:01:00
# It's like that, y'all #
:01:02
#And it sounds so nice #
:01:03
# Hip-hip, you the love
of my life #
:01:05
#We about to go to the...
to the... to the #
:01:08
#To the... to the... to the...
to the... to the... #
:01:11
#The anticipation
arose as time froze #
:01:13
# I stared off the stage
with my eyes closed #
:01:16
#And dove deep
into the cosmos #
:01:18
#The impact
pushed back... #
:01:19
#The impact
pushed back... #
:01:20
Sidney, Voice Over:
I started every interview
:01:21
I've ever given the same way
for over 10 years.
:01:24
[On Tape] So, when did you
fall in love with hip-hop?
:01:28
Kool G Rap: I basically fell
in love with hip-hop,
:01:30
you know what I'm saying,
when cats first started
:01:31
going out to the parks,
you know,
:01:33
with the 2 turntables,
the mic.
:01:35
I think it was 1977.
:01:36
People are rocking
in the parks.
:01:38
I can remember
back in the Bronx, 1979.
:01:42
Set up some turntables
in front of the building.
:01:44
And we was
getting the power
:01:45
from the street
lamps outside.
:01:47
Plug it up
into the street pole.
:01:48
MC-ing, DJJ-ing,
b-boying, break-dancing.
:01:51
Break-dancing
or popping,
:01:53
beats or rhymes, you know.
I was in love with it.
:01:57
Probably about
12 years old, man.
:01:59
And I was watching
Wild Style.
: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.