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Ladies and Gentlemen, I would like to invite you to our recital.
A recital of old, tired, grey-haired rappers...
...from Molesta Evenement.
Let's go back in time to Ursynów...
...in '96.
A couple of kids
sitting around on benches. In hoodies
That's how it all began.
I remember one day I was standing at a bus stop
and a policeman came up to me and asked "What are you doing here?"
And I said:
"I'm waiting for a bus, idiot"
This is my latest single.
I recorded it yesterday.
I knew it would be like this
when I heard hip-hop for the first time. I wanted to be an MC.
I wrote, listened, listened and wrote
I did my thing and didn't imitate
but there are things I didn't expect
That our songs would shake things up so much
That people are still asking about our album
They wanted it, they finally have it.
How they judge it is up to them
I'm just doing my part.
Vienio also believes that.
Yo, yo, don't shut the door today mom
Cause I'm gonna be out late with the boys
Back home in a while and quickly to the subway
Pissed off because I was waiting at the post office
The bell's ringing at Krępol's house but there's no one downstairs
The crew's gonna meet at school at 8 o'clock
We've been in the same shit for several years
What are you drinking? Yo!
A FILM BY BARTOSZ PADUCH
This band doesn't exist anymore.
I don't think about the past at all.
For me it's an illusion, it doesn't exist.
It's gone, bye bye, you can only look forward.
You can't ever go back to it.
SCANDAL
Molesta '95/'96
Finally it's our turn.
'97, we're here, it's our album.
They always ask us who we really are.
Do you wanna know?
We're just pissed off kids.
And that's how it's gonna be.
This is for the real people, we're not looking for listeners.
Do you understand that kid? These are true words.
Remember this.
Wouldn't you want to play a show with them here someday?
No, I would prefer to play solo, you know.
Something's coming.
It's number 6.
Molesta used to travel around by this kind of bus.
I used to live around here.
Włodi took the “6” to get here to Ursynów
or I would go to Służewiec to school.
Because we grew up in the 1980s,
when collecting cans or cigarette packs was something important,
it really messed us up.
We were fucking wrecked by that system.
We were excited about all the new colourful things appearing in stores, you know.
In '95-'96 they laid telephone lines in Ursynów so finally everyone had a phone.
And I remember that my mother told me
"We've been waiting for 12 years”.
But then, over the course of 2 to 3 years, huge numbers of billboards appeared.
A free market, new things appearing every day.
People started earning money quickly.
The currency changed then.
People would talk about that for the next few years.
1 million new zlotys,
1 million old zlotys.
I used to get off here at the bus stop to school.
On the other side, we crossed the street
and our school, number 191, was there.
Vienio and I attended the same school,
we used to pass each other in the hallway.
He was a punk.
He had a fucking chain around his neck and a padlock and mohawk.
Now that's an awesome freak.
Włodi was a grindcore fan at that time, a grade higher than me.
My favourite band was Napalm Death. The album "Scum".
It was such a milestone for me in music.
More melodic, hardcore bands like Agnostic Front, DRI.
Well, at school I was like that,
he was like that and his friend was like that.
We were three freaks and the rest were all normal kids.
Sneakers, hair full of gel, everything sleek.
Normal people basically!
We were the opposition in terms of style, a subculture.
Earlier, I had my band.
Włodi had his own grindcore band.
We listened to similar music.
We both wanted to make music.
It came out naturally that we did it together.
From grindcore and punk rock to skateboarding.
This is how I met Włodi, we used to skate together.
- On a board. AT THE CAPITOL THEATRE, '95
As you can see, everything has been destroyed
and covered with concrete boxes,
there are stoppers so that no one can jump.
This was the centre of Warsaw for me in '95.
You would start skateboarding,
here you could jump...
And there were some small competitions organised,
usually there were about 30 people here.
There was a skateboarding video series called 411,
it showcased skateboarders doing tricks.
At the beginning it
was punk rock and hardcore bands.
But hip-hop began to take over. More and more skaters would listen to it.
Hence our interest.
Damn, this is something new, man.
New rhythms, you know, we couldn't afford drums, guitars, all that...
to play, have rehearsals, it cost a lot!
And suddenly hip-hop appeared like a light in the tunnel - Allelujah! Tadaaaaa!
I remember there was a show called "Yo! MTV Raps" on Sunday at twelve.
We would all meet, the whole group,
and write down the names of songs that appeared.
Everything on the show was awesome!
Throughout the '90s I was a journalist.
In my free time I was hosting a radio show
JOURNALIST / CULTURAL PROMOTER - which was broadcast by Radio Kolor
and it was called “Colour Shock”.
Let me be blunt, it's a blunt game, Warsaw is not shallow,
you are thin as a thread, don't fuck around,
The Warsaw rhyming style.
Let me be blunt, it's a blunt game, Warsaw is not shallow,
you are thin as a thread
The '90s were a time when everyone was excited about having a choice.
The choice was obviously very illusory
because of various limitations like the economic situation.
Workplaces were being shut down, many people lost their jobs overnight.
It strongly affected the reality in which this young generation was growing up.
They were children of people who were professionally active at that time
and it was this generation that became interested in hip-hop.
THE YARD AT HOŻA STREET ŚRÓDMIEŚCIE POŁUDNIOWE
What do you want from us? Are we harming anyone?!
If there is a complaint then we need to check.
Let's fight and we'll see who you really are, fucking prick.
Damn motherfucker.
And that was really interesting, how this would be adapted to Poland.
Hey yo Lech Walesa, what have you done? You made our life so difficult
Capitalism is a system that rips out your guts if you're poor.
