Season 3 Premiere: Dante Ross's Adventures at the Dawn of Hip-Hop

What Had Happened Was

Talkhouse

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5.0 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 9 February 2022

⏱️ 67 minutes

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In the premiere episode of Season 3, Open Mike Eagle sits down with Dante Ross as they begin to unpack his journey in hip-hop at the very beginning of the culture's expansion into the mainstream in 1980s New York City. Dante goes from being a witness to the explosion to working alongside some of the genre's essential artists including his friends from the punk scene, the Beastie Boys. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	I'm down, I'm down, I'm off like this and you,
0:03.6	night is the only house.
0:05.9	Snowing Island on your own.
0:08.2	Ladies and gentlemen, this is your captain speaking.
0:10.2	This is Open Mike Eagle and welcome to season three
0:13.0	of what had happened was.
0:16.8	For follow was of this podcast, what we do is myself.
0:20.7	I sit down and talk to a legend in hip hop.
0:25.2	Very fortunate to be in the position
0:26.6	to be able to ask these people questions
0:28.5	about their legacy and their catalog.
0:30.8	We unpack it over the course of a season
0:32.8	and by gosh, do we have a season for you?
0:37.2	Dante started when hip hop started.
0:39.4	He was there from the beginning.
0:40.5	So in his first episode, you hear about him noticing
0:44.0	the burgeoning hip hop scene in New York
0:46.6	in some of the places.
0:47.5	He saw some of the earliest acts and how quick he was
0:51.4	to get into the game and want to be invested in that culture
0:56.0	and some of his earliest relationships
0:58.5	and the moves he made dealing with the Beastie boys
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