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Crazy . You may think of it as the channel that rattles your china, occasionally your teeth and hip mus its your children. Mtv is responsible for a complete revolution in the music business in this country. Its as if there were just one National Radio channel for new songs. Youve got poison, rat, warrant a lot of hair spray going on. Its not particularly deep music but with mtv pulshing it, it was best selling. They looked a certain way, they played a kind of music and expected to have a certain facade. Those who do watch buy records, tapes and they buy what they see the most. Recently aerosmith dropped by mtvs new offices to screen their video and big bags of cash. We would have our music meeting and iticide who was going to get put into it new rotation. I was a 21yearold kid who loved punk rock and pretty quickly reerized the music they were playing wasnt what i was into. With the new nirvana video was delivered to mtv i was completely blown away. I said listen, they really are incredible we need to give them a shot. And if doesnt work you can push me out of the meeting. Smells like teen spirit. Its like the musical kennedy assassination of our time. Everybody who was alive then can tell you the moment they heard that song because nothing like that existed to that point. It was really transcendent. Here we are now entertain us here we are now entertain us. Its not like a threat. It sounded like different generation coming in and saying what do you have for us . What are you going to do for us . The socalled slackers, generation x, they were not being paid attention to and this pressure was building up, especially in the Music Industry for something that actually spoke to them. This is the First American generation that will make less than their parents did and i think the band and kirk cobane in particular reflect that angst. He had had an ability to scream just in tune. It given a intensity that was unique. They gave the record industry a wakeup call, so start looking for the people with the clothes in the holes in the knees and you better run to those clubs to buy up the next one. I would go to the club and see bands like screaming trees and it was such a refreshing change from the competitive sort of l. A. Hollywood 80s and it was just suddenly so cool to be from seattle. Bands like pearl jam from seattle washington. Why dont you tell me it biggest nis conception . Gruchg bands. Tell me about it seattle music scene . No ones ever asked us that before. Weve never heard that question. So tell me about the seattle sound. Whats going on up there . Whats in the water . Have i got a little story for you what you thought was your daddy nirvana, pearl jam they wanted no interest in the music machine and there they were selling millions of records. I im still alive a little bit overwhelming to see this many people. Were used to playing small clubs, you know and we want to go back to playing small clubs. Alternative rock tour kicked off thursday night. Its a multiact package called the lollapalooza tour. 1991 we were it first band on stage at the first ever lollapalooza which was a tremendous thing for my band and i. Its cool. The idea you could get this important and popular bands from the underground, james addiction, nine inch nail, soundgarden, Red Hot Chili Peppers and get them all together. It felt like a really new idea. By the mid90s its already parodied by the simpsons. Oh. Like woodstock only with advertisements everywhere and tons of security guards. It is in the american lexicon. The commercial culture coopted the counterculture. The honeymoons over. Now down to real commerce and, and theres a certain kind of disillusionment going on. Since i got everything i wanted i could put a zero after the number of record sales ive had. 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It was week lit up in a large way by the release of in utero, a much anticipated third album by nirvana. Walmart is refusing to sell nirvanas new release including a song called rape me. The chain wants to be sensitive to its customers moral standards. To get into walmart they had to change the title from rape me to waif me. Kurt wanted to maintain punk authenticity and also wanted to be popular. Rape me the starmaking machine had sucked nirvana up into its evil guts, and now they had to deal with it. We decided to lay low and obviously that was you know, someone would say, oh, because kurts on heroin the whole time. It was just like its been really damaging to us. Tell you the truth. Its really affected my personal life a lot. [ applause ] i was in the front row of the unplugged performance, and it was a serious artistic statement. Kurt didnt play the hits. Those songs were chosen for a particular reason. My girl, my girl dont lie to me tell me when did you sleep last night i remember watching him play the cover of a lead belly song where did you sleep last night . It was emotional for me because i love nirvana and i felt a connection to kurt cobain and even when i was young i was so worried about him. My girl, my girl in that era, the speculation of kurts not doing well. Kurt has drug problems. And nirvana unplugged was this kind of thing, like, the clouds parted. You know . Seemed like everything was going to be okay. Night through [ cheers and applause ] from seattle tonight, word of an untimely death. The lead singer of nirvana shot and killed himself at his home in seattle, washington, today. It didnt come as a major surprise, but it was devastating, because of the way it happened. I pulled over and i was there like 20 minutes, half an hour just crying right there. I just dont understand it. Thats all. I