WEBVTT - Conversations About The 10 Greatest Stories In Hip Hop History 0:00:01.840 --> 0:00:04.440 Wats up and welcome back to another episode of No 0:00:04.559 --> 0:00:07.480 Sinners Podcast with your host. Now, fuck that with your 0:00:07.560 --> 0:00:18.440 load glasses malone Great of an extented amount or intensity 0:00:18.960 --> 0:00:24.240 considerably above the normal or average. One more time, nigga 0:00:25.079 --> 0:00:31.800 great of an extent of an extent amount or intensity 0:00:31.960 --> 0:00:41.040 considerably above the normal or average Great the etymology means 0:00:41.159 --> 0:00:48.440 big and massive. Saw an interview on drink excuse me 0:00:48.440 --> 0:00:54.560 on drink Chans for Tony Ye Yo and one of 0:00:54.600 --> 0:00:58.920 the questions was asked to someone about their favorite rapper 0:00:59.040 --> 0:01:08.720 and the whole answer back ice Cube, and Yo says 0:01:08.720 --> 0:01:10.480 to him, shout out to Tony Yo Yo, what a 0:01:10.560 --> 0:01:15.399 big dog. Tony Aal says Cube not fucking with Big. 0:01:18.560 --> 0:01:20.679 And I heard that, and I thought to myself, Cauz like, 0:01:22.280 --> 0:01:25.600 I'm not mad at no New York nigga not really thinking, 0:01:26.360 --> 0:01:28.759 Cube with a whole career is not better than Big 0:01:28.800 --> 0:01:31.600 with two records because Cube had excuse me, because Big 0:01:31.680 --> 0:01:35.240 had two phenomenal motherfucking records, ready to die life after 0:01:35.280 --> 0:01:40.360 death for phenomenal joints. But after that, he says something 0:01:40.400 --> 0:01:45.279 to the equivalent of Cube ain't a better storyteller than Big. 0:01:48.000 --> 0:01:53.360 That's where I got a motherfucking problem. That's where I 0:01:53.400 --> 0:01:57.360 got a motherfucking problem. Dog, Like, what are we really 0:01:57.360 --> 0:02:01.480 fucking talking about? Cube is not a better storyteller than Big. 0:02:01.800 --> 0:02:03.680 So I asked a couple of my partners that's on 0:02:03.720 --> 0:02:06.080 the island, shout out to all my partners in New York. 0:02:06.160 --> 0:02:06.640 You know what I mean. 0:02:07.320 --> 0:02:10.400 I call them niggas the Islanders because it's like they 0:02:11.000 --> 0:02:13.160 kind of have this restricted view of hip hop as 0:02:13.200 --> 0:02:14.480 the creators, which I respect. 0:02:14.639 --> 0:02:15.320 I'm not tripping. 0:02:15.680 --> 0:02:17.600 That's how we feel about gang banging. You feel me, 0:02:17.639 --> 0:02:20.400 so I could relate. But then I do expect that 0:02:20.520 --> 0:02:23.160 times for them niggas to really see shit for what 0:02:23.240 --> 0:02:27.840 it is. And I realized in their mind that they 0:02:27.960 --> 0:02:31.440 had the same feeling about Big. And that's not to 0:02:31.440 --> 0:02:36.000 say much notorist. Big is a fucking terrific storyteller, like 0:02:36.200 --> 0:02:42.880 fantastic storyteller, like this nigga is incredible, but Ice Cube 0:02:43.000 --> 0:02:46.720 Couzin is on another level. And I'm talking to Charlotte 0:02:46.720 --> 0:02:49.520 Mane and Charlet Magne is telling me BIG's catalog is 0:02:49.639 --> 0:02:52.680 all stories, and I'm like, you obviously haven't heard ice 0:02:52.720 --> 0:02:55.679 cues catalog because you just wouldn't have said that you 0:02:55.760 --> 0:02:58.480 know what I'm saying. So I took it upon myself 0:02:59.040 --> 0:03:02.160 to compile a list, do some homework over a couple 0:03:02.200 --> 0:03:07.760 of days, compiling lists and start figuring out, damn. 0:03:08.240 --> 0:03:10.760 What are the ten greatest stories in hip hop? 0:03:12.600 --> 0:03:15.720 That would be a real way to get into this, 0:03:16.680 --> 0:03:20.560 like to really take it well because as a certain 0:03:20.560 --> 0:03:22.560 place in brand, you know what I mean, when you 0:03:22.680 --> 0:03:26.679 like an artist dog, that's a preference. And you could 0:03:26.680 --> 0:03:29.480 say best, best is a preference, Better is a preference. 