https://www.maximotv.com Public Enemy's Chuck D (Carlton Douglas Ridenhour) gives a speech at the unveiling of Busta Rhymes' star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on August 1, 2025, at 6201 Hollywood Boulevard in Los Angeles, California, USA.
00:00Coming to the stage, ladies and gentlemen, front man of the hip-hop rap group, Public Enemy.
00:12Please welcome to the stage right about now, ladies and gentlemen, Chuck D.
00:17Come on.
00:30Hey, how are y'all doing?
00:35Real quick, I'm not on hip-hop time, I just drove down, but I'm 65 today, so I guess I'm on senior citizen time.
00:45Happy birthday, Chuck!
00:47Happy birthday, Chuck!
00:49Yes, yes.
00:50Give thanks.
00:51This guy right here, let me tell you, real simple.
00:55You don't give anybody anything.
00:56You present something, and if they could take it and run it into the end zone, Busta Rhymes.
01:04He might have gave the story, he's given the story a million times, I gave him his name.
01:09I didn't do that.
01:09I presented a situation that would be better, and he said, hmm, I don't know about that.
01:17But as we see today, that's what the star is going to say.
01:21Um.
01:26Back in the day, listen, listen, I'm part of the generation that, my generation, age group, they were like into disco and stuff like that.
01:37When hip-hop just came around, the edges, it was something I thought that, hmm, it ain't about bands with me all the time.
01:45I like the way this thing is put together.
01:47It's technically astute, it's different, and I can rebel with it.
01:51And it actually took me from trying to learn how to hustle into doing a dance where I didn't really need anything complex.
01:59I didn't have a giant-sized afro, and I didn't wear silk.
02:03So hip-hop brought me around, and I really gelled with the next two generations.
02:09And this young man here was part of the next two generations, when they come up to your studio, you gotta say, sit the hell on down, y'all all over the place.
02:18But the thing about it, they were interested in it, we were interested in, into training rappers almost like athletes and sports stars,
02:27because it was about giving them a thing that they could do their thing.
02:31And so the biggest thing we would tell them is say, listen, be different, be outstanding.
02:39We're a little bit far from this city.
02:41We're on Long Island.
02:42And this guy right here with his group, leaders of the new school, we would have them say, listen, be different.
02:48Show that you're energetic.
02:51There's gonna be people that got bars, they're gonna have rhymes, but what are you gonna do that's different?
02:54And in closing, the thing is, they would go around a track and learn and spit their verses running backwards.
03:04And they would come, and I'd say, well, y'all gotta impress us more.
03:07Do 360s, you know, spit bars and all that.
03:10So they learned how to do that to almost like to Olympic proportions.
03:16And the biggest thing is, it's like not just being different, and also with these hip-hop gods right here.
03:23It's not just being different, because everybody could be different and distinct.
03:27Be difficult.
03:29Be something that somebody looks at you and says, shit, I can't do that.
03:33And Busta Rhymes is the epitome rapper emcee where you could try all you want to imitate him.
03:40You ain't duplicating this dude.
03:41Because the super emcee that was trained from, like, these two brothers sitting down, Big Daddy Kane and LL Cool J,
03:50they gotta give you sight, story, sound, and style.
03:54You can't duplicate those four dimensions.
03:58And Busta Rhymes epitomizes that, along with his group, along with his fellas,
04:03along with that period where we say, you might look at hip-hop and rap and say, yeah, this is this thing.
04:09But at its best, you can't duplicate it.
04:13You gotta really work hard and be difficult.
04:16Not head-wise, but difficult in the ability to do it.
04:20And this guy right here, he learned at an early age that he's gonna be outstanding,
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