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From his first encounters with b-boy culture to financing his own independent film, Affion's story is a testament to the power of passion and perseverance. Alongside insights from Sway and surprise guests, this video is a must-watch for anyone who loves hip-hop or dreams of making their mark on the world. 🌍
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CHAPTERS:
0:00 - Affion Crockett & Misha Radcliff Discuss New Film
2:45 - Affion Crockett's Beginnings in Comedy
4:57 - Misha Radcliff's Career Start
9:26 - Behind the Scenes of "A Hip-Hop Story"
11:33 - Insights into Making "A Hip-Hop Story"
12:33 - DIY Filmmaking Tips
15:58 - "A Hip-Hop Story" Opening Scene Explained
21:01 - Spotlight on Roscoe R. Simmons
23:39 - Reasons to Watch "A Hip-Hop Story"
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man has been up on this show a lot of
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times
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and I you know sometimes HB when we know
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we got a lot of guests coming on through
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the week yeah I'm not ex as excited for
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some as I am others I get that you know
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um and no disrespect to you will never
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know the ones I'm not excited about so
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it doesn't matter it's part of the game
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you know you go through it but whenever
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I know that this man is coming up and I
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usually know weeks in advance I get
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excited for the opportunity I don't I
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know I'm not I'm not going to sleep
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thinking about damn who's coming on the
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show tomorrow right you excited to get
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us I'm excited but I'm also excited cuz
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the first time we met was on a um panel
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discussion I believe in uh fville fville
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and we were speaking at this camp at at
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at his arm M and I don't know we made we
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had a connection then and it was really
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kind of rooted in b boy culture oh wow
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no we met with Ivan that's where we
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first met B boy Ivan yeah B boy Ivan
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from Style Elements yeah wow yeah B boy
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ivvan this is when I first moved to LA
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this is like 98 99 he was staying at
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your crib for the weekend for a jam yeah
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and I dropped him off at your crib
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that's tan that was you that was me
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stupid that was I know
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a let you in this wayway let you in no
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we stood outside we stood outside okay
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to be clear it was it was look it's one
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of them slow gates to just let you know
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that there's opulence behind this gate
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and it move it like to
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and sway just stood there until it went
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all the way to the right and then he
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walked out I was like hey what's going
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on yeah good to meet your toe F okay
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this a sway I was like yo this sway from
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Sway and Tech like I was Star Struck
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like crazy but um yeah that's when we
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first met that's when we first met and
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then Ivan this guy he's talking about
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the Human Action Figure B boy Ivan is
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one of the most illst break Breakers to
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ever you know get in the circle and uh
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Ian was supposed to stay the weekend and
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he never left yeah he does that what I
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didn't know look that's why I was
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dropping him off at your house cuz he
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was he was crashing at my uncle's house
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and I I was crashing at my uncle house
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so I was like dude I can't have my uncle
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can't have two guests crashing can't
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compete for that
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couch saying the two buk
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Sy I even saw that house man we couldn't
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get him out yeah and then one day we
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came home and he was gone and I didn't
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see him for years and he don't have no
2:28
phone like he's he's like David Banner