0:03:29.600 --> 0:03:35.840 Great its measurable. Great is measurable because it's not like 0:03:35.920 --> 0:03:39.720 better or best. Great means there's analytics to back this 0:03:39.760 --> 0:03:43.120 shit up. So I took the time and I start 0:03:43.160 --> 0:03:45.600 going through joints and I was like, okay, let me 0:03:45.680 --> 0:03:49.360 look through these joints. So as I remember going back 0:03:49.360 --> 0:03:52.400 through records jamming, I was jamming for hours, jamming for hours, 0:03:52.880 --> 0:03:56.960 and I came up with a few things. Before I 0:03:57.000 --> 0:04:01.080 get into the ten greatest stories in hip hop history, 0:04:01.840 --> 0:04:05.120 I'm gonna talk about some that deserved just a quick conversation. 0:04:06.120 --> 0:04:10.680 All the storytelling by Outcast. That's a fantastic story. 0:04:11.400 --> 0:04:13.880 I used to love her by Common even though it's 0:04:13.920 --> 0:04:16.000 a way of him shitting on gangster rap and West 0:04:16.040 --> 0:04:18.680 Coast Hip hop. It's a fantastic story. Shout out to 0:04:18.720 --> 0:04:23.240 Common six in the Morning by Ice Q. While I 0:04:23.360 --> 0:04:25.599 might not have it as the greatest, it's probably the 0:04:25.640 --> 0:04:28.640 most impactful. It's shape gangster rap the way we know 0:04:28.720 --> 0:04:30.720 it today. As far as West Coast Hip hop goes 0:04:30.760 --> 0:04:34.599 with storytelling. One of the songs in here is actually 0:04:34.680 --> 0:04:37.520 a direct descendant of ice T six in the Morning 0:04:37.520 --> 0:04:38.320 Shout out to the O G. 0:04:41.400 --> 0:04:42.960 Love's Gonna Get You by BDP. 0:04:43.440 --> 0:04:47.560 That deserves an honorable mention because that's a fantastic story. 0:04:48.440 --> 0:04:52.039 Kick Push by Lupe Fiasco barely missed it. That's a 0:04:52.080 --> 0:04:55.920 fantastic story. Louis my man and this is what he does. 0:04:56.000 --> 0:05:01.520 He's a fantastic storyteller as well. Paul Revere by the 0:05:01.520 --> 0:05:04.800 Beastie Boys. I don't think it gets credited as the 0:05:04.839 --> 0:05:10.440 story it is, but it's a dope ass story. Jen 0:05:10.520 --> 0:05:13.560 and Juice and Murder Was the Case is tied. Now 0:05:13.600 --> 0:05:16.680 this is the thing. While Murder Was the Case is 0:05:16.720 --> 0:05:20.120 a story that's really popular and spawned the whole album. 0:05:20.520 --> 0:05:23.560 I understand because they didn't necessarily decide to push. 0:05:23.360 --> 0:05:24.160 It across the world. 0:05:24.160 --> 0:05:26.720 It was something that took a life of its own right, 0:05:27.240 --> 0:05:30.960 and Jen and Juice it should be top five, except 0:05:31.000 --> 0:05:36.279 most people don't know Jen and Juice is actually a story. Yes, 0:05:36.360 --> 0:05:39.320 Jen and Juice is a story. You hear the hook 0:05:39.360 --> 0:05:41.039 and you jamming, and you're saying the words, but you 0:05:41.080 --> 0:05:44.279 don't know you're you're listening to a story of a 0:05:44.360 --> 0:05:46.000 day with Snoop Dogg going into the night. 0:05:47.320 --> 0:05:47.520 Right. 0:05:47.720 --> 0:05:50.800 Shout out to Tonight because I genuinely believe DJ Quick 0:05:50.839 --> 0:05:55.920 Tonight's inspired Jen and Juice. Now let's get to the shit. 0:05:57.640 --> 0:06:06.400 Add number ten on the Top ten Hip Hop's Greatest story, Boys. 0:06:06.040 --> 0:06:07.000 In the Hood. 0:06:08.480 --> 0:06:15.720 By Nwa, written by Ice Cube, delivered by Eaze. I 0:06:15.760 --> 0:06:17.840 don't got to tell you how great of a story 0:06:18.120 --> 0:06:20.479 the song Boys in the Hood is. You know the 0:06:20.520 --> 0:06:26.679 fucking song, You know the fucking story right, What it did, 0:06:27.160 --> 0:06:31.160 how it impacted hip hop. It launched the career of Nwa. 0:06:31.440 --> 0:06:36.960 That's NWA's first hit. That's the