Hip Hop Was Born Here

1 00:00:10,140 --> 00:00:12,838 <i>So, yo, you perform all over the world.</i> 2 00:00:12,925 --> 00:00:14,965 What makes New York unique when it comes to hip hop? 3 00:00:15,058 --> 00:00:17,582 For me, what makes New York unique 4 00:00:17,713 --> 00:00:20,194 is because it's these five boroughs. 5 00:00:20,281 --> 00:00:24,024 <i>Each one of these boroughs is like a different culture.</i> 6 00:00:24,111 --> 00:00:25,677 <i>It's a different feel.</i> 7 00:00:25,764 --> 00:00:27,330 <i>-It's a different flavor. -Yeah.</i> 8 00:00:27,331 --> 00:00:29,899 <i>So, for you to make it in New York</i> 9 00:00:29,986 --> 00:00:31,595 and to hit all of these boroughs 10 00:00:31,596 --> 00:00:34,294 and for these boroughs to accept you, you're actually 11 00:00:34,295 --> 00:00:36,210 ahead of the game... -No question. 12 00:00:36,297 --> 00:00:37,994 ...because it's like five cities in one. 13 00:00:38,081 --> 00:00:39,474 Yep, yep. 14 00:00:39,561 --> 00:00:43,956 <i>I just think New York trained us differently.</i> 15 00:00:44,044 --> 00:00:45,741 -I agree. -We think differently. 16 00:00:45,828 --> 00:00:48,439 We move differently. 17 00:00:48,526 --> 00:00:51,006 <i>In the beginning, hip hop was just one of those things</i> 18 00:00:51,007 --> 00:00:53,836 <i>in the community that people really didn't understand.</i> 19 00:00:53,923 --> 00:00:56,011 And we just kept doing it, 20 00:00:56,012 --> 00:01:00,190 <i>and we did it so much that it was hard to...</i> 21 00:01:00,277 --> 00:01:01,887 stop it. -Amen. 22 00:01:05,239 --> 00:01:08,328 <i>Hip hop is everywhere,</i> 23 00:01:08,329 --> 00:01:11,375 <i>every corner of the globe.</i> 24 00:01:11,462 --> 00:01:13,464 <i>To understand the power of hip hop today,</i> 25 00:01:13,595 --> 00:01:15,684 <i>you gotta go back to where it all started...</i> 26 00:01:15,771 --> 00:01:17,338 <i>♪ Ain't no love... ♪</i> 27 00:01:17,425 --> 00:01:20,428 <i>...my hometown, New York City.</i> 28 00:01:20,515 --> 00:01:23,909 <i>Because listen when I tell you, hip hop was born here.</i> 29 00:01:23,996 --> 00:01:26,912 <i>♪ In the heart of town ♪</i> 30 00:01:26,999 --> 00:01:29,524 <i>♪ Ain't no love ♪</i> 31 00:01:33,093 --> 00:01:36,096 <i>New York, New York.</i> 32 00:01:38,228 --> 00:01:41,797 <i>Nowhere else in the world has an energy like this city.</i> 33 00:01:41,884 --> 00:01:43,841 Street strong on NYC. 34 00:01:43,842 --> 00:01:46,148 <i>Nowhere else sounds like this city.</i> 35 00:01:46,149 --> 00:01:47,584 <i>I'm rhyming about the Bronx.</i> 36 00:01:47,585 --> 00:01:50,632 It's a place that you can point to on your map. 37 00:01:50,762 --> 00:01:54,592 <i>These are the streets where it all began.</i> 38 00:01:56,116 --> 00:01:57,769 <i>50 years after its inception,</i> 39 00:01:57,856 --> 00:02:01,773 <i>the hip hop we know is a global phenomenon,</i> 40 00:02:01,860 --> 00:02:05,734 <i>an industry built for and supported by the masses,</i> 41 00:02:05,821 --> 00:02:08,040 <i>heard around the world,</i> 42 00:02:08,128 --> 00:02:11,740 <i>instantaneously injected into the mainstream...</i> 43 00:02:11,827 --> 00:02:13,698 <i>through the Internet and social media,</i> 44 00:02:13,829 --> 00:02:15,613 <i>added to playlists,</i> 45 00:02:15,700 --> 00:02:17,311 <i>reshared</i> 46 00:02:17,398 --> 00:02:19,791 <i>before half the planet even wakes up.</i> 47 00:02:19,878 --> 00:02:22,620 <i>But it wasn't always like that.</i> 48 00:02:22,707 --> 00:02:25,101 <i>It wasn't always so easy.</i> 49 00:02:26,668 --> 00:02:28,539 <i>Before streaming on the Internet...</i> 50 00:02:31,107 --> 00:02:32,507 <i>Before hip hop hit the mainstream...</i> 51 00:02:34,632 --> 00:02:37,157 <i>...artists had to grind just to get their music heard</i> 52 00:02:37,244 --> 00:02:38,941 <i>outside of their own neighborhood.</i> 53 00:02:40,551 --> 00:02:44,381 <i>To truly understand the path from then to now,</i> 54 00:02:44,468 --> 00:02:47,602 <i>from a local scene to a global movement,</i> 55 00:02:47,689 --> 00:02:51,736 <i>is to recognize and appreciate the pioneers who were hell bent</i> 56 00:02:51,867 --> 00:02:54,304 <i>on spreading the word of hip hop by any means necessary.</i> 57 00:02:56,132 --> 00:02:59,483 <i>I'm on my way to meet one of those pioneers</i> 58 00:02:59,614 --> 00:03:02,573 <i>at the former location of Chung King Studios,</i> 59 00:03:02,660 --> 00:03:03,922 <i>a studio I named myself,</i> 60 00:03:04,053 --> 00:03:05,576 <i>inspired by its location</i> 61 00:03:05,663 --> 00:03:08,449 <i>just outside of Chinatown in Manhattan.</i> 62 00:03:08,536 --> 00:03:11,321 <i>Now, the biggest names in the game recorded here...</i> 63 00:03:11,452 --> 00:03:15,847 <i>2Pac, Biggie, Run-D.M.C., and yours truly.</i> 64 00:03:15,978 --> 00:03:17,936 <i>But before all of us,</i> 65 00:03:18,023 --> 00:03:19,503 <i>the Cold Crush brothers,</i> 66 00:03:19,634 --> 00:03:23,638 <i>led by their fearless captain, Grandmaster Caz.</i> 67 00:03:23,725 --> 00:03:25,639 Take one. 68 00:03:25,640 --> 00:03:27,511 Grandmaster Caz. 69 00:03:27,642 --> 00:03:28,773 Yes, indeed. 70 00:03:28,904 --> 00:03:30,470 Casanova Fly. 71 00:03:32,473 --> 00:03:34,692 -Well, who are you? -Well, I'm Caz! 72 00:03:34,779 --> 00:03:36,868 <i>♪ So what? What do that mean? ♪</i> 73 00:03:36,955 --> 00:03:39,958 <i>♪ That I'm the baddest MC lover on the hip hop scene ♪</i> 74 00:03:40,045 --> 00:03:41,656 You have to understand something, 75 00:03:41,743 --> 00:03:44,006 and this is not hyperbole. 76 00:03:44,093 --> 00:03:46,137 This ain't hype. This ain't bullshit. 77 00:03:46,138 --> 00:03:49,881 You and the Cold Crush are... 78 00:03:49,968 --> 00:03:53,058 definitely one of <i>the</i> most important groups 79 00:03:53,145 --> 00:03:54,712 in all of hip hop culture. 