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Transcription: [00:20:45]
[[Background Conversations]]

{SPEAKER name="Interviewer"}
A question that's often asked at the workshop and we might as well precede by talking about it is where to do you rap?

[00:20:51]
{SPEAKER name="Parry"}
[[laughs]] Everywhere


[00:20:52]
{SPEAKER name="Interviewer"}
[[interrupts]]
There are a lot of people now who've never heard this kind of music except on the radio and, I think it's kind of a surprise to some to hear ya'll doing what you're doing.

[00:20:59]
Where do you do it and then, maybe, give the audience an idea about how common this is. How many rap teams are there in Philadelphia?

[00:21:08]
{SPEAKER name="Money Man"}
Umm it's about, 500 different DJ group and it's about 2-3000 rappers in the whole city of Philadelphia. And out of that thousands, there's only a good ten that can rap.

[00:21:27]
{SPEAKER name="Interviewer"}
Where do you all perform at?

[00:21:29]
{SPEAKER name="Money Man"}
Umm hotels, parks, ballrooms, Bar Mitzvahs, proms, umm gradua-- every type of party, any type of party. As far as doing parties in the city of Philadelphia we do all the parties.

[00:21:49]
Mostly, every time you look around we doing a party at the ballroom. If we not at the ballroom we doing a prom. If it's not a prom it's a graduation. It's not a graduation, it's just a disco. It's like, you know, every weekend we are booked up.

[00:22:04]
{SPEAKER name="Interviewer"}
Before we-- Let's see, is it still raining out there? No. Alright.

[00:22:09]
Okay, then in a little while we're going to go on to talk to some of the DJ's. Before we do, though, let's see if there are a few questions from the audience about rapping. So either Money Man or Perry P, up here on the stage.


[00:22:22]
{SPEAKER name="Money Man"} [[guess?]]
[[whisper]]
Ask your questions

{SPEAKER name="Interviewer"}
Do ya'all know? There you go, right there. Parry, how old are both of you?

[00:22:29]
{SPEAKER name="Parry"}
I'm nineteen.

{SPEAKER name="Money Man"}
Nineteen.


[00:22:31]
{SPEAKER name="Interviewer"}
Both are nineteen. Is that the only we question we got out of all that? [[Speaker 2 laughs]] Oh, come on ya'll.


[00:22:45]
{SPEAKER name="Parry"}
Yes, there was a lot of competitions in Philadelphia, which I am sorry for the other guys, you know. [[laughs]]

[00:22:53]
{SPEAKER name="Interviewer"}
Rapping is definitely a competitive form. The whole complex of rapping, DJ turntable mixing, breaking and popping, graffiti writing. It's all part of a piece.

[00:23:05]
It's a cultural whole that you can't really take pieces out of. And when--


[00:23:08]
{SPEAKER name="Parry"}
[[interrupts]]
Like this piece. Oh, excuse me. Go ahead.

{SPEAKER name="Interviewer"}
Like this piece behind.

[00:23:10]
{SPEAKER name="Parry"}
[[interrupts]]Like this piece right here. Me and Wild Style did it one the break dances from the Skander [Scanner] boys. We did this one right here. You know it's a form of the writing that they do in Philadelphia also in New York and some in California.

[00:23:23]
{SPEAKER name="interviewer"}
They whip that up here at the festival yesterday in between performances. So, it is a competitive form, just as the others are competitive forms in their own way.

[00:23:33]
{SPEAKER name="Parry"}
And in competition, most of the time in Philadelphia, it turns into embarrassment.


[00:23:38]
Like somebody be rapping and they might start talking about your brother or this or that or what you wear and then, whoever loses just loses. Most of the time I never lose. I never lost. [[laughs]]

[00:23:52]
{SPEAKER name="Interviewer"}
Are there any other question out there? Right there.

Transcription Notes:
Speaker 1 is interviewer, 2 Perry P[[guess?]], 3 Money Man