1 00:00:03,336 --> 00:00:07,140 ♪ Hold on, I've been waiting so long ♪ 2 00:00:07,173 --> 00:00:12,178 ♪ Is this how this feels? ♪ 3 00:00:12,212 --> 00:00:15,315 (electronic fanfare playing) 4 00:00:15,348 --> 00:00:18,118 ♪ It's happening ♪ 5 00:00:18,151 --> 00:00:21,354 ♪ Yes, it's really happening ♪ 6 00:00:21,388 --> 00:00:28,661 ♪ This is real ♪ 7 00:00:28,695 --> 00:00:30,463 (fanfare ends) 8 00:00:30,497 --> 00:00:32,699 - BABY: Dada. - PHARRELL WILLIAMS: Yes, sir. 9 00:00:32,732 --> 00:00:35,201 - Dada. -Yes, sir. - (kids chattering playfully) 10 00:00:35,235 --> 00:00:36,836 Careful. Don't crash. 11 00:00:36,870 --> 00:00:38,705 (baby squealing) 12 00:00:40,740 --> 00:00:41,841 You okay? 13 00:00:43,877 --> 00:00:45,378 Yeah, but you're not supposed to have that 14 00:00:45,412 --> 00:00:47,914 - on the table, buddy. - Dada. 15 00:00:48,815 --> 00:00:50,583 So, can you do me a favor and tell everybody 16 00:00:50,650 --> 00:00:52,919 I'm trying to do an interview for the film? 17 00:00:52,986 --> 00:00:54,487 Okay, babe. 18 00:00:54,521 --> 00:00:57,190 But just tell the kids to be... quiet down, like... 19 00:00:57,223 --> 00:00:59,492 (kids chattering and babbling) 20 00:01:01,761 --> 00:01:03,730 - And good morning, brother. - Hey. 21 00:01:07,670 --> 00:01:09,369 - MORGAN NEVILLE: Are we good? - MAN: Yeah. All set. 22 00:01:09,402 --> 00:01:10,537 MORGAN: Okay. 23 00:01:10,570 --> 00:01:12,380 - Hey. - Hey, how you doing, man? 24 00:01:12,720 --> 00:01:13,239 Good to see you. How's it going? 25 00:01:13,273 --> 00:01:14,240 - We're recording? Yeah? - Yeah, yeah. 26 00:01:14,274 --> 00:01:15,375 Okay, cool. 27 00:01:15,408 --> 00:01:17,610 Quiet on the set! 28 00:01:19,846 --> 00:01:21,781 You know what I always thought about? 29 00:01:21,848 --> 00:01:22,882 MORGAN: What's that? 30 00:01:22,916 --> 00:01:24,751 What if, like... 31 00:01:24,784 --> 00:01:26,586 What if nothing's new? 32 00:01:26,619 --> 00:01:28,540 (whooshing) 33 00:01:28,880 --> 00:01:30,560 What if life is like a LEGO set? 34 00:01:30,900 --> 00:01:31,691 (satellite beeping) 35 00:01:31,725 --> 00:01:34,361 And you can put 'em together whatever way you want. 36 00:01:35,595 --> 00:01:40,367 But you're borrowing from colors that already existed. 37 00:01:42,102 --> 00:01:44,700 Does that make sense? 38 00:01:44,104 --> 00:01:45,405 Um... 39 00:01:45,438 --> 00:01:46,639 You know what would be cool is if, like, 40 00:01:46,706 --> 00:01:49,743 we told my story with LEGO pieces. 41 00:01:49,776 --> 00:01:50,810 (chuckles) 42 00:01:50,877 --> 00:01:52,445 - Seriously? - Yes. 43 00:01:52,479 --> 00:01:54,280 - LEGO? - Yes. 44 00:01:55,810 --> 00:01:56,583 MORGAN: Mm-hmm. 45 00:01:56,616 --> 00:01:58,718 Just imagine all the color that would bring to it. 46 00:01:58,752 --> 00:01:59,586 Sure. 47 00:01:59,619 --> 00:02:01,421 - Limitless color. - Mm-hmm. 48 00:02:01,454 --> 00:02:03,323 This is the best way I can really be my purest self... 49 00:02:03,390 --> 00:02:05,158 - Yeah. - ...without feeling weird. 50 00:02:05,225 --> 00:02:06,259 Okay. (chuckles) 51 00:02:06,292 --> 00:02:07,961 Man, I'm saying just... 52 00:02:07,994 --> 00:02:09,963 Just be open. Just be open. 53 00:02:09,996 --> 00:02:13,266 So, what would you be wearing in this interview, then? 54 00:02:13,299 --> 00:02:16,436 Dad hat, T-shirt, shorts, 55 00:02:16,469 --> 00:02:18,710 on a yellow electric bike. 56 00:02:18,104 --> 00:02:19,739 (bicycle bell rings) 57 00:02:19,773 --> 00:02:21,341 'Kay. 58 00:02:21,408 --> 00:02:22,942 Moving on. 59 00:02:22,976 --> 00:02:24,511 Here's an easy question. 60 00:02:24,577 --> 00:02:28,810 (chuckles): Well, maybe it's easy, maybe it's hard. 61 00:02:28,114 --> 00:02:30,160 Where are you from? 62 00:02:30,830 --> 00:02:31,418 I'm from the mud. 63 00:02:31,451 --> 00:02:33,687 ("Maybe" by N.E.R.D. playing) 64 00:02:36,890 --> 00:02:38,458 Close to the fabled Atlantis. 65 00:02:39,693 --> 00:02:40,827 ♪ Uh-huh ♪ 66 00:02:44,297 --> 00:02:47,100 ♪ And it was born in a cloud ♪ 67 00:02:47,133 --> 00:02:49,869 ♪ With silver lining ♪ 68 00:02:49,936 --> 00:02:53,206 I just became obsessed with, like, water, you know? 69 00:02:53,273 --> 00:02:55,342 And, like, King Neptune. 70 00:02:55,375 --> 00:02:57,677 ♪ ♪ 71 00:03:04,184 --> 00:03:06,486 ♪ And voilà ♪ 72 00:03:13,360 --> 00:03:15,495 I feel like my obsession with water 73 00:03:15,528 --> 00:03:17,664 triggered something in me. 74 00:03:17,697 --> 00:03:20,734 - Different kinds of abilities. - (trident ringing) 75 00:03:29,576 --> 00:03:31,578 I don't know where it's from. 76 00:03:32,645 --> 00:03:34,647 But I knew I was different. 77 00:03:36,483 --> 00:03:38,385 - (bowl clatters) - (water splashes) 78 00:03:39,185 --> 00:03:40,520 MORGAN: Really? 79 00:03:40,553 --> 00:03:42,222 PHARRELL: I've always grappled with that. 80 00:03:42,255 --> 00:03:44,557 (water flowing) 81 00:03:46,326 --> 00:03:48,762 ♪ See, maybe ♪ 82 00:03:48,828 --> 00:03:51,431 ♪ There was something wrong ♪ 83 00:03:51,498 --> 00:03:53,867 ♪ And you weren't telling me ♪ 84 00:03:53,900 --> 00:03:57,337 ♪ No, oh ♪ 85 00:03:57,370 --> 00:04:00,573 ♪ See, see, maybe ♪ 86 00:04:01,541 --> 00:04:03,743 ♪ The laugh's on me ♪ 87 00:04:03,777 --> 00:04:09,849 ♪ And life was telling me a joke ♪ 88 00:04:13,753 --> 00:04:16,560 PHARRELL: I'm from Virginia Beach. 89 00:04:23,730 --> 00:04:26,800 The beach was less than a mile from Atlantis, 90 00:04:26,866 --> 00:04:29,202 the housing project where I grew up. 91 00:04:31,438 --> 00:04:33,406 The suburbs thought this was the hood, 92 00:04:33,440 --> 00:04:36,109 but really this place was magical. 93 00:04:36,142 --> 00:04:39,212 (band playing "Maybe") 94 00:04:42,282 --> 00:04:44,951 - (dog barks) - ♪ Hey, yeah ♪ 95 00:04:44,984 --> 00:04:46,553 (drumming to music) 96 00:04:48,880 --> 00:04:53,590 You'd just witness music bouncing off the walls. 97 00:04:55,595 --> 00:04:58,264 And the Blue Angels, they would fly over 98 00:04:58,298 --> 00:04:59,933 my housing project. 99 00:04:59,966 --> 00:05:02,402 - (rumbling, rattling) - We lived in the crash zone, 100 00:05:02,435 --> 00:05:05,438 - so we had the best view. - (baby crying) 101 00:05:05,472 --> 00:05:07,674 - (song ends) - (people murmuring) 102 00:05:07,741 --> 00:05:09,275 (jet engines whooshing) 103 00:05:09,309 --> 00:05:11,978 You couldn't tell me that life was not amazing. 104 00:05:15,150 --> 00:05:17,170 And I loved music. 105 00:05:17,951 --> 00:05:20,186 Like, everybody loves music, but I'm realizing 106 00:05:20,253 --> 00:05:22,956 I had a different kind of relationship with it. 107 00:05:22,989 --> 00:05:24,124 Like, it was... 108 00:05:24,157 --> 00:05:26,659 literally was mesmerizing to me. 109 00:05:27,827 --> 00:05:29,829 ("I Wish" by Stevie Wonder playing) 110 00:05:29,863 --> 00:05:32,320 I didn't even know that I was mesmerized. 111 00:05:32,980 --> 00:05:33,867 I just thought that's what all Black kids did. 112 00:05:33,933 --> 00:05:36,469 I thought we all just stared into the speaker like... 113 00:05:36,503 --> 00:05:37,971 Whoa. 114 00:05:39,305 --> 00:05:44,511 ♪ Looking back on when I was a little nappy-headed boy ♪ 115 00:05:47,180 --> 00:05:48,515 I was seeing colors. 116 00:05:48,548 --> 00:05:51,184 It's called synesthesia. 117 00:05:51,217 --> 00:05:53,887 It's not something that you see with your physical eyes. 118 00:05:53,953 --> 00:05:56,220 It's something that you see in your mind's eye. 119 00:05:56,560 --> 00:05:57,657 (exclaims) 120 00:05:57,691 --> 00:06:01,828 ♪ Trying your best to bring the water to your eyes ♪ 121 00:06:01,861 --> 00:06:06,533 ♪ Thinking it might stop her from whupping your behind ♪ 122 00:06:07,801 --> 00:06:10,700 All the Stevie music would do it to me. 123 00:06:10,136 --> 00:06:13,973 Beautiful hues of light cascading. 124 00:06:14,841 --> 00:06:19,120 ♪ I wish those days could come back once more ♪ 125 00:06:19,450 --> 00:06:23,683 ♪ Why did those days ever have to go? ♪ 126 00:06:23,717 --> 00:06:25,352 ♪ 'Cause I love them so ♪ 127 00:06:25,385 --> 00:06:27,654 I would just start the record over 128 00:06:27,687 --> 00:06:29,689 and start it over and over and over. 129 00:06:29,723 --> 00:06:32,759 Doing whatever it took to continue to make it happen. 130 00:06:32,826 --> 00:06:36,996 ♪ Why did those days ever have to go? ♪ 131 00:06:37,300 --> 00:06:39,650 - ♪ I wish those... ♪ - (record scratches, song stops) 132 00:06:40,100 --> 00:06:42,535 PHAROAH WILLIAMS: Man, he was way out there. 133 00:06:42,569 --> 00:06:44,204 He must have got it from his mama. 134 00:06:44,237 --> 00:06:46,406 - Oh, my God. - (chuckles) 135 00:06:46,439 --> 00:06:48,875 - And me. - (laughs) 136 00:06:48,908 --> 00:06:52,450 As parents from a project, 137 00:06:52,780 --> 00:06:55,915 we needed to be encouraging and tell him like... 138 00:06:55,949 --> 00:06:59,520 You can do anything you want to do. 139 00:06:59,850 --> 00:07:02,889 People are able to accomplish things 140 00:07:02,922 --> 00:07:06,259 because they work hard at what it is that they do. 141 00:07:07,427 --> 00:07:08,895 That's my mom. 142 00:07:08,928 --> 00:07:10,964 (knocking to rhythmic beat) 143 00:07:11,310 --> 00:07:13,366 ("Hollaback Girl" by Gwen Stefani playing) 144 00:07:14,601 --> 00:07:17,370 PUSHA T: We basically lived in the same neighborhood. 145 00:07:17,404 --> 00:07:21,141 We were kids, so it was like, "Hey, we're gonna ride our bikes 146 00:07:21,207 --> 00:07:23,643 to Mount Trashmore." 147 00:07:24,444 --> 00:07:25,912 PHARRELL: And I was the kid 148 00:07:25,945 --> 00:07:28,214 in the neighborhood with the skateboard. 149 00:07:30,283 --> 00:07:31,985 (lively chatter) 150 00:07:35,321 --> 00:07:36,589 - (excited chatter) - Yeah. 151 00:07:36,623 --> 00:07:38,658 We explored everywhere. 152 00:07:38,725 --> 00:07:39,759 (seabirds calling) 153 00:07:39,793 --> 00:07:41,628 We would go to neighborhoods 154 00:07:41,661 --> 00:07:45,565 and point at massive houses and dream. 155 00:07:45,598 --> 00:07:47,834 ♪ ♪ 156 00:07:51,738 --> 00:07:53,606 Virginia Beach Oceanfront was 157 00:07:53,640 --> 00:07:56,109 the congregating place for anybody 158 00:07:56,142 --> 00:07:59,412 - who was a creative. - (crowd cheering) 159 00:08:00,480 --> 00:08:02,282 (rapping): ♪ Timbaland, make my body hot... ♪ 160 00:08:02,315 --> 00:08:06,190 PUSHA T: The best rappers there made a name. 161 00:08:06,860 --> 00:08:08,822 You have Timbaland, who's known as DJ Timmy Tim. 162 00:08:08,855 --> 00:08:10,690 (record scratching rhythmically) 163 00:08:11,691 --> 00:08:14,661 We all kind of knew each other from school. 164 00:08:14,694 --> 00:08:16,696 (lively chatter, laughter) 165 00:08:16,763 --> 00:08:18,298 PHARRELL: Yeah, I knew Timbaland. 166 00:08:18,331 --> 00:08:20,333 I knew Timbaland 'cause we were in class together, 167 00:08:20,367 --> 00:08:23,300 - and he was cool with Missy. - (pounding, clapping to music) 168 00:08:23,360 --> 00:08:25,500 And that's how I met Missy, through Tim. 169 00:08:26,639 --> 00:08:28,708 At the time, we weren't thinking 170 00:08:28,775 --> 00:08:31,511 we were going to be artists. 171 00:08:31,544 --> 00:08:33,680 We just loved doing music. 172 00:08:33,713 --> 00:08:36,483 - (whistle blowing rhythmically) - (crowd cheering) 173 00:08:36,516 --> 00:08:39,285 (band playing "Hollaback Girl") 174 00:08:45,692 --> 00:08:47,994 In Virginia, we've been saying for years 175 00:08:48,280 --> 00:08:50,864 there's something in the water. (chuckles) 176 00:08:50,897 --> 00:08:52,332 They always say there's something in the water, 177 00:08:52,365 --> 00:08:54,868 but I think it's just Virginia itself. 178 00:08:54,901 --> 00:08:56,736 (music and cheering continue) 179 00:09:05,679 --> 00:09:07,681 - (song ends) - (school bell ringing) 180 00:09:07,714 --> 00:09:09,916 (quiet chatter) 181 00:09:10,984 --> 00:09:12,652 But I wasn't the best student. 182 00:09:12,686 --> 00:09:15,155 (garbled chatter) 183 00:09:15,188 --> 00:09:18,358 I found school difficult, you know? 184 00:09:19,859 --> 00:09:21,928 You go from being in sixth grade, 185 00:09:21,995 --> 00:09:24,300 where you only really had two teachers, 186 00:09:24,640 --> 00:09:25,532 but seventh grade was like 187 00:09:25,565 --> 00:09:26,766 you had seven different teachers. 188 00:09:26,833 --> 00:09:28,201 It was just too overwhelming. 189 00:09:28,234 --> 00:09:29,369 - (school bell ringing) - (fingers snapping) 190 00:09:29,402 --> 00:09:31,838 Hey! Earth to Pharrell. 191 00:09:31,871 --> 00:09:35,709 Stop daydreaming and get to work. 192 00:09:35,742 --> 00:09:37,777 PHARRELL: I have, like, anxiety about it 193 00:09:37,844 --> 00:09:40,800 and refuse to go back. 194 00:09:41,748 --> 00:09:44,351 So, I was in seventh grade twice. 195 00:09:44,384 --> 00:09:47,870 (phone ringing) 196 00:09:47,120 --> 00:09:49,389 The teacher contacted my mom and said, 197 00:09:49,422 --> 00:09:52,359 "Look, he's got enough credit to pass." 198 00:09:52,392 --> 00:09:56,620 And my mom was like, "No, he needs to... 199 00:09:56,960 --> 00:09:58,980 he needs to do it again." 200 00:09:59,466 --> 00:10:01,670 (door opens, closes) 201 00:10:01,901 --> 00:10:03,870 The boy is smart. He's brilliant. 202 00:10:03,903 --> 00:10:06,406 But he only did enough to get by. 203 00:10:07,207 --> 00:10:10,310 Do you feel like you fit in as a kid? 204 00:10:10,377 --> 00:10:11,444 No. 205 00:10:12,946 --> 00:10:16,950 I was detached. 206 00:10:18,385 --> 00:10:21,421 And more in dreamland all the time, 207 00:10:21,454 --> 00:10:25,158 because often times that's all I had, was my imagination. 208 00:10:25,225 --> 00:10:28,428 - MAN (over TV): Soul... - ("Funkytown" playing) 209 00:10:28,461 --> 00:10:29,896 Train! 210 00:10:29,929 --> 00:10:32,665 PHARRELL: I wanted to escape. 211 00:10:32,732 --> 00:10:34,167 Hello and welcome aboard. 212 00:10:34,234 --> 00:10:36,236 You're right on time for another ride on the big train. 213 00:10:36,269 --> 00:10:37,570 (channel changes) 214 00:10:37,604 --> 00:10:39,639 Live long and prosper. 215 00:10:40,640 --> 00:10:44,277 PHARRELL: TV, for me, became like this magical place 216 00:10:44,310 --> 00:10:48,248 where, like, my imagination would just run super wild. 217 00:10:48,281 --> 00:10:50,450 ♪ Town to keep me moving, keep me grooving ♪ 218 00:10:50,483 --> 00:10:52,419 ♪ With some energy ♪ 219 00:10:54,988 --> 00:10:58,692 ♪ Well, I talk about it, talk about it, talk about it ♪ 220 00:10:58,758 --> 00:11:00,960 ♪ Talk about it... ♪ 221 00:11:00,994 --> 00:11:03,963 Even in the outskirts of our own solar system, 222 00:11:03,997 --> 00:11:08,335 we humans have barely begun our explorations. 223 00:11:09,436 --> 00:11:11,371 PHARRELL: Carl Sagan's way of looking at life 224 00:11:11,438 --> 00:11:13,206 was amazing to me. 225 00:11:14,708 --> 00:11:16,976 (warbling) 226 00:11:19,120 --> 00:11:20,847 - (gasps) - (laughs) 227 00:11:21,948 --> 00:11:23,350 (song ends) 228 00:11:23,383 --> 00:11:25,352 I felt like everybody else was like, 229 00:11:25,385 --> 00:11:28,621 "Oh, that's an odd child. He's odd." 230 00:11:29,689 --> 00:11:31,624 And that crushed my spirit. 