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Hip Hop Saved My Life with Romesh Ranganathan

Episode 40: Jensen Karp

Hip Hop Saved My Life with Romesh Ranganathan

RangaBee Productions and Mr Box

Arts, Comedy, Music

4.82.2K Ratings

🗓️ 29 November 2017

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Executive producer of 'Drop The Mic' and hip hop fanatic, Jensen Karp, joins Romesh for a chat as they discuss how he narrowly missed out on a 1 million dollar record deal with Interscope.

Formerly known as the rapper Hot Karl, Jensen is also the author of the book 'Kanye West Owes Me $300'.



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0:00.0

I was set on being a mounted police officer from a young age, but I knew it

0:04.6

had to move to make it happen and for me the Met presented endless opportunities.

0:09.0

From joining as a PC at age 23 I went into a variety of roles from emergency

0:14.7

response to public order policing. As a sergeant in the mounted branch my dream

0:19.7

job became reality. Now I've been promoted to Inspector, I can't wait to see

0:24.2

where my career takes me next. Become a Met Police Officer, search Met Police

0:28.4

careers.

0:48.4

Hello and welcome to Hip-Up Save My Life. This is me, Mama Shrenganathan. I've

0:54.0

recorded the podcast already. I'm doing now the intro bit, sort of in my house.

0:58.2

And it's about what's the time, like one o'clock in the morning. Everyone else is

1:02.6

asleep. So I've kind of, but I've got to do this intro bit. So I've come to the

1:08.0

kitchen, dining one bit and I've put a blanket over my head because basically if I

1:13.1

wake people up, shit's gonna go down. So that's the current situation. You

1:17.5

don't need to know that, but you do. Today's episode a few days ago I went to

1:23.0

talk to a man called Jensen carp, Jensen carp. You may or may not have heard of,

1:27.0

but he's a hip hop fanatic. Current executive producer of a show called Drop the

1:32.1

Mic, West Celebrities, rap battle each other that you may or may not have seen.

1:36.6

But also, and the main reason I was to talk to him is he was nearly like

1:41.6

Big Tom as a rapper. He's an author of a book called Kanye Westo's with $300.

1:47.1

And basic rappers, he nearly became a massive rapper. Like he got a million dollar

1:52.6

deal from Interstate within it all went tits up. So we talked to him about that

1:57.1

on the podcast. It's a good episode. There's no rematch. There's no Ben Green,

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