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I'm just waiting for feelings.
When I get... cold,
when I got, "Whoof. Oh!"
That's what is like when you're in that zone.
Because, it doesn't seem like really you speak.
That's what you speak, but it's, like, you really are.
This, like,... your non-ego,
your soul, you know?
Part of you is connected with God.
This is like, wiser than... from your physique.
I'm always personal type with my method, man.
Sometimes I have something there
where I feel what it feels like if someone sees it.
They will know how I arrange the rhyme together.
A thought can become a reality.
What do you say to the universe
can become a reality.
You must make rima
like theater in your mind.
That must be something that when you say it, people can see it.
I'm just happy that I came at that time
where American language is being shifted
by young black people,
a godly teacher who is bad, on the street.
Hip-hop MCs have spoken a new America has become.
Whereas Jesse Jacksons in the world
is on its way down from their fight,
it's time for a new soldier to get up
and change direction, "How can we get out of here?"
Hip-hop does it verbally.
Strength to hold a microphone,
to take 16 bars, and at 16 bars,
You affect worldwide.
Maya Angelou, he said,
"Words are things. Take care of them."
The words belong to the man the most powerful weapon
in life, period,
whether you rap or not.
Like, you can be a father. You can be a husband.
You can be a brother or sister.
You say the wrong words
to family members can affect
does their life go negative, positive,
do they have a good day or a bad day.
So surely, words mean everything.
Lyrics not always means complexity.
The simplest comedian
has made the grandest statement.
When your pen is that strong,
You want everyone to know all the nuances of words.
Never delete your rhyme. Don't ever
That's my words...
that what I just told you is my bond.
¬ ¬... need more people, my heart is very evil ΓÖ¬
Γ ¬ Now I try to get -Ö¬ elite-lite
¬ ¬ & apos; Speak & apos; about your rope, how do you bring ¬¬ it
Γ ¬ Say you have a package, 3,000 Sour Diesel ΓÖ¬
Γ ¬¬ You say you have a bitch, but I never saw them with you Γ ¬ ¬ You say you like pipes but always hunt Γ ¬
Γ ¬ For a gun, a bitch tells me about yourself ΓÖ¬
ΓÖ¬ Yes, I think the name is Crystal ΓÖ¬
ΓΓ He said you gave a short screw Γ¬
Γ ¬ He can never forget you, You got the ΓÖ¬
chain ΓÖ¬ But you don't understand from jewelry ΓÖ¬
I have to be really moved to go and make something.
You have A Bronx Tale. I want A Queens Story.
I can see that as a movie, actually.
"Resting peacefully to Black alone,
driving through Jamaica, Queens in the black truck."
I can see myself in the truck with him,
You know, playing the notes and... we shake,
driving through Jamaica, Queens.
He showed me the block... block behind
where is everyone's gambling, and I meet people
from 40 projects, Baisley, and we are here
and behind this and all that.
He showed me ins and outs,
and we just talk, _ have fun,
and I'm writing, "Leg 40 Below,
wave to the side of the dome."
I described him, but I saw him.
It's not only me writing verses again.
That's like, "This is a serious moment."
After my first album, I don't have time
to sit at home and write.
I am a writer, but... is spontaneous.
Studio is a bathroom, where I go to release...
unless I enter my pocket and I set aside time is here
and don't do anything else but record until I finish it.
At that time, it became my spaceship, man.
ΓÖ ¬ Uh, rest calmly to Black Only ΓÖ¬
ΓΓ¬ Horseback riding Jamaica, Queens ΓÖ¬
ΓÖ¬ In the black truck, Legs are 40 Under ¬ ¬ ¬
ΓÖ¬ Wave to the side from the dome ΓÖ¬
ΓΓ¬ Definition is good, yo ΓÖ¬
¬ ¬ Gangsters do not die, igas only become eternal ΓÖ¬
ΓΓ¬ Angels don't just fly, they walk right before you Γ¬
When do they bring slaves
on the ship, you know, they have no way
to write their history,
so they have to tell to each other...
and they have to memorize it.
So, you memorize. You tell it to the next one.
And for me, that's the kind of thing what the MC does.
They document everything is happening.
This is the first impact of the song
that draws you, and it locks you.
The first few bars,
Cadence, whatever it is...
that feeling is felt in all, humans,
from beating one.
I remember fighting with a girl
about Biggie and Pac.
You know, I spat on from Big rhymes,
and I like, "Yo, did you hear that?
Like that I will go with him.
Now tell me one of Pac rima
it's better than that," and he said, "& apos; Dear Mama!"
That's all he said,
which means that the song means something in it.
Lyrics, yes... in hip-hop, inside.
Every time we write, we try to change something.
You know, we understand this feeling inside
which we cannot explain...
they are chemicals in our body
that-that-makes us feel awake.
You know, I'm bald-headed, so often,
I can almost feel,
You know, the hair in my head grows,
or I just, you know, can feel my heart pumping.
My heart starts to tick adrenaline,
and when I rhymed, I just... You know, I just feel it.
That's when I learned that I had something that was electric.
When rap comes the neighbors,
it took a hood by storm.
That's like, the next day,
all rapper and rest dancer and DJ.
I... I use rap name Tony Tee.
Like, "I am T-O-N-Y, T-E-E.
Your hand cannot hit what your eyes cannot see."
I think I, You know, killed him,
and then I remember my man, Swan playing Cold Crush for me.
ΓÖ¬ MC other can't deal with us ΓÖ¬
¬¬ & apos; Because we are four known as Cold Crush ΓÖ¬
¬¬¬ Six-one half, not good at math Γ¬
Γ ¬¬ Say rima for myself when I am taking a shower ΓÖ¬
ΓÖ ¬ Have a real client, proficiency, and influence ΓÖ¬
ΓÖ¬ And I didn't go into anything that I couldn't get out ΓÖ¬
Yes, I'm torn all my rhymes,
started my whole life.
I play sax come to school.
I took what I learned from it...
read music... and start pouring it on rhymes.
My first rima is,
"Mickey Mouse built a house. He built it on the border.
The earthquake came and shook the bed,
and now it is in the water."
One of them the things I really learned
from you... You know, You will write the poem,
then we will do it back later...
which you might forget about how exactly? these words should land.
Are we writing on paper or typing on a computer,
that the first space in line is always the only one.
If you come before this one,
the words go in the line above,
and then the syllable which hits one
is the first space on a line.
And if you miss this one,
which has become more style...
So Chuck D is really big to hit one.
"Back, you found out for the same thing."
You know, and others maybe, you know,
come before that one. "Don't call it a comeback."
- So "come" is in one. - Mm-hmm.
And now, people lose the most
so when you miss one, You put a point there
to hold the place to notify you.
But then underline where is the snare...
- Underlines the noose. - That Rakim did something
similar, in the sense he knows
where all the final words for the line,
and he will make points on paper
where will eventually become,
and he will write the last line first.
Measure it almost like sheet music.
- Mm-hmm. - So, as you say,
if I return six months later
and see this poem and go, "Oh, you know,
this one isn't too bad. This is actually good.
Let me try to spit on it," I know exactly how to spit on it.
I don't have to sit there and go,
"Ah, that didn't work. Wait, maybe that's not true.
Hold it. Let me look at it."
You know, I can see and soon
jump right to spit it out.
I will put the dots on paper first
to show me, um, how many bars do I have,
where is the 16th bar.
When I start combining different, um, style
dan-and try only...
complicates my rhyme with so many, eh,
big words and syllables and... Do you know what I mean?
Like, the-the-the wordplay is very crazy.
After a while, I have to put it a point on paper
to know where to take a breath.
It's not easy to rhythmically say something it is, in some cases, chronological order
and the poem with the right time.
Like most people can't do that.
I don't think people have respect...
the same respect for rap lyrics, like, say,
a Bob Dylan will get it for that music genre,
just because they don't see we respect that.
They don't see us _ respecting our own shit.
Do you know what I'm saying? We... because everything we do
criticizing each other. Cooler in hip-hop.
Somehow it feels, is cool to criticize.
Yes, it's cooler in hip-hop to criticize.
Not busy giving props.
I want to give people their fucking props.
- That's what I want to do. - Yes
I want... artists need to hear it.
Why do you want to make love take from art?
Do you know what I mean? Like, this is an art form.
Lyrics are an art form. It must be lyrics first.
You have a lyricist afraid to be a lyricist.
Rapper has never been given a credit by falling in love with language.
These are children... most of the time
from an urban environment... that's literally
fall in love with language.
What we call, um, You know, bars and poems,
You know, in poetry, they call it a stanza.
And it participates in development
English directly.
- Of course. - To this day,
even just hear something silly and funny like,
"Place a quarter on your buttocks & apos; Because you play alone,"
teach you right away
something about metaphor and about comedy.
Contributions are often ignored
and I think, sometimes, intentionally.
ΓΓ¬ Rappers stepped up to me, they wanted to get some Γ¬
ΓÖ¬ But I am Kane, so, yo, You know the results Γ¬
ΓÖ¬ Another victory, they can't be with me ΓÖ¬
ΓÖ¬ So choose BC date Because you are history Γ¬
You know, when you talk about MC,
that can mean several different things.
You can have someone which basically functions as an announcer,
or you can have someone it, like, party rockers,
or you can have, like, You know, your lyricist
who spits the bar, and it comes from rap battles.
I used to go to various schools...
Eastern District, Westinghouse,
Erasmus, Brooklyn Tech... against their best MC.
MC will come to my middle school.
I mean, I can be in class and I saw my man, La Son came to the window
on my doorstep... he'll knock on the door, go like that...
notify me, and I will get a bathroom ticket
and bring it back maybe three periods later.
You know, I'm big Fans of Muhammad Ali,
be the first thing I usually do it
destroying you before we even started rhyming.
I will do it for Buster what the Indians did for Custer.
I will destroy it.
"Only you, or all three of you?
Are you sure? I mean they can go too. "
Embarrassing you is very bad
that your friends laugh at you.
Because, you know, they are your children,
they will alienate you, but what will you say
after You just laughed to your man, you know?
Only Biz Markie.
Biz comes to me, and he already knows what he wants.
He comes, like, "I want to make a song
called & apos; Pickin & apos; Boogers. & apos; "
And I'm like," What about? "
She's like," I don't know, but please help me.
Somewhere in the song, just says,
& apos; Hey, Ma, what for dinner?
Ride your nose and choose the winner. & apos; "
He has an idea, so it's true just trying to find out,
You know," Okay, what is a stupid thing I can write? "
So I decided to do it went to the story format.
You know, just tell me about a situation
where you got caught choose boogers. very gloomy and gray ¬¬
¬¬ & apos; Because we all select our boogers ΓÖ¬
ΓÖ¬ A few moments every day, whether out in the open Γ¬
slipped ΓÖ¬
ΓÖ¬ With fingers, tissue, or even Q-tip ΓÖ¬
You are not who you are without your influence.
You hear, and you say,
"I like that. I want to do that."
Pac is the first rapper that I remember hearing
it's like, "Oh, I feel that.
I feel what he says," and too young
to feel it... the pain that comes from it.
I can feel whatever it is he tries to express.
In "Brenda's Got A Baby," he tells a story.
I'm like, "Damn, . I feel that story."
