Dave Chappelle's Block Party (2005)

[bunniefuu]

I'm rich, biatch.

You filming us?

Hey, man, what's happening?

We were riding.

Car just broke down? Yeah.

Try it one more time.
Try it one more time.

Short bursts.

Hey, yo, Dave!

What happened? Oh,
I'm sorry. You're...

We stopped the engine.
We can't get it started again.

Yo, Dave!

Uh...

You put too much gas in it.
That's what I'm saying.

I have the butterfly wide
open. Try it now. Try it now.

Stop, stop, stop.

How much of this
did you spray in there?

He said, "How much of that
did you spray in there?"

How much of this
did you spray in?

I don't know what his answer is.

That's right. Saturday,
coming at you!

The Block Party of life!

With Kanye West,

Mos Def, Talib Kweli, Common.

Did I mention the Fugees?
Did I mention Dead Prez?

Did I tell you Erykah Badu
was gonna be there?

And Jill Scott's gonna be there.
And The Roots crew is gonna be there.

And yours truly,
David Chappelle!

That's right!
Once in a lifetime!

I've got the Brooklyn Steppers
behind me.

And we do a little something
like this.

Saturday night,
Saturday afternoon

featuring barbecued chicken
for lunch.

It's a celebration, b*tches.

It's a celebration.

All right,
I'm gonna go talk some stuff and then we're gonna...

And then,
I'm gonna bring you up, Kanye.

Hey, yo, Brooklyn,
make some noise for Mos Def, y'all.

Brooklyn.

Bed-Stuy!

Brooklyn!

Let the shouting out begin!

Now throw your hands up, hustlers,
busters, boosters, hoes, everybody.

Most High, we thank you just
for being here with us.

We thank you for this day, God.

The sun is shining. They
said it was supposed to rain.

But, God,
you letting your face show that you want us here.

You want every soul here,
right now.

We thank you for this message that
you sending through all these people.

We thank you for bringing Dave
to bring us together.

We dreamed of this day and we
ask that you just utilize our souls

and our spirits and our voices
to glorify you in all that we do.

We don't forget people
that's poor.

We don't forget
those that's at w*r right now.

We don't forget our comrades
that's in prison.

We don't forget
our children, God.

And we praying that you can just
be through us and live through us

so that we can raise our
people up and raise ourselves up.

We put you first in all we do.

And now just bless the energy
of us and the people out there.

And allow your message
to be through us.

Amen. Amen.

In the name of Jesus,
in the name of Allah and the Spirit of the Ancestors, amen, ashe.

All these people,
what we all have in common?

I think we all have a very personal
message that they try to get across.

And it's about more
than just making money.

All these people that have come here to this concert,
before I ever met them,

I was fans of theirs.

So to work with these people,
in this kind of setting, it's a dream come true.

This is the concert
I've always wanted to see.

Keep your hands up, hustlers, busters,
boosters, hoes, everybody, f*ck that.

Still nowhere to go
Still nowhere to go.

Brooklyn.

It's your boy, M Def.
Yeah, he back.

Feels good to be home, y'all.

This is my local coffee
shop. The journey starts here.

Preparing for game day,
Saturday.

We got to get some people
to come to this concert.

I don't think
that'll be so hard.

Hey, Bobby,
guess what he offered us? What?

He said that there's gonna be
a rap concert in Brooklyn

and if we wanna go,
he'll give us tickets.

Man, I can't rap. Dave,
you know better than that.

You don't have to rap.

But I'll get up there and try.

All you gotta do is listen.

What?

How often does a brother get a chance
to chill out with the probation officers?

On some social stuff.

Man. And some social...
No problems.

I ain't even... I ain't asking you to turn around,
drop me a cup of urine.

None of that. No cups,
man. Yeah. No peeing in the cup.

It might look like a lot,
but this is it. These are the golden tickets.

Wee Willy Wonka didn't
even give out this many.

This will get you guys there.

It'll get you a hotel
in New York for the night.

All right.

And it'll get you into the concert.
And it'll get you a ride back.

Okay. We get in our Cadillac like we... My Cadillac,
I should say.

Like we always do.
And we go drive, go golfing.

It's this little corner store that
we always go to for snacks.

And the next thing we know,
we see Dave Chappelle.

I was like, "Oh!"

Chappelle,
he grabbed this ticket.

Out of nowhere.
He pulled it out his ass.

We was like, "Oh!"

We were like,
"Where did that come from?"

After we got done seeing Chappelle,
we went on golfing.

And we going on
to the hole number 11.

Just imagine,
we feeling like this high.

Man, we feeling like this high.

This high. Top of the world right now. This top of the world,
man.

You can't crush us.
We untouchable.

Can't crush
none of our feelings.

There's a house to the left.

It's deep
over there to the left.

And the tee right here. He had to
take a piss. So he respected the house.

You know, he respected it.

I was down
into some woods somewhere.

You know,
on some adventure stuff. And he went on this side.

You know,
he handled his business, you know.

Right. Everybody does
it on the golf course.

It's nothing. Man.

But...

Some guy comes out
and just says,

"You n*gg*r."
I said, "Oh!" I said, "No."

Man. It's a new era, though.

I thought it was over. And
this old guy was so old-school.

I never thought
somebody would say "n*gg*r."

I said, "Oh, my."

And then,
I'm up here just holding him back.

"No. No." If it wasn't for him,
it'd been over.

'Cause you know,
that's his private property. We want to go to Chappelle on Saturday.

Chappelle's Show
Chappelle's Show.

Chappelle, Chappelle.

Yeah, Chappelle's Show.

So, we gotta go.

So we did it for you, Dave.
Yeah.

We didn't whoop nobody's ass
for you, Dave.

It was for you, Dave.
For you, Dave. For you.

Watch your back.
You almost bumped into a pole.

I never steer you wrong. Anyway,
I come here and get cigarettes.

Nice lady, Miss Hall,
owns this place. I had the pleasure of meeting her before.

I wanna see if she'll come
listen to some rap music.

Just 'cause she's not a traditional
person to a rap concert. Look out. Pole.

I'm telling you,
I'll never lie to you.

So,
you're ready? Saturday night? Bring your Timberlands.

All right.

And get the dance.

Do you think I would enjoy that at my age,
really and truly?

And I just wanted people from
around the area that I live in,

that might not normally go
to something like this...

That's right.

To get a chance to
experience something like this.

So, I figure,
I'll go to the store.

I come here,
I buy my cigarettes sometimes in the morning.

I just wanted you to be able to come
in and do your business and leave.

So...
No, that's why I live here.

Everybody treats me like...

But inside, I was screaming,
"That's Dave Chappelle!"

Hi. Hi.

How's it going? Yeah.
Do you wanna come in?

Come on in.

I really don't know what to take to a rap party,
Block Party.

I knew I should have
bought a thong.

I'm trying to catch the b*at.

I need to catch the b*at.

I need to catch the b*at.

I need to catch the b*at.

Now, throw your m*therf*cking hands,
get them high.

Throw them high, get them high.

And all the girls pass the
weed to your m*therf*cking man.

Get them high, get them high
Come on, get.

Now I ain't never tell you
to put down your hands.

Keep them high,
keep them high, yeah.

And if you're losing your high
then smoke again.

Keep them high.

Now, my flow is in the pocket
like wallets

I got the bounce like hydraulics

I can't call it,
I got the swerve like alcoholics.

My freshman year,
I was going through hella problems.

Till I built up the nerve to
drop my ass up out of college.

My teacher said I'm a loser,
I told her why don't you k*ll me

I give a f*ck if you feel me
I'm gonna follow my heart.

And if you follow the charts
or the plaques or the stacks.

You ain't gotta
guess who's back, you see

I'm so shy
you thought I was bashful

but this bastard's flow
will bash your skull.

And I will cut your girl
like Pastor Troy.

And I don't usually smoke,
but pass the 'dro.

And I won't give you
that money that you asking for.

Why you think me and
Dame cool? We assholes.

That's why we hear your music
in fast-forward

'Cause we don't wanna hear
that weak sh*t no more.

Now everybody throw their hands.

Get them high,
get them high, yeah.

And all the girls pass the
weed to your m*therf*cking man.

Get them high, get them high
Get them high, yeah.

Now I ain't never tell you
to put down your hands.

So, keep them high, keep them high,
keep them high, keep them high.

And if you're losing your high
then smoke again.

Hey, yo, Kwe, I need you
to spit that sh*t right now.

Yo, yo, yo

I can't believe this n*gga use
my name for picking up dimes.

But never mind,
I need some tracks He trying to pull tracks out.

And my rhymes is fitting to blow,
he about to blow back South.

Well, okay, you twisted my arm,
I'll assist with the charm.

Hey, yo,
ain't you meet that chick at the conference with your mom?

Her sister's the b*mb,
but she got the bougie behavior.

Always got something to say
like a Okay Player hater.

Anyway, I don't usually
f*ck with the Internet.

Or chicks with birth control
stuck to their arm like Nicorette.

You really f*cking that much
or trying to get off cigarettes?

And she think it's fly
She ain't met a real n*gga yet

I apologize if I come off
a little inconsiderate

I got the Bubba Kush and
a sister could get a hit of it.

Get them high,
get them high, yeah.

All the girls pass the weed
to your m*therf*cking man.

Get them high, get them high
Come on, yeah.

Now I ain't never tell you
to put down your hands.

Get them high, get them high.

Old people f*cking love me,
man. They love me.

You know you must be doing
something right if old people like you.

Hi, miss. Hi.

Do you like rap music?

I like you, man, I tell you.

I'll take that. You want to come
see a rap concert I'm throwing?

When? It's in
Brooklyn on Saturday.

Sorry, I can't do that.

I'll get you on the bus.

I'm going to Canada on a bus.

Canada? You trying to
dodge the w*r?

I don't know if you like
rap music, but...

No, it's not a question
of liking.

I don't hear well enough
to catch the words.

You know,
I got the concert jump-off this weekend.

Oh, do you? I can get you there.

Hell, yeah.
If you get me there, I'll go.

On a bus.

It don't make
no difference to me.

You'll go? Yeah.

No matter how we get you there? I
ain't gonna send you on a donkey.

He'll hurt the donkey.

I'm a football player.
I'm 320 pounds.

You play football?
Where? At Central?

No. Hell, no. Oh, excuse me,
I shouldn't be cursing.

