0:00:00 > 0:00:04This programme contains very strong language
0:00:04 > 0:00:06# RAPPING: Do you two spit random sentences cos you're lacking intelligence
0:00:06 > 0:00:09# That's factual relevance While actual evidence
0:00:09 > 0:00:12# Your boy told me you penis is lacking development
0:00:12 > 0:00:14# And you have the face like the back of an elephant #
0:00:14 > 0:00:16WHISTLING AND CHEERING
0:00:17 > 0:00:18# And you're so heavy
0:00:18 > 0:00:21# That you can stand steady in the middle of a whirlwind
0:00:21 > 0:00:24# How does it feel to have bigger titties than your girlfriend?
0:00:24 > 0:00:27# No-one needs jiggling when they're trying to spit flows
0:00:27 > 0:00:30# The only thing you have on us is about six stone
0:00:30 > 0:00:31AUDIENCE: Oh!
0:00:32 > 0:00:34# There's something you need to understand
0:00:34 > 0:00:37# Even if you dyed your hair Lost the weight and got a sun tan
0:00:37 > 0:00:38# You would still be an ugly man
0:00:38 > 0:00:42# You've probably had sex with more fellas than Nugget's mam. #
0:00:42 > 0:00:43The fucking skank.
0:00:43 > 0:00:46CHEERING
0:00:46 > 0:00:49Irish hip hop is taboo, just the name.
0:00:49 > 0:00:50A white, ginger rapper, you know what I mean?
0:00:50 > 0:00:52You laugh when you hear that sort of shit.
0:01:01 > 0:01:04Come on, everyone, make some fucking noise, it's a party!
0:01:04 > 0:01:05CHEERING
0:01:05 > 0:01:08REDZER RAPS INDISTINCTLY
0:01:17 > 0:01:21Redzer is a rapper in one of Dublin and Ireland's biggest rap bands,
0:01:21 > 0:01:22The Class A'z.
0:01:22 > 0:01:25In recent years, they have released a number of self-made videos
0:01:25 > 0:01:28with the aim of achieving commercial success.
0:01:28 > 0:01:29I've put in a lot money,
0:01:29 > 0:01:33lot of time, lot of effort and I want that big pay day back.
0:01:33 > 0:01:36I want the number one, I want the awards, I want the accolades.
0:01:36 > 0:01:38I want people to say, "Redzer, you made it."
0:01:38 > 0:01:39That's the goal.
0:01:42 > 0:01:44# Fucking hip hop
0:01:45 > 0:01:46# Fucking hip hop, work it
0:01:46 > 0:01:50# Shut the fuck up
0:01:50 > 0:01:53# Shut the fuck up I want to say something
0:01:53 > 0:01:55# I'm here to keep the place buzzing... #
0:01:55 > 0:01:59I hate authority, I hate politicians, I hate teachers,
0:01:59 > 0:02:02I hate fucking people that go around clamping cars.
0:02:02 > 0:02:04I hate anyone who thinks they have authority.
0:02:04 > 0:02:07# I fucking hate you, little pea I'll shoot that punk in the face
0:02:07 > 0:02:09# We've been doing this for eons Not a couple of days... #
0:02:09 > 0:02:13Has Enda Kenny ever had to chose between medication or food?
0:02:13 > 0:02:15No. So what does he know?
0:02:15 > 0:02:17When they're making these cuts and stuff,
0:02:17 > 0:02:19it doesn't affect them. That's what pisses me off.
0:02:19 > 0:02:22Put me in there because I know what it's like
0:02:22 > 0:02:23to, literally, have no money.
0:02:23 > 0:02:25I've been on the bones of my arse,
0:02:25 > 0:02:29I've went without food for three or four days, you know what I mean.
0:02:29 > 0:02:30Growing up, I've done that.
0:02:30 > 0:02:33Enda Kenny and all these politicians and that who've gone to college.
0:02:33 > 0:02:35Yeah, they've gone to college,
0:02:35 > 0:02:37College doesn't teach you how to fucking pick between medicine
0:02:37 > 0:02:39or food or drugs or whatever.
0:02:39 > 0:02:43They don't know anything about the realness of the country.
0:02:43 > 0:02:45They talk about Ireland as this, like, "Oh, Ireland".
0:02:45 > 0:02:49No, Ireland is a dying country, you know what I mean.
0:02:49 > 0:02:52And they're not doing enough to fucking save us.
0:02:52 > 0:02:55And we're not doing enough to save ourselves either.
0:02:55 > 0:02:58This country... Modern Ireland saddens me. It saddens me, it does.
0:02:58 > 0:03:01# Feel the toil Just shut the fuck up
0:03:01 > 0:03:06# Shut the fuck up Everybody here, shut the fuck up
0:03:06 > 0:03:08# Everybody here, shut the fuck up. #
0:03:10 > 0:03:14- Fair play to everyone, thanks very much for having us here.- Thank you.
0:03:14 > 0:03:17Next year, I want to have a number one.
0:03:17 > 0:03:19At least one number one, like.
0:03:19 > 0:03:22I mean, we've been number one in the download charts and stuff like that,
0:03:22 > 0:03:25but it's not good enough. We want an actual number one.
0:03:25 > 0:03:27And we're not going to stop until we get it.
0:03:29 > 0:03:30It's the bomb.
0:03:30 > 0:03:33To date, the only successful Irish rap bands have been comedy acts
0:03:33 > 0:03:36such as the Rubberbandits.
0:03:36 > 0:03:39However, hidden away, Ireland does have an underground hip hop scene
0:03:39 > 0:03:43with rap groups appearing in nearly every housing estate in the country.
0:03:43 > 0:03:46Many of these artists see themselves as serious musicians
0:03:46 > 0:03:48within the Irish tradition.
0:03:48 > 0:03:51We're not in America, we're not American hip hop artists.
0:03:51 > 0:03:53We'd been more tied in with the likes of the Wolf Tones
0:03:53 > 0:03:56and the Dublin Boys than we would any of the hip hop artists,
0:03:56 > 0:03:59let's be honest about it, you know what I mean.
0:04:01 > 0:04:04The first rap I ever wrote was years ago with one of my mates.
0:04:04 > 0:04:06And we done it in the big American accent.
0:04:06 > 0:04:07We had it on a little radio.
0:04:07 > 0:04:10But, I don't speak of that because we don't like to,
0:04:10 > 0:04:13- you know what I mean. - THEY ALL LAUGH
0:04:13 > 0:04:16And if that tape ever surfaces, like, I'd be in trouble.
0:04:16 > 0:04:21You see, I was only...I was only 14 or 15 at the time.
0:04:21 > 0:04:23But I snapped out of that, know what I mean.
0:04:23 > 0:04:26I'm now 25, so, if you're rapping in American accents,
0:04:26 > 0:04:28there's still time, you'll snap out of it and you'll grow up.
0:04:28 > 0:04:31You hear them tunes, say you were rapping in an American accent.
0:04:31 > 0:04:33You hear them when you're 25, you're going to go,
0:04:33 > 0:04:35"What the fuck was I doing, man? What was I doing?"
0:04:35 > 0:04:38- You're going to be embarrassed. So just...- Quit now.
0:04:38 > 0:04:42..stop it. Please, stop it. Give it over. Stop.
0:04:43 > 0:04:46# I'm back up on the beat Still got the knack for the rapping
0:04:46 > 0:04:47# Racking up classics
0:04:47 > 0:04:49# While you're yapping with your brap, brap, brap, brapping
0:04:49 > 0:04:51# But I just happen to hang with the finest MCs in Ireland
0:04:51 > 0:04:54# Lyrical tyrants so exquisite multi-syllable rhyming
0:04:54 > 0:04:57# But clinical timing I'm gifted with definite style
0:04:57 > 0:04:58# Still with conviction rippin' the diction
0:04:58 > 0:05:00# Like a script in the Bible... #
0:05:00 > 0:05:02Irish rap is fairly new so it's kind of,
0:05:02 > 0:05:05we're developing the sound as we go along, kind of thing.
0:05:05 > 0:05:09- Yeah.- And it's, you know, we're trying to be as original
0:05:09 > 0:05:12and base it on our lives and where we've come from.
