01x01 - Shaping Hip-Hop

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♪ Fast, I'm coming in fast, uh-huh ♪

♪ First place, you coming in last… ♪

♪ I'm hitting that, hitting that gas… ♪

♪ I'm hitting that gas… ♪

♪ Women been leading the way
Since Roxanne Shante… ♪

♪ To the beat that makes you wanna rap
C'mon, Rockwell, cut out the crap ♪

♪ And when you get on the mic
To start the rap ♪

♪ And let everybody know
You can never be the wack… ♪

♪ I am the one with the most unique
The Funky 4 got rhymes galore ♪

-♪ I'm the best ♪
-♪ Sha-Rock… ♪

♪ I said-a hip, hop, the hippie
The hippie to the hip hip hop ♪

♪ You don't stop
Rock it to the bang-bang boogie… ♪

I says, "What is this?"

♪ I said-a hip, hop, the hippie… ♪

♪ Now, what you hear is not a test
I'm rapping to the beat… ♪

♪ Everybody go hotel… ♪

♪ Dance, get up and get with this ♪

♪ Shante is here
To take care of business ♪

♪ 'Cause Shante don't lose no battle ♪

♪ Beyond a shadow of a doubt
I'll wear a b*tch out ♪

♪ Bet against Shante
You made a bad investment ♪

-♪ 'Cause I'll drop a h* and say ♪
-♪ Next contestant… ♪

And we call on
the poet laureate, Nipsey Russell.

♪ I thought I had it
In the palm of my hand ♪

♪ But, man, oh man
If I was grand, I'd bang Roxanne… ♪

-Is there really a girl, Roxanne?
-Yes, there is.

-Is she as cold as you guys say she is?
-She is.

Did you guys have any luck with her or…?

-No, we didn't.
-No. We wish to.

♪ But stuck-up Roxanne paid me no mind… ♪

Here's Roxanne Shante
and "Roxanne's Revenge."

My favorite and yours,

put your hands together,
welcome fly girl Roxanne Shante.

♪ I give you credit for giving a try
But, Roxanne, suck my d*ck and die ♪

♪ You can't really rap
'Cause you ain't down, b*tch ♪

♪ You not even the talk of the town… ♪

♪ I'm saying some peace
I'm telling you, brother ♪

♪To suck your d*ck
You better tell your mother… ♪

♪ Look at my show footage
How girls be spazzin' ♪

♪ So f*ck I look like
Gettin' back to a has-been ♪

♪ Yeah, I said it! ♪

♪ Hey, you dumb ♪

♪ I'm a bad b*tch, I'm a c**t ♪

♪ And I'll kick that h*… ♪

I love Roxanne from back in the day.
Shante was the realest,

and she was taking on everybody.
Yeah, come on!

♪ All my haters kneel down… ♪

♪ Bad m*therf*cker ♪

♪ I got Louis for my luggage ♪

♪ I need money, so I hustle ♪

♪ This ain't FakeWatchBusta ♪

♪ Ice me out ♪

♪ Ice me out ♪

♪ Ice me out ♪

♪ Ice me the f*ck out… ♪

♪ I've been dancing for a year
And you let me take over… ♪

Right about now,
we about to get into MC Lyte, y'all!

♪ MC, master of creativity ♪

♪ Rapping is the activity ♪

♪ Rhyme is the sport ♪

♪ Let it be taught
That Lyte the MC is takin' no shorts… ♪

Why don't they have Swahili as a language?
Why is it always French and Spanish?

♪ Yo, this beat is stupid fresh ♪

♪ Oh yeah, you know it
Cold dissed Doug Fresh… ♪

You don't expect females to be so rough
and so aggressive, you know.

♪ In elementary
Lyte had the Jordache look ♪

♪ Like me and any other kid
Who cared about books ♪

♪ But then I got wise
And I begin to listen ♪

♪ To the wack teachers
And the wick-wack system ♪

♪ My mother put me in Weusi Shule ♪

♪ Which means "Black school" in Swahili ♪

♪ And there is where
I learned Black history ♪

♪ And how to be the best that I can be… ♪

♪Just like a test
I cram to understand U… ♪

♪ Because I'm gonna strip you
Of your peace of mind… ♪

♪ I met him in the club
Hanging out one night… ♪

♪ When the MCs came
To live out their name ♪

♪ Inscribed in the halls
And the walls of fame ♪

♪ Balancing life
Wrote both the yin and the yang ♪

♪ Hands bury the man
And they raised the son, Lorraine… ♪

♪ I must be a criminal ♪

♪ Keep your talkin' minimal ♪

♪ 'Cause most of it's subliminal
And it'll put you in a critical ♪

♪ Used to be invisible
They would refer to me as mythical ♪

♪ Sipping Mastika, I sip it slow
Not on my level, not on your tippy-toes… ♪

♪ I'm coming at ya neck
M16, Desert Eagle, put it on you… ♪

-Hello there.
- Hey, yo.

Let them know your name.

My name's Tierra!

♪ They coppin' me sloppily ♪

♪ Please approach me properly
Property, used to be poverty ♪

♪ Now, I'm taking your money
Like robberies ♪

♪ You're damn wrong if you think… ♪

♪ My flow was chocolatey
I'm guaranteed a record deal ♪

♪ On top near Lauryn's Hill ♪

♪ (You whack) How Tierra feel ♪

♪ Ill ♪

♪ Rappin' is my destiny
Especially for these hysterectomies ♪

♪ That be testing me
You're deaf to me… ♪

♪ But you know I never go by, yo ♪

-Uh! Yo. Dope.
-What's up?

