Episode notes

The Album: Jeru the Damaja’s The Sun Rises In the East (1994)

Since he started putting numbers on the board with the soundtrack to Black Dynamite, artist/composer Adrian Younge has become the hip-hop maestro for creative collaborations. Through the years, he’s worked with Souls of Mischief, Ghostface Killah and DJ Premier/Royce the 5’9″ as well as continuing to release his own solo work. For our episode, Younge reached back to the golden era of hip-hop for us to talk about one of the most “impervious” MCs around: Brooklyn’s Jeru the Damaja and his 1994 debut album, The Sun Rises in the East. We tackled everything from the contradictions of rappers talking about both consciousness and doing dirt to the brilliance of DJ Premier’s production to the intricacies of Jeru’s freaky freaky freaky flow.

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Show Tracklisting (all songs fromThe Sun Rises in the East unless indicated otherwise):

Gang Starr: I’m the Man

Can’t Stop the Prophet

Adrian Younge/Delfonics: Lost Without You

Adrian Younge/Ghostface: Beware of the Stars

D. Original

Come Clean

Souls of Mischief: ’93 Til Infinity

Smif N Wessun: Let’s Get It On

Black Moon: Who Got the Props?

Group Home: Livin Proof

Rap City Interview w/ Jeru

Perverted Monks In the House (Theme)

Jeru and Lauryn Hill Interview

Da Bitchez

Mental Stamina

Ain’t the Devil Happy

Lee Oskar: Our Road

Adrian Younge: Midnight Blue

Jungle Music

Statik

Brooklyn Took It

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