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(record scratching)

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(light music)

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(soft music)

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♪ I've raised hell with
supreme clientele ♪

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♪ When I first came to reverse, spells ♪

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Wait, wait, shit.

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Uh, look...

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- Are we done?
- Yes.

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- [Cameraman] Okay.

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- Turn it up right here?
- Yeah.

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- What's good?
- There you go, yeah.

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- Yo, yo, yo.

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- Can't be having no shortage
in the wires, feel me?

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That's how much fire.

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- [Engineer] Yeah, right
there, bring it back.

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(dramatic music)

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- Sunz Of Man absolutely gave birth

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to an entire genre of music.

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- Sunz Of Man was giving
you that raw hip hop

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but it was beautiful, you know?

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- They was using more biblical terms.

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They wasn't using the
average street metaphors.

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- I would tell Jay-Z,
and I'm like, "See him?"

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Seems like one of the greatest.

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♪ Put the heaters to they face
and give 'em some sideburns ♪

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♪ They got they shine
on, now it be our turn ♪

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♪ He just a clone from
a sample of my sperm ♪

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♪ These old rappers washed
up and they got worms ♪

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- All us together was crazy, unstoppable.

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But him going on his own and
starting his own movement,

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he blew the shit up, man.

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♪ Have you heard praise
son and bags of merch ♪

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♪ Countin' Euros in
Hamburg Germany dough ♪

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♪ You know power, respect,
pussy, and fast cars ♪

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♪ With our loyalty you
ain't making it that far ♪

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- His evolution was definitely
like on another level.

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♪ But when I die on this
earth I'm on a universe ♪

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- [Interviewer] Tell me a little bit about

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what part of New York you guys are from

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and how you first got
exposed to hip-hop music.

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- Well...
- Hey.

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- Wow, well...
- That goes back.

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- I mean, it go back, man.
- Better day.

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- For New York, started
from like block parties.

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- Mm-hmm, Coffey Park.

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- You know what I'm sayin',
it started from jams

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and block parties, that's what we know.

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You had a DJ that was in the park.

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- DJ Laz.
- Straight up.

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- You had the mic, you had the rope.

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- Don't even come near that
rope if you ain't nice.

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- You lookin' at all the people,

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so that energy give back,
you gotta give it back.

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You got Queens day, you got Brooklyn day,

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you know what I'm sayin',
we got Red Hook day.

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All our projects got they days.

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Roseville day, Brownsville day.

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Everybody got they days,
you know what I'm sayin',

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and that's what we remember hip-hop as.

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- [Shabazz] Yeah, that day represents

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the essence of where it started from.

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- [Razah] That's where we came from,

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you know what I'm sayin'?

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- [Shabazz] That's the
New York I remember.

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- Yo, this is Coffey Park right here man.

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Yo, we got the projects
over there on that side.

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Yo, when they used to jam out here

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you just see crowds of
people just comin' down.

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They just comin', walkin' from that area.

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Let's go down here where
they used to set it up at.

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Yo, believe it or not, they filled,

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the whole entire park was full.

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They would get this box off.

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They would take a thing
and screw this off.

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Inside of there's wires with
like a lightbulb kinda thing.

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That's where they would
get they power from.

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And you'd just walk through the projects,

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go to the next one, there's
girls, there's everything.

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It was like a party, man.

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When I was a kid I didn't
know nothin' about a club.

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And this was Hell Razah
stage, this was Shabazz stage.

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Yo, this was our stage.

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(groovy music)

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- The crack epidemic era came out here

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and destroyed everybody,
and what it actually did,

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it made people write stories about that.

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It's tellin' the story
of what was goin' on.

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And they'd make stories about it,

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and they took it out of Red
Hook and they traveled with it.

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- Red Hook is the far end of Brooklyn.

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That's where all the dots is at.

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So to survive back up in there,

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you had to come with somethin.'

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It's like they fought they
way through to come out.

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- A successful writer is one who suffers.

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That's all we do, man, we suffered a lot.

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We suffered before we got in the game,

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we suffered in the game,

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so we always got a lotta good
substance to write about.

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- So yo, if I wanted to get Razah

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and didn't want to walk
up the stairs or whatever,

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I would call Razah from the window.

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Razah window is up there
where that air conditioner is.

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Right next to the air conditioner,

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that was Hell Razah's bedroom.

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Actually, his sister still lives there,

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so if I was to call his name

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somebody probably would
look out the window

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and think I'm goin' crazy.

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- Tell Ronnie I said what up.

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Red Hook miss him.

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- I remember this clearly.

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He comes, knock on my door.

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Him and 7th Ambassador.

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And Razah comes in, I'm like oh,

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and he come in, I say "Have
a seat man, what's up?

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"Why'd you come by?"

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"Yo, we got a problem, I got beef.

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"Can I hold a gun?"

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And they sittin' there,
and they a little nervous.

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So I'm like, "What you need a gun for?"

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"I was sellin' crack.

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"Dude told me that I couldn't sell.

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"And he pulled out a gun on me

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"and told me I couldn't
sell on the block."

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That's how it was.

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Now if you don't go back
with a gun, either you stop.

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Everybody look, even
though you still back down,

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the guy that pulled out the gun,

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like oh now you scared of me.

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He go to keep messin' with you regardless.

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So I'm like, damn.

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He's on my block.

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To get to his block is a long walk,

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and the people he got in beef

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with might shoot him on the way back.

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So I can't see that happen,
so I'm sittin' there.

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I'm that guy, not the
guy, but I had a gun.

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And I had an extra one to spare,

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and I'm willin' to go out on the street,

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and I'll take care of
business if I have to.

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So I'm like, man, I'm
lookin' at this dude,

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I'm like, dude, how can I help him?

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And it just hit me.

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I looked at him, I said, "Yo Razah."

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I said "I'll do a deal with you."

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I said "I'll walk you
home and squash your beef

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"if you sit down and
write a rhyme to this beat

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"that I'm gonna make."

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"Word, yo!"

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I said "Let's do it right now."

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And then when it was time to
go home, I'm like "Y'all ready?

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"Come on, let's go."

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All I did is seen the
person, like "That's him?

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"Yo, that's my cousin, leave him alone.

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"He's done, leave him alone.

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"If you mess with him, you
gotta deal with me now."

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And that was the end of it.

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That beef was squashed just like that,

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and they was comin' to
my house every night.

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♪ I'm livin', I'm livin' like a villain ♪

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♪ I wouldn't give up and that's
how the hell I'm livin' ♪

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♪ Yeah, I'm livin', I'm
livin' like a villain ♪

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♪ I wouldn't give up, and
that's how the hell I'm livin' ♪

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♪ I'm livin', I'm livin' like a villain ♪

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♪ I wouldn't give up and that's
how the hell I'm livin' ♪

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- Me and Razah been rhyming
since like the age of nine.

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Like I told, I came up
to his house one day

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'cause his moms lived
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My grandmoms lived on the fourth floor,

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he lived on the sixth.

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So I would just go up there,
me and him would chop it up.

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And one day, I don't know,
it was just like yo man,

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'cause I was already like
feelin' the whole hip-hop game,

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you know, that's when it
was fresh and was early,

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you know what I'm sayin',
and I was like, yo man.

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You know, I started writin'.

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Was like "Yo, why don't you write?

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"You know, we both write together.

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"Let's write rap songs or somethin.'"

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Know what I'm sayin', like this

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is like nine, 10 year old kids talkin'.

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- Raz was incredible man.

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Like at the age of 13, 14,

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Raz was a beast on the mic.

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Like the stuff he was sayin',

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like even from new hip five block angels.

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You know what I mean?

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♪ My mind is rejected from hell ♪

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♪ But they say my spirit
is accepted to dwell ♪

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♪ I'm reality ♪

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You know what I mean?

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Like this is 1991, and
he's sayin' this at 14.

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So he was already gifted and chosen.

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(hip-hop music)

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- Right here is Da Last
Future on Nocturnal 7 Records.

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There's the beginnin'.

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Before the Sunz of Man,
this is the beginnin'.

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Got Hell Razah, 7th
Ambassador, Prodigal Sunn,

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Killah Priest, Shabazz
the Disciple, right?

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I produced it.

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- Well, originally, first startin' off,

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you know what I'm sayin',
was just me and Razah.

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We was Da Last Future.

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- As a crew, we was Da Mad Mob.

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- [Ambassador] You know, they
would all go to Preme house

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and lay down cuts, some bad cuts too.

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- Supreme was more listening
for storytellin' type sounds.

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You know what I mean,

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because that what we
tell a lot on his tracks.

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There's always a concept,

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so he looked for those sentimental sounds.

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- That man Dirty, you know,

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we grew up together, so,
you know what I mean,

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like we'd hang out and we
would find ourselves battlin'.

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Just goin' around, just
battlin' everybody.

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- The way we battled each other, man,

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it wasn't about just fightin'
and guns and all that.

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We battled each other with words.

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Who could out-talk the person the best?

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- You know, sound travels
1,120 feet per second.

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So you know, the word got around.

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- Me and Bazz happened to
meet RZA through his cousin.

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He would come by and say "Yo
man, these in Staten Island!"

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Kept tellin' me "These
guys in Staten Island

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"doin' the same thing you doin', 'Preme!

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"The same thing y'all doin'.

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"They got a whole group of
people and they makin' music!"

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This and that.

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- You say Wu-Tang you
think of martial arts,

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you think of mathematics.

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You know, you think of a group of guys

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that came from nothin' that made a voice

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that nobody could deny.

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- Now he comes out, he's like

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"Yo man, like y'all stuff.

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"Man you make the beats, I like that."

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All these dudes is there.

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RZA, Meth, the whole entire Wu is there.

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And when we walked in, he was like

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"Yo y'all, this is Supreme, this Shabazz,

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"they from Red Hook.

245
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"I'm thinkin' about puttin'
them down with the whole thing."

246
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And everybody introduce
each other, we shook hands.

247
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- So we had that connect,
man, that aspect of just...

248
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We was young and we was
really fuckin' revolutionist.

249
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You know, rebels.

250
00:10:39,716 --> 00:10:41,024
And then it was just a
bunch of groups, man.

251
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It's just like Motown, man.

252
00:10:42,732 --> 00:10:44,548
You know, how Donald Ross was in one group

253
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and then next thing you know,
he got with the Supremes.

254
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You know what I mean?

255
00:10:47,478 --> 00:10:49,881
- I mean, when I was comin' up
and goin' through my process

256
00:10:49,881 --> 00:10:53,148
they was comin' up and goin'
through the same process as me.

257
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You know, all my Wu-Tang affiliates,

258
00:10:55,635 --> 00:10:59,056
we came up together on
that same musical vibe,

259
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that same street mentality,

260
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get paper by any means
necessary, hustle, groceries.

261
00:11:05,445 --> 00:11:07,605
You know, we do what we had to do.

262
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And then that process, you know,

263
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rap was another form of
communication for us.

264
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It was somethin' that kept us together.

265
00:11:14,101 --> 00:11:15,809
- Now, I'm making music in my house,

266
00:11:15,809 --> 00:11:19,586
but every other day we gettin'
calls from RZA and 'em.

267
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We in Fire House Studio.

268
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We been goin' to studio maybe
a year with RZA and 'em.

269
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So I'm like let's record a
record in this same studio.

270
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So I booked time.

271
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- One day, we all got to the Fire House.

272
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All of us was there, you know.

273
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And we was all just spittin',
'cause that's kung fu.

274
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Everybody fightin', showin they skills.

275
00:11:38,909 --> 00:11:41,205
- When this dropped,
soon as this came out,

276
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I didn't have a deal,
I'm lookin' for a deal.

277
00:11:43,857 --> 00:11:45,673
I give it to RZA, RZA hears it.

278
00:11:45,673 --> 00:11:47,205
"Oh man, that's hot!"

279
00:11:47,205 --> 00:11:49,409
- It wasn't like a put-together group.

280
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It was like more like a family.

281
00:11:53,591 --> 00:11:55,105
- We he hear them on it, he's like

282
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"Man, they sound good together."

283
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- They came to me with a
unique style of lyricism,

284
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and I gave them a record deal.

285
00:12:02,296 --> 00:12:04,651
Wu-Tang Records, one of the
first artists that I signed.

286
00:12:04,651 --> 00:12:06,679
- Sunz of Man got signed to Wu-Tang

287
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because Wu-Tang, they loved our music.

288
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- I remember walking up to the studio,

289
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they outside of the building,
and they standing there

290
00:12:14,659 --> 00:12:16,803
with grins on they face, smilin.'

291
00:12:16,803 --> 00:12:18,663
"Dig ol' 'Preme, yo, what's up?

292
00:12:18,663 --> 00:12:20,717
"Yo, we got the name of the group."

293
00:12:20,717 --> 00:12:21,963
I'm like, "What's the name?"

294
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"Sunz of Man."

295
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♪ Lord in Heaven ♪

296
00:12:28,154 --> 00:12:30,588
♪ It ain't blood without hate ♪

297
00:12:30,588 --> 00:12:33,350
♪ It ain't no peace without war ♪

298
00:12:33,350 --> 00:12:36,231
♪ It ain't no madness
without the sadness ♪

299
00:12:36,231 --> 00:12:39,323
♪ So tell me, where's the
love, peace, and happiness ♪

300
00:12:39,323 --> 00:12:40,983
♪ My arrival to this planet ♪

301
00:12:40,983 --> 00:12:43,207
♪ I was entitled to be
physically stranded ♪

302
00:12:43,207 --> 00:12:46,023
♪ Mentally free now, this
be the sound, I travel ♪

303
00:12:46,023 --> 00:12:48,339
♪ Unravel, you babble,
my head is the castle ♪

304
00:12:48,339 --> 00:12:50,871
♪ Mind is the king, swords be the words ♪

305
00:12:50,871 --> 00:12:52,119
♪ When I swing, attack you ♪

306
00:12:52,119 --> 00:12:53,767
♪ Like a guillotine that's trapped you ♪

307
00:12:53,767 --> 00:12:56,287
♪ Pass through the heavenly
atmosphere, where I stare ♪

308
00:12:56,287 --> 00:12:58,911
♪ At those who fear the truth,
now interfere with lies ♪

309
00:12:58,911 --> 00:13:02,303
♪ Our black nation must rise,
worldwide like the third eye ♪

310
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♪ I be the law breaker, life
or death maker, Heaven Razah ♪

311
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♪ Traitor, eliminator ♪

312
00:13:07,103 --> 00:13:09,923
♪ Wicked disintegrator,
lyrical earth-quaker ♪

313
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♪ Absorb me, shining light is mandatory ♪

314
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♪ I got knowledge of my self explanatory ♪

315
00:13:14,871 --> 00:13:18,306
♪ Of course we be the Sunz of
Man, deeper than quick sand ♪

316
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♪ Expand like gases on
our masses of our land ♪

317
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♪ Oh bring me back ♪

318
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♪ It ain't no love without hate ♪

319
00:13:26,964 --> 00:13:29,265
♪ It ain't no peace without war ♪

320
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- The beginning of Sunz of Man

321
00:13:30,098 --> 00:13:33,598
was basically Shabazz, 60 Second Assassin,

322
00:13:34,867 --> 00:13:37,655
Hell Razah, Prodigal
Sunn, and Killah Priest.

323
00:13:37,655 --> 00:13:39,875
Gravediggaz was this, horrorcore.

324
00:13:39,875 --> 00:13:41,524
Sunz of Man was holycore.

325
00:13:41,524 --> 00:13:42,709
'Cause we was talkin' about the Bible,

326
00:13:42,709 --> 00:13:44,283
the Quran, the Apocrypha,

327
00:13:44,283 --> 00:13:45,783
talkin' about all the great books.

328
00:13:45,783 --> 00:13:47,523
And we read 'em, and we studied 'em,

329
00:13:47,523 --> 00:13:48,875
and we knew what we was talking about.

330
00:13:48,875 --> 00:13:51,964
And from a group of guys comin'
from the slums of Brooklyn,

331
00:13:51,964 --> 00:13:54,891
and Staten Island to be
speakin' these type of words

332
00:13:54,891 --> 00:13:59,115
and these type of songs,
you know, it was just...

333
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At that time it was unheard of.

334
00:14:01,139 --> 00:14:02,235
- The Sunz of Man brought it

335
00:14:02,235 --> 00:14:04,495
to even more of a spiritual realm.

336
00:14:04,495 --> 00:14:06,719
You know what I'm sayin', where...

337
00:14:06,719 --> 00:14:10,259
And it wasn't even one
religion or anything like that,

338
00:14:10,259 --> 00:14:12,779
and it just showed that
all these religions

339
00:14:12,779 --> 00:14:15,119
is one and the same, you know,

340
00:14:15,119 --> 00:14:17,923
and really all it is is
it brings people together

341
00:14:17,923 --> 00:14:21,163
and gives them a proper way to live life.

342
00:14:21,163 --> 00:14:24,163
It's a map, it's a road map of where to go

343
00:14:24,163 --> 00:14:25,711
and where to walk, and how to walk.

344
00:14:25,711 --> 00:14:27,751
And that's what I feel
like Sunz of Man kinda did.

345
00:14:27,751 --> 00:14:30,523
- I remember at this
moment the Clan was big

346
00:14:30,523 --> 00:14:33,163
in '93 and '94, you know,
they were blowing up...

347
00:14:33,163 --> 00:14:36,523
- An executive of mine named Mark Levy

348
00:14:36,523 --> 00:14:38,475
was kinda like this nerdy white guy

349
00:14:38,475 --> 00:14:41,054
who just loved hip-hop.

350
00:14:41,054 --> 00:14:43,751
Very early on loved hip-hop and was really

351
00:14:43,751 --> 00:14:46,351
in the streets all the time, and you know,

352
00:14:46,351 --> 00:14:48,135
he ran a street team.

353
00:14:48,135 --> 00:14:51,943
- We met these people that's
gonna offer us a deal,

354
00:14:51,943 --> 00:14:54,419
and they called Red Ant.

