When We Were Kings

the drum has been the communicator 549 00:30:57,397 --> 00:30:59,354 since the beginning of time. 550 00:30:59,441 --> 00:31:02,058 I'm sure it was the first message ever sent. 551 00:31:03,320 --> 00:31:06,734 When I think of the beat today and I think of the beats centuries ago, 552 00:31:06,823 --> 00:31:09,110 it's the only thing that kept us together. 553 00:31:09,201 --> 00:31:11,443 [speaking African language] 554 00:31:14,373 --> 00:31:18,413 We had this thing, when we hurt, we sung for trial and tribulation, 555 00:31:18,502 --> 00:31:21,336 we sung for relief, we sung songs of God, 556 00:31:21,421 --> 00:31:23,879 and this music that you hear today 557 00:31:23,965 --> 00:31:27,174 is the same songs that have been made popular throughout the world 558 00:31:27,260 --> 00:31:29,627 without anybody's intentions or volition. 559 00:31:31,056 --> 00:31:32,056 Oh! 560 00:32:06,216 --> 00:32:09,129 So I would say that anybody who knows anything 561 00:32:09,219 --> 00:32:11,677 about the rhythm and the blues, as they're so-called today, 562 00:32:11,763 --> 00:32:13,345 should know about Africa. 563 00:32:14,182 --> 00:32:16,424 <i>♪ When I first met you, baby ♪</i> 564 00:32:22,232 --> 00:32:24,440 <i>♪ Baby, you were just ♪</i> 565 00:32:25,152 --> 00:32:26,609 <i>♪ Sweet 16 ♪</i> 566 00:32:29,823 --> 00:32:31,860 <i>♪ When I first met you, baby ♪</i> 567 00:32:35,745 --> 00:32:39,989 <i>♪ Baby, you was just sweet 16 ♪</i> 568 00:32:45,338 --> 00:32:47,796 <i>♪ Just left your home then, baby ♪</i> 569 00:32:50,969 --> 00:32:55,805 <i>♪ Oh, the sweetest thing I'd ever seen ♪</i> 570 00:33:00,520 --> 00:33:02,136 The music I'm listening to now, 571 00:33:02,230 --> 00:33:04,768 if I went to your house or most white people's places, 572 00:33:04,858 --> 00:33:07,646 I don't hear this kind of music, because your culture wouldn't... 573 00:33:07,736 --> 00:33:09,102 Your woman didn't leave you. 574 00:33:09,196 --> 00:33:12,155 Your woman didn't go out, slip off on you like our women, 575 00:33:12,240 --> 00:33:14,106 because you didn't have no money. 576 00:33:14,201 --> 00:33:16,944 You had money to keep your woman. Your songs are like... 577 00:33:17,037 --> 00:33:20,155 <i>♪ When that train comes Around that mountain ♪</i> 578 00:33:20,248 --> 00:33:23,286 <i>♪ In that Folsom Prison In that Folsom Prison ♪</i> 579 00:33:23,376 --> 00:33:25,368 And, you know... <i>♪ Y'all come, y'all come ♪</i> 580 00:33:25,462 --> 00:33:28,205 Whatever it is, that's a different cul... Chinese like their music. 581 00:33:28,298 --> 00:33:30,506 <i>♪ Pling, ting, tang, tong, ting, tong ♪</i> 582 00:33:30,592 --> 00:33:33,084 I don't want to hear that, and he understands that. 583 00:33:33,178 --> 00:33:34,760 Everybody's got their culture. 584 00:33:34,846 --> 00:33:38,385 So we're not saying that we hate you or we want to be more divided 585 00:33:38,475 --> 00:33:42,094 and we're never talking to you again or doing business... We don't do that. 586 00:33:42,187 --> 00:33:45,806 But what we're saying is that we want to be independent now. 587 00:33:46,608 --> 00:33:49,066 <i>♪ Baby, I wonder Yes, I wonder ♪</i> 588 00:33:49,152 --> 00:33:50,768 <i>♪ Baby, I wonder ♪</i> 589 00:33:55,283 --> 00:33:58,401 <i>♪ Oh, I wonder what in the world ♪</i> 590 00:33:58,495 --> 00:34:01,988 <i>♪ Is gonna happen to me ♪</i> 591 00:34:08,922 --> 00:34:09,922 Oh! 592 00:34:10,799 --> 00:34:13,758 [Plimpton] The great place to visit in Kinshasa was a compound 593 00:34:13,843 --> 00:34:16,051 about 20 miles up the Congo River, 594 00:34:16,137 --> 00:34:19,255 a place called Nsele, which was a presidential palace. 595 00:34:19,933 --> 00:34:23,927 That was where we saw Foreman, who seemed incredible. 596 00:34:24,020 --> 00:34:27,388 I'd seen him fight before. I saw him destroy Frazier. 597 00:34:27,482 --> 00:34:30,725 I'd never seen destruction like that, and the thing I always remembered was that 598 00:34:30,819 --> 00:34:34,984 the beaten fighter, even a man as powerful and big as Frazier... 599 00:34:35,073 --> 00:34:37,110 and he was very much favored to win that... 600 00:34:37,200 --> 00:34:40,238 suddenly becomes about the size of a Pygmy. 601 00:34:40,328 --> 00:34:42,991 [chuckles] They just diminish in size. 602 00:34:43,081 --> 00:34:47,166 And Foreman suddenly became this gigantic figure. 603 00:34:49,254 --> 00:34:52,713 And he had a trainer, Dick Sadler, tiny by comparison to Foreman, 604 00:34:52,799 --> 00:34:54,836 and Sadler would hang on to the heavy bag. 605 00:34:54,926 --> 00:34:57,964 But Foreman would hit this... this bag... 606 00:34:58,805 --> 00:35:01,047 Sadler would just literally be picked off his feet. 607 00:35:03,018 --> 00:35:05,260 [Mailer] Foreman hitting the heavy bag 608 00:35:05,353 --> 0