Γâ €... get out and have a children's church ΓÖ¬
ΓÖ¬ As long as when the check comes ΓÖ¬
ΓA¬ They got the first time ΓÖ¬
You know, when you talk about lyrics,
You think about storytellers, men,
like KRS, Slick Rick,
You know, Ghostface. Do you know what I mean?
Scarface.
Number of different styles and, I guess,
different influences I've
Amazing Thank you for rap.
You know, the same way that people argue...
You know, great writer, Frost, Chaucer.
Do you know what I'm saying? Twin.
- We denied the same thing. - And the girl
- who wrote Harry Potter. - Oh, yes.
Yes.
Alright, so I'll start. Eminem.
Notorious B. I. G.
Nas.
- Tupac. - Jay-Z.
- DMX. - 50 Cent.
This Nigga says DMX, takes my shit.
- Big Pun. - Jadakiss.
Wow.
I will only say Bizzy Bone.
- Tech N9ne. - Mos Def.
- Twista. - Kanye West.
Kweli.
Fuck.
- Did anyone say Kanye West? - Yes
Andr├⌐.
- General. - Andr├⌐ 3000... and Big Boi.
- Tech N9ne. - I said that.
- Tech... you say Tech. - Well.
- Twista. - I said that, bastard.
- No, you don't. - UGK.
- Kanye West? - Have you said that?
ODB is behind. We are hip-hop kids.
We really are. We are not a new age, like,
"We just found out about rap music."
You were abandoned Jerry Garcia.
- Oh, Jerry Garcia. - Is he a rapper?
Children call me black Jerry Garcia. I do not know why.
Because you see like black Jerry Garcia.
Damn, we must go someone out.
ΓÖ¬ Love will make you, love will make you ΓÖ¬
Some items I will go to, I like,
"I remember when this sounded old to me."
Now I hear it differently, like, "Okay...
yes, it's old,
but what if I put myself in someone's shoes
who hasn't heard this before?"
Like, I went and listened to the KRS album...
ΓÖ¬ I am in middle school with B-plus grade ΓÖ¬
¬¬ At the end of the day, I didn't hit the arcade Γ¬
ΓÖ¬ I walked from school to my mother's apartment ΓÖ¬
ΓÖ¬ I have to tell suckers every day, "Don't start" ΓÖ¬
¬¬ & apos; Because where I am, if you are gentle, you lose ¬¬
ΓΓ¬ To stay on track means to roll with the power Γ¬
... I'm fascinated, because I remember a point in time
when I was really looking for in KRS in that era like,
"Ah, they're old."
Like, "Nobody tried to hear it,"
now, as a grown man, I will return, listen,
and like, "Oh, my God. This goes platinum?
This dude fell knowledge.
Like, every bar, this person, like, releases knowledge. "
Do you know what I mean? Like...
Because it's fresh at that time, so heard it for the first time like...
My five-year-old brother is older than me,
and I told my brother, like, you know,
"No, MC Hammer best rapper, friend.
You must check it out. I tell you. "
ΓÖ¬ I'm marijuana on the floor and I'm magic on the mic ΓÖ¬
And he's like," No, friend. "
Like," MC Hammer the best entertainer.
There is a big difference between what the MC Hammer says
and what... " at that time,
it might be, oh, Rakim or Run-DMC.
"What do you mean, like, is that a big difference?
No, did you see it? He, like,
did a typewriter on the stage.
This is everything."
And he's like, "Well, this is cool.
Lyrics... there's a big difference."
I started listening to differently.
ΓÖ¬ Ruff ΓÖ¬
ΓÖ¬ Uh, uh, uh ΓÖ¬
Okay, Let's do it.
Γ ¬ Fuck weak shit, eh Γ ¬¬
Yonkers are like gumbo...
from... all districts.
We have a little Bronx,
little Harlem, a little Queens.
- But we are different. - Yes, but...
Lots of Yonker.
Γ¬... equipped, I will take ¬¬¬
ΓΓ¬ My bathtub lifted, my wall did 360 ¬¬
Γ ¬ We have bullshit that the government gets ΓÖ¬
Γ ¬ Speaking of money, then you rub the point ΓÖ¬
ΓÖ¬ Real niggas said that they went wild ΓÖ¬
ΓÖ¬ We are in the Cayman Islands, on cruise ships... ΓÖ¬
We maintain our foundation here. As you see,
our studio is here. You know, we have...
It is important to show... youth here
that they can make it, Do you know what I mean?
It's important to show them that it's not too far-fetched.
- This isn't... - Impossible.
You know, your dream is... your dream is there.
You... You know, if you want pursuing a rap career, you can do it.
You have all the good bullshit.
- Who? - You.
I have the same equipment from last night, D.
This looks like today to me.
ΓÖ¬ & apos; 80s hip-hop beat ΓÖ¬
I want to be Lee from Beat Street.
That's probably the first person
I once wanted to dress like that
- Or have... live a lifestyle. - Beat Street is so tense for me, compared to Breakin & apos;
- But I love them both. - Break & apos; is marijuana,
but I think Beat Street hit us.
I want to be on Beat Street more than I want
- is in Breakin & apos; - Yes, of course.
But I like watching Breakin & apos;
I like Breakin & apos; I don't like Breakin & apos; 3.
I prefer to be in Krush Groove
- More than them. - Krush Groove, for sure.
ΓÖ¬ Kiss on the spine ΓÖ¬
ΓΓ¬ Doing things we never did ΓÖ¬
I'm good on break-dancing.
In all cities, all different dungeons,
wherever the best linoleum is on.
I won several talent contests.
My name is calling Yonkers.
- Hip-hop is a Ferris wheel... - Mm-hmm.
... it's constantly like this,
You know, sonically, mode...
- Of course. -... and the haircut.
The hardest part of that lives on the Ferris wheel.
At this special beat, maybe I say...
I will drag the word out and he will not drag the word out.
Like, do you know what I'm saying? Maybe he said it
on that field I will not say it,
or the previous word, which becomes...
a whole entity from the creation itself
in one line.
Last time, I was just sitting next to it when I heard the verse when he composed it.
I made this verse... the next verse from it,
and then I can only hear what I am... what I want to say when he muttered,
or sometimes I hear it, or he hears it.
You might hear it and think we will be like,
I did the part, and he did the part,
we did the whole song... both he did it or me...
and then we have to fill it.
Say a few lines, you have to leave a few,
You have to go back in with the same energy
like the line is there.
- We don't hit. - We don't hit, huh.
We don't punch here. We pass all the verses.
We don't get... we don't give you one or two lines,
tell the engineer to stop, and then fill it.
Like, if we don't say it whole verse
from the first word to the last word of verse...
We go from... we go back to the top.
... we go back up, up, to get it...
Why is that?
We just... that's how we grew up.
MC is craft. This is like basketball,
boxing, mixed martial arts.
I ride a few pounds and fight the upper heavyweight,
or I lose a few pounds and fight lower body weight.
You speak with a beat.
When the knock comes, there is a special place
interesting from...
people, ancestors, spirits, energy, friends.
I can destroy you No matter how you do it.
I can still destroy you.
You have no chance at all.
You will not live at all.
¬¬ Light as I ever Γ¬¬
Brigh¬ Brighter from Edison's predecessor ΓÖ¬
ΓÖ¬ These Africans easily destroy ΓÖ¬
dirt ΓÖ¬ Exorcists are checking them ΓÖ¬
ΓÖ¬ With the cross, rebuke the devil ΓÖ¬
ΓÖ¬ I was clearly sent to heaven ΓÖ¬ Eh, I'm done, bro.
God. That's ridiculous.
For me, there is always a difference
between MC and a rapper, Do you know what I mean?
And for me, MC is the lyricist,
and the rapper the people here
for monetary profits and here for fame,
here for camera time, and so on.
They are those people, And like it,
lyricists are people who, like...
who never really cares about that,
people who really work on their craft
and really, um, emphasize...
rhythm and skills and style and, like, um...
choice of words and vocabulary.
For me, rappers don't worry about that.
They just have fun.
And being a "lyricist" is more than...
I don't know. You must be like that
make yourself crazy just to be...
only to have...
just to justify calling yourself a lyricist.
Do you know what I mean?
ΓΓ¬ My wishes are everything I got ΓÖ¬
¬ ¬ Means the tone if I'm not one of the ghosts ΓÖ¬
ΓΓ¬ Building a meeting with this gospel I speak ΓÖ¬
ΓÖ¬ Am I not someone do you quote? ΓÖ¬
ΓΓ¬ Prophesy I will fortune from what I wrote ΓÖ¬
¬¬ Popular as a pope, opens and then I unpack Γ¬
In 1986,
I see, like, my world is upside down.
And everyone speaks about crack, and...
Nobody talked about it. It just came down.
That's necessary
for the MC to say something.
The hood was very conscious at that time.
Rapper who is not aware starts digging and,
You know, taking a book.
These children are, You know, through Reaganomics
and through lack of funding for music
have everything taken away from them
find a way to make music with electronics
and for... to... like a jazz vocalist
that was played and staggered on the key and note,
find a way to make it English
instrument in itself.
After the rap starts to mature,
16-bar format comes out.
Γ ¬ But soon you begin to suffer ΓÖ¬
¬¬ & apos; Tune will be more rough when you start stuttering ΓÖ¬
ΓÖ¬ That's when you just bite ΓÖ¬
Γ ¬ Will make you choke, You cannot provoke ΓÖ¬
ΓÖ¬ You can't handle it, You must have broken up Γ¬
ΓÖ¬ Because I'm not kidding ΓÖ¬
Now I have to get it I mean
in 16 bars. I mean, before,
I will take Bar 30-something,
and I will complicate poetry,
gives you a little, um, idea than what I meant,
but it doesn't give you the amount until the end.
ΓÖ¬ Word, yo, how are you D-Nice? ΓÖ¬
ΓÖ¬ Yo, what's up, Scott La Rock? ΓÖ¬
ΓÖ¬ Yo, man, we cool ΓÖ¬
That changes from "huh to ya to"... you know,
Running a DMC style, like, rhythm, back and forth,
to this new... these people have different nuances.
I mean, it's different bouncing in
only the traditional end is from your rima.
There are rhymes in rhymes and different style patterns.
That's when it starts explored.
So for me, the year & apos; 86 is the year.
This is like the big bang theory,
That's why when everything changes.
¬ ¬ Many people tell me this style is amazing ΓÖ¬
Γ ¬ ¬ This is somewhat different, but let's be specific Γ¬
ΓÖ¬ KRS-One specializes in music ΓÖ¬
Γ ¬ I will only use this type style when I choose it ΓÖ¬
You have a man who, like, watch all this happen.
They watch Salt-N-Pepas, they watch the KRS,
they watch MC Shans, they watch Rakim,
they oversee LL for years.
They never got it opportunity detonate quickly, but they're crafting.
They are working and practicing.
And so far they have not been found,
they are, like, getting better.
"First, I started to copy Rakim,
then I mixed it up I got a little Rakim
with, like, Kool G Rap, then I mixed it
with, like, my original I have. "
Before you know it... You got a Nas.
ΓÖ¬ Flapping like a Rasta on the grass ΓÖ¬
ΓΓ¬ Vocals will squeeze Glocks, MCs eavesdrop on ΓÖ¬
ΓÖ¬ Even though they don't need to sneak, deepÖ¬ in my poem
Γ ¬ I never fell, Nas & raps must be locked in the ΓÖ¬ cell
¬ ¬ It's not difficult to say, it's not difficult to say ΓÖ¬
You know, I'm the one who says hip hop is dead.
