Hip Hop Stories, Videos, Interviews of Note

Wish we had one in DC

this is a good watch

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08rPLhdBpQI

that was so good, wish it was longer!! ty for sharing

love that adobe sponsors that
would never have intuited that september 11 was the moment that stopped the gold rush

crazy that they did 19,000 covers

the price options look to explain that; you could get an $800 design job for your album cover.

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

interview with Wendy Day on helping Tupac when he was shot, getting No Limit and Cash Money deals, Freddie Foxx putting a gun to Birdman's head outside Hot 97, great interview

http://nahright.com/news/2014/11/20/a-conversation-with-wendy-day-pt-1/

good read

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7F4fQy0Rc6Q

I've been on-and-off watching this Art of Organized Noize doc on Netflix over the past few days, it's allright - kinda sloppily made but everybody participates and some good anecdotes. Big Gipp is predictably entertaining.

yeah got that in the queue

Puffy's interview bits (idk why he's even in it tbh) are straight out of that Chappelle sketch about him. At one point an intern walks on camera and gives him a vial of some sort of clear liquid to drink and all I could think of was "the finest breastmilks"

please someone test drive that pimp doc and tell me if a 30 minute complex video is worth sitting through

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/