Word Is Bond Page #7

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'cause these niggas

is horrible."

I need somebody to put

some pepper in my sh*t.

You know what I'm saying?

Lyrically.

'Cause it's, like,

ass-backwards right now.

The dope people gets no credit,

and just the wack niggas,

it's just like they throwing...

[stammers] There's, like,

a party for these dudes.

You know what

I'm talking about!

You be like, "Yo, this nigga

sounds just like so-and-so."

But they don't know... the kids.

My son like,

"Dad, you're crazy.

- He's hot."

- [man] Mind-blowing.

We did the sh*t

that nobody could do.

Like, we had Jay-Z

on the same block,

and then we put it on TV.

[laughs]

[Peedi Crakk] That's crazy.

Talkin' owe Sparks five

Ride for a dollar bill

Famous up in Hollywood

High in them Holly-hills

As a kid,

poetry and rhyming was my vent.

You know what I mean?

I wasn't good

at expressing myself.

I didn't know how to deal

with my anger too good.

Words and poetry

just turned into...

uh, it just turned...

it just opened up

a whole new world to me.

I'm a poet.

You know what I'm saying?

[soulful beat playing]

[]

[Freeway rapping indistinctly]

I don't rock with

these other rappers

They be rapping wrong,

all them niggas sound alike

They should do a rap-along

I let 'em over here 'cause

I'm light-years past them all

They acting,

so I split a clip

Wheelchair, cast them all,

gunmanship, man

I run this sh*t

like a triathlon

Wanna go outside and play,

you gotta ask your dad

You wanna grind

and get this pay

- You gotta ask the Don

- [man] Mm!

A psychic read

on my mom's palm

Said your son gonna live

and grow to be a born leader

I'm about to drop

these torpedoes

- We a score leader

- Was floating on it, though.

I'm on the north side

Of Philly with a seorita

I will never leave her

'Cause a papi got

all the pops

[grunts rhythmically] Yeah!

[Freeway rapping indistinctly]

[grunts rhythmically]

[]

'Cause I'm light-years

past them all

They acting,

so I pull a clip

Wheelchair,

cast them all, gunmanship

Man, I run this sh*t

like a triathlon

I used to try to fit

a lot of words in a verse,

and Jay was like,

"You don't gotta do that.

You don't gotta fit everything

into one verse.

You can let the beat

breathe some."

It's unorthodox.

It separates me

from everybody else.

What's good, everybody?

Happy hump day.

[machine beeping]

We out here.

[medical devices beeping]

Well, I just came

from dialysis,

the process that you go through

that cleans your blood

when you... when you got

kidney failure.

You know, I didn't know

what was gonna happen.

You know I'm a devoted Muslim,

so the first thing I did

was, I went to the masjid,

and I prayed

and asked Allah to help me

get through whatever it is

that I have to deal with.

Then I went to the hospital,

and, you know,

they diagnosed me

with kidney failure.

And they cut my chest open

and put a port in my chest,

and then the next day,

I was doing dialysis.

Four hours a day

three times a week.

And by the grace of God,

I was healthy enough

to get on the transplant list,

so now I'm active

on the transplant list.

So they could call me anytime,

day or at night,

and then I gotta rush

to the hospital,

and they're gonna do

the transplant for me.

I just wanna show people

that...

it's not a death sentence.

New things happen in my life.

That's just more content

and more ammunition

for me to put in the music.

Tell me, how could you

take my smile away from me?

You said you love me

But you lie,

you lie, you lie

Tell me, how could you

take my smile away from me?

[ melancholy electronic beat ]

[]

This is Betty's old house

right here.

He was a creative child.

He liked to draw.

He liked little artifacts...

LEGOs and things like that.

When the hip-hop bug hit him,

uh...

he-he became consumed

with that.

And everybody that

he associated with,

they were consumed

by hip-hop as well,

so... uh, it was different.

I wasn't a big "being consumed

by hip-hop" type of parent.

See, I came up

on the Sugarhill Gang.

I remember when

hip-hop first got here,

so I said, "Okay, how long

is this gonna last?" you know?

The hip,

the hippie to the hip

Hip-hop and you don't stop

Rock it out, baby bubba

To the boogity-bang-bang

The boogie to the boogie,

the beat

[Gregory] He was supposed to do

an assignment.

It ended up being

some poetry that he wrote

that he converted into a song.

The teacher was so impressed...

first, she was

kind of offended.

Something had to do

with a toilet stool

- and things like that, so...

- Oh, yeah, yeah.

- I remember that.

- Do you remember?

You're talking about

"The Little Miss Muffet."

"The Little Miss Muffet."

That's what it was.

I got a "A" on that?

I thought we... she was mad

and you had to go up there.

I thought she got mad at...

she got mad at me.

- She got mad?

- Didn't I get in...

didn't I get in trouble

with her for that?

- Uh, yeah, you did. [laughs]

- Yeah, yeah.

[Gregory]

But he still got a "A."

- [Judy] I don't know.

- [Royce Da 5'9"] It was,

"Little Miss Muffet"...

"Little Miss Muffet

sat on her caboose,

and then she drank

the toilet juice."

- [Gregory] That was it.

- [Royce Da 5'9"] And then

I, uh... I drew a picture

of a toilet...

a toilet

with the toilet lid up

with a lady

with her head in it

with the feet sticking out.

She was highly offended

by that,

so my mom went up there

to talk to her.

I came up and I fell in love

with hip-hop,

and I came into the game

as a battle attack artist.

You know, open mic,

battling other artists.

Yo, I came out

naked at birth

Making it worse,

making a verse

Sacred

and shaking the Earth

Niggas got plenty

opinions about Royce

But they ain't got a voice

I'm doper than them,

so they ain't got a choice

I met Marshal,

and he pulled me into hip-hop.

That was my introduction

into the game.

Stay on the shelves,

playing yourself

Promising threats

to test y'all

Just doing this rap sh*t

until UPS calls

I never thought of myself

as an artist

going on to sell records,

to have to think about,

"How can I sell this music

to all of these people?"

That wasn't on my mind.

I just wanted to be

lyrically superior.

It's the feel of the beat.

I stay in the studio

for 30-plus hours straight.

I almost don't do songs

unless I rewrite something.

[choir vocalizing]

[]

What we're doing right now

is a benefit concert

for the crisis that's in Flint

right now, with the water.

[]

[Colberg] It's got

so bad where it's affecting

kids and grown-ups

at the same time.

I have spots on my legs.

My ribs are swole up.

I don't even drink this water.

I don't even cook

with it no more.

If we can't cook with it,

can't bathe with it,

can't drink with it,

why do we have

to come out of our pockets

and pay for it?

[Tracy]

I'm 45 years old

and I be scared to bathe.

When my grandson...

he comes over,

I mean, we just... we're itching!

We're constantly itching,

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