:02:00
It was creative,
it was new, it was fresh.
:02:03
Breakin', rappin',
battlin'.
:02:05
It was the whole
culture, period.
:02:07
The Bambaataa show,
the Afrika Islam show.
:02:10
It was just like our
way of expression.
:02:12
Hip-hop spoke
directly to me because,
:02:15
you know, it was speaking
from the language
:02:17
that the people I was
dealing with was speaking,
:02:18
and I loved it
as soon as l...
:02:20
As soon as I got
introduced to it.
:02:22
I was gonna be dealing
with hip-hop
:02:23
whether I wanted to
or not.
:02:25
Like a forced marriage,
it was predetermined.
:02:28
And I heard Eric B
Is President,
:02:29
and then that kind
of changed my life.
:02:31
I heard The Message,
Melle Mel.
:02:33
There was a rapper
named Eddie Cheeba
:02:35
who was one of
the pioneers.
:02:36
When I first heard
Sugarhill Gang.
:02:38
Rapper's Delight.
:02:39
Rapper's Delight.
:02:40
That set it off
for rap music.
:02:41
Funky Four
Plus One More.
:02:43
Plus One More,
you know what I'm saying?
:02:45
Furious Five, Freedom.
:02:46
Run and them
and Whoudini freestyling.
:02:48
Sucka MC's by Run-DMC.
:02:50
Sucka MC's live.
:02:52
Grandmaster Flash
on the Wheels of Steel.
:02:54
Grandmaster Caz from
the Cold Crush Brothers.
:02:56
- Cold Crush.
- Cold Crush.
:02:58
- Cold Crush.
- Grandmaster Flash.
:03:00
Treacherous Three,
Body Rock.
:03:02
Spoonie Gee, Love Rap.
:03:04
The first time I heard
Rebel Without a Pause.
:03:06
Eric B and Rakim.
:03:07
EPMD and them.
:03:08
I gotta say Public
Enemy as a group...
:03:11
you know.
:03:12
Classics, bangers.
:03:14
I mean, to this day
they're bangers.
:03:16
I just love
what it sounded like,
:03:18
and I loved
what he was saying.
:03:19
You know, the whole
slick tongue thing.
:03:21
I felt like these dudes
hit the truth.
:03:23
Forget everything else you heard
on the radio and all that.
:03:26
This is it.
This is what I want to do.
:03:28
I was in.
:03:29
It was freedom.
:03:30
Sidney, Voice Over:
I remember the exact day
:03:33
I fell in love
with hip-hop. It was...
:03:42
bye!
:03:57
[Play At Your Own Risk
By Planet Patrol Playing]