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Dialogue: 0,0:00:05.31,0:00:06.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:06.95,0:00:10.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If I could request the resetting of the clock, \Nit's on at four minutes at the moment,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:10.87,0:00:12.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I presume from the one before...\NFantastic!
Dialogue: 0,0:00:12.96,0:00:14.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Okay! So, my name is Akala,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:14.73,0:00:16.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm from the Hip Hop\NShakespeare Company.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:16.62,0:00:19.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And before we get into \Nthe philosophy of our work,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:19.14,0:00:21.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,what that means, what \Nthe intention is behind it,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:21.72,0:00:24.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm going to challenge you guys \Nto a little bit of a pop quiz.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:24.10,0:00:26.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And we've done this pop quiz \Nquite a few times,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:26.18,0:00:27.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we'll talk about it after we do it.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:27.62,0:00:30.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm gonna simply tell you some quotes.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:30.54,0:00:34.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,One line quotes, taken either from \Nsome of my favorite hip hop songs,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:34.18,0:00:36.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or some of my favorite \NShakespearean plays or sonnets.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:36.94,0:00:39.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And you're gonna tell me\Nby show of hands,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:39.34,0:00:42.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,whether you think it's\Nhip hop or Shakespeare.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:42.79,0:00:43.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:00:43.66,0:00:45.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Does that make sense? Okay.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:45.21,0:00:47.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So the first one we'll go for is:
Dialogue: 0,0:00:47.10,0:00:51.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"To destroy the beauty from which one came."
Dialogue: 0,0:00:51.12,0:00:55.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"To destroy the beauty from which one came."
Dialogue: 0,0:00:55.96,0:01:00.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If you think that's hip hop, \Nraise your hands please.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:00.58,0:01:02.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If that's Shakespeare, \Nraise your hands please.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:02.91,0:01:06.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Brilliant, okay, that's 70 percent \Ntowards Shakespeare.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:06.18,0:01:10.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's from a gentleman known as \NSean Carter, better known as Jay-Z,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:10.26,0:01:12.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,from a track called "Can I live?"
Dialogue: 0,0:01:12.72,0:01:14.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We'll go for another one.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:14.82,0:01:19.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Maybe it's hatred I spew, \Nmaybe it's food for the spirit."
Dialogue: 0,0:01:19.78,0:01:25.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Maybe it's hatred I spew, \Nmaybe it's food for the spirit."
Dialogue: 0,0:01:25.98,0:01:29.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Hip hop?
Dialogue: 0,0:01:29.98,0:01:32.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Shakespeare?
Dialogue: 0,0:01:32.34,0:01:35.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Getting overwhelmingly towards \NShakespeare. Interesting.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:35.97,0:01:38.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Anyone heard of a gentleman \Nknown as Eminem?
Dialogue: 0,0:01:38.11,0:01:39.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:01:39.50,0:01:41.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He's not Shakespeare.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:41.15,0:01:43.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's from a track Eminem did \Nwith Jay-Z actually, called "Renegade."
Dialogue: 0,0:01:43.82,0:01:45.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We'll go for a couple more.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:45.44,0:01:50.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Men would rather use their broken weapons \Nthan their bare hands."
Dialogue: 0,0:01:50.66,0:01:56.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Men would rather use their broken weapons \Nthan their bare hands."
Dialogue: 0,0:01:56.34,0:02:00.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Hip hop?
Dialogue: 0,0:02:00.99,0:02:02.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Shakespeare?
Dialogue: 0,0:02:02.98,0:02:05.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Pretty even spread with\Na Shakespearean lean.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:05.10,0:02:09.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That one is from Shakespeare, \Nit's from a play known as "Othello."
Dialogue: 0,0:02:09.74,0:02:11.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We go for:
Dialogue: 0,0:02:11.06,0:02:14.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"I was not born under a rhyming planet."
Dialogue: 0,0:02:14.74,0:02:20.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"I was not born under a rhyming planet."
Dialogue: 0,0:02:20.66,0:02:24.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Hip hop?
Dialogue: 0,0:02:24.22,0:02:26.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Shakespeare?
Dialogue: 0,0:02:26.97,0:02:29.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That one is Shakespeare. It's from\N"Much Ado about Nothing."
Dialogue: 0,0:02:29.42,0:02:31.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We go for two more.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:31.54,0:02:32.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We go for:
Dialogue: 0,0:02:32.94,0:02:37.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"The most benevolent king \Ncommunicates through your dreams."
Dialogue: 0,0:02:37.90,0:02:43.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"The most benevolent king \Ncommunicates through your dreams."
Dialogue: 0,0:02:43.62,0:02:47.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Hip hop?
Dialogue: 0,0:02:47.03,0:02:49.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Shakespeare?
Dialogue: 0,0:02:49.19,0:02:51.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Ah, fifty-fifty there.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:51.44,0:02:54.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A gentleman known as the RZA\Nwho's the head of the Wu-Tang Clan.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:54.23,0:02:57.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We're gonna be revisiting the Wu-Tang later,\Nwe'll be talking about him a lot.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:57.74,0:03:00.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He's one of the main exponents \Nof hip hop philosophy,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:00.29,0:03:03.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,someone, or a collective, that \Nhad a huge influence on me.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:03.25,0:03:05.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But we'll revisit them.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:05.09,0:03:08.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Last quote of the day.\NLet's go for...