80 00:03:54,799 --> 00:03:56,801 <i>Am I right in saying that Cold Crush</i> 81 00:03:56,932 --> 00:03:59,717 <i>initially were reluctant to record records?</i> 82 00:03:59,804 --> 00:04:01,245 <i>Yeah, we was the hottest group</i> 83 00:04:01,328 --> 00:04:04,374 in the streets without a record, 84 00:04:04,461 --> 00:04:07,725 We like, "We good. We ain't gotta make no record." 85 00:04:07,812 --> 00:04:09,988 <i>♪ Ashes to ashes and dust to dust ♪</i> 86 00:04:10,075 --> 00:04:11,690 <i>♪ We are the brothers, don't ask the Cold Crush ♪</i> 87 00:04:11,773 --> 00:04:14,341 <i>- ♪ Not one, not two - LL COOL J: Understand,</i> 88 00:04:14,428 --> 00:04:16,343 <i>when Caz and the Cold Crush Brothers came up,</i> 89 00:04:16,473 --> 00:04:17,953 <i>there was no industry</i> 90 00:04:18,040 --> 00:04:19,654 <i>or distribution network in place of any kind.</i> 91 00:04:21,217 --> 00:04:24,873 <i>The Cold Crush Brothers and the entire genre</i> 92 00:04:24,960 --> 00:04:28,355 <i>existed in New York City, in the Bronx.</i> 93 00:04:28,485 --> 00:04:30,400 <i>That was it...</i> 94 00:04:30,487 --> 00:04:32,446 <i>until...</i> 95 00:04:32,533 --> 00:04:36,711 <i>hip hop discovered the cassette tape.</i> 96 00:04:36,798 --> 00:04:41,367 All right, now, who were the first tapes that <i>you</i> heard? 97 00:04:41,368 --> 00:04:43,761 So, well, me. 98 00:04:43,848 --> 00:04:47,199 <i>I came up with an idea to record what I was doing.</i> 99 00:04:47,330 --> 00:04:49,071 <i>'Cause I thought it was cool,</i> 100 00:04:49,158 --> 00:04:51,856 <i>and I thought other people would think it was cool.</i> 101 00:04:51,943 --> 00:04:54,036 <i>You should have seen how ancient my tape recorder was, okay?</i> 102 00:04:56,034 --> 00:04:58,950 And the cassettes... they were live. 103 00:04:59,037 --> 00:05:00,735 They was us performing live. 104 00:05:04,260 --> 00:05:07,263 <i>After flyers, the tapes was the next best way</i> 105 00:05:07,394 --> 00:05:09,439 <i>to find out what was going on.</i> 106 00:05:09,526 --> 00:05:12,921 That's the way you put the voices to the names. 107 00:05:13,008 --> 00:05:15,923 You like, "Okay, that's who that is that sounds like that." 108 00:05:19,797 --> 00:05:24,062 Tapes were how we got music circulated throughout the hood. 109 00:05:25,716 --> 00:05:27,762 I discovered hip hop with Cold Crush Brothers 110 00:05:27,892 --> 00:05:29,240 and Kool Moe Dee. 111 00:05:29,241 --> 00:05:31,069 That shit was a fucking tape. 112 00:05:31,200 --> 00:05:32,723 <i>You know, a TDK tape.</i> 113 00:05:34,725 --> 00:05:38,468 Memorex or TDK would give you the little sticker, right? 114 00:05:38,555 --> 00:05:40,383 And then you'd write all the songs. 115 00:05:40,470 --> 00:05:42,430 <i>You have to remember what songs were on what side.</i> 116 00:05:42,516 --> 00:05:44,909 And, uh, LL Cool J is on this, you know? 117 00:05:50,175 --> 00:05:52,003 You could take your boombox, 118 00:05:52,090 --> 00:05:55,180 <i>listen to the radio, tape that and press the button</i> 119 00:05:55,267 --> 00:05:57,617 and then start it, and then play another and press the button, 120 00:05:57,618 --> 00:05:59,924 and you can make your own mix tape. 121 00:06:00,055 --> 00:06:02,449 -Everyone was doing that. <i>-Taping off the radio...</i> 122 00:06:02,536 --> 00:06:04,841 we used to do that. That was probably not legal. 123 00:06:07,236 --> 00:06:09,156 <i>If someone in your neighborhood had a tape,</i> 124 00:06:09,281 --> 00:06:11,331 you would run up to their crib, make a copy of the tape, 125 00:06:11,414 --> 00:06:13,982 and now <i>you</i> had a tape. 126 00:06:14,112 --> 00:06:16,162 <i>The mix tape did get to mixing around.</i> 127 00:06:16,245 --> 00:06:17,990 Like, I thought that was the reason why they called it 128 00:06:18,073 --> 00:06:20,815 a mix tape, because that's how it mixed all around. 129 00:06:24,209 --> 00:06:27,778 Okay, so what was your favorite tape back then, 130 00:06:27,865 --> 00:06:29,824 outside of your stuff? -Nah, nah, good question. 131 00:06:29,911 --> 00:06:31,913 There was a lot of other influences out there. 132 00:06:32,000 --> 00:06:33,697 -Okay? -Yeah. 133 00:06:33,784 --> 00:06:35,224 <i>The Treacherous Three was some</i> 134 00:06:35,307 --> 00:06:37,266 <i>of the dopest tapes you'll ever hear in hip hop.</i> 135 00:06:37,353 --> 00:06:40,791 <i>I also like to hear old DJ Hollywood tapes.</i> 136 00:06:40,922 --> 00:06:42,488 And the first person I heard talking on a microphone 137 00:06:42,489 --> 00:06:46,753 while the DJ was playing was Coke La Rock. 138 00:06:46,754 --> 00:06:48,625 People rarely ask me, "Who inspired you?" 139 00:06:48,712 --> 00:06:50,888 -Because I'm one of the first. -Right. 140 00:06:50,975 --> 00:06:53,630 But we all were inspired by something else. 141 00:06:53,717 --> 00:06:56,545 We <i>all</i> were inspired by something we heard, 142 00:06:56,546 --> 00:06:57,943 something we saw, something we liked, 143 00:06:58,026 --> 00:07:00,202 and emulated it. 144 00:07:00,332 --> 00:07:02,465 Um, you're considered New School. 145 00:07:02,552 --> 00:07:04,815 You're considered the new generation of rap artists. 146 00:07:04,946 --> 00:07:06,647 -What's the difference? -What's the difference? 147 00:07:06,730 --> 00:07:08,950 The difference is I grew up listening to them, 148 00:07:09,037 --> 00:07:10,734 you know, the first rappers to grow up 149 00:07:10,821 --> 00:07:12,822 listening to rappers. You know what I'm saying? 150 00:07:12,823 --> 00:07:14,699 Grandmaster Flash, Furious Five, Treacherous Three, 151 00:07:14,782 --> 00:07:17,262 Fearless Four, Crash Crew, all those brothers. 152 00:07:17,349 --> 00:07:18,829 <i>♪ We came here tonight to throw down ♪</i> 153 00:07:18,916 --> 00:07:20,788 Listen to all those rappers. 154 00:07:20,875 --> 00:07:23,138 Okay, so these incredible vibes... 