Word Is Bond Page #6

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- I knew you're from down here.

- You knew?

- Yeah. [laughs]

[woman] Did y'all wanna

come in?

[Tech N9ne] Wow.

Ooh, I don't know

if I'm ready for that.

Sarah, you letting us

come in here?

You know my grandma's name

who lived here?

Uh, Sarah Lee Yates.

How another Sarah

live here now?

Wow, that look way better

than when we lived here.

[women talking indistinctly]

- How you doing?

- [woman] I'm all right.

I'm Tech.

- I'm Hazel.

- [Tech N9ne] Yeah.

My grandma had

a couch right here.

Our kitchen table

was right here.

I remember fried bologna

in the morning.

It feels smaller

because I was little.

You know what I'm saying?

I was... I was a baby.

This is where I grew up, dawg.

I ain't think

I'd ever be back in here.

It ain't no roaches in here

like when we had roaches.

[woman laughs]

I used to have to do this

every morning.

I was about to put on my shoes.

I used to have to do this.

[distant train horn blowing]

[faint indistinct chatter]

[crossing bells clanging]

[faint laughter and chatter]

[train horn howling]

[J. Cole] I didn't

view myself as a writer.

I didn't appreciate

even writing

until I started writing raps.

I didn't care, actually.

Anything I would write

would be maybe a paper

for school or something,

you know?

Middle school,

you gotta write a essay

or-or something like that,

like...

but it was more like a job.

Even as I started

writing raps, it was like,

"Now I'm a rapper."

I wasn't really appreciating,

like, the-the skill level

that you had to have

until later.

When I first started rapping,

I got challenged.

It was, like, battle raps,

you know,

like, just rhymes.

I'm-better-than-you raps.

A bunch of those.

How can I go to school

on Friday

and tell five people

that I'm better than them

and how... you know,

how much better than them I am

in these ways,

with these metaphors,

in these type of flows

and rhymes?

When I started trying

to make songs,

there were some-some

older guys...

some guys that

were older than me

around the city

that I linked up with,

trying to learn.

Really, trying to get

beats from them.

One of them was like,

"Yo, you gotta start

telling stories.

Like... all of

that sh*t is cool,

but, like, that sh*t

can't make no song."

It clicked.

I was like, "Oh, man.

He's right."

And I remember

when I wrote,

I was like, "Whoa."

It had, like, a beginning,

a middle, a end.

It had a climax.

It had suspense.

It had foreshadowing.

All the sh*t that I had

kind of learned in school.

And it changed

my whole perspective,

'cause I realized that

that's really what... moves me.

The braggadocious

is just like,

you know, it's-it's cool,

but it's just like...

[stammers] It's a...

it's a box around that.

- Yeah.

- [ heavy bass beat ]

[ distorted singing ]

Why every rich black nigga

gotta be famous?

Why every broke black nigga

gotta be brainless?

Uh, that's a stereotype

Driven by some people

up in Ariel Heights

Here's a scenario

Young Cole pockets is fat

like Lil TerRio

Dreamville, give us a year,

we'll been on every show

Yeah, f***, nigga,

I'm very sure

I was up one night

reading the dictionary,

and I came across "rhapsody,"

with a H.

R-H-A-P-S-O-D-Y.

And the definition,

in a nutshell,

is poetry spoken

with great emotion.

Wrote a Hallmark,

a couple line

To touch your feelings,

stared at wall art

Some days I feel like

Three Stacks

Up at that altar,

international player

Like DeRozan,

I can ball hard

Real friends

always pick up...

I came from

a small country town

in North Carolina.

Population:
1,200.

Everything hip-hop-wise was,

like... this magical place.

You know, I'd sit

in front of the TV

and-and watch the Fugees,

and I'd watch Nas and Biggie,

and I'd watch MC Lyte

and Queen Latifah,

Salt-N-Pepa,

and it was like, "Wow."

And I didn't have anybody

that I could go out and touch.

I think it was just the fear

of being judged

and not even thinking

it was possible.

It was Charlie Smarts

from Kooley High.

He was like, "You here

at the studio every day.

I know what you want to do.

Go write a rhyme

and get in the booth."

Talking big game,

you ain't Torry, homey

I don't drive pickup,

but I do dodge Rams

It's really all wolves

all clothed as lambs

I'm really superhuman,

y'all just pose like Cam

[laughs]

I used to have a tendency

to overthink it.

You know, instead of

letting it come naturally,

I would focus way too much on

trying to say the most witty,

intricate punch line.

It's like basketball.

Like...

you know when somebody's

in they zone.

You see it when they come down

and they got this crazy,

special rock.

When they rocking like that...

"Oh, he about to pull up,

'cause he in his rhythm."

Bam.

So when I'm overthinking

the game,

it's like, I lose my rhythm,

and that shot don't fall

like it's supposed to fall.

Don't overthink it.

Don't try to make it perfect.

Just do you.

- Heavyweight champ

- [ swelling orchestral beat ]

Mm, rocking Amsterdam,

got the U. S. coasting

Rapping like I'm golfing,

got the U. S. open

The beast has awoken,

his speech is ferocious

Here our drama, leave beef

with the ghost-es

When it comes to flows

I'm the rapper

with the mostest

Shut down the party, it

don't matter who the host is

Now it's 'bout money

and it's all about the cars

It should be about bars

It don't matter

who the brokest

Heavyweight champ

with the heavyweight chip

Ball all four quarters

[Freeway] My writing has

changed my life tremendously.

Before this,

I was a drug dealer.

Only other job I had

was sweeping hair

in a barbershop.

My gift of speech provides

for me and my family

and several other

people's families,

and so it's definitely

a blessing.

[]

So Freeway in the past,

you know,

he's looking back

at some of the mistakes

he might have made or

some of the paths that he took,

and he's going through this

and saying,

"You know what?

If this Freeway didn't exist,

you wouldn't have this Freeway

that we have here now."

Yeah, so, basically, you know,

the color and everything,

I definitely think

it-it works well.

I mean, I'm glad you let me

listen to some of the...

some of the lyrics

in the... in the album, man,

but I honestly think

this is gonna be

your best album cover,

especially for this classic

- you about to drop.

- Do me a favor too.

Make sure I get

a little prostration mark.

[laughing] I got you, bro.

I got you.

[Freeway] I was a huge

Naughty By Nature fan.

I thought Treach was,

like, one of the dopest.

I loved Dres from Black Sheep.

Course, Biggie, Tupac, Jay.

She listening

to new God MC

I'm something

you'll never doubt

[]

[soulful vocalizations]

I hate rap right now.

But... all right, I'm sorry.

I don't mean to say that.

The competitiveness is gone

because there ain't nobody hot

to even compete with.

You start chilling,

like, "This sh*t is wack,

and I don't even wanna

do this sh*t

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