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uh from the the incredible ho he just
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he's a nomad he's a nomad okay but
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anyway that's when we first met
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okay wow history been connected ever
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since but had I I didn't know when we
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first met how talented this man is
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easily and I'm not just saying this
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because he's in my face I've said it
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when he wasn't I think he's one of the
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most multifaceted talented people in
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entertainment today I want to welcome
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him to the show again the one and only
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Aon Croc
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is here thank you appreciate it's always
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love here always love always love here
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and he's not alone we're here to talk
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about um his new movie is called a
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hip-hop story yeah it's an independent
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film it's written and produced by him
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it'll be shown in the select AMC
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Theaters on the 23rd this Friday they
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are doing it independently and when I
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say they I talk about another man who's
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a beat boy at the core of his heart mhm
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M Radcliff the main rff ladies and
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gentlemen indeed now let me give y'all
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some history about the main Radcliff
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right if you saw the movie Step Up he's
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Chan and Tatum friend in the movie Step
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Up he was also one of the basketball
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players in Glory Road so he's an actor
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he's but but he's he got his start here
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in New York City he's from the Bronx the
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birthplace and on the street with KL and
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all them dancing what yeah Time Square
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all that tell your story yeah yeah got
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tell your story thank
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you right there for that wonderful he
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jumped in that intro but that was
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great boogie down Bronx boogie down
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Bronx right there Yankee Stadium you
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know what I mean grew up BMX biking and
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break dancing that was my life in
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basketball oh my gosh W yeah when did it
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turn to the world of theater you know
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what when I was in third grade I was in
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third grade and a friend of mine Jason
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he was he was he was in a commercial on
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TV one day and I got to school the next
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day and all the girls was like Jason was
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on TV oh my God and I'm in the back
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looking like it's always the girls I
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went home and I said Mom I want to be on
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TV TV girls is that gas my mom was like
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no you're not being on TV no I was like
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she was like when you get older and um
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you know you old enough to make
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decisions on your own then you can jump
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into that world so so how did now we
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know how Sway and Apon first connected
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how did you two First Connect then we
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met on our friend Alonso macau's uh we
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did a short film with him yeah and and
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me and him just started we was cracking
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jokes on set and then he was like yo I
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got a YouTube channel I was like I got a
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YouTube channel yep and I went to his
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page and he had rap parodies also he's
5:09
the first person I saw that he did a
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fabulous joint uh he did freeway he way
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back then he was already what year did
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you start doing freeway cuz you do them
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in this movie yeah so I I started
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working so after I got out of high
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school I'm talking 2001 I got my you do
