Nickel
05-26-2006, 11:46 PM
[ As some of you may recall, last November, Roc-a-Fella's Dame Dash and Cam'ron appeared on the O'Reilly Factor, for an episode called Is Gangsta Rap Hurting America's Children? The two went head first against O'Reilly and high school principal Salome Thomas-El. Depending on who you ask, the two hip-hop entrepreneurs represented themselves well and backed O'Reilly down. Tonight is the rematch. ]
Bill O'Reilly: In the Impact Segment the other night, I expressed my opinion about the upcoming Method & Red show. Apparently I offended some members of the hip-hop community. Tonight I'm joined by hip-hop pioneer KRS-One via satellite. In the studio, we have previous guests, Dame Dash and Cam'Ron of the hip-hop label Roc-A-Fella records. Welcome back fellas.
Cam: How you doin, no homo.
Dame: Bill first, if I can, let me correct you. Roc-a-Fella isn't just a label. We're a half a billion dollar multimedia--
O'Reilly: Whatever, tonight's subject-- hip-hop's influence destroying middle America.
KRS: Bill, I have to be honest with you. It is middle America that is destroying hip-hop. Our culture was pure, bursting with creativity, until corporate America decided they could make more money selling negative images of our people.
O'Reilly: That's something I hear a lot, but nobody's making these young hip-hopsters talk about popping caps and pimping bitches.
Dame: Bill, you're ignoring the grand scheme of things. A lot of these artists come from nothing.
KRS: Hip-hop is the tree, the root, the branch, and the leaf. You can climb it, carve your name on it, or swing like a monkey. But a tree can't do your taxes or drain a swimming pool.
Dame: ......
O'Reilly: Okay, let's hear from a hip-hoppin pimpin artist. Cam'ron, what goes through your mind when you're writing these negative lyrics?
Cam: Sometimes you may have it in you, no homo, and you wanna express what you feelin at that time.
O'Reilly: But don't you feel a sense of responsibility?
Cam: I'm responsible for my kid's food and clothes, nigga. You know how much baby J's run now?
O'Reilly: No, I'm not sure.
Cam: You wanna know how I feel? no homo.
O'Reilly: ....uh..
Cam: This nigga MJ retired, so his shoes should cost less, you feel me? No homo. But it's all good cause I'm rich.
O'Reilly: *looks at Cam for 3 seconds, and turns to Dash* Dame, do you think these lyrics have an effect on the youth?
Dame: No more than your Terminator movies, and he's Governor.
KRS: Hip-hop should run for governor. With time, hip-hop will be president of the United States. Then we can take back control of the artform, and educate the youth. Right now, I have cereal in one pocket and milk in the other.
O'Reilly: Dame, there's a clear difference between fictional movies and hip-hop.
KRS: Hip-hop is my bowl and spoon. *pulls out a fist full of cereal from his pocket*
O'Reilly: People know movies are fake, and hip-hop? Well, whether it's fake or not, the artists try their hardest to make people believe it's real.
Cam: Make believe? Yo, *bleep* is real in the streets fam. You watch your mouth or I'll kill you myself.
O'Reilly: *looks at Dame with his eyes wide open* See!
Dame: Cam's just jokin, look--
O'Reilly: Just joking? He threatened my life!
Dame: No he didn't. Anyway, it's obvious that--
O'Reilly: What? Can we roll back a clip of the live feed? Jeff, can you queue it up on that monitor?
( clip plays of Cam'Ron saying "You watch your mouth or I'll kill you myself.")
O'Reilly: What do you call that?
Cam: Do you believe everything you see on TV? How old are you man? Don't be ridic -no homo- ulous.
KRS: That's exactly what I'm talking about, Bill. You wanted to make a point about violence, and the first clip you show is hip-hop making a threat. Violence is everywhere.
O'Reilly: I didn't play a clip of hip-hop, I played a clip of Cam'Ron, who's sitting right here.
KRS: I saw hip-hop on that clip.
O'Reilly: KRS, with all due respect, first you say hip-hop is a culture, then bowl or spoon, and now a person. Which is it?
KRS: Bill, are you familiar with gia?
O'Reilly: The idea that everything on earth is connected by a mystical life force?
KRS: Yes. In ancient times, do you know what Gia was originally called?
O'Reilly: What?
KRS: hip-hop.
O'Reilly: That's absurd.
Dame: Why is it absurd Bill? Because hip-hop is black culture? Remember, we were the first humans on the planet.
O'Reilly: And look what you did with your head start.
Cam: Damn, he tryin to get on you, no homo.
