Word Is Bond Page #3

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- Kanye West.

Kweli.

- F***.

- [laughs]

- Did someone say Kanye West?

- [both] Yeah.

- [all chuckle]

- Andr.

- Common.

- Andr 3000... and Big Boi.

- Tech N9ne.

- I said that.

- Tech... you said Tech.

- Okay.

- Twista.

- I said that, motherf***er.

- No, you didn't.

- UGK.

- Kanye West? [laughs]

- You said that already?

ODB is in the back.

We're children of hip-hop.

We really are.

We're not the new age, like,

"We just found out

about rap music."

[man] You left out

Jerry Garcia.

- Oh, Jerry Garcia. [laughs]

- Is he a rapper?

Kids call me the black

Jerry Garcia. I don't know why.

[Meechy Darko] 'Cause you look

like a black Jerry Garcia.

[chuckles]

Damn, we definitely left

somebody out.

Love's gonna get you,

love's gonna get you

[J. Cole] Some stuff

I'd go to, I was like,

"I remember when

this sounded old to me."

Now I hear it differently,

like, "Okay...

yeah, it's old,

but what if I put myself

in the shoes of somebody

who had never

heard this before?"

Like, I went and listened

to KRS's album...

I'm in junior high

with a B-plus grade

At the end of the day,

I don't hit the arcade

I walk from school

to my mom's apartment

I gotta tell the suckers

every day, "Don't start it"

'Cause where I'm at,

if you're soft, you're lost

To stay on course

means to roll with force

...I was blown away, 'cause

I remember a point in time

when I literally was looking

at KRS in that era like,

"Aw, them dudes old."

Like, "Ain't nobody trying

to hear that,"

to when now, as a grown man,

I'm going back, listening,

and like, "Oh, my God.

This went platinum?

This dude is dropping

knowledge.

Like, every bar, this dude is,

like, firing off knowledge."

You know what I mean?

Like...

'cause it was fresh back then,

so to hear that

for the first time was like...

[imitates explosion]

My brother's five years

older than me,

and I told my brother,

like, you know,

"No, MC Hammer is

the best rapper, man.

You gotta check this guy out.

I'm telling you."

I'm dope on the floor

and I'm magic on the mic

And he was like, "No, man."

Like, "MC Hammer's

the best entertainer.

There's a big difference

between what MC Hammer says

and what..."

at the time,

it may have been,

oh, Rakim or Run-DMC.

"What do you mean, like,

it's a big difference?

No, do you see him?

He's, like,

doing the typewriter

across the stage.

This is everything."

And he was like,

"Nah, it's cool.

Lyrically...

there's a big difference."

I started listening

differently.

Ruff

Uh, uh, uh

[Styles P] All right,

let's do it.

F*** the frail sh*t, uh

[]

Yonkers is like a gumbo...

of... all of the boroughs.

We got a little bit of Bronx,

a little bit of Harlem,

a little bit of Queens.

- But we different.

- Yeah, but...

a whole lot of Yonkers.

...furnished, I'ma take it

My bathtub lift up,

my walls do a 360

We got the sh*t

that the government got

Talking money,

then you rubbing the spot

Real niggas say

that they be wilding

We on the Cayman Islands,

on a yacht...

We keep our foundation here.

As you see,

our studio is right here.

You know, we have...

It's important to show...

the youth here

that they can make it,

you know what I mean?

It's important to show them

that it's not far-fetched.

- It's not...

- Impossible.

You know, your dreams are...

your dreams are right there.

You... you know, if you wanna

pursue a rap career,

you can do it.

You got all that nice sh*t on.

- Who?

- You.

I got the same gear

from last night, D.

[Styles P]

It sure look like today to me.

'80s hip-hop beat

I wanted to be Lee

from Beat Street.

That was probably

the first person

I ever wanted to dress like

- or have... live his lifestyle.

- Beat Street was so edgy

to me, compared to Breakin'.

- But I loved them both.

- Breakin' was dope,

but I think

Beat Street hit us.

I wanted to be in Beat Street

more than I wanted

- to be in Breakin'.

- Yeah, for sure.

But I love watching Breakin'.

I love Breakin'.

I didn't like Breakin' 3.

I would've rather be

in Krush Groove

- more than any of them.

- Krush Groove, definitely.

- [upbeat music playing]

- A kiss on the spine

Do things we never do

[Jadakiss] I was nice

in break-dancing.

All over the town,

all different basements,

wherever the best

linoleum was at.

[ groovy hip-hop music ]

I won a few talent contests.

My name rung around Yonkers.

- Hip-hop's a Ferris wheel...

- [Styles P] Mm-hmm.

...that's just constantly

going like this,

you know, sonically,

the fashion...

- [Styles P] For sure.

- ...and the haircuts.

The hardest part of that

is staying on the Ferris wheel.

On this particular beat,

maybe I say...

I'll drag a word out

and he won't drag the word out.

Like, you know what I'm saying?

Maybe he says it

at a pitch that

I wouldn't say it at,

or the word before,

which becomes...

a whole entity

of creation itself

within one line.

Last time, I just

sat next to him

while I was hearing his verse

as he was making it up.

I kind of made the verse up...

the next verse off of that,

and then I just could hear

what I... what I want to say

when he's mumbling,

or sometimes I hear it out,

or he hears it out.

You might listen to it

and think we're going like,

I'm doing a part,

and he's doing a part,

we're doing the whole song...

either he's doing it or me...

and then we gotta fill it in.

Say a couple lines,

you gotta leave some out,

you gotta come back in

with the same energy

like the lines were there.

- We don't punch.

- We don't punch, yeah.

We don't punch in here.

We get through the whole verse.

We don't get... we don't give you

one or two of the lines,

tell the engineer to stop,

and then fill it in.

Like, if we don't say

the whole verse

from the first word to

the last word of the verse...

[Jadakiss] We going from...

we go back to the top.

...we go back to the top,

to the top, to get it...

[man] Why's that?

We just... that's how

we was raised.

MC is a craft.

This sh*t is like basketball,

boxing, mixed martial arts.

I move up a couple pounds

and fight a upper weight class,

or I lose some pounds

and fight a lower weight.

You conversating with the beat.

When that beat comes on,

there's somewhere distinctively

that you're pulling from...

people, ancestors, spirits,

energy, friends.

I could crush you

whatever way you wanna do it.

I still could demolish you.

You stand no chance at all.

[Styles P]

You won't live at all.

[ bright music ]

[Fashawn]

Bright as I ever been

Brighter than

the predecessors of Edison

This African

effortlessly wrecking sh*t

The exorcist

is checking them

With a crucifix,

rebuking the devilish

I'm clearfully heaven-sent

Eh, I'm done, man.

[laughing] Oh, my God.

That's ridiculous.

To me, there was always

a difference

between an MC and a rapper,

you know what I mean?

And to me, the MCs

were the lyricists,

and the rappers were

guys that were here

for the monetary gain

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