Oh, that's all right. Look.
p*ssy hole. You see?

You can say anything.
This is a movie.

You got a big hat for me? Yeah.

And the mirror's
right here? Yeah.

That's the one. All right,
I'm gonna surprise myself.

Here I go. Damn! Oh, snap!

Pimpalicious.

This a bad coat. Yeah.

You think I can wear this
to a rap concert?

You sure could.

Where is my money, bitch?

Now,
this is the popular stuff? Yeah.

All right.
This is current styles.

Look here, bitch.

I'm gonna tell you this and
I'm gonna tell you this once.

I want my g*dd*mn money.

Tell your wife I said hi.
I can't wait to meet her.

What's she like?

She's the sh*t.
Red hair, big tits.

Red hair and big titties? All right,
I'll keep an eye out.

Get her drunk,
she'll show them. Really?

All right, make sure
we have beer at the concert.

This place is called
HaHa's Pizza, right?

Back in the day,
it was started by some hippies.

And they had certain pizza toppings
that made you laugh. Get my drift?

You ordered a mushroom pizza
at this place back in '71,

chances were
you were gonna hallucinate.

Keep them high.

Brooklyn, make some noise.

I rolled up on you guys
completely by chance.

What are the odds that I'd
be sh**ting the beginning?

It's God.
I'm sh**ting a concert movie.

That's God. That's God, man.

I'm trying to think,
how am I gonna get people to come?

And all of a sudden,
a marching band crosses the street.

How perfect is that?

Now, ladies and gentlemen,

I'm standing here
with a piece of black history.

The first black man named Milsapp,
right here, ladies and gentlemen.

And not only is his name Milsapp,
but he's also the director

of Central State University's
band we got here.

This is not any old band
though, is it?

No, it isn't.
This the drum line.

Mr. Milsapp? Yes.

All right, how do y'all travel
when you travel?

Very carefully.

We travel by charter bus.

By charter bus?

We gotta have a huddle, guys. Come on,
let's huddle up real quick.

Look, man. All right,
say I chartered y'all a bus, right?

Would you all come play at my concert,
Block Party, in New York?

I don't have a problem
with it. The whole band?

Yeah, yeah, with two buses,
right? Yeah.

It's not gonna be more
than two buses, is it?

No, it won't be more
than two buses.

Yeah, man, come on,
rep southwest Ohio, man.

Yes, we would. You'll do it?

Yes, we would.

Is there a compensation,
or what?

Compensation?
It comes with a sandwich.

Will there be snacks?

Oh, there'll be snacks.
We got...

Don't we got snacks in the
budget? This is a low-budget movie.

You know how Steven Spielberg

have all them trucks
and stuff? Got the hookup.

This is it. We pulled up in a minivan,
baby.

We're working on a tight budget.

You have to go through the channels,
right? Run it up the flagpole, that type of thing.

Yeah,
and that would be done expediently. That could be done.

And now we're just caught up
in a little bureaucracy.

Now, how hot would it be if these kids
got a chance to come through Bed-Stuy,

b*ating them drums,
playing them horns?

The whole neighborhood
is amped, screaming.

They're saying "It's CSU!"
That's what we're hoping for.

The anticipation is k*lling me.

One.

Two.

Three.

Four.

Lord have mercy.

Hey, yo,
from the first to the last of it delivery is passionate.

Whole and not the half of it,
vocab and not the math of it.

Projectile and I'll blast away
Accurate assassin sh*t.

Me and Kweli close like
Bethlehem and Nazareth.

After this you be pressing
rewind on top your master disk.

Shining like an asterisk for
all those that be gathering.

Connecting like a roundhouse
from the townhouse to the tenements.

All my Brooklyn residents,
all the heavy regiments.

Don't believe, here the evidence.

Brooklyn!

From where they selling tree
at to where the police be at.

Talib Kweli e-Kweli-ty
Yo, tell them where we be at.

We be in Brooklyn, New York City.

Where they paint murals
of Biggie In cash we trust

'Cause it's ghettofabulous,
Life look pretty.

What a pity Blunts is still 50 cents,
it's intense.

Tree scent is dominant
can't be covered with incense.

My presence felt,
my name is Kweli from the Eternal Reflection.

People thinking MC
is shorthand for misconception

I meditate, set it straight.

Came to the conclusion that
most of these cats is featherweight.

Let me demonstrate Walking
the streets is like battling.

Be careful with your body.

You know karate or think your
soul is bulletproof like Sade.

Stop acting like a bitch already,
be a visionary.

And maybe you can see your
name in the column of obituary.

That's where it's all
going down, baby.

Stage will be right there
where you guys are standing.

I'm gonna be running up
and down from here.

All this is gonna be people.
I can see it now!

Like a vision. Don't look at me
like I'm crazy. It's going down!

This is real.

I'm sorry
for screaming like this.

One, two, three
Mos Def and Talib Kweli.

We came to rock it on to
the tip-top Best alliance in.

Sing it up!

Singing one, two,
three It's kind of dangerous to be a MC.

They sh*t 2Pac and Biggie God
bless the day and this hip-hop.

Whose house is this anyway?

This your house?

You know,
we're having a concert in front of your house Saturday. You excited?

Yes,
and you're welcome to come and rest your loins at any point.

I can come rest my loins
in the crib, you heard that?

With a glass of champagne.

Ladies and gentlemen,

today is their fortieth...

Sixth.

Forty-sixth wedding
anniversary. Good God Almighty.

Thank you.
Hold your applause to the end.

We took a trip on the Staten Island Ferry,
a little ocean voyage.

Okay. On the Staten Island...

All right. To Staten Island.

And,
as we walked in the streets of Staten Island,

what did we discover in the gutter,
but an angel broken in seven pieces.

When we both discovered this,

I turned to him,
who was not my husband at the time,

and I said,
"It's an omen. It's a sign."

"I'm to marry you,
of all people."

Really?
And I did. I married him.

And Sunday is our 46th
wedding anniversary.

I put that angel
back together again.

But after I did, we found the original,
of which there may be thousands of them.

The original's rather stiff.
Mine is kind of graceful.

So, that's why we call this
Broken Angel.

Because this building
was wrecked and vandalized

and lying in the street.

And I'm putting it back together again,
better than it was.

On the actual block,

it's like a warehouse
where they make chairs.

There's, like, a Salvation Army,

a nursery school.

Then there's this ill house
called the Broken Angel House

that these two people live in.

They've been living there
for 40 years.

Now you guys built this house
yourselves? We did. We built...

What you see, that's unusual.

It is quite the unusual home.

It's a monument to
Brooklyn, my dear.

He's my spouse.

It's our anniversary
of marriage on Sunday.

I moved in three months
before we closed.

We had five wild dogs living
in the building at the time.

That's not one of them.

Her name is Cat,
the one barking.

Cat.

When I say
it's a ill house, like,

this is the craziest sh*t
I've ever seen in my life.

You just... I couldn't even
describe. You just have to...

And if you get a chance,
go in there as far as you...

Can. Yeah, exactly.

They're real hospitable people,
like, "Come on in."

That was my fault. All right.

I only have seven dogs, 14 cats,
two doves and a parakeet.

Good God. And a cheetah.

Oh, good God almighty. Oh, yes.

A cheetah? A cheetah, honey.

All right, let's see that last.

Okay, last, of course.
All right.

Keep the cheetah locked up.

That up ahead is called
the Great Expectation Room.

In there.

Notice the door says Quincy,

because it came from
Quincy Street.

You can peek through there
if you wish to

photograph the wonderful jumble

of chaotic living.

And in here,

we have an angel sculpture

that my husband did on the back

inside and outside
of the building.

The building is only
a third completed.

One-third.
We have two-thirds to go.

With a Sea King helicopter

on a climbing crane that
goes through the entire building,

doesn't touch the building,
the climbing crane.

The Sea King helicopter
is five more stories

above what's there now.

And it is transformed
into a whale.

There's drawings of that where
we're going on the next level.

You just climb up

this charming, little ladder.

Now we're getting to
the Titanic version.

Only it doesn't sink.

It's slippery for me.

It's an old white couple.

They've been married for, like,
40 years, and they found this house

which they took as a sign.

So they said,
"We will piece this house together"

"better than it was before."

Now I don't know
how it looked before,

But I'll tell you this.

They pieced it together,
and that sh*t literally is like chutes and ladders

and like the steps are,
like, just, like cat way.

Like it really looks like
some sh*t that they made.

From where you're standing up,

I built personally...

With me... With my wife,

who's a very good
construction worker.

And in the early stages,

I had a couple of men
working for me

that were criminals.

Out of jail.

But they enjoyed working with
me because I did what they did.

All I told them was, "Keep up with me,
and I'm twice your age."

"If you can keep up to me,
you can work here."

You know,
I don't like rap music,

because rap music

composes a lot of foul language,

and I don't think
it's proper for children.

I don't even think it's proper
for adults, either,

to be using
that type of language.

And that's what's incorporated.

I grew up in show business. My
father was a director in Hollywood.

His name was... It's
not hip-hop. That's rap.

His name was... Rap music, yeah.

His name was Russell Mack.

He was a vaudevillian
song-and-dance man.

And I was born in...

They took me home from the
hospital. I was born in Los Angeles,

and my father built his home
in Beverly Hills.

He wanted to negotiate films
with the Germans.

But when he realized,
when he saw that they were, "Heil, h*tler,"

and all of that,

of course, that was a no-go.

They got sh*t in there,
like, there's a hole

that they look through,
like a pipe,

and the pipe is pointing
directly at a clock tower.

So, like, if it's like,
"What time is it?"

There's some wild sh*t in there.

This is called the Airplane Room,
what you're in now.

My son named this room
the Airplane Room.

He had a tent.
He lived in a tent. He was 15.

And all the airplanes
flying over to LaGuardia

fly over this building.

What is painted black here

appears to be the bottom. Yeah.

So this whole thing floats
over these mirrors.

Whoa! So from that corner,

it's a very good illusion
in the morning,

because you'll see
clouds underneath it.

Oh, yeah, yeah,
I see what you mean.

And there's nothing up here
to give scale,

so when people walk by,
they ask me if this is about this big.

You know, from the street,

they don't know how big it is
until I'm up there.

Then they accuse me
of witchcraft.

I want to give and donate
myself to two endeavors in life.

