I'm rich, biatch.
You filming us?
Hey, man, what's happening?
We were riding.
Car just broke down? Yeah.
Try it one more time. Try it one more time.
Short bursts.
Hey, yo, Dave!
What happened? Oh, I'm sorry. You're...
We stopped the engine. We can't get it started again.
Yo, Dave!
Uh...
You put too much gas in it. That's what I'm saying.
I have the butterfly wide open. Try it now. Try it now.
Stop, stop, stop.
How much of this did you spray in there?
He said, "How much of that did you spray in there?"
How much of this did you spray in?
I don't know what his answer is.
That's right. Saturday, coming at you!
The Block Party of life!
With Kanye West,
Mos Def, Talib Kweli, Common.
Did I mention the Fugees? Did I mention Dead Prez?
Did I tell you Erykah Badu was gonna be there?
And Jill Scott's gonna be there. And The Roots crew is gonna be there.
And yours truly, David Chappelle!
That's right! Once in a lifetime!
I've got the Brooklyn Steppers behind me.
And we do a little something like this.
Saturday night, Saturday afternoon
featuring barbecued chicken for lunch.
It's a celebration, bitches.
It's a celebration.
All right, I'm gonna go talk some stuff and then we're gonna...
And then, I'm gonna bring you up, Kanye.
Hey, yo, Brooklyn, make some noise for Mos Def, y'all.
Brooklyn.
Bed-Stuy!
Brooklyn!
Let the shouting out begin!
Now throw your hands up, hustlers, busters, boosters, hoes, everybody
Most High, we thank you just for being here with us.
We thank you for this day, God.
The sun is shining. They said it was supposed to rain.
But, God, you letting your face show that you want us here.
You want every soul here, right now.
We thank you for this message that you sending through all these people.
We thank you for bringing Dave to bring us together.
We dreamed of this day and we ask that you just utilize our souls
and our spirits and our voices to glorify you in all that we do.
We don't forget people that's poor.
We don't forget those that's at war right now.
We don't forget our comrades that's in prison.
We don't forget our children, God.
And we praying that you can just be through us and live through us
so that we can raise our people up and raise ourselves up.
We put you first in all we do.
And now just bless the energy of us and the people out there.
And allow your message to be through us.
Amen. Amen.
In the name of Jesus, in the name of Allah and the Spirit of the Ancestors, amen, ashe.
All these people, what we all have in common?
I think we all have a very personal message that they try to get across.
And it's about more than just making money.
All these people that have come here to this concert, before I ever met them,
I was fans of theirs.
So to work with these people, in this kind of setting, it's a dream come true.
This is the concert I've always wanted to see.
Keep your hands up, hustlers, busters, boosters, hoes, everybody, fuck that
Still nowhere to go Still nowhere to go
Brooklyn
It's your boy, M Def. Yeah, he back.
Feels good to be home, y'all.
This is my local coffee shop. The journey starts here.
Preparing for game day, Saturday.
We got to get some people to come to this concert.
I don't think that'll be so hard.
Hey, Bobby, guess what he offered us? What?
He said that there's gonna be a rap concert in Brooklyn
and if we wanna go, he'll give us tickets.
Man, I can't rap. Dave, you know better than that.
You don't have to rap.
But I'll get up there and try.
All you gotta do is listen.
What?
How often does a brother get a chance to chill out with the probation officers?
On some social stuff.
Man. And some social... No problems.
I ain't even... I ain't asking you to turn around, drop me a cup of urine.
None of that. No cups, man. Yeah. No peeing in the cup.
It might look like a lot, but this is it. These are the golden tickets.
Wee Willy Wonka didn't even give out this many.
This will get you guys there.
It'll get you a hotel in New York for the night.
All right.
And it'll get you into the concert. And it'll get you a ride back.
Okay. We get in our Cadillac like we... My Cadillac, I should say.
Like we always do. And we go drive, go golfing.
It's this little corner store that we always go to for snacks.
And the next thing we know, we see Dave Chappelle.
I was like, "Oh!"
Chappelle, he grabbed this ticket.
Out of nowhere. He pulled it out his ass.
We was like, "Oh!"
We were like, "Where did that come from?"
After we got done seeing Chappelle, we went on golfing.
And we going on to the hole number 11.
Just imagine, we feeling like this high.
Man, we feeling like this high.
This high. Top of the world right now. This top of the world, man.
You can't crush us. We untouchable.
Can't crush none of our feelings.
There's a house to the left.
It's deep over there to the left.
And the tee right here. He had to take a piss. So he respected the house.
You know, he respected it.
I was down into some woods somewhere.
You know, on some adventure stuff. And he went on this side.
You know, he handled his business, you know.
Right. Everybody does it on the golf course.
It's nothing. Man.
But...
Some guy comes out and just says,
"You nigger." I said, "Oh!" I said, "No."
Man. It's a new era, though.
I thought it was over. And this old guy was so old-school.
I never thought somebody would say "nigger."
I said, "Oh, my."
And then, I'm up here just holding him back.
"No. No." If it wasn't for him, it'd been over.
