"The stupid thing about ignorant, asinine and immature rap music is, America celebrates it. These corporations celebrates it...Darryl "DMC" McDaniels tells The Library in part 2 of their interview. "Rick Ross being a correction officer? I could care less. The thing that I didn't like about Rick Ross is “No, no I wasn't a CO.” Oh, so there's something the matter with a man having a job? That tells kids, it's not cool to have a job that gives you benefits and take care of your family."

Part 2 of Tim's interview with D.M.C. will be available, Tuesday, May 12, 2015

"A lot of people, they really dig the song skills that we have when we write them down, " eMC member and artist, Wordsworth tells Tim on The Library about what we can expect from eMC's new album The Tonite Show. "They definitely are looking for something that deals with exciting and are about something. You have to write about something and we have topics on there.

On March 30th, 2015, R.A the Rugged Man performed at New York City's SOBs. During this performance, The Library's Tim Einenkel caught up with hip hop historian and legend, Grandmaster Caz (Member of The Cold Crush Brothers). Caz talks about the beauty of the live performance and how hip hop culture has changed due to the commercialization of rap music. Caz tells Tim:

"Hip Hop back then and Hip Hop today is a whole different animal right here. I mean, you're talking about the formative days of the culture when it was done with no agenda...When it was done just for the fun and just for the love of it. And then it became a skill game. And then it became an industry. There's no rules in the industry; it's about a money game and a numbers game. The next generations that got involved with not hip hop but rap music, just did it for the rap music. But they're missing the culture." #MrChuckD #GrandmasterCaz #RAtheRuggedMan #SOBs #HipHopLegends #TheColdCrushBrothers

This week on The Library, we hear part 1 of Tim's interview with Darryl “DMC” McDaniels, hip hop legend and one of the founding members of the legendary group Run-DMC. DMC talks about the history of hip hop music, how and why it has changed, what he thinks about radio stations playing "old school at noon." DMC tells Tim:

"When they play it, where are all the kids? In School. Where are all the parents? At work. So they play me 12pm to 1pm on weekdays when the kids, who should be hearing music made by people their age which is educational, innovative, creative, they don't hear that but when they get out of school at 3 O'clock, turn it on. you hear the turn it up, sip the syrup, hoes and stuff like that. I don't believe in conspiracy theories because it's deeper than conspiracy theories."

"The music business is the music business. The company is only in the business to sell records but it's deeper than that for hip hop," Darryl "DMC." McDaniels, one of the founding members of the hip hop group Run–D.M.C, tells Tim on The Library during their interview. "By doing that you do a disservice to the youth, you do a disservice to the people who you promote and sell these records to. You create homicide and genocide....The artists who are in that position to do that are reluctant to be responsible. There's a lack of responsibility with the labels that put out our music and the artists who are profiting off of our music."

Part 1 of The Library with Tim Einenkel's interview with DMC will be up Tuesday, 4/21/15

Nigerian-Australian rapper Remi and producers Sensible J and Dutch are set to release their newest album Raw X Infinity on April 14, 2015. Remi and Sensible J joined Tim on The Library to talk about the new album, how Stevie Wonder , Mike Tyson and J-Dilla have influenced them as artists and when asked what is Aussie Hip Hop Culture, Remi told Tim:

“Aussie Hip hop is becoming something else aside from Iggy...Australian hip hop for a time has been a throwback kind of soul samples and guitar in the beats; very true when it comes to accent. Very true to the land...”

Nigerian-Australian rapper Remi and producers Sensible J and Dutch are set to release their newest album Raw X Infinity on April 14, 2015. Remi and Sensible J joined Tim on The Library to talk about the new album and what we could expect from it. Tim asked Remi and Sensible J if Iggy Azalea isn't a representation of true Aussie hip hop culture, then what is? Remi said”

“Aussie Hip hop is becoming something else aside from Iggy...Australian hip hop for a time has been a throwback kind of soul samples and guitar in the beats; very true when it comes to accent. Very true to the land...”

Nigerian-Australian rapper Remi and producers Sensible J and Dutch are set to release their newest album Raw X Infinity on April 14, 2015. Remi and Sensible J joined Tim on The Library to talk about the new album and what we could expect from it. Tim asked Remi what purpose does rap music and hip hop culture serves for him.

“It started off as something fun, away of just getting it off my chest for myself ...But after J and I been working together for awhile it kind of just became apparent that there was a lot of things in my own life and a lot of things in the community that surrounded us that were either injustices or just things that needed to be said...Kind of felt it was my duty to write more stuff like that.”

During my interview with Darryl "D.M.C." McDaniels on The Library, we got into a conversation about whether Kendrick Lamar is just benefiting from a bad time in hip hop or is the praise rightly deserved. D.M.C. said “He is hip hop. He's doing hip hop the right way.....He has a truth of our existence that the young guy can relate to....that I can relate to now. That's missing in hip hop.

He also shares a great story about the lyrics in the record “Jam Master Jay“.

Entire interview with Darryl "D.M.C." McDaniels will be up soon.

“I was just pretending to be an Emcee like all the dudes before me. It wasn't for showbiz...When I started writing rhymes and messing with my brother's turntables, it was like me playing with my G.I. Joe or pretending I'm batman or playing with my army men...It was all make believe.” D.M.C. tells Tim on The Library during their interview about his purpose for writing prior to his life being saved after hearing Sarah McLachlan's “Angel.” (Hear how McLachlan's “Angel” literally saved D.M.C.'s life as told on The Moth here - themoth.org/posts/stories/angel).

D.M.C. continues, “After that Sarah McLachlan meeting, it pushed my responsibility, it made it worse for me because now I carry a heavier load....It made my representation of Hip Hop more responsible. Because now I have a tool, a superpower and a gift that I must use at this point in my life.”

Entire interview with Darryl "D.M.C." McDaniels on The Library will be up soon