231 00:11:33,793 --> 00:11:36,290 ♪ ♪ 232 00:11:37,464 --> 00:11:40,500 So I didn't know what the hell I was gonna do. 233 00:11:40,533 --> 00:11:42,569 (choir vocalizing) 234 00:11:48,408 --> 00:11:50,877 - (choir continues vocalizing) - (rhythmic clapping) 235 00:11:52,679 --> 00:11:54,381 (scattered whoops, chatter) 236 00:12:00,860 --> 00:12:02,389 ♪ Hold your head, lil' bruh ♪ 237 00:12:05,859 --> 00:12:08,595 ♪ You're not dead, lil' bruh ♪ 238 00:12:11,598 --> 00:12:13,199 ♪ You are brown ♪ 239 00:12:13,233 --> 00:12:17,237 ♪ And this world is black and white, lil' bruh ♪ 240 00:12:17,270 --> 00:12:19,873 ♪ I know how it sounds, lil' bruh ♪ 241 00:12:19,906 --> 00:12:22,375 ♪ But you'll be all right, lil' bruh ♪ 242 00:12:22,409 --> 00:12:24,177 ♪ Yeah, yeah ♪ 243 00:12:24,210 --> 00:12:29,382 ♪ I bet this song makes no sense to you ♪ 244 00:12:29,416 --> 00:12:32,686 ♪ With the world on your shoulders ♪ 245 00:12:32,719 --> 00:12:35,210 ♪ What can you see? ♪ 246 00:12:36,560 --> 00:12:40,560 ♪ God blessed us all with the gift to pursue ♪ 247 00:12:41,461 --> 00:12:46,566 ♪ Just clear your mind and you'll feel like me ♪ 248 00:12:46,599 --> 00:12:47,767 ♪ Yeah ♪ 249 00:12:47,801 --> 00:12:50,270 I remember his grandmother 250 00:12:50,303 --> 00:12:53,473 telling him that she had a dream. 251 00:12:53,540 --> 00:12:55,475 Pharrell was lifted up. 252 00:12:56,643 --> 00:13:00,800 He was suspended in the air, 253 00:13:00,113 --> 00:13:04,551 way up in the sky among the stars. 254 00:13:05,752 --> 00:13:07,153 And she said... 255 00:13:07,220 --> 00:13:11,257 GRANDMA: God has given you a special gift, 256 00:13:11,291 --> 00:13:16,629 but to whom much is given much is required. 257 00:13:18,398 --> 00:13:21,768 ♪ You were made to amaze ♪ 258 00:13:21,801 --> 00:13:23,937 ♪ And bring change, lil' bruh ♪ 259 00:13:23,970 --> 00:13:27,307 ♪ It takes one to know one, bruh ♪ 260 00:13:27,340 --> 00:13:29,609 ♪ So here's one to goin' on, bruh ♪ 261 00:13:29,642 --> 00:13:30,977 ♪ Yeah ♪ 262 00:13:31,110 --> 00:13:32,979 ♪ Get your hands up ♪ 263 00:13:33,980 --> 00:13:36,516 ♪ Come on, lil' bruh ♪ 264 00:13:37,317 --> 00:13:40,860 ♪ Just shout it out, come on ♪ 265 00:13:40,120 --> 00:13:42,322 - ♪ Just shout it out... ♪ - (song fades) 266 00:13:44,657 --> 00:13:46,259 Were you making any music yet? 267 00:13:46,292 --> 00:13:48,261 No, 'cause I didn't take band 268 00:13:48,294 --> 00:13:50,463 in my first time in seventh grade. 269 00:13:50,497 --> 00:13:53,767 I mean, like, even singing or playing piano or anything? 270 00:13:53,800 --> 00:13:55,468 The closest I came to music 271 00:13:55,502 --> 00:13:59,500 was lining my grandmother's pillows up off of her couch 272 00:13:59,390 --> 00:14:02,142 and taking the cake mixer and a whisk. 273 00:14:02,175 --> 00:14:04,100 And those were my drumsticks. 274 00:14:04,440 --> 00:14:06,460 (shaking rhythmically) 275 00:14:06,112 --> 00:14:08,140 (tapping rhythmically) 276 00:14:08,480 --> 00:14:10,316 (playing rhythmic beat) 277 00:14:16,723 --> 00:14:20,326 She saw that in me, and that's when, in the seventh grade, 278 00:14:20,360 --> 00:14:22,729 she got me a snare drum. 279 00:14:22,796 --> 00:14:25,310 (playing drumbeat) 280 00:14:30,804 --> 00:14:33,390 But she started me on my path. 281 00:14:34,641 --> 00:14:37,310 My grandmother was the one that was like, "Listen..." 282 00:14:37,344 --> 00:14:40,130 When you go back to school, you should take music. 283 00:14:40,460 --> 00:14:43,316 (band playing Justin Timberlake's "Señorita") 284 00:14:46,319 --> 00:14:48,555 (song continues louder) 285 00:14:58,431 --> 00:15:00,734 PHARRELL: And that's when I met Chad. 286 00:15:00,767 --> 00:15:04,204 Chad understood colors in music, 287 00:15:04,237 --> 00:15:07,273 and we bonded on that. 288 00:15:12,912 --> 00:15:14,848 (vocalizing) 289 00:15:14,881 --> 00:15:17,117 ♪ ♪ 290 00:15:26,590 --> 00:15:28,428 ♪ Ladies and gentlemen, huh ♪ 291 00:15:28,461 --> 00:15:31,731 ♪ It's my pleasure to introduce to you ♪ 292 00:15:31,765 --> 00:15:34,340 ♪ He's a friend of mine ♪ 293 00:15:34,670 --> 00:15:35,402 ♪ It feels like something's ♪ 294 00:15:35,435 --> 00:15:36,936 - ♪ Heating up ♪ - ♪ Come on ♪ 295 00:15:36,970 --> 00:15:38,738 (laughing) 296 00:15:40,640 --> 00:15:43,276 PHAROAH: Both of them was kind of different. 297 00:15:43,309 --> 00:15:44,878 They was like little nerds. 298 00:15:44,911 --> 00:15:49,582 - Chad was always kind of quiet. - (cymbals clanging) 299 00:15:50,283 --> 00:15:51,751 I mean, it's true. 300 00:15:51,785 --> 00:15:53,420 (laughing): Yeah. 301 00:15:53,453 --> 00:15:55,789 CAROLYN: But to see the two of them 302 00:15:55,822 --> 00:15:57,323 do music together, 303 00:15:57,390 --> 00:16:00,460 it's like they read each other's minds. 304 00:16:01,227 --> 00:16:02,429 (tapping rhythmically) 305 00:16:02,462 --> 00:16:05,665 (playing N.E.R.D.'s "Rock Star") 306 00:16:08,680 --> 00:16:09,336 We were just being ourselves 307 00:16:09,402 --> 00:16:11,404 and were just-just having fun, you know? 308 00:16:11,438 --> 00:16:14,174 PHARRELL: Chad is literally like a savant. 309 00:16:14,240 --> 00:16:15,775 I've learned so much from him. 310 00:16:15,809 --> 00:16:18,345 ♪ ♪ 311 00:16:18,411 --> 00:16:20,814 He was like, "I met this kid named Chad. 312 00:16:20,847 --> 00:16:23,483 "He has some music equipment at his house. 313 00:16:23,516 --> 00:16:25,251 We should go and check it out." 314 00:16:25,285 --> 00:16:27,587 We started going over to Chad's house, 315 00:16:27,620 --> 00:16:28,755 over the garage. 316 00:16:31,424 --> 00:16:33,360 PUSHA T: I'm sorry, I have to say it. 317 00:16:33,426 --> 00:16:35,762 We skipped so much school. 318 00:16:35,795 --> 00:16:37,163 It was so bad. 319 00:16:37,197 --> 00:16:39,299 (playful chatter, laughter) 320 00:16:39,332 --> 00:16:42,135 MISSY: Every day, we would create songs. 321 00:16:42,168 --> 00:16:45,372 Everything sounded futuristic. 322 00:16:45,438 --> 00:16:47,374 PHARRELL: "Let's try this. Let's try that." 323 00:16:47,440 --> 00:16:48,875 It's like the person who invented 324 00:16:48,942 --> 00:16:50,477 - peanut butter and jelly. - (laughing maniacally) 325 00:16:50,510 --> 00:16:51,978 It's like a weird mixture. 326 00:16:52,120 --> 00:16:53,313 And if you can pull it off, 327 00:16:53,346 --> 00:16:54,481 it becomes something new and different. 328 00:16:54,514 --> 00:16:55,982 It feels good. I like that. 329 00:16:56,160 --> 00:16:57,384 - It's alive! - (thunder crashes) 330 00:16:57,450 --> 00:17:00,530 ♪ You can't be me, I'm a rock star ♪ 331 00:17:00,120 --> 00:17:02,522 ♪ I'm rhyming on the top of my cop car ♪ 332 00:17:02,555 --> 00:17:04,858 ♪ I'm a rebel and my .44 pops far ♪ 333 00:17:04,891 --> 00:17:07,727 ♪ It's almost over now, it's almost over now ♪ 334 00:17:07,794 --> 00:17:10,163 ♪ I guess you ain't heard that we swallow guys ♪ 335 00:17:10,196 --> 00:17:12,832 ♪ It's too damn late to apologize ♪ 336 00:17:12,866 --> 00:17:15,201 ♪ When you see the mantle or when you see the skies ♪ 337 00:17:15,235 --> 00:17:18,672 ♪ It's almost over now, it's almost over now. ♪ 338 00:17:18,705 --> 00:17:20,373 - (song ends) - (crowd cheering) 339 00:17:27,914 --> 00:17:29,849 - Chad. - Yeah? 340 00:17:29,883 --> 00:17:31,184 We need a name. 341 00:17:31,217 --> 00:17:33,860 - Yep. - What do you think it should be? 342 00:17:33,153 --> 00:17:35,889 Um... I don't know. 343 00:17:36,890 --> 00:17:38,324 Don't know. 344 00:17:42,228 --> 00:17:44,531 ♪ ♪ 345 00:17:48,201 --> 00:17:49,769 PHAROAH: Pharrell, he wanted more 346 00:17:49,836 --> 00:17:53,573 out of life than just making it, you know? 347 00:17:54,274 --> 00:17:56,420 ♪ ♪ 348 00:17:56,760 --> 00:17:59,713 I think he had a job at McDonald's for 30 minutes. 349 00:17:59,746 --> 00:18:01,715 (Carolyn laughs) 350 00:18:02,515 --> 00:18:05,585 He had a whole separate business 351 00:18:05,618 --> 00:18:08,521 selling nuggets out the back door. 352 00:18:08,555 --> 00:18:09,889 (laughs) 353 00:18:09,923 --> 00:18:11,758 Dealing nuggets? No. 354 00:18:11,791 --> 00:18:12,892 That never happened. 355 00:18:12,926 --> 00:18:14,294 Nice, Shae. Nice one. 356 00:18:14,361 --> 00:18:15,762 (lively chatter, laughter) 357 00:18:15,795 --> 00:18:19,650 SHAE: And he would come home with, like, 358 00:18:19,990 --> 00:18:20,934 at least a hundred nuggets. 359 00:18:22,769 --> 00:18:25,105 They were so good. 360 00:18:25,138 --> 00:18:26,573 (excited chatter) 361 00:18:26,606 --> 00:18:28,475 But it's the reason I got fired, 362 00:18:28,541 --> 00:18:30,410 'cause I was eating all the time. 363 00:18:30,443 --> 00:18:33,460 - You got fired? - Yeah, I got fired. 364 00:18:33,790 --> 00:18:34,381 Three times. 365 00:18:34,414 --> 00:18:36,316 (over speakers): A number one, extra large. 366 00:18:36,383 --> 00:18:38,418 You want some fries with that? 367 00:18:38,451 --> 00:18:40,220 Remember, this is Virginia Beach, Virginia. 368 00:18:40,253 --> 00:18:41,955 (over stereo): ♪ I get knocked down, but I get up... ♪ 369 00:18:41,988 --> 00:18:46,259 It's like very Normalville, USA. 370 00:18:46,292 --> 00:18:48,995 There's no... no music industry there. 371 00:18:52,265 --> 00:18:54,134 I couldn't relate to it. 372 00:18:55,135 --> 00:18:58,400 And I thought, "Well, damn, how am I gonna make it out?" 373 00:18:58,710 --> 00:18:59,606 - (rumbling, whooshing) - Huh? 374 00:18:59,639 --> 00:19:02,108 And then, out of nowhere... 375 00:19:02,142 --> 00:19:03,643 (birds squawking) 376 00:19:07,247 --> 00:19:09,482 ♪ ♪ 377 00:19:15,488 --> 00:19:18,992 ...the biggest producer in the world at the time 378 00:19:19,250 --> 00:19:21,270 comes to Virginia Beach. 379 00:19:23,663 --> 00:19:25,598 I was looking at the future. 380 00:19:26,800 --> 00:19:29,135 - (neon sign buzzes) - (microphone feedback hums) 381 00:19:29,169 --> 00:19:30,603 Ladies and gentlemen, 382 00:19:30,637 --> 00:19:33,306 get ready for the new jack swing king. 383 00:19:33,340 --> 00:19:35,308 ("My Prerogative" by Bobby Brown playing) 384 00:19:35,342 --> 00:19:36,543 - (engines roaring) - (tires squealing) 385 00:19:36,609 --> 00:19:38,378 He's produced hits for Keith Sweat, 386 00:19:38,445 --> 00:19:40,313 Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince, 387 00:19:40,347 --> 00:19:42,716 and of course Michael Jackson. 388 00:19:43,516 --> 00:19:45,485 Teddy Riley in the house. 389 00:19:45,518 --> 00:19:47,530 (crowd cheering) 390 00:19:47,120 --> 00:19:49,389 SHAE: What's the chances 391 00:19:49,456 --> 00:19:51,825 of the hottest producer 392 00:19:51,858 --> 00:19:55,295 moving within walking distance from your high school? 393 00:19:55,328 --> 00:19:57,163 I was in disbelief. 394 00:19:57,197 --> 00:19:58,665 It's kind of like saying 395 00:19:58,698 --> 00:20:00,166 E.T.'s hanging out at the mall. 396 00:20:00,200 --> 00:20:01,501 (people screaming) 397 00:20:01,534 --> 00:20:03,300 That shook our town up. 398 00:20:03,360 --> 00:20:07,173 ♪ Everybody's talking all this stuff about me ♪ 399 00:20:07,207 --> 00:20:11,311 - ♪ Now, now ♪ - ♪ Why don't they just let me live? ♪ 400 00:20:11,344 --> 00:20:13,980 (song stops) 401 00:20:15,315 --> 00:20:18,318 TIMBALAND: But I don't think it brought change to the city 402 00:20:18,351 --> 00:20:19,686 because it wasn't 403 00:20:19,719 --> 00:20:21,187 opened up like that to the city. 404 00:20:21,221 --> 00:20:22,355 You know what I'm saying? 405 00:20:22,389 --> 00:20:24,357 It was Teddy Riley's studio. 406 00:20:24,391 --> 00:20:27,600 ♪ ♪ 407 00:20:27,994 --> 00:20:31,640 MORGAN: So, Mr. Riley, where did this all begin? 408 00:20:31,970 --> 00:20:36,269 The story of Pharrell began with these two policewomen. 409 00:20:36,336 --> 00:20:39,105 - Police? - Yes. 410 00:20:39,172 --> 00:20:40,540 (siren chirps) 411 00:20:40,573 --> 00:20:43,430 They just kept coming to the studio. 412 00:20:43,760 --> 00:20:44,177 And they were like... 413 00:20:44,210 --> 00:20:46,379 Why is it that y'all think 414 00:20:46,413 --> 00:20:49,282 y'all can come in here and do y'all music 415 00:20:49,349 --> 00:20:50,884 and not do nothin' for the community? 416 00:20:50,917 --> 00:20:54,354 We would love to do something for the community, 417 00:20:54,387 --> 00:20:56,923 if you can do us a favor. 418 00:20:56,956 --> 00:20:58,958 Now you want favors. Okay, what is it? 419 00:20:59,250 --> 00:21:00,560 Yeah, what is it? 420 00:21:00,593 --> 00:21:04,698 Introduce us to the principal of that school. 421 00:21:05,465 --> 00:21:07,734 We would like to do talent shows. 422 00:21:09,536 --> 00:21:10,904 - Oh, okay. - Okay. 423 00:21:10,937 --> 00:21:13,106 ♪ Bonita Applebum, you gotta put me on ♪ 424 00:21:13,139 --> 00:21:16,309 ♪ Bonita Applebum, I said you gotta put me on... ♪ 425 00:21:16,376 --> 00:21:17,911 TAMMY LUCAS: I was on the panel. 426 00:21:17,944 --> 00:21:19,790 Teddy said that 427 00:21:19,112 --> 00:21:21,314 the winner would get to come 428 00:21:21,381 --> 00:21:24,718 to Future Studios and work with him. 429 00:21:24,751 --> 00:21:28,822 If we do this right, whoa. 430 00:21:28,888 --> 00:21:30,223 - (scattered applause) - (accordion plays awkwardly) 431 00:21:30,256 --> 00:21:31,591 All right. All right, now. 432 00:21:31,624 --> 00:21:33,293 How many of you are ready for Teddy Riley? 433 00:21:33,326 --> 00:21:35,462 (crowd cheering) 434 00:21:36,763 --> 00:21:39,599 MORGAN: Do you even remember what the music was? 435 00:21:39,632 --> 00:21:42,969 It was a lot of, like, baby Whitney Houstons. 436 00:21:43,300 --> 00:21:44,437 (vocalizing) 437 00:21:44,471 --> 00:21:47,140 All of the judges were like, 438 00:21:47,173 --> 00:21:49,175 "These people are the next greatest singers." 439 00:21:49,242 --> 00:21:51,277 - ("I Will Always Love You" playing) - ♪ And I... ♪ 440 00:21:51,311 --> 00:21:53,113 ♪ I... ♪ 441 00:21:53,146 --> 00:21:55,615 ♪ I will al... ♪ 442 00:21:55,648 --> 00:21:57,684 - (song stops) - (shoes tapping rhythmically) 443 00:21:57,751 --> 00:22:00,153 HOST: All right, last but not least, 444 00:22:00,186 --> 00:22:02,122 here come The Neptunes! 445 00:22:02,155 --> 00:22:07,293 But when Pharrell and The Neptunes came on... 446 00:22:07,327 --> 00:22:09,929 (crowd cheering) 447 00:22:09,963 --> 00:22:10,797 ...I was like... 448 00:22:10,830 --> 00:22:13,433 Oh, these guys are different. 449 00:22:13,466 --> 00:22:15,835 (electric keyboard chords playing) 450 00:22:16,670 --> 00:22:18,638 - (clears throat) - (rap beat begins) 451 00:22:18,672 --> 00:22:21,307 (rapping): ♪ Yes, it is he, Magnum the Verb Lord ♪ 452 00:22:21,341 --> 00:22:23,977 ♪ Mermaid City is where I was born ♪ 453 00:22:24,100 --> 00:22:26,312 ♪ I prefer words instead of using swords ♪ 454 00:22:26,346 --> 00:22:29,115 ♪ But heads are coming off once I press record ♪ 455 00:22:29,149 --> 00:22:31,651 ♪ Marching cavalier, that's in my bone marrow ♪ 456 00:22:31,685 --> 00:22:34,521 ♪ A Black martian with alien carols ♪ 457 00:22:34,554 --> 00:22:36,823 ♪ Let me explain why I'm a multi-hyphen ♪ 458 00:22:36,856 --> 00:22:39,659 ♪ Raised in Atlantis, of course I love Poseidon ♪ 459 00:22:39,693 --> 00:22:41,728 ♪ From Virginia Boy, from Virginia Boy ♪ 460 00:22:41,795 --> 00:22:45,165 ♪ From Virginia Boy, from Virginia Boy, what... ♪ 461 00:22:45,198 --> 00:22:47,667 TEDDY: It went from one thing to another. 462 00:22:48,868 --> 00:22:50,837 Pharrell went from rapping 463 00:22:50,870 --> 00:22:52,572 -to singing, -(vocalizing) 464 00:22:52,639 --> 00:22:54,841 - and then got on the drums. - (crowd exclaiming) 465 00:22:54,874 --> 00:22:58,545 It felt like the most incredible freestyle performance. 466 00:23:00,747 --> 00:23:02,916 - (song ends) - (crowd cheering) 467 00:23:02,982 --> 00:23:06,860 And I just knew that's what I'm looking for. 468 00:23:10,190 --> 00:23:13,693 A'ight, guys, let's look at what we have here. 469 00:23:13,727 --> 00:23:15,528 - Mr. Pharrell. - Yes, sir. 470 00:23:15,562 --> 00:23:16,696 - Chad. - Yes, sir. 471 00:23:16,730 --> 00:23:18,264 - Shae. - Yo. 472 00:23:18,331 --> 00:23:22,535 You know, we're looking for new artists and new vibes. 