355
00:14:54,419 --> 00:14:55,723
What?

356
00:14:55,723 --> 00:14:57,451
- Wu-Tang had what call we call

357
00:14:57,451 --> 00:15:00,403
in the business, massive coattails.

358
00:15:00,403 --> 00:15:02,295
And they had a huge fan base,

359
00:15:02,295 --> 00:15:04,559
and that fan base gravitated to anything

360
00:15:04,559 --> 00:15:07,573
that got the Wu-Tang stamp of approval.

361
00:15:07,573 --> 00:15:10,231
So yeah, that was a big motivating factor

362
00:15:10,231 --> 00:15:14,654
to wanting to sign them, and
we made a almost unprecedented

363
00:15:14,654 --> 00:15:16,659
huge deal for them at the time.

364
00:15:16,659 --> 00:15:20,139
- A million dollar deal,
you know, that was like...

365
00:15:20,139 --> 00:15:20,999
It's unheard of.

366
00:15:20,999 --> 00:15:23,579
I ain't hear nobody gettin'
no million dollar deal!

367
00:15:23,579 --> 00:15:25,890
- After we left Wu-Tang Records,

368
00:15:25,890 --> 00:15:28,515
this was the record we did with Red Ant.

369
00:15:28,515 --> 00:15:33,031
And this record consisted
of only four of us,

370
00:15:33,031 --> 00:15:37,531
which was Razah, myself, 60
Second, and Killah Priest.

371
00:15:40,275 --> 00:15:41,743
You know what I mean, that was the four

372
00:15:41,743 --> 00:15:43,423
that signed that deal with Red Ant,

373
00:15:43,423 --> 00:15:46,001
and that's who the world
knew as Sunz of Man.

374
00:15:46,001 --> 00:15:48,711
- The Sunz were very musical.

375
00:15:48,711 --> 00:15:50,562
I mean, there was the
hardcore street stuff

376
00:15:50,562 --> 00:15:54,075
but there was also the
big hooks and the melodies

377
00:15:54,075 --> 00:15:57,091
and stuff like that, which
made them so interesting,

378
00:15:57,091 --> 00:15:58,723
that coming from their background

379
00:15:58,723 --> 00:16:00,931
they embraced that kind of music.

380
00:16:00,931 --> 00:16:03,375
And then there was so much musicality

381
00:16:03,375 --> 00:16:04,496
that putting them together

382
00:16:04,496 --> 00:16:07,215
with Earth, Wind & Fire was a no-brainer.

383
00:16:07,215 --> 00:16:09,643
To me, it was magic when
you put them together.

384
00:16:09,643 --> 00:16:11,503
- This is history right here.

385
00:16:11,503 --> 00:16:13,875
This is a real historical moment.

386
00:16:13,875 --> 00:16:15,991
♪ When you wish upon a star ♪

387
00:16:15,991 --> 00:16:18,151
♪ No matter who you are ♪

388
00:16:18,151 --> 00:16:20,431
♪ Shinin' bright to see ♪

389
00:16:20,431 --> 00:16:22,581
♪ What you could truly be ♪

390
00:16:22,581 --> 00:16:25,380
♪ Uh, ayo, this masterpiece
be exclusive and fascinating ♪

391
00:16:25,380 --> 00:16:26,604
♪ Street knowledge education ♪

392
00:16:26,604 --> 00:16:28,847
♪ Teach the seeds, son,
no procrastinatin' ♪

393
00:16:28,847 --> 00:16:30,301
♪ Ghetto learnin', graduatin' ♪

394
00:16:30,301 --> 00:16:32,403
♪ Blessed be the ones with
patience from the ancient ♪

395
00:16:32,403 --> 00:16:34,459
♪ God bless the child
that could hold his own ♪

396
00:16:34,459 --> 00:16:36,183
♪ Little shorties, don't trust a soul ♪

397
00:16:36,183 --> 00:16:37,383
♪ It's all globe control ♪

398
00:16:37,383 --> 00:16:39,253
♪ Earth, Wind & Fire,
Sunz of Man and Wyclef ♪

399
00:16:39,253 --> 00:16:40,994
- We put a gold record out, yo.

400
00:16:40,994 --> 00:16:44,683
And I think a gold record
is a dream for a lotta MC's.

401
00:16:44,683 --> 00:16:46,167
- It was incredible, man.

402
00:16:46,167 --> 00:16:49,047
We comin' outta Brooklyn,
you know, cold as shit.

403
00:16:49,047 --> 00:16:50,004
You know what I mean?

404
00:16:50,004 --> 00:16:53,475
We get the Marina Del
Ray, we seein' palm trees.

405
00:16:53,475 --> 00:16:56,623
We in the Oakwoods, Cheesecake Factory.

406
00:16:56,623 --> 00:16:58,838
Motherfuckers surfing.

407
00:16:58,838 --> 00:17:01,723
You know, we like "Yo, we in heaven!

408
00:17:01,723 --> 00:17:03,564
"I'm in paradise!"

409
00:17:03,564 --> 00:17:05,415
- I thought we was gonna be big time.

410
00:17:05,415 --> 00:17:07,947
They was on doin' they
tour and they shows.

411
00:17:07,947 --> 00:17:09,899
They was on BT.

412
00:17:09,899 --> 00:17:11,203
They was doin' they thing.

413
00:17:11,203 --> 00:17:14,133
So I thought we was supposed to be famous.

414
00:17:14,133 --> 00:17:16,227
I thought we was supposed
to go platinum, you know?

415
00:17:16,227 --> 00:17:17,579
I was devastated.

416
00:17:17,579 --> 00:17:20,306
- They didn't have a great
organization around them.

417
00:17:20,306 --> 00:17:24,975
I think if they had a
bigger management company

418
00:17:24,975 --> 00:17:27,456
with more opportunity and stuff like that,

419
00:17:27,456 --> 00:17:30,795
and then, you know, at the
time too, we were a small label

420
00:17:30,795 --> 00:17:35,344
in a big company, so I didn't
have a button I could push

421
00:17:35,344 --> 00:17:38,443
that would automatically
make them a priority.

422
00:17:38,443 --> 00:17:42,175
- You know, then next minute
somebody gives me a call

423
00:17:42,175 --> 00:17:44,819
to say "Yo man, y'all in the news.

424
00:17:44,819 --> 00:17:46,155
"Like in The Wall Street Journal."

425
00:17:46,155 --> 00:17:48,822
And it was over, just like that.

426
00:17:49,767 --> 00:17:51,119
They folded.

427
00:17:51,119 --> 00:17:52,842
- It was good and terrible,
you know what I mean?

428
00:17:52,842 --> 00:17:55,199
'Cause we was bouncin'
from house to house.

429
00:17:55,199 --> 00:17:56,576
You know, they had us at Polygram.

430
00:17:56,576 --> 00:18:00,103
We was like 800,000 preorders
or something like that.

431
00:18:00,103 --> 00:18:02,127
And we went over to BMG,

432
00:18:02,127 --> 00:18:04,496
and then it dropped down to like 500,000.

433
00:18:04,496 --> 00:18:05,835
- Basically they said, "You know what,

434
00:18:05,835 --> 00:18:07,559
"the Sunz of Man, they didn't work."

435
00:18:07,559 --> 00:18:09,357
Or "We did as much as we could do."

436
00:18:09,357 --> 00:18:12,839
Now we get a chance to
go do our own thing.

437
00:18:12,839 --> 00:18:14,533
- It was just the moves that was made

438
00:18:14,533 --> 00:18:17,367
that caused us to go our different ways.

439
00:18:17,367 --> 00:18:18,315
To each his own.

440
00:18:18,315 --> 00:18:21,067
- Since things happen,
and so much stuff happen,

441
00:18:21,067 --> 00:18:23,443
everybody felt the need to wanna just--

442
00:18:23,443 --> 00:18:25,935
"Ah, I gotta do what I gotta do now."

443
00:18:25,935 --> 00:18:28,807
- The Sunz of Man was Hell Razah,

444
00:18:28,807 --> 00:18:32,297
and the Hell Razah solo, that was a change

445
00:18:32,297 --> 00:18:36,076
because his vocabulary, his grammar...

446
00:18:36,076 --> 00:18:38,152
He had the wisdom of a elder.

447
00:18:38,152 --> 00:18:41,330
He had the knowledge of
somebody that was in they 40s

448
00:18:41,330 --> 00:18:43,524
when we was in our 20s.

449
00:18:43,524 --> 00:18:45,608
So I used to look at him like "Wow!"

450
00:18:45,608 --> 00:18:46,688
You know?

451
00:18:46,688 --> 00:18:48,444
It was light, you know,
it was an enlightenment.

452
00:18:48,444 --> 00:18:51,640
I always got inspired by Hell Razah.

453
00:18:51,640 --> 00:18:53,980
- If you look at the resume
right now with Sunz of Man,

454
00:18:53,980 --> 00:18:54,932
Razah's been workin', man.

455
00:18:54,932 --> 00:18:57,449
- Hell Razah, he definitely
chimed in a group.

456
00:18:57,449 --> 00:19:00,034
You know what I mean,
him being the youngest,

457
00:19:00,034 --> 00:19:02,951
I just think that hip-hop is young.

458
00:19:03,995 --> 00:19:06,880
I think the young creates hip-hop.

459
00:19:06,880 --> 00:19:09,594
- Razah's the best outta this whole group.

460
00:19:09,594 --> 00:19:10,427
To tell you the truth,

461
00:19:10,427 --> 00:19:13,080
I think Razah is iller that all of us.

462
00:19:13,080 --> 00:19:14,020
That's what I think.

463
00:19:14,020 --> 00:19:16,240
- And when you become a rapper's rapper,

464
00:19:16,240 --> 00:19:18,220
that's when you've kinda
made it as a creative,

465
00:19:18,220 --> 00:19:19,950
you know what I mean, in hip-hop.

466
00:19:19,950 --> 00:19:22,640
- But then he dropped Renaissance Child.

467
00:19:22,640 --> 00:19:25,461
Totally changed the game,
I'ma be honest with you.

468
00:19:25,461 --> 00:19:27,933
I just think the way
that it was formatted,

469
00:19:27,933 --> 00:19:29,841
you know, with the whole thought process

470
00:19:29,841 --> 00:19:32,359
and the studies and
everything that went behind it

471
00:19:32,359 --> 00:19:34,864
made it an instant classic.

472
00:19:34,864 --> 00:19:37,421
♪ A and R's wanna hate,
try to tell me to wait ♪

473
00:19:37,421 --> 00:19:39,669
♪ Without a mixtape, don't
make me spit in your face ♪

474
00:19:39,669 --> 00:19:41,921
♪ Put this 40 to your head,
make you dig in the safe ♪

475
00:19:41,921 --> 00:19:44,166
♪ I'm the great Constantine,
I carve the kings ♪

476
00:19:44,166 --> 00:19:46,377
♪ I'm a Renaissance Child
from my father's genes ♪

477
00:19:46,377 --> 00:19:48,606
♪ Like Joseph interpreting
a Pharaoh's dream ♪

478
00:19:48,606 --> 00:19:50,861
♪ Man, business affairs
better have my cream ♪

479
00:19:50,861 --> 00:19:53,109
♪ Now the white man plan
is to have my queen ♪

480
00:19:53,109 --> 00:19:55,013
♪ I seen bosses with Maybelline on ♪

481
00:19:55,013 --> 00:19:57,200
♪ Got sick of hearing Brooknam
need a good theme song ♪

482
00:19:57,200 --> 00:19:59,958
♪ I'm reborn, I'm back
now, getting my eat on ♪

483
00:19:59,958 --> 00:20:02,580
♪ It's Heaven Razah so be gone ♪

484
00:20:02,580 --> 00:20:03,943
- We just had Renaissance Child.

485
00:20:03,943 --> 00:20:05,940
Do you think you had an
impact with that album

486
00:20:05,940 --> 00:20:07,724
that you wanted to have?

487
00:20:07,724 --> 00:20:09,044
- I think I better had a impact

488
00:20:09,044 --> 00:20:12,071
'cause I put a lotta
concentration into that album

489
00:20:12,071 --> 00:20:13,533
so, you know what I'm
sayin', every project

490
00:20:13,533 --> 00:20:15,377
that come out from us from now on

491
00:20:15,377 --> 00:20:17,532
is gonna be followin' the same procedures,

492
00:20:17,532 --> 00:20:19,825
you know what I'm sayin',
so it's gonna continue.

493
00:20:19,825 --> 00:20:21,233
That's not the end, you
know what I'm sayin'?

494
00:20:21,233 --> 00:20:24,701
- Me, Hell Razah, Shabazz,
we were doin' a lotta stuff.

495
00:20:24,701 --> 00:20:26,753
Then the last time I seen
'em, we was in the studio

496
00:20:26,753 --> 00:20:30,262
and we in there, they recordin'
Hell Razah, Bazz recordin',

497
00:20:30,262 --> 00:20:32,709
I film, and everything was good.

498
00:20:32,709 --> 00:20:37,385
But next day, somebody said
"Yo, Razah's in the hospital."

499
00:20:37,385 --> 00:20:40,296
- My oldest brother Curtis, he called

500
00:20:40,296 --> 00:20:42,701
and he was like "Hey, this just happened

501
00:20:42,701 --> 00:20:44,184
"to Ronnie on the job."

502
00:20:44,184 --> 00:20:46,154
He said he had a bad headache, real bad.

503
00:20:46,154 --> 00:20:48,071
And he just passed out,

504
00:20:49,290 --> 00:20:51,346
so we had to take him to the hospital.

505
00:20:51,346 --> 00:20:52,179
- He's got a headache,

506
00:20:52,179 --> 00:20:55,890
like he never experienced
this type of headache before,

507
00:20:55,890 --> 00:20:58,650
like, you know what I
mean, and it's serious.

508
00:20:58,650 --> 00:21:00,178
He just collapsed on 'em.

509
00:21:00,178 --> 00:21:01,011
You know what I mean?

510
00:21:01,011 --> 00:21:02,370
Like, it was serious to the point, like,

511
00:21:02,370 --> 00:21:03,534
he was tryin' to tell his brother,

512
00:21:03,534 --> 00:21:05,670
like he was really in pain.

513
00:21:05,670 --> 00:21:06,503
Understand?

514
00:21:06,503 --> 00:21:07,738
And his brother was thinkin' like

515
00:21:07,738 --> 00:21:09,658
it was just a sit down thing,

516
00:21:09,658 --> 00:21:11,938
like just sit down and relax.

517
00:21:11,938 --> 00:21:14,771
He was like "No, I'm in pain, yo!"

518
00:21:15,914 --> 00:21:18,374
(intense whirring)

519
00:21:18,374 --> 00:21:19,675
- You know, he's in the hospital.

520
00:21:19,675 --> 00:21:22,549
He just suffered an aneurism.

521
00:21:22,549 --> 00:21:23,382
Mind-blowing.

522
00:21:23,382 --> 00:21:26,135
I already said I just
spoke to him two days ago.

523
00:21:26,135 --> 00:21:28,431
I'm like, "Huh, what do you mean?"

524
00:21:28,431 --> 00:21:30,171
You know, he was in critical condition.

525
00:21:30,171 --> 00:21:33,322
At that point it's like
everything just stopped

526
00:21:33,322 --> 00:21:37,042
and it started going in slow motion.

527
00:21:37,042 --> 00:21:38,439
- Yeah, I couldn't believe it, man.

528
00:21:38,439 --> 00:21:40,754
I was just like, an aneurism?

529
00:21:40,754 --> 00:21:42,459
That just took somethin' outta me,

530
00:21:42,459 --> 00:21:45,609
'cause that's like my
little brother right there.

531
00:21:45,609 --> 00:21:47,410
He was the baby of the
family, you know what I mean?

532
00:21:47,410 --> 00:21:48,910
And put all the energy in,

533
00:21:48,910 --> 00:21:51,850
he's pretty much the
inspiration, you know.

534
00:21:51,850 --> 00:21:54,910
So when I heard that, that
shit just, you know...

535
00:21:54,910 --> 00:21:56,230
It was crazy, man.

536
00:21:56,230 --> 00:21:57,833
- I seen him in the hospital, man.

537
00:21:57,833 --> 00:21:59,950
He had all that shit wrapped on his head,

538
00:21:59,950 --> 00:22:04,298
and he was just, man, that shit
looked crazy horrible, man.

539
00:22:04,298 --> 00:22:05,166
- Was tellin' the doctors,

540
00:22:05,166 --> 00:22:07,733
like it's not looking good, such and such.

541
00:22:07,733 --> 00:22:09,386
He's not gonna be the same,

542
00:22:09,386 --> 00:22:11,169
he's not gonna function the same,

543
00:22:11,169 --> 00:22:13,613
he's not gonna walk the same,
he's not gonna talk the same.

544
00:22:13,613 --> 00:22:17,138
One side of his body's
gonna be totally different.

545
00:22:17,138 --> 00:22:19,390
- It was life and death,
he was in the hospital.

546
00:22:19,390 --> 00:22:21,114
But I heard about it
right when it happened.

547
00:22:21,114 --> 00:22:24,594
I was just like, "Damn,
man, this is crazy, man."

548
00:22:24,594 --> 00:22:26,542
Like, how, I was just trippin' man.

549
00:22:26,542 --> 00:22:28,150
Like how the fuck that happen?

550
00:22:28,150 --> 00:22:29,062
That's all I could think.

551
00:22:29,062 --> 00:22:30,608
Like, how did that happen?

552
00:22:30,608 --> 00:22:31,688
- When you in the hospital,

553
00:22:31,688 --> 00:22:33,338
sittin' there in the waitin' room,

554
00:22:33,338 --> 00:22:34,171
everybody lookin' at each other,

555
00:22:34,171 --> 00:22:36,770
you know shit's gonna be
different after this situation.