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as freeway can you answer this question
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ask freeway yep welcome to the
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show welcome to the show so I I I got a
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job at Rockefeller records I was the
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videographer I was the cameraman for
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Rockefeller for years and I followed I
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followed these guys around the world D
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you know shout out to chlo B for getting
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me that job because I was just a guy
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around the block filming everything you
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know what I mean and um at the time I
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was just filming the Harlem shakers
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that's when Harlem Shake first started
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to get this real impact in Harlem what
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year is that what year
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is 2 999 99 99 2000 you know what I mean
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and I was filming these guys and then
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tone hooker from original flavor was
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like hey Damon needs a cameram man to
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follow him around and just sort of
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document everything that's happened and
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um they brought me in and I game saw
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some of my stuff he was like yo could
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you start right now so I said all right
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I can start right now and then the first
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day I was there at Rockefeller they
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snapped on me like for about four hours
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oh gosh killing me uhhuh hour was
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initiation that was just initiation with
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all their friends that's just kind of
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how they were at the time take that heat
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you got to take that heat and but I SN
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back you know what I mean I come from
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I'm from the Bron you know we we go in
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so um you know that was the initiation
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and then when I was there I started
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meeting all the artists there like all
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the artists you know Young on state prop
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all these guys and I was like I saw
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freeway come in and I I've never seen a
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an artist like that like I never seen
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the beard and the whole Philly thing I
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never seen that before so I went home
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and I was like oh yeah I got to do
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something and then I started doing that
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character then so I would make video
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parody videos and I would come to the
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office and I would show show everybody
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and they would be in there like dying
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just like oh my God what is this right
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and you did The camon Joint back then
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too you did he was one of the first
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people that did a Cameron spoof and it
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went viral way back then you got a cam
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impersonation no it's not an
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impersonation it the rhy pattern It was
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a commercial for it was a hey hey Dain
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just do it but it wasn't it was an
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impersonation it was a it was a I was
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he's not as as comfortable in the
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impersonations as I am we he's more he
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has to prepare he's the actor oh okay
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you know what mean all right okay we
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trying to get to know him
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yeah in the morning initiation see for
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me it's just I just go right here it's
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not even a problem you know it's
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whatever
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you and I heard he talking about Rocka
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fellas I was just like you know he's
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talking about my company that was I
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started that you know I started that
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like I started rap put it on my head
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like a starter
