there it is. violence @nbcge.com. what is internet, anyway? do you write to it, like mail? >> a lot of people use it and communicate. i guess they can communicate with nbc writers. alison, can you explain what internet is? imagine what it was like back when the rolling stones would shock parents everywhere. my, how times have changed. >> i see hustling, killing. that's what i rap about. >> you can take me out of the goetta but you can't take the ghetto out of me, though. >> and kirk cobain in particular, the angst. >> and country music has taken over the air waves and record charts. >> the honeymoon over. now we're getting down to real commerce. >> aren't these girls just crazy? >> yeah, they are.

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hypnotizes your children. you may want to know mtv is responsible for a complete revolution in the music business in this country. ♪ just know >> mtv makes the hits. as if there were just one national radio station for new songs. >> ending the '80s, rock music, hair bands. poison, rat. ♪ she's my cherry pie cool drink of water, such a sweet surprise ♪ tastes so good make a grown man cry, sweet cherry pie ♪ >> a lot of hair spray, not particularly deep music but mtv pushing it, best selling. >> i'd turn on mtv all the rock bands looked a certain way, played a certainly music, expected to have a certain facade. >> those who watch, mostly teenagers and young adults buy a lot of records, tapes and cds

and buy the most of what they see the most. >> recently, two members of the heavy metal band aerosmith dropped by mtvs offices to screen a new video and brought a big bag of cash as an incentive. >> reported companies would submit videos every monday have a meeting and look at the videos and decide who would get put into the new rotation. i was a 21-year-old kid that loved punk rock and quickly realized that the music they were playing just wasn't what i was into. when the new nirvana video was delivered to mtv i was completely blown away. i said, listen, they really are incredible and we need to give them a shot, and if it doesn't work, then you can push me out of the music meeting. >> tonight's world premiere video from the seattle band nirvana. smells like teen spirit. ♪ bring the >> it was like the musical

kennedy assassination of our time. everybody who was alive then can tell you the moment they heard that song. because nothing like that existed to that point. it was really transcendent. ♪ it's contagious here we are now, entertainers ♪ >> here we are now, entertainers. sounded like a threat. not a threat. a different generation saying what do you have for us? what are you going to do for us? ♪ when i'm >> the so-called slackers, generation x, not being paid attention to, and this pressure was building up. especially in the music industry. for something that actually spoke to them. >> this is the first american generation that will make less than their parents will. it's a tough time to grow up in, and i think the band and kirk cobain in particular reflect that angst. ♪ yeah, yeah >> curt cobain was a great

songwriter with an ability to scream almost in tune. an intensity that was really unique. ♪ >> nirvana gave the record industry a wake-up call and said, here is your new audience. so start looking for the people with the clothes with the holes in the knees and you better run to those clubs to buy up the next one. >> i would go to the clubs and soo see bands like cat butt and bands like screaming trees. it was a refreshing change from the competitive sort of l.a. hollywood '80s and suddenly so cool to be from seattle. >> one of the biggest biz stories these days a so-called rain city renaissance with emergens of noisy grunge rock. like sound garden, also in chains and pearl jam from seattle, washington. ♪ ah ♪ ♪

>> why don't you tell me what the biggest misconception about the so-called seattle music scene is? >> everybody's a grunge band. >> all of these bands sound different from each other were lofted up to the main stream as this is what grunge is. >> tell me a little about the seattle music scene. >> with all the attention, no one's ever asked us that before. >> never heard that question. >> so tell me about the seattle sound. what's going on up there? >> ah -- what's in the water? ♪ i got a little story for you >> bands like nirvana, pearl jam, they wanted no part of the music industry machine, and yet there they were, on mtv, on the charts, selling millions of records. ♪ hey ah, i ♪

>> it's a little overwhelming to see this many people. [ laughter ] we're used to playing small clubs. you know jand we want to go back to playing small clubs. ♪ >> primitive rock tour kicked off in phoenix, arizona thursday night. a multiact package called the lollapalooza tour. ♪ ♪ all your crossroads >> 1991, we were the first band onstage at the first-ever loll la pa zeus lollapalooza. tremendous for my band. >> lollapalooza is cool. >> the idea you can get these important and popular bands from the underground, james addiction, nine inch nail, soundgarden, red hot chili peppers and get them all together. it felt like a really new idea.