'Cause you know, that's his private property. We want to go to Chappelle on Saturday.
Chappelle's Show Chappelle's Show
Chappelle, Chappelle
Yeah, Chappelle's Show
So, we gotta go.
So we did it for you, Dave. Yeah.
We didn't whoop nobody's ass for you, Dave.
It was for you, Dave. For you, Dave. For you.
Watch your back. You almost bumped into a pole.
I never steer you wrong. Anyway, I come here and get cigarettes.
Nice lady, Miss Hall, owns this place. I had the pleasure of meeting her before.
I wanna see if she'll come listen to some rap music.
Just 'cause she's not a traditional person to a rap concert. Look out. Pole.
I'm telling you, I'll never lie to you.
So, you're ready? Saturday night? Bring your Timberlands.
All right.
And get the dance.
Do you think I would enjoy that at my age, really and truly?
And I just wanted people from around the area that I live in,
that might not normally go to something like this...
That's right.
...to get a chance to experience something like this.
So, I figure, I'll go to the store.
I come here, I buy my cigarettes sometimes in the morning.
I just wanted you to be able to come in and do your business and leave.
So... No, that's why I live here.
Everybody treats me like...
But inside, I was screaming, "That's Dave Chappelle!"
Hi. Hi.
How's it going? Yeah. Do you wanna come in?
Come on in.
I really don't know what to take to a rap party, Block Party.
I knew I should have bought a thong.
I'm trying to catch the beat
I need to catch the beat
Now, throw your motherfucking hands, get them high
Throw them high, get them high
And all the girls pass the weed to your motherfucking man
Get them high, get them high Come on, get
Now I ain't never tell you to put down your hands
Keep them high, keep them high, yeah
And if you're losing your high then smoke again
Keep them high
Now, my flow is in the pocket like wallets
I got the bounce like hydraulics
I can't call it, I got the swerve like alcoholics
My freshman year, I was going through hella problems
Till I built up the nerve to drop my ass up out of college
My teacher said I'm a loser, I told her why don't you kill me
I give a fuck if you feel me I'm gonna follow my heart
And if you follow the charts or the plaques or the stacks
You ain't gotta guess who's back, you see
I'm so shy you thought I was bashful
but this bastard's flow will bash your skull
And I will cut your girl like Pastor Troy
And I don't usually smoke, but pass the 'dro
And I won't give you that money that you asking for
Why you think me and Dame cool? We assholes
That's why we hear your music in fast-forward
'Cause we don't wanna hear that weak shit no more
Now everybody throw their hands
Get them high, get them high, yeah
And all the girls pass the weed to your motherfucking man
Get them high, get them high Get them high, yeah
Now I ain't never tell you to put down your hands
So, keep them high, keep them high, keep them high, keep them high
And if you're losing your high then smoke again
Hey, yo, Kwe, I need you to spit that shit right now.
Yo, yo, yo
I can't believe this nigga use my name for picking up dimes
But never mind, I need some tracks He trying to pull tracks out
And my rhymes is fitting to blow, he about to blow back South
Well, okay, you twisted my arm, I'll assist with the charm
Hey, yo, ain't you meet that chick at the conference with your mom?
Her sister's the bomb, but she got the bougie behavior
Always got something to say like a Okay Player hater
Anyway, I don't usually fuck with the Internet
Or chicks with birth control stuck to their arm like Nicorette
You really fucking that much or trying to get off cigarettes?
And she think it's fly She ain't met a real nigga yet
I apologize if I come off a little inconsiderate
I got the Bubba Kush and a sister could get a hit of it
Get them high, get them high, yeah
All the girls pass the weed to your motherfucking man
Get them high, get them high Come on, yeah
Now I ain't never tell you to put down your hands
Get them high, get them high
Old people fucking love me, man. They love me.
You know you must be doing something right if old people like you.
Hi, miss. Hi.
Do you like rap music?
I like you, man, I tell you.
I'll take that. You want to come see a rap concert I'm throwing?
When? It's in Brooklyn on Saturday.
Sorry, I can't do that.
I'll get you on the bus.
I'm going to Canada on a bus.
Canada? You trying to dodge the war?
I don't know if you like rap music, but...
No, it's not a question of liking.
I don't hear well enough to catch the words.
You know, I got the concert jump-off this weekend.
Oh, do you? I can get you there.
Hell, yeah. If you get me there, I'll go.
On a bus.
It don't make no difference to me.
You'll go? Yeah.
No matter how we get you there? I ain't gonna send you on a donkey.
He'll hurt the donkey.
I'm a football player. I'm 320 pounds.
You play football? Where? At Central?
No. Hell, no. Oh, excuse me, I shouldn't be cursing.
Oh, that's all right. Look. Pussy hole. You see?
You can say anything. This is a movie.
You got a big hat for me? Yeah.
And the mirror's right here? Yeah.
That's the one. All right, I'm gonna surprise myself.
Here I go. Damn! Oh, snap!
Pimpalicious.
This a bad coat. Yeah.
You think I can wear this to a rap concert?
