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>> imagine what it was like back when the rolling stones could shock parents everywhere. my, how times have changed. >> i see hustling, i see killing. that's what i rap about. >> you can take me out of the ghetto. but you can't take the ghetto up out of me though. >> it's a tough time to grow up in. and nirvana and kurt cobain in particular reflect that angst. >> they learned how to write for myself, and it's pretty ironic that most people related to it. >> boom, there it is. platinum record. >> country music has taken over the airwaves and the record charts. >> the honeymoon is over. now we're getting down to real commerce. >> aren't these girls just crazy? yeah, they are.

>> you may think of it as the channel that rattles your china and occasionally your teeth, and hypnotizes your children. but what you may want to know is that mtv is responsible for a complete revolution in the music business in this country. unskinny bop. >> just blows me away. >> mtv makes the hits. it's as if there were just one national radio station for new songs ending the 80s. >> in terms of rock music. you're getting a lot of hair

bands. you've got poison rat warrant, she's. >> my cherry pie. cool drink of water. such a sweet surprise. tastes so good. make a grown man cry. sweet cherry pie. >> there are a lot of hairspray going on. there's a lot of sexually suggestive lyrics. it's not particularly deep music, but you have mtv pushing it, so that's selling. >> when i would turn on mtv, all the rock bands looked a certain way. they played a kind of music. they were expected to have a certain facade. >> mtv's ratings are surprisingly small, but those who do watch mostly teenagers and young adults, buy a lot of records and tapes and cds, and they buy the most of what they see the most. recently, two members of the heavy metal band aerosmith dropped by mtv's offices to screen their new video and brought a big bag of cash. as an incentive. >> the record companies would submit videos every monday, and then we would have our music meeting and we would look at all the videos and decide who

was going to get put into the new rotation. i was a 21 year old kid that loved punk rock, and i pretty quickly realized that the music that 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 is from the seattle band nirvana. smells like teen spirit. load up on guns. >> bring your. friends. fun. >> it's 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. when the lights out, it's a dangerous. >> here. we. are now. entertainer.

>> here we are now. entertain us. it sounded like a threat, you know. it sounded like a different generation coming in and saying, you know, what do you have for us? what are you going to do for us? gotta find a way, a better way. >> when i'm faced with so-called, you know, slackers or generation x, they were 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 kurt cobain in particular reflect that angst. >> dahiyeh kurt cobain was a great songwriter with this ability to scream almost in tune. it just gave an intensity that was really unique. i killed him, i'm not going. >> on crash. >> 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 see bands like catbutt and bands like screaming trees, and it was such a refreshing change from the competitive sort of l.a. hollywood 80s, and it was just suddenly so cool to be from seattle, one of the biggest music biz stories these days is the so-called rain city renaissance. >> with the emergence of noisy punk metal, grunge rock bands like soundgarden, nirvana, alice in chains and pearl jam from seattle, washington. i'm feeling i'm feeling outshined. >> outshined, outshine. >> why don't you tell me what the biggest misconception about the so-called seattle music scene is? >> everybody's a grunge band. >> all these bands that actually sound pretty different from each other. we're being lofted up to the mainstream as this is what grunge is. >> tell me a little bit about the seattle music scene with all the attention. >> you know, no one's ever

asked us that before. we've never heard that question. so tell me about the seattle sound. what's going on up there? what's in the water? song? she said, have i got a little story for you? >> what you thought was your daddy? >> 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. save lives. >> alive in. oh, i'm still alive. >> it's a little bit overwhelming to see this many people. we're used to playing small clubs, you know, and we want to go back to playing small clubs. >> and alternative rock tour kicked off in phoenix, arizona on thursday night. it's a multi act package called the lollapalooza

tour. you want to open up when. >> the lineup. you fight all your doors closed. >> 1991. we were the first band on stage at the first ever lollapalooza, which was a tremendous thing for my band. and i. >> lollapalooza is cool for you. >> give me a little the idea that you could get these important and popular bands from the underground, like jane's addiction, nine inch nails, soundgarden, hole, red hot chili peppers and you get them all together. >> it felt like a really new idea. >> by the mid 90s, it's already been parodied by the simpsons. wow. it's like woodstock, only with advertisements everywhere and tons of security guards. it is in the american lexicon, the commercial culture has co-opted the counterculture. >> the honeymoon is over. now we're getting down to real commerce. and and there's there's a certain kind of

