The Hip Hop Project Page #9

Put that in your music.

- The man in the mirror

I've been through it all

My struggle was long...

Every time me and my moms

was supposed to link up,

something happened,

or she had to go to work.

But if mending

that relationship,

if that's going to help me

in my life

and help her life,

I'm down to meet her halfway

and do the work that it takes

to reconcile with her,

and that's what

this is all about.

How am I gonna tell

other people to heal

if I'm not healing

the situation?

So I definitely need

to connect with her

and have a-

have a conversation.

I chose to stay in the studio

until sometimes

7:
00 in the morning

and then go to school

and sometimes disregard it.

I'm just now wisening up

and really trying

to graduate high school.

And it definitely

been stressing me,

because my life without music

is no life at all.

- I'm just hanging in there.

I'm getting ready to give up,

but I'm giving him

one more chance.

He's serious for the first time.

- Yeah.

Turn the music up.

Real artists put their heart

in their songs

So everybody

just follow along

You hear me?

Now all I ever wanted to do

was just rap and be wise

But everybody mind

they business

And they capitalize

Now everybody

who ain't affiliated

They really hate it

and made it

Oh, just so hard for success

Pardon my stress

But it's hard to ingest

the pain

Without a doubt, I was...

- Accomplishment is what

every human being live for,

purpose, just to say

that I did something, you know?

I can see the finish line now

and just to get through it,

these-these next couple

ofweeks.

- I think media training

is so important.

If I get a great interview

out of you,

it makes me look good.

You do a great interview,

it makes you look good.

So if I'm like, yo, you know,

"Lou, what's up man?

"Tell me,

where did it all begin?

And you're like, "You know,

I'm saying, um, you know. "

Blah, blah, blah, blah.

Cut.

I'm going to wrap the interview,

like, "Word, word, good luck. "

- One reason why this program

works is because theory-

like, in school,

they give you theory,

but this works

because we do it hands-on.

Being that you did say Lou,

what ifwe pretended

that you was interviewing him

right now or whatever?

- All right, we're right here,

MTV Beach House.

We've got one of the hottest cats

on the streets right now.

- Yes, sir.

- My man, Lou,

down with the HHP project, right?

- Yeah.

- Pleasure, man, pleasure.

You guys are doing it big

right now, right?

- Yeah, man, you know,

just collaborating with a lot of people.

We're making it happen,

you know, putting out the album.

- Mm-hmm.

- Lot of hard work.

And I've been learning a lot

through the process, you know,

that you have to go through

the process, you know?

So there's

no getting around that

and just trying to stay focused.

- What he did right is,

you give people more

than what they need,

then they're always going to

want to put you on their airwaves.

Verse, where you from, man?

- Born in Harlem,

from the Bronx.

- From the Bronx?

What's different about you

than any other artist I've heard,

because there's a hundred artists

coming out a day, bro.

And you know, we're kind of

getting tired of them, man.

So what is it that you're going to do

to pique my interest?

- Whether you're white, black,

or whatever,

you're going to relate to the talent

and the actual content.

- I want to hear

what that sounds like, man.

Just, you know, a cappella, man.

Give me about eight bars, man.

Kick a verse, Verse.

- Every label's a label sh*t

They want to enable spit

And I'll be watching you daily

in the cable sh*t

And I just escaped the game

Because the black

is like the over rhyme

Just escaped the prick

who own this clothing line

So now holes in the coat

Pop knows my rhyme,

but you know

Everything is just

so one to none

You're not a d*ckhead

But you understand

where I'm coming from

Stayed back,

you said you like me, right

Because we're kind of

laid-back

Blazin' the interview,

don't mean to be critical

But this lyrical part

really a part of the interview?

- To leave the mastering plant

and know that that's on the way

to the manufacturing plant,

you know,

I had the big Kool-Aid smile.

To me, that's the biggest thing

I did in my whole life.

And I didn't do it by myself.

I did it with my family.

I'm going to cry.

Oh, man, it's been a long time.

We got 16, 17 cuts on the album,

and it's bangin', you know,

everything is hot.

I'm on my way to Queens

to see my mother,

have a conversation with her

that I've been meaning to have

for a very long time.

Instead of sweeping it under the rug

or ignoring it

or going through the same thing

over and over again,

I'm just going to deal with it,

today, you know?

- Oh, hi.

- Hello, Gene.

- Okay.

- How are you doing?

- All right.

- Can I come in?

- Sure.

- How are you doing?

- Okay.

- Been a long time.

- Mm-hmm.

- You got a new 'do.

- Yeah, I cut my hair off.

- It's the first time

I'm out here.

- Yeah.

- This is nice.

Coming here,

there's so much stuff

I guess I had to ask.

I don't know where to start.

- Start someplace.

- I guess...

Well, so why you-

why you left?

- Why I left you?

- Yeah.

- It's not a matter of left you.

There is millions of people

in this country

that came from other countries.

- All right, mm-hmm.

- And lots

that left their children

before they joined them again.

It's only some rebel.

- You never take up

no responsibility for it.

It's just like it wasn't-

- Take responsibility for what?

- For what?

- Mm-hmm.

- Where you was

all that time, man.

- All what time?

- 14 years.

Where was you all that time?

Let me tell you,

just as much as I'm supposed to

listen to you,

you need to listen sometimes too,

because parents

don't always know what they doing.

- Mm-hmm.

- You know, so sometimes

y'all got to humble up

and listen to y'all children.

I'm willing to understand

the parts

about where I wasn't

totally right, you know?

But I'm asking you to hear me,

you know what I'm saying?

Listen to what I'm, you know,

what I was going through.

When you see a kid

that's supposedly acting up

or being rebellious,

it's a cry out to say,

"I want your attention.

I want you to love me. "

Because that's all it was.

I ain't-I'm not a bad person.

I never was a bad kid.

Even when-in the Bahamas,

when I was always in trouble,

that's all it was, you know?

And it seemed like

that was the only time

I got attention from people,

when I was acting up.

And I guarantee,

you talk to any of these prisoners

in these compounds,

they'll te-

you talk to them,

they just-

their actions is really not

about just being bad.

It's deeper, you know?

And we never got to that level,

you know what I mean?

- So now you're coming to say,

all this, all this.

I knew what I went

when I left you then.

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