One is cancer, one is animals.

I intend to take a course
at LaGuardia College

as a veterinary technician.

And between that and my life

isn't as young
as perhaps I may look.

But I intend to live
to probably about 400,

as I am also a witch,
but a good witch.

And I only want happiness
for mankind,

not to create chaos

and to be angry at everyone,

but to be happy around them.

That is my aim in life.

To give happiness to the world.

Because they bought it,
it kind of had some sort of meaning.

But if I was a location scout,

and we needed a cr*ck house,
I might refer that place.

Can I see the whole band for a moment,
please?

Quiet. Be quiet.

All right.

Upon a discussion
I had with our president

and Mr. David Chappelle,

the performances on Saturday
have been canceled.

Are you serious? I'm serious.

However, there has been
a change in plans.

We will be traveling
to New York.

I've stood here
in these streets of men.

Dying a little.

That I might comprehend.

A concept like purpose
or worry there.

The earth is mine
by divine prophecy I'm told.

I am free if I'm meek.

Greetings. Cody Chesnutt,
The Headphone Masterpiece.

By the grace of Almighty God,
here for the celebration.

Miss, I'm having a Block Party
on Saturday around the corner.

All you need to do
is bring yourself.

Bring yourself! Bring yourself
to the Block Party, won't you?

Attention, Huxtables.

There is a Block Party
jump-off right around the corner.

Downing and Quincy.
Downing and Quincy.

Bring Rudy, Theo, Denise...

On the actual block?

It's like a warehouse
where they make chairs.

No human ass
has touched these seats yet.

Some lucky person
is gonna get a chair.

There's like a nursery school.

There's this ill house called
the Broken Angel house.

Then there's the Salvation Army.

These guys have been kind enough
to loan us furniture for the party.

And now we're just kind of
looking around at furniture,

so that we can be comfortable
on the rooftop during the concert.

I'm also just taking some time

to look at all this good stuff
that people just throw out.

If I went to a white person's house and saw this,
I'd be furious.

Think I can play this,
even though it says "Do not play"?

Midnight, 'round midnight.

I think, right now, man,
Dave has two songs in his repertoire.

He has Round About Midnight
and Misty.

And he... Once he has...

Wait, get...

Go back to Round Midnight.

He always gets to the bridge

and then he does these
real immaculate arpeggios,

which trips me out.

The fact that
he's not a trained musician,

but he's dedicated his whole
life to Round About Midnight.

We're dating.

It's called... Courtship.

Christian courtship.
That's what it's called.

We're dating.
It's called dating.

We've been friends
for how long? A year.

Best friends for a year.

A month. And a month.

And a day. And a day.

And a day, a day. It's a year,
a month and a day.

So,
how many hours and how many minutes and how many seconds?

Can I breathe your air?
Breathe mine.

That was Round Midnight I was
playing. That's a Thelonious Monk song.

One of my favorite musicians
because his timing was so ill.

Every comedian
is a stickler for timing.

And Thelonious Monk was off time,
yet perfectly on time.

You should study it
if you're an aspiring comedian

or an aspiring musician,
you should study it.

Which brings me
to my next point.

Comedians and musicians,
we're like this.

Every comic
wants to be a musician.

Every musician
thinks they're funny.

It's a very strange
relationship that we have.

Some musicians are funny,
some comedians can play.

I'll give you an example.
Mos Def, funny guy.

Jamie Foxx,
good singer and piano player.

So you never know. You never
know what kind of talents a person has.

I'm mediocre at both,
but have managed to talk my way into a fortune.

Life is a funny,
unpredictable thing.

So, you do the drums, right?

And then do like the straight... Like,
if I say,

"I saw this lady who was so fat." You'd be like,
"Really, Dave?"

Like, "How fat was..."

You do the straight man and then I'll do... All right,
you ready?

But this is how it works.

That you gotta stop when I say stop. It's gotta be,
like, on a dime.

Okay.

And then keep going again.
Stop, keep going again.

All right. All right,
so we'll try it out.

But when we do it,
we're gonna practice it in front of the audience.

This sh*t never fails.
It's like a walking bassline,

and then like a swing b*at,
and then like whatever else...

This is sort of like
making that noise.

All right. That's right.
Okay, it should be like this.

Hey, Mos, what's happening?

Then you be like...
Hey, what's happening, Dave?

Mos, I'm gonna tell you
a little...

How many white people does
it take to screw in a light bulb?

I don't know, Dave, how many?

None. 'Cause they'll get
a n*gga to do it for them.

Carry on.

Oh, that's right.

Just a little warm-up.

All right, all right.

Okay, listen up.

Upon getting your keys
and your luggage,

you can go to your room.

We are going to eat down here,
I believe, in the dining room.

So once you put your luggage up,
you can come back downstairs.

Glad we're here, though.

Time to relax,
get some sleep before we go and kick it tomorrow or whatever.

Bed-Stuy!

Everybody.

Come on, everybody.

Get it up, get it up, what
Everybody.

Give it up, give it up, what.

Get it up, get it up, what
Everybody.

Get it up, get it up, what
Everybody.

Give it up, give it up, what.

Give it up, give it up, what.

Get it up, get it up, what.

Get it up, get it up.

Hating melodrama.

Fellas wanna hover in
my cypher like a helicopter.

Like it's a special honor.

Stealth bomber,
gem dropper make the ghetto holler intercontinental.

Taking you high like skydivers
when we spark like live wires.

Original caveman,
quest for my fire,

Express my desire
to drop this new sh*t.

These record executives
keep telling me y'all stupid.

What, are they what?

Shut the f*ck up!

Revolutionaries,
throw your g*ns up.

Whether you a bougie broad
who acting stuck up.

Or some ignorant thug
m*therf*cker sh**ting the club up.

We make y'all feel this,
break your spirit.

If y'all fake that realness,
Word, bringing it.

Ringing it in from the new
millennium to way after that

I call these cats Reynolds
'cause they plastic rap.

k*ll all the yapping,
let's make it happen.

You cats ain't real,
you just a reenactment.

Better yet, dramatization.

Soon as the director
say action you start faking

I like the element of surprise.

Take this concert for instance.

I would have loved it
if nobody saw it coming.

Now it got leaked to the press,
people have heard about it,

but they still don't know
where it is.

So imagine. There's gonna be a
group of people that see it here,

and then, people will hear about it,
but they have no idea what it looks like.

How'd you find out about this?

Internet.

1 iota. Com.

1 iota.

Oh, through e-mail.

Say it loud, say Move something.

Brooklyn, say it loud, say
Move something.

Brooklyn, say it loud, say
Move something.

Where you going? We made it.

Somewhere in Brooklyn.
We don't know. We don't know.

Gonna have a good time today.

I don't know where I'm going.

I know that I'm going
to some Block Party,

but I don't know who's performing
or... I'm just here to have a good time.

We're going to Brooklyn.
We're going to Bed-Stuy.

Bed-Stuy, Bed-Stuy.

Do or die,
we're going to Bed-Stuy.

That's where we think
we're going.

Just get on. Enjoy yourself.
Have a good time. We love you.

There's no... Y'all got to squeeze,
I'm sorry.

Put three people. People with
small booties all sit together.

Big booty people,
y'all got to share with a small booty.

Wow,
how you gonna catch me while I'm in the middle of breakfast?

This is not a stereotype. We were
hungry and Pathmark was out of steak.

You guys ready
to get on the road?

Yeah!

Thank you, thank you very much.

Have you tried the hot dogs?
That's right.

That's right.

We're gonna have
a little party tonight.

And some jazz comedy.

Oh.

That's right.

We didn't get here
until very late last evening.

And we've only had about four or five hours' sleep,
most of us.

So we are a little tired,
but we're trying to weather the storm

and enjoy ourselves in spite of.

Carry on!

Yeah! We're gonna
bring the house down tomorrow.

Oh, sh*t!

Scooby-doo-wop Scooby-doo-wee.

We need to let them in.
We gotta go.

Downing and Gates.
We got to let them in.

We got a marching band
on Downing and Gates...

Come on in.

Throw them up.

Throw them up.

Give it up for none other
than Kan-Easy,

AKA Kanye West.

Come on.
Make some noise, Bed-Stuy.

Make some noise!

Y'all know what the Midwest is
Young and restless.

Where restless n*gg*s
might snatch your necklace.

Next these n*gg*s
might jack your Lexus.

Somebody tell these n*gg*s
who Kanye West is

I walk through the valley
of the shadow of death.

Top floor the view alone
will leave you breathless.

Try to catch it
It's kind of hard.

Getting choked by detectives
Yeah, now check the method.

They asking us questions
Harass and arrest us.

Saying, "We eat pieces of sh*t
like you for breakfast".

Y'all eat pieces of sh*t?
What's the basis?

We ain't going nowhere
but got suits and cases.

A trunk full of coke
Rental car from Avis.

My mama used to say
only Jesus could save us.

Well, Mama, I know I act a fool.

But I'll be gone till November
I got packs to move

I hope Jesus walks.

God show me the way The
devil's trying to break me down.

Jesus walk with me.

The only thing that I pray is
that my feet don't fail me now

I want Jesus.

And I don't think there is nothing
I can do now to right my wrongs.

To walk with me

I want to talk to God
but I'm afraid

'Cause we ain't spoke in so long.

Jesus.

God,
show me the way The devil's trying to break me down.

Walk with me.

The only thing that I pray is
that my feet don't fail me now.

All along my

pilgrim's journey.

I want Jesus

to walk with me.

To the hustlers,
K*llers murderers, drug dealers.

Even the strippers
Jesus walks with them.

To the victims of welfare
For we living in hell here.

Hell, yeah Jesus walks with them.

Now hear ye, hear ye
Want to see thee more clearly

I know he hear me
When my feet get weary

'Cause we're the almost
nearly extinct.

We rappers is role models
We rap, we don't think

I ain't here to argue
about his facial features.

Or here to convert atheists
into believers

I'm just trying to say
the way school need teachers.

The way Kathie Lee needed
Regis That's the way I need Jesus.

So here go my single, dawg
Radio needs it.

n*gga,
you can rap about anything except for Jesus.

That means g*ns,
sex, lies, videotape.

But if I talk about God
my record won't get played.

Well if this take away
from my spins.

Which will probably take away
from my ends.

