this is a music video by large prime numbers

drew cosner on guitar

this guy named kevin hipkondo on drums

and me tim rogers as the hiphop mc hiphop arimashou

this song is called 1234 hiphop

and it will begin when i say 1234 HIPHOP

alright alright

igerashou? hiphop arimashou?

japanese hiphop ananda

anandaiwa

yeah yeah arimashou

hiphop

people ask themselves all the time every day what hiphop is

and sometimes i tell them there are elements of hiphop the kids tlak about

one of them is rhyming, stealing, kicking people, what else is there

rhyming and stealing. there’s beat there’s rhythm, there’s rapping

there’s going crazy

there’s carrying a gun

there’s wearing the bling

there’s pimping the hoes

there’s (?) bars?

and there’s being all out super fly

and let me tell you the japanese kids that just go to hiphop these days

they don’t know what they’re doing

they stand on the street corner in groups of one, two, three

sometimes four

listsening to hiphop music on a little boombox

they don’t know what they’re doing

they don’t - i mean- they don’t know what kind of music they’re listening to

they’re listening to hiphop music but they don’t know what it is

they could be listening to rock n roll

theyre not wearing the right clothes

theyre not pimping the right hoes

theyre just listening to hiphop because they think it’s cool and it’s new

let me tell you

the kids in japan sometimes they might even start a hiphop group

knowing japanese (?) they know how to rhyme

but they don’t know how to feel, they don’t know how to dance, they don’t know how to shape the breeze and most importantly

they don’t know how to represent

represent!

the kids represent

the most important part of hiphop

you need to represent

you need to represent something

the kids in japan don’t represent nothing

they don’t represent mcdonalds

they don’t represent their school

they don’t represent their office

they don’t represent their parents

they don’t represent nothing

they don’t even know what their representing even means

there are exercises that you can do to make yourself to wanna listen, knowing hiphop, loving hiphop (?) to hiphop

(?)

you can do a lot of things in the morning

do some aerobics

when you wake up, do some breathing exercises

(?)

clean, pure hiphop soul

and then (?) represent

you represent, when you wake up every morning you have to know what you are, you have to know where you come from

you represent what you like

you represent your favorite color, like orange, or black, or red

you represent everything you can

and the most important thing of all, the most important thing for a man to represent

i don’t represent no country

i don’t represent no street

i don’t represent no hood

i represent my own desire to represent

there’s an exercise you can do

and the exercise goes like this

when i say represent, you say word

when i say represent, you say word

represent

represent

when i say represent, you say word

represent

(aghhhh)

represent

(aghhhh)

represent
(AGHHHH)

represent, you say word

i say represent you say word

i say represent you say word

represent

represent (repeated)

yeah

the words aren’t words

i say represent, you say word

*screaming*

i hate you america

i hate you america

i hate you america

*screaming*

1-2-3-4

you didn’t stop on time, (?) there

konoyarou, stoppou shimmatta

(?) arimashou

*japanese that i don’t speak*