think he was the closest that his generation came to a john lenin. Yes. In that he was writing very much from the heart, directly, and he didnt play according to the rules. I was 16 when that happened. And if you turned to music for solace in your life, to then see your hero kill himself, it was devastating. It certainly sucked the air out of alternative rock. You know, the best band be fell apart after only making a couple records. You know . What do you do after that . Oasis, his was the hangover of grunge. My heads pounding. Insane. Lets turn on oasis. No your my the opposite of nirvana, because they wanted fame. You know . No matter hue big they were they wanted to be bigger. We know were the best band in the country. Simple as that. Its that simple. The thing about oasis in a way they have no kind of, no false modesty. How can anybody go were the its like anybodys whos got the balls to do that is good in my book. Creep came out in the early 90s. As much of an alt rock hit as any of the nirvana or pearl jam songs but hardly extraordinary. Inevitably, the first song that become as hit everybody characterizes the band from that. We have to wait and see whether we have a chance to prove were not just that. Okay. I remember vividly listening to radioheads next record, the bends nonstop and seriously geek out on every part, the bass line, percussion, every tiny little nuance. Dont leave me dry this week releasing a new album, critics are chirping with praise, too. Ok computer is like dark side of the moon of the 90s. Showed this is going to be the defining band of the next 25 years. You could tell the whole story of the evolution of what came out of grunge through radio head, and what came out of alternative through beck. In the time of chimpanzees i was a monkey i was always interested in hiphop. Nonlinear word connections. Im a loser, baby, so why dont you kill me beck is defining whats happening now with that mesh of styles. Mixing electronic, country, rap, rock n roll everything. Everything. Throwing the kitchen sink in. Out of the ashes of nirvana dave created the foo fighters. First time i actually front add band, stood up and sing charismatic, which i cant do, but i need to just keep playing and making music. Looking to the sky to save me looking for a sign looking for something to help me turn out right in an era everything was serious, a heavy tone especially after kurt cobains death, the foo fighters create a music video and find a perfect balance between making people laugh with also having the ability to play incredible rock music. [ cheers and applause ] thank you clients . Well jd power did just rank them highest in Investor Satisfaction with full Service Brokerage firms. Again. And online equity trades are only 4. 95. I mean you cant have low cost and be full service. Its impossible. Its like having your cake and eating it too. Ask your broker if they offer awardwinning full service and low costs. How am i going to explain this . 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The down home music once the preserve of cowboys and rednecks is well on its way to becoming the sound of the 90s. One of the things overlooked by all of this rock n roll explosion going on was Country Music. These acts were putting out good music, touring constantly around the country, and building up a fan base. Blame it all on my roots i showed up in boots and ruined your blacktie affair when they asked people their favorite singer, number one in the nation was garth brooks. Are you surprised by that . Yes, sir. I guess my family knew they would be asking the questions and got there to answer before i did. Where the whiskey drowns and the beer chases my blues away living in mississippi, country was a huge part of my life, and it was all because of garth brooks. The first time i ever saw him in concert, i was probably 10 or 11 years old. To the oasis i said that is exactly what i want to do. The biggest and fastest selling musical artist ever. Hes been described as a cross between john wayne and mick jagger. The looks of a cowboy and moves of a rock n roll star. Thats what people liked about rock shows, everybody singing along. The acts became less twangy that expanded their audience. Artists like George Strait or brooks dunn, plenty of acts worked their way up and became massive. Over the last two years Country Music has taken over the airwaves and record charts with over 2 billion in sales and climbing. As the boom in the music takes hold, western wear dealers cant keep up with demand. You have kids, a house payment and these people are more like you are than madonna is. Is there life out there so much she hasnt done women in country was huge thing in the 90s. Reba mcentire, martina mcbride, the dixie chicks, shania twain. Lets go girls i was very attracted to her but found out i just wanted to be her best friend. Prerogative to have a little fun and, oh, oh, oh totally crazy in all fields in our society now women, i wouldnt say dominating. I think that theyre just rising to their true place. I feel like a woman [ cheers ] as things war on it became a great decade to be a girl. After years of singing backup for such stars as Michael Jackson and rod stewart, she exploded on to the music scene in 1993 with her album tuesday night music club. All i want to do is have some fun i got a feeling im not the only one radio has been so long in coming playing female artists. So its definitely a different sort of environment and attitude now. If it makes you happy artists like sheryl crow, liz fair, had success but routine been marginalized within every aspect of the industry. There was not a lot of space in pop culture for a young womans thoughts, feelings, voices, respected