Then I hope it take away
from my sins.

And bring the day
that I'm dreaming about.

Next time I'm in the club
everybody screaming out.

Jesus walks.

God show me the way The
devil's trying to break me down.

Jesus walk with me.

The only thing that I pray is
that my feet don't fail me now.

And I don't think there's nothing
I can do now to right my wrongs.

I want to talk to God
but I'm afraid

'Cause we ain't spoke in so long.

Man, that Kanye West.

Kanye West, who we came to see,
he came out right away.

He came out, did his thing.

I liked that.

It's a party.

If it wasn't for the rain,
it would have been really great. But it's still a party.

"Rain, rain."

"On my parade."

"Five thousand black people
chilling in the rain."

"Nineteen white people
peppered into the crowd."

"Everybody's welcome.

"Trying to find a Mexican.

"Very hard to find a Mexican!

"Buenos d?as. I know
you're out there. Buenos d?as.

"Qu??

"That's Spanish Lil Jon. Qu??

"Qu??"

"S?."

Thank you, b*tches. Good night.

Now, I know you guys
are thinking,

"Dave, where have you learned
how to play the congos?"

Nobody taught me that sh*t!
I'm black!

It's in my blood!

Throw up my g*ng sign.

It's bad. Well, no, really,
it means something. It means ya basta.

Know what I'm saying?
It's Mexican.

For all my compa?eros
and compa?anas.

This means ya basta.
Enough is enough.

Is that some Mexican sh*t? Yeah.

So if I see some Mexicans
and I throw this up...

And this means... Ya basta.

Ya basta. And they'll be
like, "All right."

Oh, well,
you know. I never really... Check with them first.

Yeah, I don't wanna...
Don't have me doing this.

Don't just walk up to Mexicans
and start doing this sh*t.

Enough is enough. Ya basta.

We had enough here.
We're ready for better.

Any way.

Next time my wife is feeding me too
much..."Would you like some more potatoes?"

Ya basta. I've had enough.

Oh, yeah.

Yeah. Oh, yeah.

Put your fists up. My n*gga.

Crank up your speakers.

Your woofers and your tweeters.

Turn up your receiver.

Crank up your speaker.

Your woofers and your tweeter.

Turn up your receivers.

We banging off the.

It's your boy stic. Man,
Dead Prez.

You know how we do it.
f*ck the police.

You know what I mean. Raising
the babies up soldier style.

Greetings.

This is M-Uno, M-1.

The other half of Dead Prez.

We banging off the.

Yo, come on.

Your speakers
Your woofers and your tweeters.

Turn up your receiver.

We banging off the meter

I refuse to be a stereotype
in your box.

Never wanna try
to be something I'm not

I think, like,
the more you say with it,

the less airplay you get.

You know, guys like Dead Prez,
they say it all.

But you hardly ever
hear them on the radio.

Because they say things like,

"The White House
is the rock house."

"Uncle Sam is
the m*therf*cking pusher man."

"What I gotta do
to make you understand?"

You know.

They don't want to hear that
on the radio.

"The White House is the rock house,"
and all these kinds of things.

But you hear it at the
barber shop all the time.

Say turn off the radio, Brooklyn.

Turn off that bullshit.

Say it Turn off the radio.

Come on, come on
Turn off that bullshit.

What's on the radio
Propaganda, mind control.

And turning it on is like
Putting on a blindfold.

When you bring in the real
You don't get rotation.

Unless you take over the station.

And, yeah, I know
it's part of their plans.

To make us think it's all
about Party and dancing.

And, yo, it might sound good
when you spitting your rap.

But in reality,
don't nobody live like that.

You wanna know
what kind of n*gga I am?

Let me tell you
about the n*gga I'm not

I don't f*ck with the cops.

Like it gotta be hot

I ain't gotta love it,
even if they play it a lot.

How many people they reach?
How they use music to teach?

A radio program
ain't a figure of speech.

Don't sleep, 'cause you could
be a radio freak.

My n*gga, turn off the radio
Say it.

Turn off that bullshit.

Brooklyn, turn off the radio
Come on, come on.

Turn off that bullshit.

Turn off the radio.

Turn off that bullshit.

Turn off the radio, say it.

Turn off that bullshit.

Crank up your speakers.

Your woofers and your tweeters.

Turn up your receiver.

We banging for the people.

Crank up your speakers.

Your woofers and your tweeters.

Turn up your receivers.

We banging off the meter.

Or how about when they say,

"Who sh*t Biggie Smalls? If we don't get them,
they gonna get us all."

"I'm up for running up on
them crackers in their city hall."

You'll never hear that sh*t
on the radio.

Never in a million years will you
hear somebody say on the radio,

"I'm up for running up on
some crackers in city hall."

And

people have stopped asking
who sh*t Biggie Smalls.

But if you in show business and black,
you'll wonder about that every day.

'Cause they might get you, too.

Biggie Smalls was
in this daycare center.

Miss Jenkins, Miss Green,

Miss Pennick was their teachers.

And they're still here. They've
been here for the past 30 years.

Man. So the next Biggie Smalls
might be here now.

You don't even know. He may be.

That's it. This is what
I just finished telling you.

All right. All right. Okay.

So out of here,
you will get the next

star. Maybe...
Maybe Biggie Smalls.

Another Biggie Smalls.

This the old daycare center
right here, man.

You were in here, too?

No, I didn't go here,
though my little nephew used to go here.

I used to always come here
to pick up my nephew.

One of my n*gg*s from Junior MAFIA,
his mom used to work in here.

Word? You know,
just all around the way, man.

All down here.

So the whole Junior MAFIA's
from around this way?

Yeah. Yeah, everybody.
Kim, everybody.

Yeah, Kim used to live...

She lived
on the other St. James.

That's two blocks
down this way on Lafayette.

Jay-Z, he from Marcy projects.

That ain't but about two,
three blocks on that side.

Junior MAFIA, Big, he's two blocks back down this way,
you know what I'm saying?

So, I mean, you know,

we kind of
put it down ourselves.

You influenced the whole world.

Yeah, yeah. For sure, for sure.

It's just like it's a 'hood thing,
man. Like we ain't got sh*t to do out here.

That's all you got to do,
is music, man.

That was something that kept
a lot of us n*gg*s out of trouble.

Kept m*therf*ckers
off the corner.

Would have been police
out there f*cking with you.

You go in the crib,
you listen to some music.

That's the only thing that
kind of cleared the n*gga head.

And the money
never came between you?

No, never that. Never that.

'Cause we all grew up together.

At the end of the day,
I ain't gotta make another record no more,

but those will always be my n*gg*s,
'cause I grew up with them.

It was way bigger than hip-hop.

Kind of like, that was our work.

Those were my n*gg*s right
there. I grew up with them

since we was like this,
so nothing would ever come between us.

You know what I'm saying?

Me, on the other hand,
I don't see none of my old friends.

Them m*therf*ckers is crazy.

And if you watching this,
I mean that sh*t.

If you know this here, say it.

It's bigger than hip-hop
Hip-hop, hip-hop.

It's bigger than Say it.

What it bigger than? Say it.

What it bigger than? Say it.

What it bigger than?

One thing about music
When it hit, you feel no pain.

White folks say
it controls your brain

I know better than that That's game,
and we ready for that.

Two soldiers head of the pack Matter of fact,
who got the gat?

And where my army at?

Rather att*ck and not react.

Back the beats,
it don't reflect on how many records get sold.

On sex, dr*gs, and rock and roll.

Whether your project
gets put on hold.

In the real world
We just people with ideas.

They just like me and you When
the smoke and camera disappear.

In the real world It's bigger
than all these fake-ass records.

When poor folks got the millions
and my sisters get respect.

If you check, one,
two My word of advice to you is just relax.

Just do what you got to do If that
don't work then here's the facts.

If you a fighter, rider, biter,
flame-igniter, crowd-exciter.

Or you wanna just get high,
then just say it.

But then if you a liar, liar,
pants on fire Wolf-crier, agent with a wire

I'm gonna know it
when I play it Say it.

What it bigger than?

It's bigger than hip-hop
Hip-hop, hip-hop.

Who sh*t 2Pac? If we don't get them,
they gonna get us all

I'm down for running up on
them crackers In the city hall.

We ride for y'all
All my dawgs, stay real.

n*gga, don't think
your record deal.

Gonna feed your seeds
and pay your bills.

Because they're not.

MCs get a little bit of love
And think they hot.

Talking about
how much money they got.

n*gga, all y'all records
sound the same

I sick of that fake thug, R&B,
rap scenario All day on the radio.

Same scenes in the video.

Monotonous material
Y'all don't hear me, though.

These record labels
sling our tapes like dope.

You can be next in line
and signed

and still be writing rhymes
and broke.

You rather have a Lexus or
justice? A dream or some substance?

A Beemer, a necklace or freedom?

See,
a n*gga like me don't player-hate I just stay awake.

This is real hip-hop,
and it don't stop.

Till we get them crackers
off our block.

They call it hip-hop
Hip-hop, hip-hop.

It's bigger than.

What?

What it bigger than?

Hip-hop, hip-hop
What it bigger than?

What it bigger than?

It bigger than

hip-hop, hip-hop.

D.P.'s got that crazy sh*t
we keep it crunked up.

Come on, blaze this sh*t.

D.P.'s got that crazy sh*t
We keep it crunked up.

Brooklyn, we love you.

Thank y'all.

Free Aaron Patterson.

Look at that. Look at that. All right,
all right.

Ready? This is
for Dead Prez right here.

This is especially
for Dead Prez.

Pow!

The most revolutionary
shoe known to man. Ya basta!

Who knew that?
Ya basta. Ya basta.

Enough is enough, m*therf*ckers.

You need to get us
in a skit, Dave.

You know what I'm saying?
We can do this.

We can do this.
I'll dance all day.

How many people
in the audience can MC?

Nine hundred MCs.

Mr. T.

Bring up Mr. T.

I wanna battle you.

I pity you, fool.

I pity the fool that tries
to battle Dave Chappelle.

Where's your time machine
parked?

He got a Mohawk, man.

Come on, man,
you weigh more than me. God damn!

I pity the fool!

Drink the milk, B.A.

Here's the kicker.

I'm not giving you a mike.
Good luck!

You know, I'm from DC,
where y'all are from.

You from DC? For real?

You know,
we rough it off down there.