0:05:12 > 0:05:14# I'm heading for the top again Rocking jams
0:05:14 > 0:05:16# If you've got a problem Then you're not a friend... #
0:05:16 > 0:05:19It'll still have the American influence slightly.
0:05:19 > 0:05:21Maybe in the hand shakes or, you know, the hand signs,
0:05:21 > 0:05:22doing the Class A'z.
0:05:22 > 0:05:25Cos it's American and you grow up watching that,
0:05:25 > 0:05:27so you're going emulate these other rappers.
0:05:27 > 0:05:29- # You wanna track for you iPod? - I'm back
0:05:29 > 0:05:32- # Wanna hear a track from the mic god?- I'm back
0:05:32 > 0:05:35- # You want red on a head Nodder, yeah, man- I'm back
0:05:35 > 0:05:37- # Got respect put my rep on it Yeah, man- I'm back... #
0:05:37 > 0:05:40We run everything ourselves.
0:05:40 > 0:05:43From writing the song to even producing, massing
0:05:43 > 0:05:45and printing press and albums.
0:05:45 > 0:05:48We get our own gigs, we get very little support from anyone else.
0:05:48 > 0:05:50Anyone who's anyone in Irish hip hop
0:05:50 > 0:05:52has probably recorded their album or mixtape here.
0:05:52 > 0:05:56But, this way, we do everything in this little set-up.
0:05:56 > 0:05:59Pretty much all we need, you know, to get the music off the ground.
0:05:59 > 0:06:01# I'm just a poet like Kavanagh
0:06:01 > 0:06:05# Though I'm probably better off now Than in the times of our man
0:06:05 > 0:06:07# Damn, I'm hungrier than Bobby Sands
0:06:07 > 0:06:08# Seeing through these impostors
0:06:08 > 0:06:11# Like a doctor when he's studying a body scan
0:06:11 > 0:06:12# Doesn't matter what...#
0:06:12 > 0:06:15Today the Class A'z are shooting their latest video.
0:06:15 > 0:06:17How are you going to do it?
0:06:17 > 0:06:20I'll just be like, cocksucker, and he's coming at me, you know.
0:06:20 > 0:06:22Just drop it in, though, halfway.
0:06:22 > 0:06:26- Do I just appear or...?- Yeah, just go for it and get right in.
0:06:26 > 0:06:28- Back a bit.- Come on.
0:06:29 > 0:06:31# I'm the king in this rhyming culture
0:06:31 > 0:06:34# Most wanted lawless man since the FBI caught Whitey Bulger
0:06:34 > 0:06:36# Every line is highly vulgar
0:06:36 > 0:06:38# Better be without this cocksucker, motherfucker
0:06:38 > 0:06:39Tera, leave it out.
0:06:39 > 0:06:41# Real-life shit You're just stuck in a newby
0:06:41 > 0:06:43# Class A, Red, Tera and Nu
0:06:43 > 0:06:45# We were nothing... Brap. #
0:06:45 > 0:06:47That's exactly how I thought of it.
0:06:47 > 0:06:48THEY ALL LAUGH
0:06:48 > 0:06:50Want to see?
0:06:50 > 0:06:52# We don't know what to think Because you've still got to blink
0:06:52 > 0:06:55# And when you rap your eyes bulge And your face goes pink
0:06:55 > 0:06:57# I can see your head inflate Into the size of a basket ball
0:06:57 > 0:07:00# Like Arnold Schwarzenegger At the end of Total Recall. #
0:07:00 > 0:07:02CHEERING
0:07:02 > 0:07:03# Look while he does it The way that we does it
0:07:03 > 0:07:05# Put this grouper Who looked crookedly
0:07:05 > 0:07:06# Try as I'm gonna book it
0:07:06 > 0:07:09# This little sham here is talking rubbish but fuck it
0:07:09 > 0:07:10# Keep disrespecting me in public
0:07:10 > 0:07:12# And I'm going to kick your balls in your stomach. #
0:07:12 > 0:07:14CHEERING
0:07:14 > 0:07:19MUSIC: The Working Class Army
0:07:21 > 0:07:24In Finglas, another group of rappers are pursuing a different dream
0:07:24 > 0:07:27from the Class A'z. The Working Class Army are younger
0:07:27 > 0:07:29and see themselves as being more idealistic.
0:07:29 > 0:07:32They see rap as a means of spreading a social message
0:07:32 > 0:07:35and, for these ends, are prepared to forego commercial success
0:07:35 > 0:07:37and even give their music out for free.
0:07:37 > 0:07:41They have criticised the commercial aspirations of Redzer
0:07:41 > 0:07:42and the Class A'z.
0:07:42 > 0:07:44And this has led to a feud developing
0:07:44 > 0:07:45between the two Dublin bands.
0:07:45 > 0:07:49There's too many doing it with an eye for success.
0:07:49 > 0:07:52And, I mean, my personal opinion is,
0:07:52 > 0:07:55if you're making music solely with the intent of being successful,
0:07:55 > 0:07:58more often than not, you're not going to be successful.
0:07:58 > 0:08:01It won't have no substance to it, no substance whatsoever.
0:08:01 > 0:08:03You turn it on and, for hip hop,
0:08:03 > 0:08:05I listen to hip hop to get something from it.
0:08:05 > 0:08:08Get knowledge, wisdom. That's what it's based on,
0:08:08 > 0:08:10I mean, listening to hip hop all these years.
0:08:10 > 0:08:13We research about that stuff and we research a lot into our tunes
0:08:13 > 0:08:16and make sure that we're not saying...
0:08:16 > 0:08:18what we're saying can't be contradicted and stuff.
0:08:18 > 0:08:22Like, it's all good making music for fun.
0:08:22 > 0:08:25But the fact of the matter is, all of life isn't fun.
0:08:25 > 0:08:27So, if you're acting like it is on tracks,
0:08:27 > 0:08:30you're not being true to yourself then.
0:08:30 > 0:08:33Sturdy, lads.
0:08:33 > 0:08:35# They left us with the blueprints... #
0:08:35 > 0:08:40The feud between the two bands has turned into a public slanging match.
0:08:40 > 0:08:42Their image is the same as the newspaper,
0:08:42 > 0:08:44it's a commercial image.
0:08:44 > 0:08:47We get graphic and we go in and we know how this shit works,
0:08:47 > 0:08:49know what I mean.
0:08:49 > 0:08:52Just like the realism, what we said before, it's the realism.
0:08:52 > 0:08:55The boys live in a fantasy world, you know what I mean.
0:08:55 > 0:08:57They totally are, you know what I mean.
0:08:59 > 0:09:00We'll leave it at that.
0:09:02 > 0:09:04Keep it real. Keep it real.
0:09:08 > 0:09:10Wednesday morning and Redzer is collecting his dole.
0:09:18 > 0:09:20He has also arranged to meet Siyo,
0:09:20 > 0:09:23another rapper who has been targeted by The Working Class Army.
0:09:25 > 0:09:29Tell me, there is a bit of feud in Irish hip hop, isn't there?
0:09:29 > 0:09:32Eh, not a feud, there's...
0:09:32 > 0:09:36there's rumblings of a feud, all right, I mean.
0:09:36 > 0:09:37I don't know.
0:09:37 > 0:09:41Like, what type of credible artist or musician or fucking actor
0:09:41 > 0:09:44or anything, like, would get into something
0:09:44 > 0:09:47- not to bleeding try and make money and make a living out of it?- Yeah.
0:09:47 > 0:09:50I can't wait meet a plumber that gives me plumbing for free.
0:09:50 > 0:09:54- Yeah, yeah.- Mate, what are you doing? You're not keeping it real.
0:09:54 > 0:09:56- Keeping it real. - Here's free fucking plumbing.
0:09:56 > 0:09:58Heat me up, man. Bring me that heat, bring me that heat.
0:09:58 > 0:10:02Bring the heat, bring the heat. Yeah, man, it's fucking mad, yeah.
0:10:02 > 0:10:04And that's what you're dealing with.
0:10:04 > 0:10:06There is no beef, I don't think we'd even have a pound in beef.
