This week on The Library with Tim Einenkel, Tim talks to legendary MC, Scarface. Tim and Brother Mob discuss his new album, Deeply Rooted, the writing process and the commercialization of hip hop. Scarface tells Tim:

"I think the commercialization of Hip Hop is like a plagued. Like a venereal disease. Like a cancer. We need some medicine for it. We need an antidote for it...The commercialization of Hip Hop is a poison. We should really address it more. We should really address the powers that be...If you commercialize underground music, then it's not underground music no more. If you commercialize a mom and pop stores chicken and waffle spot, it's not a mom and pop no more. That's what happened to all the mom and pop stores to begin with. The mom and pop record stores kept the music alive in the community. The reason why the music is dying in the community is because we don't make records no more. "

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This week on The Library, Tim talks to the founder of New York's longest running hip-hop radio show, WBAI's Underground Railroad and the founder of the video blog, ill Doctrine, Jay Smooth. Tim and Jay talk an array of topics from Hip Hop culture to police brutality. Jay tells Tim:

“A more productive way of engaging is challenging each other and having real, honest conversations in a way that maintains an awareness of our human connection to each other. And that's something you have to learn how to do if you're going to remain within the hip hop community. You got to learn how to challenge people for saying things that you're totally against while still honoring that bound that you have as a fellow hip hopper and not just saying, you know what I just don't respect you, I'm never talking to you again.”

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This week on The Library with TIm Einenkel, Tim talks to Jahi a member of the hip-hop group, P.E 2.0 which dropped it's first project last year, People Get Ready, last year and is set to release their latest album, insPirEd in the first week of January 2016. The album features guest appearances from the likes of KRS-One, production from the legendary Easy Mo Bee and brilliant social commentary. Jahi tells Tim:

"Chuck could have selected a lot of different people for P.E. 2.0 and I'm humbled and honored that he selected me. I think it's because that I have a voice, there is a particular level of lyricism that I'm already about, that I was influenced already by Public Enemy KRS-One, Rakim and many others...Public Enemy is my voice. It was Public Enemy that set a culturally consciousness."

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This week on the Library, we hear the final part of Tim's interview with talks Descendent, a new independent artist from Newport News, Virginia but currently living in Raleigh, North Carolina. Tim and Descendent continue their discussion about his album, Road to Greatness: Journey of a Lost Soul and what his goal is with music.

He tells Tim:

"My overall goal is to push people to the limited to the best of their ability to be the best person that they can possibility be. Also pushing the hip hop culture forward is what I want to do as well.

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This week on The Library with Tim Einenkel, Chicago Hip Hop artist, Verbal Kent. The MC talks about his new album, Anesthesia, which features artists such as Freddie Gibbs, Skyzoo, Torae, Red Pill and production by. J.O.D, Apollo Brown, Marco Polo, Kaz 1, Oh No, Varan. He tells Tim that the best way for someone to listen to the album is, " listen to the album, in a row three times and then say what you think and asks the questions. "

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This week on the Library with Tim Einenkel, Tim talks to an extraordinary young MC, Chris Rivers; the son of the late, great lyricist, Big Pun. Tim asked the young lyricist if he puts extra pressure on himself because he's the son of Big Pun? Chris told Tim

“I used to do it a lot more in the past. I'm 21 now and when I first started rapping, I was really trying to find myself as an artist but also as an individual. Now I'm more comfortable as an artist and as a person. I don't have so much to prove up to his name anymore; he's a legend in his own...I try to live up to my expectations at this point.”

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This week on The Library, Tim Einenkel sits down with the legendary Chill Rob G who recently just released a brand new EP.

Tim asked the legendary emcee if this is what he imagined Hip Hop becoming, this really big commercial success, to which Chill Rob G replied, "The stuff that we hear on the radio, some of the stuff we hear on the radio, you know what, it's cool. I'm not mad at some of the artists who are not as lyrically gifted as some of the other artists because there is room for all of that. Big Daddy Kane had a lyric back in the day, he said he could fart on a record and make it sound good and today some of these dudes are doing that and, you know, they're selling a lot of records, so you can't be mad at that."

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This week on The Library with Tim Einenkel, the great Shabaam Sahdeeq. The Brooklyn artists talks about his newest project, The IV League which is an International Fraternity Of Extraordinary EMCEE's Producers & DJ's, graph writing and why he became an MC.

He tells Tim: “I want to make a change. I grew up on Public Enemy, Tribe Called Quest, artists that were really saying something. Jungle Brothers. KRS. I'm not trying to bring back the pass but we're moving into the future. What's on commercial radio is just dumb down music about partying, and fucking and getting money. As opposed to doing that, I'm doing this.”

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Skyzoo's latest album, Music For My Friends, features some amazing artists. Two of those artists are Black Thought and Jadakiss. Thought is featured on the track Money Makes Me Happy and Jadakiss is featured on See A Key (Ki'). On The Library with Tim Einenkel, Skyzoo was asked about those tracks and the importance behind them.

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This week on The Library with TIm Einenkel, Brooklyn MC, Skyzoo drops by to talk sneakers, gentrification, and his latest album, Music For My Friends,. Skyzoo tells Tim:

"What makes people want to purchase? What makes people want to say, I know I can stream it legally, or I know I can download it illegally. But what makes me want to give Skyzoo or whoever else $9.99 for an album....This what makes it worth it. It's going to continue serve you after the fact. People buy an album, they listen to it once or twice and they figure it out. Because it was didn't hold a value; it didn't hold the weight...With my music I try to make it were it continues to serve you. Maybe a couple of months later, maybe a year, maybe 5 years, you're still finding things in it."

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