Dialogue: 0,0:03:08.62,0:03:14.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Socrates, philosophies and \Nhypotheses can't define."
Dialogue: 0,0:03:14.50,0:03:18.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Socrates, philosophies and \Nhypotheses can't define."
Dialogue: 0,0:03:18.90,0:03:21.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Hip hop?
Dialogue: 0,0:03:21.64,0:03:24.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Shakespeare?
Dialogue: 0,0:03:24.03,0:03:26.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Overwhelmingly towards hip hop. \NAnd that one, that is hip hop.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:26.38,0:03:29.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's Wu-Tang again, that's \Nfrom a man named Inspectah Deck.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:29.62,0:03:32.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Interestingly, that quote \Ncomes from a single, or track,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:32.94,0:03:35.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,known as "Triumph" \Nfrom the album "Wu-Tang Forever."
Dialogue: 0,0:03:35.07,0:03:39.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Wu-Tang Forever" was the first hip-hop album\Nto go number one in this country.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:39.16,0:03:42.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So that was what made hip hop cross over\Nwith this kind of lyricism,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:42.54,0:03:47.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but we're gonna revisit that a little later\Nand revisit the Wu-Tang, as I said.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:47.09,0:03:52.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, as you can see, it wasn't as clear-cut\Nas many of us may have thought.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:52.10,0:03:55.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The language used,\Nthe subjects spoken about,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:55.15,0:03:58.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,various things make it very, very difficult\Nonce the context is taken away,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:58.29,0:04:00.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,once our perception is taken away,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:00.03,0:04:04.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and we have to look at just \Nthe raw language of the two art forms.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:04.06,0:04:07.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And don't worry, we've done \Nthat exercise over 400 times,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:07.22,0:04:09.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and as of yet, no-one\Nhas got them all right.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:09.18,0:04:12.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Not even some of\Nthe most senior professors
Dialogue: 0,0:04:12.10,0:04:15.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,at some of the most respected \NShakespearean institutions in the country,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:15.42,0:04:18.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I shan't name names.\N(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:04:18.06,0:04:21.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But needless to say: it's challenged \Na lot of people's perceptions
Dialogue: 0,0:04:21.82,0:04:24.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and we extend from that, \Nwe look at some of the other parallels
Dialogue: 0,0:04:24.04,0:04:25.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,between hip hop and Shakespeare,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:25.52,0:04:27.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,at some of the other things they share.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:27.44,0:04:30.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,One of the main things that is shared \Nbetween the two is of course rhythm.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:30.62,0:04:34.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Iambic pentameter --\Ndee-dum, dee-dum, dee-dum, dee-dum, dee-dum.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:34.10,0:04:37.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Five sets, two beats, \Nit's actually a wonderful rhythm
Dialogue: 0,0:04:37.37,0:04:40.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to use in hip hop music\Nand translates in a way
Dialogue: 0,0:04:40.17,0:04:42.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that even artists writing\Ntoday find difficult.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:42.82,0:04:44.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What do I mean by that?
Dialogue: 0,0:04:44.05,0:04:47.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's very difficult to take, even as an MC,\Nwho is a professional MC,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:47.82,0:04:49.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a lyric written over a grime beat,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:49.50,0:04:53.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,grime is a 140 bpm. \NVery, very fast tempo.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:53.73,0:04:55.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And then take that same lyric \Nand put it on a...
Dialogue: 0,0:04:55.91,0:05:00.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,what we consider to be a \Ntraditional hip hop beat, 70-80 bpm.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:00.07,0:05:02.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A very, very difficult skill.\NEven writing now,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:02.58,0:05:03.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with the music to hand.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:03.98,0:05:08.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Yet, the iambic pentameter \Nallows us to do just that.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:08.05,0:05:13.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'll show you what I mean rather \Nthan tell you. So listen up.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:17.86,0:05:20.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Cue music please.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:20.59,0:05:22.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Music)
Dialogue: 0,0:05:22.39,0:05:25.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What you're about to hear, \Nsome of you may know of it,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:25.13,0:05:27.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,some of you may not.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:27.02,0:05:30.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's Shakespeare's most famous poem,\NSonnet 18.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:30.42,0:05:34.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I haven't adopted it to make it\Nfit to the rhythm, but just listen close.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:34.45,0:05:38.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Okay. Yo.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:38.33,0:05:40.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Shall I compare thee\Nto a summer's day?
