1 00:00:44,458 --> 00:00:46,418 Who would have guessed it? 2 00:00:47,878 --> 00:00:53,175 I left school on the eighth or ninth grade. 3 00:00:53,258 --> 00:00:56,595 I left school early. 4 00:00:56,678 --> 00:01:03,018 My mom was always worried about me and my brother. 5 00:01:03,101 --> 00:01:09,274 We did not know what we wanted, but we did not want to be negligent. 6 00:01:09,566 --> 00:01:15,531 I did not know what my future would include. 7 00:01:17,407 --> 00:01:22,246 Darkness became a little hint of hope. 8 00:01:29,378 --> 00:01:33,132 My son Nas was born into the world. 9 00:01:33,215 --> 00:01:38,178 I felt that the king was born. 10 00:01:38,262 --> 00:01:42,724 Every rhyme was the best, what I had heard. 11 00:01:42,808 --> 00:01:47,229 10-year-old spoke of God and devil. 12 00:01:47,312 --> 00:01:49,815 Nobody did that. 13 00:01:49,898 --> 00:01:54,695 How many are "Illmatic"? One two Three! 14 00:01:59,950 --> 00:02:03,495 "Illmatic" was a new start for rap. 15 00:02:03,579 --> 00:02:10,335 It was gangster life through poetry. 16 00:02:10,419 --> 00:02:13,547 He was a genius. 17 00:02:13,630 --> 00:02:18,135 The 1994 classic "Illmatic" was prophetic. 18 00:02:18,218 --> 00:02:24,516 He dared talk about the darkness of America's black life. 19 00:02:24,600 --> 00:02:27,978 "Illmatic" is the hip hop change moment. 20 00:02:28,061 --> 00:02:35,068 That record is still one of the best of hip hop for a hundred years . 21 00:02:35,152 --> 00:02:42,326 His lyrics changed the image of MC riddles. 22 00:02:44,953 --> 00:02:47,498 It was honest. 23 00:02:47,581 --> 00:02:54,588 It will always be one of the best albums of all times. 24 00:02:54,671 --> 00:03:00,552 When I did "Illmatic", I tried to make a perfect album. 25 00:03:00,636 --> 00:03:04,098 I tried to get the listeners to experience my life- 26 00:03:04,181 --> 00:03:07,017 to see hip hop in a new way- 27 00:03:07,101 --> 00:03:12,189 and feeling that hip hop was getting more real. 28 00:03:12,272 --> 00:03:15,109 I was showing how the streets felt- 29 00:03:15,192 --> 00:03:19,613 sounded, tasted, and smoked on one disc. 30 00:03:19,696 --> 00:03:26,161 I tried to capture the mood in a way that no one had tried. 31 00:03:56,942 --> 00:04:01,739 When I'm on the way to a concert, I wondered to myself: 32 00:04:01,822 --> 00:04:05,659 "Wow! This is my bread work." 33 00:04:05,743 --> 00:04:12,166 I chose this, this happened, and now I do this regularly. 34 00:04:14,626 --> 00:04:21,800 This is best, what a man from Queens can achieve. 35 00:04:34,897 --> 00:04:37,733 My music did not begin with me. 36 00:04:37,816 --> 00:04:43,447 I'm from the family of musicians and artists. This is in my blood. 37 00:04:45,616 --> 00:04:49,828 That's what I am now, is extension of it, what they were prior to me. 38 00:04:52,665 --> 00:04:58,963 My artistic roots come from Natchez- 39 00:04:59,046 --> 00:05:01,882 Natchez is Mississippi. 40 00:05:24,947 --> 00:05:28,534 My name is Olu Dara. 41 00:05:28,617 --> 00:05:32,746 Nas's father 42 00:05:32,830 --> 00:05:36,917 It means "God is good". 43 00:05:37,001 --> 00:05:44,216 I was born in the USA in Natchez, on the Mississippi River. 44 00:05:44,341 --> 00:05:48,804 It was the heartland of the race separation, where Ku Klux Klan was born. 45 00:05:48,887 --> 00:05:55,019 There were all the time burning crosses. 46 00:05:55,144 --> 00:05:59,064 My father's family were musicians. 47 00:05:59,148 --> 00:06:04,445 My dad and my godfather traveled around the country in the Mellowderes band. 48 00:06:04,570 --> 00:06:10,951 The tribe consists of musicians, artists, teachers farmers and prostitutes. 49 00:06:11,035 --> 00:06:15,247 They all were tops in their field. Never poke down. 50 00:06:15,331 --> 00:06:21,879 Even prostitutes were the best whores. 51 00:06:21,962 --> 00:06:26,675 We did everything at a high level and we did it great. 52 00:06:26,759 --> 00:06:31,472 I was 4 years in naval. 53 00:06:33,349 --> 00:06:35,309 I was released from service at New York where I met Nas's mother. 54 00:06:35,392 --> 00:06:40,481 55 00:06:40,731 --> 00:06:47,613 I was too long, my money ended and I was stuck here. 56 00:06:47,696 --> 00:06:52,993 At the same time Nas and his brother were born. 57 00:06:53,160 --> 00:06:57,456 Their mother and I were difficult. The whole family had. 58 00:06:57,540 --> 00:07:01,877 I started to travel in Europe to make money. 59 00:07:01,961 --> 00:07:05,714 And Nas's mother moved to Queensbridge. 60 00:07:05,839 --> 00:07:11,303 I was worried because it was a tough neighborhood for him and for the kids. 61 00:07:48,465 --> 00:07:52,970 In the 70s there were fathers and mothers, in the 80s there were single mothers- 62 00:07:53,053 --> 00:07:56,140 and in the 90's grandmothers raised the children. 63 00:07:56,223 --> 00:08:01,979 The G.I. Regulation guaranteed to all the possibility of training- 64 00:08:02,062 --> 00:08:07,026 I borrow and reside, so people did not have to live in cities. 65 00:08:07,109 --> 00:08:13,282 Blacks only got a small share of apartments, only 2.1%. 66 00:08:13,365 --> 00:08:18,037 That is why there was a white middle class to which blacks had no access. 67 00:08:18,120 --> 00:08:23,918 Then were built areas for which people packed like sardines. 68 00:08:24,001 --> 00:08:28,589 Down the poverty! Down diseases, crime and fire hazards. 69 00:08:28,672 --> 00:08:35,596 Release the sun and the sky. The USA is about to start a new era. 70 00:08:35,679 --> 00:08:39,141 Thank you very much, Mayor Laguardia. 71 00:08:39,225 --> 00:08:44,480 Historically, the areas were built to the working class regardless of color. 72 00:08:44,563 --> 00:08:50,319 US racial segregation is so blurred, and when blacks came from the south- 73 00:08:50,402 --> 00:08:57,284 and started filling the cities, the whites moved away. 74 00:08:57,368 --> 00:09:04,625 With the white of the cities , money and wealth also disappeared. 75 00:09:15,177 --> 00:09:19,682 Queensbridge seemed to me confused. 76 00:09:19,765 --> 00:09:24,437 It looked like a buried diamond. 77 00:09:24,520 --> 00:09:28,983 I got the chance to be a child at least a little while. 78 00:09:29,066 --> 00:09:34,613 I felt that I had to grow up early to adult to survive my environment. 79 00:09:34,697 --> 00:09:38,409 So early, that my parents were different. 80 00:09:40,411 --> 00:09:44,915 81 00:09:44,999 --> 00:09:50,921 They were good people and they did work. We had a color TV and videos. 82 00:09:51,005 --> 00:09:54,341 We had Carpet and fine stuff. 83 00:09:54,425 --> 00:09:56,969 Some of my friends did not have anything. 84 00:09:57,053 --> 00:10:04,060 They ate rolls, and they did not have furniture. 85 00:10:04,143 --> 00:10:07,188 We always had food. My mother was a good cook. 86 00:10:07,271 --> 00:10:11,484 Everybody wanted to come to us to eat Mrs. Jones's food. 87 00:10:11,567 --> 00:10:18,407 He was happy, and he did not curse or spoke the floor lamp. 88 00:10:18,491 --> 00:10:23,788 If we needed something, he promised to get it for us. 89 00:10:23,871 --> 00:10:29,960 My dad was a library room. There were all sorts of books. 90 00:10:30,044 --> 00:10:36,175 Everything from the Dead Book to Malcolm X. 91 00:10:36,258 --> 00:10:40,763 Sun Tzu and the history of Chinese philosophy. 