[ 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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without pause, i m lowering my level questlove: the summer of 1987, rebel without a pause comes out. it was a call to arms. it was the sound of anger. it was the sound of something boiling under. public enemy literally said that we want to be music s worst nightmare. pemberton: public enemy s extreme politics has meant almost no radio air play, even on black stations. it s rap for a reason. they call it a mind revolution. a rebel in his own mind [ indistinct rapping ] rebel without a pause was heavily influenced by rakim and heavily influenced by what was just going on. it was really a desperate call to have us being heard. you talk about black all the time to a multiracial audience. shouldn t you maybe be thinking about, who are the people i ve got out here? haven t you got a responsibility to them rather than what you personally i have a responsibility to my people and my culture because my people and my culture have been brutalized and ignored for years