Dialogue: 0,0:05:40.45,0:05:43.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Thou art more lovely\Nand more temperate:
Dialogue: 0,0:05:43.01,0:05:44.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Rough winds do shake\Nthe darling buds of May,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:44.93,0:05:47.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And summer's lease\Nhath all too short a date:
Dialogue: 0,0:05:47.15,0:05:49.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Sometimes too hot\Nthe eye of heaven shines,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:49.45,0:05:51.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And often is his\Ngold complexion dimm'd;
Dialogue: 0,0:05:51.65,0:05:53.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And every fair from fair\Nsometime declines,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:53.90,0:05:56.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,By chance or nature's\Nchanging course untrimm'd;
Dialogue: 0,0:05:56.17,0:05:58.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But thy eternal summer shall not fade
Dialogue: 0,0:05:58.49,0:06:00.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Nor lose possession\Nof that fair thou ow'st;
Dialogue: 0,0:06:00.77,0:06:02.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Nor shall Death brag thou\Nwander'st in his shade,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:02.98,0:06:05.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When in eternal lines\Nto time thou grow'st:
Dialogue: 0,0:06:05.17,0:06:07.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So long as men can breathe\Nor eyes can see,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:07.45,0:06:09.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So long lives this\Nand this gives life to thee.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:09.77,0:06:12.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So long as men can breathe\Nor eyes can see,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:12.01,0:06:16.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So long lives this\Nand this gives life to thee."
Dialogue: 0,0:06:16.41,0:06:17.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Applause)
Dialogue: 0,0:06:17.91,0:06:23.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now as you can see, \Nit sits right there in the rhythm.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:23.98,0:06:26.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's right in the pocket of the beat.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:26.07,0:06:29.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now we're gonna try a completely different\Nstyle of beat, different tempo of beat.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:29.41,0:06:34.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You're gonna see the same lyric, \Nbecause of this consistent rhythm, can fit.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:34.21,0:06:35.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Let's try.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:35.04,0:06:41.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Music)
Dialogue: 0,0:06:41.54,0:06:43.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Shall I compare thee\Nto a summer's day?
Dialogue: 0,0:06:43.17,0:06:45.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Thou art more lovely\Nand more temperate:
Dialogue: 0,0:06:45.21,0:06:46.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Rough winds do shake\Nthe darling buds of May,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:46.54,0:06:48.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And summer's lease\Nhath all too short a date:
Dialogue: 0,0:06:48.26,0:06:50.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Sometime too hot\Nthe eye of heaven shines,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:50.01,0:06:51.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And often is his\Ngold complexion dimm'd;
Dialogue: 0,0:06:51.69,0:06:53.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And every fair from fair\Nsometime declines,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:53.41,0:06:55.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,By chance or nature's\Nchanging course untrimm'd;
Dialogue: 0,0:06:55.13,0:06:56.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But thy eternal summer shall not fade
Dialogue: 0,0:06:56.85,0:06:58.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Nor lose possession\Nof that fair thou ow'st;
Dialogue: 0,0:06:58.57,0:07:00.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Nor shall Death brag\Nthou wander'st in his shade,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:00.09,0:07:01.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When in eternal lines\Nto time thou grow'st:
Dialogue: 0,0:07:01.81,0:07:03.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So long as men can breathe\Nor eyes can see,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:03.57,0:07:05.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So long lives this\Nand this gives life to thee.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:05.33,0:07:07.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So long as men can breathe\Nor eyes can see,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:07.09,0:07:10.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So long lives this\Nand this gives life to thee."
Dialogue: 0,0:07:10.09,0:07:14.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Applause)
Dialogue: 0,0:07:14.93,0:07:19.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What I'd like you all to do is just \Nput your hand on your heart for a second.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:22.14,0:07:24.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now... If you feel your heart,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:24.14,0:07:27.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,hopefully, your heart should \Nbe beating in sets of two,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:27.09,0:07:30.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,one off, one on, dee-dum, \Nor an iamb, as we call it.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:30.21,0:07:34.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If it isn't, I do suggest you \Nconsult a doctor as soon as possible.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:34.13,0:07:36.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But because of that --\Nyou can take your hands off your hearts now --
Dialogue: 0,0:07:36.34,0:07:39.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But because of that, that's why \Nthis rhythm is so intrinsic,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:39.94,0:07:43.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,where, really, music is imitating \Nthe rhythm of life, the sounds of life.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:43.50,0:07:45.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The heartbeat of life.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:45.34,0:07:49.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And so, this rhythm, iambic pentameter,\Neven though being such a simple rhythm,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:49.23,0:07:51.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is intrinsic to so many forms of music.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:51.10,0:07:53.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Other places in the world, they \Nhave different sorts of rhythms.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:53.02,0:07:55.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Like the West-African rhythms, \Nit's on the three,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:55.34,0:07:58.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,people speak in triplets, essentially.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:58.78,0:08:01.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Well, we found that this rhythm \Nreally acts as a mnemonic device,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:01.74,0:08:03.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for young people to remember the lyrics.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:03.90,0:08:08.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But also, really, as a way to understand \Nsome of what is being said.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:08.66,0:08:10.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The rhythm helps us understand it.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:10.46,0:08:12.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It helps us to communicate feeling.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:12.14,0:08:14.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And of course, in hip hop, tonality,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:14.26,0:08:16.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the way you say what you're saying,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:16.50,0:08:17.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the mood with which \Nwhat you're saying,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:17.98,0:08:19.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the rhythm with which \Nwhat you're saying,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:19.82,0:08:21.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is as important as what \Nyou're actually saying.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:21.87,0:08:23.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But revisiting the philosophies
