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McDonald's and put a shake on Laila. Oh! That's so right there. Your mother's so old, she knew Central Park when it's just a plant. No, no, no, no. Your mom's head so nappy, she got to take pain killer to comb my head. A whole lot of people that were pioneers. Grandmaster Flash, Grand Wizard Theatre, Cool Herk, Coca-Lorac, Eddie Chieber, Hollywood. The list goes on. Civil rights movement has passed and you have a new consciousness emerging among our people.

The right kids like this music. The right new class kids like this music. This music is saying something to them too. If anything, I think that music should be waking up white America to how bad it really is. This is reality. Rap, the voice of the community. We're going to do it like this now. Whatever your hands if you love hip-hop music. Like I do. Sing. We're going to do it like this now. Listen to the lyrics. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. This hip-hop roll. Hip-hop roll. Let me something in this piece. I'll hit count, take it. Come on. Hip-hop roll. Hip-hop roll. Let me something in this piece. I'll hit count, take it. We want rap music. We want the rap music. Boom. Rap music. We want the rap music. Come again. Rap music. We want the rap music. Boom. Rap music. We want the rap music. Way back in the days. 1979. backpack band made a wrecky using rhyme. In the same year comes the Sugar Hell gang with the Pow Pow

So would you identify yourself, look straight into the camera and identify yourself and what you do for the record? Okay, my name is Ishmael Reed and I'm a writer. Dave Cook, radio name is Davey D, and I do about seven or eight different things pertaining to music. Our rap is a commercial term for a very old tradition of oral poetry that was originated by Native Americans and African Americans in the United States. Probably has origins in East Africa. In this country, I think it probably is related to the kind of tales that were told in the presentation because you have the same kind of world view, very cynical world view.

There's going to be the Bragg Doshio element, bragging and flating itself, you know, just call it all the way back to Africa, it's nothing to do with, you know, or anything that people want to say is a social phenomenon because of the time it's, you know, who can top who? It's a game, it's a verbal game. There will be a dissing aspect of it or the basing, you know, that is done in the spirit of the world, you know, you know, it's like if I play basketball, I'm going to try and

slam the ball in your face, you know, we play baseball, I'm going to try and beat you, if we box I'm going to try and beat you, but, you know, we're rapping, I'm going to out-rime you in a minute. Hello, my name is Davey Delf, and I'm an MC, I rap. The challenger always goes first, go, let him do his own. You want to be fight, phonetic, imitation, you want to be like me, you want to build your reputation. I look at you and all I do is laugh because the things I got you dream to have, let's hear a pun, that's the better it is one, you're the mama's boy, and I'm the father's son to look good, your girl has to wear lipstick. I got it tender, that's not materialistic, you know, if you want static, you'll give me some, but you got a toy gun and I got a real one, you're just plastic and mine is nickel-plated, so I guess you want to die, so you can be a carnated, no boy, when I plan, check us if we work, you're going to get jumped, I'll be the king, you'll be the punk, I want to end the actual, what you're going to be, you limit that's my kind of eyes, I said I want to be, I've heard that somewhere before, no you ain't, yes I am, because I made it up, you ain't never heard that, all this, all this was

re-pre-read, right? Can you come off the mind like I be him, I like being heavy-set, forget being slim, my clothes up, things no harm, in my mind, I set straight goals, reaching for the top of success, I wish to be deaf, and nothing less, you're looking like a bum in the street trying to keep me with a brother like me and nothing but a young creep, trying to come hold you better, hold back, such an in my eyes and nothing more than a new jack, you're thinking hard enough to get with the daily points, bring a gig gas, you must have been crazy, your homeboy shirt got hoed, and that's the way it is, because you have no goals, you're fellin' to a pot hole, you're lookin' up to see if you could come up, but then I ain't rough, to cover up, the thing that you made, coming out like the ground, we're on a straight crusade, I'm on a mission to take out such as like you, you're too weak, I never wanna bite you, and there'd be something like this, I grab a microphone, point off the stage and you're dismissed,