556
00:22:36,770 --> 00:22:38,722
Like, everybody knows it's not gonna

557
00:22:38,722 --> 00:22:40,219
be the same, you feel me?

558
00:22:40,219 --> 00:22:43,670
So, I knew this dude from the jump.

559
00:22:43,670 --> 00:22:45,922
Soon as I knew he was in the
hospital sitting there waitin'

560
00:22:45,922 --> 00:22:47,406
I'm like "Oh shit."

561
00:22:47,406 --> 00:22:49,026
Shit is crazy.

562
00:22:49,026 --> 00:22:51,394
- An aneurism ruptured,
and when it ruptured,

563
00:22:51,394 --> 00:22:53,662
he had a bleed which led to a stroke.

564
00:22:53,662 --> 00:22:55,070
- All them days I was like prayin',

565
00:22:55,070 --> 00:22:57,246
'cause you know, they say a lotta people

566
00:22:57,246 --> 00:22:59,011
don't make it outta that,
you know what I'm sayin',

567
00:22:59,011 --> 00:23:00,634
like prayin' for my brother.

568
00:23:00,634 --> 00:23:02,140
- They didn't even know if he
was gonna come out the coma,

569
00:23:02,140 --> 00:23:03,796
then one day his fuckin' pinky moved.

570
00:23:03,796 --> 00:23:06,546
(dramatic music)

571
00:23:29,972 --> 00:23:34,139
- Right now we goin' to
my occupational therapist.

572
00:23:35,235 --> 00:23:37,368
See, when I had this brain aneurism,

573
00:23:37,368 --> 00:23:40,388
as you can see, my
head, where the surgery.

574
00:23:40,388 --> 00:23:42,152
This is where it was done.

575
00:23:42,152 --> 00:23:46,368
So this side was where
the surgery was done.

576
00:23:46,368 --> 00:23:47,988
So your right side of your brain

577
00:23:47,988 --> 00:23:51,848
controls everything on your left side.

578
00:23:51,848 --> 00:23:53,848
And it works vice versa.

579
00:23:54,853 --> 00:23:56,186
Then I get home.

580
00:23:57,708 --> 00:23:58,680
I don't even know what to say,

581
00:23:58,680 --> 00:24:00,272
'cause I'm still tryin' to figure out

582
00:24:00,272 --> 00:24:02,012
what the hell happened to me.

583
00:24:02,012 --> 00:24:02,845
And, um...

584
00:24:04,832 --> 00:24:07,156
My son come and hug me.

585
00:24:07,156 --> 00:24:09,074
And then cryin' a lot.

586
00:24:09,074 --> 00:24:10,675
Like, "Daddy, we love you."

587
00:24:10,675 --> 00:24:12,258
I'm like, shh.

588
00:24:12,258 --> 00:24:15,591
I go to touch myself, and this is there.

589
00:24:18,454 --> 00:24:22,836
And then I go to touch
this, and I feel like...

590
00:24:22,836 --> 00:24:26,336
I'm like, "What the hell is goin' on now?"

591
00:24:27,874 --> 00:24:31,655
I do this, and then I'm like "Oh shit!"

592
00:24:31,655 --> 00:24:33,708
I feel a whole thing, I'm like

593
00:24:33,708 --> 00:24:36,289
"What the hell happened to me, man?"

594
00:24:36,289 --> 00:24:37,732
Like, in the beginning, I couldn't talk,

595
00:24:37,732 --> 00:24:40,579
I couldn't walk, couldn't do shit.

596
00:24:40,579 --> 00:24:43,052
I couldn't even sit on the bed.

597
00:24:43,052 --> 00:24:45,009
I couldn't even sit in a
chair, couldn't do nothin.'

598
00:24:45,009 --> 00:24:48,173
Like I would lean forward to the side.

599
00:24:48,173 --> 00:24:50,768
I can't use my left side.

600
00:24:50,768 --> 00:24:52,297
My left hand.

601
00:24:52,297 --> 00:24:55,748
I can't do what I could
used to do with it.

602
00:24:55,748 --> 00:24:57,249
I had to learn everything.

603
00:24:57,249 --> 00:25:01,433
I had to learn how to dress
myself, put my shoes on,

604
00:25:01,433 --> 00:25:04,499
brush my teeth, wash my
face, do all that simple shit

605
00:25:04,499 --> 00:25:07,018
that you do everyday that
you would never think

606
00:25:07,018 --> 00:25:09,301
that you would have to learn these things.

607
00:25:09,301 --> 00:25:13,384
Now, we in 2012, with the two
years that went by already,

608
00:25:13,384 --> 00:25:16,577
and each year I gain somethin' back.

609
00:25:16,577 --> 00:25:18,410
I worked at it though.

610
00:25:19,440 --> 00:25:22,713
The hardest part is
remembering everything,

611
00:25:22,713 --> 00:25:24,709
because I actually...

612
00:25:24,709 --> 00:25:28,849
You do these things
off instinct naturally,

613
00:25:28,849 --> 00:25:32,726
but I have to learn it
again and remember it.

614
00:25:32,726 --> 00:25:36,059
'Cause I had to take memory therapy too.

615
00:25:37,753 --> 00:25:42,689
Because they was afraid that
my memory would be affected.

616
00:25:42,689 --> 00:25:45,927
- It's a big battle between
mentally, emotionally,

617
00:25:45,927 --> 00:25:48,181
and physically, but they
all kind of work together.

618
00:25:48,181 --> 00:25:49,933
So I find that if you work--

619
00:25:49,933 --> 00:25:51,361
In physical therapy obviously

620
00:25:51,361 --> 00:25:52,633
it's a little bit more physical

621
00:25:52,633 --> 00:25:54,701
but if you work on those
physical challenges

622
00:25:54,701 --> 00:25:58,901
it also helps emotionally
and mentally as well.

623
00:25:58,901 --> 00:26:01,842
- Yeah, this a new therapist,

624
00:26:01,842 --> 00:26:05,893
because I had just
moved to North Carolina,

625
00:26:05,893 --> 00:26:07,889
because it was too much distraction

626
00:26:07,889 --> 00:26:11,556
and there was too much
chaos where I was at.

627
00:26:13,483 --> 00:26:16,566
And I had to focus on getting better.

628
00:26:18,283 --> 00:26:19,450
My recovery...

629
00:26:21,721 --> 00:26:26,638
Plays with, a lot of it is how
serious I take it right now.

630
00:26:28,033 --> 00:26:32,950
- The doctors said he has every
way to make himself better.

631
00:26:36,694 --> 00:26:40,358
He can come back 100 percent,
but it's all up to him.

632
00:26:40,358 --> 00:26:43,538
- That's another reason why
I had to get out of New York

633
00:26:43,538 --> 00:26:46,621
and Pennsylvania, because too much...

634
00:26:48,656 --> 00:26:51,578
How it could be hurtful sometimes.

635
00:26:51,578 --> 00:26:55,745
So you gotta learn to do
these things on your own.

636
00:26:58,028 --> 00:26:59,816
Like, I was in a wheelchair,

637
00:26:59,816 --> 00:27:04,376
so everywhere I wanted to go
somebody was moving it around.

638
00:27:04,376 --> 00:27:06,605
- It bothers him a lot

639
00:27:06,605 --> 00:27:09,416
that he's in the condition that he's in.

640
00:27:09,416 --> 00:27:13,120
It bothers me, because I
know that wasn't who he was.

641
00:27:13,120 --> 00:27:16,496
He was moments where he gets really mad

642
00:27:16,496 --> 00:27:17,800
and frustrated at everybody,

643
00:27:17,800 --> 00:27:21,366
and then he can say, like,
nobody cares about him

644
00:27:21,366 --> 00:27:22,676
and stuff like that.

645
00:27:22,676 --> 00:27:24,880
I'll tell him sometime, like,
"Ronnie, you're scarin' me.

646
00:27:24,880 --> 00:27:27,548
"I don't want you to scare me."

647
00:27:27,548 --> 00:27:30,056
But we tell him all the time, you know,

648
00:27:30,056 --> 00:27:33,806
"Ronnie, we're there
for you no matter what."

649
00:27:34,796 --> 00:27:38,379
- I was born October
1st, 1976 Chron Smith.

650
00:27:41,900 --> 00:27:44,560
- Curtis is the oldest,
then you have Cheri,

651
00:27:44,560 --> 00:27:48,068
and then you have Trey,
then you have myself,

652
00:27:48,068 --> 00:27:49,240
and then you have Ronnie.

653
00:27:49,240 --> 00:27:52,961
- [Chron] Friends and
teachers had a problem

654
00:27:52,961 --> 00:27:55,801
with my name, they couldn't pronounce it.

655
00:27:55,801 --> 00:27:58,062
- [Charlene] We never called him Chron.

656
00:27:58,062 --> 00:28:00,028
For some reason, we never called him that.

657
00:28:00,028 --> 00:28:02,756
- Family would just call me Ronnie.

658
00:28:02,756 --> 00:28:04,871
My father owned a garage in Raleigh.

659
00:28:04,871 --> 00:28:06,716
My mother sold clothes, too.

660
00:28:06,716 --> 00:28:08,428
She was very good with that.

661
00:28:08,428 --> 00:28:10,736
My mom's a very loving person.

662
00:28:10,736 --> 00:28:13,826
She cared, she made sure
that we were stable,

663
00:28:13,826 --> 00:28:16,676
that we went to school, did our homework.

664
00:28:16,676 --> 00:28:21,676
- My mother, she was highly
spiritual, so therefore, Ronnie,

665
00:28:21,808 --> 00:28:24,252
he was like right under her all the time.

666
00:28:24,252 --> 00:28:25,828
He was the youngest kid.

667
00:28:25,828 --> 00:28:29,063
So, therefore, he did everything with her,

668
00:28:29,063 --> 00:28:30,460
going to church with
her, and stuff like that.

669
00:28:30,460 --> 00:28:33,668
- My father, he's done a lotta things.

670
00:28:33,668 --> 00:28:34,912
I've worked with him.

671
00:28:34,912 --> 00:28:38,260
We had a garage over here
across the street from PS 15s.

672
00:28:38,260 --> 00:28:40,360
I used to hang out over
there with the cars,

673
00:28:40,360 --> 00:28:42,428
and I used to wash the cars and stuff.

674
00:28:42,428 --> 00:28:44,332
Make my little pocket change, you know.

675
00:28:44,332 --> 00:28:47,244
- In my era, you didn't
have a lotta parents

676
00:28:47,244 --> 00:28:49,792
that was with their
mother, you know, together.

677
00:28:49,792 --> 00:28:52,388
It was like a separate, the
mothers was raisin' everybody.

678
00:28:52,388 --> 00:28:55,360
You would go home in
the middle of the night,

679
00:28:55,360 --> 00:28:57,880
three o' clock in the
mornin' because you had

680
00:28:57,880 --> 00:28:59,468
no mother or father in the house.

681
00:28:59,468 --> 00:29:00,638
But then they had Mrs. Smith

682
00:29:00,638 --> 00:29:02,048
and Mr. Baker, my father here,

683
00:29:02,048 --> 00:29:04,429
few fathers that raised the village.

684
00:29:04,429 --> 00:29:06,744
Mrs. Smith was one of
the ones who did that.

685
00:29:06,744 --> 00:29:08,744
- My mother passed away.

686
00:29:09,652 --> 00:29:12,504
I can't actually remember
what age Ronnie was,

687
00:29:12,504 --> 00:29:16,337
but I'm gonna say he was
maybe about 12 or 13.

688
00:29:18,175 --> 00:29:21,460
I'm just doin' an estimate right now.

689
00:29:21,460 --> 00:29:24,710
But he was very young,
and we were very worried

690
00:29:24,710 --> 00:29:27,488
that he was the age that he was.

691
00:29:27,488 --> 00:29:29,905
My moms passed from a cancer.

692
00:29:30,864 --> 00:29:33,111
And she never smoked a
cigarette a day in her life.

693
00:29:33,111 --> 00:29:35,194
That's what destroyed me.

694
00:29:36,520 --> 00:29:39,652
'Cause I'm like "What is
this world dealin' with man?

695
00:29:39,652 --> 00:29:41,152
"My mom died from cancer

696
00:29:41,152 --> 00:29:43,223
"and she never smoked a damn cigarette!"

697
00:29:43,223 --> 00:29:44,056
And, um...

698
00:29:47,332 --> 00:29:49,332
My father passed from...

699
00:29:50,740 --> 00:29:54,488
They robbed his garage, they
break into it to steal things.

700
00:29:54,488 --> 00:29:57,398
They beat him with his own tools,

701
00:29:57,398 --> 00:30:01,344
inside the garage, the
things that he had in there.

702
00:30:01,344 --> 00:30:05,261
And he had survived for
a long time after that,

703
00:30:09,352 --> 00:30:13,935
but then, throughout the time
of his recovering season,

704
00:30:14,980 --> 00:30:16,688
he went away.

705
00:30:16,688 --> 00:30:19,911
(somber music)

706
00:30:19,911 --> 00:30:22,292
- My dad was the best dad in the world,

707
00:30:22,292 --> 00:30:23,903
and he's highly missed.

708
00:30:23,903 --> 00:30:25,604
- I didn't have my parents.

709
00:30:25,604 --> 00:30:28,080
And I was hurt from that, too.

710
00:30:28,080 --> 00:30:29,536
- It was just us five, that was it.

711
00:30:29,536 --> 00:30:32,160
We was like, "Look, hey, this is just us.

712
00:30:32,160 --> 00:30:33,628
"We gotta do this together."

713
00:30:33,628 --> 00:30:36,223
So we knew we had to protect Ronnie,

714
00:30:36,223 --> 00:30:37,724
because he was the youngest.

715
00:30:37,724 --> 00:30:40,974
- I had got arrested, when I was young,

716
00:30:42,508 --> 00:30:45,537
in the streets, sellin'
drugs, and got caught for it.

717
00:30:45,537 --> 00:30:47,940
I had to go to jail for it.

718
00:30:47,940 --> 00:30:50,158
And when I was in jail,
I'm sittin' in there

719
00:30:50,158 --> 00:30:52,678
and I'm like, what am I doin' here?

720
00:30:52,678 --> 00:30:57,268
And I can't believe that I'm
goin' through this right now.

721
00:30:57,268 --> 00:30:59,776
Why am I puttin' myself through this?

722
00:30:59,776 --> 00:31:03,903
And I said, "When I get outta
here I never will return."

723
00:31:03,903 --> 00:31:07,367
And I went harder with my
music when I got outta there.

724
00:31:07,367 --> 00:31:09,165
- You know, the beginning stages.

725
00:31:09,165 --> 00:31:10,844
And it's like he saw the light.

726
00:31:10,844 --> 00:31:12,419
"No, I shouldn't go this way."

727
00:31:12,419 --> 00:31:15,169
- Throughout that season of time,

728
00:31:16,107 --> 00:31:17,967
things started happenin'.

729
00:31:17,967 --> 00:31:20,884
- 36 Chambers went platinum, right?

730
00:31:21,731 --> 00:31:24,238
A Gravedigga album was already out.

731
00:31:24,238 --> 00:31:26,450
- Shabazz The Disciple, he left the group

732
00:31:26,450 --> 00:31:28,450
because around the time when we was doin'

733
00:31:28,450 --> 00:31:30,995
our demo deals with Sunz
of Man and all that,

734
00:31:30,995 --> 00:31:32,798
one of my good friends,
he worked at a company

735
00:31:32,798 --> 00:31:35,726
called Global Terrain, which
later became Penalty Records.

736
00:31:35,726 --> 00:31:37,766
- Shabazz was with Sunz of Man,

737
00:31:37,766 --> 00:31:39,538
and then it came to a point

738
00:31:39,538 --> 00:31:43,678
where once that fame came
from all that other stuff,

739
00:31:43,678 --> 00:31:44,845
he went and...

740
00:31:46,399 --> 00:31:49,367
- Across the street from Fire House Studio

741
00:31:49,367 --> 00:31:52,683
is Penalty Records, and
every time we outside,

742
00:31:52,683 --> 00:31:55,727
it was a ant off across the street,

743
00:31:55,727 --> 00:31:57,019
and he would always come outside

744
00:31:57,019 --> 00:31:59,505
and come across the street and talk to us.

745
00:31:59,505 --> 00:32:00,493
He was from Penalty, he's like,

746
00:32:00,493 --> 00:32:02,099
"Yo, you know I got a Penalty Records

747
00:32:02,099 --> 00:32:03,387
"right here in the buildin'.

748
00:32:03,387 --> 00:32:05,847
"Yo, come over here and get a deal."

749
00:32:05,847 --> 00:32:06,855
We said "Nah.

750
00:32:06,855 --> 00:32:08,494
"We already, we were movin'."

751
00:32:08,494 --> 00:32:12,077
- Shabazz behind the
group went back alone.

752
00:32:13,656 --> 00:32:15,292
- [Supreme] They offered Bazz the deal.

753
00:32:15,292 --> 00:32:17,348
Then Bazz did Death Be The Penalty.

754
00:32:17,348 --> 00:32:19,328
- I came with him.

755
00:32:19,328 --> 00:32:21,578
So now I'm stuck alone now.

756
00:32:23,148 --> 00:32:24,886
He done took off and left,

757
00:32:24,886 --> 00:32:29,206
and I'm standing here with
people that I just met now.

758
00:32:29,206 --> 00:32:32,644
Around the time Shabazz went solo,

759
00:32:32,644 --> 00:32:35,584
he recorded a verse on
a Gravediggaz album.

760
00:32:35,584 --> 00:32:39,496
But eventually RZA moved on
from those side projects.

761
00:32:39,496 --> 00:32:42,692
Over the years, some members
of the Wu-Tang spin-off groups

762
00:32:42,692 --> 00:32:45,840
that didn't make it began to
feel cheated outta success.

763
00:32:45,840 --> 00:32:49,084
Soon, Shabazz began to resent RZA.

