The producer and DJ talked at length about the influential rap collective on his podcast series What Had Happened Was with Open Mike Eagle.
Prince Paul reflected on the highly influential Native Tongues collective during the latest episode of his What Had Happened Was podcast series with Open Mike Eagle.
The 45-minute conversation finds Paul reminiscing on the collective and its members, how the memorable posse cut remix for “Buddy” came about, as well as the collective’s dissolution. Toward the end of the episode, Paul also revealed that he tried to make a Native Tongues documentary happen around 2010, but it never came to fruition.
“Some years ago, before Michael Rapaport did the Tribe documentary, I was talking to Dres and trying to get everybody so I could make a Native Tongues documentary,” Paul said. “I was asking around…people weren’t getting back to me, people seemed disinterested…it didn’t get too far.”
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