The Hip Hop Project Page #3

Who?

Little John and the-

Hold on, hold on, hold on,

hold on, hold on.

Y'all teaching me something

right here.

In New York,

when you say Little John,

everybody be like, "Who? "

What? "

See, that's funny.

That means that there are

different regions

that respond

to different things, right?

So I don't even know

if somebody from New York

could really capture

something from the South.

So I'm gonna bring a MC up,

and let's see if y'all can

really feel this New York MC

for the people who like

people like Little John.

Play a beat, any beat.

Let me see if y'all can feel

some New York stuff.

Let's see ifwe

can blend it together.

Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh.

Come on dance, y'all.

Come on, let's dance.

- Come on, where the South at?

I'm representing the South

today, baby.

You see it?

B- boy down, baby, ATL,

a'ight?

New Orleans, a'ight?

VA, where you at?

So they want to see if we can

rock like the Southerners, huh?

They want to see it?

No doubt, baby.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Yo, you know what's on now

I'ma change the game

in a little while

I'ma flip and primp,

just listen

My style just different

And you niggas know

I'm the sickest

So you gonna do,

nigga, better move back

When I act, listen black,

better pull back

I'ma a smack me a chump,

tryin' to act tough

Really got no time

for that bullcrap

Mics are flamin'

I'm lanes are changing

I'm keep a nigga runnin' like

he really not brave enough

Every time I flow I got to know

when I'm dangerous

Ain't no other nigga coming

close to brave as this

See now I'm down,

but in the meanwhile

Freestyle

as my niggas see now

I'ma speed it up now

just the way that I heat it up

Then I'm gonna take an impression

on a wonderful rhythm

How you gonna test me,

MVP:

All of these lookin' minor league

All better flee

when I spit that heat

Now to comp with the verse

coming out of my teeth

Look I'ma take it over

into closure

Got a group of niggas

right behind my shoulders

Waiting to explode

like a supernova

Whack niggas in the game,

now I'm moving 'em over

Y'all ain't ready for that beat.

Y'all ain't ready for that beat.

- If you had the ability

to have everybody stop

and bob their head

and listen to

what you had to say,

meaning the whole world stops

and listens to you,

what would you have to say?

- Y'all walk with me

real quick.

Uh.

Thinking back to '84

When I was a pain

in my mother's eye

From the day of birth,

I ripped her insides

I wasn't planned

I was an option

The first she kept

but the second conceived

Wondered if she knew the same

would happen to me

Mother's Cry,

that's basically

talking about my ordeal

and having to make a decision

on whether or not to have a child,

which I didn't.

I knew my life be different

As I walked up in the clinic

Four months pregnant

The seed growing

in my stomach

I can feel it

Just talking about how I felt

walking in the clinic,

how I felt, you know,

just thinking back, like, you know,

if my mother sat with me a minute.

The source of my music

is basically my life,

personal situations that people,

I guess, are scared to touch on,

or, you know, to let go.

So for me it's like, you know,

freeing myself

from, you know,

pains inside of me.

I just free myself

through my writing and my music.

You don't know

what it is like

Attached to your baby

And you 'bout

to take its life

I wanted to keep it

But the consequence

I couldn't handle...

- Well, Ma Dukes

just passed on Monday.

I was in this classroom when

this girl came up and was like,

"Oh, Chris, you got a call. "

I was like, "What is it? "

She's like, "I don't know if I should be

the one telling you this. "

And I was like, "What? "

He was like, "You know,

basically I was in the hospital. "

He's like,

"Basically your mother died. "

I never experienced death.

Like, I never been to a funeral

before in my whole life.

I regret it;

I told my moms that Sunday

that I was gonna see her.

And I didn't even

go nowhere that day.

I didn't even go see her,

and she was right down the block.

But I spoke to her on the phone.

She called me,

and the aide was,

like, making out everything

that she was saying.

She was like, "She misses you.

She wants to see you,

and she wants to come home. "

And I always hate it when

my moms is in the hospital,

always hated that sh*t.

I'm telling you,

that's definitely what keeps me, like,

even wanting to do stuff is music.

What I think it is about music

is just that it's something

that's, like,

you know what I'm saying,

when you feel like you

don't have anything in the world.

It's a sense of ownership.

- I'm proud to accomplish,

you know,

regardless ofwhether

it's a high school diploma

or getting my GED.

I did it,

and I did it on time.

Running late.

When my father left,

I didn't know what was next,

so I got to build my own future,

you know what I'm saying.

And it's just like,

I see my father.

He was limited,

and I'm not gonna be like that.

I'm not limited in what I can do.

- Yo, P.

Hey.

- I know.

- So how you feelin'?

- Good, good.

Long time comin'.

- Oh, congratulations.

- Hold on, hold on, hold on,

hold on, hold on.

Going back to Art Start,

do this rehearsal.

I try to make every show

a rehearsal for something else.

And also just keeping

everybody together,

keeping CaNNoN busy.

- I don't know

any program director

that expends the level

of personal time and attention.

I remember going up

to his office at Art Start,

and it'd be like 10:00,

and he's calling them

to see if they got home.

They're talking about

a life issue,

and he's giving them

all the time in the world,

like he doesn't have

anywhere to go,

like he has nothing to do.

He's just, yeah,

just real laid-back,

"Yeah, you know, I understand.

"Well, maybe

what you should do is this.

Well, you know, I find that-"

and I'm like,

"Wow, this is amazing. "

He never put them off.

He always put the needs of those

young people before himself.

- I think he does it because

this is his way of giving back,

giving kids things

that he wasn't given as a child,

as a teenager,

as a man growing up.

- I was born in Nassau, Bahamas.

Six months later, my mother,

she left to come to America,

and she was supposed

to come back for me,

but she never came.

Any orphan who don't know

their parents,

you're always going to wonder

what the person is like.

And I had expectations

of knowing myself,

trying to figure out what

my mother would be like, you know.

When I was 14,

I came to New York to live with her.

I was looking to have

a relationship with her,

and I guess

I had animosity towards her.

She kicked me out,

and I just was on the streets

since I was, like, 15.

Pride will make you not want

to ask anybody,

you know,

if I could stay with them.

So I would get on the train,

write rhymes,

and just go to sleep

right there.

I started needing money,

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