Episode 44: Andrew Emery

Hip Hop Saved My Life with Romesh Ranganathan

RangaBee Productions and Mr Box

Arts, Comedy, Music

4.8 • 2.2K Ratings

🗓️ 10 January 2018

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Andrew Emery is a hip hop writer and journalist. He was the contributing editor of Hip-Hop Connection and founded, edited and published Fat Lace Magazine. Last year Andrew released his new book 'Wiggaz With Attitude: My Life As A Failed White Rapper'.

True to his frank and honest style, Andrew joins Romesh to chat about the artists he's had both the pleasure and displeasure to interview over his career. And shares the story about some very choice words he shared with none other than Jay-Z.

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0:00.0	This is the hip-hop save my life podcast. Thank you for listening to the podcast. Hope you enjoy the podcast.
0:09.1	Visit back, cause it's time for the hot cats.
0:17.3	Hello and welcome to Hip-hop Save My Life. The first Hip-hop save my life off 2018.
0:22.9	I hope you had a good new year. The reason I am still keen to read the latest because
0:28.6	once again my family is asleep and I'm recording this intro downstairs.
0:34.4	Hope you had a good new year. I'll go into more detail about it next week. We're going to be doing
0:38.8	when we're not talking to guests we're going to be doing little episodes in between
0:42.8	where we talk about albums you should be listening to etc etc so
0:48.0	yeah look out for that. Okay so this week
0:52.5	we are talking to Andrew Emory, author of the book Wiggers with Attitude
1:00.4	where he tells a story of him. I guess like the British version of Jensen Cart in terms of
1:05.2	telling a story of almost making it as a rapper. He also was a major contributor for hip-hop
1:11.8	connection sort of the first hip-hop magazine in the world and also as yet one of the editors of
1:17.3	Fatlase magazine. It's a great chap he's a very funny guy. We talked about sort of how he got into
1:26.8	hip-hop, how he got into hip-hop connection who was a prick when he interviewed them and who wasn't
1:32.7	is a good chap so I hope you enjoy and if you don't please don't tweet me. Bye!
1:40.0	This is the bit where we introduce our guest. I'm honored to say I'm joined by
1:46.9	Andrew Emory. Hello Andrew how are you? I'm fantastic thanks happy new year how are you?
1:51.1	I'm good thank you. First hip-hop saved my life of the new year.
1:56.6	Does that feel exciting for you to be the first guest of 2018? It does yeah yeah it must be quite
2:01.9	weak for you but you're a journalist on. Do you actually listen to the podcast at all? I do
2:08.2	yeah I'm still a bit behind. I'm not going to test you or anything but it's just that you will
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