I love brass monkey but i wont give d. It we got the bottle you got the cup come on, everybody, lets get beastie boys come out with what people thought would be a pop hiphop group. It was straight hiphop. Beastie boys was dope, if you 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. 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 john lennon, as he was entering his premises, was shot having political power. By an unknown at this time, white male. You see what im saying . All of these issues, they should be addressing this with their the world has reacted with energy. Planet earth it was my place of birth immense shock and grief to the first rock n roll assassination. It was like in one moment the 60s and the 70s got murdered. Rakim is the god emcee. In his life hes given more he singlehandedly changed the phrasing of rap music and love than most men and women on the face of this earth. Hiphop. He came to the world like a were here to prove that love is poet. Not dead, even though john is. Hard on the boulevard i never get scarred you know, you start the decade with the death of a beatle. You dont really know where i learned different rhythms listening to jazz. Youre going to go from that point, you know, culturally or musically. I learned different rhythms. So i kind of incorporated that in my rhyme style. For a while it seemed there was nothing new on the horizon. Not just the regular doom, doom, doom. I was in between, doodoom, doodoom, doodoom. Entertainment. The power of sight. Video. See all there is to see the power of sound. Stereo. Before mtv. Im trying to set an example music television. For the little kids, know what im saying. We all are so excited about got to teach the babies, know this new concept in tv. What im saying, try to lead them in the right path. Well be doing for tv what f. M. Did for radio. The summer of 1987, rebel at the time the world was without a pause comes out. Saying, we dont think anybody is going to watch videos over it was a call to arms, it was and over. The sound of anger, it was the but we knew we had something sound of something boiling under. Special. Public enemy literally said we ooh, my little pretty one, pretty one want to be musics worst nightmare. Public enemys extreme when you gonna give me some politics has meant almost no time sharona radio air play, even on black stations. Mtv made you feel like those artists were in the room. Its rap for a reason. You had a personal concert all day. They call it a mind revolution. Crack that whip when you have the rotation a rebel in his own mind of, say, maybe 100 different Rebel Without a pause was videos being rotated over and over on mtv, they do a great job of exposing new acts. Heavily influenced by rakim and here in my car where the image breaks down will you visit me please if i heavily influenced by what was just going on. It was really a desperate call to have us being heard. Open my door in cars britain was ahead of the you talk about black all the time to a multiracial audience. Curve. They had a ton of videos in their inventory, and that was shouldnt you maybe be thinking about who are the people ive got out here . What paved the way for this havent you got a responsibility accidental second british to them rather than what you personally invasion. If you look at some of the i have a responsibility to my groups on the popular music people and my culture, because charts in America Today you my people and my culture have cant help asking where on earth did they come from . Been brutalized and ignored for years. Well, the answer is the same today as it was two decades ago. They come from britain. My mother standing in the welfare line the music isnt anything like the famous group that came from there, the beatles. The way you survive is crime youve got to understand, they were 20 years ago. Were a new generation. A new wave. My life is over so i might as you were working as a waitress well speak my mind in a cocktail bar ice t is the First West Coast gangster rap. Reality rap. 6 00 in the Morning Police at my door. When i met you ice t did it way before nwa did it. By the early 1980s, new wave Straight Outta Compton ice cube from a gang called with attitude is used to describe these sleek, dressy, cool bands that are coming out of england. I got a sawed off squeeze the trigger and bodies are hauled off dont you want me baby the los angeles rap group nwa dont you want me, oh drew fire from police because british artists all its album Straight Outta Compton talked in brutal understood how to use visuals in a way that i think american artists didnt necessarily get that quickly. And vulgar language about do you really want to hurt me retaliating against cops for their nwa gang sweeps in the do you really want to make me l. A. Area. Nwa gave us the gritty, grimy gangbanging streets of compton. Cry do you really want to hurt me . Is a good song. This is whats going on with us. Its a song old people like and young people like. As i leave believe im stomping when i come back, boy, im when i come back, boy, im coming Straight Outta Compton mtv actually met with duran durans managers and said, were whether thats taking in every moment. Looking for kind of like james bond videos on location. Or capturing a moment thats room for possibility. And their managers are the ones how far we can go, oh oh that went to the band members and said, look, we really need up here at the dewars distillery, to up the ante with these clips. We need to give this channel all our whiskies are aged, something theyve never seen blended and aged again. Before. Moving on the floor now babe its the reason our whisky is so extraordinarily smooth. Youre a bird of paradise dewars. Double aged for extra smoothness. There are some that have accused your videos of being soft porn. Well, excuse me choose the longest lasting thiaa battery. Son music we like to call them tastefully smutty. Energizer ultimate lithium her name is rio and she dances on the sand backed by science. Matched by no one. Just like that river twisting thud crash grunting whistle through a dusty land and when she shines she play it cool really and escape heartburn fast when i first met duran duran, they were saying that they with tums chewy bites thought they looked like rock cooling sensation. Stars. Tum tututum tums so why not become rock stars . Dont stand dont stand so dont stand so close to mer t . 