reason why people started 0:06:36.960 --> 0:06:40.000 giving Nwa a chance. It's one of the only two 0:06:40.040 --> 0:06:42.480 records that ever charged for Nwa as far as the 0:06:42.480 --> 0:06:47.320 big charts even go batting straight out of counter it 0:06:47.400 --> 0:06:52.000 launched Eazy E into stardom. Easy was somebody who didn't 0:06:52.040 --> 0:06:55.520 rap before that. He took on that song and it 0:06:55.640 --> 0:06:58.400 changed him into a star, and NWA had a star 0:06:59.560 --> 0:07:02.279 to you know wrap. They group around before Cube came 0:07:02.279 --> 0:07:04.479 into his own. When Cube was just a writer in 0:07:04.520 --> 0:07:07.280 a dope MC you know what I mean, easy E 0:07:07.600 --> 0:07:11.480 was their star. Because of Ice Cube's pen and Boys 0:07:11.480 --> 0:07:15.640 in the Hood. Obviously, everybody started to figure out how 0:07:15.720 --> 0:07:17.560 dope of a rider Ice Cube was. 0:07:18.320 --> 0:07:20.080 Because of Boys in the Hood, the. 0:07:20.000 --> 0:07:23.960 Word got around that Ice Cube was a fantastic motherfucking writer. 0:07:25.320 --> 0:07:28.840 It lost Doctor Dra into a gangster rap producer. Once 0:07:28.880 --> 0:07:32.680 that happened, Doctor Dre didn't look back until Doctor. 0:07:32.400 --> 0:07:33.720 Dre Presents Aftermath. 0:07:34.320 --> 0:07:38.040 Doctor Dre was committed to that hardcore style because of 0:07:38.080 --> 0:07:45.360 the success of Boys in the Hood. It's arguably the 0:07:45.440 --> 0:07:50.680 biggest NWA song. Fuck the Police may be the most impactful, 0:07:50.680 --> 0:07:52.920 but I don't think everybody knows the lyrics to Fuck 0:07:52.960 --> 0:07:55.280 the Police. I think they know the movement that is 0:07:55.280 --> 0:07:57.480 Fucked the Police. They may have heard the hook and 0:07:57.520 --> 0:07:59.600 the beat, but they don't know the words. Straight out 0:07:59.640 --> 0:08:03.040 of Camp obviously is a really special joint. But man, 0:08:03.120 --> 0:08:06.040 I cannot tell you how many motherfucking kids under the 0:08:06.040 --> 0:08:10.840 age of twenty know Boys in the Hood. Mind you, 0:08:10.920 --> 0:08:14.000 Boys in the Hood is a direct descendant of six 0:08:14.040 --> 0:08:17.800 in the Morning, So that's Ice Tea's influence on ice Q. 0:08:21.080 --> 0:08:24.440 The ironic part about the whole conversation is the song 0:08:24.560 --> 0:08:28.240 wasn't written for NWA or Easy. It was written for 0:08:28.320 --> 0:08:33.200 a New York crew called HBO Homeboys, only they did 0:08:33.360 --> 0:08:36.760 not like the song. They turned down a song that 0:08:36.920 --> 0:08:42.120 ended up being generational, defining them. Niggas is not popping 0:08:42.200 --> 0:08:45.160 because of that shit. You cannot turn down the winners. 0:08:45.200 --> 0:08:47.319 I'm sure they didn't know, but I bet you they 0:08:47.400 --> 0:08:59.120 know now. Number nine slick Rick's Children's Story. Slick ricks 0:08:59.400 --> 0:09:05.880 Children's Story. Y'all all know this motherfucking song. Everybody remember 0:09:05.920 --> 0:09:09.840 this song when they was a fucking kid. It's self produced. 0:09:09.880 --> 0:09:13.280 Slick ricked himself produced. That's something we don't glowed enough 0:09:13.280 --> 0:09:16.360 about when you know hip hop artists produced their own 0:09:16.440 --> 0:09:21.360 shit and the records that are successful. It spawned one 0:09:21.360 --> 0:09:23.079 of the greatest R and B hits to come out 0:09:23.080 --> 0:09:25.640 of LA a number one song, This Is How We 0:09:25.720 --> 0:09:28.320 Do It by Montel Jordan because it was such a 0:09:28.360 --> 0:09:31.640 dope break and such a dope melody that slick Rick 0:09:31.720 --> 0:09:35.439 made it turned Montel Jordan's song into an even bigger song. 0:09:35.960 --> 0:09:42.720 It's the motherfucking story that keeps song giving. Something else 0:09:42.800 --> 0:09:46.560 I don't think people