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What Had Happened Was

Company Flow part 2: Funcrusher Plus

What Had Happened Was

Talkhouse

Music Interviews, Music

5.01.6K Ratings

🗓️ 7 April 2021

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

on this episode El-P breaks down Company Flow's Funcrusher Plus LP. He discusses the origins of his unique approach to production and the changes between the EP version and the final commercial release, the alchemy of The Fire in Which You Burn, and the disagreements that eventually led to the dissolution of the group Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

I'm down, I'm down, I'm off, I can't find you.

0:03.4

I ain't never told me how this is going on in the whole year.

0:08.6

But up y'all, this is Open, Mike, Eagle, and welcome to another episode of what had happened

0:13.3

was where I sit down every week, this season, this is season two, I sit down every week with

0:19.6

Mr. L.P. of Ronda Jewel's fame, of definitive juxtaphame, and we're going all the way back

0:25.9

to the beginning in this episode and the last episode with Company Flow.

0:31.2

In that first episode, and thank you all for listening, thank you all for downloading.

0:35.4

It was incredibly successful for us.

0:40.0

In that episode, we covered his backstory, some of his youth leading up to the creation

0:46.4

of Company Flow.

0:47.4

And since we covered all of that backstory last episode on this one, we're diving right

0:51.4

in with their debut, Fun Crusher Plus, which is the first album I ever heard from them.

0:57.6

So it's a very important piece of music to me, and we get to dive in and talk about, you

1:02.5

know, the indelible MCs, which was the collective that included J. Treads and Juggernaut, we talked

1:08.4

about Stretching Bobito and the entire rap scene and sprung up around that very important

1:13.8

radio show.

1:16.0

We even talk about the seeds in the beginnings of the group breaking up shortly after that

1:21.8

album is released.

1:24.4

So like I said, thank you all for checking that out.

1:27.2

This show is part of the Stoney Island Audio Network, which is a podcast network that

1:31.8

I started to give an opportunity to people inside of hip hop to tell their own stories

1:37.2

from their own ankles and control, their own narratives.

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