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cap wow yeah love you at the Ries that
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was a terrific speech you got I
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appreciate you you got to just keep
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showing
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up you got to keep keep showing up until
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they give you the accolades he says
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accolades you got to keep showing up
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until they give you the accolades that
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you deserve until they calling you
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genius you just got to keep showing
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up oh wow Aon Crockett is here that's so
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good um stupid we we we we we watched um
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you since the mid 90s bro I I was
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talking to a friend of mine that I work
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with and uh we we helped keing Tech and
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I helped her launch her um talent agency
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back in the 90s okay called Brito and
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they used to I was talking to her last
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night I was like yo Aon Crockett coming
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on the show I just watched the movie
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yeah and she was like yo we we used to
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cast him um Brit Mo entertainment do you
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recall Monisha and herim yeah wow way
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wow
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back yeah yeah and so K is such a a
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unique name you don't forget it you
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don't forget it and so I was just
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putting the math together that was in
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the mid 90s
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2024 you're doing your this is a total
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independent project total I'm always an
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advocate of us doing it
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ourselves keeping the ownership the you
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know owning the IP the proprietor all of
9:23
those different things is this a project
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that you decided to go independent or
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did you pitch it first I did Pitch it
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first so I wrote it in 2008 let me just
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get a back story I wrote it in 2008 you
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hear that 16 years ago yeah all right so
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2008 I had this this whole idea to do a
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a a tribute to hip-hop right it the
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original name was streets is itching and
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it was it was basically saying streets
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is itching for that real flavor to come
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back that real hip-hop and it's from an
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old head perspective obviously right but
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it's still a love letter to say look we
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we can't keep pointing fingers saying
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who's messing hip-hop up or whatever
10:00
it's just what it is you know what I
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mean and we we got to unify to get that
10:05
un Unity that we used to feel back in
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the 80s when when when it started so
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anyway long story short I I got to 2024
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pitched it a couple times I had a couple
10:13
people that said yeah I want to put some
10:14
money up I had different directors that
10:16
really wanted to do it like Malcolm Lee
10:18
and Tim story my guys um but timing and
10:21
just it just didn't work out but it
10:22
worked out for 50th Anniversary me and
10:25
Hip-Hop turned 50 a day apart wow it was
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celebrating me
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I'm really hipop baby I'm really Hip
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Hop's baby right um and so yeah being a
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being that I wrote it in 2008 I had to
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update some of the references so that's
10:40
why you see Joe Buton in there you see
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you know what I mean uh uh Funk Flex um
10:45
and yeah just updating some of the
10:46
references and the characters uh the the
10:49
face mask Kanye is in there uh you ain't
10:52
got the an sway oh [ __ ] I just had a
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trauma that's a flashback right there oh
10:57
my God got to be careful Trigger he
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triggered me right there I know right
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yeah but yeah so going to we did Pitch
11:04
it before and people just didn't
11:06
understand it I would get horrible notes
11:08
on the movie like what what would they
11:10
say ah we shouldn't do the flashback
11:11
scene it's too much flashback in the
11:13
beginning and I'm like how else you
11:15
going to tell the story if you don't go
11:16
back to the to the roots and show the
11:18
Nostalgia of it all in the in the
11:20
outfits like if y'all seen it so y'all
11:22