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>> welcome to the week in rock. it was a week lit up in a large way by the release of in utero, the much anticipated third album by nirvana. >> rain man. >> walmart is refusing to sell nirvana's new release, which includes a song called rape me. the chain says it wants to be sensitive to its customers moral standards. >> to get into walmart, they had to change the title of the song rape me to rape me. >> i don't think kurt was too happy about that. he always had that conflict between wanting to maintain that kind of punk authenticity, but also wanting to be popular. >> maybe the star making machine had sucked nirvana up into its evil guts, and now they had to deal with it. >> we decided to lay low, and obviously that was, you know, someone would say, oh, that's because kurt's on heroin the whole time. >> it's just like it's been really damaging to us, to tell

you the truth. >> it's really affected my personal life a lot. >> i was in the front row of the unplugged performance, and it was a serious artistic statement. kurt didn't play the hits, you know? those songs were chosen for a particular reason. >> my girl, my girl. don't lie to me. >> tell me, where did you sleep last night? >> i remember watching him play the cover of a leadbelly song. where did you sleep last night? and it was emotional for me because i love nirvana. and i felt this connection to kurt cobain. and i was always, even when i was young, just so worried about him my girl, my girl. in that era, there was always the speculation of, you know, kurt's not doing well. kurt has drug problems and nirvana unplugged was this kind of thing, like the clouds parted. you know, it seemed like everything was going to be okay. not.

>> 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 just i was there for like 20 minutes to a half an hour just crying right there. >> i just don't understand it, that's all. >> i think he was the closest that his generation came to a john lennon in that, you know, he was writing very much from the heart, very directly. >> and he didn't play according to the rules. >> i was 16 when that happened. and if you turn 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 fell apart after only making a couple of records, you know. what do you do after that? >> oasis, the verve, blur, the britpop thing. it was like the hangover of grunge. oh my god, my head's pounding. this has been insane. let's turn on oasis. my wonder why they were the opposite of nirvana? >> because they wanted fame, you know, no matter how big they were, they wanted to be bigger. >> we know we're the best band in the country, and it's as simple as that. >> and it's that simple. >> everything we admire about oasis in a way, is that they've got no kind of no false modesty. anybody can just sort of go, we're brilliant. and i mean, it's like anybody who's got the balls to do that is good. in my book. but i'm a creep.

>> creep came out in the early 90s, and that was as much of an alt rock hit as any of the nirvana songs or the pearl jam songs, but it was hardly extraordinary. >> inevitably, you know, the first song that becomes a hit, everybody caricatures the band from that. we just have to wait to see whether we have the chance to prove that we're not just that. okay i remember vividly listening to radiohead's next record, the band's nonstop. >> i would just seriously geek out on every part the bassline, the percussion, every tiny little nuance. don't leave me. >> hide. don't leave me dry. >> this week, the band released a new album, okay computer, that has critics chirping with praise to that. last chance. >> okay, computer is like dark

side of the moon of the 90s. it really showed that this is going to be a defining band of the next 25 years. >> you could tell the whole story of the evolution of what came out of grunge through radiohead, and what came out of alternative through back in the time of chimpanzees. >> i was a monkey, butane in my veins, and i'm out to cut the junkie. >> i was always interested in hip hop, it's sort of a. >> non-linear word. >> connections. i'm a loser, baby. >> you kill me. >> beck is defining what's happening now with that mesh of styles you mix in electronic, country, rap, rock n roll, everything, everything. he's thrown the kitchen sink in. the. >> out of the ashes of nirvana, dave grohl created the foo fighters. >> this is the first time in my life i've ever fronted a band. had to

actually stand up and sing and, you know, seem charismatic or whatever, which i can't do. but i need to just keep playing and making music. look into the sky to save me. >> looking for a sign? of life. looking for something to help me burn out bright in an era where everything was serious and had a heavy tone, especially after kurt cobain's death, the foo fighters learn to fly music video. >> they found this perfect balance between making people laugh, with also having the ability to play incredible rock music. >> the whole story with anderson cooper is a five time emmy winner for long form journalism. this week, kyung lah on k-pop. the whole story with anderson cooper tomorrow at 8:00 on cnn with moderate to

