on this musical mission to help the others listen ♪ 00:50:14.144 --> 00:50:18.114 ♪ And groove from land to land singin' electronic chants ♪ 00:50:18.114 --> 00:50:19.984 ♪ - Like - Astrology ♪ 00:50:19.984 --> 00:50:21.369 ♪ - Like - Technology ♪ 00:50:21.908 --> 00:50:23.204 ♪ Like - God's Creation ♪ 00:50:24.074 --> 00:50:25.434 ♪ - Like - The Zulu station ♪ 00:50:25.893 --> 00:50:27.433 ♪ - Like - To the nation ♪ 00:50:27.860 --> 00:50:29.471 ♪ - Like - Destroy all nations ♪ 00:50:29.909 --> 00:50:31.509 ♪ - Like - Militants ♪ 00:50:32.105 --> 00:50:33.925 ♪ Like - Down in sand ♪ 00:50:33.925 --> 00:50:34.633 ♪ Like ♪ 00:50:34.633 --> 00:50:37.148 ♪ Through changes, nothing stays the same ♪ 00:50:37.748 --> 00:50:38.572 ♪ Oh renegades ♪ 00:50:38.572 --> 00:50:40.560 ♪ Way-o way-o way-o waya abanga ♪ 00:50:40.591 --> 00:50:46.181 ♪ Way-o way-o way-o way-a way-a way-a... ♪ 00:50:46.562 --> 00:50:48.662 ♪ Way-o way-o way-o waya abanga ♪ 00:50:48.662 --> 00:50:53.235 ♪ Way-o way-o way-o way-a way-a way-a... ♪ 00:50:53.483 --> 00:50:54.655 ♪ I got some more ♪ 00:50:54.775 --> 00:51:14.193 [music, beats and clapping ] 00:51:14.257 --> 00:51:17.997 ♪ Now renegades are people with their own philosophy ♪ 00:51:17.997 --> 00:51:20.087 ♪ They change the course of history ♪ 00:51:20.087 --> 00:51:21.763 ♪ Everyday people like you and me ♪ 00:51:21.763 --> 00:51:24.083 ♪ You know they have own their secret notions ♪ 00:51:24.376 --> 00:51:26.096 ♪ And time is endless motion ♪ 00:51:26.365 --> 00:51:29.805 ♪ All people of the moderate ages here in this twentieth century ♪ 00:51:29.805 --> 00:51:32.545 ♪ You have to keep up in time with the moderate time ♪ 00:51:32.545 --> 00:51:34.449 ♪ A state of mind and a sense of pride ♪ 00:51:34.449 --> 00:51:36.129 ♪ A renegade, yes a renegade ♪ 00:51:36.129 --> 00:51:38.259 ♪ Of this time and age So many renegades ♪ 00:51:38.259 --> 00:51:40.169 ♪ Who's that ♪ 00:51:40.169 --> 00:51:41.339 ♪ Now hand clap ♪ 00:51:41.730 --> 00:51:42.850 ♪ The renegades ♪ 00:51:42.924 --> 00:52:08.100 [music] 00:52:08.368 --> 00:52:09.866 ♪ We're the renegades of funk ♪ 00:52:10.268 --> 00:52:11.943 ♪ We're the renegades of funk ♪ 00:52:12.372 --> 00:52:13.898 ♪ We're the renegades of funk ♪ 00:52:14.306 --> 00:52:16.026 ♪ We're the renegades of funk ♪ 00:52:16.026 --> 00:52:18.326 ♪ Poppin sockin rockin with a side of hip-hop ♪ 00:52:18.326 --> 00:52:20.467 ♪ Where we're goin' there ain't no stoppin' ♪ 00:52:20.467 --> 00:52:22.568 ♪ Poppin sockin rockin with a side of hip-hop 00:52:22.568 --> 00:52:24.477 Where we're goin' there ain't no stoppin' 00:52:24.477 --> 00:52:26.498 Poppin sockin rockin with a side of hip-hop 00:52:26.498 --> 00:52:28.598 Cos where