Nathan Caton & old-school hip hop

James Acaster's Perfect Sounds

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4.8 • 798 Ratings

🗓️ 15 October 2021

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

James breaks his own rules by picking a 2016 album which sounds "old-school", rapper Westside Gunn's debut Flygod. He discusses it with guest Nathan Caton, plus they delve into Nathan's Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles obsession.

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts.
0:04.6	This podcast may contain strong language and adult content, if it's any good.
0:08.9	Hopefully it will.
0:14.2	James Acaster here, comedian and music fan, and in 2017, I had a breakdown.
0:20.0	I dealt with that breakdown by buying as much music from
0:22.5	2016 as I possibly could. As a result, I now own over 700 albums that came out in 2016 and I'm
0:30.2	convinced it's the greatest year for music of all time. But it's not enough me being convinced.
0:36.0	I also want to convince each and every single one of
0:38.3	you, plus a guest every week. I'm going to send them an album in advance. We're going to come on the
0:42.6	podcast with a talk about that album. This week, my guest is Nathan Caiton. And we're going to be
0:48.0	talking about Fly God by Westside Gun. It's the ranking Buffalo doesn't want to brag about.
0:54.0	It now ranks as one of the most dangerous cities in the country. Westside Gunn. It's the ranking Buffalo doesn't want to brag about.
0:58.2	It now ranks as one of the most dangerous cities in the country.
1:06.7	West Side Gunn is a rapper from Buffalo in the United States.
1:11.1	He's probably currently one of the most relevant hip-hop artists working today.
1:16.9	His collective is group Griselda pretty much dominating a lot of the conversations about modern hip-hop.
1:24.1	And I say modern hip-hop, but their sound really does hark back to 90s era, New York rap a lot of the time. Every day make money and pray to stop for.
1:30.2	Every day make money and pray to stop.
1:33.6	I know that on previous podcasts I've said I don't like old school stuff.
1:34.5	Do you know what?
1:36.3	Nothing's a rule, is it?
1:37.0	Nothing's a rule.
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