Library Rap: The Hip Hop Interviews with Tim Einenkel

DJ JS-1 has a new album called “IT IS WHAT IT ISN'T”(Ground Original 4). He sat down with The Library's Tim Einenkel to talk about his new project which features over 45 MCs on it, his graf work, thoughts on the true school vs. the new school artists and much more. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advert...

DJ JS-1 has a new album called “IT IS WHAT IT ISN'T”(Ground Original 4). He sat down with The Library's Tim Einenkel to talk about his new project which features over 45 MCs on it and the love/hate relationship we all seem to have with hip-hop music. He told Tim why he's content with his career status thus far: "If you win, it must be boring. A guy like Jay-Z, I can't imagine how he would jus...

DJ JS-1 has a new album called “IT IS WHAT IT ISN'T”(Ground Original 4). He is also an accomplished graffiti artist, tag JERMS. He sat down with The Library's Tim Einenkel to not only discuss his new project but about writing graf and the ramifications of it not being respected as the original street art. Entire interview will be posted soon Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswiz...

Co-founding member of the legendary hip-hop group Black Sheep Dres, discusses the 20th anniversary of Black Sheep's 2nd album, Non-Fiction which was released on December 6, 1994. Download the entire interview here http://thelibrarywithtimeinenkel.libsyn.com/the-library-black-sheep-dres-part-2 Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use...

DJ JS-1 has a new album called “IT IS WHAT IT ISN'T”(Ground Original 4). He sat down with The Library's Tim Einenkel to talk about his new project which features over 45 MCs on it. A great record on the album features O.C or D.I.T.C and is called "Turn the Tables" Asked why he started the album with this record and why the DJ's important, JS-1 said "When I grew up the DJ broke recor...

DJ JS-1 has a new album called “IT IS WHAT IT ISN'T”(Ground Original 4). He sat down with The Library's Tim Einenkel to talk about his new project which features over 45 MCs on it. JS-1 explained to Tim why artist today who try to go "viral" are compromising the art. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for adve...

Co-founding member of the legendary hip-hop group Black Sheep Dres, AKA Black Sheep Dres joins Tim on The Library to talk about his legacy, current state of Hip-Hop music and culture and his current work with A Tribe Called Quest member, Jarobi White. "Jarobi is quite the MC," Dres says of the Tribe Called Quest Member. " Listen here to hear Dres talk about working with Jarobi and t...

Co-founding member of the legendary hip-hop group Black Sheep Dres, AKA Black Sheep Dres joins Tim on The Library to talk about his legacy, current state of Hip-Hop music and culture and his current work. Tim asks Dres about his new record "Propagation” and why he wrote it. "I was writing a song to all children of color," Dres told Tim. He continued, "Your color will affect you...

In part 2 of the interview, Co-founding member of the legendary hip-hop group Black Sheep, Dres talks his career post Black Sheep, working with Jarobi of A Tribe Called Quest to form the group EvitaN and the importance of giving respect to the pioneers of the culture.  Quotes from the interview: "I feel like my flow is always evolving....I feel like I'm a much doper artist then I was 20 years...

Co-founding member of the legendary hip-hop group Black Sheep Dres, AKA Black Sheep Dres joins Tim on The Library to talk about his legacy, current state of Hip-Hop music and culture and his current work. Tim asks Dres Why he thought current rap music which glorifies the criminal lifestyle is pushed onto the masses? Black Sheep Dres says "The powers that be seem to contribute to the dysfuncti...

Co-founding member of the legendary hip-hop group Black Sheep Dres, AKA Black Sheep Dre joins Tim on The Library to talk about his legacy, current state of Hip-Hop music and culture and his current work. In part 1 of the interview, Dres talks about Black Sheep, Stevie Wonder's influence on him and Hip-Hop and how race, ageism and dumbing down have played key roles in which kind of rap content is p...

Co-founding member of the legendary hip-hop group Black Sheep Dres, AKA Black Sheep Dres joins Tim on The Library to talk about his legacy, current state of Hip-Hop music and culture and his current work. Tim asks Dres about Stevie Wonder's influence on not just himself but the Hip-Hop community. Dres says of Stevie Wonder "He introduced me to the power of words...That resonates with a lot of...

