Chace Infinite Shares Secrets and Wisdom from the Industry, How He Linked Up with the A$AP Mod, and Reveals How Helped Get the Black Star Album Out

People's Party with Talib Kweli

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🗓️ 17 January 2023

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Chace Infinite is an industry ninja, an incredible MC, a fashion and entertainment maverick. In this conversation with Talib and Jasmin, he describes the reason he stays so busy, and how he remains vital in every project he touches. The legend also shares stories about how he plugged Khalil with Dr. Dre, what it’s like working with A$AP Rocky and the A$AP Mob, and how he played a pivotal role in getting the new Black Star Album out. This is a must-listen interview for hip-hop fans interested in how it all goes down behind the scenes.

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0:00.0	Peace and love party people. This is Talib Kuala Lee to BKMC, the MCEO.
0:03.8	You are about to hear an excerpt of People's Party hosted by me and my lovely and talented
0:08.0	co-host, Ms. Jasmine Lee. What up Jasmine? What up Peeps to hear our entire combo and all of our
0:12.8	episodes with stars from the game to Lil Kim, to Anthony Anderson, to my sister Tiffany Hattish,
0:18.4	subscribe to the Luminary channel on Apple Podcasts.
0:22.1	The Amps is a real visionary. The Andrews amazing. He was a visionary. He was funny
0:27.7	as hell. He's a real researcher. Somebody that would know all your B-sides and the records that
0:34.2	you did with obscure acts and shit like that. He had almost every source magazine in Double
0:40.5	X-Hell from 1998 to 2008 or some shit like that. He's a real, like a, New York breezy type of
0:47.4	people. That research a lot, that know everything about every fucking thing. He was one of those guys.
0:53.6	I met Yams and Rocky and I think maybe you might have brought them through with it. We had a Black
0:58.0	Star show or maybe it was a Yassine show that I was at SOBs. And then they blew up. And then I
1:04.6	was seated in Europe. And you know, it's a lot of, they would start moving a lot of moving pieces.
1:09.6	And you know, people, they young fresh new rock stars on the scene. But Yams in particular
1:17.0	would make sure that the energy was the same. All the time. In particular, he would,
1:21.4	he would talk to me and deal with me in a way that's like very, very family like. Yeah, he was huge.
1:29.0	Like Yams would do a little shit before I was Rocky's manager. He would do a little shit like,
1:33.6	you know, text me like an old source magazine ad for land speed records that had so scientific
1:39.4	on it. Or like a little shit like that, like just to let you know, like don't think I don't know
1:43.2	old head like all the time. So, you know, when you guys were around or you know, Black thought and
1:48.1	any of my friends, you know, he would always let them know he really knew like, you know, he,
1:53.7	because he was a huge fan of like New York underground movements, West Coast underground movements.
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