473 00:23:22,569 --> 00:23:23,670 So... 474 00:23:23,703 --> 00:23:25,772 - (stammers) Yes. - Oh, wow, okay. 475 00:23:25,839 --> 00:23:28,375 PHARRELL: Absolutely. Can't wait. 476 00:23:28,408 --> 00:23:30,430 Here you have it. 477 00:23:30,760 --> 00:23:31,244 (fingers snap) 478 00:23:33,279 --> 00:23:35,215 (door opens, closes) 479 00:23:35,248 --> 00:23:36,583 (laughs) 480 00:23:36,616 --> 00:23:38,351 Whoa. It's real. 481 00:23:38,385 --> 00:23:40,530 Oh, (bleep). (laughs) 482 00:23:40,860 --> 00:23:41,521 - (Chad and Shae whoop) - This entire time, 483 00:23:41,554 --> 00:23:43,123 I'm just thinking, "I don't know 484 00:23:43,189 --> 00:23:46,793 where life is gonna lead me, but I'm just gonna go for it." 485 00:23:46,860 --> 00:23:48,528 ("Everyone Nose" by N.E.R.D. playing) 486 00:23:48,561 --> 00:23:49,963 (knocking) 487 00:23:50,764 --> 00:23:52,599 It's The Neptunes for Teddy. 488 00:23:54,934 --> 00:23:57,237 - (phone ringing) - (busy chatter) 489 00:23:57,270 --> 00:23:59,639 ♪ ♪ 490 00:24:06,279 --> 00:24:08,548 PHARRELL: Teddy was, like, super busy. 491 00:24:08,581 --> 00:24:09,883 I think he was, like, 492 00:24:09,916 --> 00:24:11,718 working on Michael's Dangerous album. 493 00:24:11,751 --> 00:24:13,420 He just was meticulous about everything. 494 00:24:13,453 --> 00:24:16,389 He would spend, like, an hour just mixing a snare. I'm like... 495 00:24:16,423 --> 00:24:18,158 What is he listening to? 496 00:24:18,224 --> 00:24:20,293 ♪ ♪ 497 00:24:21,795 --> 00:24:23,263 (fingers snap) 498 00:24:23,296 --> 00:24:24,898 They meant business. 499 00:24:24,931 --> 00:24:26,833 They didn't want kids running around the studio. 500 00:24:26,900 --> 00:24:28,768 My studio etiquette was so wrong. 501 00:24:28,802 --> 00:24:30,970 You know, Teddy would play a chord, and I would go... 502 00:24:31,400 --> 00:24:33,606 Hey, why don't you change it to this chord? 503 00:24:33,640 --> 00:24:35,508 (song stops) 504 00:24:35,575 --> 00:24:37,811 (door opens, closes) 505 00:24:39,120 --> 00:24:41,781 And the engineer would just give me the dirtiest look. 506 00:24:41,815 --> 00:24:43,830 Hey, man, listen. 507 00:24:43,116 --> 00:24:44,451 - Teddy's the boss. - (song resumes) 508 00:24:44,484 --> 00:24:46,119 - Mm-hmm. - When he's working, 509 00:24:46,152 --> 00:24:48,621 - you don't say anything. - Yes, sir. 510 00:24:48,655 --> 00:24:51,358 - You're lucky to be in the room. - (gulps) 511 00:24:51,424 --> 00:24:53,993 PHARRELL: That's where I learned discipline. 512 00:24:54,270 --> 00:24:55,528 ♪ ♪ 513 00:24:55,595 --> 00:24:57,163 (phone ringing) 514 00:25:02,435 --> 00:25:05,372 And a lot of times, Pharrell would give me tracks, 515 00:25:05,438 --> 00:25:07,640 and he would say, "Tammy, can you help me 516 00:25:07,674 --> 00:25:09,342 write some lyrics to this song?" 517 00:25:09,376 --> 00:25:11,111 You know what I mean? 518 00:25:11,144 --> 00:25:14,347 - ♪ Yeah, yeah, yeah-yeah. ♪ - (song ends) 519 00:25:15,281 --> 00:25:17,517 The thing that raised my eyebrows was 520 00:25:17,550 --> 00:25:19,486 Pharrell leaving home late at night. 521 00:25:20,487 --> 00:25:24,858 And I'm thinking, "This guy is wasting his time." 522 00:25:30,300 --> 00:25:32,332 TEDDY: This one night, 523 00:25:32,365 --> 00:25:35,335 I just... I needed help on this record... 524 00:25:36,736 --> 00:25:39,839 ...because I didn't know how to really rap. 525 00:25:39,873 --> 00:25:41,700 I said... 526 00:25:41,410 --> 00:25:43,677 - All right, Pharrell. - Yes, sir. 527 00:25:43,710 --> 00:25:45,450 Man, I need a rap. 528 00:25:45,780 --> 00:25:46,513 PHARRELL: And I was like, "Really?" 529 00:25:46,546 --> 00:25:48,481 - He was like... - Yes. 530 00:25:48,515 --> 00:25:50,183 This is a big task. 531 00:25:50,216 --> 00:25:54,870 This record cannot come out until I get the proper rap. 532 00:25:54,154 --> 00:25:55,722 You got it. 533 00:25:59,225 --> 00:26:00,860 (laughs): I don't think he had it, 534 00:26:00,894 --> 00:26:03,697 but he just went in the room and freestyled it. 535 00:26:03,730 --> 00:26:06,533 (rapping): ♪ It's Teddy, ready with the one-two checker ♪ 536 00:26:06,566 --> 00:26:08,868 ♪ Wreckx-n-Effect is in effect, but I'm the wrecker ♪ 537 00:26:08,902 --> 00:26:10,203 ♪ Of the track 'bout the honey ♪ 538 00:26:10,236 --> 00:26:12,380 ♪ Shakin' rumps and they backs in ♪ 539 00:26:12,720 --> 00:26:14,674 And then I mimicked what he did. 540 00:26:14,708 --> 00:26:16,900 (slowly): ♪ Yes, it's Teddy ♪ 541 00:26:16,420 --> 00:26:17,711 ♪ Ready with the one-two checker ♪ 542 00:26:17,744 --> 00:26:19,179 ♪ Wreckx-n-Effect... ♪ 543 00:26:19,212 --> 00:26:21,247 - And he was like... - Nah, it's pretty simple. 544 00:26:21,281 --> 00:26:22,916 Just let it bounce. 545 00:26:26,353 --> 00:26:27,887 ♪ All I wanna do is zoom-a-zoom-zoom-zoom ♪ 546 00:26:27,921 --> 00:26:29,356 - (door opens, closes) - ♪ And a poom-poom... ♪ 547 00:26:29,389 --> 00:26:31,224 PHAROAH: And one day he came home, 548 00:26:31,257 --> 00:26:34,294 he said, "Dad, this ain't bad for a first paycheck." 549 00:26:34,361 --> 00:26:36,229 ♪ Just shake ya rump... ♪ 550 00:26:36,262 --> 00:26:38,264 PHARRELL: But, I mean, I blew it in like two weeks. 551 00:26:38,298 --> 00:26:39,966 I mean, I was like 19 years old. 552 00:26:40,330 --> 00:26:42,736 ♪ I like the way you comb your hair, uh ♪ 553 00:26:42,769 --> 00:26:45,710 ♪ I like the stylish clothes you wear, uh ♪ 554 00:26:45,105 --> 00:26:47,730 ♪ It's just the little things you do, uh ♪ 555 00:26:47,107 --> 00:26:49,576 ♪ That makes me wanna get with you, uh ♪ 556 00:26:49,609 --> 00:26:51,911 ♪ All I wanna do is zoom-a-zoom-zoom-zoom ♪ 557 00:26:51,945 --> 00:26:53,747 - ♪ And a poom-poom ♪ - ♪ Just shake ya rump ♪ 558 00:26:53,780 --> 00:26:56,249 ♪ All I wanna do is zoom-a-zoom-zoom-zoom ♪ 559 00:26:56,282 --> 00:26:59,850 - ♪ And a poom-poom ♪ - ♪ Just shake ya rump ♪ 560 00:26:59,119 --> 00:27:00,754 ♪ All I wanna do is zoom-a-zoom-zoom-zoom ♪ 561 00:27:00,787 --> 00:27:02,922 - ♪ And a poom-poom. ♪ - (song stops) 562 00:27:02,956 --> 00:27:04,924 (people groaning) 563 00:27:05,825 --> 00:27:09,229 He wanted to try to get on another level. 564 00:27:09,262 --> 00:27:11,965 That gave him, like, an artistic itch. 565 00:27:12,966 --> 00:27:15,402 PHARRELL: So I would go up to Teddy week after week 566 00:27:15,435 --> 00:27:17,270 and just sort of question him, like... 567 00:27:17,303 --> 00:27:19,773 - Man, I'm trying to make my own music. - No. 568 00:27:20,573 --> 00:27:23,643 PHARRELL: He said I wasn't ready. 569 00:27:28,915 --> 00:27:30,250 (thunder rumbling) 570 00:27:30,283 --> 00:27:32,786 I was, like, really at my wits' end. 571 00:27:32,819 --> 00:27:35,789 I thought I might have to get out of that deal with Teddy. 572 00:27:35,822 --> 00:27:38,525 (church bell tolling) 573 00:27:41,327 --> 00:27:44,330 (door creaking) 574 00:27:45,265 --> 00:27:47,667 So I talked to my pastor about it. 575 00:27:49,669 --> 00:27:52,939 And I remember being so confused. 576 00:27:53,807 --> 00:27:55,442 Look, in Virginia, he's the only guy here. 577 00:27:55,475 --> 00:27:57,977 Like, what's... How is this gonna happen? 578 00:27:58,110 --> 00:27:59,813 - Listen. - (organ playing hopeful music) 579 00:27:59,846 --> 00:28:02,816 If you're standing at the bottom of a mountain, 580 00:28:02,849 --> 00:28:04,617 can you see the other side? 581 00:28:05,852 --> 00:28:07,487 No, you can't. 582 00:28:07,520 --> 00:28:09,856 But does that mean there's no other side? 583 00:28:12,392 --> 00:28:16,463 The other side of that is your life leveling up. 584 00:28:18,310 --> 00:28:22,535 What God has for you, no man can stand in the way of. 585 00:28:24,370 --> 00:28:25,905 - He said, "Trust God." - Trust God. 586 00:28:26,973 --> 00:28:28,174 And I did. 587 00:28:28,208 --> 00:28:30,510 (door creaking) 588 00:28:32,545 --> 00:28:35,548 (wind whistling softly) 589 00:28:37,851 --> 00:28:39,719 (panting) Hey. 590 00:28:40,687 --> 00:28:42,188 CHAD: Pharrell would come to my house 591 00:28:42,222 --> 00:28:44,357 with a beat in his head. 592 00:28:46,426 --> 00:28:48,661 We would tell ourselves, "We can do this." 593 00:28:48,695 --> 00:28:49,729 (sneezes) 594 00:28:49,763 --> 00:28:51,231 Let's make some music. 595 00:28:51,264 --> 00:28:52,699 I'm choking on french fries, 596 00:28:52,732 --> 00:28:54,401 (clears throat) but that's okay. 597 00:28:56,569 --> 00:28:58,838 (playing gentle electronic music) 598 00:29:00,707 --> 00:29:03,543 PHARRELL: Music was just coming out of me. 599 00:29:04,511 --> 00:29:06,746 Can't tell you where it's coming from. 600 00:29:08,415 --> 00:29:09,749 I don't know. 601 00:29:09,783 --> 00:29:11,584 I love it. 602 00:29:13,420 --> 00:29:14,954 Creatively, I'm going in there. 603 00:29:15,210 --> 00:29:17,123 I'm just reaching into oblivion, 604 00:29:17,190 --> 00:29:19,559 reaching into the future, 605 00:29:19,592 --> 00:29:22,595 and we don't know what the hell we gonna bring back. 606 00:29:23,797 --> 00:29:25,699 I'm new to this. 607 00:29:26,900 --> 00:29:28,401 But it's awesome. 608 00:29:28,435 --> 00:29:30,360 (electronic music continues) 609 00:29:38,111 --> 00:29:40,914 For, you know, like five years, 610 00:29:40,947 --> 00:29:43,450 time just passes, just stacking beats. 611 00:29:44,884 --> 00:29:46,753 - (music swells) - (choir vocalizing) 612 00:29:50,256 --> 00:29:51,758 I was so ambitious. 613 00:29:51,791 --> 00:29:54,594 It's all I cared about was, like, getting on. 614 00:29:54,627 --> 00:29:56,396 ♪ ♪ 615 00:30:01,901 --> 00:30:06,973 Pharrell definitely wanted to be in front of the mic. 100%. 616 00:30:07,700 --> 00:30:08,842 He wanted to rap. 617 00:30:08,908 --> 00:30:10,176 He wanted to sing. 618 00:30:10,243 --> 00:30:12,245 - He wanted to rap sing. - (music stops) 619 00:30:12,278 --> 00:30:16,149 What am I gonna do?! 620 00:30:16,182 --> 00:30:18,151 (frustrated shout) 621 00:30:18,184 --> 00:30:19,919 I don't know, man. 622 00:30:19,953 --> 00:30:22,422 Definitely thought it was time to go back to school. 623 00:30:22,455 --> 00:30:24,424 Get another profession. 624 00:30:25,458 --> 00:30:27,270 Yeah, but, I mean, listen. 625 00:30:27,930 --> 00:30:30,196 All it just takes is the right opportunity to do our music, 626 00:30:30,263 --> 00:30:31,464 and it's gonna go. 627 00:30:31,498 --> 00:30:32,632 We're gonna figure it out. 628 00:30:32,665 --> 00:30:34,968 (touch tones beeping) 629 00:30:35,100 --> 00:30:37,771 So I called this A&R guy, Kenny Ortiz. 630 00:30:37,804 --> 00:30:39,506 (phone ringing) 631 00:30:39,539 --> 00:30:43,309 One of his interns would always answer the phone. 632 00:30:43,343 --> 00:30:44,811 That was Rob Walker. 633 00:30:44,844 --> 00:30:46,460 Hello? 634 00:30:46,112 --> 00:30:47,313 ROB WALKER: You know, the first few times, 635 00:30:47,347 --> 00:30:48,314 it was kind of like, you know... 636 00:30:48,348 --> 00:30:49,649 Kenny's not here. 637 00:30:49,683 --> 00:30:51,985 - (phone ringing) - He's busy. 638 00:30:52,180 --> 00:30:54,287 Because he literally called every single day. 639 00:30:54,320 --> 00:30:55,789 And then it got to the point 640 00:30:55,822 --> 00:30:57,824 where he wasn't calling to see where Kenny was. 641 00:30:57,857 --> 00:30:59,793 He was just calling to say, "What's up?" 642 00:30:59,826 --> 00:31:00,894 (phone ringing) 643 00:31:00,960 --> 00:31:03,630 - What's up, man? - Hey, man. (chuckles) 644 00:31:03,663 --> 00:31:05,699 What's going on? Like, what's happening? 645 00:31:05,732 --> 00:31:07,500 We were like phone friends, like... 646 00:31:07,534 --> 00:31:08,702 Oh, that wasn't from you? 647 00:31:08,735 --> 00:31:10,170 - (laughing) - They almost made... 648 00:31:10,203 --> 00:31:11,504 There was a connection there. 649 00:31:11,538 --> 00:31:13,173 (horns honking) 650 00:31:13,206 --> 00:31:15,675 And I finally met him. 651 00:31:15,709 --> 00:31:17,344 (barking) 652 00:31:17,377 --> 00:31:20,513 And I was like, "Oh, wow, these guys look like somebody." 653 00:31:20,547 --> 00:31:22,549 Oh, what's up, man? 654 00:31:22,582 --> 00:31:24,584 Finally nice to, like, put a face with a name, man. 655 00:31:24,651 --> 00:31:27,987 Hey. I want to play you this music. 656 00:31:28,210 --> 00:31:30,323 - ♪ Come on ♪ - ("Nothin'" by N.O.R.E. playing) 657 00:31:30,357 --> 00:31:31,725 - ♪ Militainment ♪ - ♪ Oh... ♪ 658 00:31:31,758 --> 00:31:33,526 ROB: And I'm, like, immediately blown away. 659 00:31:33,560 --> 00:31:36,262 Like, blown away. And I was like, "Holy..." 660 00:31:36,329 --> 00:31:37,897 (song stops) 661 00:31:40,200 --> 00:31:42,869 Wow. Like, this is great. 662 00:31:46,106 --> 00:31:48,410 PHARRELL: I didn't have a manager. I was like... 663 00:31:48,740 --> 00:31:49,242 Yo, you be my manager. 664 00:31:49,275 --> 00:31:50,543 Manage you? 665 00:31:50,577 --> 00:31:52,120 Yo, I don't know anything about management. 666 00:31:52,450 --> 00:31:53,460 I'm an intern. 667 00:31:53,790 --> 00:31:55,810 Well, we can learn together. 668 00:31:55,915 --> 00:31:57,951 So I was like, "All right, let's do it." 669 00:31:59,719 --> 00:32:02,355 After that, we went crazy. 670 00:32:02,389 --> 00:32:04,691 ("Splash" by N.E.R.D. playing) 671 00:32:07,360 --> 00:32:09,950 PHARRELL: Every week, we'd send out tapes 672 00:32:09,129 --> 00:32:12,399 and then he would market them around as best as he could. 673 00:32:12,432 --> 00:32:14,100 ROB: Five to ten new beats a week, 674 00:32:14,134 --> 00:32:17,570 and then I would then go around to the A&Rs, to the artists. 675 00:32:17,604 --> 00:32:18,972 - I was sleeping in lobbies. - (elevator bell dings) 676 00:32:19,390 --> 00:32:20,407 Whatever I had to do. 677 00:32:20,440 --> 00:32:22,750 ♪ I'm a little teapot, short and stout ♪ 678 00:32:22,108 --> 00:32:23,643 ♪ There's some shake-up in around me ♪ 679 00:32:23,710 --> 00:32:24,944 ♪ Know it's talk and no doubt... ♪ 680 00:32:24,978 --> 00:32:27,313 Yeah, I just need like five minutes, B. 681 00:32:27,380 --> 00:32:28,648 We did the rounds. 682 00:32:28,715 --> 00:32:29,983 We met everybody that was somebody. 683 00:32:30,500 --> 00:32:32,552 And Pharrell was coming full throttle. 684 00:32:32,585 --> 00:32:33,620 (elevator bell dings) 685 00:32:33,653 --> 00:32:35,155 Like, "I'm coming for the crown. 686 00:32:35,221 --> 00:32:37,424 I'm coming for you. I'm coming for everybody." 687 00:32:37,457 --> 00:32:40,160 ♪ ♪ 688 00:32:41,127 --> 00:32:43,930 And once he turns on, you can't turn him off. 689 00:32:43,963 --> 00:32:46,966 ♪ I'm right here, and I ain't goin' nowhere ♪ 690 00:32:47,000 --> 00:32:49,669 ♪ You can turn tables and you can throw chairs ♪ 691 00:32:49,736 --> 00:32:52,772 ♪ I'm right here, and I ain't goin' nowhere ♪ 692 00:32:52,806 --> 00:32:55,608 ♪ You can knock doors and tear if you have to have some ♪ 693 00:32:55,642 --> 00:32:58,278 ♪ Splash if you want to, splash if you want... ♪ 694 00:32:58,311 --> 00:32:59,446 (elevator bell dings) 695 00:32:59,479 --> 00:33:00,780 ROB: It got really bad. 696 00:33:00,814 --> 00:33:02,816 - (phone ringing) - One exec holds 697 00:33:02,849 --> 00:33:05,318 a full-fledged conversation as we're performing. 698 00:33:05,352 --> 00:33:08,288 In Air Force 1s, I'm strictly 13. 699 00:33:08,321 --> 00:33:09,923 12 and a half won't work, man. 700 00:33:09,956 --> 00:33:12,525 ROB: Pharrell gets on the desk, and I'm like... 701 00:33:12,592 --> 00:33:14,594 Bruh, why are you on the desk? 702 00:33:14,627 --> 00:33:17,130 Yo, he has to see how hard I'm willing to go. 703 00:33:17,163 --> 00:33:20,633 ♪ I'm right here, and I ain't goin' nowhere ♪ 704 00:33:20,667 --> 00:33:22,302 - (elevator bell dings) - ♪ You can turn tables ♪ 705 00:33:22,335 --> 00:33:23,870 ♪ And you can throw chairs ♪ 706 00:33:23,937 --> 00:33:26,139 ♪ I'm right here, and I ain't goin' nowhere... ♪ 707 00:33:26,172 --> 00:33:28,475 ROB: He was like this little brother that you wanted 708 00:33:28,508 --> 00:33:29,976 to knock upside the head. 709 00:33:30,100 --> 00:33:32,450 (song stops) 710 00:33:33,947 --> 00:33:36,160 I had to have a talk with Pharrell. 