Rap Music in the 80s Part 2

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Save me back. You are listening
to the one and only Back to the

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Eighties Radio. Today, Ladies,
gentlemen, we continue on a part two

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episode. We're diving even deeper into
the rich tapestry of hip hop and rap

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history, focusing once again, as
we promised, on the legendary rappers who

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defined an era and laid the very
foundation of the genre we grew up know

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and love. Today talked about several
of the rappers, exploring the trailblazing artists

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who carved out a path for this
cultural phenomena. Today, we're going to

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continue the journey, spotlighting another set
of iconic wordsmiths and innovators who shaped the

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eighties hip hop landscape like no other. But before we do, I want

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to thank you guys for joining us
on another edition of Back to the Eighties

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Radio and introducing to you a gentleman
who has had more encounters with the Rampart

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Division Police Department of Los Angeles back
in the eighties than even Tom Bradley himself

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when visiting the station. He he
is a man that, back in the

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eighties was seen visiting more cops stations
in order to purposely get arrested than anybody.

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I know, yet was never taken
seriously by the officers. Today,

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in twenty twenty three, he is
called the ever wondrous Chain to Scano,

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my brother, my partner in crime. It is always a fantastic time when

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we are together to take people back
to a time away from their problem,

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the daily grind, the weekly grind, anything that is negative or strenuous on

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their mind, and they join us. Hear it back to the eighties where

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our number one goal is aiding unity
and make it. Everybody feel pretty damn

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good no matter what I want to
tell you. You are looking so fit

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with that choice of color on your
shirt today, Oh my god, and

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the muscle so you know what.
I never wanted to try steroids until today.

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The way that I see you looking
so primal and cut, I means

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yes, now I will go on
a limb and say I would take a

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shot in the ass just to look
like you. Oh very interesting. Get

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ready to groove, reminisced and immerse
yourself in the beats, rhymes and history

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of rappers from the nineteen eighties.
Today's show is all about honoring the legends

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Stevens and you must listen to Back
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Listens Back to the eighties Radio from
the album Hot, Cool and Vicious

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nineteen eighty six. That was Salt
and Peppa. Before that, you heard

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the One and Only Blondie with rap
Share you know Chang. Today we are

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talking about rappers of the nineteen eighties, hip hop, the whole movement rap

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and hip hop. It just felt
so different. Obviously, music has evolved

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and morphed into something else, and
whatever you think of other genres in the

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rap and hip hop genre, never
did it sound so varied, so different

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than it did in the nineteen eighties. There was something there, man,

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that everybody had their own particular style. Oh you know what, bro I

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think the difference is a diversity.
One of the differences between hip of the

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eighties and hip hop up now now, I think, you know, we

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don't have a lot of real,
authentic stories. It's not a priority to

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get your story out through your music. A lot of the rap now and

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I think a lot of the rap
songs and music coming out now is kind

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of a copycat. They're trying to
capture what hip hop used to be and

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used to really be about. They
kind of all sound the same. And

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we cannot ever get away from the
fact and the truth that the record businesses

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and the recording outlets are totally watering
down rap music and all music, kind

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of giving it that pop flavor,
that kind of pressed feeling. Nowadays,

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there is a struggle. The struggle
is real. We still have racial tension,

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we still have unjust justice systems.
But yet the rappers and the artists

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nowadays are watered down. They sound
like each other. If you close your

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eyes and you take some mushrooms or
whatever, and you listen to a lot

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of the music nowadays, it kind
of sounds the same. I have to

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say, a lot of the artists
that we grew up within our generation,

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or any artist even after of the
eighties, had significance for two reasons.

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Street cred and truthfulness. If you
listen to a lot of hip hop music

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now, and I don't want to
get any crapper static from you millennials or

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any of you parents that are protecting
your kids. And it's almost like everybody

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sounded like a like when Stefani,
you know, she sounds like Betty Boop.

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It's almost like a bubble gum cartoon
kind of circus. The way that

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the music company presses out bands,
artists of any kind to make them so

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watered down in cliche and sound alike. Hip hop music is suffering the same

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cancer is all music and radio has
promoted stay the same, take the pill,

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and you will not be ill.
Bullshit. We're ill from all the

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repetitive bull crap, whether it's hip
hop or any other genre of music.

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You mentioned. Culture, the cultural
surrounding rap music. It's evolved into a

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thing of kids that have no respect
for their predecessors because now they talk bad

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about the old rappers. Oh,
they'll say, we don't listen to that.

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That was crap. This is today, this is better music. This

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is evolved. We now do things
that they couldn't do. And they talked

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down to people like that were involved
in NWA. They talked bad about Tupac,

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they talked bad about Biggie, and
they say, we have no need

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to know these names. They don't
mean anything. I know because I've heard

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it from today's rappers, the issues
and concern These are people that's sometimes don't

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even come from the hood like they
did back in the eighties. They don't

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understand, they can't reflect those experiences. Original rap started from people who lived

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experiences in their neighborhoods, in their
own personal lives. They came from destructive

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homes, from broken homes. They
came from or sometimes with no families.

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People that knew how to write lyrical
content. They had their own influences of

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life, of own generational experiences.
Today, many rap artists experiment with blending

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all these kinds of different beats and
stuff that just doesn't make sense. Not

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only does it not make sense,
it all sounds the same. Literally,

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I mean, I can't when I
hear Kendrick Lamar and I hear Drake of

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Today, and I hear somebody called
Little Oozy, I don't know which is

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which. It's the greatness of the
music. It's the power of the music

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that transcend it into these neighborhoods and
into these statuses of social living. But

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here's the here's the trigger that trips
me out. We have individuals that not

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only love and enjoy the music and
can flow to the soul of it.

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And I'm not a prejudice cat,
you know that, I believe in equality.

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I don't give a damn if you're
gay, black, brown, white,

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yellow, red, orange, green, I don't care if you're gay,

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straight, you wear a wig and
drink bud life. We have a

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lot of individuals trying to act like
they're from the hood, from the street.

