01x02 - What Are They Up Against

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♪ Let's go for a walk through the park ♪

A bit, um, sexist, it seems,
the male rappers.

Do you think that's true?

Yeah, they are very sexist.

♪ I'm Shante, I'm… ♪

♪ My name is Yo-Yo, I'm not a… ♪

♪ I like to flow so swift
It's got to be a gift ♪

♪ So, yo, let the beat lift ♪

♪ As I rip and rhyme and rap
And slap all the girls who can't adapt ♪

♪ To the fact
I hit the eight ball often… ♪

♪ The def city girls ♪

♪ Def, def, the def city girls
Are who we be… ♪

♪ The devastating
Fascinating, cold MCs… ♪

What's it like being the only woman rapper
in this group? Do you love it?

Oh yeah, I definitely love it.

But, um, at the same time,
it can have its negative sides, you know?

Lot of stress.

♪ Ike and Tina, Marie and Donny ♪

♪ Ashford & Simpson, Clyde and Bonnie… ♪

♪ Got me a down girl on my team ♪

♪ Yeah! The Bonnie and Clyde team!
Got me a down… ♪

♪ See me on the block
With the chromed-out drop ♪

♪ Lambskin head to toe
Bustin' out my halter top ♪

♪ "Tight" rippin' through the hood
Blow up the spot ♪

♪ With the system, TV, all mine, easy! ♪

…two, one, zero…

♪ Black chick with intellect
Who wanna match wits? ♪

♪ Write my own rhymes
So can't no n*gg*s tell me jack sh*t… ♪

Did I mention
that I write all my own rhymes?

Does that count for something?
I write all my own rhymes, okay?

I need to, you know, retract,

be by myself, and write.

I am who I am because I am who I am.
You see?

I don't have to go in a room
with a bunch of men--

-Nicki--
-To cre--

To create my sound, my image, my anything.

I am who I am.
Take it or f*cking leave it.

In other hip-hop news,

equality between men and women
can be achieved in different ways,

and the latest performers in the rap world
trying to level the playing field

are Lil' Kim and Foxy Brown.

My rhymes and my songs

are totally different from the Latifahs
and the Yo-Yos and the MC Lyte.

It's like a new era.

Their latest solo albums

can either be interpreted
as genuine musings on money and sexuality

or just attempts to sell records
by explicit exploitation

that degrades both artist and listener.

I think as far as being a woman,

you have to understand
it's never gonna be that way

where you can probably get away
with things that a guy can get away with.

Lil' Kim, I started reading
some lyrics here.

"How you like it, baby?
From the front, from the back?"

"Give that beep a smack."

"Bet your man won't do it like that."

"Can't work the middle
'cause his thing is too little."

The only difference between
your calendar and a typical porn calendar

is that you have your clothes on.

It's my image. If people
didn't see this on me, they wouldn't…

they probably would walk past me
if I walked around in jeans and sneakers.

This poster of me
ain't any different than a model.

What makes me any different than Madonna?

I mean, these is people
who have a lot of publicity around us.

I think that's their prerogative.

If they're comfortable like that
and used to being that way,

and they're true to themselves,
more power to them.

♪ Your honor, I'm a freak b*tch
Handcuffs, leashes ♪

♪ Switch my wig
Make him feel like he cheating ♪

♪ Put him on his knees
Give him some' to believe in ♪

♪ Never lost a fight
But looking for a beating ♪

♪ In the food chain
I'm the one that eat ya ♪

♪ If he ate my a*s
He's a bottom feeder… ♪

♪ Yeah, you f*cking
With some wet a*s p*ssy… ♪

Snoop Dogg says he wishes
the ladies kept some things private.

That's your… the jewel of the Nile.

That's what you should hold onto.

That should be a…

a possession that no one
gets to know about

until they know about it.

♪ Drip, drip ♪

♪ I need a hard hitter
I need a deep stroke ♪

♪ I need a Henny drink
I need a weed smoker ♪

♪ Not a garden snake
I need a king cobra with a hook in it… ♪

One of the greatest political, cultural,
gender controversies of our time,

depending on whom you ask,
is about a song.

"Yeah, you effing
with some wet a*s p-word."

It's garbage.

Disgusting to the point
that I turned it off.

"P word" is female genitalia.
And it gets significantly more vulgar.

Like, a… a lot more vulgar.

♪ Ain't gotta f*ck him for a thang ♪

♪ He already made his mind up
Before he came… ♪

As rappers, we talk about the same sh*t.
Know what I'm saying?

And it's a lot of women empowerment.

Don't sh**t her down.
We never had this many artists…

female artists running this sh*t.

I don't like women with my complexion.
I like light-skinned women.

I want you to be lighter than me.

I love African-American women,
but I just don't like my skin complexion.

