[04:18.655]Yo, whats up this is Tre Hardson
[04:22.679]Also known to y’all as Slim Kid Tre
[04:26.486]The topic for today is uh
[04:29.605]The influence of jazz
[04:33.346]Now, jazz has come a long way
[04:37.000]Back in the days
[04:37.675]There was bebop
[04:39.456]And now its hip hop
[04:42.062]Jazz was revolutionary
[04:44.841]And hip hop is also revolutionary
[04:48.282]Unlike rap
[04:50.233]Rap’s not really getting the message across
[04:53.433]Like our forefathers
[04:55.670]Like the Gil Scott-Herons, you know
[04:58.536]They paved the way
[04:59.396]They set the pace
[05:00.083]They set the tone
[05:01.298]Like the Last Poets
[05:03.837]All of these are great people, great minds
[05:07.366]To do things to carry the torch of our ancestors
[05:11.224]And to let us know what’s really, really going on around the world
[05:15.969]Hip hop has definitely carried that torch in a positive way
[05:21.763]Rap was a vehicle for stopping the violence
[05:25.125]Just as jazz was back in the days
[05:28.475]Back in the 60s, back in the 30s
[05:30.296]Quincey Jones, McCoy Tyrner, Grant Green
[05:35.942]Wes Montgomery, Elvin Jones, Miles Davis
[05:40.929]Eric Gale, Phil Sanders, Freddie Hubbbard
[05:47.656]Billy Higgins, Jimmy Smith, Wayne Shorter
[05:54.244]Ahmad Jamal, Thelonius Monk – all big influences
[06:01.511]For what it is that we do
[06:03.465]And what it is that we are
[06:05.161]As we take our stance in music
[06:08.179]Jazz was also like a secret conversation
[06:12.410]I mean, it was a universal language
[06:15.257]So no matter what culture you came from
[06:17.974]You would still hear the music
[06:20.632]And feel the story even if you didn’t know the words
[06:24.102]In hip hop
[06:26.101]We have to put our all into it
[06:30.373]So you can feel the energy coming across
[06:35.493]Just the same as the saxophone player
[06:37.628]Who played with the same intensity and feeling
[06:40.627]And that’s what we’re all here for
[06:43.361]To feel that love and vibration music
[06:45.853]To uplift the people, indeed
[06:54.222]So that is indeed an influence on me
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