On the Media presents Episode 1 of The Realness

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4.6 • 8.7K Ratings

🗓️ 25 July 2018

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

The rapper Prodigy may have been the voice of New York, but he couldn’t escape a single recessive gene. OTM recommends this new podcast from our colleagues at WNYC.

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0:00.0	This is Bob Garfield. I just came in from the New York Street in the rain, a bit of a deluge,
0:06.9	actually, which is a perfect metaphor for the news cycle and its deluvium of politics and
0:12.9	investigation. If you're looking for a way to escape the deluge, at least for a few hours, allow
0:18.7	us to recommend a new podcast produced by our colleagues downstairs in the WNYC Newsroom.
0:24.7	Mary Harris and Christopher Johnson are the hosts of a new show called The Realness about the rapper Prodigies Battle with Sickle Cell Anemia.
0:34.3	The first episode starts with a kind of language advisory. Here's Christopher.
0:39.8	Hey, folks, before we start, we wanted to check in about the language in the realness.
0:44.8	You're going to hear some offensive words, especially F-bombs and N-bombs. Our team talked a lot
0:52.0	about how to handle this, and in the end, we've struck a balance between recognizing how loaded and offensive that language is and telling Prodigy's story the way he told it.
1:02.9	Okay, here's our show.
1:07.0	So where we're going to start?
1:08.9	Uh, where should we start?
1:12.4	Vegas?
1:13.4	Let's start in Vegas.
1:15.0	June 17th.
1:16.0	June 17th, 2017.
1:21.8	We're downtown, right on the strip at this outdoor stage.
1:26.1	Thousands of people in the audience.
1:28.0	And this group has just walked out to perform.
1:30.9	Their name?
1:35.7	Mobb Deep!
1:38.8	Mob Deep is this hip-hop duo.
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