92 00:10:40,846 --> 00:10:44,266 They came before Columbus, Aisopos's fairy tales. 93 00:10:44,350 --> 00:10:48,437 Afrocentricity, J. A. Rogersin From Superman to Man. 94 00:10:48,521 --> 00:10:54,026 The Bible and Trials and Tribulations of Ghetto Life. 95 00:10:54,110 --> 00:10:59,782 My dad had traveled all over the world with naval and music. 96 00:10:59,865 --> 00:11:04,996 He told me and my brother stories from distant places- 97 00:11:05,079 --> 00:11:10,793 block, neighborhood, New York and the US. 98 00:11:14,922 --> 00:11:20,469 We had xylophone, trumpets, guitars and trunks. 99 00:11:20,553 --> 00:11:26,934 They were toys for me. We used them when their dad was gone. 100 00:11:27,018 --> 00:11:31,314 I thought Nazi would become a good trumpet player. 101 00:11:31,397 --> 00:11:35,818 He played every day with a trumpet with drummers on the street. 102 00:11:35,901 --> 00:11:40,323 I took it away, not lick his lips. 103 00:11:40,406 --> 00:11:46,912 I told her to wait 7 years. He really loved the trumpet. 104 00:11:46,996 --> 00:11:50,708 When he was seven, I gave it back- 105 00:11:50,791 --> 00:11:53,628 but he already had something else. 106 00:11:53,711 --> 00:11:59,425 He woke me every morning in his rhymes. 107 00:11:59,508 --> 00:12:07,016 Because he woke me up, I said, I did not like his rhymes. 108 00:12:07,099 --> 00:12:11,771 He woke me up again and asked: "Is this better?" 109 00:12:11,854 --> 00:12:16,901 I knew he was the best, as soon as I heard him reread. 110 00:12:16,984 --> 00:12:23,282 I had a good friend named Will Graham. 111 00:12:23,366 --> 00:12:26,744 We did music together as a teenager. 112 00:12:26,827 --> 00:12:32,875 Will and I made cassettes and we played them to our friends. 113 00:12:32,959 --> 00:12:35,544 We loved making music. 114 00:12:35,628 --> 00:12:39,590 Will lived in our downstairs. He was like my third son. 115 00:12:39,674 --> 00:12:42,510 He had a different worldview. 116 00:12:42,593 --> 00:12:45,888 Together their minds created an explosion. 117 00:12:45,972 --> 00:12:51,018 We baked and made videos to him. 118 00:12:51,102 --> 00:12:57,149 Once she told the girl on the phone: "I bake and I make videos." 119 00:12:57,233 --> 00:13:03,781 And he started laughing. It sounded soft in his ear. 120 00:13:03,864 --> 00:13:11,080 After that he said the same always on every phone. 121 00:13:12,748 --> 00:13:16,377 He made people laugh. He knew how to have fun. 122 00:13:16,460 --> 00:13:20,673 We were the same. 123 00:13:20,756 --> 00:13:26,846 We did music all the time, but then it was still fun. 124 00:13:40,484 --> 00:13:46,365 Everything was different. We used TR-808 drum machines- 125 00:13:46,449 --> 00:13:49,285 and people liked fun. 126 00:13:49,368 --> 00:13:55,499 The style was new and colorful. It was varied. 127 00:13:55,583 --> 00:14:02,298 In the park, jam. One DJ was my block. DJ Hot Day. 128 00:14:03,090 --> 00:14:09,263 Hot Day was known in the neighborhood. He always had DJ interest. 129 00:14:09,347 --> 00:14:15,478 I tried sometimes to help, when she took her to the park. 130 00:14:15,561 --> 00:14:19,482 There was life. Everything was great and promising. 131 00:14:19,565 --> 00:14:23,528 Only later I started to see degeneration- 132 00:14:23,611 --> 00:14:28,908 and the effect of the substance called the crack . 133 00:14:31,285 --> 00:14:36,082 We fight a drug-free US on behalf of many fronts. 134 00:14:36,165 --> 00:14:40,878 The city started to look crazy. It was sad. 135 00:14:40,962 --> 00:14:47,802 It was not just a gangster thing. Everyone got money from crack. 136 00:14:47,885 --> 00:14:51,806 It was the greatest survival. 137 00:14:51,889 --> 00:14:58,020 The collapse of the middle city economy has created a new drug economy. 138 00:14:58,104 --> 00:15:02,108 Older types saw the opportunity to earn. 139 00:15:02,191 --> 00:15:06,863 It spread everywhere. 140 00:15:06,946 --> 00:15:10,324 I was looking at that page. 141 00:15:11,659 --> 00:15:17,165 I know a dick, who has good stuff You must forget your vacations Insider Information 142 00:15:17,248 --> 00:15:21,127 Big guys dissolve in a woman's stomach As my spirit evaporates. We did not sleep I wanted to convey the picture from New York at night. 143 00:15:21,210 --> 00:15:26,924 There was a gun shot every night. 144 00:15:27,008 --> 00:15:33,389 Pregnant women burned crack. 145 00:15:38,394 --> 00:15:42,982 It is worth $ 100 billion worth of business. 146 00:15:46,736 --> 00:15:51,991 Crack crime is increasing. 147 00:15:52,075 --> 00:15:55,244 Types awaiting robbery in the evening. 148 00:15:55,328 --> 00:15:57,955 We tried to stay away from it all. 149 00:15:58,039 --> 00:16:01,250 150 00:16:01,334 --> 00:16:05,713 151 00:16:05,797 --> 00:16:11,636 Police had to be crazy if they came to the area in the evening. 152 00:16:11,719 --> 00:16:13,513 The atmosphere was electric. 153 00:16:13,596 --> 00:16:18,851 Angles filled with children, who did not see over the head This Game Has Changed Young Apprentice Guns Name 154 00:16:18,935 --> 00:16:24,023 They take the corners Shocking kids in the daytime Weapons always involved The same types sell drugs. 155 00:16:24,107 --> 00:16:29,946 There is an informer Keep the warehouse until prices drop It was a hell to try to survive there with the family. 156 00:16:30,029 --> 00:16:36,035 Especially without help, and we did not have any help. 157 00:16:36,119 --> 00:16:40,373 My parents came to the final break point. 158 00:16:44,252 --> 00:16:48,798 159 00:16:48,881 --> 00:16:52,593 160 00:16:58,808 --> 00:17:03,938 161 00:17:04,022 --> 00:17:11,279 My dad said things, he said his brother. 162 00:17:11,362 --> 00:17:16,951 He said I was a man in the house, and he would not be there anymore. 163 00:17:17,035 --> 00:17:21,330 They had a big dispute, and my dad never came back. 164 00:17:21,414 --> 00:17:26,210 I looked out the window, and mom said she would never return. 165 00:17:26,294 --> 00:17:31,883 He said I should not let Dad in if he came back. 166 00:17:31,966 --> 00:17:37,889 It shocked me a bit, because I was so small. 167 00:17:37,972 --> 00:17:43,227 Mother did not treat me as a child, but spoke to me as an adult. 168 00:17:43,311 --> 00:17:47,065 He assumed that I understood what happened. 169 00:17:47,148 --> 00:17:53,863 Then I realized that it was true, but I'm still looking for a father in the window. 170 00:17:53,946 --> 00:17:58,159 Father never returned. 171 00:17:59,035 --> 00:18:05,375 He moved to Harlem. I went to see her there. 172 00:18:05,458 --> 00:18:08,127 Mom never talked of evil father. 173 00:18:08,211 --> 00:18:14,300 Mother knew that Dad had badly treated her. 174 00:18:14,384 --> 00:18:19,806 He was hard to work and he / she took care of us and my dad. 175 00:18:19,889 --> 00:18:24,102 Father did not always work. Mommy got us all. 176 00:18:24,185 --> 00:18:29,565 Father was talented. We got our talents from him. 177 00:18:29,649 --> 00:18:36,197 Laughter and intelligence came from his side- 178 00:18:36,281 --> 00:18:42,453 but reason came from mother. My mother is already dead. 179 00:18:42,537 --> 00:18:49,043 My dad is still alive. I would like my dad... 180 00:18:49,127 --> 00:18:54,841 I love you, Dad, but I wish, that your mother would have the same praise. 