764
00:32:49,084 --> 00:32:50,949
Got back together, we was talkin' about

765
00:32:50,949 --> 00:32:53,732
this is what we shoulda been
doin' from the beginning.

766
00:32:53,732 --> 00:32:56,342
We started talking about
being bein' a group now,

767
00:32:56,342 --> 00:33:00,124
and that was the launch, the
birth of the T.H.U.G. Angelz.

768
00:33:00,124 --> 00:33:01,832
Now I was livin' in Pennsylvania,

769
00:33:01,832 --> 00:33:06,832
travelin' from Pennsylvania to
New York to go to the studio.

770
00:33:07,682 --> 00:33:10,096
And then would get up and
go to work the next day.

771
00:33:10,096 --> 00:33:11,846
So I was doin' a lot.

772
00:33:12,856 --> 00:33:17,689
Now I would drive from PA to
New York two hours every day.

773
00:33:19,516 --> 00:33:23,338
Go to the studio, and then
spend another two hours there,

774
00:33:23,338 --> 00:33:28,034
then leave the studio, drop
my partner off in Brooklyn,

775
00:33:28,034 --> 00:33:31,608
and then get on the road
and drive back to PA.

776
00:33:31,608 --> 00:33:34,775
While I'm in New York with my partner,

777
00:33:35,654 --> 00:33:37,934
ridin' back and forth to the studio,

778
00:33:37,934 --> 00:33:41,834
alls I hears about was
how much RZA did us dirty,

779
00:33:41,834 --> 00:33:45,196
and he hates this, he hates that.

780
00:33:45,196 --> 00:33:48,403
All this kinda shit
that, I was still like,

781
00:33:48,403 --> 00:33:49,804
"Damn, I gotta hear this story?"

782
00:33:49,804 --> 00:33:52,532
It's like a repeated
story over and over again.

783
00:33:52,532 --> 00:33:54,496
And it's to the point where like,

784
00:33:54,496 --> 00:33:57,436
you know what is gonna
be said before it's said.

785
00:33:57,436 --> 00:34:00,312
And then I drive him, drop him off,

786
00:34:00,312 --> 00:34:03,473
get on the road, drive
back to Pennsylvania.

787
00:34:03,473 --> 00:34:06,056
I get a phone call at work tellin' me

788
00:34:06,056 --> 00:34:08,962
that the Gravediggaz is comin' back.

789
00:34:08,962 --> 00:34:10,712
And Shabazz is in it.

790
00:34:11,866 --> 00:34:14,266
I'm like, "What, wait, I just left him.

791
00:34:14,266 --> 00:34:15,474
"Are you serious?"

792
00:34:15,474 --> 00:34:16,777
I'm at work, and I'm hearin'

793
00:34:16,777 --> 00:34:19,178
the person I just let out my car

794
00:34:19,178 --> 00:34:21,615
got a whole 'nother plan,
goin' a different way

795
00:34:21,615 --> 00:34:25,402
from what he was tellin' me
the whole time we was on tour.

796
00:34:25,402 --> 00:34:26,334
I couldn't believe it.

797
00:34:26,334 --> 00:34:28,132
I wasn't supposed to know all that.

798
00:34:28,132 --> 00:34:31,942
It was like supposed to
be a secret kept from me.

799
00:34:31,942 --> 00:34:34,374
Because if it wasn't, I
woulda been told face-to-face

800
00:34:34,374 --> 00:34:36,291
what was gonna be done.

801
00:34:38,708 --> 00:34:42,487
When I called him with that,
it turned into a argument.

802
00:34:42,487 --> 00:34:44,513
Yellin' and all that kinda stuff.

803
00:34:44,513 --> 00:34:47,093
So I threw the phone, I was at work.

804
00:34:47,093 --> 00:34:49,854
Threw it, I can't take this.

805
00:34:49,854 --> 00:34:51,802
And I was hurt by that.

806
00:34:51,802 --> 00:34:54,790
'Cause I'm like, wait a minute,
wait a minute, every day...

807
00:34:54,790 --> 00:34:56,767
Like, I'm workin' hard doin' this shit,

808
00:34:56,767 --> 00:34:59,438
and it's like every day I with my partner,

809
00:34:59,438 --> 00:35:02,474
alls I hear is how much
he hate these people,

810
00:35:02,474 --> 00:35:04,606
and he's with them.

811
00:35:04,606 --> 00:35:05,952
And didn't even have the kindness

812
00:35:05,952 --> 00:35:07,932
to tell me he was gonna do that.

813
00:35:07,932 --> 00:35:09,613
Like, that shit shocked me so bad

814
00:35:09,613 --> 00:35:12,696
that it ruptured a blood vessel, pop.

815
00:35:15,302 --> 00:35:17,834
And I'm lucky, 'cause I was
workin' with my brother.

816
00:35:17,834 --> 00:35:21,106
My brother rushed me to
Bellview Hospital in time.

817
00:35:21,106 --> 00:35:25,523
They had a neurologist there
at the time I got there.

818
00:35:27,628 --> 00:35:28,795
He clipped it.

819
00:35:30,341 --> 00:35:32,992
He clipped it in time.

820
00:35:32,992 --> 00:35:34,656
He caught it before,

821
00:35:34,656 --> 00:35:38,323
the bubble woulda got
to, popped everything.

822
00:35:40,704 --> 00:35:44,044
- I mean, at a certain point,
you gotta learn to forgive.

823
00:35:44,044 --> 00:35:45,632
You know what I'm sayin', cause you know,

824
00:35:45,632 --> 00:35:49,972
holdin' onto that anger could
be detrimental within itself.

825
00:35:49,972 --> 00:35:51,456
You are controllin' you.

826
00:35:51,456 --> 00:35:53,613
Like, God gave you another chance.

827
00:35:53,613 --> 00:35:55,819
- Ronnie probably was
under a lot of stress.

828
00:35:55,819 --> 00:35:59,556
I'm sayin, hangin' out to do music,

829
00:35:59,556 --> 00:36:00,904
like in the studios overnight,

830
00:36:00,904 --> 00:36:02,433
then you goin' to work, you know,

831
00:36:02,433 --> 00:36:04,416
doin' all of those things
can become stressful

832
00:36:04,416 --> 00:36:06,380
and you don't realize it.

833
00:36:06,380 --> 00:36:08,752
Then you add frustration on.

834
00:36:08,752 --> 00:36:11,196
I think all of that took charge

835
00:36:11,196 --> 00:36:14,512
and probably caused that to happen.

836
00:36:14,512 --> 00:36:17,135
- Time is your friend in
these kinds of things,

837
00:36:17,135 --> 00:36:19,084
meaning that you have to have patience.

838
00:36:19,084 --> 00:36:20,752
You have to be patient with these things,

839
00:36:20,752 --> 00:36:23,404
because individuals that
have had aneurism ruptures,

840
00:36:23,404 --> 00:36:24,996
the first key is surviving.

841
00:36:24,996 --> 00:36:27,052
I mean, if you are able to survive,

842
00:36:27,052 --> 00:36:28,340
then you have at least a fighting chance

843
00:36:28,340 --> 00:36:29,676
at functional recovery.

844
00:36:29,676 --> 00:36:32,076
He's already made significant gains.

845
00:36:32,076 --> 00:36:33,200
And I think the other thing is that

846
00:36:33,200 --> 00:36:36,980
because he was a high level
musician and an artist,

847
00:36:36,980 --> 00:36:39,544
I personally believe that
that will help him out.

848
00:36:39,544 --> 00:36:40,912
That his language skills,

849
00:36:40,912 --> 00:36:42,604
his recovery will probably be better

850
00:36:42,604 --> 00:36:44,376
'cause his brain was not functioning

851
00:36:44,376 --> 00:36:46,624
at the level of an
average or normal human.

852
00:36:46,624 --> 00:36:48,876
It was already actually exceeded,

853
00:36:48,876 --> 00:36:50,676
the capacity of his
brain had exceeded that

854
00:36:50,676 --> 00:36:52,814
of what most normal people do.

855
00:36:52,814 --> 00:36:54,397
- You know, it's...

856
00:36:56,151 --> 00:36:59,164
For me this shit is an experience.

857
00:36:59,164 --> 00:37:01,580
For all kinds of shit that...

858
00:37:01,580 --> 00:37:03,591
I'm just on an adventure right now.

859
00:37:03,591 --> 00:37:05,404
I wasn't expecting adventure.

860
00:37:05,404 --> 00:37:07,960
Just all of a sudden, like, you here now.

861
00:37:07,960 --> 00:37:10,460
(light music)

862
00:37:24,875 --> 00:37:29,276
It seemed like it was takin'
forever to get to walkin' again

863
00:37:29,276 --> 00:37:32,253
and I was gettin' frustrated.

864
00:37:32,253 --> 00:37:34,373
But then I heard about this doctor

865
00:37:34,373 --> 00:37:38,484
who had this special brace
in the workout program

866
00:37:38,484 --> 00:37:42,734
that he said would get me
walkin' again in no time.

867
00:37:46,780 --> 00:37:48,160
You like to listen to hip-hop?

868
00:37:48,160 --> 00:37:48,993
- Yep.

869
00:37:51,356 --> 00:37:52,446
- You got YouTube?

870
00:37:52,446 --> 00:37:53,946
- Mm-hmm.

871
00:37:53,946 --> 00:37:55,040
Oh, I can catch you on YouTube?

872
00:37:55,040 --> 00:37:56,120
- A lotta videos on there.

873
00:37:56,120 --> 00:37:56,953
- Good.

874
00:37:56,953 --> 00:37:59,420
That means I could charge more
for the brace then, right?

875
00:37:59,420 --> 00:38:02,304
Nah, I'm just playin' with you.

876
00:38:02,304 --> 00:38:05,637
I'm all into taking a nonfunctional limb

877
00:38:07,344 --> 00:38:10,136
and providing function back.

878
00:38:10,136 --> 00:38:13,670
This increases independence
on the patient,

879
00:38:13,670 --> 00:38:17,253
and also advances their
recovery for rehab.

880
00:38:19,256 --> 00:38:24,173
How this works is a patient
that can't hardly even advance,

881
00:38:25,736 --> 00:38:28,252
when you take a step down, okay,

882
00:38:28,252 --> 00:38:30,638
this locks and stays locked.

883
00:38:30,638 --> 00:38:34,388
Okay, as they come over
in a normal function,

884
00:38:35,273 --> 00:38:37,524
what it does is that it releases.

885
00:38:37,524 --> 00:38:39,248
Every time you go to a therapist,

886
00:38:39,248 --> 00:38:42,068
you're there three days
a week for an hour.

887
00:38:42,068 --> 00:38:43,208
This, you put this on,

888
00:38:43,208 --> 00:38:46,700
you're having therapy all day long.

889
00:38:46,700 --> 00:38:48,772
And it's really isolating on the muscles

890
00:38:48,772 --> 00:38:51,336
that have gotten weakened
because they're not being used.

891
00:38:51,336 --> 00:38:55,507
And if you notice, when
he walks, he does this.

892
00:38:55,507 --> 00:38:57,770
He steps forward and then stops.

893
00:38:57,770 --> 00:39:00,666
This brace allows him to take a step

894
00:39:00,666 --> 00:39:03,487
and come all the way
through and walk normal.

895
00:39:03,487 --> 00:39:06,096
- Kevin seems like he
knows what he's doin'.

896
00:39:06,096 --> 00:39:09,929
It's not like "I think
this and I think that."

897
00:39:12,876 --> 00:39:16,626
The confidence I see
from him triggers mines.

898
00:39:17,616 --> 00:39:19,672
'Cause maybe listening to all that stuff

899
00:39:19,672 --> 00:39:21,112
destroys my confidence.

900
00:39:21,112 --> 00:39:24,077
Just show me what I gotta do.

901
00:39:24,077 --> 00:39:24,994
I'm a doer.

902
00:39:29,028 --> 00:39:31,528
- There's a chair right there.

903
00:39:35,616 --> 00:39:38,104
- Wait, wait, somethin' wrong.
- Mm-hmm.

904
00:39:38,104 --> 00:39:40,271
- Ah!
- All right, lift up.

905
00:39:42,428 --> 00:39:43,261
- The brace?

906
00:39:43,261 --> 00:39:44,440
- Somethin' won't let me sit down.

907
00:39:44,440 --> 00:39:47,888
- If you had this brace
from the beginning,

908
00:39:47,888 --> 00:39:51,144
like, let's say you just got out of rehab.

909
00:39:51,144 --> 00:39:55,227
Your leg was a lot better
in 2011 than it is now.

910
00:39:59,348 --> 00:40:01,100
So it's been what, four years?

911
00:40:01,100 --> 00:40:02,268
Basically five years?

912
00:40:02,268 --> 00:40:03,428
- Yeah.
- Okay.

913
00:40:03,428 --> 00:40:04,538
- But you're doin' good.

914
00:40:04,538 --> 00:40:08,544
- Um, music not payin'
none of my bills for this.

915
00:40:08,544 --> 00:40:12,328
And it's not in a recording contract

916
00:40:12,328 --> 00:40:17,304
we gotta pay your medical bills
if somethin' happen to you.

917
00:40:17,304 --> 00:40:18,246
You know, that's not

918
00:40:18,246 --> 00:40:21,579
in no recordin' artists record contract.

919
00:40:23,678 --> 00:40:26,928
- The ultimate thing, it relies on you.

920
00:40:29,198 --> 00:40:30,031
Okay.

921
00:40:31,146 --> 00:40:33,638
That's it, my friend.

922
00:40:33,638 --> 00:40:36,546
- My future, and what I'm hopin'

923
00:40:36,546 --> 00:40:40,379
what I can see as for
me, what Kevin has done,

924
00:40:42,290 --> 00:40:45,502
is that there is some bright
light at the end of the tunnel.

925
00:40:45,502 --> 00:40:49,178
I was so happy after the doctor left.

926
00:40:49,178 --> 00:40:52,342
I really thought I was goin'
to be walkin' again soon.

927
00:40:52,342 --> 00:40:54,898
But he never came back.

928
00:40:54,898 --> 00:40:58,507
After a few weeks, I called the hospital

929
00:40:58,507 --> 00:41:01,102
and they said he was let go.

930
00:41:01,102 --> 00:41:03,398
They said he was over-recommending

931
00:41:03,398 --> 00:41:06,890
his physical therapy
services for the brace,

932
00:41:06,890 --> 00:41:08,390
so they fired him.

933
00:41:09,230 --> 00:41:12,158
I couldn't believe it, I was heartbroken.

934
00:41:12,158 --> 00:41:15,680
Eventually I moved in
with my oldest brother.

935
00:41:15,680 --> 00:41:18,322
It was like I had to start all over again.

936
00:41:18,322 --> 00:41:19,655
I felt so alone.

937
00:41:20,493 --> 00:41:23,738
I pray for God to deliver me an angel

938
00:41:23,738 --> 00:41:26,810
after being beaten down for so long.

939
00:41:26,810 --> 00:41:29,106
I just wanted some love back in my life,

940
00:41:29,106 --> 00:41:32,377
but instead of a angel,
he brought me a queen.

941
00:41:32,377 --> 00:41:34,746
- For about 10, 15
years, I've always worked

942
00:41:34,746 --> 00:41:37,658
in social services in
some way, shape, or form.

943
00:41:37,658 --> 00:41:39,578
I've worked with a lot of at-risk youth,

944
00:41:39,578 --> 00:41:42,502
individuals with
developmental disabilities

945
00:41:42,502 --> 00:41:43,910
and similar service needs.

946
00:41:43,910 --> 00:41:47,106
I met Razah because he
found me on Twitter.

947
00:41:47,106 --> 00:41:49,598
Before I ever released
a piece of my own music

948
00:41:49,598 --> 00:41:53,270
I had built a very strong
social media presence.

949
00:41:53,270 --> 00:41:55,970
- When I sent her my link for
my album, she was helping me.

950
00:41:55,970 --> 00:41:59,302
I didn't even really
ask her to do all that.

951
00:41:59,302 --> 00:42:01,069
- I had no idea who he was,

952
00:42:01,069 --> 00:42:04,778
and he just kept sending me
his music in direct messages.

953
00:42:04,778 --> 00:42:06,381
So then I was like,
"Listen, if you want me

954
00:42:06,381 --> 00:42:08,121
"to put your music on my blog,

955
00:42:08,121 --> 00:42:11,282
"send it to me in an email
like a normal person."

956
00:42:11,282 --> 00:42:14,987
And when he did, his bio came with it,

957
00:42:14,987 --> 00:42:16,293
and then I had to Google him.

958
00:42:16,293 --> 00:42:18,543
And I was like, "Oh, okay."

959
00:42:20,525 --> 00:42:22,666
- And I said "Send me some music."

960
00:42:22,666 --> 00:42:24,857
And she sent it to me,
and I liked the song.

961
00:42:24,857 --> 00:42:26,865
- As soon as I gave him my phone number,

962
00:42:26,865 --> 00:42:30,045
probably about a week after we
were interacting on Twitter,

963
00:42:30,045 --> 00:42:33,072
he texts me maybe two times.

964
00:42:33,072 --> 00:42:34,965
And then my phone rang, and it was him.

965
00:42:34,965 --> 00:42:37,453
He doesn't know what the proper, you know,

966
00:42:37,453 --> 00:42:39,837
what the protocol is, is that
you're supposed to text first

967
00:42:39,837 --> 00:42:44,012
before you call, and he
skipped right to calling.

968
00:42:44,012 --> 00:42:47,129
But the first thing he said
when I picked up the phone,

969
00:42:47,129 --> 00:42:49,545
I immediately started to
laugh, 'cause I was like,

970
00:42:49,545 --> 00:42:52,684
"Okay God, now what do I say to this guy?"

971
00:42:52,684 --> 00:42:54,401
He said "I know you."

972
00:42:54,401 --> 00:42:56,886
He said "You're that
woman from Proverbs 31."

973
00:42:56,886 --> 00:42:59,261
He said "You're flesh of my
flesh, and bone of my bone."

