Know what i mean. Brass monkey junkie that funky monkey licensed to ill really spread like wildfire and introduced a lot of people to hiphop culture. Can you give us some definitions of the lls in your name . Ll stands for ladies love for long and lean lover of ladies last of the red hot lovers looking for a little. Lesson learning one youre liking. Just a lot of ls. The guys only be talking about yourself. How much of a lover, how the women love him to death, how they can throw down, how good they can dance. How bad they are. Nobody better not mess with me and all of that kind of foolishness. If they were to address the issues, the issues being poverty, the issues being not having political power. You see what im saying . All of these issues, they should be addressing this with their energy. Planet earth it was my place of birth rakim is the god mc. John lennon, as he was entering his premises, was shot he singlehandedly changed the phrasing of rap music and hiphop. By an unknown at this time white male. The world has reacted with he came to the world like a immense shock and grief to the poet. First rock n roll assassination. Hard on the boulevard i never get scarred i learned different rhythms it was like in one moment the listening to jazz. I learned different rhythms. 60s and the 70s got murdered. In his life hes given more so i kind of incorporated that in my rhyme style. Love than most men and women on the face of this earth. Not just the regular doom, doom, doom. I was in between, doodoom, were here to prove that love is doodoom, doodoom. See all there is to see before not dead, even though john is. You know, you start the decade with the death of a beatle. You dont really know where youre going to go from that point, you know, culturally or musically. Im trying to set an example for the little kids, know what im saying. For a while it seemed there got to teach the babies, know was nothing new on the horizon. What im saying, try to lead announcing the latest them in the right path. Achievement in home entertainment. The summer of 1987, rebel the power of sight. Video. Without a pause comes out. The power of sound. It was a call to arms, it was stereo. The sound of anger, it was the sound of something boiling under. Mtv. Public enemy literally said, we music television. Want to be musics worst we all are so excited about nightmare. This new concept in tv. Public enemys extreme politics has meant almost no well be doing for tv what f. M. Radio air play, even on black did for radio. Stations. Its rap for a reason. They call it a mind revolution. At the time the world was a rebel in his own mind saying, we dont think anybody is going to watch videos over and over. But we knew we had something special. Rebel without a pause was ooh, my little pretty one, heavily influenced by rakim and pretty one heavily influenced by what was just going on. When you gonna give me some it was really a desperate call to have us being heard. Time sharona mtv made you feel like those artists were in the room. You had a personal concert all you talk about black all the day. Crack that whip time to a multirace audience. When you have the rotation of, say, maybe 100 different think about who are the people i videos being rotated over and have out here . Over on mtv, they do a great job havent i got a responsibility of exposing new acts. To them i have a responsibility to here in my car where the image the my people and my culture breaks down because my people and my culture have been brutalized and ignored for years. Will you visit me please if i open my door in cars britain was ahead of the mother standing in the welfare curve. They had a ton of videos in line their inventory, and that was icet is the First West Coast what paved the way for this accidental second british gangster rap. Invasion. If you look at some of the groups on the popular music 6 00 in the Morning Police at my charts in America Today you cant help asking where on earth door. Icet did it way before they did did they come from . Well, the answer is the same today as it was two decades ago. It. When im called on i got a they come from britain. Song on, squeeze the trigger and the music isnt anything like the famous group that came from there, the beatles. Body song you, too, boy youve got to understand, they were 20 years ago. The los angeles rap group nwa were a new generation. Drew fire from police because a new wave. You were working as a waitress its album straight out of in a cocktail bar when i met you by the early 1980s, new wave compton talked about brutal is used to describe these sleek, violence against police for the dressy, cool bands that are coming out of england. Area. They gave us the gritty gang banging streets of compton. This is whats going on with us. Dont you want me baby dont you want me, oh after i leave, when i come back, im straight out of compton. British artists all understood how to use visuals in a way that i think american artists didnt necessarily get that quickly. Do you really want to hurt me do you really want to make me cry do you really want to hurt me . Is a good song. Are we supposed to dance . Its a song old people like and young people like. So i think the proof is in the pudding. Buy it and eat it. Boy bands without dancing are just ok. Get a better than just ok unlimited plan