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- My first memory with hip-hop,

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I guess that would be watching BET.

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TLC was hot.

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I mean, Left Eye, the spit
game was pretty crazy.

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♪ So let me give you
something to think about ♪

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♪ Inundate your mind with intentions ♪

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♪ To turn you out ♪
♪ Turn you out ♪

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♪ Can't forget the focus on
the picture in front of me ♪

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(screen whooshes)

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(upbeat music)

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(screen whooshes)

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- What made me fall in love with hip-hop

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was when Timbaland had his run.

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I mean, I feel like he just
basically changed the scope

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of what hip-hop was, and we're
talking about genre defining.

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You can't mention hip-hop
without mentioning Tupac.

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You can't mention hip-hop
without mentioning Biggie.

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♪ Sicker than your average ♪

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♪ Poppa twist cabbage off instinct ♪

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♪ Niggas think don't shit stink ♪

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♪ Pink gators, my Detroit players ♪

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- I just feel like they
were the defining factors

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of hip-hop becoming the
largest genre today.

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Favorite hip-hop video,
definitely still have to be

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amongst the Missy
Elliott and Busta Rhymes.

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I mean, they just had
the most creative videos,

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and, you know, those videos,
those budgets were crazy.

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They were definitely at the
forefront of creative videos,

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and not just hip-hop I think
in all of music video land

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in general, Busta Rhymes and Missy Elliot

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have some of the best videos of all time.

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♪ Is worth it ♪

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♪ Let me work it ♪

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♪ I put my thing down,
flip it, and reverse it ♪

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♪ Ti esrever dna ti pilf
nwod gnaht ym tup i ♪

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- Greatest rapper dead
or alive for me is Tupac.

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I think Tupac was genre defining,

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and even if you don't like hip-hop,

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he was just a poet, you know,
totally changed the scope

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of music altogether.

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And I don't, I don't think
hip-hop would be the same

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if we didn't have a Tupac.