974
00:42:59,261 --> 00:43:02,217
- I told her she was a Proverbs 31:10.

975
00:43:02,217 --> 00:43:05,649
Which is "Who can find a virtuous woman?"

976
00:43:05,649 --> 00:43:06,732
In the Bible.

977
00:43:07,789 --> 00:43:11,841
A virtuous woman is like,
the real Wonder Woman.

978
00:43:11,841 --> 00:43:14,131
- We were on the phone
for four and a half hours.

979
00:43:14,131 --> 00:43:16,285
He was telling me basically

980
00:43:16,285 --> 00:43:19,097
everything that had happened to him.

981
00:43:19,097 --> 00:43:21,857
He was explaining to me that
he was at his brother's...

982
00:43:21,857 --> 00:43:25,233
- And me and Queen the Prophet...

983
00:43:25,233 --> 00:43:28,152
We was gone, our
adventure began from that.

984
00:43:28,152 --> 00:43:30,977
- I just felt really
compelled to help him,

985
00:43:30,977 --> 00:43:33,033
because how do you listen--

986
00:43:33,033 --> 00:43:35,881
Like, unless you're a
soulless human being,

987
00:43:35,881 --> 00:43:38,714
how do you listen to a story like Razah's

988
00:43:38,714 --> 00:43:43,131
and have the ability to help
somebody, and not do it?

989
00:43:44,657 --> 00:43:45,917
He just kinda said "You know what,

990
00:43:45,917 --> 00:43:48,241
"I've been praying for
you, and God sent you."

991
00:43:48,241 --> 00:43:49,937
And I was like, "Well, okay, crazy guy!"

992
00:43:49,937 --> 00:43:52,186
Like, you know, you just...

993
00:43:52,186 --> 00:43:54,229
When somebody says
something like that to you,

994
00:43:54,229 --> 00:43:57,272
you kinda, you know, you're
like "Yeah, alright, whatever."

995
00:43:57,272 --> 00:43:58,561
But, stayed Friday, Saturday,

996
00:43:58,561 --> 00:43:59,989
and on Sunday we were having breakfast,

997
00:43:59,989 --> 00:44:02,086
and I said "Are you ready to go?"

998
00:44:02,086 --> 00:44:04,893
And he said "No, I'm not leaving."

999
00:44:04,893 --> 00:44:07,893
And I said "You're not leaving?"

1000
00:44:07,893 --> 00:44:10,157
And he said "No, I'm gonna stay."

1001
00:44:10,157 --> 00:44:11,569
And I said "Well, don't you have to, like,

1002
00:44:11,569 --> 00:44:12,949
"make a moving checklist?

1003
00:44:12,949 --> 00:44:15,753
"You have, like, therapy that
you go to, and these scars."

1004
00:44:15,753 --> 00:44:20,013
He said "When God sends
you what you asked for,

1005
00:44:20,013 --> 00:44:22,547
"you don't give it back."

1006
00:44:22,547 --> 00:44:24,468
- I said "No, there's no way."

1007
00:44:24,468 --> 00:44:27,109
There's no way I'ma ask
for somethin' and get it

1008
00:44:27,109 --> 00:44:31,857
and turn my back on it, that's
not the right thing to do.

1009
00:44:31,857 --> 00:44:33,573
- He's very special.

1010
00:44:33,573 --> 00:44:38,573
Like, the beginning of our
relationship was like a blur.

1011
00:44:38,837 --> 00:44:39,670
Um...

1012
00:44:42,195 --> 00:44:44,112
I'm sorry.
- It's okay.

1013
00:44:52,371 --> 00:44:54,538
(sighing)

1014
00:44:57,274 --> 00:45:00,607
- I'm really sorry, I don't mean to cry.

1015
00:45:01,611 --> 00:45:02,528
Okay, um...

1016
00:45:05,991 --> 00:45:08,581
(sighing)

1017
00:45:08,581 --> 00:45:11,081
When our relationship started,

1018
00:45:13,397 --> 00:45:17,775
the whole thing was like
an out-of-body experience,

1019
00:45:17,775 --> 00:45:22,739
because the whole thing was
like, super surreal to me.

1020
00:45:22,739 --> 00:45:25,767
- Once I started doing the speech therapy,

1021
00:45:25,767 --> 00:45:28,167
it made me comfortable with talkin' again.

1022
00:45:28,167 --> 00:45:31,499
And I wasn't ashamed to talk to nobody.

1023
00:45:31,499 --> 00:45:33,687
'Cause before I just used
therapy where they said

1024
00:45:33,687 --> 00:45:36,435
"Why don't you just say
what you wanna say?"

1025
00:45:36,435 --> 00:45:40,647
I'm like, at first it
was not that easy for me.

1026
00:45:40,647 --> 00:45:42,495
- Your speech was never that bad

1027
00:45:42,495 --> 00:45:44,681
when I talked to you, though.

1028
00:45:44,681 --> 00:45:48,717
You were more scared of
it being bad than it was.

1029
00:45:48,717 --> 00:45:50,775
I didn't even notice until you told me

1030
00:45:50,775 --> 00:45:53,275
that you had a brain aneurism.

1031
00:45:54,507 --> 00:45:55,859
- Man, we didn't come this way.

1032
00:45:55,859 --> 00:45:58,609
- [Queen] Yes we did, shift step.

1033
00:46:01,063 --> 00:46:02,727
Can I have a smile?

1034
00:46:02,727 --> 00:46:03,777
I wanna send this to Boss

1035
00:46:03,777 --> 00:46:07,360
and show everybody how
good you're walkin'.

1036
00:46:09,597 --> 00:46:10,815
Oh, now we got a smile?

1037
00:46:10,815 --> 00:46:12,057
See, why is it when everybody say--

1038
00:46:12,057 --> 00:46:13,438
- How you doin', good mornin'!

1039
00:46:13,438 --> 00:46:15,635
- Good mornin'!
- Enjoy your day!

1040
00:46:15,635 --> 00:46:18,320
- You ruined the video.
- What you mean?

1041
00:46:18,320 --> 00:46:19,446
- [Queen] You ruined the video.

1042
00:46:19,446 --> 00:46:21,863
- I didn't know I was on video.

1043
00:46:21,863 --> 00:46:24,640
'Cause I gettin' regular!

1044
00:46:24,640 --> 00:46:26,973
- If I had to define love...

1045
00:46:28,230 --> 00:46:30,445
Love is definitely an action word.

1046
00:46:30,445 --> 00:46:32,278
It's a selfless thing.

1047
00:46:33,177 --> 00:46:34,010
Um...

1048
00:46:35,517 --> 00:46:36,477
It's more than words.

1049
00:46:36,477 --> 00:46:38,893
Some people need to hear
"I love you", auditory.

1050
00:46:38,893 --> 00:46:41,157
But that doesn't prove what love is.

1051
00:46:41,157 --> 00:46:43,645
To me, love includes long suffering,

1052
00:46:43,645 --> 00:46:46,525
and, you know, love knows no bias.

1053
00:46:46,525 --> 00:46:50,501
It just is, and if you're
lucky enough to find it,

1054
00:46:50,501 --> 00:46:51,673
you've gotta protect it,

1055
00:46:51,673 --> 00:46:53,845
because there's so many
people in this world

1056
00:46:53,845 --> 00:46:58,783
that they don't ever get to
experience what real love is.

1057
00:46:58,783 --> 00:47:02,331
- [Razah] She became
everything that I lost.

1058
00:47:02,331 --> 00:47:04,671
She became everything that I lost.

1059
00:47:04,671 --> 00:47:06,891
- I want Raz to focus on himself

1060
00:47:06,891 --> 00:47:08,974
and get himself together,

1061
00:47:10,165 --> 00:47:13,332
physically, mentally, and spiritually.

1062
00:47:16,153 --> 00:47:19,285
Raz has to learn how to put Raz first.

1063
00:47:19,285 --> 00:47:22,368
And I want him to find a reason to...

1064
00:47:25,477 --> 00:47:27,846
He needs to find a reason to live

1065
00:47:27,846 --> 00:47:29,529
when it's just him and God.

1066
00:47:29,529 --> 00:47:30,517
- There was times I couldn't even

1067
00:47:30,517 --> 00:47:32,077
be five minutes without her,

1068
00:47:32,077 --> 00:47:34,748
where I would feel like,
"Wow, where am I at?"

1069
00:47:34,748 --> 00:47:38,407
And we started to become like one person.

1070
00:47:38,407 --> 00:47:42,397
- Two years ago, in
May, Raz moved up here.

1071
00:47:42,397 --> 00:47:45,019
We lived in North Haven.

1072
00:47:45,019 --> 00:47:47,352
And I had a one-bedroom unit

1073
00:47:48,817 --> 00:47:51,053
and it was in a very nice part of town,

1074
00:47:51,053 --> 00:47:54,085
and Raz was going to therapy.

1075
00:47:54,085 --> 00:47:57,413
Lo and behold, in October of this year,

1076
00:47:57,413 --> 00:47:59,305
there was a fire at our building.

1077
00:47:59,305 --> 00:48:00,638
Not in our unit.

1078
00:48:01,493 --> 00:48:03,445
There was a fire in our building.

1079
00:48:03,445 --> 00:48:05,229
- Lightning struck, and it hit

1080
00:48:05,229 --> 00:48:08,483
the power structure of the buildin'.

1081
00:48:08,483 --> 00:48:10,477
Blew out all the lights and everything.

1082
00:48:10,477 --> 00:48:13,705
Everything where we was
livin' in North Haven

1083
00:48:13,705 --> 00:48:16,285
was controlled by electricity.

1084
00:48:16,285 --> 00:48:18,685
So it's like, we can't stay here.

1085
00:48:18,685 --> 00:48:21,517
We can't even, refrigerator
goes, microwave,

1086
00:48:21,517 --> 00:48:23,469
everything was done.

1087
00:48:23,469 --> 00:48:26,017
We like "What we gonna do?"

1088
00:48:26,017 --> 00:48:29,014
The fire was the last straw.

1089
00:48:29,014 --> 00:48:32,254
It just felt like the
universe was out to get me.

1090
00:48:32,254 --> 00:48:34,449
Every time I took a step forward,

1091
00:48:34,449 --> 00:48:37,295
I would get slapped back to the ground.

1092
00:48:37,295 --> 00:48:40,895
I didn't know how we was
goin' to survive this one.

1093
00:48:40,895 --> 00:48:43,177
We lost everything.

1094
00:48:43,177 --> 00:48:44,153
And I started praying.

1095
00:48:44,153 --> 00:48:47,255
I'm like, "Lord, please
just send us Your help.

1096
00:48:47,255 --> 00:48:50,305
"Because I can't trust
my own heart anymore.

1097
00:48:50,305 --> 00:48:53,093
"And I don't even wanna get burnt again.

1098
00:48:53,093 --> 00:48:56,905
"So could You please send us
some of Your help this time?"

1099
00:48:56,905 --> 00:48:58,689
- Where do you go?

1100
00:48:58,689 --> 00:49:02,169
Anyone that was family didn't have room

1101
00:49:02,169 --> 00:49:06,950
to accommodate not only me,
but Raz's home during the day.

1102
00:49:06,950 --> 00:49:10,070
You know, is there a
house handicap accessible?

1103
00:49:10,070 --> 00:49:14,028
It was very scary to exit a house with Raz

1104
00:49:14,028 --> 00:49:15,805
and get him up the stairs by myself,

1105
00:49:15,805 --> 00:49:17,990
in the middle of the night,
it's pouring rain, you know?

1106
00:49:17,990 --> 00:49:20,693
And I'm like "Come on,
we gotta go fire fast."

1107
00:49:20,693 --> 00:49:22,911
And then it's like "Well,
where are we gonna stay?"

1108
00:49:22,911 --> 00:49:25,073
And we don't know how
long this is gonna happen.

1109
00:49:25,073 --> 00:49:26,709
We're gonna be somewhere.

1110
00:49:26,709 --> 00:49:28,417
That was actually the best thing

1111
00:49:28,417 --> 00:49:30,729
that ever coulda happened to us.

1112
00:49:30,729 --> 00:49:32,409
- Next thing you know, she like

1113
00:49:32,409 --> 00:49:34,645
"We gotta go meet the pastors."

1114
00:49:34,645 --> 00:49:36,385
I almost passed out hearin' that.

1115
00:49:36,385 --> 00:49:37,585
I'm like "What?

1116
00:49:37,585 --> 00:49:39,052
"Are you serious?"

1117
00:49:39,052 --> 00:49:42,069
She like "Yeah, we goin'
to the pastor house."

1118
00:49:42,069 --> 00:49:43,853
I'm like "Oh my God."

1119
00:49:43,853 --> 00:49:46,225
There's no other answer prayer than...

1120
00:49:46,225 --> 00:49:49,929
If I ever heard one,
that's like direct call!

1121
00:49:49,929 --> 00:49:54,069
(laughs) Like, I think I
got God's phone number!

1122
00:49:54,069 --> 00:49:56,902
I think I got His personal number,

1123
00:49:57,773 --> 00:50:00,653
'cause he saved my life first time,

1124
00:50:00,653 --> 00:50:02,887
and then I'm like "Wow,
this just don't stop now."

1125
00:50:02,887 --> 00:50:05,613
- I met her a year ago.

1126
00:50:05,613 --> 00:50:10,613
I started working for this
elderly and disabled building.

1127
00:50:11,131 --> 00:50:13,831
She was a resident service coordinator,

1128
00:50:13,831 --> 00:50:16,035
and so I'm having Bible study.

1129
00:50:16,035 --> 00:50:17,775
That's where it started, in that building.

1130
00:50:17,775 --> 00:50:19,683
So she was finding resources

1131
00:50:19,683 --> 00:50:21,702
to bring into the building
for the elderlies.

1132
00:50:21,702 --> 00:50:25,201
Course, with Queen the
Prophet, then came Chron,

1133
00:50:25,201 --> 00:50:27,571
and that's how we all connected,

1134
00:50:27,571 --> 00:50:29,223
all four of us connected.

1135
00:50:29,223 --> 00:50:32,027
- We ended up staying with
Pastor Zenad and Pastor El-O.

1136
00:50:32,027 --> 00:50:35,131
And let me tell ya, I was
trying to go anywhere but there.

1137
00:50:35,131 --> 00:50:37,754
You know, it's kinda like
when you feel God nudging you

1138
00:50:37,754 --> 00:50:40,383
to come on, come on back
home, get it together,

1139
00:50:40,383 --> 00:50:44,955
and you're like "No, I'm not
ready, I still wanna do me!"

1140
00:50:44,955 --> 00:50:47,943
And we ended up staying
there for two months.

1141
00:50:47,943 --> 00:50:50,163
- [Zenadia] We're just givin'
back what we have received.

1142
00:50:50,163 --> 00:50:52,935
We give by grace what we
have received by grace.

1143
00:50:52,935 --> 00:50:55,643
- We got so close with their family,

1144
00:50:55,643 --> 00:50:59,647
and so many things came
together for us in our own life.

1145
00:50:59,647 --> 00:51:02,139
- This is where this connection came in

1146
00:51:02,139 --> 00:51:05,738
where I was able to sit down
with him and talk to him,

1147
00:51:05,738 --> 00:51:10,179
and for him to come to a place
of understanding on what his,

1148
00:51:10,179 --> 00:51:12,654
you know, based on his life and everything

1149
00:51:12,654 --> 00:51:14,404
that has happened in his life,

1150
00:51:14,404 --> 00:51:16,179
just to bring some enlightenment to him,

1151
00:51:16,179 --> 00:51:18,547
just to bring some type of hope to him.

1152
00:51:18,547 --> 00:51:20,707
It's sad that this happened to him,

1153
00:51:20,707 --> 00:51:23,226
but it's not over for him either.

1154
00:51:23,226 --> 00:51:24,895
I believe that this could be the beginning

1155
00:51:24,895 --> 00:51:26,799
of something great for him in his life.

1156
00:51:26,799 --> 00:51:29,584
- And we were able to get out of the unit

1157
00:51:29,584 --> 00:51:31,479
that we were staying in.

1158
00:51:31,479 --> 00:51:33,787
We got to break the lease,
we got to not pay rent,

1159
00:51:33,787 --> 00:51:37,135
and we got to get a new
place which ended up being,

1160
00:51:37,135 --> 00:51:40,146
we're now 40 minutes closer to New York.

1161
00:51:40,146 --> 00:51:43,523
It's right down the
street from our church.

1162
00:51:43,523 --> 00:51:47,679
- We wanna see them progress,
we wanna see them achieve

1163
00:51:47,679 --> 00:51:51,775
and to reach the goal that God
has set out for both of them.

1164
00:51:51,775 --> 00:51:54,192
I got to meet the true Chron.

1165
00:51:55,403 --> 00:51:58,179
And I love him like a son.

1166
00:51:58,179 --> 00:52:01,546
I really do, he's a phenomenal young man.

1167
00:52:01,546 --> 00:52:02,546
Broken, yes.

1168
00:52:03,469 --> 00:52:06,181
But in the process of
being restored in Christ,

1169
00:52:06,181 --> 00:52:07,769
I believe that with all my heart.

1170
00:52:07,769 --> 00:52:08,973
- That's why you're here today,

1171
00:52:08,973 --> 00:52:11,689
because of the purpose He has.

1172
00:52:11,689 --> 00:52:13,109
How is God gonna give you somethin'

1173
00:52:13,109 --> 00:52:14,761
if you're bitter and you're resentful?

1174
00:52:14,761 --> 00:52:16,097
You don't even love yourself.

1175
00:52:16,097 --> 00:52:17,956
God needs to actually break your life

1176
00:52:17,956 --> 00:52:19,590
so He can build it again.

1177
00:52:19,590 --> 00:52:23,923
In order for things new to
come, you need to be new.