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You know, they are talking any
bonics, or they're talking street credit

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or street to street talk. Well, they're not even from the street.

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It's very funny because they're not from
the street. Yeah, so they're trying

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to appropriate something that doesn't even belong
to them. And and and it's funny

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because that is the face of society. People are trying to imitate and infiltrate

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the great sound of hip hop and
the true feeling and essence and the individuals

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that were true rappers. These cats
that started rap music were hardcore. They

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went through some shit. You know, if you've never been thrown against the

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cop car, hit by a baton, told to shut up by a racial

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slurve, by the way you look, taken to jail without even getting a

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background check, for the way you
look or the way that you respond.

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Then you know what, don't try
to replicate what is true to some of

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us. And I'm gonna go on
a limb right here, cats and kiddies

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and tell you straight up. You
know, when you hear my voice here

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and you see my picture, you
can go ahead and criticize me. Tell

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me I look like a pothead,
tell me look like I look like a

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tree hugging hippie. You can say
whatever you want to say. I go

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by an AKA right here on the
radio, because nobody needs to know really

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who I am or what I really
believe in. Just I'm here to entertain

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you and to give you a vibration. But I my friends have been thrown

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against a police car, hit with
a baton, taken and incarcerated for no

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event reason, just by the way
that I look or the way that my

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license came up with my last name. So if you don't know the game,

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and you haven't been through the game
or even rolled the dice in the

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game, please do us all a
favor and don't try to join the game

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because you have no idea, because
you didn't roll the dice enough to get

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into the real game. So stay
true to who you really are. But

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enjoy the music, learn the struggle, and do something with it. Come

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on, brother, is it not
a cliche? Is it not a form

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for these big wigs to make money
and poison the young mind. First of

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all, it was a pioneering era. It was a foundational period of rap

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where artists began innovating, the experimented
with new sounds, techniques, lyrical styles.

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It was brand new. These are
the things that the eighties hip hop

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community had over today. Raw authenticity, man, it was rap music of

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the eighties often carried a raw,
unfiltered authenticity, and it reflected their own

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experiences, their struggles marginalized communities.
It was straightforward expression and that resonated with

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people who had listened. It was
a social and political commentary. You know

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that they talked about shedding light on
urban life, racism, poverty, inequality.

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Artists used their own verses to paint
these vivid portraits and pictures telling all

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these compelling stories. The hip hop
industry was so much smaller in the eighties

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compared to today. Yes, and
there was a sense of close knit community

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and it was more of an underground
field. There was cultural impact. There

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was limited commercialization back in the eighties, and a lot of us we appreciate

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eight the grassroots authenticity. So those
are some of the things that differ from

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artists and rappers today. But in
particular, man, the number one thing

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is raw authenticity. They were authentic
because they came from the neighborhoods that claimed

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that they came from because they had
these these experiences, and because they were

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true artists of the game. They
didn't have eleven or twelve writers writing a

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rap song for them. Let's take
a short break. I want to take

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you back with a hip hop artist
that not many know from the nineteen eighties,

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a Hispanic guy, a guy that
we know back in the eighties was

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called Kid Frost. This is for
the rassa on back to the eighties radio.

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You see kids, you stay hit
that it's the big boss mark with

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this loaded. It's for Lava Face. And you will say, Nana Thos,

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you call us what you will?
You say we are assassin's your children

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nothing kill And see my brother being
as tech BOYD. You go to any

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extreme and hold no barriers. Chicano
and I'm brown and proud want this Jagasso

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seem want to send us get down
right now in the dirt. What's the

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matter you afraid you're gonna get hurt. I'm with my herdboys, my times,

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my god, my dollars kicking back
on me, gonna eat by me.

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Knew they get nother. It's what
you're going that say, Like I

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could call and say, come throw
our thoughts one on. Never try to

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sweat me some of if you don't
know what's happening, they get five sacks

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now for you getting either way,
cause this is for my ads. This

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is for the last And I said, I said, this is for the

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last song. The fore time I'm
speaking is known. It's got He saw

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a scared look. You st no
my lor through, no sad. That's

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nothing. Your brings hot a little
bit here in the head too many times

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where the bottle still. You're trying
to act cool, but you shouldn't know

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you're so cool that I'm a calling
you are cooler. You're just a peep.

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You can't get in the ever.
You're a lever. Your own voter

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doesn't back you up. They just
look at your ass and they called you

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a poop. But and so I
look in my laugh and say get bassa.

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Yeah, this is for the rasa
la cruising in the guy he headed

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for the bolo. No one to
go with me? Someone how they go

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solo? And when I go out
alone, I back. I don't for

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the jovitas when I know that I'm
strapped. Every time that I pack my

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piece, I pull it. I
quit on. The nonsense will cease,

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just like the song when You're eighteen
with a bullet. Got my finger on

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the trigger. I'm not afraid of
pull it if it gets out of hand.

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I'm on. Somebody feels to sweep
to pull out wet. This is

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Steward, that's my walls. See
and then on you what's happening? They

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get by something. Yeah, this
is one of the class. This is

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what the class. This is what
the class. The last guys, welcome

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back to back to the eighties radio
kid cross with this is for the last

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saw. I'm gonna bring up a
band that was well, it was a

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trio. Wasn't a band, but
it's a trio. They came out with

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so many hits, hits like my
Adidas Mary, Mary. I mean they

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had lots of hits, but one
in particular is when they fused rock and

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roll with rap, and that was
run DMC with Aerosol with Walk this Way.

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I mean that collaboration was fantastic,
and when the video came out on

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MTV, it was such a such
Hey, don't be a hater. The

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beauty of the video was when we
saw Aerosmith breaking down the wall with a

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guitar and then uniting with run DMC. It was it was a great contribution

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by both. Of course, the
video launched them into another direction, another

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realm, because it did popularize it, it did sell and people were eating

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it up. I agree with you, you know what I mean. I

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have to tell you, I do
agree with you. I thought it was

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a reckoning of both worlds. And
like I've said so many times on different

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shows, different programs, I've said
this so many times amongst the popularity of

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people, amongst myself in the restroom, that I will always think that true

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hip hop music and the soul of
rock and roll are the same nucleus,

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the same vibration they cast upon the
same sensation they drink. They bring both

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bring about a question unity thought a
little bit of fear. There's nothing like

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shaking up the things. But I
think that collaboration was an earthquake in music.

