In this episode of “People’s Party With Talib Kweli”, Talib Kweli and Jasmin Leigh sit down with rapper, writer, and one-half of the Brooklyn duo Heltah Skeltah:
ROCK AKA ROCKNESS MONSTA
Here’s what they got into:
- Rock’s Brownsville, Brooklyn NY upbringing and early home life
- First meeting Sean Price aka Ruck when he was 11 years old
- Being a member of the Brooklyn street gang, the Decepticons
- Steele of Smif-N-Wessun being the architect of Boot Camp Clik
- Buckshot of Black Moon protecting BCC from signing bad deals
- How the Five Percent Nation impacted his life and deciding to leave
- Seeing Black Moon on TV while locked up and telling himself “I’m on”
- CEO of Duck Down Records, Dru-Ha being a stand-up guy
- How the album, ‘Nocturnal’, impacted Talib when he first heard it
- Rock apologizing for his and BCC’s part in promoting Timbs
- Heltah Skeltah’s song “Therapy” and how it wrote itself
- The unrelenting competitive spirit of emcee Sean P
- Defining Boot Camp Clik’s phrase, “pulling a Ruck”
- Asking Rock to explain what “Leflaur Leflah Eshkoshka” means
- Wu-Tang’s influencing the early decision of creating The Fab 5
- The night Rock realized Ruck was a next-level emcee like himself
- Breaking down some introspective bars from, ‘Rockness A.P.’
- Rock’s most recent release, ‘Ether Rocks’, being delayed due to COVID
- Why he felt compelled to give Krondon a shout-out on the new album
- An incident at Hot 97 that got Rock and Ruck banned from the studio
- A fan pulling a machine gun on the group after asking for a autograph
- The heated argument between Tek and Sean Bigga over Tupac
- Rock and Talib’s take on fans telling rappers how to do their jobs
- How Rock’s daughter has impacted his life and what he raps about
- Learning how to navigate fatherhood from Sean P, Eminem, and T.I.
- What’s next for the Rockness Monsta???
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