I feel like an iPhone, I don't fit bad though, dude, you keep pushing on me, you know what though, it's the way you present it, dude, you gotta present it with some feelings, dude, if you aggressive, if you timid, dude, you can't really, it's just like fighting dude, you can't be timid with it, if you gonna rap against somebody, you come at him, you know, even if you lose, if you fighting, if you lose, you gonna run off, if you fighting and you lose, hey, you got me today, but expect one tomorrow, dude, that's the way it gotta be, rap ain't nothin' different, rap is the same thing as fighting. The O-A-K-L-A-N-D, the C-I-T-Y of H-A-R-D, you boy, dude, we ain't unemployment off this man with no work, when I'm to the union hall with no work, woke up this morning, I

had nothing to do, wants to give me some work, but that crowd wasn't cool, stepped into the office, sat down in the seat, thinking about the boss man that I had to meet, wasn't nothing going on, the things was all wrong, I mean mentally breaking me down from strong, so I had to comprise a word to the wise, do what I do best, and that's the hang with the guys, chillin' like him, that ain't always gonna grab a floaty, as a kid, I ain't gonna miss, and open this to the five, attitudes are messed up, the girls' acts are ditty, sometimes it's the game, a slanging, white cocaine, sometimes it's a mental block, then you have to become a job, play ball, be the best that you can be, but that ain't that easy, because there's many of you out there that tries to compete, take your program and wipe it out,

delete, one push of a button, one time you're a star next time you're nothing, and the city of Oakland is the city of the game, whoever can hang is the better man, and I mean the veteran, you gotta keep on pushin' and pedaling, when I say pedaling don't mean drugs, cuz that set a lift for street thugs, nine times out of ten, it's a battle in your mind that you don't, you can win, how'd you learn how to rap without writing a lyrics down, how does it come to you so easily? That's a good question, I guess guy gives certain people's gifts, guess how it's mine, how did you do in school when you were in school? Citizenship was crummy, scholarship was good, I was always good on tests, um, I mean as far as sittin' in the classroom, being quiet, I'm not a quiet person. I'm growing Oakland, definitely cuz New York at this time, it brought it out, I got

most upmost respect for New York, but as far as letting rap stay in New York, that's dead. Do you wanna be a rapper? Yeah. Why? Cuz me it's fun for one, you know, and I'm good at it, at least I think so and everybody else that know me say I am, then on top of that spotlight, glamor in the glory. Hi, I'm Mellormar, from J-Cat and Mellormar, from APG Crew, I'm rapper and lyric writer. Hello I'm J-Cat, from MC Mellormar, and J-Cat, and I'm in charge of DJing and programming

drum machines. How you doin' my name is Alan Blackwell, and I own Metro Records, mainly the glue for everything holding together so that these guys can do what they do best. Well that's it! We got a lot of problems. No one can solve them. They're rather just safe. It doesn't involve a woman in detection

It's the racist people judging people by the color of their faces. The story was told all around the world a black man Had to die because he had a white girl a black woman was raped by a group of poor they tried to make us believe she tried to So when the floor skin here hard to say exactly I guess I guess I was coming My friends Where lyrics come from for you for me. It's kind of funny to see See just listening to my father's and my father comes from from the old school the real old school You know the 30s the 40s back, you know the gangster days when you know you talked in rhyme all the time You know they had the penitentiary rhymes back then so my father always talked in rhyme sometimes, you know like you know You didn't go to class and to beat your ass that kind of thing, you know

I don't know Jimmy since he was a little kid and in my heart He's like the best co-gamer Big program At least on the West Coast today, but he's so diverse. He can he can make 10 beats up in one hour He could make records. I'll tune up For So where'd you hit where'd you did you lock it in your head? How about just be at home listening old records. I hear something I like And I just put it on to, you know, to the tracks. Yeah, the kind of stuff they're doing with You know audio collages Define to the about a guy's dollars

We're here at the advanced, but the words are what are important. That's what's appealing to me as a writer about a rap is that The words and our secondary to the music which is what you get in rock and other forms of pop music You Now all the major white record companies are signing acts left and right just like rock music Once it once the corporates get into it, then you know it's worth something Just multi-means of dollars in rap Right now I'm a local business man trying to come up and I'm financially struggling. So I have to You know concentrate on one thing which is right now what we're doing right now in studio We're melamon jack cut, you know They're the first ones off the APG crew that's then I'm trying to push National and APG is like the springboard for you know to get the record label notice to get these guys Notice and who our always told them whoever works the hardest we hurt the hardest and tries to go somewhere

