Nardwuar vs. Chuck D
Nardwuar The Human Serviette vs Chuck D.
Nardwuar: Who are you?
Chuck D: My name is Chuck D and the name of my group is Public Enemy.
Nardwuar: Chuck D, welcome to South by Southwest in Austin, Texas.
Chuck D: Thank you.
Nardwuar: Right off the bat, Chuck, I have a gift for you.
Chuck D: Okay, thank you.
Nardwuar: Here it is right here.
Chuck D: I am not good at accepting gifts.
Nardwuar: What do we have right here?
[Nardwuar hands Chuck D a Blowfly Throbblehead]
Nardwuar: Is this Flavor? You know they’ve got a bunch of Flavors around. Aw, okay. Who’s this?
Nardwuar: Clarence “motherfucking” Reid.
Chuck D: Oh yeah, Blowfly. Right, right, that’s my man.
Nardwuar: And this is interesting because Blowfly’s ‘Rapp Dirty’, that influenced ‘Fight the Power’. How did that happen t?
Chuck D: Well, I mean, in 1980 we collected records, it was on the TK label which was known for a lot of different records in ’77, ’78, ’79 and ’80. ‘Dance to the Drummer’s Beat’ was one of them. You know, so Blowfly had one of the first rap records with ‘Blowfly Rapp’ and they had a sequence in there where he came up with this sequence about the KKK and Muhammad Ali, and so that stuck with me.
Nardwuar vs. Flying Lotus
Nardwuar the Human Serviette vs. Flying Lotus
Nardwuar: Who are you?
Flying Lotus: I am Flying Lotus. Hey, what’s up, hey [laughs].
Nardwuar: Flying Lotus, welcome to Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
Flying Lotus: Why, thank you sir.
Nardwuar: And I got a poster for you here [Nardwuar hands Flying Lotus a Bobby Taylor and the Vancouvers poster].
Flying Lotus: [Laughs] Nice, man. [Laughs] [Looks at poster] Motown, dude, there’s… yeah.
Nardwuar: Motown. Now, Motown is big with Flying Lotus, isn’t it?
Flying Lotus: It is, actually, it is, yeah. My family… it goes back to my grandma and so on, yeah.
Nardwuar:: Please, Flying Lotus, what can you tell me right here [laughs] about Freda Payne, “I Get High” ? [Nardwuar hands Flying Lotus a Freda Payne record]
Flying Lotus: Oh, yeah! Wow, this is awesome, yeah. My grandmother wrote the song for Freda Payne, “I Get High”. Wow.
Nardwuar: Marilyn McLeod.
Flying Lotus: Yeah, Marilyn McLeod, yeah. That’s awesome That’s good, dude, that’s good.
Nardwuar vs. Waka Flocka Flame
Nardwuar the Human Serviette vs. Waka Flocka Flame
Nardwuar: Who are you?
Waka Flocka Flame: I’m Waka Flocka. Born in Jamaica, Queens, raised in Clayton County, Riverdale, spokesman, entrepreneur, juggernaut, you know, the rest goes on.
Nardwuar: Waka Flocka, welcome to Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
WFF: Man, I love it man. Thank you man. Van city.
Nardwuar: And Waka, who do you have beside you?
WFF: Wooh Da Kid, man. My brother.
Wooh Da Kid: What’s going on? Wooh Da Kid, Wooh Da King, King Wooh, whatever you want to call me.
Nardwuar: So right off the bat I have a gift for you to welcome you guys to Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
WFF: We always love gifts. What’s happening?
Nardwuar: We have something here that is dear to your heart right now, an SWV LP.
[Nardwuar hands WFF an SWV record]
WFF: How do you know we like SWV?
Nardwuar: You’re Waka Flocka. We gotta know that.
WFF: How do you know that?
Nardwuar: What can you tell the people about SWV?
Wooh: They sexy. Real nice [dances back and forth].
Nardwuar: How important is that, Waka Flocka?
WFF: Well SWV, they remind me of a club in Queens called Colors. Like everybody from Queens, they know the club called Colors. That is what you just reminded me of, man you just reminded me of block parties, man. I appreciate this.
Nardwuar: Waka Flocka and Wooh Da Kid, here you are in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, as I mentioned. I guess I was wondering there, Waka, do you still like salt & vinegar chips?
WFF: Yo, this guy’s crazy! How do you know that, man? I love them. Them’s my favorite chips.
Nardwuar: You know, I was thinking about vinegar, and I was thinking about barbecue. For barbecue, what is your favorite barbecue? You know, there’s like vinegar-based barbecue, mustard-based barbecue and ketchup-based barbecue. What’s your guys’ favorites?
WFF: Damn. You know them all. Yo man, this guy’s like Cleo, man. Yeah, I love it. You hit them all on the nose.
Nardwuar vs. E-40
Nardwuar The Human Serviette vs Nardwuar vs. E-40
Nardwuar: Who are you?
E-40: I go by the name a’ E-Feasible-Bellafonte-Bearweather-Bellagiano, y’understand me?
Nardwuar: E-40, welcome to Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
E-40: Right on, thank you for having me, man.
Nardwuar: E-40, what’s the importance of the Beverly Food Center?
E-40: Beverly Food Center? That’s in my neighborhood, that’s on the hillside, that’s not there no more, it’s another, it’s called something else, but yeah, that man do, that’s one of them days when, shoot, I’m thinkin’ three thou-wow-wow with you, y’understand me. Mums, mums used to make me go get like, when I was a kid, I had to go… go pick up embarrassing stuff for her cos we had a credit over there, like, “Go down to Mr Jimmy’s and get…,” y’understand me, “go get me um… uh… some tampons or something,” you know what I mean. I was a kid so I had to go do it! But you, you’re pride in a way, but I say, “But mum, I don’t wanna do that,” but I had to do it, you know what I mean, stuff like that, I mean… shoot man, Beverly Food Center was… it was the hood, man, that’s the soil, you know, and Mr Jimmy and his hot tamales, that’s what he had down there.
Nardwuar: Some of the Macks hang out down there too, right?
E-40: Yeah, yeah, a lot of people hang out there. Some of the, you know, all the OGs, you know, used to hang out there, you know, when I started, y’understand me, drinking, kids, don’t do this, but I used to slide, y’understand me, a OG little bread there, give me 40 ounce, y’understand me, when I was under-age, little bit, but don’t do that dow, don’t do dat, don’t do dat.
Nardwuar: E-40, Bay Area Old School, what can you tell the people about Calvin T and Magic Mike?
E-40: Oh, whee, the rawest rappers you never heard of, ever in life, from Richmond, California, yeah, you dig. And man, I went and psyched Calvin T, probably ’96, something like that, and um, my partner, y’understand me, he got caught up y’understand, he had to do some time, but I got a little form to this day, man, you know, that dude was… he still got gas, y’understand me. You can find him on the block where sure four, five, or six albums that I’ve come with in March two-thou-wow-thirteen, y’understand me, so… man, c’mon man, it was the people I grew up on, Calvin T and Magic Mike, Too Short, Freddie B, Ice T, KRS-1, Run DMC…