1178
00:52:25,856 --> 00:52:28,356
(light music)

1179
00:52:34,589 --> 00:52:37,313
- Somehow, some way, I
guess the hands of God

1180
00:52:37,313 --> 00:52:40,293
put him in my parents' house.

1181
00:52:40,293 --> 00:52:43,073
And one day I showed in there,

1182
00:52:43,073 --> 00:52:45,189
and I just seen her, I seen them

1183
00:52:45,189 --> 00:52:46,284
and I met them for the first time,

1184
00:52:46,284 --> 00:52:49,114
and it was just like we kinda
knew each other forever.

1185
00:52:49,114 --> 00:52:51,309
And it was just like a natural bond.

1186
00:52:51,309 --> 00:52:52,929
And I was able to be myself around him.

1187
00:52:52,929 --> 00:52:54,097
You know, very welcoming.

1188
00:52:54,097 --> 00:52:55,477
- We actually ended up being able

1189
00:52:55,477 --> 00:52:58,394
to hire three of our pastor's sons,

1190
00:52:59,725 --> 00:53:02,808
and they are absolutely our backbone.

1191
00:53:04,133 --> 00:53:07,115
They are for me especially,
with running the household,

1192
00:53:07,115 --> 00:53:09,429
Jose, EJ, and Emmanuel.

1193
00:53:09,429 --> 00:53:11,556
- At this point she was
real comfortable with us.

1194
00:53:11,556 --> 00:53:12,995
You know, we were just like a family,

1195
00:53:12,995 --> 00:53:14,916
like brothers and sisters.

1196
00:53:14,916 --> 00:53:18,289
And at that point I took
on that responsibility

1197
00:53:18,289 --> 00:53:20,229
because even when he was at the house

1198
00:53:20,229 --> 00:53:22,309
I would always serve him.

1199
00:53:22,309 --> 00:53:23,331
I would always cook for him

1200
00:53:23,331 --> 00:53:28,313
and I would always treat him
with that extra care, you know?

1201
00:53:28,313 --> 00:53:31,629
I try to make him feel
as comfortable as he can,

1202
00:53:31,629 --> 00:53:34,645
because he's not, ain't nothin'
wrong with Raz, you know?

1203
00:53:34,645 --> 00:53:36,009
He's all there.

1204
00:53:36,009 --> 00:53:38,824
I don't like him to feel like
there is somethin' wrong,

1205
00:53:38,824 --> 00:53:40,565
you know, 'cause there isn't.

1206
00:53:40,565 --> 00:53:43,577
And Raz, there's somethin'
about Raz, he love to eat.

1207
00:53:43,577 --> 00:53:46,368
Raz got like a endless stomach.

1208
00:53:46,368 --> 00:53:47,825
Just doesn't stop.

1209
00:53:47,825 --> 00:53:49,817
- People don't, they
really don't understand

1210
00:53:49,817 --> 00:53:51,542
unless you've lived with someone

1211
00:53:51,542 --> 00:53:54,168
that needs special accommodations.

1212
00:53:54,168 --> 00:53:55,862
They don't know what that's like.

1213
00:53:55,862 --> 00:53:57,745
And it can be exhausting,
but I'm very thankful

1214
00:53:57,745 --> 00:53:59,530
that we have help now.

1215
00:53:59,530 --> 00:54:01,862
- I talk to Queen almost every day,

1216
00:54:01,862 --> 00:54:03,845
if not every day, like every other day.

1217
00:54:03,845 --> 00:54:07,845
And not only is she helpin'
him in the recovery,

1218
00:54:08,883 --> 00:54:11,045
she's helpin' his self esteem

1219
00:54:11,045 --> 00:54:14,314
and she's helpin' his happiness.

1220
00:54:14,314 --> 00:54:17,239
- She's just basically the
one that keeps him in check.

1221
00:54:17,239 --> 00:54:18,387
You know what I mean, she'll be like

1222
00:54:18,387 --> 00:54:21,166
"Oh, you actin' up now, now you gotta...

1223
00:54:21,166 --> 00:54:23,381
"I'ma tell you this, I'ma tell you that."

1224
00:54:23,381 --> 00:54:25,298
And that's what she is.

1225
00:54:28,345 --> 00:54:29,409
She loves me though.

1226
00:54:29,409 --> 00:54:30,393
- It takes a team, man.

1227
00:54:30,393 --> 00:54:31,615
You know, even when I was growin' up,

1228
00:54:31,615 --> 00:54:33,897
the elders always say it takes
a village to raise a child,

1229
00:54:33,897 --> 00:54:35,440
you know what I'm sayin'?

1230
00:54:35,440 --> 00:54:37,333
Raz is not a child, but it
still woulda take a village

1231
00:54:37,333 --> 00:54:41,005
just to help get him back to
the place that he once was.

1232
00:54:41,005 --> 00:54:43,922
- The heart always needs love, man.

1233
00:54:45,493 --> 00:54:46,326
You know what I'm sayin',

1234
00:54:46,326 --> 00:54:48,294
whether it's brotherly
love, sisterly love...

1235
00:54:48,294 --> 00:54:52,044
And I know it feels good
to him to know that.

1236
00:54:54,357 --> 00:54:57,717
He got people who are
here mostly all the time

1237
00:54:57,717 --> 00:55:00,025
and do love him, do support him,

1238
00:55:00,025 --> 00:55:04,192
and are interested in the
better of him, you know?

1239
00:55:09,656 --> 00:55:11,845
- [Interviewer] Can you rap?

1240
00:55:11,845 --> 00:55:14,501
- Up-tempo was harder for me.

1241
00:55:14,501 --> 00:55:17,084
The fast club up-tempo stuff...

1242
00:55:18,656 --> 00:55:22,977
When I try to do it after
this, it was harder.

1243
00:55:22,977 --> 00:55:26,997
Before I could do it just playin' around.

1244
00:55:26,997 --> 00:55:31,001
But after the aneurism,
when I tried to do it,

1245
00:55:31,001 --> 00:55:33,073
it was like, wait, I
gotta practice doin' this

1246
00:55:33,073 --> 00:55:35,757
over and over a thousand times again.

1247
00:55:35,757 --> 00:55:38,706
- That's what he was left on.

1248
00:55:38,706 --> 00:55:42,425
Before the aneurism, you know, was music.

1249
00:55:42,425 --> 00:55:44,452
You know, so that's like embedded in him,

1250
00:55:44,452 --> 00:55:47,813
and it's in his head, that's his life.

1251
00:55:47,813 --> 00:55:51,065
- In the case of a rapper, in
wouldn't surprise me at all

1252
00:55:51,065 --> 00:55:55,025
that if the machinery by which
you verbalize is altered,

1253
00:55:55,025 --> 00:55:58,641
that your brain can't
prime your vocal apparatus,

1254
00:55:58,641 --> 00:56:02,213
your lips, your tongue,
to get ready to know

1255
00:56:02,213 --> 00:56:04,521
how to produce what it wants to produce.

1256
00:56:04,521 --> 00:56:07,771
- Rapping, okay, you're really telling,

1257
00:56:08,661 --> 00:56:10,505
you're a storyteller.

1258
00:56:10,505 --> 00:56:12,741
And you have to be able to do it quick.

1259
00:56:12,741 --> 00:56:14,753
Your cadence and all of those things

1260
00:56:14,753 --> 00:56:17,778
that make a hip-hop record a hit record.

1261
00:56:17,778 --> 00:56:21,413
And the images you create
verbally and stuff like that.

1262
00:56:21,413 --> 00:56:26,377
If he can't do that, it must
be very frustrating for him,

1263
00:56:26,377 --> 00:56:29,598
and I think the best thing
anyone could tell someone

1264
00:56:29,598 --> 00:56:33,653
who can't achieve that same
level that they were at

1265
00:56:33,653 --> 00:56:36,185
at one time in their lives,
look, we all get older.

1266
00:56:36,185 --> 00:56:40,459
Anyways, is to move on
and to do other things

1267
00:56:40,459 --> 00:56:43,041
and use your skills in other ways.

1268
00:56:43,041 --> 00:56:45,141
- I would have to probably, if I perform,

1269
00:56:45,141 --> 00:56:47,753
probably be seated in a chair.

1270
00:56:47,753 --> 00:56:50,213
'Cause I stand with a
cane, and I can't move mics

1271
00:56:50,213 --> 00:56:52,205
and do all that kinda stuff.

1272
00:56:52,205 --> 00:56:54,485
My fans remember for a certain way,

1273
00:56:54,485 --> 00:56:57,412
so I'd rather return like that.

1274
00:56:57,412 --> 00:56:58,625
I don't wanna return...

1275
00:56:58,625 --> 00:57:01,073
I don't want them cryin' and hurtin'

1276
00:57:01,073 --> 00:57:04,581
and feelin' sorry for me when they see me.

1277
00:57:04,581 --> 00:57:06,921
'Cause I'm workin' hard like I'm doin' now

1278
00:57:06,921 --> 00:57:08,977
to get back to where I was.

1279
00:57:08,977 --> 00:57:12,713
- [Queen] He had so start,
to relearn everything over,

1280
00:57:12,713 --> 00:57:14,677
you know, how to walk,
how to talk, how to eat,

1281
00:57:14,677 --> 00:57:17,860
just things that we take
for granted every day.

1282
00:57:17,860 --> 00:57:21,479
And to come from where he
was, like I said, this artist

1283
00:57:21,479 --> 00:57:23,579
that was so powerful onstage,

1284
00:57:23,579 --> 00:57:26,122
his stage presence was just everything.

1285
00:57:26,122 --> 00:57:28,362
- [Randy] It will be a dream unfulfilled

1286
00:57:28,362 --> 00:57:31,386
if you can't function at
the same level you did

1287
00:57:31,386 --> 00:57:34,506
when you were at the
peak of your performance.

1288
00:57:34,506 --> 00:57:37,673
- As artists, we use our brain mainly.

1289
00:57:38,542 --> 00:57:40,970
You know what I'm sayin', that's like...

1290
00:57:40,970 --> 00:57:43,100
When we wake up in the mornin',

1291
00:57:43,100 --> 00:57:45,380
we start creatin' in our mind.

1292
00:57:45,380 --> 00:57:46,534
You know what I'm sayin'?

1293
00:57:46,534 --> 00:57:49,713
And we wanna put those creations,

1294
00:57:49,713 --> 00:57:51,830
we want those to come to fruition,

1295
00:57:51,830 --> 00:57:53,662
and we wanna put action behind 'em,

1296
00:57:53,662 --> 00:57:56,602
and to have somethin' trying to block,

1297
00:57:56,602 --> 00:57:59,930
to have some sort of a blockage

1298
00:57:59,930 --> 00:58:04,250
where you can't fully put every
creative idea that you have

1299
00:58:04,250 --> 00:58:07,610
into action how you used to be able to

1300
00:58:07,610 --> 00:58:11,570
is like some fucked up
shit, to be honest, man.

1301
00:58:11,570 --> 00:58:12,846
- He gonna come back, he gonna recover.

1302
00:58:12,846 --> 00:58:15,648
He been in recovery since
shit happened, like,

1303
00:58:15,648 --> 00:58:19,206
he was not ready to lay down
for nobody or some shit,

1304
00:58:19,206 --> 00:58:20,809
so it's not over.

1305
00:58:20,809 --> 00:58:22,414
- He's active, man.

1306
00:58:22,414 --> 00:58:27,094
He's more active than a lot
of dudes with complete skills.

1307
00:58:27,094 --> 00:58:27,927
You know what I mean?

1308
00:58:27,927 --> 00:58:28,760
He still pushin'.

1309
00:58:28,760 --> 00:58:32,122
I see mixtapes and stuff all the time.

1310
00:58:32,122 --> 00:58:33,334
(laughs) It's like, yo.

1311
00:58:33,334 --> 00:58:35,879
It's like, you know, you
not stoppin' that dude.

1312
00:58:35,879 --> 00:58:36,839
- I listen to his stuff.

1313
00:58:36,839 --> 00:58:38,999
I don't know whether did he put out stuff

1314
00:58:38,999 --> 00:58:41,762
that he did before he got the aneurism

1315
00:58:41,762 --> 00:58:44,178
or is this new stuff he puttin' out

1316
00:58:44,178 --> 00:58:46,678
is what he did after the fact.

1317
00:58:47,636 --> 00:58:51,000
- Mixtape stuff too, I get that done,

1318
00:58:51,000 --> 00:58:54,746
but a lotta that work
I already consistently

1319
00:58:54,746 --> 00:58:57,746
stacked up bunches of music already.

1320
00:58:58,854 --> 00:59:01,730
'Cause that's what I
used to just love to do,

1321
00:59:01,730 --> 00:59:05,480
just for sparring, not
as much as practicing.

1322
00:59:06,574 --> 00:59:09,078
And I would just record in the house,

1323
00:59:09,078 --> 00:59:12,138
just constantly, constantly,
constantly do things.

1324
00:59:12,138 --> 00:59:15,198
- Raz probably has 10 to 15 albums

1325
00:59:15,198 --> 00:59:18,649
that we have in the stash
that are unreleased.

1326
00:59:18,649 --> 00:59:22,583
- [Razah] Now I just organize the stuff,

1327
00:59:22,583 --> 00:59:26,191
start to organize it and
start puttin' it out.

1328
00:59:26,191 --> 00:59:28,798
- I actually just
mastered an album for him.

1329
00:59:28,798 --> 00:59:30,134
Basically gave me a couple of tracks,

1330
00:59:30,134 --> 00:59:32,063
some stuff that he did in the past

1331
00:59:32,063 --> 00:59:33,642
and stuff that he did prior,

1332
00:59:33,642 --> 00:59:36,446
and basically he just put it all together.

1333
00:59:36,446 --> 00:59:39,927
There's probably at least
over 50 tracks we've done.

1334
00:59:39,927 --> 00:59:44,485
- Far as Raz rapping, and
on his road to recovery,

1335
00:59:44,485 --> 00:59:48,818
the only thing that is
standing in Raz's way is Raz.

1336
00:59:49,706 --> 00:59:53,246
And his stubbornness
around certain things.

1337
00:59:53,246 --> 00:59:56,562
Raz had an awesome physical therapy team

1338
00:59:56,562 --> 00:59:59,382
where we used to live,
and one of the exercises

1339
00:59:59,382 --> 01:00:02,054
that his speech therapist did with him

1340
01:00:02,054 --> 01:00:05,080
is she would play for him
one of his old videos,

1341
01:00:05,080 --> 01:00:07,526
and he would listen, and she would stop it

1342
01:00:07,526 --> 01:00:08,998
and she would tell him to rap it.

1343
01:00:08,998 --> 01:00:10,646
And she'd time him.

1344
01:00:10,646 --> 01:00:14,546
And one of his exercises
that he does practice at home

1345
01:00:14,546 --> 01:00:16,558
is bringing his speed up.

1346
01:00:16,558 --> 01:00:19,318
And that's why you hear
such an improvement

1347
01:00:19,318 --> 01:00:21,582
over the last couple years in his speech,

1348
01:00:21,582 --> 01:00:23,846
because that's what he's been practicing.

1349
01:00:23,846 --> 01:00:28,838
- I'll have to do, some
certain times, some punch-in.

1350
01:00:28,838 --> 01:00:32,306
Because it's a little harder for me.

1351
01:00:32,306 --> 01:00:35,714
And then my speech
therapist would talk to me,

1352
01:00:35,714 --> 01:00:38,682
and would always tell me like
"This gonna help you for this

1353
01:00:38,682 --> 01:00:40,435
"'cause you do music, right?"

1354
01:00:40,435 --> 01:00:42,324
They would give me things
to do, and I would do it.

1355
01:00:42,324 --> 01:00:45,522
I started to see the development from it,

1356
01:00:45,522 --> 01:00:46,782
and then I got back comfortable

1357
01:00:46,782 --> 01:00:48,895
with bein' able to talk again.

1358
01:00:48,895 --> 01:00:51,434
- The way I work with him, I do punch-ins.

1359
01:00:51,434 --> 01:00:52,558
That's the way we work.

1360
01:00:52,558 --> 01:00:55,077
It's a lot easier for
him to get the words out,

1361
01:00:55,077 --> 01:00:56,577
so what I do with him is,

1362
01:00:56,577 --> 01:00:58,498
if I hear something that
went wrong in the recording,

1363
01:00:58,498 --> 01:01:00,611
I'll just basically stop
him, say "You mumbled here,

1364
01:01:00,611 --> 01:01:02,082
"you did this wrong, we'll go back

1365
01:01:02,082 --> 01:01:04,436
"and we'll just punch-in
where we left off."

1366
01:01:04,436 --> 01:01:09,042
♪ Paper chasin' leads to you stressin' ♪

1367
01:01:09,042 --> 01:01:12,806
♪ Even if you're takin' antidepressants ♪

1368
01:01:12,806 --> 01:01:15,520
♪ Drinkin' hard as hell ♪

1369
01:01:15,520 --> 01:01:19,586
♪ About my vain cartel ♪

1370
01:01:19,586 --> 01:01:23,753
♪ I got gamblers on the boardwalk ♪

1371
01:01:26,530 --> 01:01:27,410
Wait, wait, wait.

1372
01:01:27,410 --> 01:01:30,660
Hard as hell about my bankin' cartel...

1373
01:01:31,734 --> 01:01:33,350
Bring me after antidepressants.

1374
01:01:33,350 --> 01:01:36,433
(recording whirring)

1375
01:01:37,670 --> 01:01:38,670
Before that.

1376
01:01:42,994 --> 01:01:45,798
- Fuck it, man, you know,
wacker MC's are doin'

1377
01:01:45,798 --> 01:01:48,662
like one bar at a time, it's ProTools now.

1378
01:01:48,662 --> 01:01:51,314
So I would say fuckin' do half a bar.

1379
01:01:51,314 --> 01:01:52,147
You know what I'm sayin'?

1380
01:01:52,147 --> 01:01:53,450
Get that shit.
- Cut and paste?

