Hip Hop Stories, Videos, Interviews of Note

bookmarking this thread

been listening to a bunch of Scarface the last week or two actually, great timing with posting those interviews

this is kinda cool
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YiNKyBALfuk

corny but cool

Ha, it's good/corny. How badass would that be if Gza came into your science class in high school?

"remember that mother nature screaming that anybody can get it" is kind of a dope lyric

The True Hip-Hop stories series was pretty cool

lol this is THE D-Nice, right?

Yeah

Monie's accent is so weird! great story tho

Yeah I was trying to figure out what that accent was.

seemed like when she mentioned being big in England her accent immediately got way more British

totally gonna rebrand my moves as "player proof" instead of "wussy ass"

Q Tip
http://www.redbullmusicacademy.com/lectures/q-tip

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_KQb4Jx-SeM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXIl1O2o1lA

drunk nas

man that Nas was hard to watch

"life is goooooood," dips head, seems unable to hold it above a crooked nod
peter (or paul) rosenberg continues asking him earnest questions about the first time he met serch

http://oldtothenew.wordpress.com/2013/04/14/old-to-the-new-qa-prime-minister-pete-nice-part-one/

nice

tried searching for this thread using misremembered keywords a while ago to say thanks for the scarface interview, spottie. really enjoyed.

Jeru The Damaja and Premier on the making of Come Clean
http://www.complex.com/tv/shows/magnum-opus/come-clean-jeru-the-damaja-magnum-opus#ooid=B1d2VyZDr4DtZmGx_uDAjI3RgaqavJyf

in honor of the jay-z poll, the making of reasonable doubt: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHl43CnfcJI

Joeski Love on "Pee-Wee's Dance" (directed by D-Nice!), the part where he's talking about Soulja Boy and Ice-T is great

http://vimeo.com/2797317

man that's awesome. i always bug out when that song comes on.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RBFV4gfvrDk

my favorite Red Bull Music Academy lecture is Egyptian Lover's:

http://www.redbullmusicacademy.com/lectures/egyptian-lover

Documentary on Yo MTV raps
http://vimeo.com/71934383
http://vimeo.com/71973078

OMG @ shock G's Dr. Strange grey streaks!!!!

lol thought you would appreciate that

the making of come clean jeru thing was amazing

Yeah love that one.

love bill adler's opening on the yo mtv doc

why are all these clothing companies paying all this money to fund these documentaries that not a lot of people actually watch and don't have the same quality as actual TV?

there's a whole music nerd niche content/????/profit thing going on with a lot of companies' online presence right now but i'm not necessarily mad at it. you saying 'same quality as actual TV' like visually it all looks crummy or it's not up to the theoretical bar of if MTV or Fuse was doing docs about this stuff?

VH1Docs are a lot more tightly edited and have access to a lot more music and archival footage, so yes

presumably stussy is just paying a marketing "social media" company to create content and they okay'd this as it's evergreen, nerd chic and cheaper than creating a national ad campaign by a damn sight?

Yeah probably about right. Stussy wasnt even a part of hip hop fashion during the Yo Raps days iirc? Was more of a surf/skate/rasta thing I remember anyway. I dont remember it aligning with hip hop fashion until DIlla was immortalized wearing a stussy shirt.

i think of stussy as skateboardery from that era

I think in 5th-6th grade all I wore was stussy pants, gotcha jackets and jordan VI's

here's yr answer btw: http://www.fibre2fashion.com/news/fashion-news/newsdetails.aspx?news_id=150272

this is kind of a dope shirt except for the huge ugly logo
http://www.stussy.com/us/de-la-soul-tee

gangstarr one is nice
tho http://www.stussy.com/us/gang-starr-tee?color_item=210

i ain't paying 36 bucks for a tshirt in any case

yeah no

It's weird to think of wearing a shirt that has three separate brands converging

What's your personal style

tbr i like the stussy logo

about the only fashion logo i like is versace's but i'm not exactly going for that look

and xposting from the gmob thread for posterity: http://www.npr.org/2013/08/20/213531470/goodie-mob-on-hip-hop-made-by-and-for-adults

