Piece by Piece

00:33:10,161 --> 00:33:12,872 ♪ ♪ 705 00:33:13,831 --> 00:33:16,625 And once he turns on, you can't turn him off. 706 00:33:16,667 --> 00:33:19,670 ♪ I'm right here, and I ain't goin' nowhere ♪ 707 00:33:19,712 --> 00:33:22,381 ♪ You can turn tables and you can throw chairs ♪ 708 00:33:22,423 --> 00:33:25,467 ♪ I'm right here, and I ain't goin' nowhere ♪ 709 00:33:25,509 --> 00:33:28,304 ♪ You can knock doors and tear if you have to have some ♪ 710 00:33:28,345 --> 00:33:30,973 ♪ Splash if you want to, splash if you want... ♪ 711 00:33:31,015 --> 00:33:32,141 (elevator bell dings) 712 00:33:32,183 --> 00:33:33,475 ROB: It got really bad. 713 00:33:33,517 --> 00:33:35,519 - (phone ringing) - One exec holds 714 00:33:35,561 --> 00:33:38,022 a full-fledged conversation as we're performing. 715 00:33:38,063 --> 00:33:40,983 In Air Force 1s, I'm strictly 13. 716 00:33:41,025 --> 00:33:42,610 12 and a half won't work, man. 717 00:33:42,651 --> 00:33:45,237 ROB: Pharrell gets on the desk, and I'm like... 718 00:33:45,279 --> 00:33:47,281 Bruh, why are you on the desk? 719 00:33:47,323 --> 00:33:49,825 Yo, he has to see how hard I'm willing to go. 720 00:33:49,867 --> 00:33:53,329 ♪ I'm right here, and I ain't goin' nowhere ♪ 721 00:33:53,370 --> 00:33:54,997 - (elevator bell dings) - ♪ You can turn tables ♪ 722 00:33:55,039 --> 00:33:56,582 ♪ And you can throw chairs ♪ 723 00:33:56,624 --> 00:33:58,834 ♪ I'm right here, and I ain't goin' nowhere... ♪ 724 00:33:58,876 --> 00:34:01,170 ROB: He was like this little brother that you wanted 725 00:34:01,212 --> 00:34:02,671 to knock upside the head. 726 00:34:02,713 --> 00:34:04,757 (song stops) 727 00:34:06,634 --> 00:34:08,719 I had to have a talk with Pharrell. 728 00:34:08,761 --> 00:34:11,555 Like, he had no money, my unemployment ran out, 729 00:34:11,597 --> 00:34:13,390 we're all living with our parents. 730 00:34:13,432 --> 00:34:16,352 This was, like, everything I was banking on. 731 00:34:16,393 --> 00:34:17,436 I said... 732 00:34:17,478 --> 00:34:18,687 - Hey, man. - (fingers snap) 733 00:34:18,729 --> 00:34:19,521 Yeah, what? 734 00:34:19,563 --> 00:34:21,023 Like, we can't do that, man. 735 00:34:21,065 --> 00:34:22,691 You're gonna, like, kill yourself in this thing. 736 00:34:22,733 --> 00:34:24,485 (clears throat) 737 00:34:24,526 --> 00:34:27,238 Yeah, yeah, yeah. But, hey, I'm an artist. 738 00:34:27,279 --> 00:34:30,908 But selling beats, that's a way to get in. 739 00:34:34,036 --> 00:34:35,621 Okay, fine. 740 00:34:38,165 --> 00:34:39,541 At the time, 741 00:34:39,583 --> 00:34:41,877 I chose to look at it the wrong way, 742 00:34:41,919 --> 00:34:43,921 to think that, like, I was being rejected. 743 00:34:43,963 --> 00:34:47,424 I didn't realize that I was being told to train harder. 744 00:34:48,425 --> 00:34:50,344 (crew chattering) 745 00:34:50,386 --> 00:34:51,762 - MORGAN: Hey, N.O.R.E. - Hey, what's going on? 746 00:34:51,804 --> 00:34:53,597 It's N.O.R.E. Yep. What's your name? Morgan? 747 00:34:53,639 --> 00:34:56,600 - Yep. Morgan. - How you doing, Morgan? 748 00:34:56,642 --> 00:34:58,185 Good, good. 749 00:34:58,227 --> 00:34:59,770 So, I was just wondering, 750 00:34:59,812 --> 00:35:01,772 how did you know about The Neptunes? 751 00:35:01,814 --> 00:35:04,233 What was it like when you first met them? 752 00:35:04,275 --> 00:35:05,609 Uh... 753 00:35:05,651 --> 00:35:08,237 I first met Pharrell because Rob Walker. 754 00:35:08,279 --> 00:35:09,947 (beat from Mase's "Lookin' at Me" playing) 755 00:35:09,989 --> 00:35:12,408 And at the time, I had never heard of The Neptunes. 756 00:35:12,449 --> 00:35:13,909 Two dudes, one Filipino 757 00:35:13,951 --> 00:35:15,744 and the other Black, from Virginia Beach? 758 00:35:15,786 --> 00:35:18,998 Come on. This is... This doesn't even make sense. 759 00:35:19,039 --> 00:35:20,541 But they played me one beat, 760 00:35:20,582 --> 00:35:22,418 then they played me another beat. 761 00:35:22,459 --> 00:35:25,796 (beat from Jadakiss's "Knock Yourself Out" playing) 762 00:35:28,465 --> 00:35:29,758 (beat ends) 763 00:35:29,800 --> 00:35:31,927 I remember I was on my way to Miami 764 00:35:31,969 --> 00:35:33,929 and Pharrell said, "This third beat..." 765 00:35:33,971 --> 00:35:37,433 This third beat, don't listen to that until you get to Miami. 766 00:35:37,474 --> 00:35:39,351 Why? Why wouldn't I listen to this third beat? 767 00:35:39,393 --> 00:35:40,769 And he's like, "Yo, listen." 768 00:35:40,811 --> 00:35:42,354 People take my beat sometimes, 769 00:35:42,396 --> 00:35:44,440 but people don't let me produce. 770 00:35:44,481 --> 00:35:46,317 I want to produce this. 771 00:35:47,151 --> 00:35:48,610 N.O.R.E.: No one had talked to me 772 00:35:48,65