anthony: how does the joke begin? three men in a bar? but it s not a bar. imagine the bronx a corner bodega, or maybe a luncheonette, a diner, three men, strictly by coincidence, find themselves in the same place at the same time. sitting at the counter is afrika bambaataa. across the room is melle mel. door opens, and who walks in? dj kool herc. three men who created the musical style that s become the soundtrack to, well, the whole wide world. do they all nod at each other? lament how all of them got screwed over, cut out of the big money? or just laugh at the absurdity of it all? hip-hop it came from nowhere else. it could have come from nowhere else but the bronx. i took a walk through this beautiful world felt the cool rain on my shoulder found something good in this beautiful world i felt the rain getting colder sha, la, la, la, la, la, sha, la, la, la, la, la, sha, la, la, la, la, la, sha, la, la, la, la anthony: this is the br
[ big lord ] it s going to take a minute to listen to what these fools spit it s pure uncut garbage [ armageddon ] don t touch my fader just let me bump feel my energy up [ big lord ] no logic a bunch of false prophets pushing a poisonous product [ domino player speaking spanish ] [ grandmaster caz ] i m not hard to find i m right by the zoo by the gorilla cage holla at me, baby ooh ooh [ laughs ] subway pa: ladies and gentlemen grandmaster caz: watch it. [ mellie mel ] two more souls and minds for ransom all for the dream of the cream with dropped-off banters with thugs ample written in mansions and fluid the poorest of minds within the city crimes are truants a pledge of allegiance to the genius means that the dream of malcolm and king was an inconvenience a prelude to your black mind anthony: first to call himself an mc, another pioneer, melle mel. in 1982 he and grandmaster flash
no logic a bunch of false prophets pushing a poisonous product [ domino player speaking spanish ] [ grandmaster caz ] i m not hard to find i m right by the zoo by the gorilla cage holla at me, baby ooh ooh [ laughs ] subway pa: ladies and gentlemen grandmaster caz: watch it. [ mellie mel ] two more souls and minds for ransom all for the dream of the cream with dropped-off banters with thugs ample written in mansions and fluid the poorest of minds within the city crimes are truants a pledge of allegiance to the genius means that the dream of malcolm and king was an inconvenience a prelude to your black mind anthony: first to call himself an mc, another pioneer, melle mel. in 1982 he and grandmaster flash wrote and recorded the message, an album that was a complete and groundbreaking departure from the kind of lyrics and content up to that point. melle mel: before we started doing hip-hop music, there was
just let me bump feel my energy up [ big lord ] no logic a bunch of false prophets pushing a poisonous product [ domino player speaking spanish ] [ grandmaster caz ] i m not hard to find i m right by the zoo by the gorilla cage holla at me, baby ooh ooh [ laughs ] subway pa: ladies and gentlemen grandmaster caz: watch it. [ mellie mel ] two more souls and minds for ransom all for the dream of the cream with dropped-off banters with thugs ample written in mansions and fluid the poorest of minds within the city crimes are truants a pledge of allegiance to the genius means that the dream of malcolm and king was an inconvenience a prelude to your black mind anthony: first to call himself an mc, another pioneer, melle mel. in 1982 he and grandmaster flash wrote and recorded the message, an album that was a complete and groundbreaking departure from the kind of lyrics and content up to that point. melle mel: before we started doing hi