- may i have your attention, please? - we got a moon man. - i m very ashamed the president of the united states isis from texaxas. - the didixie chicksks, they can say whatat they want t to say. - billboard s top ten singles all by black artists. - rappers are the new rock stars. - i i don t pleaease everyboy withth who i am m as a perso. - okay. - real staccato. like, sticick it. - - i love beyeyoncé. - that s not a working telephone, is it? - hello? - [laughs] - empty shelves are all you ll find here at tower records. it s now out of business. [dramatic music] all: three, two, one. [all screaming] - this is a very special moment. the first performance at the mtv studios in the new millennium. please welcome no doubt. [cheering] - that s great it starts with an earthquake birds and snakes and aeroplanes and lenny bruce is not afraid - i ll always remember new year s eve 1999 going into y2k seeing no doubt on mtv playing it s the end of the world as we know
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a song t that they h hadn t released y yet. - hey, hey, hey and metallica was like, what? - it s titime i disapappear - on april 14th, metallica filed a lawsuit against napster for basically encouraging people to steal and trade our music illegally. - we started this thing called exmetallicafans.org. we re asking the community to completely ban and boycott metallica. - i m glad you re an ex-metallica fan, because i don t want you to be a fan of ours if that s your attitude. - i can t speak for the other bands, but i embraced file sharing. if you wanna sing along, you know, if you have you know, you got it off napster, bro, please. our band was plucked out of obscurity and given a career because of napster. - but as for me i wish that i was anywhere with anyone all: making out - so suddenly i had a platform for sharing my music
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