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How do you like San Francisco so far?
That's right.
We got a lot of fun last time.
I just don't want to get laid on small stuff before I get to try any big stuff.
Yeah.
Show me some of your t-shirts that you print while you're in school.
I did it from that drawing and then I just printed it on the shirt.
That's rad.
The shirt was for how I like to wear it all the time.
My colored part's kind of crooked, as you can tell on the bottom.
This shirt is right on my first ad.
That blackhead ad.
It's got a big old hole in it.
I fell too many times.
What do you plan on doing after high school again?
I don't know.
I might go to Art Center, the college in California.
I might start going there in January.
Any plans on where you're going to live after high school?
Here?
There.
What are you going to do this summer?
This summer I'm going to go skateboarding.
Maybe go to Europe, I don't know.
We might go out to New York to skate with Dean over my YouTube.
My brother, he's pretty good.
When he does that flip stuff, I consider him a big skateboarder,
but when he does that flip stuff, he proves he's like,
I'm going to get fucking attacked.
And that's right, we're causin' chaos.
And that's right, I'm caught fire.
Trouble, or be it, it's double.
Lee is my middle name, always different.
That's it, so much game, I need a referee.
How do I do it?
It comes naturally.
I wear a jean, a hat, ideas with the black.
Bring on the king of the mountain.
Deep on count, the gas is here.
I watch the closing cheer, a tide, a road in my ride.
A lion, rabbit, my habit is rapping.
Ramen, chaos, I'm climbing the ladder.
Gettin' fatter, greedy, faster, speedy.
Because, Alice, I'm not going to college with you.
My bag and my pencil, a basic utensil, a mic.
And that's right, we're causin' chaos.
And that's right, I'm called the chaos player, player.
If you want a new style, don't fuss.
Because I'm russian, cussin'.
You want robes, I don't want a cop.
I'm goin' to make you jump, jump, and I'm yours.
It was us you heard, you still don't believe it.
We'll back up, sir, with the stereo type.
Chaos on the mic, beats like a radish.
Mine like a type, to the rhyme all the time.
I can't speak like a mime, confused, you lose.
Turn to blues like a bruise, we're causin' trouble.
Versus style like a bubble.
I'm puttin' on my feet, if you want to come and rumble.
We fightin', we fightin', never o'bidin'.
Do what I don't believe in, like a horse, I'm stridin'.
My thoughts, not gettin' caught.
In any stupid trend, you know you are.
It's a playa, I'm called the chaos.
They said, they said, they said, they said that we could, could, could, could, could,
could, could, could, could, could, do it.
That's right.
Well,
yeah.
Yeah.
Wow, it's so dirty.
You're ripping.
You're good.
Fire.
Keep away.
What's me?
Huh?
You dirty boy.
Dirty rat.
My mama's going to get you tomorrow.
He's going to tell you, you die, you're gone.
You shut up.
Got you.
When I was like 11, you know around the neighborhood used to have a lot of parties and all that.
You know, rapping and breaking and all that.
And popping and stuff.
So I was always like, whatever was going on, I was doing.
In 86, me and my boy was checking out the radio station and everything.
And there was like a lot of wack records being played on the radio.
We were like, yo, this is crazy.
These guys is garbage.
So we did it as a joke.
If somebody was coming out on the radio station with something like that, I mean, you know,
we can do better than that.
And I have a list when I talk.
So like, you know, I just always get it all well.
You can't even talk that well.
You know what I'm saying?
I just get it all the time.
So if I would have stopped at that moment, I wouldn't have been here.
Yeah.
So then when I got hype when Joachim came out, oh my God.
Heard it?
I said, you know, that's rap music.
This is some shit different.
It was from Long Island.
Because rap is doing good now.
See, first, we got scared one time because the nine million by another ice, the ten million by Hammer,
they didn't know what the fuck was going on.
We didn't know.
We were like, oh, no.
Somebody that got rapping made another definition and fucked it up.
Now we through.
The regular street stuff is back now.
EPMD, we're the only ones that kept strong.
No matter what was going on in the world, we did not change EPMD no matter what was going on.
We didn't say, well, that's the flavor.
Let's switch that.
We didn't do it.
That's how we get respected.
Now, for me, my boy had differences with the group and everything.
And it wasn't working right.
But EPMD will drop a single in September, rap music.
That's the biggest thing in the world.
Rap brought TV for the black.
Rap brought movies for the black.
The sports, the whole now.
