ROUNDTABLE. I'M NUNYA BUSINESS, AND TODAY

WE'VE GOT A DISTINGUISHED PANEL TO CELEBRATE THE UNSTOPPABLE

GLOBAL FORCE THAT IS HIP-HOP TODAY.

FIRST UP, A PIONEER AND TRAIL BLAZER MISS QUEEN LATIFAH.

>> I LIKE THAT. >>

>> NEXT UP, HIP HOP HISTORIAN, DJ AND LEGENDARY DRUMMER OF THE

ROOTS CREW QUESTLOVE. [ CHEERS AND APPLAUSE ]

>> THANK YOU, THANK YOU. VERY HAPPY TO BE HERE.

THANK YOU. >> AND FINALLY, FRESH OFF

BREAKING THE RECORD FOR MOST STREAMS ON SOUNDCLOUD, RAP DUO

ZAN MOB. AKA GWAP LORD AND SMOKE CHETICK

[ INDESCERNABLE ] OKAY, YEAH, THANK YOU ALL, YEAH.

THANK YOU. WELL, LET'S GET STARTED.

IT'S 2020, WHAT DOES HIP HOP REPRESENT TODAY?

>> I MEAN AT THIS POINT, IT'S THE CULTURE PERIOD.

WE TOOK OVER THE WORLD THROUGH THE POWER OF OUR SOUND.

>> ABSOLUTELY TRUE INDEED. FROM THE BLOCK PARTIES OF THE

80'S IN THE BOOGIE DOWN BRONX, TO THE PROTEST MOVEMENTS OF THE

DAY, HIP HOP IS ABOUT THAT LYRICAL TRADITION OF AMERICA.

>> NAH, SEE LIKE -- ME IT'S ABOUT YE, YE.

>> OKAY, THE YE-YE, SAY MORE. >> LIKE, WHEN SHE SKIRT UP ON

YOU, YOU JUST GOT TO YE. YEAH, LIKE YE YE.

>> THAT'S HIP HOP TO ME. >> RIGHT.

RIGHT, RIGHT, RIGHT. WELL THE TWO CONFIDENT WHITE

BOYS RAISE AN INTERESTING POINT. THE SOUND HAS CHANGED BUT HAS IT

THOUGH. AT END OF THE DAY, IT'S STILL

DRUM AND BASS. STILL EMCEE.

>> THAT'S RIGHT. THE MC IS WHAT SETS HIP HOP

APART. THE POETRY.

THE STORIES. THE TRUTH.

>> YEAH I GET THAT BUT, LIKE, WHAT ABOUT THE YE.

>> YOU KNOW, I'M SORRY, YOU GOING TO HAVE TO SPEAK IN FULL

SENTENCES. >> YOU KNOW LIKE -- WHEN SHE GOT

THAT THANG ALL UP IN YOUR FACE, YOU NOT GONNA YE?

>> COME ON -- YE, YOU GOT TO YE! >> OKAY NO, BUT WE'RE TALKING

ABOUT MUSIC. >> BUT THE YE GOT IT, LIKE -- I

GOT MY BOY TAZ FROM WAY BACK. HE GOT GWAP, I'M LIKE DAMN MAN.

>> OKAY. OKAY, I CANNOT MAKE HEADS OR

TAILS OF THIS NONSENSE. >> I THINK WE'RE ALL ON THE SAME

PAGE HERE. I THINK YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT THE

PARTY SIDE OF HIP HOP. THE DANCING, THE YEETING, RIGHT?

>> YEAH, HOLD UP. YOU WAS IN YO GOPA GOPO?

>> YEAH, LIKE ONE EPISODE TEN YEARS AGO.

>> BRO, RESPECT, YOU A LEGEND FOR THAT ONE, FAM.

>> THAT'S WHOOPTY. >> OKAY, NO IT'S NOT.

IT'S NOT WHOOPTY. YOU KNOW, I'M VERY CURIOUS.

LIKE WHAT GOT YALL INTO THIS? WHO ARE YOUR INFLUENCES?

>> UM, I LIKE FALL OUT BOYS. >> HOW ABOUT RAPPERS?

>> I'D HAVE TO SAY THE CAR RATS. >> WHO ARE THE CAR RATS.

>> REMEMBER THEY HAD THE RATS DRIVING AND RAPPING IN THE

COMMERCIAL AT THE SAME TIME. >> WHOA, WHOA, WHOA, WHOA, WAIT.

WHOA, WHOA, WHOA, WHOA, WAIT. WAIT, WAIT.

YOU MEAN THE KIA HAMSTER? >> YE YE.

>> OKAY -- OKAY SO NO RAPPERS THEN.

>> I LIKE TIKTOK. >> OH, OKAY NOW I GET IT.

SO YOU HEARD ABOUT RAP FROM TIKTOK.

>> YEAH. >> RIGHT.

SO THAT'S JUST AN UPSETTING THING TO HEAR.

>> YEAH, LIKE, NO DISRESPECT, BUT THAT'S JUST NOT THE CULTURE.

THAT'S JUST AN OFF SHOOT. >> YO, MY LAST SONG GOT THREE

BILLION STREAMS BRO. >> OH MY GOD, YOU KNOW WHAT, I'M

JUST GOING TO HAVE TO DO SOME THINKING ABOUT THIS.

>> OKAY. NOW -- NOW, WHAT COULD YOU HAVE

POSSIBLY MADE THAT GOT THREE BILLION STREAMS?

>> YE. >> SO YOU HAVE A SONG CALLED YE.

>> YEAH. >> IS THAT YOUR ONLY SONG?

>> WHAT WE SUPPOSED TO HAVE OTHER SONGS?

>> I THINK WE GONNA DO A REMIX. >> YEAH WE GONNA DO A REMIX.

>> OKAY, LOOK, THERE'S SPACE FOR ALL OF US.

I MEAN, HIP HOP IS CONSTANTLY EVOLVING.

I RESPECT Y'ALL FOR DOING Y'ALL'S THING.

>> SEE, YOU GONNA RESPECT THIS. CHECK IT.

♪♪ ♪ YE, YE SKRT

YE YE AH SKRT HOLD UP YE DROP THAT

YE DROP THAT YE ♪ ♪ DROP THAT YE EH EH EH EH

YOU NEVER LOVE ME MOM ♪

>> -- YOU HAVE TO SING LIKE THAT ON A RAP RECORD, MAN.

DO YOU UNDERSTAND ME? I -- I'M SORRY, A APOLOGIZE.

>> YO, CHILL BRO. COME ON.

>> DUMBASS PISS ME OFF. >> I'M SORRY.

I'M SORRY. >> OKAY, OKAY.

YOU DON'T HAVE TO BE SORRY, IT'S WHAT WE ALL WANTED TO DO.

LET'S TAKE A BREAK. ARE YOU GUYS ALL RIGHT?

>> HEY DAD, CAN YOU COME GET US? EVERYONE HERE'S SUPER MEAN.

[ CHEERS AND APPLAUSE ] ♪♪