Those are the ones who are gonna make it On the party They should be away for the for the youngsters to express themselves because you know We all know what kind of condition that this society is in right now with drugs and you know No values or whatever so kids look to To belong to something they won't identify with something if it's not gangs then What is it this it's music or else this? You know else you're doing good. You're one unfortunate. That was raised in the middle class and You know got education they were the sustain yourself out in society, but We all got dreams and where we come from and see the dope life the music life for the criminal life Go to the party damn to the music

You know how to use it And then go for mine What's in all weeks not a five all my money So in the weekend comes I know you live with the hood Rolling down the street. I saw the joy when she was pumping. I wake my eyes got into the ride went to a club with Job All right, stop what you're doing because I'm about to ruin the image and a style that you use to I look funny But you know, I'm making money see so your world. I hope you're ready for me. I got the round

I'm a new fool in town and my sounds way down by the underground Just look at your billboard reports and sales. It's the west coast. It's outselling their their east coast brethren all over the place You know emcee hammer tone local NWA The list goes on and on digital underground right now Big business, you know all these people out of Oakland or somewhere on the west coast You All right, once again Obviously it's not just black kids who are buying this music 90 more Definitely 90 more to cross over everywhere. Why do you think so many white kids particularly middle-class white kids Relate to this music

Um because rap is pure it's a pure pure form of self-expression Uh rap goes against the grain to a large degree you turn on you listen to pop radio First of all most of music on pop radio is based upon black music anyway, and it's just diluted. So I mean I rather have the pure stuff than the diluted stuff. I would imagine would be The way of thinking even though it might not be articulated by a white audience We're gonna have a moment of silence when we let my man Spoonie G tell you all about Mike Tyson It's exciting. It's it's something new you turn on radio you hear Madonna on this station The down on that station down against get the same ten record over and over now. Here's something new Then as there always was like curious aspect. Let's go down to the ghetto and Have some fun and entertain ourselves and see how these people live And then we'll come back to the suburbs and you know, you get to live on the while side for a little bit And then you come back and you remove yourself from it. There's always been a fascination

At least from what I've understood with white culture wanting to find out about black culture They've always taken stuff from our culture. It's never given this credit to it. Is it that cynical? I mean that by carriers living It's just so they can get a taste and then go back to the nice. I think it is I go to school up here at Cal Berkeley a lot of these kids come up here from places like Baldwin Hills Samarino Places out of nowhere near Compton and Watts and Los Angeles You go to a party you see people flashing crypt signs and talking about I'm rolling 60s and I'm this and I'm that and I'm the other Pretending they gangsters and on a black perspective a lot of people have come to equate the harshness of ghetto life with being black I got something brand new something that's hyped and hot and ready to go Coming out of the city of Oakland and Fresno Kurok J DJ slice. It's a black thing. Check it out. The lyrics are definitely hyped You don't like you don't mind he's disinhammed

You don't care Okay, I got it for you Oh What is your position of white rappers If they're true to the music and they're willing to Follow the lead of their predecessors. I'm a problem with it third base does that You know to a large degree But if you're in there just to fly and do a Madonna move which he did like a few years ago came through the black Channels was not supported by white radio initially with a first album came through here was played on urban stations You know one of those 40 spots could have went to another black artist and she got big and wins Madonna now

I don't know yeah, all I know she's no longer And our camp she she got her piece of the pie and you that as a springboard to something else So white rapper that comes in or anybody who participates in this black music art form needs to be accountable Needs to hold themselves accountable to a community and even those people that um You know it that that's a mindset. That's not just a black and white thing Just because you black and come flying through here because there are a lot of brothers that will come here and do the fly by night thing Um in a minute too I'm Monet and I rap People tend to think oh you've got it made because you're different white female rapper perfect marketing Thing but I was always real interested in the music and being true to the music and to me

I didn't want to sign with anyone it couldn't help me make the music good There's not just about laying down some dollars. It's about Doing beats and doing music and and and and loving rap. Do you feel it's difficult accepted by A lot of audience because you're white I think the initial reaction can sometimes be harsh and really judgmental and I think that there is racism Everywhere What I learned is I honestly believe and I know it to be true because it's happening with groups like third base If you are good if you are true to the culture And respectful of where that comes from you will be accepted The scene is a result with what with a little touch of latest first the major success stories and rap Our black males most females up till now have been sort of the only time they've done a rap

They've been answering a guy's rap about then Make it your monster line if you don't believe what he'll listen to this bra Ladies first, there's no time to rehearse on divine and my mind expands throughout the universe up now There's there's females in rap that are just really Serious science as we say Down Latifa and see like, you know, you don't think of them as being female rappers They're just great rappers. They're put out great records Money in your pocket dying to move your body to get inside to pay the whole $10 got safe with arrays of lace I'll leave the guns in the crack in the nose If see lights on the microphone One rush and impression, snatch and attacks and I can't understand why brothers don't be maxing There's only one disco that clothes one more you ain't God in the door So what you got a gun for?

