What's it up? Yeah.
Right now it is indeed
my funked up legend
to introduce to you from the silver screen
to HD to Blu -ray,
tell me what I say.
Let's hear it for Samuel L. Jackson
A .K .A. Sammy J,
put your hands together.
Let me drop a little knowledge
about how I got
from Chattanooga, Tennessee
to Big City, L .A. When I was a kid,
when I got up in the morning,
there was music in my house.
There was a whole gang of us
walking to school together.
We would grab each other up
from house to house.
Every house had it's own beat,
an d that beat carry us and our books all
the way down the street.
When we got to school,
we used to have this thing
they called devotion,
where we had to do the Lord's Prayer,
pledge allegiance to the flag,
sing America the Beautiful.
But once we'd done that,
the teacher would let us pick
a song that we wanted to sing.
We would always pick something cool.
You imagine a class
with about 30 little brothers and sisters
singing Peanut Butter and
Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha
Or doing background to our
lead singer of the class,
Aquanetta Butts, as she sang,
This is dedicated to the one I love,
and we will.
Oh, that made the day so much better.
We could learn and learn,
learn an d burn.
As we got a little older,
I think I bought my first 45.
And I think it was, uh,
mama said that these days like this
Smokey was my man,
then there was the Duke of Earl
Ike and Tina, of course, James Brown
I learned to do the slob, the funky chicken,
the twist I was a -dancin',
and I was certainly turn
in' the mother fuck
I felt like I was gonna live forever
The music just made me so strong
I got to college,
things started to groovin'
even better
Mobbing gays, laying it on us,
making us feel all political
I grew my hair long, had my frowns,
my army fatigue jacket
Fists in the air, stoke it, rap,
all the brothers
Things were starting to make sense,
and nonsense
I met brothers coming from Vietnam,
didn't even know where that was
They said, if you don't stay in school,
man, you're gonna end up in the war.
I was already in a war,
a war of equality.
Little did I know,
the war was just beginning.
We're gonna turn this mother out.
We're gonna turn this mother out.
We don't turn this mug up
We don't turn this mug up
The government got kind of hip
to what we were trying to do
and they decided we
were going put an end to this
They took all the
weed off the street
Took all the acid off the street
And all they left was death,
the White Hawks
We rode it, and we rode it hard
But when that wasn't enough,
they brought in that girl
Oh Lord, that girl, we love that girl