He said he's roughing off.

Does that mean that I should
wash my hands?

He's roughing off!

Vaseline!

See, roughing off
is when we take the mike.

All right, hold on.
All right! Take it easy!

You know I got security,
n*gga. I'll get you yoked.

I will get you...

I'm worth too much money now,
m*therf*cker.

There's sn*pers on the roof,
all kinds of sh*t!

That's right, Mr. T.
I pity the fool!

I pity the fool
that f*ck with me.

What's up, BK?

Yo. It's like this.

This my homie here,
he's from DC, right?

Yo, son.
What's up with that bald head?

I think you got to get
something new or you'll be dead.

Yo, Dave,
I ain't gonna do you like that

'Cause I'm gonna come to you
real fat with a bat.

Yo,
I'm rapping like this 'cause I don't really freestyle

I'm rapping like this 'cause
I've traveled many miles.

"Please to meet you," I holler
"I'll see you at the gate".

After that, yeah
That sh*t's gonna be late.

Time out, everybody.

First of all, don't ever boo
a rapper on this stage.

The way that he rhymed "gate"
with "late" is genius!

And if you can't see that,
there's something wrong with you!

Anybody can rhyme like that.

You got nice shoes.

n*gga's got blues.

New York City.

Something about big titties.
You could just do that all day.

Bring back on that b*at!

Uh!

Time out, time out, time out!

Why everybody got to go "uh"
before they freestyle? Uh!

Uh!

All right,
go ahead. Bring that b*at back. Bring that b*at back!

I didn't forget about you!

It's time to go to school.

Like Mr. T said,
"I pity the fool!"

That ain't platinum
it's not even silver.

It's just a piece of sh*t I
told you that sh*t don't rhyme.

What? What?

Look at that! Huh?

You said "Free Tibet"
Ain't no n*gg*s in Tibet!

It's probably a free t-shirt!

My flow is too ill.

Damn, I thought
that was a real person.

That's a puppet. God damn!

This puppet had me fooled.

I was like,
he's gonna get in trouble smoking all this weed out here.

Guy got his hand
up a Jamaican midget's ass.

Doing all...

I didn't know it was a puppet!

All right. Oh yeah,
give it up for my man, Mr. T.

His cereal is in stores.

Mr. T!

Can I get somebody
to beatbox for me?

I'll beatbox. How do you
want your b*at? All right.

Many women tell me
my style is so different.

It is kind of good
but let's be specific

I'm not the type to be rushing

I'm not the type of guy who
asks a whole lot of questions.

Like where you going,
where you been and can we

have sex all the time?
That's not important to D

I only date girls
who have men or relations.

So to be with me
is like a mini vacation.

So I don't let no girl
spend my money like she crazy.

Half on drinks
on the room and the baby

I don't argue, I control myself

'Cause I don't have to be loud
or physical to be felt

'Cause after it's all over
we realize it was nothing

I walk away and later
return and still be...

You never have to worry
that I lie

'Cause I don't have to

'Cause I'm the n*gga on the side.

That's right.

All right, I'll see you Saturday,
man. All right!

Saturday.

2:00.

Be there or be square,
as they say.

She knew what I was going for.
You heard that, buddy?

Quincy and Downing Street.

How do you spell Downing?

Downing? I don't know,
I went to public school.

D-O-W-N-N-I-G?

When you said you was doing it over there,
I was like, "f*ck."

You grew up over there?

My whole childhood...

Hey, that's crazy.
Was in the Stuy.

So it's a trip.
The Stuy is still, like,

the Stuy.

You know what I'm saying?

This sh*t has been like that

forever.

It's actually better now than it has been. In certain areas,
anyway.

Some of it look like

when The Cosby Show comes
back from commercial break.

And some of it look like

when Good Times came back
from the commercial break.

But it could be

in the same block.

Like, yeah,
you could be in one block,

and then you'd turn the corner
and you'd be like, "Oh, sh*t."

Tyrone in school?

Folks,
right now I'm sitting in the office of none other than Luz Grice.

She is the director

of the daycare center

whose roof
we'll be sh**ting on Saturday.

I just wanted to say thank you,
first of all, for letting us sh**t here.

Thank you.

And thank you for introducing
me to all the kids today.

You're quite welcome.

It's a mixed area.

Bed-Stuy, it's black,

Hispanic...

There are a few Caucasians
coming in.

You know,
that's what I like about Bed-Stuy. You say it's a mixed area.

Blacks and Hispanics.

Blacks, Hispanics,
and a few Caucasians

coming into the neighborhood.

Do you got a limo?

Do I have a limo?
Today I have a limo.

Thank you. Thank you.
Can we ride in it?

If you guys could ride
in my limousine, right,

where would you want to go?

No, wait a minute!
Wait a minute!

Let's go to Alabama.

You wanna go to Alabama?

We get to see the roof?

Now we going to
the roof. To the roof?

Yes. The roof.

I hope you can climb stairs.

Right

over the ledge

is the actual
Block Party I concert.

All right,
to my right is Tyrone. One of the fastest kids on the East Coast.

I'm gonna give you a head start,
that's how confident I am.

You ready? Yeah.

Set?

I didn't say go.

I didn't say go, Tyrone.

Come on, now, all right?

Now this time I mean it.
Are you ready?

Set.

I'm gonna give you a head start.

Go.

Just gonna let him run
real quick.

Oh, he is fast!

Is the jump-off jumping off?

Who wants to go next? Ready?

Yeah, I'm ready.

All right, come on, y'all.
Let's keep the show going.

All right, everybody.

I don't know what to say.

Ya'll just gonna have to
go crazy now.

Just make some noise.

Hey! I smell reefer!

I'm calling the police!

All right, everybody.
Make some noise.

Show your love.

Erykah Badu.

Back in the day now.

Back in the day
when things were cool.

Hey.

All we needed was bop-bop
bop-bop, bop-ba-dop.

Hey.

Bop-bop, bop-bop, bop-ba-dop.

Wait.

Well, well, well Sing.

Back in the day
when things were cool.

Back in the day.

All we needed was
Bop-bop, bop-bop, bop-ba-dop.

Hey.

Oh, well, well, well.

Look, gotta say.

Soul flower
take me flying with you.

Hey, child.

Just give me that
bop-bop, bop-bop, bop-ba-dop.

Let me just say, just because
you guys are younger than me,

don't think for a second
I'm gonna take it easy on you.

I play to win.
Yeah, you can't win.

I'm putting some money
on the table.

I'm just kidding.
Gambling is wrong, kids.

James, watch this.

We gonna go back, all right?

Say good morning.

Good morning!

Good morning, kids.

Say, "Good morning,
Mr. Chappelle."

Good morning, Mr. Chappelle.

Thanks. Can you say,
"Good morning, Mr. Black Bush?"

Good morning, Mr. Black Bush.

I love kids. Thank you.

The laughing, the singing
The jamming, the talking.

And pumping the trunk
With the windows rolled up.

Puff.

Hours ago.

Then we could ride around
the park till it's after dark.

And when we get home
hope the dog don't bark.

Puff.

It's always more interesting to
look at the person behind the image.

Everyone's got a difference between
their personal life and their public life.

You kind of have to. Not every part of you can be for sale,
right?

But this is something where I
just wanted to get a feeling of,

like, that third dimension.

Something just a little bit
beyond that superficial image.

Just meet the people beyond
the gold or whatever it is

that their image is.

That, you know,

you hear someone like Erykah Badu's
music and you get the idea she's so serious,

but she's a hilarious person.
You'd never know this.

So hopefully we hang out here
for 12 hours together,

we perform together,
or we talk together,

maybe we get to see a little bit
more about what we're all about.

Hey, look at Erykah!

Go ahead, girl.

I really love that woman.

We all have our own thing.
That's the magic.

That everybody comes with their own
sense of strength and their own queendom.

Mine could never compare to hers,
and hers could never compare to mine.

Love of my life.

You are my friend.

Love of my life

I can depend.

Love of my life.

Without you, baby.

Feels like a
simple true love, yeah.

But the sh*t didn't clear.

Y'all know how I met her.

We broke up
and got back together.

To get her back
I had to sweat her.

Thought she'd roll
with bad boys forever.

In many ways
them boys made her better.

To grow I had to let her Let her.

She needed cheddar
and I understood that.

Looking at cheese that
don't make her a 'hood rat.

In fact she's a queen to me
Her light beams on me

I love it when she sings to me
It's like.

Ooh, you know you rock my world.

And you be boy.

And I'll be girl.

And it don't stop.

Until the break of dawn.

Sing it, y'all, come on.

It don't, it don't
It don't, it don't.

She jumped off
into the crowd's arms.

That was exciting.

Yes, yes, y'all
And you don't stop.

We like to rock to the b*at
And you don't stop.

Kool Herc in the house
And you don't stop.

That chick right there
has definitely led the way

for me
and a lot of other sisters.

You know, I appreciate it.

Are you nervous you're
gonna perform after her?

I'm trying to get
your feelings out.

Have you ever seen me perform?

I am the lady, Jill Scott.

I am a poet and a singer

and a lot of other things.

And this is my pimple, Herbert.

He arrived today
and he decided to stay.

So we'll see
his performance tomorrow.

They're fixing me.

Now I can't see him.

He said,
"Can I see your pimple?" No.

Woke up this morning.

With a smile on my face.

Jumped out of bed.

Took a shower.

And I cleaned up my place.

Made me some breakfast

I had some toast
and two scrambled eggs.

Grabbed my keys Grabbed my purse.

Grabbed my jacket Off to work.

Beaming all the way.

You love me, baby.

You love me, baby
You love me, baby.

Is it the way.

You love me, baby.

I know.

Jill Scott. I love her.

I've seen Mos Def.

Oh, my gosh, I'm so excited!

Oh, it's wonderful.

It's great being out here
in New York for my first time.

I feel kind of like
I'm at home. Yeah.

Seeing all these people out here with locks,
it's comfortable.

You know, it's nice, though.

See,
you can't come to Brooklyn without coming to the rooftop.

This is New York
when you're on the rooftop.

Every time you show a movie,
it always show somebody on the rooftop.

This is it.

So we here doing it.

On a rooftop.

The barbeque... You
should see the lovely women.

All of us have...
What we have in common

is that our audience
doesn't look like us.

And it's the same for him.