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. Rolling stone chose them as best new band of the year. Taking note of the swirling, dreamy, soaring quality of the sound. Giant steps are what you 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 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 here, it all starts withello hi . Ion. Suck. How can i help . It never sucked. A data plan for everyone. Everyone . And bands like new order everyone. Combined it with the new lets send to everyone synthesizer sound and they gave wifi up there . Uhh. Us these incredible songs that got us out on the dance floor. Sure, why not . And i still find it so hard to howd he get out . a camera might figure it out. Say what i need to say that was easy glad i could help. I like whats happening at dance places now, over the last at xfinity, were here to make life simple. Easy. Awesome. Year or two. I think the music is becoming very healthy. So come ask, shop, discover at your local xfinity store today. vo in every trip, theres room for more i want my mtv you can talk about videos, but in the 80s the actual sound of what popular music was and what was accepted as a sound, a drum sound or keyboard sound or bass line sound changed profoundly over the course of the decade. She drives me crazy like no one else she drives me crazy and i cant help myself coming to the end of the 80s than just the business you came for. Whether thats getting a taste of where you are, like watching a kaleidoscope. 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I need an easy friend this music that was bubbling out of places like portland and seattle, and bands like nirvana that werent looking to fit in we dont see who youre against, through or for,rs, to what was being played on mtv or what was being played on whether tomorrow will be light or dark, radio. I can see you every night all we see in you, is a spark eventually radio and mtv came we see your spark in each nod, each smile, to them. We see sparks in every aisle. The seeds of what will happen in the next decade are already we see you find a hidden gem, and buying diapers at 3am. All there by the end of the 80s. College rock like r. E. M. Was something new entirely. We see your kindness and humanity. Follow me, yeah follow me the strength of each community. I got my spine ive got my weve seen more sparks than we can say. Orange crush the way that peter buck about 20 million just yesterday. Played guitar and the way that stipe sang where the voice was incredible but you couldnt the more we look the more we find, quite figure out what he was saying, it just made them more the sparks that make america shine. Alluring and mysterious, you could get why that band would become huge. It wasnt new wave, it wasnt a new romantic. They started calling it alternative music. Its the end of the world as we know it it has done wonders for the sagging record industry. Its the end of the world as we know it it has made overnight stars of rock groups whose records had been gathering dust. And i feel fine this year, the first since 1978, business is finally up, and the reason is music videos. Fine fine fine fine you know, this is the thing we had no idea that music about the 80s. Everyone thinks its about crazy videos would have that much of haircuts, lots of makeup, insane an impact on the musical clothes, and it was. Culture. It changed the entire dynamic of what you had to do as far as but the thing about this music promotion was concerned. That lasts is that their songs were so good. You had to be a performance you can go back and listen to artist as well as a musician. Fox the fox those records, from the engineering to the musicianship rat on the rat to the writing and to the performance of it. It surpasses most music. The intelligent ones recognized that its a marriage between the visual artist and the musician at this point. Everybody had a story, and monkey they wanted to tell it. Dont you know youre going to the artists that were coming through the tv and into your shock the monkey lives. The man or the woman who everybody wants to rule the finds the right combination will world ill say that the music of the 80s is more effective than what came to us in the 60s take it all. Lets dance simply because all of us were put on your red shoes and included this time. Dance the blues no decade was more effective in dance music, in politics, in when david and i decided that we were going to work together, different genres than the 80s. It was pretty clear to me that david wanted to make a there will never, ever be commercial album. Another decade like it, ever. You know, now im going to go everybody wants to rule the make a pop record, but it was going to be his version of pop. World my songs always tend to be theres a room where the light impressionistic or even have a wont find you Holding Hands while the walls surreal quality to them. And on this album is the first come tumbling down time ive really tried to adapt to a didactic kind of approach when they do ill be right to songwriting. Behind you if you should fall into my arms so glad weve almost made it and tremble like a flower so sad they have to fade it artists in the 80s, david everybody wants to rule the bowie for that matter, realized world 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 told their music doesnt fit the format. Thats whats happening. Were being sat in the back of the bus televisionstyle. And if pittman gets away with this and there are other cable shows that form, theyre going to try it. Mtv doesnt exclude black acts. What mtv does exclude is music thats not rock n roll. Mtv came out with no consideration on how to infuse black music into their mix. Im just floored by the fact there are so few black artists featured on it. 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 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 bros. 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, it