we're goin' there ain't no stoppin' 00:52:28.598 --> 00:52:30.608 Poppin sockin rockin with a side of hip-hop 00:52:30.608 --> 00:52:32.815 Cos where we're goin' there ain't no stoppin' ♪ 00:52:32.845 --> 00:52:36.335 [music, beats] 00:52:36.492 --> 00:52:40.097 ♪ There was a time when our music Was something called the Bay Street beat ♪ 00:52:40.097 --> 00:52:42.067 ♪ People would gather from all around ♪ 00:52:42.067 --> 00:52:44.097 ♪ To get down on the Bay sound ♪ 00:52:44.097 --> 00:52:46.094 ♪ You had to be a renegade those days ♪ 00:52:46.094 --> 00:52:48.334 ♪ To take a man on the dance floor ♪ 00:52:48.334 --> 00:52:51.924 ♪ Like Afrika Bambattaa and the Soulsonic Force ♪ 00:52:51.924 --> 00:52:56.264 ♪ We're talking about Mr.B Pow Wow, G-L-O-B-E ♪ 00:52:56.264 --> 00:52:59.374 ♪ Was a renegade, yes, a renegade of this time and age ♪ 00:52:59.374 --> 00:53:01.124 ♪ So many renegades What's that ♪ 00:53:02.045 --> 00:53:03.195 ♪ It's a hand clap ♪ 00:53:03.693 --> 00:53:04.493 ♪ The renegade ♪ 00:53:04.496 --> 00:53:12.266 [music] 00:53:12.266 --> 00:53:14.515 ♪ - Just jam sucker - Jam sucker ♪ 00:53:14.515 --> 00:53:16.253 ♪ - Say jam sucker - Jam sucker ♪ 00:53:16.253 --> 00:53:18.313 ♪ - Say groove, sucker - Groove, sucker ♪ 00:53:18.313 --> 00:53:20.263 ♪ - Say groove, sucker - Groove, sucker ♪ 00:53:20.263 --> 00:53:22.373 ♪ - Say dance, sucker - Dance, sucker ♪ 00:53:22.373 --> 00:53:24.263 ♪ - Say dance, sucker - Dance, sucker ♪ 00:53:24.263 --> 00:53:26.233 ♪ - Now move, sucker - Move, sucker ♪ 00:53:26.233 --> 00:53:28.493 ♪ - Now move, sucker - Move, sucker ♪ 00:53:28.493 --> 00:53:31.733 [music] 00:53:31.733 --> 00:53:32.433 Everybody say 00:53:32.433 --> 00:53:34.543 ♪ We're the renegades of funk ♪ 00:53:34.634 --> 00:53:36.224 ♪ We're the renegades of funk ♪ 00:53:36.238 --> 00:53:38.078 ♪ We're the renegades of funk ♪ 00:53:38.248 --> 00:53:40.128 ♪ We're the renegades of funk ♪ 00:53:40.248 --> 00:53:41.778 ♪ We're the renegades of funk ♪ 00:53:42.238 --> 00:53:44.048 ♪ We're the renegades of funk ♪ 00:53:44.474 --> 00:53:45.970 ♪ We're the renegades of funk ♪ 00:53:46.484 --> 00:53:48.104 ♪ We're the renegades of funk ♪ 00:53:48.180 --> 00:53:52.089 [music] ♪ Yeah you better shake that fellas ♪ 00:53:52.256 --> 00:53:53.446 ♪ Shake that thing ♪ 00:53:53.504 --> 00:53:55.964 ♪ That makes me swing ♪ 00:53:55.964 --> 00:53:57.108 ♪ I got some great ♪ 00:53:57.108 --> 00:53:58.438 ♪ He's a renegade of funk ♪ 00:53:58.438 --> 00:54:00.209 ♪ Mr. Biggs He's a renegade of funk ♪ 00:54:00.249 --> 00:54:02.019 ♪ Bambaataa He's a renegade of funk ♪ 00:54:02.255 --> 00:54:03.991 ♪ Pow Wow He's a renegade of funk ♪ 00:54:04.269 --> 00:54:05.919 ♪ And MC Globe ♪