The Joe Coscarelli Interview: Why He Wrote a Book About Lil Baby, QC & Atlanta's Rap World

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🗓️ 8 November 2022

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Joe Coscarelli talks about getting access to the QC empire, and tells a very interesting story about the label and their artists. His book “Rap Capital : An Atlanta Story”is out now. ---- 00:00 Intro 0:53 - How he got the idea to cover Atlanta hip hop artist surrounding QC label 6:48 - How Atlanta continues to churn out rap stars that are originally street legends, Lil Baby, Jeezy, BMF 9:02 - Migos regenerating so many different times, surviving the “Drake hype wave” after “Versace” 10:30 - Migos being like legendary group “The Ramones” staying to their sound, putting out so much good music in the last 10 yrs 12:55 - QC being overlooked for how stable they’ve been, putting out Migos, Yatchy, Lil Baby, City Girls 14:16 - Working for The NY Times, Doing stories on Yatchy, Migos, Offset etc before doing book on Lil Baby 19:03 - Being like a fly on the wall around Artist like Marlo, Migos, Lil Baby etc. showing he’s interested and engaged in the culture 23:33 - Marlo confiding in his father about k*lling a man, Marlo being k*lled, his father not being ashamed of his son 26:32 - The stories of these artist being like Greek tragedies and mafia stories that people love like The Godfather 27:46 - Letting the facts speak for themselves, not being interested in wether rap music is good or bad for the world, letting people speak for themselves 29:08 - Lil Baby’s mom being a huge reason the focus was on him for book, Baby being very smart 30:08 - Seeing P pull out a big stack of cash out of Lil Baby’s pocket and telling Joe the money Baby can make in the streets was why he was so reluctant to believe in music 32:08 - Drake telling DJ Drama that Migos is going to be big before Drake even met them 48:43 - “On to the next one” culture, their being so much choice right now, not seeing superstars like we used to 50:48 - Most people stop absorbing new music by the time their 25 or have a kid, people listening to older music more than new music 53:54 - Adam on not seeing Ice Spice blowing up his first time seeing her 59:20 - Not chasing a hit but building a sustainable loyal fanbase, Curren$y being one of the most impressive at it in our life time, The world still being ready for Lil B 1:03:57 - Wanting to write crime stories, 1090 Jake being great at what he does, being like Americas Most Wanted of this generation 1:08:22 - Guys like Trap Lore Ross & 1090 Jake doing more work than actual journalist 1:09:22 - “Rap Capital : An Atlanta Story” out now anywhere books are sold --- NO JUMPER PATREON http://www.patreon.com/nojumper CHECK OUT OUR NEW SPOTIFY PLAYLIST https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5te... FOLLOW US ON SNAPCHAT FOR THE LATEST NEWS & UPDATES https://www.snapchat.com/discover/No_... CHECK OUT OUR ONLINE STORE!!! http://www.nojumper.com/ SUBSCRIBE for new interviews (and more) weekly: http://bit.ly/nastymondayz Follow us on SPOTIFY: https://open.spotify.com/show/4ENxb4B... iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/n... Follow us on Social Media: https://www.snapchat.com/discover/No_... http://www.twitter.com/nojumper http://www.instagram.com/nojumper https://www.facebook.com/NOJUMPEROFFI... http://www.reddit.com/r/nojumper JOIN THE DISCORD: https://discord.gg/Q3XPfBm Follow Adam22: https://www.tiktok.com/@adam22 http://www.twitter.com/adam22 http://www.instagram.com/adam22 adam22hoe on Snapchat Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	No jumper coolest podcast in the world and today we have Joe Costco Relle on the podcast.
0:06.2	Thanks for having me.
0:07.2	How you doing man?
0:08.2	I've been alright.
0:09.2	I've been a little crazy.
0:10.2	Really?
0:11.2	Like, 10 days.
0:12.8	So you basically wrote a book about, you know, one big focus is Lil Baby, but it's basically
0:19.4	attempting to sort of document really a lot of the different Atlanta cultural institutions
0:25.8	like QC and the Migos and Gucci and everything sort of surrounding that.
0:30.6	And yeah, it was a good read right over the weekend.
0:33.0	When is it actually released?
0:34.0	Came out Tuesday.
0:35.0	Tuesday.
0:36.0	October 18th.
0:37.0	It's out.
0:38.0	Okay.
0:38.0	Bookstores everywhere.
0:39.0	So what was the original impetus?
0:40.0	Like to write a book these days, you have to have a big idea.
0:43.6	You have to have something that you think is really important to expect people to take
0:46.9	this much time out of their life to engage with this.
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