The Only Standard In Hip Hop - ArtOfRhyme.com

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The Beatnuts

We would just stay up day and night writing these lyrical sketches. It would be a nonstop freestyle cypha trying to come up with new concepts for the show. As far as the show itself there were a lot of politics. MTV is obviously not the most Hip Hop station in the world. They did a lot of things that kept the show from reaching its full potential. They would say things sometimes like, “This sketch is too black or this scene is too Hip Hop” haha. Pretty much taking out the cream of the crop of the stuff we have written

Invincible - AOR Vault

Invincible

We would just stay up day and night writing these lyrical sketches. It would be a nonstop freestyle cypha trying to come up with new concepts for the show. As far as the show itself there were a lot of politics. MTV is obviously not the most Hip Hop station in the world. They did a lot of things that kept the show from reaching its full potential. They would say things sometimes like, “This sketch is too black or this scene is too Hip Hop” haha. Pretty much taking out the cream of the crop of the stuff we have written

Canbus-Intervew [AOR Vault 2005]

Canibus

Greatly. I think just growing up with it around as well as knowing things from a business perspective. And just seeing the life of independent musicians; it was also very inspiring. I think musically it just opened me up to a lot of new sounds and horizons and just constantly being around it. I was never expected to go into an academic field, I think it probably would have shocked them. Yes it really affected me.