You sure could.
Where is my money, bitch?
Now, this is the popular stuff? Yeah.
All right. This is current styles.
Look here, bitch.
I'm gonna tell you this and I'm gonna tell you this once.
I want my goddamn money.
Tell your wife I said hi. I can't wait to meet her.
What's she like?
She's the shit. Red hair, big tits.
Red hair and big titties? All right, I'll keep an eye out.
Get her drunk, she'll show them. Really?
All right, make sure we have beer at the concert.
This place is called HaHa's Pizza, right?
Back in the day, it was started by some hippies.
And they had certain pizza toppings that made you laugh. Get my drift?
You ordered a mushroom pizza at this place back in '71,
chances were you were gonna hallucinate.
Keep them high
Brooklyn, make some noise.
I rolled up on you guys completely by chance.
What are the odds that I'd be shooting the beginning?
It's God. I'm shooting a concert movie.
That's God. That's God, man.
I'm trying to think, how am I gonna get people to come?
And all of a sudden, a marching band crosses the street.
How perfect is that?
Now, ladies and gentlemen,
I'm standing here with a piece of black history.
The first black man named Milsapp, right here, ladies and gentlemen.
And not only is his name Milsapp, but he's also the director
of Central State University's band we got here.
This is not any old band though, is it?
No, it isn't. This the drum line.
Mr. Milsapp? Yes.
All right, how do y'all travel when you travel?
Very carefully.
We travel by charter bus.
By charter bus?
We gotta have a huddle, guys. Come on, let's huddle up real quick.
Look, man. All right, say I chartered y'all a bus, right?
Would you all come play at my concert, Block Party, in New York?
I don't have a problem with it. The whole band?
Yeah, yeah, with two buses, right? Yeah.
It's not gonna be more than two buses, is it?
No, it won't be more than two buses.
Yeah, man, come on, rep southwest Ohio, man.
Yes, we would. You'll do it?
Yes, we would.
Is there a compensation, or what?
Compensation? It comes with a sandwich.
Will there be snacks?
Oh, there'll be snacks. We got...
Don't we got snacks in the budget? This is a low-budget movie.
You know how Steven Spielberg
have all them trucks and stuff? Got the hookup.
This is it. We pulled up in a minivan, baby.
We're working on a tight budget.
You have to go through the channels, right? Run it up the flagpole, that type of thing.
Yeah, and that would be done expediently. That could be done.
And now we're just caught up in a little bureaucracy.
Now, how hot would it be if these kids got a chance to come through Bed-Stuy,
beating them drums, playing them horns?
The whole neighborhood is amped, screaming.
They're saying "It's CSU!" That's what we're hoping for.
The anticipation is killing me.
One
Two
Three
Four
Lord have mercy
Hey, yo, from the first to the last of it delivery is passionate
Whole and not the half of it, vocab and not the math of it
Projectile and I'll blast away Accurate assassin shit
Me and Kweli close like Bethlehem and Nazareth
After this you be pressing rewind on top your master disk
Shining like an asterisk for all those that be gathering
Connecting like a roundhouse from the townhouse to the tenements
All my Brooklyn residents, all the heavy regiments
Don't believe, here the evidence
Brooklyn!
From where they selling tree at to where the police be at
Talib Kweli e-Kweli-ty Yo, tell them where we be at
We be in Brooklyn, New York City
Where they paint murals of Biggie In cash we trust
'Cause it's ghettofabulous, Life look pretty
What a pity Blunts is still 50 cents, it's intense
Tree scent is dominant can't be covered with incense
My presence felt, my name is Kweli from the Eternal Reflection
People thinking MC is shorthand for misconception
I meditate, set it straight
Came to the conclusion that most of these cats is featherweight
Let me demonstrate Walking the streets is like battling
Be careful with your body
You know karate or think your soul is bulletproof like Sade
Stop acting like a bitch already, be a visionary
And maybe you can see your name in the column of obituary
That's where it's all going down, baby.
Stage will be right there where you guys are standing.
I'm gonna be running up and down from here.
All this is gonna be people. I can see it now!
Like a vision. Don't look at me like I'm crazy. It's going down!
This is real.
I'm sorry for screaming like this.
One, two, three Mos Def and Talib Kweli
We came to rock it on to the tip-top Best alliance in
Sing it up!
Singing one, two, three It's kind of dangerous to be a MC
They shot 2Pac and Biggie God bless the day and this hip-hop
Whose house is this anyway?
This your house?
You know, we're having a concert in front of your house Saturday. You excited?
Yes, and you're welcome to come and rest your loins at any point.
I can come rest my loins in the crib, you heard that?
With a glass of champagne.
Ladies and gentlemen,
today is their fortieth...
Sixth.
Forty-sixth wedding anniversary. Good God Almighty.
Thank you. Hold your applause to the end.
We took a trip on the Staten Island Ferry, a little ocean voyage.
Okay. On the Staten Island...
All right. To Staten Island.
And, as we walked in the streets of Staten Island,
what did we discover in the gutter, but an angel broken in seven pieces.
