The Roots - Act Won (Things Fall Apart)

[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. [00:50.93]