181 00:18:54,924 --> 00:18:58,803 Especially from Nas's achievements and life. 182 00:18:58,886 --> 00:19:03,808 Without a mother, we would not even be here. 183 00:19:11,608 --> 00:19:17,989 I remember that mom sometimes wept and was sad but he hated us, and said everything would be arranged. 184 00:19:18,072 --> 00:19:25,330 They were good moments. We had a beautiful home in the neighborhood. 185 00:19:25,413 --> 00:19:31,586 Our home was mostly good. 186 00:19:31,669 --> 00:19:35,381 187 00:19:35,465 --> 00:19:40,053 We had a lot of love. Mother was very positive. 188 00:19:40,136 --> 00:19:47,227 He was happy and we laughed a lot together. 189 00:19:48,269 --> 00:19:51,522 He wanted me and my brother the best. 190 00:20:06,913 --> 00:20:10,250 I went to this school. 191 00:20:10,375 --> 00:20:14,921 Sometimes someone was shot here early in the morning. 192 00:20:15,004 --> 00:20:19,467 There were fewer police officers here, so the move was hard. 193 00:20:19,551 --> 00:20:24,013 I went to a school that was like a prison. 194 00:20:24,097 --> 00:20:26,891 Here is my school. 195 00:20:31,354 --> 00:20:38,319 In New York, children were not raised as in the south with the whole family. 196 00:20:38,403 --> 00:20:43,324 They did not receive the same kind of love. 197 00:20:43,575 --> 00:20:46,786 When I put my kids in school- 198 00:20:46,870 --> 00:20:50,707 it was like I'd let them know to hell. 199 00:20:50,790 --> 00:20:53,793 It was shocking and it felt bad. 200 00:20:53,918 --> 00:20:59,007 My dad and I grew up in good schools. 201 00:20:59,090 --> 00:21:04,762 But my children came to New York School System. 202 00:21:05,555 --> 00:21:08,474 I first liked school. 203 00:21:09,184 --> 00:21:16,065 I remember good teachers, like Miss Braconi. 204 00:21:16,149 --> 00:21:19,903 Nas was a good student for the first and second classes. 205 00:21:20,028 --> 00:21:27,785 I remember we did a project where children had to make a mask on their faces. 206 00:21:28,161 --> 00:21:33,458 I hung up on the wall and I walked back to look at them- 207 00:21:33,541 --> 00:21:36,085 and Nasir's mask stood out from the others. 208 00:21:36,169 --> 00:21:39,464 He was not happy that day for some reason. 209 00:21:39,547 --> 00:21:44,969 He had captured himself in his picture perfectly. 210 00:21:45,053 --> 00:21:50,767 I thought that boy knew his feelings. 211 00:21:52,602 --> 00:21:56,523 I was trying to put me in low grade in lower grade. 212 00:21:56,606 --> 00:22:00,527 But mom caused the scene and got me out of there. 213 00:22:00,610 --> 00:22:06,783 I had dreams. I wondered what kind of would be in the art school or some other school, who would challenge my talent. 214 00:22:06,866 --> 00:22:13,998 But when growing in the environment - 215 00:22:14,082 --> 00:22:17,043 where taxpayers do not get, there is no funding for schools. 216 00:22:17,127 --> 00:22:24,634 And when schools do not have the money, they get poor education. 217 00:22:24,884 --> 00:22:30,807 218 00:22:30,890 --> 00:22:34,519 People can not find out motivation but they start looking for other, faster ways. 219 00:22:34,602 --> 00:22:39,649 I stopped concentrating and just dreamed. 220 00:22:39,732 --> 00:22:43,361 I was kicked out of junior high school and I changed school. I did not care. 221 00:22:43,445 --> 00:22:50,201 When it was time to start high school, my grades were bad I did not care about it. 222 00:22:50,285 --> 00:22:54,581 I spoke to Vice Rector and Mathematics Teacher. 223 00:22:54,664 --> 00:22:57,792 They said, "The boy is not here." They did not care. 224 00:23:00,670 --> 00:23:05,300 Boys were in my eyes men, because I was a grown-up when I was 13-14 years old. 225 00:23:05,383 --> 00:23:10,388 226 00:23:10,472 --> 00:23:16,519 227 00:23:16,603 --> 00:23:22,400 I told them, "Take work and make money, this is the USA." 228 00:23:22,484 --> 00:23:26,571 "Leave school if you want to do something for your life." 229 00:23:26,654 --> 00:23:30,492 "Focus on your story." I'll support you. " 230 00:23:30,575 --> 00:23:37,290 My mom and my sister played and shouted: "How can you do around?" 231 00:23:38,083 --> 00:23:39,793 I would have hated myself if I had given them to continue in the indifferent school. 232 00:23:39,876 --> 00:23:44,381 Teachers did not care about children. 233 00:23:44,464 --> 00:23:49,302 He said that I should not go to school if she did not learn anything. 234 00:23:53,765 --> 00:23:59,437 I was smarter than teachers. They just stumbled upon us. 235 00:23:59,521 --> 00:24:05,276 236 00:24:05,360 --> 00:24:12,200 The father said that the whole school system stuck to the development of black boys. 237 00:24:12,283 --> 00:24:17,831 He commanded us to read and to teach ourselves what happened. 238 00:24:17,914 --> 00:24:21,710 He knew that we should become entrepreneurs- so he said, we do not need to go to school. 239 00:24:21,793 --> 00:24:24,546 Mother did not agree, but it worked for us. 240 00:24:24,629 --> 00:24:29,718 My mother's worst nightmare was that we should not be in school. 241 00:24:29,926 --> 00:24:35,849 My friends sold drugs, but I just wanted to do it. 242 00:24:35,932 --> 00:24:41,688 I did not want to do it at all. 243 00:24:41,771 --> 00:24:44,733 I did not have to do it. I had great plans. 244 00:24:44,816 --> 00:24:50,572 245 00:24:50,655 --> 00:24:56,202 I did the music and the printer. I made everything artistic. 246 00:24:56,286 --> 00:25:03,001 I went to myself, I did not get that job. 247 00:25:03,084 --> 00:25:09,382 I had passion for creation, and this was Tapani to let it out. 248 00:25:13,637 --> 00:25:20,226 We came here today to start something or to do something crazy. 249 00:25:27,567 --> 00:25:33,031 At that time, Roxanne Shante became known as a racket in that area. 250 00:25:35,450 --> 00:25:40,288 He came once from our apartment house and heard us in the corridor. 251 00:25:40,372 --> 00:25:44,960 Shante said: "I want you to perform." 252 00:25:45,043 --> 00:25:48,213 We had heard about Queensbridge festivals. 253 00:25:48,296 --> 00:25:53,843 He wanted to bring us on stage with his genguin. We talked about it every day. 254 00:25:53,927 --> 00:25:56,554 Shante noticed we were not good. 255 00:25:56,638 --> 00:26:02,352 He asked us to blow up, and we tried. 256 00:26:02,435 --> 00:26:05,188 We started to laugh, because we were bad. 257 00:26:05,272 --> 00:26:10,860 He said: "If this is not right next time, I will cheat you." 258 00:26:10,944 --> 00:26:14,614 He was older and longer, and we believed him. 259 00:26:15,657 --> 00:26:20,870 About 1984 I started playing disks at home in Queensbridge. 260 00:26:20,954 --> 00:26:27,711 I did not play discs or I was in this field for money or some other reason. 261 00:26:27,794 --> 00:26:30,589 I played disks in the window. 262 00:26:30,672 --> 00:26:36,094 If the passers-by did not dance, I would come up with a new rhythm. 263 00:26:36,177 --> 00:26:41,141 Ladies and gentlemen. MC Shan and Marley Marl are here. 264 00:26:41,224 --> 00:26:45,061 They want to tell you where they come from. 265 00:26:45,145 --> 00:26:48,982 I was 11 or 12 years old in 1985. 266 00:26:49,065 --> 00:26:55,739 My friend said that MC Shan was a song from our region. 267 00:27:00,327 --> 00:27:06,791 It should not have been a disk, but temporary music for festivals. 268 00:27:06,875 --> 00:27:12,589 But it spread in Queensbridge and it became a hit there. 