Harriet Kemsley & Krip Hop

James Acaster's Perfect Sounds

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Music

4.8 • 798 Ratings

🗓️ 17 September 2021

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Harriet Kemsley warms to Wheelchair Sports Camp's avant-garde rap album No Big Deal. The record features humorous and political lyrics from disabled rapper Kalyn Heffernan, who is part of the Krip-Hop movement which uses hip-hop as a means of expression for disabled artists.

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts.
0:04.5	This podcast may contain strong language and adult content, if it's any good. Hopefully it will.
0:12.6	James A. Caster here, comedian and music fan, and in 2017, I had a breakdown. I dealt with that
0:19.0	breakdown by buying as much music from 2016 as I possibly could.
0:23.1	As a result, I now own over 700 albums that came out in 2016 and I'm convinced it's the
0:29.1	greatest year for music of all time. But it's not enough me being convinced. I also want to
0:33.4	convince each and every single one of you. Plus, a guest every week.
0:38.0	I'm going to send them an album in advance.
0:39.6	We're going to come on the podcast.
0:41.0	We're going to talk about that album.
0:42.9	This week, my guest is Harriet Kemmsey,
0:45.1	and I've sent her No Big Deal by Wheelchair Sports Camp.
0:52.7	Wheelchair Meeter, Meener. Wheelchair Sports, Neener, you couldn't see her by the speaker, meeta, meeta, meeta.
0:54.7	Wheelchair Sports Camp are a Denver-based experimental hip-hop group.
0:58.5	They've got jazz and avant-garde influences as well.
1:01.3	They're made up of Kaelin, who's the founding member and MC, as well as the trumpet player, Joshua Trinidad and Greg Zemba on drums rounding out the lineup.
1:10.8	They were together for quite a while before they did this album.
1:13.1	This is their debut album.
1:14.6	And they collaborated with the Grammy Award-winning producer Isaiah Aike Owens.
1:20.5	It's a real collaboration between the producer and the band.
1:24.5	What he lacked in height?
1:25.7	He made up in arrogance when he had the flight.
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