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♪ (ragtime music) ♪
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- Straight Outta Compton.
- ♪ I gotta bone to pick ♪
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- I just saw the movie.
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- ♪ Bitch, where you and I... ♪
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- The only rap person
I know is Vanilla Ice.
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- ♪ Twenty million walkin' out the court ♪
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- I think there's a lot
of nice looking women there.
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Girls... too young for me.
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- ♪ I'ma show you how to turn it up... ♪
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- See, now this is more
the hip hop/ RnB that I--
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I like this stuff very much.
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- It looks like an ad for some sort
of drink or something.
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- Talented guy, but man
he's got a foul mouth!
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(wheezy laughter)
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- (Finebros) Is rap a genre that you like?
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- Uh, a lot of it is just doesn't--
it has a beat, but it doesn't have a tune.
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- There's a lot of swear-- cuss words--
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with drinking, alcoholism,
shooting up, guns, and drugs.
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- In the sense that, you know,
it came up on its own,
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so it must be saying something.
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I don't like to discredit
a whole genre of something.
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- (Finebros) The second video
was for arguably
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his most popular song to date,
Swimming Pools.
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The song has over 90 million views.
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What do you think it is about the song
and video in particular
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that's made it so huge?
- Bottles breaking and the girls.
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I don't know! I really don't.
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I didn't see anything
about it that was outstanding.
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- It's a very, very attractive video.
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It's got a lot of color.
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- What he was trying to put in our heads
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is that, you know, when you drink too much
it's like you're drowning.
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- (Finebros) Finally,
the last thing we showed you
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was Kendrick's performance
at the Grammys this year.
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What did you think of that performance?
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- I liked it.
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- He used a million different sort
of types of media.
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You know, they were in jail,
and they broke out of their chains,
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and then they became
these elegant sort of modern dancers.
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- I appreciate it more 'cause
that's even like more story telling,
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like, you know, the prison.
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We know that too many Blacks
end up in our prisons,
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so I understand this kind of wanting to,
you know, talk back to that,
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to get a dialogue going about
"why is this happening in our country?
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What can we do to change it?
And my platform is my music
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and I can express
that through dance and song."
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- (Finebros) Kendrick has been called
by some, in recent years,
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as the greatest rapper of his generation.
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Does that surprise you?
- Not really.
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- No, he's very talented.
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- I'd go for that. He's hot.
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- I'm glad that you can find him
to be an idol for you,
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so it's not me, sorry.
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- (Finebros) As someone
who most would think
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wouldn't normally listen to rap,
do you think Kendrick Lamar's music
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could be appreciated even if
you're not a fan of rap or hip hop?
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- Sure.
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- Sure, if they take
the time to listen to him.
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- Man, I appreciated him.
I just couldn't understand him.
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And it's not my style.
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- Not a while lot because
most people who hate rap
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are not going to listen to any kind of rap.
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- It's not for everyone.
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It's not possible for any music
to be for everyone, I don't think.
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- It's not that I don't like rap.
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I wish that the conversation in rap,
what they were talking about,
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could be elevated, that's all.
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