Louder Than A Riot: 'The Badder, The Better: Bobby Shmurda (Pt 1)'

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🗓️ 16 November 2020

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The rapper Bobby Shmurda had a big viral hit in 2014, and it looked like he was going to be a star. But just months later, Bobby and his friends were arrested and charged in connection with a murder and several other shootings. Our friends at NPR Music podcast Louder Than A Riot trace the interconnected rise of hip-hop and mass incarceration, and they take a look at Bobby's story in this episode.

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0:00.0	Hey y'all, you are listening to It's Been A Minute from NPR.
0:03.2	I'm Sam Sanders and I got a question for you.
0:06.8	Do you remember this song?
0:09.2	In the catchy, it's called Hot Boy.
0:17.2	Well, that is the radio friendly name of the song.
0:19.6	And this song, Hot Boy, it is by a rapper named Bobby Schmurder.
0:23.6	So, Hot Boy was a very big and very viral hit.
0:27.8	It came out in 2014.
0:29.5	I remember the video.
0:30.4	It had this really great dance.
0:32.2	Bobby was like throwing his hat in the air.
0:33.8	It was funny.
0:34.6	It was cute.
0:35.9	It was everywhere for a while.
0:37.3	And Bobby Schmurder seemed like he was going to be a very big star.
0:40.8	Thing is, though, after the song rose to the top of the charts,
0:44.2	Bobby Schmurder kind of disappeared.
0:45.9	And I have not heard another song from him since.
0:49.3	So, in this special episode, my friends over at Loudr
0:52.4	than the Riot are going to tell us what happened to Bobby.
0:55.8	Loudr than the Riot is a new music podcast from NPR Music.
0:59.2	It's a limited run series looking at the rise of hip hop and mass incarceration in America.
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