Hakim Green–I Sparked Mad Izm

Toure Show

DCP Entertainment

Performing Arts, Arts, Society & Culture

4.8 • 880 Ratings

🗓️ 11 September 2024

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Hakim Green was part of Channel Live a hot 90s rap duo known for the massive hit “Mad-Izm.” The success of that record changed Green’s life in many ways—because he known for talking about weed, people started asking him for it. So he started selling it. But the struggle to make another massive hit led to depression, failure, and homelessness. It’s an incredible life story. Toure Show Episode 447 Host & Writer: Touré Executive Producers: Ryan Woodhall and Ashley J. Hobbs Associate Producer: Adell Coleman Booker: Rae Holliday Engineer: Claire McHale Photographers: Podstream Studios The House: DCP Entertainment Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	riding the train and more from point A to point B and people are going,
0:05.0	Yo, A should Duke from Channel Live.
0:08.0	Yo, what happened to y'all?
0:10.0	When y'all dropping the next joint?
0:12.0	Oh word?
0:13.0	Yo, you know what you should have did, you know what I would have...
0:16.0	Like, oh word, this is what I should have did?
0:18.0	This is what you would have done?
0:19.0	Really? Okay.
0:21.0	And have to experience that every day of your life.
0:24.0	That's pressure.
0:25.0	Dealing with the fall of is hard.
0:29.0	You know, I got a pound of weed in my bag.
0:32.0	But... You know I got a pound of weed in my back
0:37.0	But are you saying that was that caused some depression? Yaw, I was depressed. I was depressed for years.
0:40.0	Depressed and not know it, you know, going from place to place, you know, losing apartments because I can't pay rent, you know, you know,
0:47.7	teaming up with other people who are, you know, depending on you to come with your portion of
0:52.3	rent and you can't,
0:53.6	so you get evicted, now you're homeless.
0:56.1	Yeah, I went through all that.
0:57.4	Hakeem Green from Channel Live has been my friend for decades, great MC, the whole story of how he came up as an MC and how KRS 1 helped them get into the game.
1:12.8	I didn't know the whole story.
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