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Are rapping? oh, mc light? ♪ ♪ >> oh. whos this queen latifah girl. and later on, oh, whos this missy. ♪ ♪ missy try to maintain ♪ they were respected as artists. they didnt have to shake booty or wear a low cut blouse. it changed the way we view things. to me, the best two to come out of the 90s are missy elliott and lauren hill. ♪ ♪ >> you see the role of women in hip-hop, is it changing, like yourself. >> its something thats always been there. whether they got the acknowledge ...

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>> at the time the world was saying we dont think anybodys going to watch videos over and over. but we knew we had something special. ♪ my little pretty one, pretty one ♪ ♪ when you gonna give me some time sharona ♪ >> mtv made you feel like those artists were in the room. you had a personal concert all day. ♪ crack that whip ♪ >> when you have the rotation of, say, maybe 100 different videos being rotated over and over on mtv, they do a great job of exposing new acts. ♪ here in my...

Older crowd could hear and say that sounds familiar to me. i see myself in the pistol smoke ♪ ♪ on the surface its a heavier song but the hook is so like inviting and warm. >> hip-hop had hit this point where it had become mainstream and it starts appearing in other forms of music. theres this rough rap happening. theres hip-hop that can be found in pop music. ♪ ♪ im getting frantic ♪ guaranteed to satisfy ♪ snepd. new jack swing. ♪ >> teddy wiley produced everybody. ♪ ♪ ...

Out with your families, when you start mentoring our young, then we can build a new nation of strong people. >> i had to get out of that kind of like time bomb mentality that growing up in south central l.a. gives you. i think the march gave me a sense of hope that things could get better. >> long live the million man march. kevin bacon here. you know me from six degrees of well... me. but its time to expand.

Why is that? >> we have to try and do what we think not only new york and los angeles will appreciate but also some town in the midwest that will be scared to death by prince or a string of other black faces. >> interesting. okay. thank you very much. >> when are we going to see anybody of color on mtv, because you said music television. when are you going to start covering all genres of music? >> music shouldnt have color. i dont believe in that. i dont want it labeled black or white, i want it...

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Brand-new album, a brand-new look, i notice. >> i was dropped from mca records after having made music through my teams and my personal promise was i wouldnt stop until i wrote a record that exemplified and nailed on the head what was truly going on for me. ♪ i know the version of me ♪ would she go down to you in a theater ♪ what did she say? they can say that? and yeah, they could. she was singing about a relationship thats obviously gone wrong but it wasnt nice like now you left me and...

Nightmare. >> public enemys extreme politics has meant almost no radio air play, even on black stations. its rap for a reason. they call it a mind revolution. ♪ a rebel in his own mind ♪ ♪ >> "rebel without a pause" was and heavily influenced by what was going on. it was really a desperate call to have us being heard. >> you talk about black all the time to a multiracial audience. shouldnt you be thinking, havent you got a responsibility to them? rather than -- >> i have a responsibility t...

Channel that hip ties your children. what you may want to know is that mtv is responsible for a committee revolution in the music business in this country. ♪ mtv makes the hits. its as if there were one national radio station for songs. ending the 80s, you get a lot of hair bands, poison, rat, warrant. ♪ ♪ sweet surprise ♪ ♪ sweet cherry pie ♪ a lot of sexually explicit lyrics. thats selling. >> when i would turn on the tv all the rock bands looked the same way, they were expecte...