[00:00:00] Hercules (大力神) - Watsky [00:00:16] I know I'm just as strong as Hercules [00:00:21] Because it's wired in my circuitry [00:00:26] And if I'm just as strong as Hercules [00:00:31] You'll see I'm just as strong as Hercules [00:00:36] In 1638 they came from Sweden [00:00:38] Ship shape settlers late looking for Eden [00:00:41] The Delaware tribe wasn't really keen on leaving [00:00:43] So they "bought em out" or slaughtered them quick and got to breeding [00:00:46] 1659 they built a fortress [00:00:49] Stationed soldiers and gave them horses [00:00:51] But now their forces were losing their resources [00:00:53] Moving in the living quick as moving out the corpses [00:00:56] Started changing courses when we got the Quakers [00:00:58] And they been running town since Cromwell met his maker [00:01:01] They didn't take pay cut Quakers got their cake up [00:01:04] The paper came triangulating trading with Jamaica [00:01:06] Now in the 1700s they took care of biz [00:01:09] Built the families through some noble marriages [00:01:11] Still in WIlmington doing what their parents did [00:01:14] Living up on 7th street in Mansions they inherited [00:01:16] 1800 and in step the du Ponts [00:01:19] Irenee du Pont was fleeing the war in France [00:01:21] He made the jaunt cause apparently murder rate [00:01:24] Was higher for gentle people spitting on the third estate [00:01:27] He started working late he had grand design [00:01:29] And when we cut a couple fingers off the hands of time [00:01:32] The Du Ponts were running under Delaware like panty lines [00:01:34] They built a mill for small explosives on the Brandywine [00:01:37] But gun powder's just as temperamental [00:01:39] As the rich kids with CEO potential [00:01:42] It's essential to compete for our emergencies [00:01:45] Which brings me to a company called Hercules [00:01:47] I hope I'm just as strong as Hercules [00:01:52] I hope I'm just as strong as Hercules [00:01:57] But when it comes to stacking currencies [00:02:02] I'd like to be as strong as Hercules [00:02:08] Hercules Gunpowder started kind of small [00:02:10] Du Pont had it all were sparkling wall to wall [00:02:12] They were ballin in the fall of 1899 [00:02:15] When T C Dupont crawled up the Brandywine [00:02:17] Now Thomas Coleman started as a coal man [00:02:21] In the mines in Kentucky with his old man [00:02:23] Joined whole fam and flipping the strip tease [00:02:25] Went from fig leaves all the way to big cheese [00:02:28] Never got on his knees for the love it won him [00:02:30] From couple of brothers Lewis and Russell Dunham [00:02:33] They were running sh*t with Coleman's muscle [00:02:35] Lewis wasn't clueless [00:02:37] But Russell's on his hustle [00:02:38] Now brother Lou was Coleman's true blue man [00:02:40] T C would Idea and Lou drew plans [00:02:43] Dupont had seventy percent of GDP [00:02:45] When it came to gun powder and TNT [00:02:48] They bought even bought Hercules [00:02:49] "Scandilous " [00:02:51] Said the government so brought on anti-trust [00:02:53] Litigation and they split business up in three [00:02:56] Into Atlas and Dupont and Hercules [00:02:58] But certainly they were busting heads [00:03:01] Put in work at Hercules then made Russell prez [00:03:04] In 1912 up the road from Dover [00:03:06] My great great grandfather Russ took over [00:03:09] I know I'm just as strong as Hercules [00:03:14] I know I'm just as strong as Hercules [00:03:19] I know I'm just as strong as Hercules [00:03:24] I know I'm just as strong as Hercules [00:03:30] Because It's written in my history [00:03:35] I know I'm just as strong as Hercules [00:03:39] Russell Dunham we said Daddy D [00:03:42] Or sugar Daddy D to half the family [00:03:44] Ran Hercules as an affable property [00:03:47] Slap on the wrist from capitalist democracy [00:03:49] And so between TC and Papa D [00:03:52] A bit improperly they adopt a monopoly [00:03:54] And instead of dotting the i's and often crossing the T's [00:03:57] They take a walk in the trees and talk and pocket the cheese [00:03:59] And when Russell dropped to his knees his heirs cashed out