The Hip Hop Project Page #4
so I just started rolling
with gangs
and cats in the streets
who was just showing me
how to get money,
was showing me just how
New York streets works.
So this is Brooklyn.
This is the main
shopping district,
downtown Fulton Street.
And here's where we,
you know,
this is where we come
and get paid at, you know.
I was taught how to go
in a store,
and we could take
a whole section.
There's these huge bags
we would make,
that the alarm systems
wouldn't go off.
I always say the criminal mind
is a creative mind,
and it's all
where you put that energy.
At that time, all my creativity
was in finding ways to survive,
and now I'm using it
in other ways.
All right, person,
you come,
have your hand open
for receiving.
I want to put myself
on the examining table,
so y'all can do me,
so I can go home
with some stuff to meditate on.
- I would say something
to grow on
is being patient
with people's emotional problems
that they come to you with.
You know, some people
might see you as a person
that they never had
in their life
or the person
they wish they had.
So you cool, just be
a little bit more mindful toward-
you know, towards the question
and the emotions
that people come to you with.
- You never let me
give up on myself.
You're always there.
I appreciate that,
and I see that.
- All my life,
my father wasn't there.
So I didn't really have
that male figure in my life.
And when my father
finally did come in.
I look at you,
and you've been more
of a fatherly influence on me
than that man has.
- More than anything,
emotional ruts,
quicksand I call it.
You try to find yourself
when you're in those
and have people around you
that you can tap into
that can pull you up,
because once you go down,
you got to be careful
during them times,
because you're vulnerable
to a lot of things, man.
- Nobody's ever
emotionally stable, you know,
because life gives you all types
of different hands.
But how you deal
with those things
and that will come
from watching your breath,
breathe easy,
build your discipline.
All that emotion that you got-
because that's all it is,
is energy-
if you put it into something
that could channel
that out of you,
so it's something
that you're constantly doing
that is to get away from the everyday stuff
that stress you out.
The first three years of the program
is about self-development.
We became a family
because of it.
- The goal of the Hip Hop Project
over the next six months
is to produce
and complete this album.
We can't want it more than you,
so everybody's got to work.
And it's critical that you do
a lot of pre-production at home,
a lot ofwriting at home,
because now when we go in the studio,
time is money.
of the music business.
I started at Def Jam,
and then I went to Arista Records.
I was the director
of urban artist development.
- I went to this conference.
I saw Kheperah walk in,
you know.
And, you know, I was like,
"All right, she's fine, you know. "
- I see this brother with a kufi on,
red, black, and green.
He said, "How you doin'?
I'm Divine. "
- Everybody's pulling on her time,
and you know, I'm more humble.
I'm falling back or whatever,
and she was so nice.
She held my hand and said,
"I'll speak to you in a second,
brother," or whatever.
So, you know, she made me feel
so relaxed and calm.
You know,
she has a knack for that.
- The next day, he called me.
And he said,
"What's the thought for the day? "
And I was feeling that.
I began to look forward
to that call in the morning.
- And I think that was really
the moment it just sparked.
And ever since then,
it was just like chemistry.
- Yo
These are trying times
I'm livin' in
And Brother Hathaway sung it
And with pain I encounter
a large abundance
My faith seem
to hold mad weight
But when the hurt hits
I question if God is even
the one for me to run with
Why would the most high
put his children so low?
Wasn't no act of suffrage,
sh*t, I damn sure ain't vote
To choose a route
through such bondage
Through my mind and my soul
Ah, bring it back.
I met great people,
but God made man
They try to hate me
But it's he who overstands
the circumstance
Also the creator
who put me in this gloom
And made the decision for
my moms to transcend so soon
Also put many others in doom
I'm more fortunate
than half of the world
But yet I still feel omitted
Why must I feel misery
and be stuck and left with it
Trying to see it
in a way like
Maybe God did it to test
For the end
which is the great one
But where I'm at
Feel like the ending reward
that I'ma gain one
Only God knows what's next
I wish his image projects
And I could reflect
what he truly want of me
And there's no such thing as death
But I feel like it's just stains
Left from my past life
haunting me
I don't know what to think
But I know what I feel
Feel a chunk of me gone
I don't know what to think
But I know what I feel
I feel a chunk of me gone
- Where it all started.
Mali, what's the deal, baby?
In the Bahamas, I was really,
like, a hip-hop fanatic.
Coming here was just
like destiny,
like I was supposed to be here.
- You know, he had this, like,
weird style of dressing
because we was always
with the baggy jeans,
and, you know,
that was our style of dressing.
He come through
with the leather hat, you know,
jeans kind of tight,
tight vest,
because he's fresh
from Bahamas.
And, you know, he had
the different accent at the time,
and we didn't understand nothing.
He was like, "And I believin'
that we should do this,
and we should do that. "
- I started getting into
the music scene,
and, you know,
I was managed by Doug E. Fresh
and this guy named
Donovan Thomas,
and I would go on tour
with them.
Hindsight 20/20
Take it to the cemetery
Whether the clock stops
early or late
Either you rot in hell
Or you knock
on the pearly gates
Every morn's a chance
to right your wrong
Don't sweat this song
Life goes on
- I would help him
get on at different places.
And we used to have
little sit-down talk sessions
about what he wanted to do
with his career
and the different directions
that he wanted to take.
I find what he's doing now incredible,
because he passed on
the information
and just carried on what it was
that I was doing for him.
- You go first, right?
- Then she go.
- Then she go.
Then it should be chorus?
- Yeah.
- Nah, we changing that,
'cause, musically,
it won't sound correct.
- It's like, they're doing
the first 16, then-
- Hook.
- Then hook,
then it's CaNNoN and-
- Princess.
- Princess.
- Right?
- I thought they came after.
- Hold on, hold on,
let's stop, stop.
Yeah, I'm getting confused.
- No, it was supposed to be
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