J. Cole made people like me go, "Wow. This is ours... from J. Cole, mine...
this thing, this is serious. It's real."
ΓÖ¬ Freedom or prison, clip inserted ΓÖ¬
ΓÖ¬ A baby is born the same time my man is killed ΓÖ¬
ΓÖ¬ Beginning and end ΓÖ¬
ΓÖ¬ As far as rap goes, is just ¬¬¬ natural
¬ ¬ I explain my plateau and also what defines my name ΓÖ¬
ΓÖ¬ Yes, live long idols ΓÖ¬
ΓÖ¬ Hopefully they will never be your rival ΓÖ¬
ΓΓ¬ Pac is like Jesus, Nas wrote the Bible ΓÖ¬
¬ ¬ Now, what you want to hear is the story of glory and sin ΓÖ¬
ΓÖ¬ There is no mentor ID, now let the story begin ΓÖ¬
Γ ¬ I used to print Nas raps and glue them on my wall Γ ¬
ΓΓ¬ My mind is niggas they are words ΓÖ¬
ΓÖ¬ But that is the picture I saw ΓÖ¬
"But let me do it nicely like this, on, um...
on a piece of paper and on a song."
It's creative. I never meant
to write the song, your mind. You know, it's not like
I have, like, "Oh, I understand an idea for a song.
I will do something called & apos; Leave... & apos;"... well.
I just started writing, and that's what came out.
Yo, yo, yo, yo.
Yes.
My writing process,
often, it starts early in the morning,
in the bathroom. Air.
The water in the bathroom is, like, the best freestyle session.
Off-the-cuff, creative, is just my wild mind.
We used to drive from Virginia to New York,
piled up on, uh, Chad's car, at that time.
Driving here thinks that we will come to meet
with some A & R VPs,
and maybe, it's just, like, the postman,
when we arrived here,
who tried to improve its position.
But, um...
You know... It was a game at that time.
Young, hungry... you know,
advertising material, friend.
Um... anyone has ambition,
they are always, you know, are the people
that is connected to, um...
with our movement musical, man.
Always. Always.
We will take this music crap back to where we all started.
ΓÖ¬ Yo, I went by that name Pharrell... ΓÖ¬
- ΓÖ¬ I yo pus pusher ΓÖ¬ - ΓΓ¬... from Neptune ΓÖ¬
ΓÖ¬ Come on, come on ΓÖ¬
Make records like "Grindin & apos ;,"
without formulas...
hook structure
when Pharrell is at its peak,
singing on every recording on the radio.
And he doesn't sing in us,
and "Grindin & apos;" is a cult classic.
ΓÖ¬ From ghetto to ghetto to backyard to page keÖ¬
Γ ¬ I sell it whipped, not grasped, it's € or soft or hard
ΓÖ¬ I am a neighbor pusher ΓÖ¬
Γ ¬ ¬ Call me Subwoofer ΓÖ¬
¬ ¬ & apos; Because I pump bass like that, Jack ΓÖ¬
¬¬ On On or off the track, I am heavy, cuz ΓÖ¬
Γ¬¬ Ball until you fall, Because you can duck... Γ¬
The "Grindin & apos;" beat, man...
Pharrell is in the studio,
and he basically called me and told me
if I don't get to the studio in 15 minutes,
he will give beats to Jay-Z.
I'm like, "Okay, man, . I'm coming."
Like, he's like, "No, listen.
If you don't come, I give this beat to Jay-Z.
I told you, You better get here.
Don't sleep. Don't do anything.
Don't hesitate. Do not stop. "
He knows it will happen Get me there. That's very unusual for me.
I think that might have happened
the first time I had to rewrite... rewrite a verse. It took a while to, like, understand. You know, once I got it, it's history,
and I know that.
Radio DJs will say, " Look, man,
I won't play this, man.
I mean, if you let me mix it again, I will play it.
I mean, it's all drums. Where is that...
where are the synths?
Where are Neptune items in, man?
That's all... You know, only, like, some sounds.
Like, what are you doing?
Why did they give you this knock? "
Hip-hop dictates everything, man.
- Yo, Pusha. - What's wrong, G?
Alright.
Hip-hop dictates everything, yo.
Everything . And it's been like that for a long time.
Um... cried out to... cry for Kanye West, friend. Do you know?
Sometimes an artist becomes very big, and needed...
it takes a long time for people to really, um...
to really recognize the impact
of-of-of-hip-hop and rap in culture,
but when you have someone like Kanye
spearhead and become foremost...
You can't deny that truth.
I was a dancer,
so I can enjoy Young Thug.
She's fucking cracking me Because I can't understand it,
but he has a functioning melody.
And I know melodies, and I know harmony.
And I debated with Krizz all the time because he was a singer.
She's like, "That shit doesn't make sense."
I said, "No, no." ΓÖ ¬ Yes ΓÖ¬
ΓÖ¬ Yes ΓÖ¬
All of the notes were hit by Young Thug works in that beat.
ΓΓ¬ Best friend, best friend, friend ΓÖ¬
ΓÖ¬ Best friends, best friends, best friends ΓÖ¬
Welcome to my car wash. This is called The Wash.
Wash strange music yourself.
Who in hip-hop has car wash?
I don't know. I have never heard a single one.
Fans, they will travel from Texas
only to come their car wash here, friend.
They will travel from all over the world
to Kansas City for washing cars.
This is top-notch.
It's something proud of, though.
Do you know what I'm saying?
We really can walk to headquarters here.
Strange Lane is what I call it.
Soon, we will have all this nonsense.
Next will be a hotel,
then that will happen concert hall.
We will continue to grow.
Hello?
ΓÖ¬ I want to party, You want to party ΓÖ¬
- ΓÖ¬ We must party ΓÖ¬ - ΓÖ¬ Grazie ΓÖ¬
Let me wake up.
- ΓÖ¬ Saturday morning ΓÖ¬ - ΓÖ¬ Yes ΓÖ¬
Γ ¬ I don't have to work ¬¬
Γ ¬ The last night event sold a lot of merchandise
Γ ¬ Bitch in my bed, so I don't have to jerk ek¬
ΓΓ The Forbes list caught me Γ¬
Γ ¬ So it's difficult to make the dollar hurt ΓΓ¬
We are now inside
Strange Music Headquarters.
This is his house The rap was built.
This is our warehouse.
Every time I enter here, I exit.
This is where all my colleagues work.
This is Strange Music everywhere, man.
Funny thing is we start only with hats and clothes,
and now see all this, friend.
This is very beautiful.
This is what I like best.
I like women. Blast.
"Baby Times."
Where is the G-string?
I... have nothing...
but talent...
to be able to write songs.
I think in my way to the Forbes list.
When I first started tapping, I sound like Ice Cube.
Γ ¬ I've been crazy since then my birth date is Γ¬
ΓΓ¬ My mother said I would be a threat to the planet Earth Γ ¬ Now I live for that title ΓÖ¬
Damn I often say. I forget.
That's been a long time. ¬ ¬ I have gone crazy since ¬¬
Γ ¬ My date of birth, my mother said I would Γ¬¬¬
ΓÖ¬ Threats to planet Earth, now I live ΓÖ¬
ΓÖ¬ For that title, is black with rubber, shouting ΓÖ¬
ΓÖ¬ "Fuck Billy Idol," pit is too important ¬¬
I have to use what I have.
"Why do I have these strange thoughts?"
Do you know what I mean? So I gave it to my fans.
¬ ¬ Gobble tracks like I grubbin & apos; at Mama Naka's s ΓÖ¬
Γ ¬ I can appear right to you Because I'm a partner ¬¬
ΓÖ ¬ With Waka Flocka, give me the top of hip-hop ΓÖ¬
ΓÖ¬ And watch him make 'em rock with showstopper ΓÖ¬
People who are sick listen to for that, they are connected.
Why did you call them sick people?
Because I'm sick... mentally.
I stole books because they won't give me
classes in high school, do you know?
I stole psychology books.
I started using drugs, You know, and hissed.
I almost died because of the drugs.
I am clean for, like, 11 years.
What I realized was that I wrote my life and telling everyone really is my therapy.
Passing everything I have been through
with my mother passing, I have noticed that for years that I'm a fan of my psychiatrist.
I'm talking about Krizz Kaliko
and my brother Makzilla, You know, and I hiss.
They are with me all the time.
Krizz is always with me on the way.
Makzilla and I lived at home for several years.
We are a team of writers.
- How do you like Sriracha? - Scorching hot.
Very hot, but that's good, right?
Man, you have his mouth... You make his mouth burn.
Yelawolf doesn't make this hat.
Yelawolf what can't you do?
Yelawolf doesn't make this hat.
- No, he didn't make that hat. - This is my Black Amish.
- What are you doing & apos; - Aw, I'm here
talking nonsense about you, about writing.
Are you telling a secret?
- Oh yeah. - There is no secret.
How do we do it with fear "...
only my brothers can write chorus
for that personal song about my mother.
- Mm-hmm. - You know what I say ?
We are experienced that much is with you.
Do you know what I am saying? Even if you are in a dark place
when you write it, see what happened. At that time you have to go to their place
to draw such thing
like, you want to try to go there
and exit as fast as you can, because you don't want
- think too much about it - Aw, yeah.
- Great. - That's why I will
it's never really dark album anymore.
Because I don't know I have all dark stories to tell.
¬¬ Reoccurring dreams ΓÖ¬
Γ ¬ I fell, fell from something high ¬¬
ΓÖ¬ And the name of Jesus that I called ΓÖ¬
ΓΓ¬ This is enough in ¬¬
ΓÖ¬ I decorate city streets ΓÖ¬
¬ ¬ Little pieces are small, there will actually be ΓÖ¬
ΓÖ¬ Some chalky images of ΓÖ¬
I've done this for years.
We wrote our music to do live shows, friend!
Young people don't do it now.
Do you know what I'm saying? I mean, that's cool.
You know, they don't have No OG teacher teaches them,
"Uh, how are you? rap is on the stage?
You just tapped and tapped and tapped. When will you sigh?"
"Um... I don't know."
- I take a breath. - I take a big breath.
ΓΓ¬ Follow me, around my planet runs the whole ΓÖ¬
ΓÖ¬ In Sickology, they can never succeed, we damage ΓÖ¬
ΓA¬ Without apologizing, chose them from panic ΓÖ¬
Γ ¬ ¬ A small bead penyebab cause I must, panic ¬¬
Γ ¬ ¬ I guarantee it's the cause I am an oddity ΓÖ¬
Do you know what I'm saying?
I got all those breaths to do it
Because I took a breath. I wrote it like that.
I want the fan to come to the show
to hear what they like.
This is 904 Michigan.
From birth to ten years, I live in this house
with my mother, her mother,
his sister Suzy, Ivy brother,
brother Ikey, Ricky's other brother.
We all live in this house.
I used to drive my Big Wheel
lower these steps... again and again.
How are you bro? Kickin & apos; is it like a donkey?
I think they don't know
- I'm from below here. - I know you from here.
- Do you know? - Yes
Do you want Please enter?
Wow.
Ooh, I don't know if I'm ready for that.
Sarah, did you let us come here?
Do you know my grandmother's name who lives here?
Uh, Sarah Lee Yates.