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And you know, there were other
bands that continue to follow. We

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remember we had Anthrax, I believe
with Public Enemy, I think they created

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a song. But then that created
I think the diversity to where music took

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off, to where we saw hip
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lymp Biscuit later on in the nineties, but who who could forget I

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mean, you cannot ever forget Zach
Deleroche and Tom Morello in Rage against the

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Machine, which was rap rock gone
raw, with with trueness, with with

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with anger, with frustration, with
a willingness of being tired of what was

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going on. And it it evolved
and the devil reared its ugly head once

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again in the nineties with the collaboration
and the birth of hip hop into rock,

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with such great bands like that that
were tired and sick and weighed down

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and angry about the struggles of the
justice system, the racial inequalities, of

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the unembalancement of what government and society
had become. So it's really fitting that

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run DMC and Aerosmith collaborated to give
birth to that, to open up that

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valve and it emerged so many different
age brackets and music listener. So,

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yeah, an excellent choice my brother. On that one. There was another

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guy who was a British American rapper. Oh thank god, And that's not

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Will Smith. I'm talking about the
Great Adventures of Slick Rick. Was upon

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a time not long ago, were
paper all Adams and life Slaves Starn and

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this album that he has that there
was just one of the one of the

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standout tracks on the album became world
famous as a song called Children's Story and

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it was the perils of a life
of crime. And if you go back

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and you listen to most rap songs, especially in the later eighties, trying

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to spread the word of how much
crime was in the neighborhoods and how much

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advantage they sometimes you know, poor
people have to have to endure, and

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especially if they grew up in in
the hood man. And I think of

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groups like NWA, like we talked
about, even Yeah Public, but also

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Tupac Tupac Shaker. I think his
very first songs came out of like an

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eighty nine Let Knowledge Drop, Why
do not be bought to play something.

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I know where I came from,
so I'm gonna play something with them.

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The crock sucker's calling the cops.
They come at the drop stop. Think

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of the paths from the dock bo
sucking a trop to crop risen. He's

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a pick, not a friend,
so he was thinking of when he could

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back. This was a guy that
went through so much, you know,

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a broken home, a foster kid, a runaway. Yeah. I mean

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so these guys all promoted their own
experiences. They had great delivery, and

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we have proof today that it was
catchy. There were rappers out there that

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you go, oh my gosh,
that that I gotta dance. You got

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you had to dance when you heard
a certain a certain beat. There were

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other beats with other rappers like Beastie
Boys, who you know, they also

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involved all kinds. They used their
music with rock and other other music,

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and you knew it was more of
a rebellious thing. And then you had

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groups like a Public Enemy. You
knew that their lyrics were heavy. They

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were talking about the injustice that goes
on in the world and in neighborhoods.

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And then you had then you had
rappers like Nwa that took it to a

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different level, and Iced Tea took
it to a different level because they started

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bringing in more of the violence involved. Do you remember that, Oh yeah,

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let's not forget about Snoop Dog.
Let's not forget about arrested Development.

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You know, who could forget about
Two Live Crew. You know, one

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of the most explicit acts that took
the stage back then. I mean,

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these cats were thrashed upon being sexually
open and explicit, graphically explicit, verbally

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explicit, trade out, pornographic,
straight up gangs to those cats were something

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of a whole different realm. You
got groups like the Ghetto Boys. But

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then remember, you know we kind
of funked out with Sir mix a Lot,

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Home Away from Home and the Black
Ben's Limbo with us you Love Phone,

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I'm calling up the Puffy. It's
time to get the ripping up eat

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Son to keep the diversity within hip
hop music in the eighties alone is the

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forefront and the godfathers and the blueprint
artists of what hip hop wants to be

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nowadays or where it did go.
And let's not forget we got Ice Cube,

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Ice Tea, and I mean these
guys are are artists now you know

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movies, TV Snoop Doggs, all
Snoop Doggs, Getting Stone with Martha Stewart,

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Well they're all they're even billionaires.
Look at jay Z now you brought

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up Tupac. Tupac to me was
like a prophet of the hood. I

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mean the way he flowed, the
way he was, the way he looked

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was very He was a sweet looking
dude. His rhymes were straight up.

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He spoke of wisdom and hardship.
You know that you can only enjoy his

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lyric and if you're from that same
neighborhood in environment, then you can connect.

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But if you didn't connect, just
the beauty of the way he put

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things out. He was ahead of
his time, you know, with any

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bang heads with Biggie, I mean
back then Death Row Records. I mean

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the whole birth of hip hop,
the darkness of the beauty, the shock

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of it all. I mean,
it's rock and roll in a whole different

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essence, my brother. That where
I don't agree, brother, And this

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is just my personal opinion and my
personal choice. And like is, although

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the beats started getting really cool and
the raps started evolving into something even quicker,

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something even more aggressive, I didn't
like the fact that even though there

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is truth in what a lot of
these gang life rappers brought to the table

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because it was real life, but
there was a lot of it that I

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believe should not have being given to
MTV. And the reason why, and

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I'll tell you why, because it
painted a picture the way MTV portrayed it,

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okay, was glamorizing it. Now, I'm not saying their intention was

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to you know, the rapper's intention
was to glamorize it. But the big

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wigs, the producers, the guys
with the suits, their intention was to

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make money, and they glamorized a
thug style of life. And then when

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they put this on television, guess
who saw the younger kids. So music

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that portrayed the bad experiences or maybe
rivalries was glorified thanks to video channels such

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as MTV, VH one and maybe
other video channels, you know what I

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mean. So that's the part that
I personally did not like. I was

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never in favor of them censoring because
you know what, if you want to

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buy the album, you buy it
and buy it as it is, don't

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take away from what the artists meant, but don't put it on television.

