Dreezy Takes Us behind Some of Her Greatest Bars and Most Cinematic Videos, Explains How She Caught the Ear of Common, and How She Developed Her Flow

People's Party with Talib Kweli

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🗓️ 26 December 2022

⏱️ 5 minutes

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The crown princess of Chicago rap joins Talib Kweli and Jasmin Leigh for a discussion of her origins and takes us deep into the best bars from her mixtapes and albums. Dreezy also talks about playing Queen Cabrini on “Beats,” how she developer her flow, and what it was like working with Hit Boy and Jeremih. Listeners looking for one of the most vital voices in modern hip-hop won’t want to miss this longform interview with this young artist.

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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 co-host,
0:08.6	Ms. Jasmine Lee. What up Jasmine? What up Peeps to hear our entire combo and all of our episodes.
0:13.6	We've started from the game to Lil Kim, to Anthony Anderson, to my sister Tiffany Hattish,
0:18.5	subscribe to the Luminary channel on Apple Podcasts.
0:22.1	You grew up off 81st.
0:23.6	Yeah.
0:24.4	As you're saying phases on your new album, Hit Girl.
0:26.6	It's a great song. Thank you.
0:28.4	Obviously Chicago has a long, long, one of my favorite cities, has a long storied history of gangsters
0:36.4	and being associated with gangsters. And this also is used as a, it's not like other cities,
0:43.5	Don't Hattish. Detroit Hattish, LA Hattish, New York Hattish. But Chicago, I feel like it's woven
0:49.4	into the culture. Like when you go to the top of the Sears Tower, when I went up there,
0:54.7	they are pictures of Dillinger and Capone. So I feel like it's kind of hypocritical when they put
1:00.3	that gangster image on younger black people as if the city ain't been that.
1:04.2	Yeah. I mean, in every hood, it's like that. Like in every state, you got a hood and you got
1:10.2	the culture. And that's just what it is. It come with some negative stuff. But it's also like one of
1:15.4	the most creative, I feel like parts of the city. That's what magic happens. When you make something
1:20.5	out of nothing, it's like you thinking of stuff that like people with the biggest budgets can't
1:25.0	even come up with because it's just so authentic. So I love Chicago. I love my city. I love everything
1:31.2	about it. And I feel like me personally, like I got to see both sides of the scale because
1:36.2	my pops, I mean, he grew up in the hood, but eventually my pops end up getting him a house built
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