How is the other Sarah staying here now?
Wow, that looks better than when we lived here.
- How are you? - I am doing fine.
I am Tech.
- I'm Hazel. - Yes
My grandmother has a sofa here.
Our kitchen table is here.
I remember fried bologna in the morning.
It feels smaller because I'm still small.
Do you know what I'm saying? I... I'm still a baby.
This is where I grew up, dawg.
I don't think I will never come back here.
There are no cockroaches here like when we have cockroaches.
I used to have to do this every morning.
I will wear my shoes. I used to have to do this.
I don't see myself as a writer.
I don't appreciate even writing
until I started writing rap.
I don't care, actually.
Whatever I will write may be paper
for school or something, do you know?
Middle School, You have to write an essay
or -or something like that, like...
but it's more like work.
Even when I started writing rap, it was like,
"Now I'm a rapper." I don't really appreciate it,
like, skill level
you must have until later.
When I first started tapping, I was challenged.
It's like, rap fight, you know,
like, only rhyme. I am better than you raps.
That group.
How can I go to school on Friday
and tell five people that I'm better than them
and how... you know, how much better than them
in these ways, with this metaphor,
in this type of flow and rima?
When I started trying to make songs,
there are some older men...
some people are older than me
around the city that I associate with,
try to learn.
Really, trying to get it beats them.
One of them is like,
"Yo, you have to start telling stories. Like... everything bullshit is cool,
but, like, bullshit can't make songs."
It was clicked. I'm like, "Oh, man.
She's right." And I remember when I write, I'm like, "Whoa."
That's like, a start, middle, end.
That's the climax. It has tension.
It has a shadow.
All the nonsense I have kind of studying at school.
And that changed my whole perspective,
Because I realize that is really what... moves me.
Braggadocious is the same as,
You know, that's-that's cool, but it's like...
That's... it's a box around it.
Yes.
Γ ¬ Why is every black number rich Must be famous? ΓÖ¬
Γ ¬ Why does every black number break up Must be stupid? ΓÖ¬
ΓÖ¬ Uh, that is the stereotype ΓÖ¬
Γ ¬ Developed by several people in Ariel Heights ΓÖ¬
Γ ¬ ¬ Next scenario Γ¬
Γ ¬ Young Cole's pockets are fat like Lil TerRio ΓÖ¬
ΓΓ¬ Dreamville, give us one year, we will be at every ΓÖ¬
event ΓÖ¬ Yes, fuck, nigga, I am very sure ΓÖ¬
I woke up one night read a dictionary,
and I found "Rhapsody," with H.
RAPSODI.
And the definition, is short,
is a poem that is pronounced with full emotion.
ΓÖ¬ Writing Hallmark, several lines Γ¬
ΓÖ¬ To touch your feelings, looked at the wall art ΓÖ¬
ΓÖ¬ Some days I feel like Three Stacks ΓÖ¬
at¬¬ at the altar, international players ΓÖ¬
Γ¬¬ Like DeRozan, I can hit hard ¬¬
ΓΓ¬ True friends always take... Γ¬
I come from a small city
in North Carolina.
Population: 1,200.
Everything hip-hop-wise is, like... this magical place.
You know, I will sit in front of the TV
and-and watching Fugees, and I will watch Nas and Biggie,
and I will watch MC Lyte and Ratu Latifah,
Salt-N-Pepa, and it's like, "Wow."
And I don't have anyone
that I can go out and touch.
I think it's just fear judged
and don't even think is possible.
That's Charlie Smarts from Kooley High.
He is like, "You are here in the studio every day.
I know what you want to do.
Go write the verse and enter the booth."
Γ ¬ ¬ Speaking big games, you are not Torry, home ΓÖ¬
Γ ¬ I don't drive pickup, but I avoid Rams ΓÖ¬
¬ ¬ That's really all wolves all dress like lamb ΓÖ¬
ΓÖ ¬ I'm really a superhuman, you only pose like Cam ΓÖ¬
I used to have a tendency to overthink it.
You know, not let it come naturally,
I will focus too much on
try to say the smartest, complicated punch line.
It's like basketball. Like...
You know when someone is in their zone.
You see it when they go down
and they become crazy, special stone.
When they swing like that... "Oh, he will stop,
& apos; Because he is in his rhythm." Bam.
So when I think too much about playing,
it's like, I lost my rhythm, and the shot didn't fall
like it should fall.
Don't think too much about it.
Don't try to make it perfect. You go.
ΓÖ¬ Heavyweight champ ΓÖ¬
ΓÖ¬Mm, shake Amsterdam, got the AS coast coasting Γ¬¬¬
¬¬ Rap Rap like I played golf, got US open terbukaÖ¬
Γ¬¬ The beast has been awakened, his speech is ferocious ΓΓ¬
Γ ¬ Here Here is our drama, leave beef with ghost-es ΓÖ¬
ΓÖ¬ When it comes to flows ¬¬
ΓÖ¬ I am a rapper with the most € € Γ ¬ Turning off the party, it doesn't matter who hosts rumah € ¬
Γ ¬ Now it's about money and it's all about cars ¬¬
ΓÖ¬ This should be about the barÖ¬
bar ΓÖ¬ No problem who's brokest estÖ¬
ΓÖ ¬ Heavyweight champion with heavyweight chip ΓÖ¬
¬ ¬ ¬ fourth ball quarter Γ¬
My writing has changed my life tremendously.
Before this, I am a drug dealer.
Only other work I have is sweeping my hair
in haircut.
My words give to me and my family and some other families,
and it must be a blessing.
So, Freeway in the past, you know,
he looks back in some errors
he might have made or some of the paths he took,
and he will go through this and say,
"Do you know what? If this Freeway is not there,
You will not have this Toll Road we have here now."
Yes, so, basically, you know, color and everything,
I definitely think it-it works well.
I mean, I'm glad you let me listen to some...
some of the lyrics are in... on album, man,
but I really think this will be
your best album cover, especially for this classic
- You will fall. - Help me too.
Make sure I understand a little prostration.
I have you, bro. I got you.
I am very big Naughty fan by nature.
I think the Treach is, like, one of the dopest.
I like the drapes from the Black Sheep.
Course, Biggie, Tupac, Jay.
Γ ¬ ¬ He listens to to the new MC Lord ΓÖ¬
ΓÖ¬ I am something You will never doubt Γ¬
I hate rap now.
But... fine, I'm sorry. I don't mean to say that.
Competitiveness is lost
because nothing hot even competes with.
You are starting to get cold, like, "This is nonsense,
and I don't even want to do this
Because it's not bad."
I need someone to put in some pepper in my poop.
Do you know what I'm saying? Lyrics.
Because of that, like, -back-butt now.
Stupid people don't get credit,
and only nigga, it's like they throw...
There are, like, parties for these people.
You know what I'm talking about!
You are like, "Yo, this number sounds like-and-so."
But they don't know... kids.
My son likes it, "Daddy, you're crazy. - He's sexy." - Mind blowing.
We did it no one can do it.
Like, we have Jay-Z on the same block,
then we put it on TV.
That's crazy.
¬¬ & apos; Talkin & apos; owed five Sparks Γ¬¬
ΓΓ¬ Ride for ΓÖ¬ dollars.
ΓΓ¬ Famous in Hollywood ΓÖ¬
ΓÖ¬ High in their Holly-hills ΓÖ¬
As children,
poetry and rhymes are my vents. Do you know what I mean?
I'm not good at expressing myself.
I don't know how with my anger too good.
Words and poems have just turned into...
uh, that just changed... it just opened
a new world for me.
I am a poet. Do you know what I'm saying?
ΓÖ¬ I don't like rock the other rapper ΓÖ¬
Γ ¬ ¬ They were mistaken, all their niggas sounded like ΓÖ¬
ΓÖ¬ They have to do rap-along ΓÖ¬
Γ¬ I let them here I light years past them all Γ¬¬¬
ΓΓ¬ They act, so I divide the clip Γ ¬
ΓÖ¬ Wheelchair, throw everything away, armed skills, human manusiaÖ¬
ΓÖ¬ I run this nonsense like a ΓÖ¬
triathlon ΓΓ¬ Want to go out and play, you have to ask your father ΓÖ¬
Γ ¬ You want to do something and get paid for this ΓÖ¬
- ΓÖ ¬ You have to ask the Don ΓÖ¬ - Mm!
ΓÖ¬ Psychic reading in the palm of my mother ΓÖ¬
Said ¬ Said The word your son will live and grow to be a born leader ΓÖ¬
ΓÖ¬ I almost fell down this torpedo ΓÖ¬
- ΓÖ¬ We are a score leader Γ ¬ - Floats on it.
ΓÖ¬ I am on the north side From Philly with se├▒orita ΓÖ¬
Γ ¬ I will never leave it Γ¬
¬ ¬ & apos; Because daddy has all appears ΓÖ¬
Yes!
¬¬ & apos; Because I am light years passes them all ΓÖ¬
ΓΓ¬ They acted, so I pulled the clip Γ¬
ΓΓ¬ Wheelchair, throw them all, gunman manÖ¬
ΓÖ¬ Man, I run this crap like a sepertiÖ¬ triathlon
I used to try to adjust many words in a verse,
and Jay like, "You don't have to do that. You don't have to adjust everything into one verse.
You can let the beat breathe. "
This is unorthodox.
It separates me from other people.
What's good, everyone? Good day hunchback.
We're here.
Well, I just came from dialysis,
the process you went through which cleansed your blood
when you... when you got it kidney failure. You know, I don't know what will happen. You know me a devout Muslim, so the first thing I do
is, I go to the mosque,
and I pray and ask God to help me
pass anything that I have to face.
Then I went to the hospital, and you know,
they diagnosed me with kidney failure.
And they cut my chest open and put a port on my chest,
and then the next day, I do dialysis.
Four hours a day three times a week.
And by God's grace,
I am quite healthy to enter the transplant list,
so now I'm active on the transplant list.
So they can call me anytime, day or night,
then I have to rush to the hospital,
and they will do a transplant for me.
I just want to show people that...
it's not a death sentence.
New things happen in my life.
That's just more content and more ammunition for me to put in music.
Γ ¬ Say, how can you take my smile from me? ΓÖ¬
ΓÖ¬ You said you love me ΓÖ¬
¬¬ But you lie, You lie, you lie Γ¬
Γ ¬ Say, how can you take my smile from me? ΓÖ¬
This is Betty's old house here.
He is a creative child.
He likes to draw. He likes a little artifact...
LEGO and things like that.
When a hip-hop bug attacks it, uh...
he-she becomes consumed with that.
And all of that is related to,
they are consumed by hip-hop too,
so... uh, that's different.
I am not "consumed big by hip-hop" type of parents.
Look, I came in the Sugarhill Gang.
I remember when the first hip-hop arrived here,
so I said, "Okay, how long will it last?" Do you know?
ΓΓ¬ That hip, hippie to the hip ΓÖ¬
ΓÖ¬ Hip-hop and you don't stop ΓÖ¬
¬¬ Rock Shake, baby bubba ΓÖ¬
ΓÖ¬ For boogity of the crowd ΓÖ¬
ΓΓ¬ Boogie on boogie, beat ΓÖ¬
He should do it
a task. It finally becomes
some poems he wrote that he was changed to a song.
The teacher was very impressed...
first, he is a little offended.