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During the daytime to where a six
year old can see it. And now

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the six year old wants to go
out and become part of that lifestyle because

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they don't understand where the rapper is
coming from. They don't understand the culture,

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they don't understand the situation the lifestyle, they don't understand the reason why

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they had to pull out a gun
and things of that nature. I concur

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with it what you're saying, and
I'm glad that you brought up the topic

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of a censorship because as you were
talking, I was thinking of that.

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And it was Tipper Gore, the
wife of Al Gore, who we should

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have listened to about global warming,
and maybe our world would not be as

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effed up and jacked up and as
the decline it is in now. But

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that's another story, another changry of
mine. But Tipper Gore talked of censorship,

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and I understand where you're coming from
wholeheartedly, and it brings to face

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and to my eyes and my brain
right now is this. MTV and radio

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did open the door to cheapen to
work on the young mind so they could

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make more money the brains the brain
did, but in fact they danced the

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same way the tobacco companies have unglorifying
and beautifying a habit that is not good,

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a livelihood not good. MTV,
pop music and any other entity that

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played this type of music at certain
time brackets when a younger generation or a

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younger age was listening that is very
influid influential was wrong. And yes,

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Merritt has to fall on those big
wigs, those conglomerations of the make the

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money and not care about the masses
entities. But also this was occurring at

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a time when entities did cheapen up
the music, and music had changed.

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Artists were now playing for the camera, the shock ability, the attention,

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the good and the bad numbers and
attention and the money it magnituded from both

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being good and bad. So actually, like I, like I said,

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I concurude what you're going with.
But yet we cannot blame the artists for

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the freedom of their expression. But
we can blame the artists for succumbing and

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putting the dollar signs and the shock
value ahead of their true creativeness and the

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true method or meaning they were trying
to get out to bring some type of

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sanity to the topic in hand that
they were singing about. Yeah, you're

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right. Yeah, but it was
about to happen because these were artists that

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grew up so poor and their struggles
through life and their families, struggles that

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they wanted out. And when the
big wigs, the guys in suits,

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came in with a humongous check for
them, it was all over. They

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succumbed because they needed that greenback.
Anyway, this is the one and only

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back to the eighties. We're gonna
take a little break and let's go on

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a lighter style nineteen eighty seven.
Here's L. L. Cool J and

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I Need Love. I'm alone in
my room. Sometimes I'll stare at the

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wall and in the back of my
mind I hear my conscience call telling me

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I need a girl who's as sweet
as a dove. F the first time

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in my life, I see I
Need Love. Nobody has the movie I

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want. Hey, if it's on
video, Blockbuster probably hasn't. I mean,

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we have over ten thousand videos.
Wow, I'll watch your fast and

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have them back tomorrow, I promise, relaxed and Blockbuster, you can keep

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your videos for three evenings, So
take home plenty and use our twenty four

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hour quick drawer Blockbusters America's Family Video
store. You know, we have more

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kids videos than any place else.
He more movies, more nights, more

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fun. Wo what a difference you're
listening to. Back to be eighty.

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Let's take it back to the eighties
radio. You just heard Vanilla Ice Ice

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Ice Baby. Prior to that,
you heard L. L. Cool J

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with I Need Love bringing it down
a little, a little bit. We

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need some sanity in the face of
all this insanity going on. Thinking of

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a lot of the glorification of what
was in these songs, shang it wasn't

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also the big wigs, so the
executives didn't also glorify violence, didn't also

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glorify sex. They also glorified power
and a lot of the power in these

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rap videos. And I'm speaking particularly
because of the rap videos, because kids

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back then were hooked with what they
saw and a lot of these rap videos

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showed a lot of drug abuse.
And we go back in the eighties.

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You can't blame a society that didn't
know better, because the ones that did

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know better were the ones handing it
out, buying it for their lustful parties,

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for their out of control lifestyle.
And I'm talking about do you remember

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the movie Scarface, you go back, there were a lot of these people

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doing business with the drug lords,
were in fact politicians, were in fact

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leaders of the community and leaders in
the police department, you know what I

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mean. So these were the people
responsible for the people with less of a

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chance in a poor neighborhood to do
anything else because there just wasn't enough opportunity.

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So I heard it said before Chang. No, everybody makes their decisions,

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and they're right about that, but
the majority of people will never make

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a positive decision if the majority around
them aren't doing positive things. The very

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few are the ones that, you
know what, I don't want this for

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my life and I'm going to leave. No, we are all people that

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are influenced easily. And there's there's
a saying out there that says you become

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the average of the five people you
hang around with. So if you hang

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around certain types of people, most
likely you're going to be individual like that.

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So the feather flocked together, that's
right. And so I was remembering

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the movie Scarface that is also from
the nineteen eighties, and how it shows

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the people with less advantage, how
they either went in all hard in the

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lifestyle of crime, and drugs,
or they did totally the opposite, but

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the majority didn't. You know what
I agree with. You know what's ironic,

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brother, as we're discussing this,
A lot of these cats that were

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new stars, rappers, you know, these type of artists that were found

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and signed and started making money.
You know, a lot of these cats

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came from slinging a dolpe, you
know what I mean, should dope.

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You know, some of them are
pimps, you know what I mean,

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sound sound chicks left and right,
you know, breaking in breaking, you

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know, they were criminals, breaking
into places, beating the shit out of

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people to get get a buck or
two. I mean a lot of these

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cats when they were singing and coming
up with their rhymes are from those hardships

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and being stressed out and tired of
those hardships. Because when you are given

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raw eggs day after day, the
best you can do is hard boil those

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mothers and try to make the best
of it. So when you grow up

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struggling in a community that is poor, when a lot of opportunity is taken

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away or kept from you because of
your minority, your skin color, uh,

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you know, your your your blood
background, when these things are taken,

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an individual will scrap and struggle to
survive. The ironic thing is a

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lot of these cats did the illegal
to do what they had to do to

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survive, and and they got that
call, that blessing, that that that

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Hollywood story where they got signed and
they start making cash. Yeah, a

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lot of them did some bad shit. You know what I mean. You

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spend your money on foolishness. You
flock with those who you fly with.

