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Hip Hop Saved My Life with Romesh Ranganathan

S3 Episode 9: Shaggy

Hip Hop Saved My Life with Romesh Ranganathan

RangaBee Productions and Mr Box

Arts, Comedy, Music

4.82.2K Ratings

🗓️ 18 February 2021

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

For this week's lockdown edition of the show, we’re joined by the one and only Shaggy from his recording studio in New York. He tells us about his high school love of hip hop, its strong links with reggae and dancehall culture, and how some of his biggest influences range from Slick Rick to Big L and Biggie to Drake. It’s a banger!

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0:00.0

This is the hip I'm saving 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 podcast.

0:17.6

Welcome to Hip Hop Save My Life, another lockdown special. I'm joined by Rupert Haydon, mate.

0:24.8

I like the enthusiasm of another lockdown special. Well, I just thought because it's so

0:32.2

shit, if you try and put some stank on it, it might be able to muster up some enthusiasm

0:37.2

about it. So another lockdown with traps, but we're able to bring this, you know, like that sort of

0:42.7

feeling back already with that approach on Ike. Thank you. Thank you. Well, look, it's very exciting

0:50.5

today because we are joined by, look, the word legend is thrown about a fair bit, isn't it?

0:56.8

But in this instance, it's absolutely so. We are joined by the legend that is Shaggy, hello, mate.

1:08.4

What an intro. I don't know. So people can upset me these days when they hear a legend,

1:12.0

or they're like, oh, would you try to say it? You try to call me a husband. Is that what you're saying?

1:16.4

That's what legend is kind of like a, you know, like a, you've been in the club kind of a nice way

1:22.0

of saying, okay, yeah, you were dead. Well, I sort of think I did it, I obviously didn't mean it that way,

1:29.3

but you know, it's very rare. It's very rare that you call someone a legend and it starts to make

1:36.5

things awkward. It's not happened to me. But, yeah, yeah. But I remember like when I started doing,

1:43.4

when I started doing stand-up comedy, like when you, when you start coming out doing new bits and

1:47.4

pieces, I was desperate to hold on to up and coming as a descriptive for me whenever like anybody

1:54.0

referred to me up and coming, New York saying, like I was, I wanted to hold on to that as long as

1:58.8

I possibly could, man. Yeah, I mean, it's like, you don't want to. And now you're just a legend.

2:04.0

Well, that's the thing. I don't, I, I'm now kind of somebody who feels like

2:08.8

this creative force is spent without having achieved legendary status. So I'm kind of just,

2:14.0

my best days are behind me and I'm just sort of waiting for the end really.

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