When we both discovered this,
I turned to him, who was not my husband at the time,
and I said, "It's an omen. It's a sign.
"I'm to marry you, of all people."
Really? And I did. I married him.
And Sunday is our 46th wedding anniversary.
I put that angel back together again.
But after I did, we found the original, of which there may be thousands of them.
The original's rather stiff. Mine is kind of graceful.
So, that's why we call this Broken Angel.
Because this building was wrecked and vandalized
and lying in the street.
And I'm putting it back together again, better than it was.
On the actual block,
it's like a warehouse where they make chairs.
There's, like, a Salvation Army,
a nursery school.
Then there's this ill house called the Broken Angel House
that these two people live in.
They've been living there for 40 years.
Now you guys built this house yourselves? We did. We built...
What you see, that's unusual.
It is quite the unusual home.
It's a monument to Brooklyn, my dear.
He's my spouse.
It's our anniversary of marriage on Sunday.
I moved in three months before we closed.
We had five wild dogs living in the building at the time.
That's not one of them.
Her name is Cat, the one barking.
Cat.
When I say it's a ill house, like,
this is the craziest shit I've ever seen in my life.
You just... I couldn't even describe. You just have to...
And if you get a chance, go in there as far as you...
Can. Yeah, exactly.
They're real hospitable people, like, "Come on in."
That was my fault. All right.
I only have seven dogs, 14 cats, two doves and a parakeet.
Good God. And a cheetah.
Oh, good God almighty. Oh, yes.
A cheetah? A cheetah, honey.
All right, let's see that last.
Okay, last, of course. All right.
Keep the cheetah locked up.
That up ahead is called the Great Expectation Room.
In there.
Notice the door says Quincy,
because it came from Quincy Street.
You can peek through there if you wish to
photograph the wonderful jumble
of chaotic living.
And in here,
we have an angel sculpture
that my husband did on the back
inside and outside of the building.
The building is only a third completed.
One-third. We have two-thirds to go.
With a Sea King helicopter
on a climbing crane that goes through the entire building,
doesn't touch the building, the climbing crane.
The Sea King helicopter is five more stories
above what's there now.
And it is transformed into a whale.
There's drawings of that where we're going on the next level.
You just climb up
this charming, little ladder.
Now we're getting to the Titanic version.
Only it doesn't sink.
It's slippery for me.
It's an old white couple.
They've been married for, like, 40 years, and they found this house
which they took as a sign.
So they said, "We will piece this house together
"better than it was before."
Now I don't know how it looked before,
But I'll tell you this.
They pieced it together, and that shit literally is like chutes and ladders
and like the steps are, like, just, like cat way.
Like it really looks like some shit that they made.
From where you're standing up,
I built personally...
With me. ...with my wife,
who's a very good construction worker.
And in the early stages,
I had a couple of men working for me
that were criminals.
Out of jail.
But they enjoyed working with me because I did what they did.
All I told them was, "Keep up with me, and I'm twice your age.
"If you can keep up to me, you can work here."
You know, I don't like rap music,
because rap music
composes a lot of foul language,
and I don't think it's proper for children.
I don't even think it's proper for adults, either,
to be using that type of language.
And that's what's incorporated.
I grew up in show business. My father was a director in Hollywood.
His name was... It's not hip-hop. That's rap.
His name was... Rap music, yeah.
His name was Russell Mack.
He was a vaudevillian song-and-dance man.
And I was born in...
They took me home from the hospital. I was born in Los Angeles,
and my father built his home in Beverly Hills.
He wanted to negotiate films with the Germans.
But when he realized, when he saw that they were, "Heil, Hitler,"
and all of that,
of course, that was a no-go.
They got shit in there, like, there's a hole
that they look through, like a pipe,
and the pipe is pointing directly at a clock tower.
So, like, if it's like, "What time is it?"
There's some wild shit in there.
This is called the Airplane Room, what you're in now.
My son named this room the Airplane Room.
He had a tent. He lived in a tent. He was 15.
And all the airplanes flying over to LaGuardia
fly over this building.
What is painted black here
appears to be the bottom. Yeah.
So this whole thing floats over these mirrors.
Whoa! So from that corner,
it's a very good illusion in the morning,
because you'll see clouds underneath it.
Oh, yeah, yeah, I see what you mean.
And there's nothing up here to give scale,
so when people walk by, they ask me if this is about this big.
You know, from the street,
they don't know how big it is until I'm up there.
Then they accuse me of witchcraft.
I want to give and donate myself to two endeavors in life.
One is cancer, one is animals.
I intend to take a course at LaGuardia College
as a veterinary technician.
And between that and my life
isn't as young as perhaps I may look.
But I intend to live to probably about 400,
as I am also a witch, but a good witch.
And I only want happiness for mankind,
not to create chaos
and to be angry at everyone,
but to be happy around them.
That is my aim in life.
To give happiness to the world.
Because they bought it, it kind of had some sort of meaning.
But if I was a location scout,
and we needed a crack house, I might refer that place.
Can I see the whole band for a moment, please?