We had just finished skateboarding, we were sweaty, we brought our boards to the show.
30 APRIL '95 - This hip-hop music starts to play,
it was the Ya-Pa 3 concert at Remont.
And we're standing there like idiots...
these guys weren't from Warsaw, you know, they were already touring here,
they had their audience, and we are standing with skateboards like idiots.
The first time we heard it, I knew that this was something we could do.
We went home. We decided to pull up our sleeves.
I wanted beats. But we didn't have any. So what did we do? We started looking for them.
Kaczy's brother had a sampler – a tiny cube in which
you could loop four bars of drums and a sample.
Ok, leave it alone.
I used to go to Ursynów to see the guys.
With the help of my brother Konrad
we started making samples there, he helped us with it.
And we started writing rhymes. We started rapping.
When I hear a great band playing, not only do I admire them,
but I also want to be like them!
That's it.
'96 Molesta,
So late, eh, you know so little,
You'll never understand the whole world,
You have to choose your path, abandon it and then come back,
Develop yourself, take this chance,
Feel that you're really alive.
'96/'97 was the main meeting place here, the centre of the universe.
Everyone came, DJ Volt's parties were held here.
I remember the time when we debuted here.
We would go in and wait with Włodi until the party got started.
We hid in that place, where Volt kept the records.
We were so embarrassed, we didn't know how it would be received.
We started rapping our first song over there.
Mistic Molesta
Unfortunately only one half Because I smoked a ton today
And I've got a very heavy head today
I don't know what to do in a country like this
Where money and weed is like oxygen.
And a great life can only be a dream
I don't set the dogs on anyone, I rhyme Molesta is producing new material
Maybe someone will test it because I feel good after
A strong dose of THC
It doesn't bother me even though I have asthma.
And I start every day with a joint I'm not like that dirty bum
Who extorts money from people on the street,
For a fix he would give you a blowjob
He feels no shame, he wears a mask So control yourself man.
All in all, we were shocked and pale when we left.
But people were like
"This is your first track? Awesome man!"
I think this was the first sign that it could be done. It could be done in Polish.
The possibilities in Polish hip-hop at the beginning were very modest.
It wasn't until those who were forming this hip-hop scene also took over the mixers.
Not at parties, but by writing these songs.
They could finally create a new sound.
Damn...
Awesome, I had no idea that there would be so many cool things.
You hosted a radio show and had 40 hip-hop albums. I had 30.
No, I had 10 and you had 20.
Ok. I decided to bring my 20 so that we could have 30 together,
so that there would be more songs to play.
That's how we met.
You know, that was the absolute beginning,
I had no concept of how to become a musician.
I wanted to produce music
because I wanted to listen to some things that were in my head.
Now Volt is presenting Now Volt is presenting
V.O.L.T.
Now Volt is presenting
V.O.L.T.
Now Volt is presenting
V.O.L.T.
Now Volt is presenting
V.O.L.T.
I met them for the first time at parties at which I used to play in Club Hybrydy.
I played music and they would pick up the mics and start rapping.
Vienio and Włodi - two "high aces".
THE YARD AT HOŻA STREET, '95-'96
One for Molesta and one for Klima
what's happening in Warsaw
Here's how it is!
The fucking police fucks with everyone! With us!
And what do you get from that, fucking cop?!
Fuck off from the skateboarders focus on the guys in plastic bags!
- So piss off loser! - Fucking shorty! Yeah!
Fuck off from Śródmieście, from everyone!
And now me! I am from Ursynów
shout out to everyone. Shout out to Downtown
shout out to Grochów shout out to everyone.
I'm not snorting, fuck amphetamine fuck cocaine, fuck everyone
I finished kindergarten and I finished school
and now I'm free! Amazing days! Check us out! Cheers Volt
shoutout to everyone, a great revolt.
They simply had the same style
because they spent time together and influenced each other.
They stuck together.
They lived in the same place, in the same neighbourhood.
Volt organised this “fan club”
so you could come and meet hip-hop fans from all over Warsaw.
And that's where we met and became friends, there was Włodi,
Wilku and Pelson, they had a band called the “Funky Joint Squad”.
The 11th Commandment is our message Funky Joint Squad is washing your brains.
Hey,
Here is a young amateur fisherman's guide,
Here we've got our worms and in a moment I will perform a so-called forehand cast.
What's inside you is important:
honour, dignity, ambition keeping promises.
My brother from Mokotów is here. Man, listen to him now.
Maybe he'll give you some advice
Our guys were here.
MOKOTÓW RULES
My family home.
Eight people lived in this apartment. 26 square metres.
The toilet was downstairs in the basement.
There's still no gas here, no hot water.
My mother was born in this house in 1950.
Some guys in hoodies are approaching They're not monks
They're bad and bald It's Klima, kapish?
Never say no way man That we share the same tattoos
We are your nightmares A couple of guys unified mystically
On the skin alphabetically Europe speaking geographically
We seal our honour with blood With music, molested technique...
We used to spend a lot of time here.
It's all ours, these things are 20 years old.
Proceder will always be a part of Klima
We know who's side to be on
Who to stick with and who to beat up.
So you better watch out if you're standing in a dark alley
If you're not alright you'll get wrecked.
Here Centrum and Grochów enter The Infamous Proceder - Chada and Kacza
No amateurs here, everyone's a pro A message only for the real people
We're not looking for listeners
A person's roots were always important, where you come from.
If nobody knew you, you couldn't go through this neighbourhood unnoticed.
You would have problems right away.
Here's my street, Wilcza.
The district police headquarters, Wilcza 21.
I was severely persecuted by the cops.
Fuck them, to the grave.