Love the stussy logo, always have. My signature from like 91-94 was in the exact same form.

did someone say stussy?

stussy brand always aligned itself w/ hip hop even though rappers didn't wear stussy.

going to the taping on this, lookin forward to it

[NPR Music’s Microphone Check presents "Eight Million Stories: Hip-Hop in 1993," a storytellers evening about one of the most singularly productive and creative years in hip-hop culture.

Panelists for the evening include* GHOSTFACE KILLAH (Wu-Tang Clan), RALPH McDANIELS (video director and host of Video Music Box), PRINCE PAUL (producer and DJ), FAITH NEWMAN (former Columbia Recs A&R who signed Nas), and MIKE DEAN (producer/engineer & frequent Kanye collaborator).

The “Eight Million Stories: Hip-Hop in 1993” event is part of the yearlong NPR Music series Hip-Hop’s Golden Year. An edited version of the conversation will be made available as an episode of Microphone Check.

NPR Music’s Microphone Check, hosted by Frannie Kelley and Ali Shaheed Muhammad, offers audiences commentary on hip-hop and interviews with its leading artists, as well as a 24/7 music stream that plays the full breadth of rap music.

*scheduled to appear, subject to change

no

watched most of it. was fine.

Freeway talks about his kidney failure
http://www.okayplayer.com/news/okp-exclusive-freeway-on-kidney-failure-dialysis-free-will-album.html/2

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYwDrhSNn3Y

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q1f-94TjF9M

https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/entertainment/golden-age-of-hip-hop/

Is this rap’s real golden age?

It’s long been the dominant style of American pop, but this year, the music’s sweep feels astonishing

By Chris Richards

wrong thread? wrong thread

Ok. Just stuck it on Industry Plant one...

Dear friends and fam,

I'm delighted to share the news that Cornell University has posted a significant batch of materials from the Adler Archive on their website. Largely comprising hip-hop-oriented newspaper and magazines articles spanning 1979 through 2013, the trove concentrates on the careers of LL Cool J, Queen Latifah, Public Enemy, Salt-N-Pepa, Eric B. & Rakim and the roster of rappers who recorded for the Sugarhill and Enjoy Records labels.

Here's the link:
http://rmc.library.cornell.edu/hiphop/adler.htm

Once there, click on "View the collection" and you're rolling.

It is a fine start to the digitizing of the whole collection, which encompasses over 1400 files on some 900 subjects:
http://rmc.library.cornell.edu/EAD/htmldocs/RMM08092.html

Enjoy,
Bill Adler

I did this

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/features/the-oral-history-of-2pacs-digital-underground-years-w474890

cool

good piece well done whiney

thx man :)

loved it

https://open.spotify.com/user/spotify_in_residence/playlist/18c2td4Wd6sFuEU30csvDl

Mogul: The Life and Death of Chris Lighty
By Spotify Originals

Chris Lighty was a giant in hip-hop. He managed Foxy Brown, Fat Joe, Missy Elliott, Busta Rhymes, LL Cool J, 50 Cent—anyone who was anyone worked with Lighty. But in 2012 he was found dead at his home in the Bronx, a death that left the music world reeling.

Hey gang,

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/features/funk-you-up-legacy-of-the-sequence-hip-hops-first-ladies-w483588

looks good man; checking it out

Sweet!