Quiet. Be quiet.
All right.
Upon a discussion I had with our president
and Mr. David Chappelle,
the performances on Saturday have been canceled.
Are you serious? I'm serious.
However, there has been a change in plans.
We will be traveling to New York.
I've stood here in these streets of men
Dying a little
That I might comprehend
A concept like purpose or worry there
The earth is mine by divine prophecy I'm told
I am free if I'm meek
Greetings. Cody Chesnutt, The Headphone Masterpiece.
By the grace of Almighty God, here for the celebration.
Miss, I'm having a Block Party on Saturday around the corner.
All you need to do is bring yourself.
Bring yourself! Bring yourself to the Block Party, won't you?
Attention, Huxtables.
There is a Block Party jump-off right around the corner.
Downing and Quincy. Downing and Quincy.
Bring Rudy, Theo, Denise...
On the actual block?
It's like a warehouse where they make chairs.
No human ass has touched these seats yet.
Some lucky person is gonna get a chair.
There's like a nursery school.
There's this ill house called the Broken Angel house.
Then there's the Salvation Army.
These guys have been kind enough to loan us furniture for the party.
And now we're just kind of looking around at furniture,
so that we can be comfortable on the rooftop during the concert.
I'm also just taking some time
to look at all this good stuff that people just throw out.
If I went to a white person's house and saw this, I'd be furious.
Think I can play this, even though it says "Do not play"?
Midnight, 'round midnight
I think, right now, man, Dave has two songs in his repertoire.
He has Round About Midnight and Misty.
And he... Once he has...
Wait, get...
Go back to Round Midnight.
He always gets to the bridge
and then he does these real immaculate arpeggios,
which trips me out.
The fact that he's not a trained musician,
but he's dedicated his whole life to Round About Midnight.
We're dating.
It's called... Courtship.
Christian courtship. That's what it's called.
We're dating. It's called dating.
We've been friends for how long? A year.
Best friends for a year.
A month. And a month.
And a day. And a day.
And a day, a day. It's a year, a month and a day.
So, how many hours and how many minutes and how many seconds?
Can I breathe your air? Breathe mine.
That was Round Midnight I was playing. That's a Thelonious Monk song.
One of my favorite musicians because his timing was so ill.
Every comedian is a stickler for timing.
And Thelonious Monk was off time, yet perfectly on time.
You should study it if you're an aspiring comedian
or an aspiring musician, you should study it.
Which brings me to my next point.
Comedians and musicians, we're like this.
Every comic wants to be a musician.
Every musician thinks they're funny.
It's a very strange relationship that we have.
Some musicians are funny, some comedians can play.
I'll give you an example. Mos Def, funny guy.
Jamie Foxx, good singer and piano player.
So you never know. You never know what kind of talents a person has.
I'm mediocre at both, but have managed to talk my way into a fortune.
Life is a funny, unpredictable thing.
So, you do the drums, right?
And then do like the straight... Like, if I say,
"I saw this lady who was so fat. " You'd be like, "Really, Dave?"
Like, "How fat was..."
You do the straight man and then I'll do... All right, you ready?
But this is how it works.
That you gotta stop when I say stop. It's gotta be, like, on a dime.
Okay.
And then keep going again. Stop, keep going again.
All right. All right, so we'll try it out.
But when we do it, we're gonna practice it in front of the audience.
This shit never fails. It's like a walking bassline,
and then like a swing beat, and then like whatever else...
This is sort of like making that noise.
All right. That's right. Okay, it should be like this.
Hey, Mos, what's happening?
Then you be like... Hey, what's happening, Dave?
Mos, I'm gonna tell you a little...
How many white people does it take to screw in a light bulb?
I don't know, Dave, how many?
None. 'Cause they'll get a nigga to do it for them.
Carry on.
Oh, that's right.
Just a little warm-up.
All right, all right.
Okay, listen up.
Upon getting your keys and your luggage,
you can go to your room.
We are going to eat down here, I believe, in the dining room.
So once you put your luggage up, you can come back downstairs.
Glad we're here, though.
Time to relax, get some sleep before we go and kick it tomorrow or whatever.
Bed-Stuy!
Everybody
Come on, everybody
Get it up, get it up, what Everybody
Give it up, give it up, what
Get it up, get it up, what Everybody
Give it up, give it up, what
Get it up, get it up, what
Get it up, get it up
Hating melodrama
Fellas wanna hover in my cypher like a helicopter
Like it's a special honor
Stealth bomber, gem dropper make the ghetto holler intercontinental
Taking you high like skydivers when we spark like live wires
Original caveman, quest for my fire,
Express my desire to drop this new shit
These record executives keep telling me y'all stupid
What, are they what?
Shut the fuck up!
Revolutionaries, throw your guns up
Whether you a bougie broad who acting stuck up
Or some ignorant thug motherfucker shooting the club up
We make y'all feel this, break your spirit
If y'all fake that realness, Word, bringing it
Ringing it in from the new millennium to way after that
I call these cats Reynolds 'cause they plastic rap
Kill all the yapping, let's make it happen
You cats ain't real, you just a reenactment
Better yet, dramatization
Soon as the director say action you start faking
I like the element of surprise.
