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CES 2019 we're here with the legendary Run DMC where they're about to rock the stage that seen its annual party about new residents in New York I currently live in Queens and I know that's uh that's the home of Run DMC can you explain kind of like I know it's a different place now can you explain the climate of what Hollis Queens was like when run DMC was great first be informed lower middle class suburban area like Street line neighborhood so we had to walk to the Avenue to be 42nd Street 125th Street but she had a heart hard-working parents tight community everybody's mother knew everybody's son and it was it was kind of like suburbia meets the ghetto now I don't know if you heard but Amazon announced that they're opening their second headquarters right there in Queens right in Long Island City so what do you guys have thoughts on that like do you think it's gonna change the climate at all of Queens like has changed any way I mean in Brooklyn change Queens chance definitely not like it used to be even New York City and in New York City it was New York City they took away all they took away CBGB's they took away all the LA Music Venues owned by them coming there what's gonna happen is they're gonna start pushing a lot of people that live in Queens out because now like my house for instance there was a one family house now there's people living on every floor yeah yeah they sell out the basement it's so loud I'm out of gas crazy so so as being a tech company I wanted to ask about the origins of hip hop and you guys really innovated and created kind of like the sound of what hip hop is today with the MC stepping in the forefront and and the the rawness of the beats with just the drum machines can you kind of give some examples of how hip-hop utilized the tech that they had access to and kind of used it and in a way to make it their own the rolling drum machine I mean for me listening to the cold crush brothers it was authentic and then when Larry Smith came along he took it it was reinterpreting what was going on and then as it changed a little bit when Jay started producing we started sampling again so it's back to what the cold press is actually doing he went from the DMX to be stood around the be stood around was just a Bob James sentence right so yeah so it it definitely changed from the drum beats to using samples and utilizing machines and then now you fast forward today and you've got crazy access to everything you know you can make a beat on your cell phone right now how do you feel like the current state of music and how how people can make it now has changed like is it is it good for the landscape or is it kind of polluting it well technology has made everything easy like we're DJ's they don't have to carry around crates of Records so it's made it easy but now also you got people that could just go buy a set up and get the jobs that the real DJ supposed to have now not knocking anybody also but anytime they do an event or something like that you should always have an authentic DJ there so the people that love tech could see wow they took something that was alive breathing and physical and put it in there and is there a piece of tech that you guys have that you just can't stand or just can't figure out like a new wave of Technology and that you just don't mess away so my brother or ruckus was just in Bali it's a different time of day they're calling me and I'm looking at their face to me that's to George Jetson stuff like what do you mean I could call home and see my wife in bed right now on a telephone nothing to me I can't believe I can call Africa right now and talk to somebody it's a lot seven six power change Emily's home and stuff like that you know I'm saying but what my son you know that it's no generation they got a half a day like you wrong if you got a seven you know have attained speaking of kids I'm a new dad myself and I'm trying to navigate through this this new climate where I can't sit still unless they have the iPhone in front of them bad thing is you got little kids you got little kids what two years old pointed and you could give it to them and they know how to scroll which but I mean that's a good thing but it's just so crazy they like to say okay go find his own thing oh you're still in diapers no give me the phone and no starter it's crazy but now I think the bad thing is be making these eggs at three or four years Oh like have heart attacks and tempers if they don't get their iPads and stuff like that Russia has a robot that's like a terminator the only thing it is that that the home the wives are still connected now they have a robot with guns like does push-ups I want to shoot and kill us so one thing that technology people need to know and they should add this courses I know what show to had seen that people need to get involved in survival still because if when it hits the fan you're gonna have to learn how to live in a forest hey Christine yes yeah thanks a lot