understand what it is cool herk like we
11:25
really want to get the big speakers and
11:27
the and the white convertible and have
11:29
him in the park and just kind of get a
11:31
sense what that is yeah um cool mod D
11:34
versus busy be saw that when lyricism
11:37
first took over hip-hop you know I mean
11:38
when party DJ and lyricism there was a
11:41
line of demarcation that was drawn so we
11:43
wanted to depict that and and Dain play
11:45
Kumo D on that one yeah um you you you
11:48
you you danced a little more than mod D
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did back in the day but I like how you
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played
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them facts facts and so yeah we we just
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went through that that flashback which I
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felt was necessary to see um you know
12:02
hammer and salt and pepper Big Daddy
12:05
cane and just specific people that we
12:07
knew we can convincingly portray early
12:09
Fresh Prince um and then bring it up to
12:12
today and then now you know you just
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have this whole world of today and
12:16
seeing some things are a little
12:17
misaligned with hip-hop and misaligned
12:19
with the culture so it starts out as the
12:21
the mirrors on hip-hop and then it
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expands into no Black Culture we all
12:25
need to heal ourselves and if we heal
12:28
our hip hop is going to follow suit so
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that's really the message of the movie I
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love that Aon Crockett is here the main
12:34
R Cliff is here let me ask you this
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um cuz we always are proponents of do it
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yourself yeah in this business you got
12:44
you know how many things I had go
12:46
through MTV that when it first started
12:48
it was looked like this and we're
12:50
excited and by the time it went through
12:51
that Viacom filtered I didn't even
12:53
recognize the project no more but my
12:56
name is still on it right and now you
12:58
got to represent it and try to represent
13:00
it with pride same thing that happened
13:01
with my fox show it's the same exact
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thing they took it through the fox
13:06
grinder listen man I had to explain to
13:08
these people who Drake and Manny
13:09
Pacquiao was oh no are you kidding me I
13:11
had to explain that to them so that's
13:13
when I knew it was over know me Manny
13:16
Pacquiao to I don't know who is who you
13:18
want to do a parody of what of who who
13:21
is Manny Pacquiao I was like Wow and at
13:24
the time he was that guy that's right
13:26
when him and Floyd was talking about
13:30
so I understand so you saying that you
13:32
know well I'm just I want to hear your
13:34
story because we don't I like to hear
13:35
the behind the scenes what you went
13:37
through to get to I think it's important
13:39
that people know that you arrived at
13:40
this place right and then what what is
13:43
what would you say are the benefits
13:44
because I think we as a culture got to
13:47
we got to start taking I mean work with
13:49
other folks when it right at some point
13:51
perhaps when it makes sense and you in a
13:53
position of Leverage where you don't
13:55
have to have the creative part being
13:57
morphed by somebody who doesn't
13:58
understand where you're coming from but
14:00
the benefits of you all doing it
14:02
yourselves and you're talking imagine
14:04
you talking to a room full of up and
14:06
coming directors filmmakers actors or
14:08
people who got the door shut what would
14:10
be the benefits you would discuss with
14:11
them we made the movie that we wanted to
14:13
make no dilution to your point it didn't
14:16
have to filter through no Executives no
14:18
bad notes it was me and him and Charlie
14:21
Mack every now and then like Charlie
14:23
Mack is in the building the Philadelphia
14:25
Legend is in here Charlie
14:27
Ma like a big kid on set he was so in
14:31
the Nostalgia of the hip-hop world cuz
14:33
he lived it right so he was just like
14:35
man this is really he he just had his
14:37
phone out the whole time he's said yo
14:38
guys guys you should try this you should
14:40
try this so we made the movie that we
14:43
love we're all hip-hop babies we're all
14:45
hip-hop fans and we did not have to
14:48
sacrifice anything we got the cast we
14:50
wanted MH we we wrote the script that we
14:53
wanted and I'm financing it this is
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standup tour money we own it
15:00
stand black right here own this IP so so
15:05
look I'm I'm going to give you the full
15:06
breakdown I financed it with standup
15:08
tour money okay went to him he had
15:12
cameras that he owned drones resources
15:15
DPS he had the crew and he's a very
15:17
smart filmmaker he's he directed the
15:19
movie so we put the we put our resources
15:23
on top of the table and we did our
15:25
business together and was like look man
15:27
let's just do it we have fun doing these
15:29
things we've been doing it since YouTube
15:31
I have the capital now to do it let's
15:33
just get it done and that's what we have
15:35
now so people see the movie now they see
15:36
the trailer and they just expect or they
15:39
they think that it's or they assume it's
15:41
a big Studio Movie and they're like why
15:43
isn't it in the theater near in my house
15:45
and when is it going to be on Netflix
15:46
and all that we are literally slanging
15:48
it out the trunk like this is our movie
15:51
there's no Studio there's no bigger
15:53
production company behind it it's me and
15:55
him that's it that's it and this is this
15:57
is this is crazy right here here so the
15:59
opening of the movie so I I flew out to
16:01
New York and um and got a lot of Boll
16:04
shots so we shot in LA but I went to
16:06
really get that authentic look I went to
16:08
the Bronx I went to the park I went to
16:09
you know all through the breos just to
16:12
give it that authentic feel right and I
16:15
brought my drone
16:16
out big drone by the size of this desk
16:19
and I went to Dumbo and I flew that
16:21
drone over to get all the shots I said
16:23
you know what I want to open up and give
16:24
it that nostalgic feel you remember how
16:26
New Jack City opened up with the you
16:28
