All Videos Tagged 'Crooklyn' (True Skool Network) - True Skool Network 2024-05-07T05:47:41Z http://trueskool.com/video/video/listTagged?tag=%27Crooklyn%27&rss=yes&xn_auth=no Talib Kweli & Masta Ace On 'Disposable Arts,' Rakim, Eminem, Doom, 'Crooklyn' | People's Party Full tag:trueskool.com,2023-03-16:1464587:Video:817484 2023-03-16T00:17:09.043Z Editor's Pick http://trueskool.com/profile/RentheVinylArchaeologist <a href="http://trueskool.com/video/talib-kweli-masta-ace-on-disposable-arts-rakim-eminem-doom-crookl"><br /> <img alt="Thumbnail" height="180" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/10998194494?profile=original&amp;width=240&amp;height=180" width="240"></img><br /> </a> <br></br>In this episode of "People's Party With Talib Kweli," Kweli sits down with rapper, writer, producer, and original member of the legendary Juice Crew:<br></br> <br></br> MASTA ACE<br></br> <br></br> Here's what we got into:<br></br> <br></br> • Ace's bars exemplifying rhyme schemes that shaped Talib as an emcee.<br></br> • Rakim's innovations of rhyme patterns impacting how… <a href="http://trueskool.com/video/talib-kweli-masta-ace-on-disposable-arts-rakim-eminem-doom-crookl"><br /> <img src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/10998194494?profile=original&amp;width=240&amp;height=180" width="240" height="180" alt="Thumbnail" /><br /> </a><br />In this episode of "People's Party With Talib Kweli," Kweli sits down with rapper, writer, producer, and original member of the legendary Juice Crew:<br /> <br /> MASTA ACE<br /> <br /> Here's what we got into:<br /> <br /> • Ace's bars exemplifying rhyme schemes that shaped Talib as an emcee.<br /> • Rakim's innovations of rhyme patterns impacting how Ace approached writing.<br /> • How the song, 'Crooklyn Dodgers' for the 1994 Spike Lee joint, 'Crooklyn' came together.<br /> • Ace being fully immersed in the early stages of hip hop, growing up in Brownsville, BK.<br /> • Going to Brooklyn's Sheepshead Bay High School and joining the football team.<br /> • Working as a HS football coach for 11 years, while keeping his identity under wraps.<br /> • Ace winning the first rap contest he entered himself in, in 1986.<br /> • How Ace landed himself a spot on the Juice Crew and the song, 'The Symphony.'<br /> • A young Ol' Dirty Bastard getting himself kicked off the Cold Chillin' tour.<br /> • The impact of Ace's debut, 'Take A Look Around' and how he feels about it now.<br /> • People thinking Ace's voiced impression of Biz was really him on, 'Me &amp; The Biz.'<br /> • Ace's song, 'Jeep Ass N*gga,' and how it was inspired by LL's, 'The Boomin' System.'<br /> • Hearing how much Eminem was influenced by Ace's, 'SlaughtaHouse' album.<br /> • Breaking down how 'Sittin' On Chrome' was Ace's "compromise album."<br /> • His experience with Big Beat Records and how that album fell through.<br /> • Being diagnosed with multiple sclerosis and keeping it private for 13 years.<br /> • Forming the eMC crew with Wordsworth, Stricklin, and Punchline.<br /> • How his 2001 tour in the UK inspired the penning of 'Disposable Arts.'<br /> • The honesty of 'Dear Diary' and it's pointing to where battle rap was going.<br /> • The song, 'Soda &amp; Soap' with Jean Grae originally being written for Will Smith.<br /> • Ace and Marco Polo's 'A Breukelen Story' leaning into Marco's life.<br /> • How 'MA Doom: Son of Yvonne' was born from Ace's love of 'Special Herbs.'<br /> • Unpacking, 'Home in America' about the impact of systemic racism.<br /> • Ace's work on a hip hop musical based on three of his albums.<br /> • What's next for Ace?