jam master j got shot and killed pock
got shot and killed biggie got shot and
killed
x just got shot and killed it's a shame
but the greatest shame
is what about all of the young men and
women who are not celebrities
getting shot and killed imagine if the
same way we advertise
x and advertise jay's death and biggies
imagine what would happen if we started
advertising
every young person getting shot and
killed
then it would be outrage my fight isn't
went to dude that shot jm master jay in
the head
i have no personal beef with him my
fight is against the mentality that
would cause him to do it
park got shot hip hop mourns
for two three weeks and then we go back
doing the same [ __ ]
same ideas concepts and images like
having a gun is cool
not changing the conditions that kill
pock so of course two weeks later
another [ __ ] is going on and
biggie's gonna die then we do the same
thing we make tribute records and we
talk and he's a legend in that the thing
is when the first shooting happened
let's do
something so that it doesn't happen
again why having a gun and shooting
[ __ ] is cool
that's a hip-hop mentality with you
because i'm from the hood this and that
no
we created hip-hop so we didn't need
street gangs and drug dealers
that excuses honor schwarzenegger and
bruce willis and they make
violent action films so my thing to
anybody in hip-hop saying
it's acceptable because it's
entertainment no it's different
if you're going to use that excuse then
get the [ __ ] off the mic and go be an
actor
hip-hop has a responsibility no matter
what generation you're from you come
now past president future you can tell a
story about
gangs and drug dealing and stuff like
that but the very next record on your
album
is a record about not using a gun your
[ __ ] can make whatever y'all
want
for me it's [ __ ] homicide and
genocide people are killing each other
when i came out and said with the same
attitude that a rapper would talk about
selling drugs i'm dmc and the place to
be i'll go to
saint john's university since
kindergarten i acquired the knowledge
after 12th grade i went straight to
college i didn't preach i didn't say
you're wrong for being in the gang and
using a gun but the guys that was in the
gang and using guns was like oh [ __ ]
dmc one of the baddest [ __ ] on
the planet said
he go to st john's university and
education is cool and i had kids come
and tell me yo
when you said that rum d just for you
saying it you made me realize that i
don't need a gun
i don't need to sell drugs i went and
got my ged
okay now i got a ged because dmc said
education is cool
but you made me realize you can be
educated safe and not
sell drugs and being a gang and still
get money hip-hop came along because we
was killing each other shooting each
other and having gang fights
and the zulu nation said no
[ __ ] gotta stop killing each
other
and people think so what the hell we
gonna do hip-hop said what can you do
all of the possibilities and all of the
things to make the necessary changes
is right at our fingertips but nobody is
utilizing
i don't hate on this generation's hip
hop but we got to create hip-hop all
over again
people ask me what do you think about
today's hip hop i was saying it's disco
i remember i was a little kid disco was
huge one moment when i was little i went
to sleep and i woke up the next morning
and all over the world in the globe
disco sucks all everybody was saying the
disco sucks
it wasn't the artists and the music that
sucks it was a [ __ ] lifestyle
if you look at hip hop right now purple
fur coats
diamonds champagne rolls royces
bentleys [ __ ] leader jets sex
violence everybody's living their life
so what happened when that happened in
new york city in the 70s
the very thing happening with hip hop
right now is what disco did
and [ __ ] melly mel came out
made a record
the message right now we need a 17
to 19 year old individual to make the
message
to shut down all the nonsense that we're
celebrating
drinking lean and this and that you can
get high you can go to the party
but what about making sure everybody's
eating
that's what hip-hop did hollywood was
coming to new york to party at studio 54
with their bentleys and their
rolls-royces and their fur coats and
champagne and their reefer and their
heroine
and it was having [ __ ] sex everywhere
with the glitter balls
look at disco in the 70s and look at
hip-hop [ __ ] was dressing crazy
and this and that
so it took some young boys and girls who
weren't politicians
and his mother [ __ ] step to the
mic and said it's like a jungle
sometimes
it makes me wonder how i keep from going
under don't
push me right now [ __ ] is close
to the edge trump is bugging out
hip-hop has just totally gone insane
right now hip-hop is just fun they
announced
hip-hop is the number one music that's
overtaken rock
why did they make that announcement at
the time when hip-hop is at his most
disrespectful and ignorant
it's always been number one but why
didn't they make that announcement when
public
enemy was killing why didn't they make
that announcement when keras one was
killing
okay yeah cause there's more downloads
and streaming and stuff like that
there's more people listening to hip-hop
at the most [ __ ] stupid ignorant time
in its history you should have said that
50 years ago when it was