711 00:33:36,490 --> 00:33:38,852 Like, he had no money, my unemployment ran out, 712 00:33:38,885 --> 00:33:40,687 we're all living with our parents. 713 00:33:40,720 --> 00:33:43,656 This was, like, everything I was banking on. 714 00:33:43,690 --> 00:33:44,724 I said... 715 00:33:44,791 --> 00:33:45,992 - Hey, man. - (fingers snap) 716 00:33:46,260 --> 00:33:46,826 Yeah, what? 717 00:33:46,860 --> 00:33:48,328 Like, we can't do that, man. 718 00:33:48,361 --> 00:33:49,996 You're gonna, like, kill yourself in this thing. 719 00:33:50,300 --> 00:33:51,798 (clears throat) 720 00:33:51,831 --> 00:33:54,534 Yeah, yeah, yeah. But, hey, I'm an artist. 721 00:33:54,567 --> 00:33:58,204 But selling beats, that's a way to get in. 722 00:34:01,341 --> 00:34:02,909 Okay, fine. 723 00:34:05,478 --> 00:34:06,846 At the time, 724 00:34:06,880 --> 00:34:09,182 I chose to look at it the wrong way, 725 00:34:09,215 --> 00:34:11,217 to think that, like, I was being rejected. 726 00:34:11,251 --> 00:34:14,721 I didn't realize that I was being told to train harder. 727 00:34:15,722 --> 00:34:17,657 (crew chattering) 728 00:34:17,691 --> 00:34:19,590 - MORGAN: Hey, N.O.R.E. - Hey, what's going on? 729 00:34:19,920 --> 00:34:20,894 It's N.O.R.E. Yep. What's your name? Morgan? 730 00:34:20,927 --> 00:34:23,897 - Yep. Morgan. - How you doing, Morgan? 731 00:34:23,930 --> 00:34:25,498 Good, good. 732 00:34:25,532 --> 00:34:27,670 So, I was just wondering, 733 00:34:27,100 --> 00:34:29,690 how did you know about The Neptunes? 734 00:34:29,102 --> 00:34:31,538 What was it like when you first met them? 735 00:34:31,571 --> 00:34:32,906 Uh... 736 00:34:32,939 --> 00:34:35,542 I first met Pharrell because Rob Walker. 737 00:34:35,575 --> 00:34:37,243 (beat from Mase's "Lookin' at Me" playing) 738 00:34:37,277 --> 00:34:39,713 And at the time, I had never heard of The Neptunes. 739 00:34:39,746 --> 00:34:41,214 Two dudes, one Filipino 740 00:34:41,247 --> 00:34:43,490 and the other Black, from Virginia Beach? 741 00:34:43,830 --> 00:34:46,286 Come on. This is... This doesn't even make sense. 742 00:34:46,353 --> 00:34:47,854 But they played me one beat, 743 00:34:47,887 --> 00:34:49,723 then they played me another beat. 744 00:34:49,756 --> 00:34:53,930 (beat from Jadakiss's "Knock Yourself Out" playing) 745 00:34:55,762 --> 00:34:57,630 (beat ends) 746 00:34:57,970 --> 00:34:59,232 I remember I was on my way to Miami 747 00:34:59,265 --> 00:35:01,234 and Pharrell said, "This third beat..." 748 00:35:01,267 --> 00:35:04,738 This third beat, don't listen to that until you get to Miami. 749 00:35:04,771 --> 00:35:06,639 Why? Why wouldn't I listen to this third beat? 750 00:35:06,706 --> 00:35:08,740 And he's like, "Yo, listen." 751 00:35:08,108 --> 00:35:09,642 People take my beat sometimes, 752 00:35:09,709 --> 00:35:11,745 but people don't let me produce. 753 00:35:11,778 --> 00:35:13,613 I want to produce this. 754 00:35:14,447 --> 00:35:15,915 N.O.R.E.: No one had talked to me 755 00:35:15,949 --> 00:35:17,951 like that before, you know what I'm saying? 756 00:35:19,319 --> 00:35:21,870 (muffled beat playing faintly) 757 00:35:21,121 --> 00:35:22,922 It took everything for me in the world 758 00:35:22,956 --> 00:35:25,258 not to listen to track three. 759 00:35:27,927 --> 00:35:30,163 I remember the hotel like it was yesterday, 760 00:35:30,230 --> 00:35:32,599 and that's when I actually listened to track three, 761 00:35:32,632 --> 00:35:33,933 called "Superthug." 762 00:35:33,967 --> 00:35:37,237 ("Superthug" by N.O.R.E. playing) 763 00:35:42,976 --> 00:35:46,790 I took a risk with these two kids from Virginia 764 00:35:46,112 --> 00:35:48,348 who had this totally different sound, 765 00:35:48,415 --> 00:35:51,284 but when you put our sound together, it's magnificent. 766 00:35:51,317 --> 00:35:52,619 ♪ A-yo, we light a candle ♪ 767 00:35:52,652 --> 00:35:54,187 ♪ Run laps around the English Channel ♪ 768 00:35:54,254 --> 00:35:56,890 ♪ Neptunes, I got a cocker spaniel ♪ 769 00:35:56,122 --> 00:35:57,490 (barks) 770 00:35:57,524 --> 00:36:01,194 I remember recording the original track of "Superthug." 771 00:36:01,261 --> 00:36:04,597 I would go, "What, what, what, what, what, wh-what, one." 772 00:36:04,631 --> 00:36:06,866 That's how I counted my bars. 773 00:36:06,933 --> 00:36:08,201 I remember me saying... 774 00:36:08,268 --> 00:36:10,136 Listen, all we got to do is get the hook. 775 00:36:10,170 --> 00:36:11,871 - And Pharrell saying, "We got the hook." - We got the hook. 776 00:36:11,938 --> 00:36:14,974 He kept me and just took out the "ones." 777 00:36:15,800 --> 00:36:17,110 - And I remember telling him... - They're gonna laugh at me. 778 00:36:17,143 --> 00:36:18,878 - He said... - You're gonna laugh straight to the bank. 779 00:36:18,945 --> 00:36:21,815 I just believed in this kid. (laughing) 780 00:36:21,848 --> 00:36:23,950 ♪ What, what, what, what, what, what, wh-what ♪ 781 00:36:23,983 --> 00:36:26,619 ♪ What, what, what, what, what, what, wh-what ♪ 782 00:36:26,653 --> 00:36:28,355 ♪ What, what, what, what, what... ♪ 783 00:36:28,388 --> 00:36:30,657 I remember the album coming out 784 00:36:30,690 --> 00:36:33,293 and all the DJs start playing the record. 785 00:36:33,326 --> 00:36:34,661 (laughing) 786 00:36:34,694 --> 00:36:37,864 ♪ This is the life, yo, of a superstar ♪ 787 00:36:38,865 --> 00:36:42,869 ♪ Fly-ass mansions and a million cars ♪ 788 00:36:44,370 --> 00:36:48,408 ♪ Got to get the cash, yo, and it's live or die ♪ 789 00:36:48,475 --> 00:36:52,979 ♪ The Neptunes and Noreaga, the limit is the sky. ♪ 790 00:36:53,713 --> 00:36:55,515 I remember bringing them to Jay. 791 00:36:55,548 --> 00:36:57,170 I remember bringing them to Nas. 792 00:36:57,500 --> 00:36:59,190 But everyone was a little skeptical 793 00:36:59,520 --> 00:37:01,540 - (record scratches, song stops) - because Pharrell purposely 794 00:37:01,870 --> 00:37:04,724 wanted to make hip-hop but not look like a hip-hop star. 795 00:37:06,159 --> 00:37:08,361 You know, it's like opening a bakery shop, right? 796 00:37:08,395 --> 00:37:11,640 For the first two months, the bakery shop is not doing good. 797 00:37:11,970 --> 00:37:12,832 And then you go and you tell everybody... 798 00:37:12,866 --> 00:37:15,535 This bakery shop is it. It's awesome. 799 00:37:15,568 --> 00:37:17,404 Then you travel somewhere and you come back, 800 00:37:17,437 --> 00:37:19,706 and the bakery shop is all over. 801 00:37:19,739 --> 00:37:21,408 Everyone is just... They want these muffins. 802 00:37:21,441 --> 00:37:24,444 They want these cookies. They want these bakery good... 803 00:37:24,511 --> 00:37:28,248 And you get to say, "I knew this was gonna work." 804 00:37:28,281 --> 00:37:30,950 (phones ringing) 805 00:37:31,170 --> 00:37:34,387 ROB: When "Superthug" dropped, everything changed. 806 00:37:34,421 --> 00:37:36,723 - Forever. - Hello? 807 00:37:36,756 --> 00:37:38,124 PHARRELL: We started getting the calls 808 00:37:38,191 --> 00:37:39,859 to work on this and to work on that 809 00:37:39,893 --> 00:37:42,395 and to work on this and to work on that. 810 00:37:43,196 --> 00:37:44,698 The magic of the music business is 811 00:37:44,731 --> 00:37:46,700 how many times can you do it again. 812 00:37:46,733 --> 00:37:48,735 'Cause this is the hot seat. 813 00:37:48,768 --> 00:37:50,236 ("Shake Ya Ass" by Mystikal playing) 814 00:37:53,573 --> 00:37:55,775 JAY-Z: We got... We good? Okay. 815 00:37:55,809 --> 00:37:57,277 Let's roll. 816 00:37:57,310 --> 00:37:59,279 So, did you first notice Pharrell 817 00:37:59,312 --> 00:38:00,814 when he started having hits? 818 00:38:00,847 --> 00:38:03,950 No, I don't, I don't think I paid attention to him 819 00:38:03,983 --> 00:38:06,820 in that way, to... just to be completely honest. 820 00:38:06,853 --> 00:38:08,321 I knew Pharrell. 821 00:38:08,355 --> 00:38:12,459 I dated a girl in Virginia who called Pharrell her brother. 822 00:38:12,492 --> 00:38:16,296 So I think I, like, saw him at the airport. 823 00:38:16,329 --> 00:38:20,200 He was rocking the mustache and trucker hats and all that. 824 00:38:20,266 --> 00:38:21,301 And I was like... 825 00:38:21,334 --> 00:38:22,469 He's trippin'. (chuckles) 826 00:38:22,502 --> 00:38:24,504 Um, yeah. I knew him from before. 827 00:38:24,537 --> 00:38:26,773 He's Jay-Z. He's a legend. 828 00:38:26,806 --> 00:38:28,808 JAY-Z: You know, I'd reached a level of success 829 00:38:28,842 --> 00:38:31,611 as a, quote-unquote, "superstar." 830 00:38:31,644 --> 00:38:33,546 ("I Just Wanna Love U (Give It 2 Me)" by Jay-Z playing) 831 00:38:33,613 --> 00:38:35,148 I was always looking for performers 832 00:38:35,181 --> 00:38:38,818 that was new and different to give them a shot. 833 00:38:38,852 --> 00:38:41,287 ♪ ♪ 834 00:38:41,321 --> 00:38:42,655 For "Give It 2 Me," I think 835 00:38:42,689 --> 00:38:44,157 I heard the beat, and I was like... 836 00:38:44,190 --> 00:38:46,590 What the hell is that? 837 00:38:47,727 --> 00:38:50,830 It was, like, new and quirky. 838 00:38:51,798 --> 00:38:53,466 -And the next day, -(people cheering) 839 00:38:53,500 --> 00:38:57,504 I was shooting a video for another track. 840 00:38:57,537 --> 00:39:00,340 JON: And Jay goes, "I changed the single." 841 00:39:00,373 --> 00:39:02,420 What do you mean you changed the single? 842 00:39:02,750 --> 00:39:04,878 He said, "I did it last night. I'll play it for you." 843 00:39:04,911 --> 00:39:07,130 - ♪ I'm a hustler, baby ♪ - ♪ Hov', I'm a hustler ♪ 844 00:39:07,470 --> 00:39:09,716 - ♪ I just want you to know ♪ - ♪ Hov', I wanna let you know ♪ 845 00:39:09,749 --> 00:39:11,851 - ♪ It ain't where I been ♪ - ♪ It ain't where I been ♪ 846 00:39:11,885 --> 00:39:14,154 - ♪ But where I'm 'bout to go ♪ - ♪ Top of the world ♪ 847 00:39:14,187 --> 00:39:17,524 - ♪ Now I just wanna love ya ♪ - ♪ Just wanna love ya ♪ 848 00:39:17,557 --> 00:39:19,359 - ♪ But be who I am ♪ - ♪ You know you love me ♪ 849 00:39:19,392 --> 00:39:22,195 - ♪ And with all this cash ♪ - ♪ Mo' money, mo' problems ♪ 850 00:39:22,228 --> 00:39:24,397 ♪ You'll forget your man ♪ 851 00:39:24,431 --> 00:39:26,433 ♪ Now give it to me... ♪ 852 00:39:26,499 --> 00:39:28,680 Who-who did that? 853 00:39:28,101 --> 00:39:30,700 - Pharrell. - Pharrell? 854 00:39:30,103 --> 00:39:32,439 Pharrell just took it. 855 00:39:32,505 --> 00:39:33,673 ♪ Give it to me ♪ 856 00:39:33,707 --> 00:39:35,108 ♪ Gimme that funk, that sweet ♪ 857 00:39:35,175 --> 00:39:36,443 ♪ That nasty, that gushy stuff ♪ 858 00:39:36,509 --> 00:39:38,440 ♪ But don't bull... me ♪ 859 00:39:38,780 --> 00:39:39,512 ♪ Come on, gimme that funk ♪ 860 00:39:39,546 --> 00:39:42,349 ♪ That sweet, that nasty, that gushy stuff ♪ 861 00:39:42,382 --> 00:39:43,883 ♪ Give it to me... ♪ 862 00:39:43,917 --> 00:39:45,852 JAY-Z: At the same time of being a visionary, 863 00:39:45,885 --> 00:39:49,789 Pharrell has, uh, an affinity for, like, hood shit. 864 00:39:49,856 --> 00:39:51,691 (laughs) 865 00:39:51,725 --> 00:39:55,228 He was fascinated by it, but that wasn't really him. 866 00:39:55,261 --> 00:39:56,696 Or-or was it? 867 00:39:56,730 --> 00:39:58,631 No, he definitely wasn't that at all. 868 00:39:58,698 --> 00:40:00,567 We mean really not at all. 869 00:40:00,600 --> 00:40:04,938 Not an ounce, not a drip of street is in Pharrell. 870 00:40:06,106 --> 00:40:08,541 (whooping) 871 00:40:09,409 --> 00:40:11,111 That's why we loved him so much. 872 00:40:11,144 --> 00:40:13,780 He was like the young brother that we all wanted to protect 873 00:40:13,813 --> 00:40:15,115 because we knew he had the talent 874 00:40:15,148 --> 00:40:17,450 - to open up doors for all of us. - (whooping) 875 00:40:17,484 --> 00:40:18,752 (crowd cheering) 876 00:40:18,785 --> 00:40:20,420 - ♪ Can't deny me ♪ - ♪ Yes ♪ 877 00:40:20,453 --> 00:40:21,788 - ♪ Why would you want to? ♪ - ♪ Why? ♪ 878 00:40:21,821 --> 00:40:23,590 - ♪ You need me ♪ - ♪ Yes ♪ 879 00:40:23,623 --> 00:40:24,924 - ♪ Why don't you try me? ♪ - ♪ Uh-huh ♪ 880 00:40:24,958 --> 00:40:27,794 ♪ Baby, you want to, believe me ♪ 881 00:40:27,827 --> 00:40:29,562 ♪ It's Hov', give it to me. ♪ 882 00:40:29,596 --> 00:40:31,564 Make some noise for Pharrell Williams! 883 00:40:31,598 --> 00:40:33,767 - One time, everybody, jump! - (crowd cheering) 884 00:40:38,405 --> 00:40:40,273 (song ends) 885 00:40:40,306 --> 00:40:43,643 He was sort of, like, finding himself and his way 886 00:40:43,677 --> 00:40:45,779 about how he was gonna deal with this success now. 887 00:40:45,812 --> 00:40:48,114 - (engine revving) - (tires squealing) 888 00:40:49,649 --> 00:40:52,252 Yeah, I think he went a little crazy with it. 889 00:40:55,880 --> 00:40:56,322 This is my favorite game. 890 00:40:56,356 --> 00:40:57,857 - This is Galaga. - (video game beeping) 891 00:40:57,924 --> 00:41:01,161 Everything in my house is vintage. 892 00:41:01,194 --> 00:41:03,463 Some of the stuff is Dutch. 893 00:41:03,496 --> 00:41:06,766 I always wanted a house like James Bond. 894 00:41:06,800 --> 00:41:10,136 But, you know, Chad was, um, different. 895 00:41:10,170 --> 00:41:14,541 This is my wife's, uh, glass collection. 896 00:41:14,607 --> 00:41:16,142 She loves art. 897 00:41:17,430 --> 00:41:20,180 - This is the family room where we watch TV. - (babbling) 898 00:41:20,213 --> 00:41:23,650 Lately, it's been so busy, we hardly watch any TV. 899 00:41:23,683 --> 00:41:26,953 ("Hot in Herre" by Nelly playing) 900 00:41:29,656 --> 00:41:32,792 PHARRELL: My ambitions were more eclectic 901 00:41:32,826 --> 00:41:35,528 than what we had previously done. 902 00:41:35,562 --> 00:41:37,297 That was back when, like, 903 00:41:37,330 --> 00:41:39,866 they would look at you crazy for working with a pop artist. 904 00:41:42,369 --> 00:41:44,104 PHARRELL: To me, the most common thread 905 00:41:44,137 --> 00:41:47,140 of different worlds is a feeling. 906 00:41:47,207 --> 00:41:50,243 And-and trust me, people just want to feel good. 907 00:41:53,813 --> 00:41:56,490 ♪ Ooh, yeah, yeah ♪ 908 00:41:57,283 --> 00:41:59,753 GWEN: Even though it seemed like 909 00:41:59,786 --> 00:42:01,554 we were from two different planets, 910 00:42:01,588 --> 00:42:05,825 it was like two cultures' collision of beautifulness. 911 00:42:06,960 --> 00:42:09,562 (excited chatter) 912 00:42:09,596 --> 00:42:12,332 (crowd cheering) 913 00:42:12,399 --> 00:42:15,680 ♪ Keep on dancin'. ♪ 914 00:42:17,604 --> 00:42:20,730 PHARRELL: Pop music could be fun, 915 00:42:20,106 --> 00:42:23,430 but I wasn't gonna leave hip-hop. 916 00:42:23,760 --> 00:42:25,345 (phone vibrating) 917 00:42:28,682 --> 00:42:31,510 I was trying to call him, but he didn't pick up. 918 00:42:31,840 --> 00:42:32,385 (Morgan laughs) 919 00:42:32,419 --> 00:42:34,554 - Just now? - 'Cause I was gonna ask him, 920 00:42:34,587 --> 00:42:36,256 "What do you want me to lie about?" 921 00:42:36,289 --> 00:42:37,891 (Morgan laughing) 922 00:42:37,924 --> 00:42:39,759 (chuckles) 923 00:42:39,793 --> 00:42:41,270 I-I'm curious. 924 00:42:41,610 --> 00:42:43,363 When were you even first aware of The Neptunes? 925 00:42:43,396 --> 00:42:45,699 ("Rock Star" by N.E.R.D. playing over TV) 926 00:42:45,732 --> 00:42:47,567 SNOOP: It was like some rock music, 927 00:42:47,600 --> 00:42:49,436 and it was on the video game. 928 00:42:49,469 --> 00:42:51,404 I think it was on Madden. 929 00:42:51,438 --> 00:42:53,707 ♪ It's almost over now, it's almost over now... ♪ 930 00:42:53,740 --> 00:42:56,409 ♪ You think the metal of a cop car ♪ 931 00:42:56,443 --> 00:42:59,412 (vocalizing rhythm) 932 00:42:59,446 --> 00:43:01,748 - ♪ It's over now. ♪ - (song ends) 933 00:43:04,150 --> 00:43:06,553 SNOOP: This is beautiful work that you've been doing. 