Now: Chada, Sza, KCHP and Vienio
These are the guys from Klima.
If you know something then keep your mouth shut
And don't use this word at all let our speech be foreign to you.
Shoutout to the guys from Mokotów
And let's not forget about my brothers from Ursynów
Klima – you don't know what we're talkin' about
so what's your problem You're messing with Klima.
Klima? It was our group, that was the name.
A few guys. Sort of a gang, we were connected by everything then, life.
We were connected by life above all.
We were aware of the bullshit surrounding us.
You just had to try and survive somehow.
To not get put down.
You can call it rebellion, or you can call it street smarts.
And this is my building at Sosnowskiego 3 Street.
I kept all my vinyl collections in this room.
From the beginning, since '96, those vinyls just kept coming in.
There were no phones yet; So you know...
"Vienio, come on, let's go to school".
I only finished primary school.
I didn't finish any other school.
I never intended to finish it.
School will teach you some habits.
Knowledge, some classifications,
regularity, maybe how to be responsible.
These are all the things that drove me away from it.
I noticed the inconsistencies and the bullshit.
I noticed that this knowledge does not apply at all,
it's not useful in life.
I may be wrong,
but it's probably best to acquire knowledge when you really want to.
Production board of Włodi.
The two most important things in my life in those times, in one photo.
A small seedling and an MPC 2000.
Because I didn't have my own room, I listened to music on my headphones,
so it was the first one I bought.
I slept here, and my brother slept here.
And in the middle there was a table with a beat-machine.
I'd open my eyes and it was right in front of me.
I'd get up and get to work. Awesome.
Firstly, not for fame Secondly, not for money
You can rap well even when living in poverty
Klima, Włodi hangs with them Whether it's smoking or fights
Everyone asks why I curse
All this shit of everyday life
Working from morning to night and what do you get
Time for what really matters
Lay your cards out on the table
Be loyal, be honourable
Be good to your friends
Fuck everything and stay in the shadows
Don't feel better than others
and everyone will want to shake your hand
I will never hear: You're on your own
I know what it's like to be poor I had cockroaches at home.
In my eyes you'll never see remorse.
My mother worked two shifts.
Almost every Saturday, day after day.
So every day I saw someone who was exhausted.
Who worked to provide for her children so they had something to eat.
And I didn't have to experience it myself to know that I didn't want that.
I have great respect for people who may not be suffering but they work this way.
They make sacrifices and sometimes I have nothing to
talk to them about because I am ashamed to say what I do.
That I smoke weed and write songs?
And how hard it is for me? I'm not having a hard time, it's amazing.
What's up! Go to your class!
Or else you'll have to become rappers.
Molesta and Klima are not only lyrical
A relationship of soulmates real like dust on the analog
Listen to it and use your head, you'll be shocked
That we all live in blocks Since we were born
We don't know the comforts of villas
Our passion is hardcore...
We did not give in to that grey life. We just...
Whether it was summer or winter,
we would come to see our friends, other rappers.
There were turntables there, we put a huge speaker over there.
We got electricity from the caretaker, our friends from all over Warsaw came.
Jaźwa came and said he was attacked by some guys.
We immediately decided to help him.
20 people jaywalking, just like we're doing now.
The policeman stopped by the entrance to the parking lot. He left his car.
He looked in our direction.
And he decided to stop us.
Two policemen in a police car, and 20 people are walking here.
The guy ran out of the car. He reloaded his gun and started firing.
We're high and we're looking at him like he's fucked up.
We came here, everyone threw away their sticks. Under the cars.
He drives up
and tells everyone to get down on the ground. "On the fucking ground!"
If someone didn't want to lie down,
he would trip him, turn him over. He was aggressive.
One, two, four, five police cars pull up. More and more policemen.
They handcuffed us all here.
And drove us to the police station at Janowskiego Street.
The police station at Janowskiego Street, 28th September.
Everyone who left the patrol car was beaten up.
Then I got hit in my back, I fell to my knees,
and that asshole asked,
"What? Does your back hurt at such a young age? Get up!”
“What did you hit me for?”
“For your desire to live”
After this beating, I was so confused that I didn't even know which way to go.
I went right and found a bus.
I wrote some lyrics right away.
Pure hatred spilled on paper in 15 minutes after what had happened.
Ursynów, Warsaw this is where it happened
An autumn evening, the cold wind is blowing Sticks in our hands
I'm with the whole group We're going to beat up some guys
Through the neighbourhood and streets I salute my crew
Then the police stop us on the road
Nothing I can do even if I really wanted to
A shot is fired – pow! pow! pow!
A cop with a gun in his hand
He wants me to be scared
I do not feel fear and I'm not afraid
With my hands on my head and face in the sand.
I feel pride, fuck them all
Society to which I am a threat
I am a hooligan and I will not change
My people know me well
I'm standing handcuffed with my friend
Everyone's getting ready to get beaten up, but no one breaks
That's what my mother taught me
your face ain't made from glass it won't break.
I clench my teeth because I know it's true
That the police will always be around.
Man, everyone was waiting for these words. Molesta was raw.
We didn't use words that were artistic, subtle.
Who the fuck needs that?!
Listen to Grechuta. Rap is rap.
I didn't like the fact that in the '90s the label
or specific people had a monopoly on what you could and couldn't do.
If you didn't have the opportunity to enter the studio,
you could never show your music anywhere.
Now the young are picking up microphones.
What could you do? Print it out,
stand in the street market and fucking sell your CDs?
I don't hide my lyrics in the drawer so much anymore
They're doing something working on themselves
I feel there's something new in the air
I wanted to open up my own business,
CO-FOUNDER OF B.E.A.T. RECORDS - What business?