Do you rob the rich and give to the poor yo daddy yo People rap about everything under the sun. There's no one thing, you know, well right now The trend is for a lot of people to embrace the concept of afro centricity Which means having a world view that's based from an African perspective as opposed to a Eurocentric perspective So that means honoring accepting and acknowledging our value system In lieu of other people's value systems and basically presenting things and saying things on our own terms And forcing people to dialogue so that you can have what I would call true integration meaning that Your white guy you have your way of viewing things. I'm a black. I have my way of viewing things If we're gonna talk we'll both put our views on the table and we'll walk away with each of it Not you feed it to me, and I go yes, sir. That's good. And now I know. No, it's you learned from me. I learned from you and That's the trend that's that's picked up by a lot of rappers now They have to get to the core because in that time it was a keyboard line that move religion politics and man in order to destroy the Egyptian race

We have the way for scientists from off the face of the planet For they proceeded to ban it from a place with Christianity and it's been that way We do today The way it manifests itself is a lot of rappers rapping about the origins of black people Black and African cultural pride Um Positive things that address the social and societal ills that are afflicting us I Music rap music

I don't know what it is Have you ever heard Public enemy no, I never have who mo D no Queen Latifa no All right turn around this one right here I like some of the rap music and I dislike others I'm I feel that it says a lot about the black culture But sometimes it says it in a negative way and it could be more positive What are some of the negative things that you've heard drugs prison Crime and I don't think these are the things that should be reflected in any kind of music I think negative music should always be a positive projection and vehicle to society They

When you say that and you go and look at the multi-million dollar films And all the violence in these movies and all the sexes are in these movies and all of the Just out and out disrespectal women rape and so forth and so on. What's the difference? I mean, I feel that These kids see this every day and all they're doing is expressing what they see And I don't think they're advocating their blacks kill blacks or That fights kill blacks and vice versa. I think they're just expressing what they feel and what they see And I think it's a lot of pain coming out of this music too because a lot of these kids are in an enormous amount of pain And so they this is they were expressing. It's a far better Situation when they express it this way then they go out there with a gun and blow somebody's brains out All about some of the violins that dissociate Absolutely, but I see I see was correct that that's that's the life in the girls

And we have big homicide right here Oakland last year So he's homicide written ration so that's violence is happening And the black kids are killed each other but a hidden story that you don't read about very much is a white kid to kill himself The result is the same right people are dead Young people are dead So there's a crisis in this country that economic crisis where you have families are not only single people but families living in the streets You have a pathology among blacks, but also among lights I don't know if they if this will be just missed as a subversive music Because apparently people are in power are looking at it For the purpose of clamping down on it. We've always been the attitude toward Avarmab culture in this country Well today's topic self-destruction it really ain't the rap audience is bugging It's one of two suckers ignorant brothers trying to rob and steal from one another

Get caught in the mid so to crush that stereotype is what we did We got ourselves together so that you could unite and fight for what's right Not negative court the way we live is positive. We don't tell our relevant top-off one is shot who's the ring Headline for patriots to name and see tonight here to state the problem line to back on back problems To the brother life what a night that's right cry because you died on 2011 is very last breath was I slept so watch yourself back in the 60s our brothers and sisters were hanged How could you get bang? Ever ran from the coup cut plan and I shouldn't have to run from a black man You are now about to witness the strength of street knowledge If someone were to look at a broad spectrum of rap music from the positive Positive That's

One element that's I found in most of the songs is Prussian by the police In fact the FBI And it deserves to be investigated and more attention should be paid to it And this is a class coalition in American ghettos that Black people feel they're treated differently by the police and whites. Okay, especially black men That's not to exclude black women Excuse me ma'am is your daughter in one of the cars she right here and she's sick with the muzzle And they won't act let me ask why they got her stuck up in that car in the first place She been out ever since the 8th of january. That's why she's not in school