Something must be done with the toilet seat
- and things like that, so... - Oh, yes, yes.
- I remember that. - Do you remember?
You talked about "The Little Miss Muffet."
That is how it is.
I got "A" for that? I think we... he's crazy
and you have to go up there.
I think he's angry... he's mad at me.
- Is he angry? - I haven't entered...
Am I not having a problem with him for that?
- Uh, yeah, right. - Yes, yes.
But he still got "A."
- I don't know. - First,
"Little Miss Muffet"...
"Little Miss Muffet is sitting on the brake car,
then she drinks juice toilet."
- That's it. - Then
I, uh... I drew a picture toilet...
toilet with toilet lid
with a woman with a head in it with legs sticking out.
He was very offended with that,
so my mother went there to talk to him.
I came and I fell in love with hip-hop, and I entered the game
as a war attack artist.
You know, open the microphone, fighting with other artists.
ΓÖ¬ Yo, I got out naked at birth ΓÖ¬
Γ ¬ Worsening, makes verse ΓÖ¬
ΓÖ¬ Holy and shake the Earth ΓÖ¬
ΓÖ¬ Niggas has many opinions about Royce ΓÖ¬
ΓÖ¬ But they have no voice ΓÖ¬
ΓÖ¬ I am more stupid than them, so they have no choice ΓÖ¬
I met Marshal, and he pulled me into hip-hop.
That was my introduction into the game.
ΓΓ¬ Staying on the shelf, playing alone ΓÖ¬
¬ ¬ Ancutan promises to test all of you
Γ ¬ Just do this rap nonsense until the UPS calls ΓÖ¬
I never thought of myself as an artist
happens to sell recordings,
have to think about, "How can I sell this music
to all these people?" That was not in my mind.
I just want to be lyrically superior.
This is the feel of the beat.
I live in the studio for more than 30 hours.
I hardly do songs unless I rewrite something.
What we do now is a charity concert
for the crisis in Flint now, with water.
That is very bad where it affects
children and adults at the same time.
I have spots on my feet. My ribs are swollen.
I don't even drink this water.
I don't even cook with no more.
If we can't cook with it,
can't take a shower with that, can't drink with it,
why do we have to get out of our pocket
and pay for it?
I am 45 years old
and I am afraid to take a shower.
When my grandson... he came,
I mean, we just... we're itching!
We are constantly itching, do you know?
Just like that has scabies or...
I don't know what that is. Only this... I dig it.
I scratched until I took blood.
They say it's water.
It even affects how trees and things change.
All of this first greening in summer.
Everything is dying.
I pray a lot about that.
- Mm-hmm. - You know?
You have fair people Don't even live here,
they entered to help us.
God bless them.
God's touch everyone's heart
to come here, because we definitely need help.
Everyone donates a show.
So for good purposes.
I'm just happy that I was invited
and I can to help somehow.
Yes!
Flint, make noisy sounds out there!
Note the shade is in the building.
What's the matter, TJ?
Uh oh. Let's go!
ΓÖ¬ Hey, hey, hey, hey ΓÖ¬
- Come on! - ΓÖ¬ Hey, hey ΓÖ¬
ΓÖ¬ Get & apos; em up, get & apos; em up ΓÖ¬
ΓΓ¬ Everyone says 5 9 9 "ΓÖ¬
- ΓÖ¬ Hei ΓÖ¬ - 5 & apos; 9"!
- ΓÖ¬ Say 5 & apos; 9 "ΓÖ¬ - 5 & apos; 9"!
- Γ ¬ Now make a sound ΓÖ¬ - Come on!
ΓÖ¬ I am verbal saliva Smith Wesson ΓÖ¬
Γ ¬ I disassembled with sore saliva ΓÖ¬
ΓΓ¬ Fast intelligence can split Γ € fractions of a second
Bomb ¬ Bomb Bomb with an ΓÖ¬ axis expression ΓÖ ¬ You hear a check, then you test ΓÖ¬
ΓΓ¬ My saliva and saliva ΓÖ¬
ΓA¬ Can divide threads into fibers and bits ΓÖ¬
Γ ¬ ¬ So believe me, I am living because I got ΓÖ¬
ΓΓ¬ Everyone claims they are terbaik¬ best
ΓÖ¬ And they headed the throne since B. I. G. lost ΓÖ¬
Γ ¬ If you ask me, they are "Dead Wrong" ΓÖ¬
I use to always say, "Man,
Chicago is awareness of hip-hop."
If you... think about this:
everyone who really continually makes it
- in hip-hop from Chicago... - Is aware.
... aware. Period.
- Yes - You know
what do i mean? Like, Chicago has passion,
and spirits will not allow you, like,
leave if you just on bullshit, period, right?
- Right. - You can be bullshit,
but you have to have something... substance in yourself...
or this city will not let you...
Everyone you know from Chicago is sustainable like, sick, like Barack Obama, Lupe...
It's there: substance.
That's Chicago.
If you were born and grew up in this city,
You are traveling through this veil.
Chicago makes you.
Donda's house began two years ago.
My wife is a middle school English teacher.
And I said, "I can use it my creative
and my resources and people I know,
and you use your skills to make the curriculum,
and let's create a curriculum hip- hop. Let's teach creative writing,
studio etiquette, conflict resolution.
That's the same thing that Dr. Donda West,
who is Kanye's mother, give me: a safe space . I remember me and Kanye, like, making some rhymes,
and I'm talking about how many bitches I made,
how many people did I kill, how many drugs did I sell.
And Dr. Donda West pulled me aside.
He doesn't know much about rap.
She's like, "Rhymefest, are you really, like,
having sex with all those women and killing all those people?
And you know, I know you, like, 15.
I don't judge you. I'm just asking. "
And I'm like, "No, . I'm just trying to be famous.
That's how on the radio."
And he said, "Do you feel comfortable
living in a lie You tell yourself?"
She's like, "You have to tell your truth,"
and change my life.
Every young person needs it.
Dude, rap doesn't mean anything,
music doesn't mean anything unless you combine it
with a kind of movement. This is my movement.
Even if you have good music, who are you?
Everyone rap. Everyone gets a beat.
You have to... well, you have to be someone before music.
- Right. - Yes
Γ ¬ Now Che Bustin enters to hit "em ΓÖ¬
ΓÖ¬ Damn that cynicism, I quickly gave ΓÖ¬
ΓÖ & apos; Y & apos; all niggas constructive criticism ΓÖ¬
Γ¬¬ Like, "Wait, You basically suck" ΓÖ¬
ΓΓ¬ His mother said, "My son wants to rhyme" Γ ¬ ¬
ΓÖ¬ I like, "Ma & apos; am, I don't agree with that decision" ΓÖ¬
I don't believe that I wrote for anyone.
Everyone who works with me,
I consider collaboration.
You will be in that room,
and I will say something to the track,
and you will say, "Ooh!
But what if we..."
And I'm like, "Yes!" And we will do it
build something together. We will build it.
You know, in this case "Glory",
me and Common sit on the phone.
General like, "Yo, man,
we have to make it something noble.
We have to have something , like...
human, from heaven." And I like,
"Yo, you know what we should do? We must pray to the ancestors."
Now, this is the first time this has ever happened.
"Let's ask them to write songs."
So we asked Dr. King, Fannie Lou Hamer,
Mike Brown, Medgar Evers,
Emmett Until, Eric Garner.
We asked all from the recent martyrs
to guide our hands and write their stories.
Two hours later, it's finished.
It's very liquid.
ΓÖ¬ Hands to heaven, one person, no weapons ΓÖ¬
ΓΓ¬ Against, yes, glory is doomed ΓÖ¬
Like, one of my favorite lines, you know, is, uh,
ΓΓ No human can win the war individually ΓÖ¬
ΓΓ¬ It takes wisdom from the elders ΓÖ¬
ΓΓ¬ And the energy of young people Γ¬¬¬
ΓΓ¬ This is the story we call victory ΓÖ¬
¬ ¬ Coming from God, my eyes have seen the glory of uliaanÖ¬
Humans can't write it!
Yo, I have shorty, man...
15 years, lives next to me.
Every time I step out, he is like,
"I can't believe you live next to me."
But what he does where he thinks he lives
or who... likes, that...
that's what we lost in integration.
We lost the doctor who lives next door,
artist who lives next to,
the lawyer who lives next door.
As black people in America, we are very traumatized...
that we always try to run from ourselves and our community.
Che "Rhymefest" Smith said
that he was robbed today at gunpoint.
It happened around 7:30 a.m. this morning
when Smith was sitting in his car
on 43rd and Cottage Grove.
Smith said someone got into the car,
Put a gun on his head, and threaten to kill him
before taking his wallet.
Grammy winner players have a message for robbers.
I help many young people in this city.
You don't need to rob me.
Come to me. Contact me.
I will help you get a job.
Smith also expressed frustration
with the Chicago police,
says that officer is disturbed
and even praised it when he tried to make a report.
Γ¬¬ Flexing like you toothpaste, Arm & Hammer ΓÖ¬
ΓÖ¬ You are not, like trippin Your shoes are not lined ΓÖ¬
ΓÖ ¬ Get so many bars, I need space, it will come to me Γ¬
ΓÖ¬ There are no rebates, I use them like clean ones Γ¬¬¬¬
¬ ¬ I am always on it like I am not a teammate ΓÖ¬
ΓÖ¬ I have had success, etc. I am progressing, so it must be ¬¬¬¬
Γ¬¬ According, I look great ¬¬¬¬
ΓÖ¬ I am too big like Sean and Rihanna ΓÖ¬
Γ ¬ ¬ Stay sharp like piranha teeth ΓÖ¬
Γ My honor is like I'm Ghana, Africa, I'm a Shaka Zulu ΓÖ¬
Γ ¬ ¬ Who do you know can step on these sounds? ΓÖ¬
Γ ¬ There has never been a problem Khusus Special when I can ¬¬
ΓÖ¬ Knocking them like lower octaves ΓÖ¬
ΓÖ¬ Get down like a sullen when no one is watching ΓÖ¬
ΓÖ¬ I say I rap until ¬¬
ΓΓ¬ My fingers bleed, I wrote until my throat hurt ΓÖ¬
ΓÖ ¬ Check, I wrote this in my sleep Γ¬
ΓÖ¬ Built, then I wrote again ΓÖ¬
ΓÖ¬ I wrote this in ΓÖ¬
cells Γ ¬ Surrounded by 1,000 digits, I hope to cultivate ΓÖ¬
ΓΓ¬ My people are like bees from pollen, flowers, givers ΓÖ¬
ΓÖ¬ They say there is mental illness ΓÖ¬
ΓÖ¬ Planted in in our culture Γ¬
ΓÖ¬ Lots of free but still enslaving ΓÖ¬
ΓΓ¬ And wait until they sentence up Γ¬
Γ ¬ So I encourage you to make changes Γ¬
ΓÖ¬ And don't wait until I'm done this sentence ΓÖ¬
ΓÖ¬ And if I have ever been shown you love ΓÖ¬
Γ ¬ I just hope you know I really mean it ΓÖ¬
¬ ¬ Notice I support you, & bout to get back to you Γ¬
ΓÖ¬ Pay attention to me, watch me back to you Γ¬
ΓÖ¬ & apos; Bout to support you ΓÖ¬
So we are in the Bronx. We are in Boogie Down,
which is the birthplace of hip-hop.