CO-FOUNDER OF B.E.A.T. RECORDS - We came up with the idea
to release Polish hip-hop music.
I met Volt and I said listen: Why don't we create a record label or release it?
I rub my hands with joy
V.O.L.T will always support you.
There were more people who wanted to rap
than those who made beats or knew how to make them.
So I had the freedom of choice.
It was an aesthetic choice, it wasn't calculated.
We didn't know whether it would sell or not, it didn't matter.
We didn't have even a penny to invest in this project.
Apart from the fact that we didn't have money, we didn't know how to do it.
So Sebastian (DJ 600 V), Wicik and me, we went to see Hirek Wrona.
The foreign music video of the year award goes to the Pet Shop Boys for the song "Go West".
MUSIC JOURNALIST - They were very distrustful of me.
Very distrustful.
They even asked Volt what's this guy doing here?
Volt said: I know that there are some turbulences in Molesta,
but I would support them.
And I said: Great, I'll help them.
And he took us to Pomaton EMI, to a major record label.
I felt it could be a breakthrough for the whole scene.
On the other hand, how do I get into that environment?
ARTISTIC DIRECTOR AT POMATON EMI
We were from the group of major record companies:
Warner, Sony, EMI.
In Poland they were seen as uncool corporations
among these young rebellious performers.
From my perspective it was simply authentic.
It represented the spirit of that time in some sense.
You know, such an authentic, true spirit.
I remember that meeting to this today, it was groundbreaking.
Thank you guys, elo!
When 10 hooded guys entered the company, it caused a thrill, some anxiety.
We had never seen something like that in our company.
They walked with their head and arms, and only at the end with their feet.
It was hard to distinguish one from the other.
They didn't actually have names, just nicknames.
In sweatshirts, I don't know when they were last washed.
They were surprised when we asked if they'd like some coffee or tea.
Perhaps no one had offered them coffee or tea before.
What institutions could they have gone to
where they would have been asked “coffee or tea?”
It was hard to imagine that it would be possible to get music out of these guys.
Music that could be recorded and sold. Who would buy it? What's going on?
Speaking of real hip-hop... this is real hip-hop.
And then people will have the opportunity to hear real hip-hop.
I will tell now about something old as the world
Although I'm only twenty-one years old
I have a lot to say about respect
I represent Molesta's dreams
Respect – a form of enriching the mind
People respect money
Probably because it's so difficult to earn
That's enough about that
If you're real, you demand respect
You insulted him, he's ready to fight
So he talks and talks, swears and swears
Doesn't look for an explanation
Appearances are often misleading
Humble people bow their heads
It's a shame you can't explain it to all the idiots
That respect is the key to understanding
I learn about it more every day
If you want to demand something
Firstly, you have to give it yourself
The guys asked for a contract.
It was crazy.
I had to deal with boys who didn't know what terms like “gross” and “net” mean.
They were only interested in cash.
What taxes? What's gross? What tax office? Wait.
Which loser has a problem?
Look for a solution
When I look into your eyes I see the same thing
You proudly show me high losers
Scams are in your blood
Nowadays it doesn't surprise anyone
When your friend is being molested by someone, do something
Your neighbour is being harassed, do something
Always keep your promises
Then you'll never be alone
Stop, stop, always pay your debts
Then you'll always be first never second,
Nobody likes to live in poverty
Everyone works hard for money
Have you done someone a favour for free?
If not, your future is dim
You won't do more than you can do
You can't beat someone who's better than you
They listened, asked, learned. We signed the contract.
It seemed like it was happening too fast. I didn't feel it, you know,
besides, I was a street child, I didn't want to get attached.
I didn't know if I would be out of prison in a year or two.
Will something happen to me? Why should I sign anything?
I didn't need it at that time and I didn't sign it.
And as it turned out, I did the right thing.
Damn, I have a job for 7 years. I just remember that thought.
Some guys didn't have contracts yet
and didn't know what they were going to do.
They didn't have bands.
And we had a contract, so we were becoming professional.
We wouldn't be recording for ourselves,
but in a studio and the album would appear on the market.
And this would result in playing concerts and being in a band.
Not bad.
The band adopted the name Molesta Evenement.
And I was waiting for the master tape.
So we started writing.
- Hi! Hey, damn, you're thin... - Long time no see. What short hair!
Your old toys…
Yeah. This is the key device, it's down here.
Most of my first albums and Molesta's albums, certainly "Scandal",
were created on something like this. This is a sampler, a 12-bit Akai sampler,
S-900, I had to save up a lot for this equipment.
I took a loan to get this one! At that time, it was impossible
to save audio in large quantities on the computer and play it.
I had an Akai NG 14 D analog tape recorder, you probably don't remember
- that it was recorded on analog. - No, no, oh, damn it was analog.
You know, vintage.
SOUND / RECORDING ENGINEER - There was rock, metal,
classical music, everything apart from hip-hop.
SOUND ENGINEER / MASTERING - They brought CDs so I could listen to it,
what it's all about, that it's different from rock-pop.
We were the first to record such music. They had no clue about it.
A guy comes in and records just the vocals,
and played the music from a tape recorder.
They said things like “increase the volume” or “make the snare drum louder”.
Or “turn the vocals down”, and I tried to explain to them
that they would have to bring these tracks.
So they said they would go and get the tracks.
They would take off their headphones and run to listen,
discuss it, run there and back again.
Everyone was so interested, but kind of like children in the fog.
They treated us like some fucking idiots.
What is that? Music? The same four bars were repeated over and over again.
