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♪ this is not thriller >> when run-dmc came out, they were taking rock and roll music and putting it together with hip-hop and making something brand new out of it. ♪ you cant touch me with an ten-foot pole ♪ >> run-dmc kind of led zeppelinized hip-hop because it was fit for an arena, knocking the scoreboard down. ♪ little skirt hanging way up her knee ♪ ♪ there were three young ladies ♪ >> aerosmith had fallen off the map at that point. it sort of brings them back into the foreand...

Listening to hip-hop. ♪ walk this way >> run dmcs latest album titled "raising hell" has sold more than a million copies in just 13 weeks. a first for a rap record. >> the album is called "license to ill ♪ thats a stupid name for an album. ♪ wake up late for school, man, you dont want to go ♪ ♪ you ask your mom please but she still says no ♪ >> hip-hop was our baby. this was our culture. this was our music. we created it. and then here come the beastie boys. we were afraid we were go...

A first for a rap record. >> the album is called "license to ill" thats a stupid name for an album. ♪ wake up late for school, man, you dont want to go ♪ ♪ you ask your mom please but she still says no ♪ >> hip-hop was our baby. this was our culture. this was our music. we created it. and then here come the beastie boys. we were afraid we were going to lose it. ♪ you got to fight for your right to party ♪ >> then when we started listening to their music they really were funky and the...

Than a million copies in just 13 weeks. a first for a rap record. >> the album is called "license to ill ♪ thats a stupid name for an album. ♪ wake up late for school, man, you dont want to go ♪ ♪ you ask your mom please but she still says no ♪ >> hip-hop was our baby. this was our culture. this was our music. we created it. and then here come the beastie boys and we were afraid we were going to lose it. ♪ you got to fight for your right to party ♪ >> then when we started listening...

But we cannot allow these images to taint or control the conversation. as ive said, if you are being violent or causing destruction, you do not stand with michael brown jr. we all need to move forward. as weve been discussing, thats where the president invited me and other civil rights and elected leaders to the white house today, to talk about better policing in this country. that is the conversation we need to have. yesterday i was in ferguson, honoring michael brown jrs life, and i talked abo...

Not talking about the occasional crazy but im talking about kids in chicago, shooting each other over lyrics on a rap record. that kind of stuff. and its amazing because theres no one else in the country who can address this the way the president can address it, and still all weve gotten is that lawful gun owners, the nra is the demon here and somehow the taking new gun legislation would be the magic elixir when we have to get to the evens of these. going to minneapolis? thats like going to butt...

Background threatening and blackmailing king. the romney campaign having contact with ted nugent, but guess what, here is more of nugent defending himself. >> im an extremely loving passionate man and people who investigate me honestly without the baggage of political correctness acertain the conclusion that a nice guy. if you can find a screening process more powerful than that ill [ bleep ] or [ bleep ]. how does that sound? >> like a bleeped out rap record. >> that looked like love to me. im ...

S-word. >> i never heard of it before and i consider myself street wise. >> it comes from the practice on a rap record of playing words like that -- like the s-word backwards. >> i thought it came from the movie "ishtar." >> i shouldnt have to school you when it comes to hip hop. thats embarrassing. >> come on," istar" what was that 1982? >> coming from somebody that likes "tree of life." >> you say 70 million people rely on tax paid program. and that is the entire population of something. >> yo...