♪ I'm about to be at the tippy top
Keep 'em all on they tippy toes ♪

♪ I am not one of the pretty hoes ♪

♪ b*tches with a*s, I'll certainly gas
We gon' see how far pretty goes… ♪

♪ Keep it a buck
Opinions worth a penny won't change me ♪

♪ Basically, I've been out here
Fending for myself ♪

♪ Bending over backwards… ♪

♪ Ready or not, here I come
You can't hide… ♪

♪ Ready or not, here I come! ♪

-♪ And make you want me ♪
-♪ Yo ♪

♪ Yo, I play my enemies
Like a game of chess ♪

♪ Where I rest
No stress if you don't smoke sess… ♪

♪ L been this way since creation ♪

♪ A groupie call
You fall from temptation… ♪

♪ You might win some
But you just lost one… ♪

And the album of the year is

The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill.

Lauryn Hill.

Yes!

This is crazy
'cause this is hip-hop music…

♪ Who's that makin' that funky noise? ♪

♪ It's Da Brat-tat-tat-tat
Bustin' out on that a*s ♪

♪ Fa all y'all, fa all y'all ♪

-♪ Hey, hey ♪
-♪ You don't hear me though ♪

♪ Who's that makin' that funky noise? ♪

♪ It's like that, it's like that
It's Da Brat ♪

-♪ Fa all y'all, fa all y'all ♪
-♪ Hey, hey ♪

♪ Self destruction! ♪

♪ Funky fresh, dressed to impress
Ready to party… ♪

♪ Funky fresh, dressed to impress
Ready to party ♪

♪ Money in your pocket
Dying to move your body… ♪

♪ To get inside, you paid a whole $10 ♪

♪ Scotch taped
With a razor blade taped to your collar ♪

♪ Leave the g*ns
The crack and the knives alone ♪

♪ Hey! MC Lyte's on the microphone… ♪

-♪ The Mac Dad'll make ya ♪
-♪ Jump, jump! ♪

-♪ Daddy Mac'll make ya ♪
-♪ Jump, jump! ♪

♪ Coming straight from the 60644 ♪

♪ It's Da Brat and JD, big baby ♪

♪ So lay back and listen
As I catch up on my pimping ♪

♪ And freak this duet ♪

♪Just like Ashford and Simpson
'Cause I'm… ♪

-♪ Yeah. Check it out. Say what? ♪
-♪ So, so, so… ♪

♪ Switches like Eric
On the solo creep for yo Jeep ♪

♪ It's Da B-R-A-T… ♪

♪ Sing it! ♪

-♪ Say what? Say what? ♪
-♪ What? What? ♪

Y'all gotta give it up for Da Brat.
Make some motherfuckin' noise!

The first solo female to go platinum.

♪ Whateva, whateva! ♪

♪ Yeah, see, Rem is a monster ♪

♪ Officially a Boogie Down Bronxer ♪

♪ Terror Squad ain't the Brady Bunch
And I ain't Marcia ♪

I ain't on the come up no more.

Like, I'm officially the queen.
Like, I got the crown.

If I don't like you,
don't f*ck with you, you not gonna ride.

Like, can't beat us,
can't join us. Like, plain and simple.

I'm sure everybody has heard
Kim was convicted of perjury,

and it's a year and a day
that you got sentenced?

♪ Two years, no album
No solo single, no tour ♪

♪ Three million followers
And got two BET awards ♪

♪ Got the album of the summer
Independent and the sh*t popped ♪

♪ Legitimized the entire franchise
Of Love & Hip Hop… ♪

Welcome back to 106 & Park.

This is the moment that hip-hop fans
around the world have been waiting for.

Remy Ma is here.

Hey, look, first and foremost,

welcome home. You understand me?

Thank you. Thank you so much.

Four, three, two, one…

Remy!

♪ Perp, we kickin' it
Birkin on that back ♪

♪ Breaking barriers, captain of the step ♪

♪ We didn't hit the strip and that ♪

♪ Dodged 'em anyway
Dipped them wills today ♪

♪ Cranked another buck
Scooped the neighborhood ♪

♪ Run up in the club
Calling all your bluff ♪

♪ Perp, we chokin' on it
In the streets ♪

♪ Clean backseat rollin' up
OG like me ♪

♪ Knock 'em out, knock 'em out ♪

♪ Run it up, burn a bag ♪

♪ Gots to keep pushin'
Like you ain't never heard of me ♪

♪ We still Gucci
I'm gon' keep playin' the hoochie ♪

♪ Knock 'em out, knock 'em out ♪

♪ Run it up, burn a bag ♪

♪ Have a cop that see the burn
And that smell like through the tree ♪

♪ I'm like here is a…
And let's cut this like a dream ♪

♪ Brothers that k*ll each other
They run for cover ♪

♪ Shootin' and robbin' and duckin' n*gg*s
They don't give a f*ck ♪

♪ And I'mma keep a low key criminal
Except my tongue ♪

♪ Just see me comin' ♪

♪ Follow your heart if you want
Another shot at living on they streets ♪

♪ My mother banging off the… ♪