TPM episode 181: Dana Dane, Rap Legend
The Powell Movement
Mike Powell
4.9 • 860 Ratings
🗓️ 6 July 2020
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
Dana Dane is legendary storytelling rapper from Brooklyn who helped influence me in my formative years. A chance zoom call with Dane connected us and once that happened, I made it my goal to get him on the podcast. In the month leading up to recording, so much was happening with race in this country and the podcast talks about Dana's life and times and how race seemed to play into them.
Dana Dane Show Notes:
3:00: Father's Day, Fanacake.com, and inventions
13 :00: Systematic racism, single mom, and no male role models
22:00: Stanley: Get 30% off site wide with the code drinkfast
10 Barrel Brewery: Buy their beers, they support action sports more than anyone
22:30: Fort Greene Projects, running numbers, and sports
26:00: Art, graffiti, and dance
31:00: Music and Art High School, Slick Rick, and writing rhymes
40:00: Crack and Heroin in the neighborhood, community college, and Rick gets a tape out
45:00: Dana Dane with Fame, Yo MTV Raps, and playing shows
51:30: Getting screwed on his record deal, buying clothes and opening 4Play Boutique with Play
54:00: Why the long delay before his second album, no creative control, and his final album
58:00: Inappropriate Questions
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Have a seat on your porcelain throne. |
| 0:02.2 | It's time to talk some shit on the Powell Movement. |
| 0:13.6 | Welcome to the Powell Movement. |
| 0:16.5 | I'm your host, Mike Powell, |
| 0:18.1 | and this week I have an interview with a guest that you at least |
| 0:21.3 | expect me to have here on the show. |
| 0:23.6 | A dude that I don't believe skis or snowboards, I'm talking about legendary rapper Dana Dane. |
| 0:29.7 | I was a big Dane fan in my childhood, and a few months ago, my cousin Lisa, who I love and I think |
| 0:35.5 | is great, but I don't talk to that much, texted me |
| 0:38.3 | out of the blue and says, Michael, would you like to join a Zoom call with her, some of her |
| 0:43.6 | friends, and Dana Dane. |
| 0:45.9 | I was like, how the hell does my orthodontist cousin Lisa know Dana Dane? |
| 0:50.6 | And I texted her back and was like, hey, are you talking about the rapper from the 80s? |
| 0:55.2 | She said yes and my mind was blown. |
| 0:57.9 | This ups Lisa's street cred significantly in my book. |
| 1:01.7 | And boom, an hour later, I was talking to Dana Dane and a bunch of my cousin's friends that I didn't know on a Zoom call. |
| 1:08.0 | I was on the call for a little bit and it was cool. |
| 1:10.5 | But to get the information |
| 1:11.6 | that I really wanted, I needed a one-on-one chat with Dana Dane, so I asked him to be on the |
| 1:16.4 | podcast. He said something to the effect of maybe. And I jumped off the call and over the next |
| 1:21.9 | couple of months, I kept messaging Dane to see if he would be on a podcast that focuses on |
| 1:26.3 | ski, snowboard, skate, bike, |
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