Press Conference With KRS-One, Mad Lion and MC Sha Rock For Hip-Hop’s 50th

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over there and this is where as you know the story cool DJ Herc at the request of
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his sister Cindy Campbell wanted to raise some money for back to school jam
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and so they came here this is where they live they lived on the third floor here
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at 1520s it's called the Sedgwick houses the official name of the building named
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after general John Sedgwick Union soldier fighting in the Civil War and so
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this whole area used to be run by the Lenape nation and a bunch of other
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people as well but the Lenape go down as the historical indigenous tribe of this
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nation because they did the deal with Jonas Bronk a Dutch settler which named
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the place the Bronx that's your little Bronx past in that sense bring you up
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right now so we are on August 11 hosting the Bronx and then on August 12
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we're hosting the world or actually should is that the opposite it should be
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the opposite right the world gets hosted tomorrow on the 11th because of the
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streaming that's what stopping that that's that's what I'm thinking about tomorrow the 11th the world gets hosted tomorrow because of our streaming our
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live streaming event and the 12th the Bronx does get hosted and celebrated on
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the actual 12 but the world is coming to the Bronx what it's well all types of
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people have been calling us the hotels are actually filling up as well hold on
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one second is that is that fables so fables that his um that a meringue is
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not necessary right now thank you fable pop master fables behind him mr. John
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karate and behind him as well who's hiding on the other side who's beautified
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this whole place so um let me just run through a few of the festivities going
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down here um you know what to give me a press release no no no did this yeah
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give me both of them thank you very much thank you so hopefully everybody got one
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of these hopefully everybody got one of these this is our performance group if
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you didn't get one please see us somewhere Joey got him right here make
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sure you get one of these this is what we call our script it's just a script it
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changes like every two days this is the latest script artists are coming in
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artists are going out some artists have confirmed with us and and then
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deconfirmed because they got dragged away others said they couldn't come now
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they're coming just I'm gonna read through some of this and walk you through
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it what I want to say first is what I'm emphasizing first is really the 11th so
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let me just walk through this right now so the 10th is a late-night vigil August
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10th at 11 o'clock we bring in August 11th in prayer and affirmation we'll be
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right here in this room MC light myself Curtis blow and others will be in prayer
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and meditation right here 11 o'clock on the 10th to bring in the 12 o'clock hour
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which is August 11 August 11th then we are really as you know there's all types
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of festivities going on throughout New York the mayor has possibly a Staten
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Island date happening on August 11th as well which is part of our series as well
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you never thought that hip-hop would take it this far now i'm in the limelight because i rhyme tight
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time to get paid blow up like the world well i can't say that part uh that's the part they
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believe about his song but the point is though is that no you hit it on on on the nail never
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thought that hip-hop would take it this far now i'm in the limelight because i rhyme tight like
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this is this is that's the whole thing i mean really biggie summed it up right there really
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you know we didn't know what we were doing we were just doing it now of course in the 80s we
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started to realize what we were doing we got we started to get conscious about what we were doing
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but the 70s and like the beginning of the 80s it was all us just being us and doing us so you can't
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predict how far you're gonna go you just be in you and no one thought you know we would have 50
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years i'm the only one in hip-hop probably that actually has a rhyme that says 50 years down the
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line i said because rap isn't even 20 years old 50 years down the line you could start this because
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we'll be the old school artists and even in that time i'll say around a lot but that talk about
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documenting rhymes and what we actually knew okay i rest is the song is called still number one
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i did document that 50 years down the line you could call us old school that was in 1988
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but did i know why did it work 50 i'm rhyming i'm just rhyming prophetic it's and here we go
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uh and here we go so so um really i got off your question
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really i love the question but no i hope i answered it in in my statement
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any other questions i'm sorry yes um for the people looking at this lineup i know you said we're bringing the world to the
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cross i mean you're obviously you're inviting all generations for young people who may you know see
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this lineup and feel like they may not know you because people are on the list why is it important
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for them uh to be in attendance and to witness this you know what's important for young people
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in with our august 12th what is called the hip-hop 50 years block festival what is important for
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young people in this festival is that first of all we have young people performing this is number one
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young people are not coming to the concert to watch old people perform okay they are participating in the furtherance of hip-hop itself but to go directly to the
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importance that young people get out of this the word is heritage tradition legacy
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these are the words that raise your self-worth as a young person if you have no money no contacts
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nothing and you're trying to come up in an urban environment how do you bring value to yourself
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what do you have that brings value to to yourself well hip-hop provides that and this is how this is
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how we became who we are because being hip-hop gave poor people value gave us self-esteem
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self-determination an identity an identity my mother named me um lawrence parker uh i became
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krs1 how did you go from that to that well you know and then this shahrag how do you