realize about the children's story is 0:09:47.679 --> 0:09:50.800 if you listen to the lyrics, the little boy was 0:09:50.880 --> 0:09:54.079 surrounded and that ended his glory. And that's the way 0:09:54.200 --> 0:09:56.720 Rick had to end that story. He was only seventeens 0:09:56.720 --> 0:09:59.720 in a mad man's dream. The shot that cops shot 0:09:59.720 --> 0:10:04.640 the still hear him scream they shot the nigga after 0:10:04.679 --> 0:10:07.200 he dropped the gun. So in theory is one of 0:10:07.200 --> 0:10:12.280 the first motherfucking records that we can identify as somebody saying, hey, 0:10:12.280 --> 0:10:15.160 the police ain't right. This comes out before in wa 0:10:15.840 --> 0:10:18.240 There's another song on my list that actually brings up 0:10:18.280 --> 0:10:21.640 police brutality and excessive force too, But you know it 0:10:21.679 --> 0:10:23.360 don't get enough credit. But we'll talk about it when 0:10:23.400 --> 0:10:28.600 we get to there. What the fuck kind of story 0:10:28.640 --> 0:10:33.160 is that? To tell your nephews and nieces remember about 0:10:33.160 --> 0:10:35.920 this slick Rick story, because this is something a story's 0:10:35.920 --> 0:10:38.920 telling his nephews and nieces before a bad time, and 0:10:38.960 --> 0:10:41.839 they sound like they was four Rick. We gotta talk 0:10:41.880 --> 0:10:44.080 about that. That's a fucking crazy story to tell. Somebody 0:10:44.120 --> 0:10:51.200 four or five, and the kids shipped off the shit too. 0:10:51.720 --> 0:10:54.960 They thought this motherfucker was crazy. They was calling him, 0:10:54.960 --> 0:10:57.080 where Rick, Uncle Riggy is weird? 0:10:58.040 --> 0:10:58.240 Rick? 0:10:58.280 --> 0:11:00.760 You can't be telling the motherfucking kids kind of stories 0:11:00.760 --> 0:11:03.160 at that age, man, Like, I get it. We as 0:11:03.200 --> 0:11:05.400 black people in America. You know we're gonna have to 0:11:05.400 --> 0:11:08.199 deal with some shit. But that's a crazy, bad time story, Nigga. 0:11:08.240 --> 0:11:11.440 Most people is telling people about you know, singing people 0:11:11.520 --> 0:11:14.319 marry go rounds and lovbiards and shit. And you telling 0:11:14.320 --> 0:11:17.600 motherfucking story about kids and motherfucker's getting killed and shit 0:11:17.640 --> 0:11:19.520 by the police getting shot. 0:11:20.840 --> 0:11:22.480 We gotta talk about that, big Dog. 0:11:23.920 --> 0:11:26.960 Number eight is one of the most underrated stories in 0:11:27.040 --> 0:11:30.080 disrespect the stories in the history of hip hop. Number 0:11:30.080 --> 0:11:34.840 eight is Through the Wire by Kanye West. Through the 0:11:34.880 --> 0:11:37.720 Wire by Kanye West self. 0:11:37.480 --> 0:11:38.680 Motherfucking produced. 0:11:38.920 --> 0:11:40.599 I don't got to tell you about the production of 0:11:40.679 --> 0:11:42.640 Kanye West because we had already heard it before that. 0:11:43.440 --> 0:11:46.760 But we were introduced to Kanye West, the motherfucking rapper, 0:11:48.800 --> 0:11:53.080 This motherfucker rapping the story of his personal tragedy as 0:11:53.120 --> 0:11:57.520 it happened, a wreck at three am in LA while 0:11:57.559 --> 0:12:00.720 working on music, falling asleep on the wheel getting into 0:12:00.720 --> 0:12:02.920 a car accident that fucks him up. I think he 0:12:03.000 --> 0:12:05.199 had to be you know, let like they had to 0:12:05.200 --> 0:12:07.079 get him out the car through the jaws of life 0:12:07.600 --> 0:12:10.360 at three in the morning. The motherfucking ended up at Cedars. 