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guts, and now they had to deal with it. >> we decided to lay low and obviously that was -- you know, someone would say, oh, because kurt's on heroin the whole time. it was just like -- it's been really damaging to us. tell you the truth. it's really affected my personal life a lot. [ applause ] >> i was in the front row of the unplugged performance, and it was a serious artistic statement. kurt didn't play the hits. those songs were chosen for a particular reason. ♪ my girl, my girl don't lie ♪ to me ♪ tell me when did you sleep last night ♪ >> i remember watching him play the cover of "a lead belly song" where did you sleep last night?" it was emotional for me because i love nirvana and i felt a connection to kurt cobain and even when i was young i was so worried about him. ♪ my girl, my girl

>> in that era, the speculation of kurt's not doing well. kurt has drug problems. and nirvana unplugged was this kind of thing, like, the clouds parted. you know? seemed like everything was going to be okay. ♪ night through [ cheers and applause ] >> from seattle tonight, word of an untimely death. >> the lead singer of nirvana shot and killed himself at his home in seattle, washington, today. >> it didn't come as a major surprise, but it was -- devastating, because of the way it happened. >> i pulled over and i was there like 20 minutes, half an hour just crying right there. >> i just don't aunds it. that's all. >> i think he was the closest that his generation came to a john lenin. >> yes. >> in that he was writing very much from the heart, directly, and he didn't play according to the rules.

>> i was 16 when that happened. and if you turned to music for solace in your life, to then see your hero kill himself, it was devastating. it certainly sucked the air out of alternative rock. you know, the best band be fell apart after only making a couple records. you know? what do you do after that? ♪ >> oasis, his was the hangover of grunge. my head's pounding. insane. let's turn on oasis. ♪ no ♪ your my >> the opposite of nirvana, because they wanted fame. you know? no matter hue big they were they wanted to be bigger. >> we know we're the best band in the country. simple as that. it's that simple. >> the thing about oasis in a

way they have no kind of, no false modesty. >> how can anybody go we're the -- it's like -- anybody's who's got the balls to do that is good in my book. ♪ >> "creep" came out in the early '90s. as much of an alt rock hit as any of the nirvana or pearl jam songs but hardly extraordinary. >> inevitably, the first song that become as hit everybody characterizes the band from that. we have to wait and see whether we have a chance to prove we're not just that. >> okay. ♪ >> i remember vividly listening to radio head's next record, "the bends" nonstop and seriously geek out on every part, the bass line, percussion, every tiny little nuance. ♪

♪ don't leave me dry >> this week releasing a new album, chitticks are chirping with praise, too. ♪ >>, "computer" is like "dark side of the moon" of the '90s. showed this is going to be the defining band of the next 25 years. >> you could tell the whole story of the evolution of what came out of grunge through radio head, and what came out of alternative through beck. ♪ in the time of chimpanzees i was a monkey ♪ >> i was always interested in hip-hop. non-linear word connections. ♪ i'm a loser, baby, so why don't you kill me ♪ >> beck is defining what's happening now with that mesh of styles. mixing electronic, country, rap,

rock 'n' roll everything. everything. throwing the kitchen sink in. ♪ >> out of the ashes ofcreated t >> first time i actually front add band, stood up and sing charismatic, which i can't do, but i need to just keep playing and making music. ♪ looking to the sky to save me ♪ looking for a sign ♪ looking for something to help me turn out right ♪ >> in an era everything was serious, a heavy tone especially after kurt cobain's death, the foo fighters create a music video and find a perfect balance between making people laugh with also having the ability to play incredible rock music. ♪ [ cheers and applause ]

