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>> we put tapes on it or we soaked the label off. you know, you had spies in each other camps, trying to figure out what was their beat. i used to soak it up, put on tape to cover the records. and we was digging in the crates hard. >> you were unusually voracious in your musical taste. of all the records in the world, how did you come upon craftwork? >> i came upon digging in the crate in the village. i said this is a type of weirdo here, and i took it home and heard the sound, and i said whoa, ...

Loud and someones making a mess. to me, i take that as a point of pride. bronx is where the music gets loud, the men are tough. the women are sexy, the food is spicy. if those things werent true, you wouldnt know what the bronx was. >> so the bad reputation is what protects it. >> i think the perception of it being a place where the funk is alive. >> incredible spread. >> yeah, man, its good. >> it is one place youll dream about. am i really there? im going back to make sure that place is really...

This is the bronx? the music is really loud and someones making a mess. to me, i take that as a point of pride. bronx is where the music gets loud, the men are tough. the women are sexy, the food is spicy. if those things werent true, you wouldnt know what the bronx was. >> so the bad reputation is what protects it. >> i think the perception of it being a place where the funk is alive. >> incredible spread. >> yeah, man, its good. >> it is one place youll dream about. am i really there? im going...

Thus came the birth of the electrofunk sound. the miami base sound. and since the beginning we always play tribute to james brown, sly, the family stone. george funkadelic clinton for bringing the funk from which the hip-hop came, and to you know, all the pioneers of hip-hop. >> up north a ways in west jamaica another working class community where subway service is pretty limited. and yet people have to get up, go to work and often make the long hump to another borough. afterwards, a person coul...

Rap. >> is it true you soak your records and take the label off? >> we put tapes on it or we soaked the label off. you know, you had spies in each other camps, trying to figure out what was their beat. i used to soak it up, put on tape to cover the records. and we was digging in the crates hard. >> you were unusually voracious in your musical taste. of all the records in the world, how did you come upon it? >> i came upon digging in the crate in the village. i said this is a type of weirdo here,...

Stephen colbert is a brand, a successful popular brand, he took shots at conservatives through parody and fun. he made fun of me, he made funk of all the people on the show. he was that good. kolber is going to take over the late show with david letterman, but the character that was collier on "the colbert report" is gone. so will steven be able to be stephen colbert and interview people and make us laugh the way he did. im making him the fool of the week because he was a big fish in a small pon...

Cnn and msnbc and you have headline news. recently they made a list of the 50 sexiest people and we didnt make the cut, man. >> first of all, just until a couple of minutes ago i thought it was the 50 most sexist people in the news media. >> we would have made the list there. >> but listen, this is to make people feel bad. look, allen combs and rivera. >> they werent on there. >> thats what im saying. >> you think they feel bad. >> can you imagine him saying listen, he must have went into a funk...

>> got that. >> and his distinctive quaff. >> joe, thank you so much. guess who else is in wbrazi? chris cuomo will be live starting from 6:00 a.m. make some great memories. >> "inside politics" with john king starts right now. tea party gets a shellacking including in a big mississippi senate race where the loser says its wrong african-americans made a big difference. >> there is something a bit unusual about a republican primary thats decided by liberal democrats. >> reporter: and if the e...

States. hes in a mid-term funk and wishes voters would take a closer look. >> by pretty much every measure the economy is doing better than it was when i came into office and in most cases significantly better. and hillary clinton tries to clean up a mess of her own making from her husband bill. "inside politics" now. welcome to "inside politics" im john king. thanks for sharing your sunday morning. with us to share the reporting we have several guests. the grassroots conservative conserva...

History of the obama presidency. when the jobs report for last month comes out this morning, we will have finally recovered all of the jobs lost in the financial crisis and the recession from the beginning of the obama term. and yet, and yet, we have a brand new poll out this morning that shows people are still so pessimistic when it comes to the economy. how long will it take? if you look at the pessimism of people, will there be another financial crisis, 69% say its likely. why are people stil...