Mysonne Talks About His Prison Experience, Snitching, Wokeness, Breonna Taylor, and Activism

People's Party with Talib Kweli

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4.4 • 2.1K Ratings

🗓️ 11 October 2021

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

Mysonne is one of the most fascinating, revolutionary voices in rap music. He’s a one-time drug dealer now standing on the frontlines as an activist. A seemingly underground artist whose Funk Flex freestyles do mega-numbers. A man who reps his home harder than just about anyone while wrestling with big issues in his bars. Sounds fascinating, right? Well, he is. If you haven’t heard Mysonne’s story, don’t know about his incredible activism and advocacy, and haven’t explored his deep, diverse catalog — this is the convo to start with.

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0:00.0	Peace and love party people. This is Talib Kuala Lee to BKMC, the MCEO.
0:03.8	You are about to hear an excerpt of People's Party hosted by me and my lovely and talented co-host,
0:08.6	Ms. Jasmine Lee. What up Jasmine? What up Peeps to hear our entire combo and all of our episodes
0:13.6	with stars from the game to Lil Kim, to Anthony Anderson, to my sister Tiffany Haddish,
0:18.5	subscribe to the Luminary channel on Apple Podcasts. Okay, so I did time myself.
0:24.4	You did about 16 hours in the whole video. Hard times. It was hard, hard times. They fed me
0:31.1	Thanksgiving dinner and that's when I broke down. For your experience, you were a rapper in jail.
0:36.1	What is your unique experience from that and was it hard seeing people that you knew personally
0:42.3	become successful while you were locked up? It was hard. It was really hard watching 50 cent.
0:49.2	When you look at this objective, I was slated ahead of him. Watching all of these different
1:03.9	watching Shine drop his album and me and Shine was just in the studio. Knowing that I was supposed to
1:10.7	drop my album before most of these people that was dropping. This watching careers take off.
1:15.5	Watching fabulous take off. Knowing that the first time I heard FAB, I brought him. He was supposed
1:22.5	to be on the song with me and it was like, this is my new artist. I'm saying, just literally watching
1:28.8	all of these artists just continue to know where I was supposed to be. It was tough.
1:35.2	It was tough literally watching artists just watching John Roo's album drop and seeing him
1:41.0	so 10 and we was both signed at the same exact time. We had both our labels. We both on
1:49.0	Def Jam and Chris was telling Leo, I bet you might song or something more than John Roo and we had
1:54.0	this competition in Def Jam. Knowing that it was good competition and watching everybody just take
2:00.3	off and do what they was doing. It was hard. Seven years just sitting there. I say to myself every
2:08.2	minute in jail that you don't learn, that you don't grow mentally, physically, emotionally,
2:14.8	the system went. I had to utilize it as few. I had to utilize it and I just continued to grow,
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