0:10:06 > 0:10:08At the end of the day, beef has to be real
0:10:08 > 0:10:11and especially if these fuckers are talking about all this real shit,
0:10:11 > 0:10:13real shit, the beef has to be real.
0:10:13 > 0:10:16If you don't like my songs, that's not real beef,
0:10:16 > 0:10:18- that's you not liking my songs. Where's the beef?- Yeah.
0:10:18 > 0:10:22If you're going to talk about this keep it real shit,
0:10:22 > 0:10:23keep it fucking real.
0:10:23 > 0:10:25So, yeah, people may not like me, but fuck them,
0:10:25 > 0:10:27I don't like them back and that's it.
0:10:27 > 0:10:29I don't need to take it to a track, I don't need to fucking...
0:10:29 > 0:10:32I don't even need to call them names, people know who they are.
0:10:32 > 0:10:35People know who I'm talking about and, you're a shite bag,
0:10:35 > 0:10:37you're a fucking shite bag.
0:10:37 > 0:10:41At the end of the day, I'm trying to make money out of this
0:10:41 > 0:10:43- and I'm being honest about the whole thing.- Too right.
0:10:43 > 0:10:47I'm not going to stand here and pretend that I'm not trying to make money off it.
0:10:47 > 0:10:51- Well, I am because if I fail, I fail and people know I failed. - Yeah.- Fuck it.
0:10:51 > 0:10:54I'm trying to make money and if I don't make money, people know I fail.
0:10:54 > 0:10:56- At least people know I was trying. - That's it.
0:10:56 > 0:10:59I'm being totally honest, totally honest, 100%.
0:11:01 > 0:11:04Temper-Mental MissElayneous is a 24-year-old rapper
0:11:04 > 0:11:06living in Finglas.
0:11:06 > 0:11:07If you want gloss.
0:11:07 > 0:11:12I remember learning what that meant very young. Pure stream.
0:11:12 > 0:11:15# The contradiction is the truth Is where the secret's are kept ha-ha
0:11:15 > 0:11:17# Nothing is real, nothing exists
0:11:17 > 0:11:18# Just a projection of your perception
0:11:18 > 0:11:20# A cerebral eclipse
0:11:20 > 0:11:23# Deepening determinedly Despite danger's depth
0:11:23 > 0:11:25# The contradiction is the truth Is where the secrets are kept
0:11:25 > 0:11:27# Though subliminally untouchable
0:11:27 > 0:11:29# Still corruption encroaches my vicinity
0:11:29 > 0:11:33# Principally indestructible Not specifically allegorical
0:11:33 > 0:11:36# Surreptitiously metaphorical Contradictorily abhorable
0:11:36 > 0:11:38# Love and hate breed in close proximity
0:11:38 > 0:11:40# Faith, hope and charity... #
0:11:40 > 0:11:42MissElayneous sees rap as a means of spreading a political
0:11:42 > 0:11:45and social message.
0:11:45 > 0:11:46When I was 17,
0:11:46 > 0:11:50I remember asking one of my friends I used to hang around with here,
0:11:50 > 0:11:55"Are we poor?" It just dawned on me one day, I said, "Are we poor?"
0:11:55 > 0:11:57"What d'ya think?" That's what he said.
0:11:57 > 0:12:01And I just didn't know and these realisations dawned on me,
0:12:01 > 0:12:03classes and stuff like that.
0:12:03 > 0:12:06But I had not realised, I had been virgin to that idea,
0:12:06 > 0:12:09to that stigma that was attached to us
0:12:09 > 0:12:11because of where we were from.
0:12:11 > 0:12:17- What's your name?- Martina.- My nanny, that's my nanny Meg, deceased now.
0:12:17 > 0:12:20- Martina.- What's your second name? - Kavanagh.
0:12:20 > 0:12:23Martina Kavanagh, what do you want me to rap about?
0:12:23 > 0:12:27- Like what, now?- What do you want me to rap about? Any topic, anything.
0:12:28 > 0:12:33- Finglas.- Finglas?- Yeah. - Yeah.- All right, I'll rap about it.
0:12:33 > 0:12:35To let someone in on a very, special thing,
0:12:35 > 0:12:39so that's what it brings, that's what Finglas brought to my artistry
0:12:39 > 0:12:42to allow people in artistically.
0:12:42 > 0:12:44# Yeah, piece of mind doesn't come at a clear price
0:12:44 > 0:12:46# The system's determined by the rolling of the dice
0:12:46 > 0:12:48# Chancing your arm and leg on being eligible
0:12:48 > 0:12:51# Swallowing the welfare's demands like they were edible
0:12:51 > 0:12:53# What drives to drink and drugs but this romance
0:12:53 > 0:12:55# We're in love and engrossed with that, foes
0:12:55 > 0:12:56# We've got no chance. #
0:12:56 > 0:12:59I called myself Temper hyphen Mental when I was 14,
0:12:59 > 0:13:02when I was in front of that mirror, you know, rapping.
0:13:03 > 0:13:08And then, as I say, when I was 19, MissElayneous.
0:13:08 > 0:13:10And that was all knitted to where I came from, who I was
0:13:10 > 0:13:12and referring to school, being that young person
0:13:12 > 0:13:15not wanting to go to school, fighting against the system.
0:13:15 > 0:13:19Er, you know, not wanting to be squashed into a role,
0:13:19 > 0:13:23you know, that society had drawn up for me.
0:13:23 > 0:13:25# Collecting medicine It haunts on every revolution
0:13:25 > 0:13:26# Your roots upturn
0:13:26 > 0:13:30# Psychological pollution's staring us in the face but we dare not look
0:13:30 > 0:13:32# Divert our attention Reality we cannot broke
0:13:32 > 0:13:33# You're blameless, you're pure
0:13:33 > 0:13:35# Your intuition's not wrong
0:13:35 > 0:13:38# Beneath that is truth Deep is where it should belong
0:13:38 > 0:13:40# It's gets oppressed by confusion Doubt, prejudice
0:13:40 > 0:13:43# So long that it's a distant memory On which we reminisce
0:13:43 > 0:13:45# Simplified, to succeed from fear You will be freed
0:13:45 > 0:13:47# I need your ears to hear my voice
0:13:47 > 0:13:48# Let this rhyme plant a seed. #
0:13:48 > 0:13:51- CLAPPING - Very good.
0:13:51 > 0:13:55Go on, the boys.
0:13:55 > 0:13:57That's very good.
0:13:59 > 0:14:04- What did you make of that? - Lovely. Brilliant. Very good.
0:14:06 > 0:14:10- Ah, it was very good, I enjoyed that.- Yeah?- Very good.
0:14:11 > 0:14:16- Fair play to you.- Oh, nice one, thank you.- Fair play to you.
0:14:16 > 0:14:18Brup.
0:14:18 > 0:14:20All right, everybody...
0:14:20 > 0:14:23The Working Class Army were inspired by a rapper called MC Lunitic
0:14:23 > 0:14:26who came out of Ballymun in the early 2000's.
0:14:27 > 0:14:30He was the first ever to rocks it out in a proper Dublin accent,
0:14:30 > 0:14:32no holding it back.
0:14:32 > 0:14:35And it just sounded grimy, it sounded gully, you know what I mean.
0:14:35 > 0:14:37At the time he came out,
0:14:37 > 0:14:41everybody that was in Irish rapping were sort of novelty acts.
0:14:41 > 0:14:44Like, they were on the radio rapping comedy shit.
0:14:44 > 0:14:47And he was the first MC that came out with that realism.
0:14:47 > 0:14:50It made it seem cool to be from Dublin.
0:14:50 > 0:14:53Tonight the Working Class Army are visiting Lunitic's mother Bernie
0:14:53 > 0:14:55at the family home in Ballymun.
0:14:55 > 0:14:59We're going up to Lunitic's house, Lunitic's mother Bernie is there
0:14:59 > 0:15:02and'll have a cup of tea ready for us hopefully.
0:15:02 > 0:15:04- Hello.- How's it going? - Going all right?
0:15:06 > 0:15:08This house is the origins of Irish hop hip,
0:15:08 > 0:15:10this is where it all started.
