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"Tonight&amp;apos;s Grammy telecast closed with an all-star mixing of rock, rap and turntablism as Tom Morello, LL Cool J, Travis Barker, Public Enemy&amp;apos;s Chuck D and Z-Trip assembled to perform a song called &amp;quot;Whaddup.&amp;quot;\r\nZ-Trip put the group together after working with LL Cool J. &amp;quot;LL and I have been working on some tracks, and this song in particular, he was like, &amp;apos;We&amp;apos;re gonna perform this on the Grammys, but let&amp;apos;s get the right people together; I want to have live musicians,&amp;apos;&amp;quot; Z-Trip told Rolling Stone. &amp;quot;So I reached out to Tom, Travis, Chuck as well, and everyone came in. It&amp;apos;s like the A-Team; we put out the call, everyone&amp;apos;s in here. It&amp;apos;s like putting together a magnitude, a supernova that&amp;apos;s gonna burn this whole place down.&amp;quot;\r\nPhotos: Grammy Awards Red Carpet 2013\r\nMorello also promised sparks from the performance before the group took the stage. &amp;quot;We&amp;apos;re gonna take a career&amp;apos;s worth of fury and put it into four minutes tonight,&amp;quot; he said. He believed that intensity is why they&amp;apos;re closing the show. &amp;quot;They&amp;apos;re afraid to put on anyone after us; it&amp;apos;s that simple. That&amp;apos;s not complicated.&amp;quot;\r\nWill this unit be a one-time performance or will they work together in future? The musicians aren&amp;apos;t sure. &amp;quot;One day at a time; our first public performance is about to happen in a few hours,&amp;quot; Morello said early in the evening. However,&amp;#xA0;Chuck D looked to other live debuts as a source of optimism. &amp;quot;Well, Crosby, Stills and Nash and Woodstock was their first date and they all got together and found out, &amp;apos;Wow, this thing is really cool,&amp;apos;&amp;quot; Chuck D said. &amp;quot;So who knows?&amp;quot;\r\n\r\nThe impetus for the performance was LL, and both Morello and Chuck D said the song was intended as a showcase for the one-time self-proclaimed G.O.A.T. (Greatest of All Time) rapper. &amp;quot;LL gets the chance to really say, &amp;apos;I&amp;apos;ve hosted this, I&amp;apos;ve seen it all, but this is what I got.&amp;apos; And that&amp;apos;s a cool thing,&amp;quot; Chuck said.\r\n&amp;quot;People know LL from a lot of different things and what people are going to be reminded of tonight is he is one of the greatest emcees of all time,&amp;quot; Morello added. The track is LL&amp;apos;s song from a project that Z-Trip and the rapper are working on. &amp;quot;We&amp;apos;re assembling some more stuff, so it&amp;apos;s coming,&amp;quot; he said. &amp;quot;We&amp;apos;re in the lab and we&amp;apos;re making really good stuff.&amp;quot;"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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