1381
01:01:53,450 --> 01:01:55,098
- Cut and paste it, fuck it.

1382
01:01:55,098 --> 01:01:57,855
I mean, wack people are doin'
it, and they have no excuse.

1383
01:01:57,855 --> 01:01:59,222
You know what I'm sayin'?

1384
01:01:59,222 --> 01:02:02,042
- Ronnie should do what he loves to do

1385
01:02:02,042 --> 01:02:05,374
because that music is what made him happy,

1386
01:02:05,374 --> 01:02:08,956
and I don't think nobody
should take that away from him.

1387
01:02:08,956 --> 01:02:10,276
Because that's what's making him happy,

1388
01:02:10,276 --> 01:02:13,714
that's what's keepin' him goin' and alive.

1389
01:02:13,714 --> 01:02:15,138
- When somebody comes in for a therapy,

1390
01:02:15,138 --> 01:02:16,977
we establish goals, not
only as his therapist

1391
01:02:16,977 --> 01:02:18,449
but with the patient.

1392
01:02:18,449 --> 01:02:20,042
So when Chron came in for therapy,

1393
01:02:20,042 --> 01:02:21,283
I remember him saying "I wanna be able

1394
01:02:21,283 --> 01:02:23,711
"to walk without a cane, I
wanna do this on my own."

1395
01:02:23,711 --> 01:02:24,544
Nice.

1396
01:02:27,290 --> 01:02:28,686
Can you get your head in line, too?

1397
01:02:28,686 --> 01:02:30,680
Lot to think about, your knee
and your head and your speed.

1398
01:02:30,680 --> 01:02:33,200
- [Razah] 'Cause I see that
thing comin' close to my knee.

1399
01:02:33,200 --> 01:02:34,386
- Oh, don't worry about that.

1400
01:02:34,386 --> 01:02:37,010
Here, I'll twist it so
you don't have to worry.

1401
01:02:37,010 --> 01:02:39,502
There you go, keep goin'.

1402
01:02:39,502 --> 01:02:40,730
Better?
- Yeah!

1403
01:02:40,730 --> 01:02:42,050
- All right.

1404
01:02:42,050 --> 01:02:43,850
Keep that knee in.

1405
01:02:43,850 --> 01:02:45,982
Chron is a lot of fun to work with.

1406
01:02:45,982 --> 01:02:48,151
We laugh every time he comes in,

1407
01:02:48,151 --> 01:02:49,582
but he's a really hard worker,

1408
01:02:49,582 --> 01:02:53,541
and he'll try his best at
anything I ask him to do, always.

1409
01:02:53,541 --> 01:02:55,536
- This is working your whole butt,

1410
01:02:55,536 --> 01:02:58,894
but also the outside of it as well.

1411
01:02:58,894 --> 01:03:00,830
So there's a few different
muscles in your bottom.

1412
01:03:00,830 --> 01:03:02,526
- Back too.
- And your back as well.

1413
01:03:02,526 --> 01:03:04,294
- Do you feel it on the side of this leg?

1414
01:03:04,294 --> 01:03:05,182
- Mm-hmm.
- Little bit?

1415
01:03:05,182 --> 01:03:07,054
- It's hard to keep that
leg out towards me, right?

1416
01:03:07,054 --> 01:03:08,014
- That's why I was wigglin'.

1417
01:03:08,014 --> 01:03:09,682
- Exactly, that is why it's wiggling.

1418
01:03:09,682 --> 01:03:11,226
It's a little weak, so
it's hard to do that.

1419
01:03:11,226 --> 01:03:12,992
You ready?
- Mm-hmm.

1420
01:03:12,992 --> 01:03:15,502
- Okay, leg out towards me.

1421
01:03:15,502 --> 01:03:16,335
Good, hold it there.

1422
01:03:16,335 --> 01:03:17,826
Hold it right here.

1423
01:03:17,826 --> 01:03:20,030
Good, and raise your bottom up.

1424
01:03:20,030 --> 01:03:21,197
And down slow.

1425
01:03:22,386 --> 01:03:24,033
So go ahead, I'm gonna stay right here.

1426
01:03:24,033 --> 01:03:26,837
Push down, and bring it up, and down.

1427
01:03:26,837 --> 01:03:29,433
Don't let the right leg do all the work.

1428
01:03:29,433 --> 01:03:30,841
Straighten the right leg.

1429
01:03:30,841 --> 01:03:32,177
Good, together you're gonna do it.

1430
01:03:32,177 --> 01:03:34,294
So you're gonna push down...

1431
01:03:34,294 --> 01:03:35,946
Keep your butt on the ground.

1432
01:03:35,946 --> 01:03:36,846
Butt on the ground, good.

1433
01:03:36,846 --> 01:03:38,254
Push down with your heels.

1434
01:03:38,254 --> 01:03:39,887
Good, now bend your knees.

1435
01:03:39,887 --> 01:03:41,150
Push with this one still.

1436
01:03:41,150 --> 01:03:42,502
Good, both legs out.

1437
01:03:42,502 --> 01:03:46,130
Chron walked with a four
point small base quad cane.

1438
01:03:46,130 --> 01:03:47,568
It's called the four.

1439
01:03:47,568 --> 01:03:49,386
And then we worked a lot on,

1440
01:03:49,386 --> 01:03:51,483
for him to get to the smaller cane,

1441
01:03:51,483 --> 01:03:54,111
it was working a lot on balance

1442
01:03:54,111 --> 01:03:56,002
and trusting that left side.

1443
01:03:56,002 --> 01:03:58,071
And once he was able to do that,

1444
01:03:58,071 --> 01:04:00,409
we were able to get to a smaller cane.

1445
01:04:00,409 --> 01:04:02,330
And the more trust on that left side,

1446
01:04:02,330 --> 01:04:04,069
and strength and balance that he built up,

1447
01:04:04,069 --> 01:04:06,262
then we were able to progress to

1448
01:04:06,262 --> 01:04:07,189
not walking with a cane at all.

1449
01:04:07,189 --> 01:04:09,772
(bright music)

1450
01:04:11,885 --> 01:04:14,135
(laughing)

1451
01:04:17,769 --> 01:04:21,536
Relax that right arm, relax it down.

1452
01:04:21,536 --> 01:04:22,916
Quiet step on the right.

1453
01:04:22,916 --> 01:04:24,916
There we go, looking up.

1454
01:04:30,971 --> 01:04:33,357
Don't go for that wall, you don't need it.

1455
01:04:33,357 --> 01:04:35,940
Small step, quiet on the right.

1456
01:04:38,845 --> 01:04:40,595
Nice one, looking up.

1457
01:04:48,204 --> 01:04:50,173
Perfect, let's turn around and go back,

1458
01:04:50,173 --> 01:04:52,256
then we'll be done, okay?

1459
01:04:57,513 --> 01:04:59,763
Quiet landing on the right.

1460
01:05:27,045 --> 01:05:29,307
Nice job man, great job.

1461
01:05:29,307 --> 01:05:32,187
Let's head back to that
mat where we started.

1462
01:05:32,187 --> 01:05:34,270
- Sorta like that?
- Yeah.

1463
01:05:36,865 --> 01:05:38,233
- This is like the,

1464
01:05:38,233 --> 01:05:40,105
what was it I called this place one time?

1465
01:05:40,105 --> 01:05:41,413
The Hall of Justice?
- Torture chamber?

1466
01:05:41,413 --> 01:05:44,330
- This is like the Hall of Justice.

1467
01:05:47,437 --> 01:05:49,181
I would come in here,

1468
01:05:49,181 --> 01:05:52,961
and then they'd test me, doin' the...

1469
01:05:52,961 --> 01:05:56,201
Then I get the, how she'd make
me walk there with no cane.

1470
01:05:56,201 --> 01:05:58,534
I'm like "Oh I can do this!"

1471
01:06:01,721 --> 01:06:03,237
When I was walkin' nobody

1472
01:06:03,237 --> 01:06:06,070
was expectin' that to even happen.

1473
01:06:08,106 --> 01:06:10,099
And I was in a wheelchair thinkin' like,

1474
01:06:10,099 --> 01:06:12,965
"I will never walk again,
what's gonna happen?"

1475
01:06:12,965 --> 01:06:15,217
And when I started to do therapy

1476
01:06:15,217 --> 01:06:17,197
and they got me walkin' around places,

1477
01:06:17,197 --> 01:06:19,232
I'm like this stable.

1478
01:06:19,232 --> 01:06:23,038
That's the feelin' I have with that.

1479
01:06:23,038 --> 01:06:24,635
It can be done.

1480
01:06:24,635 --> 01:06:27,705
- I was talkin' to Raz last week, man.

1481
01:06:27,705 --> 01:06:30,688
I know that he's basically
really on the point

1482
01:06:30,688 --> 01:06:32,953
of wanting to improve, you know,

1483
01:06:32,953 --> 01:06:34,421
to get back on the stage, man.

1484
01:06:34,421 --> 01:06:36,640
So I heard that he had this
show comin' up with Priest

1485
01:06:36,640 --> 01:06:39,269
in October, so I told
him that's a good look,

1486
01:06:39,269 --> 01:06:41,129
because it'd help you
get back into the feel.

1487
01:06:41,129 --> 01:06:44,446
The feel is the people, the
feel is what brings you back.

1488
01:06:44,446 --> 01:06:47,809
- When you on stage, there's two, three,

1489
01:06:47,809 --> 01:06:51,065
four thousand, 50 thousand
people in the audience.

1490
01:06:51,065 --> 01:06:54,315
The energy they give you is contagious.

1491
01:06:55,821 --> 01:06:57,889
You know what I'm sayin', so
if they givin' you the energy,

1492
01:06:57,889 --> 01:07:01,221
you can feel it and recipitate
that and give it back.

1493
01:07:01,221 --> 01:07:03,693
- It will be so powerful, I think,

1494
01:07:03,693 --> 01:07:05,885
if he was able to get on
that stage and perform.

1495
01:07:05,885 --> 01:07:08,353
I think the crowd will go crazy

1496
01:07:08,353 --> 01:07:10,377
because that will be
such a powerful moment.

1497
01:07:10,377 --> 01:07:13,586
This will be it, where
you say "Wow, he's back!"

1498
01:07:13,586 --> 01:07:18,104
- We need inspiration and
motivation as a culture,

1499
01:07:18,104 --> 01:07:22,977
and watching people overcome
trials and tribulations

1500
01:07:22,977 --> 01:07:26,937
always provides motivation
for us to do what we gotta go

1501
01:07:26,937 --> 01:07:28,949
for the next rapper that's up-and-comin'

1502
01:07:28,949 --> 01:07:32,473
and is facin' obstacles and adversity.

1503
01:07:32,473 --> 01:07:35,201
To see a moment like that happen,

1504
01:07:35,201 --> 01:07:39,193
he will be responsible for
a huge wave of inspiration.

1505
01:07:39,193 --> 01:07:42,237
And I think that's what
hip-hop always needs.

1506
01:07:42,237 --> 01:07:46,393
So if he gets up there, the
energy is gonna be crazy.

1507
01:07:46,393 --> 01:07:48,403
And that shit would be epic.

1508
01:07:48,403 --> 01:07:49,845
- Him gettin' on stage is perfect,

1509
01:07:49,845 --> 01:07:52,927
because it'd give him
that motivation here.

1510
01:07:52,927 --> 01:07:56,085
Just to bring him back to
when he was doin' that,

1511
01:07:56,085 --> 01:07:59,549
his body might just say
"Yo, fuck that shit!"

1512
01:07:59,549 --> 01:08:00,614
You know what I mean?

1513
01:08:00,614 --> 01:08:02,202
(laughs) I'm back, you know what I mean?

1514
01:08:02,202 --> 01:08:04,298
- Hi, nice to meet you finally.

1515
01:08:04,298 --> 01:08:07,122
- Yeah, my pleasure, my pleasure.

1516
01:08:07,122 --> 01:08:09,524
This is the nights of all nights

1517
01:08:09,524 --> 01:08:13,358
that me you and Priest
was able to be together.

1518
01:08:13,358 --> 01:08:14,375
You know what I mean?

1519
01:08:14,375 --> 01:08:15,636
- Yeah, yeah, baby!

1520
01:08:15,636 --> 01:08:17,976
What's good, you here!
- You better believe that.

1521
01:08:17,976 --> 01:08:20,796
- Yeah man, what's good?
- I love you man.

1522
01:08:20,796 --> 01:08:21,986
- I love you too, brother.

1523
01:08:21,986 --> 01:08:24,096
Word, we out, man.

1524
01:08:24,096 --> 01:08:27,096
Man yo, bring it in here bruh, word.

1525
01:08:28,190 --> 01:08:29,334
This is my beginning,

1526
01:08:29,334 --> 01:08:31,597
and this is everything to me.

1527
01:08:31,597 --> 01:08:34,131
You know what I mean, to have
my family on stage with me,

1528
01:08:34,131 --> 01:08:36,081
it's just like the best that...

1529
01:08:36,081 --> 01:08:37,303
This how we started.

1530
01:08:37,303 --> 01:08:39,553
(laughing)

1531
01:08:41,010 --> 01:08:42,923
- His energy alone, just the fact

1532
01:08:42,923 --> 01:08:45,731
that he's able to pick
up that mic at this time,

1533
01:08:45,731 --> 01:08:48,083
it will bring tears to my eyes, honestly.

1534
01:08:48,083 --> 01:08:51,233
- He better get on that
stage and talk to the people.

1535
01:08:51,233 --> 01:08:53,273
Like he knows how to talk to them people,

1536
01:08:53,273 --> 01:08:54,743
and them people better listen.

1537
01:08:54,743 --> 01:08:55,914
- He try to make this sound big,

1538
01:08:55,914 --> 01:08:57,879
sound real good for the fans out there

1539
01:08:57,879 --> 01:09:00,143
that's been with us for
years, you know what I mean?

1540
01:09:00,143 --> 01:09:01,943
It's gonna be beautiful, man.

1541
01:09:01,943 --> 01:09:04,375
♪ I'm still tripping off of
Bishop, when he shot Raheem ♪

1542
01:09:04,375 --> 01:09:07,388
♪ I pop off sixteens,
like Glock sixteens ♪

1543
01:09:07,388 --> 01:09:10,328
♪ Bank stop the guap that's
mine for the taking ♪

1544
01:09:10,328 --> 01:09:13,211
♪ My team all gunners,
we whip four runners ♪

1545
01:09:13,211 --> 01:09:16,151
♪ We wild out, pull out
the Nick Cannon on you ♪

1546
01:09:16,151 --> 01:09:19,305
♪ I warned you, my Killa Bee Gang niggas ♪

1547
01:09:19,305 --> 01:09:22,286
♪ We outlaws, who don't give
a fuck about the mayor ♪

1548
01:09:22,286 --> 01:09:26,148
♪ Block rebels coughing on sour ♪

1549
01:09:26,148 --> 01:09:28,179
♪ The mighty dollar is the power ♪

1550
01:09:28,179 --> 01:09:30,771
♪ Blackout, goons come
in all different shapes ♪

1551
01:09:30,771 --> 01:09:33,519
♪ Orangutan gorilla niggas beat up apes ♪

1552
01:09:33,519 --> 01:09:36,410
♪ Old school, new school,
man, I dropped out ♪

1553
01:09:36,410 --> 01:09:39,249
♪ I learned when that van
come around, they hop out ♪

1554
01:09:39,249 --> 01:09:41,949
♪ I been iller, I send
killas with chinchillas ♪

1555
01:09:41,949 --> 01:09:46,949
♪ Then laugh at it, back at
the crib, like Ben Stiller ♪

1556
01:09:47,735 --> 01:09:50,554
♪ Killa bees on a motherfuckin' swarm ♪

1557
01:09:50,554 --> 01:09:53,538
♪ Killa bees on a motherfuckin' swarm ♪

1558
01:09:53,538 --> 01:09:56,958
♪ Killa bees on a motherfuckin' swarm ♪

1559
01:09:56,958 --> 01:09:59,822
♪ Ah, killa bees swarmin' MC ♪

1560
01:09:59,822 --> 01:10:04,534
(mumbling)
(crowd cheering)

1561
01:10:04,534 --> 01:10:07,910
- Where the hell Raz at, man?
- Raz, where you at Razah?

1562
01:10:07,910 --> 01:10:10,061
- 60 Sec, let's go.

1563
01:10:10,061 --> 01:10:12,811
(crowd cheering)

1564
01:10:17,008 --> 01:10:18,438
- Ay Raz.
- Yo Razah!

1565
01:10:18,438 --> 01:10:20,521
- Yo, where you at Razah?

1566
01:10:23,570 --> 01:10:26,237
- Yo, can you please come on, man?

1567
01:10:26,237 --> 01:10:28,737
- Get on stage!
- Come on Raz!

1568
01:10:28,737 --> 01:10:29,634
- There you go.

1569
01:10:29,634 --> 01:10:33,174
♪ It's 96, beware of bio-chips ♪

1570
01:10:33,174 --> 01:10:35,814
♪ Or shy lips harder than slave whips ♪

1571
01:10:35,814 --> 01:10:38,210
♪ Like you ready to give ♪

1572
01:10:38,210 --> 01:10:40,462
♪ From Egypt to sea ship to bein' chased ♪

1573
01:10:40,462 --> 01:10:43,582
♪ By New York cops on the precinct ♪

1574
01:10:43,582 --> 01:10:47,854
♪ If words is bricks we build
the projects and pyramids ♪

1575
01:10:47,854 --> 01:10:51,572
♪ Evil kids I'll destroy your
eyes like London Bridge ♪

1576
01:10:51,572 --> 01:10:54,875
♪ Smoke trees and weed, take
off the leaves, out the twigs ♪

1577
01:10:54,875 --> 01:10:58,370
♪ Paratroopers, when I got
to give a lot to live for ♪

1578
01:10:58,370 --> 01:11:02,286
♪ You ain't rich before poor,
it ain't peace without war ♪

1579
01:11:02,286 --> 01:11:06,731
♪ How would you steal
without a floor under, over ♪

1580
01:11:06,731 --> 01:11:09,481
(crowd cheering)

1581
01:11:12,676 --> 01:11:13,509
- Come on!