Because of whatever vehicle
that he's working at the time,

it attracts
a certain demographic.

And I guess around the time
when the thing that was out for him

was, you know, like people
knowing about Half Baked.

And it was like post-9 I 11.

So, pretty much like...

The audience was full of, like,

these wild frat boys, like,
you know, like,

that just wanted him
to do his character.

'Cause he was telling stories,
they would always interrupt his narrative.

But tell them what I said,

that's when the sn*per was out,
what did I say?

I said the sn*per was black. Oh. We,
we...

Yeah... Did I not say that?

Yeah. He predicted
that the DC sn*per...

Was black... Was black.

'Cause he was taking
weekends off.

What kind of white sn*per's
gonna do some sh*t like that?

A white sn*per's
up early, k*lling.

Party people gather round.

What we have here
is a brand new sound.

Reach for my waist
Y'all hit the ground.

You better duck when I
start spitting the rounds.

It goes, boom, boom, boom.

Yeah, that's what's happening
in the parking lot.

Check it out, y'all.

That's what's happening on stage.

Hold your flix,
I'm not for the photo ops.

It's Black,
code name Yaphet Kotto ock.

What's good? Black Thought from the Roots crew,
holding it down.

Frank Knuckles of the Roots.
One love.

I'm Kamal from the Roots
and I'm an alcoholic.

Ahmir Thompson. I'm the
official photographer of this event.

My name is Kirk,
AKA Captain Kirk.

AKA Roscoe, AKA Tracy Chapman.

I play guitar
with the Roots crew.

What's happening? Martin Luther,
Rebel Soul Music.

Party people...

This is H-U-B, Hub, Leonard Hubbard on the bass,
representing the Roots Crew

and keeping black music alive.

What's up? Big Daddy Kane. Just here to show love,
you know.

I'm glad to be a part
of this, you know.

Big ups to the Roots. Big up to Dave,
for, you know, showing a brother love.

The man at hand
that rule the school.

And teach and reach the blind
and find a way from A to Z.

And be the most
to boast I'm loud and proud.

The game to reign
You remain guilty.

The heat is on so feel
the fire come off the empire

all the more higher level of
depth one step beyond dope.

To suckers all smoke and hope
to cope with notes

'Cause I could never let them
on top of me

I play them out
like a game of Monopoly.

Let it speed around the board
like an astro.

And send them to jail
for trying to pass go.

Shaking them up,
breaking them up, taking no stuff.

But it still ain't loud enough
So Questlove let the fire grow.

Everybody in the house
say, "Ho!"

Party people gather round What
we have here is a brand new sound.

Reach for my waist
y'all hit the ground.

You better duck when I
start spitting the rounds

and going,
"Boom, boom, boom, boom".

That's what's happening
in the parking lot.

Y'all are not ready for it.

Yo, check it.

I'm live, design a finer rhyme
that's right on time.

One step beyond
and not behind the line.

That separates thought
from divine.

You can take it as a caution
or a warning sign.

Antonyms, words,
I'm blending them.

h*m*, synonyms
good like M&Ms.

With Polo, and while I'm slicing

I turn a mike's last name
into Tyson.

My brain like a factory
constantly creating.

Materials stitch by stitch
for decoration.

My lyrics are fabric,
b*at is a lining.

My passion of rhyming
is fashion designing.

Now it gets ordered 'cause people wanna sport it,
you bought it.

If you didn't
then you couldn't afford it.

Poetry full of surprises
It's like a game show.

And my brain go...
I do my thing, yo.

Party people gather round What
we have here is a brand new sound.

Reach for my waist
Y'all hitting the ground.

You better duck when I
start spitting the rounds

I go, "Boom, boom, boom".

What's happening
in the parking lot.

Check it out, y'all.

That's what's happening on stage.

Yes, they deserved to die,
and I hope they burn in hell!

All right, band, you ready? Yes!

Hit me, hit me.
Hit me two times.

That's not how
James Brown did it.

His shits was crisp, decisive.

I said, "Hit me."
Y'all was like...

I got to get that James
Brown sh*t. Hit me two times.

That's better, m*therf*ckers.
Three times.

That's right.
Two from both nuts.

That's right.

Ain't nothing like a James
Brown hit to set the mood. Hit me.

See? Hit me again.

That's right. Hit me.

See?

If you could do that in real life,
you'd be powerful.

If I could walk
into the meeting,

"I want more money,
m*therf*ckers." Hit me.

Just might get it.

"Excuse me, baby,
would you like to dance?"

"I ain't dancing with you." "Well,
f*ck you, bitch. Hit me."

Hit me again.

All right, just checking
to make sure you... Hit me.

Watching, that's all. Hit me.

Hit me!

They're good. What can I say?
They're professionals.

Hit me!

See, I can't shake them...
Hit me! sh*t.

Life is deep. You know,
the other day... Hit me!

Damn! These m*therf*ckers are
good. You see what I'm saying?

I'm telling you,
the crowd's not gonna know what hit them.

You see,
what I'm saying is that the crowd's not gonna...

See, y'all m*therf*ckers
don't even know what hit you.

All you got is the mother jokes. You
in Bed-Stuy. Got the mother jokes.

There you go. There you go.

All right. Your f*cking... Your short-ass mother,
m*therf*cker.

I seen your mother's picture. You could
see her feet on the driver's license picture.

How about that? Hit me.

Boom, in your face, m*therf*ckers,
'cause I got a band, too.

I got a band, too.

Oh, yeah.
Then we'll tear them up.

We'll tear them up.

You see, your mother's got an eye here,
here, here and here.

When someone knock on the door,
she looks in the peephole and say,

"Who is it?" Hit me!

That's right,
your ugly-ass mother.

I'll be going on
like this all day long.

That's right.

Your mother got three titties. One for milk,
one for water and other one's out of order.

Hit me.

You see, it's not even
that funny, but with the hit,

it just pushes it over the top.

Nobody has three titties.
That's ridiculous.

One more hit.

Two times.

Three times.

I think we're gonna have
some fun with this one right here.

When I use my mind
I win the race.

I am the moon and the rising sun.

My new sh*t has just begun.

I can take you higher.

I can take you low.

If you were worried about where

I been or who I saw.

Or what club I went to
with my homies.

Baby, don't worry.

Yeah.

Don't worry, don't worry.

You know.

That snake could be that chick
and that rat could be that cool cat.

That's whispering "She trying to play you for a fool,
Black".

If something's on your chest
then let it be known.

See I'm not every five minutes
all on the phone.

And on the topic of trust
It's just a matter of fact.

That people be biting that sh*t
trying to fracture what's intact.

And they'll forever be

I ain't on some
"Oh, I'm a celebrity"

I deal with the real And if it's artificial,
let it be

I seen people caught in love
like whirlwinds.

Listening to their squabbles
and f*cking their girlfriends.

That's exactly the spot
they whole world ends.

Lies come in,
that's where the drama begins.

If you were worried about
where I went or who I saw or.

What club I went to
with my homies, baby.

Yeah.

Shout out, y'all.

If you were worried about where.

If you were worried about where

I went or who I saw or
I went or who I saw or.

What club I went to with my homies Baby,
don't worry.

If you were worried.

About where I been.

Baby, don't worry, don't worry

I take you everywhere.

You know it yet.

When I am faithful to you all.

If you were worried
about where Don't worry

I went or who I saw
About where I been.

What club I went to
with my homies.

Baby, don't worry
You know that you got me.

If you were worried about
where I been or who I saw.

You know got me What
club I went to with my homies.

Baby, don't worry
You know that you got me.

Don't worry about me.

Say what?

Roots crew
up in the place, y'all.

Be-bop, be-dop, yeah.

Brooklyn!

Wah-do-dem,
give it just a little bit.

Go, come on.

Jill Scott, Erykah Badu.

The legendary Roots crew from Philly,
ladies and gentlemen.

Brooklyn!

The party ain't over.

The party is not over.

The Roots
used to hold jam sessions

at this club called Wetlands in
New York City every Sunday night.

So, a lot of the times,
we were... The Roots were the house band.

And Jill would get up
and do something.

Then Talib would be there,
he'd do something.

Then Common would be there
and he'd do something.

And Erykah would be there
and do something.

And Mos would get up,
the same thing, you know.

So, it's not even surprising

that these are the particular
artists that are chosen.

You know, like,
all of us were interacting with each other,

even before
we all had record contracts.

Take my paw, Jill
Write this down.

No I'm not gonna
say it right now.

Tomorrow may never come.

For you or me,
life is not promised.

Tomorrow may never show up.

For you or me,
this life is not promised.

Yeah.

I ain't no perfect man I'm
trying to do the best that I can

with what it is I have.

My name is Dante.

Some people call me Mos Def.
Some people call me other things.

With this mike in my hand.

Even though it's feeding back
and sh*t I'm still gonna come legit.

Put my heart and soul
into it, y'all.

Bed-Stuy, do you feel me?

From where I am
to wherever you are.

I mean it, I mean it, I mean it.

You better hold this very
moment very close to you

8:00 in the p.m., September 18,
2004, happy birthday.

So close to you.

Don't be afraid.

Brooklyn, let it shine, sing.

My Umi said
shine your light on the world.

What'd she say?

Shine your light on the world.

That's what she said,
my Umi said shine your light on the world.

What'd she say? Shine
your light for the world to see.

Break it down.

I put my heart and soul
into this show.

Brooklyn, do you feel me?

Sometimes I don't want
to be bothered.

Sometimes I just want
a quiet life.

Me and my babies Me and my lady.

Sometimes I don't want
to get into no w*r.

Sometimes I don't wanna
be a soldier.

Sometimes I just wanna be Dante.

But Umi said
shine your light on the world.

Shine your light
for the world to see.

My Umi said
shine your light on the world.

Shine it right on the world

I want my people to be free.

That's Fred Hampton Jr.
That's Fred Hampton.

Fred Hampton Jr?
What's up, baby?

Fred Hampton Jr.,
the gentleman that was on camera

not long ago

is a good friend of mine, comrade,
and he's an excellent gentleman.

He's the son of Fred Hampton,

who was a young 18-,
19-year-old Black Panther in Chicago,

working with people in the communities,
in the streets

and the police came
and k*lled him in his bed

with his woman,

and his newborn... His
yet-to-be-born son in his woman's belly.

Which is Chairman Fred
over here.