with spotify premium included on americas best network. Only from at t more for your thing. Thats our thing. Mtv actually met with duran durans managers and said, were looking for kind of like james bond videos on location. And their managers are the ones that went to the band members and said, look, we really need to up the ante with these clips. We need to give this channel something theyve never seen before. Moving on the floor now babe youre a bird of paradise there are some that have accused your videos of being soft porn. Well, excuse me we like to call them tastefully smutty. Her name is rio and she dances on the sand just like that river twisting through a dusty land and when she shines she really when i first met duran duran, they were saying that they thought they looked like rock stars. So why not become rock stars . Dont stand dont stand so dont stand so close to me why do you think were so popular over there . Well, i think theres a tradition that goes back over the past 20 years from the days of the beatles and the Rolling Stones where british bands seem to be better at it than americans. The police have sold 4 million albums in one year. Indulgent, delicious, irresistible. , night; Rolling Stone chose them as best new band of the year. Fancy feast makes delighting your cat delightfully easy. Taking note of the swirling, dreamy, soaring quality of the every recipe, every last detail. Another fancy way to show your love. Fancy feast. Sound. Giant steps are what you introducing savory centers. Pate with a center of gravy take walking on the moon it was incredible to see them. And i couldnt believe what i was hearing out of three people. I was shocked. I once read that you were called the pink floyd of the 80s. What do you think of that . Were not at all. Were the cure of the 80s. And i know i was wrong when i said it was true that it couldnt be me and be her between without you the holy trinity of alternative British Music is the cure, depeche mode, and the smiths. All three of them started out as these fringe bands that by the end of the 80s were selling out stadiums. You give it to me will you take the pain i will give to you again and again and will you return it whats newer . Computer programmers or musicians . Id say neither, actually. What are you, then . Bank robbers. How does it feel you treat me like you do in the uk, disco did not suck. It never sucked. And bands like new order combined it with the new synthesizer sound and they gave us these incredible songs that got us out on the dance floor. And i still find it so hard to say what i need to say i like whats happening at dance places now, over the last year or two. I think the music is becoming very healthy. vo at pro plan, you can talk about videos, but the 80s, the actual sound of what popular music was and what was accepted as a drum sound or keyboard sound or bass we believe nutrition is full of possibilities to improve line sound changed profoundly over the course of a decade. Your pets life. Were redefining what nutrition can do. Because the possibility of a longer life and a healthy life is the greatest possibility of all. Purina pro plan. Nutrition that performs. 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This changes everything new starbucks creamer, now at home. It has done wonders for the you know, this is the thing about the 80s. Sagging record industry. Everyone thinks its about crazy it has made overnight stars out hair cuts, lots of makeup, of rock groups whose records had been gathering dust. Insane clothes, and it was. This year, the first since 1978, business is finally up, but the thing about this music and the reason is music videos. That lasts is that their songs were so good. You can go back and listen to we had no idea that music those records from the videos would have that much of engineering to the musicianship an impact on the musical culture. To the writing and to the performance of it. It surpasses most music. It changed the entire dynamic of what you had to do as far as everybody had a story, and they wanted to tell it. Promotion was concerned. You had to be a performance the artists that were coming artist as well as a musician. Through the tv and into your fox the fox lives. Rat on the rat everybody wants to the intelligent ones ill say the music of the recognized that its a marriage 80s was more effective than between the visual artist and the musician at this point. What came to us in the 60s, monkey simply because all of us were dont you know youre going to included this time. Shock the monkey no decade was more effective in the man or the woman who dance music and politics and finds the right combination will take it all. Different genres than the 80s. There will never, ever be lets dance another decade like it ever. Put on your red shoes and dance the blues when david and i decided that we were going to work together, it was pretty clear to me that david wanted to make a commercial album. You know, now im going to go make a pop record, but it was going to be his version of pop. My songs always tend to be impressionistic or even have a surreal quality to them. And on this album is the first so glad we almost made it time ive really tried to adapt so sad they have to make it to a didactic kind of approach to songwriting. Everybody wants to feel