Take this concert for instance.
I would have loved it if nobody saw it coming.
Now it got leaked to the press, people have heard about it,
but they still don't know where it is.
So imagine. There's gonna be a group of people that see it here,
and then, people will hear about it, but they have no idea what it looks like.
How'd you find out about this?
Internet.
1 iota. Com.
1 iota.
Oh, through e-mail.
Say it loud, say Move something
Brooklyn, say it loud, say Move something
Where you going? We made it.
Somewhere in Brooklyn. We don't know. We don't know.
Gonna have a good time today.
I don't know where I'm going.
I know that I'm going to some Block Party,
but I don't know who's performing or... I'm just here to have a good time.
We're going to Brooklyn. We're going to Bed-Stuy.
Bed-Stuy, Bed-Stuy.
Do or die, we're going to Bed-Stuy.
That's where we think we're going.
Just get on. Enjoy yourself. Have a good time. We love you.
There's no... Y'all got to squeeze, I'm sorry.
Put three people. People with small booties all sit together.
Big booty people, y'all got to share with a small booty.
Wow, how you gonna catch me while I'm in the middle of breakfast?
This is not a stereotype. We were hungry and Pathmark was out of steak.
You guys ready to get on the road?
Yeah!
Thank you, thank you very much.
Have you tried the hot dogs? That's right.
That's right
We're gonna have a little party tonight
And some jazz comedy
Oh
That's right
We didn't get here until very late last evening.
And we've only had about four or five hours' sleep, most of us.
So we are a little tired, but we're trying to weather the storm
and enjoy ourselves in spite of.
Carry on!
Yeah! We're gonna bring the house down tomorrow.
Oh, shit!
Scooby-doo-wop Scooby-doo-wee
We need to let them in. We gotta go.
Downing and Gates. We got to let them in.
We got a marching band on Downing and Gates...
Come on in.
Throw them up.
Give it up for none other than Kan-Easy,
AKA Kanye West.
Come on. Make some noise, Bed-Stuy.
Make some noise!
Y'all know what the Midwest is Young and restless
Where restless niggas might snatch your necklace
Next these niggas might jack your Lexus
Somebody tell these niggas who Kanye West is
I walk through the valley of the shadow of death
Top floor the view alone will leave you breathless
Try to catch it It's kind of hard
Getting choked by detectives Yeah, now check the method
They asking us questions Harass and arrest us
Saying, "We eat pieces of shit like you for breakfast"
Y'all eat pieces of shit? What's the basis?
We ain't going nowhere but got suits and cases
A trunk full of coke Rental car from Avis
My mama used to say only Jesus could save us
Well, Mama, I know I act a fool
But I'll be gone till November I got packs to move
I hope Jesus walks
God show me the way The devil's trying to break me down
Jesus walk with me
The only thing that I pray is that my feet don't fail me now
I want Jesus
And I don't think there is nothing I can do now to right my wrongs
To walk with me
I want to talk to God but I'm afraid
'Cause we ain't spoke in so long
Jesus
God, show me the way The devil's trying to break me down
Walk with me
The only thing that I pray is that my feet don't fail me now
All along my
pilgrim's journey
I want Jesus
to walk with me
To the hustlers, killers murderers, drug dealers
Even the strippers Jesus walks with them
To the victims of welfare For we living in hell here
Hell, yeah Jesus walks with them
Now hear ye, hear ye Want to see thee more clearly
I know he hear me When my feet get weary
'Cause we're the almost nearly extinct
We rappers is role models We rap, we don't think
I ain't here to argue about his facial features
Or here to convert atheists into believers
I'm just trying to say the way school need teachers
The way Kathie Lee needed Regis That's the way I need Jesus
So here go my single, dawg Radio needs it
Nigga, you can rap about anything except for Jesus
That means guns, sex, lies, videotape
But if I talk about God my record won't get played
Well if this take away from my spins
Which will probably take away from my ends
Then I hope it take away from my sins
And bring the day that I'm dreaming about
Next time I'm in the club everybody screaming out
Jesus walks
God show me the way The devil's trying to break me down
Jesus walk with me
The only thing that I pray is that my feet don't fail me now
And I don't think there's nothing I can do now to right my wrongs
I want to talk to God but I'm afraid
'Cause we ain't spoke in so long
Man, that Kanye West.
Kanye West, who we came to see, he came out right away.
He came out, did his thing.
I liked that.
It's a party.
If it wasn't for the rain, it would have been really great. But it's still a party.
"Rain, rain
"On my parade
"Five thousand black people chilling in the rain
"Nineteen white people peppered into the crowd
"Everybody's welcome
"Trying to find a Mexican
"Very hard to find a Mexican!
"Buenos días. I know you're out there. Buenos días.
"Qué?
"That's Spanish Lil Jon. Qué?
"Qué?
"Sí."
Thank you, bitches. Good night.
Now, I know you guys are thinking,
"Dave, where have you learned how to play the congos?"