Dialogue: 0,0:08:23.79,0:08:26.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the perceptions or conceptions \Nof these two art forms,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:26.74,0:08:29.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,these two things we think\Nwe know so much about,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:29.04,0:08:31.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we'll start with Shakespeare.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:31.46,0:08:34.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Over the course of the past \Nthree or four years,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:34.34,0:08:37.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,having worked with hundreds, \Nthousands of young people now,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:37.62,0:08:39.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,at hundreds of workshops,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:39.23,0:08:41.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we found out very interesting things
Dialogue: 0,0:08:41.90,0:08:43.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,about people's perception \Nof Shakespeare.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:43.70,0:08:45.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Who they think he was,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:45.42,0:08:49.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,what the inherited beliefs \Nof the time in which he lived,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:49.14,0:08:52.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the people he was surrounded by, \Nhis background, are.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:52.34,0:08:56.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Some of them are of course,\Njust as with hip hop, complete nonsense.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:56.26,0:08:58.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This idea for example \Nthat Shakespeare spoke,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:58.62,0:09:01.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as people say to us, posh, \Nor the Queen's English.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:01.80,0:09:03.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Received pronunciation.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:03.44,0:09:06.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Well, received pronunciation \Nwe know wasn't invented
Dialogue: 0,0:09:06.04,0:09:08.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,well after 100 years \Nafter Shakespeare died.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:08.12,0:09:11.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He'd never heard what we think\Nof today as the Queen's English.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:11.12,0:09:13.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When he was alive, people \Nspoke a bit more like a mix
Dialogue: 0,0:09:13.61,0:09:16.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,between people from \NYorkshire and Cornwall.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:16.00,0:09:18.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So for example, the word "hours" \Nwas pronounced "urrs."
Dialogue: 0,0:09:18.40,0:09:19.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Urrs and urrs and urrs."
Dialogue: 0,0:09:19.92,0:09:22.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Or: "mood" and "blood" ... rhyme!
Dialogue: 0,0:09:22.28,0:09:26.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"mu:dd" and "blu:dd" was the way\Nin which people would pronounce those words.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:26.80,0:09:29.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The times in which he lived, you know,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:29.12,0:09:31.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the chasm between rich and poor\Nbeing larger than it is today,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:31.85,0:09:35.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,though we seem to be doing our best\Nto recreate that chasm.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:35.32,0:09:38.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But... you know, he was living in very\Ntumultuous, very violent times
Dialogue: 0,0:09:38.88,0:09:42.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and we really receive almost \Na sanitized vision of that violence,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:42.48,0:09:44.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you know, coloring our view of the past.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:44.16,0:09:46.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We know over ninety percent \Nof Shakespeare's audience
Dialogue: 0,0:09:46.48,0:09:48.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,couldn't read or write.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:48.32,0:09:51.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So how is it that in the \N21st century in Britain
Dialogue: 0,0:09:51.36,0:09:55.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that he's come to be viewed\Nas almost the poster child for [elitism],
Dialogue: 0,0:09:55.73,0:09:58.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and even within that now \Nwe're getting a debate:
Dialogue: 0,0:09:58.47,0:10:00.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Did he even write his own plays?
Dialogue: 0,0:10:00.53,0:10:02.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because of course, this comes down to
Dialogue: 0,0:10:02.47,0:10:05.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who's allowed to be the custodian \Nof knowledge and who isn't.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:05.57,0:10:07.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Shakespeare was someone\Nwho didn't go [to uni].
Dialogue: 0,0:10:07.26,0:10:11.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He wasn't Oxbridge. He's seen -- by some --\Nthey need to see him that way --
Dialogue: 0,0:10:11.47,0:10:15.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as someone who's not entitled to be \Na custodian of knowledge.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:15.02,0:10:18.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So we have to find an explanation\Nfor his intelligence
Dialogue: 0,0:10:18.02,0:10:21.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,rather than just accepting \Nhis intelligence as an actual fact.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:21.58,0:10:23.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Which brings me on to hip hop.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:23.74,0:10:25.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Many people have opinions of hip hop --
Dialogue: 0,0:10:25.78,0:10:28.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of course, the media's had some \Nvery loud opinions of hip hop.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:28.70,0:10:31.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But I've found again over this \Nworking with thousands of people,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:31.38,0:10:32.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and these hundreds of workshops,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:32.98,0:10:35.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and interactions with these institutions,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:35.16,0:10:37.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,many people who have \Nan opinion of hip hop
Dialogue: 0,0:10:37.24,0:10:39.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,know absolutely nothing about it.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:39.06,0:10:40.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Zero. Zip. What do I mean by that?
Dialogue: 0,0:10:40.94,0:10:43.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So... the very words "hip hop,"
Dialogue: 0,0:10:43.54,0:10:46.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the "hip" in that word comes \Nfrom the Wolof word "hipi,"
Dialogue: 0,0:10:46.63,0:10:48.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Wolof is a Senegalese language,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:48.34,0:10:51.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it means "to open one's eyes and see" \Nas a term of enlightenment.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:51.22,0:10:53.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The word "hop" from the English \Nsignifying movement,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:53.78,0:10:57.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,thus "hip hop" means \N"intelligent movement."
