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
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politicians making the south bronx a poster child for what was hopelessly wrong. would always be wrong. would never, we were told, get any better. so we now have what you call a slumlord, essentially. lloyd: yes, right. anthony: who s snapping up large numbers of buildings. lloyd: yeah. first of all, he takes out a huge fire insurance policy. so as he goes to these junkies, and he says, listen, you see that empty apartment on the top floor? i m going to turn my back. you take all of the lead pipes that are in there, but i have one request please. before you leave turn on the water. and the water comes down, driving everybody else out. they then hire an arsonist, and sets fire to the building, they collect all the money, and they leave. anthony: i remember it well. i remember those few years. things were bad. are things, borough-wide, are things getting better? lloyd: is the bronx better? absolutely.