269 00:27:12,672 --> 00:27:14,591 The end is history. 270 00:27:14,674 --> 00:27:19,304 You love to hear over and over again how it all started in time 271 00:27:19,387 --> 00:27:26,353 When I heard it I quit everything what I was doing and listened to. 272 00:27:27,854 --> 00:27:30,357 I knew immediately that it was a hit. 273 00:27:30,440 --> 00:27:37,239 We were proud. We had our own song that was played on the radio. 274 00:27:37,322 --> 00:27:42,744 I could not believe they lived here. It was awesome. 275 00:27:42,828 --> 00:27:46,748 We saw Shania in the city and Marley with her car. 276 00:27:46,832 --> 00:27:53,463 Before that song nobody knew from this place. It changed everything. 277 00:27:54,965 --> 00:28:02,597 I went to the south. I liked Shan and I was proud of my living area. 278 00:28:02,681 --> 00:28:09,062 When I came back, everyone spoke from South Bronx. 279 00:28:09,187 --> 00:28:12,858 It was a song, where I was dissatisfied with Shania and Marley. 280 00:28:12,941 --> 00:28:16,570 I had to hear it. 281 00:28:20,073 --> 00:28:25,871 They chased us. They tried to mimic Shania and Marley. 282 00:28:25,954 --> 00:28:32,711 But it was also raw. South Bronx, South South Bronx Great game. 283 00:28:32,794 --> 00:28:35,130 Then Shan released the song "Kill That Noise". 284 00:28:35,213 --> 00:28:38,717 I'm sorry for any style but True freestyle about real stories If you knew the same as me you would put that noise off Then came "The Bridge Is Over". 285 00:28:38,800 --> 00:28:45,682 It cooled down everything. We just thought, "Oh." 286 00:28:45,766 --> 00:28:50,645 "They are so serious." 287 00:28:52,230 --> 00:28:57,736 Bronx creates genuine stuff and Queens but fires 288 00:29:02,866 --> 00:29:07,662 289 00:29:09,081 --> 00:29:10,957 290 00:29:12,834 --> 00:29:18,548 291 00:29:24,846 --> 00:29:29,351 - That was true. - It was a battle and Shan was involved. 292 00:29:29,434 --> 00:29:35,732 Shan made his own story and KRS One of his own until Nas came to the charts. 293 00:29:35,816 --> 00:29:41,655 It was our life. Not just we, but whole Queensbridge. 294 00:29:41,738 --> 00:29:46,785 KRS One sang "The Bridge Is Over". 295 00:29:46,868 --> 00:29:52,708 We grew up there. The Bridge was not really dead. 296 00:29:52,791 --> 00:29:59,339 We had to tell the whole world, how good we were. 297 00:29:59,423 --> 00:30:02,426 "Are you crazy? We are here." 298 00:30:07,931 --> 00:30:14,521 I knew I should either forget wrath or tear it up. 299 00:30:14,604 --> 00:30:16,732 I decided to tear it into pieces. 300 00:30:26,575 --> 00:30:31,747 This is true Every day can be your last here. 301 00:30:31,830 --> 00:30:36,501 Every corner is full of criminals We do not starve at them Tourists should leave Before they encounter reality Peacekeeping police officers try to get us caught. 302 00:30:36,585 --> 00:30:42,341 When I was a kid, I felt like that every day- 303 00:30:42,424 --> 00:30:47,012 was just a step away from the end to end. 304 00:30:47,095 --> 00:30:53,310 I and my friend Will and Bo saw Alien 3 Will did not burn the grass, but we we loved it. It relaxed us. 305 00:30:53,393 --> 00:30:58,273 306 00:31:02,986 --> 00:31:09,201 307 00:31:09,284 --> 00:31:15,791 308 00:31:15,874 --> 00:31:22,923 Will was unpredictable. If someone said the wrong word, Will could hit. 309 00:31:23,256 --> 00:31:28,512 I thought she would relax, if she burned grass. 310 00:31:28,595 --> 00:31:35,769 We watched the movie and Will said: "Give me one." She pulled the hooks. 311 00:31:35,852 --> 00:31:41,566 At home I and Bo we went to buy grass and Will went to the corners. 312 00:31:41,650 --> 00:31:45,070 He raised money for a barbecue party. 313 00:31:45,153 --> 00:31:49,908 He also raised money from drug traffickers. 314 00:31:49,992 --> 00:31:55,038 Someone thought of him as a wrestler and hit him. 315 00:31:55,122 --> 00:32:00,836 He had a big Mercedes medal in the chain and the girl took it. 316 00:32:00,961 --> 00:32:05,507 He was already in the fire after the movie, so he reacts. 317 00:32:05,632 --> 00:32:12,889 Will hit the girl, and this one called his child to his dad and his brother. 318 00:32:13,473 --> 00:32:17,060 They came to me. I was here. 319 00:32:17,185 --> 00:32:19,521 Will had never hit a woman. 320 00:32:19,605 --> 00:32:25,485 If the girl was beaten, she was always ready to defend this. 321 00:32:25,569 --> 00:32:31,867 But in a moment of intense man responds to violence by violence. 322 00:32:31,950 --> 00:32:34,036 It was the first time. 323 00:32:34,119 --> 00:32:39,583 I sat here and they came to ask: "Where is Will?" 324 00:32:39,666 --> 00:32:44,588 One of them seemed to be serious. 325 00:32:44,671 --> 00:32:48,258 I tried to lie, but they were serious. 326 00:32:48,342 --> 00:32:51,386 I said that he went in the other direction. 327 00:32:51,470 --> 00:32:56,808 Will came in from and they saw us. 328 00:32:56,892 --> 00:33:01,355 I said, "Will, they are after you." He said, "I do not flee anyone." 329 00:33:01,438 --> 00:33:08,528 And then that guy shot. I looked Willi and his eyes widened. 330 00:33:08,612 --> 00:33:14,785 How did life go? Eyes did not move. He was dead. 331 00:33:14,868 --> 00:33:18,330 I thought I would die too. 332 00:33:18,413 --> 00:33:22,584 I felt bullets through my shirt and through my pants. 333 00:33:22,668 --> 00:33:28,257 One hit this shoulder. It scratched and took some meat. 334 00:33:28,340 --> 00:33:33,053 The second went through my back. 335 00:33:33,136 --> 00:33:40,811 Us came out of that house and saw me on the ground. 336 00:33:40,894 --> 00:33:45,566 I said, "Do not tell your mom." Really. 337 00:33:45,649 --> 00:33:52,573 Like a mother would not notice in the morning, that I was shot. 338 00:33:52,656 --> 00:33:57,369 I heard the shots and I knew they were coming close. 339 00:33:57,578 --> 00:34:04,543 I went downstairs and out. This is my first brother. 340 00:34:04,626 --> 00:34:07,838 He was lying in the ground. 341 00:34:07,921 --> 00:34:12,926 His eyes were open and he was okay. 342 00:34:13,010 --> 00:34:16,013 Then I saw my friend. 343 00:34:17,389 --> 00:34:20,392 I... 344 00:34:24,188 --> 00:34:27,357 He did not move. 345 00:34:29,776 --> 00:34:35,741 I was thinking, "How can we let this happen?" 346 00:34:35,824 --> 00:34:39,995 It was over. We could all die at the same time. 347 00:34:40,078 --> 00:34:43,999 No matter what anymore. 348 00:34:46,627 --> 00:34:48,545 I do not blame anyone but I would have changed if my son was shot. 349 00:34:49,338 --> 00:34:53,425 I told this to my mom. "Why did not we change?" 350 00:34:53,509 --> 00:34:57,137 I was traumatized, when I saw this place every day. 351 00:34:57,221 --> 00:35:01,725 It made me crazy and made a shooter myself. 352 00:35:01,809 --> 00:35:07,439 Give me a hand. 353 00:35:07,523 --> 00:35:11,360 Even life did not feel worthwhile. 354 00:35:14,279 --> 00:35:17,741 Other lives, my own... Nobody felt valuable. 355 00:35:17,825 --> 00:35:24,706 Will was important to Nas. He was creative. 356 00:35:24,790 --> 00:35:28,627 He was in many ways similar to like Nas. 357 00:35:29,044 --> 00:35:32,548 358 00:35:32,631 --> 00:35:38,846 He read a lot and he had the same opinions. They were like brothers. 359 00:35:38,929 --> 00:35:45,727 After Will died, we became more cynical about the world. 