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>> "rebel without a pause" was heavily influenced by rakim and heavily influenced by what was just going on. it was really a desperate call to have us being heard. >> you talk about black all the time to a multiracial audience. shouldn't you maybe be thinking about who are the people i've got out here? haven't you got a responsibility to them rather than what you personally -- >> i have a responsibility to my people and my culture, because my people and my culture have been brutalized and ignored for years. ♪ my mother standing in the welfare line ♪ ♪ the way you survive is crime ♪ ♪...

Single- single-handedly changed the phrasing of hip-hop. he came to the world like a poet. >> i learned different rhythms, listening to jazz. i learned different rhythms. so i kind of incorporated that with my rhyme style. you know, not just a regular dum, dum, dum. >> what i am trying to do. i'm trying to set examples for the little kids. you know what i'm saying? got to teach the babies. you know what i'm saying? try to lead them in the right path. >> the summer of 1987, rebel without a pause comes out. it was a call to arms. it was the sound of anger. it was the sound of something boiling u...

Public enemy literally said we ♪ ooh, my little pretty one, pretty one ♪ want to be music's worst nightmare. >> public enemy's 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. it's 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 gre...

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 he's given more he single-handedly changed the phrasing of rap music and love than most men and women on the face of this earth. hip-hop. he came to the world like a we're here to prove that love is poet. not dead, even though john is. ♪ hard on the boulevard ♪ i never get sc...

>> "rebel without a pause" was heavily influenced by rakim and heavily influenced by what was just going on. it was really a desperate call to have us being heard. >> you talk about black all the time to a multiracial audience. shouldn't you maybe be thinking about who are the people i've got out here? haven't you got a responsibility to them rather than what you personally -- >> i have a responsibility to my people and my culture, because my people and my culture have been brutalized and ignored for years. ♪ my mother standing in the welfare line ♪ ♪ the way the youth survive is crime â...