934 00:43:06,586 --> 00:43:08,121 - Thank you, man. - (coughs) 935 00:43:08,154 --> 00:43:10,924 This what I want though, P. I'm waiting on a hit record. 936 00:43:10,957 --> 00:43:13,927 Feel what I'm saying? One of them bad mama jama. 937 00:43:13,960 --> 00:43:16,329 - Um... - That song that you did with Jay-Z, 938 00:43:16,396 --> 00:43:18,298 (voice fading): I told somebody the other day... 939 00:43:18,331 --> 00:43:19,766 PHARRELL: First of all, Snoop is very tall, 940 00:43:19,799 --> 00:43:22,435 and then he's in the studio with like 941 00:43:22,469 --> 00:43:26,606 15 Crips who are all six-five. 942 00:43:26,639 --> 00:43:28,308 You ever been in a city where you could see 943 00:43:28,341 --> 00:43:29,976 the fog really low? 944 00:43:30,100 --> 00:43:32,445 That's what it was like. 945 00:43:33,413 --> 00:43:35,348 Snoop has mystical vibes. 946 00:43:35,415 --> 00:43:37,450 Bow-wow-wow. 947 00:43:37,484 --> 00:43:39,519 PHARRELL: I'm just, like, channeling him. 948 00:43:39,586 --> 00:43:41,821 (clicking tongue rhythmically) 949 00:43:44,824 --> 00:43:46,359 (confused grunt) 950 00:43:46,426 --> 00:43:48,661 (clicking tongue rhythmically) 951 00:43:51,464 --> 00:43:52,966 (spraying rhythmically) 952 00:43:52,999 --> 00:43:55,502 (rhythmic clicking and spraying continue) 953 00:44:00,607 --> 00:44:03,443 So I made that beat out of my mind. 954 00:44:05,110 --> 00:44:07,947 ("Drop It Like It's Hot" by Snoop Dogg playing) 955 00:44:07,981 --> 00:44:13,453 ♪ Snoop ♪ 956 00:44:15,321 --> 00:44:16,990 He had the drum pattern, 957 00:44:17,230 --> 00:44:18,992 but he had left a reference for the hook. 958 00:44:19,250 --> 00:44:21,327 And he didn't say the words. He just was like... 959 00:44:21,361 --> 00:44:24,531 (vocalizing rhythmically) 960 00:44:25,732 --> 00:44:28,702 So I had to figure the words out. 961 00:44:29,669 --> 00:44:31,838 ♪ Pop it like it's hot, yeah ♪ 962 00:44:31,871 --> 00:44:33,840 ♪ You gotta pop it like it's hot ♪ 963 00:44:33,873 --> 00:44:35,909 ♪ When the pimp's in the crib, ma, drop it like it's hot ♪ 964 00:44:35,975 --> 00:44:38,845 ♪ Drop it like it's hot, drop it like it's hot ♪ 965 00:44:38,878 --> 00:44:41,581 ♪ When the pigs try to get at you, park it like it's hot... ♪ 966 00:44:41,648 --> 00:44:43,583 Then Chad came in and started putting 967 00:44:43,650 --> 00:44:46,486 all of that dynamic synthesizers like... 968 00:44:46,519 --> 00:44:49,489 - (vocalizing melody) - (song stops) 969 00:44:49,522 --> 00:44:52,726 (synthesizer playing melody) 970 00:44:54,761 --> 00:44:57,300 That was like the candle on the cake. 971 00:44:57,630 --> 00:44:58,331 We was like, "God d..." 972 00:44:58,365 --> 00:44:59,733 (audio rewinding) 973 00:44:59,766 --> 00:45:02,936 - (song resumes) - (crowd cheering) 974 00:45:04,204 --> 00:45:06,406 Oh, come on! 975 00:45:06,439 --> 00:45:07,907 ♪ Drop it like it's hot ♪ 976 00:45:07,941 --> 00:45:09,876 ♪ Drop it like it's hot, drop it like it's hot ♪ 977 00:45:09,909 --> 00:45:12,912 ♪ When the pigs try to get at you, park it like it's hot ♪ 978 00:45:12,946 --> 00:45:15,382 ♪ Park it like it's hot, park it like it's hot... ♪ 979 00:45:15,415 --> 00:45:17,951 This the crazy part that they may not know. 980 00:45:18,180 --> 00:45:22,789 "Drop It Like It's Hot" was my first number one single ever. 981 00:45:22,856 --> 00:45:24,791 (crowd cheering) 982 00:45:25,692 --> 00:45:29,950 - Skateboard P. Chad. - What's up, bro? 983 00:45:30,263 --> 00:45:32,650 - That was dope. - Yes, sir. 984 00:45:32,980 --> 00:45:33,900 This is a brilliant record. 985 00:45:33,933 --> 00:45:35,735 You gave me something that I was missing. 986 00:45:35,769 --> 00:45:37,237 I was always a bad gangster, 987 00:45:37,270 --> 00:45:38,938 but you couldn't see the fun in me. 988 00:45:38,972 --> 00:45:41,441 - You brought out a smile. - Hell yeah. 989 00:45:41,474 --> 00:45:43,610 (song ends) 990 00:45:43,643 --> 00:45:45,111 Up until The Neptunes, 991 00:45:45,145 --> 00:45:49,382 we didn't really have hip-hop superstar producers. 992 00:45:49,416 --> 00:45:51,418 And so, as an editor, I was like, 993 00:45:51,451 --> 00:45:52,886 "I need to pay attention 994 00:45:52,919 --> 00:45:55,121 because I've never seen this before." 995 00:45:56,623 --> 00:45:58,910 MIMI (over recorder): ...talking about the state 996 00:45:58,124 --> 00:46:00,460 of hip-hop and where we're at right now. 997 00:46:00,493 --> 00:46:02,629 So as a producer who's basically dominating, 998 00:46:02,662 --> 00:46:04,264 what do you think about hip-hop right now? 999 00:46:04,297 --> 00:46:06,266 Like, do you think people aren't being creative enough? 1000 00:46:06,299 --> 00:46:07,600 Too creative? 1001 00:46:07,634 --> 00:46:09,269 - May I say something? - Yes. Go ahead. 1002 00:46:09,302 --> 00:46:11,104 - What you think about me? - (laughs) 1003 00:46:11,137 --> 00:46:13,773 - I want to know. Be honest. - Uh, well... 1004 00:46:13,807 --> 00:46:15,642 You should let me be on a cover with my bike. 1005 00:46:15,675 --> 00:46:17,977 - Oh, God. All right. - I got a little bit of looks. 1006 00:46:18,110 --> 00:46:20,800 I can make the girls get hot and go crazy, all right. 1007 00:46:20,113 --> 00:46:22,515 Oh, boy. Enough. 1008 00:46:22,582 --> 00:46:24,184 Hip-hop-wise, 1009 00:46:24,250 --> 00:46:28,788 I survive off of my addiction to exploring new territory. 1010 00:46:28,822 --> 00:46:30,457 - You know what I'm saying? - Right. 1011 00:46:30,490 --> 00:46:33,293 So watch out because the way I'm-a do it is gonna be so fly. 1012 00:46:35,495 --> 00:46:38,765 I remember a really fancy studio. 1013 00:46:38,798 --> 00:46:40,700 Everybody worked there. 1014 00:46:40,767 --> 00:46:42,302 (door creaks) 1015 00:46:42,335 --> 00:46:44,637 And Pharrell, he was literally working 1016 00:46:46,339 --> 00:46:48,975 - Pharrell. This beat is hot. - Whoa. 1017 00:46:49,900 --> 00:46:50,877 (vocalizing rhythm) 1018 00:46:50,944 --> 00:46:52,712 JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE: It slaps you in the face. 1019 00:46:52,779 --> 00:46:54,314 ♪ It feel good, right? ♪ 1020 00:46:54,347 --> 00:46:57,384 I was so excited to get The Neptunes at that time. 1021 00:46:57,450 --> 00:46:59,319 It felt like a real moment. 1022 00:46:59,352 --> 00:47:01,688 ♪ Sing this song with me ♪ 1023 00:47:01,721 --> 00:47:03,323 - ♪ Ain't no... ♪ - (song changes) 1024 00:47:03,356 --> 00:47:05,580 ♪ Don't this hit make my people wanna ♪ 1025 00:47:05,125 --> 00:47:06,693 - ♪ Jump, jump ♪ - ♪ Don't this hit ♪ 1026 00:47:06,726 --> 00:47:08,495 - ♪ Make my people wanna ♪ - ♪ Jump, jump... ♪ 1027 00:47:08,528 --> 00:47:10,497 Pharrell used to come in there with such a hot hand. 1028 00:47:10,530 --> 00:47:12,298 It was competitive. 1029 00:47:12,332 --> 00:47:13,833 I wanted to make sure that I had a banger, too. 1030 00:47:13,867 --> 00:47:16,360 Nobody don't want to be a weak link in the crew. 1031 00:47:16,690 --> 00:47:18,805 - ♪ Everybody, sing it now ♪ - ♪ Pass the Courvoisier... ♪ 1032 00:47:18,838 --> 00:47:20,340 (song changes) 1033 00:47:20,373 --> 00:47:22,175 PHARRELL: We would hear, like, a crazy stat like, 1034 00:47:22,208 --> 00:47:24,100 "Oh, it's the biggest record at radio." 1035 00:47:24,440 --> 00:47:26,513 - ♪ You don't have to call ♪ - ♪ You ain't gotta call... ♪ 1036 00:47:26,546 --> 00:47:28,982 - (song changes) - "Nah, this is the biggest record at radio." 1037 00:47:29,150 --> 00:47:30,517 ♪ The boys are waiting ♪ 1038 00:47:30,550 --> 00:47:32,185 ♪ My milkshake brings all the boys to the yard ♪ 1039 00:47:32,218 --> 00:47:33,687 - ♪ And they're like... ♪ - (song changes) 1040 00:47:34,521 --> 00:47:36,220 ♪ My butt gettin' big," oh ♪ 1041 00:47:36,560 --> 00:47:37,590 - ♪ It's gettin' hot in here... ♪ - (song changes) 1042 00:47:37,624 --> 00:47:39,125 ♪ Say something, oh ♪ 1043 00:47:39,192 --> 00:47:41,270 ♪ If it's worth your while, say something... ♪ 1044 00:47:41,528 --> 00:47:43,129 - It's gonna get a little crazy. - (song changes) 1045 00:47:43,163 --> 00:47:45,980 ♪ Girl, they gotta work it out... ♪ 1046 00:47:45,131 --> 00:47:46,633 - (songs changing rapidly) - (overlapping chatter) 1047 00:47:46,666 --> 00:47:48,968 - You're the greatest, lil' bruh! - Yo! Did you hear that? 1048 00:47:49,200 --> 00:47:51,304 (audio speeding up) 1049 00:47:53,606 --> 00:47:55,842 (crowd cheering) 1050 00:47:57,430 --> 00:48:00,347 MAN: And the Source Award for the Producer of the Year 1051 00:48:00,380 --> 00:48:02,716 goes to The Neptunes! 1052 00:48:02,782 --> 00:48:04,351 (crowd cheering) 1053 00:48:04,384 --> 00:48:06,353 You know, we've been doing this hip-hop thing 1054 00:48:06,386 --> 00:48:08,988 since I was making mixtapes out of my boom box 1055 00:48:09,220 --> 00:48:10,323 and Pharrell and I were breakdancing in... 1056 00:48:10,357 --> 00:48:11,991 on pieces of cardboard in the garage. 1057 00:48:12,250 --> 00:48:13,860 So, thanks, everybody. 1058 00:48:13,893 --> 00:48:17,464 ♪ You can't be me, I'm a rock star! ♪ 1059 00:48:17,497 --> 00:48:19,532 (crowd cheering) 1060 00:48:20,967 --> 00:48:23,136 (lively chatter, vocalizing) 1061 00:48:23,169 --> 00:48:25,205 ♪ ♪ 1062 00:48:26,706 --> 00:48:28,908 (squeals, laughs) 1063 00:48:28,975 --> 00:48:31,211 (vocalizing excitedly) 1064 00:48:43,156 --> 00:48:45,692 PUSHA T: There was a time when 1065 00:48:45,725 --> 00:48:48,280 I had lost my music deal. 1066 00:48:48,610 --> 00:48:50,330 I was like, "Okay, cool. I'm out." 1067 00:48:51,731 --> 00:48:55,350 Just back to it, you know? 1068 00:48:55,680 --> 00:48:56,903 Back to hustlin'. 1069 00:48:59,390 --> 00:49:02,342 And Pharrell knew everything I was doing. 1070 00:49:05,278 --> 00:49:07,213 -This one particular day, -(phone ringing) 1071 00:49:07,247 --> 00:49:09,416 he made this beat, and he called me and said... 1072 00:49:09,449 --> 00:49:11,170 You got to come over here, bro. 1073 00:49:11,510 --> 00:49:13,353 You got to come to Chad's house. 1074 00:49:14,287 --> 00:49:16,756 If you don't get here in 15 minutes, 1075 00:49:16,790 --> 00:49:18,591 I'm giving this beat to Jay-Z. 1076 00:49:18,625 --> 00:49:20,226 PUSHA T: "It is the best beat 1077 00:49:20,260 --> 00:49:23,396 that I've ever made, so you need to get here." 1078 00:49:23,430 --> 00:49:26,433 - (tires screech) - (horn honks) 1079 00:49:27,400 --> 00:49:28,601 (barking) 1080 00:49:28,635 --> 00:49:31,710 There was no way anybody could get anything 1081 00:49:31,104 --> 00:49:34,240 that he thought so highly about other than me. 1082 00:49:34,274 --> 00:49:36,409 (panting) 1083 00:49:36,443 --> 00:49:37,577 He was like... 1084 00:49:37,610 --> 00:49:40,800 You don't even know, but you're shining. 1085 00:49:42,649 --> 00:49:44,551 ("Grindin'" by Clipse playing) 1086 00:49:44,584 --> 00:49:46,152 ♪ Yo ♪ 1087 00:49:46,219 --> 00:49:47,921 ♪ I go by the name ♪ 1088 00:49:47,954 --> 00:49:49,550 - ♪ Of Pharrell ♪ - ♪ I'm yo' pusha ♪ 1089 00:49:49,890 --> 00:49:50,924 ♪ From The Neptunes ♪ 1090 00:49:50,957 --> 00:49:53,930 ♪ And I just wanna let y'all know ♪ 1091 00:49:53,126 --> 00:49:55,161 - ♪ I'm yo' pusha ♪ - ♪ The world ♪ 1092 00:49:55,228 --> 00:49:58,264 ♪ Is about to feel something that ♪ 1093 00:49:58,298 --> 00:50:00,567 - ♪ They've never felt before ♪ - ♪ I'm yo' pusha ♪ 1094 00:50:00,600 --> 00:50:01,768 (engines revving) 1095 00:50:01,801 --> 00:50:03,169 ♪ Come on ♪ 1096 00:50:03,236 --> 00:50:05,105 - ♪ Grindin' ♪ - ♪ Whoa ♪ 1097 00:50:05,138 --> 00:50:07,574 - ♪ You know what I keep in a lining ♪ - ♪ Whoa ♪ 1098 00:50:07,607 --> 00:50:09,175 - ♪ Better stay in line when ♪ - ♪ Whoa ♪ 1099 00:50:09,242 --> 00:50:11,845 ♪ You see a... like me shinin' ♪ 1100 00:50:11,911 --> 00:50:14,347 ♪ Grindin' ♪ 1101 00:50:14,414 --> 00:50:17,250 PUSHA T: Pharrell really made a choice 1102 00:50:17,283 --> 00:50:20,520 that no one else would have made, 1103 00:50:20,587 --> 00:50:23,523 and he helped me in the best way possible. 1104 00:50:23,590 --> 00:50:24,691 (breathes rhythmically) 1105 00:50:24,758 --> 00:50:26,426 - ♪ Grindin' ♪ - ♪ Whoa ♪ 1106 00:50:26,459 --> 00:50:28,628 - ♪ You know what I keep in a lining ♪ - ♪ Whoa ♪ 1107 00:50:28,661 --> 00:50:31,131 - ♪ Better stay in line when ♪ - ♪ Whoa ♪ 1108 00:50:31,164 --> 00:50:33,933 ♪ You see a... like me shinin' ♪ 1109 00:50:33,967 --> 00:50:36,200 ♪ Grindin'. ♪ 1110 00:50:36,360 --> 00:50:38,304 (crowd cheering) 1111 00:50:38,338 --> 00:50:40,306 - (song ends) - (whoops) 1112 00:50:40,340 --> 00:50:42,142 That's the new joint from Virginia's own, 1113 00:50:42,175 --> 00:50:43,543 The Clipse and The Neptunes. 1114 00:50:43,610 --> 00:50:45,512 (over radio): We on fire right now, baby. 1115 00:50:45,545 --> 00:50:47,947 Local to global, baby. This joint going worldwide. 1116 00:50:47,981 --> 00:50:49,516 Virginia. "Grindin'." 1117 00:50:51,151 --> 00:50:53,186 PHARRELL: I firmly believe 1118 00:50:53,219 --> 00:50:55,288 if man can make it on the moon, 1119 00:50:55,321 --> 00:50:58,124 we can make it out of the projects. 1120 00:51:00,293 --> 00:51:02,395 (jet engines whooshing) 1121 00:51:02,462 --> 00:51:04,497 ♪ ♪ 1122 00:51:05,231 --> 00:51:07,467 - (laughter) - It's aw... 1123 00:51:08,368 --> 00:51:10,570 - All right. All right. Hold on. - (excited chatter) 1124 00:51:11,705 --> 00:51:13,340 Come on, man. Stop playin'. 1125 00:51:13,373 --> 00:51:15,542 Why are you playin', man? Why are you playin'? 1126 00:51:16,876 --> 00:51:18,812 PHARRELL: And that's when we did our first N.E.R.D. album. 1127 00:51:18,845 --> 00:51:20,800 (camera clicks) 1128 00:51:20,146 --> 00:51:22,148 Me, Chad and Shae as a group. 1129 00:51:22,182 --> 00:51:24,184 N.E.R.D. forever. 1130 00:51:24,217 --> 00:51:27,387 Pharrell took what they were doing in high school, 1131 00:51:27,420 --> 00:51:31,524 and now that we have a platform to really do real records, 1132 00:51:31,558 --> 00:51:34,260 he made it so the world can see. 1133 00:51:37,330 --> 00:51:40,867 SHAE: You know, we go on tour overseas, and we see 1134 00:51:40,900 --> 00:51:45,105 70, 80,000 people going bananas. 1135 00:51:45,171 --> 00:51:47,407 (crowd cheering) 1136 00:51:49,409 --> 00:51:51,878 Like, that just opened our eyes 1137 00:51:51,911 --> 00:51:54,848 to a whole different perspective. 1138 00:51:54,881 --> 00:51:57,550 (cheering continues) 1139 00:51:58,885 --> 00:52:01,888 We've been around the world and people embrace him the same. 1140 00:52:01,921 --> 00:52:03,289 No matter where he's at. 1141 00:52:03,356 --> 00:52:05,125 Japan, Russia, anywhere in the world. 1142 00:52:20,730 --> 00:52:21,775 PHARRELL: It's funny, man, because 1143 00:52:21,808 --> 00:52:25,378 there's such a big market for alternative-thinking kids. 1144 00:52:25,412 --> 00:52:28,882 I am, like, the biggest example of a hybrid thinker. 1145 00:52:37,991 --> 00:52:40,260 - (camera clicking) - CHAD: Star Trak. - PHARRELL: N.E.R.D. 1146 00:52:40,293 --> 00:52:41,428 - CHAD: Star Trak. - SHAE: Nerd for life. 1147 00:52:41,461 --> 00:52:43,129 CHAD: Star Trak. 1148 00:52:43,163 --> 00:52:44,431 KAWAN "KP" PRATHER: Nobody told him, 1149 00:52:44,464 --> 00:52:46,166 "You can't do that." 1150 00:52:46,232 --> 00:52:49,102 Nobody told him, "Black people don't skate." 1151 00:52:49,135 --> 00:52:50,770 (lively chatter) 1152 00:52:50,804 --> 00:52:52,839 What he sees, he believes. 1153 00:52:53,940 --> 00:52:56,609 But maybe it's the gift and curse of him, too. 1154 00:52:56,643 --> 00:52:58,678 ♪ ♪ 1155 00:53:00,947 --> 00:53:03,783 (creaking) 1156 00:53:03,817 --> 00:53:05,919 (elevator music playing) 1157 00:53:11,591 --> 00:53:14,940 See, a lot of times, we do things with people 1158 00:53:14,127 --> 00:53:15,595 and they don't use them. 1159 00:53:15,628 --> 00:53:20,867 So we hold on to beats that we feel, like, are special. 