This week we’re joined by record exec and manager to Anderson .Paak, Adrian Miller - a man who helped build the LA hip hop scene and work with Good Life Cafe, Easy E, Ras Kass, RZA, DJ Muggs, House of Pain, Freestyle Fellowship and many more.

 

We spoke on a whole host of subjects, including…

 

🔥 How DJ Muggs and House of Pain changed hip hop

👀 Did Ice Cube really steal Volume 10’s style?

💥 Making ‘Pistol Grip Pump’…and DJ Mugg’s superb reaction

🙏 His relationship with Eazy E and Jerry Heller

🗣 Origins of the Good Life Cafe

✍️ Helping Freestyle Fellowship get signed

😱 How nobody wanted to sign Anderson .Paak

🤝 What it’s like being family to Freeway Rick - the man that Franklin Saint is based on from Snowfall

 

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Why I Love MF DOOM’s ‘One Beer’ https://bit.ly/3HuhgHP 🍺

Ghostface Killa’s ‘Ironman’ album review https://bit.ly/30DW7Ko 🐝

Why I Love J Dilla’s ’Shake it Down’ and ‘Nag Champa’ https://bit.ly/30xjXaF 🍩

Ghostface Killa’s ‘Supreme Clientele’ album review https://bit.ly/3FP2CZM 👐

Why I Love MF DOOM’s ‘Figaro’ https://bit.ly/3lXu6Fo 🎶

 

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Show Notes:

• Least hip hop thing in the last 24 hours? (00:00)
• What LA hip hop was like in the early 90s (05:20)
• Being there at the origins of the Good Life Cafe (11:40)
• Helping Freestyle Fellowship get signed (17:22)
• Working with Ras Kass and meeting The Pharcyde (19:56)
• Did Ice Cube really steal Volume 10’s style? Plus making ‘Pistol Grip Pump’…and DJ Mugg’s superb reaction (24:45)
• What lessons he learnt working with The Pharcyde (29:30)
• What hip hop NEEDS right now: Togetherness and becoming a family unit (31:00)
• DJ Muggs and House of Pain: Why they changed hip hop (35:20)
• How nobody wanted to sign Anderson .Paak (41:40)
• His relationship with Eazy E and Jerry Heller (44:34)
• Meeting Eazy E (46:03)
• Memories of Death Row Records (called Godfather Entertainment at the start) (47:40)
• What it’s like being family to Freeway Rick - the man that Franklin Saint is based on from Snowfall (49:22)

 

Crate 808 Mailbag, so thank you all the listeners/viewers who hit us up with some amazing MF DOOM stories, shouts for best football references in rap and a look through the usual staples.

 

To get involved, email us at [email protected] with your takes on…

 

🤔 If you could see one hip hop act perform live (dead or alive), which one and why?

🤯 Tell us your best and worst rap concert stories

🎵 What are the best examples of xylophone and flute hip hop?

⚽️ Found a football reference in rap? THROW IT OUR WAY, we want to hear more!

💥 What are the best guest openers on rap albums?

🤔 Who has the best verse on Jay-Z’s ‘Reservoir Dogs’? Did Young MC use the beat better?

🎻 What are your top 5 rap ballads? 

🎤 What is the BEST Raekwon verse ever and why?

📈 What is Ghostface Killah’s apex?

👽 What song off of ‘Ironman’ would get on a playlist you’d play to an alien to teach it hip hop?

😴 The strangest dreams you’ve had about a rapper

💎 What rapper’s swag would you wear to a wedding, funeral or job interview?

😯 Where’s the weirdest place you’ve met a rapper?

😬 What’s the best AND worst merch you’ve ever bought?

🖋 You have to get a rap song tattooed on you…which one, where and why?

👎 What’s the worst rap beat of 1995?

😭 What’s your best AND worst rap memorabilia?

 

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And our last series talking best 3-album runs in rap can be found here…

Ice Cube with Shawn Setaro (https://bit.ly/3kaYfOq)

Tupac with Andrew Barber (https://bit.ly/2HGr3QT)

De La Soul with Andrew Emery (https://bit.ly/324LJJn)

Gang Starr with Dart Adams (https://apple.co/2Vlx9t1)

A Tribe Called Quest with Rob Pursey (https://bit.ly/3oS73uX)

Redman with Take it Personal Radio (https://bit.ly/3tYFUcL)

OutKast with Justin Hunte (https://bit.ly/3b89bJh)

Mobb Deep with Chris Mitchell from Breaking Atoms (http://shorturl.at/zHIKO)

 

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Slept-On DJ Premier Bangers Playlist: https://spoti.fi/3iw4yun

Slept-On Wu-Tang Bangers Playlist: https://spoti.fi/32QtAQG

Sample Corner Playlist: https://spoti.fi/3eYfhMd

 

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