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beat and feel goes good with the rap. boom. there it is. platinum records. >> and it's the biggest hip-hop band there is at that point. >> first time i heard n.w.a., ice is okay. the rest is garbage. pretty much the thought of most in the -- ♪ dre step to the door >> you're not coming in as the new kid and decide this is the thing. east coast is thing of hip-hop and always have a say where hip-hop goes. ♪ mad thinking about stomping >> you going to continue making a lot of money off this? >> long as it's violence it's going to be rap music, gangsta rap music, whatever. >> nwa was always too hot to hold. to splinter. the first person walks away, ice cube. ♪ tried to kill me

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gangsta rap was purchased by whites. >> growing up in st. paul, minnesota, my friends and i thought compton and south central must be the coolest places in the world based on this music. >> other music is like a fairy tale story. we could hear somebody else's history basically an understand where they're coming from. ♪ bow wow wow yippy eye yippy yeah ♪ . >> making it available to everybody. a hip-hop tsunami and we didn't see it coming. >> def row records, chronic the foundation. keep rolling on until the house is finished. ♪ it's the bow to the wow and snoop doggie dogg ♪ >> the handful of rap super stars are not just singing about being mean and nasty and ambitious. they're accused of living up to their lyrics. ♪ all respect to those

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trapped in the world they created. forced to keep it real, and that's a sad commentary. >> i remember seeing news reports how violent it was, remember seeing editorials how can we let our children listen to this when these artists are killed an an incredible rate and i thought rap was going to end. >> at least one radio station here in los angeles which made a lot of money from gangsta rap music has stopped playing it. >> we lost two of the greatest artists in hip-hop history. that vacuum was there for a while. okay. what are we going to do? ♪ seems like yesterday we used to rock the show ♪ ♪ lock the floor, so far from hanging on the door ♪ notorious, they got ♪ >> "i'll be missing you" was diddy's song about b.i.g. suddenly, damn, puffy's going to be a legitimate solo act and enters the next phase of hip-hop ♪ every step i take >> a sampling and then there's sampling. to take the "every breath i take" police sample and rap over

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like, women were thought, you're not sexy -- ah. get outta here. not shaking ass. get out of here. ♪ i want to take a minute to give respect to the man that made a difference in my world ♪ and female not until salt 'n' pepa and that blew the doors off of it ♪ what a man what a man what a mighty fine man ♪ >> opened up the door, well, who else are females rapping? oh. mc light. ♪ can i get a >> who you calling a bitch? >> oh. who's this queen latifah girl? and later on, oh, who's this missy? ♪ oh, missy try to maintain >> they were respected as artists. they didn't have to shake booty or wear low-cut blouse. changed the way we viewed things. ♪ >> to me the best two female

emesis out of the '90s, missy elliot and lauryn hill. ♪ ah, the one hit it and called you again ♪ >> you see the role of women in hip-hop, is it changing? like yourself? >> something that's always been there. whether or not they got the, you know, the acknowledgement they should have, always been there. and just now maybe they'll truly be acknowledged. ♪ guys are only that thing, that thing ♪ >> she sings, she raps. there's heartache involved. it's all encompassed in one amazing piece are art. >> lauryn hill. >> with her record-breaking fifth grammy win, lauryn hill echoed what many might have been thinking. >> this is crazy, because this is hip-hop music. know what i mean? >> she's going to be, big -- well, she already is a big star. five grammys. >> a lot of people think she's going to redie fiefines connect

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it's hot news for electro c electronica. prodigy's new album enters the billboard pop chart at number one. ♪ >> up until the end of the '90s, dance music was just a deejay, a beat. all of a sudden there's a face to it ♪ black when the >> this is very much the recycling age. is this music recycled? >> everything is secondhand. you know, take things different places and create something new with it. ♪ just as long as my baby >> all this stuff is going on at the same time. massive attack, moby, so you're seeing what we call electronica, which is techno.

