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Poet. ♪ hard on the boulevard ♪ i never get scarred >> i learned different rhythms listening to jazz. i learned different rhythms. so i kind of incorporated that in my rhyme style. not just the regular doom, doom, doom. i was in between, doo-doom, doo-doom, doo-doom. ♪ see all there is to see before ♪ >> i'm trying to set an example for the little kids, know what i'm saying. got to teach the babies, 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...

Poet. ♪ hard on the boulevard ♪ i never get scarred >> i learned different rhythms listening to jazz. i learned different rhythms. so i kind of incorporated that in my rhyme style. not just the regular doom, doom, doom. i was in between, doo-doom, doo-doom, doo-doom. ♪ see all there is to see before ♪ >> i'm trying to set an example for the little kids, know what i'm saying. got to teach the babies, 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...

>> "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 youth survive is crime ♪ â...

Air play even on black stations. it's rap for a reason. they call it a mind revolution. >> rebel without a pause was heavily influenced by rakim and heavily influenced by what was going on. it was 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....

>> rakim single handedly changed the phrasing of music and hip hop. he came in like a poet. i learned different rhythms listening to jazz. i learned different rhythms so i incorporated that in my rhyme style. i was in between. >> what i'm trying to do, i'm trying to set an example for the little kids, do you know what i'm saying? got to teach the babies to 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 under. public enemy said we wanted to be the worst nightmare....