155 00:07:23,225 --> 00:07:25,356 I think we should go to the Bronx real quick. 156 00:07:25,357 --> 00:07:26,580 -You gon' guide LL. -Let's get it. 157 00:07:26,663 --> 00:07:29,318 We gon'... we gon' see where it was born. 158 00:07:29,405 --> 00:07:31,886 All right, so we gon' head over to the Bronx, baby. 159 00:07:31,973 --> 00:07:33,493 -Make it happen, baby. -Let's get it. 160 00:07:35,000 --> 00:07:41,074 Support us and become VIP member to remove all ads from www.OpenSubtitles.org 161 00:07:42,157 --> 00:07:43,680 When I said... 162 00:07:43,767 --> 00:07:46,553 <i>♪ I got bodyguards, got two big cars ♪</i> 163 00:07:46,640 --> 00:07:48,642 <i>♪ That definitely ain't the wack ♪</i> 164 00:07:48,729 --> 00:07:50,992 <i>- ♪ I got a Lincoln Continental</i> - And? 165 00:07:51,122 --> 00:07:52,472 <i>♪ A sunroof Cadillac ♪</i> 166 00:07:52,559 --> 00:07:54,474 I didn't have none of that shit. 167 00:07:54,604 --> 00:07:57,346 -Yeah. -I was talking about aspiration. 168 00:07:57,433 --> 00:07:58,826 -Right. -But that's where 169 00:07:58,956 --> 00:08:01,481 the creativity come into play. 170 00:08:01,568 --> 00:08:03,918 You say it, and then you become it. 171 00:08:04,005 --> 00:08:06,834 "LL" stands for Ladies Love, Legend and Leather 172 00:08:06,921 --> 00:08:08,836 Long and Lean Love of Ladies Last 173 00:08:08,923 --> 00:08:10,537 for the red hot Lovers Looking for a Little, 174 00:08:10,620 --> 00:08:12,361 Look and Learning the one you're Liking. 175 00:08:12,448 --> 00:08:14,276 Just a lot of L's, you know what I'm saying? 176 00:08:14,406 --> 00:08:16,191 We wanna be way up there, like... pssh! 177 00:08:16,278 --> 00:08:18,327 Just like that... the jet going through the sky over there. 178 00:08:18,410 --> 00:08:21,283 <i>That's what I love about hip hop.</i> 179 00:08:21,370 --> 00:08:23,764 I was talking about what I aspire to have, 180 00:08:23,851 --> 00:08:24,504 -Right. -...what I wanna have. 181 00:08:24,591 --> 00:08:25,871 I didn't have none of that shit. 182 00:08:32,033 --> 00:08:34,252 -We here. -There it is. 183 00:08:36,037 --> 00:08:40,737 Here we are. 1520 Sedgwick Avenue. 184 00:08:40,824 --> 00:08:43,479 Gotta pay homage. This is the birthplace, baby. 185 00:08:44,611 --> 00:08:46,787 1520 Sedgwick Avenue. 186 00:08:46,874 --> 00:08:48,788 This is the place where Kool Herc and his family live. 187 00:08:48,789 --> 00:08:51,269 And this is the site of the first documented 188 00:08:51,400 --> 00:08:53,968 hip hop party... August 11, 1973. 189 00:08:56,579 --> 00:08:58,538 <i>When you think about this place,</i> 190 00:08:58,668 --> 00:09:01,149 <i>what does it mean to you, like, for real?</i> 191 00:09:01,236 --> 00:09:03,151 <i>Like, in your soul, what does it mean to you?</i> 192 00:09:03,238 --> 00:09:05,370 Origins. I live right up the block. 193 00:09:05,457 --> 00:09:08,678 You can walk to where I lived from here. And I was a shorty. 194 00:09:08,809 --> 00:09:10,462 I was too young to go to the party, 195 00:09:10,593 --> 00:09:14,684 but the energy that came out of this room 196 00:09:14,771 --> 00:09:17,252 permeated the whole neighborhood. 197 00:09:17,339 --> 00:09:20,036 <i>So, it's like Kool Herc party, Kool Herc party, Kool Herc.</i> 198 00:09:20,037 --> 00:09:21,822 <i>Who the fuck is Kool Herc?</i> 199 00:09:26,174 --> 00:09:28,872 <i>Now, a little past this building,</i> 200 00:09:29,003 --> 00:09:30,612 it's like a little makeshift park. 201 00:09:30,613 --> 00:09:32,267 -Uh-huh. -Right? 202 00:09:32,354 --> 00:09:35,966 That's the area where Herc took the music outside. 203 00:09:38,099 --> 00:09:39,404 That corner right there... 204 00:09:39,491 --> 00:09:41,537 that's where Kool Herc used to set up his equipment. 205 00:09:41,668 --> 00:09:42,716 -Used to set up in that corner? -Yep. 206 00:09:42,799 --> 00:09:44,105 Man. 207 00:09:44,235 --> 00:09:45,806 And the park would just be packed. 208 00:09:45,889 --> 00:09:49,284 You saying a little party here, outside, playground, 209 00:09:49,414 --> 00:09:51,155 break beats playing. -Yep. 210 00:09:51,242 --> 00:09:53,984 And this thing went worldwide from right here? 211 00:09:54,071 --> 00:09:56,030 Just from this. 212 00:09:56,160 --> 00:09:57,945 That's crazy. 213 00:10:02,689 --> 00:10:04,168 Let's talk about one word. 214 00:10:04,255 --> 00:10:05,822 All right. 215 00:10:05,909 --> 00:10:08,956 Legacy. What does the word "legacy" mean to you? 216 00:10:09,043 --> 00:10:11,132 I think it's more important than... than the present, 217 00:10:11,262 --> 00:10:13,874 than the here and now, because this is gon' be over. 218 00:10:13,961 --> 00:10:16,093 -Legacy is forever. -Oh, wow. 219 00:10:16,180 --> 00:10:18,269 <i>- ♪ Cold Crush - ♪ Grandmaster Caz or GMC ♪</i> 220 00:10:18,356 --> 00:10:19,967 <i>♪ I'm gonna stick ya on the board, man ♪</i> 221 00:10:20,097 --> 00:10:21,925 <i>♪ Can't you see? ♪</i> 222 00:10:22,012 --> 00:10:24,580 <i>I'm only gon' be here for a little while,</i> 223 00:10:24,711 --> 00:10:27,627 <i>but the influences that I leave in other people...</i> 224 00:10:27,757 --> 00:10:28,539 <i>-Yeah. -...and in other things,</i> 225 00:10:28,540 --> 00:10:30,020 <i>that's always gon' be here.</i> 226 00:10:30,107 --> 00:10:31,805 -Yeah. -It's the account 227 00:10:31,892 --> 00:10:33,327 of our history and let people know we were here 228 00:10:33,328 --> 00:10:34,463 and what we did when we were here. 229 00:10:34,546 --> 00:10:35,852 Legacy is everything... 