Library Rap: The Hip Hop Interviews with Tim Einenkel

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: “I have to remind myself that this is always Sadat X and I'll always be a fan. But to be able to t...

On March 30th, 2015, R.A the Rugged Man 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 which element of hip hop should best represent it? His response: “The DJ is the most important part of hip hop culture besides the MC. because once we make the records and do all what we do...

This week on the Library, Tim talks to Descendent, a new independent artist from Newport News, Virginia but currently living in Raleigh, North Carolina. Tim and Descendent discuss a few tracks from his album Road to Greatness: Journey of a Lost Soul and why he has not taken on the persona a lot of new mainstream artists have taken on. He tells Tim “Once you tell a lie, you have to keep up with tha...

This week on The Library we hear part one of Tim's interview with Gods'Illa, a hip hop group consisting of three actual brothers, Acem, Truth and Powerful. Their new album, “Believe In Gods'Illa” is out now on HiPNOTT Records. Asked about the track “Plugged” (feat. Stic Man of Dead Prez& Joe. D) which addresses police brutality and how it came about. Truth tells Tim “It's what we know from gro...

This week on The Library, we hear the final part of Tim's interview with Darryl “DMC” McDaniels, hip hop legend and one of the founding members of the legendary group Run-DMC. DMC talks Biggie, Tupac, Kendrick, Sarah McLachlan, Larry Smith, depression, artistic freedom and what the future has in store for him. He tells Tim: “The artistic freedom was this. You couldn't come close to or couldn't be...

This week on The Library, we hear the final part of Tim's interview with Darryl “DMC” McDaniels, hip hop legend and one of the founding members of the legendary group Run-DMC. DMC talks Biggie, Tupac, Kendrick, Sarah McLachlan, Larry Smith, depression, artistic freedom and what the future has in store for him. He tells Tim: “The artistic freedom was this. You couldn't come close to or couldn't be...

On The Library with Tim Einenkel, DMC talks about the projects he is currently working on. This includes a record with DJ Premier.... Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

On The Library with Tim Einenkel, DMC talks about the record HellRaisers which features DMC, PMD, MC Serch, Chuck D, Terminator X and DJ Eclipse. Produced by BIG K.O. He also talks about which new school artist he would have included on this track. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

On The Library, Darryl “DMC” McDaniels, explains why Larry Smith is not just the greatest hip hop producer ever but the greatest producer ever. He tells Tim “There's no Raising Hell if it wasn't for Larry Smith. He built and created the module that we needed to use...” Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for ad...

"The reason why Raising Hell was so def is because you had Chuck D there, KRS–One over there and Rakim coming. So me, Run and Jay, we had to get tight; we had to create the best rap record ever. And by Raising Hell being so dope, [you get] It Takes A Nation [of Millions] and all of that." Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection a...

Darryl DMC McDaniels tells Tim on The Library, "The reason why Pac is a legend is because 2 things, Brenda Had A Baby and Dear Mama. That's what the powers that be are scared of. A guy that looks and sounds like Pac and goes through what he goes through, talking about Mama..That's powerful. 'Now, shut him up. Don't let the kids see goodness.'" Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. Se...

Want to know why being different is essential to the longevity of rap music? Darryl "DMC" McDaniels tells The Library in the final part of their interview. The co-founding member of the legendary group, Run - DMC explains "The artistic freedom was this. You couldn't come close to or couldn't be near similar to anybody else doing this type of music....We come from a creative realm, a...

This week on The Library, we hear part 2 of Tim's interview with Darryl “DMC” McDaniels, hip hop legend and one of the founding members of the legendary group Run-DMC. DMC talks why he never cared for the business side of rap, his thoughts on Kendrick Lamar and how his writing changed after meeting Sarah McLachlan. He tells Tim: “I was just pretending to be an Emcee like all the dudes before me. I...

