[00:00.59] ***NEXT MESSAGE*** [00:01.49] Yo, I don't know where to start, [00:04.15] Uh check it out, music is - my total existence dawg straight up, [00:09.54] Everything in my life revolves around music, [00:12.21] It's like. you can't get a relationship 'cuz... [00:15.83] I'm still with. my first love which is music, [00:19.46] You know what I'm sayin'? fo 'real, [00:20.35] The reason I'm here is. is J.Dilla just like that peace, [00:23.05] ***END OF MESSAGE*** [00:25.80] **PRE-SAVED, NEXT MESSAGE** [00:28.56] Yea, yea [00:29.40] It started with rhythms I heard listenin' to the wall, [00:32.19] The bouncin' of basketballs on playgrounds an' all, [00:34.86] The empty bottles that's hollow, wind blowin' inside 'em, [00:37.58] The flow and the rhymin' got my alignment to a Science, [00:40.27] Mixin' with my moms in the kitchen them spoons rattlin', [00:42.92] Pots and pans faucet water pourin' tunes managin', [00:45.62] To come from all the fussin' and ramblin' [00:47.47] What I noticed was - pure music untampered with, [00:50.16] By things show biz does; older thugs showed us stuff, [00:52.84] Like how to hold a plug, [00:54.66] Juice from the street light, [00:55.51] It almost could have blowed us up, [00:57.36] Crates of records; great sessions had the whole hood jammin', [01:00.08] Large speakers fresh made; smell the wood sandin', [01:02.86] Father did his blues smooth legendary jazz man, [01:05.55] Saw his wife secondary to his true passion, [01:08.24] Started with my crew rappin' new jacks in '82, [01:10.94] Never looked back now look what it changed me to. music. [01:14.50] We gotta believe the future, [01:18.18] We gotta believe the past, [01:20.84] We gotta believe in more, [01:23.59] Didn't know that we haaave, [01:26.23] We gotta believe each other, [01:29.08] We gotta open up our minds, [01:31.71] Cause music is for liiife. for life [01:35.36] ***NEXT MESSAGE*** [01:36.25] Uh, what's the difference between me and you? [01:38.06] It's I'ma real kind show this rap shit I'd really do it, [01:41.62] My whole life man is really music, [01:44.35] Through my base line I'm livin' through it, [01:46.13] Another expression of life I couldn't live without, [01:48.82] I like my music pure - not watered down, [01:51.94] Damn! it felt good to fulfill the dreams of gettin' out the hood, [01:55.50] Kept me busy gave ma a chance to stop sellin' drugs, [01:58.20] Spinnin' time in the basement kept me from actin' up, [02:00.91] Zonin' out; wishing Dre could check it out, [02:04.52] I'm here now I can't believe it; proof in the Puddin', [02:08.13] Everything happened for a reason, [02:10.09] Through this music I'm able to feed the family, [02:12.79] When I'm stressed out it's my sanity, [02:14.57] It's a life style all in the streets and in Hollywood, [02:18.16] Music in my DNA - it's my livelihood. music. [02:21.70] We gotta believe the children, [02:24.43] We gotta believe in hope, [02:27.14] We gotta believe in more, [02:29.86] Didn't know that we'd know, [02:32.59] See we gotta believe each other, [02:36.18] We gotta open up our minds, [02:38.81] Cause music is for liiife. for life [02:41.69] ***NEXT MESSAGE*** [02:42.56] Keep the music alive, [02:44.34] The good and the strong survive, [02:45.29] I closed my eyes and imagined I was Jackson Five, [02:48.89] Randy and Michael goin' through life cycle, [02:51.53] Music alive leader - let life go [02:53.30] So vital to a youngster comin' up amongst street hustlers [02:56.96] The big be the toucher's since such a special place [02:59.69] Givin' the ghetto a taste of what freedom is like, [03:02.47] I reached a point in my life where I was needin' the mic', [03:05.19] No second guessin' self-expression an' lessons learned, [03:07.84] Agression became sessions where sessions burned, [03:10.50] Put my soul into it, [03:12.31] Now my feet is firm, [03:13.29] And the game - where name is hard to earn, [03:15.91] And hot cat's careers get scarred and burned through the years, [03:19.52] Mine took a godly turn, [03:21.30] This is the story of my life here trapped in a verse, [03:24.03] No matter money or the movies - music is first, yea. [03:27.65] We gotta believe the future, [03:31.30] We gotta believe the past, [03:34.02] We gotta believe in more, [03:36.72] Didn't know that we had it, [03:39.45] We gotta believe each other, [03:42.12] We gotta open up our minds, [03:45.76] Cause music is for liiife. for li-i-ife, [03:51.10] So we gotta believe the children, [03:53.99] We gotta believe in hope, [03:56.65] We gotta believe in more than all we knoow, [04:02.08] So we gotta believe each other, [04:04.79] We gotta open up our minds, [04:07.45] Cause music is for liiiife. [04:34.54] **academic conversation** [06:44.84]