230 00:10:35,939 --> 00:10:37,506 -Yeah. -...to me. 231 00:10:37,593 --> 00:10:38,729 -Yeah. That's powerful. -Yeah. 232 00:10:38,812 --> 00:10:40,900 Well, yo, I appreciate you, bro. I love you, man. 233 00:10:40,901 --> 00:10:42,511 -I love you, too. -And respect, too. 234 00:10:42,598 --> 00:10:44,644 The Grandmaster, the Fly One. 235 00:10:44,774 --> 00:10:46,258 -The flyest of 'em all. -Got the GOAT in the BX, baby. 236 00:10:46,341 --> 00:10:48,038 You know what it is. 237 00:10:48,125 --> 00:10:50,474 You know exactly what it is. 238 00:10:57,526 --> 00:10:58,875 <i>Over 50 years ago,</i> 239 00:10:58,962 --> 00:11:01,138 <i>the seed of hip hop was planted in the Bronx</i> 240 00:11:01,225 --> 00:11:03,880 <i>Thanks to artists like Caz and the Cold Crush Brothers,</i> 241 00:11:03,967 --> 00:11:05,665 <i>the Treacherous Three, Melle Mel,</i> 242 00:11:05,795 --> 00:11:07,797 <i>Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,</i> 243 00:11:07,884 --> 00:11:10,539 <i>Afrika Bambaataa, and new methods of distribution</i> 244 00:11:10,626 --> 00:11:12,410 <i>like the cassette tape,</i> 245 00:11:12,497 --> 00:11:16,631 <i>that seed began to grow, pushing deeper into the boroughs of NYC.</i> 246 00:11:16,632 --> 00:11:18,329 <i>So, now I'm on the move again,</i> 247 00:11:18,416 --> 00:11:20,549 <i>following the roots of hip hop into Brooklyn</i> 248 00:11:20,636 --> 00:11:22,638 <i>to meet up with someone who was</i> 249 00:11:22,725 --> 00:11:24,422 <i>at the forefront of that early wave...</i> 250 00:11:24,509 --> 00:11:26,903 <i>my man, none other than the hip hop innovator,</i> 251 00:11:26,990 --> 00:11:30,428 <i>Brooklyn's finest, Big Daddy Kane.</i> 252 00:11:33,127 --> 00:11:34,215 Greatness. 253 00:11:34,302 --> 00:11:35,998 What up, baby? 254 00:11:35,999 --> 00:11:37,697 -My man. -You got it, brother. 255 00:11:37,784 --> 00:11:39,046 This shit look good on you. 256 00:11:39,133 --> 00:11:40,529 Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. 257 00:11:40,612 --> 00:11:41,879 This shit look good on you. 258 00:11:41,962 --> 00:11:43,620 I'm feeling kind of back in time right now. 259 00:11:43,703 --> 00:11:44,882 -You know what I mean? -Yeah. 260 00:11:44,965 --> 00:11:46,488 <i>♪ I'm coming ♪</i> 261 00:11:46,618 --> 00:11:48,882 <i>Now, this man right here</i> 262 00:11:48,969 --> 00:11:50,797 <i>is one of the absolute icons of hip hop.</i> 263 00:11:50,884 --> 00:11:52,537 Sincerely yours, the Smooth Operator. 264 00:11:52,624 --> 00:11:54,539 <i>♪ I'm gonna love you ♪</i> 265 00:11:54,626 --> 00:11:56,628 <i>A master lyricist and wordsmith,</i> 266 00:11:56,716 --> 00:11:58,156 <i>broke out in '86 with the Juice Crew.</i> 267 00:11:58,239 --> 00:12:00,023 <i>And he quickly became</i> 268 00:12:00,110 --> 00:12:01,851 <i>one of the most influential MCs in the game.</i> 269 00:12:01,982 --> 00:12:03,291 The Big Father, the Smooth Operator, 270 00:12:03,374 --> 00:12:04,680 Big Daddy Kane. 271 00:12:04,811 --> 00:12:07,465 <i>Rapper, producer, an actor,</i> 272 00:12:07,596 --> 00:12:09,076 <i>Grammy Award winner,</i> 273 00:12:09,206 --> 00:12:12,993 <i>and a hip hop style icon to this day... Big Daddy Kane.</i> 274 00:12:13,080 --> 00:12:14,994 <i>- ♪ Ooh - Did I leave anything out?</i> 275 00:12:14,995 --> 00:12:18,127 The main element is to be intelligent. 276 00:12:18,128 --> 00:12:21,523 <i>Often imitated, never duplicated.</i> 277 00:12:21,610 --> 00:12:25,657 Big... Daddy... Kane! 278 00:12:25,745 --> 00:12:28,486 <i>Turntables, drum machines, and cassette tapes</i> 279 00:12:28,617 --> 00:12:30,405 <i>weren't the only tools Kane and his hip hop peers</i> 280 00:12:30,488 --> 00:12:32,969 <i>had at their disposal in the early days.</i> 281 00:12:33,056 --> 00:12:35,842 <i>They also had internal combustion engines.</i> 282 00:12:35,929 --> 00:12:39,149 <i>-I'm talking about car services. -♪ Ooh ♪</i> 283 00:12:39,236 --> 00:12:42,109 <i>Car services</i> before <i>they were on an app.</i> 284 00:12:42,239 --> 00:12:43,719 <i>♪ I'm coming ♪</i> 285 00:12:43,850 --> 00:12:45,246 <i>They served as a distribution network</i> 286 00:12:45,329 --> 00:12:47,418 <i>for tapes and mixes across the city.</i> 287 00:12:47,505 --> 00:12:50,204 <i>♪ Oh, I'm coming ♪</i> 288 00:12:50,291 --> 00:12:52,597 Okay, so first of all, did you use the car services? 289 00:12:52,684 --> 00:12:54,903 Yeah, yeah, yeah. Lots of times. We would, you know, use it to, 290 00:12:54,904 --> 00:12:56,558 like, to like, go to a party. -Yeah. 291 00:12:56,645 --> 00:12:58,365 Back in the days, you know, there was OJays, 292 00:12:58,473 --> 00:13:00,692 Touch of Class. From a music standpoint, 293 00:13:00,780 --> 00:13:03,783 did you get any hip hop influence in them cars? 294 00:13:03,870 --> 00:13:05,872 Sometimes in the Black Pearl joints, 295 00:13:06,002 --> 00:13:07,351 <i>you hear master mixes.</i> 296 00:13:08,831 --> 00:13:11,312 <i>So, car services</i> 297 00:13:11,442 --> 00:13:15,533 were a non-traditional way of spreading hip hop. 298 00:13:15,620 --> 00:13:19,319 <i>In New York, if you were Black or Latino,</i> 299 00:13:19,320 --> 00:13:20,843 it was very hard to get a taxi. 300 00:13:20,930 --> 00:13:22,845 <i>So, all of these different cab companies</i> 301 00:13:22,932 --> 00:13:25,064 <i>developed to serve you in Brooklyn,</i> 302 00:13:25,065 --> 00:13:27,197 to serve you in Harlem and Uptown. 303 00:13:28,895 --> 00:13:32,246 <i>We had Black Pearl, Godfather's.</i> 304 00:13:32,333 --> 00:13:34,725 <i>There were OJay's.</i> 305 00:13:34,726 --> 00:13:36,554 Every barbershop, every beauty parlor, 306 00:13:36,685 --> 00:13:38,992 every grocery store, there'd be a card in the window. 307 00:13:39,079 --> 00:13:41,776 <i>You call 'em up. That's how you got around.</i> 308 00:13:41,777 --> 00:13:43,953 -Thank you. Enjoy your day. <i>-And a lot of these guys</i> 309 00:13:44,040 --> 00:13:46,173 <i>in the car, it's part of their patter</i> 310 00:13:46,260 --> 00:13:48,262 to get you to take a longer ride 311 00:13:48,349 --> 00:13:51,177 so they can charge you more with tapes. 312 00:13:51,178 --> 00:13:53,484 You would hear new things that you wouldn't hear before. 