hadc light in the background oh my gosh
16:31
yeah so this the thing I open it up I
16:33
want to open up to feel like how new
16:35
jackf felt when you really hit the music
16:36
and you just hit the credits two minutes
16:39
ago we just who we run into Mario vanes
16:42
just now Mario in the hallway he's up
16:46
next s look s Divine yes come on we
16:49
might have to bring him in and and I had
16:51
to thank him I thank him in the hallway
16:53
just now I thanked him and his father
16:55
for giving filmmakers like us a chance
16:57
to do what we do black filmmaker his
17:00
father is the OG of that you know what I
17:02
mean so we had I'm I'm always paying
17:05
homage you know I show the love to to
17:07
those that that you know paav the way um
17:11
that scene is exactly what I thought of
17:13
that open in scene and then MC light is
17:16
is that paper thin what song is so check
17:18
this
17:19
out MC light is an angel we know her as
17:22
the hip-hop Legend the MC that that she
17:24
is the icon that she is but she and I
17:27
have been working together on some on
17:29
some projects and we were sitting around
17:31
the studio and I said I said like man we
17:33
having some problems with licensing
17:35
music cuz I'm again we're paying out of
17:37
pocket so having to license music we
17:39
were only able to license one song in
17:41
that movie y'all heard all the music
17:43
right we only had enough money to
17:45
license one song It's Just Begun by
17:47
Jimmy Caster Bunch for the cool
17:51
scene we just play
17:55
last the B boys no look the B boys know
17:58
that
17:59
songing
18:02
quintessential
18:04
damn hold it for later just hold it for
18:06
oh here we go here we
18:09
go that beat D hey hey hey all right you
18:12
can talk over this second time today all
18:14
right so yeah we had enough money to
18:16
license that one um everything else we
18:20
just called in favors so we got easy Mo
18:23
did Beats in this movie Mo got beats I
18:25
see Mo Fred
18:29
movie right but he did multiple beats he
18:32
sent me just a folder of stuff he said
18:34
man use what you got to use them joints
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one of Dre's guys Focus three
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dot out Ron brow for coming for the
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culture yeah my boy Deon oanon one of my
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my young homies um MC light we're
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working in the studio I said light we're
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we're trying to find an opening song
18:52
right we want we want something that's
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hip hop I said yo do you own paper thin
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she says I it reverts back to me I own
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half of it she said but I would redo it
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for you if you could find somebody who
19:04
can convincingly redo the the track yeah
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I call Focus that's it right I call
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focus focus is like man I'd love to do
19:11
that I got you he play Everything live
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but it sounds just like the print sample
19:15
yeah and and she went and re-recorded I
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was in the studio with her she
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re-recorded the song for me and gave me
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the opening tag let me tell y'all a
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little hip-hop story story story so we
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got an iconic voice
19:29
from Hip Hop opening up our movie
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because MC light was gracious enough to
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say I want to help these these guys out
19:36
to to to add that flavor to the movie so
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I'm forever indebted to MC like she is
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the queen and it's crazy cuz the way she
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redid the vocals I'm you know I'm
19:45
listening with my hip hop ear yo she I I
19:49
almost think she did them better than
19:50
the first time yo she body I was I was
19:53
there you was I was like listening like
19:57
her timing aggressive the tone listen
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man I I got to say
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she and Heather I know you can attest to
20:05
this a lot of times women in rap get the
20:07
stigma of they don't write their Rhymes
20:10
right we've always heard that yeah right
20:12
until you get around a Heather be in a
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light and you see light be in that phone
20:18
da da and she starts SP a what do you
20:20
think it is and she starts she is a
20:23
better MC today than than back then
20:26
she's she's a more developed and com
20:28
uhuh she went in that Booth man and did
20:30
that that paper th like with the swag
20:33
too she didn't even have to think about
20:35
it like it doesn't matter it
20:39
doesn't crazy and I was sitting there
20:42
like a little kid like just a fan but
20:44
you know shout out to light man come on
20:47
Aon Crockett is here uh Dain R Cliff
20:50
they're both here what you got to see
20:52
this and his story I wanted him to tell
20:54
his story and you tell your story
20:55
because you all are A hip-hop story
20:58
story manifested yeah and and and and I
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think that's incredible the the you know
21:03
you the whole movie you're in character
21:06
as uh Rosco R Simons which is uh the
21:11
alternative of Russell Simmons is he
21:14
here today Rosco is Rosco here today I
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mean you know you know I'm I'm
21:17
everywhere you know what I'm saying we
21:20
got a fany reort bali you know I'm here
21:24
you know you've accomplished a lot rasco
21:26
in your career can you just give us a ly
21:28
of some of the things you that you're
21:29
most proud of spell litany how you sp l
21:32
i t a n y is that like Whitney Houston
21:35
like Litney ly if she had her sister so
21:38
anyway you know I I'm a billionaire and
21:40
so you know if I do yoga I eat leaves