0:15:10 > 0:15:13Because, without this, I wouldn't be doing what I'm doing now
0:15:13 > 0:15:16and I don't think these lads would either.
0:15:17 > 0:15:21MC LUNITIC RAPS
0:15:21 > 0:15:25MC Lunitic aka. Dan McDonnell died in 2009
0:15:25 > 0:15:27of a congenital heart defect.
0:15:28 > 0:15:31Daniel was hilarious, he was funny, he was...
0:15:33 > 0:15:36everything, really, you could say about him, like.
0:15:36 > 0:15:39I know he's my son, but everyone loved him.
0:15:40 > 0:15:43He was born with the condition and he knew.
0:15:43 > 0:15:47But we thought that he'd only have to have surgery every so often
0:15:47 > 0:15:51as he was growing, until he was 21 and then that would've been it.
0:15:51 > 0:15:52That's what we thought.
0:15:52 > 0:15:55We didn't know that he was going to...
0:15:55 > 0:15:56end up so sick.
0:15:58 > 0:16:01# Prejudging bastards are tripping like they're on shrooms
0:16:01 > 0:16:03# The wall to use is the wall to your bedroom
0:16:03 > 0:16:06# Fucking college faggots spending the day on the website
0:16:06 > 0:16:08# Bitching about rappers But never touched a mic... #
0:16:08 > 0:16:11The age that he died was 24.
0:16:11 > 0:16:14You know, Tupac was, you know what I mean, 24, Biggie was 24.
0:16:14 > 0:16:20That's like an age that a lot of hip hop pioneers passed away at.
0:16:20 > 0:16:23I see that Dan's in that same category.
0:16:23 > 0:16:24Dan's a hip hop legend now.
0:16:24 > 0:16:30You know, we do what we're doing to, sort of, keep his legacy alive.
0:16:32 > 0:16:34Do the main man proud, like.
0:16:34 > 0:16:38# It's time now, Dublin city, For all you people... #
0:16:38 > 0:16:43They're keeping Daniel's spirit alive by doing it.
0:16:43 > 0:16:46When I see them on stage and when I know they're doing stuff,
0:16:46 > 0:16:48I feel that Daniel is with them all the time.
0:16:48 > 0:16:52And, even though he mightn't be with them on the stage himself,
0:16:52 > 0:16:54he's with them in spirit.
0:16:54 > 0:16:57# Thinking how things ain't What they used to be
0:16:57 > 0:16:59# This fucking minor Barely out of puberty
0:16:59 > 0:17:01# Started getting busy
0:17:01 > 0:17:03# But truthfully no figure of speech
0:17:03 > 0:17:05# I mean overly pc like a teenager
0:17:05 > 0:17:08# I never was weak I'd just give her the cheek
0:17:08 > 0:17:09# And smile dutifully
0:17:09 > 0:17:11# But I'm too distracted with the view I see
0:17:11 > 0:17:14# Staring out the window at the city... #
0:17:14 > 0:17:15# Listen
0:17:15 > 0:17:18# I'm all about representing either side of the Liffey
0:17:18 > 0:17:20# You're all about recollecting over imaginary doggies
0:17:20 > 0:17:22# With their tattooed titties
0:17:22 > 0:17:25# I know no-one would ever tattoo your name on her tit
0:17:25 > 0:17:28# You'd be more likely to tattoo Dublin on your dick
0:17:28 > 0:17:29CHEERING
0:17:29 > 0:17:33# So stop talking shit Cos you're making Cork look silly
0:17:33 > 0:17:35# And having Dublin tattooed on your dick is the only way
0:17:35 > 0:17:38# Any cunt from Cork would ever fuck with this city. #
0:17:38 > 0:17:39CHEERING
0:17:39 > 0:17:42# Jambo thinks that if he raps slow And extra aggro
0:17:42 > 0:17:45# It will compensate for the fact that he can't flow
0:17:45 > 0:17:48# See, I got class though to punch lines than to crack bones
0:17:48 > 0:17:50# You got bad jokes and the swagger of Dabdow
0:17:50 > 0:17:52LAUGHTER
0:17:52 > 0:17:53# You were saving up for cans of Coke
0:17:53 > 0:17:56# When he was selling bags of smoke And by the smell of you
0:17:56 > 0:17:58# I'd say you've never even seen a bar of soap. #
0:17:58 > 0:17:59CHEERING
0:18:01 > 0:18:03Welcome!
0:18:03 > 0:18:06In Cork another rap scene has emerged
0:18:06 > 0:18:08with a distinct verbal style.
0:18:08 > 0:18:10# Step up on the mic for the crazy track
0:18:10 > 0:18:11# Anybody tell you how I'm feeling
0:18:11 > 0:18:13# I'm gonna start repeating everything that's on my brain, in fact... #
0:18:13 > 0:18:16I like the high energy rap with fast styles
0:18:16 > 0:18:19and rhythmic flows and then sometimes I like to just, kind of,
0:18:19 > 0:18:23be a bit more soulful and just put my feelings on a song, like.
0:18:23 > 0:18:25# I'm about to tell you how I'm feeling
0:18:25 > 0:18:26# Whoa, wait, made a mistake
0:18:26 > 0:18:28- # Come back through What the boss say?- Yeah
0:18:28 > 0:18:29- # When you're coming through Matamatik, OK- Yeah
0:18:29 > 0:18:31# Here we go, oh, yeah. #
0:18:31 > 0:18:33CHEERING
0:18:33 > 0:18:36Cork is hungrier. That's the difference between Dublin and Cork.
0:18:36 > 0:18:38We're not just two different counties,
0:18:38 > 0:18:39we're two different types of hip hop.
0:18:39 > 0:18:42We'll do the, kind of, yeah, we're rough,
0:18:42 > 0:18:44fucking selling heroine and have sold drugs and have seen guns.
0:18:44 > 0:18:48Where they'd be, # A-biggity bums, hey A-biggitys bums-i-bop a boo. #
0:18:48 > 0:18:49# You can never compete
0:18:49 > 0:18:51# I paint pictures Make 'em easy to see, man... #
0:18:51 > 0:18:54What's good? What's good? Matamatik, Rebel Faction.
0:18:54 > 0:18:56Genesis, Rebel Faction.
0:18:56 > 0:18:59Brrrup. Make some noise for Genesis.
0:18:59 > 0:19:02I'm here with Matamatik, we've just been dropping some bars.
0:19:02 > 0:19:04# How you like that? How you like that?
0:19:04 > 0:19:06# How you like that? How you like that?
0:19:06 > 0:19:08# Prophecies of dishonesty
0:19:08 > 0:19:12# Commodities like modesty are moderately obsolete... #
0:19:12 > 0:19:14I was just always into hip hop, man. And the more I got into it,
0:19:14 > 0:19:16the more it developed, I started writing, like.
0:19:16 > 0:19:19Cos I was about, I'd say, around 14, I was diagnosed with cancer,
0:19:19 > 0:19:23and I was stuck at home for a couple of months with nothing better to do
0:19:23 > 0:19:24with just a pen and pad.
0:19:24 > 0:19:29Started writing that stuff, like, you know, after that, just came out,
0:19:29 > 0:19:33like, just so much stuff written, I just had to keep with it.
0:19:33 > 0:19:36When you're forced with nothing else to do, like, stick with it,
0:19:36 > 0:19:38like, and ever since then, been killing it since.
0:19:38 > 0:19:40Word up.
0:19:40 > 0:19:42- So it goes a bit like this. It goes. - Wh-what?
