MC Serch Interview: Talks MF DOOM, Illmatic, Tupac, Woodstock 99 and More | Ep. 110

This week we welcome on the Forrest Gump of hip hop, the legend that is MC Serch is in the house to talk all things MF DOOM, KMD, Subroc, Tupac, Nas, Illmatic, Eminem, UK’s Cookie Crew, Del the Funky Homosapien, Woodstock 99 and SO much more! 🔥 Expect some superb stories, including battling MCs and tales of Tupac, MF DOOM, Shock G and Subroc all freestyling around a piano about how much they love one another 😱

 

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Show Notes:

• Least hip hop thing in the last 24 hours? (01:46)
• Love for London, Cookie Crew and full length coats (04:04)
• Seeing Del the Funky Homosapien and Hiero for the first time (09:35)
• The time when The Queen of England got the Gas Face (12:20)
• His new MF DOOM podcast series (23:16)
• How Subroc gave him the famous ‘3rd Bass’ fade (28:41)
• Stories of Tupac, MF DOOM, Shock G and Subroc all freestyling around a piano (32:39)
• Hardest battles he’s been in (36:47)
• First impressions of Nas and hearing Illmatic (44:42)
• Still has his check from Woodstock 99 (54:20)
• Thoughts on his album ‘Return of the Product’ and Eminem (1:00:03)

 

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

🎙 Which MCs dropped the best features in the 90s?

💥 What are the best guest openers on rap albums?

👀 Is Jay-Z’s ‘It’s Like That’ a Hidden Gem…or absolutely awful?!

🤔 Who has the best verse on ‘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?

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😬 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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