Dialogue: 0,0:10:57.93,0:10:59.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Hip hop contains five elements
Dialogue: 0,0:10:59.74,0:11:03.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as codified by its founding \Nfathers in New York City.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:03.30,0:11:04.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It contains five elements.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:04.86,0:11:07.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,DJing, MCing, break dancing, graffiti art
Dialogue: 0,0:11:07.88,0:11:10.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the fifth element, which is the one\NI want to talk about today:
Dialogue: 0,0:11:10.82,0:11:12.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Knowledge.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:12.26,0:11:15.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,An element we don't see so much\Nin the television or the radio, perhaps.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:15.90,0:11:19.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But of course the representations \Nof that culture today are not owned
Dialogue: 0,0:11:19.26,0:11:21.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,by the people who founded that culture.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:21.46,0:11:22.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But when it's understood,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:22.90,0:11:24.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,if we go back to the medieval \NWest-African empires
Dialogue: 0,0:11:24.99,0:11:27.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of Mali, Songhai, Gao, ancient Ghana,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:27.54,0:11:30.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you have a character that \Nthe Malians refer to as a griot.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:30.46,0:11:32.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,These griots still exist today,\Nwell, who was the griot?
Dialogue: 0,0:11:32.73,0:11:36.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The griot was a rhythmic,\Noral poet, singer,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:36.97,0:11:41.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,musician, custodian of the history, \Nof the spiritual tradition, etc. etc. etc.,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:41.76,0:11:43.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of those empires, of that culture.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:43.97,0:11:45.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When we start to understand
Dialogue: 0,0:11:45.53,0:11:49.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,how those musical oral cultural traditions \Nmanifested in many complex ways,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:49.53,0:11:53.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the Americas, and helped\Ninfluence jazz, blues, funk,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:53.29,0:11:54.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,up to hip hop,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:54.93,0:11:57.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we get a much greater sense \Nof what the founding fathers,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:57.66,0:12:01.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Afrika Bambaataa, Kool DJ Herc \Nand Grandmaster Flash were trying to do
Dialogue: 0,0:12:01.49,0:12:03.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when they codified this culture in this way,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:03.49,0:12:05.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and understood in that context, of course,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:05.57,0:12:08.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,hip hop becomes a very \Ndifferent proposition
Dialogue: 0,0:12:08.28,0:12:12.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to a way in which much of the time \Nit has been represented,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:12.41,0:12:14.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when we understand what \Nwas going on in New York City
Dialogue: 0,0:12:14.81,0:12:16.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the late seventies, early eighties.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:16.53,0:12:18.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,People coming out of \Na post-civil rights era,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:18.81,0:12:23.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,aesthetic influence by the literature \Nof Amiri Baraka or James Baldwin,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:23.45,0:12:25.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,influenced by the persona \Nof a Muhammed Ali,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:25.53,0:12:27.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,influenced by the funk \Nof a James Brown.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:27.11,0:12:30.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,James Brown the drummer, incidentally, \Nis the most-sampled drummer in history.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:30.13,0:12:33.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,His famous loop becomes \Nthe basis of all hip hop music.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:33.65,0:12:35.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And that is the only \Nintellectually honest context
Dialogue: 0,0:12:35.81,0:12:38.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in which to place hip hop as a culture.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:38.36,0:12:40.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And that's kind of what I grew up in.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:40.37,0:12:42.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's what I was massively influenced by.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:42.41,0:12:46.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And it became, really... Up until \Nthe mid-nineties, it was still normal
Dialogue: 0,0:12:46.09,0:12:50.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for the most commercially successful rappers \Nto boast about how clever they were.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:50.49,0:12:53.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,To talk about kicking science, \Ndropping knowledge,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:53.09,0:12:55.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,spreading mathematics, \Nwhile simultaneously
Dialogue: 0,0:12:55.57,0:12:58.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,talking about what life was like \Nin the projects of New York City.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:58.94,0:13:01.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There was no contradiction between\Nboth of those elements,
Dialogue: 0,0:13:01.69,0:13:05.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and again, it was about who \Nwas custodian of the knowledge.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:05.21,0:13:07.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Who was choosing to pick up that \Nbaton and run with it?
Dialogue: 0,0:13:07.26,0:13:10.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And one of the things that was \Nso inspirational about hip hop
Dialogue: 0,0:13:10.26,0:13:12.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,was that people who were told \Nthey were not supposed to do that,
Dialogue: 0,0:13:12.62,0:13:14.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,without trying to be anything they weren't,
Dialogue: 0,0:13:14.39,0:13:16.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,without dressing any different,
Dialogue: 0,0:13:16.34,0:13:18.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,without speaking any differently,
Dialogue: 0,0:13:18.34,0:13:20.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they decided, they made the decision:
Dialogue: 0,0:13:20.14,0:13:21.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"We're going to become \Ncustodians of this knowledge.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:21.89,0:13:23.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We're gonna educate ourselves
Dialogue: 0,0:13:23.18,0:13:25.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and we're gonna transmit \Nthis knowledge through the music."
