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What Had Happened Was

Killer Mike - R.A.P. Music

What Had Happened Was

Talkhouse

Music Interviews, Music

5.01.6K Ratings

🗓️ 12 May 2021

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

In this episode El-P tells the story of the LP that serves as the origin of Run The Jewels. in 2012 Williams Street Records (part of Adult Swim) paired El with Killer Mike to produce an album. The bombastic LP combined the sounds of both artists and changed the course of both of their careers in its wake. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

I'd be wanting to sing along with that so much.

0:10.8

I just walked around my house singing it a lot.

0:14.8

It's a jingle that I produced.

0:17.8

So I'm allowed to like it a little bit.

0:19.4

I hope my name is open my gig and welcome to another episode of What It Happened Was.

0:24.0

This is season two, episode seven of my season long sit down with Mr. LP.

0:31.1

In this episode we are discussing his initial collaboration with Killer Mike.

0:36.2

I imagine many of you all might know him from their ongoing collaboration run the Jules.

0:42.2

But their collaboration started with a project called Rap Music or R.A.P music I'm used

0:47.4

to reading it, not saying it so I have no idea whether or not you spell it out because

0:52.8

it is apparently an acronym which is a question that as it comes out of my mouth I realize

0:59.2

I should have asked LP but didn't.

1:02.8

But this is their initial collaboration that came out on William Street.

1:07.7

Funny thing about this project is that when he did the release party I was working with

1:13.4

Adult Swim.

1:14.4

I was starting to work with Adult Swim at the time and William Street is the record releasing

1:21.6

Arm of Adult Swim so they helped put together the release party for his album in L.A.

1:28.0

And I played it and I met Killer Mike that night and it was at a pretty big venue here

1:36.0

in L.A. called the Echoplex, it probably fits five to seven hundred people unless my memory

1:41.9

and person counting skills are off.

1:45.0

That night though was probably a cool hundred fifty folks in that place so there was a lot

1:49.2

of unintentional social distancing going on but I bet that is like the last under attended

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