[ music plays ] Michael Jackson is the man of the 80s. Man music that is all beat and talk. Its rap music. My life is over, so i might as well speak my mind pauley heavy metal, it glorifies sex and violence. It hates authority, and adolescent boys love it. Swaggart this weird, Beastly Presentation that was birthed in the pit of hell. Move it back. Officer john lennon as he was entering his premise was shot by an unknown at this time white male. Miller the world has reacted with immense shock and grief to the first Rock And Roll assassination. It was like in one moment the 60s and 70s got murdered. Man in his life, has given more love than most men and women on the face of this earth. Were here to prove love is not dead, even though john is. Graham you know, you start the decade with the death of a beatle. You dont really know where youre going to go from that point, culturally or musically. Announcer for a while it seemed there was nothing new on the horizon. Announcing the latest achi
What are your dreams . To rule the world. [ music plays ] Michael Jackson is the man of the 80s. Man music that is all beat and talk. Its rap music. My life is over, so i might as well speak my mind pauley heavy metal, it glorifies sex and violence. It hates authority, and adolescent boys love it. Swaggart this weird, Beastly Presentation that was birthed in the pit of hell. Move it back. Officer john lennon as he was entering his premise was shot by an unknown at this time white male. Miller the world has reacted with immense shock and grief to the first Rock And Roll assassination. It was like in one moment the 60s and 70s got murdered. Man in his life, has given more love than most men and women on the face of this earth. Were here to prove love is not dead, even though john is. Graham you know, you start the decade with the death of a beatle. You dont really know where youre going to go from that point, culturally or musically. Announcer for a while it seemed there was nothing new
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for your right to party and then when we started listening to their music, they really were funky, and they could really get busy. we were like, okay, all right. [ indistinct rapping ] rakim: beastie boys come out what people thought would be a pop hip-hop group. no, they were straight hip-hop. beastie boys was dope [laughs] you know what i mean? brass monkey junkie get funky funky questlove: license to ill spread really like wildfire, and introduced a lot of people to hip-hop culture. can you give us some definition of the l.l.? l.l. stands for ladies love legend of long and lean, lover of ladies, last of the red hot lovers. looking for a little. looking and learning and liking just a lot of l s. the guys only be talking about themselves. how much of a lover, how the women love him to death, how they can throw down, how good they can dance,
graham: the message was the first hip-hop song that wasn t just a party song. it was talking about what was going on. it was talking about urban decay. it was talking about drugs, crime, prison, all these things that were hitting communities really hard. smuggles, scramblers, burglars, gamblers pickpockets, peddlers, even panhandlers you say i m cool when the message hit, man, it was like, okay, put that down. what he just say? pull the record back. play that again. don t push me cause i m close to the edge george: everyone knew the game had changed. and it really opened the flood gates for the next generation of rappers. [ indistinct rapping ] it s not michael jackson and this is not thriller lover: when run-d.m.c. came out, they were taking rock and roll music and putting it together with hip-hop, and making something brand-new out of it. you can t touch me with a ten-foot pole and i even made the devil sell me his soul chuck d.: run-d.m.c. kind