360 00:35:45,811 --> 00:35:49,731 There was sorrow and pain in him. 361 00:35:49,815 --> 00:35:53,485 I still see him in her. 362 00:35:53,569 --> 00:35:59,450 He started taking life seriously. He was just getting a record deal. 363 00:35:59,533 --> 00:36:04,788 He had to make a choice between drug and music. 364 00:36:04,872 --> 00:36:08,625 When Will died, he started making music all the time. 365 00:36:08,709 --> 00:36:14,089 We knew what he did. He had made music with Will. 366 00:36:14,173 --> 00:36:20,345 When Will died, I felt that he directed my life from above. 367 00:36:22,973 --> 00:36:29,855 Then we felt it happen. Something good was coming. 368 00:36:32,775 --> 00:36:38,739 My friends Joe Fatal and Melquan introduced me to Nas. 369 00:36:38,822 --> 00:36:44,828 They said he wanted to make a demon in his own case. 370 00:36:44,912 --> 00:36:48,832 He wanted me to make a bible in his demo. 371 00:36:48,916 --> 00:36:55,172 He worked with big names, like Eric B, Rakim and Kool G Rap. 372 00:36:55,255 --> 00:36:59,676 I thought that it was a great opportunity. 373 00:36:59,760 --> 00:37:05,224 In this studio made hip hop albums. 374 00:37:06,016 --> 00:37:12,147 There was a nun in the youth. Nas and I we were only 15 to 16 years old. 375 00:37:12,231 --> 00:37:17,611 We went in and the big said: "Go to the booth" There was an uproar around him and he said quietly, "Go to the booth." 376 00:37:17,695 --> 00:37:22,241 I went and started rushing, and the whole band went silent. 377 00:37:23,200 --> 00:37:27,788 I was in Mecca. I was where they all wanted. 378 00:37:32,668 --> 00:37:39,258 I thought then: "This is what you wanted, now you're here, here you are." 379 00:37:39,341 --> 00:37:42,553 "Here's your chance, give it back." 380 00:37:42,636 --> 00:37:48,976 This rhythmic explosion reveals my vision I stimulated your brain and I showed you that the street noise began like a ring 381 00:37:49,059 --> 00:37:52,354 382 00:37:56,650 --> 00:38:00,029 383 00:38:00,112 --> 00:38:05,409 384 00:38:05,492 --> 00:38:11,624 This is profound, I try again And I bring you to a new dimension I'm giving rhymes to my life And my latest rhythm back This is softer than Villanova I'm like Sly Stone Cobra 385 00:38:11,707 --> 00:38:15,794 Riimini are like pistols on fire and no need to investigate them When you already realize that this is deep Nasin ramp should be put on jail 386 00:38:15,878 --> 00:38:21,008 "Who is there?" "Who?" 387 00:38:21,091 --> 00:38:26,805 "Damn, it sounded good." How old are you? " 388 00:38:26,889 --> 00:38:32,102 It was a good thing for the heck. He was good. 389 00:38:32,186 --> 00:38:35,397 390 00:38:35,481 --> 00:38:40,611 391 00:38:40,694 --> 00:38:46,742 392 00:38:46,825 --> 00:38:51,121 I was really happy. That's where we got off. 393 00:38:51,205 --> 00:38:57,962 Let me introduce my friend. Here is Rapper Nas, Nasty Nas. 394 00:38:58,879 --> 00:39:02,091 I started "Live at the Barbecue." 395 00:39:02,174 --> 00:39:07,763 Everyone was excited. It was new and revolutionary. 396 00:39:18,148 --> 00:39:22,903 My brownie is small I have a ball on the ball with your words Mickey resembles fungus It absorbs wisdom small 397 00:39:22,987 --> 00:39:27,741 Riimini kills. I was in hell at the age of 12 when I killed Jesus Nas is America's Rebel After I left the people pagan 398 00:39:27,825 --> 00:39:32,830 This bunch has a real strength I do not hunt the spit 399 00:39:32,913 --> 00:39:37,334 400 00:39:37,418 --> 00:39:42,089 401 00:39:42,172 --> 00:39:46,760 I was in a woman like a lifeguard Lucky tickets needed by any hater The kidnapping president of every country And my darling as a Ku Klux Klan 402 00:39:46,844 --> 00:39:51,307 I should not sue God rather than challenge I'm killing other than a soldier More sick than an AIDS patient I raise your mind to a new country Thought faster than a bullet And better than Spielberg's My body invades The brain is nudged 403 00:39:51,390 --> 00:39:56,312 This slut is a poison Never a vain tyrant It was the fiery rhyme that MC had said. 404 00:39:56,395 --> 00:40:01,108 405 00:40:01,191 --> 00:40:05,279 406 00:40:05,362 --> 00:40:10,034 407 00:40:10,117 --> 00:40:14,830 408 00:40:14,914 --> 00:40:19,293 409 00:40:29,136 --> 00:40:32,681 410 00:40:32,765 --> 00:40:37,728 "When I was twelve, I was in hell because I killed Jesus." 411 00:40:37,811 --> 00:40:42,942 I watched and listened to it probably a hundred times. 412 00:40:43,025 --> 00:40:47,655 The album was good, but who the boy was? 413 00:40:48,989 --> 00:40:54,119 Within a week all wanted to know who he was. 414 00:40:54,495 --> 00:41:00,084 Nas said: "When I was 12, I was in hell because I killed Jesus." 415 00:41:00,167 --> 00:41:04,672 I was wondering who it was. It was crazy. I wanted to find her. 416 00:41:04,755 --> 00:41:08,092 I met Nasin in 1992. 417 00:41:08,175 --> 00:41:11,762 I got to know him properly in 1993- 418 00:41:11,846 --> 00:41:15,307 when "Back to the Grill Again" came out. 419 00:41:37,246 --> 00:41:42,710 I like my gun near And I'm putting pressure on others 420 00:41:42,793 --> 00:41:46,464 Add words and phrases Songs and rhymes to murder You know when Nas comes to the corners I wrap the automaton for the nun I'm ruining my priest in church The serial killer always keeps his word "I swear on the automaton for nuns." I did not see the rhymes as eye-catching. 421 00:41:46,547 --> 00:41:51,177 They were not just a text. They were dealing with feelings. 422 00:41:51,260 --> 00:41:56,182 They were an example. 423 00:41:56,265 --> 00:42:03,105 "I'm so angry järjestelmälle- 424 00:42:03,189 --> 00:42:09,528 that I have to be channeled my frustration siihen- 425 00:42:09,612 --> 00:42:11,989 that will shake the automatic setting nuns" 426 00:42:12,114 --> 00:42:15,618 I'm hotter than a pepper Like a whore who has a cake 427 00:42:15,743 --> 00:42:22,291 428 00:42:22,374 --> 00:42:25,461 429 00:42:25,544 --> 00:42:29,632 430 00:42:29,715 --> 00:42:34,053 Mickey does not waste any ice ever Try to push others all the way to the head 431 00:42:34,136 --> 00:42:36,764 My friend MC Serch called me. 432 00:42:36,847 --> 00:42:42,353 Serch said he had found the son I was looking for, Nasty Nasin. 433 00:42:42,436 --> 00:42:46,357 He had made two demos. 434 00:42:46,440 --> 00:42:52,988 I told my boss that I was forced to have that boy on our lists. 435 00:42:53,864 --> 00:42:58,202 My boss agreed, and it left off. 436 00:42:59,995 --> 00:43:05,793 I always wanted Columbian lists. They seemed credible. 437 00:43:05,876 --> 00:43:12,049 Now I was invited in, and it was time to get recognition. 438 00:43:12,133 --> 00:43:17,012 I watched history on the walls. I looked around and thought: 439 00:43:17,096 --> 00:43:24,895 "You've been waiting for me, I talked on the walls, the boards and the floor." 440 00:43:24,979 --> 00:43:30,151 "You have put this up for me for me." 441 00:43:30,234 --> 00:43:33,821 I felt that way. I had come home. 442 00:43:34,238 --> 00:43:40,453 He did not tell the record deal. He just came home with the money. 443 00:43:40,536 --> 00:43:46,042 He said he had the money, but not much. 444 00:43:46,125 --> 00:43:50,921 He told me to go shopping and bought me Guess's jeans. 445 00:43:51,005 --> 00:43:54,425 Such. He gave me some money. 