Nipsey Hussle Biography with Rob Kenner

Toure Show

DCP Entertainment

Society & Culture, Arts, Performing Arts

4.8 • 880 Ratings

🗓️ 16 April 2021

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Nipsey Hussle is one of the most interesting people in recent hip hop history. His biographer Rob Kenner, author of The Marathon Don’t Stop, talks about who Nip was, how he came up and what made him so special. To hear this awesome conversation go to http://patreon.com/toureshow and subscribe. For just $5 a month you get 4 Friday Patreon exclusives and the full version of our Wednesday shows and you get to help us keep making this show! Toure Show Episode 236 Host & Writer: Touré Senior Producer: Jackie Garofano Assistant Producer: Adell Coleman Editor: Ryan Woodhall Photographers: Chuck Marcus and Shanta Covington Booker: Claudia Jean The House: DCP Entertainment Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Support the show: https://www.dcpofficial.com/toureshow See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	And First time I really heard about Nipse Hustle, I heard this guy had sold a mixtape
0:22.1	a mixtape for a hundred dollars and Jay-Z had bought a whole ton of them.
0:27.0	Well that's only the guys gotta be hot to death if Jay-Z's out here buying his
0:32.0	mixtape for $100, but the whole thing wasn't just
0:39.0	the music. It was the price and the relationship to the consumers that was created by that price.
0:50.0	That he was saying, people are proud to pay they want to support me that's what they're
0:57.9	doing wait let me let me let me let me let me let me let me let me let me let me let me
1:01.9	nipse he hust' biographer Rob Kenner
1:04.6	explain the story.
1:06.8	Now, I want you to tell us this story.
1:07.8	He sold a mixtape for $100.
1:11.6	A physical copy, limited edition, physical copy, yeah. I mean, you know,
1:16.6	mixtapes were going for like 10, right? No, they were free. You go, you go on
1:21.3	that piff the same night. I think it was open at midnight so like that day you could download it for free. But there was there was a hardcore fan base that was proud to pay. They were proud to be first in line and say I supported
1:36.0	a nip hustle. I am down with the underdog. I am tapped into this thing that the rest of the
1:41.2	world is not up on. It it's like limited edition sneaker drops
1:45.4	or it's that cool factor and he understood that innately.
1:50.4	And so how does Jay-Z come into the story?
1:55.0	I have to give props to Rap Radar for that.
2:00.0	Although it is a little known fact that when NIP was touring as an opening act for the game because
2:10.5	the game took them on tour for the LAX tour,
2:13.0	Jay Z and Nip cross paths backstage
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