Dialogue: 0,0:13:25.86,0:13:28.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The main exponents of that in my life,\Nthe main influence on me,
Dialogue: 0,0:13:28.39,0:13:30.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,was this group I already \Ntold you about, the Wu-Tang Clan.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:30.66,0:13:33.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When "Wu-Tang Forever" came out, \Nwhen I was in school,
Dialogue: 0,0:13:33.14,0:13:39.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it was the first album that united people\Nthat listened to all different sorts of music.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:39.19,0:13:43.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And up to then, hip hop, still, in London, \Nreally only appealed to
Dialogue: 0,0:13:43.98,0:13:47.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a particular segment of the people, \Nin my school, anyway.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:47.10,0:13:48.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And then "Wu-Tang Forever" came out,
Dialogue: 0,0:13:48.98,0:13:51.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and all of a sudden, kids \Nwho listened to Heavy Metal,
Dialogue: 0,0:13:51.42,0:13:52.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,kids who were into Blur and Oasis,
Dialogue: 0,0:13:52.74,0:13:55.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,everybody was united around \Nthis one sort of album.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:55.42,0:13:57.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And what was it about?
Dialogue: 0,0:13:57.02,0:14:02.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It was this openly proud, \Nintelligent discourse
Dialogue: 0,0:14:02.22,0:14:04.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that was so undeniable\Nthat really appealed,
Dialogue: 0,0:14:04.50,0:14:06.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in my opinion, and pulled everybody in.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:06.46,0:14:08.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I'm gonna show you \Nan example of a poem,
Dialogue: 0,0:14:08.86,0:14:11.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,well, what I would call a poem, \Nbut some people would call it rap,
Dialogue: 0,0:14:11.30,0:14:14.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,by the lead member of this group,\Na gentleman known as the RZA.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:14.66,0:14:15.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I spoke about him earlier.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:15.82,0:14:18.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He actually produced the music \Nfor the film "Kill Bill" as well,
Dialogue: 0,0:14:18.26,0:14:20.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so some people may know him \Nbetter in that capacity.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:20.54,0:14:22.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There was a poem he wrote called\N"Twelve Jewels,"
Dialogue: 0,0:14:22.32,0:14:24.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and this will give you just a sense,\Nas someone, as I said,
Dialogue: 0,0:14:24.42,0:14:26.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who was one of the most \Nsuccessful MCs of his time,
Dialogue: 0,0:14:26.94,0:14:30.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,how normal it was to be so boastful \Nabout one's intellect.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:30.90,0:14:33.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's a piece called "Twelve Jewels," \Nyou can look it up on the internet.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:33.07,0:14:34.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm only gonna share a little bit.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:34.66,0:14:37.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It goes like this:
Dialogue: 0,0:14:37.42,0:14:40.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"In pre-existence of the mathematical, \Nbiochemical equations,
Dialogue: 0,0:14:40.42,0:14:43.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the manifestations of \Nrock, plant, air, fire and water,
Dialogue: 0,0:14:43.58,0:14:46.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,without their basic formations,\Nsolids, liquids and gases,
Dialogue: 0,0:14:46.74,0:14:49.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that cause the land masses\Nand the space catalysts
Dialogue: 0,0:14:49.86,0:14:52.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and all matter that exists \Nand this dense third dimension
Dialogue: 0,0:14:52.82,0:14:55.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,must observe a\Nphysical comprehension.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:55.08,0:14:56.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It takes a nerve to be struck.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:56.94,0:15:00.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Wisdom is the wise poet spoken to wake up\Nthe dumb who've been sleeping.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:00.26,0:15:03.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The fourth dimension is time.\NIt goes inside the mind.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:03.58,0:15:06.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When the shackles energize\Nup through the back of your spine.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:06.34,0:15:09.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So observe as my Chi energy \Nstrikes a vital nerve.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:09.26,0:15:11.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,One swerve with the tongue \Npierces like a sword through the lung.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:11.75,0:15:14.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Have you not heard that words\Nkill as fast as bullets?
Dialogue: 0,0:15:14.92,0:15:17.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When you load negative thoughts\Nfrom the chamber of your brain,
Dialogue: 0,0:15:17.54,0:15:21.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and your mouth pulls the trigger \Nthat propels wickedness straight from hell.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:21.34,0:15:24.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,From the pits of your stomach\Nwhere negativity dwells."
Dialogue: 0,0:15:24.54,0:15:27.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's just a little piece \Nof the RZA's "Twelve Jewels."
Dialogue: 0,0:15:27.91,0:15:29.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But it's interesting.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:29.62,0:15:31.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because when you understand\Nthat kind of lyricism,
Dialogue: 0,0:15:31.91,0:15:35.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you realize that hip hop carries \Nthat same power as with Shakespeare.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:35.88,0:15:38.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You know, the transmute philosophy,\Nas with any great art,
Dialogue: 0,0:15:38.54,0:15:40.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to question the world around us.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:40.21,0:15:42.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And this brings us, really, \Nto the conclusion
Dialogue: 0,0:15:42.30,0:15:45.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,about what the work we do with\Nthe Hip Hop Shakespeare Company
Dialogue: 0,0:15:45.05,0:15:47.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,from theater productions\Nto education productions
Dialogue: 0,0:15:47.82,0:15:51.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to hopefully film and TV,\Nwhich we're working on at the moment.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:51.25,0:15:52.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What it's all about
Dialogue: 0,0:15:52.30,0:15:54.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it's about who is going to be \Ncustodian of the knowledge?