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So when they made the cash,
they continued in doing bad things. Now

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here's where it gets ironic. But
the industry of music was pimping these casts

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out like holes, whores, exactly
like dope. You know, people couldn't

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get enough of them, and they
were banking on them and taking that money

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and absorbing it and leaving the artist
with just enough money to barely survive or

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self destruct. So it's crazy and
ironic that a lot of the negativities or

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dope, whatever sense you want to
call dope, whether you're slinging women and

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you're pimping, or you're slinging dope
or you're pushing all the same game.

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And the music industry was doing the
same thing to these artists. So it's

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crazy the way how things kind of
evolved into a different bracket. But the

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00:36:07.800 --> 00:36:14.159
main ingredient was somebody who was making
money off of somebody else's practice. Somebody

407
00:36:14.280 --> 00:36:19.760
was getting screwed out of the deal, and somebody was getting influenced to do

408
00:36:19.960 --> 00:36:23.159
more bad and chang the world of
hip hop, we haven't even touched on.

409
00:36:23.480 --> 00:36:28.000
We haven't even skinned the top.
There's just so much. It's so

410
00:36:28.199 --> 00:36:32.119
vast, it's so deep. Hip
hop has touched our society in the world,

411
00:36:32.239 --> 00:36:37.400
actually in more ways than we can
ever fathom. There was the cultural

412
00:36:37.480 --> 00:36:45.400
expression, countercultural movements. Hip Hop
offered empowerment, It offered creativity and innovation.

413
00:36:45.960 --> 00:36:50.320
It offered social commentary. There was
the influence of fashion and lifestyle,

414
00:36:51.079 --> 00:36:54.719
and had four pillars. Inside the
four pillars of hip hop, there was

415
00:36:55.280 --> 00:37:00.599
the rap, the djaying, the
breakdancing, and the graffiti art. I

416
00:37:00.760 --> 00:37:06.639
know that you were a hardcore metal
but you've also enjoyed hip hop. But

417
00:37:07.079 --> 00:37:10.880
I said, you also enjoyed hip
hop and to a certain extent right,

418
00:37:12.519 --> 00:37:15.000
And just like me, I enjoyed
it to a certain extent. I wasn't

419
00:37:15.559 --> 00:37:22.199
all into hip hop more than anything. I liked everything until I would say

420
00:37:22.320 --> 00:37:28.039
eighty nine and eighty nine, eight, particularly eighty nine, you can tell

421
00:37:28.199 --> 00:37:31.679
that something was happening with hip hop. And I'm not talking about gangster hip

422
00:37:31.679 --> 00:37:35.320
hop. I'm talking about the other
hip hop. You can tell that it

423
00:37:35.440 --> 00:37:38.920
was veering in a certain direction that
you go like, what's what's going on

424
00:37:39.119 --> 00:37:43.760
here? What way is it going? Because there came the emergence of New

425
00:37:43.880 --> 00:37:46.760
Jack Swing. Do you remember new
Jack Swing? That was some offshoot of

426
00:37:47.760 --> 00:37:52.679
rap and hip hop dance and stuff
like that. But at the end of

427
00:37:52.679 --> 00:37:57.840
the day, it was happy music. We enjoyed it. Television had the

428
00:37:57.960 --> 00:38:01.679
videos for hip hop, and was
you liked it or not? It managed

429
00:38:01.760 --> 00:38:07.480
to set these artists career on fire, you know what. Like as you

430
00:38:07.559 --> 00:38:12.519
bring up some of these artists,
you know you remember MC light. It

431
00:38:12.760 --> 00:38:17.960
was in the top twenty hip hop
artists songs Light as a rock more dance

432
00:38:19.039 --> 00:38:22.400
oriented. He had a flash to
us up guys like him, artists like

433
00:38:22.519 --> 00:38:25.920
him, and groups like him.
Kind of a favor to put hip hop

434
00:38:27.039 --> 00:38:30.119
into the swing of dance. Like
you had Queen Latifa. You also have

435
00:38:30.400 --> 00:38:34.960
MC Hammer, Remember mc Hammer.
You had mc Hammer, but you had

436
00:38:35.000 --> 00:38:37.400
a group named Lady Do d You
know what I mean? I mean there

437
00:38:37.519 --> 00:38:43.599
was so many different artists. You
take it back to Easy and Ice Cube

438
00:38:43.639 --> 00:38:46.719
and Doctor Dre and Snoop Dog to
what their hip hop was. As it

439
00:38:46.960 --> 00:38:52.679
flowed into the later realms in the
later eighties of what hip hop was,

440
00:38:52.159 --> 00:38:57.039
it totally changed. We started getting
a lot of flash with the names.

441
00:38:57.079 --> 00:39:00.960
We had a cat named biz MARKI, you know, names flaring up.

442
00:39:00.360 --> 00:39:07.800
Kind of copycat style started popping up, which TRANSI transitioned into what we have

443
00:39:08.000 --> 00:39:13.800
now, a lot of bs where
these cats aren't real. You know,

444
00:39:13.960 --> 00:39:17.280
these cats are sitting at home on
their iPhone making up lyrics. Let me,

445
00:39:17.360 --> 00:39:20.559
I got a question for you,
bro. This is like more of

446
00:39:20.639 --> 00:39:24.239
an opinion. What's your opinion?
So back then, when we were younger

447
00:39:24.519 --> 00:39:29.880
and in the eighties, when you
had both rap and the metal and pretty

448
00:39:29.960 --> 00:39:35.280
much anything with some good serious lyrics, we the listener understood where they were

449
00:39:35.360 --> 00:39:38.599
coming from. Do you think that
kids today, the younger generation, and

450
00:39:38.719 --> 00:39:44.639
by kids it could be anywhere from
the age of ten all the way into

451
00:39:44.760 --> 00:39:52.440
their early twenties. Do you think
that kids today really understands or can identify

452
00:39:52.440 --> 00:39:59.159
with rap and hip hop today?
Hell no, hell no, you know,

453
00:39:59.280 --> 00:40:04.079
I say, with with the utmost
respect as I can say no,

454
00:40:04.360 --> 00:40:07.719
because I think nowadays we have a
lot of pussies, woods and wooscats.