446 00:43:54,508 --> 00:44:00,639 I did not know where the money came from. I just thought it was cool. 447 00:44:00,723 --> 00:44:05,603 We would never have more money. 448 00:44:05,686 --> 00:44:10,358 I thought we would make a couple of videos and then return home. 449 00:44:10,441 --> 00:44:14,445 I did not realize she would conquer the whole world. 450 00:44:14,528 --> 00:44:21,786 I hear the "The Bridgen" bass. From there you are from. 451 00:44:21,869 --> 00:44:24,705 Bridge came to the house. 452 00:44:24,789 --> 00:44:30,544 People have been waiting for your record. How to go with it? 453 00:44:30,628 --> 00:44:35,466 The disc comes out in January. Its name is "Illmatic". 454 00:44:35,549 --> 00:44:41,472 The demos were ready, and now it was the turn of the album. 455 00:44:41,555 --> 00:44:45,810 I knew that "N.Y. State of Mind" would be the first song on the album. 456 00:44:45,893 --> 00:44:51,691 "I'll take you to hell and back." This is the first song. 457 00:45:03,619 --> 00:45:09,041 I wanted to make a slow track, so it would be gloomy and soft. 458 00:45:09,125 --> 00:45:14,630 The song should get her shoulders to move, and it did. 459 00:45:23,347 --> 00:45:28,394 My rabbit is rhythm and words You know when I put these rhyme balls I pull cocaine than Scarface with the pen I called the danger 460 00:45:28,477 --> 00:45:33,899 Luodinari sees the world Never leaves my gun in the air When I wrote a record disc, I did not know it would change hip hop. 461 00:45:34,066 --> 00:45:39,780 I just knew it was moving me. 462 00:45:39,864 --> 00:45:45,077 "Illmatic" represents the 90s and my youth. 463 00:45:45,161 --> 00:45:48,372 I came to his lyrics. 464 00:45:48,581 --> 00:45:51,751 465 00:45:51,834 --> 00:45:55,963 466 00:45:56,047 --> 00:46:02,511 I'm from Dallas, and "Illmatic" was my secrets and my gun. 467 00:46:02,595 --> 00:46:07,433 It inspires the "Baduizm" disc rhythm. 468 00:46:07,516 --> 00:46:14,523 I was 9 years old in 1994, grew up in North Carolina. 469 00:46:14,607 --> 00:46:17,026 Nas gave us a lesson about it- 470 00:46:17,109 --> 00:46:20,988 how a young black man in the USA. 471 00:46:29,664 --> 00:46:36,879 - I'm with my friend at the lab. - We are here and this is "Illmatic". 472 00:46:40,383 --> 00:46:44,595 Nas called me and said that there was still room on the disc. 473 00:46:44,679 --> 00:46:48,766 "Come to studio and bring all your backgrounds." 474 00:46:48,849 --> 00:46:53,813 I did not have time to call anything. He took my first biography. 475 00:47:11,080 --> 00:47:18,254 I'm from Brooklyn, and there murder statistics are shocking. 476 00:47:18,337 --> 00:47:22,550 When I wrote "Life's a Bitch" I had lost a friend again. 477 00:47:22,633 --> 00:47:26,012 He was the third dead and many were in jail. 478 00:47:26,095 --> 00:47:32,685 I listened to it with my friend and I felt it all in my heart. 479 00:47:33,186 --> 00:47:38,441 My life is not a play Money is taken here for a man's measure I live in dreams and I live in dreams because they are not here We started with the corners Now the money fills with a lull of life Some others lie in the country Others sitting in the cell We hold the flag And we remember the jet 480 00:47:38,524 --> 00:47:44,822 481 00:47:44,906 --> 00:47:48,910 482 00:47:48,993 --> 00:47:52,246 483 00:47:52,330 --> 00:47:56,918 484 00:47:57,001 --> 00:48:02,340 We will stay on the map, although in the end We must go We will leave here Though the money in the pocket is burning 485 00:48:02,423 --> 00:48:07,553 We collect it, we are authentic We hold our pistol, we are not found. 486 00:48:07,637 --> 00:48:13,100 Life is a curse And then I die His rhymes bowed incredibly lightly. 487 00:48:13,184 --> 00:48:15,520 The phrase: "I live dream because of those who have not stayed here" - 488 00:48:15,603 --> 00:48:20,107 all in the middle of its street is a wishful blow. 489 00:48:20,191 --> 00:48:25,446 I woke up on a birthday and thought about it 20 years is a blessing, right? 490 00:48:25,530 --> 00:48:31,285 I did not do it best But body of what I got from God 491 00:48:31,577 --> 00:48:37,208 492 00:48:37,291 --> 00:48:42,130 493 00:48:42,213 --> 00:48:48,678 I like rhyme in the blade 365 I like my fire every day so 494 00:48:48,761 --> 00:48:52,974 Though my head hurts must also go against flow Young donated money, jewelery and masses Bags and passports from tourists I liked the noise of money And I got an eka times a woman. 495 00:48:53,057 --> 00:48:58,980 Money, success is all in all Better than sitting inside a stone I changed my motto "forget tomorrow" I say: "remember lotto and drinking" 496 00:48:59,063 --> 00:49:04,360 Sometimes I stood at an angle selling Money was just in the mind Time is Illmatic We have no empty bags 497 00:49:04,444 --> 00:49:09,657 498 00:49:09,741 --> 00:49:14,954 499 00:49:15,037 --> 00:49:20,376 500 00:49:20,460 --> 00:49:25,798 501 00:49:25,882 --> 00:49:30,470 Life is a curse and then I die I'm dragging the skies, rocks and salt 502 00:49:30,553 --> 00:49:35,058 Father told me as early as I was young at the house. 503 00:49:35,141 --> 00:49:39,395 Mother said, that our father still loved us. 504 00:49:39,479 --> 00:49:44,442 So it just went. I was not happy that this was happening but it was life and I continued my struggle. 505 00:49:44,525 --> 00:49:50,073 This song has a jazzy feel. I know the presence of my dad. 506 00:49:55,703 --> 00:50:01,834 I asked her to call something- 507 00:50:01,959 --> 00:50:04,295 what reminded him of our childhood. 508 00:50:04,379 --> 00:50:08,633 That album is still telling many people how to think. 509 00:50:29,237 --> 00:50:35,993 I still think so. 510 00:50:36,077 --> 00:50:39,831 511 00:50:39,914 --> 00:50:44,919 The words are almost philosophical. 512 00:50:45,003 --> 00:50:49,757 It is about life. 513 00:50:55,263 --> 00:51:01,352 That 19-year-old boy was mine. 514 00:51:01,436 --> 00:51:04,355 I was growing up to this day. 515 00:51:04,439 --> 00:51:08,776 If I had not thought in the way then- 516 00:51:08,860 --> 00:51:12,238 people would not listen to me now. 517 00:51:31,674 --> 00:51:35,303 I got the inspiration from Arpinaaman Tony Montana. 518 00:51:35,386 --> 00:51:42,518 In the airship he read: "The world is yours." It was an impressive point. 519 00:51:42,602 --> 00:51:47,023 It was like a sign. 520 00:51:47,106 --> 00:51:50,860 This is the Amal Jamal jazz album. 521 00:51:50,944 --> 00:51:57,283 I listened to it one day and I heard the loop. 522 00:52:01,329 --> 00:52:08,211 I was doing a drum table, but I did not want a usual sting. 523 00:52:08,294 --> 00:52:12,298 I wanted something else. 524 00:52:20,014 --> 00:52:26,437 It was the first bible. He froze when he heard it. 525 00:52:26,521 --> 00:52:31,567 He closed his eyes and got ideas. 526 00:52:31,651 --> 00:52:37,657 He wanted me to sing the melody. I initially opposed. 527 00:52:37,740 --> 00:52:41,828 He sang it as he wanted me to sing it. 528 00:52:41,911 --> 00:52:47,250 Whose World Is This? The world is yours. It's mine. 529 00:52:58,720 --> 00:53:04,392 I'm drinking a champagne I pull my own rhythm I like this like this, I'm going to rhymes This is a murderer screaming over mysteries 530 00:53:04,475 --> 00:53:09,689 The worst thief in hip hop Pull the gap between the corner and the best 531 00:53:09,772 --> 00:53:14,861 532 00:53:14,944 --> 00:53:20,200 I put your mind in the water I like my pen in this life standing I'm sweating at work, The fly is flying in the hearth Circle of time by car with the most amazing Riimini folds in the best field. 