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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.
More on Jeru and The Sun Rises in the East:
More on Adrian Younge:
- “Adrian Younge in Timeless” (Noisey)
- “Five Things You Need to Know” (Red Bull Music Academy)
- Website | Twitter | Facebook
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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