455
00:40:07.960 --> 00:40:12.519
We have a lot of deadbeat dads, drop out moms. We have a

456
00:40:12.559 --> 00:40:16.599
lot of kids that have to stay
isolated at home because we can't afford childcare.

457
00:40:17.360 --> 00:40:24.400
And the streets are crawling with pedophiles
and rapists and black market individuals trying

458
00:40:24.400 --> 00:40:29.159
to snake kids. We can't hang
around in the parks, we can't hang

459
00:40:29.280 --> 00:40:32.760
around outside in our neighborhood. We
got a lot of sick bucks out there

460
00:40:34.159 --> 00:40:39.760
that have devastated and poisoned America.
But yet, in that act of living

461
00:40:40.159 --> 00:40:45.719
the way we do, hiding our
children, not being able to be with

462
00:40:45.840 --> 00:40:51.320
our children because of a deadbeat father
or to drop out mom. Grandparents may

463
00:40:51.400 --> 00:40:53.880
have to raise that kid. The
foster system has to raise that kid.

464
00:40:54.320 --> 00:40:59.559
The freaking prison system has to raise
that kid till or eighteen and kick him

465
00:40:59.559 --> 00:41:04.840
out in this street. That's cold
and bloodhearted today's hip hop. It falls

466
00:41:04.880 --> 00:41:09.679
on kids that are somewhat brought up
from our generation. The day that kids

467
00:41:09.760 --> 00:41:14.800
could tell somebody all call the cops
on you if you hit me was a

468
00:41:14.960 --> 00:41:19.679
day that we became woossies. The
day that hip hop and hard rock,

469
00:41:20.239 --> 00:41:24.880
hippie rock, and metal became silenced. Why because it was softened up with

470
00:41:25.559 --> 00:41:30.360
you do this and I'll do that. You give too much power to a

471
00:41:30.480 --> 00:41:35.960
generation that doesn't know what it's like
to be balls out, to be tough,

472
00:41:36.440 --> 00:41:38.800
to know to have guts, to
know how to have the scenario,

473
00:41:39.079 --> 00:41:44.800
think on your feet the power of
that, and we are lost. Hip

474
00:41:44.880 --> 00:41:50.280
Hop artists nowadays sit on their iPhones, sit on the phones that their single

475
00:41:50.400 --> 00:41:55.360
parents pay for instead of time and
discipline. Give your kid the best phone,

476
00:41:55.719 --> 00:42:00.480
give your kid, your kid the
best laptop, and watch y'all fucked

477
00:42:00.519 --> 00:42:06.199
up. Your kid will get That's
what we haven't in society now. Hip

478
00:42:06.239 --> 00:42:10.960
hop is only a reflection of the
weakness, the lack of guidance and parenthood

479
00:42:12.400 --> 00:42:19.079
in America. It also shines light
on the lack of care from the music

480
00:42:19.239 --> 00:42:23.599
business, the record business, and
anybody that claims they are in for it

481
00:42:24.159 --> 00:42:30.320
for the talent, the beauty,
the essence, the poetry, the vibration,

482
00:42:30.719 --> 00:42:35.480
and the meaning. Hip hop is
crap. Now they've never cared,

483
00:42:35.719 --> 00:42:38.360
right, they've never cared. Okay, they don't care one bit today.

484
00:42:39.079 --> 00:42:45.840
They look at both the artists in
any genre, but particularly rap and hip

485
00:42:45.880 --> 00:42:50.519
hop. They look at them like
dweebs. They look at them like ignorant

486
00:42:50.559 --> 00:42:54.599
people that have no idea, that
have no education, that will never amount

487
00:42:54.639 --> 00:42:59.760
to anything right and just, and
they just tell them, you know,

488
00:43:00.360 --> 00:43:05.760
be happy with the popularity, be
happy with being famous. And here's a

489
00:43:05.800 --> 00:43:12.519
few crumbs from the king's table.
Wrap today is surrounded by only talk of

490
00:43:13.119 --> 00:43:17.599
sexuality, surrounded by talk of money
and what it can buy you, and

491
00:43:19.039 --> 00:43:23.280
maybe a diss here and there.
But it doesn't have the foundation, it

492
00:43:23.400 --> 00:43:30.800
doesn't have the essence. Wrap today
hip hop does not have the hardcore experiences

493
00:43:30.960 --> 00:43:34.760
and influence that it did in the
past. Therefore, the kids who listen

494
00:43:34.880 --> 00:43:39.440
today know nothing about what life is
really about. That's why you get a

495
00:43:39.519 --> 00:43:45.039
bunch of cry babies with so much
depression and anxiety. And you look at

496
00:43:45.079 --> 00:43:51.000
these kids. These kids have money, these kids have parents that give them

497
00:43:51.039 --> 00:43:53.639
anything they want, and the kids
are always I don't know what to do.

