BONUS: The Badder, The Better

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🗓️ 29 November 2020

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Summary

Brooklyn rapper Bobby Shmurda blew up in 2014 off of his song "Hot N****" and the instantly viral Shmoney Dance. But just months after his breakout hit, Bobby and about a dozen of his friends were arrested and slapped with conspiracy charges in connection with a murder and several other shootings.

In this episode of NPR's new podcast Louder Than A Riot, hosts Rodney Carmichael and Sidney Madden head to Clinton Correctional Facility in upstate New York to meet Bobby for an exclusive in-person interview, tour his neighborhood with his crew, grab a bite at his mom's seafood joint and learn new details of the studio raid that changed Bobby's life.

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0:00.0	Hey, consider this listeners, it's Ari Shapiro.
0:03.2	It's Sunday, and we've got a bonus episode for you.
0:06.0	It's from NPR Music's new podcast, Louder Than A Riot.
0:10.6	Hosts Rodney Carmichael and Sydney Madden explore the last 40 years of hip hop and mass
0:15.8	incarceration, and they ask how those two institutions are interconnected.
0:21.2	Well the episode we're bringing you today is the first in a trilogy that examines the
0:25.2	life of Brooklyn rapper Bobby Schmurda.
0:28.2	Louder to hit it big in 2014 with his song Hot Boy, but just months later, he was arrested
0:33.6	and charged with conspiracy in connection to a murder.
0:37.1	Okay, here it is, Louder Than A Riot, episode 6, The Battle The Better.
0:41.6	A warning before we begin.
0:49.6	This podcast is explicit in every way.
0:53.7	December 16, 2014.
0:56.6	Overcast Evening in New York City, and shot money XL, he's feeling good.
1:02.8	The hip hop vet and executive VP at Epic Records has just come in from LA, and he said that
1:08.0	the quad studios in Midtown Manhattan to meet one of his protegees.
1:12.5	20-year-old rapper Bobby Schmurda.
1:15.5	Shaw hasn't felt this excited about an artist since he helped develop 50 Cent and turn
1:20.6	him into a household name, but that was over a decade ago.
1:25.1	I was in the midst of just trying to find stars and there was nothing I could see that
1:29.1	was going on in New York that I could find.
1:31.4	Yeah, nothing going on in New York.
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