Rap brought communication to all types of kids.
Kids will listen to us because we dress like them.
We talk slang like them.
We're on a level.
So if you come in a suit and tie and swing them, they're going to be like, OK, we're going to go and be out of here.
I'm coming in with my pants sagging like they do.
My ass in the back like they do.
My swing like they do.
They understand.
Rap opened up the whole world for black communications and knowledge for black kids and all types of children.
I love music.
If you love music and your heart feel like you can get busy, you can do that, man, that's the best thing in the world.
I'm making a tape for the summer.
Plus, my new record label is called Death Squad.
My fans, man, check it out, man.
There are certain things in this Death Squad.
Don't think I'm abandoning y'all.
I'm not giving y'all what y'all want still.
It's a double kick clip, 360 over the hip.
And just go at a good amount of speed.
When you get to the hip, just kick it hard like a double kick clip.
But at the same time, turn your body like you're doing a 360, Ollie.
And then just hope you hop on it.
Kick it hard and turn it good.
Like when you do it.
I don't know, that's about it.
First learn backside 180 heel flicks.
And then start your engine.
And then do a backside 180 heel flip.
But turn your shoulders a little bit more.
Catch it.
Turn in clean.
And ride away with a smile.
I think I kick it like a 360 very well with my back foot.
And then at the same time, I give it a little kick flip with my front foot.
Just like, just a little bit.
And I usually keep my foot kind of on the,
with the heel hanging off more, my front foot with the heel hanging off.
And then just give it a flip and wait till it comes around so I can grab a mute.
Usually the main thing that goes wrong is that I don't flip enough
and I grab the wrong end.
And then just come in like a 360 barrel, mute grab.
And that's it.
Hell yeah.
And that's it.
This is my paradise
I bought a car, took a drive
The clock had said we'd never arrive
Once that you said that I'd be gone
This is my paradise
The clock had said we'd never arrive
It's a night away, too soon
I can't win and I'll believe, just tell me who to pay
With no return, the wind's gone
With the eyes you made and the mind of the wanted
Blocked by you today, you run
Forth of dream and mold in your existence
What's left of me?
It's all worn out, lost to me, it's all too familiar
It's frantic, but I can stand
You're left to choose a line or a letter to obey
It will never be, time to set a course now
It's a night away, too soon
It's a night away, too late
We're in
Blocked by yesterday
Hold back mystery, yell out, not today
Trying to tame, he laughs, he makes me laugh
Left to live my life, time to set a course now
It's a night away, too soon
Well how, well now, I woke up today, a new day, a new day, a new day, a new day, a new
day, a new day, I woke up today, I didn't think that much about them, but they're there
right on to me, I got down to work, I'm deep in concentration, but then she walked right
but
I can do all so many
Girls
I know
Not yet
All the things I've tried
All the things I see for them
Don't mean that much
when she's around
Cause then my tongue gets tied
Jump back, I know I have to
You know you want that, so madly But there's a lot you've got to do
You know you need that, so madly How can you want so many girls?
But how?
What's the best place to stay in London?
Yeah, yeah, something.
What's the worst?
I don't know, it's Spilfield.
Spilfield's on the hot bay I think is the worst.
But yesterday...
What now?
What can I?
Wow!
You know you want that, so madly But there's a lot you've got to do
You know you need that, so madly How can you want so many girls?
But how?
What's the best place to stay in London?
Yo, what's up man?
It's Eric Simon, man.
I be coolin' on my cool-out shit, you know what I'm sayin'?
A man, he's just a fisto shit.
I be flexin' it, you know what I'm sayin'?
Fat shit.
Fat, loose shit.
Check it.
That's how it is.
The best bunch I know is the ones on board in the business.
Who?
Mike Troutman.
Yank 540 with a cigarette in his hand.
Where?
On what?
No pads, no rules.
Made it?
It's clean.
Who won?
I don't know.
Jai Togi?
No, I don't know.
Wade?
Probably Wade.
What do you think about the finals?
It's a good one, I won.
Lomar had a very clean run.
What do you think about the finals?
I would pass my boat with Eric Austin.
That's good.
Jaya?
I'd pass.
If I had to put some money down, I'd probably put it on those ones.
I'm just guessing, definitely.
Ready?
Let's go.
Good morning, good morning, good morning.
Good morning.
I went down to see you.
I saw you with another man.
You know I felt so lonely.
I wish I could die.
Should I always get there too late though?