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Bullseye with Jesse Thorne is a production of maximum fun dot org and is distributed by NPR. It's Bullseye I'm Jesse Thorne. My first guests this week are two of hip-hop's greatest heroes. The first is Pete Rock, one of the greatest beatmakers of all time.

In the late 1980s and early 90s he recorded with the rapper CL Smooth, making some of the most beloved records in the history of the genre.

Pete Rock's dusty fingers reached into the deepest corners of record chops and thrift

stores, pulling out perfect loops and drum sounds and pushing the limits of the SP-1,200 sampler. The second is the rapper Common, who I mean that's common Chicago's

always acts what's the bulge in my pocket.

I tell them papers.

I rock the top to bottom.

The second is the rapper Common, who, I mean, I mean that's common Chicago's favorite son winner of a

Grammy a Golden Globe and an Academy Award a man who did a tiny desk concert at

the White House.

And you don't stop until the beat cops since it'll be the short shot.

Come on.

I met this girl when I was 10 years old.

What I love most, she had so much soul. She was old school. old. Pete Rock and Common had been friends for decades but they had hardly worked together

until now. Pete and Common just released the Auditorium volume one a 15 track epic here's one of those songs dream Maybe we can do it take your time do it right. I was seeing melodies and rhythms through the night

This was a dream that felt real like a fight. What made it real? Jay Diller was there in the light

A movement was happening

A movement was happening kuji and polo talking about they back again. I seen Prince

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