498
00:43:54.239 --> 00:44:00.239
I don't understand. I don't understand
what is happening. That's today's raised

499
00:44:00.239 --> 00:44:02.719
by the way twenty twenty three.
Whenever I hear I hear a young person

500
00:44:02.840 --> 00:44:07.840
say, or an older person,
what is happening. I want to slap

501
00:44:07.920 --> 00:44:13.760
them across the face. There is
a sense of it's all about me and

502
00:44:13.920 --> 00:44:16.920
my little feelings, and I got
my feelings hurt. But oh, I

503
00:44:17.119 --> 00:44:22.679
like this rapper and I like this
rapper. And they have expensive bags and

504
00:44:22.800 --> 00:44:25.639
expensive cars, and they flash their
money and they smoke this and they do

505
00:44:25.840 --> 00:44:30.960
that. But you know what,
those so called rappers and hip hoppers don't

506
00:44:30.039 --> 00:44:36.480
have one bit of life experience that
they did from launeteen eighties. I mean,

507
00:44:36.599 --> 00:44:38.760
bro, we can go on,
we can do a whole another show

508
00:44:38.840 --> 00:44:45.360
on artists fame. I'm talking about
people like Beyonce, bubble Gums, I'm

509
00:44:45.400 --> 00:44:50.559
talking about for Ral anybody out there. The only legitimate artist I would think

510
00:44:50.639 --> 00:44:54.920
that I respect and hip hop now
is Eminem. It's the only guy.

511
00:44:55.480 --> 00:44:59.320
He's a straight up white boy.
He didn't lie where he came from me.

512
00:44:59.320 --> 00:45:02.199
He's got ball of steel, he
raises kid, he talks the truth.

513
00:45:02.920 --> 00:45:06.320
I mean, he's legit. Well, anybody, I wouldn't say,

514
00:45:06.320 --> 00:45:09.639
anybody from from the past who knew
about the hard lock, anybody that has

515
00:45:09.679 --> 00:45:15.280
anything to do with doctor dre leg
Yeah, but anybody else after look after

516
00:45:15.400 --> 00:45:20.400
the two thousands especially, let's not
even go that far. Just right now,

517
00:45:20.559 --> 00:45:24.760
I say anything after tupocket biggie,
Nah man, you ain't gonna roll

518
00:45:25.199 --> 00:45:30.320
to me eminem. Other than that, I got no respect. I don't

519
00:45:30.400 --> 00:45:34.000
want to listen. I don't want
to hear your lyric because your lyric is

520
00:45:34.079 --> 00:45:37.760
bullshit to me. Ye, give
me some sense of realism, give me

521
00:45:37.920 --> 00:45:42.239
some sense of struggle, Give me
a story that needs to be brought out.

522
00:45:42.760 --> 00:45:45.760
Well, there is no struggle,
man. They can never identify with

523
00:45:45.880 --> 00:45:50.039
that. Look at you got two
guys, and I'm just taking these guys

524
00:45:50.079 --> 00:45:52.800
out of it. For an example, the Island boys. You got these

525
00:45:52.920 --> 00:45:57.639
kids that are tattooed their faces,
They got little dreadlocks, or at least

526
00:45:57.679 --> 00:46:00.599
had them. They don't have them
anymore. And they want to rap about

527
00:46:00.639 --> 00:46:05.559
gangs. They have guns in their
home and they want to They want to

528
00:46:05.800 --> 00:46:10.719
portray that they are hard like rappers
of the past. If they had that

529
00:46:12.039 --> 00:46:17.039
hard rough bringing up, they had
those life experiences that change them to the

530
00:46:17.159 --> 00:46:22.400
core. And a lot of them
have suffered in ways that nobody will ever

531
00:46:22.519 --> 00:46:27.039
fathom. We're gonna take a little
break when we come back. We're calling

532
00:46:27.079 --> 00:46:37.559
it home. Oh off me,
I law zapA Mexican Americas don't like to

533
00:46:37.719 --> 00:46:43.719
just get into gang fights and like
flowers and music and white girls named.

534
00:46:46.360 --> 00:46:53.199
Mexican Americans are named Chada, Cella
and Gemma and have a son in law

535
00:46:53.440 --> 00:47:01.159
named Jeff. Mexican Americas don't like
to get it a burly in the morning,

536
00:47:01.679 --> 00:47:09.199
but they have to, so they
do it real slows. Mexican Americas

537
00:47:09.480 --> 00:47:15.800
love educations, so they go to
night school and they take Spanish and get

538
00:47:15.880 --> 00:47:25.079
a bee. Mexican Americans love their
nanas and their noos, and their nanas

539
00:47:25.320 --> 00:47:32.280
and their ni nos na na,
na, no no. Mexican Americas don't

540
00:47:32.320 --> 00:47:37.480
like to go to the movies where
they dude has to wear contact lances to

541
00:47:37.599 --> 00:47:43.920
make his blue eyes brown, because
don't make my brown eyes blue. And

542
00:47:44.079 --> 00:47:53.800
that's all I got. How do
you like it? Hup Hup ships the

543
00:47:53.920 --> 00:47:58.920
town with fights. I hope to
make the fight to play fourth. I

544
00:47:59.039 --> 00:48:04.239
keep it away of boy, keeping
you as wee pays. I'm raising a

545
00:48:04.400 --> 00:48:15.880
phone paying the same. Say no
back to good, wholesome, politically correct

546
00:48:15.039 --> 00:48:22.920
entertainment. Oops rog station No Back
to the eighties with Tescato and Chang.

547
00:48:23.480 --> 00:48:29.159
Welcome back to back to the eighties. We are discussing hip hop music and

548
00:48:29.280 --> 00:48:35.639
the true essence of its meaning,
it's movement, it's vibration, and what

549
00:48:35.840 --> 00:48:40.400
it meant to a lot of us. That was something from Public Enemy.

550
00:48:40.559 --> 00:48:45.760
The name alone tells you it's a
public enemy. You know. Rappers of

551
00:48:45.840 --> 00:48:50.119
the nineteen eighties contributed to the foundational
years of hip hop, shaping the genre's

552
00:48:50.159 --> 00:48:53.360
identity, culture, and social commentary. But then you get guys like we

553
00:48:53.440 --> 00:48:57.239
were talking about a little while ago, like the Island Boys, who are

554
00:48:57.280 --> 00:49:01.519
a pair of social media personalities.
These guys gain their their fame and attention

555
00:49:01.880 --> 00:49:06.760
for their appearance, their hairstyles.
They are a product of the Internet and

556
00:49:06.920 --> 00:49:15.360
modern social media platforms. They are
a product of little teenage groupies. That's

557
00:49:15.400 --> 00:49:19.320
what they are a product of now
Tascono, I would categorize these guys as

558
00:49:19.440 --> 00:49:24.320
they look like the Hawaiian Punch character
when Hawaiian Punch had the little Hawaiian dude.