0:19:42 > 0:19:44# I take summers off Cos I love winter beef
0:19:44 > 0:19:46# Still call me raw Like some sizzling meat
0:19:46 > 0:19:49# The winner in me is dying Cos his liver's deceased
0:19:49 > 0:19:51# Too much liquor on his lips Every night of the week
0:19:51 > 0:19:54# You see, I've been in raids Since my younger days
0:19:54 > 0:19:57# They had to numb the pain By numbing the brain
0:19:57 > 0:19:59# They say, Lord giveth Lord take it away
0:19:59 > 0:20:00# The Lord took more than one of my friends
0:20:00 > 0:20:01# I find it hard to play
0:20:01 > 0:20:04# It's hard to keep the faith In these harsh, evil days
0:20:04 > 0:20:06# It seems to eat away Till you're left bleeding hate
0:20:06 > 0:20:08# That's the reason We're expecting the rockets
0:20:08 > 0:20:11# Another night, another fight Tearing flesh from the knuckles
0:20:11 > 0:20:14# Another bottle broken over heads Left with concussions
0:20:14 > 0:20:16# A week later with his cousin Results in repercussions
0:20:16 > 0:20:18# From the weed puffing
0:20:18 > 0:20:19# Seeds stuffed in, blowing trees
0:20:19 > 0:20:21# Popping E's while he's up in the clubbin'
0:20:21 > 0:20:24# On his knees Nose on the bowl, for real
0:20:24 > 0:20:26# He knows that he's sniffing his soul
0:20:26 > 0:20:28# Through a 50-note Throwing money up his nose
0:20:28 > 0:20:30# Now he's losing his home Abusing the coke
0:20:30 > 0:20:32# He's got a mouth frozen in snow
0:20:32 > 0:20:34# Where money-getters Hump honeys and sunny weather
0:20:34 > 0:20:36# So tight leather legs Keep me hungry for ever
0:20:36 > 0:20:38# I rhyme clever and write better
0:20:38 > 0:20:41# Than Professor Einstein In his prime, writing a letter
0:20:41 > 0:20:43# See, rappers are monkey flipping
0:20:43 > 0:20:44# With the iller lyrics they be spitting
0:20:44 > 0:20:47# With precision like parkour villains robbing tall buildings
0:20:47 > 0:20:50# They free fall from walls And defy laws of physics
0:20:50 > 0:20:54# My God, I kill it when the mic's on, in my right palm, you hear it
0:20:54 > 0:20:58# I'm the icon of spirit The python are playing pressure
0:20:58 > 0:20:59# Till your life's gone
0:20:59 > 0:21:01# Like IRA pipe bombs When the time's gone
0:21:01 > 0:21:05# I'm the titan Bout the clash with your shitty raps
0:21:05 > 0:21:07# Leave your head wrapped When they snatch up your fitted cap
0:21:07 > 0:21:09# Kid, you won't get it back Like virginity
0:21:09 > 0:21:11# When they hit it from the back instantly
0:21:11 > 0:21:14# When she winked at me intimately I knew that she was into me
0:21:14 > 0:21:16# I entered with intensity With every single inch of me
0:21:16 > 0:21:18# Now she's feeling heavenly Breathing with the pedigree
0:21:18 > 0:21:22# And easily the evilest penis of the century
0:21:22 > 0:21:24# Look, it's only right That I was born to use mics
0:21:24 > 0:21:27# Cos the stuff that I write Comes from stuffing them pipes
0:21:27 > 0:21:30# For kush tougher than the bush of Colombian dykes
0:21:30 > 0:21:32# Yeah, Genesis, technical simplicity
0:21:32 > 0:21:36# Matamatik, cock city One love, let's go, baby. #
0:21:39 > 0:21:43Outside the world of rap, Redzer leads a normal life.
0:21:43 > 0:21:47Tonight is the 21st birthday party of his girlfriend Ester.
0:21:47 > 0:21:50Redzer acknowledges that being a rapper has placed a strain
0:21:50 > 0:21:52on their relationship.
0:21:52 > 0:21:54All right, it's my girlfriend's 21st birthday party.
0:21:54 > 0:21:57I think she's at the end of her soundness now where she's,
0:21:57 > 0:21:59"All right, fair enough, I've done this enough,
0:21:59 > 0:22:02"I've fucking shut up for four years now."
0:22:02 > 0:22:05It's just getting hard to justify. I'm living with my mate now.
0:22:05 > 0:22:07But the two of us are living in my mate's house.
0:22:07 > 0:22:10We need, we should have our own house, to be honest with you.
0:22:10 > 0:22:13I should be fucking out working and earning a proper living.
0:22:13 > 0:22:14They're not fucking eejits.
0:22:14 > 0:22:17They know what they want, they know what they can achieve
0:22:17 > 0:22:20and they will do what they want to do.
0:22:20 > 0:22:24Cos they know what they want, know what they want to do
0:22:24 > 0:22:26and know what they fucking will do.
0:22:26 > 0:22:29Where's our birthday girl? Come on down, Ester.
0:22:35 > 0:22:38CLAPPING AND CHEERING
0:22:38 > 0:22:40I'm not an emotional person.
0:22:40 > 0:22:42If she left me, she'd have her reasons
0:22:42 > 0:22:43and she's probably better off.
0:22:43 > 0:22:45She could do better, to be honest with you.
0:22:45 > 0:22:47I'd understand if she left me.
0:22:47 > 0:22:51No, but, most blokes will, but I think I'm a different breed.
0:22:51 > 0:22:53I'm just too logical, I don't deal with emotions.
0:22:53 > 0:22:55I don't do emotion, I do logic.
0:22:55 > 0:22:59So, if she left me, I'd totally understand and wish her the best.
0:22:59 > 0:23:03I just want to say a special thanks to my boyfriend Redzer.
0:23:03 > 0:23:05ALL: Yeah!
0:23:06 > 0:23:11Maybe I have to flip a coin, even, and say, heads I rap, tails I work.
0:23:11 > 0:23:13Cos I have to do something for her. She's being overly patient.
0:23:13 > 0:23:17You know, I don't want to be taking advantage of that as well, like.
0:23:17 > 0:23:20But I can't stop doing it. It's like heroin, you know.
0:23:20 > 0:23:24I mean, hip hop is like heroin. Once you start doing it, you're hooked.
0:23:33 > 0:23:37Sometimes I find it a bit hard, like.
0:23:37 > 0:23:39Cos I'm usually just kind of, like...
0:23:39 > 0:23:42I'm hoping that, like, you know,
0:23:42 > 0:23:46he starts, like, you know, getting money and all from it, like,
0:23:46 > 0:23:49and it would be great if that did happen.
0:23:49 > 0:23:52But, at the moment, we're just kind of thinking, like,
0:23:52 > 0:23:54"Oh, you know, is it going to happen?
0:23:54 > 0:23:57"And how long do we have to wait for it to happen?"
0:23:57 > 0:24:00- Do you know?- "Go out and get a job, you Redzer bastard."
0:24:00 > 0:24:05Yeah, well, sometimes I do get those days where I do, kind of,
0:24:05 > 0:24:07question him on it and say, like,
0:24:07 > 0:24:10"When are you going to go out and get a job?" Or whatever.
0:24:10 > 0:24:13It's the hardest thing I've ever had to do, like.
0:24:13 > 0:24:15But still, it's so hard cos even...
0:24:15 > 0:24:20When I'm trying to tell people this, I could see people do this,
0:24:20 > 0:24:23cos I'd be the sort of fucker at the other end of screen going,
0:24:23 > 0:24:26"Just quit, you fucking eejit. If you're not happy, then just quit." But it's...
0:24:26 > 0:24:32- Addictive.- Yeah, it is. And you can't stop.
0:24:32 > 0:24:34When you genuinely sit down and do think about it,
0:24:34 > 0:24:36you do get a bit, like, fucking...
0:24:38 > 0:24:42..I wouldn't say emotional, but you do think a bit clearer about the whole thing
0:24:42 > 0:24:46and you're like, "Hold on a second. What the fuck are you doing?
0:24:46 > 0:24:49"Go out and get a job and just let it go, like."
0:24:49 > 0:24:50But I can't.
0:24:50 > 0:24:55Can't. Want to. Know I should. People tell me I should.
0:24:55 > 0:24:56Just can't, just can't, like.
0:24:58 > 0:24:59Hmm.
0:25:01 > 0:25:04One little thing before I kick into the next tune.
0:25:04 > 0:25:05Yeah, check this out, yeah.