Free all political prisoners.
Don't edit that.

Don't cut that. Make
sure you put that on there.

Free all political prisoners.

Make sure that on there.
Don't edit. Don't cut it.

In the raw, no mix, no segue.

Free Mumia Abu-Jamal,
Sundiata Acoli and all political prisoners.

Free the New York Three. Don't edit
that. Make sure they go there. Uncut.

Tell it, Fred Hampton.

Right on. Right on. Heads up,
eyes open and fists clenched.

Heads up, eyes open
and fists clenched.

Heads up, eyes open,
fists clenched.

Look here, right on.
Say, "Power to the people."

Power to the people.

Right on. We sense a lot of
talk going around about terrorism.

We say black people are the O. V. S,
the original victims of terrorism.

We say political prisoners
are victims of terrorism.

We say our position is
"Free them all."

We say, those soldiers in Attica,
free them all.

What's the call? Free them all.

Mumia Abu-Jamal. Free them all.

Sundiata Acoli. Free them all.

Ruchell Cinque Magee!
Free them all.

The New York Three.
Free them all.

Man, we say,
free all political prisoners and prisoners of w*r.

Power to the people.
Free them all.

To be free, to be free
To be free, to be free.

To be free, to be free
To be free, to be free.

To be free.

To be free.

Break it down.

To be free, to be free.

All right, listen.

We're going to settle this
racial sh*t right now.

We're playing these
white people for our freedom.

"Can Dave Chappelle ball?"

No, I can't ball,
m*therf*cker. What do you mean, can I ball?

Y'all missed it.

You was reloading the camera,
I was all the way on the other court.

Tell them what I did.
They'll never believe me.

All right, here I am.
Okay, look. This is me.

I'm all the way back, I dribble,
get my confidence, aim, fire.

What's up?

Oh, sh*t!

We go through episodes like
att*ck of the Clones.

Work till we break our back and
you hear the cr*ck of the bone.

To get by, just to get by
Just to get by, just to get by.

We asking why some people
got to live in a trailer

'Cause like a sailor I paint a
picture with the pen like Norman.

Mi abuela raised three daughters all by herself,
with no help

I think about her struggle
and I find the strength in myself.

These words melt in my mouth
They hot like the jail cell in the South.

Before my n*gga Core
Bailed me out.

To get by, just to get by
Just to get by, just to get by.

We do or die like Bed-Stuy
through the red sky.

Out the window of the red eye.

Let the lead fly
on some G Rap sh*t.

This morning I woke up.

Feeling brand new
and I jumped up.

Feeling my highs, and my lows.

In my soul, and my goals.

And tried to stop smoking
and stop drinking.

And I've been thinking
I've got my reasons.

Just to get by, just to get by
Just to get by, just to get by.

Just to get by, just to get by.

Tell them, Kweli.

We keep it gangster, say "for shizzle,
" "for sheezy" and "staying crunk".

It's easy to pull a breezy,
smoke trees, and we stay drunk.

Yo, our activism
attacking the system,

the blacks and Latins in prison.

Numbers have risen They
reach us like inner vision.

sh*t and all they got
is rapping to listen to.

Let them know we missing you
Love is unconditional.

Even when the condition is
critical When the living is miserable.

Your position is pivotal,
I ain't bullshitting you.

Now, why would I lie?

Try to get by, just to get by.

We can't fly See,
the TV got us reaching for stars.

Not the ones
between Venus and Mars,

the ones that be
reading for parts.

People get breast enhancements
and penis enlargements.

Saturday sinners Sunday
morning at the feet of the Father.

They need something to rely on
We get high on all types of drug.

All you really need
is love to get by.

Just to get by, just to get by
Just to get by, just to get by.

Like John Lennon
"Imagine all the people".

Watch me rock
like Paul McCartney

from now
until the last Beatle drop.

This morning I woke up.

Feeling brand new and jumped up.

Feeling my highs and my lows.

In my soul and my goals.

Just to stop smoking,
stop drinking.

But I've been thinking
I've got my reasons.

Just to get by, just to get by
Just to get by, just to get by.

One more time!

Some people cry Some people try.

Just to get by,
for a piece of the pie.

We love to eat and get high.

We deceive and we lie,
and we keeping it fly.

When people decide
to keep a disguise.

You can't see them
We see the evil inside.

The best people you find.

Strong or feeble in mind
I stay reading the signs.

Yo, yo, yo, yo, I get by.

Just to get by.

I love y'all, Brooklyn.
I love y'all. Word up.

Talib Kweli, Brooklyn,
New York City.

Black Star Embassy
is in the building.

Brooklyn, do you feel
good tonight?

I know I do.

What do you think of
rock music and hip-hop?

Well, personally,
I am for classical music.

I play the piano.
I want to play.

And I wish to marry, when I die,
Sergei Rachmaninoff.

I am terribly in love with him.

Thank you. Over my dead body.

Well, it would have to be,
wouldn't it?

I guess so, Arthur.
That's very normal.

You know,
I don't like rap music.

Because rap music composes
a lot of foul language,

and I don't think
it's proper for children.

I don't even think
it's proper for adults either

to be using that type
of language.

Hey, Mos. Hey, Dave.

You know,
I was in the public restroom the other day... It's a long story.

This guy was peeing
in the urinal next to me,

I didn't look or nothing,
but I couldn't help but notice.

His d*ck was so small...

How small was it, Dave?

He peed on his balls.

All day, babe.
We could do this all day long.

All day long.

All right. One more.

This is as dirty as it's gonna get. All the kids,
plug your ears.

Ready? Here we go.

Hey, Mos. Hey, Dave.

Did I ever tell you the one
about the industrious prost*tute?

No, I don't believe you did.

Well, it's a funny story.

She actually had a vag*na
surgically implanted in her hip.

Oh, my God. Yeah.

So she could make some money
on the side.

Oh, it goes on like this
for days and days and days.

We just tell straight jokes.
That's it, we'll k*ll them.

All right, everybody, listen up.

Listen up, there's been
some technical difficulties.

Listen, I'm gonna tell you
what happened.

As you all know,

we were expecting to have
Lauryn Hill close the show.

Unfortunately,

Columbia Records would
not clear any of her songs.

Lucky for us,

Lauryn Hill came up
with an alternative solution.

Ladies and gentlemen,
make some noise for a miracle.

The Fugees.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Black Star Jack Bush.

Put your hands up,
get your hands up.

One, two, three,
put your hands up.

Get your hands up,
get your hands up.

Get your hands up.

Hold on, hold on,
hold on, hold on.

Yo, Mona Lisa.

Can I get a date on Friday
And if you're busy

I wouldn't mind taking Saturday.

Round up the posse
Fugee comin' around the way.

Nappy heads in the zone
And we ain't going home.

Put your hands in the air
right now.

I've been waiting for this sh*t!

Yo! A cheeba cheeba, y'all
Well I'm a Libra, y'all.

Yes, yes, y'all,
and it don't stop.

A cheeba cheeba y'all,
well I'm a Libra y'all.

Yes, yes, y'all, let's Yo.

You wanna battle swing I bring
commanding men like I was king.

In all your dreams I write the
horror flick of Stephen King.

Cling to false also
those papers say ock

I got tired of the fat lady
So I sing to my own opera.

Ba-lang-balang-balang -
To-de-man-de-rock 'cause I love thee.

If you live by the sword
you will be die by the g*n

'Cause all guys tell lies
and poor girls commit sin

I was ordered the code red but
now I'm chillin' with A Few Good Men.

Assassination on the kid
from the capital

I never played a soap opera
Now I'm in General Hospital.

Condition critical
Spirit overrules the physical.

So if I die,
catch me at the funeral

I'll fly away, oh glory
With a mike in my hand.

To a land where only And the
angels write raps on holy paper

I said I'm lookin' for Jesus
He said take the escalator.

One flight up is guaranteed
I'll be there.

My sister'd be there I want
to see everybody like this.

Yo, Mona Lisa.

Stop, Brooklyn!

Yo!

Ladies and gentlemen,
Lauryn Hill!

Yo, I don't puff blunts
so I always got my breath.

Never had to battle
with a bulletproof vest.

They call me cock-weasel
but I still cave a chest

I don't wear Jheri curls
'cause I'm not from the West.

No disrespect to the West,
true indeed

I rock it to the East,
the East is the seed, yo.

To see that them days back
Yo, sheepskins and Hot Tracks.

Peace to Mr. Magic
Things are getting tragic.

Now we on some new stuff.

Ku Klux, whatcha gonna do.

Kids are actin' oh.

Yeah, put your hands up.
Lauryn Hill's in the building.

Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey.

Praswell, where you at? Come on.

Hey, yo, a battle is a battle
but a battle's not a battle.

If it's...
If your snake doesn't rattle

'Cause my style,
it's old as a reptile.

As new as a new Nile
As new as a new child.

Come follow me
to the land of Abraham.

This land's your land,
this land's my land.

The blacker the black man
The better the next man.

Yo,
some nappy heads need to check they necks for red.

Brother, let me
ask you something.

When you got the word

that the Fugees
is coming back together to...

I didn't believe it.

I didn't believe it 'cause... You know,
what happened is, I got a call.

Yo, I said, "Fugee what?"

I said, "Who is this?"

Then I got a call from Clef.

And you know,

I still don't know
the science on it.

I mean, you know, both of us,
speaking for both of us,

yo, it's like, when we see Lauryn,
you know what I'm saying?

It's like, we just, like, speechless,
you know what I mean?

Yeah. 'Cause she was singing.

k*lling Me Softly last night.

She was like...
We was just like,

"God damn, she's a beast."

Like, I'm a fan. I mean, yeah, you know,
me and Clef went through our little bullshit.

Well, people go through that.
You know what I'm saying?

But I think, like they say,
to err is human, but to forgive is divine.

You know what I'm saying? So...

We just came together.

'Cause I'm a fan
of both Clef and Lauryn.

Even though I'm a part of the group,
I'm a fan of them,

and when she started singing
k*lling Me Softly,

I almost wanted to cry.

Strumming my pain
with his fingers.

Singing my life.

With his words.

k*lling me softly with his song.

k*lling me softly

with his song.

Telling my whole life

with his words.

k*lling me softly

Lauryn!

With his song.

I heard he sang a good song, yes.

And I heard that he had a style.