And they seemed abandoned,
that the world around them doesn't want them.
I had the impression that they might be orphans or something.
We were travelling by suburban train to the studio.
To go to Komorów. Why not a studio in downtown Warsaw?
It wasn't New York, everything was still grey. Ursynów-Polish-rural. Damn.
That's why it pissed me off a bit.
We didn't realise how serious the situation was.
There were a lot of people
because it coincided with the birthday of one of our friends.
We were going to record, so everyone came along.
Tede, I invite you to my world. You can come here if you have a joint
The date's not important I smoke every day
I'm somewhere else, THC is in me
Green power, ultra-nice
Always something and I'll always have an excuse
There was a strong group there, they partied hard.
RAPPER: - But we wrote this song on the train,
and it was finished in the studio.
But because the guys were still recording there,
it took them a while to finish it.
That's how we appeared on this album.
Chada was there, and Kaczy.
Everyone had their own notebooks,
because that's where you would write your lyrics then.
It was practically freestyling.
Wilku was there.
We were putting in 1000 percent of our energy.
And Numer Raz.
RAPPER: - They were chavs, we were afraid of them.
Well, maybe I'm kidding a little now.
I respect my buddies and I get respect
Włodi, Kaczy, Vienio and Klima many others too
Shoutout to Ursynów and shoutout to Śródmieście
Shoutout to Służew and to Mokotów
It was the worst that I once thought that you can't make a good beat in Poland.
How they do it that they rap so cool and the beats just flow? And we tried.
But the hi-hat was wrong, the bass drum was wrong.
Volt was already experienced and he had this awesome machine.
Try pressing something.
Ok.
It looks like nothing's really coming out of that.
I recognise this bridge.
We would go down to the basement. Yes, it was here.
It's here, the backyard over there.
And this room had windows like that, covered with something.
I remember there were 16 tracks on the album.
So we recorded 9 songs one day and 9 songs the next day.
Well no, that's 18, but there was also an intro and outro,
and I had to do some scratching. It was difficult for me.
You know, we made mistakes. We wanted to make corrections, get a better flow.
Everyone wanted to be on the track.
We were inside the studio 24 hours.
We recorded the album in two 12-hour long sessions.
The samples are working now.
We got it.
Sounds a bit like Molesta.
We couldn't look at that notebook any longer.
Our notebooks were completely filled with lyrics.
I knew that's how it's going to be
We always end up at the police station for nothing
They beat us up and feel proud
Let me start from the beginning
Everything is true I have to be fair
Here, it was across the street. We definitely crossed over here.
We knew that these words were recorded. That nothing could undo this.
We poured gasoline and set them on fire.
I kind of regret that I burned that notebook.
But then again, what the fuck did I need it for anyways?
Klima and I locked up in the police car Faster than you could tell
They're taking us to the police station
An ass kicking guaranteed no need to provoke
Stand in one line
They released everyone we were all innocent
A few beatings for being different from society
For living and for being everywhere
I knew it would be like this
That's all I remember, I would have to improvise the rest.
I knew it would be like this. I knew it, I knew it
I knew it would be like this
I knew it, I knew it
I knew it would be like this When I heard hip-hop for the first time
I wanted to be an MC, I listened and wrote, I wrote and listened
I did my thing and didn't imitate
But there are things I didn't expect
That our songs would shake things up so much
That people still ask about our album
They wanted it, they finally have it
How they judge it is up to them
I'm just doing my part Vienio also believes in it
We could feel that people liked it.
But we didn't get cocky. We didn't feel like stars.
We were still walking around in old shoes.
We still had only two zlotys for grilled cheese baguettes.
And we were still getting fucking exploited by our record company. It wasn't so fun.
Don't close the door today
Cause I'm gonna be out late with the boys
Back home in a while and quickly to the subway
Pissed off because I waited at the post office
The bell's ringing at Krępol's house, but there's no one downstairs
The crew is going to meet at school at 8 o'clock
We've been in the same shit for several years
What are you drinking? Vodka? Beer? Cola?
They came back with the master tape.
In terms of my previous work,
if I had to compare it according to the same scale,
then I wouldn't call it a master tape at all.
Shock! Shock! Only fifteen minutes are left
If I don't come back on time there will be trouble
Everyone will go somewhere and me - kaput, kaput, kaput
The bus isn't arriving, it's late...
But this is hip-hop. This is the master tape. Here we have the first CD.
I would have never thought that it would be one of the most important ones.
And one of the most groundbreaking in Polish hip-hop.
RAPPER: - They're going somewhere, suddenly the police appear.
They're beaten up, there's a police siren sound effect in the background.
One of them pretends to be a police officer using a walkie-talkie.
It was such a vivid image, nothing like anything else before in Polish rap.
RAPPER: - It was a total revolution. Everyone was listening to Scandal.
RAPPER: - I listened to it over and over and over again.
I didn't turn it off at all.
RAPPER: - It was an explosion, something different,
it was the fuckin' appearance of the rap pope.
An awesome album, it's the only Polish album I've listened to so many times.
I was listening to it on my Walkman
and if I played it now, I would rap to the whole album.
And to this day, if somebody woke me up and mentioned
"What's in the neighbourhood", I would get up and just rap the verses.
Because, as I have said before, this is like the Bible for me.
RAPPER: - It blew everyone's minds,
it really opened a new era in Polish show business.
I was the beginning of the Warsaw rap scene,
of the Polish rap scene.
Real hip-hop, powerful, Polish.
And they started a new era.
The queue was up till here. This is where we smoked.
- Volt, are you going home? - Yeah
- Lend me a phone card, please. - Ok.