if you should fall into my alive arms and tremble like a flower artists in the 80s, david bowie for that matter, realized if you want to make it, youve got to be on mtv. But theres one group thats not happy with mtv. Many black artists who have been imagine what it was like told their music doesnt fit the format. Back when the Rolling Stones would shock parents everywhere. Thats whats happening. My, how times have changed. Were being sat in the back of the bus televisionstyle. I see hustling. I see killing. Thats what i rap about. You can take me out of the and if pittman gets away with ghetto, but you cant take the this and there are other cable ghetto up out of me, though. Shows that form, theyre going its a tough time to grow up to try it. In. Mtv doesnt exclude black acts. What mtv does exclude is music and nirvana and kurt cobain in thats not rock n roll. Particular reflect the angst. I learned how to write for mtv came out with no myself, and its pretty ironic that most people related to it. Boom, there it is, platinum record. Consideration on how to infuse black music into their mix. Country music has taken over the airwaves and the record im just floored by the fact charts. The honeymoons over. There are so few black artists featured on it. Now were getting down to real commerce. Why is that . Arent these girls just crazy . We have to try and do what we think not only new york and los yeah, they are. 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 has no color. And it shouldnt have color. I dont believe in that. What i do, i dont want it labeled black or white. I want it labeled as music. 1983, motown has this big tv special, motowns 25th anniversary. At that time thriller is out and thriller is doing well. But Michael Jackson couldnt get billie jean on mtv. She was more like a beauty queen from a movie scene when the rest of the world was going crazy and he cant get on mtv . Michael jackson . Come on. When he does that moonwalk, if you were sitting on the couch by the end of it you were on the floor in front of the tv. You couldnt believe what you were seeing. I would say the moonwalk was really one of the first viral moments that affected rock history. The next week thriller started selling a million copies a week. I like Michael Jackson because he can sing good, hes bad, he knows how to dance. Hes so sexy and so gorgeous. Hes exciting Michael Jackson is the man of the 80s. Mtv starts to get pressure from cbs records, which was Michael Jacksons label. Rock n roll, in itself, was really the thing that broke a lot of rules. When youre very successful, you try to make your own rules occasionally. As the story goes, cbs essentially said, we will pull every other artist we have on mtv if you dont play this. They had to be essentially blackmailed into doing it. It doesnt matter whos wrong or right just beat it he was the artist that mtv really needed. They didnt know they needed him, but boy, when we started to see those Michael Jackson videos, it was just unbelievable. Then there was the domino effect. Suddenly you see prince videos from Warner Brothers do the same thing. Tonight were going to party like its 1999 prince wasnt just materializing out of nowhere. Where was he before this video was done . Prince was a huge star on black radio stations. I mean, people he had a real underground cult following him. He was a very sexy, hot performer. The sweat of your body covers me can you, my darling, can you picture this prince loved the idea that he was taking his punkfunk music and turning it on to a white audience, and that wouldnt have happened if not for mtv. This is what it sounds like when doves cry when i was younger, i always said that one day i was going to play all kinds of music and not be judged for the color of my skin, but the quality of my work. I only want to see you i only want to see you in the purple rain prince had a great androgyny. He blurred the gender line. He sings, he writes, he plays. Every time i see him its just like, really . Okay, i quit. When he plays guitar, its just part of his body in a way that ive never really seen before, and its not contrived. Its just its just happening. What was his music . Was it r b . His music was just straight down the middle, mainstream, grab you by the throat and balls pop. We go down to the river and into the river we die at this point a lot of it is about being there, which is why we havent done too much of the video thing. A lot of it is it allows too much distance. Like what our band is about, its about breaking down distance. At night i wake up bruce was all about credibility and intelligence and integrity. So how would he translate his music and his attitude toward the world to what seemed like this frivolous world of the music video . Bruce is not going to be next to a winking model on a sailboat. You cant start a fire you cant start a fire without a spark this guns for hire he ends up doing essentially an inconcert video starring a then unknown courteney cox. Its like this weird recreation of something that organically happens in a Bruce Springsteen concert. Born in the usa if there was an artist in the 80s who transcended the music video, hes the guy. Hes the one guy that didnt need to do great music videos to still be a great artist. 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