533 00:53:20,283 --> 00:53:25,663 I never go under the ground Even the presidents fan me 534 00:53:25,747 --> 00:53:31,669 Dead President's Representation Mecca there Whose World Is This? The world is yours "I give my daughter the name Force and my son Star is my salvation." 535 00:53:31,753 --> 00:53:36,883 I give my daughter the name Force and my son Star is my salvation He leads us there 536 00:53:36,966 --> 00:53:41,596 537 00:53:41,679 --> 00:53:44,933 538 00:53:45,016 --> 00:53:51,898 539 00:53:51,981 --> 00:53:58,947 540 00:53:59,447 --> 00:54:01,574 541 00:54:01,658 --> 00:54:06,204 I did not know I would get the children in order like a printer not their sex. But life went as I did. 542 00:54:06,287 --> 00:54:12,210 I get that idea cold colors. 543 00:54:12,293 --> 00:54:15,630 - Peace. - Peace. 544 00:54:17,257 --> 00:54:20,051 Here I was born. 545 00:54:26,224 --> 00:54:28,434 Snacky Boy! How's it going? 546 00:54:28,685 --> 00:54:33,648 - Not a shame! How's it going? - How's it going? 547 00:54:33,815 --> 00:54:39,404 Karate K! How are you? 548 00:54:39,487 --> 00:54:43,199 This guy always tells me. If I came out in dirty shoes- 549 00:54:43,283 --> 00:54:49,330 he sent me back inside. She's the best. 550 00:54:49,414 --> 00:54:54,043 - How do you go? - I am your fans. 551 00:54:54,127 --> 00:54:57,547 552 00:54:57,630 --> 00:55:04,095 Do you mind if that cameras? I wanted to make sure first. 553 00:55:04,179 --> 00:55:10,977 How do you go? You have become enormous! 554 00:55:11,060 --> 00:55:17,484 I'm no longer a Little Messiah. You are a Big Messiah. 555 00:55:17,567 --> 00:55:22,155 How do you go? Hey. 556 00:55:23,740 --> 00:55:27,619 Peace. How's it going? 557 00:55:27,702 --> 00:55:31,039 - I love you, Nas. - Likewise. 558 00:55:31,122 --> 00:55:38,046 I did not think I could sometimes look back and remember my roots. 559 00:55:38,546 --> 00:55:42,550 And to think of it, how far I got. 560 00:55:42,634 --> 00:55:48,223 This story was to tell. It was already told by MC Shan, Marley Marl- 561 00:55:48,306 --> 00:55:53,728 Craig G, Shante, Juice Crew, Tragedy. 562 00:55:53,812 --> 00:55:58,483 They told the story, and I was just their extension. 563 00:55:58,566 --> 00:56:01,778 They made me the road. 564 00:56:01,861 --> 00:56:07,367 How's it going, little guy. Come to moan. 565 00:56:07,450 --> 00:56:11,496 - How do you go? What is your name? - Noah. 566 00:56:11,579 --> 00:56:15,375 Fun to meet you, Noah. What's your second name? 567 00:56:15,458 --> 00:56:19,295 Nasirko? To this hand! 568 00:56:19,379 --> 00:56:26,636 All who have that name are kings. Never forget it. 569 00:56:27,053 --> 00:56:32,517 Never think of anything else. Know that you are a king. 570 00:56:32,600 --> 00:56:35,520 Be right. 571 00:56:35,603 --> 00:56:39,357 How do you go? Go through this. 572 00:56:48,199 --> 00:56:53,121 I remember when I was in Europe and I had not seen the boys for a while. 573 00:56:53,204 --> 00:56:56,166 I went to Queensbridge to find them. 574 00:56:56,249 --> 00:57:00,336 Man with the camera said: "There they are." 575 00:57:00,420 --> 00:57:07,052 They ran to me and they took me and took the picture. 576 00:57:11,389 --> 00:57:17,020 I will never forget what they looked like. They had changed. 577 00:57:17,103 --> 00:57:21,441 They had been released out of her mother's lap. 578 00:57:21,524 --> 00:57:25,153 They were outdoors playing. 579 00:57:33,328 --> 00:57:38,333 When I saw the "Illmatic" lid, I knew immediately where the image came from. 580 00:57:38,416 --> 00:57:44,297 The picture shows that his mind has opened. 581 00:57:44,381 --> 00:57:50,845 It seems to say: "Wow! What world, what a world." 582 00:57:53,473 --> 00:57:58,812 This is the background of "Illmatic". 583 00:57:58,895 --> 00:58:02,732 Photographer Danny Clinch showed us this picture- 584 00:58:02,816 --> 00:58:09,406 and it felt the opportunity to see neighborhood a lot more. 585 00:58:18,081 --> 00:58:23,003 It was a great day for me, because the album was released and we took pictures for it. 586 00:58:23,086 --> 00:58:26,631 We did not have a stylist or a budget for anything other than a photographer. 587 00:58:26,715 --> 00:58:32,387 It was my biggest day of life, so we celebrate. 588 00:58:32,470 --> 00:58:37,017 Nas asked us out and said that there was a photographer. 589 00:58:50,238 --> 00:58:54,909 Everyone knew that Nas was the rapper and he had released the album. 590 00:58:54,993 --> 00:59:01,917 On that day, people who wanted to kill each other were together. 591 00:59:03,293 --> 00:59:08,798 592 00:59:08,882 --> 00:59:15,764 For images only. It was a crazy day. 593 00:59:19,351 --> 00:59:23,480 Nothing was certain in Queensbridge. 594 00:59:25,357 --> 00:59:32,405 Some were killed, some were beaten and some were put to jail. 595 00:59:32,489 --> 00:59:37,369 Everyone had a story to tell. 596 00:59:39,412 --> 00:59:46,461 I can tell the story of everyone in the picture . 597 00:59:47,504 --> 00:59:54,678 He sits on a 15-year cake. He is charged with murder. 598 00:59:56,680 --> 01:00:03,353 He is sitting on a life sentence. He was imprisoned without any guarantees. 599 01:00:04,396 --> 01:00:07,065 My buddy here- 600 01:00:07,148 --> 01:00:13,947 he sat in North Carolina. His life is crazy. 601 01:00:14,656 --> 01:00:19,786 He has been in jail many times. 602 01:00:19,870 --> 01:00:24,958 Such a life is in a poor area. 603 01:00:27,794 --> 01:00:31,715 That's wrong. 604 01:00:37,470 --> 01:00:41,516 That's wrong. You see what's happening there. 605 01:00:41,600 --> 01:00:47,939 Without music my story would be the same. 606 01:00:48,023 --> 01:00:54,613 Without music I might not have been in that picture. 607 01:00:54,779 --> 01:01:01,161 I did not want this to anyone in that picture. They were my friends. 608 01:01:01,244 --> 01:01:04,247 This is so crazy. 609 01:01:11,671 --> 01:01:16,968 I still dream about living here _. I do not know what it means. 610 01:01:17,052 --> 01:01:22,432 Everywhere there are people who reside there . Something's left. 611 01:01:22,516 --> 01:01:26,144 It makes this place its what it is. 612 01:01:26,228 --> 01:01:31,274 Their spirits dominate these streets. 613 01:01:31,358 --> 01:01:37,280 We always remember the types who died so that we could continue. 614 01:01:39,032 --> 01:01:44,579 I know I'm a voice for those who have no voice anymore. 615 01:01:44,663 --> 01:01:49,459 I was here. This was my life. 616 01:01:49,543 --> 01:01:52,963 This kind of life was. 617 01:02:02,431 --> 01:02:05,976 This song is for all those that you love. 618 01:02:06,143 --> 01:02:10,272 Especially for those who sit in the castle. 619 01:02:31,334 --> 01:02:33,211 L! 620 01:02:36,506 --> 01:02:38,925 O! 621 01:02:39,968 --> 01:02:41,636 True Love! 622 01:02:41,720 --> 01:02:43,597 I V! 623 01:02:47,225 --> 01:02:49,144 E! 624 01:02:51,563 --> 01:02:57,319 Scream for love! Tell love. 625 01:02:57,402 --> 01:02:59,654 Say love! 626 01:03:09,247 --> 01:03:15,629 Large Professor said that I should work with Nasi. 627 01:03:15,712 --> 01:03:19,800 Large, Akinyele and Nas came along. 