And here was the memorable concert by Molesta.
The first one promoting the album "Scandal".
The premiere took place here, come on in.
Everyone is waiting for a beating
- but they don't break, 20 MARCH '98
That's what my mother taught me
your face ain't made from glass, it won't break
I clench my teeth because I know it's true
That the police will always be around
You're wrong if you think otherwise
A truncheon's a truncheon
Of course I was there. I even performed there.
When Molesta was playing a show, everyone went.
They had just released their official album in Warsaw.
At concerts in those times, there used to be 300 homies on the stage.
No one knew who was rapping there.
My guys and my hood around me
Society talkin' about the arrest
We're thrown in the back seat
I know we won't be back happy
Everyone. All those groups from which many artists developed.
They were with us, so it was one big family. It was beautiful.
That's life
Who's that partying 24 hours a day
In the rain, in the worst weather
The most drunk have the most fun ZN always high
When you're high, time flows slower
The whole booth is filled with smoke
You need to smoke because you'll miss the best
Hey guys wait for me for a moment
I called for the dope but no one answered
The strongest Warka will hit us today.
Do you remember Robson's and Mark's birthday Pele?
Now that was drinking money or no money
That's just life, will you help me out?
Livin' without cash ain't for me no more
Let's drink some vodka and start a brawl
Now crush a can with your left foot
For the health of those who can't drink today
In a moment we're off to the 24-hour liquor store
The weak stay at home and get fat
That's life, kid that's life, That's life
That's life
That's life, elo!
That's life
Koniu, what do you think about the show? Beautiful.
But we didn't think that it was a "milestone".
And that we're the fucking best.
No, no. We just put the album out on the market.
I didn't have a clue how many copies we would sell.
B.E.A.T. RECORDS: - Yes, I was interested,
but the sales really went up after a year or 6 months.
More than a year has passed since the release of the first album, right?
What's changed during this time?
Nothing has changed really.
We're recording songs all the time and living the same way.
We're doing what we've always been doing, we haven't changed.
We're making music, but we'll be talking about new things.
We don't want to do the same thing again, that's what it's about.
The topics are new, these are not rhymes about rhymes.
We will never write rhymes about rhymes, everything has to have a message.
Pure breath A new sound
The Warsaw underground.
City music It's for you kid
The city needs it
Just like you An honest message
This is everyday life City music, a phenomenon – unity
City music is the city's breath
Not available to everyone like the highest caste
B.E.A.T. RECORDS: - Our relationship was hard,
it's difficult to control twenty 17- or 18-year-olds
who come to a meeting.
There was fame and it was big.
But there was no money.
There was no second music video there, no vinyl record, no this and that.
No more singles.
Pomaton suddenly told us that they wouldn't give us money for that.
I was aware that I had to really loosen my standards.
And they had to learn that there are certain standards here.
We were sitting on the bench with Wicik and waiting for them,
I don't remember what we wanted to talk about.
And they came, around 10 or 15 of them.
And there's pressure, they're swearing.
A dozen or so guys.
Most people who start promoting Polish hip-hop don't have the slightest idea how to do it.
They usually promote rock bands or something else.
You have to have a different approach to people,
It's music for young people,
A specific group of young people.
In '00 I was contacted by some guys from TV
MUSIC JOURNALIST
who said that there is a need to expand into more ambitious areas,
and that there will be an open-air stage at the festival in Opole.
And of course “Ich Troje” would be performing,
as well as "Maryla",
and we got the open-air stage.
HIP-HOP OPOLE CONCER, '01
Polish Hip-Hop Opole.
They thought we'd fucking rap somewhere in the park.
And I got on the stage that morning
as 20,000 people were walking from the train station.
And these people came from all these different cities and towns,
and what were they doing? They were rapping about their cities,
about the records they listened to.
It was a moment when this rebellion was documented.
The world was changing, the times were changing.
It'll be ok kid
Elo, it'll be ok kid
Are you ready?
It is how it is
Molesta was the first band I chose for Hip-Hop Opole.
MUSIC JOURNALIST: - I could not imagine this concert without them.
It was also a fantastic period in their career.
They performed in a group of four.
Vienio, Pelson, Włodi, and Wilku.
Vienio had a broken leg or something.
But it was a really fantastic performance.
Our records in our hands Not gold or platinum
Polish hardcore productions
Talented kids, we must believe in them
Their pure breath of life Why wouldn't your dreams come true?
Don't be afraid to make difficult decisions
This indecision creates a collision
So fuck the obstacles Everything's gonna go its course
It'll be alright is our slogan
Show humility, never to others Only to yourself
Principles given Life created by the clever
Recognise their plans take a deep breath
Look ahead, keep your hands steady
It's an age-old dream from the hood
About a family a woman, your own account
Minimum wage is trivial for some
What we want how we think and how we live
A normal life, no negativity
I saw how people were reacting at the shows.
Something was happening. I didn't expect all that.
And that it would happen so fast.
As much as the average person
The beginning of the end of the 21st century
It'll be ok, kid, elo! Keep your head up
It'll be ok kid, It'll be ok
I carry a new message The mic is a tool
Man, it'll be fine
This music began to have its place in music stores,
and suddenly shelves with hip-hop music appeared.
JOURNALIST / CULTURAL PROMOTER: - You could hear hip-hop from cars
and on the streets.
A police car was driving by
and you could hear that they were listening to hip-hop in the car.
It was really working, it finally happened.
Suddenly there were not 5 artists in each district, but 500.
Everyone now had microphones, computers and wanted to express themselves.
I also saw my old friends releasing albums. They became big stars.
They achieved what they dreamed of as teenagers.