Γ ¬¬¬ Queen bodega, Garcia Vega the original ΓÖ¬
Γ¬¬¬ Throw it back like that Sega ΓÖ¬
ΓÖ¬ Papi became the plug and her mother from Grenada ΓÖ¬
ΓΓ¬ he said, "Dime, d├¡melo," but he never did anything unpleasant ΓÖ¬
ΓÖ¬ Hay la negrita ΓÖ¬
- Γ ¬ ¬ He closes time Γ ¬ ¬ - Sucks.
ΓÖ¬ Ba-ba-di-da, he likes the wave above us ΓΓ¬
ΓÖ¬ S├¡guela, sigue la negrita ΓÖ¬
Excuse me, daddy.
Yo!
This is B. I. C. This is homies.
We have an event where is us first and then he.
- Mm-hmm. - It's also in Southpaw.
- Below. - I'm very angry - bullshit is closed. - With Q, right?
With Q. Do you remember that?
- Yes - Oh, are you on that day?
Yes, he left afterwards. He killed that crap.
Very early, huh. That, like, Baby Nitty.
And when you open for Kendrick.
- Mm-hmm. - You can take it
crowd by beans and just make sure
that they pay attention to you.
Nobody wants to give poop in New York.
Yes, like, and you can't get from being funny.
Do you know what I'm saying? New York is not
will appear because of you Bad whore or something.
Well, if you try it only lives...
ΓÖ¬ And for those exes regret it, that's enough Γ¬
Γ ¬ Go send another email and handle my temper ΓÖ¬
ΓÖ¬ Because I entered another chapter ΓÖ¬
ΓÖ¬ And I leave you where are you ΓÖ¬
ΓÖ¬ I guess you don't know ΓÖ¬
ΓÖ¬ That you are making love with ΓÖ¬ star
2 Chainz, Young Thug.
- And Lil Wayne. - Me, too!
I let 808 enter.
Yup, 808 sec.
You have to let 808 enter.
- You have to let them hit. - Stop fighting.
Bass in trap music, like, you can feel it
in your chakra, and I feel like that...
that-that. That's what we feel
- this roar, like,... - Bass is always important.
Yes, it's like, in you, like, muladhara.
And that's it...
That's why it speaks to you, and, you know,
and you get in this trance or whatever.
So it's like... You know, -I see it now,
- and I respect it. - You see what we...
You need a writer for someone else.
I don't care, Honestly,
because I feel like that music in general...
I mean, if you see on a singer in R & B
and pop and everything, they are ghostwrite to make it
- bigger... - Record.
... larger notes for the world.
Greater than one person,
greater than one hood, greater than one...
It takes a village sometimes.
Royce Da 5 & apos; 9 " wrote a song
about brother Dr. Dre who was dying. So I answered the phone. Dre identified himself.
I don't know who he was at that time.
I tapped the bathroom door, and I said,
"Ryan, there was someone named Andre
is on the phone want to talk to you. "
" Dr. Dre is on the phone? "I am like," What is this? " He came out of the bathroom half dressed.
And I'm like, "Hello?"
And he's like, "Yo, what's wrong? This is Dre."
And I'm like, "Yo, what's up, man?"
That's really my first time never talked to a celebrity...
even approaching.
ΓÖ¬ If you only know the way I feel ΓÖ¬
ΓΓ¬ Before they were destroyed ΓÖ¬ crew
Γ ¬ I think I learned from Eazy ΓÖ¬
Γ ¬ Now I will pass it with you ΓÖ¬
He said he likes my music, and he wants to know
if I'm interested in going out to LA...
and only helps, Do you know what I mean?
They were working on Chronic at that time.
Am I interested? And I'm like, "Will I?
- I really want to. " -" That's Dr. Dre. "
I'm like," Dr. Dre? "
At first, I thought he was joking.
Like," Yeah, right. Clean the bathroom. "
- No, that's Dr. Dre. - I got on a plane
- and went there. - And I think
it's a skill, to get... like, if you're ghostwrite....
yes, to be like that falls to their persona
and like, "This is what I will say if I am you,"
or like, "So what are you? feel now?
What did you experience? " And take it and can
to do... like, it's also a skill. So I think it's like, different skills
have different roles in the game.
Many of these pop artists and everyone has writers...
You know, Beyonce has a writer.
This is hip-hop we're talking about, though,
and in hip-hop, from the street,
and you should to write your story.
So there might be a problem
if someone else is writing your story.
An MC has someone else
writing rhymes... is wack.
Artists who write someone their rima are understandable
because of every other artist
in other genres music does that.
With me, I call myself both... but MC first.
What is permitted?
My friend is music with me my whole life can't tell me, "You have to say & apos; the & apos;
instead of & apos; it's & apos; at the end of the bar"?
Is that him... now I have an author for someone else?
Am I wack now?
And there are no other genres like...
will they even, like, think to have it
this ridiculous conversation.
Like, "Is it boring to get help?"
And this is the only reason I will say maybe it's not okay
so that people write your rap:
it's because rap root is in authenticity.
Rap is rooted, "I do this."
- Right. - "I went here
and did it there, and this is how I came."
You praise what you know.
You rap about, you know, what's happening outside.
I try to rap in real time all the time.
You don't have to... You don't have to make things.
But what's crazy in hip-hop now is,
no rules.
Like, Rick Ross didn't have a drug dealer to say, "I'm really a drug dealer."
And then the children listen to it.
Right, thinks that...
Trying to act differently.
Like, rap is like the Bible, G.
Like, there is one point in hip-hop where
it's like, "You have to write your own nonsense."
But that's just one point in hip-hop.
- A phase. - right?
Do you know what I'm saying? Many people buy
into that belief, but, like, now we are out of that stage.
No one believes
which rapper rap should they write?
Well, someone like Puff doesn't care,
so if someone like Puff asks you to write,
- he doesn't care. - Stop there for one minute. The heat of the game now...
people don't care.
If you call yourself a rapper and artist,
You should be able to to formulate your own lyrics.
And if there is someone, for example...
But what if you know
Quincy Jones wrote for Michael Jackson?
If someone writes for you, you must let that be known.
And then... it is fair sway.
But when that happens under the table,
You really, like, cheat people.
- You cheat... - That's bad.
That's bad, but...
- You cheat culture. - But as a writer,
I took the show.
I have written ghosts several times.
Here's the problem:
that's when the artist puts herself
above the base because...
great artistic
and...
not their composition.
I have no problem with ghostwriting
until we start talking about...
if you can't write your own lyrics,
then you can't come sit at the table.
That's what I feel about it.
Who wrote "Rapper" s Delight "?
Not a *** rap.
So who cares? People have the right
to handle their business
and their artwork how they want it.
You know, Michael Jackson doesn't write the songs.
You know, the actors don't write films.
I feel like that... everyone plays a role
in whatever they want to do. I personally write
my own item, but...
I don't know, judge the next man.
ΓÖ¬ Zombies Flatbush & apos; "This Is It" playing ΓÖ¬
Γ ¬ All fools only sound Γ € the same
ΓÖ¬ There is no credit for your name ΓÖ¬
ΓA¬ There are no open credit lines ΓÖ¬
ΓÖ¬ That discredits the ΓÖ¬
fame Γ ¬ ¬ Form your business in the name ΓÖ¬
ΓΓ Something unique, like slang ΓÖ¬
Γ ¬ Make a difference, make changes Γ ¬ ¬
Γ ¬ But there are no dolls in strings ¬¬
I won't feel cool or good go to the stage
and doing the song is not the lyrics I wrote.
I will feel like a fool.
I will feel like a fake, fucking actor.
Γ ¬ No fan designates fingers on men ΓÖ¬
Γ ¬ ¬ It depends on who can pay for academics ΓÖ¬
¬ ¬ Homey, your chemist there is no complement ΓÖ¬
¬ ¬ You go back to handling business, not kidding ΓÖ¬
ΓΓ¬ My head is in the clinic, I need a recipe ΓÖ¬
ΓΓ¬ My vision is clear but there is smoke Γ¬
ΓÖ¬ In the mirror, I can't compare ¬ ¬
Γ ¬ For those of you niggas you hear, so don't take offense ΓÖ¬
ΓÖ¬ When niggas don't feel you ΓÖ¬
If you are in the studio, everyone is there
help write it. Energy they contribute.
But then if your pen comes from paper
and you submitted me paper
and I read it after you wrote it for me
as I wrote it?
Like, if it's not one of them from these people, you know,
then it's a bit strange to me. Like, it's only...
it's only part of something for me it's like,
hip hop is the only genre it's all about you.
I get my excitement out of creation,
so I have to make it. Do you know what I mean?
It's only me personally, but anyone has the right
to do it as they wish.
Everyone is moral is not my morality.
All goals are not my goals.
Everyone has a different intention.
My intention with this music
is to be...
to get cold from my dirt. That's what I want.
I will put it on you like this.
Associating with Will Smith... we are labelmates
at Columbia Records at the time...
and he is working at, um, a big record,
Great Willie Style.
Song "Gettin & apos; Jiggy wit It," I have...
people appreciate me as a writer sometimes,
but really, I just hang out in the studio with him.
He is writing the song itself,
and I was only there _ having fun with him,
just knock with with him.
Γ ¬ There is no love for haters, crazy haters ΓÖ¬
¬¬ & apos; Because I got a floor seat in the Lakers ΓÖ¬
ΓÖ¬ Look at me on the 50 yard line with the Raiders ΓÖ¬
ΓÖ¬ Met Ali, he said to me I Γ €. Biggest
I don't need to write it.
I just sat there having fun with him,
complete the line for him.
Will Smith is an MC.
There are ghost writings, and then there are...
someone created, um,
with your people in the studio.
Rhymesayers starts pretty much
from a group of local cats here in Minnesota.
You know, just started
my basement most.
We recorded our first three albums
out of my basement in my house.
You know, we collected it core unit of people
which is truly trusted in the same goal,
and it survives.
It's like, we have a rich history of music here,
is it Prince or Flyte Tyme or Bob Dylan.
I think there are a lot of artists that we do have a lot of differences influence,
and I think that influence also shapes it
as a songwriter, is more than just
as MC or rappers.
Fifty percent is knock,
and 50 percent are the lyrics.
You better have it hella style,
or you better say something.
Γ ¬ Sh Shining above on my face Γ¬
ΓΓ¬ Everyone is a critic from the minute I waste ΓÖ¬
Γ ¬ Makes me wait in line, makes me run in ΓÖ¬
place Γ ¬ I don't really know what to say to you ΓÖ¬
Γ¬¬ Let's say I spend too much time in the basement ΓÖ¬
¬ ¬ I have experienced life full of accidents ΓÖ¬
Γ ¬ ¬ Trying to write everything before disappearing ΓÖ¬
I like thinking about things
to write about when I drive.
This is my theory.
But I have my peripheral vision stimulated, it allows me
to start thinking in a way that I can't do
when I just sit on the table.
This allows me to start thinking about stories
or think about it certain parts.
And I like to write it.
Driving is problem solving.
This is my favorite thing in the whole world.
And I'm very good at that. I don't hit anything.
I didn't get a problem. I study my environment and I analyze it, and I think it moves forward.
Writing is very similar, because if I want to reach...
at the end of the song, the end of the story,
I have two, maybe three verses
and hook to find out how to get
from the beginning from the story
until the end of the story.