Dame: Look what we did? I turned nothing into a 500 million dollar empire, employing hundreds of people from my community. Do you know in the last year, we--
O'Reilly: Okay, time for a commercial break. We'll be right back.
Bill O'Reilly: In the Impact Segment the other night, I expressed my opinion about the upcoming Method & Red show. Apparently I offended some members of the hip-hop community. Tonight I'm joined by hip-hop pioneer KRS-One via satellite. In the studio, we have previous guests, Dame Dash and Cam'Ron of the hip-hop label Roc-A-Fella records. Welcome back fellas.
Cam: How you doin, no homo.
Dame: Bill first, if I can, let me correct you. Roc-a-Fella isn't just a label. We're a half a billion dollar multimedia--
O'Reilly: Whatever, tonight's subject-- hip-hop's influence destroying middle America.
KRS: Bill, I have to be honest with you. It is middle America that is destroying hip-hop. Our culture was pure, bursting with creativity, until corporate America decided they could make more money selling negative images of our people.
O'Reilly: That's something I hear a lot, but nobody's making these young hip-hopsters talk about popping caps and pimping bitches.
Dame: Bill, you're ignoring the grand scheme of things. A lot of these artists come from nothing.
KRS: Hip-hop is the tree, the root, the branch, and the leaf. You can climb it, carve your name on it, or swing like a monkey. But a tree can't do your taxes or drain a swimming pool.
Dame: ......
O'Reilly: Okay, let's hear from a hip-hoppin pimpin artist. Cam'ron, what goes through your mind when you're writing these negative lyrics?
Cam: Sometimes you may have it in you, no homo, and you wanna express what you feelin at that time.
O'Reilly: But don't you feel a sense of responsibility?
Cam: I'm responsible for my kid's food and clothes, nigga. You know how much baby J's run now?
O'Reilly: No, I'm not sure.
Cam: You wanna know how I feel? no homo.
O'Reilly: ....uh..
Cam: This nigga MJ retired, so his shoes should cost less, you feel me? No homo. But it's all good cause I'm rich.
O'Reilly: *looks at Cam for 3 seconds, and turns to Dash* Dame, do you think these lyrics have an effect on the youth?
Dame: No more than your Terminator movies, and he's Governor.
KRS: Hip-hop should run for governor. With time, hip-hop will be president of the United States. Then we can take back control of the artform, and educate the youth. Right now, I have cereal in one pocket and milk in the other.
O'Reilly: Dame, there's a clear difference between fictional movies and hip-hop.
KRS: Hip-hop is my bowl and spoon. *pulls out a fist full of cereal from his pocket*
O'Reilly: People know movies are fake, and hip-hop? Well, whether it's fake or not, the artists try their hardest to make people believe it's real.
Cam: Make believe? Yo, *bleep* is real in the streets fam. You watch your mouth or I'll kill you myself.
O'Reilly: *looks at Dame with his eyes wide open* See!
Dame: Cam's just jokin, look--
O'Reilly: Just joking? He threatened my life!
Dame: No he didn't. Anyway, it's obvious that--
O'Reilly: What? Can we roll back a clip of the live feed? Jeff, can you queue it up on that monitor?
( clip plays of Cam'Ron saying "You watch your mouth or I'll kill you myself.")
O'Reilly: What do you call that?
Cam: Do you believe everything you see on TV? How old are you man? Don't be ridic -no homo- ulous.
KRS: That's exactly what I'm talking about, Bill. You wanted to make a point about violence, and the first clip you show is hip-hop making a threat. Violence is everywhere.
O'Reilly: I didn't play a clip of hip-hop, I played a clip of Cam'Ron, who's sitting right here.
KRS: I saw hip-hop on that clip.
O'Reilly: KRS, with all due respect, first you say hip-hop is a culture, then bowl or spoon, and now a person. Which is it?
KRS: Bill, are you familiar with gia?
O'Reilly: The idea that everything on earth is connected by a mystical life force?
KRS: Yes. In ancient times, do you know what Gia was originally called?
O'Reilly: What?
KRS: hip-hop.
O'Reilly: That's absurd.
Dame: Why is it absurd Bill? Because hip-hop is black culture? Remember, we were the first humans on the planet.
O'Reilly: And look what you did with your head start.
Cam: Damn, he tryin to get on you, no homo.
Dame: Look what we did? I turned nothing into a 500 million dollar empire, employing hundreds of people from my community. Do you know in the last year, we--
O'Reilly: Okay, time for a commercial break. We'll be right back.