It was great.
French hip-hop, Dutch weed Polish brunettes, blonde,
Not exotic drinks And not Colombian breath
but a cold beer
In the quantity of one hundred and twenty-three, Briefly, Peter
Let our friendship never die
Ok, what are we going to do? We're meeting at the cinema
We'll settle the matter We'll make a few calls
Dude, check your phone
Position number five is Gośka - quick hands
Next, number six: Kaśka, slightly chubby
But she has the best lips
People have different tastes
Call the beautiful Veronica
"Hey, hey, how are you? Are you free today?
You won't leave us like that, will you?
I'll be at nine, it'll be beautiful.
I'll take my friends and everything we need"
All the best
Fucking America!
It's huge!
I saw a beautiful mmm. I tried to pick her up
"Elo! How's it going? She said: "Awesome"
THE FIRST TOUR IN THE USA, '02 - Marijuana heals sick minds
Drugs - no under no circumstances
I take weed, crumble and roll it
You still don't know how to? Then watch how it's done
They say "stop smoking!" and we smoke more and more
Whatever it is, it's still not enough
Get the hell out, only natural pot
I wanna have a whole greenhouse with my friends
We don't need losers I'll sniff out any weed
A joint, a beer, pussy and all that's the best
Evenement - smoke in the form of sound I have no fear, paranoia or phobia
Everyone is different but we all agree on one thing
Hungry for weed, so don't tell me it's bad, please
I'll add my three cents I'm talkin' about the ancient times
Like them then, I'm smokin' ganja
Thousands of years a green flower in many cultures
What's the big deal?
Success can be dangerous. It can ruin everything.
Listen, when money starts coming in, problems also start appearing.
Arguments and stuff like that.
The cost of producing one CD is 1 PLN.
And the album costs, hypothetically, 10 PLN.
Well, somewhere from each CD there's 9 PLN.
Don't you think that you ought to get some of these 9 PLN,
or should it go to the guy who arranged it?
And you're excited about it.
I'm an idealist, and I understand that business is business.
But we should share the success equally. Well, maybe not exactly equally,
but at least in part.
They get a young band with huge potential, who do all the work.
But they're the ones building houses. And the band gets money for fast food.
After you free yourself from this contract,
you finally get control of the situation.
After 2006, we were an independent band.
We only signed a distribution contract.
We could make more money.
50% of the cost?
No, 100% now.
100% of our earnings now.
In your contract you had 50% of deductible income?
- Or 20%? - I'm sure it was 20%.
But it's not tax, it's for our benefit.
- So what's better? - And so then you have just a 10% tax.
Procedures, procedures
Let's fill out all the forms
Let it happen, let it happen
And a stamp and a souvenir
In the past, they didn't have CDs or cassettes.
We're goin' on tour.
HIP - HOP KEMP / CZECH REPUBLIC '07
The fucking movie must be done!
Molesta Evenement! 30 PLN for a DVD
It can be in koronas or euros
- And in pounds? - We accept payments in pounds sterling.
The "Respect" brand was established.
I remember we sold wide pants, colourful sweatshirts,
hoodies and t-shirts.
Molesta Evenement, homie.
And baseball caps, jackets we saw in music videos by Das EFX.
They had jackets with big collars filled with polar fleece.
We took matters into our own hands every day, there was no time to stop.
Ok, action!
When can we expect the next single from Molesta then?
Certainly one single that's on the web,
we added it to the T-shirts that we're selling.
Everything's OK, T-shirts are available.
Is "5G" playing?
Of course, "5G" is playing, we're doing a lot.
It has become a big business.
Light, give me some light.
Armageddon is a rapid extermination
Who's coming in doesn't go out that's the rule
The big money was on the Reebok Tour.
A bus in the video, a plane flying by.
You know that no comment is needed
You know the rhythm these drums are playing
You know that I don't suck up to anyone
There's still a lot of people who want that shit on the street
I'm not holy. God will judge me, you know
And I don't turn the other cheek
If you count your friends on one hand Then it's a lot these days
You can end up in prison
When money rules or disappears from your life
Everything was right.
Except the philosophy that you weren't supposed to take money for rapping.
This didn't make sense anymore.
The studio and stage are my life I remember all those crazy weekends
Fuck trends, industry trends, this way
I worked hard for this success with varying results
But I've never become a product
And they ask what is it with this business?
Why don't I drive a Mercedes and where is my briefcase?
And I just start laughing For them it will always be just a business
This is calculation, everyone calculates,
At the beginning it was carefree, because we didn't have anything.
As with everything, a company, clothes, my little system,
In this fucked up system,
You have to act according to their rules, just be good to those
who are your brothers and sisters.
You just have to get through it.
Warsaw, make some noise!
You don't know the day or the hour Before someone else does it
The era has changed.
I was brought up in a time when people said that doing things for money is weak.
That your're supposed to do everything according to certain ideals.
The rap scene changed because it was a reaction to changes in our world.
Our surroundings look different than 20 years ago.
We wanted capitalism and here it is.
"PROCEDES" DIR. M. WĘGRZYN - As for the fur,
I will deduct it from your salary!
But this is against the civil code!
Ma'am, this code was in socialism,
and now we have capitalism.
But is this a hospital or a company?
It's a company ma'am!
I think that in some cases it was a natural evolution.
But I can also laugh a little today that Vienio, with his shaved head, would say
"I won't go to this radio station or TV channel because it's lame”
and now he's a cooking show celebrity.
It's my second passion, I simply enjoy it.
And I've been cooking since I was 12. It's my forte.
Above all I am a rapper, but at home I am just an amateur chef.
