Isaiah Rashad Opens Up About The House Is Burning, Mental Health, His Rapping Style, Outkast Influences, TDE Family, And More

People's Party with Talib Kweli

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4.4 • 2.1K Ratings

🗓️ 9 August 2021

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

If there’s one person that the whole rap world is talking about this month, it’s Isaiah Rashad. The TDE label star and rapper behind the acclaimed new album The House is Burning, is getting love from every corner right now. The day before the release, Rashad sat down with Talib Kweli and Jasmin Leigh with hip-hop on the brain. This is a real rap convo. Whether it’s explaining his influences, giving love to Outkast, honoring his TDE family, or breaking down Lil’ Wayne’s genius, Isaiah comes real and deep with every word. If you’re just finding Rashad’s music, this is the interview you need. It’ll help you understand his approach and unique genius while also sharing his humor and joy.

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0:00.0	My favorite thing about you as an artist is the way that you use your voice in addition to you being a great
0:05.0	lyricist and a great songwriter and a great
0:07.4	Choozer or music and production and all that the way you flow is very passionate
0:12.4	Sometimes you could be screaming sometimes sound like you crying sometimes you whisper in sometimes you you know
0:17.1	Just to wait you like you really only webbers only like other artists and shit and people who want to be artists really listening
0:24.2	Yeah, well, Yassine Bay said on our show if you really love art you make it
0:30.3	So if you even if you're just a fan of it you making art somehow, but I feel like the way that you do it is like valleys and peaks
0:37.0	You know, I'm saying Kendrick does this come from studying devil. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Just tell me about how you
0:42.6	What you study to get to that point Wayne Andre
0:46.5	Kanye
0:48.3	most
0:50.2	and
0:52.2	Around the combination of okay, I went through a lot of swoops in rap like I was listening to a lot of Devon to do
0:59.3	He's a part of it too because he like
1:02.2	Stone or Andre J. Thousand and me
1:04.2	They want to put more respect on it. He was way out way before I was
1:08.6	Devon to do definitely because he and it's clever and I like the way things right to beat
1:13.3	But I gotta say Wayne in kind of future Wayne future Boosey
1:16.9	Juvenile well, let's do now, but the way Julie uses voice too and then like I guess I focus more on the sound
1:25.4	The certain stuff because most of my favorite rappers to me. I feel like if I wanted to make a verse better than them
1:31.2	I could but the amount of fucking words y'all putting them shit in my
1:35.9	Like straight. I'm good, baby, and that's crazy because when I listen to your music
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