0:12:10.440 --> 0:12:14.120 Side nine word was when Couz was in the hospital, 0:12:14.120 --> 0:12:16.839 he started writing lyrics to this song, like like when 0:12:16.840 --> 0:12:18.840 he came out of his coma, and I think either 0:12:18.880 --> 0:12:20.959 his face had the surgery like the. 0:12:21.000 --> 0:12:22.000 Inside scope was. 0:12:22.000 --> 0:12:24.000 Cuz was starting to figure out the song, like he 0:12:24.040 --> 0:12:26.719 already knew he was gonna flip through the Fire by 0:12:26.760 --> 0:12:29.520 Shaka Khan to make this song, so they said when 0:12:29.520 --> 0:12:31.640 they came to the studio. When it came to the hospital, 0:12:31.880 --> 0:12:37.440 Cuz had like some ideas already for lyrics. He recorded 0:12:37.480 --> 0:12:39.800 the song only two weeks after. That's why if you 0:12:39.880 --> 0:12:43.280 listened to Through the Wire, Cuz barely can open his mouth. 0:12:46.480 --> 0:12:49.920 As I said, before he samples Shaka khns Through the Fire. 0:12:50.400 --> 0:12:53.440 Shaka Khan wouldn't even clear the motherfucking song until she 0:12:53.480 --> 0:12:56.200 saw that video. That video was one of the most 0:12:56.240 --> 0:12:58.840 brilliant and creative things I've ever saw in hip hop. 0:12:59.200 --> 0:13:01.920 If we're keeping it, that's that video was crazy make 0:13:01.960 --> 0:13:04.680 sure you check that shit out. That shit was unfrecking believable, 0:13:05.080 --> 0:13:08.040 and Shaka Khan wouldn't clear it until she saw the video. 0:13:09.880 --> 0:13:10.920 She ended up regretting it. 0:13:10.960 --> 0:13:12.920 This shit talking about how he did the vocals, but 0:13:13.280 --> 0:13:15.920 he did Shakakana favorite because that shit is paying. And 0:13:15.960 --> 0:13:18.640 whoever wrote that song for Shaka Khan they getting paid 0:13:18.640 --> 0:13:20.240 because I know for sure of them niggas they make 0:13:20.280 --> 0:13:23.040 no money. I'm willing to bet that was no publishing 0:13:23.080 --> 0:13:28.120 to get on that song. I've never heard a story 0:13:28.160 --> 0:13:31.559 in hip hop that turns such tragedy in a triumph. 0:13:32.040 --> 0:13:34.079 It's funny because that's one of the lyrics to the song, 0:13:34.320 --> 0:13:36.480 but I never heard that. Like a lot of hip 0:13:36.480 --> 0:13:39.640 hop stories that sad end on a sad note, this 0:13:39.760 --> 0:13:42.480 is one of the few that took a real underdog story, 0:13:42.840 --> 0:13:44.280 a sad story and he. 0:13:44.320 --> 0:13:45.240 Won at the end. 0:13:45.600 --> 0:13:51.800 And in real life, the whole time Ya was trying 0:13:51.840 --> 0:13:54.240 to convince Rockefeller that he was going to be a 0:13:54.240 --> 0:13:57.880 successful rapper, this was the song that proved it. I 0:13:57.920 --> 0:14:00.679 don't even think Rockefeller believed in it right when they recorded, 0:14:00.720 --> 0:14:03.280 but they put it out and then everything worked out. 0:14:03.520 --> 0:14:05.320 So shout out to Yan for that but yeah at 0:14:05.400 --> 0:14:07.280 number eight through the wife Kanye West. 0:14:08.559 --> 0:14:14.040 Respect that as a story. It is number seven. 0:14:14.440 --> 0:14:18.480 My favorite artist in the history of artists, Scarface. I 0:14:18.600 --> 0:14:24.480 Seen a Man Die, Scarface, I Seen a Man Die. 0:14:24.800 --> 0:14:26.800 I don't know if you know the song I never 0:14:26.840 --> 0:14:29.520 seen a man cry till I Seen a Man Die. 0:14:29.720 --> 0:14:32.160 That's actually the title of the song because I've seen 0:14:32.160 --> 0:14:32.920 a Man die. 0:14:34.000 --> 0:14:34.560 It's one of. 0:14:34.520 --> 0:14:38.240 Scarface's only two top forty records. This is the song 0:14:38.280 --> 0:14:40.160 that launches Scarface into solo. 0:14:40.240 --> 0:14:44.040 Start n O Joe on the beat. 0:14:43.840 --> 0:14:47.560 Mike Dean, Mike Dean changes his abject Mike Dean changes 0:14:47.640 --> 0:14:50.240 his trajectory. You know a lot about Mike Dean now 0:14:50.280 --> 0:14:53.600 because he works with Kanye, and Scarface is another person 0:14:53.640 --> 0:14:55.760 that produced on a song that really doesn't get enough 0:14:55.800 --> 0:14:58.360 credit as a producer. So shut out to Face for 0:14:58.400 --> 0:15:05.120 that production, right if you heard Share so Many Tears. 