This week we’re joined by a multi-award winning radio, TV and DJing legend, a true household name across the country…Trevor Nelson is in the house! 🔥 Having helped usher in a wave of black music in the UK, we chop it up about 1990s rap, pirate radio, MTV and the incredible legacy of The Lick. Strap in, this one is FUN! Highlights include...

 

🤯 The Lick, and throwing one of the best parties EVER with Puffy, Missy, Mariah, Whitney and Mary

😂 Getting Jay-Z to do a live PA…but he was too busy raving on the dance floor

❤️ Why he loves Dre, Snoop, Tribe, Biggie, Busta and Illmatic

😔 Why he HATED ‘Hit Em Up’, the Tupac-Biggie beef and how MTV Cribs reinforced rapper stereotypes

😱 Hearing Lauryn Hill do her version of a Sam Cooke classic

❌ How DMX saved so many DJs with his anthems

😳 How top artists act backstage around super producers and a great story about Will I Am geeking out

 

Show Notes

• Least hip hop thing in the last 24 hours? (01:30)
• His start in pirate radio and shining a light on black music in the U.K. (03:20)
• How the game changed when hip hop and R&B merged (12:20)
• Starting at MTV and The Lick…and the difficulties in promoting black music on TV (13:21)
• Throwing one of the best parties EVER with Puff Daddy, Missy Elliott, Mariah Carey, Whitney Houston and Mary J. Blige in Dublin (26:23)
• Getting Jay-Z to do a live PA…but he was too busy raving on the dance floor (32:04)
• How he suffered burnout and didn’t enjoy promoting black music at one point (39:00)
• Talking 90s hip hop (41:51)
• Why he loves Dre, Snoop, Tribe, Biggie, Busta and Illmatic (44:46)
• How DMX saved so many DJs with his anthems (52:55)
• Why he HATED ‘Hit Em Up’, the Tupac-Biggie beef and how rappers lead a hard life with the game giving them money problems…and why MTV Cribs was also to blame (58:22)
• Why he’d love to have been in the session for ‘The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill’…and her version of a Sam Cooke classic (1:06:48)
• Why he’s feeling so content today (1:14:18)
• How top artists act backstage around super producers and a great story about Will I Am geeking out (1:21:26)
• Why Pharrell is his favourite producer, why Trevor hated N’Sync and what could have been with Pharrell on a Michael Jackson project (1:23:50)
• Last great piece of music he heard (1:32:15)

 

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For the next mailbag episode, we’d love to hear from you guys, so email us at [email protected] with your takes on…

 

🔲 The strangest dreams you’ve had about a rapper

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

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

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

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

🔲 What’s the worst rap beat of 1995?

🔲 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)

 

Catch all our Spotify playlists here…

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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