1582
01:11:21,260 --> 01:11:24,010
(crowd cheering)

1583
01:11:33,224 --> 01:11:35,592
- I got my batteries back.

1584
01:11:35,592 --> 01:11:36,425
Yes!

1585
01:11:37,947 --> 01:11:40,114
Renaissance Child is back.

1586
01:11:42,528 --> 01:11:47,488
- Sounded good tonight, bro.
- That shit was hard, man.

1587
01:11:47,488 --> 01:11:49,905
- [Crowd] Wings up, wings up!

1588
01:11:52,060 --> 01:11:53,643
Wings up, wings up!

1589
01:11:57,580 --> 01:11:58,780
- This is crazy, man!

1590
01:11:58,780 --> 01:12:00,340
Wu-Tang forever, man.

1591
01:12:00,340 --> 01:12:02,920
All them brothers, Sunz
Of Man, Killarmy, Wu...

1592
01:12:02,920 --> 01:12:04,003
Crazy, crazy.

1593
01:12:05,312 --> 01:12:08,576
- [Razah] For a long
time after the aneurism,

1594
01:12:08,576 --> 01:12:11,352
I felt embarrassed to let my fans,

1595
01:12:11,352 --> 01:12:13,592
and even some of our friends, see me.

1596
01:12:13,592 --> 01:12:16,204
But once I felt the energy from the crowd,

1597
01:12:16,204 --> 01:12:18,288
I knew I had nothin' to be ashamed of.

1598
01:12:18,288 --> 01:12:21,424
Now it's time to go
home and see my people.

1599
01:12:21,424 --> 01:12:24,424
It's the end of the
summer, and Old Timer's Day

1600
01:12:24,424 --> 01:12:26,176
is comin' up in Red Hook.

1601
01:12:26,176 --> 01:12:28,384
I can't miss that.

1602
01:12:28,384 --> 01:12:31,892
- Old Timer's Day happens
the second week in August,

1603
01:12:31,892 --> 01:12:33,629
on the weekend.

1604
01:12:33,629 --> 01:12:36,064
It's a three day event, it's
Friday, Saturday, and Sunday.

1605
01:12:36,064 --> 01:12:37,068
That's Old Timer Day.

1606
01:12:37,068 --> 01:12:38,164
It's real big.

1607
01:12:38,164 --> 01:12:40,063
It be in the news and all of that stuff.

1608
01:12:40,063 --> 01:12:43,300
- Old Timer's Day started
about 15 years ago.

1609
01:12:43,300 --> 01:12:46,332
And it gave a opportunity for people

1610
01:12:46,332 --> 01:12:48,088
who moved outta Red Hook

1611
01:12:48,088 --> 01:12:50,440
to come back to visit and to have

1612
01:12:50,440 --> 01:12:52,360
like a barbecue to come together.

1613
01:12:52,360 --> 01:12:54,400
- Old Timer's is lit, they
play the old-school music,

1614
01:12:54,400 --> 01:12:56,229
get the old-school people
back, you know what I mean?

1615
01:12:56,229 --> 01:12:58,315
They be lit on stage, doin' they thing.

1616
01:12:58,315 --> 01:13:00,328
- Red Hook is in his DNA.

1617
01:13:00,328 --> 01:13:02,532
You know, it's a lotta
history with Red Hook.

1618
01:13:02,532 --> 01:13:05,548
- So my plan is this year
I'm gonna call Razah.

1619
01:13:05,548 --> 01:13:08,052
Yo Razah, Old Timer's
Day, you have to come.

1620
01:13:08,052 --> 01:13:10,660
- Memories, a lotta memories.

1621
01:13:10,660 --> 01:13:13,812
A lotta people out there
see when I was younger.

1622
01:13:13,812 --> 01:13:16,272
People that was in jail
or somethin', locked up,

1623
01:13:16,272 --> 01:13:18,820
I didn't see in I don't know how long.

1624
01:13:18,820 --> 01:13:21,320
(party music)

1625
01:13:49,545 --> 01:13:50,685
- He made history.

1626
01:13:50,685 --> 01:13:52,393
Him, Bazz, 'Preme...

1627
01:13:52,393 --> 01:13:54,781
- He's one a the ones that
came up from out here.

1628
01:13:54,781 --> 01:13:58,141
Believe it or not, Hell Razah
used to be a break dancer.

1629
01:13:58,141 --> 01:14:00,541
They used to call him Little Spin.

1630
01:14:00,541 --> 01:14:04,649
Used to wear big pants with the
colorful socks, all of that.

1631
01:14:04,649 --> 01:14:06,524
Remember that, son?

1632
01:14:06,524 --> 01:14:08,158
Yo, don't even laugh, nigga!

1633
01:14:08,158 --> 01:14:10,289
You was his partner, don't try to front!

1634
01:14:10,289 --> 01:14:14,129
- For me, Sunz Of Man was
definitely a life lesson.

1635
01:14:14,129 --> 01:14:16,425
It was an education on track.

1636
01:14:16,425 --> 01:14:18,913
- His lyrics brought science,
and brought the math,

1637
01:14:18,913 --> 01:14:20,069
and brought everything together.

1638
01:14:20,069 --> 01:14:22,239
The culmination of knowledge itself.

1639
01:14:22,239 --> 01:14:23,989
- Razah was the bomb!

1640
01:14:25,861 --> 01:14:29,121
(laughs) Is that old-fashioned?

1641
01:14:29,121 --> 01:14:30,141
But he was.

1642
01:14:30,141 --> 01:14:32,437
- Red Hook always had
a lotta talent in it,

1643
01:14:32,437 --> 01:14:35,217
but I don't think it had
the courage to step up.

1644
01:14:35,217 --> 01:14:37,544
A lotta times peep rappers
and even producers,

1645
01:14:37,544 --> 01:14:40,533
they think it's easy
just to do what you do,

1646
01:14:40,533 --> 01:14:42,961
but he had the courage
to bring it to life.

1647
01:14:42,961 --> 01:14:45,539
And I think that's what
he did, he gave it heart.

1648
01:14:45,539 --> 01:14:48,169
You know, everybody got the talent,

1649
01:14:48,169 --> 01:14:51,060
but it's the difference
of takin' the talent

1650
01:14:51,060 --> 01:14:53,597
and exposin' it out,
and that's what he did.

1651
01:14:53,597 --> 01:14:55,069
He had the courage to do it.

1652
01:14:55,069 --> 01:14:56,537
- When's the last time
y'all seen each other?

1653
01:14:56,537 --> 01:14:58,729
- Man, right?
- It's been a while, man.

1654
01:14:58,729 --> 01:14:59,757
- [Supreme] I wanted to ask you,

1655
01:14:59,757 --> 01:15:02,909
how much hard rap are you doin' now?

1656
01:15:02,909 --> 01:15:05,293
You doin' a lot, or you gettin' back?

1657
01:15:05,293 --> 01:15:06,629
- [Razah] Well you say that, uh...

1658
01:15:06,629 --> 01:15:07,734
- The reason why I'm askin'

1659
01:15:07,734 --> 01:15:09,835
is 'cause you got so
many goddamn songs out,

1660
01:15:09,835 --> 01:15:11,217
I'm tryin' to figure out what songs

1661
01:15:11,217 --> 01:15:13,001
are you actually rappin' on,

1662
01:15:13,001 --> 01:15:15,073
or is you usin' stuff from the past?

1663
01:15:15,073 --> 01:15:18,379
- I just released an
album on Easter, it was.

1664
01:15:18,379 --> 01:15:19,869
I did some new songs on that.

1665
01:15:19,869 --> 01:15:23,229
- I'm listenin' to you
talkin', you mad clear, man.

1666
01:15:23,229 --> 01:15:25,821
It's like I'm sittin' here,
and you teachin' me shit.

1667
01:15:25,821 --> 01:15:27,533
I'm like, what the fuck?

1668
01:15:27,533 --> 01:15:30,170
You know, you flowin'.

1669
01:15:30,170 --> 01:15:31,101
So I'm like...

1670
01:15:31,101 --> 01:15:34,553
- My therapist helped me with that.

1671
01:15:34,553 --> 01:15:37,303
That shit was really hard.
- Word?

1672
01:15:38,331 --> 01:15:42,164
- I didn't realize how
important this shit was

1673
01:15:43,041 --> 01:15:45,261
until they was teachin' me again.

1674
01:15:45,261 --> 01:15:47,761
I was sittin' there like, wow.

1675
01:15:49,691 --> 01:15:50,807
And I was sittin' there,

1676
01:15:50,807 --> 01:15:54,557
when I'm hearin' other
patients sayin' to me,

1677
01:15:56,179 --> 01:15:59,343
like "Hey, you comin' back kinda fast."

1678
01:15:59,343 --> 01:16:01,471
I'm like "What you mean?"

1679
01:16:01,471 --> 01:16:03,766
"No, 'cause the last time I seen you,

1680
01:16:03,766 --> 01:16:05,563
"you couldn't do this,
you couldn't do that.

1681
01:16:05,563 --> 01:16:08,863
"And now you movin' around like that now."

1682
01:16:08,863 --> 01:16:11,187
I'm like "Well, you know what?

1683
01:16:11,187 --> 01:16:13,767
"These people gettin'
paid a lotta fuckin' money

1684
01:16:13,767 --> 01:16:16,887
"from my insurance to help me do that,

1685
01:16:16,887 --> 01:16:18,428
"and I ain't here to play around."

1686
01:16:18,428 --> 01:16:21,567
("Return Of The
Renaissance" by Hell Razah)

1687
01:16:21,567 --> 01:16:24,471
♪ Yeah, Renaissance Child ♪

1688
01:16:24,471 --> 01:16:26,767
♪ Heaven Razah, y'all do
it like this with me ♪

1689
01:16:26,767 --> 01:16:29,208
♪ Renaissance '76, some
say heavenly sent ♪

1690
01:16:29,208 --> 01:16:30,847
♪ My pitch got my enemies sick ♪

1691
01:16:30,847 --> 01:16:32,441
♪ Now I'm back independent as Prince ♪

1692
01:16:32,441 --> 01:16:34,016
♪ A young black industry pimp ♪

1693
01:16:34,016 --> 01:16:35,977
♪ That'll flip more money that's spent ♪

1694
01:16:35,977 --> 01:16:37,916
- I think it's possible
that the Sunz Of Man

1695
01:16:37,916 --> 01:16:39,024
could come back together.

1696
01:16:39,024 --> 01:16:41,516
Prodigal right away hit me up.

1697
01:16:41,516 --> 01:16:44,304
"Yo 'Preme, I been talkin'
for the long, let's do it."

1698
01:16:44,304 --> 01:16:46,932
♪ Clubs and parties, the
project Marcus Garvey ♪

1699
01:16:46,932 --> 01:16:48,760
♪ Turn the hood to the
woods or a dark safari ♪

1700
01:16:48,760 --> 01:16:51,116
- As awful as it is
what happened to Razah,

1701
01:16:51,116 --> 01:16:53,680
the brother, he'll tell
you himself he's blessed

1702
01:16:53,680 --> 01:16:55,376
because he's coming out of it.

1703
01:16:55,376 --> 01:16:58,212
He can talk, he can walk,
he can eat, he can rap.

1704
01:16:58,212 --> 01:17:00,218
♪ I slept with the Tec in my Polo vest ♪

1705
01:17:00,218 --> 01:17:02,722
♪ Go back like a Memorex tape cassette ♪

1706
01:17:02,722 --> 01:17:04,241
- And we lived right down in that house,

1707
01:17:04,241 --> 01:17:07,133
112 Whitman Avenue right there.

1708
01:17:07,133 --> 01:17:11,422
You know, the house right there
where the fire escape is at.

1709
01:17:11,422 --> 01:17:12,631
We're next door to it.

1710
01:17:12,631 --> 01:17:13,464
(crashing)

1711
01:17:13,464 --> 01:17:14,297
Oh wow!

1712
01:17:16,545 --> 01:17:17,549
Accident.

1713
01:17:17,549 --> 01:17:20,125
Oh, let's get the accident.

1714
01:17:20,125 --> 01:17:22,789
This is the block right here!

1715
01:17:22,789 --> 01:17:25,206
All kinds of stuff happenin'.

1716
01:17:26,613 --> 01:17:28,429
So we gettin' it live,
you know what I mean?

1717
01:17:28,429 --> 01:17:31,417
We in the heart of Beth
Stavenson right now.

1718
01:17:31,417 --> 01:17:33,754
You know what I mean,
and accidents happen...

1719
01:17:33,754 --> 01:17:37,552
But anyway, let's get back to the point.

1720
01:17:37,552 --> 01:17:42,081
♪ Father forgive us ♪

1721
01:17:42,081 --> 01:17:45,321
♪ 'Cause we all have sins ♪

1722
01:17:45,321 --> 01:17:47,165
♪ T.H.U.G. Angelz ♪

1723
01:17:47,165 --> 01:17:49,145
♪ This is a prayer for the thugs ♪

1724
01:17:49,145 --> 01:17:52,177
♪ I don't care if you Damu or
Cuz because it's God's love ♪

1725
01:17:52,177 --> 01:17:54,561
♪ This a prayer for the thugs ♪

1726
01:17:54,561 --> 01:17:57,665
♪ I don't care if you Damu or
Cuz because it's God's love ♪

1727
01:17:57,665 --> 01:17:59,421
♪ Do you believe in the prophecies ♪

1728
01:17:59,421 --> 01:18:01,385
♪ That the Messiah gon' free our seeds ♪

1729
01:18:01,385 --> 01:18:03,217
♪ To bring the truth back to Tel Aviv ♪

1730
01:18:03,217 --> 01:18:05,077
♪ True indeed, we've been all deceived ♪

1731
01:18:05,077 --> 01:18:07,126
♪ Now America is under siege ♪

1732
01:18:07,126 --> 01:18:09,109
♪ Even the citizens overseas ♪

1733
01:18:09,109 --> 01:18:11,197
♪ Chemtrails in the air we breathe ♪

1734
01:18:11,197 --> 01:18:13,025
♪ At 13 and can barely read ♪

1735
01:18:13,025 --> 01:18:15,005
♪ But he can sell crack and roll weed ♪

1736
01:18:15,005 --> 01:18:16,957
♪ Niggas acting like they don't bleed ♪

1737
01:18:16,957 --> 01:18:18,877
♪ Till is IV's and respirators ♪

1738
01:18:18,877 --> 01:18:20,929
♪ The board of ED can't educate us ♪

1739
01:18:20,929 --> 01:18:22,729
♪ Too many federal investigators ♪

1740
01:18:22,729 --> 01:18:24,665
♪ I left hell in the elevator ♪

1741
01:18:24,665 --> 01:18:26,645
♪ Next stop is the Heaven Razah ♪

1742
01:18:26,645 --> 01:18:28,548
♪ To every bomb there's a detonator ♪

1743
01:18:28,548 --> 01:18:30,529
♪ Is every traitor part of Al-Qaeda ♪

1744
01:18:30,529 --> 01:18:33,890
♪ Or is it greater if it's
legislator or a slave-trader ♪

1745
01:18:33,890 --> 01:18:35,745
♪ Either way they all need a prayer ♪

1746
01:18:35,745 --> 01:18:37,681
♪ Look at my logo and the moon crater ♪

1747
01:18:37,681 --> 01:18:39,361
♪ You can't hide behind ya top layer ♪

1748
01:18:39,361 --> 01:18:41,106
♪ This is a prayer for the thugs ♪

1749
01:18:41,106 --> 01:18:44,121
♪ I don't care if you're Damu
or Cuz because it's God's love ♪

1750
01:18:44,121 --> 01:18:46,561
♪ This a prayer for the thugs ♪

1751
01:18:46,561 --> 01:18:49,535
♪ I don't care if you're Damu
or Cuz because it's God's love ♪

1752
01:18:49,535 --> 01:18:51,442
♪ This a prayer for the thugs ♪

1753
01:18:51,442 --> 01:18:54,518
♪ I don't care if you're Damu
or Cuz because it's God's love ♪

1754
01:18:54,518 --> 01:18:56,738
♪ This a prayer for the thugs ♪

1755
01:18:56,738 --> 01:19:00,321
♪ I don't care if you're Damu
or Cuz because it's God's love ♪

1756
01:19:00,321 --> 01:19:02,610
♪ I'm the old serpent dragon slayer ♪

1757
01:19:02,610 --> 01:19:04,438
♪ Spitting lasers at space invaders ♪

1758
01:19:04,438 --> 01:19:06,406
♪ Keep an eye out for tomb raiders ♪

1759
01:19:06,406 --> 01:19:08,309
♪ We cry out to the true savior ♪

1760
01:19:08,309 --> 01:19:10,197
♪ Another victim in the newspaper ♪

1761
01:19:10,197 --> 01:19:12,226
♪ I wonder why when the baby cry ♪

1762
01:19:12,226 --> 01:19:14,234
♪ Is his visions of the most high ♪

1763
01:19:14,234 --> 01:19:16,169
♪ Or is there archangels close by ♪

1764
01:19:16,169 --> 01:19:18,090
♪ 12 tribes be the lost bride ♪

1765
01:19:18,090 --> 01:19:20,010
♪ Until then she a black widow ♪

1766
01:19:20,010 --> 01:19:21,935
♪ A young mother staring out a window ♪

1767
01:19:21,935 --> 01:19:23,988
♪ On a soft pillow, more tears ♪

1768
01:19:23,988 --> 01:19:25,582
♪ Dear Lord you're the one I fear ♪

1769
01:19:25,582 --> 01:19:29,012
♪ I say it loud and clear ♪

1770
01:19:29,012 --> 01:19:31,762
(dramatic music)