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there before they did. hang on. >> i got friends in low places where the whiskey drowns and the beer takes my blues away. >> living in mississippi country was a huge part of my life, and it was all because of garth brooks. >> the first time i ever saw him in concert, i was probably 10 or 11 years old. and i said, that is exactly what i want to do. >> garth brooks is the biggest selling artist of the decade and the fastest selling musical artist ever. >> he's been described as a cross between john wayne and mick jagger. he's got the looks of a cowboy and the moves of a rock n roll star. it sounded like rock n roll guitars and big drums and everybody's singing along. that's what people liked about rock shows. >> but here i come. as the acts became maybe less twangy in their way, that really just expanded their audience. artists like george strait or brooks and dunn, plenty of acts

really worked their way up and became massive. >> over the last two years, country music has taken over the airwaves and the record charts. with over $2 billion in sales and climbing as the boom in the music takes hold, western wear dealers can't keep up with the demand. >> you've got kids, you've got a house payment, and these people are more like, you are than madonna is. their life out there. >> so much she hasn't done? >> women in country was a huge thing in the 90s. you had reba mcentire, martina mcbride, shelley wright, the dixie chicks, shania twain, let's go girls come on. i remember when shania twain came out. i was just obsessed with her. i thought it was because i was really attracted to her. but come to find out, i just wanted to be her best friend. and is the prerogative to have a better fun in up over totally crazy in all fields in

our society. >> now. women. >> i wouldn't say dominating. i think that they're just rising to their true place. i feel like the woman. >> as things wore on, it became a great decade to be a girl. >> i just can't stop loving you now. >> after years of singing backup for such stars as michael jackson and rod stewart, she exploded onto the music scene in 1993 with her album tuesday night music club. all i wanna do is have some fun. >> i got a feeling i'm not the only one. >> radio has been so long in coming and playing female artists, so it's definitely a different sort of environment and attitude now. female artists like sheryl crow or liz phair, even though they had success, they were still routinely marginalized within every aspect of the industry. there was not a lot of space in pop culture where young

women's thoughts, feelings, voices were respected or taken seriously. i'm just a girl. >> there was such a strange dichotomy to gwen stefani. super girly, but then also kind of tough. and then in front of this band of all guys, that's all that you'll let me be. >> i'm just a girl in the world and that's all that you'll let me be. you know, it was like the middle finger up to every guy that ever annoyed you. look who's here. >> alanis. hi. hi. we ran into each other. we're shopping today. yeah. >> i thought we'd take you with us. >> and, uh, alanis is here with a brand new album, a brand new look, i've noticed. >> yeah, i was dropped from mca records after having made music through my teens and my personal promise to myself was that i wouldn't stop until i wrote a record that really exemplified and and nailed on the head what was truly going on for me. i know the version of me is she perverted like me? >> would she go down on you in

a theater? >> it was sort of a pearl clutching moment. like what? what did she say? women can say that. and yeah, they could. she was singing about a relationship that had obviously gone wrong, but it wasn't this kind of nice, like, oh, my god, you left me. and now i'm sad. this was rage at this man. and you didn't hear that a lot from women. i'm here. >> to remind you. are a mess. you left when you went away. it's not fair. >> in america alone, jagged little pill sells 15 million albums. it's alanis moment. you oughta know. >> over the last four years, just learned how to write for my own reasons. and write for myself. and it's. it's pretty ironic that the moment i started doing that was the moment that most people related to it. an older man turned 98. you know, there's that egocentric tendency on my part and perhaps everyone's part, to think that you're alone in your pain. i

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platinum records. >> n.w.a at that point is the biggest hip hop band there is, the first time i heard n.w.a. >> i was like, oh, that ice guy is all right, but the rest of this is garbage. and that was pretty much the attitude initially of most people who were part of the new york hip hop thing. n.w.a ain't to me, dre being on d from up, step to the dog and get up the east coast felt kind of like, well, you know, we invented hip hop. >> you're not going to come in as the new kid and suddenly decide, this is the thing. like, the east coast is the home of hip hop, and we're always going to have a say in where hip hop goes. now you're mad and you're thinking about stomping. >> well, i'm from the south bronx. >> compton. >> i'm going to continue making a lot of money off of this. >> do you think as long as it's violence, it's going to be rap music, gangster rap music or whatever? >> n.w.a was always too hot to hold. it had to splinter. and the first person who walks away is ice cube. >> the filthy devils tried to kill me. >> the same reason ice cube left the group was the reason i left. you know, i'm tired of