And now she's in a police car See My sister told me she was trying to stop the police officer from choking my brother And that's only right then got an a bit just choking him in the first place They're gonna wrestle you arrest you can not my brother's father ain't none of God Anybody can stand on the sidewalk you mean anybody can stand out here on the sidewalk It's a free street and men don't own these streets. I don't care what they have in New Year's He don't own I see this mess every day They always pick it with people every day and they be parking their park just like you know, just park And then sit there and then look and then stay there for a long period time in their drive slowly buy you nigger Highs business going on you S.O.Bs and I mean, you know son of a bitch. He says the word

You know and that's not right for them to do that They're gonna be police officers. They do it and do their job right But God did not put them down here to judge nobody You know, this is sort of like on the judge judge jury and executioner sometimes Or black people and the civilian politicians are afraid to interfere. They always seem to take the police Police's version of things Since a lot of rage among these rap singers about the way they're treated by police And the way any black people treat us You won't play in the view I will and I won't In general, I don't And that mainly has to do with Fact that I do a show or the show that I do I feel that I'm reaching out to a public and I'm trying to educate them And In doing so, I think I send out a conflicting message when I play a Martin Luther King or speech by Malcolm X Or I'm trying to sit there and say stop the violence and then I drop it in w a if talking about this is that any other

And I understand their perspective, but they're a lot of young impressionable people out there That are allowed to remain impressionable because their parents Don't sit down explain to them the proper context in which to listen to music But isn't that censorship? No, I mean if I have 25 records and I only have room to play 10 15 won't get played one of them just happens to be in w a But it isn't it's more conscious though. You're consciously not playing in w a consciously don't play groups that I don't like Consciously play music that I think is not good and that's always a subjective thing and I Consciously don't play a group like n w a who I feel sometimes will be misinterpreted by a listening audience. I think what's happening is that Rap is a prophesying more militant times That's where that's where I read it Washington DC 1963 democracy speaks in almighty voice You

Have checked us out man. We rolling this way that March in 1963 as a bill of nonsense We ain't rolling like that no more matter fact the young black America We're rolling up with seminars press conferences in straight-up rallies, am I right? We gotta get what we got to get coming to us work up Yeah In the river I think so, equal to what James Baldwin did, sorry, next time, only in a different style. But the similarity is that James Baldwin said, well, there's a lot of people's lines.

They should listen to this music, they should listen to this music because this music is sounding alarm. And I don't want to go to the 60s again, I love the 60s, culturally. But I want to go through all that stuff in the streets that went through, that's unnecessary. My album is pretty much a pro black militant album, but you shouldn't feel threatened in any way by that, if you're a white listener, if you don't fit what I'm against. It's racism and all of its forms. It's me already, who I believe is already interviewed, says that his agenda is to rewrite the history of Western civilization and culture.

And that's basically the same belief that I hold, because we're programmed from a very young age to believe that we're inferior. And to take a stance in my music where it's meaningless is not something that I choose to do. You're still oppressed, you're still underclass, you're still at the bottom of all the suggested, you know, except for the Jail. So to say that everything is okay, it's basically turning it back from the black population for the black listening audience of rap. With the raised fist, I resist, I don't burn, so don't you dare rip. A step to me, I'm strong, I'm black and proud, I put up a soldine down. Life in the city's already rough enough, without some young sucker running up, you don't know me, so don't step. I roll to the right name, push the lip, Paris is my name, I don't sleep.

I drop signs, I keep the peace, here to bust this, for better justice, another dope scar face release. This is a serious style for the gifted pro-black radical rap, sublifting, still going to power so strong, you can't stop it now. So we're going through this period of very quiet, safe, acceptable, hard-buy, happy Americans, and now come to the rappers. It's militant, it's boldacious, it's aggressive, it's political, and I think they're calling up something for the name. I can't sing, but basically, you know, rap was what was in at the time. You can't sing.

I mean, rap was what was in at the time, and you know. So you can't sing, what led you to political rap? Well, I was becoming, you know, tired of the same old brag rap that everybody seemed to be into, you know. When rap first came out, you know, brag rap was all that there was to it. Yeah, brag rap, yeah. And then, you know, you had everybody trying to be a gangster. And with the introduction of certain key artists, like public enemy and PRS war, they started making people become more aware of of what Malcolm was about, and basically with the entire concept of black nationalism was.