And I can't just write it and start here,
and then hope my character gets to the end.
I have to consider the whole track... while I go.
Like, this isn't just about from point A to point B,
but you have to really
visualize the route
which you will take to get there.
Will you take the beautiful route?
Will you get there hurry?
Do you have time? What are you doing?
Anthony will do it different artists
to... to his house to... to record,
so we will end write together
and work together,
and that, uh...
it's organic in the sense,
we will not come with and become like,
"Oh, this is what we will do do tonight.
We have this plan."
We will only be together
and let everything happen when they occur.
I will sit and I will write 100,000 sticks and prepare to spit on it more than ten minutes,
but that...
at times like this
slowly forming me and purifying me and taught me how to write songs,
a bow.
This is how the story begins.
You want to reach your end.
Most of that is Semut
but also works with someone like Ali.
Not just exchanging ideas but also for exchanging techniques.
So this
house and, uh, workspace Semut,
and he anchors and he is the center
from what we did at Rhymesayers.
All of the founding artists come through it.
Alright.
That is four lines here.
Some of them, actually.
One of them belongs to Slug from returning on that day.
There's even an old photo my basement.
That's a bit tight.
This is all hip-hop here,
and I think here only
things that I might feel...
okay, I won't tear it off now I show that to you.
I have, like, chosen things, You know what I mean,
like... in front, like my DST,
pretty much makes me want to start scratching.
I grew up in the military.
I, uh, travel a lot, move around.
I didn't move here until 1990.
Well, I have four of my tracks,
and I put a small leaflet said, like,
"I will record you."
Everyone works their work
and do whatever they do,
and on Sundays, they will come here.
They will only freestyle on beats.
If I think we are connected, I will be like, "Oh,
let's become the Tribe Called Quest or whatever it is."
They have rituals only works
at an extraordinary level.
Everyone in the crew will write,
minimum, five to ten songs one week,
and Ant will make a place in the field,
like, 30 to 50 beats in a week.
You know, come with and find out
how to change beats and rhymes into music.
Slug is very different at the time,
but the big thing with me and him
dedication and work ethic.
If he appears on 3 p. m.,
he will stay until 3 a. m.
He just wants to say it a bunch of shit.
He just wants to say all kinds of things.
When I start performing,
I began to realize that...
that I can say things for a group of people
to make them hear me and see me
and set me aside from
all the other MCs in my city.
ΓÖ¬ Well, who are you with braids? ΓÖ¬
Γ ¬ Them they are too strict Γ¬¬
ΓÖ What is this You even tried to do it? ΓÖ¬
ΓÖ¬ Come and grab the mic ΓÖ¬
¬ ¬ I came all the way down to Sin City ΓÖ¬
ΓÖ¬ From Twin Cities ΓÖ¬
ΓÖ¬ To show you you can't be with me ΓÖ¬
¬ ¬ Sh Damn, your current is annoying ΓÖ¬
¬¬ Shitty twice, twice Makes me say nonsense three times Γ¬
That encouraged me to enter myself
and looking for part of me...
will stand out,
and lots of it, I think,
down to, um,
indicates vulnerability.
That just happened.
We know that your rima is a reflection of you,
like you can never separate
art from that person.
That gives you permission to redefine everything
and to check everything.
We have many, like,
something very similar together.
We both move around a lot when we are children.
You know, both of us kind of, like, outcasts.
We both don't really look
to people like we should
doing things that we like to do.
I mean, of course, I'm albino.
I don't, you know,
Men's Kentucky Fried Chicken or whatever.
You know, being a child in the Midwest,
not many people know what is albino,
so since then that I'm really small,
You know, I'm really ostracized and I really
treated like a stranger.
Black parents and friends
and friends and enemies,
like, recognize me as a person
and also has some wisdom to help me navigate
what is it... how does it feel to have this presentation
it's very unacceptable People.
I grew up, like, this award
it's not just for my friendship
and my relationship and all that
but then also for this particular type
approach to life
For me it is very valuable.
ΓÖ¬ Raising a man ΓÖ¬
Γ ¬ You slip through my hand ΓÖ¬
ΓÖ ¬ Like sand grains ΓÖ¬
ΓÖ¬ And here I stand ΓÖ¬
Γ ¬ ¬ Trying to wrestle with an hourglass ΓÖ¬
ΓÖ¬ Maybe see how long I can make the last hour ¬¬
ΓÖ¬ Dear black son ΓÖ¬
You created this relationship,
then you can get it deeper song.
You will write some very fine songs,
and you need it encouragement sometimes.
- Mm-hmm. - You just did it, you know?
Courage to do very sensitive songs.
- What's wrong? - Oh, my man.
- My man. - Nice to meet you, brother.
- Nice to see you too. - Alright, now.
- What's up, Ali? - How are you, bro?
Nice to meet you, friend.
I followed Dem Atlas.
I am a new artist signed to RSE.
I remember Atmosphere took me
at my first show outside the city.
This is really anesthetic to see you come out with
all energy and everything novelty and, like...
like, for us, we got that kind of thing almost almost revived those moments.
ΓΓ¬ Everyone knows we do it with love ΓÖ¬
ΓÖ¬ We do it with love ΓÖ¬
Γ ¬ We give love and we get love ΓÖ¬
ΓÖ¬ Come in ΓÖ¬
place ΓÖ¬ And we didn't try to get our penis until ΓÖ¬
Γ ¬ We don't spend our money in the fucking strip club ΓÖ¬
ΓΓ¬ Take home and feed the baby ΓÖ¬
ΓÖ¬ That's how we get love ΓÖ¬
Are you ready word for word, New York?
What are you saying?
ΓÖ¬ I am with gun-toting ΓÖ¬
¬¬ Kush-smoking, lean-pouring ¬¬¬
¬ ¬ Crazy Crazy assassination ΓÖ¬
ΓÖ¬ Nigga wants some work, enough to pull ΓÖ¬
ΓΓ¬ Make sure you bring cash with you ΓÖ¬
Γ ¬ I will fly money quickly, nigga ΓÖ¬
Γ¬¬ Try me, is yours, nigga ΓÖ¬
ΓÖ¬ Maybe because I did not make love with nigga ΓÖ¬
Γ ¬ I say I did this bullshit for my dog ΓÖ¬
Γ ¬¬ Simply make a call, they risk everything semuanya €?
ΓÖ¬ Or is that it I just sent them a text Γ¬
Γ ¬ ¬ Having my young uns come through ΓÖ¬
ΓA¬ Make it rain in your set ΓÖ¬
¬ ¬ Tidur Sleep on the couch, has pain in my neck ¬¬¬¬
¬ ¬ Now I get three or four chains on my neck ΓÖ¬
Γ¬¬ Bitch will stumble, I can't make love to it Γ ¬
Γ ¬ ¬ Cut the bitch off & apos; cause I am not for stress Γ¬
ΓÖ¬ This niggas regulates tripping ΓÖ¬
ΓΓ¬ Change sides, set flipping ΓÖ¬
Eminem is one of me
the top three favorite lyricists ever, man.
I think he's the craziest everyone's flow.
What he said... Γ ¬ I sat back Γ¬¬¬
ΓÖ¬ With this package from Zig Zags ΓÖ¬
ΓÖ¬ And this weed, it made me ΓÖ¬
ΓÖ¬ This needs to be most... ΓÖ¬
Kendrick maybe
there are in the top three right now,
but I think he, like, studied Eminem.
Eminem, he must have, like,
one of the biggest waves...
like, you know what I say...
in the history of hip-hop.
He isn't even black.
I have to be through many things.
I came up with the best things when I was stressed.
When I am angry or, like, things like that,
I make club music turn-up, do you know?
What about when you are happy?
When I'm happy...
I don't like the music when I'm happy.
I won't lie to you.
But I have a lot of problems, man, you know.
Many things about rap.
Γ ¬ I have to keep my head on water Γ¬
Γ¬ I've gone hard, Must go a little harder ¬¬
Γ ¬ I've been thinking smart, Must think a little smarter Γ¬
Γ ¬ All I know is frenzy, get that nonsense apart from ¬¬
¬ ¬ Real hunters, I get that nonsense apart from ¬¬
Γ ¬ I will not starve, bitch Γ ¬ ¬
ΓΓ¬ Working hard, my palms itch ΓÖ¬
ΓÖ¬ I saw some rubbish which disrupted my conscience ΓÖ¬
ΓÖ¬ Niggas, they talk nonsense, but this niggas is harmless ΓÖ¬
You can hear it in...
- In the way of my voice... - Yes
... and then the lyrics and everything.
So, like, from outside find out,
everyone will think, like, you know what I'm saying,
they think it's glamorous, do you feel me?
But there is still dirt that we went through
every day, you know what I'm saying,
that we have to take care of our heads above, do you feel me?
That is the rhythmic way bouncing off one paper
for this to be ripped-off a piece of paper
that handwriting is different there,
dropped the pad and dropped this,
holding this article right next to...
People like it, "Yo, isn't that better
if you just do it?"
No.
Words fall in one book.
No.
That's not the way it comes to me.
I don't want to see it
looks very calculated
and nice and beautiful and perfect.
No, it must be graffiti.
Anxiety that is inside me,
it must look like
the same energy on paper, and...
Oh, man, those are the days.
Those are days.
There are many rapper out there
which I'm sure you admired for years,
but now, many new rapper
and old rapper is looking for you.
How do you feel _ is like...
uh, a magical child who lives?
I mean, it's a prop. This is a blessing.
I'm a hip-hop product, do you know what I'm saying?
I am a product of... old school
and the latest from the new.
I am dedicated to this music,
Do you know what I mean?
Respect everyone
to get respect, do you know what I'm saying?
Now,... your style is considered very hard-core.
Are you considering doing, like,
remix things with R & B artists?
I say nothing, during that time...
You know what I'm saying,
as long as it really hurts, do you know what I'm saying?
As long as it's smart, as long as I'm...
I-I did something good, You know what I'm saying,
and that sounds right.
A & apos; ight, is there anyone you want to work with?
Is there someone do you want to work with?
Yes, I want to work with, um...
I want to work with the Beatles.
The Beatles?
We're here in Connecticut, friend.
This is me, like,
home-away-from-home spot where I usually go out
and have free time and...
and peace of mind to do my thing,
and my man here is the studio owner.
His name is Johnny,
and, um, he is really cool
for years, man.
You know, good cats, humans,
and his family is my family and my family, man,
So, you know, it's drugs
coming from New York
and come here and find a place
like, you know, is covered with trees
and... and only, you know, peace and quiet, man.
I don't have no one rests
at the door of my studio like this all the time
when I was recording, then you opened the door
then three people fall into your studio session.
I don't have it here.
Stand up man, man. A good cat.
And I don't even like rap music.
And he doesn't even like me. He is just...
- Actually... - Do you know what I mean?
Cool guy, Do you know what I mean?
Yes.
- You are like family. - But you... you like it now,
- even so, right? - I'm with you.
You like rap music right now, right?
No.
Look, check... check the house that was built rap.
... oh! It is true.
Look at the house rap was built.
That's the house Rakim built.
- Yes Thank you. - Do you know what I mean?
Okay, words, friend. You have to like a little rap now.
That's the truth. ME... Okay, I like rap.
Like, words, man.
I have to like it a little, Johnny.