0:25:05 > 0:25:08# Hip hop vigilante come to give you all a slapping
0:25:08 > 0:25:11# Cos these weirdos even want to imitate the fucking accent
0:25:11 > 0:25:14# You're a dummy MC Rap about the money MC
0:25:14 > 0:25:16# I laugh at the funny MC
0:25:16 > 0:25:19# Never on a stage with a rapper like me
0:25:19 > 0:25:24# And you've never run a track with the real MC. #
0:25:24 > 0:25:26Kick that shit, kick that shit.
0:25:26 > 0:25:28My family, they love it, they're very supportive of me.
0:25:28 > 0:25:31My ma's very proud and all that, like.
0:25:31 > 0:25:34Well, she's never really seen me big into anything, ever.
0:25:34 > 0:25:36And now she sees that I'm mad into the rap.
0:25:36 > 0:25:38She obviously knows that I really like it and all,
0:25:38 > 0:25:40so she's just happy.
0:25:40 > 0:25:43# Are you willing for a shilling? Am I willing for the what?
0:25:43 > 0:25:45# My people, I've been struggling since 19-o-dot
0:25:45 > 0:25:46# It's a body rush stoppin'
0:25:46 > 0:25:51# I was told from God to blast these heathens like a ten-man firing squad
0:25:51 > 0:25:54# They catch me clover on the sun Like they're crushing my dream
0:25:54 > 0:25:57# Yo, they mow the men and women For the wearing of the cream
0:25:57 > 0:25:59# Walking through a graveyard... #
0:25:59 > 0:26:0225-year-old rapper Siyo still lives at home in Artane in Dublin.
0:26:02 > 0:26:05# Lord, please deliver me from evil
0:26:05 > 0:26:06# Compose a scene written on a canvas
0:26:06 > 0:26:08# That be sitting on an easel
0:26:08 > 0:26:10# The air smells of treason... #
0:26:12 > 0:26:17- Hmm.- All right?- How are you?- Grand. - You well?- Yeah, no worries.
0:26:17 > 0:26:19- I've got the milk.- Cheers.
0:26:19 > 0:26:25- Getting the brews on?- Well, I've put that on for you, so feel free.
0:26:25 > 0:26:30Hmm. I must of left school when I was 17 or 18, wasn't it?
0:26:30 > 0:26:32I've done a fair bit, but it's all kind of rinky-dink,
0:26:32 > 0:26:34nothing really for a career.
0:26:34 > 0:26:36What was the worst of those jobs?
0:26:36 > 0:26:40Sky. It would have to be selling Sky door-to-door.
0:26:40 > 0:26:46You go out and you go out and you hit the street about, er,
0:26:46 > 0:26:49two or three o'clock and then you're just walking around.
0:26:49 > 0:26:51You have your list, you're knocking at doors.
0:26:51 > 0:26:53You have your little area, you're knocking at the doors
0:26:53 > 0:26:58and nine people out of ten are just miserable.
0:26:58 > 0:27:01I lost all faith in the general public in that job.
0:27:01 > 0:27:03I'm slowly getting it back,
0:27:03 > 0:27:05but the general public are unbelievable, like.
0:27:05 > 0:27:07You're just knocking in to sell a bit of Sky
0:27:07 > 0:27:10and the abuse you get off some people and all
0:27:10 > 0:27:12and just the rigmarole, you know.
0:27:12 > 0:27:15He's always, always been very content
0:27:15 > 0:27:19in his own space and in his own skin.
0:27:19 > 0:27:24He doesn't, never really did need anybody to
0:27:24 > 0:27:27enhance what he was doing.
0:27:27 > 0:27:30He was... Weren't you very comfortable?
0:27:30 > 0:27:34- Always, yeah.- Always. - As far as I can remember, anyway.
0:27:36 > 0:27:42- You left so close to being qualified as a hairdresser.- Yeah.
0:27:42 > 0:27:44You were almost there.
0:27:44 > 0:27:47- And you left before you got it.- Hmm.
0:27:47 > 0:27:52I am the best in Europe, quite possibly the world. Er.
0:27:52 > 0:27:54Pro Evolution Soccer, yeah.
0:27:54 > 0:27:56I have feeling for it, though.
0:27:56 > 0:27:59You waste away hours just sitting there, like.
0:27:59 > 0:28:01You look at your clock, it's 12 o'clock at night.
0:28:01 > 0:28:04Then you look again, it's four o'clock in the morning
0:28:04 > 0:28:07and you've done nothing, you're still sitting in the same place.
0:28:07 > 0:28:11This is the nest, yeah. This is where I hang around most of my time.
0:28:13 > 0:28:15My ma wouldn't want you coming in here,
0:28:15 > 0:28:18you know, but this is what it's all about, you know.
0:28:18 > 0:28:23Letting yous into the life, the mind, the big Siyo, you know.
0:28:24 > 0:28:25You see that flyer there,
0:28:25 > 0:28:27that was the first real flyer I had with my name on it.
0:28:27 > 0:28:29So I had to rob it off the door.
0:28:30 > 0:28:33# These Dublin rappers carry on like Kanye West
0:28:33 > 0:28:36# Talking about the guns And they thinking that it's proper
0:28:36 > 0:28:38# They talk about the money And they haven't got a washer... #
0:28:38 > 0:28:41He absolutely loves it.
0:28:41 > 0:28:45He's in his own little world when he's up on stage.
0:28:45 > 0:28:47It's, to me, it's where he belongs.
0:28:47 > 0:28:50# She was but you don't know the time... #
0:28:50 > 0:28:53Siyo's mum feels that whilst he belongs on stage,
0:28:53 > 0:28:54he no longer belongs at home
0:28:54 > 0:28:57and had decided that it is time for him to move out.
0:28:57 > 0:29:00- There is a deadline to my patience. - The days are numbered.
0:29:00 > 0:29:03And I'm actually trying to be extremely polite.
0:29:03 > 0:29:06Yeah, your days are actually numbered.
0:29:06 > 0:29:11Because I'm definitely... My firm belief is, as a mother,
0:29:11 > 0:29:15I am not doing you any favours by allowing you to stay here.
0:29:15 > 0:29:19It's keeping you sheltered, it's keeping you cocooned.
0:29:19 > 0:29:23- You're not learning anything, you're not growing as a person.- Yeah.
0:29:23 > 0:29:26All I'm enabling you to do,
0:29:26 > 0:29:30when I really think about it, is to keep you unmotivated.
0:29:30 > 0:29:34Well, essentially, that is what you're doing, yeah.
0:29:34 > 0:29:37I'd say, like, if you had've kicked me, not kicked me out,
0:29:37 > 0:29:40but done this when I was 22,
0:29:40 > 0:29:44- where would I be now, after three years of it?- Yeah.
0:29:44 > 0:29:48- I could be in a completely different place.- Absolutely.
0:29:48 > 0:29:49But you're not putting the blame...
0:29:49 > 0:29:53I'm not accepting the blame, under no circumstances.
0:29:53 > 0:29:56- No.- Now, hold on.- Yeah. - There was the slight twist.
0:29:56 > 0:30:00- I'm just saying.- No, not accepting it. I will not take it on board.
0:30:00 > 0:30:04But at the moment, I don't think I am doing you any favours.
0:30:04 > 0:30:07- In actual fact, I know I'm not doing you any favours.- Yeah.
0:30:07 > 0:30:12- You need to be out there and make yourself sink or swim.- Definitely.
0:30:12 > 0:30:16Yeah. This goes out to her. I love you. I love her.
0:30:16 > 0:30:22Yeah. # I'm never moving out I'm never moving out, yo
0:30:22 > 0:30:25# Imagine this Siyo showing love to these cabbages
0:30:25 > 0:30:28# Never happening cos they're lying in the verses they be rapping in
0:30:28 > 0:30:31# If they approach, I'd be slapping them
0:30:31 > 0:30:33# Throw 'em off the stage Let the crowds... #
0:30:35 > 0:30:39Elsewhere in Dublin, Temper-Mental MissElayneous is sharing her skills
0:30:39 > 0:30:40with other female MCs.
0:30:41 > 0:30:42# Open it up Let it loose
0:30:42 > 0:30:44# What's trapped and hidden?
