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Dialogue: 0,0:00:01.31,0:00:06.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Russel Simmons\Npresents Def Poetry.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:06.57,0:00:10.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Ladies and gentleman, your\Nhost from the planet of Brooklyn,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:10.41,0:00:12.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Mos Def.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:12.70,0:00:14.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What up, what up, what up?
Dialogue: 0,0:00:14.87,0:00:18.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(applause)
Dialogue: 0,0:00:18.82,0:00:21.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What's up, New York?
Dialogue: 0,0:00:21.90,0:00:25.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I say what's up, New York?
Dialogue: 0,0:00:25.57,0:00:29.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Where Queens at?
Dialogue: 0,0:00:29.30,0:00:32.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Where the Boogie Down at?
Dialogue: 0,0:00:32.84,0:00:40.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Where Uptown at?\NWhere Jersey at?
Dialogue: 0,0:00:40.40,0:00:47.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Where Brooklyn at?
Dialogue: 0,0:00:55.62,0:00:59.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That was just three\Nmother fu..ers.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:59.16,0:01:04.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Thank you all for coming out to\Nthe first Def Poets.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:04.58,0:01:09.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Tonight you're going to hear\Nfrom a lot of different people
Dialogue: 0,0:01:09.21,0:01:10.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,from a lot of different places.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:10.93,0:01:12.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,People tend to think that\Nthere's only one type of
Dialogue: 0,0:01:12.57,0:01:14.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,poet, only one type of\Nstyle,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:14.26,0:01:17.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but tonight you're going to hear from all different races,\Ngenders,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:17.35,0:01:19.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,perspectives, and they're all\Nunited by one thing and that's
Dialogue: 0,0:01:19.70,0:01:20.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the power of the word.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:20.93,0:01:22.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So is you all ready?
Dialogue: 0,0:01:22.35,0:01:23.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Yeah!
Dialogue: 0,0:01:23.14,0:01:25.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Is you all ready for some\Npoetry mother fu..ers?
Dialogue: 0,0:01:25.38,0:01:30.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(applauses)
Dialogue: 0,0:01:30.70,0:01:35.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Our first poet is 1998 Slam\Nchampion.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:35.49,0:01:37.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Please give it up\Nfor Steve Colman.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:37.75,0:01:47.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(applauses)
Dialogue: 0,0:01:47.52,0:01:48.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I want to hear a poem.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:48.69,0:01:50.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I want to learn something I\Ndidn't know.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:50.35,0:01:54.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I want to say yes at the end,\Nbecause I'm sick of saying so.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:54.59,0:01:56.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I want to hear a poem\Nabout who you are and what
Dialogue: 0,0:01:56.67,0:02:00.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you think and why you slam, not\Na poem about me and my poem,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:00.52,0:02:02.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because I know who\NI am.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:02.68,0:02:04.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I want to hear a love poem, a\Nsad poem,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:04.67,0:02:08.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,an I hate my dad poem, a dream\Npoem, an I'm not what I seem\Npoem,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:08.01,0:02:10.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,an I need poem, and I also bleed\Npoem,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:10.47,0:02:12.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,an I'm alone poem, an I can't\Nfind my home poem.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:12.83,0:02:15.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I just want to hear a\Npoem.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:15.42,0:02:17.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I want to hear a poem about\Nrevolution,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:17.25,0:02:21.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,about fists raised high and hips twisting and a rumble like a rumba.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:21.20,0:02:24.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I want to follow the footsteps\Nof Che and hear the truth about
Dialogue: 0,0:02:24.34,0:02:27.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the day the CIA killed the\NMumbai.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:27.26,0:02:29.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I want to hear a poem about\Nstruggle so that when I
Dialogue: 0,0:02:29.77,0:02:32.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,open my mouth I can step outside\Nmyself.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:32.67,0:02:35.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I want to listen to no less than\Nthe sounds of protest in the
Dialogue: 0,0:02:35.61,0:02:38.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,factories where workers sweat\Nand make Air Jordans and
Dialogue: 0,0:02:38.100,0:02:40.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,PRO Keds because if you want
Dialogue: 0,0:02:40.72,0:02:44.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to take shots at people, target\NPhil Knight and Bill Gates.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:44.02,0:02:47.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Contemplate how they own\Nthe products and they got the goods,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:47.45,0:02:52.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,how they act like they care,\Nbut they're just Robin Hoods.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:54.15,0:02:56.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And because every second\Nmatters, I want to hear
Dialogue: 0,0:02:56.23,0:02:59.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,long poems and short poems\Nabout time and its limits,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:59.20,0:03:01.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because it took less than three\Nminutes to attack Abner Louima,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:01.73,0:03:05.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to frame Assata Shakur and\Ndestroy Hiroshima,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:05.11,0:03:07.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to kill Eleanor Bumpurs and\NAnthony Baez,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:07.62,0:03:11.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to gun down Malcolm with bullets\Nthey bought from the feds.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:11.85,0:03:14.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I want to hear a poem\Nwhere ideas kiss similes
Dialogue: 0,0:03:14.42,0:03:18.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so deeply that metaphors get\Njealous.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:20.20,0:03:22.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Where the subject matters\Nso much that adjectives
Dialogue: 0,0:03:22.78,0:03:28.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,start holding pronoun rallies at\Ncity hall.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:28.20,0:03:31.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because I want to hear a poem\Nthat attacks the status quo,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:31.07,0:03:33.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that attracts the claps of the\Ncats with the fattest flows,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:33.63,0:03:34.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that makes the crowd pass their
Dialogue: 0,0:03:34.84,0:03:36.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,hat and pack my cap with a stack\Nof dough.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:36.97,0:03:40.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I want to hear a poem that\Nmakes this audience yell ho!
Dialogue: 0,0:03:42.47,0:03:44.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because I want to guess\Nyour favorite color then
Dialogue: 0,0:03:44.54,0:03:46.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,craft rhyme schemes out of\Nthin air.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:46.14,0:03:48.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I want to hear a poem about why\Nthe statute of
Dialogue: 0,0:03:48.26,0:03:50.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,limitations for rape\Nis only five years.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:50.64,0:03:53.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I want to hear a poem.\NI want to feel a poem.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:53.04,0:03:54.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I want to taste a poem.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:54.27,0:03:57.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Give me your spot on the\Nmic if you want to waste a poem.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:57.00,0:03:58.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I want to hear a poem.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:58.55,0:04:01.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(applause)