313 00:13:55,356 --> 00:13:57,140 <i>This was pre-hip hop being on radio.</i> 314 00:13:59,142 --> 00:14:02,058 <i>This is pre-hip hop getting circulated</i> 315 00:14:02,189 --> 00:14:04,626 to people's Walkmans and things of that nature. 316 00:14:06,367 --> 00:14:08,891 You talking to Roxanne Shanté. Now, there were OJay cars, 317 00:14:08,978 --> 00:14:10,762 <i>and people did get picked up in 'em,</i> 318 00:14:10,893 --> 00:14:12,634 <i>and they rode around in 'em.</i> 319 00:14:12,764 --> 00:14:15,289 But, <i>baby,</i> I mean, I was seeing people who had cars, 320 00:14:15,376 --> 00:14:17,334 so I ain't really taking car services. 321 00:14:20,903 --> 00:14:23,863 As things were happening in the Bronx 322 00:14:23,993 --> 00:14:25,690 and obviously in the other boroughs, 323 00:14:25,777 --> 00:14:27,214 what was the movement like 324 00:14:27,301 --> 00:14:29,607 in those early years in Brooklyn? 325 00:14:29,738 --> 00:14:31,827 <i>Bronx is a thousand miles away, sometimes</i> 326 00:14:31,958 --> 00:14:33,311 <i>it feel like, from here. -Mm-hmm. Yeah.</i> 327 00:14:33,394 --> 00:14:36,136 Like, my first dose was '77, going to a block party. 328 00:14:36,223 --> 00:14:37,572 -Okay. -I'm a kid. 329 00:14:37,659 --> 00:14:38,707 You know, I'm only nine years old. 330 00:14:38,790 --> 00:14:40,139 -Mm-hmm. -Everybody crowded around 331 00:14:40,140 --> 00:14:41,798 like they was watching a movie or something. 332 00:14:41,881 --> 00:14:42,794 Mm-hmm. 333 00:14:42,882 --> 00:14:44,708 And then you saw a mic line form... 334 00:14:44,709 --> 00:14:47,234 -Mm. -...and about, you know, 335 00:14:47,364 --> 00:14:50,193 20 cats got up, you know, waiting to get on a mic. 336 00:14:50,280 --> 00:14:52,239 <i>And I had never seen nothing like that before.</i> 337 00:14:52,369 --> 00:14:54,328 <i>♪ They rally ♪</i> 338 00:14:54,415 --> 00:14:55,937 <i>You saw that passion, you saw that vibe...</i> 339 00:14:55,938 --> 00:14:57,634 -Yeah. -...that hunger that they had... 340 00:14:57,635 --> 00:14:59,072 -Yeah. -...to get <i>on</i> the mic. 341 00:14:59,202 --> 00:15:00,116 It had me like, "What's this?" And I knew I wanna be 342 00:15:00,203 --> 00:15:02,249 a part of it, whatever this is. 343 00:15:02,336 --> 00:15:03,728 Like, how did you ultimately say, 344 00:15:03,815 --> 00:15:05,343 "You know what? I'm-a do this. Like, I could do this"? 345 00:15:05,426 --> 00:15:07,645 Well, I was really focused on the DJ side, right? 346 00:15:07,776 --> 00:15:08,733 What was your name when you was DJing? 347 00:15:08,820 --> 00:15:09,560 -Sir Romeo. -Sir Romeo. 348 00:15:09,691 --> 00:15:11,170 DJ Sir Romeo. 349 00:15:12,694 --> 00:15:14,087 Fucking love it. 350 00:15:16,611 --> 00:15:20,571 <i>So, then at a certain point, you went from listening</i> 351 00:15:20,658 --> 00:15:23,792 <i>and vibing and being influenced to actually writing.</i> 352 00:15:23,879 --> 00:15:26,795 I started off really, like, just writing battle rhymes, 353 00:15:26,882 --> 00:15:28,840 battling people in school. I felt like, I'm good. 354 00:15:28,928 --> 00:15:29,971 -Right. -And when I heard Caz... 355 00:15:29,972 --> 00:15:31,668 <i>The Grandmaster.</i> 356 00:15:31,669 --> 00:15:34,237 <i>Yeah, like, the stuff that he was spitting,</i> 357 00:15:34,324 --> 00:15:37,588 <i>I just was like, yeah, I'm doing everything wrong.</i> 358 00:15:37,675 --> 00:15:40,634 <i>I'll never be dope if I'm not half as good as this guy.</i> 359 00:15:40,635 --> 00:15:43,681 So, I threw my whole rap book away. I started... 360 00:15:43,768 --> 00:15:45,209 -Really? -Yeah. I started all over. Yeah. 361 00:15:45,292 --> 00:15:46,597 -That's crazy. -Yeah. 362 00:15:46,684 --> 00:15:48,164 So, look, I wanna see Brooklyn. 363 00:15:48,251 --> 00:15:50,079 I want you to show me, point some things out. 364 00:15:50,210 --> 00:15:51,606 -You know what I'm saying? -Say less. 365 00:15:51,689 --> 00:15:53,086 Teach your Queens brother about Brooklyn, 366 00:15:53,169 --> 00:15:53,953 you know what I mean? 367 00:15:54,040 --> 00:15:55,214 -Say less, baby. -Love. 368 00:16:06,313 --> 00:16:10,056 Do this feel Black Pearl, in particular, people-ish? 369 00:16:10,143 --> 00:16:12,623 Just need the pine tree air freshener. 370 00:16:12,710 --> 00:16:14,151 The pine tree air freshener. 371 00:16:14,234 --> 00:16:15,278 Yeah. 372 00:16:17,889 --> 00:16:19,326 So, we're gon' go up to your school, 373 00:16:19,456 --> 00:16:21,283 where a lot of Big Daddy Kane battles 374 00:16:21,284 --> 00:16:22,677 took place and all that? 375 00:16:22,807 --> 00:16:24,200 A lot of rap battles. 376 00:16:24,287 --> 00:16:28,204 <i>The majority of time, I would be in class,</i> 377 00:16:28,291 --> 00:16:31,425 and someone would come to the door... 378 00:16:31,512 --> 00:16:33,083 -"Yo." -...and let me know that someone 379 00:16:33,166 --> 00:16:34,345 outside wanted to battle. -Wanted to battle. 380 00:16:34,428 --> 00:16:35,907 <i>-Yeah. -And you'd go out there.</i> 381 00:16:35,995 --> 00:16:37,391 <i>Yeah, I get the bathroom pass, go out there,</i> 382 00:16:37,474 --> 00:16:39,041 <i>wear somebody ass out...</i> 383 00:16:39,128 --> 00:16:41,652 <i>...then bring the pass back, like, a period later.</i> 384 00:16:41,739 --> 00:16:43,350 <i>Yo, that's hilarious.</i> 385 00:16:43,480 --> 00:16:45,138 <i>Yeah.</i> 386 00:16:48,616 --> 00:16:51,096 Hold up. 387 00:16:51,097 --> 00:16:52,359 Peace, I. 388 00:16:52,489 --> 00:16:54,839 Peace, baby. We here. 389 00:16:54,926 --> 00:16:57,537 Sarah J. Hale High School. 390 00:16:57,538 --> 00:16:59,848 What's the first thing come to mind when you look over here? 391 00:16:59,931 --> 00:17:01,455 That sign wasn't there. 392 00:17:03,587 --> 00:17:05,937 For my man B.D.K., 393 00:17:06,068 --> 00:17:08,201 hip hop was born here. 394 00:17:08,288 --> 00:17:12,508 In here, like, it used to be me and the guidance counselor. 