Rockness Monsta On “People’s Party With Talib Kweli”

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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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