Good day y'all, this is your friendly neighborhood, Open Mike Eagle here, and I just wanted to give you all a quick word before this episode.

This episode we're about to hear is actually the first episode to me and Prince Paul recorded for what had happened was.

And I wanted to shout that out just in case our energy isn't quite the same as it usually is.

We were kind of just really meeting at that point and if you hear us allude to some

information or some topics that we have since discussed way further but we don't get too deep into it was because this episode was recorded first.

And hearing it back for me was very interesting because it reminded me that we taped this first

episode as a pilot for a larger

podcast company that expressed interest in the idea so it was over a year ago now

flew to New York and got the chance to sit with Prince Paul in the studio, and

we talked about the subject of this episode, which is Native Tungs, which is an era of hip-hop

history that is so important to me and I cherish it so much so I felt so fortunate

to be able to talk to Paul about it and when I listened to the episode back I was so excited thinking

about how many other people might want to hear Paul talk about this era and these groups that he was involved in and

we submitted the pilot and that big company told us that they couldn't

figure out how to sell ads on it. They didn't feel like their ad team knew what to do with our

program and what they were basically saying is for their purposes they didn't

really see the value in it. And that was one of the things that made me start my own podcast network.

It's because I see the value of conversations like this and from the reaction that this show gets,

for people who have been checking it out and thank you all for listening and thank you all for telling other people about it.

Thank you all for shouting and get out on social media.

I can tell these stories are valuable for people. I can tell that these songs,

these albums, they mean a lot to people. And Prince Paul as aony Island audio on on Twitter.

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