The Hip Hop Project Page #5

Verse, me, hook.

- Right.

- Ty, Divine.

- Ty, Divine, hook.

- Hook.

- Bridge.

- No bridge.

- No.

- Hook, then bridge.

- Right.

- Ah.

- All right, let's go.

- Yeah, this is how

we do this now.

Come on.

Good morning, America.

We got something for you.

Yeah.

Oh, like, what's up?

Yeah, relax.

Yeah.

Let's do this like this.

Check it out, yo, V-E-R

Oh.

- Calm down a little bit.

- All right.

Yo.

Uh-huh.

Rap critics.

V-E-R

S to the fifth letter

Ain't nobody destined

to spit better

H-H-P damn right

Yo, we love what we built

Whether you black

Or you got the skin color of milk

- Oh, sh*t.

Kazi!

Ah, man.

We runnin' out of tracks man.

- Yo, Kazi, man.

- Click all of them.

This is all-

this is all the hook?

The budget that Art Start

has given me

is not enough to really go

and do it full out.

So we're going to have

to find studios

and outside contributors

to help us complete this album.

- Today we are Ralph Pierre

and Maurice.

Ralph Pierre and Maurice.

- Maurice.

- I guess we are here

to raise money

for whatever we're here

to raise money for.

- What kind of people

are here tonight?

- A bunch of people I'm sure

have nothing to do

with hip-hop at all.

- Yes, but they have lots

and lots of economy.

- A lot of it.

- Lots.

- A lot of economics.

- Well, we at

some guy's apartment.

We're about to throw

this little show for him

I guess so he can see what

pretty much Art Start is about,

Hip Hop Project,

and see what we working with.

- You know, seriously.

I was, like, looking around.

I'm like going, "Who let these

people into my house, man? "

You know?

- All right, howdy, howdy,

howdy, howdy.

How's everybody doing?

This is Scott Rosenberg.

This is my high school

teacher, y'all.

And at lunchtime,

we used to get together.

The principal used to try to like, well,

we say hate on us,

which is basically

being an obstacle

in our path

of expressing ourselves.

So what Scott would do,

he would get a lunch-a classroom.

He would bring some beats

and some music,

and we'd just express ourselves,

and it was like

my favorite class,

and I always said it would be dope

ifwe had, like, a school,

or, like, a program, like,

kids could just express themselves.

And so about three years later,

here we are.

Hip Hop Project's

going on strong,

and thanks to big Scott

for making it happen.

- 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

I had to make a decision

I'm thinking

this could be different

If my mother sat with me

a minute

Couldn't believe it

Tried to punch myself

in the stomach

And get rid of its life

Scared

Popping pills hoping

it just disappear in the night

In a matter of seconds

Laying on the table while

the doctor flashing the light

I feel an injection

And he robbed my baby

like a thief in the night

You know, it'd be greater

when we start getting paid for it.

I won't feel so bad

about telling my story.

I'm so f***ing poor.

- Good morning.

Lemon.

Hello.

- Good morning.

- Morning.

- How can I help you?

- To see Lemon.

- Excuse me?

- Lemon.

- Have you been here before?

- Yeah.

- Write today's date,

write his name,

and then your name.

- I don't like going to the jails.

It's like you feel incarcerated yourself.

- Just do me a favor,

stand right here.

Just make sure you don't have

anything in your pockets.

Make sure

there's nothing in them.

Okay.

- You'll go through all the securities

and the checks.

You're going to see somebody you love.

It kind of takes a toll on you.

I guess he's all right.

I told him what's

more important right now

is that we all get the lesson

from what occurred.

- I'm going to get

Christopher up for school.

I'm hanging in there with him,

because I really want him

to at least get a high school diploma

and move on.

That he owes me,

and I'm going to make sure

I get it from him.

I'm getting extra tutoring for him,

because his mother was so sick

that he was paying

more attention to his mother.

So that held him back a lot.

He was very-

he's a very bright kid,

but he was concerned

about his mother.

It was very tough for him.

So now he's just getting back

on the right track.

- There was a lot of things

I felt I wanted to say to my moms.

For one, she never heard

my song about her.

I would've liked for her

to hear it, like, at least once

so she could know, like,

how it truly made me feel.

Introducing a cat that y'all

assume don't have any problems

But they building every day

Constructing nothing

but pain and ache

Death internally

Feeling my cardio

slowly decay

I got stress where I feel

like I'm about to crack

Or self-destruct

But I never show people that

Every day, see,

my moms lie on her back

Unable to do for herself

because of the fact

Was diagnosed

with multiple sclerosis in '96

At age 12 had to grow

into a man and sh*t

Handling mad responsibility

I just wanted to be a kid

Felt God

acted inconsiderately

I used to live the life

Always got what I wanted

Moms was doing great

Then I just

watched it plummet

But materials

ain't mean sh*t to me

it was when she got worse

And became my priority

Pops wasn't around

So she was

who I looked up to

Gave me love,

emotional support

Plus she bought me stuff too

Watched her go from walking

in walkers

From taking care of herself

To needing all them damn

doctors to support her

She couldn't do something

as simple

As go to the toilet

to remove her bowels

To me,

that's f***in' foul

Had to used those

adult diapers known as Depends

Then I helped give her

a shower

On the weekends

During the week,

she got a bed bath

Every second I wished

Sh*t just switched to

how it was in the past

But it never happened, y'all

And I constantly asked

I can't win

this battle sh*t

Is always leaving me gassed

Sh*t changed in a flicker

or flash

Hard not to be sad

When them good times

just didn't last

Why me

Never understood that

for nothing

Feeling cursed like somebody

imprecated something

I once had it all

Watched it fall

Crumble right

before my eyes

Its affect was strong

Hoping sh*t would change

But it didn't evolve

It just grew progressively

And it still go on

I once had it all

Watched it fall

Crumble right

before my eyes

Its affect was strong

Hoping sh*t would change

But it didn't evolve

And now this hurts, y'all

- Today's my first day of school

at Mercy College.

I'm going to feel really odd

walking into class

really, really late.

I'm kind of nervous about juggling

all of my responsibilities.

I think if I can make it

through this,

I'm going to be able to make it

through more stuff

that I'm going to have to endure

as I go into my career

later in the future,

so I'm gonna be all right.

My anger motivates me.

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