. ♪ i will make it rain a hurricane katrina ♪ >> kendrick green loves to rap and hopes to make it his& b music. i'm just a versatile artist. i mean, you hand me the beat and i can do it. i rap about life. >> on august 25th, 2009, in aurora, illinois, kendrick and some friends are just finishing up a landscaping job when he's tempted to do a little routine for a friend's camera. >> i was showing the other workers my music, my song. i was telling him i had a dance for it. one of the guys had a camera. just kind of goofing around, i was like hey, why don't you record me dancing to this song. >> it's where kendrick decides to dance that's the problem. >> put the music on and walked out to the street and you know, started doing my dance. i could have just easily danced on the sidewalk, but the street made it like risky, you know. it made it like he's stupid. >> playing to the camera and ignoring the cars, kendrick gets into his groove. >> get the shoulders going, you know, get the shoulders going to the beat and you cross your arms and you just, you know, you're bopping like this. >> kendr

blige, kendrick lamarr will clothes out the festival sunday evening.ts we will have. >> and it is also multi, what i should say cross generational from a charles wilson to kendrick lamar. you have something for everybody. usually on the same show. you see the young folks getting it all with charlie wilson and older people relating. >> this is where we all come together. our national our global community. this is where we come and we enjoy each other. we enjoy the cuisine in new orleans, the art, the music across our generations. we are all together. there are no divisions. >> well it is the essence music festival. i'm excited that we are upon that time again. and i'll be there with bells on. and maybe some nice outfits, too. thank you for your time tonight. i'll see you in new orleans. >> see you there. thank you. >>> straight ahead, big news from sesame street. a tv icon is saying farewell. and later as we get ready to celebrate independence day, we look at how far we've come since 1776. thingy. you see it? that's a sensor. using ge software, the ligh

. >> she has nine of them and her "bad blood" collaboration with kendrick lamar is the most nominatedad blood" has stiff competition for video of the year including my favorite, ed sheeran's "thinking out loud." ♪ place your head to my beating heart ♪ ♪ i'm thinking out loud maybe we found love right where we are ♪ >> you found love with ed sheeran. >> i have. >> you are in love. >> dude, i loven him, but my goodness, got to love her, too. beyonce's "7/11" strong contender for video of the year. and yes, beyonce bouncing around in her underwear in a video is probably going to be a strong contender here. other nominees include "uptown funk" and kendrick lamar. >> beyonce knows how to sing, underwear, no underwear. take her any day. >>> much is being made that the "back to the future" movie, i know we're going to keep going, okay? 2015, you may recall that the original film marty mcfly is sent 30 years into the past to make sure his parents get together and he has a future. the three stars in "back to the future," christopher lloyd, lea thompson and michael j. fox, were reunited at lond

even kendrick lamar he, every now and then, breaks into nice r&b song. >> absolutely. >> teddy pendergrassis where r&b soul music between the kings of r&b from philly and all of the kings that went down in detroit over in the how town era, come on, gamble and huff handcuff. >> that's right. >> come on, man. teddy pendergress. common ♪ ♪ come on over to my place ♪ ♪ you like that babe. >> i all right now. >> oh, come on man. >> he is our favorite. we love teddy pendergress. >> i don't want no rappers on my albumn. can you all go support real music, fye best buy target. here is the thing i'm on a mission to crack over 100,000 the first week. i don't even want to do it for me. i want to do it because i want to make a statement. do you know how many talented r&b singers past and present and that have yet to be discovered, they can't even get a record deal because r&b is not moving the way it used to. we got to make a statement. >> the albumn is crazy top to booth o you can't skip a song. can i get a clicks real quick? you all slipping up. we always had a delux on hand. >> i've been listening t

been a national, and international story, as well as a participant of the debate in- -a part of the kendricks bait in the prez--of the debate in the presidential campaign as well. >> a lot of people came to see the flag one last time yesterday. some supporters wanted to see it and a lot of them came with children, saying i wanted to show my children history as it happened. if we take a listen, and we will be quiet for a moment, the crowd is singing. ♪ [ music ] >> they are using that song that we have all heard so many times, to share their excisement over the fact that the confederate flag has just been taken down, history, watching it happen here, the confederate flag no longer flies over the state grounds of south carolina. >> and mornings on 2 wanted to bring this to you live because this say--systems part of history and we have been watching also activity curety concerns because there are opposing sides, including the ku klux klan and black panthers. butter seeing--but you are seeing it live, as the confederate flag is being move today a new museum. >> we will stay on top to have this. b

but right now, we turn our attention to nadine and kendrick to find out if they're having a boy or girlboy. congratulations. that's some genuine excitement. lara? >> we're still waiting to hear your news. >>> first, though we want to talk about our nick watt. you know, the french have been known to have bad reputations. can be labeled as rude but is it true? our nick watt took to the streets of paris with a hidden camera and, boy, did he find out. ♪ >> reporter: arguably the most beautiful city on earth. populated by arguably the rudest people in the planet. [ speaking french ] >> you smile at them. they don't smile back whereas in california you smile at anyone and they're like, hey. >> mean french girl? i'm perfect for that. >> reporter: are the french really as rude as even they say they are? i'm armed with a map and schoolboy french. how rude will they be to me? [ speaking french ] it's not. it's about 11 miles away. he's actually going to try to navigate me there. [ speaking french ] >> reporter: and this woman -- here's another major thing i've learned. the french will speak engli

. >> 36-year-old inmate kendrick dwayne wyatt, who's in county jail for burglary, feels the dorm searchrings tension when there is no tension there. that brings tension to the inmates. and i'm hoping there's no tension that will be involved as to this matter. >> for almost two hours deputies armed with latex gloves search the inmates' bunks and belongings for razor blades, drugs, and other contraband. >> i have noticed recently the welds on the bottom of the legs, those bust off sometimes when they lift them up and do things with them. so they'll stick things in there, drugs and cigarettes, lighters, things like that. >> they take the razors out of the razors we give to them and they wrap one end to protect themselves. they'll take them out of here. >> they'll take apple juice and other juices, stockpile them. there's one here, so that's not a big deal. but if they get a bunch of them, they'll use them to try to turn them into kind of a jail-made alcoholic beverage called pruno. >> they're not allowed to have articles like this. >> they'll use books. one time when i first got here they

you've got beyoncÉ ed sheeran, taylor swift mark bronson, kendrick moore.e the only two in the category. taylor swift saying she's only loved and supported nicki adding it was unlike her to pit women against one another. nicki explained she was tired of black women not the being rewarded for their influence on black culture. telling taylor she never mentioned her by name. taylor then invited nicki on stage if she wins the award. nicki then told her 9.8 million followers that she was never throwing barbs at taylor. she was nominated for beth female and hip hop video. we reached out to both ladies no comment. >> she was nominated. >> she was but not this that category. i love both of them. nicki minaj has been on this show taylor swift is adorable. i to think she makes a great point. she didn't name taylor by name. beyoncÉ didn't respond, she could have been mentioning -- >> beyoncÉ was in the category. >> two women this that category tailor and beyoncÉ. >> but the bad blood video features super models and skinny models. >> beyoncÉ is skinny too. it's just th