or taken seriously. Im just a girl such a strange dichotomy to gwen stefani, kind of tough and front of a band of all guys. That you let me be im just a girl in the world and thats all that youll let me be. Like the middle finger up to every guy that ever annoyed you. Look whos here. Alanis. Ran in together. Shopping, thought wed take you with us. Alanis has a brand new album, brand new look i noticed. I was dropped from mc records after having made records through my teens and my personal promise i wouldnt stop until i wrote a record that really every exemplified and named on the head what was truly going on for me. Is she perverted like me would she go down with you in a theater like what did she say . Women could say that . And, yeah, they could. Singing about a relationship that had obviously gone wrong but it wasnt a nice, oh, my god, you let me im sad. This was rage at this man. You didnt hear that a lot from women. To remind you of the mess you left me in when you went away its not fair in america alone, jagged little pill sells 50 million albums. Its alanis moment. Yeah, yeah, yeah, you oughta know over the last four years learned to you how write for my own reasons and write for myself and ironic the moment i started doing that was the moment most people related to it. An old man turned 98 you know, that egocentric tendency on my part and perhaps everyones part to think youre alone in your pain. I quickly realized i was not alone and that millions of other people were feeling along with me. People were tired of sublimating, being inauthentic about their real experience and conforming. There was a door that busted open, and i was on the crust of the wave. Its like rain on your wedding day its a free ride on your ironic really funny. What she was talking about wasnt ironic at all but she was one of the big stars of the 90s. Theres lots of other women making music, too. Lets celebrate all of it. The latest trend in rock n roll. Women. Last night some of the top female artists took the stage to launch lillith fair, a series of summer concerts rocking the world and shatters misconceptions. A lot of the summer festivals are male dominated and i thought it wasnt representational of all the music out there. A way to even the scales a little bit. I went to the doctor i went to the mountains i looked to the children i drank from the fountain theres more than one answer to these questions lillith fair was incredibly powerful it validated a lot. At tmobile, when you holiday together, great things come in twos. Right now when you buy any of this seasons hot new Samsung Galaxy phones, you get a second one free to gift. Thats one samsung for you. One to give. Tmobile. Holiday twogether. [burke] abstract accident. Seen videoit. Covered it. C we know a thing or two because weve seen a thing or two. We are farmers. Bumpadum, bumbumbumbum this s electricity. This is a power plant. This is tim barckholtz. 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People moving way from public enemy from the 80s and much more into reality rap and street rap the Police Coming straight from the underground the group nwa is the hottest most in your face of the gangstastyle rappers. One song blasts the police in the most obscene terms. And write the raps, right . And me and my boy hook up a good beat and feel goes good with the rap. Boom. There it is. Platinum records. And its the biggest hiphop band there is at that point. First time i heard nwa, ice is okay. The rest is garbage. Pretty much the thought of most in the dre step to the door youre not coming in as the new kid and decide this is the thing. East coast is thing of hiphop and always have a say where hiphop goes. Mad thinking about stomping you going to continue making a lot of money off this . Long as its violence its going to be rap music, gangsta rap music, whatever. Nwa was always too hot to hold. To splinter. The first person walks away, ice cube. Tried to kill me same reason ice cube left the group is reason i left. Tired of making other people money. Its my turn. Tonights the night i get in some suge knight said to dr. Dre, lets start our own record label. 63, 330pound body guard, one of the most feared men in the music business. You go to dr. Dre, makes beats better than anybody. This guy delivers a hit. Dre put out his first solo album the chronic. Not only do you get dre but snoop dogg. Ooh, boy. Snoop doggie dogg and dre they knock it down. 70 of rap music including gangsta rap was purchased by whites. Growing up in st. Paul, minnesota, my friends and i thought compton and South Central must be the coolest places in the world based on this music. Other music is like a fairy tale story. We could hear somebody elses history basically an understand where theyre coming from. Bow wow wow yippy yi yippy yea making it available to everybody. A hiphop tsunami and we didnt see it coming. Death row records going to be the next motown. Chronic is the foundation and we going to keep on rolling until the house is finished. Its the bow to the wow and snoop doggie dogg the handful of rap super stars are not just singing about being mean and nasty and ambitious. Theyre accused of living up to their lyrics. All respect to those tupac shakur, rap star and movie star arrested in new york and charged with sodomy and sexual assault. Atlanta cops arrested tupac less than a month earlier for shooting two offduty police officers. Tupac was languishing in jail waiting for appeal where suge knight swooped in and basically offered to pay his bail if he signed a contract. Death row, you will see. Through a pickup and you will be paid one of these days. Even though he was an east coast guy by birth, hes now rapping