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What Had Happened Was

Cancer 4 Cure

What Had Happened Was

Talkhouse

Music Interviews, Music

5.01.6K Ratings

🗓️ 19 May 2021

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

In 2012 after the dissolution of his record label Def Jux and the death of his friend and collaborator Camu Tao, El-P released his 3rd solo album Cancer 4 Cure. The album chronicles El-P at one of his lowest points and though he made it thinking it might be his last project, it changed the course of his entire career. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

I swear it's a bop, it's just a bop. My name is open, Mike Eagle. Welcome to what

0:11.9

it happened was this is season two episode eight of our sit down with LP. You may know

0:20.2

I've run the jewels. You may know I'm company flow. The broadcast days are his record

0:24.9

label, Deaf Jucks on this particular episode. As we deep dive through his career, we're going

0:30.4

to speak about his third solo album, Cancer for Cure. Before we get to that, we want to

0:38.2

shut out our sponsors. We have a sponsor for this week's episode and it's ExpressVPN.

0:44.2

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0:50.3

as incognito as you think. And why would it be? Because incognito mode is part of the

0:54.4

Chrome browser, which is a Google product. Google makes all this money by letting companies

0:59.5

know what you do when you online use Google products. This is how they make their money.

1:03.8

There's a $5 billion class action lawsuit against Google in California where Google is accused

1:09.5

of secretly collecting user data when people think they're using incognito to be secretive

1:14.5

online. But Google really like not. I'm selling that. So how do you actually make yourself

1:19.7

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1:25.4

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1:29.3

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1:35.2

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1:40.5

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1:46.7

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1:51.3

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