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i was trying to remember your name sharon how does sharon go from sharon to shahrag so young people should really pay attention
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to the legacy that's being given to them and freely given to those that are loyal to the
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tradition if you're loyal to the tradition and you're a young person you're about to get empowered
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you're about to see what your tradition is what your heritage is and how you fit into it
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which which is why it's important that we have young people perform thank you
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yes bring that forward please john i need to um and as a matter of fact you know what thank you
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thank you thank you this is just i'll bring this up with questions before i start this
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and y'all can pick up some more questions pick up some more questions
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this is a specialized post we printed only 400 of them this is uh 98
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this is uh 98 50th anniversary of hip-hop august 11th 1973 to august 11 2023 birthplace of hip-hop
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this is one of our official 1520 birthplace flyers we have 400 of them we're gonna sign them
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wow sign them and number two number two yeah 50th anniversary of hip-hop everything seems the same birthplace of hip-hop 1520
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Cedric Avenue Bronx New York this is uh like i said uh one of the material remembrances
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of the event itself um you know what in my bag i have a a towel uh actually i have an adidas
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ah i'm in a press conference let me get the adidas um these here um actually uh we're gonna sign this actually here to mark this event
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uh here you'll notice as well thank you you'll notice that one thing coming off of the conversation about raising value
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is that hip-hop like we always say is not music hip the rap music is hip-hop's music
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but hip-hop is a way to be a style of life an attitude a behavior and when you understand
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that behavior you understand how you can take items like this or like even this like this towel
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and based on what you believe about yourself you can raise the value of yourself and material
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objects all around you this is our poster because we're raising the value of 1520 Cedric Avenue
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those that would like to help us and contribute to the restoration of this particular room right
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here we have several exhibits we'd like to put into this room and rotate them throughout the
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year those that want to help out can purchase these posters we're going to have them up for
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bronx uh for um birthplaceofhiphop.nyc there's only 400 of them we're using them to raise money
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for the for the community center itself but this is nostalgic even beyond the raising of money
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part of it what do you actually have that documents the moment you're in and and that's
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what why it was important to make these as well um the temple of hip-hop we're doing laminates
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the laminate is for you to get around the event and so on but everybody knows after the event
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what do you have to remember the event the laminate the poster the the the um wristband
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that gets you around where you got to go these things are very important to the remembrance of
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culture to the remembrance of of events so um make sure you guys get one of these
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they become artifacts they become artifacts which is the name of a group uh within hip-hop
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any other questions before we bring this to a close uh yes please come up pop master fables
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everyone respect brother so uh a friend of mine uh from brazil uh brought me out there a friend of a friend of mine who
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brought me to brazil a couple of times uh i want to say 10 years ago and then he also brought
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grand was a theater uh he goes by the name of uh andre aka jaspian and he's a b-boy
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aerosol artist all that he's completely into the culture he sent me this a couple of months ago
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just to let you know we wrote a presidential decree that is going to be signed by the president
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here in brazil on august 11th to celebrate hip-hop's 50th anniversary brazil will probably
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be the only country government celebrating that day with the support of the federal government
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that is deep wow that is deep you know so president of brazil is doing this yeah yeah
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august 11th you know what i mean hey right just like my brother chris was at carol's home was
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saying look we we have a global family we gave birth to something so magnificent and so brilliant
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that it's going to be in the olympics next year you know and i i have mixed feelings about that
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you know of course you know i'm a grassroots cat you feel me i'm always worried about like
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cultural appropriation etc i'm gonna keep it 100 with y'all right nevertheless it's a it's a
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testament to our power that's what i have to say one love y'all i'm in the building i'm in the
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building listen thank you so much carol s1 for bringing this to life you know me as well as
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yourself we're about hip-hop culture never about the industry and my thing is that a lot of
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graffiti artists of b-boys b-girls of mcs djs are not being really celebrated this year because
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they're just celebrating the rap aspect of hip-hop culture and you cannot do that you cannot come to
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the bronx or even out around the world and not celebrate those core elements that made hip-hop
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culture what it is today put some respect on hip-hop i didn't know that they were not capitalizing
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the h i've always did the culture of hip-hop has made me the woman who i am today and i will stand
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by i'm here to support you the temple of hip-hop and everybody out there this is this is really
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going to be historical for hip-hop culture make sure you're here the 10th 11th and 12th i'm going
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to be in the building i stayed here just so i can celebrate every day that it means to me it made me
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who i am today as a woman peace absolutely look this woman up
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come on don't even start he makes me want to cry he makes me want to take a photo
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i've been singing his moves take a photo don't cry yet come on everybody come up
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i'm in the middle jump right in here where's that pen please no come down here guys we're trying to avoid the tv
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come come come down here 12 people in the back you know what it is
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get this whole photo this is the day long live hip-hop
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long live hip-hop long live shout rock hold on hold on

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