Library Rap: The Hip Hop Interviews with Tim Einenkel

This week on The Library with Tim Einenkel, we hear part 2 of Tim's interview with legendary Video Music Box creator and host Ralph McDaniels. The Hip Hop Video Music pioneer talks to Tim about how Biggie's death changed the future of Hip Hop, artists he would like to interview and his work as a Hip Hop Coordinator for the Queens Public Library Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.ads...

This week on The Library with Tim Einenkel,. Tim's joined by the legendary Video Music Box creator and host Ralph McDaniels. In part one of this interview Tim and Ralph discuss McDaniel's unparalleled hop hop archive as well as the evolution of the music video and Hip Hop culture over the years. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and...

This week on the Library with TIm Einenkel, we hear the final part of Tim's interview with the legendary, Stetsasonic member, Professor Daddy O. Daddy O discusses his legacy, why his peers aren't making albums anymore, his music plans for the future and why he's mad at Kool Moe Dee. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of person...

This week on the Library with TIm Einenkel, we hear part 2 of Tim's interview with the legendary, Stetsasonic member, Professor Daddy O. In this part, Daddy O discusses his newest album, #‎EverybodyButKRS‬, why Public Enemy, KRS and himself aren't happy with their debut albums and explains why MC Hammer is a rapper and Lil' Wayne is an MC. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz....

This week on the Library with TIm Einenkel, Tim talks to the legendary, Stetsasonic member, Professor Daddy O. In part 1 of the interview, Daddy O speaks on why are there less hip-hop groups today, why he's proud that Stetsasonic are considered the "rappers, Rapper" and why his two most classic mistakes were Go Stetsa and Top Billin'. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.ads...

This week on The Library with Tim Einenkel, Chef Aarón Sánchez. Aarón talks lessons learned from watching his mother cook, lessons he's learned from Hip Hop music and culture and why cooking is an art. He tells Tim: "I asked Sade and Maxwell, why it took so long for them to put out their most recent albums and they said I didn't have anything to write about; I needed to live life. How about I...

This week on The Library with Tim Einenkel, Tim talks to legendary MC, Scarface. Tim and Brother Mob discuss his new album, Deeply Rooted, the writing process and the commercialization of hip hop. Scarface tells Tim: "I think the commercialization of Hip Hop is like a plagued. Like a venereal disease. Like a cancer. We need some medicine for it. We need an antidote for it...The commercializat...

This week on The Library, Tim talks to the founder of New York's longest running hip-hop radio show, WBAI's Underground Railroad and the founder of the video blog, ill Doctrine, Jay Smooth. Tim and Jay talk an array of topics from Hip Hop culture to police brutality. Jay tells Tim: “A more productive way of engaging is challenging each other and having real, honest conversations in a way that main...

This week on The Library with TIm Einenkel, Tim talks to Jahi a member of the hip-hop group, P.E 2.0 which dropped it's first project last year, People Get Ready, last year and is set to release their latest album, insPirEd in the first week of January 2016. The album features guest appearances from the likes of KRS-One, production from the legendary Easy Mo Bee and brilliant social commentary. Ja...

This week on the Library, we hear the final part of Tim's interview with talks Descendent, a new independent artist from Newport News, Virginia but currently living in Raleigh, North Carolina. Tim and Descendent continue their discussion about his album, Road to Greatness: Journey of a Lost Soul and what his goal is with music. He tells Tim: "My overall goal is to push people to the limited t...

This week on The Library with Tim Einenkel, Chicago Hip Hop artist, Verbal Kent. The MC talks about his new album, Anesthesia, which features artists such as Freddie Gibbs, Skyzoo, Torae, Red Pill and production by. J.O.D, Apollo Brown, Marco Polo, Kaz 1, Oh No, Varan. He tells Tim that the best way for someone to listen to the album is, " listen to the album, in a row three times and then sa...

This week on the Library with Tim Einenkel, Tim talks to an extraordinary young MC, Chris Rivers; the son of the late, great lyricist, Big Pun. Tim asked the young lyricist if he puts extra pressure on himself because he's the son of Big Pun? Chris told Tim “I used to do it a lot more in the past. I'm 21 now and when I first started rapping, I was really trying to find myself as an artist but also...