628 01:03:19,883 --> 01:03:23,887 Phife had a studio in her basement. 629 01:03:24,012 --> 01:03:28,975 Nas said: "I want to do what you do." 630 01:03:29,059 --> 01:03:31,603 "That mysterious thing." 631 01:03:31,687 --> 01:03:36,149 I called him a song, which eventually became "One Love". 632 01:03:54,501 --> 01:03:59,089 I received letters from my friends, who were in prison. 633 01:03:59,172 --> 01:04:05,262 They asked how they went in freedom, and they told you what it was like. 634 01:04:05,345 --> 01:04:10,809 We sent letters, and I tried to keep his mind high. 635 01:04:10,892 --> 01:04:15,522 I had not heard songs, writing letters - 636 01:04:15,605 --> 01:04:19,651 except for love songs, but never from a street perspective. 637 01:04:19,735 --> 01:04:23,530 "One Love" tells about raising mood in jail. 638 01:04:23,613 --> 01:04:28,827 Hello, boy! Do you remember witch time? Policemen yachting at his frost I'm missing out on them, I already forget about it I heard otherwise that you got a child 639 01:04:28,910 --> 01:04:34,166 It looks like I'm gonna fuck you, what else? Why do not your girl write over there? 640 01:04:34,249 --> 01:04:39,379 "It looks like I'm sorry, what else?" "Why do not your girl write on them?" 641 01:04:39,463 --> 01:04:43,800 The words describe what happens when he gets into jail. 642 01:04:43,884 --> 01:04:50,390 It's like a disease among young people among African Americans. 643 01:04:51,016 --> 01:04:56,688 Black men are being jailed. 644 01:04:56,772 --> 01:04:59,900 645 01:05:01,652 --> 01:05:05,948 They do not get into prison just physically. 646 01:05:06,031 --> 01:05:13,288 They also lose their identity, their masculinity and their way of life. 647 01:05:13,413 --> 01:05:18,585 Hello, boy! Do you remember witch time? Policemen yachting at his frost I'm missing out on them, I already forget about it I heard otherwise that you got a child 648 01:05:18,669 --> 01:05:23,840 It looks like I'm gonna fuck you, what else? Why do not your girl write over there? 649 01:05:23,924 --> 01:05:29,263 He says you're too much I'm sorry you got your panties 650 01:05:29,346 --> 01:05:34,142 It is said that a good woman is loyal when you are in jail. 651 01:05:34,268 --> 01:05:40,941 He is not with others. 652 01:05:41,024 --> 01:05:44,027 653 01:05:44,111 --> 01:05:50,576 He lets people meet you. He keeps you in this world. 654 01:05:50,659 --> 01:05:55,247 When is a black man in a poor area in USA- 655 01:05:55,330 --> 01:05:59,418 work is hard to find and everywhere is crime- 656 01:05:59,501 --> 01:06:05,424 women around have a lot of bad influences. 657 01:06:05,507 --> 01:06:11,054 The phrase "Why is not your girl writing for you?" looks- 658 01:06:11,138 --> 01:06:18,395 how the prison system also destroys the alliances. 659 01:06:18,770 --> 01:06:22,566 It destroys love and family. 660 01:06:22,649 --> 01:06:24,693 It destroys hope and I believe. 661 01:06:24,776 --> 01:06:31,116 Not just the prisoner but the people who are waiting outside. 662 01:06:31,199 --> 01:06:33,702 Why do not your girl write on them? 663 01:06:33,785 --> 01:06:41,043 He said he would come to visit But he said you were too shy It does not care for the system Other people already find it Guess who was shot? Jerome sister girl on her way home Little-Rob is now selling a drug and hanging out with young criminals Every night something worse Have you seen Cormega? She is there. 664 01:06:41,168 --> 01:06:46,840 If you are in the same jam say greetings from others. 665 01:06:46,924 --> 01:06:52,137 He was a guy Say to him: "One Love". 666 01:06:52,221 --> 01:06:57,184 Hands in the air! One Love! For anyone who is not here Put your hands in the air For those who are not here 667 01:06:57,267 --> 01:07:02,022 668 01:07:02,105 --> 01:07:09,071 669 01:07:09,154 --> 01:07:13,283 670 01:07:13,367 --> 01:07:18,247 671 01:07:18,330 --> 01:07:22,501 672 01:07:22,584 --> 01:07:26,505 One Love! One Love! 673 01:07:26,755 --> 01:07:32,886 Please let me know! One Love! One Love! One Love! 674 01:07:36,056 --> 01:07:40,185 Thank you. Thank you very much. 675 01:07:40,269 --> 01:07:44,982 Yes! Rest in peace, my friend Draws. 676 01:07:45,065 --> 01:07:48,318 Stay in peace, Will Will. 677 01:07:48,402 --> 01:07:53,323 Stay in peace, Barkim. We represent you. 678 01:07:53,407 --> 01:07:58,787 You are still in our thoughts. We love you. 679 01:08:43,540 --> 01:08:46,335 Hip Hop Archive was founded in Harvard protect hip hop cultural heritage. 680 01:08:46,418 --> 01:08:49,505 Nasir Jones Hip Hop Fellowship 681 01:08:49,588 --> 01:08:51,715 give artistic students the opportunity to find the power of knowledge. 682 01:08:51,799 --> 01:08:56,720 Welcome, Professor Morgan, Nasir Jones and Professor Skip Gates. 683 01:08:56,845 --> 01:09:04,061 684 01:09:05,562 --> 01:09:09,733 None of my friends did not complete the university. 685 01:09:09,817 --> 01:09:14,530 No one owns a trade or bank. 686 01:09:14,613 --> 01:09:18,450 Types are sitting in life-style or are dead. 687 01:09:18,534 --> 01:09:24,373 Types hang out in the streets or tie where. 688 01:09:24,456 --> 01:09:28,001 If someone gets aluminum out- 689 01:09:28,085 --> 01:09:32,339 What would it be if Harvard approached him at that time? 690 01:09:32,589 --> 01:09:39,805 The Nasir Jones Fellowship is given to a pupil who has done something. 691 01:09:39,972 --> 01:09:44,518 For a man, who wants to change the world. 692 01:09:48,313 --> 01:09:55,237 I said years ago that we end up in a prison rather than a university. 693 01:09:56,029 --> 01:09:58,032 And here we are now. 694 01:09:58,115 --> 01:10:04,663 They understand that this is art, that you can study at Harvard- 695 01:10:04,747 --> 01:10:07,082 and will be kept in our archives. 696 01:10:07,166 --> 01:10:12,337 We create places for gangs in the area, like Nas Jones. 697 01:10:12,463 --> 01:10:17,634 I represent my friends who have not survived. They helped me out here. 698 01:10:17,718 --> 01:10:23,640 Discuss with them and together rotating for young people all they said and what I told them- 699 01:10:23,724 --> 01:10:28,020 and the things we survived and everything we missed. 700 01:10:28,103 --> 01:10:32,066 I represent all those who did not come with me. 701 01:10:32,149 --> 01:10:37,780 Those who were with me from the beginning. 702 01:10:37,863 --> 01:10:41,575 I did not trust anything that came out of my little world. 703 01:10:41,658 --> 01:10:46,580 704 01:10:46,664 --> 01:10:50,459 I did not care about politics and not even the USA. 705 01:10:50,542 --> 01:10:53,837 I did not care, because they did not believe me. 706 01:10:54,046 --> 01:10:59,426 I am grateful that I am here. I came through the storm. 707 01:10:59,510 --> 01:11:06,517 This is a great honor for me and if I can say it, so also to hip hop. 708 01:11:06,600 --> 01:11:10,145 Give applause. 709 01:11:12,064 --> 01:11:19,154 Poor boy stopped school in New York. 710 01:11:19,238 --> 01:11:25,828 And he became world renowned. This is not just about music. 711 01:11:27,871 --> 01:11:35,087 I wanted to make "Illmatic" to my voice, my philosophy and my idea would remain behind me as a music and a jerk. 712 01:11:35,170 --> 01:11:38,716 713 01:11:38,799 --> 01:11:45,222 It proves I was here. 714 01:12:29,600 --> 01:12:33,103 English: Anne Kaasinen BTI Studios Oy