Episode 49: Mr B. The Gentleman Rhymer

Hip Hop Saved My Life with Romesh Ranganathan

RangaBee Productions and Mr Box

Arts, Comedy, Music

4.8 • 2.2K Ratings

🗓️ 7 March 2018

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Mr B - aka Jim Burke - chats about everything from his deep love for hip hop, his early career in Brit-pop band Collapsed Lung, the evolution of Mr B Gentleman Rhymer and his niche Chap-Hop sound to the skill of writing hip hop parodies.

Find @gentlemanrhymer @RomeshRanga @rupertmajendie @HHSMLpodcast.

Shout out to Radio Wolfgang for letting us use their studio for this recording.

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0:30.2	Hello, this is Ramesh Rang and Ethan, welcome to Hip-Ops Save My Life.
0:39.2	I'm speaking to you from a hotel lobby in Ethiopia, excuse the background noise.
0:43.2	I sound like a journalist or something.
0:45.2	Anyway, what to tell you about today's episode.
0:48.2	So today's episode was with Mr. Be the gentlemen Rhyma.
0:51.2	If you don't know Mr. Be I suggest you check out.
0:53.2	He's basically combined hip hop with kind of like, I don't know, steam punk or something.
0:57.2	He used to be in collapse lung, knows his hip hop backwards and was a great fun.
1:03.2	So great fun, it sounds like the most fucking non-descript thing.
1:07.2	He was brilliant, okay?
1:08.2	I don't need to talk about any more.
1:10.2	Enjoy Hip-Ops Save My Life.
1:11.2	Oh, and the only thing I forgot to say is, you see in the new artwork, it's great.
1:15.2	Thank you to Stuart Chromick for that.
1:17.2	I'm going to be honest, I'm not happy with this intro, but I can't be asked to re-record it.
1:20.2	So deal with it. Bye-bye.
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