And that's when I began to take serious interests. I'm concerned that certain rappers label themselves political, but send out mixed messages. ICT, for example, who takes an anti-drug stance and says, you know, don't do drugs. You play yourself. You play yourself. It turns around, and he has his wife now half naked on an album cover holding, you know, a 12 gauge mixed messages like that. Stressed certain things are more important than others, you know, that saying no to drugs is more important than respecting black women. This organization, out of Miami, basically is putting out music, lyrics in particular, which are clearly, I think, in the worst taste with obscenity. And we recognize there's a freedom of speech and involvement here, but children, six, seven, eight years of age, almost as soon as they're able to read, can buy these lyrics.

And we're not talking about minor words. We're talking about some very graphically explained type of obscenity that I don't believe that ought to be really so, but even if it's an adult, that perhaps is a different situation by the child. I just cannot believe it. We know that you can't put a childproof cap on the world, and we believe strongly in the First Amendment and in the protection it provides. We also know that some music being marketed to our children is so explicit and so graphic that consumers need to know about it. A voluntary labeling system is the most effective way to alert parents and kids as to what's in the tapes, discs, and records that they are buying. Now let me hear you say bitch. Say bitch. Say bitch, bitch.

Say bitch, bitch, bitch. Now scream. Scream. I'm too short, baby, on the microphone, and I'm makin'. Too short is. I mean, you got to, it's just plain as day, it's just the male ego at it's worst. You know what I'm saying? It's like, if every brother could go home and his woman would, where you been? You know, why you come home so late? It's, it's, leave me alone. That's what he wants to do. He's not gonna do it. I'm not gonna do it. I'd be like, yeah, baby, I was out the fellers, I kind of got a late one watching. I ain't working, you know? That's reality, but now, too short, just kind of just like strokes that ego when you hear it, you feel good. And, uh, I figure it's a lot of, a lot of men out there, young brothers who go out there and buy that just to get that, that's sort of a high off that, uh, the ego, me. Some say I have a dirty mind, sometimes that might be true, but these are just some dirty time. I ain't trippin' on you, now let me hear you say, do that shit, do that shit short.

That's a lot of things that I do that I realize is just not right. It's just not perfect, but I, I got, I got to go on with my life. I gotta go ahead and be too short because too short is very profitable in 1990, so I gotta go on and do that. Why would you, why would you not, if you sitting right here, why would you not do what I'm doing? Why not? I tried to rap without the curse words and without the, you know, slaying all that stuff, and it just, it's not me. So I gotta be real about it. So for me, that's what it worked. As soon as I started laying down the real too short lyrics, I got a call from Jive Records, RCA. As soon as I, you know, did what I really wanted to do, the album went platinum, we sold 1.2 million out of them. So, you know, what can, what can I say, stop. A lot of women don't get offended, a lot of them do, but a lot of them don't get offended for the fact that they immediately when they hear it, they say, oh, he's not talking about me, he's talking about her. So they just bounce it off, and it's cool, and they sink it. That's how it is. And all of you women who are offended, when he say bitch, don't turn around.

We don't want it. As far as the little kids go, all the only difference I have, honestly, is that when I was a child, I knew every word, I heard Richard Prior, I heard, you know, watch movies and went to see the Mac and Superfly, I heard the language they use and all that stuff. In the 70s, what they do, everybody was making love to everybody, you know, it was cool. In the 80s, the world just came about to just be real wild, and just ruthless, it's just crazy now, you know. And we got HBO and Showtime, you just turned on Channel 3 and see it all, you know what I'm saying? What can you say? It's not our fault. He's a product of, and we're all products, we're on the same age, we're all products of the 70s and 80s right now. So it's society. I could never have been in success in 1966, that's the year I was born, I could have never said, the edge in the bin, you know, that would have been an outcast. I could have never done that, but I can do it in 1990 and sell a million out of them.

What's that say about society? What's it say about anything? I'm just, I'm saying like I'm saying, it's my job. I went from trying to scrounge up a hundred pennies in the corner of my room to buy a pack of new ports to, you know, I got my $100 land in the corner now. That's a big difference, big difference. I hope it's not a part for you to understand, I'm a business man. It's not the same, I'm treated like a dope dealer running again, and you wonder why I can't get no peace. I'm making more than the chief of police. Let's say two shots, two shots. Well, there always be a market for it. I mean, there's always going to be that certain segment of the population that's going to want that type of material. I think that artists need to be held responsible for what they say, but I don't believe in censoring anybody. As far as I'm concerned, you know, PMR seat can go to hell. There are other people that are trying to, you know, get the warning stickers, et cetera, et cetera on everybody and censors people's material. But, you know, I still believe in free speech, and too short can say whatever he wants to say, but is he willing to be responsible for what he says later on down the line?