"The stupid thing about ignorant, asinine and immature rap music is, America celebrates it. These corporations celebrates it...Darryl "DMC" McDaniels tells The Library in part 2 of their interview. "Rick Ross being a correction officer? I could care less. The thing that I didn't like about Rick Ross is “No, no I wasn't a CO.” Oh, so there's something the matter with a man havin...

"A lot of people, they really dig the song skills that we have when we write them down, " eMC member and artist, Wordsworth tells Tim on The Library about what we can expect from eMC's new album The Tonite Show. "They definitely are looking for something that deals with exciting and are about something. You have to write about something and we have topics on there. Hosted by Simplec...

On March 30th, 2015, R.A the Rugged Man performed at New York City's SOBs. During this performance, The Library's Tim Einenkel caught up with hip hop historian and legend, Grandmaster Caz (Member of The Cold Crush Brothers). Caz talks about the beauty of the live performance and how hip hop culture has changed due to the commercialization of rap music. Caz tells Tim: "Hip Hop back then and Hi...

This week on The Library, we hear part 1 of Tim's interview with Darryl “DMC” McDaniels, hip hop legend and one of the founding members of the legendary group Run-DMC. DMC talks about the history of hip hop music, how and why it has changed, what he thinks about radio stations playing "old school at noon." DMC tells Tim: "When they play it, where are all the kids? In School. Where a...

"The music business is the music business. The company is only in the business to sell records but it's deeper than that for hip hop," Darryl "DMC." McDaniels, one of the founding members of the hip hop group Run–D.M.C, tells Tim on The Library during their interview. "By doing that you do a disservice to the youth, you do a disservice to the people who you promote and sel...

Nigerian-Australian rapper Remi and producers Sensible J and Dutch are set to release their newest album Raw X Infinity on April 14, 2015. Remi and Sensible J joined Tim on The Library to talk about the new album, how Stevie Wonder , Mike Tyson and J-Dilla have influenced them as artists and when asked what is Aussie Hip Hop Culture, Remi told Tim: “Aussie Hip hop is becoming something else aside...

Nigerian-Australian rapper Remi and producers Sensible J and Dutch are set to release their newest album Raw X Infinity on April 14, 2015. Remi and Sensible J joined Tim on The Library to talk about the new album and what we could expect from it. Tim asked Remi and Sensible J if Iggy Azalea isn't a representation of true Aussie hip hop culture, then what is? Remi said” “Aussie Hip hop is becoming...

Nigerian-Australian rapper Remi and producers Sensible J and Dutch are set to release their newest album Raw X Infinity on April 14, 2015. Remi and Sensible J joined Tim on The Library to talk about the new album and what we could expect from it. Tim asked Remi what purpose does rap music and hip hop culture serves for him. “It started off as something fun, away of just getting it off my chest for...

During my interview with Darryl "D.M.C." McDaniels on The Library, we got into a conversation about whether Kendrick Lamar is just benefiting from a bad time in hip hop or is the praise rightly deserved. D.M.C. said “He is hip hop. He's doing hip hop the right way.....He has a truth of our existence that the young guy can relate to....that I can relate to now. That's missing in hip hop....

“I was just pretending to be an Emcee like all the dudes before me. It wasn't for showbiz...When I started writing rhymes and messing with my brother's turntables, it was like me playing with my G.I. Joe or pretending I'm batman or playing with my army men...It was all make believe.” D.M.C. tells Tim on The Library during their interview about his purpose for writing prior to his life being saved...

This week on The Library, Tim talks to Detroit MC, Red Pill about his debut album for Mello Music Group "Look What This World Did To Us."  What was the goal of the album? Red Pill tells Tim "I wanted to make this record kind of like a novel, where you listen to it and it almost sounds like an old dusty used book; where it smells like that, where it feels like that...Even in the reco...

This week on The Library, Tim talks to J-Live about his new album "His Own Self" which was completely self produced. Tim and J-Live discuss almost every track on the album including the track "I Am Man" which serves as J's open letter to abusive police as well as their apologists and supporters. What inspired him to write this record?   "When things are documented and it's...