395 00:17:12,509 --> 00:17:14,510 -Like, he knew that I rap. -Right. 396 00:17:14,511 --> 00:17:16,191 So, he would, like, during official period, 397 00:17:16,296 --> 00:17:17,906 he would let me get on the microphone 398 00:17:17,993 --> 00:17:20,778 and say a rhyme about attendance, 399 00:17:20,865 --> 00:17:23,259 about staying off of drugs. -Oh, really? 400 00:17:23,346 --> 00:17:25,696 Then by noon, we go cut class and go get drunk. 401 00:17:27,176 --> 00:17:28,743 <i>Nah. But it was, like,</i> 402 00:17:28,830 --> 00:17:31,224 <i>so much support in this here school.</i> 403 00:17:31,354 --> 00:17:34,662 <i>I had the whole school in my corner.</i> 404 00:17:34,749 --> 00:17:35,967 -Mm-hmm. -The whole school 405 00:17:36,055 --> 00:17:37,534 rooting for me. -Mm-hmm. 406 00:17:37,621 --> 00:17:40,233 <i>I felt like one day I'm-a make it.</i> 407 00:17:40,363 --> 00:17:42,495 And let me ask you a question. <i>Why</i> did you wanna make it? 408 00:17:45,586 --> 00:17:47,936 <i>When I was younger, I always wanted to be Marvin Gaye.</i> 409 00:17:48,067 --> 00:17:51,070 I just can't sing. 410 00:17:51,200 --> 00:17:55,030 You know? But I knew I could rap my ass off. 411 00:17:55,117 --> 00:17:58,512 So, I understand you're the Marvin Gaye of rap. 412 00:17:58,599 --> 00:18:00,601 That's what people are saying. 413 00:18:00,688 --> 00:18:02,993 Are they? Good. 414 00:18:02,994 --> 00:18:06,346 It wasn't about, you know, selling a bunch of records. 415 00:18:06,433 --> 00:18:09,000 It wasn't about, you know, buying a Bentley or a Rolls. 416 00:18:09,088 --> 00:18:10,441 -Yeah, just being the dopest... -Just wanted to be 417 00:18:10,524 --> 00:18:11,659 the dopest MC, that's all. -Yeah. 418 00:18:11,742 --> 00:18:13,226 That's all I really envisioned at that time. 419 00:18:13,309 --> 00:18:15,572 Everything is still the same, you know? 420 00:18:15,659 --> 00:18:18,271 I'm still living the same place I was living before. 421 00:18:18,401 --> 00:18:20,490 Well, I got more things than I did before, 422 00:18:20,621 --> 00:18:24,407 you know, like all big jewelry and Dapper Dan suits. 423 00:18:29,412 --> 00:18:33,329 Okay, one word. Talk to me about it... "legacy." 424 00:18:33,416 --> 00:18:37,027 I mean, nothing means more to me 425 00:18:37,028 --> 00:18:40,031 than to have someone say that my music 426 00:18:40,162 --> 00:18:43,164 helped them get through high school, 427 00:18:43,165 --> 00:18:46,299 through college, through Desert Storm. 428 00:18:46,386 --> 00:18:48,649 If I can give you just something motivational 429 00:18:48,736 --> 00:18:51,217 to make you do better in life, 430 00:18:51,304 --> 00:18:53,871 I feel like then I did a good thing with my music. 431 00:18:54,002 --> 00:18:57,484 I'm not trying to tell nobody, you know, to do this or do that, 432 00:18:57,571 --> 00:19:00,226 you know, trying to tell nobody right from wrong. 433 00:19:00,313 --> 00:19:02,271 I'm just trying to show you that I was 434 00:19:02,402 --> 00:19:04,273 in that same position where I had a choice, 435 00:19:04,360 --> 00:19:07,058 you know, to go this way or that way. 436 00:19:07,146 --> 00:19:09,452 And I believe that I went the right way. 437 00:19:09,539 --> 00:19:11,976 <i>It's like, we're not paying the fans.</i> 438 00:19:12,063 --> 00:19:14,370 -Mm-hmm. -They're paying <i>us.</i> 439 00:19:14,501 --> 00:19:17,068 Right. They're paying for that inspiration and that escape. 440 00:19:17,156 --> 00:19:18,809 -Right. -It's our spirit 441 00:19:18,896 --> 00:19:21,160 sharing with their spirits. -Exactly. 442 00:19:21,290 --> 00:19:22,857 There it is. You know what I'm sayin'? 443 00:19:22,944 --> 00:19:25,599 My man. King Asiatic, baby. 444 00:19:25,686 --> 00:19:27,253 That's what it is. 445 00:19:33,563 --> 00:19:36,349 <i>♪ Brooklyn, Brooklyn, Brooklyn, Brooklyn ♪</i> 446 00:19:36,436 --> 00:19:38,394 <i>♪ We go hard ♪</i> 447 00:19:39,830 --> 00:19:43,573 <i>From B.D.K. to B.I.G. to Lil' Kim,</i> 448 00:19:43,660 --> 00:19:45,401 <i>countless more,</i> 449 00:19:45,488 --> 00:19:47,795 <i>there's no doubt Brooklyn goes hard.</i> 450 00:19:47,882 --> 00:19:50,885 <i>Now I'm headed north to visit a Harlem rapper who,</i> 451 00:19:50,972 --> 00:19:54,410 <i>in my humble opinion, is hip hop personified.</i> 452 00:20:05,508 --> 00:20:07,902 -Yo. -What's up, man? 453 00:20:07,989 --> 00:20:11,252 -My man Doug! Doug with an E! -Come on, man. Come on, man. 454 00:20:11,253 --> 00:20:12,472 Chillin' with... uhh! 455 00:20:12,559 --> 00:20:13,864 <i>♪ Hit it ♪</i> 456 00:20:13,951 --> 00:20:15,736 <i>Doug E. Fresh,</i> 457 00:20:15,823 --> 00:20:18,042 <i>the human beat box.</i> 458 00:20:18,129 --> 00:20:21,872 <i>While other MCs and DJs used drum machines and turntables,</i> 459 00:20:21,959 --> 00:20:23,526 <i>the equipment that Doug E. Fresh used</i> 460 00:20:23,657 --> 00:20:26,486 <i>was basically Doug E. Fresh himself.</i> 461 00:20:26,573 --> 00:20:28,618 <i>-♪ - Somebody say...</i> <i>-"Oh, my God!" ♪</i> 462 00:20:28,749 --> 00:20:31,230 <i>The most ionic beat boxer of all time.</i> 463 00:20:31,317 --> 00:20:33,319 <i>Doug E. took the art mainstream</i> 464 00:20:33,406 --> 00:20:35,325 <i>with his partner, Slick Rick and the Get Fresh Crew.</i> 465 00:20:35,408 --> 00:20:37,236 The toast of America's rap generation, 466 00:20:37,323 --> 00:20:39,760 <i>Doug E. Fresh.</i> 467 00:20:39,847 --> 00:20:42,937 <i>The single, "The Show/La Di Da Di"</i> 468 00:20:43,067 --> 00:20:44,808 <i>is a hip hop classic</i> 469 00:20:44,939 --> 00:20:47,115 <i>and one of the most sampled tracks in all of music.</i> 470 00:20:48,769 --> 00:20:52,728 <i>- ♪ Excuse me, Doug E Fresh - ♪ Yes ♪</i> 471 00:20:52,729 --> 00:20:56,211 Me and you, in terms of our industry, we are true peers. 