A Prince Among Thieves

What Had Happened Was

Talkhouse

Music Interviews, Music

5.0 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 15 July 2020

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

In 1999 in the height of rap’s jiggy era Prince Paul made one of the most imaginative projects in music history. A Prince Among Thieves is a fully formed musical novel born from Paul’s creative vision and fueled by pain in his personal life. In this episode he walks us through the struggles of producing the album, the triumphs of completing it and how close he came to actually developing it into a full-length movie. Its the story of a naive and talented rapper named Tariq (played by Breezely Brewin) and it unfolds through rap songs featuring legends like Biz Markie, Big Daddy Kane, De La Soul and many more Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Greetings ladies and gentlemen this is open my gigo recording live from the internet
0:05.3	y'all know me though y'all heard my voice for a long long time so this time I'm coming back at you, but I'm not coming alone.
0:15.0	The black prince? Could I be right?
0:17.0	I brought the legendary prince.
0:20.0	Pup-pup-pah!
0:21.0	World-famous disc joc and fence the of others getting hip-hop and d'we want to Grammy with Chris Rock?
0:26.4	Yeah.
0:27.4	I was in the mother-fucking yacht selling down the mother-fucking harbor, right?
0:30.4	Shelling down the mother-of-the-mother-fits-all.
0:31.8	I interviewed the man from here in computer land
0:34.3	I'm asking them questions on behalf of the superfans.
0:37.4	Yeah, because I'm born and the answers are for everybody. He got stories, so I ask for one.
0:44.0	We're having fun in labs because he has a ton, yeah.
0:48.0	And like that, a podcast begun, because he answered,
0:51.0	well, what had happened was. Good morning internet. My name is Open Mike Eagle and I'm here once again with
1:10.9	the legendary one and only Mr Prince Paul. That's right and this is what had
1:16.6	happened was. On this show we do deep dives on moments in the illustrious career Mr Prince Paul.
1:27.0	He loves hearing how illustrious he is.
1:31.0	I know, right?
1:32.0	What was the proper definition for illustrious? It just means you just wear a cape, that's all it means.
1:36.0	It was a giant purple cape all the time. I always hear it, but I never know what the exact definition is.
1:42.0	The project that we're going to talk about today is one of the most
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