The Roots - Act Won (Things Fall Apart)(1999)

[00:00.23] You are all...
[00:01.14] We don't even come to see our own, man.
[00:02.90] Listen, Freddy, listen...
[00:04.78] If we had to depend upon black people to eat,
[00:08.34] We would starve to death.
[00:09.29] You've been out there,
[00:11.03] You on the bandstand,
[00:11.98] You look out there, What do you see?
[00:12.81] You see Japanese, you see... you see West Germans,
[00:15.66] You see Slobovic, you know, anything, except our people man.
[00:20.15] It makes no sense, it incenses me that our own people
[00:22.86] Don't realize our own heritage, our own culture.
[00:25.52] This is our music.
[00:26.45] That's bullshit!
[00:27.43] Why?
[00:28.32] That's all bullshit. Everything, everything you just said is bullshit.
[00:32.84] You're complaining about-
[00:33.71] I'm talking about the audience.
[00:35.50] That's right.
[00:36.41] The people don't come because you grandiose motherfuckers don't play
[00:39.13] Shit that they like. If you played the shit that they liked,
[00:40.93] Then the people would come.
[00:41.89] Simple as that.
[00:43.68] Inevitably, hip-hop records are treated as though they are disposable.
[00:48.27] They are not maximized as product, not to mention as art.
[00:49.15] First section is a scene from "Mo'Better Blues" by Spike Lee.
[00:50.00] Second section is an unknown comment.
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