1160 00:53:20,934 --> 00:53:24,137 It's like wine. It only gets better with time if it's good. 1161 00:53:24,170 --> 00:53:26,473 (ticking) 1162 00:53:29,442 --> 00:53:32,145 This beat was for Prince, 1163 00:53:32,178 --> 00:53:34,848 and he heard it and didn't respond. 1164 00:53:36,383 --> 00:53:38,485 But I saw the potential. 1165 00:53:41,354 --> 00:53:44,624 ("Frontin' (Club Mix)" by Pharrell feat. Jay-Z playing) 1166 00:53:47,794 --> 00:53:49,963 KP: I tried my best to get this beat 1167 00:53:49,996 --> 00:53:51,331 for Usher. 1168 00:53:51,364 --> 00:53:54,367 (chuckles): I begged him for that record. 1169 00:53:54,401 --> 00:53:56,690 PHARRELL: And I was like... 1170 00:53:56,136 --> 00:53:58,400 What? Why would I do that? 1171 00:53:58,380 --> 00:53:59,339 He was like, "Because he's gonna 1172 00:53:59,372 --> 00:54:00,840 take that record where it needs to go." 1173 00:54:00,874 --> 00:54:04,577 No, I need to show everybody what I can do. 1174 00:54:04,644 --> 00:54:06,546 (lively chatter) 1175 00:54:08,314 --> 00:54:10,517 ♪ Don't wanna sound full of myself or rude ♪ 1176 00:54:10,550 --> 00:54:12,852 ♪ But you ain't looking at no other dudes ♪ 1177 00:54:12,886 --> 00:54:15,880 ♪ 'Cause you love me ♪ 1178 00:54:15,155 --> 00:54:16,923 "Frontin'" was a huge hit. 1179 00:54:16,990 --> 00:54:18,158 Hell yeah. 1180 00:54:18,191 --> 00:54:20,326 ♪ So you think about a chance ♪ 1181 00:54:20,360 --> 00:54:22,395 ♪ You find yourself trying to do my dance ♪ 1182 00:54:22,429 --> 00:54:24,264 ♪ Maybe 'cause you love me ♪ 1183 00:54:26,232 --> 00:54:28,535 Is Pharrell here? 1184 00:54:28,568 --> 00:54:31,338 ♪ I know that I'm carrying on ♪ 1185 00:54:31,371 --> 00:54:33,206 ♪ Never mind if I'm showing off ♪ 1186 00:54:33,239 --> 00:54:35,909 ♪ I was just frontin' ♪ 1187 00:54:38,678 --> 00:54:41,470 I think he was playing it in the studio, and I was like... 1188 00:54:41,810 --> 00:54:43,249 You cra... That's incredible. 1189 00:54:43,283 --> 00:54:45,552 Let me, let me get on that. 1190 00:54:45,585 --> 00:54:46,519 ♪ Ho! ♪ 1191 00:54:46,553 --> 00:54:48,188 ♪ We got another one, Pha-real ♪ 1192 00:54:48,221 --> 00:54:49,756 ♪ Dance ♪ 1193 00:54:49,789 --> 00:54:51,391 ♪ I call you "Pha-real" 'cause you the truth ♪ 1194 00:54:51,424 --> 00:54:53,693 - (chuckles) - ♪ Oh-oh... ♪ 1195 00:54:53,727 --> 00:54:55,610 PHARRELL: It was very comfortable 1196 00:54:55,950 --> 00:54:56,463 standing next to Jay-Z. 1197 00:54:57,530 --> 00:55:00,633 But "Frontin'" was in reverse. 1198 00:55:00,700 --> 00:55:02,902 Jay-Z was standing next to me. 1199 00:55:02,936 --> 00:55:05,472 ♪ Oh-oh, oh-oh... ♪ 1200 00:55:05,538 --> 00:55:07,974 Pharrell is here today. 1201 00:55:08,410 --> 00:55:10,477 - (slurping) - (crowd cheering) 1202 00:55:10,543 --> 00:55:11,911 MIMI VALDES: "Frontin'" is 1203 00:55:11,945 --> 00:55:15,448 the missed opportunity of a lifetime. 1204 00:55:15,482 --> 00:55:20,553 He was supposed to become a solo artist after that song. 1205 00:55:20,587 --> 00:55:22,589 ♪ I was just frontin' ♪ 1206 00:55:22,622 --> 00:55:24,724 - ♪ Ooh... ♪ - (kisses, blows) 1207 00:55:24,758 --> 00:55:28,395 Everyone was waiting. Everyone was waiting for that. 1208 00:55:29,229 --> 00:55:31,640 Like, "What happened?" 1209 00:55:34,234 --> 00:55:35,969 (song fades) 1210 00:55:36,200 --> 00:55:39,939 You didn't put out another solo song for three years. 1211 00:55:39,973 --> 00:55:41,941 - Yeah. - What... Why? 1212 00:55:41,975 --> 00:55:44,611 I wasn't... I was afraid of it. 1213 00:55:45,745 --> 00:55:47,147 It scared me. 1214 00:55:48,114 --> 00:55:49,616 - ♪ I know you thought ♪ - ("Maybe" by N.E.R.D. playing) 1215 00:55:49,649 --> 00:55:52,519 - (barking) - ♪ Your life was gon' be easy ♪ 1216 00:55:52,585 --> 00:55:55,155 ♪ You thought you had it all ♪ 1217 00:55:55,188 --> 00:55:58,625 ♪ You found that you were wrong ♪ 1218 00:55:58,658 --> 00:56:00,326 PHARRELL: "Frontin'" put me in a place 1219 00:56:00,360 --> 00:56:02,362 where I felt something, and I was like, 1220 00:56:02,429 --> 00:56:05,665 "Ooh, I'm not built for that." 1221 00:56:07,000 --> 00:56:09,936 It was like, "Oh, I think I'm ready now to be an artist." 1222 00:56:10,837 --> 00:56:12,500 I wasn't. 1223 00:56:12,939 --> 00:56:18,311 ♪ See, maybe there was something wrong ♪ 1224 00:56:18,345 --> 00:56:21,481 ♪ And you weren't telling me, no... ♪ 1225 00:56:21,514 --> 00:56:23,316 And maybe that's why I was never comfortable 1226 00:56:23,350 --> 00:56:25,485 with my voice in the first place, 1227 00:56:25,518 --> 00:56:27,887 'cause I wasn't talking about anything. 1228 00:56:27,954 --> 00:56:30,490 Maybe I didn't want to be a solo artist ever again. 1229 00:56:30,523 --> 00:56:36,496 ♪ And life was telling me a joke. ♪ 1230 00:56:36,529 --> 00:56:38,665 (song ends) 1231 00:56:44,537 --> 00:56:45,839 MORGAN: Hi. 1232 00:56:45,872 --> 00:56:47,707 It's great to finally sit down with you. 1233 00:56:47,741 --> 00:56:49,409 HELEN WILLIAMS: For sure. (chuckles) 1234 00:56:49,476 --> 00:56:51,177 So you've never done an interview before, right? 1235 00:56:51,211 --> 00:56:53,813 Right. And when Pharrell said, 1236 00:56:53,847 --> 00:56:56,549 "I want this to be like the LEGO movies." 1237 00:56:56,583 --> 00:56:58,351 And I was like, "What?" (laughs) 1238 00:56:58,385 --> 00:56:59,853 Yeah, that's crazy, right? 1239 00:56:59,886 --> 00:57:01,521 - Yeah. (chuckling) - (laughing) 1240 00:57:01,554 --> 00:57:04,570 ("Beautiful" by Snoop Dogg playing) 1241 00:57:04,900 --> 00:57:08,762 HELEN: I first met Pharrell at a friend's barbecue party. 1242 00:57:09,662 --> 00:57:12,665 - So I definitely knew that he was someone. - (song fades) 1243 00:57:12,732 --> 00:57:14,634 But he just came up to me 1244 00:57:14,667 --> 00:57:17,170 and asked me 90 minutes of questions. 1245 00:57:17,237 --> 00:57:18,938 You know, "What's your name? 1246 00:57:18,972 --> 00:57:20,573 "When's your birthday? What do you like to do? 1247 00:57:20,607 --> 00:57:22,142 "What's your favorite color? What do you like to eat? 1248 00:57:22,175 --> 00:57:23,677 Do you have a boyfriend, by any chance?" 1249 00:57:23,743 --> 00:57:24,744 Yeah, I do. 1250 00:57:24,778 --> 00:57:25,812 And he said... 1251 00:57:25,845 --> 00:57:27,347 Do you want to marry him? 1252 00:57:27,414 --> 00:57:28,615 No. 1253 00:57:28,648 --> 00:57:30,583 Then you don't love him. 1254 00:57:30,617 --> 00:57:33,353 (laughing): Okay. Okay. 1255 00:57:33,420 --> 00:57:35,789 I actually did break up with that guy, 1256 00:57:35,822 --> 00:57:38,958 and we started really hanging out. 1257 00:57:38,992 --> 00:57:40,694 ♪ I've seen the light ♪ 1258 00:57:40,760 --> 00:57:42,962 ("I've Seen the Light / Inside of Clouds" by N.E.R.D. playing) 1259 00:57:42,996 --> 00:57:44,497 ♪ I've seen the light ♪ 1260 00:57:44,531 --> 00:57:46,866 ♪ You're the one, girl ♪ 1261 00:57:48,501 --> 00:57:52,272 ♪ And when it hit me, it felt like lightning... ♪ 1262 00:57:52,305 --> 00:57:53,840 From one day to another, I was like... 1263 00:57:53,873 --> 00:57:55,809 I think I love you. (laughs) 1264 00:57:55,842 --> 00:57:57,377 ♪ Frightened... ♪ 1265 00:57:57,444 --> 00:57:58,945 He was like, "Well, you know, I told you 1266 00:57:58,978 --> 00:58:00,714 I wasn't ready and blah-blah-blah." 1267 00:58:00,780 --> 00:58:02,148 (song stops) 1268 00:58:02,182 --> 00:58:04,170 And then I was like... (imitates explosion) 1269 00:58:04,500 --> 00:58:05,618 (laughing): "Okay." 1270 00:58:05,652 --> 00:58:08,488 Sometimes it takes a moment for things to register. 1271 00:58:08,521 --> 00:58:11,570 Right? (laughs) 1272 00:58:12,492 --> 00:58:15,362 ROB: I think the hardest thing with-with me and Pharrell 1273 00:58:15,395 --> 00:58:17,364 was keeping on focus. 1274 00:58:18,231 --> 00:58:21,134 PHARRELL: I want to think outside the box. 1275 00:58:21,167 --> 00:58:23,136 I want to do all kinds of things. 1276 00:58:23,169 --> 00:58:25,500 ROB: Like, it was always the next thing. 1277 00:58:25,380 --> 00:58:26,506 "What's the next thing? What we doing next? 1278 00:58:26,539 --> 00:58:28,475 What we doing next?" 1279 00:58:30,210 --> 00:58:32,645 PHARRELL: I don't want to be fit into a box. 1280 00:58:33,713 --> 00:58:36,583 - ("Blurred Lines" playing) - ♪ Everybody, get up ♪ 1281 00:58:40,854 --> 00:58:42,550 Thing about Pharrell is that 1282 00:58:42,880 --> 00:58:44,240 if he gets inspired by something, 1283 00:58:44,570 --> 00:58:45,658 he wants to do it. 1284 00:58:45,692 --> 00:58:47,360 Amazing. 1285 00:58:47,394 --> 00:58:49,929 Amazing, amazing, amazing, amazing, amazing. 1286 00:58:49,996 --> 00:58:51,698 JIMMY: Whether it's a chair 1287 00:58:51,731 --> 00:58:53,933 or, you know, or the face cream. 1288 00:58:54,000 --> 00:58:55,101 I use the face cream. 1289 00:58:55,168 --> 00:58:57,604 The lotus enzyme exfoliator. 1290 00:58:57,671 --> 00:58:59,873 I don't look like Pharrell yet, but I'm gonna keep 1291 00:58:59,906 --> 00:59:01,708 rubbing that (bleep) in until I do. 1292 00:59:01,741 --> 00:59:03,430 (laughs) 1293 00:59:04,411 --> 00:59:06,546 ♪ Blurred lines ♪ 1294 00:59:06,579 --> 00:59:09,916 ♪ I know you want it, I know you want it... ♪ 1295 00:59:09,949 --> 00:59:11,718 SHAE: He was endorsing 1296 00:59:11,751 --> 00:59:13,119 high-end designers. 1297 00:59:13,186 --> 00:59:15,388 Artists weren't doing that back then. 1298 00:59:15,422 --> 00:59:17,257 (crowd exclaiming) 1299 00:59:17,290 --> 00:59:19,292 PHARRELL: So what I am is a maverick. 1300 00:59:19,359 --> 00:59:21,728 You know, I'm over here designing sunglasses 1301 00:59:21,761 --> 00:59:23,129 for Louis Vuitton 1302 00:59:23,196 --> 00:59:25,899 and working with Adidas and Chanel. 1303 00:59:25,932 --> 00:59:27,934 - I did a jingle for McDonald's. - (song stops) 1304 00:59:27,967 --> 00:59:29,202 - Did he? - Yeah, he did. 1305 00:59:29,235 --> 00:59:30,570 The... ♪ Da-da-da-da-da... ♪ 1306 00:59:30,603 --> 00:59:32,706 ♪ Ba-da-ba-ba-ba ♪ 1307 00:59:32,739 --> 00:59:34,307 ♪ I'm lovin' it. ♪ 1308 00:59:34,374 --> 00:59:36,409 PHAROAH: Wow. I didn't know that. 1309 00:59:36,443 --> 00:59:38,440 - (Carolyn laughs) - (song resumes) 1310 00:59:38,780 --> 00:59:40,800 - ♪ Shake your rump ♪ - (crowd cheering) 1311 00:59:40,113 --> 00:59:41,648 ♪ Get down ♪ 1312 00:59:41,715 --> 00:59:43,116 ♪ Get up ♪ 1313 00:59:43,149 --> 00:59:44,584 There were times in the studio 1314 00:59:44,617 --> 00:59:46,119 where Pharrell would be like, "I'll-I'll be back 1315 00:59:46,152 --> 00:59:47,587 in a couple of hours." 1316 00:59:47,620 --> 00:59:49,255 What... How long are you going? When are you go... 1317 00:59:49,289 --> 00:59:50,990 Yeah. And I would stay there 1318 00:59:51,570 --> 00:59:53,930 and sing melodies over what Chad was playing, 1319 00:59:53,126 --> 00:59:55,950 and Pharrell would come back and be like, 1320 00:59:55,128 --> 00:59:56,963 "I'm working on this skateboard brand 1321 00:59:58,698 --> 01:00:02,135 He did a drink called Qream with a "Q" for "queen." 1322 01:00:02,168 --> 01:00:04,671 - Ladies like it, right? - (in unison): We love it. 1323 01:00:04,704 --> 01:00:08,875 That pink liqueur, it looked like Pepto-Bismol to me. 1324 01:00:08,942 --> 01:00:10,510 (crowd groaning) 1325 01:00:11,344 --> 01:00:13,980 (laughs) There was a lot going on. 1326 01:00:14,140 --> 01:00:16,483 I wanted to be like, "You don't need to be doing that. 1327 01:00:16,516 --> 01:00:18,985 You need to go create. Go make some music." 1328 01:00:19,190 --> 01:00:21,540 ♪ ♪ 1329 01:00:22,188 --> 01:00:24,491 (song ends) 1330 01:00:24,524 --> 01:00:27,394 The thing that happens after you get success 1331 01:00:27,460 --> 01:00:28,995 is everybody got an opinion 1332 01:00:29,290 --> 01:00:31,998 of how you should do things and what you should do. 1333 01:00:32,320 --> 01:00:33,533 That's when everybody comes in 1334 01:00:33,566 --> 01:00:35,168 with this "shoulda, coulda, woulda." 1335 01:00:35,201 --> 01:00:37,300 (rapid overlapping chatter) 1336 01:00:39,539 --> 01:00:41,841 HELEN: I'm like, "Yo, those are bad guys. 1337 01:00:41,875 --> 01:00:44,411 "They're, like, trying to get on the next step of the ladder 1338 01:00:44,477 --> 01:00:46,913 through you," you know? 1339 01:00:46,980 --> 01:00:48,648 It's like they were coming to him 1340 01:00:48,682 --> 01:00:50,550 with their "expertise"... 1341 01:00:50,583 --> 01:00:52,652 and I got air quotes up when I say it... 1342 01:00:52,686 --> 01:00:54,220 to get records, 1343 01:00:54,254 --> 01:00:58,758 but they took away his attention from what was important. 1344 01:01:00,360 --> 01:01:02,595 (rapid overlapping chatter) 1345 01:01:04,731 --> 01:01:07,330 (jet engines whooshing) 1346 01:01:11,104 --> 01:01:14,708 PUSHA: You know, I think what is really important 1347 01:01:14,741 --> 01:01:18,611 is keeping your ear to the streets. 1348 01:01:20,800 --> 01:01:21,915 (drink pours) 1349 01:01:21,948 --> 01:01:26,953 And you can't do that when your head's in the clouds. 1350 01:01:28,880 --> 01:01:30,190 ♪ ♪ 1351 01:01:37,630 --> 01:01:40,233 - (engine revving) - (tires squealing) 1352 01:01:42,769 --> 01:01:47,307 PHARRELL: My grandmother, she was sick. 1353 01:01:47,374 --> 01:01:49,609 ♪ ♪ 1354 01:01:51,211 --> 01:01:54,470 She had an incredible impact on me. 1355 01:01:58,885 --> 01:02:02,922 She saw things in me that I couldn't see in myself. 1356 01:02:06,292 --> 01:02:08,628 (tires squealing) 1357 01:02:14,670 --> 01:02:16,836 I remember my grandmother used to say... 1358 01:02:16,903 --> 01:02:18,938 GRANDMA and PHARRELL: "Find something you love to do..." 1359 01:02:18,972 --> 01:02:22,142 ...and you'll know when it's right. 1360 01:02:22,175 --> 01:02:25,945 When you can find a purpose for humanity in it. 1361 01:02:25,979 --> 01:02:28,140 ♪ ♪ 1362 01:02:39,325 --> 01:02:41,528 PHARRELL: But what does that really mean 1363 01:02:41,594 --> 01:02:43,329 at the end of the day? 1364 01:02:45,598 --> 01:02:48,168 I-I don't know. 1365 01:02:49,269 --> 01:02:52,272 ("L'ego Odyssey" by Pharrell Williams playing) 1366 01:02:56,643 --> 01:02:58,311 MAN: Is Pharrell coming through? 1367 01:02:58,345 --> 01:02:59,879 He said he was. 1368 01:02:59,946 --> 01:03:02,315 I don't know if he is, to be honest. 1369 01:03:02,349 --> 01:03:04,317 Why don't you just go and raid his house? 1370 01:03:04,351 --> 01:03:05,618 Take us there. We'd love to. 1371 01:03:05,652 --> 01:03:07,821 WOMAN: So, are The Neptunes 1372 01:03:07,854 --> 01:03:10,156 the top priority of your business now or...? 1373 01:03:10,190 --> 01:03:11,825 PHARRELL: Mm... 1374 01:03:15,962 --> 01:03:18,898 - Maybe. - "Maybe." 1375 01:03:20,330 --> 01:03:22,135 KP: The Neptunes broke up. 1376 01:03:22,168 --> 01:03:23,336 (sighs) 1377 01:03:23,370 --> 01:03:25,238 So many of the people in the room with him 1378 01:03:25,305 --> 01:03:28,375 when he was at his most adventurous left. 1379 01:03:30,677 --> 01:03:32,450 SHAE: It... (sighs) 1380 01:03:32,780 --> 01:03:33,847 Yeah, it was, it was a difficult time, man. 1381 01:03:33,880 --> 01:03:36,850 He couldn't pay someone for a hit. 1382 01:03:36,883 --> 01:03:38,718 ♪ Mr. Know-It-All ♪ 1383 01:03:38,752 --> 01:03:40,987 ♪ Know-It-All ♪ 1384 01:03:41,210 --> 01:03:42,689 ♪ Who wants to show it off ♪ 1385 01:03:42,722 --> 01:03:45,692 ♪ Know-It-All ♪ 1386 01:03:45,725 --> 01:03:47,727 ♪ You're no longer learning ♪ 1387 01:03:47,761 --> 01:03:49,362 ♪ No longer learning ♪ 1388 01:03:49,396 --> 01:03:52,932 - ♪ If you know it all ♪ - ♪ If you know it all ♪ 1389 01:03:52,999 --> 01:03:55,535 ♪ Don't you know the law? ♪ 1390 01:03:55,568 --> 01:03:57,700 ♪ Don't you know the law? ♪ 1391 01:03:57,103 --> 01:04:00,740 ♪ Only God knows it all ♪ 1392 01:04:00,774 --> 01:04:04,110 ♪ There he goes ego... ♪ 1393 01:04:04,177 --> 01:04:05,879 Businesspeople, they're trying to tell you 1394 01:04:05,912 --> 01:04:09,490 to basically regenerate yourself from a past time. 1395 01:04:09,820 --> 01:04:13,720 But if your best ideas come from the future, 1396 01:04:13,753 --> 01:04:17,290 you can imagine your worst ones are gonna come from the past. 1397 01:04:17,357 --> 01:04:18,458 (panting) 1398 01:04:20,260 --> 01:04:21,928 (song ends) 1399 01:04:24,764 --> 01:04:28,401 I made the worst record of my life 1400 01:04:28,435 --> 01:04:31,771 called "All Eyes On Me" with Pharrell. 