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What Had Happened Was

Leaders of the New School and Busta Rhymes

What Had Happened Was

Talkhouse

Music Interviews, Music

5.01.6K Ratings

🗓️ 16 March 2022

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Dante Ross's next big signing at Elektra Records was the Long Island based Leaders of the New School including Charlie Brown, Dinco D, Milo and a young Busta Rhymes. Overseen by Dante the group releases two albums (A Future Without a Past and T.I.M.E.) but their journey was plagued by in-fighting almost from the very beginning. In this episode we cover the creation of the group and their classic albums and then their evenutal break-up which sets the stage for the solo career of Busta Rhymes. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

I stole that piece of audio, um, I made the Stony Island audio audio tag from a television

0:20.5

commercial.

0:21.5

Audio from a television commercial about a popular, uh, fun place for kids on the South

0:28.6

side of Chicago when I grew up.

0:31.0

So, uh, for anyone wondering, that's the, the backstory to the Stony Island audio

0:38.9

intro.

0:39.9

This is what it happened was I'm open mic eagle and I am telling you facts.

0:44.5

You didn't ask for welcome to season three, episode six.

0:50.1

This episode is centered around leaders of the new school.

0:56.3

This Charlie Brown, Milo and a dance, Denko, and of course, Buster Rhymes, Dante signed

1:03.8

this group after seeing them perform in a way that he thought was incredible and blew

1:10.1

him away.

1:11.1

He went to try to find him and, um, they were broken up already, like, like a week after

1:19.0

he saw them, they was broke up already and that's kind of, um, it kind of sets the stage

1:22.7

for his adventures with leaders of the new school throughout, uh, the creation of their

1:27.3

first and second albums going into Buster Rhymes's solo career.

1:33.8

All that's coming up in a second, please rate and review.

1:37.8

It helps the robots love us.

1:40.2

Also go check out the clips of the show and full episodes available on YouTube, Stony Island

1:44.7

audio.

1:45.7

Uh, look for us there, what it happened was in the raw report from Dice Raw, check out

1:50.4

all the Stony Island audio shows, Fatherhoods with DJ, EFN and Mandy Digital and KGB and

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