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, set fire to the building, collect all the money, and they leave. i remember it well. things were bad. are things getting better? is the bronx better? absolutely. there is more home ownership in the south bronx than ever existed in history. that doesn t mean we have reached utopia. how long it will take, i m a historian, i look in the other direction. i would say my crystal ball is cracked. i got four cheeseburgers! is it the best hamburger in the world? far from it, my friends. is it even strictly speaking a burger? i mean, it s small and square
he knows what s happening in the news or what happened last night. bronx is isolated from the rest of the city. the bronx is kind of abandoned up here. people get on a boat and go to staten island before they ride up to the bronx. i am inadvertently part of that problem. yes. they say the bronx will be gentrified. that s not happening any time soon. they always say it s going to be part of the city, but it s not. this is the man right here, who made today possible. thank you. i am happy here, and i will drink more of your wray and nephew, regardless of what it might be doing to my brain, but then i will eat. is that the pork foot? pigtail. awesome. i love this.
chopped up. skin and fat? yeah, like a meat candy bar. amazing. [ speaking foreign language ] what else? we need some platino? yeah. puerto rico, i miss you. need some more. the bronx became the place i could engage my sensibility. you could really come here, eat, drink, wine, women and song and indulge. this is pretty much the center of the pork universe that i ve ever seen in new york. i don t know anywhere else porkier than that. on this is the kind of thing i thought we lost in new york. one after the other faded away in the neighborhoods i lived in. and all along it was there, right under foot, a gusher of porky goodness. there s a great line which they say, cele-bronx. which is, what do you think, this is the bronx? the music is really loud and someone s making a mess. to me, i take that as a point of
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there, what kind of hocus-pocus are you doing in there? then i d bottle it and sell it in the bronx. the bronx is the best place in america. nowhere like the bronx. in the yard out back, some freshly roasted jamaican coffee and this man. a tyrannosaurus rex of music. a man who changed the world for generations. africa bam bada. they go back to the same housing projects. that s big baba. that s great. he and his associates in the zulu nation were absolutely instrumental in shaping what became hip-hop culture, break dancing, graffiti, d-jaying, and