De La Soul is Dead

What Had Happened Was

Talkhouse

Music Interviews, Music

5.0 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 5 August 2020

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

In 1991 after the smash success of their debut album 3ft High and Rising, De La Soul and Prince Paul become household names and with that comes strangers harassing them with unwanted demo tapes, weird encounters at Burger King, and rumors being spread about the group. All of these problems are front and center on their second album, the brilliant De La Soul is Dead. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Greetings ladies and gentlemen this is open my gigo recording live from the internet
0:05.3	y'all know me though y'all heard my voice for a long long time so this time I'm coming back at you, but I'm not coming alone.
0:15.0	The black prince? Could I be right?
0:17.0	I brought the legendary prince.
0:20.0	Pup-pup-pah!
0:21.0	World-famous disc joc and fence the of others getting hip-hop and d'Am he want to Grammy with Chris Rock
0:26.4	Yeah.
0:27.4	I was in the mother-fucking yard selling down the mother-fucking harbor, right?
0:30.4	Killing out of the mother-of-the-mother-fits-all.
0:31.8	I interviewed the man from here in computer land
0:34.3	I'm asking them questions on behalf of the superfans.
0:37.4	Yeah, because I'm born and the answers are for everybody. He got stories, so I ask for one.
0:44.0	We're having fun in labs because he has a ton, yeah.
0:48.0	And like that, a podcast begun, because he answered,
0:51.0	well, what had happened was. Good day out to everybody. My name is Open Mike Eagle and I'm here once again with the
1:09.7	one and only Mr Prince Paul. Yay Yay! and this is what had happened was. On this is what had happened was. On this
1:20.4	podcast we take a deep dive we spend some time talking to Mr Prince Paul about his illustrious career.
1:27.0	Today on the show I'm going to talk about another one of his projects is near and dear to me.
1:33.2	Oh, spoiler, they're all near dear to me.
1:36.0	I'm sure I can name a few.
1:38.0	That won't be as near or dear.
1:40.7	You're right.
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