♪ Never back down
'Cause, n*gga, I'm in front of you ♪

♪ One of a kind
I will never be a double you ♪

♪ D, I, two Zs, forget the L, E ♪

♪ I told him I was the best
Now he is telling me ♪

♪ I was born to perform, born in a storm
Whether I wanna rap for 'em ♪

♪ Formed into a champion
My grandpa got a handyman ♪

♪ Fellas… ♪

♪ Who you calling a b*tch? ♪

-♪ U.N.I.T.Y. ♪
-♪ You gotta let him know ♪

-♪ U.N.I.T.Y. ♪
-♪ That's a unity ♪

-♪ U.N.I.T.Y. ♪
-♪ You gotta let him know ♪

♪You ain't a b*tch or a h*
Here we go… ♪

♪ We gonna funk you right on up ♪

♪ We gonna funk you right on up ♪

♪ I said get up, get up
Get up, get up, get up ♪

♪ Sit back down ♪

Check it out. It's my belief
that we are kings and queens

because we descended
from kings and queens.

Make some noise in here!

♪ Just pump your fist like this
Come on! ♪

♪ Pump your fist like this
Come on! Pump your fist like this… ♪

All the ladies in the house tonight.

♪ Ooh, ladies first, ladies first ♪

♪ Ooh, ladies first, ladies first ♪

♪ U.N.I.T.Y.
That's for unity… ♪

-♪ U.N.I.T.Y. ♪
-♪ You gotta let him know ♪

♪ U.N.I.T.Y.
That's for unity… ♪

♪The time for scared, lip-trembling ♪

♪ Word-changing, self-denying ♪

♪ Compromising, knee-shakin' Black people
Is over… ♪

♪ We are at w*r! ♪

-♪ Come on! ♪
-♪ Black man, where is your army? ♪

You had a… a rap singer here last night
named Sister Souljah.

I'm talking about things
I really care about.

I was in South Central LA
three years before the riots.

Just listen to this.

What she said.

Sister Souljah, are you a r*cist?

You can't call me or any Black person
anyplace in the world a r*cist.

We don't have the power

to do to white people
what white people have done to us.

"And even if we did, we don't have
that lowdown, dirty nature."

"If there are any good white people,
I haven't met them. Where are they?"

Right here in this room.

That's where they are.

Democratic
presidential contender Bill Clinton

has chosen to attack not the issues
but a young African woman.

My, my, how things have changed.

Who would have thought that hip-hop
would ever be heard in this room?

I'm sure y'all
all have heard of James Brown

being referred to
as the Godfather of Soul.

Well, give it up for my mentor,
my inspiration, my all-in-all,

the Godmother of Hip-Hop, MC Lyte.

If you a champion female
in this m*therf*cking building,

if can't no weak-a*s m*therf*cking
clown-a*s m*therf*cking n*gga

bring you the f*ck down,
make some m*therf*cking noise.

- Say her name!
- Breonna Taylor!

-Say her name!
-Breonna Taylor!

What's up, guys? Latto,

and I need y'all to pay attention
to what's going on in this country.

I need everybody in the audience
right now to say,

"My body, my m*therf*cking choice!"

My body, my m*therf*cking choice!

One more time!
My body, my m*therf*cking choice!

My body, my m*therf*cking choice!

Grammy award-winning rapper Cardi B

is one of
the 25 most influential people online,

according to Time Magazine.

I don't really put
a lot of political things in my music,

but I use the f*ck out of my platform.

What type of questions would you like
to ask a Democratic candidate?

Considerable time has been spent

debating whether America
should take seriously

the words of a rap artist.

We constantly see
our men getting k*lled every day,

and it seems like nobody cares.

Nobody's sympathizing.

Nobody's talking about it.

…hanging out with Lil' Kim,
who pulled out all the stops tonight!

I don't know.
I'm just me, man. I just like to have fun.

♪ Don't I look like
A Halle Berry poster? ♪

♪ See the Belvedere
Playing tricks on ya… ♪

They gonna take me to the gas station,

and they gonna take and blow me up
with the air pump at the gas station.

♪ Stick up… ♪

We have Roman.

He's my alter ego.
He says what I can't say.

♪ Better listen very close
'Cause I don't say this every day ♪

♪ My name is Roxanne
And they call me Shante ♪

♪ But every time-a I say a rhyme-a
Just-a like-a this-a ♪

♪ It is something you MCs can't miss-a ♪

♪ Kangol if you think you cute
It's all right ♪

♪ That's why you said it in a language
So you wouldn't have to bite ♪

♪ You started talkin' Pig Latin
Didn't make no sense ♪

♪ You thought you was cute
Yeah, you thought you was a prince ♪

♪ You're walkin' down the block
I'm the one you're gonna clock ♪

♪ But everybody knows
That you're all on my yacht ♪

♪ I'm just the devastatin', always rockin'
Always have the flyboys clockin' ♪

♪ Everybody knows it's me
Yeah, the R-O-X-A-N-N-E… ♪

♪ You know we unstoppable ♪

♪ Take the win, it's probable ♪

♪ Level, level, level, level up ♪

♪ Rebel hot ♪

♪ You know we unstoppable ♪

♪ Take the win, it's probable ♪

♪ Level, level, level, level up ♪

♪ Rebel hot ♪

♪ Take the win, it's probable ♪

♪ Level, level, level, level up ♪

♪ Rebel hot ♪