Nobody taught me that shit! I'm black!
It's in my blood!
Throw up my gang sign.
It's bad. Well, no, really, it means something. It means ya basta.
Know what I'm saying? It's Mexican.
For all my compañeros and compañanas.
This means ya basta. Enough is enough.
Is that some Mexican shit? Yeah.
So if I see some Mexicans and I throw this up...
And this means... Ya basta.
Ya basta. And they'll be like, "All right."
Oh, well, you know. I never really... Check with them first.
Yeah, I don't wanna... Don't have me doing this.
Don't just walk up to Mexicans and start doing this shit.
Enough is enough. Ya basta.
We had enough here. We're ready for better.
Any way.
Next time my wife is feeding me too much..."Would you like some more potatoes?"
Ya basta. I've had enough.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah. Oh, yeah.
Put your fists up. My nigga.
Crank up your speakers
Your woofers and your tweeters
Turn up your receiver
Crank up your speaker
Your woofers and your tweeter
Turn up your receivers
We banging off the
It's your boy stic. Man, Dead Prez.
You know how we do it. Fuck the police.
You know what I mean. Raising the babies up soldier style.
Greetings.
This is M- Uno, M-1.
The other half of Dead Prez.
We banging off the
Yo, come on
Your speakers Your woofers and your tweeters
Turn up your receiver
We banging off the meter
I refuse to be a stereotype in your box
Never wanna try to be something I'm not
I think, like, the more you say with it,
the less airplay you get.
You know, guys like Dead Prez, they say it all.
But you hardly ever hear them on the radio.
Because they say things like,
"The White House is the rock house.
"Uncle Sam is the motherfucking pusher man.
"What I gotta do to make you understand?"
You know.
They don't want to hear that on the radio.
"The White House is the rock house," and all these kinds of things.
But you hear it at the barber shop all the time.
Say turn off the radio, Brooklyn
Turn off that bullshit
Say it Turn off the radio
Come on, come on Turn off that bullshit
What's on the radio Propaganda, mind control
And turning it on is like Putting on a blindfold
When you bring in the real You don't get rotation
Unless you take over the station
And, yeah, I know it's part of their plans
To make us think it's all about Party and dancing
And, yo, it might sound good when you spitting your rap
But in reality, don't nobody live like that
You wanna know what kind of nigga I am?
Let me tell you about the nigga I'm not
I don't fuck with the cops
Like it gotta be hot
I ain't gotta love it, even if they play it a lot
How many people they reach? How they use music to teach?
A radio program ain't a figure of speech
Don't sleep, 'cause you could be a radio freak
My nigga, turn off the radio Say it
Turn off that bullshit
Brooklyn, turn off the radio Come on, come on
Turn off that bullshit
Turn off the radio
Turn off that bullshit
Turn off the radio, say it
Turn off that bullshit
Crank up your speakers
Your woofers and your tweeters
Turn up your receiver
We banging for the people
Crank up your speakers
Your woofers and your tweeters
Turn up your receivers
We banging off the meter
Or how about when they say,
"Who shot Biggie Smalls? If we don't get them, they gonna get us all. "
"I'm up for running up on them crackers in their city hall. "
You'll never hear that shit on the radio.
Never in a million years will you hear somebody say on the radio,
"I'm up for running up on some crackers in city hall."
And
people have stopped asking who shot Biggie Smalls.
But if you in show business and black, you'll wonder about that every day.
'Cause they might get you, too.
Biggie Smalls was in this daycare center.
Miss Jenkins, Miss Green,
Miss Pennick was their teachers.
And they're still here. They've been here for the past 30 years.
Man. So the next Biggie Smalls might be here now.
You don't even know. He may be.
That's it. This is what I just finished telling you.
All right. All right. Okay.
So out of here, you will get the next
star. Maybe... Maybe Biggie Smalls.
...another Biggie Smalls.
This the old daycare center right here, man.
You were in here, too?
No, I didn't go here, though my little nephew used to go here.
I used to always come here to pick up my nephew.
One of my niggas from Junior MAFIA, his mom used to work in here.
Word? You know, just all around the way, man.
All down here.
So the whole Junior MAFIA's from around this way?
Yeah. Yeah, everybody. Kim, everybody.
Yeah, Kim used to live...
She lived on the other St. James.
That's two blocks down this way on Lafayette.
Jay-Z, he from Marcy projects.
That ain't but about two, three blocks on that side.
Junior MAFIA, Big, he's two blocks back down this way, you know what I'm saying?
So, I mean, you know,
we kind of put it down ourselves.
You influenced the whole world.
Yeah, yeah. For sure, for sure.
It's just like it's a 'hood thing, man. Like we ain't got shit to do out here.
That's all you got to do, is music, man.
That was something that kept a lot of us niggas out of trouble.
Kept motherfuckers off the corner.
Would have been police out there fucking with you.
You go in the crib, you listen to some music.
That's the only thing that kind of cleared the nigga head.
And the money never came between you?
No, never that. Never that.
'Cause we all grew up together.