making other people money. it's my turn. >> tonight's the night i get in some. yeah. deep cover on the incognito tip. >> suge knight, who wasn't a real gangster, got into cahoots with doctor dre and said, dre, we should start our own record label, which became death row records. >> knight, six foot three, 330 pound former bodyguard, has become one of the most feared men in the music business. >> you get a doctor, dre, who probably makes beats better than anybody. >> this guy is going to deliver a hit. >> dre puts out his first solo album, the chronic. and, you know, not only do you get dre, but then you also get snoop dogg. >> one, two, three into the fold. snoop doggy dogg and doctor dre is at the top. whoo boy, snoop doggy dogg and doctor dre at the door is crazy. >> they knocked the door down, baby. >> but a g thank baby to locked up going crazy. 70% of rap music, including gangsta rap,

was purchased by whites growing up in saint paul, minnesota. >> my friends and i thought that compton and south central must be the coolest places in the world based on this music. >> other music is more like a fairy tale story where now we could hear somebody else's history, basically, and understand where they're coming from. bow wow wow. >> yippee! yippee! yay! death row is definitely in the hole. >> the chronic made hip hop digestible to everybody. >> it was a hip hop tsunami and we didn't see it coming. >> death row records going to be the next motown, you know what i'm saying? the chronic album was the foundation, and we're going to keep rolling on until the house is finished. >> it's the mount to the wall, creeping and crawling. yes, y'all and snoop doggy dogg, the handful of gangsta rap superstars are not just singing about being mean and nasty and vicious. rap. you put your hands, then i kill you. blood clot. >> they're accused of living up to their lyrics all respect to those who break their neck. tupac shakur, rap star and movie star, was arrested in new

york and charged with sodomy and sexual assault. atlanta cops had arrested tupac less than a month earlier for shooting two off duty police officers. >> tupac was languishing in jail waiting for his appeal when suge knight swooped in and basically offered to pay his bail if he signed a contract. death row, you will see your art brought to a bigger plateau, and you will be paid one of these days. >> even though he was an east coast guy by birth, he's now rapping on the west coast with the big label out there, death row. say what you say, but give me that bomb beat from dre. >> let me serenade the streets of l.a. from oakland and sac to the bay area and back down cali is where they put they mac down. give me love. >> chuck was trying to expand death row all over the country, but who controlled most of the music in the east at that time? >> bad boy puffy, fafa, freddie, tia. >> what up?

>> pop goes on baby, what's going on? everything. >> it's all good in the hood. >> sean puffy combs founded bad boy and biggie smalls was his marquee artist. they modeled their sound on death row in a lot of ways. kind of a gangster rap for the east coast. jump in the rover and come over till your friends jump in the gf3 i got the chronic by the trees i love it when you call me big poppa. >> throw your hands in the air. >> if you's a true i make music about what i know. you know what i'm saying? if i'd have worked at mcdonald's, i'd have made rhymes about big macs and fries and stuff like that. you know what i'm saying? in brooklyn, you know, i see hustling, i see killing, i see gambling, i see girls, i see cars. that's what i rap about. what's in my environment, keep banging. >> i love it when you call me. and the winner is. notorious big daddy. puff daddy's house. >> i hosted that source awards. mayhem almost broke out in that place that night. >> any artists out there want to be an artist and want to

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>> well, both biggie smalls and tupac had talked of trying to break out of that violence, but many say they were trapped in the world they created, that they were forced to, in a word, as they say, to keep it real. and that's a sad commentary. >> i remember seeing news reports about how violent it was. i remember seeing editorials about how can we let our children listen to this when these artists are being killed at an incredible rate? and i thought rap was going to end at least one radio station here in los angeles, which has 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. it was just like, okay, what are we going to do? like yesterday, we used to rock the show. >> i laced the track, you locked the flow so far from hangin on the block with dough. notorious. they got to know i'll be missing you. >> was diddy's song about big. suddenly it's like, oh puffy's going to be a legitimate solo act. and enters the next phase of hip hop.