1401 01:04:32,772 --> 01:04:34,474 MORGAN: I don't remember the song. 1402 01:04:34,541 --> 01:04:36,710 PUSHA T: Of course you don't remember the song. 1403 01:04:36,743 --> 01:04:38,778 It's so bad. 1404 01:04:38,812 --> 01:04:40,580 It was trying to be pop. 1405 01:04:40,613 --> 01:04:41,881 It was like, "We're gonna have 1406 01:04:41,915 --> 01:04:43,450 "a record on pop radio, 1407 01:04:43,483 --> 01:04:45,485 "and we're gonna have a hot record in the streets, 1408 01:04:45,552 --> 01:04:49,289 and we're just gonna have all these fan bases all at once." 1409 01:04:49,322 --> 01:04:51,291 It was reaching. 1410 01:04:52,459 --> 01:04:55,895 I was in the studio with him, and he's playing me 1411 01:04:55,929 --> 01:04:57,764 all of these songs. 1412 01:04:57,797 --> 01:05:00,500 It was... It just really wasn't that great. 1413 01:05:00,567 --> 01:05:03,690 And he says to me, "This is the radio record." 1414 01:05:03,103 --> 01:05:05,305 And then he plays me another song, and he's like, 1415 01:05:05,338 --> 01:05:07,307 "This is the record for the girls, right?" 1416 01:05:08,575 --> 01:05:11,277 And h-he giving me a thumbs-up like, "This is hot, right?" 1417 01:05:11,311 --> 01:05:13,813 And I gave him, like, the sideways thumb, like... 1418 01:05:13,847 --> 01:05:15,315 Eh, kinda. 1419 01:05:16,820 --> 01:05:17,684 But he was like, "Kinda?" 1420 01:05:17,751 --> 01:05:19,352 Yo, just stop. Just turn it off, man. 1421 01:05:19,419 --> 01:05:20,787 Just turn it off. 1422 01:05:20,820 --> 01:05:24,257 You're Pharrell, bro. Like, what are you doing? 1423 01:05:25,250 --> 01:05:27,293 You don't make the radio record. 1424 01:05:27,327 --> 01:05:29,462 Like, you don't make the girl record. 1425 01:05:29,496 --> 01:05:32,332 Man, you just make music, bro. 1426 01:05:33,933 --> 01:05:36,436 PUSHA T: So when you say he says he was lost, 1427 01:05:36,469 --> 01:05:37,804 I believe that. 1428 01:05:37,837 --> 01:05:40,140 He would've had to have been. 1429 01:05:41,675 --> 01:05:43,543 - ♪ Sooner or later ♪ - ("Sooner or Later" playing) 1430 01:05:43,610 --> 01:05:45,712 ♪ It all comes crashing down ♪ 1431 01:05:45,779 --> 01:05:47,280 ♪ Crashing down ♪ 1432 01:05:47,313 --> 01:05:50,116 - ♪ Crashing down ♪ - ♪ Crashing down ♪ 1433 01:05:50,150 --> 01:05:53,553 ♪ When everyone's around ♪ 1434 01:05:53,620 --> 01:05:55,655 ♪ I bet you would've paid up ♪ 1435 01:05:55,689 --> 01:05:59,159 - ♪ All your cash down ♪ - ♪ Your cash down ♪ 1436 01:05:59,192 --> 01:06:02,529 - ♪ And not make a sound ♪ - ♪ To make a sound ♪ 1437 01:06:02,562 --> 01:06:04,731 ♪ Everyone knows now ♪ 1438 01:06:04,798 --> 01:06:06,666 ♪ It all comes crashing ♪ 1439 01:06:06,700 --> 01:06:09,335 ♪ Down ♪ 1440 01:06:09,369 --> 01:06:11,338 ♪ It's over ♪ 1441 01:06:11,371 --> 01:06:13,406 ♪ Leave it ♪ 1442 01:06:13,473 --> 01:06:16,343 ♪ Down ♪ 1443 01:06:16,376 --> 01:06:17,844 ♪ It's over ♪ 1444 01:06:17,877 --> 01:06:19,512 ♪ Leave it ♪ 1445 01:06:19,546 --> 01:06:22,150 ♪ Down ♪ 1446 01:06:22,480 --> 01:06:23,683 ♪ It's over ♪ 1447 01:06:23,717 --> 01:06:24,984 ♪ Leave it... ♪ 1448 01:06:25,180 --> 01:06:27,220 You're being written off at this point. 1449 01:06:27,253 --> 01:06:28,855 There ain't places you can turn 1450 01:06:28,888 --> 01:06:30,857 for that inspiration that you need... 1451 01:06:30,890 --> 01:06:34,227 ♪ A nightmare just ate up your dreams... ♪ 1452 01:06:34,260 --> 01:06:37,300 ...because even the people with the "shoulda, woulda, couldas," 1453 01:06:37,630 --> 01:06:39,999 they don't want to be attached to the failure. 1454 01:06:40,330 --> 01:06:41,768 So they quickly abandon ship, 1455 01:06:41,835 --> 01:06:46,390 and they get in the safety boats with the life jackets on, 1456 01:06:46,720 --> 01:06:47,707 and they abandon you. 1457 01:06:47,741 --> 01:06:48,875 ♪ It all comes crashing ♪ 1458 01:06:48,908 --> 01:06:51,845 ♪ Down ♪ 1459 01:06:51,878 --> 01:06:53,546 ♪ It's over ♪ 1460 01:06:53,580 --> 01:06:54,748 ♪ Leave it ♪ 1461 01:06:54,781 --> 01:06:58,180 ♪ Down ♪ 1462 01:06:58,510 --> 01:06:59,552 ♪ It's over ♪ 1463 01:06:59,586 --> 01:07:00,787 ♪ Leave it ♪ 1464 01:07:00,854 --> 01:07:03,890 ♪ Down ♪ 1465 01:07:03,923 --> 01:07:05,525 ♪ It's over ♪ 1466 01:07:05,558 --> 01:07:06,693 ♪ Leave it ♪ 1467 01:07:06,726 --> 01:07:09,596 ♪ Down ♪ 1468 01:07:09,629 --> 01:07:11,640 ♪ It's over ♪ 1469 01:07:11,970 --> 01:07:12,732 ♪ Leave it ♪ 1470 01:07:12,766 --> 01:07:15,802 ♪ Down ♪ 1471 01:07:15,869 --> 01:07:17,604 (song stops) 1472 01:07:22,642 --> 01:07:24,944 (filtered breathing) 1473 01:07:28,114 --> 01:07:29,582 PHARRELL: When I looked over my shoulder, 1474 01:07:29,616 --> 01:07:31,918 I just didn't like what I was doing. 1475 01:07:31,951 --> 01:07:34,454 I didn't like the decisions that I had made. 1476 01:07:35,455 --> 01:07:37,624 The pieces just didn't fit anymore... 1477 01:07:37,657 --> 01:07:40,293 ♪ ♪ 1478 01:07:40,326 --> 01:07:43,229 ...because relevance is a drug. 1479 01:07:44,130 --> 01:07:45,498 Staying relevant will have you doing 1480 01:07:45,565 --> 01:07:49,690 all kinds of things that you regret... 1481 01:07:50,503 --> 01:07:52,138 ...just to win. 1482 01:07:54,307 --> 01:07:55,508 To win. 1483 01:07:59,479 --> 01:08:02,782 Pharrell, excuse me. 1484 01:08:02,816 --> 01:08:04,851 Carl Sagan? 1485 01:08:04,918 --> 01:08:07,200 Take a look. 1486 01:08:07,870 --> 01:08:12,250 The Earth, it's a pale blue dot. 1487 01:08:13,860 --> 01:08:15,362 That's home. 1488 01:08:15,428 --> 01:08:20,800 On it, everybody you love, everybody you know, 1489 01:08:20,834 --> 01:08:25,338 everybody you've ever heard of lived out their days there. 1490 01:08:26,673 --> 01:08:28,641 Every mother and father, 1491 01:08:28,675 --> 01:08:31,144 every inventor and explorer, 1492 01:08:31,177 --> 01:08:34,140 every saint and sinner, 1493 01:08:34,470 --> 01:08:36,683 every supreme leader, 1494 01:08:36,716 --> 01:08:40,553 every revered teacher of morals 1495 01:08:40,620 --> 01:08:44,157 in the history of our species lived there. 1496 01:08:45,250 --> 01:08:46,459 The delusion that we have 1497 01:08:46,493 --> 01:08:49,295 some privileged position in the universe 1498 01:08:49,329 --> 01:08:54,467 is challenged by this point of pale light. 1499 01:08:55,235 --> 01:08:58,471 And there is no hint 1500 01:08:58,505 --> 01:09:00,240 that there's anyone who will come 1501 01:09:00,306 --> 01:09:02,842 and save us from ourself. 1502 01:09:02,876 --> 01:09:07,414 That will happen only if we do it. 1503 01:09:09,983 --> 01:09:11,651 Wow. 1504 01:09:11,685 --> 01:09:13,720 ♪ ♪ 1505 01:09:18,558 --> 01:09:20,560 PHARRELL: I spent so much of my career 1506 01:09:20,593 --> 01:09:23,630 just being arrogant. 1507 01:09:24,970 --> 01:09:27,200 And I might not have been the best person. 1508 01:09:28,568 --> 01:09:32,605 And I realized that I needed to give the purest of my spirit. 1509 01:09:34,541 --> 01:09:37,777 - That's... everything. - (steady beeping) 1510 01:09:45,552 --> 01:09:47,721 - (whooshing) - (voices vocalizing) 1511 01:09:47,754 --> 01:09:49,789 (vocalizing grows louder) 1512 01:09:54,728 --> 01:09:56,129 (vocalizing ends) 1513 01:09:56,196 --> 01:09:59,990 ("Get Lucky" by Daft Punk playing) 1514 01:10:10,977 --> 01:10:13,880 ♪ Like the legend of the phoenix ♪ 1515 01:10:13,913 --> 01:10:15,281 ♪ Huh ♪ 1516 01:10:15,315 --> 01:10:17,250 ♪ All ends with beginnings ♪ 1517 01:10:17,283 --> 01:10:19,452 (whooshing) 1518 01:10:19,486 --> 01:10:21,821 ♪ What keeps the planet spinning ♪ 1519 01:10:22,789 --> 01:10:23,923 ♪ Ah ♪ 1520 01:10:23,957 --> 01:10:25,892 ♪ The force from the beginning ♪ 1521 01:10:27,594 --> 01:10:28,661 ♪ Look ♪ 1522 01:10:28,728 --> 01:10:32,766 ♪ We've come too far ♪ 1523 01:10:32,799 --> 01:10:37,103 ♪ To give up who we are ♪ 1524 01:10:37,137 --> 01:10:40,940 ♪ So let's raise the bar ♪ 1525 01:10:40,974 --> 01:10:45,278 ♪ And our cups to the stars ♪ 1526 01:10:45,311 --> 01:10:48,114 ♪ She's up all night till the sun ♪ 1527 01:10:48,148 --> 01:10:50,183 ♪ I'm up all night to get some ♪ 1528 01:10:50,250 --> 01:10:52,485 ♪ She's up all night for good fun ♪ 1529 01:10:52,519 --> 01:10:54,621 ♪ I'm up all night to get lucky ♪ 1530 01:10:54,654 --> 01:10:56,623 ♪ We're up all night till the sun ♪ 1531 01:10:56,656 --> 01:10:58,425 ♪ We're up all night to get some ♪ 1532 01:10:58,458 --> 01:11:00,794 ♪ We're up all night for good fun ♪ 1533 01:11:00,827 --> 01:11:02,362 ♪ We're up all night to get lucky ♪ 1534 01:11:02,429 --> 01:11:04,497 (distorted): ♪ Up all night to get ♪ 1535 01:11:05,298 --> 01:11:06,966 ♪ Up all night to get... ♪ 1536 01:11:07,000 --> 01:11:08,468 Chad. 1537 01:11:08,501 --> 01:11:10,370 ♪ Up all night to get ♪ 1538 01:11:11,171 --> 01:11:12,472 ♪ Up all night to get ♪ 1539 01:11:13,206 --> 01:11:14,507 ♪ Up all night to get ♪ 1540 01:11:15,308 --> 01:11:16,609 ♪ Up all night to get ♪ 1541 01:11:17,344 --> 01:11:19,112 ♪ Up all night to get... ♪ 1542 01:11:19,145 --> 01:11:20,980 PHARRELL (in distance): Helen! 1543 01:11:21,140 --> 01:11:23,160 ♪ Up all night to get... ♪ 1544 01:11:23,490 --> 01:11:24,651 (whooshing) 1545 01:11:24,684 --> 01:11:26,953 - Oh, my God. - I'm ready now. 1546 01:11:26,986 --> 01:11:28,855 (chuckles) 1547 01:11:28,888 --> 01:11:30,557 Okay. 1548 01:11:30,623 --> 01:11:33,393 So what are we gonna do about that? 1549 01:11:33,460 --> 01:11:36,129 ♪ We're up all night to get lucky... ♪ 1550 01:11:36,162 --> 01:11:37,664 (crowd cheering) 1551 01:11:42,235 --> 01:11:43,937 PHARRELL: When I look up and see 1552 01:11:43,970 --> 01:11:46,573 all the love and all the support, 1553 01:11:46,606 --> 01:11:48,641 the people who just never left my side... 1554 01:11:49,642 --> 01:11:51,277 (voice breaking): My family. 1555 01:11:52,812 --> 01:11:54,247 All my friends. 1556 01:11:55,480 --> 01:11:57,283 The realization when, like... 1557 01:11:58,785 --> 01:12:00,620 (sighs) 1558 01:12:00,653 --> 01:12:02,422 ...everyone wants you to win. 1559 01:12:03,323 --> 01:12:05,425 ♪ ♪ 1560 01:12:07,127 --> 01:12:09,629 And I'm like, you know, 1561 01:12:09,662 --> 01:12:12,650 "Man, forget the trophy, man. 1562 01:12:12,980 --> 01:12:14,100 The idea that you want me to win." 1563 01:12:15,835 --> 01:12:17,404 (exhales) 1564 01:12:18,505 --> 01:12:20,774 When thinking like that and thinking about that, 1565 01:12:20,807 --> 01:12:23,143 (sniffles) my heart... 1566 01:12:24,978 --> 01:12:26,813 ...could keep the lights on the Earth. 1567 01:12:26,846 --> 01:12:29,149 ♪ ♪ 1568 01:12:33,953 --> 01:12:35,210 - (sniffles) - (song stops) 1569 01:12:35,880 --> 01:12:36,322 Do you need a Kleenex? 1570 01:12:36,356 --> 01:12:38,758 PHARRELL: No, I'm okay. (clears throat) 1571 01:12:38,792 --> 01:12:41,270 This is therapeutic, man. 1572 01:12:41,940 --> 01:12:42,829 I hope in a good way. 1573 01:12:42,862 --> 01:12:44,964 - In a really good way. - Yeah. 1574 01:12:45,932 --> 01:12:50,103 So after all that, did people just think it was easy, then? 1575 01:12:50,136 --> 01:12:52,380 Oh, yeah, of course. 1576 01:12:52,105 --> 01:12:54,474 I call that distant assessment. 1577 01:12:54,507 --> 01:12:56,976 No, it was just starting to get hard. 1578 01:12:57,100 --> 01:12:58,445 Why? 1579 01:12:58,478 --> 01:13:02,148 Because I didn't know if I could do it again. 1580 01:13:02,982 --> 01:13:04,150 - Dada! -Yes, sir. - (toy squeaks) 1581 01:13:04,184 --> 01:13:05,952 - Dada. - Yes, sir. 1582 01:13:05,985 --> 01:13:07,987 - Dada. -Yes, sir. - (toy squeaks) 1583 01:13:08,210 --> 01:13:09,656 HELEN: We had just gotten married, 1584 01:13:09,689 --> 01:13:12,580 and we had our son, Rocket. 1585 01:13:12,125 --> 01:13:13,727 (humming) 1586 01:13:13,793 --> 01:13:16,229 Pharrell was pushing himself on this song for a movie. 1587 01:13:16,296 --> 01:13:18,665 He wrote like eight or nine songs, 1588 01:13:18,698 --> 01:13:22,235 and the studio, every time, they were just like, 1589 01:13:22,302 --> 01:13:24,571 "Nope, not the one. Nope, not the one." 1590 01:13:28,141 --> 01:13:30,477 I can't get it. I don't know how to do this. 1591 01:13:30,510 --> 01:13:33,790 Like, I don't know how to make a song like this. 1592 01:13:33,146 --> 01:13:35,382 (Rocket laughing) 1593 01:13:38,218 --> 01:13:39,853 HELEN: I'd be like, "Is he okay? 1594 01:13:39,886 --> 01:13:43,556 Why is he staring off into the light like that?" 1595 01:13:43,590 --> 01:13:46,326 (tiles clattering) 1596 01:13:51,640 --> 01:13:53,990 ("Happy" by Pharrell Williams playing) 1597 01:13:53,166 --> 01:13:54,667 (song stops) 1598 01:13:54,701 --> 01:13:58,705 ♪ It might seem crazy what I'm 'bout to say ♪ 1599 01:13:58,738 --> 01:14:00,373 - Dada. - That feels great. 1600 01:14:00,407 --> 01:14:04,511 ♪ Sunshine, she's here, you can take a break ♪ 1601 01:14:05,912 --> 01:14:07,614 (song resumes) 1602 01:14:07,647 --> 01:14:11,151 ♪ It might seem crazy what I'm 'bout to say ♪ 1603 01:14:13,153 --> 01:14:17,190 ♪ Sunshine, she's here, you can take a break ♪ 1604 01:14:18,658 --> 01:14:22,495 ♪ I'm a hot-air balloon that could go to space ♪ 1605 01:14:22,529 --> 01:14:24,798 (lively chatter) 1606 01:14:24,831 --> 01:14:27,867 ♪ With the air, like "I don't care," baby, by the way ♪ 1607 01:14:27,934 --> 01:14:30,270 PHARRELL: And the next thing you know, boom. 1608 01:14:30,303 --> 01:14:31,338 ♪ Because I'm happy ♪ 1609 01:14:31,371 --> 01:14:33,606 ♪ Clap along if you feel ♪ 1610 01:14:33,640 --> 01:14:35,642 ♪ Like a room without a roof ♪ 1611 01:14:35,675 --> 01:14:37,310 ♪ Because I'm happy ♪ 1612 01:14:37,344 --> 01:14:41,648 ♪ Clap along if you feel like happiness is the truth ♪ 1613 01:14:41,681 --> 01:14:43,450 ♪ Because I'm happy ♪ 1614 01:14:43,483 --> 01:14:47,721 ♪ Clap along if you know what happiness is to you ♪ 1615 01:14:47,787 --> 01:14:49,689 ♪ Because I'm happy ♪ 1616 01:14:49,723 --> 01:14:51,691 - ♪ Clap along if you feel ♪ - (audience cheering) 1617 01:14:51,725 --> 01:14:54,194 ♪ Like that's what you wanna do ♪ 1618 01:14:55,362 --> 01:14:56,896 How did "Happy" happen? 1619 01:14:56,963 --> 01:14:58,865 - People are putting up their own videos. - Yeah. 1620 01:14:58,898 --> 01:15:00,467 It was, like, no longer my song. 1621 01:15:00,500 --> 01:15:01,668 Roll the tape of that. 1622 01:15:01,701 --> 01:15:03,370 People started putting videos 1623 01:15:03,403 --> 01:15:06,306 around the world getting happy. 1624 01:15:06,339 --> 01:15:07,574 ♪ Because I'm happy ♪ 1625 01:15:07,640 --> 01:15:09,743 ♪ Clap along if you know ♪ 1626 01:15:09,809 --> 01:15:12,312 ♪ What happiness is to you, ay, ay, ay ♪ 1627 01:15:12,345 --> 01:15:13,713 ♪ Because I'm happy ♪ 1628 01:15:13,747 --> 01:15:15,715 ♪ Clap along if you feel like ♪ 1629 01:15:15,749 --> 01:15:18,551 ♪ That's what you wanna do ♪ 1630 01:15:18,585 --> 01:15:20,854 - ♪ Because I'm happy ♪ - ♪ Clap along ♪ 1631 01:15:20,887 --> 01:15:24,557 ♪ If you know what happiness is to you, hey, hey ♪ 1632 01:15:24,591 --> 01:15:25,859 ♪ Because I'm happy ♪ 1633 01:15:25,892 --> 01:15:27,360 ♪ Clap along if you feel ♪ 1634 01:15:27,394 --> 01:15:29,829 ♪ Like that's what you wanna do ♪ 1635 01:15:29,863 --> 01:15:31,931 - ♪ Come on. ♪ - (song stops) 1636 01:15:31,998 --> 01:15:35,350 Ah. Makes me cry, too. Makes me cry, too. 1637 01:15:35,680 --> 01:15:36,870 - (sniffles) - Ah. 1638 01:15:36,903 --> 01:15:39,839 You know, I was just thinking about your grandmother. 