What does that mean being responsible for what he says down the line? You know, when you catch flat for being misogynist or, you know, or when your sales begin to suffer, and they will suffer because the negativity is beginning to crumble in this industry as a whole. It's not involved anymore to be negative. Then you can't blame anybody but yourself. Luckily everybody gets in the rap just to get the dollar or to get the fame or whatever. To take the responsibility of being socially aware and responsible is to take the extra step. I think rappers need to be accountable. They need to be accountable on all types of different levels. They need to be accountable and aware of the messages that they put out. They need to be accountable and aware that their role models, whether they like it or not, and especially when you look at the fact that we are influenced by our entertainers, needs to be accountable. I'm Kevin, you're doing rock and roll, reggae, or rap. Okay.

Half the people that will point the finger at an NWA and LL Cool J and say, these guys need to be accountable. We'll sit there and listen to Luther Vandros and some of these other R&B singers who say the same thing. Like Chuck D said the best and I interviewed him. You know, he would ask that same question, you know, what about LL Cool J and his negative lyrics. And I like the example he used. He said, LL Cool J just comes right out in the song and said, I want to get in your pants in a record. Luther Vandros sings it. Well, I love you and I want to bring you flowers and roses. But the bottom line is he wants to get in the woman's pants too. Now, if that's a negative thing, they're both saying it. Just one is singing it. The other guy is just being very direct about it. He's not giving you anything to camouflage it. So they're both wrong as far as I'm concerned. Here it is. That's the way I like it for you. Definitely. Ah, the man had a whole lot of things to say.

We gonna open up the lines. We're gonna make a break that record and call it y'all in the air. What do you think of that song by Jesse West? Oh, yeah, I think you could break it. Break it. Why do you want to break it? Well, the beat wasn't all that swinging to me. Uh-huh. And I don't know, man. I'm just, I'm not down with the dissent of women either. Okay. But that's the point we're all taking, all right? Okay. All right. Thanks a lot for that, all right? So there you have it. We're gonna break Jesse West. A lot of people don't like the dissent of women. That's a message out to all y'all. And we're gonna put out records, dissensisters, women in general. A lot of people out there just ain't having it. No more. It's played itself out. It's passé. No longer to be. Think of a new idea. Meantime, we're gonna play some more good new music. Look for the other MCs that won't stop. I asked them to do that. They say they don't want none. You know why? Because the Davy is a veteran. For the dopest rhymes that they have to be pedaling. I know that I could do this so easy. The rhymes that I make it come to me so breezy. It's like the wind. Once the wind starts blowing, knowledge of I do you. Because rhymes is what I'm nowhere.

Jazz, rock and roll, R and B. All that emerge from Afro-American communities. There's a subculture that's usually accompanying these music. And it's enjoyed by us. And then, because women are in American society, you have a mainstream culture that looks in on this and has basically taken what it wants from it. And now it's time for the rap. Television News. My name is Johnny Cooler and I'm here to say, I bring you all the news in a musical way. My name is Rapples Ryan and I think that's me. And I bring you all the news where the radical be. Right now, with rap music and it is happening, when it gets taken over and redefined and spit out to us in a different form by White America, we will have nobody to blame. But the rap's business people, the black middle class, they have been, and if you talk to those rappers, they'll probably agree.

The biggest obstacles for rap music. In fact, they embrace, I guess, the attitudes that one might stereotype of white parents back in the 50s when rock and roll started crossing into the mainstream you had all these people going out, that's evil music. This is a art form that black people created. And ten years from now, I think that people forget that. And it'll be a multi-billion dollar industry. Another type of one that I'm making. Eating suck at MCs is as if they was baking. You think that I'm shaking? Brother, I'm making moves that you never heard of. I'm coming water enough to put you above. Rap is going to be like what rock is now. It's going to be a dominant form of music. But you're going to have history to tell you what we lost jazz. We lost this. So let's not lose rap. We lost this.

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