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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 1"}
The raps - the rappers that work with the DJs, the raps, I should say, that accompany these DJs,
are always performed live.
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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 1"}
You never work with a recorded rap.
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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 1"}
Because rapping is as much a form of artistry that is recognized as the, as the work at the turntables
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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 1"}
and is, again, a very, a currently popular vernacular art form that is widely acclaimed within the community.
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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 1"}
One builds one's reputation as a rapper.
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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 1"}
Now today at the festival, we have with us two rap teams who will be performing later on the main stage.
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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 1"}
The Punk Funk Nation, who work with Grand Master Nel, and two women rappers, the International Playgirls.
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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 1"}
Now, maybe the best way to close out the workshop
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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 1"}
is to give you an example of what it hears like -- what it sounds like
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when a rapper works with the DJ at the turntables.
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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 1"}
I've asked MC Caesar, who's one of the members of the Punk Funk Nation,
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to come up here and just give us a very, very brief example of a rap,
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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 1"}
to sort of whet your appetite for the performance later this afternoon.
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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 1"}
So, now, if you could hit the tables there, and, Caesar, if we could do maybe a,
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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 1"}
a bit of a speed rap, or a general rap, to show the people what it sounds like.
[[faint talking]]
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{SPEAKER name="MC Caesar"}
I'm'a rap a little bit for you. And this is how we -- this is how we usually start it off at the club or disco.
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{SPEAKER name="MC Caesar"}
The MC talks about the DJ very briefly before he starts the record up, and this how it goes.
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{SPEAKER name="MC Caesar"}
Check it out, you say, all you party hoppers throughout the land. We're here to announce the masterful plan.
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{SPEAKER name="MC Caesar"}
We have disco Caesar as your MC to rock, rock your body from here to eternity.
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{SPEAKER name="MC Caesar"}
So, listen everybody, we're going to tell you the real deal. We got Grandmaster Nel aboard the wheels of steel.
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{SPEAKER name="MC Caesar"}
Cutting the wax and making the side out of everything on the turntables [[??]] shot.
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{SPEAKER name="MC Caesar"}
You go, one, two, listen to the bass, Nelly Del in the house, gonna rock the place like this, y'all. And ya don't quit, keep it uhuh, and to the sure shit.
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{SPEAKER name="MC Caesar"}
You got MC Caesar on the microphone. I never ever leave the bass alone. You see the music is pumpin' so it's got the floor shakin'
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and the ability to move has got the able-bodied breakin', movin' faster and faster,
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and somehow it seems as though we're fantasizin' or livin' a dream.
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{SPEAKER name="MC Caesar"}
Pop block, punk rock, never alter the floor, the MC's about the rhythm, the rhyme galore.
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{SPEAKER name="MC Caesar"}
For all of those out there who appreciate rappers, we were ready to kick it live
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{SPEAKER name="MC Caesar"}
cuz the fresh shit's snappin'.
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{SPEAKER name="MC Caesar"}
Windmills, backspins, and spinnin' on your knees, the DJ's a spinnin' beats of twos ta please.
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{SPEAKER name="MC Caesar"}
The feelin' feels good and your adrenalines with it,
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{SPEAKER name="MC Caesar"}
the graffiti walls has blurred your visit.
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{SPEAKER name="MC Caesar"}
Listen up in the dark, home boys are makin' art. The MC's out there tryin' t' get it for the job;
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Billboard, black stars are on magazines,
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the record sales are boomin'; sellin' to the teens.
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The evolution of music in all its shape.
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Everything 's so different [[??]] straight
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{SPEAKER name="MC Caesar"}
Gibbadee, I like it dark and [[??]], Nellie Del, huh.
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{SPEAKER name="MC Caesar"}
It's all the quick fix, Nellie Del.
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{SPEAKER name="MC Caesar"}
Gotten so down [[??]]. Caesar in the place rockin with the floor
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{SPEAKER name="MC Caesar"}
Do, do, weh, Goin' to give you much more.
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{SPEAKER name="MC Caesar"}
Check out the bass, and listen to the scratch. Nellie Del in the place.
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{SPEAKER name="MC Caesar"}
And that's the pure fact. Check out the scratch. Check out, it go a little like this.
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{SPEAKER name="MC Caesar"}
[[drums]] Three, four, huh.
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{SPEAKER name="MC Caesar"}
You don't stop a'rockin', you don't stop rockin', and don't stop beeboppin', Caesar.
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{SPEAKER name="MC Caesar"}
Down with the floor, huh. Caesar goin' to give you more important.
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{SPEAKER name="MC Caesar"}
[[??]] eagle, my [[seagull?]],
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{SPEAKER name="MC Caesar"}
he was a drug pusher, but her never thought he'd be a [[fine self-based??]] user
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{SPEAKER name="MC Caesar"}
Let he [[??]], let he dope, let he free-base goat
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{SPEAKER name="MC Caesar"}
Give all other ash that he could smoke
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Til he built up a superstar dependency,
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But the problem was he didn't have the money, you see.
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{SPEAKER name="MC Caesar"}
[[??]] a bad habit,
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like a love with rabies, with [[??]] rabbit.
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{SPEAKER name="MC Caesar"}
But Lee was found dead in a corner den,
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{SPEAKER name="MC Caesar"}
in the course [[??]] fell in love with his head.
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{SPEAKER name="MC Caesar"}
Have to end the ash problem, at a [[??]] a day,
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{SPEAKER name="MC Caesar"}
That's a hard coldness of the ghetto game.
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{SPEAKER name="MC Caesar"}
That's a little example.
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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 1"}
Let's have a hand for MC Caesar Grandmaster Nel, both of Grandmaster Nel and the Punk Funk Nation.
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Transcription Notes:
Grandmaster Nel