Library Rap: The Hip Hop Interviews with Tim Einenkel

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244: Remi: Rap Speaks For The Voiceless 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 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.”

243: D.M.C.: Kendrick Lamar Is Doing Hip Hop the Right Way Apr 08, 2015

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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.

242: Darryl "D.M.C." McDaniels: Meeting Sarah McLachlan Pushed My Responsibility As an Artist Apr 08, 2015

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“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
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241: The Library: Red Pill Interview Apr 07, 2015

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This week on The Library, Tim talks to Detroit MC, Red Pill about his debut album for Mello Music Group "Look What This World Did To Us." What was the goal of the album? Red Pill tells Tim "I wanted to make this record kind of like a novel, where you listen to it and it almost sounds like an old dusty used book; where it smells like that, where it feels like that...Even in the recording process its got a real dusty feel that I like."

240: The Library: J-Live (His Own Self Interview Mar 31, 2015

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This week on The Library, Tim talks to J-Live about his new album "His Own Self" which was completely self produced. Tim and J-Live discuss almost every track on the album including the track "I Am Man" which serves as J's open letter to abusive police as well as their apologists and supporters. What inspired him to write this record?

"When things are documented and it's right there for everybody to see and there's still no indictments, not convictions, no remorse, then it becomes so blatant for the whole world to see what's going on....I didn't want to focus on any one particular case, as much as allude to those cases without naming names because it is always somebody...I wanted to try to keep the song as timeless as the topic because when things happen in the future you can still go back to that song and it doesn't necessarily become the Ferguson song, or the Florida song, or the L.A. Song, or the New York song but so much the National song...This is what we're after, this is what's unacceptable; this is what must stop...Just because there's inherent fear of black people because of the way we're perceived in the media, you cannot let that be an excuse for excessive force, or lethal force when it comes to enforcing a law. It can't be like that. We have an human right and a constitutional right to due process and to be treated equally."

239: J-Live: Real Hip Hop Has Lost Patience with the Hot 97s and Power 105s Mar 28, 2015

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On March 31st, J-Live will release his 7th album, "His Own Self;" an album. One track on the album is called "Mic Singletary." J spits “The/ station don’t play it/they're playing with our patience/. ”On The Library with Tim Einenkel, I asked J-Live what role does commercial radio play for him as a hip hop artist?

“There's plenty of satellite radio that plays real hip hop," J-Live told Tim..." There's plenty of internet radio stations that play real hip hop. And there's tons of college radio that plays it. As far as the charts and the billboards and the Hot 97s and the Power 105s of the world...It's not so much, why don't you accept us or why don't you show the full spectrum of hip hop as much as, we ain't really checking for y'all no more. We've lost patience. There's so many different ways to get this music to the people, that you don't have to focus on that and stress that.”

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238: J-Live: I Am Man Is Timeless Because Police Brutality Will Happen Again Mar 28, 2015

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On March 31st, J-Live will release his 7th album, "His Own Self;" an album. One track on the album is called "I Am Man" which serves as J’s open letter to abusive police as well as their apologists and supporters. On The Library with Tim Einenkel, J-Live explains why he wrote the track:

237: J-Live: Challenge of Not Having Features Mar 26, 2015

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On March 31st, J-Live will release his 7th album, "His Own Self;" an album with zero features. When asked on The Library with Tim Einenkel what if their were any challenges to being the only MC on the album, J-Live said:

"I don't know if it's so much dominating the time on the mic was a challenge as much as when you take off that artist hat and put on that marketing hat, a lot of times when you're putting together the one-sheet for a record, one of the selling points is for the distributor, the retailer, for the stores is who else is involved in it...”

Entire interview with J-Live will be available on March 31, 2015

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236: J-Live: Challenge of Not Having Features Mar 26, 2015

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Entire interview with J-Live will be available on March 31, 2015

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235: J-Live: 20 Years Strong and Never Crossed Over Mar 26, 2015

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On March 31st, J-Live will release his 7th album, "His Own Self,", when asked on The Library with Tim Einenkel how he's been able to stay truth to himself as an artist and have not fall victim to "selling out", J responded:

"I was raised in what people call the Golden Era as far as you don't bite, you don't get a ghostwriter, you try to push the envelope style wise, you don't just sound the same every time, that monotone, you're not dumbing down your vocabulary or your message. So in that sense, I haven't crossed over in those ways."

Entire interview with J-Live will be available on March 31, 2015
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