Like poppa, like son: Rodney Carmichael

Louder Than A Riot

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Music History, Music, Society & Culture, Music Interviews, True Crime

4.4 • 3.1K Ratings

🗓️ 25 May 2023

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

For Louder host Rodney Carmichael, interrogating misogynoir in hip-hop means confronting some hard questions — as a man, and especially as a father. As Rodney thinks about raising the next generation without replicating his mistakes, he's looking more closely at how hip-hop shaped his definition of masculinity. On this episode, something a little different: part meditation, part conversation — between Rodney and writers Kiese Laymon and Jamilah Lemieux — about beats, rhymes and life.

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0:00.0	A warning before we begin, this podcast is explicit in every way.
0:06.6	And in this episode, the N-Ware can be heard multiple times.
0:10.6	Do you know what's on there?
0:14.6	Everything is frozen.
0:18.6	Oh, good. Everything is frozen. That's right.
0:22.6	You got it.
0:24.6	You're looking good.
0:26.6	Three years old might seem like a really young age to put your son on the biggy smiles.
0:31.6	But the way I see it, nothing could be more fun.
0:35.6	Maybe that's the ego-tistical part of parenting.
0:38.6	The part that makes you feel like a mad scientist.
0:42.6	Like, I get to be the first person to introduce this dude to hip-hop.
0:46.6	It's crazy. Where do I begin?
0:50.6	I got my answer with my wife bought him for biggy t-shirt.
0:55.6	I want to listen to the other B.I.G song.
0:59.6	Okay, the other B.I.G song, you want to listen to this one?
1:04.6	No, that's not the B.I.G song.
1:06.6	I just want to go on in here.
1:08.6	I really like this one, you don't want it?
1:10.6	It's so cool to be a car-cool, which I had to affect.
1:14.6	Talking about the gaps in your apps.
1:17.6	You all like that?
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