on the west coast with the label death row. From dre, the streets of l. A. From oakland, the bay area and back down cali is where they put their mac down suge was trying to expand death row all over the country but who controlled most of the music in the east at that time . Bad boy. Freddies here. Oh, what up . Lady. Whats going on . Everything. Its all good in the hood. Sean puffy combs founded badboy and Biggie Smalls his marquee artist, modeled their song on kinds of a gangsta rap for the east coast. Come over tell your friends i got the chronic i love you when you call me big pop throw your hands in the air i make music about what i know. Know what im saying . If i worked in mcdonalds id have made rhymes about big macs and fries. I see hustling, gambling, girls, cars. Thats what i rap about. Whats in my environment. And the winner is notorious b. I. G. puff daddy in the house. I hosted that. Mayhem almost broke out in that place that night. Any of yall want to be an artist and stay a star and dont want to worry about the producer trying to be all in the video, all on the record, dancing come to death row. Suge calls puffy out. Never mentions his name but Everybody Knows hes talking about puffy. The idea of a territorial beef is now being drawn out in front of your eyes in realtime. That was hiphop the funeral. How did you do that . Masterpass. Masterpass . Masterpass. Nice chair. Thanks. I used masterpass. Masterpass . Yes, masterpass master. Pass . Yes masterpass pass pass was it expensive . Priceless. Ill masterpass you a new one. Masterpass by mastercard. The modern way to pay. Really . Really . Really . Really . Really . See zero in a whole new way. Get zero down, zero deposit, zero first months payment, and zero due at signing on select volkswagen models. Now with the people first warranty. 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Shakur has been at the center of a battle between east and west coast rappers. For the second time in six months, a star in the often brutal world of gangsta rap has been gunned down. Music industry sources on the west coast suspect that smalls death may in some way be payback for the september killing of rap star tupac shakur. When tupac and biggie were assassinated, a watershed moment i think in hiphop culture. Kind of the death of a revolution. These two men were two of the most successful rap artists in the industry. Phenomenally wealthy. Why are we seeing this happen . They talked of trying to break out of the violence but trapped in the world they created. Forced to keep it real, and thats a sad commentary. I remember seeing news reports how violent it was, remember seeing editorials, how can we let our children listen to this when these artists are killed at an incredible rate . And i thought rap was going to end. At least one Radio Station here in los angeles which made a lot of money from gangsta rap music has stopped playing it. We lost two of the greatest artists in hiphop history. That vacuum was there for a while. Okay. What are we going to do . Seems like yesterday we used to rock the show lock the floor, so far from hanging on the door notorious, they got ill be missing you was diddys song about b. I. G. Suddenly, damn, puffys going to be a legitimate solo act and enters the next phase of hiphop every step i take a sampling and then theres sampling. To take the every breath i take Police Sample and rap over it, puff daddy finds a way to appeal to young listeners and their parents. Im coming and everybody wants to party. Aint nothing rock with partying . Puff daddy built an empire out of it. The sound shifted and the use of samples exploded. Problems, diana ross simple an older crowd could hear and say that sounds familiar to me. Maybe this isnt all bad as i croak i see the smoke and julios gangster paradise a heavier song but the hook is inviting. And get the gangsters paradise hiphop hit a point it had become mainstream and starts appearing in other forms of music. A kind of rock rap happening. Sometimes, something kicked theres hiphop that can be found in pop music. Harrison ford getting frantic and guaranteed to satisfy r b and rap mixing for new jack swing new jack swing around town doesnt give a teddy wily was the big new jack swing producer and he produces everybody. All i want to do zoom, zoom and a boom, boom had record effect, his own guy, heavy d. And the boys. It all had this kind of rhythm that made you have to dance. Going to get down, good lord new jack swing was someone that could sing with the level of Stevie Wonder with the great beat background of a public enemy, and marry those two. Baby i can get you with my ride i like the way you work it no diggity is the mast per piece of the new jack era. Hiphop was a maledominated music. Seriously. Like, women were thought, youre not sexy ah. Get outta here. Not shaking ass. Get out of here. I want to take a minute to give respect to the man that made a difference in my world and female artists, not until salt n pepa, and that blew the doors off of it what a man what a man what a mighty fine man opened up the door, well, who else are females rapping . Oh. Mc light. Can i get a who you calling a bitch . Oh. Whos this Queen Latifah girl . And later on, oh, whos this missy . Oh, missy try to maintain they were respected as artists. They didnt have to shake booty or wear lowcut blouse. Changed the way we viewed things. To me the best two female to me the best two female mcs out of the 90s, missy elliot and lauryn hill. Ah, the one hit it and called you again you see the role of women in hiphop, is it changing . Like yourself . Something thats always been there. Whether or not they got the, you know, the acknowledgement they