Noz's Rap Picks
Bullseye with Jesse Thorn
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4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 22 March 2011
⏱️ 13 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Colin from Louisville. Hey, I'm Laurel from London, UK. I'm Patrick from Chicago. The sound |
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| 0:16.7 | I'm Jesse Thorn. Nas is the blogger behind cocaineblence.com, one of the world's most popular |
| 0:22.8 | hip-hop blogs. He joins us now from his home in New Jersey to talk a little bit about new hip-hop |
| 0:29.1 | records out there on the radio and on the internet. Nas, welcome to the sound of Young America. I |
| 0:34.4 | should say welcome back to the sound of Young America. Yeah, thanks for having me, Jesse. So let's |
| 0:39.0 | talk about new hip-hop records. The first pick that you sent us was Tyler the Creator's Yonkers. |
| 0:46.3 | This is a video that has been going all over the internet. In fact, when I looked at it this morning, |
| 0:51.8 | it had more than 1.2 million views, and that's after being out for, I don't know, roughly two |
| 1:00.3 | weeks as we record this. Tell me a little bit about Tyler the Creator and what's so exciting about |
| 1:05.8 | this song. Well, Tyler is a 19-year-old from Los Angeles. He's a member of a larger collective |
| 1:13.6 | that's known as Odd Future Wolfgang killed them all. They kind of have a very risk-cane to their |
| 1:21.1 | music where they'll wrap about explicit violence and all that, but that's not the most interesting |
| 1:29.1 | thing about them. Actually, the interesting part about them is really their ability to translate |
| 1:34.0 | teenage frustration and all the struggles that go with it on to tape and to do so while wrapping |
| 1:40.4 | really well. |
| 2:08.5 | They're kind of gleeful considering how dark they are. I think a lot of it is just them trying to |
| 2:14.2 | translate the jokes that they would make with their friends and to the jokes that they make on |
| 2:19.2 | records. I don't think they're even really trying to be shocking or offend anybody. It's just |
| 2:24.4 | part of the vocabulary of their generation. Let me ask you one more thing about Odd Future. These |
| 2:30.3 | guys are teenagers and their sound is so distinct. I mean, there are certainly influences, |
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