Okay, fine.
I think rap writers and lyricists
very brave group of people
for the past 30 years.
When you listen to R & B now,
You are listening to hybrids rap.
I'm a devil for...
for what you can do with the form
every time I hear something it's new,
is it different
or in it different directions
from something that I like before,
I got something from him.
Rapper always wants to sing.
We finally stopped scared and did it.
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ΓΓ¬ Mama, can you bring it? ΓÖ¬
ΓΓ¬ It's too late in the fall ΓÖ¬
Γ ¬ I glimpse my first love akuÖ¬
ΓÖ¬ My God ΓÖ¬
ΓΓ¬ Knee touching the floor, cry to God TuhanÖ¬
Γ ¬ Why do they have to take my ma? ΓÖ¬
Γ ¬ Collect, ΓÖ¬ hustlers
ΓΓ¬That's if you're still alive ΓÖ¬
ΓÖ¬ And down before the judge gave a sentence ΓÖ¬
ΓA¬ Previous rounds FBI came and made you ΓÖ¬
Γ ¬ Will you smile when was your date issued? ΓÖ¬
¬ ¬ You know the FBI took pictures ΓÖ¬
ΓΓ¬ Ma you're in prison ΓÖ¬
ΓÖ¬ Your father needs new kidney ΓÖ¬
ΓÖ ¬ Sharing your family ΓÖ¬
ΓΓ¬ Rivalry between siblings Γ¬¬
ΓÖ¬ If cash is not king ΓÖ¬
ΓÖ¬ Very confident incentives Γ ¬
I am one of two black children throughout my school.
I'm just used to it.
I only live in my room,
make music all the time.
I grew up playing in the church.
I have many souls influence and everything,
but I consider myself someone who appears
from hip-hop culture,
and when I really tried to write music,
I... I think I will become an MC,
thought I'd be a rapper gangster,
do you know what I'm saying? I am affected by
Snoop and Dre, and that...
nothing is bigger than that.
Γ ¬¬ What does it mean luck I dream? ΓÖ¬
ΓÖ¬ When I break the cookie ΓÖ¬
ΓÖ¬ Everything he said was "Continue to dream" ΓÖ¬
ΓÖ¬ When I saw my tree, I saw the leaves disappear Γ¬
Γ ¬ Generations of hard life and addiction Γ¬
ΓÖ¬ I came to visit for seven years ΓÖ¬
assignments Γ ¬ But they won't let me in because my license is suspended ΓÖ¬
Γ ¬ Now I scratch penny ΓÖ¬
Γ ¬ Only to kiss you on your cheeks ΓÖ¬
ΓÖ¬ This will be a few weeks before I Γ¬
ΓÖ Six Six years, I tried a pair of my first Jordans in ΓÖ¬
ΓΓ¬ Mama, can you carry me? ΓÖ¬
ΓΓ¬ It's too late in the fall ΓÖ¬
Γ ¬ I glimpse my first love akuÖ¬
ΓÖ¬ My God ΓÖ¬
ΓΓ¬ Mama, can you carry me? ΓÖ¬
¬¬¬ Knee touches the floor Γ¬¬¬
¬ ¬ Screams to Lord ΓÖ¬
Γ ¬ Why do they have to take my ma? ΓÖ¬
ΓÖ¬ To the morning ΓÖ¬
I like Radiohead items.
I like sad music for white children too.
That's all important for me and everything goes into my art.
ΓÖ¬ To the morning ΓÖ¬
ΓÖ¬ Yes ΓÖ¬
But it originates from a hip-hop perspective.
I feel like it came from
the perspective of a drummer.
Like, it's my first tool,
so that's kind of how my brain hears music.
The rhythm is very big for me,
and the tone maybe what I think
even more than melody-wise,
and then I put it the pieces
after the fact, but I want
to find out the pocket where I will be
and even I have to take something.
I want to be able to to fit perfectly.
I can feel when it's not right.
As I feel when it rubs.
I think, as an artist, You are building
more than that ear when you go.
Very important for me,
top row, how do I exit.
The first thing I say,
just that first, like, bait,
it's not always a hook.
It's possible
only a few sentences You cry out,
you know, but it sets the tone, you know?
I feel like someone like Ghostface
and people like Raekwon
do it really well, you know?
Only, like, even, like, Bob Dylan
and the Beatles, you know?
They... the first sentence that they fell
only this is heavy, like,
statement that only puts you...
puts your mind right... You know, in the right place.
Hey!
Γ ¬ I will catch you staring, be careful ΓÖ¬
¬¬ ¬ The unemployed mind is dangerous the remaining place in ΓÖ¬
ΓÖ¬ But keep an eye on me ΓÖ¬
ΓÖ¬ Hei ΓÖ¬
ΓÖ¬ Your heart Don't have a chance ΓÖ¬
ΓÖ¬ Yes ΓÖ¬
Γ ¬ ¬ It feels like is too long ΓÖ¬
ΓÖ¬ Your heart Don't have a chance ΓÖ¬
ΓÖ¬ Your feet only want to dance ΓÖ¬
ΓÖ¬ Your eyes make me calm all in a cruel state Γ¬
ΓÖ¬ And let me ask you ΓÖ¬
Γ ¬ Base loaded... Γ¬
Hey, yo, Johnny, wake up, man.
I'm ready to do it my vocals now, honey.
Yes, wake up. Get up.
This is Telefunken here, man.
You know, I entered this booth, human, and exit zone.
Like, I'll cut the dead light out there
and I won't see anything passes through this glass.
I really find out in Johnny now.
Even though he is here, like,
that brings me back.
Once, he said to me,
"What... is this a red object here?
I said," That's Diana Ross's lipstick. "
Wake up, man. You know what I mean?
So yeah, I kissed on the mic that day.
I rubbed that crap on my cheek.
Hit. You know what I mean ?
You know, I never believed in the writer's block,
but there will be times
You know, I'm stuck, so,
um, you know, you listen to to the track, and, you know,
of course, as the trajectory is rocking,
sometimes you know how you want your poem to end,
so if I can't think about it
how rima should start,
I certainly know how it should end,
so I will start at that bar
and work my way all the way back
to the first bar.
Now,
I will never let anyone know that I did it until I see this on TV.
I think that is Martin Scorsese.
He said, "If you want to write a good movie,
You start at the end
and work your way forward. "
ΓÖ¬ They love me like religion ΓÖ¬
ΓÖ¬ When I stopped in the coupe ΓÖ¬
Γ € ¬ All I heard was" amen " when I stepped out of the booth ΓÖ¬
ΓÖ¬ I gave you the truth niggas, the whole truth ¬¬
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ΓÖ¬ Everything they tried to covet ΓÖ¬
Γ ¬¬ See me in my eyes, see anger in my soul Γ ¬¬¬
ΓÖ¬ I gave you a goal for gaÖ¬
ΓΓ¬ Through rima I have written ΓÖ¬
ΓÖ¬ I give you guidance from the spiritual alliance .Ö¬
ΓÖ¬ And everything I get in return is lyrical defiance ΓÖ¬
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ΓÖ¬ I instigated riots and they were right ΓÖ¬
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¬ ¬ Vicious as a lion in the forest ΓÖ¬
ΓÖ Dengan With a mouth full of teeth ΓÖ¬
Γ ¬ And the stomach is full of hunger ΓÖ¬
ΓÖ¬ Boy, you better give him something ΓÖ¬
Γ¬¬ Look at all the images ¬¬¬
¬ ¬ I finished painting in this scripture ΓÖ¬
ΓΓ¬ Look at all men I did made of underwear ΓÖ¬
¬¬ Look at all the queens I did made from sisters ΓÖ¬
Γ¬¬ Look at all the roads I finished tidying inches ¬¬
You can't argue with that fact it is, like, that child
just say that,
second poetry-wise...
You can install it against anyone.
You can install it against Rumi
and you can install it against Shakespeare,
but then too,
like, spiritually and cosmic,
it's proven. Everything is there.
The proof is there,
and if other people are able to understand it,
then that is just what it is,
but even if they never understand it,
I know I saw how it changed my friends.
I see what happened to people I love,
and I see what it is... I know what happened to me.
When you enter the zone and when you know
it comes from, like, higher strength,
it's like, "Oh, I'm tapped now."
That feeling, like, is invaluable.
Do you know what I mean? So, like, me forever
chasing it.
Twenty years of my life,
I don't have a window in my room.
I am alone.
I'm stuck, you know?
All of your energy boils off from these four walls
who is very close to you.
It's like you can't breathe, you are suffocated,
but at the same time, if you focus,
You can use that energy and use that energy
and get out of there,
and that's what we did.
Of course.
Deadass, I hang out
on the fucking stairs for years.
Trying to find out what we will do.
Bad gray walls.
That's very sad.
I tried to convince myself that I still got nothing.
We have nothing.
We still don't have shit, though.
All we have is music.
ΓÖ¬ DJ Shadow & apos; s "Nobody Speak" playing ΓÖ¬
Γ ¬ I don't lie, _ kick a lion in the gap ΓÖ¬
ΓÖ¬ I am shit ΓÖ¬
Γ ¬ I will fall on your bed, take the shit ΓÖ¬
¬ ¬ Pin Pinch your mother on booty Γ¬¬
Γ¬¬ Kicking your dog, fuck your bitch ΓÖ¬
¬ ¬ ¬ Fat boys dressed in like he is Santa ΓÖ¬
Γ¬¬ And take pictures with your children ΓÖ¬
Γ ¬ We are the best ¬¬¬
Γ ¬¬ We will cut facial wrinkles Γ¬¬¬
Γ ¬ ¬ On your chest, little girl ΓÖ¬
ΓÖ¬ I am a mensch, true ΓÖ¬
Γ ¬ I will go to court during erection ΓÖ¬
Γ ¬ shouting, "Yes, I am guilty, bastard, I am dead" ΓÖ¬
Hey, do you want to hear a good joke?
ΓÖ¬ No one spoke, nothing choked edakÖ¬
ΓÖ¬ Get run ΓÖ¬
ΓÖ¬ Start pumping your bunions, I came ΓÖ¬
ΓÖ¬ I am the stupidest who is the flamethrow ΓÖ¬
ΓÖ¬ Your function to Funyuns ΓÖ¬
ΓΓ¬ Will make your crew faster than Trump fucks the youngest ΓÖ¬
Γ ¬ Now face flame, fucker... ΓΓ¬
Yes, Juice for Life 211,
we are here, Yonkers, New York.
We got wheatgrass,
fruits of all kinds,
protein powder, sea moss, people.
You consider this Cheers for healthy people.
Like, do you know what I'm saying?
What is that?
His knowledge is different from when we first entered.
We are young boys from Yonkers,
You know, from the hood.
If you are not home,
You are eating fast food
or snacks or,
you know, some kind of nonsense.
This is the balance.
This is an equalizer.
I feel very different. I feel better.
- I feel healthier. - Yo, what is this?
Soldiers or waves?
I feel like, um...
I feel like... I feel amazing.
I think it's hard to find
someone you can say
has spit for rank.
And we spit before we enter.
But we spit for an dub, legit.
I don't think you can find it a group of other people You can say that.
Very little.
There must be some you can say,
but not much.
So in the end, I think, with us,
I think what makes... makes us different is,
we are still getting better.
- That word... - The word is a bond.
The word is a bond.
The word is bond!