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People's Party with Talib Kweli

Heltah Skeltah’s the Rock Talks about Sean Price’s Death, Boot Camp Clik, Gang Life, and His Best Bars

People's Party with Talib Kweli

UPROXX

Music

4.42.1K Ratings

🗓️ 30 January 2023

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

Our guest today is a master of bars—one half of the hip-hop duo Heltah Skeltah, and a member of the Boot Camp Clik. You first heard him on Smif-N-Wessun’s Dah Shinin on the song “Wontime,” “Cession at da Doghillee” and “Let’s Git It On.” In this revealing convo, The Rock sits with Kweli and co-host Jasmin Leigh in a no-holds-barred discussion of his career wins and losses, struggles with the law, lost friends, and major influences.

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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

with stars 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.

0:22.0

Man, okay, I want to keep going because I want to talk about OGC but I want to shout out

0:26.0

beat miners and baby Paul and Sean J. Perid. I just spoke to DJ Ivo D. That's my man.

0:30.8

So listen, Ivo D. Therapy is an important record because y'all were dealing with therapy.

0:36.0

Us as black men, we need to, you know, get our mental together. Sean was the doctor.

0:41.1

He was patient. Antivirus song earlier in your career. The truth about that story is, about that

0:47.2

song is it was absolutely true. At that age in my life, the first bar of that song, first two bars,

0:58.6

all I seem to think about is violence. Doesn't matter if I'm dead, so I'm being like, that was

1:06.4

for real. You know what I'm saying? I was 20 years old in that stage of my life that we talked

1:12.6

about earlier. We was just getting, we was just becoming a professional rapper. Like I said,

1:19.6

I discovered that buckshot was a member of my team while I was in jail. You know what I'm saying?

1:25.6

So it's like, we was plucked straight off the streets and put into the shit. You know what I'm

1:29.9

saying? So it was like, I still had that mentality and you know, I was just, I guess thoughtful

1:35.8

enough to know that that was cool. You know what I'm saying? It was, it's gotta be something wrong

1:40.8

with the shit. And the relationship that me and Ruck had, it grew and blossomed so beautifully and

1:48.5

so quickly because of the fact that I was that grumpy. Like I never felt like I didn't fit in.

1:56.9

Like even with my niggas, like I didn't feel like I fit in. Like you know what I'm saying? So

2:01.6

it was the thing where everything that I might have thought about myself was off-kilter or

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