Library Rap: The Hip Hop Interviews with Tim Einenkel

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184: DJ JS-1 Won't Strip Naked For You Dec 01, 2014

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DJ JS-1 has a new album called “IT IS WHAT IT ISN'T”(Ground Original 4). He sat down with The Library's Tim Einenkel to talk about his new project which features over 45 MCs on it. JS-1 explained to Tim why artist today who try to go "viral" are compromising the art.

183: Black Sheep Dres On Being EVITAN , An Underground Super Group Nov 25, 2014

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Co-founding member of the legendary hip-hop group Black Sheep Dres, AKA Black Sheep Dres joins Tim on The Library to talk about his legacy, current state of Hip-Hop music and culture and his current work with A Tribe Called Quest member, Jarobi White. "Jarobi is quite the MC," Dres says of the Tribe Called Quest Member. " Listen here to hear Dres talk about working with Jarobi and the mission of the EvitaN project.

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182: Black Sheep Dres's PSA to Children of Color About Police Brutality Nov 25, 2014

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Co-founding member of the legendary hip-hop group Black Sheep Dres, AKA Black Sheep Dres joins Tim on The Library to talk about his legacy, current state of Hip-Hop music and culture and his current work. Tim asks Dres about his new record "Propagation” and why he wrote it. "I was writing a song to all children of color," Dres told Tim. He continued, "Your color will affect you. Will affect your life in away other people don't have to thinking about."

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181: The Library: Black Sheep Dres (Part 2) Nov 24, 2014

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In part 2 of the interview, Co-founding member of the legendary hip-hop group Black Sheep, Dres talks his career post Black Sheep, working with Jarobi of A Tribe Called Quest to form the group EvitaN and the importance of giving respect to the pioneers of the culture.

Quotes from the interview:

"I feel like my flow is always evolving....I feel like I'm a much doper artist then I was 20 years ago. A matter of fact, I know I am. I'm definitely a student of the game at this point...I'm really proud of the MC I've grown to be."
"These days everything is really gimmicky. Everything is very cookie-cutter. They saw a blueprint that work and everybody emulated it. It seem like with a clone, every clone that comes after the original is weaker and softer and smaller and worse then the original."
"Just like the Rolling Stones are accepted and can sell out a stadium right now, that should exist in hip-hop too."

"Hip-Hop is still growing. It's a teenager right now. Give a teenager a million dollars, he's not going to do a lot of smart things with it. He's going to have a lot of fun and might be broke the next year. As we get older, we have to do better. We're at a point now where not everyone is a teenager. There are some young adults in hip-hop. I think hip-hop is starting to become a young adult. With that being said I we need to seek each other. There are things we can do unified, that we can't do on our own. That's where we have to get to....Hip-Hop doesn't need a label at this point, if we have each other."
"We're asked to forget slavery and to get over it. But we have to deal with the direct ramifications of it."
"One of the things I definitely hold onto are my influences. My influences are so important to me. The cats that made me really want to MC are Devastating Tito and Just-Ice...I think it's important that you pay homage to the cats that got you where you are."
"This music (rap) was founded by felons from New York. Cats that would literally take your head off founded something so beautiful that the world now holds onto it."'
"How you win as an artist is that you just be true to yourself."

180: Black Sheep Dres Says Commercial Rap Perpetuates the Prison Cycle Nov 18, 2014

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Black Sheep Dres says "The powers that be seem to contribute to the dysfunction of people of color by perpetuating such lifestyles. By making it very accessible for you to hear things that go totally against the gain of human culture, human nature and just being a human being. These are things that we hear on a daily basis on our radio stations as opposed to some of the uplifting things that do exist. It creates the climate that we are kind of numb to the glorification of the violence. When we hear it, we are not as opposed to it as we should be.....It sets up a climate that the prison industry is big business. It perpetuates people of color being incarcerated, thus the big business of prison continually being blown up. Most prisons are privatized. People that fill these prisons are people of color. The people of color that fill these prisons are all people that were basically listening to the radio and got caught up in the windfall that are pushed on our community. A lot of what we're hearing is literally paid for by the powers that be to keep these mental chains in place. It would be so easy for us to speak of greater things and to show greater things. Instead of us putting that kind of energy into us improving life, we continue to stay stagnated right where we are because it feeds the pockets of something of an agenda that is above our heads "

Part 1 of the interview will be up soon.

179: Thre Library: Black Sheep Dres (Part 1) Nov 17, 2014

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Co-founding member of the legendary hip-hop group Black Sheep Dres, AKA Black Sheep Dre joins Tim on The Library to talk about his legacy, current state of Hip-Hop music and culture and his current work. In part 1 of the interview, Dres talks about Black Sheep, Stevie Wonder's influence on him and Hip-Hop and how race, ageism and dumbing down have played key roles in which kind of rap content is pushed onto the masses.

178: Dres Talks Stevie Wonder's Influence On Hip-Hop Artists Nov 14, 2014

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Co-founding member of the legendary hip-hop group Black Sheep Dres, AKA Black Sheep Dres joins Tim on The Library to talk about his legacy, current state of Hip-Hop music and culture and his current work. Tim asks Dres about Stevie Wonder's influence on not just himself but the Hip-Hop community. Dres says of Stevie Wonder "He introduced me to the power of words...That resonates with a lot of people as well as artists."

177: DJ JS-1 Talks Working With Erick Sermon, Rahzel and Buckshot Nov 13, 2014

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DJ JS-1 is a DJ / turntablist. He's the DJ for Rahzel. He's a member of the world famous Rock Steady Crew and He's a graffiti artist.. His latest album, IT IS WHAT IT ISN'T features over 45 artist. One record on the album is called "Diehard" which features Erick Sermon, Rahzel and Buckshot. On The Library with Tim Einenkel, JS-1 tells Tim how this record came together and what it was like to work with this amazing trio of artists.

Entire interview with DJ JS-1 will be available for download soon.

176: The Library: Chelsea Reject Nov 10, 2014

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Chelsea Reject is a Brooklyn based female emcee who is currently making a name for herself.. Her influences are greats such as Lupe Fiasco, N.E.R.D, Lauryn Hill, Nas, and Common. Chelsea is a very diverse individual and is willing to put her best work forward. Her latest project, CMPLX comes out soon. She joined Tim on The Library this week.

175: Chelsea Reject: WorldstarHipHop Portrays African-Americans as Animals Nov 10, 2014

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Chelsea Reject is a Brooklyn based female emcee who is currently in the making. She spits hard and is not afraid to share her opinion. What does she think of WorldstarHipHop? She tells Tim on The Library that she thinks it portrays African-Americans as "animals....it has a downward spiral for our society."

The entire interview will be available for download soon.

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