Library Rap: The Hip Hop Interviews with Tim Einenkel

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254: DMC: Talks the Greatness of Biggie and Tupac May 19, 2015

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Darryl DMC McDaniels tells Tim on The Library, "The reason why Pac is a legend is because 2 things, Brenda Had A Baby and Dear Mama. That's what the powers that be are scared of. A guy that looks and sounds like Pac and goes through what he goes through, talking about Mama..That's powerful. 'Now, shut him up. Don't let the kids see goodness.'"

253: DMC: Talks Why Creative Evolution is Key to Hip Hop Longevity May 19, 2015

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Want to know why being different is essential to the longevity of rap music? Darryl "DMC" McDaniels tells The Library in the final part of their interview. The co-founding member of the legendary group, Run - DMC explains "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"

252: The Library: Darryl “DMC” McDaniels Interview Part 2 May 12, 2015

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This week on The Library, we hear part 2 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 why he never cared for the business side of rap, his thoughts on Kendrick Lamar and how his writing changed after meeting Sarah McLachlan.

He tells Tim:

“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....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.”

251: D.M.C: Negative Records Were Run-D.M.C.'s Downfall May 11, 2015

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"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

250: The Library: Wordsworth Talks eMC's The Tonite Show (Exclusive) May 04, 2015

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"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.

249: The Library: Grandmaster Caz Interview Apr 29, 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 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

248: The Library: Darryl “DMC” McDaniels Interview Part 1 Apr 21, 2015

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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."

247: DMC: Mainstream Hip Hop Creates Homicide and Genocide Apr 20, 2015

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"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

246: The Library: Remi and Sensible J Interview Apr 14, 2015

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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...”

245: Australian Artists Explain True Aussie Hip Hop If It's Not Iggy Azalea Apr 10, 2015

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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”

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