When We Were Kings Page #5

Now I gotta wait. He'll get his

whupping but I just have to wait.

Boy, I was ready!

I was gonna upset the world again!

The whole world was gonna

crawl and bow the next morning!

I was gonna defeat that big

indestructible George Foreman,

gonna rip him up!

I'm gonna get him

for a sparring partner.

My dream's all messed up

for six more weeks.

The man's in trouble,

the man is scared.

- He's in my country to start with!

He's in my country.

You wanna see some of my country?

Ali, boma ye!

Ali, boma ye!

Ali, boma ye!

Can you picture 100,000?

Can you picture 100,000?

How you say it?

Ali, boma ye, Ali, boma ye!

Ali, boma ye!

When I hear them brothers

howling like that, whoo!

I get my soul and spirit,

hollering "Ali, boma ye!"

And I'm gonna... Ooh!

I'm tired, can't take it no more,

let me get out of here.

I wanna... I'm going to my room,

I'll talk to you later.

I said I'm gone!

# What you give me

# When I miss you, baby!

# Oh, man!

# Baby, you understand?

# I'll be good!

# In a cold sweat

# Ow!

# Turn it back #

'Black acts in America

have not learned

'that once their record

is off the charts they're finished.'

I heard a speech by Jesse Jackson,

saying we must recognise

that we're only useful

as long as we're necessary.

So they don't realise that your

strength comes from your community.

And you have to deal

from your strength.

In dealing from your strength

you got somebody

so if somebody

wants to hurt James Brown,

somebody gonna raise a voice

and say "why?"

You got soldiers,

somebody that's concerned.

But as an individual, no matter

how big you get, you still a n*gger.

You don't care how much money

you get. You are still a n*gger.

When you become unnecessary.

# Listen

# Extend your love

# Can I get a drum?

# Can I get a little taste? #

Do unto others as you would have them

to do unto you.

Would you ask somebody to lynch you

and tell you where to go and how

to look, then refuse to pay you?

Would you ask somebody

to take advantage of your woman

and you can't even speak to his?

Would you like to pay taxes for

something that you never received?

Do unto others as you would have

somebody do unto you.

And I don't have to use

the word "FM" backwards.

We left Africa in shackles,

fetters and chains.

We're coming back

in an aura of splendour and glory.

The champions are here, champions of

the sports world and the music world,

so put 'em together and we got

one champion that's so intermingled

that we're fused into one entity.

The brother said something there!

Yeah!

Don King put this together.

It was not a colour put it together,

you understand?

I'd like to call him the Messiah.

'This fight

came into existence

'because of Don King's

desire to break out of the pack.

'He was either going to become an

enormously prominent man, at least,

'or go back to obscurity again

if it failed.'

Oh, I'm so happy

to see you, my brothers.

This is the Minister of Finance

of Zaire.

Yes, I have met

the Minister of Finance. How are you?

I appreciate your talent

and expertise.

This is what it's all about.

I welcome you with love.

We must deal with it as such,

but with love, not with hostility.

You know, just but with love.

Bravo, Mr King!

My brother!

'King had

this huge air of welcome.

'Rarely has anyone ever been welcomed

the way King could do it.'

'A joy came off him.'

I knew his reputation,

how he'd been in jail,

how he was thoroughly untrustworthy

but nonetheless

he made you feel good.

Don't leave! I need your strength!

He was startling looking.

Writers found different ways

to describe this uprush of hair.

Some would say that he'd stuck

his thumb into an electric socket.

Falling through an elevator shaft.

'The fight was postponed.

'Don King turned up and it seemed

maybe the fight wouldn't happen.'

Nothing as big as this

ever runs smoothly,

anything worthwhile

is worth fighting for.

If you think

about what Shakespeare said,

"the sweet uses of adversity,

"ugly and venomous like a toad yet

wears a precious jewel in his head."

"Ugly and venomous like a toad

yet wears a precious jewel."

How many fight promoters have tried

even one line of Shakespeare?

I can relate to the denial

they are confronted with,

the rat-infested hovels, sub-standard

tenements, overcrowded tenements.

I've been a part of it.

I know about roaches and rats.

When he started talkin' to me

I can understand him

and he can understand me.

So, when I do this here

he can understand.

Now he will believe in me

because he feels

that I have shared with him

the same anguish and anxiety,

the same pain that he has felt.

It's a big difference.

What would happen

if you took a small part

of the vast sums of money

being made from the fight

and put it into something that was...

that would help a number of people

rather than a few?

This is my dream and desire,

and I feel that I would need...

white counterparts to do this here.

I would say let me engender a large

amount of money, if it's possible,

and then don't just let the money

sit there and wither away and die

but put it into the sun so it could

germinate, blossom and grow.

'He's a remarkable man.

'Don King is one of

the brightest people I've ever met,

'he's one of the most

charismatic people I've ever met,

'he's one of the hardest working

people I've ever met.'

He is also totally amoral

and I can't think of a man who has

done more to demoralise fighters,

exploit from fighters and ruin

fighters' careers than Don King.

But you have to give him his due

for what he did to make Muhammad Ali

versus George Foreman in Zaire.

And nobody does anything for nothing.

You understand that?

Fight or no fight,

what business are we in?

- Music!

- I was starting to wonder.

I felt like

we've been in the fight business.

# My body

# My body

# Shake your body

# Shake your body

# Shake your body

# We're gonna have a funky good time

# We're gonna have a funky good time

# We're gonna have a funky good time

# We're gonna have a funky good time

# We're gonna have a funky good time

# We're gonna have a funky good time

# Pick 'em up!

# We're gonna take you high

# We're gonna have a funky good time

# We're gonna have a funky good time

# We're gonna have a funky good time

# We're gonna have a funky good time

# Pick 'em up!

# We're gonna take you high, yeah! #

I'm gonna play me

some soul music, man.

The Spinners...to James Brown.

- # Make me high

- # Get me high

- # Make me high

- # Get me high

- # A natural high

- # Groovy high... #

Ali! Ali!

# Downright high

- # Everybody high

- # Legal high

# Need to get high

- # Down high... #

- I'm ready.

- # Bad!

- # Bad!

- # Bad!

- # Bad!

- # Bad!

- # Bad!

- # Bad!

- # Bad!

- # Bad!

- # Bad!

- # Bad!

- # Bad!

- # Bad!

- # Bad!

- # Bad!

- # Bad! #

Sucker, you ain't nothin'!

You're too ugly!

You don't represent

us coloured folks.

These Africans make all of us ugly.

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