0:15:05.360 --> 0:15:07.720 I don't have to explain to you how touching the 0:15:07.840 --> 0:15:08.400 song is. 0:15:09.880 --> 0:15:11.080 Just go listen to it. Dog. 0:15:11.120 --> 0:15:13.840 It's sad like that's a sad story where the dude 0:15:13.880 --> 0:15:16.920 dies in the end and regrets his circumstances. That's mostly 0:15:16.960 --> 0:15:21.400 how sad stories end in hip hop. It inspires shed 0:15:21.440 --> 0:15:24.040 So Many Tears by Tupac. If you go look at 0:15:24.040 --> 0:15:28.840 the Outlaws, the Outlaws have interviews where they say Pac 0:15:29.040 --> 0:15:31.520 was listening to Shed so Many Tears, and after that 0:15:31.560 --> 0:15:34.320 he went to the studio to write Excuse Me. He 0:15:34.360 --> 0:15:36.760 was listening to I've Seen a Man Die, and he 0:15:36.800 --> 0:15:40.000 went to the studio to write Share so Many Tears, 0:15:40.000 --> 0:15:42.400 which ended up being one of PAC's greatest songs in 0:15:42.480 --> 0:15:43.120 Los Angeles. 0:15:43.200 --> 0:15:43.920 That launched him. 0:15:44.320 --> 0:15:46.640 Like all of my older homies, all the gang members 0:15:46.960 --> 0:15:49.080 before that, they might have played Pac a little bit 0:15:49.120 --> 0:15:51.640 when I get around you, I mean maybe a little 0:15:51.680 --> 0:15:55.200 bit of Dear Mama maybe, but Dear Mama's after, you know. 0:15:56.480 --> 0:15:57.040 Not so much. 0:15:57.160 --> 0:15:59.760 Keep your head up. Like niggas respected it as a kid. 0:15:59.800 --> 0:16:02.240 I washed it because that shit was fire. But she 0:16:02.280 --> 0:16:04.600 had so many tears. Is when my big homies and 0:16:04.640 --> 0:16:06.880 a lot of g niggas I know started really playing 0:16:06.920 --> 0:16:08.000 Tupac religiously. 0:16:09.880 --> 0:16:12.480 And it's probably the saddest story in hip hop. 0:16:13.480 --> 0:16:16.200 How a nigga get out of prison during seven years 0:16:17.120 --> 0:16:19.400 and getting to some shit, end up back in prison 0:16:20.040 --> 0:16:26.120 and commit suicide. And it's crazy because I think, I mean, 0:16:26.200 --> 0:16:28.760 Scarface is like one of the niggas like Edgar Allan 0:16:28.840 --> 0:16:32.239 poecuz of hip hop, like that nigga shit is so heartfelt. 0:16:32.320 --> 0:16:36.520 And as I was talking to Charlemagne about Scarface, he said, Mans, 0:16:37.200 --> 0:16:39.720 other people have never touched you like Scarface, and that's 0:16:39.720 --> 0:16:43.280 what makes Scarface brilliant, like his richness, his texture as 0:16:43.320 --> 0:16:46.640 a storyteller. He's for sure my favorite guy of all 0:16:46.680 --> 0:16:49.800 the guys in the world right but again, it's like 0:16:50.400 --> 0:16:52.360 he has the work to back it up. I've seen 0:16:52.360 --> 0:16:54.920 a man die as One of the most popular stories 0:16:55.080 --> 0:16:59.600 in hip hop history at number six is the message 0:17:00.680 --> 0:17:05.720 Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five. It's the birth of 0:17:05.880 --> 0:17:13.440 conscious rap. This is the first conscious rap song. It's 0:17:13.480 --> 0:17:16.240 another sad story where somebody ends up dying at the 0:17:16.359 --> 0:17:19.199 end and them niggas end up going to jail. And 0:17:19.240 --> 0:17:23.320 the crazy part is the owner of the label, Sylvia Robinson, 0:17:23.359 --> 0:17:25.200 is the only person who believed in the song. 0:17:25.760 --> 0:17:26.159 Mind You. 0:17:26.280 --> 0:17:30.359 Nobody else from Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five is 0:17:30.400 --> 0:17:33.119 on the song, but Melly Mail and the producer Duke Booty. 0:17:33.240 --> 0:17:35.000 That's the only people on the song. 0:17:35.640 --> 0:17:37.840 Melli Mail didn't even like the song because at that 0:17:37.920 --> 0:17:41.040 point hip hop was all about partying. Like I always 0:17:41.080 --> 0:17:44.240 tell y'all. The hop is a party. The hop was 0:17:44.240 --> 0:17:45.840 the way they used to The hop is like my 0:17:45.920 --> 0:17:47.720 father and them used to call a dance. H we 0:17:47.800 --> 0:17:51.359 going to a hop. Hip is a is a cool thing. 