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People's Party with Talib Kweli

Skyzoo On Being Influenced By Bad Boy And Puffy, Wrestling With Rap’s Capitalism, Spike Lee, Basketball Raps, Ghostwriting, And More

People's Party with Talib Kweli

UPROXX

Music

4.42.1K Ratings

🗓️ 26 July 2021

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

We’ve had a few guests who fall into the “your favorite rapper’s favorite rapper” category, but Skyzoo certainly deserves that claim. We’re talking about a man who has worked with everyone from Black Thought to Lloyd Banks to Dr. Dre to John Legend. He’s versatile lyrically and career-wise and his thoughtful flows resonate on the lyrical and thematic levels. If you like 90s hip-hop, especially NYC rap from that era, then you must hear this conversation. Bad Boy, Puffy, Biggie, Kim, and Mase are all discussed in-depth and with serious insight. Skyzoo also speaks frankly with Kweli and co-host Jasmin Leigh about how he wrestles with capitalism, his incredible list of collaborators, ghostwriting, his enduring love for The Wire, 9th Wonder and J Dilla, and so much more. This conversation is fascinating and electric -- with tons of back and forth and a whole lot of genuine insight.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey everyone, it's Jasmine Lee, First Lady of People's Party,

0:03.0

and I'm excited to share this clip from our newest episode

0:06.0

with a very special rapper, Skizoo.

0:09.0

In this excerpt, Zoo talks about his pin game

0:12.0

and how that may cost him fans in certain situations.

0:15.0

You also get him talking about his hoop wraps

0:17.0

and how he's come to be known

0:19.0

as one of the goats when wrapping about basketball.

0:21.0

To hear the rest of the conversation

0:23.0

in all of our full episodes,

0:25.0

subscribe to the Luminary Channel on Apple Podcasts.

0:28.0

You mentioned Bad Boy and puffing all that.

0:31.0

I would love to touch on that.

0:32.0

I think it's funny that a lot of people

0:34.0

looking at me in a certain like,

0:35.0

quote-unquote underground or bad rap.

0:37.0

Whatever you want to call it,

0:38.0

because of the type of beat I pick

0:40.0

or the records that I choose not to make

0:41.0

as opposed to the records I choose to make.

0:43.0

But I grew up on Big Block.

0:46.0

I was surrounded by Bad Boy.

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