All Videos Tagged 'Crooklyn' (True Skool Network) - True Skool Network2024-05-07T05:47:41Zhttp://trueskool.com/video/video/listTagged?tag=%27Crooklyn%27&rss=yes&xn_auth=noTalib Kweli & Masta Ace On 'Disposable Arts,' Rakim, Eminem, Doom, 'Crooklyn' | People's Party Fulltag:trueskool.com,2023-03-16:1464587:Video:8174842023-03-16T00:17:09.043ZEditor's Pickhttp://trueskool.com/profile/RentheVinylArchaeologist
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</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>
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MASTA ACE<br></br>
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Here's what we got into:<br></br>
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• Ace's bars exemplifying rhyme schemes that shaped Talib as an emcee.<br></br>
• Rakim's innovations of rhyme patterns impacting how…
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</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 />
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• 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 & 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 & 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?