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What Had Happened Was

Company Flow part 1: El’s origin story

What Had Happened Was

Talkhouse

Music Interviews, Music

5.01.6K Ratings

🗓️ 31 March 2021

⏱️ 83 minutes

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Summary

to kick off this season Open Mike Eagle and El-P dig into El's early life leading up to his first recordings and the forming of the seminal underground rap group Company Flow. Along the way we hear the story of his first encounter with the music business and how that informed the ’independent as f*ck’ aesthetic of his early releases. We then explore the record label bidding war that lands the group at legendary underground label Rawkus Records. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

My goodness, we are back. My name is open mic eagle. And this is what it happened was this is season two

0:15.1

episode one of what it happened was

0:18.1

I'm your host open mic eagle and I am just

0:20.4

Happy to be here feel super

0:23.2

fortunate coming off of a successful season one

0:26.6

in which we did a deep dive on the career of the legendary Prince Paul discussing

0:31.6

all of his efforts from daylight soul to Chris Rock to grave diggers to handsome boy model in

0:36.3

school and everything in between

0:38.6

um and now into this season where we sit down with LP of company flow definitive jucks

0:47.4

run the jewels fame and we do a deep dive on his career giving him a chance to tell his own story

0:53.5

um like i said i'm happy to be here super fans of both of these people um both of them

1:01.7

influencing my work and my journey and um you know i'm lucky to be in this seat being able to

1:07.6

ask some questions and for them to come on this platform and use it as an opportunity to tell

1:11.9

their own stories that's what the show is about is what my podcast network stony island audio

1:17.7

is all about um we have a bunch of shows on stony island audio

1:23.2

uh a lot of them sitting around people inside the hip hop using podcasting as a platform to tell their

1:28.4

own stories and before we get into the episode i want to try to uh shine a light on

1:35.5

one of our podcasts this one is the dad bod rap pod if you're a fan of season one of what

1:44.0

it happened was and you're interested in and um the subject of this season uh you are very

1:51.0

well may find some enjoyment and dad by rap pod and rather than me trying to tell their story he was

1:56.6

a he was a snippet of the hosts telling us to do it themselves i'm demon Carter i'm nape a block

2:03.1

i'm david moth case stony island we are the dad bod rap pod three men of a certain age that get

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