I first spoke with Prince Paul in September 2012 for an interview that covered pretty much his whole career. The interview got a great response when it went up online, particularly the questions about the Gravediggaz. Since then I wanted to reconnect with him to discuss the first Gravediggaz record in more detail.
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In 1994, TLC’s Lisa “Left Eye” Lopes burned down her boyfriend’s house.
Coming down the block, man, loud as fuck
You would swear Redman was inside the trunk Redman – Funkorama
You would swear Redman was inside the trunk Redman – Funkorama
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When the Wu-Tang Clan first emerged in 1993, the West Coast was dominating mainstream Hip-Hop. New York artists such as Public Enemy & Eric B. & Rakim had declined in popularity & left N.Y.C. unrepresented.
With the album, Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) (the “bomb” in this line), among others, the New York Hip-Hop scene exploded & countless of talented and legendary artists appeared following its influence on the genre.
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While smoking Chocolate Thai, Redman channels the legendary bounty hunter from Star Wars, who is known for his tremendous war skills and techniques, which Redman emulates when he’s in a rap battle.
Interesting fact: coincidentally, “fett” means fat in Swedish. Fat like “this shit is fat/phat!”.
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HIPHOPSITE.COM: Then we come to “6 Feet Deep” which is another track produced by The RZA. I read that the basis of the beat was some live instrumentation that RZA sampled…
PRINCE PAUL: Yeah, one day we were in GLC Studios and I think it was before the engineer got in, he came in late and they had a live room with different instruments like drums, guitars, tambourines, pianos and stuff. So here is all of us waiting for the engineer to come in and we’re like “yo let’s see if we can get somebody to run the DAT tape” and we just started playing the instruments. I think I was on the drums, RZA was on the piano, Frukwan was on the guitar if I remember correctly and Poetic… I think he had a tambourine or something haha. So all these guys who can’t play anything, and we’re just kinda vibing and laughing and joking and recording stuff. It was all on one DAT tape, and once in a while we’d get in to a groove and we’d come up with something that I thought was pretty slick. RZA took the DAT tape and I was like “yo man I want a copy of that”… I never got a copy of it. So he took bits and pieces of what we recorded and he sampled it on his ASR and added a baseline and a beat. I was like “yo that’s crazy, that’s the session we did! I want a copy!” I still never got a copy, haha. So he took the stuff that we played and sampled it and made that song.
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Prince Rakeem was RZA’s earliest alias, releasing his debut single under the name
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