Dialogue: 0,0:15:54.95,0:15:58.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And in the 21st century, particularly \Nmoving towards post-industrial societies,
Dialogue: 0,0:15:58.59,0:16:00.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,where we don't need masses of workers,
Dialogue: 0,0:16:00.50,0:16:03.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we're not training masses of workers \Nto go and work in factories anymore,
Dialogue: 0,0:16:03.10,0:16:04.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,these are big questions.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:04.67,0:16:06.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What is the purpose of education today?
Dialogue: 0,0:16:06.78,0:16:08.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What are we teaching young people?
Dialogue: 0,0:16:08.78,0:16:12.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What are we training the \Nnext generation to do and form?
Dialogue: 0,0:16:12.10,0:16:14.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Are we training each individual \Nhuman being in a society
Dialogue: 0,0:16:14.58,0:16:17.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,where, increasingly, \Nthe success or failure of a society
Dialogue: 0,0:16:17.98,0:16:22.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is going to be dependent on the mind, \Nor ideas, of the people within that society?
Dialogue: 0,0:16:22.93,0:16:25.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Are we training people to aspire \Nto be the best they can be?
Dialogue: 0,0:16:25.86,0:16:27.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,To reach their full potential?
Dialogue: 0,0:16:27.74,0:16:29.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Wherever they're born in that society
Dialogue: 0,0:16:29.46,0:16:33.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or are we still working in the old, \Nstratified ways of thinking
Dialogue: 0,0:16:33.02,0:16:35.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that people have stations \Nand places they need to be,
Dialogue: 0,0:16:35.74,0:16:37.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or are we encouraging people \Nto think as big as possible?
Dialogue: 0,0:16:37.82,0:16:39.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because maybe, I don't know \Nwho in Shakespeare's life
Dialogue: 0,0:16:39.54,0:16:42.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,encouraged him to become \Na custodian of the knowledge,
Dialogue: 0,0:16:42.40,0:16:46.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but if he was not able to do that, \Nwe'd be missing his section of work,
Dialogue: 0,0:16:46.05,0:16:47.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,similarly with hip hop.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:47.83,0:16:49.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So really, that's what\Nwe want to think about.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:49.71,0:16:52.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Education, who does it belong to,\Nwho doesn't it belong to.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:52.57,0:16:55.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And using these seemingly \Ndisparate art forms,
Dialogue: 0,0:16:55.81,0:16:57.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,these two seemingly disparate worlds,
Dialogue: 0,0:16:57.37,0:16:58.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and putting them together,
Dialogue: 0,0:16:58.98,0:17:01.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to show ourselves\Na unity in human culture,
Dialogue: 0,0:17:01.08,0:17:05.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a unity in the ideas\Nthat humans pursue,
Dialogue: 0,0:17:05.12,0:17:07.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in activities humans pursue.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:07.12,0:17:09.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And to inspire people \Ntowards their own form
Dialogue: 0,0:17:09.48,0:17:14.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of artistic, literary, cultural \Nand societal accents.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:14.03,0:17:16.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm gonna share with you \Na little bit... one final piece.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:16.28,0:17:18.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's a bit more... \NI don't want to say "fun,"
Dialogue: 0,0:17:18.72,0:17:22.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but a bit more of a game\Nand a challenge.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:22.72,0:17:26.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It came out of a radio,\N"Freestyles" on Radio 1 Extra,
Dialogue: 0,0:17:26.86,0:17:29.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,about two and a half,\Nthree years ago.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:29.28,0:17:31.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And as a bit of a joke,\Nthe DJ said to me,
Dialogue: 0,0:17:31.88,0:17:33.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Here's a list of 27 Shakespeare plays,
Dialogue: 0,0:17:33.96,0:17:35.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,attempt to fit them in a freestyle."
Dialogue: 0,0:17:35.88,0:17:38.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Luckily, we did it, I don't know how, \Nwe had about ten minutes, though,
Dialogue: 0,0:17:38.88,0:17:41.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so it wasn't a true freestyle \Nin the truest sense,
Dialogue: 0,0:17:41.28,0:17:44.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but we did it as a track that we then, \Nsubsequently, put on the album,
Dialogue: 0,0:17:44.36,0:17:46.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so the first part contains \N27 Shakespeare plays,
Dialogue: 0,0:17:46.80,0:17:48.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the next parts contains
Dialogue: 0,0:17:48.62,0:17:51.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,16 of Shakespeare's \Nmost famous quotes interwoven.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:51.03,0:17:54.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's entitled "Comedy, Tragedy, History,"
Dialogue: 0,0:17:54.08,0:17:56.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you can look it up on the web, \Nand it goes like this.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:56.33,0:17:58.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm just gonna do it here, \Nlet's see how it goes.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:58.72,0:18:00.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Dat boy Akala's a diamond fella.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:00.29,0:18:01.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,All you little boys\Nare a comedy of errors.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:01.87,0:18:03.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You bellow but you fellows \Nget played like the cello.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:03.48,0:18:05.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm doing my thing,\Nyou're jealous like Othello.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:05.20,0:18:08.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Who're you? What're you gonna do?\NLittle boys get Tamed like the Shrew.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:08.16,0:18:10.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You're mid-summer dreamin',\NYour tunes aren't appealing.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:10.00,0:18:12.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm Capulet, you're Montague, I ain't feeling.\NI am the Julius Caesar, hear me?