21:45
you know what get out get out now hea be
21:49
stop it okay you you would have a great
21:52
time if you came over eat a leaf to eat
21:54
a leaf with you yes eat a leaf wait why
21:56
y'all didn't sign Heather the dev Jam
21:58
you could have signed head I want what's
22:00
the name of your company as de no [ __ ]
22:02
Heather be she didn't want to sign with
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me she was too much of a
22:06
star I tried you know I tried I tried to
22:09
get her I tried to get her I was doing
22:11
real world exactly she she was making
22:14
MTV money [ __ ] know what saying what's
22:16
going on with your knee bro what are you
22:18
talking about I'm just comfortable I'm
22:20
just I'm just
22:21
stretching I'm just stretching I bet you
22:24
r a split you guys have it really hot in
22:26
here it feels like
22:29
Bali it's really humid you know yep you
22:32
guys can grow like uh seaweed in
22:34
here Rosco Rosco Simons Y what do you
22:38
think the State of the State of Hip Hop
22:40
is now it's [ __ ] amazing you know
22:43
after after you know you see the movie
22:45
you understand that we saved it that's
22:47
why it's [ __ ]
22:48
amazing okay I'm one of Hip Hop Heroes
22:50
not only one of the Pioneers but I'm
22:53
also the hero okay I save the day okay
22:55
did you did you ever work with puff bat
22:57
was like working with puff what was that
22:59
like for you he he's one of my he's my
23:00
little brother you know what I'm saying
23:02
he copied everything I did hold in line
23:05
you know I didn't do the alcohol you
23:06
know that n he did that all that kind
23:09
of I don't dance I don't do none of that
23:11
[ __ ] you know what I'm saying but but
23:12
[ __ ] out of here you know what I'm
23:13
saying he's one of my little brother you
23:14
know that little [ __ ] would Puff would
23:16
not be a puff if it was not me you know
23:18
he followed everything I
23:20
did he just copied me sway can you
23:22
imagine every day on set having to deal
23:24
with with
23:26
this he about it and I was telling he I
23:30
was thinking of The Nutty Professor when
23:33
when Eddie Murphy did it revealed all of
23:35
those different characters and we were
23:37
like what the [ __ ] that's the vibe I was
23:39
getting when I was watching this movie A
23:41
hip-hop Story by the way is in AMC
23:43
theaters near you February 23rd yeah
23:46
this Friday and Saturday listen it's
23:48
only going to be in the theater for a
23:49
week unless we do Gang Busters numbers
23:52
so y'all got to support it this is a
23:53
movie for the People by the people the
23:55
people have to not be lazy on this one
23:57
y'all been emailing me and dming saying
24:00
y'all been reposting like crazy saying
24:02
y'all want this movie but y'all got to
24:03
understand it's really important for
24:04
y'all to go support these movies don't
24:06
just wait around for it to come to
24:07
streaming cuz it may not come to
24:09
streaming or it will come to streaming
24:11
but don't wait if you want to get the
24:12
experience of a hip hop story with the
24:16
music you got to sit in the theater it's
24:18
not the same as watching it on your
24:19
phone or on your tablet or whatever you
24:22
got to feel that music every time we we
24:24
screened it the people were in the the
24:26
theater nodding their head and like it
24:28
was an experience like being at a
24:30
concert you know what I mean and they
24:32
was cheering at the end I'm not going to
24:33
say what the end song was you know what
24:35
I mean but at the end of that song when
24:37
when that scene is over it's cheering in
24:39
the audience so it's a different it's a
24:42
different level when you go to the
24:43
theater congratulations to both of you
24:47
okay the Maine Ratcliff Kelly Jackson
24:49
and I had just we sat on the phone Kelly
24:52
Happy Birthday Kel yeah man you a good
24:54
dude she told me you always you always
24:55
stay in touch and Kelly always Champion
24:57
you but we we talked for about an hour
24:59
and pondered like Jesus man this dude is
25:01
really talented and I can't wait for
25:02
what's next for you Aon Crockett
25:05
congratulations I'm proud of you so many
25:07
way yo man we upholding this [ __ ] we
25:10
come from the core of this [ __ ] no we
25:12
really do we really do and that's what
25:13
this movie is about it's about people
25:15
like me and you who really embody this
25:18
all of y'all y'all this is a hip-hop
25:19
show and y'all have done so well with
25:22
keeping the spirit of of Sway and Tech M
25:26
y'all had some of the earliest freestyle
25:28
guy you know me from nas big like y'all
25:30
had Planet Asia which one of our
25:32
favorite MC's from the West um y'all
25:34
have always preserved the culture yeah
25:36
because you are the culture so you can't
25:38
fake that you can't fake we can tell
25:40
when somebody's posing and you can tell
25:42
when somebody is just really of that
25:44
fabric so thank you for who you are to
25:46
the culture and always inviting me up
25:48
but just just who you are every day you
25:50
represent that and you have the people
25:52
that you have sitting in in these chairs
25:54
are legendary you know and they want to
25:56
come to talk to you because
25:58
of what you represent thank you
26:00
man about to cry yeah well thank you I
26:04
appreciate you brother and I and I look
26:06
at you and knowing where we come from
26:08
and what we've been able to accomplish
26:09
over I've obviously started before you
26:12
but I've been watching you for this long
26:14
and it's amazing man you can do it your
26:15
way you can do it your way C you can do
26:18
it your way you don't have to compromise
26:21
yourselves uh your principles your
26:23
integrity you can do it your way and if
26:25
you got a th% faith in yourself whether
26:28
you make it monetarily or not or or uh
26:31
visually or not you will make it
26:34
eventually it will come and it may be a
26:36
longer Road don't get discouraged it may
26:39
be a longer road but you can do it
26:41
without compromising any parts of
26:43
yourself and that's my story a hip hop
26:46
story I SLE A hip-hop story I sleep
26:49
peacefully at night you understand me
26:51
absolutely Aon Crockett thank you for
26:53
coming by Dain R Cliff
26:55
congratulations we need to to support a
26:58
hip hop story in theaters this Friday
27:02
and Saturday Friday and Saturday AMC
27:04
search A hip-hop story in the AMC app or
27:07
online and see which theaters near you
27:08
we got 159 theaters around the
27:14
nation
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