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As a center for interesting rock music anymore. but after 9/11 you had all these bands who were kind of bubbling beneath the surface who start popping up and it really starts with the strokes. ♪ last night she said ♪ i've never been so down >> after 9/11 the city was burning. it was smoldering. ♪ sunlight >> vulnerability, anxiety. all this became how the country felt. it needed that sense of defiance, that hubristic sense of possibility and promise that young kids in bands can deliver. >> abandoning the rules for what they may inspire other people to do. ♪ last night she said >> much ...

But he also makes it safe for rappers to be vulnerable. >> it's positive rap. he's not cussing every other sentence and not talking about shooting people up. he's talking about real things >> what kanye does is sort of bring in a new generation of hip-hop figures and you can see the difference going forward. ♪ i said ♪ i said baby ♪ you my everything ♪ you my everything ♪ we could do it real big, bigger than you ever done it ♪ >> drake took the kanye west blueprint. i'm going to bare my soul and my feelings on a record. ♪ best that i ever had ♪ best i ever had ♪ best i ever h...

But after 9/11 you had all these bands who were kind of bubbling beneath the surface who start popping up and it really starts with the strokes. ♪ ♪ she said ♪ i've never been so down >> after 9/11 the city was burning. it was smoldering. ♪ sunlight >> vulnerability, anxiety. all this became how the country felt. it needed that sense of defiance, that hubristic sense of promise that young bands can deliver. >> they're the most important band in the world for what they may inspire other people to do. >> literally the same way that nirvana was the spearhead for grunge in the '90s, the st...

But he also makes it safe for rappers to be vulnerable. >> it's positive rap. he's not cussing every other sentence and not talking about shooting people up. he's talking about real things. >> what kanye does is sort of bring in a new generation of hip-hop figures and you can see the difference going forward. ♪ i said ♪ i said baby ♪ we could do it real big, bigger than you ever done it ♪ >> drake took the kanye west blueprint. i'm going to bare my soul and my feelings on a record. ♪ best i ever had ♪ best i ever had ♪ best i ever had >> it wasn't just hip-hop. r&b had been doing...

Style, and i think that he is a big hope for people at that time, that like here's a brother that's really doing it. ♪ i think you should let it burn ♪ >> we had trey songz and chris brown, usher. but the superstars of r&b are the women. absolutely. ♪ i keep on falling ♪ in and out of love with you >> alicia keys, uber talent. oh, my god. sings, composes, and plays? she's the total package. ♪ no one, no one, no one ♪ can get in the way of what i'm feeling ♪ ♪ later r&b becomes much more rit