Beats that defy boxes

Reggie Watts’ beats defy boxes. Unplug your logic board and watch as he blends poetry and crosses musical genres in this larger-than-life performance.

[Non English]

... and that's one of the things that I enjoy most

about this convention.

It's not so much, as so little as to do with what everything is.

(Laughter)

But it is within our self-interest

to understand the topography of our lives

unto ourselves.

(Laughter)

The future states

that there is no time

other than the collapsation of that sensation

of the mirror of the memories in which we are living.

(Laughter)

Common knowledge,

but important nonetheless.

(Laughter)

As we face fear in these times,

and fear is all around us,

we also have anti-fear.

It's hard to imagine or measure.

The background radiation is simply too static

to be able to be seen under the normal spectral analysis.

But we feel as though there are times

when a lot of us -- you know what I'm say'n?

But -- you know what I'm say'n?

Cuz, like, as a hip hop thing, you know what I'm say'n,

TED be rock'n -- you know what I'm say'n.

Like so I wrote a song,

and I hope you guys dig it.

It's a song about people

and sasquatches --

(Laughter)

-- and other French science stuff.

That's French science.

Okay, here we go.

I've been trying inside

I know that I'm [unclear]

But every time it gets me

[unclear]

(Music)

And I've been trying to be the one that you believe in

And your the one that I want to be [unclear]

And your the one I want to [unclear]

And you can do anything

as long as you don't get hurt along the way back

If I survive, I'm gonna tell you what is wrong

Because if you were [unclear]

And I think that you're looking like a [unclear]

I give you what I want to be

(Music)

It's like, you could use as many of those things that you want.

(Applause)

And the computer models,

no matter how many that you have

and no matter how many people that you use,

are never going to be able to arrive at the same conclusions.

Four years ago I worked with a few people at the Brookings Institute,

and I arrived at a conclusion.

(Laughter)

Tomorrow is another day.

(Laughter)

Not just any day,

but it is a day.

It will get here, there's no question.

And the important thing to remember

is that this simulation is a good one.

It's believable, it's tactile.

You can reach out -- things are solid.

You can move objects from one area to another.

You can feel your body.

You can say, "I'd like to go over to this location,"

and you can move this mass of molecules through the air

over to another location at will.

(Laughter)

That's something you live inside of every day.

Now with the allocation and the understanding,

the lack of understanding,

we enter into a new era of science

in which we feel nothing more

than so much so as to say

that those within themselves,

comporary or non-comporary,

will figuratively figure

into the folding of our non-understanding

and our partial understanding

to the networks of which we all draw our source

and conclusions from.

(Laughter)

So, as I say before the last piece,

feel not as though it is a sphere we live on,

rather an infinite plane which has the illusion

of leading yourself back to the point of origin.

(Laughter)

Once we understand that all the spheres in the sky

are just large infinite planes,

it will be plain to see. ha ha ha.

This is my final piece.

And just remember,

everything you are

is more important to realize

the negative space,

as music is only a division of space;

it is the space we are listening to divided as such,

which gives us the information

comparison to something other

that gives us the idea of what the idea that wants to be transmitted

wants to be.

So please, without further ado.

(Applause)

Thank you.

(Applause)

This is a fun one.

It goes like this.

(Music)

Okay, for the last piece I'd like to do,

this one goes very similar to this.

I hope you guys recognize it.

Here we go.

Okay, that still works. Okay, good.

All right, here we go.

(Laughter)

(Music)

Here we go.

(Music)

Yeah, Yo, Yo, Yo

(Music)

Thank you. Enjoy the rest. Thank you.

(Applause)