Never Before Seen: LL Cool J, Method Man, Redman, & DMX Raw and Uncut Interview MTV (Ft. Abbie Kearse, DMX, LL COOL J, Method Man & Redman)
Lyrxo and MTV have teamed up to bring you a new look into New York hip hop from ‘97 to ‘98. MTV has dug deep into their vaults and found three gems, each never before seen in its entirety. As part of an ongoing project, MTV is looking to the Lyrxo community to add context and personal stories to these interviews with some of the all time greats
Here we have the second release in the collaboration between Lyrxo and MTV. The interview takes you on the set of the ‘4,3,2,1’ video shoot featuring a cast of New York hip hop icons and captures several defining characteristics of New York hip hop in ‘97: LL’s longevity, Method Man’s prominence outside of Wu-Tang, and DMX’s rising stardom. Along with Redman, watch the four hip hop legends cut it loose during an otherwise tense time in the genre’s history
Interview by Abbie Kearse
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Interviewer: All right. Well, I am glad we have got everybody together. It took a little work, it took a little work, but we have got everybody together. What I want to talk about first is L, I want to talk about getting this group together for your record. How did that come about?
LL Cool J: Well, I felt like I had heard Meth and Red do a lot of records together and––you gotta pardon me, I'm a little hoarse––I felt like they were––the teamwork that they displayed in their records was uncanny and I felt like they sounded real good and I could add a lot to that chemistry
Interviewer: So you are talking about the record and the video for –
LL Cool J: Yeah, like How High and the different songs that they made together. I felt like they were just powerful songs and it influenced me so much that I felt like I wanted to be a part of that because it felt so good to me. Then my man D, he is new and he is upcoming and he has got a lot of flavor. I feel like this would be a good opportunity to display some new people on the record as well. And I felt like all of us together, including Canibus, could make something that was going to be powerful and something that would influence people. Hopefully they might come back to hip hop and enjoy hip hop because this particular record, the essence of it just the vocals and each individual displaying what they feel, expressing themselves in an artistic matter. But at the same time, us gelling together to create one work
Interviewer: I was going to say it definitely has more of an old school – are you all right?
LL Cool J: I’m pretty all right. Do your thing. You just do what you do
Interviewer: Well, because we can stop
LL Cool J: No, I’m all right
Interviewer: I was going to say that the record has an old-school vibe to it in the fact that each MC has their different line and their break. So was that something you had in mind when putting the record together to go back?
LL Cool J: Yeah, well the 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 thing was something that was real important to me because I felt like we were taking it back. What do you guys think?
Here we have the second release in the collaboration between Lyrxo and MTV. The interview takes you on the set of the ‘4,3,2,1’ video shoot featuring a cast of New York hip hop icons and captures several defining characteristics of New York hip hop in ‘97: LL’s longevity, Method Man’s prominence outside of Wu-Tang, and DMX’s rising stardom. Along with Redman, watch the four hip hop legends cut it loose during an otherwise tense time in the genre’s history
Interview by Abbie Kearse
_______________________________________________________
Interviewer: All right. Well, I am glad we have got everybody together. It took a little work, it took a little work, but we have got everybody together. What I want to talk about first is L, I want to talk about getting this group together for your record. How did that come about?
LL Cool J: Well, I felt like I had heard Meth and Red do a lot of records together and––you gotta pardon me, I'm a little hoarse––I felt like they were––the teamwork that they displayed in their records was uncanny and I felt like they sounded real good and I could add a lot to that chemistry
Interviewer: So you are talking about the record and the video for –
LL Cool J: Yeah, like How High and the different songs that they made together. I felt like they were just powerful songs and it influenced me so much that I felt like I wanted to be a part of that because it felt so good to me. Then my man D, he is new and he is upcoming and he has got a lot of flavor. I feel like this would be a good opportunity to display some new people on the record as well. And I felt like all of us together, including Canibus, could make something that was going to be powerful and something that would influence people. Hopefully they might come back to hip hop and enjoy hip hop because this particular record, the essence of it just the vocals and each individual displaying what they feel, expressing themselves in an artistic matter. But at the same time, us gelling together to create one work
Interviewer: I was going to say it definitely has more of an old school – are you all right?
LL Cool J: I’m pretty all right. Do your thing. You just do what you do
Interviewer: Well, because we can stop
LL Cool J: No, I’m all right
Interviewer: I was going to say that the record has an old-school vibe to it in the fact that each MC has their different line and their break. So was that something you had in mind when putting the record together to go back?
LL Cool J: Yeah, well the 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 thing was something that was real important to me because I felt like we were taking it back. What do you guys think?
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