This week on The Library, Tim Einenkel sits down with the legendary Chill Rob G who recently just released a brand new EP. Tim asked the legendary emcee if this is what he imagined Hip Hop becoming, this really big commercial success, to which Chill Rob G replied, "The stuff that we hear on the radio, some of the stuff we hear on the radio, you know what, it's cool. I'm not mad at some of the...

This week on The Library with Tim Einenkel, the great Shabaam Sahdeeq. The Brooklyn artists talks about his newest project, The IV League which is an International Fraternity Of Extraordinary EMCEE's Producers & DJ's, graph writing and why he became an MC. He tells Tim: “I want to make a change. I grew up on Public Enemy, Tribe Called Quest, artists that were really saying something. Jungle Br...

Skyzoo's latest album, Music For My Friends, features some amazing artists. Two of those artists are Black Thought and Jadakiss. Thought is featured on the track Money Makes Me Happy and Jadakiss is featured on See A Key (Ki'). On The Library with Tim Einenkel, Skyzoo was asked about those tracks and the importance behind them. Download the entire interview with Skyzoo right here https://audioboom...

This week on The Library with TIm Einenkel, Brooklyn MC, Skyzoo drops by to talk sneakers, gentrification, and his latest album, Music For My Friends,. Skyzoo tells Tim: "What makes people want to purchase? What makes people want to say, I know I can stream it legally, or I know I can download it illegally. But what makes me want to give Skyzoo or whoever else $9.99 for an album....This what...

"The Illmatic of sneakers for me would be the black cement elephant, Jordan 3s....The Black Jordan 3s would be my Illmatic. That's the perfect, all purpose sneakers." Artists, Skyzoo tells Tim on The Library during their interview. June 23, 2015, the Brooklyn MC, released his latest album, Music For My Friends. He sat down with Tim to discuss the album and his other passions. Here's a hi...

This week on The Library with Tim Einenkel, Locksmith talks his newest album, Lofty Goals. What inspires Locksmith to develop concepts for his albums? He tells Tim, "I just get bored, musically. It's less about the lyrics but more about the music. It just like music to show progression...I like the music, I like to go on a journey. " #loftygoals #Locksmith Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWiz...

This week on The Library, part 2 of Tim's interview with Chuck D. The legendary artist joins Tim to talk about Public Enemy's newest album, Man Plans God Laughs." Which Track best defines the mission of the album? Chuck D tells Tim: " Man Plans, God Laughs. No question. That one record came out of left field as a creation. It was planned but also it came out of left field as a creation b...

This week on The Library, Chuck D. joins Tim to talk about Public Enemy's newest album, Man Plans God Laughs." What's the mission of the album? The rhyme animal Chuck D tells Tim: "I think the mission of the album is not to just present a record, I mean there are a trillion records out there; there's also a past and a catalog and a history that Public Enemy has done but there's some sign...

On July 14, 2015 Public Enemy will release its 15th album, Man Plans God Laughs. During Chuck D's interview on The Library with Tim EInenkel, Chuck tells Tim why they decided to eliminate the use of the 3rd verse on this album. We eliminated the 3rd verse....Which I think increasingly as we go in hip-hop the third verse is becoming useless. That's why you see a lot of collabs. The collaborations a...

On July 14, 2015 Public Enemy will release its 15th album, Man Plans God Laughs. One record on the album is called "Honky Tonk Rules" which covers the classic song "Honky Tonk Woman’ by the Rolling Stones. Chuck tells Tim why Public Enemy went the "whole 9 yards" to get clearance to use this song. “I fought for this record because initially when we wanted to clear it, we w...

Data mining student Eric Malmi recently created Raplyzer, an algorithmic program that analyzes hip-hop lyrics and just may give us the answer who is the best MC. Tim interviews Eric Malmi, this week on The Library. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

This week on The Library, Marcus Samuelsson. He's an owner of two restaurants in New York City, a judge on Top Chef and Chopped and has cooked for President Obama and prime ministers. Chef Samuelsson joins Tim Einenkel to talk food, Hip Hop and using them to help explore his cultural experiences. He tells Tim: “If you want to explore and learn something, I often start with breaking bread, the food...

On March 30th, 2015, R.A. The Rugged Man Official Page performed at New York City's SOBs. During this performance, The Library's Tim Einenkel caught up with the legendary El Da Sensei (one half of the Artifacts). Tim asked El about what fans can expect from XL, an album he did with the great Sadat X, which element is the best representation of hip hop culture and the importance of the live show. E...