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What's the worst? Your man Slapshot here
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for allhip hiphop.com and right now I
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got a very special guest. You see how
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I'm holding this mic? You see at the
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venues I'm at everything like that.
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Exactly. And this is the purpose here.
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Can you please let the people know you
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Uncle Ralph Ralph McDaniels. Video music
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for a fact. Video music box has raised a
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generation. That was me before there was
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cable and this is how I was looking at
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music videos. I remember coming home
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every day, man, and a lot of things
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shook my mind. How often do How often do
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you get that? I know you got to get that
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All the time. All the time from all
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different types of people. People tell
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me, "I learned how to dress watching
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video music boss. I learned how to talk
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watching video music box. I learned
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about Nas. I learned about Jay-Z. I
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learned about Shaba. I learned about
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Supercat." Whatever it was, they they
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All right, man. So, I want to know, man,
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cuz I was a young and I wasn't outside
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then. All those venues that you was at,
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man, I know I grew up around that time,
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though. How dangerous were they?
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Oh, yeah. Nah, you don't realize it when
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you young. You know, you in danger, but
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I've been through many shootouts and all
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kind of stabbings and all kind of stuff
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that I mean, not me personally, happened
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to me, but around me. And um and we went
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back and did it again the next day like
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it was nothing, you know? So, that's
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just how it is, you know. What's going
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on um with the archives and stuff like
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that? Do you um is there any way we can
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get it on YouTube or just like stream
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like some of the older things cuz like I
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got my stuff from Grand Pa and I got
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Grand Puba from Video Music, bro. You
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understand what I'm saying? So like
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stuff like you know a lot of kids like
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the retro and things like that. Is there
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any way they could go back and see old
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Yeah. So the archives we're currently
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doing it if you go to video
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um that's the whole site that we have
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for digitizing and getting it out there.
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curating these type of things like the
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old shows or just a '90s show or '90s
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interviews or '90s performances or all
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the summer jams. We shot all of those.
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Um, we're putting that together right
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So, um, you know, my YouTube is Video
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Music Box One. Um, and uh, we put some
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stuff on there every once in a while,
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but like we recently put out like some
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Jay-Z stuff that people hadn't seen with
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um, from the Reasonable Doubt album with
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Memphis Bleak and Foxy Brown. And people
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were like, "Yo, in fact, I think it was
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Chuck Creed said he said, "Yo, man, I
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never saw this before." I said, "Yeah,
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you never saw it before."
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I said, "It was that was that's that was
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a lot of jewels and rare footage like
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that." Yeah. Yeah. Like one of them with
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Big was drunk on stage with J. It is
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performing G. That's a classic. Oh, man.
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I could go through go through a million
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of them, man. Um, all right, man. So, I
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want to ask you something like I'm going
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to get you out of here. Like, we've seen
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the evolution of hip-hop to the point
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where now we're getting hit pieces about
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executives and stuff like that. Did you
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ever think we'd get to the day where
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it'd be that big that people would care
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that much? Cuz I remember you had Puff
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when he was on Uptown. You understand
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what I'm saying? Now, today there's a
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number one in the world for a week so
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far. You know, did you think this it
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would it would get this big?
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No, I I didn't see this coming, you
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know. I'm surprised because, you know, I
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know him as a 18-year-old kid. He was my
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stage manager, you know, when I was
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doing um Harlem Week and we would do
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He would have the the plaque, you know,
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and tell, okay, EPMD is up next or
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whatever, whoever's up next. Bug Douggey
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Fresh is getting ready to go on and you
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know, that's how long I know him as a
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kid before he was working at Uptown.
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And so, um, you know, God will work
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everything out. You know, he'll shake
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everything out and it'll be fine. I've
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seen situations where I thought that,
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you know, it was it was dark. It was too
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dark and then the light comes through.
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So, it'll be all right for everybody.
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All right. And I've always wanted to do
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this, man. You got any shouts you want
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Uncle Rob, big shout out to all the
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people that have been following me back
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in the days from 1983 to now. And um and
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and just do your thing. Have fun.
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That's a fact. Thank you, Uncle Ralph.
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Appreciate. Wait, wait, wait. We g cuz
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there something going remember.