At the end of the day, I ain't gotta make another record no more,
but those will always be my niggas, 'cause I grew up with them.
It was way bigger than hip-hop.
Kind of like, that was our work.
Those were my niggas right there. I grew up with them
since we was like this, so nothing would ever come between us.
You know what I'm saying?
Me, on the other hand, I don't see none of my old friends.
Them motherfuckers is crazy.
And if you watching this, I mean that shit.
If you know this here, say it.
It's bigger than hip-hop Hip-hop, hip-hop
It's bigger than Say it
What it bigger than? Say it
What it bigger than?
One thing about music When it hit, you feel no pain
White folks say it controls your brain
I know better than that That's game, and we ready for that
Two soldiers head of the pack Matter of fact, who got the gat?
And where my army at?
Rather attack and not react
Back the beats, it don't reflect on how many records get sold
On sex, drugs, and rock and roll
Whether your project gets put on hold
In the real world We just people with ideas
They just like me and you When the smoke and camera disappear
In the real world It's bigger than all these fake-ass records
When poor folks got the millions and my sisters get respect
If you check, one, two My word of advice to you is just relax
Just do what you got to do If that don't work then here's the facts
If you a fighter, rider, biter, flame-igniter, crowd-exciter
Or you wanna just get high, then just say it
But then if you a liar, liar, pants on fire Wolf-crier, agent with a wire
I'm gonna know it when I play it Say it
What it bigger than?
It's bigger than hip-hop Hip-hop, hip-hop
Who shot 2Pac? If we don't get them, they gonna get us all
I'm down for running up on them crackers In the city hall
We ride for y'all All my dawgs, stay real
Nigga, don't think your record deal
Gonna feed your seeds and pay your bills
Because they're not
MCs get a little bit of love And think they hot
Talking about how much money they got
Nigga, all y'all records sound the same
I sick of that fake thug, R&B, rap scenario All day on the radio
Same scenes in the video
Monotonous material Y'all don't hear me, though
These record labels sling our tapes like dope
You can be next in line and signed
and still be writing rhymes and broke
You rather have a Lexus or justice? A dream or some substance?
A Beemer, a necklace or freedom?
See, a nigga like me don't player-hate I just stay awake
This is real hip-hop, and it don't stop
Till we get them crackers off our block
They call it hip-hop Hip-hop, hip-hop
It's bigger than
What?
What it bigger than?
Hip-hop, hip-hop What it bigger than?
It bigger than
hip-hop, hip-hop
D.P. 's got that crazy shit we keep it crunked up
Come on, blaze this shit
D.P. 's got that crazy shit We keep it crunked up
Brooklyn, we love you.
Thank y'all.
Free Aaron Patterson.
Look at that. Look at that. All right, all right.
Ready? This is for Dead Prez right here.
This is especially for Dead Prez.
Pow!
The most revolutionary shoe known to man. Ya basta!
Who knew that? Ya basta. Ya basta.
Enough is enough, motherfuckers.
You need to get us in a skit, Dave.
You know what I'm saying? We can do this.
I'll dance all day.
How many people in the audience can MC?
Nine hundred MCs.
Mr. T.
Bring up Mr. T.
I wanna battle you.
I pity you, fool.
I pity the fool that tries to battle Dave Chappelle.
Where's your time machine parked?
He got a Mohawk, man.
Come on, man, you weigh more than me. God damn!
I pity the fool!
Drink the milk, B.A.
Here's the kicker.
I'm not giving you a mike. Good luck!
You know, I'm from DC, where y'all are from.
You from DC? For real?
You know, we rough it off down there.
He said he's roughing off.
Does that mean that I should wash my hands?
He's roughing off!
Vaseline!
See, roughing off is when we take the mike.
All right, hold on. All right! Take it easy!
You know I got security, nigga. I'll get you yoked.
I will get you...
I'm worth too much money now, motherfucker.
There's snipers on the roof, all kinds of shit!
That's right, Mr. T. I pity the fool!
I pity the fool that fuck with me.
What's up, BK?
Yo. It's like this.
This my homie here, he's from DC, right?
Yo, son. What's up with that bald head?
I think you got to get something new or you'll be dead
Yo, Dave, I ain't gonna do you like that
'Cause I'm gonna come to you real fat with a bat
Yo, I'm rapping like this 'cause I don't really freestyle
I'm rapping like this 'cause I've traveled many miles
"Please to meet you," I holler "I'll see you at the gate"
After that, yeah That shit's gonna be late
Time out, everybody.
First of all, don't ever boo a rapper on this stage.
The way that he rhymed "gate" with "late" is genius!
And if you can't see that, there's something wrong with you!
Anybody can rhyme like that.
You got nice shoes.
Nigga's got blues.
New York City.
Something about big titties. You could just do that all day.
Bring back on that beat!
Uh!
Time out, time out, time out!
Why everybody got to go "uh" before they freestyle? Uh!
Uh!
All right, go ahead. Bring that beat back. Bring that beat back!
I didn't forget about you!
It's time to go to school
Like Mr. T said, "I pity the fool!"