0:17:51.680 --> 0:17:53.560 So hip hop is where it came from. So hip 0:17:53.600 --> 0:17:57.240 hop was about you know, partying and being both for 0:17:57.359 --> 0:17:58.320 about making yourself. 0:17:58.320 --> 0:18:00.200 Why are you so fresh? Why you so ooh? 0:18:00.960 --> 0:18:05.200 Until the message came out, the message birth dealing with 0:18:05.240 --> 0:18:08.879 the struggle completely different. You know what I'm saying not 0:18:09.000 --> 0:18:11.199 to mention most people don't know, but it was written 0:18:11.240 --> 0:18:13.600 as a theme to the nineteen eighty New York City 0:18:13.640 --> 0:18:17.800 Transit straight like this was hip hop breaking barriers. Then 0:18:18.760 --> 0:18:21.959 the message is a fantastic It's probably the second greatest 0:18:22.000 --> 0:18:27.040 story to ever come out of hip hop. So even 0:18:27.080 --> 0:18:29.480 though people didn't believe that this was going to be 0:18:29.560 --> 0:18:32.280 the wave of hip hop, Melly Mal and Duke Booty 0:18:32.320 --> 0:18:35.560 took a chance ended up birthing a genre. That's why 0:18:35.560 --> 0:18:37.520 what Melly Mail has, what he has to say about 0:18:37.520 --> 0:18:40.840 eminem or any other rapper, I just listen. Even if 0:18:40.880 --> 0:18:43.000 I don't agree, I'll just disagree. You know, Mail, I 0:18:43.040 --> 0:18:45.720 don't know, but I put respect on the shit. Melly 0:18:45.720 --> 0:18:49.400 mall talking about because he birthed the genre of conscious rap. 0:18:49.600 --> 0:18:53.280 There is no NAS without Melly Mail. There is no 0:18:53.400 --> 0:18:57.679 motherfucking Tupac without melly Mail. There is no conscious rap 0:18:58.000 --> 0:19:04.840 without fucking Melly Mail. Ice Que may check yourself from 0:19:04.840 --> 0:19:07.840 the Message, which is another fantastic story that we don't 0:19:07.880 --> 0:19:11.520 really give credence to. Can't Nobody Hold Me Down? By 0:19:11.640 --> 0:19:16.359 Puff and motherfucking Mace is a flip of the Message 0:19:16.840 --> 0:19:19.879 that was a smash hit record. Coyner Rayge just flipped 0:19:19.880 --> 0:19:24.159 it last year and made players and that Motherfucker was 0:19:24.200 --> 0:19:28.280 a number one smash, a huge record. It's just levels 0:19:28.800 --> 0:19:31.160 not to mention. This is most likely one of the 0:19:31.160 --> 0:19:35.399 most important, if not the most important, reason that the 0:19:35.480 --> 0:19:38.520 Grand Master Flash and Furious Five were the first hip 0:19:38.520 --> 0:19:41.359 hop act inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of 0:19:41.400 --> 0:19:42.960 Fame in two thousand and seven. 0:19:43.800 --> 0:19:46.680 And it's most likely because of the song the Message. 0:19:48.320 --> 0:19:50.159 So it's weird that they didn't want to fuck with 0:19:50.200 --> 0:19:53.719 the song, but this song is probably the primary reason. 0:19:54.080 --> 0:19:56.520 No disrespect to the rest of their work. The rest 0:19:56.520 --> 0:19:59.320 of they work get off too, but this particular song 0:19:59.640 --> 0:20:03.480 is a gang changing song and it birth I don't 0:20:03.520 --> 0:20:06.119 like You don't get Kendrick Lamar without the fucking message. 0:20:07.040 --> 0:20:08.880 So shout out to mail. Shout out to Duke. 0:20:11.000 --> 0:20:14.080 At number five. We right back with my boys, Scarface 0:20:14.560 --> 0:20:19.760 mind playing tricks on me by the Ghetto Boys. The 0:20:19.800 --> 0:20:22.800 reason I give Scarface so much created is Scarface wrote 0:20:22.840 --> 0:20:27.240 three of the four verses. It was a Scarface solo song. 0:20:30.080 --> 0:20:32.199 Jay Prince thought it was a good idea and he 0:20:32.240 --> 0:20:34.880 thought it could break the Ghetto Boys. Jay Prince was right. 