Trevor Banks Playlist Log

Sunday, May 24, 2020

Hip Hip-Hop You Don't Stop


(Sean Price interview when I (Trevor Banks) was at Real Hip Hop Uncut radio)

RHHU: Who inspired you to do what you do?

SP: I'd have to say Pete Rock

RHHU: What projects are you working on

SP: Got that Heltah Skeltah album coming. It's 🔥🔥🔥🔥

RHHU: What's your favorite song off of any Heltah Skeltah album

SP: "HELLZ KITCHEN" produced by Evidence

RHHU: Which project was the one you really enjoyed over the course of your career?

SP: MONKEY BARZ, cuz it brought Price back to life.. 

( Short but sweet interview with a legend before he passed #ripSeanPrice )




Hip Hop Fun Facts:

1. 1986-1989 Set the stage for a real change in Hip Hop

2. Redman & Tame One of the Artifacts are cousins

3. Hip Hop groups like Leaders Of The New School and Young Black Teenagers were created like boy bands by Hank Shocklee

4. Black Star, Urban Thermo Dynamics & Medina Green are musically related

5. Twista first got exposure on Subway's song " Chi-Town Ride". He went by Tung Twista then.

6. 2.8 million Brits think 2PAC is alive

7. EPMD used to be called EPEMD

8. Pharrell recorded a verse on Tribe Called Quest's album Midnight Marauders but it didn't make the cut.

9. Nas listens to Lil Durk, Da Baby, Dave East, Lil Baby, Lupe Fiasco etc.

10. LL Cool J's goal is to make ladies wet.

11. Cam'ron is a fan of De La Soul.

12. Krs- One loved the battle between Cassidy & Freeway

13. 50 Cent named himself after the 1980's notorious Brooklyn robber called "50 Cent"

14. Snoop Dogg, Brandy & Ray J are real blood cousins.

15. UTP Playas originally consisted of Juvenile, Soulja Slim, Young Buck, Cory Cee, Wacko & Skip.

16. " Rapture" by Blondie is one of the first mainstream Hip Hop records

17. Hip Hop has similarities with Viking-Skalds poets and minstrel's who memorized oral traditions and recited them to pass on legacy's, history and codes of conduct

18. Keith " Cowboy", a member of the Furious Five most likely coined the term Hip Hop.

19. Hip Hop is : MC'ing, DJ'ing, Graffiti, & Breakdancing

20. Kool Herc is the founding fathers of Hip Hop. Afrika Bambaataa is the Godfather of Hip Hop. Krs-One, Rakim, N.W.A. , Big Daddy Kane etc. are the fathers of Hip Hop. Wu Tang, Biggie, 2PAC, Jay-Z, Nas etc. are the cousins of Hip Hop.

21. Biz Markie & Big Daddy Kane's rapper names used to be Biz Markie D & MC Kane.

22. C.E.B. are one of the first notorious Hip Hop groups from Philadelphia

23. Uptown Records mogul Andre Harrell ( RIP) is in the movie Krush Groove.

24. DJ Kay Slay is a famous graffiti artist who went by the tag Dez. Before he became a DJ he was featured in the movie Style Wars.

25. Elements of Hip - Hop legends
       DJ: Kool Herc
       MC: Sugar Hill Gang
       Graffiti: Dondi
        Breakdancing: Crazy Legs


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