Kurupt, Ras Kass, Kxng Crooked Interview: Talking HRSMN and Much More | Ep. 112

Wow. Wee. What we have here may well be our favourite episode of 2021, with legends Kurupt and Ras Kass sitting down to talk all things hip hop…and even inviting on Slaughterhouse’s very own Kxng Crooked for a special cameo 😱

 

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The legends touched on some UNREAL stories, including…

 

😱 Their most memorable rap battles: UNREAL stories from Ras battling Terror Squad, Kurupt battling outside The Tunnel nightclub, and Crooked I battling for Death Row Records and Suge Knight

😳 There may be a HRSMN track out there with Pharoahe Monch, how Mos Def was a extended member and whatever happened to ‘House of Horses’…their collab with SlaughtaHouse

🐐 Speaking on ‘The Chronic’, ‘Stranded on Death Row’, Kurupt signing for Death Row and their big breaks

🔥 When they realised they were elite MCs through KRS-One and Biggie Smalls, and remembering their first raps

👑 Breaking down the return of the HRSMN with Canibus and Killah Priest, and their album ‘The Last Ride’

😬 Why they have a no-rewrites rule in the HRSMN

🤩 ‘Pinch Myself Moments’: Ras Kass performing with hip hop gods and memories of The Good Life

🎙 Huge love for Ice Cube, who named Ras Kass in his Top 5

 

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Show Notes:

• Least hip hop thing in the last 24 hours? (01:03)
• Breaking down the return of HRSMN with Canibus and Killah Priest, and their album ‘The Last Ride’ (03:09)
• Why they have a no-rewrites rule in the HRSMN (11:29)
• There may be a HRSMN track out there with Pharoahe Monch, how Mos Def was a extended member, whatever happened to ‘House of Horses’…their collab with SlaughtaHouse (12:40)
• When they realised they were elite MCs through KRS-One and Biggie Smalls, and remembering their first raps (17:00)
• Pinch Myself Moments: Ras Kass performing with hip hop gods and memories of The Good Life (26:51)
• Their most memorable rap battles: UNREAL stories from Ras battling Terror Squad, Kurupt battling outside The Tunnel nightclub, and Crooked I battling for Death Row Records and Suge Knight (32:40)
• Speaking on ‘The Chronic’, ‘Stranded on Death Row’, Kurupt signing for Death Row and their big breaks (47:00)
• Huge love for Ice Cube, who named Ras Kass in his Top 5 (1:01:00)
• Last great music they heard…and ‘Love is a Battlefield’ / ‘No Easy Way Out’ love (1:06:50)

 

Crate 808 Mailbag, so thank you all the listeners/viewers who hit us up with some amazing MF DOOM stories, shouts for best football references in rap and a look through the usual staples.

 

To get involved, email us at crate808@gmail.com with your takes on…

 

🤔 If you could see one hip hop act perform live (dead or alive), which one and why?

🤯 Tell us your best and worst rap concert stories

🎵 What are the best examples of xylophone and flute hip hop?

⚽️ Found a football reference in rap? THROW IT OUR WAY, we want to hear more!

💥 What are the best guest openers on rap albums?

🤔 Who has the best verse on Jay-Z’s ‘Reservoir Dogs’? Did Young MC use the beat better?

🎻 What are your top 5 rap ballads?

🎤 What is the BEST Raekwon verse ever and why?

📈 What is Ghostface Killah’s apex?

👽 What song off of ‘Ironman’ would get on a playlist you’d play to an alien to teach it hip hop?

😴 The strangest dreams you’ve had about a rapper

💎 What rapper’s swag would you wear to a wedding, funeral or job interview?

😯 Where’s the weirdest place you’ve met a rapper?

😬 What’s the best AND worst merch you’ve ever bought?

🖋 You have to get a rap song tattooed on you…which one, where and why?

👎 What’s the worst rap beat of 1995?

😭 What’s your best AND worst rap memorabilia?

 

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And our last series talking best 3-album runs in rap can be found here…

Ice Cube with Shawn Setaro (https://bit.ly/3kaYfOq)

Tupac with Andrew Barber (https://bit.ly/2HGr3QT)

De La Soul with Andrew Emery (https://bit.ly/324LJJn)

Gang Starr with Dart Adams (https://apple.co/2Vlx9t1)

A Tribe Called Quest with Rob Pursey (https://bit.ly/3oS73uX)

Redman with Take it Personal Radio (https://bit.ly/3tYFUcL)

OutKast with Justin Hunte (https://bit.ly/3b89bJh)

Mobb Deep with Chris Mitchell from Breaking Atoms (http://shorturl.at/zHIKO)

 

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