0:20:34.920 --> 0:20:37.520 Shout out to Jay Prince that motherfucker don't be missing. 0:20:38.960 --> 0:20:42.040 It's the first song in hip hop to address mental health. 0:20:42.920 --> 0:20:45.520 Right now, all these motherfuckers is crazy on mental health. 0:20:45.520 --> 0:20:48.120 You hear all these motherfuckers talking about anxiety and all 0:20:48.119 --> 0:20:48.960 this shit, and. 0:20:49.520 --> 0:20:50.800 This is the first song. 0:20:51.600 --> 0:20:54.680 See it comes across as guilty conscious for being this way, 0:20:54.720 --> 0:20:57.879 but really it's a take on anxiety back in nineteen 0:20:57.960 --> 0:21:02.040 ninety fucking one. Most people don't know Scarface wrote this 0:21:02.119 --> 0:21:04.280 song because he's been through a lot of traumatic shit. 0:21:04.600 --> 0:21:06.679 There was a time Scarface tried to kill himself and 0:21:06.680 --> 0:21:09.960 got put into a like an asylum. At least that's 0:21:10.000 --> 0:21:13.480 what I heard. Like, Scarface is a deep person, and 0:21:13.520 --> 0:21:16.400 when you border that type of deepness. I'm sure it's 0:21:16.520 --> 0:21:19.440 dangerous and it probably could be dangerous to your health 0:21:19.440 --> 0:21:23.440 and to your livelihood. So Scarface is brilliant at a cost, 0:21:23.680 --> 0:21:25.960 Like he don't go to these places for free. This 0:21:26.040 --> 0:21:29.440 shit cost him sometime before, I would imagine, because there's 0:21:29.440 --> 0:21:31.960 no way you could be that fucking deep because and 0:21:32.080 --> 0:21:35.640 not been to those places where you thought about, you. 0:21:35.560 --> 0:21:36.720 Know, ending life. 0:21:39.280 --> 0:21:41.840 Mind playing tricks on Me is just a simple old 0:21:41.840 --> 0:21:44.800 expression from Southerners, you know what I mean, when something's 0:21:44.880 --> 0:21:49.920 going on and they're like, I'm tripping. Most people don't 0:21:49.960 --> 0:21:52.960 know it was self produced. Scarface produced mind playing tricks 0:21:52.960 --> 0:21:56.440 on Me. It's another thing again, Scarface is such an 0:21:56.560 --> 0:21:59.639 underrated talent in music, and that's saying a lot of 0:21:59.680 --> 0:22:02.080 Scarf gets a lot of props, but he deserves a 0:22:02.119 --> 0:22:04.720 lot more props. Shout out to n O Joe, shout 0:22:04.720 --> 0:22:06.919 out to Mike Dean. But they will tell you that 0:22:06.960 --> 0:22:09.880 Scarface was just as vested in the production. That's why 0:22:09.960 --> 0:22:12.480 right now, when that motherfucker jump on stage to do 0:22:12.520 --> 0:22:14.960 a show, that motherfucker jump up there with a guitar 0:22:15.040 --> 0:22:20.359 and be playing that motherfucker. This song established the South 0:22:20.560 --> 0:22:25.479 in the gangster rap realm this single song to the 0:22:25.520 --> 0:22:28.120 rest of the country. I'm sure the South had more 0:22:28.160 --> 0:22:31.080 songs before this, but this was the first time to 0:22:31.160 --> 0:22:34.359 the rest of the country, the South planet their flag like, 0:22:34.400 --> 0:22:37.280 oh we hear this is the real the South got 0:22:37.480 --> 0:22:39.560 something to say moment shout out to our cast, shout 0:22:39.560 --> 0:22:43.600 out to Dre but ghetto boys. Mind Playing Tricks was 0:22:43.640 --> 0:22:47.399 the first time that the South put they motherfucking flag 0:22:47.440 --> 0:22:49.439 in the sand in the West, the Midwest, and the 0:22:49.480 --> 0:22:52.680 East collectively and said the South got something to say, and. 0:22:52.680 --> 0:22:54.520 Everybody decided to fucking listen. 0:22:57.640 --> 0:23:03.960 Kid Cuddy personally says it inspired day and Night. So 0:23:04.320 --> 0:23:08.520 just like Scarfaces, I've seen a man die, inspire Tupacs 0:23:09.000 --> 0:23:13.400 shed so many tears, mind Playing Tricks on me inspire 0:23:13.480 --> 0:23:15.880