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So all hip-hop here in the building, we are here with none other than the S1Ws
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It's hip-hop's birthday and we're celebrating. And you know, there's a lot to be said about the rappers, but we're also talking about
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the people that were around the rappers, behind the scenes and things of that nature
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The S1Ws, for me, I'm a huge fan of Public Enemy, Chuck D is one of my top five rappers
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And I wanted to ask you guys about, tell people what the S1Ws represented to the culture and
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to the movement at that time. The S1Ws, to the culture, to the music, to everything, not just at that time, today
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before and the future. You know, it represents the strength, the power, the legacy, the future of us as a nation
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of people. Of course, security of the first world stands for black people are not third world people
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we're first world people. Mother, father, creator of the universe, masters of the universe, right
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So what we try to do is we try to set an image that let everybody know that you should be
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proud of who you are, understand who you are, and take that pride and that knowledge
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and soar past the skies. That's just what the S1Ws is all about
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So whose idea was it to do this show of force on stage and in front of the world
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Well, as the S1Ws, we transitioned. We had an organization called Unity Force
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Unity Force was a social conscious organization. We was working in Roosevelt
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We seen what was going on in our community, so we formed our own organization
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We got a lot of young people that was getting in trouble. We started educating them, teach them how to study, books, security, karate, and then
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we transitioned later on into S1Ws. When Chuck got, you know, signed, we transitioned from Unity Force into S1Ws
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S1Ws means security of the first world, meaning that the black man is the original man, you know
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All right. Okay. And right now, we just celebrated 50 years of hip-hop
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You know, the culture's changed a lot since then. What do you feel we should, if anything, do differently or better
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Well, we need to keep the history of hip-hop in order, like, you know, for the younger
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ones that are coming out now, they need to go back and reflect on what we did and bring
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it up to keep the emotion, keep everything going. You know, hip-hop is changing
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There's a lot of different things. You know, they say that I'm old school because, you know, I try to adjust and listen to them
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not disrespecting anybody, but there was more messages in the music back then and they just
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going on conscious of it for the things that were going on during that time
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Now it's kind of a different day and age where, you know, the access to information for the
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younger folks is quicker than, you know what I'm saying, so they're just putting things out there and they're literally, really trying to put it back to sleep
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Right, right, right. Yeah, no, that's right. So I see you guys have cameras filming
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Are y'all working on a documentary or something? What are we cooking right now
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We're working on S1W documentary. Yeah, yeah, we're in the process of shooting that now, wrapping it up, getting people
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you know, everything's going so we can tell our story, you know, and the outside of ours
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from being a public enemy is telling what's going on. Now did Flava Flav drive y'all crazy
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How did that work? How did that work? Y'all watched the documentary. Flava's Flav, you know, we all are friends, we're all brothers, we all got different personalities
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so you know, one thing about the whole thing is we just all balanced each other out and
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we dealt with each other like family. A lot of people don't understand or realize that we grew up together, so our families
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know one another and everything's going on, so, you know, it's dance, like, you know
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the respect level, it's things like that. People may look at us and say, oh, I'm dancing, you know, no, but we've been together for
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a long time and we know each other, you know, for, to this day
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We were before public enemy. We were before public enemy. We was before public enemy
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Been on this brother since he was like 10, 11. You're the salad type
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No, I'm not salad, man, I just, I'm just patient and wait my turn, man, but like we were saying
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about Flava, every family has a Flava. I'm pretty sure you got one in your family, right? Yeah
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So you know how to contain them and just. I am the Flava of my family. Oh, okay, there you go right there
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Yeah, yeah, but Flava is our brother, that's our family, man. So we all, you know, just try to help them and bring them up and just stick together
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with each other. We all brothers, man. Each one teach one. Each one teach one
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Have you ever thought about, like, you know, raising up some, some new, some new S1Ws
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Well, that's what's needed now in today's society. We need another public enemy
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We need another, we need some more S1Ws to help bring our people out of ignorance and
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you know, some spiritual darkness. So we looking for that. Hopefully that'll come
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It's there now. They just got to have the right message put in front of them and deliver the right message
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to the youth and they'll follow. But we got to get rid of the, you know, the negativity about women chasing the money and
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the drugs and the bling bling. That only lasts for a minute. And when you do that kind of stuff, it's only two ways, death or jail
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So that's what we have. Well, I just want to say thank you from, from, from us, the culture, all hip hop, myself
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you guys had a profound impact on us, the positivity, the representation of sturdiness
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And I just want to say thank you. Definitely. All right. It's a thing too
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We say thank you. We say thank y'all because without y'all, there is no us
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All we are, we're just a reflection of the people. You know, it's just four of us
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But we're a nation of millions. So I mean, it's just, well, five of us, I'm sorry, one, you know, brother, James Bond
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is not here. But, you know, we're just a representation, a reflection of our people
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That's all we are. So we thank you and we thank y'all because without y'all, there is no us