competing with rock i opened for zz top
we opened for the clash
why don't you announce it then why
because we were clean and
we didn't curse and it wasn't about sex
and shooting
but it's a problem when you say it's
popular now because [ __ ] are
shooting and killing x and taking xanax
and all of that
don't announce that [ __ ] play some
[ __ ] records about the kids not doing
it so another ex don't gotta die
that's the problem when we created
hip-hop
45 years ago things started to change
the powers to be started to notice
something we need groups that look like
migos rapping like de la soul
we need a guy that looks like lil wayne
talking like krs1 we need a guy like
drake making records like chuck the a
public enemy
doing i'm not talking about to sell
records and be number one rappers
to see change in the everyday lives of
our people
somebody said 10 years ago if aliens
came to earth
and looked at hip-hop in the last 15-20
years they wouldn't know what was going
on
but prior to 15-20 years every time
there was an
issue in our community in our music in
society that very weak a rapper would
make a record about it
look at what's been going on globally in
the world
look at what's been going on in america
we went through
two gulf wars all the crime in the
streets all the
shootings the police shooting kids the
white police shooting kids
kids shooting kids the disrespect of our
women
is [ __ ] up politically with trump the
educational sucks
they've taken all the necessary programs
that work out at all the communities
and nobody's talking about it not just
the rappers
none of the rock stars none of the pop
stars are just an issue
there was a time where as soon as
something happened in
media that was happening historically
we all jumped on it now this current
generation sits back because
they think it's not cool to talk about
doing something right these kids now get
more attention if they talk about their
xanax problem
and how much lean and codeine they take
run dmc smoke
more weed than god could possibly grow
on this green earth
we never put those images and concepts
on our records
i drunk more liquor than the earth could
produce
i was sending in orders before they
could even make it into distillery i was
going directly to god send me my liquor
now
but i never put those images concepts on
the record why
because if run dmc can make a record
about these
in the whole world to this day want to
know it what's going to happen if i
rhyme about codeine
and smoking angel does see that's the
problem it's not a prob for carol
it's a lack of responsibility listen to
hip-hop radio
all the [ __ ] records is about cody
and xanax
there's not one rapper on there rapping
i never got high a day in my life
we need dudes in hip hop that don't get
high we need tuesday and hip hop that
ain't in the street gang we need to over
flood
hip-hop with kendrick lamar and chance
the rappers
we have chants we have kendrick lamar we
have a lot of underground emcees
those underground emcees should be
allowed to
express those views and ideas
commercially
earlier hip-hop was so diverse in the
beginning it was run dmc but it was de
la soul
it was nwa everybody was rapping but
everybody was different
collectively we all made hip-hop great
so now it's about the front man let's
just get the front man
the dominant presentation was grouped
why
because we are stronger together
that's why when the wu tang did come
along it was a lot of the [ __ ]
it was powerful and it was a statement
now you can really
focus on what we're trying to accomplish
what we're trying to say
we're more threatening when we show our
numbers
so what happened was they started
looking at this group
seeing the one guy that stands out and
say yo come here
get rid of your group and come here and
do this this way for us
somewhere along the line the powers that
be
figure if they divide us up feed one
guy so he's all right he's not going to
give a [ __ ] about bringing look
if i could get in a group with three
people that means i could get a group of
four people
if i could go before i could give him so
they didn't want to see us grow on a
positive note
you got all these radio stations
globally this is the station that loves
hip-hop we love hip-hop
but you're only playing these groups for
the hot individuals
you're not playing just a powerful
educational inspirational motivational
representation songs of the hip-hop
culture
so they broke us down you saw run dmc
you didn't have to love run you might
have yo i like that guy jay
man or the quiet one with the glasses we
don't see
ourselves in what we behold now
we see these other [ __ ] that
are so dominant that we got to step
outside of who we are just to become
that so with the groups it was a total
representation of
what you can be because you already
those things now
everybody's lying cheating in front and
to act like they take jets to act like
money is important to act like they got
a lot of girls
to act tough so all of those things is
missing right now
and that's why hip hop is stagnant i'm
not talking about
the business of it they selling records
detouring they're getting money i'm not
trying to take livelihood from anybody
else
what's lacking is the responsibility
that comes with this hip-hop
to make the change necessary that
nobody's going to do
for us