An interview with Consequence | The making of Slow Jamz | Working with Kanye | A Tribe Called Quest

Watching the Throne: A Lyrical Analysis of Kanye West

New School Critics

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4.8 • 692 Ratings

🗓️ 1 March 2022

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

A hitmaker across four decades, as a solo artist, featured artist, writer, and advisor, Consequence has had a legendary career. On this episode of Watching the Throne, he details his journey from A Tribe Called Quest to his own work to his work with Kanye West. Specifically, we hear stories about the making of the beat for Slow Jamz, as well as some thoughts on Jeen-Yuhs, and conversation about working on ye in Wyoming and what it meant to return to A Tribe Called Quest for 2016's "We Got It From Here... Thank You 4 Your Service." His new album drops soon, with the lead single, "Bloodstain," produced by Kanye. If you'd like to support the show (and hear this episode ad-free), then join our Patreon community. You can also watch this podcast in video form over on our YouTube channel. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Everybody want to know what I would do if I didn't win.
0:07.0	I guess we'll never know.
0:13.0	So keep your love.
0:16.0	I don't get enough of it.
0:19.0	Jesus just rose again.
0:25.6	Listen to the kids.
0:34.1	Welcome to watching the throne.
0:35.8	My name is Chris Lambert and today we are joined by a legend who has been making hip-hop history for four decades. On the mic and with the pen from a tribe called Quest to songs like Spaceship, to Say You Will, to Hurricane. I'm talking about consequence.
0:52.2	Thanks for being here today.
0:55.7	Thanks for having me, man.
0:57.8	So the other day on Twitter, you posted a clip from Genius part two that shows Jamie Fox
1:06.2	and Yeh in the studio starting to put together the feature intro to slow jams and you said this clip shows
1:15.3	how jamey fox ended up doing the feature but which podcast should i go on to tell the story of how
1:20.3	the beat was made and you were generous enough to select us which was very nice of you so thank you
1:27.2	no you know um try to try to keep it,
1:30.3	try to keep it ground level.
1:32.7	You know what I mean?
1:33.9	You know, these stories, in my estimation,
1:37.8	like really for the fans, you know, for the fans,
1:42.3	putting the fans that started with us.
1:43.7	And obviously, some of the newer fans that um
1:48.1	weren't around for the beginning um architectural work of with it all that you see in the public
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