we got a moonman. we re ashamed the president of the united states is from texas. the dixie chicks, they can say what they want to say. billboard s top 10 singles all by black artists. rap was all the new rock stars. i don t please everybody with who i am as a person. okay. staccato. like, stick it! i love beyonce. that s not a working telephone, is it? hello? empty shelves are all you ll find here at tower records. it s now out of business. three, two, one! this is a very special moment. the first performance at the mtv studios in the new millennium. please welcome no doubt! that s great it starts with an earthquake birds and snakes and aeroplanes and lenny bruce is not afraid i ll always remember new year s eve 1999, going into y2k, seeing no doubt on mtv playing it s the end of the world as we know it by rem. it s the end of the world as we know it the end of the world as we know it and i feel fine it was
ethereal, whereas pharrell wasn t as out there. he did, like, dance tracks. i said it s getting hot in here so take off all your clothes i am getting so hot i want to take my clothes off it was a little more gritty. it was very, very intricate, but very rhythmically driven. uh-huh this my shit all the girls stomp your feet like this pop stars figure out that you need hip-hop cred, and you need a hip-hop producer. cause i ain t no hollaback girl i ain t no hollabackgirl most interesting to me about the 2000s was that you had a grouping of hip-hop producers who were crossing over into topping pop charts. kanye is another one. you know, he s producing and working with jay-z and alicia keys and ludacris and janet jackson. but, you know, in there, he wants to be his own star. so he releases his first album, the college dropout. yo gee they can t stop me from rapping can they