- Will you serve it? - We'll start with the soup,
- the guest first of course. - This is Tom?
Tom Kha? I mean "Peter Jum".
Awesome.
Włodi who once came to me to listen to his next album.
He said he was going to a meeting with some stylists. What stylists?
What do you mean? Autumn/winter collection, why are you surprised?
For them it is just as important as playing concerts and music.
I even had the impression that it's more important.
And if you don't have enough resistance against this situation,
you can get caught up in the monetization of your own personality.
Your talent, your skills.
And then money becomes much more important
than relationships, friends, acquaintances, values.
Evenement and street rap Are you up for it Vienio?
Of course What's said is done
Evenement and street rap Are you up for it Włodi
Of course! What's said is done
With a cry of victory “Ave!” On the concrete turf
Warsaw's behind me
The first step has been made now I'm running
The traces are gone and I act cunningly
We go to battle on our own rules We're not unfamiliar to pain
The king is dead, long live the king Failure is out of the question
Going to our doom, we don't care
I will bring immortal glory to my crew Like the heads of those we hate
We'll celebrate the taste of victory with a joint
Then we'll mock the losers
Each of us still has something to do with music and it seems to me that,
this is the basis of our existence.
You can find happiness in your life by doing what you love.
It'll be ok kid, it'll be ok.
Hemp Gru Eter - Amsterdam 2018
Let's do it!
I always wanted to do something on my own, the boys knew it,
and I supported them with their verses.
And together we created a group, but Molesta is Vienio and Włodi.
Promotion specialists the best rap experts
Super advisers on matters of the first stage
Your theories are funny to me
Because you treat our culture like teen euphoria
They're not your stories so piss off
I reminisce half a year back
It is a thing about unfulfilled promises, Crossed boundaries
You're a person with two faces
What, what, what? Your work is a joke
You treat my talent as a way to get rich
Compromises are getting more and more difficult,
and we had always resolved matters quickly.
Compromises were an obstacle, the only way out was to have a break for a while.
And have some freedom to do what we really wanted,
to see who is who in Molesta.
And everyone chose their path.
I can decide for myself. I don't have 3 guys with me
who are trying to tell me:
“maybe stand 10 cm to the left, or maybe to the right,
or maybe you should turn left and right or turn around,
maybe wear a pink tracksuit instead of a red one” etc.
I don't owe anyone anything. It seemed good to me that it was over.
After every breakup there's always a new beginning.
And that's how it is.
"For my beloved Justyna".
If you've made it to the red carpet backdrop, you need to pose for photos.
Otherwise this backdrop would be wasted.
High-five, I'm off to smoke.
Hah, this is something new.
Everyone's doing solo things,
so there's no friendliness here, no energy.
We are honest with each other.
I'm not going to force any relations.
Something burned out, something ended,
there was no energy. I don't know what to call it.
It had to happen.
Nothing lasts forever.
It often turned out that
what I believed in so blindly didn't really exist.
A lot of things have changed, but they have also cleared up,
I also saw many friends who came and left.
There was also a lot of chaos associated with some values.
I saw these how these values started eroding.
Then suddenly we realised that the world is different
than the way we imagined it in our young heads.
This is perfectly described by Włodi's verse that
"Mother told you not to believe in your friends so much
because an empty desk is all that's left in the end".
People leave and all that's left is an empty desk.
Eventually you have less things in common and it's hard to find
that connection between each other.
Music was something that connected us,
we understood each other thanks to music.
So when that started disappearing, our connection started eroding too.
We were just friends from the neighbourhood. That's it.
After falling I always get up
Gather my people and keep playing
Don't drag it on so long, you want to have a fucking emotional shot or what?
After falling I always get up
Gather my people and keep playing
Overcome each obstacle
Live my own life and fuck the trends
One of the paths I have chosen
Is hip-hop with its arsenal
And I don't know who I've become
Because now I create I used to only listen
And I will be proud of it Because that's all I can count on
The only thing I can succeed in
Immerse yourself in the smoke for a moment
Because what you hear is rap shit
You don't want it? Tough luck If you do, expect hard work
I will definitely manage without you
Even closed up with just water and bread
I will write about life, joy and anger
Don't try to stop me from reaching my goal
There were many like you here before
Mocking me behind my back calling me their friend
Do you know who I am? Mystical Molesta
My talent is inherited simple and logical lyrics
Fast as a spaceship
You won't find any lies in these words
In these written words there's no lies
Though some of it might be offensive
But I can't communicate any other way.
I would have to have been brought up somewhere else
Under no circumstances do I want to provoke
But I can't control my talk
I can't hide from the court
Yeah.
Yeah, and what now?
After falling I always get up
Gather my people and keep playing
Overcome every obstacle
Live your own life and fuck the trends
After falling I always get up
Gather people and keep playing
Overcome every obstacle
Live my own life and fuck the trends
The motherfuckin' media is on my back
Their knowledge of hip-hop is pure comedy
Articles, programs – their content is a tragedy
Because everyone thinks they're better than you
Włodi is vigilant and sniffs out deceptions
Fuck off from my poems
Though the number of MCs...
THANKS TO EVERYONE WHO HELPED US CREATE MUSIC AND GROW,
AND MOST OF ALL TO THE FANS WHO HAVE BEEN WITH US ALL THESE YEARS.THANK YOU!
This is the perfect opportunity
For the battle to finally take plac,
Remember Włodi and Klima are one
After falling I always get up
Gather my people and keep playing
Overcome every obstacle
Live my own life and fuck the trends
After falling I always get up
Gather my strength and keep playing
Overcome each obstacle
Live my own life and fuck the trends...