1639 01:15:39,873 --> 01:15:42,876 I bet she didn't even imagine that. 1640 01:15:43,610 --> 01:15:45,712 No, it's beautiful. 1641 01:15:45,745 --> 01:15:46,946 Why am I crying on Oprah? 1642 01:15:47,130 --> 01:15:48,715 (Oprah and audience laughing) 1643 01:15:48,748 --> 01:15:50,717 - ♪ Because I'm happy ♪ - (song resumes) 1644 01:15:50,750 --> 01:15:53,190 (rhythmic clapping) 1645 01:15:55,255 --> 01:15:58,725 PHARRELL: I love that song, but it turned into 1646 01:15:58,758 --> 01:16:01,428 this other thing that I didn't see coming. 1647 01:16:01,461 --> 01:16:03,697 - ♪ Happy, happy, happy, happy ♪ - ♪ Bring me down ♪ 1648 01:16:03,730 --> 01:16:05,965 - ♪ Can't nothing bring me down ♪ - ♪ Happy, happy ♪ 1649 01:16:06,320 --> 01:16:07,734 - ♪ Happy, happy ♪ - ♪ My level's too high... ♪ 1650 01:16:07,767 --> 01:16:09,736 People are singing 1651 01:16:09,769 --> 01:16:12,138 and celebrating to highlight an emotion. 1652 01:16:12,205 --> 01:16:14,400 - ♪ Because I'm happy... ♪ - (song fades) 1653 01:16:14,740 --> 01:16:17,444 But you realize why they feel that song: 1654 01:16:17,477 --> 01:16:19,913 'cause they've been through some shit. 1655 01:16:19,946 --> 01:16:22,480 They've been through some shit. 1656 01:16:22,820 --> 01:16:23,783 (exhales) 1657 01:16:23,817 --> 01:16:25,285 I felt that just now. 1658 01:16:25,318 --> 01:16:27,287 'Sup? 1659 01:16:29,589 --> 01:16:31,570 People would say, 1660 01:16:31,910 --> 01:16:33,126 "Your song got my mom through her chemo," 1661 01:16:33,159 --> 01:16:35,295 or, like, "Man, I play that song every day. 1662 01:16:35,328 --> 01:16:37,970 It just made me feel better." 1663 01:16:38,640 --> 01:16:41,634 It took a toll on me, though, just seeing so much pain. 1664 01:16:42,802 --> 01:16:44,771 And boom, right after that... 1665 01:16:44,804 --> 01:16:46,139 CROWD (chanting): Hands up! Don't shoot! 1666 01:16:46,172 --> 01:16:47,841 PHARRELL: ...it got really dark. 1667 01:16:47,907 --> 01:16:49,309 CROWD (chanting): Hands up! Don't shoot! 1668 01:16:49,342 --> 01:16:50,844 - Hands up! Don't shoot! - (siren whoops, chirps) 1669 01:16:50,910 --> 01:16:52,512 Hands up! Don't shoot! 1670 01:16:52,579 --> 01:16:54,848 PHARRELL: It's what changed my outlook on 1671 01:16:54,914 --> 01:16:56,449 what it means to be Black. 1672 01:16:56,483 --> 01:16:58,284 OFFICER (over bullhorn): ...must disperse immediately. 1673 01:16:58,318 --> 01:16:59,919 Now! This is an order. 1674 01:16:59,953 --> 01:17:03,156 You'll be subject to arrest and other actions. 1675 01:17:03,189 --> 01:17:05,291 PHARRELL: I realized that you're Black 1676 01:17:05,325 --> 01:17:08,161 in juxtaposition to the entire system. 1677 01:17:12,499 --> 01:17:15,635 This is literally what we think about every day. 1678 01:17:15,668 --> 01:17:17,971 (jazz vocal sample repeating) 1679 01:17:20,840 --> 01:17:23,109 (saxophone playing jazz melody) 1680 01:17:26,179 --> 01:17:31,718 I remember finding these jazz vocal samples 1681 01:17:31,785 --> 01:17:34,154 and playing this chord around. 1682 01:17:34,187 --> 01:17:36,322 Every time you hear the... ♪ Da ♪ 1683 01:17:36,356 --> 01:17:41,161 ...it just felt like a rainbow of blue murky water. 1684 01:17:41,194 --> 01:17:43,129 (water flowing) 1685 01:17:43,163 --> 01:17:45,198 ♪ ♪ 1686 01:17:46,733 --> 01:17:49,135 And what Kendrick wrote to it was just 1687 01:17:49,169 --> 01:17:51,971 - poetic justice. - ("Alright" by Kendrick Lamar playing) 1688 01:17:52,500 --> 01:17:54,841 ♪ Alls my life I has to fight ♪ 1689 01:17:55,575 --> 01:17:56,576 ♪ Yeah ♪ 1690 01:17:56,643 --> 01:17:58,912 ♪ Alls my life, I ♪ 1691 01:17:58,978 --> 01:18:00,800 ♪ Hard times like, "Yah!" ♪ 1692 01:18:00,146 --> 01:18:02,716 ♪ Bad trips like, "Yah!" ♪ 1693 01:18:02,749 --> 01:18:06,860 ♪ Nazareth, I'm... up, homie, you... up ♪ 1694 01:18:06,152 --> 01:18:09,522 ♪ But if God got us, then we gon' be alright ♪ 1695 01:18:09,556 --> 01:18:11,240 ♪ We gon' be alright... ♪ 1696 01:18:11,570 --> 01:18:12,525 KENDRICK LAMAR: Pharrell had the hook. 1697 01:18:12,559 --> 01:18:13,927 That's him on the hook. 1698 01:18:13,993 --> 01:18:15,695 ♪ We gon' be alright, do you hear me? ♪ 1699 01:18:15,729 --> 01:18:17,530 ♪ Do you feel me? We gon' be alright ♪ 1700 01:18:17,564 --> 01:18:20,330 The "alright" phrase, what does "alright" represent? 1701 01:18:20,660 --> 01:18:21,935 You know, there was a lot going on, 1702 01:18:22,100 --> 01:18:25,105 and still to this day a-a lot going on. 1703 01:18:25,171 --> 01:18:27,700 It's something else inside of them chords 1704 01:18:27,400 --> 01:18:31,845 that Pharrell put down that feels like a statement. 1705 01:18:33,580 --> 01:18:35,115 ♪ When our pride was low ♪ 1706 01:18:35,181 --> 01:18:37,684 ♪ Lookin' at the world like, "Where do we go?" ♪ 1707 01:18:37,717 --> 01:18:39,119 ♪ And we hate po-po ♪ 1708 01:18:39,185 --> 01:18:41,254 ♪ Wanna kill us dead in the street for sure ♪ 1709 01:18:41,287 --> 01:18:42,922 (siren whoops) 1710 01:18:42,956 --> 01:18:44,524 ♪ I'm at the preacher's door, my knees gettin' weak ♪ 1711 01:18:44,557 --> 01:18:46,526 ♪ And my gun might blow, but we gon' be alright... ♪ 1712 01:18:46,559 --> 01:18:47,861 (crowd clamoring) 1713 01:18:47,894 --> 01:18:50,960 CROWD (chanting): We gon' be alright! 1714 01:18:50,130 --> 01:18:51,965 - We gon' be alright! Hey! - (song fades) 1715 01:18:52,320 --> 01:18:54,100 We gon' be alright! Hey! 1716 01:18:54,134 --> 01:18:58,238 We gon' be alright! Hey! We gon' be alright! Hey! 1717 01:18:58,271 --> 01:19:00,707 - We gon' be alright! - Say what?! 1718 01:19:00,740 --> 01:19:02,542 ♪ We gon' be alright. ♪ 1719 01:19:02,575 --> 01:19:03,977 That record, it kind of 1720 01:19:04,440 --> 01:19:06,212 attached itself to every struggle. 1721 01:19:07,380 --> 01:19:09,749 CROWD (chanting): We gon' be alright! 1722 01:19:09,783 --> 01:19:11,985 We gon' be alright! We gon' be alright! 1723 01:19:12,520 --> 01:19:14,154 PHARRELL: You know, there's strength in numbers. 1724 01:19:14,220 --> 01:19:18,725 And to inspire people to be aspirational, 1725 01:19:18,758 --> 01:19:20,927 you don't just aspire up. 1726 01:19:20,960 --> 01:19:23,163 You aspire left to right as well, 1727 01:19:23,229 --> 01:19:26,990 because that's what creates a unified front. 1728 01:19:26,132 --> 01:19:29,936 Without it, then you're just like a broken community. 1729 01:19:29,969 --> 01:19:32,605 And we've had spells where it's felt like that. 1730 01:19:32,639 --> 01:19:36,443 If we put our heads together or our hearts together, 1731 01:19:36,476 --> 01:19:37,944 like, what can't we do? 1732 01:19:37,977 --> 01:19:39,846 (crow cawing) 1733 01:19:39,913 --> 01:19:42,248 The bird is even chiming in. 1734 01:19:42,282 --> 01:19:43,950 Why? 1735 01:19:43,983 --> 01:19:47,454 Because the crow gets it. 1736 01:19:47,487 --> 01:19:49,890 - (caws) - Yes. 1737 01:19:49,122 --> 01:19:50,290 (caws) 1738 01:19:50,323 --> 01:19:51,691 Yes. 1739 01:19:51,758 --> 01:19:53,660 - (caws) - That's right. 1740 01:19:53,693 --> 01:19:55,929 You see? That's how it works. 1741 01:19:55,962 --> 01:19:57,797 (seabirds calling) 1742 01:19:57,831 --> 01:20:00,100 ♪ ♪ 1743 01:20:09,943 --> 01:20:12,112 WOMAN (in distance): Pharrell! 1744 01:20:12,145 --> 01:20:14,114 MAN: Hey! Thank you, Pharrell! 1745 01:20:15,348 --> 01:20:17,484 Oh, my gosh! 1746 01:20:17,517 --> 01:20:18,651 (chuckles) 1747 01:20:19,686 --> 01:20:22,522 I'll never forget what this neighborhood felt like. 1748 01:20:22,555 --> 01:20:23,857 Ever. 1749 01:20:23,890 --> 01:20:25,558 All of that is hitting me right now. 1750 01:20:27,193 --> 01:20:29,229 That was my room right there. 1751 01:20:30,130 --> 01:20:34,801 My grandmother lived here until, like, I was 15. 1752 01:20:34,834 --> 01:20:37,203 ♪ ♪ 1753 01:20:57,657 --> 01:21:00,393 Why me? Why me? 1754 01:21:05,231 --> 01:21:08,902 I grew up with kids that could do anything. 1755 01:21:10,403 --> 01:21:13,239 But no one saw the propensity in them. 1756 01:21:14,441 --> 01:21:16,876 All I saw was talent. 1757 01:21:16,910 --> 01:21:18,411 Beauty. 1758 01:21:19,846 --> 01:21:22,349 Everybody has that. 1759 01:21:25,418 --> 01:21:28,254 Man, this is gon' be a LEGO movie, bruh. 1760 01:21:28,288 --> 01:21:29,723 I know. 1761 01:21:29,756 --> 01:21:32,125 Like, you don't understand. 1762 01:21:33,226 --> 01:21:36,963 Trying to, like, take it apart brick by brick. 1763 01:21:37,764 --> 01:21:39,432 Put it back together. 1764 01:21:39,466 --> 01:21:41,601 So it makes sense. 1765 01:21:41,634 --> 01:21:43,703 (jet engines whooshing) 1766 01:21:54,280 --> 01:21:56,282 ♪ ♪ 1767 01:21:59,753 --> 01:22:01,221 One day, you wake up 1768 01:22:01,254 --> 01:22:04,391 and you realize that this was all designed. 1769 01:22:05,925 --> 01:22:07,494 And because it's a design, 1770 01:22:07,560 --> 01:22:10,397 there's potential for us to change it. 1771 01:22:10,430 --> 01:22:12,399 (waves lapping) 1772 01:22:19,105 --> 01:22:22,308 ("Pure Imagination" by Gene Wilder playing) 1773 01:22:32,180 --> 01:22:33,687 ♪ Hold your breath ♪ 1774 01:22:33,753 --> 01:22:34,921 ♪ Make a wish ♪ 1775 01:22:34,954 --> 01:22:36,790 ♪ Count to three. ♪ 1776 01:22:36,823 --> 01:22:42,128 One, two, three, four. 1777 01:22:42,162 --> 01:22:45,980 ("Piece by Piece" by Pharrell Williams playing) 1778 01:22:45,865 --> 01:22:47,467 (cheering) 1779 01:22:47,500 --> 01:22:50,470 Look what we can do when we come together, Virginia. 1780 01:22:50,503 --> 01:22:52,500 (cheering) 1781 01:22:56,676 --> 01:22:58,211 ♪ I decided long time ago ♪ 1782 01:22:58,278 --> 01:22:59,979 ♪ I would write my own chronicle ♪ 1783 01:23:00,130 --> 01:23:01,181 ♪ Sit around? That ain't me ♪ 1784 01:23:01,214 --> 01:23:03,283 ♪ Nor is following a lead ♪ 1785 01:23:03,316 --> 01:23:04,984 ♪ Let me build what I see ♪ 1786 01:23:05,180 --> 01:23:06,986 ♪ You know it starts with a piece ♪ 1787 01:23:07,200 --> 01:23:08,655 ♪ Give it time, let it breathe ♪ 1788 01:23:08,688 --> 01:23:10,690 ♪ Instead of suffocating crazy dreams... ♪ 1789 01:23:10,724 --> 01:23:12,859 Wow! 1790 01:23:12,892 --> 01:23:14,327 PHARRELL: Missy Misdemeanor. 1791 01:23:14,361 --> 01:23:15,628 Timbaland. 1792 01:23:15,662 --> 01:23:17,297 - ♪ Till it start paying off ♪ - ♪ Hey ♪ 1793 01:23:17,330 --> 01:23:19,320 ♪ Till it start paying off ♪ 1794 01:23:19,650 --> 01:23:22,135 ♪ And when it pays off, pays off ♪ 1795 01:23:22,168 --> 01:23:25,338 ♪ It feels so good inside ♪ 1796 01:23:25,372 --> 01:23:28,308 ♪ Screaming, "I told you, I told you" ♪ 1797 01:23:28,341 --> 01:23:31,110 ♪ And the only way it happened was mine ♪ 1798 01:23:31,440 --> 01:23:33,146 ♪ When it was time ♪ 1799 01:23:33,980 --> 01:23:37,500 ♪ I got butterflies ♪ 1800 01:23:38,180 --> 01:23:41,421 ♪ Don't look surprised, girl ♪ 1801 01:23:41,488 --> 01:23:44,524 ♪ With a dream this size ♪ 1802 01:23:46,192 --> 01:23:48,862 ♪ Yeah, everything seems so easy ♪ 1803 01:23:48,895 --> 01:23:51,197 ♪ For other guys ♪ 1804 01:23:52,198 --> 01:23:55,869 ♪ But I never moved my eyes ♪ 1805 01:23:55,902 --> 01:23:58,738 ♪ It takes a thousand tries ♪ 1806 01:23:59,506 --> 01:24:01,408 ♪ Till it start paying off ♪ 1807 01:24:01,441 --> 01:24:02,842 - ♪ Hey ♪ - ♪ Till it start paying off ♪ 1808 01:24:02,876 --> 01:24:04,277 ♪ Hey ♪ 1809 01:24:04,344 --> 01:24:05,445 - ♪ Till it start paying off ♪ - ♪ Hey ♪ 1810 01:24:05,512 --> 01:24:06,880 ♪ Till it start paying off ♪ 1811 01:24:06,913 --> 01:24:08,448 - ♪ Hey. ♪ - (song ends) 1812 01:24:09,449 --> 01:24:14,220 These days, I am more interested in diving deeper. 1813 01:24:15,210 --> 01:24:17,570 What's that mean, "diving deeper"? 1814 01:24:17,900 --> 01:24:19,392 I don't know if you have the time for that one. 1815 01:24:19,426 --> 01:24:21,628 (chuckles): Yeah. Well, it is the end of the movie, so yeah. 1816 01:24:21,661 --> 01:24:22,896 Right. 1817 01:24:22,929 --> 01:24:24,798 When you go deeper, you realize, 1818 01:24:24,864 --> 01:24:29,736 like, we're just vibrating, buzzing molecules. 1819 01:24:29,769 --> 01:24:35,750 Light, sound, everything is vibrating all at once. 1820 01:24:35,108 --> 01:24:36,643 ♪ ♪ 1821 01:24:36,676 --> 01:24:40,613 And so, you realize that life is much bigger than you. 1822 01:24:42,282 --> 01:24:43,783 That's when you ask yourself, 1823 01:24:43,817 --> 01:24:48,621 "How do I serve this thing called life?" 1824 01:24:49,422 --> 01:24:52,325 (band playing "Piece by Piece") 1825 01:24:52,392 --> 01:24:55,562 ♪ And when it pays off, pays off ♪ 1826 01:24:56,796 --> 01:24:59,599 ♪ It feels so good inside ♪ 1827 01:24:59,632 --> 01:25:03,136 ♪ Screaming, "I told you, I told you" ♪ 1828 01:25:03,169 --> 01:25:06,940 ♪ Ain't happen any other way but mine ♪ 1829 01:25:06,973 --> 01:25:09,442 ♪ Never took days off, days off ♪ 1830 01:25:10,443 --> 01:25:13,780 ♪ If they hated, now they want to die ♪ 1831 01:25:13,813 --> 01:25:16,349 ♪ Finding that brick and where it goes to ♪ 1832 01:25:16,416 --> 01:25:19,352 ♪ So we keep stacking high, high, high ♪ 1833 01:25:19,419 --> 01:25:21,187 ♪ Piece by piece ♪ 1834 01:25:21,254 --> 01:25:24,791 ♪ Piece by piece, piece by piece ♪ 1835 01:25:24,824 --> 01:25:26,426 ♪ Piece by piece ♪ 1836 01:25:26,459 --> 01:25:29,963 ♪ Piece by piece, piece by piece ♪ 1837 01:25:29,996 --> 01:25:31,965 ♪ Piece by piece ♪ 1838 01:25:31,998 --> 01:25:34,267 - ♪ Piece by piece. ♪ - (song ends) 1839 01:25:36,200 --> 01:25:37,437 Dad, is that it? 1840 01:25:38,171 --> 01:25:40,306 - I think we're done. - What? 1841 01:25:40,340 --> 01:25:43,643 ("For Real" by Pharrell Williams playing) 1842 01:25:56,723 --> 01:25:59,225 Whew. What a legendary story, yeah? 1843 01:25:59,292 --> 01:26:00,894 Holy moly guacamole. 1844 01:26:00,960 --> 01:26:03,129 I'm extremely proud to be a part of this movie 1845 01:26:03,163 --> 01:26:04,531 slash whatever this is. 1846 01:26:04,564 --> 01:26:08,340 Um, like I said, this bakery shop is awesome. 1847 01:26:08,680 --> 01:26:09,469 (laughing) 1848 01:26:10,637 --> 01:26:14,400 ♪ I've been staring at this certain star ♪ 1849 01:26:14,740 --> 01:26:17,410 ♪ Concentrating, like, every night ♪ 1850 01:26:17,477 --> 01:26:20,847 ♪ All alone and the lights are off ♪ 1851 01:26:20,880 --> 01:26:24,351 ♪ Wish that I could do whatever I like ♪ 1852 01:26:24,384 --> 01:26:27,554 ♪ I been wishing to the universe ♪ 1853 01:26:27,587 --> 01:26:31,191 ♪ 'Cause to be real, I'd be better off ♪ 1854 01:26:31,224 --> 01:26:34,361 ♪ Wanna know what I'm waiting for ♪ 1855 01:26:34,394 --> 01:26:36,730 ♪ Some kind of sign like a meteorite ♪ 1856 01:26:36,763 --> 01:26:40,660 ♪ Something to happen, some kind of magic ♪ 1857 01:26:40,100 --> 01:26:43,436 ♪ To make me for real ♪ 1858 01:26:43,503 --> 01:26:45,171 ♪ I wanna experience ♪ 1859 01:26:45,205 --> 01:26:47,400 ♪ I want some control ♪ 1860 01:26:47,730 --> 01:26:50,377 ♪ I just wanna feel ♪ 1861 01:26:51,745 --> 01:26:55,382 ♪ Anything that has no soul ♪ 1862 01:26:55,415 --> 01:26:58,251 ♪ Is guaranteed to fall ♪ 1863 01:26:58,284 --> 01:26:59,886 ♪ So once it happens ♪ 1864 01:26:59,919 --> 01:27:01,888 ♪ You will know ♪ 1865 01:27:01,921 --> 01:27:06,426 ♪ 'Cause you hear God's voice inside... ♪ 1866 01:27:10,430 --> 01:27:12,232 ♪ I wanna open my eyes ♪ 1867 01:27:12,265 --> 01:27:15,435 ♪ And know that it's okay ♪ 1868 01:27:17,237 --> 01:27:18,638 ♪ I'm awake ♪ 1869 01:27:19,939 --> 01:27:23,276 ♪ My dream has come true ♪ 1870 01:27:24,244 --> 01:27:26,790 ♪ And I would do it for free ♪ 1871 01:27:26,112 --> 01:27:29,616 ♪ If that is what it takes ♪