Just like a treasured mixtape from your favorite crush, the Prince mixtape from CNN audio

is a reflection of all the care and passion, the big moments and small that made up a life,

Prince's life, and it starts at the beginning.

You walk into the studio, you can hardly hear, he's singing quieter than a mouse.

I said, Prince, you're singing so quiet I can't even record it.

Listen to the Prince mixtape on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio, or your favorite podcast app.

Pushkin.

Run the jewels stormed into hip hop with a big sound in 2014.

And over the last six years, they've only turned the energy up.

Killer Mike and LP weren't strangers to anyone following hip hop over the last couple of decades.

Each made waves in their individual careers prior to forming the group.

But there's something irresistible about these two guys from different ends of the hip hop spectrum coming together.

Killer Mike's a brash politically charged rapper from Atlanta with a tight connection to Outcast and the Dungeon family.

And LP's a white New York MC and producer known mostly from the underground.

Together they have a combustible energy as they wrap about revolution, weed, or are just boasting about themselves.

They've also waited into the world of politics in very meaningful ways.

Killer Mike was a surrogate for Bernie Sanders this last election, and in turn, Bernie introed them at Coach Chalice just a few years ago.

What I'm trying to say is, this is a group that's hard to put in a box.

Run the jewels 4th album comes out soon.

They spent some time recording it at Shangri-La and during a break for one of those sessions, they caught up with Rick Rubin.

This is Broken Record, liner notes for the digital age. I'm Justin Richmond.

Here's one of the jewels in conversation with Rick Rubin.

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