And so I came to see him.

And listen for a while.

And there he was.

This young boy

singing

straight and strong.

Strumming my pain
with his fingers.

Singing my life with his words.

He was k*lling me softly
with his song.

k*lling me softly

with his song.

Telling my whole life

with his words.

k*lling me softly

with his song.

Yo!

What, what?

I heard he had a style.

Come on.

And so I came to see him.

And listen for a while
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

And there he was, this young boy.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

A stranger to my eyes Check it.

Strumming my pain
with his fingers.

One time.

Singing my life with his words.

Two time Yeah, yeah.

k*lling me softly with his song.

k*lling me softly

with his song.

Telling my whole life Yeah, yeah

with his words.

k*lling me softly Yeah, yo.

Softly with his song.

Yo, L-Boogie,
take it to the bridge.

Yeah, yeah.

Sing it Oh, yeah.

Where y'all been?

What'd you...
You said, where I've been?

You see, that's where I've been.

See, that's where I've been.

Yeah. You see where I've been?

Yeah, the first day
that we rehearsed, it was...

You know, it was familiar.

You could feel why... You know.

Why we had made music together
in the first place.

'Cause there was a certain
synergy at the time.

You know, I was... I came from
the straight-up suburbs,

you know, of South Orange,
New Jersey. You know, I went to,

you know, a school that was
probably like 75 percent...

White... white, middle-class,
Jewish, you know.

And from,

you know, hardworking parents.
And I went to school

and met Pras first,
who had known my brother.

And he introduced me to Wyclef.

I remember the first
studio sessions.

I guess Pras was paying for some place,
this other studio at East Orange.

And I walked in,

and we were recording the song,
and then Wyclef shows up.

And that was like, you know,
much earlier times.

So he had on this big,
velvet crown, you know.

This is around the time... Remember
when everything was Batman?

Big Batman buttons. Y'all
didn't do that down south?

Okay, well,
a few people did that. Okay.

But he had on these
patent leather boots

with these big

police badge things
on the boots,

with his pants tucked in,
with a velvet hat.

And he came in and he started...

He started doing like,
some real like Jamaican-type patois.

So for like the first five
years that I knew them,

I had no idea they were Haitian.

You know, I thought t hey were Jamaican. 'Cause they just,
you know...

You know, they talk like that.

What would you do
if you was president?

If I was president,
I would stop the w*r.

I would provide, like,
a whole lot more people

with job opportunities.

I would give everybody in this
band that need it scholarships.

I would... Amen.

All right.

Right there! Scholarships!

Yo, what would you do
if you was president, thug?

I'd give, like, everybody,
like, more scholarships

that who needed them.

She said scholarships
already, man.

Don't be biting what she said.
Financial aid. For who needs it.

What was that word,
"financial aid"? Yeah.

'Cause my dude Matlock
had to go back,

and I wish he was still here.

That's what it is. So we're
gonna do this song right here.

If I was president

I'd get elected on Friday.

Assassinated on Saturday.

Buried on Sunday.

Then go back to work on Monday.

If I was president.

If I was president.

If I was president Yeah, yeah.

Instead of spending
billions on the w*r.

We can use that money.

So we can feed the poor

'Cause I know someone
in Flatbush.

When it rains,
that's when they shower.

Screaming "fight the power".

That's when the vulture devours.

If I was president

I'd get elected on Friday.

Assassinated on Saturday.

Buried on Sunday.

Then go back to work on Monday.

If I was president.

If I was president.

If I was president.

Boom!

It's good to see all these black people
in college. You know what I'm saying?

And listen, man,
I'm gonna tell y'all like this.

Don't blame the white man for nothing. Get yours,
you understand?

I came to this country,
I ain't know how to speak English.

I made something of myself.
I went to the library.

English is like my third language. I
just learned how to speak English.

So the thing about all of that, "Yo,
the white man responsible for that"...

White man
ain't responsible for sh*t.

They got libraries in the 'hood.

And if they don't got
libraries, tell your mayor,

your governor, whoever,
in your county,

to put some m*therf*cking
libraries in the 'hood.

I know what the camera's saying.
I shouldn't be cursing to you kids,

but this sh*t is all over
the Internet anyway.

Holy sh*t!

Excuse my language.

Man, listen.

There's nothing we can't do.

Let's all go from here, man,
and try to do some good.

God bless you all. Thank
you for letting me come here.

Thank you, all the artists,
for being here.

We shook up the world.

We shook up the world!

Good night. God bless you.

You know what? I'm gonna tell you right now,
I'll never forget this.

This is the best single day
of my career.

I'm proud. I'm so happy.
Thank you.

Thank you for sharing it
with me, ma'am.

Hey, my pleasure.

Thank you
for letting us be here.

My pleasure.

Come back.
Oh, I'll be back, Luz.

You haven't seen the last of me.

I don't want to see...

Though we are
parting ways, remember this.

We shall come around.

To touch eyes again.

Love is the foundation.

The purpose be to recycle life.

The promise shall bring
us to one

b*ating heart in the end.

Everybody was so down-to-earth,
and just hung out

and gave us their time.
We had a good time.

Say something to my mom,
real quick.

Mama. Hold on one second.
Your son's smoking cr*ck.

Put that pipe down.
What are you doing?

And it doesn't matter
who you are, what you are,

what you've come from,
you can do what you want.

'Cause all of those people out there,
they're celebrities, they're in high places,

but they're regular,
just like me.

They was happy
to see me doing my work

like I'm happy
to see them doing theirs.

You see an opportunity,
just seize it.

Like Eminem say,
you only got one time.

Don't miss your opportunity.

We're going on another long trip,
another long voyage.

Hope y'all end up
riding with us.

Look like it's going to be
a little drier today, though.

Talking about love.

God-given love, God-given love.

I also have a number
that's a blues number.

Would you like to hear it?

You just play some, like...

Yeah, some Muddy Waters.
Yeah, just like that.

All right, but here's
the fun part of the bit,

is everybody can sing a verse.

I woke up this mornin'.

About quarter of four.

Went back to sleep.

Then I woke up at 8:00.

Went back to sleep again.

Then I woke up at 2:00

'Cause I'm a comedian.

And I ain't got sh*t to do.

Oh, yeah, baby.

And then it goes down.

I've got them comedy blues.

Come on. Give me some
of those horns, man.

I just hang out all day, baby

'Cause I ain't
got sh*t else to do.

Right, now listen.

What kind of blues musician
would I be

if I didn't talk sh*t
over the music for you?

And then I just
tell a whole story.

My baby left me.

My car broke down.

I lost $20

and it can't be found

I got issues.

That's right, I'm mad as sh*t.

That's right,
I got more problems than I can count.

That's why I say, "f*ck it".

That's right.

One two, one two.

Get crunk, what it is.

Brooklyn.

If you know this sh*t, say it.

It's bigger than.

Huh? What? Say it.

Hip-hop, hip.

It's bigger than.

Say it, say it
What it bigger than?

Say it, say it
What it bigger than?

What it bigger than?
Look, look, look.

One thing about music,
when it hit you feel no pain.

White folk say
it controls your brain

I know better than that.

That's game
and we ready for that.

Two soldiers head of the pack.

Matter of fact, who got the gat.

And where my army at.

Rather att*ck and not react.

Got the b*at, it don't reflect
on how many records get sold.

Want sex, dr*gs,
and rock and roll.

Whether your project
gets put on hold.

In the real world,
we just people with ideas.

They just like me and you when
the smoke and camera disappear.

Out in the real world,
it's bigger than all these fake-ass records.

When poor folks got the millions
and my sisters get respect.

If you check,
one two My word of advice to you is just relax.

Just do what you got to do.

If that don't work
then check the facts.

If you're a fighter, writer, biter,
flame-igniter, crowd-exciter.

Or you wanna just get high,
then just say it.

But then if you a liar,
liar, pants on fire

wolf-crier, agent with a wire

I'm gonna know it when I see it We ready,
say it.

Say it, say it Hip-hop, hip.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

What it bigger than?

It's bigger than hip-hop,
hip-hop, hip-hop.

Bigger than.

Who sh*t 2Pac? If we don't get them,
they gonna get us all

I'm down for running up on
them crackers in the city hall.

We rhyme for y'all,
all my dawgs, stay real.

n*gga, don't think
your record deal

gonna feed your seeds
and pay your bills.

Because they're not.

MCs get a little bit of love
and think they're hot.

Talking about
how much money they got.

n*gga, all your records
sound the same

I'm sick of that fake thug,
R&B rap scenario.

All day on the radio.

Same scenes in the video.

Monotonous material.

Y'all don't hear me, though.

You record labels
sling our tapes like dope.

You could be next in line
and signed

and still be writing rhymes
and broke.

You rather have a Lexus
or justice?

A dream or some substance?

A Beemer, a necklace or freedom?

See, a n*gga like me
don't player-hate

I just stay awake.

This real hip-hop
and it don't stop.

Till we get them crackers
off our block.

They call it hip-hop,
hip-hop, hip-hop.

It's bigger than.

What it bigger than?
What it bigger than?

It's bigger than hip-hop.

What it bigger than?
What it bigger than?

It's bigger than hip-hop.

Hip-hop, hip-hop.

D.P.'s got that crazy sh*t.

We keep it crunked up.

John Blaze and sh*t.

D.P.'s got that crazy sh*t.

We keep it crunked up.

John Blaze and sh*t.

My n*gga, D.P.'s got
that crazy sh*t.

We keep it crunked up.

John Blaze and sh*t.

What?

D.P.'s got that crazy sh*t.

We keep it crunked up.

One more time.

D.P.'s got that crazy sh*t.

We keep it crunked up.

Young ones

I'm waiting in line.

Someone is trying to find.

Yeah, yeah.

Young upstarts
are gonna get in free.

Just to see how good it sounds.

Out under the clouds.

Out in the streets.

They're willing to run
to share their belief.

Because we've come too far

to blow out now.

Wake up, folks.

No one tomorrow
is gonna be found.

Nowhere, y'all looking away
from the crowd

'Cause love is in our hearts
Yeah.

And it's in our shoes.

Don't you talk like me
Don't you fake my sound.

Get up off the ground
Get up on your feet.

Because we're the ones

you've been looking to see.

And we've come too far

to blow out now.

Yeah, yeah, yeah,
yeah, yeah, yeah