0:30:44 > 0:30:46# The heartbeat of our city Is an unrelenting rhythm
0:30:46 > 0:30:49# That's how through the hardship We all combine
0:30:49 > 0:30:51# By rhythmic speech Identify our shared decline
0:30:51 > 0:30:53# Open it up Let it loose
0:30:53 > 0:30:54# What's trapped and hidden?
0:30:54 > 0:30:56# The heartbeat of our city Is an unrelenting rhythm
0:30:56 > 0:30:59# That's how through the hardship We all combine
0:30:59 > 0:31:02# By rhythmic speech Identify our shared decline. #
0:31:02 > 0:31:07- That's it, nice.- That's it, what is that? It's the hook.- It's the hook.
0:31:07 > 0:31:10- I'm learning.- It's the hook, yeah.
0:31:10 > 0:31:14- Keep the rhythm and project. - That's it.
0:31:14 > 0:31:19And it's, doesn't it go deeper than just, you know, rapping it?
0:31:19 > 0:31:21It goes deeper than that.
0:31:21 > 0:31:24You know, you're promoting, you're promoting a message.
0:31:24 > 0:31:27You know, delivering it with power and energy and strength
0:31:27 > 0:31:28and everything in you.
0:31:28 > 0:31:30And that's why it's probably important for you
0:31:30 > 0:31:33to develop your persona, your character.
0:31:33 > 0:31:36So give yourself a name, give that verse a title. Give it a title.
0:31:36 > 0:31:37Give birth to it.
0:31:37 > 0:31:40# So I think if my poverty can't afford to spend time
0:31:40 > 0:31:43# Outsiders view it as one dimensional like a zone of decline
0:31:43 > 0:31:45# Seems like a fist that we give to ourselves
0:31:45 > 0:31:46# But it's not going to grip
0:31:46 > 0:31:49# It's from adapting to fisty cuffs Fighting for life
0:31:49 > 0:31:51# White knuckling And feeding a need... #
0:31:51 > 0:31:53Our spirit knows no gender.
0:31:53 > 0:31:56Our colour, our race, our creed, it doesn't know, it doesn't care.
0:31:56 > 0:31:58And that's what I'm transmitting.
0:31:58 > 0:32:01# Convince myself I'm reflecting deep when I'm lost in a stare
0:32:01 > 0:32:04# I can't handle reality I don't want to be facing life
0:32:04 > 0:32:07# I believe in anarchy But I'm too busy chasing strife... #
0:32:07 > 0:32:09The moral standing is important.
0:32:09 > 0:32:12I don't care about regional or local fame or anything,
0:32:12 > 0:32:17if people are recognising me, recognise the lyrics in yourself.
0:32:17 > 0:32:19I want to promote a message of positivity.
0:32:19 > 0:32:22And although that may sound cliche, but it goes deep,
0:32:22 > 0:32:24it's very complex as well, I think.
0:32:24 > 0:32:28People might try to influence me a little bit, but, er...
0:32:29 > 0:32:31..futile.
0:32:33 > 0:32:34# What is it?
0:32:35 > 0:32:36# I'm hypnotic
0:32:36 > 0:32:38# Systematic... #
0:32:38 > 0:32:40# Blah, blah, blah PS I fucked your mother
0:32:40 > 0:32:41# Yeah, I'm hearing it
0:32:41 > 0:32:43# And I'd love to flip that bar back at you
0:32:43 > 0:32:45# But to even start understanding you
0:32:45 > 0:32:47# Well, I'd have to be two foot near to you
0:32:47 > 0:32:48# While you are rapping
0:32:48 > 0:32:50# Speak clearly You sheep shearer, you. #
0:32:50 > 0:32:51LAUGHTER
0:32:51 > 0:32:54# Listen up You heroin-cooking type lookalike
0:32:54 > 0:32:56# I swear to fuck
0:32:56 > 0:32:57# You ever again pick up a mic
0:32:57 > 0:33:00# I sever him and bury him in elephant excrement
0:33:00 > 0:33:02# And PS tell your mother she was a shit ride. #
0:33:02 > 0:33:04CHEERING
0:33:08 > 0:33:11Dublin rapper Lethal Dialect is currently working
0:33:11 > 0:33:14on his second album which he hopes will be the break through album
0:33:14 > 0:33:16for Irish hip hop.
0:33:16 > 0:33:18Most of the newer stuff is, sort of,
0:33:18 > 0:33:21geared away from the street mentality
0:33:21 > 0:33:23and it's on the positive uplift.
0:33:23 > 0:33:26But, at the same time, we're just,
0:33:26 > 0:33:29we're vocalising what we know.
0:33:29 > 0:33:31What we've seen, what we've experienced and things like that.
0:33:31 > 0:33:34And if people don't like it for what it is, well, then,
0:33:34 > 0:33:36you have no business listening to it.
0:33:36 > 0:33:37But it's for people...
0:33:37 > 0:33:40There's an awful lot of people that will be able to relate to it.
0:33:40 > 0:33:43And they're the ones, funnily enough,
0:33:43 > 0:33:46that consider themselves fans of the music we make.
0:33:48 > 0:33:51It's call Out Straight and it's about being out straight.
0:33:51 > 0:33:53Sometimes you might get in trouble for it,
0:33:53 > 0:33:56sometimes you might get credit for it, but I think that'd be,
0:33:56 > 0:34:00one of the main attributes in my personality is being out straight.
0:34:00 > 0:34:04It's also one of the most commonly used slang words
0:34:04 > 0:34:06in Dublin at present.
0:34:07 > 0:34:11That we was out straight, you know what I mean,
0:34:11 > 0:34:13it's like a confirmation or something.
0:34:13 > 0:34:17# Units on the street Like an emergency response
0:34:17 > 0:34:19# Mathematics equals pennies for my thoughts... #
0:34:19 > 0:34:23With the second album, all I'm looking to achieve is
0:34:23 > 0:34:28to continue building on the foundation that I did in part one.
0:34:28 > 0:34:30Actually, I don't care how many it sells.
0:34:30 > 0:34:33Look, if it meant giving them out for free,
0:34:33 > 0:34:34it would be nice to break even.
0:34:34 > 0:34:38Throw a couple of quid down to get that album made up
0:34:38 > 0:34:40and then it'd be nice to make that back.
0:34:40 > 0:34:42But if it comes to giving it away for free,
0:34:42 > 0:34:46to get it to people who need to hear it, I'd do that.
0:34:46 > 0:34:49# And the whole congregation's a project wasted
0:34:49 > 0:34:52# Well, at least that's cool I don't need the bitch
0:34:52 > 0:34:54# LP... #
0:34:59 > 0:35:02OK, here we go, this is the house here.
0:35:02 > 0:35:04Lovely, lovely.
0:35:04 > 0:35:07Make your way into the kitchen, there.
0:35:07 > 0:35:10- Nice big kitchen, man.- Cool. - Yeah, it's a good-sized kitchen.
0:35:10 > 0:35:13It's a shared kitchen with the other guys in the house.
0:35:13 > 0:35:16- There are a few living here?- There's two other people in the house.
0:35:16 > 0:35:20- They're both students, so it's sort of a student accommodation if you like.- Right, right.
0:35:20 > 0:35:22But your kitchen is all fully equipped.
0:35:22 > 0:35:25You've a dishwasher, washing machine, dryer
0:35:25 > 0:35:27and your cooker as well there.
0:35:27 > 0:35:29- Everything a young man needs. - All the mod cons.
0:35:29 > 0:35:33- All the mod cons, yeah.- What do you do with yourself? Are you working?
0:35:33 > 0:35:37I'm a student myself as well, but I do a bit of rapping as well.
0:35:37 > 0:35:40- OK.- So, hopefully, hopefully the rapping will pay my rent.
0:35:40 > 0:35:45This is the single room here. This room is actually at 300 per month.
0:35:45 > 0:35:47- Three, this is three?- Yeah.
0:35:47 > 0:35:51The year coming up was just work hard, work hard, work hard,
0:35:51 > 0:35:54just keep writing music, recording music, releasing it.
0:35:54 > 0:35:57Just always working, trying to get as many gigs as I can.
0:35:57 > 0:36:00Just always trying to keep my face, keep my name in people's mouths
0:36:00 > 0:36:02and just keep grafting, you know what I mean.
