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>> john: it feels pathetic, you know? >> anthony: this is incredible to me. >> john: what? >> anthony: you dont have shows. >> john: thats insane and its sick and is wrong and i dont even want to complain about it. you complain about it. >> anthony: im complaining about it. i am bitter. >> john: because im going to die one day, and theyre going to be worth a lot of money. ♪ how i came to new york, i was kind of on this coltrane thing, i wanted to find god through music. i started meeting all t...

>> chris: well, no, if we had a plan we wouldve made more money, and not got so completely [ bleep ] over by the industry, as it were. >> debbie: we had a plan to survive. >> chris: yeah, ongoing. >> debbie: we had a plan to keep going, doggedly. but i think the thing that was so attractive about that period was you werent locked in to one format, or one form, you know. it was just, everybody was doing everything. >> anthony: you introduced the entirely revolutionary notion that street art was i...

Here. maybe the 60s, we werent here. >> anthony: so it was all bullshit? >> lydia: no, none of it was bullshit. it happens when it happens, and things change, and time is not what it once was, and isnt anywhere. if youve done one thing, youre living in the past and thats your glory day, thats your glory day. this is my glory day. im here talking to you eating octopus. ♪

Sick and is wrong and i dont even want to complain about it. you complain about it. >> anthony: im complaining about it. i am bitter. >> john: because im going to die one day, and theyre going to be worth a lot of money. how i came to new york, i was kind of on this coltrane thing, i wanted to find god through music. i started meeting all these amazing people. they were irreverent. the energy was enormous. and it was probably more fun than anybodys ever had in human history. for about a year or ...

Another earth shattering event, "wild style". >> freddy: i had an idea, if we could make a movie, and show that this rapping, this dancing, and this deejaying was one thing. so i was on a trip to germany not long after the film had aired, and i see these kids break-dancing. im like, "what the hell is going on?" as i got closer, i noticed the moves the kids were doing were the exact same moves that the rock steady crew does in "wild style". but i then knew that this was going to translate globall...

Too, im not sure, i wasnt here. maybe the 60s, we werent here. >> anthony: so it was all bullshit? >> lydia: no, none of it was bullshit. it happens when it happens, and things change, and time is not what it once was, and isnt anywhere. if youve done one thing, youre living in the past and thats your glory day, thats your glory day. this is my glory day. im here talking to you eating octopus. i got my boots on his knees. >> anthony: and im liking it. >> lydia: if only his [ bleep ] was big enou...

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Save my life." da-da-da. but then sometimes because i dont have any shows -- >> anthony: oh, thats great. >> john: it feels pathetic, you know? >> anthony: this is incredible to me. >> john: what? >> anthony: you dont have shows. >> john: thats insane and its sick and is wrong and i dont even want to complain about it. you complain about it. >> anthony: im complaining about it. i am bitter. >> john: because im going to die one day, and theyre going to be worth a lot of money. so my paintings are...

[ bleep ] over by the industry, as it were. >> debbie: we had a plan to survive. >> chris: yeah, ongoing. >> debbie: we had a plan to keep going, doggedly. but i think the thing that was so attractive about that period was you werent locked in to one format, or one form, you know. it was just, everybody was doing everything. >> anthony: you introduced the entirely revolutionary notion that street art was in fact really art. >> freddy: the painting that we did on the street was coming from a plac...

>> chris: i talked to all these record company guys, and id say 98% of them told me it was a fad. >> debbie: its not going to last. >> chris: its going to go away in five years. >> anthony: and you recorded a song that was hugely -- ♪ >> debbie: well, i will say, you know like, im very proud of the fact that we created a format that didnt exist in rap until then, and that is that we wrote a song that had a rap in it. >> chris: yeah, those guys were sampling stuff. >> debbie: rapping was always...