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What Had Happened Was

Cannibal Ox's Cold Vein and the Rise of Def Jux

What Had Happened Was

Talkhouse

Music Interviews, Music

5.01.6K Ratings

🗓️ 14 April 2021

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

in this episode El-P walks us through the launch of the legendary record label Def Jux. in the initial days of the label Company Flow disbands as El assembles the roster from standout artists in the underground rap scene like Mr. Lif, RJD2 and Aesop Rock. One of the first major releases is Cannibal Ox's classic debut The Cold Vein. El walks us through meeting the duo, putting the album together and unleashing it on the world. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

What up y'all this is open Mike Eagle and welcome to another episode of What Had Happened

0:13.5

Was.

0:14.5

I want to thank all the y'all who have listened and supported and shared and big up.

0:20.6

The previous two episodes of this season with LPs want to thank you all very much.

0:26.0

This is a flagship program on Stony Island Audio which is my podcast network and we need

0:32.4

to constantly be showing people in the world that content like this is important.

0:37.8

So if this is important to you, this kind of musical history that we touch on and these

0:43.3

deep dives we get to do on these projects that we really love, I do encourage you to

0:48.2

rate us and review us on your favorite platforms and if you've done it on your favorite platform,

0:54.3

go to your second favorite platform, you can do it there too.

0:58.1

It ain't against the law, ain't nobody gonna stop you, nobody's gonna jump out from behind

1:02.9

the bush and say hey stop the steel, it's not gonna happen but this is Stony Island Audio,

1:08.4

my podcast network, like I said, we are surviving and thriving on support from listeners like

1:15.7

yourself who are into this music, who this music is important to and yeah the more we can

1:23.3

do to demonstrate to people that this is content that's important to people, then we get

1:28.6

to do more of it, the more we show it's important and what we get to do, I should have wrote

1:32.9

that down before I tried to say it but I'm trying to talk off top of my head but we have

1:38.0

another one of our shows, one of my favorite shows on our network just came back this week.

1:44.2

Sean Cantrowins has his program called Can't Knock the Shuffle.

1:49.0

He breaks with the traditional interview format by doing a shuffle, random shuffle with

1:54.3

an artist catalog and then talking about the songs that come up but I am not going to

1:58.6

tell you about it as well as he could so here is him talking about it because he's better

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