559
00:49:24.760 --> 00:49:30.760
But these dudes are copycat wussy pussycats. You know what, Man,

560
00:49:30.880 --> 00:49:35.679
if you're not from the hood,
then don't act like you're. Don't pretend

561
00:49:35.719 --> 00:49:37.719
you are, you know, because
when you're going to get called out,

562
00:49:38.360 --> 00:49:43.400
you're the first ones that are going
to get prison served like salad. You're

563
00:49:43.440 --> 00:49:47.519
gonna be tossed in salad real quick
when you pretend that you're something not to

564
00:49:47.599 --> 00:49:54.440
be. They remind me of the
Mad Magazine character that last page where you

565
00:49:54.480 --> 00:50:00.559
can fold in three when you get
a different picture. That's exactly they remind

566
00:50:00.639 --> 00:50:02.400
me of. That reminds me,
brother, You know what time it is.

567
00:50:02.719 --> 00:50:08.559
It is time to talk about those
things that made us angry back in

568
00:50:08.639 --> 00:50:14.119
the nineteen eighties, in honor of
the most wondrous chang those things that make

569
00:50:14.239 --> 00:50:21.199
us angry we now call changres so
chang What makes you changry? Of hip

570
00:50:21.280 --> 00:50:24.719
hop? You know what got me
changry back in the nineteen eighties about hip

571
00:50:24.760 --> 00:50:30.760
hop? L l cool Jay always
licking his lips and making chicks wet.

572
00:50:30.840 --> 00:50:36.320
When if I licked my lips,
people thought I was licking herpes. Absolutely.

573
00:50:37.480 --> 00:50:40.280
You know what got me changry back
in the nineteen eighties about hip hop

574
00:50:40.840 --> 00:50:45.519
because everybody that was on stage had
a bigger kick than me. You know

575
00:50:45.639 --> 00:50:51.480
what got me changry back in the
nineteen eighties, People that weren't black thought

576
00:50:51.559 --> 00:50:57.639
they were. You know what got
me changry back in the nineteen eighties because

577
00:50:57.719 --> 00:51:04.000
the LAPD decided to not say freeze
and start shooting. You know what got

578
00:51:04.119 --> 00:51:09.840
me changry back in the nineteen eighties, Ronald Reagan and George Poot Senior and

579
00:51:09.960 --> 00:51:15.480
our political leaders here we go came
up with crack Gokana planet it in the

580
00:51:15.559 --> 00:51:22.840
black neighborhoods to kill off the poor. And that it's what got me changry

581
00:51:22.119 --> 00:51:27.159
during the hip hop era in the
nineteen eighty And that, ladies and gentlemen,

582
00:51:27.320 --> 00:51:30.199
has been this week's changers. And
if you have anything that made you

583
00:51:30.239 --> 00:51:31.960
angry back in the nineteen eighties and
you'd like to share it with us here

584
00:51:31.960 --> 00:51:36.679
on the show, send us a
note to back the Number two the Eighties

585
00:51:36.800 --> 00:51:39.159
Radio at gmail dot com. That's
back the number two the Eighties Radio at

586
00:51:39.199 --> 00:51:43.719
gmail dot com. Send us a
note. We'd be more than happy to

587
00:51:43.840 --> 00:51:49.239
read your changry here on the air, and chang it has been fun.

588
00:51:49.400 --> 00:51:52.360
This is the end of part two. We can go on to part one

589
00:51:52.480 --> 00:51:54.599
hundred with rap in hip hop,
but we're gonna leave it here. Next

590
00:51:54.639 --> 00:51:58.719
week, we got a wonderful,
wonderful show. We got a great show

591
00:51:58.719 --> 00:52:00.840
for you guys. You don't want
to miss in. We have a couple

592
00:52:00.880 --> 00:52:05.800
of new guests coming up. I
hear their doctors and they know a lot

593
00:52:05.840 --> 00:52:08.440
about love and hate, so tune
in for the Love hate Doctors. They're

594
00:52:08.440 --> 00:52:13.199
going to be joining us in the
studio next week with your letters. And

595
00:52:13.320 --> 00:52:15.079
by the way, if you do
have a love hate letter for our relationship

596
00:52:15.400 --> 00:52:19.840
that you want to share with us, send that in at Back the Number

597
00:52:19.840 --> 00:52:22.840
two the Eighties Radio at gmail dot
com on behalf of myself Toscano. It's

598
00:52:22.880 --> 00:52:28.039
been a great experience to have you
guys with us. Thank you for taking

599
00:52:28.159 --> 00:52:32.639
your time and listening to the greatest
eighties radio show on Earth. Back to

600
00:52:32.719 --> 00:52:37.440
the Eighties Radio. We'll see you
next week with a hip hop hibbit to

601
00:52:37.559 --> 00:52:40.079
the hibbet a hip hip hey hop, you don't stop for RockA thanks bo

602
00:52:40.199 --> 00:52:43.960
I, hang up with us,
kanno with Jack. We hope we gave

603
00:52:44.039 --> 00:52:49.119
you a crazy thank Now what you
here is not a tent. We're telling

604
00:52:49.159 --> 00:52:52.320
you shit that we will con bet. Tell your friend, tell your neighbor,

605
00:52:52.880 --> 00:52:58.360
spread the fat, spread the sensation. We are coming to you live

606
00:52:58.440 --> 00:53:01.079
from here and don't be a ready
to tell no where. We are just

607
00:53:01.280 --> 00:53:07.119
going over and jangle. Then we'll
see you next weekend. All my friends

608
00:53:10.480 --> 00:53:27.280
gave me back who