0:36:02 > 0:36:03It's all you can do.
0:36:03 > 0:36:07- You're only up the road from where your mother is.- That's right.
0:36:07 > 0:36:10I'm only down the road.
0:36:10 > 0:36:13So it'll take nothing to go down with a bag of washing.
0:36:13 > 0:36:16I'll be going down every week to get my dinner anyway.
0:36:16 > 0:36:20- Bring the washing with you. - Bring the washing with me, yeah.
0:36:21 > 0:36:24The Class A'z brand is continuing to expand
0:36:24 > 0:36:26with a number of new songs and videos.
0:36:26 > 0:36:29# You know the rest be killing with the fucking Soho Six
0:36:29 > 0:36:32# You think I'm not the illest... You don't know shit
0:36:32 > 0:36:35# My career's been up and down Just like a pogo stick
0:36:35 > 0:36:37# I thought I'd be some homeless but I'm on a solo hit... #
0:36:40 > 0:36:43They have even acquired a new studio which will be their new base.
0:36:43 > 0:36:45It's going to be there.
0:36:45 > 0:36:48We need to, obviously, get a set of decks in there.
0:36:48 > 0:36:51Pretty much, we want to have everything in one place.
0:36:51 > 0:36:54Be going from doing the verse, to shooting the video, to editing it
0:36:54 > 0:36:56and putting it up on the Internet within an hour.
0:36:56 > 0:37:00- That's the plan.- You're talking about showing off your skills.
0:37:00 > 0:37:04If you've got the rapping skills, you've got the persona and the ego.
0:37:04 > 0:37:07- You told them.- You can make it.
0:37:07 > 0:37:09- # People say we won't make it - But they don't know shit
0:37:09 > 0:37:12- # The Class A'z won't be famous - But they don't know shit
0:37:12 > 0:37:14- # Say we never reach the charts - But they don't know shit
0:37:14 > 0:37:17- # We're not taking it to heart - Cos they don't know shit
0:37:17 > 0:37:19- # They say we haven't got a chance - But they don't know shit
0:37:19 > 0:37:22- # And try to spread it all about - But they don't know shit
0:37:22 > 0:37:25- # Say we won't make it to the top - But they don't know shit
0:37:25 > 0:37:27- # The A'z are never going to stop - Cos they don't know shit... #
0:37:27 > 0:37:30The Class A'z's efforts haven't all been in vain
0:37:30 > 0:37:32and they are starting to get noticed.
0:37:32 > 0:37:35Tonight, they are being interviewed by RTE radio.
0:37:37 > 0:37:40We have the Class A'z in the building. How are you guys feeling?
0:37:40 > 0:37:44Are you feeling the love and the attention? What is the state of Irish hip hop?
0:37:44 > 0:37:46Well, you keep knocking on the door,
0:37:46 > 0:37:49- eventually, someone's going to answer, you know.- Yeah.
0:37:49 > 0:37:50That's, personally, what I think.
0:37:50 > 0:37:53If you keep doing what you're doing, somewhere along the line,
0:37:53 > 0:37:55someone's going to say, "Hold on a minute,
0:37:55 > 0:37:57"we have to give attention to this."
0:37:57 > 0:37:59Something reaches a crescendo underground,
0:37:59 > 0:38:01it eventually bursts through into the mainstream.
0:38:01 > 0:38:04As you said, you're over a million viewers on YouTube.
0:38:04 > 0:38:07A lot of people would say they want to see a full studio album
0:38:07 > 0:38:10from the Class A'z, not a throwaway mixtape.
0:38:10 > 0:38:13Are we going to get a full studio album from the Class A'z?
0:38:13 > 0:38:15We're in touch with loads of producers and stuff
0:38:15 > 0:38:18and we're on the look at getting a couple of big tracks,
0:38:18 > 0:38:20maybe a couple of big features.
0:38:20 > 0:38:23Anyone that's willing to work with us, pretty much.
0:38:23 > 0:38:25We'll take whatever we get.
0:38:25 > 0:38:27We're sending out the appeal.
0:38:27 > 0:38:29# Class A'z are trying to emulate mass success
0:38:29 > 0:38:32# Blowing up with Semtex Strapped to our chest
0:38:32 > 0:38:34# It's not the passenger jet The Jihad, the West
0:38:34 > 0:38:37# Hold the rap game hostage For the cash and cheques
0:38:37 > 0:38:39# So if they don't know shit
0:38:39 > 0:38:40# Then you're past your best
0:38:40 > 0:38:42# Class A'z don't fuck around We demand respect... #
0:38:42 > 0:38:45However the music industry is a tough place
0:38:45 > 0:38:49and the Class A'z are finding out that rap doesn't pay the bills.
0:38:49 > 0:38:52We're struggling, do you know what I mean?
0:38:52 > 0:38:56And with bills to pay and boards onto us, I should be out working.
0:38:56 > 0:38:58And it's getting hard to justify as to why I'm still doing it.
0:38:58 > 0:39:02Cos I mean, fucking bills to pay and, you know,
0:39:02 > 0:39:04we only really get paid for the gigs.
0:39:04 > 0:39:06And I get asked to come in and do a gig and I can't
0:39:06 > 0:39:10cos I don't have money to get into town to have a few drinks while I'm doing the gig.
0:39:10 > 0:39:12So I can't do the gig. And that's the stage it's at now.
0:39:12 > 0:39:15What happens if it does become a reality and we all just say fuck it?
0:39:15 > 0:39:19I'm not just talking about Class A'z, I'm talking about the people
0:39:19 > 0:39:22that are genuinely good at what they do, professional at what they do
0:39:22 > 0:39:24and are putting out good products.
0:39:24 > 0:39:26What if they just turn around and stop doing it
0:39:26 > 0:39:28because what's the point anymore?
0:39:28 > 0:39:30And you'll miss it then, it's too late then.
0:39:30 > 0:39:33There's a lot of shit out there and I don't want to tell you to buy that stuff
0:39:33 > 0:39:35because I don't buy that shit.
0:39:35 > 0:39:38But the good stuff, there is good people out there that deserve
0:39:38 > 0:39:40to make a living off this that aren't.
0:39:40 > 0:39:42And they won't be doing it for ever.
0:39:44 > 0:39:46# I'm back up on the beats Still got the knack for the rapping
0:39:46 > 0:39:47# Racking up classics
0:39:47 > 0:39:49# While you're yapping with your brap, brap, brap, brapping
0:39:49 > 0:39:51# But I just happen to hang with the finest MCs in Ireland
0:39:51 > 0:39:54# Lyrical tyrants so exquisite Multi-syllable rhyming
0:39:54 > 0:39:56# But clinical timing I'm gifted with definite style
0:39:56 > 0:39:57# Still with conviction
0:39:57 > 0:39:59# Rippin' the diction Like a script in the Bible
0:39:59 > 0:40:02# It's survival of the fittest Only the sickest remain
0:40:02 > 0:40:04# You can slain, bitches, victims And with syllable gain
0:40:04 > 0:40:07# Cos my flow is overdosing All the dozy Joes opposing
0:40:07 > 0:40:10# Those supposed souls Don't get thrown in frozen oceans
0:40:10 > 0:40:12# Don't get close cos I'm focused And I'm heading for the top again
0:40:12 > 0:40:13# Rocking jams
0:40:13 > 0:40:15# If you've got a problem Then you're not a friend
0:40:15 > 0:40:17# I'm not a trend, not a faze Don't pretend you're not amazed
0:40:17 > 0:40:19# Give me the props cos I'm not going to stop I've been rocking
0:40:19 > 0:40:20# Since those early days
0:40:20 > 0:40:22# I'm back off my holidays
0:40:22 > 0:40:23# Telling them to fuck off
0:40:23 > 0:40:25# It'll still be mine Cos I'm back again
0:40:25 > 0:40:28- # You want a track for your iPod? - I'm back
0:40:28 > 0:40:30- # Wanna hear a track from the mic god?- I'm back
0:40:30 > 0:40:33- # You want red on a head Nodder, yeah, man- I'm back...- #
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