>> every step i take, they're sampling and then they're sampling to take the every breath you take police sample in rap over it. puff daddy finds a way to appeal to young listeners and their parents. i'm coming. >> everybody wants to party. ain't nothing wrong with party here right at all. puff daddy built an empire off of it. and it was out of vogue to be conscious anymore. like the more money we come across, the more problems we see. >> the sound shifted and the use of samples exploded. mo money, mo problems was a diana ross sample that an older crowd could hear and say, well, that sounds familiar to me. so maybe this isn't all bad. >> as they croak, i see myself in the pistol smoke fool. >> you got songs like coolio's gangsta's paradise, which is, on the surface, a heavier song, but the hook is so inviting and warm spending most their lives living in a gangsta's paradise. >> say what? >> hip hop had hit this point where it had become mainstream, and all of a sudden it starts appearing in other forms of music. there's this kind of

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>> we out, we out. >> hip hop was a male dominated music. seriously. like women were thought of. oh, you're not sexy. get out of here. you're not shaking. get out of here. i wanna take a minute or two and give much respect to the man that's made a difference in my world. female emcees wasn't a pop cultural phenomenon, really? until salt n pepa, and that blew the doors off of it. what a man, what a man, what a man, what a mighty good man. >> mighty, mighty good man. >> it opened up the door for people to go, well, who else are females and rapping? oh, here's that mc lyte you gotta get em. >> i gotta rock, you gotta get em up i need it and i want it. so i gotta get it. here we go oh, who's this queen latifah girl? >> come on. and then later on. oh, who's this missy? >> missy, try to maintain. >> they were respected as artists. they didn't have to shake booty or wear low cut blouse. it changed the way we

view things. i can't stand to me, the best two female mcs to come out of the 90s are missy elliott and lauryn hill. >> it's been three weeks since you were looking for your friend, the one you let hit it and never called you again. >> how do you see the role of women in hip hop? is it changing like yourself? >> it's something that's always been there. >> whether or not they got the, you know, the acknowledgment that they should have, they've always been there and just now maybe they'll truly be acknowledged. some guys are only about. >> that thing. that thing that. >> thing, she sings. she raps. there was heartache involved. it's all encompassed in one amazing piece of art. >> the miseducation of 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 and you know what i mean. >> she's going to be big. >> big. >> well, she already is a big, big star. >> i mean, you get five grammys. >> you are. >> but yeah, a lot of people

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enters the billboard pop chart at number one. where's the pressure to play my game? >> ortagus show up until the end of the 90s, dance music was just a dj. it was a beat and all of a sudden there's a face to it. back for another one of those block rockin beats. the chemical brothers come up. >> this is very much the recycling age. >> is this music recycled? >> everything is secondhand. you know, take things from different places and create something new with it. just as long as my babies stay from my. >> tonight, all the stuff was going on at the same time. massive attack, moby. so you're seeing what we called electronica, which is edm, which is techno. let's really starting to kind of take hold beyond dance clubs. boy, have i ever young man boy. all these artists and laying the seeds for what would become a pretty huge revolution in music around the world, around the

world. >> everybody's talking about them and they're headed to america. it started with the beatles and then the stones. well. 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 that they related to. and it was brilliant. take it. >> it's too easy. but that's the way it is. >> there needed to be some music to be the sorbet and the palate cleansing. for all the intensity. that was the earlier part of the 90s. >> the recording industry does not need to be told that it's a teen teen world. >> they're about to be more teenagers than any other time in america's history. teenagers wanted to be entertained. they wanted to have fun. even in 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 like in the rain. getting all wet, being all sexy. and it became a hit. playing games with my heart, with my heart. >> with 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 that i had. their manager, lou pearlman, said, i think i need another one of these. >> tearin up my heart when i'm with you. >> but when we are apart, i feel it too. >> 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 chaperons. >> all these people who would go on to become huge pop stars

began on disney. >> so many people came out of the mickey mouse club. keri russell, justin timberlake, christina aguilera, jc chasez, ryan gosling, britney spears that's like the 1927 yankees in terms of pop. >> 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 like the mariah. i'm a cheat. >> whoa! >> christina. you know, very tiny girl. she's under five feet. and 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 now. >> the end of the 90s is a really precarious, strange time for music because mtv stops playing music videos. they start doing this more kind of reality television programing, 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 you are. this is the kind of music i'm going to make. and i don't care who likes it and who 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 the 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. then you go, oh, wait a minute, you can't talk about the 90s without this one. oh, and this one and this one and this one where there's so many monumental bands, one after another. that's the 90s. so take the photographs and still frames in your mind hang it on a shelf in good health and good time. >> that is a. memories. in. dead skin on trial. for what it's worth, it was worth all the while. it's something unpredictable. but in the end is right. i hope you at the time of your life. thanks for.