All You Can Eat: The Bay Area’s Hip-Hop Food Hustles

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🗓️ 15 March 2023

⏱️ 56 minutes

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The Bay Area has a storied hip hop legacy. We’ve also got a legendary food scene. Maybe it’s natural that these two core components of the Bay Area would find each other. In our latest edition of All You Can Eat, our series on Bay Area food cultures with KQED food editor Luke Tsai, we’ll talk about Bay Area rappers in the food world. E-40 is selling ice cream and pre-packaged burritos, Larry June has a boba company and Don Toriano is lining up customers at his Vegan Mob barbecue spots. We talk Bay Area Hip Hop Food Hustles. Guests: Alan Chazaro, food reporter, KQED - He is also a rapper and educator Luke Tsai, food editor, KQED Arts and Culture Droop E, rapper and record producer; represents Goon With The Spoon; son of E-40 Clyde Carson, Oakland rapper, co-owner of Hyphy Juice Don Toriano, rapper; owner, Vegan Mob Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:03.0	As our friends at KQEDE Arts are documenting all year long,
1:08.5	the Bay Area has a storied hip-hop history from the very roots of the music to this very instant.
1:13.2	And we also have a legendary food scene and have for decades.
1:18.5	So it's natural, perhaps, that these two core components of bait culture would find each other.
1:23.4	In today's show, our latest edition of the continuing series All You Can Eat with Luke's Eye,
1:29.9	we look at the rap game, food game crossover from E40s packaged burritos to Larry June's Boba Company.
1:49.6	We're talking that hip-hop food hustle that's coming up next after this news. Welcome to Forum.
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