should have, always been there. And just now maybe theyll truly be acknowledged. Guys are only that thing, that thing she sings, she raps. Theres heartache involved. Its all encompassed in one amazing piece of art. Lauryn hill. With her recordbreaking fifth grammy win, lauryn hill echoed what many might have been thinking. This is crazy, because this is hiphop music. Know what i mean . Shes going to be, big well, she already is a big star. Five grammys. A lot of people think shes going to redefines connections. Hi, kids. Do you want me to see Nine Inch Nails em came, we sat back like this. Whats this white boy doing . And then i really listened but i cant figure out which spice girl i want to i was like, whoa slim shady and dres behind it . Hes in. Hes in hes not trying to be black. Hes not pretending he has grate urban story. Telling his story portraying lower middle class white life. Which hiphop had not done before. I think thats why he was so appealing to so many people. The kids in america that always had a sufficient amount of money, and a different pair of clothes to wear to school each day of the week. Those type of kids, they admire poor people that have nothing to lose. Eminem saw the logical conclusion of 20 some and white kids now listening to hiphop were now deciding we create our own thing. Its time to shake things up. With the capital one venture card, you get double miles on everything you buy, not just airline purchases. Seriously, think of all the things you buy. Great. Is this why you asked me to coffee . Well yeah. But also to catchup. Whats in your wallet . Witness katy perry. Witness katy perry become a legal witness. Witness katy perry and left shark. Or a card shark. Grandma . Witness katy perry work. Witness katy perry firework. Witness katy perry swish. Witness katy perry. 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It started with the beatles and then the stones, well, move over, boy, and roll over beethoven, the spice girls are coming. If you want to be my lover theres never been a group where every person had their own personality and every fan could choose a different one that they related to. And it was brilliant. Taking is too easy but thats the way it is there needed to be some music to be the sorbet and the palate cleansing for the intensity of the earlier part of the 90s. The Recording Industry doesnt need to be told that its a teen teen world. Theres about to be more teenagers than any other time in americas history. Teenagers wanted to be entertained. They wanted to have fun. Even in my heart i see youre not being true to me the Backstreet Boys made a video for quit playing games with my heart. Them in the rain, getting all wet, being all sexy. And it became a hit. Quit playing games with my heart with my heart this is where it started right here, this house. The guys coming here doing vocal recording on a little recording machine i had. Their manager lou perelman said i think i need another one of these. When we are apart i feel it too it was overwhelming to be, you know, 16 years old and have that many people trying to attack you. It was craziness. And it felt like a dream. One by one the breathless few got their lucky autographs. Most were missing school. Many had mom as chaperones. All these people who would go on to be huge pop stars began on disney. So many people came out of the mickey mouse club. Keri russell, justin timberlake, christine aguilera, ryan gosling, britney spears. Thats like the 1927 yankees in terms of pop. Oh baby baby how was i supposed to know that something wasnt right here teenagers are the biggest consumers of music and brittany has become their queen. Not that innocent oops i did it again britney was the madonna whereas christina was like the mariah. Im a genie in a bottle christina, you know, very tiny girl, shes under 5 feet. When she opened her mouth, it was like this burst of like wind came through your hair. You were like, that voice is coming out of that girl . The end of the 90s is a really precarious strange time for music because mtv stops playing music videos and starts doing Reality Television programming which everyone is like, thats never going to take off. Music would be as much or more in peoples lives than it ever had been, but the economics of it would vanish. Another turning point a fork stuck in the road time grabs you by the wrist directs you where to go the 90s represented being who you are. This is the kind of music im going to make and i dont care who likes it and who doesnt like it, and im not going to sound like anybody else. This is who i am. People were starving for authenticity, they were starving for what the real experience was, the messy, chaotic, fallible experience of being human. And the 90s gave complete green light permission for that to be explored. You talk about this band a lot. Oh, wait a minute. You cant talk about the 90s without this one and this one and this one, where theres so many monumental bands, one after another. Thats the 90s. Take the photographs in still frames in your mind hang it on a shelf and get up in good time for what its worth it was worth all the while its something unpredictable but in the end its right i hope you had the time of your life thats all. Dont touch that dial. Were to be flip it for you. In five, four, three, two. Tv is changing dramatically now with 150 channels that might be available in the near future. Theres a lot of things that we do that you couldnt have on network television. People are really trying to do something adventurous. Shame on you this is more celebration of culture and opening the doors and allowing america to come on inside. 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