DJ JS-1 is a DJ / turntablist. He's the DJ for Rahzel. He's a member of the world famous Rock Steady Crew and He's a graffiti artist.. His latest album, IT IS WHAT IT ISN'T features over 45 artist. One record on the album is called "Diehard" which features Erick Sermon, Rahzel and Buckshot. On The Library with Tim Einenkel, JS-1 tells Tim how this record came together and what it was lik...

Chelsea Reject is a Brooklyn based female emcee who is currently making a name for herself.. Her influences are greats such as Lupe Fiasco, N.E.R.D, Lauryn Hill, Nas, and Common. Chelsea is a very diverse individual and is willing to put her best work forward. Her latest project, CMPLX comes out soon. She joined Tim on The Library this week. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswiz...

Chelsea Reject is a Brooklyn based female emcee who is currently in the making. She spits hard and is not afraid to share her opinion. What does she think of WorldstarHipHop? She tells Tim on The Library that she thinks it portrays African-Americans as "animals....it has a downward spiral for our society." The entire interview will be available for download soon. Hosted by Simplecast, an...

 "I'm literally writing messages for family members, friends and society that I haven't met yet," John "JR" Robinson AKA Lil Sci of the underground Hip-Hop group Scienz of Life  tells Tim on The Library this week. In part 1 of the interview, JR discusses his latest collaboration album Modern Vintage, his writing process, and much more. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company....

New York Producer Duplicuts and legendary artist El Da Sensei, are known as The Immortals Project. Tim caught up with the Producer half of "The Immortals Project", Duplicuts. Listen to him talking about creating beats to fit the style and flow of El Da Sensei. Check out the entire interview here http://thelibrarywithtimeinenkel.libsyn.com/the-library-duplicuts-entire-interview Hosted by...

Bay area emcee Locksmith joined Tim on The Library to talk about his album "A Thousand Cuts." Early on in his career Locksmith experienced much success. But this success eventually died down. Why wasn't he discouraged after the success went away? Check out the clip to find out. Check out the entire interview with Locksmith here http://thelibrarywithtimeinenkel.libsyn.com/the-library-lock...

Bay area emcee Locksmith joined Tim on The Library to talk about his new album "A Thousand Cuts." For Locksmith, his art is not just autobiographical but therapeutic. "Art is therapeutic for the artist and for the observer," Locksmith said. "When you see it, it makes you think of something, it takes you into a space where you think about something or takes your mind off of...

Boots Riley, the front man for The Coup and Street Sweeper Social Club joined Tim on The Library and talked about which song(s) are the most personal for him. He told Tim, "They're all personal......If I wrote about things that had to do with inner-personal relationships, my politics would come out in them..." Check out the entire interview right here http://thelibrarywithtimeinenkel.lib...

Boots Riley, the front man for The Coup and Street Sweeper Social Club joined Tim on The Library and talked about what happened when The Coup got played one time on commercial radio. He told Tim, "....each market sold 5,000 Coup albums per week. That proves what would happen if we got played on the radio....We didn't get played on the radio and part of it is that we have connections to real o...

John "JR" Robinson joins me on The Library to discuss his latest collaboration album Modern Vintage.. Lil Sci talks about the record Miles & Trane and the influence Jazz has had on his passion for rap music and Hip-Hop culture. Complete interview with John Robinson will be available soon on Itunes here http://thelibrarywithtimeinenkel.libsyn.com/ and at rapstation.com Hosted by Simpl...

John Robinson AKA Lil Sci of the World Renowned UNDERGROUND Hip-Hop group Scienz of Life joins me on The Library to discuss his latest collaboration album Modern Vintage, his writing process, future projects and much more. JR tells a story about Bobbitto a.k.a. Kool Bob Love wanting to do a record with him and how this helped him discover Hip-Hop was worldwide. Complete interview with John Robinso...

During Kool Moe Dee's interview on The Library with Tim Einenkel, Kool Moe Dee talked about the top 5 albums he could not do away with. Kool Moe Dee told Tim "Stevie Wonder's Songs in the Key of Life is still pound for pound the best album I've heard all time." Hear the entire interview with Kool Moe Dee here http://thelibrarywithtimeinenkel.libsyn.com/the-library-kool-moe-dee Hosted by...

A few years ago, Common dropped by The Library to talk about his memoir, One Day It'll All Make Sense. Tim asked Common which 5 Common tracks would make up an autobiography of Common. Check out the entire interview here http://thelibrarywithtimeinenkel.libsyn.com/the-library-interview-with-common Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and...