Dialogue: 0,0:18:12.96,0:18:16.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The Merchant Of Venice couldn't sell your CD.\NAs to me, All's Well That Ends Well.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:16.48,0:18:20.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Your boy's like Macbeth, you're going to Hell.\NMeasure for Measure, I am the best here,
Dialogue: 0,0:18:20.04,0:18:21.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You're Merry Wives of Windsor, \Nnot King Lear.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:21.92,0:18:23.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I don't know about Timon,\NI know he was at Athens.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:23.56,0:18:25.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When I come back like Hamlet \Nyou pay for your action.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:25.36,0:18:27.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Dat boy Akala, \NI do it As You Like It.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:27.12,0:18:28.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You're Much Ado About Nothing,\NAll you do is bite it.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:28.72,0:18:31.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm too tight, I don't need 12 Nights.\NAll you little Tempests get murked on the mic.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:31.72,0:18:34.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Of course I'm the one with the force.\NYou're history just like Henry IV.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:34.84,0:18:38.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm fire, things look dire.\NBetter run like Pericles Prince Of Tyre.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:38.20,0:18:41.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Off the scale, cold as a Winter's Tale\NTitus Andronicus was bound to fail."
Dialogue: 0,0:18:41.78,0:18:44.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's 27 plays.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:44.68,0:18:50.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter) (Applause)\NListen up.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:50.36,0:18:54.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And there is one final bit, this contains\N16 of Shakespeare's most famous quotes.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:54.53,0:18:58.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Wise is the man that knows he's a fool\NTempt not a desperate man with a jewel.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:58.00,0:19:01.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Why take from Peter to go and pay Paul?\NSome rise by sin and by virtue fall.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:01.12,0:19:04.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What have you made if you gain the whole world.\NBut sell your own soul for the price of a pearl?
Dialogue: 0,0:19:04.45,0:19:07.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The world is my oyster and I am starving.\NI want much more than a penny or a farthing.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:07.88,0:19:11.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I told no joke, I hope you're not laughing.\NPoet or pauper which do you class him?
Dialogue: 0,0:19:11.04,0:19:14.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Speak eloquent, though I am resident \Nto the gritty inner city, surely irrelevant.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:14.48,0:19:17.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Call it urban, call it street.\NA rose by any other name, smell just as sweet
Dialogue: 0,0:19:17.85,0:19:21.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Spit so hard, but I'm smart as the Bard.\NCome through with a Union Jack, full of yard.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:21.00,0:19:22.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Akala, Akala,\Nwherefore art thou?
Dialogue: 0,0:19:22.96,0:19:24.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[I rap] Shakespeare and\Nthe secret's out now.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:24.80,0:19:27.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Chance never did crown me, this is destiny.\NYou still talk but it still perplexes me.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:27.95,0:19:31.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Devour cowards, thousands per hour.\NDon't you know the king's name is a tower?
Dialogue: 0,0:19:31.53,0:19:34.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You should never speak it, it is not a secret.\NI teach thesis, like ancient Greece's
Dialogue: 0,0:19:34.72,0:19:38.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Or Egyptology, never no apology.\NIn my mind's eye, I see things properly.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:38.12,0:19:41.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Stopping me, nah you could never possibly.\NI bear a charmed life, most probably.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:41.48,0:19:44.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,For certain I speak daggers in a phrase.\NI'll put an end to your dancing days.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:44.88,0:19:48.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,No matter what you say it will never work.\NWrens can't make prey where eagles don't perch.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:48.37,0:19:50.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm the worst with the words \N'cause I curse all my verbs.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:50.32,0:19:51.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm the first with a verse\Nto rehearse with a nurse.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:51.95,0:19:54.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There's a hearse for the first jerk who turn berserk.\NOff with his head, 'cos it must not work.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:54.84,0:19:58.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Ramp with Akala, that's true madness.\NAnd there's no method in it, just sadness.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:58.32,0:20:00.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I speak with the daggers and the hammers\Nof a passion when I'm rappin' I attack 'em.
Dialogue: 0,0:20:00.96,0:20:03.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In a military fashion the pattern of my rappin'\Nchattin couldn't ever map it.
Dialogue: 0,0:20:03.20,0:20:08.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I run more rings round things than Saturn.\NVerses split big kids wigs when I'm rappin'.
Dialogue: 0,0:20:08.43,0:20:11.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That boy Akala, the rap Shakespeare.\NDidn't want to listen, when I said last year.
Dialogue: 0,0:20:11.24,0:20:15.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Rich like a gem in a Ethiopia's ear.\NTell them again for them who never hear."
Dialogue: 0,0:20:15.48,0:20:17.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's a pleasure.
Dialogue: 0,0:20:17.00,0:20:21.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Applause)