A retrospective on the long-running groundbreaking hip-hop tv program "Rap City" | dHNfZnk1S0dmcmsybGM
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00:00 - Take one, Mark.
00:01 - Y'all know what it is, Rap City forever.
00:03 - It became phenomenal that none of us expected.
00:07 - You wanted real hip-hop, you went to Rap City.
00:10 - The longest-running hip-hop show.
00:14 - Rap City, it was the religion.
00:16 The hosts were the disciples.
00:18 - And this is still Rap City.
00:20 - Hip-hop, blackness, culture, creativity.
00:23 - Iconic moments, but now there's an
00:26 ill-matic, super-heroic visual.
00:30 - The booth was what really took it to that next level.
00:33 - That was a moment to just have fun.
00:35 - It was the magnum opus for hip-hop.
00:38 - And he just pitched some bars.
00:40 - I was at home like, "Damn, yo!"
00:42 - There was no place you could get pure, uncut raw.
00:46 - Here's the thing that people didn't know.
00:48 - There was a beef between 106 and Rap City.
00:50 - Competition that we weren't prepared to deal with.
00:52 - We can't get "Who" because they're going to the other show.
00:55 - Be professional.
00:57 - Rap City was truly authentic.
00:59 - It was for the gritty, it was for the grimy,
01:01 and that's what made it so special.
01:03 - We were introduced to so many other artists
01:05 just at the beginning, before they started to blow.
01:08 - And Rap City can't miss people's eyes, man.
01:10 - It showed me I had a shot at it for real.
01:12 - There's no other show like it, and there never will be.
01:15 - I mean, that's television history.
01:17 - Welcome to Rap City, a three-part documentary
01:19 premieres Tuesday, October 10th at 8 on BET.