Brand Nubian Break-up: Grand Puba's Reel-to-Reel and Brand Nubian's In God We Trust

What Had Happened Was

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🗓️ 9 March 2022

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Coming off the slow burn success of their debut album, divisions begin to form in Brand Nubian and Grand Puba decides to go solo. Puba goes on to make his debut solo album Reel to Reel and Brand Nubian build their second LP In God We Trust with Sadat X and Lord Jamar holding the flag. All of New York was watching to see which side would come out on top and Dante Ross was the A & R for both albums. In this episode he tells the story of the break-up, the albums and the legacy of all involved. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Yo, my name is Open Mike Eagle. Welcome to what it happened was season three. Episode five
0:15.6	thanks again for all of the support so far. Um, awesome to see the response to last week's
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0:47.6	to, uh, improve our standing with the algorithm to make the robots love a shout-out to
0:57.3	Jake Bowman who does our wonderful editing. I want to give him a special shout-out. This shows a lot
1:02.3	of work. Um, all of the audio drops that we put in, um, all the different moving parts of the
1:08.6	episode. It takes a lot of Mr. Bowman's time so I want to shout him out. Shout out to Will Hegel who
1:13.2	does all of our video editing because that also takes a lot of work. Um, we have a lot of clips
1:21.4	of what it happened was over on YouTube. Stony Island Audio has an entire YouTube account
1:27.2	and a page with clips from this show, clips from the Raw Report with Dice Raw. We're a pretty
1:34.8	sizable podcast network with hip-hop flavored programming. Just creative folks in general
1:42.7	making shows, speaking about what they do and how they do it. So if you're, uh, if you're a YouTube
1:50.1	user, go check us out. Tell your friends, especially your friends who listen to messy shit on DJ Vlad.
1:58.0	We have a much better brand of hip-hop talk. It's most of the time actually. We talk, we talk
2:05.3	a fair amount of shit ourselves. Speaking of Stony Island Audio, we have a new-ish show. It's a
2:12.7	new-ish because it was a live show for a long time and it's by one of our hosts, Sean Cantrowitz,
2:17.5	who was previously doing this show with us called Can't Knock the Shuffle, an excellent interview
2:22.1	show. He's returning with the podcast version of a live show he does. And that show is called
2:29.0	The Questions. Are you a rap nerd? Would you say you know a good deal of hip-hop trivia?
2:37.4	Thinking no more than say UGK member and hip-hop legend, Bun B. Run the Jewels takes their name
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