Hieroglyphics' Casual on the song that changed his life

Bullseye with Jesse Thorn

Jesse Thorn

Society & Culture

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🗓️ 18 April 2025

⏱️ 14 minutes

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The Song That Changed My Life is a segment that gives a chance for musicians and artists to tell us about the song that made them who they are. This week, we talked to Casual – he was a founding member of underground Bay Area rap crew Hieroglyphics. Casual talks about Ride the Rhythm from Chill Rob G's debut album. The track helped Casual visualize his own flow when he was coming up. Casual breaks down the song's lyrics and Chill Rob G's contributions to the genre.

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0:00.0	Bullseye with Jesse Thorn is a production of Maximum Fun.org and is distributed by NPR.
0:25.6	It's Bullseye. I'm Jesse Thorne. Time now for the song That Changed My Life,
0:30.2	a special segment where musicians share with us the song that made them who they are.
0:35.2	Up this week is Casual. It was a founding member of Hieroglyphics,
0:39.0	Hyro being one of the most legendary underground hip-hop crews of all time, including Souls of Mischief, Pep Love, Domino, Del the Funky Homo Sapien,
0:45.3	and our guest, Casual.
0:47.1	You can put me in a rhyme and bow, turned it out with out, no problem, and seas is like chemicals,
0:52.5	watch me dissolve, many individuals invest in hip-hop.
0:56.4	I live them all over the floor like cigar intestines.
0:59.1	You better count your blessings.
1:00.8	It amounts to less than zero.
1:03.0	The high-ro.
1:04.5	Hieroglyphic cyclists hit with rugs that are rega.
1:08.9	The crew's 1998 album, Third Eye Vision, is one of the greatest hip-hop records ever made.
1:15.1	A personal favorite of mine, I bet I could wrap along with the whole thing.
1:19.4	Casual is also a prolific solo emce.
1:22.0	In 1994, he released another classic Fear itself.
1:27.7	Starting with the boom!
1:29.5	That's a sound from the stuff that we muff.
1:32.2	It's magic.
1:33.1	I'm dragging a folk to doom.
1:34.9	And still refrain from being bluff.
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