472 00:20:56,342 --> 00:21:00,128 We really came out together. How were you exposed to hip hop? 473 00:21:00,259 --> 00:21:02,522 You know, my sister just came home 474 00:21:02,609 --> 00:21:04,915 and started talking about DJ Hollywood. 475 00:21:05,002 --> 00:21:07,570 <i>She started saying the rhyme... "ring-a-ding-a-ding,</i> 476 00:21:07,657 --> 00:21:09,877 da-dong, the dong-dong, the dang, the dang-dang, 477 00:21:09,964 --> 00:21:12,053 the ding, the dong-dong to the hip hop..." 478 00:21:12,140 --> 00:21:13,620 And all of a sudden, I said, 479 00:21:13,750 --> 00:21:15,709 "Wow, that's crazy. Do that again." 480 00:21:15,796 --> 00:21:18,189 Right now, rap music is number one over here. 481 00:21:18,320 --> 00:21:19,930 Rap music is ruling. 482 00:21:20,017 --> 00:21:22,629 The main message to our rap music is have something 483 00:21:22,716 --> 00:21:24,417 to believe in and be yourself and let people hear 484 00:21:24,500 --> 00:21:29,288 that we're not as stupid and as ignorant as they think we are. 485 00:21:29,375 --> 00:21:32,160 Know what I'm saying? 486 00:21:32,247 --> 00:21:33,595 I used to write poetry all the time. 487 00:21:33,596 --> 00:21:35,816 -Oh, wow. -So, I wrote poetry in school. 488 00:21:35,903 --> 00:21:40,429 I won the Langston Hughes award. But when hip hop started, 489 00:21:40,516 --> 00:21:45,304 it turned from poetry into just coming up with rhymes. 490 00:21:45,391 --> 00:21:48,263 Y'all be beatin' on the lunch table. 491 00:21:48,350 --> 00:21:49,525 Yeah. 492 00:21:49,612 --> 00:21:52,223 So, all of these different things collectively 493 00:21:52,311 --> 00:21:54,616 <i>just changed my whole perspective.</i> 494 00:21:56,053 --> 00:21:57,403 <i>As Doug E. was evolving</i> 495 00:21:57,490 --> 00:21:59,274 <i>into the hip hop icon he is today,</i> 496 00:21:59,405 --> 00:22:01,232 <i>something else popped on the scene</i> 497 00:22:01,320 --> 00:22:03,147 <i>that completely changed the game</i> 498 00:22:03,234 --> 00:22:08,109 <i>and further spread the gospel of hip hop in an all new way.</i> 499 00:22:08,196 --> 00:22:10,807 Now let's talk about the boombox. 500 00:22:10,894 --> 00:22:15,421 The boombox is like an icon of hip hop culture. 501 00:22:15,508 --> 00:22:17,988 <i>The boombox is not just music that you can hear...</i> 502 00:22:18,075 --> 00:22:20,426 everybody can hear. 503 00:22:20,513 --> 00:22:24,255 <i>The whole point was to make sure that everybody heard</i> 504 00:22:24,386 --> 00:22:26,735 so when you <i>hear</i> the music, 505 00:22:26,736 --> 00:22:28,434 you can start looking for what's going on. 506 00:22:28,564 --> 00:22:31,741 <i>It really was a way to call people in.</i> 507 00:22:33,874 --> 00:22:35,876 <i>Whoever it was that had the biggest boombox</i> 508 00:22:35,963 --> 00:22:38,444 <i>had the party on the block.</i> 509 00:22:38,531 --> 00:22:40,054 <i>It played cassette tapes.</i> 510 00:22:40,141 --> 00:22:42,230 <i>It also had a radio component.</i> 511 00:22:42,317 --> 00:22:45,754 You could carry it outside. You have enough D batteries, 512 00:22:45,755 --> 00:22:48,932 <i>then you can take your boombox outside.</i> 513 00:22:51,152 --> 00:22:55,765 <i>We're talking anywhere from 12 to 18 D batteries.</i> 514 00:22:55,852 --> 00:22:57,113 They also had to have money 515 00:22:57,114 --> 00:22:58,681 'cause D batteries was expensive. 516 00:23:04,252 --> 00:23:06,602 The boombox came from the b-boys. 517 00:23:09,170 --> 00:23:11,259 <i>They needed to dance to some music,</i> 518 00:23:11,346 --> 00:23:13,695 <i>so the bigger the radio, the louder the music,</i> 519 00:23:13,696 --> 00:23:15,350 the more people gon' come around 520 00:23:15,437 --> 00:23:16,656 and make that circle again. 521 00:23:18,484 --> 00:23:20,442 <i>The boombox became a fashion statement.</i> 522 00:23:20,529 --> 00:23:23,053 <i>LL... he was the first one to be talking</i> 523 00:23:23,140 --> 00:23:25,491 <i>about how big his radio was.</i> 524 00:23:25,578 --> 00:23:27,144 <i>Then they got the two speakers,</i> 525 00:23:27,275 --> 00:23:28,672 <i>then they got the four speakers, then they got the six speakers,</i> 526 00:23:28,755 --> 00:23:30,713 then they got the three parts. 527 00:23:30,800 --> 00:23:33,149 <i>We're talking about a big strap</i> 528 00:23:33,150 --> 00:23:34,674 and somebody having a strong back. 529 00:23:36,980 --> 00:23:38,504 <i>When I would see a dude</i> 530 00:23:38,591 --> 00:23:40,114 <i>walking down the street with a boombox,</i> 531 00:23:40,201 --> 00:23:42,464 it was so much power. 532 00:23:42,595 --> 00:23:44,466 You know, look, when you growing up 533 00:23:44,597 --> 00:23:46,642 in New York in that time, you feel invisible. 534 00:23:46,729 --> 00:23:48,165 -Right. -Your friends get killed. 535 00:23:48,252 --> 00:23:50,603 It means nothing to anybody. Nobody cares. 536 00:23:50,733 --> 00:23:54,258 -Right. -But there was so much joy 537 00:23:54,389 --> 00:23:56,347 and such high vibration around this. 538 00:23:56,435 --> 00:23:58,567 And it was all about the dude walking 539 00:23:58,654 --> 00:24:01,831 down the block like this. He just walking. 540 00:24:01,918 --> 00:24:03,707 No doubt. Or with it on his shoulder. 541 00:24:03,790 --> 00:24:05,709 -Right, right, right, right! -With it on his shoulder. 542 00:24:05,792 --> 00:24:08,576 And it's so crazy because it's right in his ear. 543 00:24:08,577 --> 00:24:11,406 Blowing his ears off the frame. 544 00:24:11,493 --> 00:24:12,759 <i>All right, so this what we gon' do.</i> 545 00:24:12,842 --> 00:24:15,062 <i>This what we gon' do. We gon' hit the rooftop,</i> 546 00:24:15,149 --> 00:24:17,586 and you gon' be able to see the whole city from where we at. 547 00:24:17,673 --> 00:24:20,022 And I'm-a show you where the beat box was first done. 548 00:24:20,023 --> 00:24:21,503 All right, let's get to it, baby. 549 00:24:21,590 --> 00:24:24,288 <i>♪ Ain't no half steppin' ♪</i> 550 00:24:30,381 --> 00:24:31,948 ...the human beat boxer. 