Popcast: Hip-Hop Concerts and the Police

Popcast

The New York Times

Music Interviews, Music Commentary, Music

3.6 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 3 June 2016

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

After a fatal shooting at a T.I. concert, Jon Caramanica and Joe Coscarelli discuss rap, race and security with Minya Oh, a.k.a. Miss Info, and Joie Manda of Interscope Records.

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0:00.0	Yeah, mother-f-f-a-fool!
0:02.0	Welcome to the New York Times Popcast,
0:04.0	your Dark Night of the Soul of Music, News, and Criticism.
0:06.0	I am your host, John Caramonica.
0:08.0	We're gonna start this shit's right,
0:10.0	the way everything in hip-hop just start.
0:12.0	I'm gonna tell you like I'm like a suck condom.
0:16.0	You don't with me, you're sch you dive.
0:19.0	You're a gim of a s-cunnel.
0:22.0	It's a tough week, a tough couple weeks in New York hip-hop live shows.
0:29.0	I am here with Jocoskereli, our pop music reporter, Minya O of Miss Info. TV. with Joe
0:35.0	and Yow of Miss Info. TV, Joe Amanda, President, Urban Music, Interscope Records, and O.G.
0:40.0	in the 90s and 2000s club scene in New York.
0:43.4	We're here to talk about some serious things.
0:46.3	There was an incident that happened at Irving Plaza,
0:49.0	Triab, the rapper, captured on video, firing off in the VIP room.
0:55.0	There have been three injuries and Troyev's bodyguard,
0:59.4	Ronald McPhatter, was killed in the shooting.
1:02.3	As a result, there has been NYPD backlash in a very 1990s kind of way,
1:07.0	Commissioner Bratton calling rapper Thugs.
1:10.0	Live Nation recently canceled a whole slate of hip-hop shows that were scheduled to go down at
1:14.4	Irving Plaza along with some butt covering rock shows to make them seem not racist,
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