Netflix Stretch & Bobbito doc is great fyi

I assume you are all listening to the podcast Mogul: the Life and Death of Chris Lighty

Another one from me: http://www.rollingstone.com/music/lists/salt-n-pepa-our-life-in-15-songs-w500728

Man, really sad about Combat Jack. I'd listened to him a little bit before, but really enjoyed his podcast about Chris Lighty this year and was starting to go back through his radio shows. Seemed like a really great dude.

this has a lot of good nuggets. what a life.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BqKCqmD213M

the interviewer/narrator dude in Netflix's Hip Hop Evolution is a total clown but there's some good clips/bits from various folks in there. The south and Bay Area ones were v good. The more recent one about the "underground" was... odd. I really never thought Freestyle Fellowship was that big a deal?

flow innovators
kinda awkward to go straight from a Puff/Jiffy era hagiography to "ok now here's a whole episode about ppl who hated that shit" lol

I like the series ok but it focuses almost exclusively on MCs & lyrics. Has he even mentioned the concept of sampling?? I can only remember producers showing up on screen to talk about MCs.

that hadn't occurred to me but that's an interesting point. You'd think that would have come up re: like, PE/Bomb Squad or Organized Noize (or even Puffy lol)

Yeah exactly. I think narrator dude said in initial episode he was a (failed) MC so I get that would be the lens he primarily views the genre thru but cmon now.

I feel like there's a clear from Freestyle Fellowship to Kendrick

Btw Season 2 of the Mogol podcast is running now, this time about Luther Campbell

It's really good so far

https://www.amc.com/shows/hip-hop-the-songs-that-shook-america/full-episodes/season-01/episode-04/elevators-1996

lol is that just where Big Boi does interviews now? For the Netflix Hip Hop Evolution segment on Outkast he was in the same seat/backdrop

prob his studio?

I assume so

I enjoyed this

https://theundefeated.com/features/oral-history-shaq-shaquille-oneal-shaq-diesel-the-making-of-rap-hip-hop/amp/

Loving the Open Mike Eagle podcast that's just him interviewing Prince Paul, it's called What Had Happened Was. Three eps out so far, on Gravediggaz, "Three Feet High & Rising" and "A Prince Amongst Thieves". Paul is a really funny, engaging speaker.

It’s so great! I just posted about it in the Prince Paul thread yesterday.

Yeah, it's really great - I'd love a version with more production and longer excerpts of the music, but Paul is such an entertaining speaker that it makes sense they're keeping a light touch.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hw4H2FZjfpo

the story of kool herc extending breaks comes up in a lot of birth of hip hop celebration articles, but the way the story is told doesn't really make sense to me... beat-juggling relatively short breaks is extremely tricky, and ime generally done to impress a crowd (or win a DMC championship) - cool as it is the groove suffers and it's not something you dance to (I'm also uncertain abt the chronology of this because it seems to me that the craft of beat juggling is a much more recent development, maybe something from the golden DMC days of the... 90s?)

so... maybe he was doing this with longer breaks? or maybe the whole merry go round/beat juggling between the same record thing is not the key as much as the novelty in itself of using a double turntable setup?

what kind of mixer would be availabe for him? not something with a crossfader I imagine

I really would like to hear a recording of one of his sets from that era, but I guess it didn't make sense to tape it (although tbh if your primary goal in 1973 was to extend and repeat breaks then tape would probably be the easiest way to achieve this, I believe that's what they did on a lot of classic 4/4 disco kick beats)

I've always been under the impression that the breaks early hip-hop DJs played were typically several bars long, and so wouldn't require super fast technique to work with.

I believe they did have mixers with crossfaders, or approximately equivalent functions, by the mid/late-70s as well

And I also think the ability to "cue" records with your headphones via mixer is a Flash innovation

according to this article Kool Herc at some point acquired a GLI 3880 which has a crossfader, but it appears to have been after 1973
https://djmag.com/news/dj-kool-herc-soundsystem-sells-over-200k-christies-auction

in an interview in The Record Players: DJ Revolutionaries (by Bill Brewster, Frank Broughton) Grand Mixer D.ST (Derek Showard) recalls that Kool Herc did not "cut", explaining that the transitions "would be all off-beat"

https://i.imgur.com/Pi6VsHr.png