551 00:24:34,385 --> 00:24:37,998 ...in studio, Doug E. Fresh and the Get Fresh crew. 552 00:24:38,085 --> 00:24:41,914 -Doug here... -and Rick. 553 00:24:41,915 --> 00:24:45,092 Uh, could you explain what a human beat box is, Doug? 554 00:24:45,179 --> 00:24:46,833 Ladies... 555 00:24:48,791 --> 00:24:50,793 ...and gentlemen... 556 00:24:50,924 --> 00:24:52,099 We are... 557 00:24:54,014 --> 00:24:55,494 The Get Fresh Crew! 558 00:24:59,410 --> 00:25:01,761 So, yo, origins of the beat box. 559 00:25:01,848 --> 00:25:05,504 Okay. All right. I went to a school over here. 560 00:25:05,591 --> 00:25:06,983 Mm-hmm. 561 00:25:07,070 --> 00:25:08,463 -I had a teacher... -Mm-hmm. 562 00:25:08,550 --> 00:25:09,246 ...who wanted me to play the trumpet. 563 00:25:09,333 --> 00:25:10,552 Mm-hmm. 564 00:25:10,639 --> 00:25:12,467 So, I'm taking this trumpet home. 565 00:25:12,554 --> 00:25:15,035 Every day I'm practicing. I'm practicing. 566 00:25:15,122 --> 00:25:17,167 And then one day I come to school, 567 00:25:17,254 --> 00:25:19,648 and he is no longer there. 568 00:25:19,735 --> 00:25:21,132 It ain't 'cause of your trumpet playing, is it? 569 00:25:21,215 --> 00:25:24,043 -No, no, no! -Terrible teacher. That's... 570 00:25:24,044 --> 00:25:26,350 But I... what it was is that they cut the music program 571 00:25:26,437 --> 00:25:28,309 in most of the urban schools. 572 00:25:28,439 --> 00:25:30,572 -Of course. -And that's what happened. 573 00:25:30,703 --> 00:25:32,487 <i>So, long story short, I'm walking home.</i> 574 00:25:32,618 --> 00:25:34,533 <i>But while I'm walking home,</i> 575 00:25:34,663 --> 00:25:36,273 <i>every day I'm hearing these musics.</i> 576 00:25:36,360 --> 00:25:37,583 <i>I'm hearing... ♪ It was a party night ♪</i> 577 00:25:37,666 --> 00:25:39,538 <i>♪ Everybody was breakin' ♪</i> 578 00:25:39,625 --> 00:25:42,453 <i>- ♪ Was breakin' in the house</i> - Oh, man, that gave me... Whoo! 579 00:25:42,541 --> 00:25:44,581 <i>♪ And it won't be long till everybody knowin' that ♪</i> 580 00:25:44,673 --> 00:25:46,065 <i>♪ On that beat box goin' that... ♪</i> 581 00:25:46,066 --> 00:25:47,154 And... 582 00:25:47,284 --> 00:25:48,590 <i>♪ Sha-na-na ♪</i> 583 00:25:48,677 --> 00:25:50,504 <i>♪ Italian, Caucasian, Japanese ♪</i> 584 00:25:50,505 --> 00:25:53,682 <i>♪ Spanish, Indian, Negro, Vietnamese ♪</i> 585 00:25:53,769 --> 00:25:56,946 <i>We hear that, Spoonie, Treacherous, everything.</i> 586 00:25:57,077 --> 00:25:59,209 So, I'm walking home. I'm hearing... 587 00:26:01,777 --> 00:26:04,258 So, now you got the bass and the beat box, right? 588 00:26:04,345 --> 00:26:05,302 -Yeah. -Then you got... 589 00:26:08,567 --> 00:26:11,265 Then you putting the hi-hat in there, and the crash is... 590 00:26:13,615 --> 00:26:15,835 Then you putting the other thing in there. 591 00:26:18,925 --> 00:26:20,840 And now you starting to... now you going... 592 00:26:20,970 --> 00:26:23,537 <i>Now</i> it's starting to get real crazy, right? 593 00:26:23,538 --> 00:26:26,715 So, now I'm doing it outside. 594 00:26:26,846 --> 00:26:28,978 Everybody lost they mind. 595 00:26:29,109 --> 00:26:31,720 That was the beginning, and then it took off. 596 00:26:35,768 --> 00:26:38,073 Yeah. Come on. 597 00:26:43,645 --> 00:26:45,386 No, I'm working out, y'all. 598 00:26:51,740 --> 00:26:53,699 <i>Okay. And this is something</i> 599 00:26:53,786 --> 00:26:55,226 <i>I've been asking people... your legacy.</i> 600 00:26:55,309 --> 00:26:56,919 <i>What's legacy mean to you?</i> 601 00:26:57,006 --> 00:26:59,792 What is my legacy? Uh... 602 00:26:59,922 --> 00:27:02,185 I never really put too much thought into that. 603 00:27:02,272 --> 00:27:05,711 I'm so busy living in the now, 604 00:27:05,798 --> 00:27:08,104 in this moment <i>right now,</i> 605 00:27:08,191 --> 00:27:10,541 that I don't even really think about the legacy. 606 00:27:10,629 --> 00:27:13,457 I think it writes itself. 607 00:27:13,588 --> 00:27:15,072 I think it writes itself. You know that? 608 00:27:15,155 --> 00:27:16,373 Yep. 609 00:27:16,504 --> 00:27:20,073 And I mean this so sincerely. 610 00:27:20,160 --> 00:27:21,595 There's no words. 611 00:27:21,596 --> 00:27:24,991 There's nothing that I can ever say 612 00:27:25,078 --> 00:27:28,081 to thank God enough... 613 00:27:28,168 --> 00:27:29,256 Amen. 614 00:27:29,386 --> 00:27:33,564 ...for giving me this moment right now 615 00:27:33,652 --> 00:27:35,697 and the opportunities that I've had 616 00:27:35,784 --> 00:27:38,134 and just to be here now with you 617 00:27:38,221 --> 00:27:41,616 and us growing up together and us standing here 618 00:27:41,703 --> 00:27:45,751 from the time when we were little kids, man. 619 00:27:45,838 --> 00:27:47,882 -Doug E. Fresh. -Appreciate you, brother. 620 00:27:47,883 --> 00:27:49,624 -You already know. -Hip hop was born here. 621 00:27:49,755 --> 00:27:50,756 -Yes, sir. -Here. 622 00:27:50,843 --> 00:27:51,626 -Yes, sir. -No doubt, no doubt. 623 00:27:51,757 --> 00:27:54,020 -Let's roll. -Yeah. 624 00:28:01,157 --> 00:28:02,158 <i>♪ South Bronx ♪</i> 625 00:28:02,245 --> 00:28:03,985 <i>♪ The South, South Bronx ♪</i> 626 00:28:03,986 --> 00:28:05,813 I got the GOAT with me, baby. 627 00:28:05,814 --> 00:28:08,077 LL Cool J! Get over here! 628 00:28:14,431 --> 00:28:15,828 <i>♪ South Bronx, the South, South Bronx ♪</i> 629 00:28:15,911 --> 00:28:18,827 <i>♪ South Bronx, the South, South Bronx ♪</i> 630 00:28:18,914 --> 00:28:21,395 <i>♪ South Bronx, the South, South Bronx ♪</i> 630 00:28:22,305 --> 00:29:22,920 Watch Online Movies and Series for FREE www.osdb.link/lm