What up, what up, what up. This is Open Mike Eagle. I'm live from what it happened was

Headquarters, which is the same as Tony Island Audio Headquarters, which is the same as

my apartment. I greet you today, season two, episode nine of what it happened was this

season. We're sitting down with Mr. LP every episode and chronicling his projects and

thereby his life and career and boy, we have arrived at a place. Re-invention and rap music

is a thing that has happened on a few notable occasions. Not everybody's been able to do it.

Not everybody's been able to know that they needed to do it or that they could benefit

from it. I think people like MF Doom, a rest in peace, who had one of the most famous career

reinventions that one could imagine starting out with K&D and dealing with the tragedies

he dealt with and re-emerging as MF Doom. Somebody like Butterfly from Digable Planet, who

reinvented himself as Cherry Wine, and then reinvented himself as Palisier Lazaro in

Shabazz palaces. I think if you look at the collective, the duo, run the jewels made up

of LP and Killer Mike, you have to put it in that conversation as well. You have Killer

Mike out of Atlanta, started with Outcast, had made a bunch of noise and it made a project

or two that didn't quite pop off like he or anyone else was expecting to with him being

as powerful of an MC's, talented as skilled, as energetic as he was, and then you have LP

who started with company flow out of the underground rap scene in New York, started DevJuck's

Delabel, which was a rollercoaster ride all its own, and he had his solo work and he was

going through it too after the label folded. And they ended up being put together courtesy

of William Street Records and James DeMarco over at Adult Swim, and they come together

to make RAP Music, which is a Killer Mike solo album that's produced by LP. And that happens

to come out one week before the solo album that LP was working on at the time, which is Cancer

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