Library Rap: The Hip Hop Interviews with Tim Einenkel

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264: El Da Sensei Talks the album XL (with Sadat X) Jun 15, 2015

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On March 30th, 2015, R.A. The Rugged Man Official Page performed at New York City's SOBs. During this performance, The Library's Tim Einenkel caught up with the legendary El Da Sensei (one half of the Artifacts). Tim asked El about what fans can expect from XL, an album he did with the great Sadat X:

“I have to remind myself that this is always Sadat X and I'll always be a fan. But to be able to trade verses with him now and actually get to sit back and feel proud, like I got the opportunity to do this...It's not something you do everyday. I'm cherishing it. I'm letting you know that this is going to be so much more then you're going to expect. The level is here. The bars is up...Y'all going to be shocked. Y'all going to be shocked.”

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263: El Da Sensei: "If They're (DJ) Not Playing That Shit, Then it's No Go" Jun 15, 2015

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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 the legendary El Da Sensei (one half of the Artifacts). Tim asked El which element of hip hop should best represent it? His response:

“The DJ is the most important part of hip hop culture besides the MC. because once we make the records and do all what we do, it's up to the DJ to break the record. If they don't ever play the record, we ain't never being heard. Even on stage, he's like the drummer. If he don't start, we don't go. If you have no DJ, then you have no sound....DJs determine pretty much if you're nice or not...if they're not playing that shit, then it's no go. “

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262: The Library: Descendent Interview (Part 1) Jun 04, 2015

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This week on the Library, Tim talks to Descendent, a new independent artist from Newport News, Virginia but currently living in Raleigh, North Carolina. Tim and Descendent discuss a few tracks from his album Road to Greatness: Journey of a Lost Soul and why he has not taken on the persona a lot of new mainstream artists have taken on.

He tells Tim

“Once you tell a lie, you have to keep up with that lie. And that's a full time job if you really think about it. If you keep up that facade of whomever your copying or mimicking on stage or in the music, you're going to have some people think that's really you. I didn't want to live my life like that.

261: The Library: Gods'Illa Interview (Part 1) Jun 02, 2015

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This week on The Library we hear part one of Tim's interview with Gods'Illa, a hip hop group consisting of three actual brothers, Acem, Truth and Powerful. Their new album, “Believe In Gods'Illa” is out now on HiPNOTT Records.

Asked about the track “Plugged” (feat. Stic Man of Dead Prez& Joe.D) which addresses police brutality and how it came about.

Truth tells Tim

“It's what we know from growing up in Forestville. It's what Powerful knows from growing up in Brooklyn. It's what we know from having uncles and fathers. It's been this way since the abolishment of slavery in this country. It's always been black men trying to get to a status to be considered a citizen in this country. So, that track is natural. All the music we make, we try to make it universal. It's our experience in comparison to yours. “

#BelieveInGodsIlla #ChuckD

260: The Library: Darryl “DMC” McDaniels Interview (Final Part) May 26, 2015

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This week on The Library, we hear the final part 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 Biggie, Tupac, Kendrick, Sarah McLachlan, Larry Smith, depression, artistic freedom and what the future has in store for him.

He tells Tim:

“The artistic freedom was this. You couldn't come close to or couldn't be near similar to anybody else doing this type of music....We come from a creative realm, as young people, very young people, to look at what everybody's doing and you have to do something different. By that being done, you had growth, transformation and evolution. If you don't do that, then just got a lot of people doing that thing that they're doing now, which is the way it is now. We come from a generation were, yo, this guys are doing blue, so I gotta do red. The next people or next person comes long; he's doing blue; he's doing red, so I have to do green. We're all doing the same type of thing but in a different presentation. Here's how it is now. That guy doing blue is popping, well I'm going to do blue too....Now you got 10,000 people doing blue . Out of the 10,000 people that are doing blue, there's going to be one person who does it way better then all of us and we're going to get mad at him. Now all of these other issues that take away from the growth and creativity come into play....”

259: The Library: Darryl “DMC” McDaniels Interview (Final Part) May 26, 2015

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258: DMC: Talks Future Projects and a Track with DJ Premier May 26, 2015

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On The Library with Tim Einenkel, DMC talks about the projects he is currently working on. This includes a record with DJ Premier....

257: DMC Talks ''Hellraisers'' And Which New School Artist Would Include On It May 26, 2015

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On The Library with Tim Einenkel, DMC talks about the record HellRaisers which features DMC, PMD, MC Serch, Chuck D, Terminator X and DJ Eclipse. Produced by BIG K.O. He also talks about which new school artist he would have included on this track.

256: DMC: Explains Why Larry Smith is the Greatest Producer Ever May 26, 2015

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On The Library, Darryl “DMC” McDaniels, explains why Larry Smith is not just the greatest hip hop producer ever but the greatest producer ever. He tells Tim “There's no Raising Hell if it wasn't for Larry Smith. He built and created the module that we needed to use...”

255: DMC: Raising Hell Birth the Greatness of It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back May 19, 2015

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"The reason why Raising Hell was so def is because you had Chuck D there, KRS–One over there and Rakim coming. So me, Run and Jay, we had to get tight; we had to create the best rap record ever. And by Raising Hell being so dope, [you get] It Takes A Nation [of Millions] and all of that."

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