really starting to take hold. beyond dance clubs. ♪ let your feeling slip forever ever ♪ >> all these art iss end up laying the seeds for what would become a pretty huge revolution in music. ♪ >> everybody's talking about them. they're headed to america. it started with the beatles and then the stones. move over, boys, and roll over beethoven, the spice girls are coming ♪ if you want to be my lover ♪ you got to get with my friends ♪ >> there's never been a group where every person had their own personality and every fan could choose a different one they related to. and it was brilliant. ♪ thinking it's too easy but that's the way it ends ♪ >> there needed to be some music to be the sorbet and palate cleansing that was all the intensity of the earlier '90s.

>> the recording business does not need to be told it's a teen, tine world. >> there were about to be more teenagers than any other time in american history. teenagers wanted to be entertained. they wanted to have fun. ♪ even if my heart i see you're not being true to me ♪ >> the backstreet boys made a video for "quit playing games in my heart," them in the rain, getting all wet, being sexy, and it became a hit. ♪ you're playing games with my heart my heart ♪ ♪ my heart >> this is where it all started, right here, in this house. the guys coming here doing vocal recording, on a little karaoke machine i had. >> their manager lou pearlman said, i think i need another one of these. ♪ tearing up my heart when i'm with you ♪ ♪ but when we are a part of feeling two ♪ >> it was a little overwhelming to be, you know, 16 years old

and have that many people trying to attack you. it was craziness. and it felt like a dream. >> one by one, the breathless few got their lucky autographs. most were missing school. many had mom as chaperones. >> all these people who had gone to be huge pop stars began on disney. so many people came out of the mickey house club. christina aug you layer ra, britney spears. >> that's like the 1927 yankees in terms of pop. ♪ oh baby baby how was i supposed to know ♪ ♪ that something wasn't right here ♪ >> teenagers are the biggest consumers of music, and britney has become their queen. >> i'm not that innocent. ♪ i did it again >> britney was the madonna

whereas christina was the mariah. ♪ oh yeah yeah >> christina, you know, very tiny girl, she's under 5 feet. when she opened her mouth it was like this burst of, like, wind came through your hair. you're like, that voice is coming out of that girl? ♪ come on come on >> the end of the '90s is a precarious, strange time for music because mtv stops playing music videos. they start doing this more reality television programming, which everyone's like, that's never going to take off. >> music would be as much or more in people's lives than it ever had been, but the economics of it would vanish. ♪ another turning point a fork stuck in the road ♪ ♪ time grabs you by the wrist directs you where to go ♪ >> the '90s represented being who are you. this is the kind of music i'm going to make and i don't care

who likes it and doesn't like it and i'm not going to sound like anybody else. this is who i am. >> people were starving for authenticity. they were starving for what their real experience was. the messy, chaotic, fallible experience of being human. and the '90s gave complete green light permission for that to be explored. >> you talk about this band a lot. you go, oh, wait a mishgts you can't talk about the '90s without this one and this one and this one. there were so many monumental bands, one after another. that's the '90s. ♪ so take the photograph and still frames in your mind ♪ ♪ hang it on a shelf in good health and good time ♪ ♪ tattoo some memories for what it's worth it was worth all the while ♪ ♪ it's something unpredictable but in the end it's right ♪

♪ i hope you had the time of your life ♪ ♪ it's amazing there was a time when what you said could get you locked up in prison. >> i actually accrued a reputation for being reverend. >> sticky wicket. >> i cuss gratuitously. but subject matter is another story. >> it's going to be a good show. >> are there any subjects that are never appropriate for humans? >> people say a good comedian doesn't have to cuss. i say it's [ bleep ] rubbish. >> how dirty is too dirty? >> why is that funny? >> i don't know. >> what you're about to hear is going to shock and disgust you. >> if you