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